RNZ National. 2016-05-08. 00:00-23:59.

A 24-hour recording of RNZ National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:

08 May 2016

===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Nga Taonga Korero (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 2:05 Heart and Soul (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday; 3:05 Closed, Stranger by Kate de Goldi read by Scott Wills (7 of 12, RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC); 5:10 Mihipeka - The Early Years, by Mikipeka Edwards (10 of 15, RNZ); 5:45 NZ Society

===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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My Dad, by Pamela Kessler, told by Matt Wilson; How Maui Found His Parents Home, by Martyn Sanderson, told by Don Selwyn and Anne Flannery; Stop Thief, by David Hill, told by Jed Brophy; A Horsey Tale, by Eliza Bidois, told by Truda Chadwick ; Stop Thief, by David Hill, told by Jed Brophy; My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes, by Eve Sutton, told by Katherine Beasley; Maraea and the Albatrosses, by Patricia Grace, told by Rangimoana Taylor

===7:10 AM. | Sunday Morning===
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A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, documentaries, sport from the outfield, politics from the insiders, plus Mediawatch and music 7:43 The Week in Parliament An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house 8:10 Insight An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs 9:06 Mediawatch Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in New Zealand's news media (RNZ)

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07:10
John Thwaites - Fixing the World
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John Thwaites is chair of ClimateWorks Australia and the Monash Sustainability Institute. He is the former Deputy Premier (Labour) of Victoria, Australia and was in New Zealand this week to talk about Agenda 2030 which focuses on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. NZ's Prime Minister was among 190 world leaders who last September pledged their commitment to the SDGs to end extreme poverty, fix climate change, and fight inequality and injustice, in a bid to attain an equitable, more prosperous and sustainable world.
Topics: climate, environment, health, international aid and development
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Tags: Agenda 2030, sustainability, UN Sustainable Development Goals, SDG, John Thwaites, #OzPol
Duration: 20'56"

07:30
The Week In Parliament for 8 May 2016
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Opposition parties combine to give Labour's Healthy Homes Guarantee bill a first reading by 61 votes to 60. Minor parties honour formal agreements to vote with John Key's National government on issues of confidence and money supply, ending the Annual Review Debate by passing the Appropriation 2014-15 Bill by 63 to 58. But United Future's Peter Dunne votes against the Environment Canterbury transitional governance bill while the Maori Party crosses back to rejoin National and ACT. Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee reports on the TPPA, opening the way for debate in the chamber. Opposition uses questions to try to link the prime minister and his lawyer to IRD's decision not to proceed with an inquiry into foreign-owned trusts. Speaker and opposition clash over the length of questions and answers, New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, and his transport spokesman, Denis O'Rourke, ordered out of chamber. Former MPs Chris Laidlaw & Stephen Franks express opposing views on the Government's Resource Legislation Amendment Bill. Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Jan Wright also makes a submission on that bill to the Local Government and Environment Committee.
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Duration: 15'12"

07:50
Warren Lindberg - Maori Health Symposium
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Warren Lindberg joins Wallace to talk about the challenges facing Maori in the health system today.
Topics: health, te ao Maori, Pacific, inequality
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Tags: maori health, Warren Lindberg
Duration: 10'09"

08:12
Insight: Upgrading the China Free Trade Agreement
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Demelza Leslie heads to China to examine New Zealand's already out of date free trade agreement with the country and what can be done to get New Zealand businesses a better deal.
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Only eight years have passed since New Zealand signed its free trade agreement with China and it is already out of date. The effects of the dated document are hitting some business hard, but what, if anything, can be done to get New Zealand a better deal?
The Prime Minister John Key touched down in China last month hot on the heels of his Australian counterpart.
He arrived in its bustling capital, Beijing, with two of his ministers and a high-level business and investment delegation of more than 40 people, but that was a far cry from Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's entourage of more than 1000.
Mr Turnbull was there to cement Australia's recently signed free trade agreement (FTA) with China, that cuts tariffs across many economic sectors.
Mr Key, who was also there to talk trade, brushed off Mr Turnbull's more elaborate effort - an effort that would have been noted by the Chinese who value "face time".
It was Mr Key's sixth visit to China as prime minister, and his mission was clear: to persuade Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang to upgrade the New Zealand-China free trade agreement.
Trade agreement out of date
The original deal was signed eight years ago, and there were signs it is was not keeping up with changes in the market.
There was a perception among politicians and industry groups that New Zealand's exporters, namely dairy, had been disadvantaged because China's FTA with Australia had more favourable terms.
In Beijing, Mr Key said Australia had, on the face of it, better access to China than New Zealand
Under New Zealand's 2008 deal, the Chinese Government could put tariffs back on New Zealand dairy products (to pre-agreement levels) if the amount being sold into China tipped over a certain amount agreed by both sides.
The safeguards were designed to protect China's 2 million dairy farmers from an influx of New Zealand dairy products, and were written up at a time when no one expected there to be quite so much demand from China.
Those volumes have been exceeded easily each year, and while China had the option of not applying the safeguard measures it has used them every year since the FTA began.

This year, the trigger and pre-agreed tariff of 10 percent was hit for whole milk powder in the first two weeks of January.
The volume safeguards are not due to expire until 2022 and 2024.
Chair of the Dairy Companies Association Malcolm Bailey, who was part of Mr Key's business delegation to China, said the safeguards were far too low for today's trade.
"We're triggering those volumes at the start of the calendar meaning that we have most of our product going in under a higher tariff," he said.
Mr Key said he was forthright in telling the two leaders at his official meetings in Beijing, at the Great Hall of the People and a State Guesthouse, that New Zealand wasn't interested in a trade upgrade if dairy was not part of it.
"Ultimately in any negotiation you have to give something as well and how could we do that if we weren't getting anything for our major exporter here?"
"Xi Jinping knows, as does Li Keqiang, that in the end as their consumers get wealthier they just don't trust their own products, and so we're in really, really good shape, but we can't go forward without dairy being a part of it."
It was a bold move, but warranted given New Zealand's history and growing friendship with the super power.
New Zealand boasts four firsts with China - it was the first country to agree to China's accession to the World Trade Organisation, the first developed country to recognise China as a market economy, the first to begin FTA negotiations with China, and the first to successfully conclude FTA negotiations with China.
The Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy said the two countries have a very strong relationship, and it was more evident in the relationship between Mr Xi and Mr Key.
From time to time, Mr Guy said, it was appropriate to call in a favour.
"We won't be kickstarting a negotiation unless we can talk about the dairy safeguards."
"This is the time to go through the refresh process, to have a look to understand what Australia has got and for them to understand the importance of this to our farmers," Mr Guy said.
Quality meat cuts shut out of the market
It was not just dairy hoping to get a better deal.
The country's largest beef exporter, ANZCO Foods, said there needed to be improved access for meat into China.
"We will be into China so quickly, as soon as we have certain access for value-add items," said the company's chair Sir Graeme Harrison.

New Zealand meat exports to China have soared from $96 million in 2008 to more than $1.2 billion in 2015.

But the product sold is lower-value frozen meat cuts, that are used in Chinese hotpot dishes.

China doesn't accept chilled beef and lamb, offal, blood or manufactured meat products.
The government has received word that China will start approving chilled meat imports from New Zealand.
However Mr Guy says it was likely to be some months away.
"If we can get into chilled meat in [China], and I'm very confident soon we'll be able to talk positively about that, that has an opportunity for us to get into top-end restaurants," Mr Guy said.
The government is also trying to progress market access for a number of fruits, vegetables and wood products, which are fighting import clearance from the Chinese regulator, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
However New Zealand doesn't have a lot to bargain with. China already has tariff-free access for all of its imports into New Zealand.
The government is considering a formal extradition treaty with China, as there are up to 60 people living in New Zealand who China wants sent back for fraud and embezzlement offences. But Mr Key said that would not be part of the FTA.
On the plus side, China's population is growing, especially its richer middle class, which will further increase as it relaxes its one-child policy. on top of all this, the country's appetite for dairy and protein is growing.
Trade Minister Todd McClay will have to remind his Chinese counterpart when they meet at an APEC meeting for trade minister's in Peru in a fortnight's time, that even though New Zealand is small and has little to bargain with, it is a great friend, and an upgrade could be a win-win for both countries.

Topics: economy
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Tags: trade, Free Trade Agreement, China Fta
Duration: 27'20"

08:40
Andres Ruzo - The River that Boils
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When Andres Ruzo was a boy growing up in Peru, his grandfather told him fantastic stories about the Amazon - including a city of gold, and a river that boils. Years later, Ruzo is a geoscientist, explorer, and a storyteller himself - and he finds the boiling river. He talks to Wallace about the sacred waterway, the indigenous people who protect it, and the battle to save the Amazon jungle. Andres Ruzo has written a TED talk book on his adventures, called The Boiling River: Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon.
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When Andres Ruzo was a boy growing up in Peru, his grandfather told him fantastic stories about the Amazon - including a city of gold, and a river that boils.
Years later, Ruzo is a geoscientist, explorer, and a storyteller himself - and he finds the boiling river. He talks to Wallace about the sacred waterway, the indigenous people who protect it, and the battle to save the Amazon jungle. Andres Ruzo has written a TED talk book on his adventures, called The Boiling River: Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon.

Topics: author interview, science, environment
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Tags: TED Talk, National Geographic, Amazon jungle, The Boiling River, Peru, indigenous rights
Duration: 19'23"

09:08
Mediawatch for 8 May 2016
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A turbulent week at troubled MediaWorks; companies keeping their enemies close, and; recycling newspaper stories.
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Duration: 30'27"

09:40
Alex Taylor and Frances Moore - Modern Day Dido and Aeneas
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Dido and Aeneas is one of Henry Purcell's classic operas, and it is being recomposed for a new generation, with composer Alex Taylor taking the helm. Alex Taylor is one of NZ's leading young composers of orchestral and chamber music and he joins Wallace, along with opera director Frances Moore, to talk about bringing the story of Dido and Aeneas firmly into the modern age. Dido and Aeneas plays at the Basement Theatre, Auckland, May 17 to 21.
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Dido and Aeneas is one of Henry Purcell's classic operas, and it is being recomposed for a new generation, with composer Alex Taylor taking the helm.
Alex Taylor is one of NZ's leading young composers of orchestral and chamber music and he joins Wallace, along with opera director Frances Moore, to talk about bringing the story of Dido and Aeneas firmly into the modern age.
Dido and Aeneas plays at the Basement Theatre, Auckland, May 17th to 21.
Topics: arts
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Tags: opera, Dido and Aeneas, Purcell, Alex Taylor, Frances Moore
Duration: 22'35"

10:10
Jim Lewis - Cyber Crime
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This week the Government announced plans to spend $22 million over the next four years on setting up a cyber crime unit. So how real is the threat and what can be done to protect the country from cyber criminals and foreign governments? Jim Lewis is a senior fellow and programme director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and an expert on cyber security.
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This week the Government announced plans to spend $22 million over the next four years on setting up a cyber crime unit. So how real is the threat and what can be done to protect the country from cyber criminals and foreign governments? Jim Lewis is a senior fellow and programme director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and an expert on cyber security.
Topics: crime, security
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Tags: Jim Lewis, cyber crime, cyber security, hacking, whistleblower, Edward Snowden
Duration: 25'59"

10:35
Nick Haslam - Concept Creep
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Ever get the feeling that people are just too sensitive these days? From trigger warnings to claims of cyber bullying to demands that university campuses ban disagreeable voices … the concepts of trauma and abuse now encompass a much broader range than ever before. Nick Haslam, professor of psychology at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, joins Wallace to talk about the notion of 'Concept Creep' and how it could have damaging effects on our society.
Topics: health
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Tags: Trigger Warnings, Sensitivity, bullying, academia, Prof Nick Haslam, psychology
Duration: 19'02"

11:15
Helene Wong - Being Chinese
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Helene Wong was born in Taihape and grew up in Lower Hutt. In her memoir, Being Chinese - A New Zealander's Story, she explores her personal and family history - it's a story of Chinese identity interwoven with the country she lives in. She talks to Wallace about the street taunts that she and other Chinese kids learned to ignore, becoming integrated and accepted into NZ society, and the struggle with the new wave of racism in the 1990s. She tells of her experience of being the "eyes and ears" into parts of NZ society for former Prime Minister Rob Muldoon, and the unexpected depth of emotion she experienced after visiting her father's village in China - "they said to me, this is your home". Helene Wong is film reviewer for The Listener. She was also the first script development executive at the NZ Film Commission. She is giving the Michael King Lecture at the Auckland Writers Festival.
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Helene Wong was born in Taihape and grew up in Lower Hutt. In her memoir, Being Chinese - A New Zealander's Story, she explores her personal and family history - it's a story of Chinese identity interwoven with the country she lives in.
She talks to Wallace about the street taunts that she and other Chinese kids learned to ignore, becoming integrated and accepted into NZ society, and the struggle with the new wave of racism in the 1990s. She tells of her experience of being the "eyes and ears" into parts of NZ society for former Prime Minister Rob Muldoon, and the unexpected depth of emotion she experienced after visiting her father's village in China - "they said to me, this is your home".
Helene Wong is film reviewer for The Listener. She was also the first script development executive at the NZ Film Commission. She is giving the Michael King Lecture at the Auckland Writers Festival.
Topics: author interview, arts, identity
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Tags: Chinese in New Zealand, Helene Wong, China, ethnic minorities
Duration: 25'32"

11:40
Xu Zhiyuan - The New China
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Artist Ai Wei Wei calls Xu Zhiyuan the most important Chinese intellectual of his generation. In Xu's book, Paper Tiger - Inside the Real China, he writes about the strangeness and complexity of contemporary China. Xu Zhiyuan joins Wallace to discuss the book ahead of his Auckland Writers Festival appearances.
Topics: arts, author interview
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Tags: China, Xu Zhiyuan, Auckland Writers Festival, Ai Wei Wei, trade, inequality, Mao Tse Tung
Duration: 16'20"

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7:08 John Thwaites - Fixing the World
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John Thwaites is chair of ClimateWorks Australia and the Monash Sustainability Institute. He is the former Deputy Premier (Labour) of Victoria, Australia and was in New Zealand this week to talk about Agenda 2030 which focuses on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. NZ's Prime Minister was among 190 world leaders who last September pledged their commitment to the SDGs to end extreme poverty, fix climate change, and fight inequality and injustice, in a bid to attain an equitable, more prosperous and sustainable world.
7:30 News Headlines
7:32 The Week in Parliament
7:47 Warren Lindberg - Maori Health Symposium
Warren Lindberg, the CEO of the Public Health Association, joins Wallace to talk about the challenges facing Maori in the health system today.
8:12 Insight: China and NZ's Free Trade Agreement
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Eight years on from the signing of the New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement, it's now out of date. The Government says exporters are missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars, because Chinese consumers are demanding more products from New Zealand than is covered under the deal. After traveling to China with the Prime Minister, Demelza Leslie reports on what progress was made in improving the agreement.
8:40 Andres Ruzo - The River that Boils
[gallery:2000] Andres Ruzo and the boiling river of Peru
When Andres Ruzo was a boy growing up in Peru, his grandfather told him fantastic stories about the Amazon - including a city of gold, and a river that boils. Years later, Ruzo is a geoscientist, explorer, and a storyteller himself - and he finds the boiling river. He talks to Wallace about the sacred waterway, the indigenous people who protect it, and the battle to save the Amazon jungle. Andres Ruzo has written a TED talk book on his adventures, called The Boiling River: Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon.
9:06 Mediawatch
A week of turmoil at broadcasting company Mediaworks. Also: Media rivals becoming 'frenemies,' threats to media freedom and a paper recycling its own stories.
Produced by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose
9:40 Alex Taylor and Frances Moore - Modern Day Dido and Aeneas
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Dido and Aeneas is one of Henry Purcell's classic operas, and it is being recomposed for a new generation, with composer Alex Taylor taking the helm. Alex Taylor is one of NZ's leading young composers of orchestral and chamber music and he joins Wallace, along with opera director Frances Moore, to talk about bringing the story of Dido and Aeneas firmly into the modern age.
Dido and Aeneas plays at the Basement Theatre, Auckland, May 17th to 21.
10:06 Jim Lewis - Cyber Crime
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This week the Government announced plans to spend $22 million over the next four years on setting up a cyber crime unit. So how real is the threat and what can be done to protect the country from cyber criminals and foreign governments? Jim Lewis is a senior fellow and programme director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and an expert on cyber security.
10:37 Nick Haslam - Trigger Warnings, Bullying and the New Sensitivity
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Ever get the feeling that people are just too sensitive these days? From trigger warnings to claims of cyber bullying to demands that university campuses ban disagreeable voices … the concepts of trauma and abuse now encompass a much broader range than ever before. Nick Haslam, professor of psychology at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, joins Wallace to talk about the notion of 'Concept Creep' and how it could have damaging effects on our society.
11:05 Helene Wong - Being Chinese
Helene Wong was born in Taihape and grew up in Lower Hutt. In her memoir, Being Chinese - A New Zealander's Story, she explores her personal and family history - it's a story of Chinese identity interwoven with the country she lives in. She talks to Wallace about the street taunts that she and other Chinese kids learned to ignore, becoming integrated and accepted into NZ society, and the struggle with the new wave of racism in the 1990s. She tells of her experience of being the "eyes and ears" into parts of NZ society for former Prime Minister Rob Muldoon, and the unexpected depth of emotion she experienced after visiting her father's village in China - "they said to me, this is your home".
Helene Wong is film reviewer for The Listener. She was also the first script development executive at the NZ Film Commission. She is giving the Michael King Lecture at the Auckland Writers Festival.
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11:40 Xu Zhiyuan - The New China
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Artist Ai Wei Wei calls Xu Zhiyuan the most important Chinese intellectual of his generation. In his book, Paper Tiger - Inside the Real China, Xu writes about the strangeness and complexity of contemporary China. He joins Wallace to discuss the book ahead of his Auckland Writers Festival appearances.

===12:11 PM. | Spectrum===
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Top artists from New Zealand and around the world converged on Napier to paint large-scale murals in support of our oceans with the intention to bring awareness to depleting species of marine life. Sonia Sly meets some of the artists and volunteers to gain a perspective on the global street art movement and to find out why these artists are happy to paint for a purpose. (RNZ)

===12:37 PM. | Standing Room Only===
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It's an 'all access pass' to what's happening in the worlds of arts and entertainment

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12:40
NZ Youth Choir's European Odyssey
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The New Zealand Youth Choir is furiously fundraising ahead of a big tour of Europe next month. Concerts in Wellington and Auckland will give fans a chance to hear the choir's performances ahead of audiences in Singapore, Czechia, France and the UK. Bryan speaks to Music Director David Squire, and Chorusters Ben Tan and Chelsea Numanga.
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The New Zealand Youth Choir is furiously fundraising ahead of a big tour of Europe next month. Concerts in Wellington and Auckland will give fans a chance to hear the choir's performances ahead of audiences in Singapore, Czechia, France and the UK. Bryan Crump speaks to Music Director David Squire, and Chorusters Ben Tan and Chelsea Numanga.

Topics: music
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Duration: 8'15"

12:50
Te Whaanau Maarama - The Family of Light
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With Matariki - the Maori New Year - fast approaching Waikato Museum is hosting an exhibition, Te Whaanau Maarama, The Family of Light, on Maori astronomy. Curator and Waikato University Professor Rangi Matamua describes the visual spectacle as something out of Jesus Christ Superstar.
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With Matariki - the Maori New Year - fast approaching, Waikato Museum is hosting an exhibition, Te Whaanau Maarama, The Family of Light, on Maori astronomy. Curator and Waikato University Professor Rangi Matamua describes the visual spectacle as something out of Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Duration: 28'48"

13:30
The Hive Hums With Many Minds
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Like it or not, we live in a global world where decisions made elsewhere directly affect our lives here. But a new exhibition in Auckland details the fight back by artists, people - and natural forces. The Hive Hums With Many Minds is a mixed-media event which opened its second stage this week in the monumental Silo Six venue at Winyard Quarter. Inside these vast cement silos, artists from across the country are employing videos, photos, sound and computer simulations to discuss infrastructure, interdependence and the busy hive that is our globalized world.
Topics: arts
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: visual arts, globalisation
Duration: 10'01"

13:50
Julie Mason
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Jazz pianist and vocalist Julie Mason is well known in the jazz scene around New Zealand as a solo performer and also as part of the Jazz Divas. Due to an anxiety disorder preventing her from even touching a piano it's been a few years since Julie recorded. She talks about that and her new album Layers of Disguise.
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Jazz pianist and vocalist Julie Mason is well known in the jazz scene around New Zealand as a solo performer and also as part of the Jazz Divas. Due to an anxiety disorder preventing her from even touching a piano it's been a few years since Julie recorded. She talks to Bryan Crump about that and her new album Layers of Disguise.

Topics: music
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Duration: 10'10"

14:30
Roger Horrocks
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Roger Horrocks is finalist in the poetry category of this year's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Song of the Ghost in the Machine. Roger has just published his latest book Re-inventing New Zealand - Essays on the Arts and the Media, and he is appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival reflecting on Len Lye's word for good art: "Zizz".
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Duration: 16'55"

14:45
THE HIVE HUMS WITH MANY MINDS
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Like it or not, we live in a global world where decisions made elsewhere directly affect our lives here. But a new exhibition in Auckland details the fight back by artists, people - and natural forces. The Hive Hums With Many Minds is a mixed-media event which opened its second stage this week in the monumental Silo Six venue at Winyard Quarter. Inside these vast cement silos, artists from across the country are employing videos, photos, sound and computer simulations to discuss infrastructure, interdependence and the busy hive that is our globalized world.
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Like it or not, we live in a global world where decisions made elsewhere directly affect our lives here. But a new exhibition in Auckland details the fight back by artists, people - and natural forces. The Hive Hums With Many Minds is a mixed-media event which opened its second stage this week in the monumental Silo Six venue at Winyard Quarter. Inside these vast cement silos, artists from across the country are employing videos, photos, sound and computer simulations to discuss infrastructure, interdependence and the busy hive that is our globalized world.
Support Structures - a photographic series by Tim Veling
"People at desks in Wellington, EQC, governments agencies overseeing the rebuild, dictated by pragmatics."

Simulations: flood - a large-scale billboard and video work by Reuben Moss
"City planning is an innately political notion."

Avail - a video work by Max Bellamy and Chris Miller
"It looks at the way that people respond to living in a moment of great change."

[video_play] https://vimeo.com/35855492
Topics: arts
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Tags: Auckland Region
Duration: 10'01"

20:23
People of the Eye
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"People of the Eye" is a play designed for the deaf and for hearing audiences. Created by Erin Siobhan Hutching it's based on her experiences growing up with her deaf sister, Sarah, in Christchurch. The production is being performed by the UK based Deaf and Hearing Ensemble, as part of the Now Festival of new plays at London's Yard Theatre. Erin talks about the genesis of the play.
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Duration: 13'44"

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12:40 NZ Youth Choir's European Odyssey
The New Zealand Youth Choir is furiously fundraising ahead of a big tour of Europe next month. Concerts in Wellington and Auckland will give fans a chance to hear the choir's performances ahead of audiences in Singapore, Czechia, France and the UK. Bryan speaks to Music Director David Squire, and Chorusters Ben Tan and Chelsea Numanga.
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12:50 Te Whaanau Maarama - The Family of Light
With Matariki - the Maori New Year - fast approaching Waikato Museum is hosting an exhibition, Te Whaanau Maarama, The Family of Light, on Maori astronomy. Curator and Waikato University Professor Rangi Matamua describes the visual spectacle as something out of Jesus Christ Superstar.

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1:10 At The Movies
Dan Slevin reviews '25 April' - an animated version of New Zealand's Gallipoli story and Meryl Streep portraying the 'worst singer in the world' - 'Florence Foster Jenkins'. He also talks to the co-director of the Documentary Edge Film Festival - Dan Shanan.

1:30 People of the Eye
"People of the Eye" is a play designed for the deaf and for hearing audiences. Created by Erin Siobhan Hutching it's based on her experiences growing up with her deaf sister, Sarah, in Christchurch.
The production is being performed by the UK based Deaf and Hearing Ensemble, as part of the Now Festival of new plays at London's Yard Theatre. Erin talks about the genesis of the play.
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1:50 Julie Mason
Jazz pianist and vocalist Julie Mason is well known in the jazz scene around New Zealand as a solo performer and also as part of the Jazz Divas. Due to an anxiety disorder preventing her from even touching a piano it's been a few years since Julie recorded. She talks about that and her new album Layers of Disguise.
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2:06 The Laugh Track - Red Bastard
Eric Davis, Red Bastard's comedy picks are Louis CK, Emo Phillips, George Carlin and Steve Martin
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2:25 Roger Horrocks
Roger Horrocks is finalist in the poetry category of this year's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Song of the Ghost in the Machine. Roger has just published his latest book Re-inventing New Zealand - Essays on the Arts and the Media, and he is appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival reflecting on Len Lye's word for good art: "Zizz".
[gallery:1996]

2:45 Hive Hums With Many Minds
Like it or not, we live in a global world where decisions made elsewhere directly affect our lives here. But a new exhibition in Auckland details the fight back by artists, people - and natural forces. The Hive Hums With Many Minds is a mixed-media event which opened its second stage this week in the monumental Silo Six venue at Winyard Quarter. Inside these vast cement silos, artists from across the country are employing videos, photos, sound and computer simulations to discuss infrastructure, interdependence and the busy hive that is our globalized world.
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3:06 Drama at 3
Part one of Anthony McCarten's Four Cities.

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Artist: NZ Youth Choir
Song: He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven
Composer: Stephen Lange
Album: Deep River
Label: NZ Youth Choir
Played at: 12.12
Artist: NZ Youth Choir
Song: Wairua Tapu Tau Mai Ra
Composer: Te Wehi Whanau
Album: Deep River
Label: NZ Youth Choir
Played at: 12.37 repris 12.59
Artist: Julie Mason
Song: Play Not Like This
Composer: Mason
Album: Layers of Disguise
Label: VOX
Played at: 1.50
Artist: Charles Bradley
Song: You Think I Don't Know
Composer: Victor Axelrod / Menahan Street Band / Thomas Brenneck / David Guy / Leon Michels
Album: Changes
Label: Daptone
Played at: 2.46
J.S. Bach : Concerto for violin and oboe BWV 1060. Duetsche Grammophon 427 144-2
Debussy : Passepied (from suite bergamasque) Nimbus records NI 7702
Tchaikovsky : Symphony No 6 in B Minor, Op 74 "Pathetique"
Tchaikovsky : Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture after Shakespeare
Both from Phillips 456 580 Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev.

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Four Cities by Anthony McCarten - A somewhat unreliable Polish tour guide makes the sparks fly for a forty-something teacher who leaves her quiet NZ life for an off-season package tour through four European capitals (1 of 2, RNZ)

===4:06 PM. | None (National)===
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Gene Genie: The New Age of Genomics: It's just a matter of time until we decipher the whole human genome and let the genie out of the bottle. In the first of five panel discussions Dr Adam Rutherford discusses the significance of this progress with University of Otago geneticist Peter Dearden, Susan Morton, Director of the University of Auckland Growing Up in New Zealand study, and Colin Gavaghan, Director of the New Zealand Law Foundation Centre for Law and Policy in Emerging Technologies (1 of 5, RNZ)

===5:00 PM. | None (National)===
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A roundup of today's news and sport

===5:11 PM. | None (National)===
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Archbishop Tutu’s Ubuntu
When apartheid in South Africa ended in 1994, Archbishop Desmond Tutu preached that the only hope for the country to heal its deep wounds was to turn its back on revenge and retribution and embrace the ancient humanist African philosophy of Ubuntu. He went on to chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Now 20 year later, Audrey Brown investigates whether Archbishop Tutu’s championing of Ubuntu has helped South Africa to heal and embrace forgiveness in the shadow of the Apartheid regime. (BBC)

===5:40 PM. | Te Manu Korihi===
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===6:06 PM. | Te Ahi Kaa===
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Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)

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18:06
Horomona Horo - Tāonga Pūoro
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Horomona Horo is a musician, composer and practitioner of taonga puoro. His mentors were the late Dr Hirini Melbourne, Dr Richard Nunns and carver of instruments Brian Flintoff. He refers to the three men as his papa's. Today, Horomono is a repository of that information. He talks about taonga puoro with Justine Murray, inside Te Whare Tapere Iti at The University of Waikato.
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In the first of our music series Te Ahi Kaa joins Horomona Horo, nō Nga Puhi, Ngāti Pōrou, Taranaki who discusses the work of his mentors and the revival of tāonga pūoro.
Kei a Te Pō Te Timatatanga o Te Waiatatanga mai a Te Atua, Ko te Ao, Ko Te Ao Mārama, Ko Te Ao Tūroa. It was in the night where the gods sang the world into existence, from the world of light into the world of music.
"In that particular proverb it speaks (about) the voice these instruments sing goes back to the beginning of time. They are the voices of the elements, they are the voices of the environments, and they are the voices that depict our land, that’s where the histories of the sounds that tāonga pūoro create" - Horomona Horo
At a relatively young age, Horomona Horo is now a repository of information of tāonga puoro, traditional māori instruments. He is a composer and practitioner and has travelled the world performing a range of musical collaborations. He has worked with Voices New Zealand Choir, Moana and the Tribe, Green Fire Islands, Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal and many of today’s māori singers and songwriters.
When Horomona is asked to play, he always discusses the story first, it’s important for him to know from the outset, because within the story, he is able to articulate which tāonga pūoro fits that kaupapa.
His passion for the art form began years ago in the Waikato with his first mentor the late Dr Hirini Melbourne (1949 – 2003). Dr Melbourne attended teachers training college and became a school teacher. He began composing te reo māori (māori language) nursery rhymes for his own children. During the 1970’s and 1980’s school's were introduced to the many songs he wrote about insects, birds and trees.
His teaching career included a stint in Whakatane, before he shifted to Wellington to edit te reo māori text for school resources. Dr Melbourne talked about his waiata compositions with The National Programme, in an interview he gave in 1978 where he described his song writing:
“I borrowed the melodies from the birds themselves, I borrowed the thoughts from māori folklore and the way they observed nature, birds and established a pattern from this behaviour, and being able to predict seasons weather and so on”
From the mid 1980’s Dr Melbourne learned the traditional art form of tāonga pūoro, that same period he met Dr Richard Nunns and for the next two decades they travelled the country gathering and sharing knowledge about the instruments.
Dr Richard Nunns is a formidable figure in the resurgence of tāonga pūoro, which wasn't an easy road at first, as Horomona recalled a story.
“He went to the elders and sat with them and he would be given challenges and he would go away…but he’d go back and in his humility, in his red head and pink face, he had the perseverance. Throughout his whole career of playing tāonga pūoro he got flack from both the māori world as well as the pākeha world. The māori would be saying why are you doing our instruments, you pākeha?....and the pākeha world saying why do you want to learn the māori instruments for? So he was able to overcome both sides of the coin”
From a 1989 archival interview, Dr Richard Nunns told Henare Te Ua (1933 – 2007)
‘It's a tradition that passes through me that I am a vehicle a vessel, a medium if you like and there are situations where I'm required to play and I can step aside and look at me working there…there are other times when I distinctly feel the presence of others standing behind me”
In 2013 Dr Richard Nunns was honoured for his contribution to tāonga pūoro at Te Papa in 2013, over the past two decades he has worked on a range of music genres including jazz, classical and even māori theatre.
In March this year, Associate Professor Martin Lodge commissioned carver Brian Flintoff to create a tāonga Pūoro collection, among the pieces include a whale bone Pukaea, the bone was gifted by Kati Tama of Onetahua. The collection provides opportunity and potential for the revival of tāonga puoro, and symbolises the connection to both Dr Hirini Melbourne and Dr Richard Nunns.
Topics: te ao Maori, music
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Horomona Horo, Dr Hirini Melbourne, Dr Richard Nunns
Duration: 28'44"

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===6:40 PM. | Voices===
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===7:05 PM. | TED Radio Hour===
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===8:06 PM. | Sunday Night===
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An evening of music and nostalgia (RNZ)

===10:12 PM. | Mediawatch===
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Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in New Zealand's news media (RNZ)

===10:45 PM. | In Parliament===
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===11:04 PM. | None (National)===
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An hour of music that's "shaken, not stirred" every week from the Underground Martini Bunker at Kansas Public Radio