RNZ National. 2016-05-20. 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:

20 May 2016

===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Health Check (BBC); 1:05 The Friday Feature; 2:05 NZ Society; 2:30 The Sampler (RNZ); 3:05 Grievous Bodily by Craig Harrison read by John O'Leary (2 of 15, RNZ); 3:30 The Why Factor (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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RNZ's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:16 and 6:50 Business News 6:18 Pacific News 6:26 Rural News 6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers

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06:00
Top Stories for Friday 20 May 2016
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EgyptAir wreckage found, terrorism suspected; Auckland marae open doors for homeless families; Politicians urged to hold off on Unitary Plan proposals; Former Air NZ engineer pleads not guilty; Marching for Moko, and other victims of child abuse; A third college has closed its door after measles confirmed.
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Duration: 31'54"

06:06
Sports News for 20 May 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Tags:
Duration: 2'02"

06:17
Parents as First Teacher programme is to be scrapped
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The long-running Parents as First Teacher programme is to be scrapped.
Topics: education
Regions:
Tags: parents, first teachers
Duration: 2'10"

06:20
Early business news for 20 May 2016
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Utilities investor Infratil has started spending its investment warchest.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'39"

06:27
Morning Rural News for 20 May 2016
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions:
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Duration: 4'08"

06:42
Man who has just moved into a house describes life in a car
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A man who has lived in his car in a South Auckland park for six months says being back in a home makes him feel like a person again.
Topics: housing, identity
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags:
Duration: 3'21"

06:47
Belinda Colling optimistic about new netball competition
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Netball New Zealand has announced a major, but expected, upheaval of the trans-Tasman netball competition.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags: netball
Duration: 3'36"

06:50
Consumer confidence dips to seven month low - survey
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Consumer confidence has dipped to its lowest level in seven months, with higher petrol prices and concerns about the property market taking the edge off sentiment.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'50"

06:52
Infratil backing data storage as new long term investment
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Listed infrastructure investor Infratil looks to have found itself a new investment stream, data centres.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'12"

06:54
Winegrowers see cost savings in proposed tax changes
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New Zealand Winegrowers says a review of the Customs and Excise Tax law will make it easier for the industry to do business, by saving time and money.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: wine, breweries, tax
Duration: 1'33"

06:56
Rakon shares dip after full-year result
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Shares in electronic chip maker Rakon slumped nine percent yesterday after delivering a disappointing full-year result.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'31"

06:58
Morning markets for 20 May 2016
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Wall Street weaker - Dow at a two month low - after minutes from the Federal Reserve suggest a rate hike is possible for June.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: Wall Street, markets
Duration: 1'06"

07:06
Sports News for 20 May 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Tags:
Duration: 1'43"

07:10
EgyptAir wreckage found, terrorism suspected
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Wreckage from the missing Egyptian Air passenger jet has been found in the sea off Crete and Egyptian authorities say they suspect a terrorist attack.
Topics: security, transport
Regions:
Tags: Egypt, Greece, Paris
Duration: 4'54"

07:17
Auckland marae open doors for homeless families
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Auckland marae are opening their doors to homeless families.
Topics: housing, te ao Maori
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Peeni Henare
Duration: 5'02"

07:23
Politicians urged to hold off on Unitary Plan proposals
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The Auckland City Council says it's inappropriate for Wellington politicians to interfere with proposals on how the city should combat spiralling house prices.
Topics: housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: house prices, homeless
Duration: 7'01"

07:30
Fisherman never charged in Operation Achilles
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A fisherman targeted in the Operation Achilles fish dumping investigation admits what he was doing was illegal, but he was never charged.
Topics: food, law
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Tags: fish dumping
Duration: 3'38"

07:40
Former Air NZ engineer pleads not guilty in US
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A New Zealand man has just appeared in a US court on charges of trying to buy spacecraft parts on behalf of a Chinese client.
Topics:
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Tags: spacecrafts parts, Chinese, USA, Seattle District Court
Duration: 3'44"

07:43
Marching for Moko, and other victims of child abuse
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An Auckland mother of two is encouraging New Zealanders to take to the streets this Sunday over the country's appalling rates of child abuse.
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Tags: Moko Rangitoheriri, child abuse, March for Moko, New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 3'58"

07:44
A third college has closed its door after measles confirmed
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A third secondary school has closed its doors and asked that all students check they are immunised after a student has been diagnosed with measles.
Topics: health
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: measles, Waiopehu College, Levin, vaccinated
Duration: 2'56"

07:49
Deaths from "superbugs" predicted to skyrocket
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A major new report warns deaths from "superbug" infections are about to skyrocket as the world teeters on the edge of the post-antibiotic era.
Topics: health
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Tags: antibiotics apocolypse, superbug infections, post-antibiotic era, Antimicrobial Resistance
Duration: 4'01"

07:52
Canadian PM apologises for behaviour in Parliament
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The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologised for manhandling an opposition MP and accidentally elbowing another one in Parliament.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Canada, parliament
Duration: 3'09"

08:06
Sports News for 20 May 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Tags: netball
Duration: 2'14"

08:10
France launches investigation
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Wreckage of Egypt Air flight 804 has been sighted in the Mediterranean Sea south of Crete.
Topics: transport
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Tags: Greece, Egypt, France, Air flight 804, wreckage
Duration: 7'53"

08:19
Ak principals struggle to help students in overcrowded homes
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Some Auckland school principals say they're at their wits end trying to help students and their families living in overcrowded homes.
Topics: housing
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Duration: 3'10"

08:23
Trans-Tasman netball competition scrapped
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The most successful New Zealand coach in the trans-Tasman netball competition, Noelene Taurua, says it needed to be scrapped as it's failing New Zealand players.
Topics: sport
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Tags: netball, Trans-Tasman netball, New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 7'25"

08:30
Markets Update for 20 May 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 50"

08:36
Colorado visit gives Queenstown leaders future wake-up call
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A visit to Aspen, Colorado has given a group of Queenstown community leaders a shocking insight into what the future might hold for the New Zealand resort town.
Topics:
Regions: Otago
Tags: Queenstown, resort town, future, Aspen, Colorado, tourism
Duration: 3'42"

08:40
Government injects $24 million into construction industry
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Twenty-four million dollars is being injected into trades training to help plug skill gaps in the construction industry.
Topics: housing, economy, education
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Tags: building, construction, apprentices, skill gap, trades training
Duration: 3'11"

08:44
Rail Road debate heats up in Northland
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Insight this Sunday morning examines growing tensions in the road versus rail debate in Northland.
Topics: transport
Regions: Northland
Tags: road, rail, Kiwirail, Whangarei
Duration: 3'29"

08:49
Parker ready to rumble with Takam for chance at world title
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The New Zealand heavyweight boxer, Joseph Parker, is just one fight away from a crack at a world title.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Joseph Parker, Carlos Takam, heavyweight boxing, New Zealand, France-Cameroon
Duration: 2'50"

08:52
75th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Crete
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Today is the 75th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Crete in which allied troops fought to hold the Greek island against extreme odds.
Topics: conflict
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Tags: Battle Of Crete, Greece, New Zealand, Crete
Duration: 3'43"

08:55
Kerry-Anne Walsh with news from Australia
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The latest from Australia with Canberra correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh.
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Tags: Canberra, Australia, correspondent
Duration: 3'11"

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===9:06 AM. | Nine To Noon===
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Current affairs and topics of interest, including: 10:45 The Reading: The Colour of Food: A Memoir of Life, Love and Dinner, by Anne Else read by Jane Waddell (5 of 5, RNZ)

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09:10
Egypt Air crash - what happened?
BODY:
More than 20 hours after it vanished the fate of Egypt Air flight MS804 is still unknown. Officials have said terrorism is a likely cause of the crash but are not ruling out a technical fault. Todd Curtis is a former safety engineer with Boeing who worked on its 777 wide-body jets - he is now director of the Airsafe.com Foundation.
Topics: transport
Regions:
Tags: Egypt, France, Greece, wreckage
Duration: 13'32"

09:23
Calls for fish inquiry to be broadened
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The Auckland University fishing researcher whose report exposed decades of fish dumping and illegal practice says he's concerned a new industry inquiry will be too narrow. The Ministry of Primary Industries will bring in a top lawyer to examine why fishing skippers weren't prosecuted during operations in the Timaru and Oamaru ports in 2012 and 2013, despite video evidence they were dumping fish. The inquiry will also look into a second investigation called Operation Hippocamp, which shows an MPI investigator thought the ministry was putting prosecutions in the "too hard" basket. Dr Glenn Simmons was the lead researcher of the catch reconstruction for the 1950 - 2010 period.
Topics: food, law
Regions:
Tags: fishing
Duration: 15'22"

09:40
MPI responds to farmer's criticism
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Yesterday Nine to Noon reported on farmers' concerns over chicken manure helping to spread the aggressive weed, velvetleaf via imported chicken feed. Federated Farmers says they can cite multiple cases of outbreaks occurring where chicken feed is put. Pete Thomson, is MPI's Director Plants, Food and Environment.
Topics: farming, rural
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Tags: Velvetleaf
Duration: 8'31"

09:49
Asia correspondent Charlotte Glennie
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The inauguration of Taiwan's first female president, Hong Kong's visit by top Chinese official and Leicester City's celebratory tour of Bangkok.
Topics:
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Tags: Asia, China
Duration: 10'11"

10:09
Joanna Connors with the story of her rapist
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In 1984, Joanna Connors was a reporter in Ohio for the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper when she was raped by a stranger at knifepoint while out on an assignment. Her rapist was quickly caught and prosecuted, but for the next 22 years, as Joanna Connors got on with her life, and raised a family, and tried to deal with what happened to her, she always wondered about the backstory of David Francis, the man who raped her.
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Warning: This interview contains discussion of sexual assault and themes relating to it.
In 1984, Joanna Connors was a reporter in Ohio for the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper when she was raped by a stranger at knifepoint while out on an assignment.
Her rapist was quickly caught and prosecuted, but for the next 22 years, as Joanna Connors got on with her life, and raised a family, and tried to deal with what happened to her, she was always wondered about the backstory of David Francis, the man who raped her.
Francis already had convictions for violence, including aggravated robbery and had been out of prison on parole for a week when he committed the rape.
A few years ago she wrote a series of award-winning pieces for the Plain Dealer about what happened to her, and about why she decided to try to track him down.
Her work attracted an Excellence in Coverage of Trauma Award from Columbia University, and also Northwestern University's Courage in Journalism medal.
Joanna Connors' series of articles about the attack, became the genesis her memoir, I Will Find You, which chillingly is the last thing David Francis said to her.
Topics: author interview
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Tags: Joanna Connors, rape
Duration: 33'59"

10:40
Unity Books Review - How did we get into this Mess
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How did we get into this Mess: Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot, published by Verso, reviewed by Tilly Lloyd.
Topics: books
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Tags: George Monbiot
Duration: 4'29"

11:10
New music with Grant Smithies
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In his ongoing quest to ransack the musical alphabet, Grant Smithies covers three acts beginning with the letter "R" this week: Ray Columbus, touring jazz man Ramsey Lewis, and early all-female rock pioneers, The Runaways, whose lead singer Cherie Currie plays NZ tonight.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Ray Columbus, The Ramsey Lewis Trio, The Runaways
Duration: 27'02"

11:34
Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
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Super rugby, Joseph Parker's big fight in his old stamping ground, and reaction to the announcement that Australia and New Zealand will go their separate ways next year with their own domestic competitions.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags: super rugby, boxing, netball
Duration: 11'07"

11:50
The Week That Was
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With Te Radar and Irene Pink.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: comedy
Duration: 12'19"

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09:05 Egypt Air disappearance - what happened?
More than 20 hours after it it vanished the fate of Egypt Air flight MS804 is still unknown. Officials have said terrorism is a likely cause of the crash but are not ruling out a technical fault. Todd Curtis is a former safety engineer with Boeing who worked on its 777 wide-body jets - he is now director of the Airsafe.com Foundation
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09:20 MPI responds to farmer's criticism
Yesterday Nine to Noon reported on farmers' concerns over chicken manure helping to spread the aggressive weed, velvetleaf via imported chicken feed. Federated Farmers says they can cite multiple cases of outbreaks occurring where chicken feed is put. Pete Thomson, is MPI's Director Plants, Food and Environment.

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09:30 Calls for fish inquiry to be broadened
The Auckland University fishing researcher whose report exposed decades of fish dumping and illegal practice says he's concerned a new industry inquiry will be too narrow. The Ministry of Primary Industries will bring in a top lawyer to examine why fishing skippers weren't prosecuted during operations in the Timaru and Oamaru ports in 2012 and 2013, despite video evidence they were dumping fish. The inquiry will also look into a second investigation called Operation Hippocamp, which shows an MPI investigator thought the ministry was putting prosecutions in the "too hard" basket. Dr Glenn Simmons was the lead researcher of the catch reconstruction for the 1950 - 2010 period
09:45 Asia correspondent Charlotte Glennie
The inauguration of Taiwan's first female president, Hong Kong 's visit by top Chinese official and
Leicester City's celebratory tour of Bangkok.
10:05 Joanna Connors with the story of her rapist
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In 1984, Joanna Connors was a reporter in Ohio for the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper when she was raped by a stranger at knifepoint while out on an assignment.
Her rapist was quickly caught and prosecuted, but for the next 22 years, as Joanna Connors got on with her life, and raised a family, and tried to deal with what happened to her, she was always wondered about the backstory of David Francis, the man who raped her.
A few years ago she wrote a series of award winning pieces for the Plain Dealer about what happened to her, and about why she decided to try to track him down.
Now her memoir is out, titled, I Will Find You, which chillingly is the last thing David Francis said to her.
10:35 Unity Books Review - How did we get into this Mess: Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot
reviewed by Tilly Lloyd, published by Verso
10:45 The Reading
The Colour of Food by Anne Else read by Jane Waddell (Part 5 of 5)
11:05 New music with Grant Smithies
In his ongoing quest to ransack the musical alphabet, Grant Smithies covers three acts beginning with the letter "R" this week: Ray Columbus, touring jazz man Ramsey Lewis, and early all-female rock pioneers, The Runaways, whose lead singer Cherie Currie plays NZ tonight.

Artist: Ray Columbus
Song: YoYo
Comp: Columbus/ Russell
Album: Now You Shake
Label: RPM/ Frenzy
Broadcast Time: 2'20"

Artist: Ray Columbus
Song: C'Mon and Swim
Comp: Columbus/ Russell
Album: Now You Shake
Label: RPM/ Frenzy
Broadcast Time: 2'17"

Artist: The Ramsey Lewis Trio
Song: The In Crowd
Comp: Billy Page
Album: The In Crowd
Label: Chess
Broadcast Time: 5'50"

Artist: The Runaways
Song: Cherry Bomb
Comp: Runaways/ Fowley
Album: The Runaways (self-titled)
Label: Mercury.
Broadcast Time: 2'17"

11:30 Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
Super rugby, Joseph Parker's big fight in his old stamping ground, and reaction to the announcement that Australia and New Zealand will go their separate ways next year with their own domestic competitions.
11:45 The week that was with Te Radar and Irene Pink

===Noon | Midday Report===
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RNZ news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including: 12:16 Business News 12:26 Sport 12:34 Rural News 12:43 Worldwatch

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12:00
Midday News for 20 May 2016
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The search for EgyptAir Flight 804 continues and the measles outbreak closes schools in Levin.
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Duration: 14'58"

12:17
Ryman Healthcare profit rises
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The country's biggest retirement village operator, Ryman Healthcare, has reported a strong full year net profit, driven by strong demand for its new developments on both sides of the Tasman.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: Ryman Healthcare
Duration: 1'55"

12:19
Augusta Capital full year profit rises strongly
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Listed property investor Augusta Capital has a reported a 30 percent lift in its full year profit on the back of valuation gains and improved returns from its properties and investment syndicates.
Topics: business
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Tags: Augusta Capital
Duration: 1'39"

12:20
Migration hits new highs
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It's a booming time for migration as more people come here to live, or return to New Zealand.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: migration
Duration: 1'43"

12:22
NZX looks to funds management business for growth
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The stock exchange operator NZX is looking to its investment products to offer it the bext growth over the coming year.
Topics: business
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Tags: NZX
Duration: 1'11"

12:23
Midday Markets for 20 May 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Don Lewthwaite at First NZ Capital.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'52"

12:26
Midday Sports News for 20 May 2016
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New Zealand's golf world number one Lydia Ko will need an improved second round if she's to avoid missing the cut at the latest LPGA event in Virginia.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'45"

12:35
Midday Rural News for 20 May 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors
Topics: rural, farming
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 8'11"

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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)

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21:35
Lipoprotein(a) - little known but high risk for heart disease
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Lipoprotein(a) increases the risk of heart disease in 20% of people and doesn't respond to diet or exercise, so the hunt is on to find a treatment.
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Most people have heard of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ cholesterol, and know that ‘bad’ cholesterol is a risk factor in cardiovascular disease. But there is another less-well known risk factor that increases the risk of heart disease in more than 20% of the population, which is genetically determined, doesn’t respond to diet or exercise and for which there is currently no treatment.
Sally McCormick, from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Otago, and PhD student Monika Sharma, tell Alison Ballance about their research into lipoprotein(a) (pronounced as lipoprotein little a), and how understanding it might lead to the development of new drugs.
AB Tell me about fats in blood.
SM Fats [or lipids] don’t occur freely in the blood. So cholesterol and triacylglycerol, another fat, are packaged into specialised molecules … These molecules are called lipoproteins , and that’s because they’re a complex of the lipids and proteins. The proteins are very important for delivering the fats to various tissues, for example the liver. There are specific receptors – you can think of them as gatekeepers – that lock onto these lipoprotein particles and bring them into the liver.
AB What are the consequences of these fats for heart disease?
SM When you get your lipids levels measured what that’s actually measuring is the fats contained in these lipoproteins. So cholesterol and triacylglycerol that are contained in these specialised particles that are required to keep the fats soluble. There’s one lipoprotein particle in particular, called LDL – that stands for low density lipoprotein – that’s a well-known risk factor for heart disease. If you have high levels of it you’re at a higher risk for developing atherosclerosis and heart disease.
AB If there’s a low density one is there also a high density one?
SM Yes, there is. And it’s opposite. It’s good to have high levels of the HDL – it’s known as good cholesterol and it protects the arteries. There’s also another lipoprotein which is not so commonly measured. It’s very related to the bad cholesterol, and it’s called lipoprotein little a … but it has a different metabolic fate and a different uptake pathway, and that’s what we’re trying to study. Elevated levels of it are a very significant risk for heart disease.
Sally says that once the LDL receptor pathway was discovered it led to the development of statin drugs which are very effective in lowering high levels of LDL. She is hoping that understanding lipoprotein little a might similarly lead to the development of a drug.
Topics: science, health
Regions:
Tags: heart disease, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, lipoprotein
Duration: 12'14"

13:14
Queenstown warned it could become like exclusive Aspen
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A delegation of Queenstown community leaders received a shocking warning of what their resort town could become. The Chamber of Commerce delegation visited the Colorado ski resort of Aspen last month. It's geographically similar to Queenstown, and both are suffering serious housing affordability issues, with those working in the service industries having to live further and further out of town. Aspen has the largest billionaire count of any valley in the world and can resemble a ghost town as the mansions lie empty for 49 weeks of the year. The main industry in Aspen is not tourism but real estate and property development. Those in Aspen openly told the Queenstown delegation that this has killed the sense of community - and they are desperately trying to reverse the trend. Queenstown councillor and sustainability researcher, Alexa Forbes is among those who made the trip
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A delegation of Queenstown community leaders received a shocking warning of what their resort town could become.
The Chamber of Commerce delegation visited the Colorado ski resort of Aspen last month.
It's geographically similar to Queenstown, and both are suffering serious housing affordability issues, with those working in the service industries having to live further and further out of town.
Aspen has the largest billionaire count of any valley in the world and can resemble a ghost town as the mansions lie empty for 49 weeks of the year.
The main industry in Aspen is not tourism but real estate and property development. Those in Aspen openly told the Queenstown delegation that this has killed the sense of community - and they are desperately trying to reverse the trend.
Queenstown councillor and sustainability researcher Alexa Forbes is among those who made the trip.
She talks to Jesse Mulligan.
Topics: politics
Regions: Otago
Tags: Queenstown, Aspen, Colorado
Duration: 11'27"

13:25
Women only job ads for University mathematics roles
BODY:
Melbourne University has taken the bold move of opening up jobs to women only. It's all part of an attempt to redress the gender imbalance in fields such as mathematics. The university is advertising three positions in its School of Mathematics and Statistics for female applicants only. The head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics is Professor Aleks Owczarek.
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Melbourne University has taken the bold move of opening up jobs to women only.
It's all part of an attempt to redress the gender imbalance in fields such as mathematics. The university is advertising three positions in its School of Mathematics and Statistics for female applicants only. The head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics is Professor Aleks Owczarek.
Read an edited excerpt of the interview below:
Why are there so many more men than women in mathematics?
It’s an historic situation, it’s gone back in many fields of course, not just in mathematics. This has changed, but it’s only moving very slowly in mathematics and we’re attempting to address that slow movement and speed it up a bit.
When do women tend to peel off from mathematics? Is it primary school or secondary school, or university or post-grad?
We know the problem starts certainly at school, between the upper primary where girls are very excited by mathematics just as much as boys are, and as they progress through high school for reasons which I’m not going to speculate on they change and they get put off. Whether that is due to societal pressure or some feeling that it’s not an area they should be continuing on with, we don’t know. But it’s certainly happening at high school, girls taking the highest level of mathematics here in Victoria is only about a third and they continue on to our undergraduate and graduate population it’s no different, it’s around 28 percent across the sector of Australia of students studying mathematics are female.
Does that suggest that the change should not happen at academic level, and not academic hiring level, but at high school level? Presumably there are not enough people in the industry to fill these jobs that we are talking about.
You have got to ask how you drive change, and you drive change by providing role models and mentors for young female students to aspire to and see that this is a discipline that is for them as opposed to something that they might see as simply male. What we hope by taking this bold step of hiring three women (and we think we are going to get a fantastic field of applicants from all around the world because it is a global marketplace) we have no fear that we are going to get fantastic applicants from across the world. But what we hope is by hiring these three early and mid-career academics (and us providing also mentoring for them), then being able to inspire our female university student population and then further go out and inspire high school students to continue studying. We’ll also hope by being a beacon for these three new academics into our school that we will attract more female academics to come for any new position we advertise in the school. We hope that it will create its own momentum and help change, not only for the academic population but our undergraduate population and in due course the high schools.
Topics: education
Regions:
Tags: woman, mathematics, jobs
Duration: 7'41"

13:35
Critter of the Week
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DOC's threatened species ambassador Nicola Toki details her critter of the week
Topics: environment
Regions:
Tags: plants
Duration: 10'18"

13:46
Favourite album
BODY:
Hank Williams 'Settin the woods on fire'.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 13'37"

14:22
NZ Live: Avalanche City
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This afternoon a man who began playing guitar at age nine. In his teens he was in many bands and went on to study music at Waikato Institute of Technology, graduating in 2005 with a Bachelor of Media Arts in Commercial Music. At the end of 2009 he quit his job as a music writer and began recording bands in his own studio. That's when he started creating his own melodies and honing his singing voice. This led to live performances and the start of his, now internationally known, band Avalanche City. He is Dave Baxter
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David Baxter began playing guitar at age nine.
In his teens he was in many bands and went on to study music at Waikato Institute of Technology, graduating in 2005 with a Bachelor of Media Arts in Commercial Music. At the end of 2009 he quit his job as a music writer and began recording bands in his own studio.
That's when he started creating his own melodies and honing his singing voice. This led to live performances and the start of his, now internationally known, band Avalanche City.
Here is he performing in our Auckland studio
Topics: music
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Tags: Dave Baxter
Duration: 37'10"

15:09
Food: eating locusts
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A Dunedin restaurant is surprised by how popular insects are on it's menu. Vault 21 has introduced locusts as a dish to order and it's been a hit with customers.The plates have also been empty heading back into the kitchen. Vault 21 executive chef Greg Piner talks to Jesse about the popularity of edible insects.
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A Dunedin restaurant is surprised by how popular insects are on its menu.
Vault 21 has introduced locusts as a dish to order and it's been a hit with customers.
The plates have also been empty heading back into the kitchen.
Vault 21 executive chef Greg Piner talks to Jesse about the popularity of edible insects.
Topics: food
Regions: Otago
Tags: Vault 21, Dunedin
Duration: 10'26"

15:19
Wine: Australian wine critic, Nick Stock
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Nick Stock is an Australian sommelier and wine critic who is visiting Auckland for Winetopia which starts today.
Topics: food
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 6'55"

15:26
Movies with Richard Swainson
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Dr Richard Swainson from Auteur House in Hamilton reviews Son of Saul and Bastille Day
Topics: arts
Regions:
Tags: films
Duration: 9'37"

15:36
Music for the weekend
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Zac Arnold of Music 101 previews what is coming up tomorrow.
Topics: music
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Duration: 9'03"

15:44
The Panel pre-show for 20 May 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 15'09"

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1:10 First song
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1:17 Queenstown warned it could become like exclusive Aspen
A delegation of Queenstown community leaders have received a shocking warning of what their resort town could become. A Queenstown Chamber of Commerce delegation visited the Colorado ski resort of Aspen last month. It's geographically similar to Queenstown, and both are suffering serious housing affordability issues, with those working in the service industries having to live further and further out of town.
Aspen has the largest billionaire count of any valley in the world and can resemble a ghost town as the mansions lie empty for 49 weeks of the year. The main industry in Aspen is not tourism but real estate and property development. Those in Aspen openly told the Queenstown delegation that this has killed the sense of community - and they are desperately trying to reverse the trend.
Queenstown councillor and sustainability researcher, Alexa Forbes is among those who made the trip
1:27 Women only job ads for University mathematics roles
Melbourne University has taken the bold move of opening up jobs to women only. It's all part of an attempt to redress the gender imbalance in fields such as mathematics. The university is advertising three positions in its School of Mathematics and Statistics for female applicants only.
The head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics is Professor Aleks Owczarek
1.35 Critter of the Week
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DOC's threatened species ambassador Nicola Toki will reveal all.
1:40 Favourite album
2:10 New Zealand Society
Tales of life in Aotearoa.
2:20 NZ Live: Avalanche City
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This afternoon a man who began playing guitar at age nine. In his teens he was in many bands and went on to study music at Waikato Institute of Technology, graduating in 2005 with a Bachelor of Media Arts in Commercial Music.
At the end of 2009 he quit his job as a music writer and began recording bands in his own studio. That's when he started creating his own melodies and honing his singing voice. This led to live performances and the start of his, now internationally known, band Avalanche City. He is Dave Baxter
3:10 Food: eating locusts
A Dunedin restaurant is surprised by how popular insects are on it's menu. Vault 21 has introduced locusts as a dish to order and it's been a hit with customers.The plates have also been empty heading back into the kitchen. Vault 21 executive chef Greg Piner talks to Jesse about the popularity of edible insects.
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3:20 Wine: Australian wine critic, Nick Stock
3:30 Movies with Richard Swainson
Dr Richard Swainson from Auteur House in Hamilton reviews Son of Saul and Bastille Day
3:40 Music for the weekend
Zac Arnold of Music 101 previews what is coming up tomorrow
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show

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JESSE MULLIGAN : AFTERNOONS 1- 4pm
Friday May 20th
JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST: Coldplay
TITLE: Up and Up
COMP: Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, Chris Martin
ALBUM: A Head Full of Dreams
LABEL: Parlophone
FAVOURITE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Hank Williams
TITLE: Move It On Over
COMP: Hank Williams
ALBUM: The Complete Hank Williams
LABEL: Mercury
ARTIST: Hank Williams
TITLE: Lonesome Whistle
COMP: Jimmie Davis, Hank Williams
ALBUM: The Complete Hank Williams
LABEL: Mercury
ARTIST: Hank Williams
TITLE: They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
COMP: Leon Payne
ALBUM: The Complete Hank Williams
LABEL: Mercury
NEW ZEALAND LIVE - Avalanche City:
ARTIST: Avalanche City
TITLE: Little Fire
COMP: Dave Baxter
ALBUM: We Are For The Wild Places
LIVE: RNZ Auckland
ARTIST: Avalanche City
TITLE: Love, Love, Love
COMP: Dave Baxter
ALBUM: Our New Life Above The Ground
LIVE: RNZ Auckland
ARTIST: Avalanche City
TITLE: Inside Out
COMP: Dave Baxter
ALBUM: We Are For The Wild Places
LIVE: RNZ Auckland
ARTIST: Avalanche City
TITLE: Wild Places I
COMP: Dave Baxter
ALBUM: We Are For The Wild Places
LIVE: RNZ Auckland
MUSIC 101 SAMPLER:
ARTIST: Radiohead
TITLE: Daydreaming
COMP: Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Philip Selway, Thom Yorke
ALBUM: A Moon Shaped Pool
LABEL: XL
PANEL HALFTIME SONG:
ARTIST: Frank Sinatra
TITLE: Come Fly With Me
COMP: Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen
ALBUM: Come Fly With Me
LABEL: Capitol

===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)

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15:44
The Panel pre-show for 20 May 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 15'09"

16:03
The Panel with Finlay MacDonald and Lynda Hallinan (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Lynda Hallinan and Finlay MacDonald have been up to. Personal stories from relatives of the victims onboard the crashed Egypt Air flight. Economic commentator Grant Cleary with his view on what the housing shortage is really all about. Four men came to the aid of a man being attacked in an Auckland CBD bottle store.
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Duration: 23'48"

16:05
The Panel with Finlay MacDonald and Lynda Hallinan (Part 2)
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Where in the world do you get the best night out on the town? What the Panelists Lynda Hallinan and Finlay McDonald have been thinking about. Mosgiel farmer Graeme White talks about whether sheep mind being chased and tackled. Political predictor says a Democratic nominee will win the presidential election. The world's oldest living woman Ema Morano says being single and raw eggs are the recipe for longevity.
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Duration: 26'21"

16:07
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Lynda Hallinan and Finlay MacDonald have been up to.
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Duration: 3'16"

16:10
Flight MS804
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Personal stories from relatives of the victims onboard the crashed Egypt Air flight.
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Tags: Flight MS804, Egypt
Duration: 3'16"

16:15
Poverty crisis or housing crisis?
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Economic commentator Grant Cleary with his view on what the housing shortage is really all about.
Topics: housing
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Duration: 13'57"

16:29
Strangers to the rescue
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Four men came to the aid of a man being attacked in an Auckland CBD bottle store.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: attack
Duration: 2'04"

16:33
The world's best night out
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Where in the world do you get the best night out on the town?
Topics: life and society
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Duration: 4'23"

16:37
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Lynda Hallinan and Finlay McDonald have been thinking about
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Duration: 5'18"

16:43
Aussie school boys' sheep tackle
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Mosgiel farmer Graeme White talks about whether sheep mind being chased and tackled.
Topics:
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Tags: Australia, Kings School
Duration: 5'30"

16:49
Are parking spaces shrinking?
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Finding car park buildings hard to manoeuvre in? Maybe the spaces are getting smaller.
Topics: transport
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Tags: parking
Duration: 4'34"

16:53
Democrats predicted to win
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Political predictor says a Democratic nominee will win the presidential election.
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Tags: US, Clinton
Duration: 4'09"

16:58
Long life recipe - being single and raw eggs
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The world's oldest living woman Ema Morano says being single and raw eggs are the recipe for longevity.
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Tags: US, Ema Morano
Duration: 1'35"

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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme

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17:00
Checkpoint with John Campbell, Friday 20th May 2016
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Watch Friday's full programme here.
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Duration: 00"

17:08
Debris not missing plane, officials say
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Egyptian officials have withdrawn claims that wreckage from the missing EgyptAir plane had been found, saying the debris that was spotted in the ocean is not from MS804.
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Regions:
Tags: Egypt, MS804
Duration: 3'38"

17:12
Housing situation worst ever, say Salvation Army
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People sleeping rough in West Auckland have begun storing their things in lockers outside the Salvation Army building, so they can keep their few possessions dry and safe. John Campbell reports.
Topics: housing, politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags:
Duration: 2'48"

17:15
No housing crisis, says Paula Bennett
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Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett says there is no housing crisis in New Zealand, and ongoing problems have been the case for some time. Peter Newport reports.
Topics: housing, politics
Regions: Otago
Tags:
Duration: 6'57"

17:22
Fishing industry in damage control after dumping revelations
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Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett says there is no housing crisis in New Zealand, and ongoing problems have been the case for some time. Peter Newport reports.
Topics: environment
Regions:
Tags: fishing, fishing industry
Duration: 3'19"

17:26
No women leads to no Open for Muirfield golf club
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A bid to allow women to join the golf club at Scotland's legendary, and very male, Muirfield Course, has failed, leaving the course ineligible to host the Open.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags: Muirfield Course, Scotland
Duration: 3'38"

17:33
Evening Business for 20 May 2016
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News from the business sector including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 3'55"

17:37
Former Chibok schoolgirl found
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At least one more former Chibok schoolgirl abducted by Boko Haram militants in 2014 has been found. Sera Luka was rescued yesterday during a military operation against the ISIS-affiliated militants.
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Tags: Nigeria, Chibok
Duration: 1'57"

17:39
More funding for charter schools in Budget 2016
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The Labour Party is putting forward a bill to abolish charter schools, but just today a substantial expansion of ACT's charter school policy was announced.
Topics: education
Regions:
Tags: charter schools
Duration: 6'42"

17:46
Flooding in Hokitika after heavy rain
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Heavy rain has fallen across the West Coast this afternoon causing flooding in Hokitika. Andy Thompson from Westland Civil Defence joins Checkpoint.
Topics: weather
Regions: West Coast
Tags: flooding
Duration: 2'54"

17:49
Queenstown Council admits glass not being recycled
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The Queenstown Lakes District Council has admitted that glass from residents' recycling bins is going to the landfill, and say a communication glitch meant residents were not told what was happening.
Topics: environment
Regions: Otago
Tags: recycling
Duration: 2'58"

17:52
75th anniversary commemorations underway for battle of Crete
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Commemoration services will be held in Crete today to mark the 75th anniversary of the battle in which Allied troops fought to hold the Greek island against extreme odds.
Topics: history, defence force
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Tags: Crete
Duration: 3'29"

17:56
Bluff Oyster Festival to kick off with piping & ode
BODY:
You might imagine a festival dedicated to the world's greatest oyster to be quite flash, but the tagline for the Bluff Oyster Festival, which starts tomorrow, is 'unsophisticated and proud of it'.
Topics:
Regions: Southland
Tags: oyster, Bluff Oyster Festival
Duration: 3'09"

18:11
Auckland housing crisis worsening
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The housing situation in Auckland is as bad as the Salvation Army have ever seen, its Operations Manager Rhondda Middleton says.
Topics: housing, politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Salvation Army
Duration: 8'40"

18:20
Parents as First Teachers gets the chop
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A programme that has helped tens of thousands of parents over its 25 year existence is to be scrapped.
Topics: education
Regions:
Tags: Parents as First Teachers
Duration: 3'07"

18:26
Weekend sports
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Big weekend of sport happening here and abroad, rugby, league, golf, WRC and boxing to name a few. Here to talk us through it is our sports reporter, Matt Chatterton.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Matt Chatterton
Duration: 4'34"

18:40
Focus on Politics for 20 May 2016
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The Director of the Security Intelligence Service has spoken out this week about her agency's role in the jihadi brides controversy. Rebecca Kitteridge has also addressed a Privacy Act exemption, that allows the SIS and the Government Communications Bureau to request or obtain personal data from both government departments and private companies. Here's our political editor, Jane Patterson.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: SIS, Rebecca Kitteridge
Duration: 15'04"

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===6:30 PM. | Worldwatch===
=DESCRIPTION=

The stories behind the international headlines

===6:43 PM. | Focus on Politics===
=DESCRIPTION=

Analysis of significant political issues presented by RNZ's parliamentary reporting team (RNZ)

===7:06 PM. | Nights===
=DESCRIPTION=

RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information 7:42 The Why Factor (BBC) 8:30 Spotlight

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20:12
Nights' Sport - Africa & Europe
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Football Collective editor, American Dave Raish reports from Algeria where Football is king. Also the Olympics may suspend Russian athletics from competing, and FIFA anti-corruption measures are about as effective as expected.
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Football Collective editor, American Dave Raish reports from Algeria where Football is king. Also the Olympics may suspend Russian athletics from competing, and FIFA anti-corruption measures are about as effective as expected.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags: Africa, Algeria, football, soccer, athletics, running, boxing, Olympics, Rio 2016
Duration: 16'48"

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7:07 Sonic Tonic
Music with magic and mischief. Tonight we're diving deep into blue.
7:45 The Why Factor
Time - Mike Williams asks why some weeks just fly by but sometimes minutes can seem like hours? Why do we perceive time differently in different circumstances?
8:12 Nights' Sport - Europe
Football Collective editor, American Dave Raish reports from Algeria.

8:30 Spotlight
Stomping Grounds: Mike Fabulous AKA Lord Echo. In this episode of Stomping Grounds, which sees the Music 101 team visit the hometowns of New Zealand musicians, Mike Fabulous shows us his memorable haunts in his original stomping grounds of rural Carterton.
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9:07 Country Life
The Canterbury Waterway Rehabilitation Experiment or CAREX is led by Professor Jon Harding from the University of Canterbury's Freshwater Ecology Research Group. CAREX has partnered up with the Department of Conservation, Fonterra and scientists from ESR to focus on ways to improve rural waterway health through better nutrient, sediment and weed management. To find out how the research is progressing, Cosmo Kentish-Barnes visits Jill and Richard Simpson's dairy farm near Lincoln, where the CAREX partners are conducting in-stream and wetland trials
10:17 Late Edition
A round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International
11:07 The Friday Finale
The Mixtape: Andrew Tolly - For NZ Music Month, Music101 invited guests to compile a C60 of local sounds, and talk us through their selections. This week New Zealand Garage Rock legend Andrew Tolly.

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ARTIST:New Order
SONG:Blue Monday
ARTIST:The Family Stand
SONG:Shades of Blue
ARTIST:Massive Attack
SONG:Blue lines
ARTIST:Bic Runga
SONG:Blue Blue Heart
ARTIST:Eiffel 65
SONG:Blue (da be dee)
ARTIST:Lila Downs/Caetano Veloso
SONG:Burn it Blue
ARTIST:Joni Mitchell
SONG:Blue

===9:06 PM. | Country Life===
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Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)

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21:05
The Apple of the World
BODY:
The World Apple Report has ranked New Zealand's apple industry as the world's most competitive for the second year in a row.
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The World Apple Report has ranked New Zealand's apple industry as the world's most competitive for the second year in a row.
Topics: rural
Regions:
Tags: apples, exports, World Apple Report
Duration: 3'33"

21:10
New Zealand Dairy Industry Award Winners
BODY:
On a Saturday evening in mid-May the winners of the 2016 NZ Dairy Industry Awards were announced in Wellington. 33 finalists competed for the honour of being named the winner in either the Share Farmer of the Year, Dairy Manager of the Year or Trainee of the Year category. Mark and Jaime Arnold took out Share Farmers of the Year, Thomas Chatfield Dairy Manager and Nicholas Bailey Dairy Trainee. Between them they took home $170,000 of prizes.
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On a Saturday evening in mid-May the winners of the 2016 NZ Dairy Industry Awards were announced in Wellington. 33 finalists competed for the honour of being named the winner in either the Share Farmer of the Year, Dairy Manager of the Year or Trainee of the Year category. Mark and Jaime Arnold took out Share Farmers of the Year, Thomas Chatfield Dairy Manager and Nicholas Bailey Dairy Trainee. Between them they took home $170,000 of prizes.
None of the three sets of winners come from a dairy farming background, but none can think of a better career choice now, or way of life.
Mark and Jaime Arnold took a massive pay cut when they changed from being a logging contractor and teacher, to a single herd manager's salary, but they've quickly progressed through the system. Thomas Chatfield trained and then worked as a physio in New Zealand and London, before finding himself filling in on a friend's farm in the weekend and loving it so much he took up a full time dairy job nearby. Then for British born Nicholas Bailey, living next door to a dairy farm as he was growing up in Wairarapa, gave him a taste of farming and he went from school into the industry.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions: Bay of Plenty, Hawkes Bay, Wellington Region
Tags: farm conditions, NZ Dairy Industry Awards
Duration: 10'59"

21:17
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine
BODY:
The town of Chapleau in Northern Ontario hadn't had a permanent doctor in seven years. Now it has three. They were all trained at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), a new university set up in 2005 with the express goal of training doctors who would go on to work in rural and remote parts of the province.
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The people of Northern Ontario decided they had had enough. Enough of lurching from week to week with hastily arranged fill-in doctors to provide medical care.
So they lobbied to establish their own medical school; one designed to produce doctors who would be happy to work in the vast landscape and its remote communities.
In 2005, the Northern Ontario School of medicine took in its first medical students.
It was Canada's first new medical school in 35 years and had a curriculum designed to expose students to rural life, in the hope they'll love it and will opt for it.
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine's (NOSM's) Roger Strasser was a key-note speaker and the National Rural Health conference held recently in Dunedin.
New Zealand is also grappling with a shortage of rural doctors. It's estimated 100 rural doctors could be placed across New Zealand tomorrow.
Dr Strasser says preferential entry to NOSM is given to students from Northern Ontario or to those from similar remote, rural backgrounds, to indigenous applicants and to Francophone applicants in a bid to mirror the make-up of the province's population.
From day one of year one the students work in community settings. In their first year they spend 4 weeks living in an indigenous community including extremely remote First Nation communities that in winter can only be reached by ice roads or in summer by airplane.
Twice in their second year the students work along-side with doctors and other health professionals in remote communities with populations of less than 5,000.
And in the third year of the four year degree they work for the entire academic year in large rural or small urban communities and see patients.
Dr Strasser says the students are motivated to study so they can respond to the health needs of their patients.
The new approach seems to be working.
"Probably our most spectacular headline story is a place called Chapleu...Chapleau went for nearly 7 years without a permanent doctor, just locums; relief doctors coming and going until July 2012. Since then they have had three home-grown doctors and one of them is First Nation."
Dr Strasser says 62 percent of NOSM graduates choose general practice, mostly rural general practice, which is almost double the national average for new graduates in Canada.
He says entry into NOSM is now very competitive with more than 2,000 people applying each year for one of the 64 places offered for first year students.
Topics: rural, health
Regions:
Tags: rural medicine, health care, Chapleau, Canada, Ontario.
Duration: 7'48"

21:25
Rural Midwives
BODY:
Midwives in New Zealand are now being trained in rural satellites. The new model of learning is improving access to medical care and helping with the stability of the midwifery workforce.
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Midwives in New Zealand are now being trained in rural satellites. The new model of learning is improving access to medical care and helping with the stability of the midwifery workforce.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions:
Tags: health, midwifery, Wanaka, Otago Polytechnic
Duration: 1'56"

21:36
A Stream Runs Through it
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The Canterbury Waterway Rehabilitation Experiment or CAREX is co-led by Professors Angus McIntosh and Jon Harding from the University of Canterbury's Freshwater Ecology Research Group. CAREX has partnered up with the Department of Conservation, Fonterra and scientists from ESR to focus on ways to improve rural waterway health through better nutrient, sediment and weed management. To find out how the research is progressing, Cosmo Kentish-Barnes visits Jill and Richard Simpson's dairy farm near Lincoln where the CAREX partners are conducting in-stream trials.
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The Canterbury Waterway Rehabilitation Experiment or CAREX aims to improve rural waterway health through better nutrient, sediment and weed management.
Led by professors from the University of Canterbury's Freshwater Ecology Research Group, CAREX has teamed up with DOC and Fonterra and also scientists from Envionmental Science and Research (ESR) to work out how to rehabilitate waterways.
Jill and Richard Simpson's dairy farm near Lincoln is one of ten properties CAREX visits to conduct in-stream and wetland trials. The couple fenced off one hectare of farmland 15 years ago and planted it with native shrubs and trees. Now it is unique wetland providing a habitat for native fish, birds and plants.
Four natural springs in the wetland area drain into waterways on the Simpson's farm and are ideal for the rehabilitation experiments.
Dr Catherine Febria is from School of Biological Sciences and is part of the CAREX research team.
"We were looking to try and find natural places around agricultural waterways and this is one of the only protected wetlands… and it's just a great place to learn about what is the native biodiversity in the water and in the agricultural waterways in the region and so that's what brought us here two and a half years ago" she says.
Several in-stream and laboratory trials are currently underway to evaluate rehabilitation tools designed to manage macrophytes, reduce and remove sediment inputs, reduce nutrient levels in waterways, and improve in-stream habitat and biodiversity in the waterways.
Next year the Simpsons plan to put a public walkway through the wetland on their farm.
http://www.biol.canterbury.ac.nz/ferg/carex
http://www.livingwater.net.nz/#home
http://www.waterquality.org.nz/
Topics: rural, farming, science
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: CAREX, The Canterbury Waterway Rehabilitation Experiment, Department of Conservation, Fonterra, ESR, environment, The Living Water Partnership, water quality, dairy farming, sediment trap, weeds, nutrient management, wetland, bioreactor, ecosystems, restoration, Te Waihora, Lake Ellesmere
Duration: 24'18"

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===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
=DESCRIPTION=

RNZ news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from RNZ National

===11:06 PM. | None (National)===
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