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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:

22 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 Grievous Bodily by Craig Harrison read by John O'Leary (4 of 15, 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 (12 of 15, RNZ); 5:45 NZ Society

===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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The Tigers, by Helen Beaglehole, told by Fiona Samuel; Operation Flax, by Diana Noonan, told by Maria Walker; Cat Crush, by Norman Bilbrough, told by Matt Whelan; The Great Campout, by Elizabeth Pulford, told by Rees Fox; The Merry-Go-Round, by Margaret Mahy, told by Grant Tilly

===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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07:08
Darren Brunk - World Humanitarian Summit
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UN figures show 125 million people around the world are in need of humanitarian assistance - and 87.6 million are currently receiving such help. Darren Brunk is Humanitarian Coordinator for the New Zealand Council for International Development, the umbrella organisation for New Zealand NGOs that do aid work. He's in Istanbul for the UN World Humanitarian Summit - set up by the secretary-general to deal with a sweeping list of challenges.
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UN figures show 125 million people around the world are in need of humanitarian assistance – and 87.6 million are currently receiving such help.
Darren Brunk is Humanitarian Coordinator for the New Zealand Council for International Development, the umbrella organisation for New Zealand NGOs that do aid work. He is in Istanbul for the UN World Humanitarian Summit – set up by the secretary-general to deal with a sweeping list of challenges.
Topics: climate, environment, health, international aid and development
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Tags: NZ Council for International Development, UN World Humanitarian Summit, Darren Brunk
Duration: 20'27"

07:30
The Week In Parliament for 22 May 2016
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Parliament resumes at 2pm on Tuesday. Deputy leader of the House, Simon Bridges, previews the week ahead, culminating in Bill English's presentation on Thursday of his eighth Budget. Members day on Wednesday is likely to feature close votes on two Bills from Labour MPs. Another member's bill, in the name of National's list MP, Jian Yang, preventing sex offenders from registering a name change, has come back from the Social Services Committee with a recommendation that it go no further. Maori Development Minister, Te Ururoa Flavell, sees his Te Ture Whenua Maori Bill sent off to the Maori Affairs Select Committee on the tail of a petition with more than 5000 signatures opposing it. Reesh Lyon reports on the only select committee meeting during the adjournment - the Local Government Committee which travelled to Auckland on Monday to hear public submissions on the Government's Resource Legislation Amendment Bill.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 14'16"

07:47
Christoph Bartneck - Lego Violence
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Dr Christoph Bartneck from the University of Canterbury has been investigating the perceived violence in the product catalogues of major toy producer, Lego, from the years 1978-2014 and the frequency of weapon bricks in LEGO sets. He talks to Wallace about his findings. Associate Professor Christoph Bartneck is a researcher at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory.
Topics: technology, conflict
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Tags: Lego, HITLab, Christoph Bartneck, toys
Duration: 11'14"

08:12
Insight: Road vs Rail in Northland
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Lois Williams investigates tensions in Northland over the closing down of rail and increasing numbers of trucks on the region's rundown roads.
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Some Northland residents are living life in the path of a logging truck - and there seems to be no way out.
When Jon and Lynn Lammers venture onto the grass verge above their picturesque lifestyle property, they do so in fear.
And the memories come flooding back.
Insight: Road vs Rail in Northland
The Whangarei couple live between two bends on Otaika Valley Road.
Ten years ago, two log trucks collided outside their home, killing one of the drivers.
The house shook.
It fell to the Lammers' 19-year-old son to cover the face of the dead man from the view of passing traffic.
"It's still with my son," Jon Lammers told Insight. "He has never forgotten it. "
The winding road, with its series of S-bends and blind corners, is the link between Northland's inland freight route, Mangakahia Road and State Highway One.
The Lammers say 300 trucks a day roar past their home, from early morning until well after dark.
"People around here wear earplugs, and take sleeping pills," Lynn Lammers adds.
"Our property values are going down and the real estate people say the only way we'd sell our place is by pictures alone. If anyone comes to see it they'll just walk away, because of the trucks. "
Her pet-grooming business has also suffered because some clients are simply too scared to make the right-hand turn into the driveway.
In the past month, six log trucks have rolled in Northland, two of them in Otaika Valley Road.
It's reached the point where Jon Lammers is now afraid to mow his verge.
"They come round that bend so fast," he said. "We see drivers using cellphones all the time. If they come round there at 40 or 50 k's they'd be fine. But they're doing a lot more than that. The council promised to lower the speed limit three years ago. It never happened."
Warren Going is a log-truck driver who makes four trips a day down the road. He's never had a crash and he reckons the trick is to pay attention, and keep the speed down.
"But it's a tricky road," Mr Going said. "It's caught out a lot of experienced drivers. "
When the Lammers sold their business and bought their 4-hectare property in Otaika Valley 14 years ago, they looked forward to a peaceful semi-retirement.
But those hopes were dashed about three years ago when the log trucks began to multiply.
They are not alone in their frustration. At a recent public meeting some Otaika Valley residents threatened to blockade the roads.
"How did it come to this?" asked one angry ex-truckdriver. " The council knew the forest would be harvested about now. How come they never planned for it or aligned the road to cope?"
In recent years, pine forests all over Northland have reached maturity and felling has intensified.
More than two million tonnes of logs a year have to get to Northport, the deepwater port at Marsden Point, and most of them get there by truck.
Rail union workers said before Whangarei's port moved from the inner harbour to the Point 14 years ago much of the region's freight, mainly logs and milk powder, went to the port by rail.
But the new port was built without a link to the railway line that runs from Otiria near Kaikohe, to Whangarei and on to Auckland. And in the meantime Northland forests have matured.
Last month, KiwRail announced trains would no longer run on the line from Otiria to Kauri, just north of Whangarei.
It couldn't get the price it wanted from the only customer left on that line, the Marusumi woodchip mill at Portland, south of Whangarei.
KiwiRail's assets manager Dave Gordon said the old wagons used for that contract are past their use-by date and the cost of replacing them proved too high.
"Marusumi declined to renew the contract," he said. "There are costs associated with fixing those wagons; they're the only type of that wagon we have in the country, so effectively Marusumi was the only customer, so that's where it ended."
KiwiRail used the same rationale when it stopped running log trains on the line from Whangarei to Dargaville a couple of years ago.
A big storm and slips damaged the line, and the company said it couldn't justify the cost of repairs given the meagre revenue it generated.
But the latest announcement, that the line north of Kauri near Whangarei will no longer carry trains come August, has sparked a public outcry.
A new lobby group, Grow Northland Rail, has sprung up and it's struck a chord with the public.
More than 300 people packed a public meeting on the future of rail in Whangarei last month.
Grow Rail's spokesman Jack Craw, who also chairs the Whangarei branch of the Green Party, said people wanted better rail services and fewer trucks.
"Everywhere you go, you get support. In my local rugby club three weeks ago I had 19 farmers come up to me and say 'Good on you - I remember when rail used to work well here and I think we should be putting more on rail'."
Mr Craw said rail was a strategic asset in the north. In major floods two years ago, state highways were closed but rail could still function.
"At the moment this government seems hellbent on closing down rail," he said.
But Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce said that was not the case.
"We've spent a massive amount on rail, more than any government in living memory," he said.
"Something like around $4 billion, with the KiwiRail turnaround plan and subsequent investments, commuter rail and a whole range of other things and many people think that's a sunk investment. I happen to think it's a worthwhile investment for maintaining the network."
But Grow Rail said the network in Northland is dying of neglect. While Mr Joyce said the lack of demand for rail freight was behind the latest mothballing, Grow Rail said KiwiRail has not tried hard enough to find customers.
Jack Craw said the group knows of five businesses in the north who would use rail freight if they could. But he said the one investment the government seems loathe to make in the north is a rail link to the port.

Although the Northland Regional Council, the part-owner of the port, spent $10 million on property for a rail corridor from Oakleigh to Northport, it's now firmly behind the government's push for bigger and better roads between Whangarei and Auckland.
Council chairperson Bill Shepherd, said that was because 2 percent of the region's freight was transported by rail.
"That means the other 98 percent goes by road. So the current council is focusing on getting the roads dealt to. There may well be a future for rail at some point, but if we were to focus on it now the figures are quite mind-boggling."
KiwiRail's Dave Gordon said making the line from Otiria to Auckland truly fit for modern-day purposes, and building a line to Northport, would cost about $900 million.
Rail advocates say it's a Catch 22. No one's using rail, they argue, because it's been run down. The Northland line can't take containers; the bridges and culverts need replacing and in many places the trains can only travel safely at 5km/h.
The Better Transport Forum said the government is about to spend close to a billion dollars extending the northern motorway from Puhoi to Warkworth, a distance of about 20km.
Forum spokesman Jon Reeves said no one was counting the social costs of roads and trucks, such as the rising accident rate, or the 300 kauri trees that will have to be felled for the new highway.
Forestry companies in Northland said even if the Northland lines were modernised, and a link built to the port, trucking the logs would still be cheaper overall because of the distance between the various forests and the only two rail heads at Otiria and Dargaville.
And it wouldn't help the cowering residents of Otaika Valley Road. The trucks rattling past their homes come from forests nowhere near a railhead.
Jon Lammers said all he and his neighbours can do is plead with the authorities to lower the speed limit and force the truckies to slow down.
The Transport Agency is expected to take ownership of the road in July, when it will be designated as state highway, along with Mangakahia Road.
The agency's Northland director Ernst Zollner said he'll be assessing the problem closely and a speed reduction was just one of several ways the road could be made safer, and quieter, for the long-suffering residents.

Topics: rural, economy, transport
Regions: Northland
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Duration: 27'40"

08:40
Linda Tirado - Down and Out in Utah and Washington DC
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In her book Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America Linda Tirado writes eloquently of the millions of people in her home country – the US – who work hard, yet still struggle. She knows because she was one of the working poor. After one of her blog posts went viral in 2013, Tirado wrote a book. Then some in the media began to question Tirado's story and her right to speak on behalf of the downtrodden.
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In her book Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America Linda Tirado writes eloquently of the millions of people in her home country – the US – who work hard, yet still struggle. She knows because she was once one of the working poor.
Linda's first-person blog post about living in poverty in Utah, Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts, went viral in 2013. She subsequently raised tens of thousands of dollars to fund the writing of the book. Then, almost inevitably, some in the media began to question her story and her right to speak on behalf of the downtrodden.
An edited extract of their conversation:
The long hours – it puts to rest the idea that all you need to do to get ahead is work hard.
Linda Tirado: Yeah. I had three jobs and people called me lazy. Now I’m a writer and I feel like that’s not actually what words mean. Unfortunately, people say all you need to do is work hard. What they mean is you need to work hard, have been born fairly wealthy, gone to a decent school, had a shot at an education, not have had anything disruptive in your life and found a decently well-paying job. Now, if you do all of those things and you work hard you’re going to be just fine.
It’s almost like lotto, isn’t it? Who really does have everything perfect going for them?
Linda Tirado: John Key. I think it’s adorable that a man with that much wealth is casting himself as an everyman. I think that it’s much akin to Hillary Clinton, who started her campaign saying I understand the plight of the working poor because my grandparents didn’t have indoor plumbing. I think to myself two things – one, nobody’s grandparents had indoor plumbing, it was 1890. Secondly, you’ve been living in a mansion for longer than I've been alive.
So regardless of your roots, at some point you have to accept you’re going to lose touch with what it is. And I've actually faced that myself because it’ll be three years this… Spring for you guys, in October, since all this has happened. I have scars, but I don’t have any fresh bruises or cuts from work. When I wake up, if I have a headache it’s because I drank too much last night and not because I haven’t had enough sleep for 60 days running.
What I’m facing now is that I have to remember that I will forget. And that’s how you stay in tune with what you should be saying. So you have a prime minister who gets up and he goes ‘Oh, I worked hard, so I get it.’ No, sir, you do not. You do not understand it unless you have recently lived it or unless you are mates with people who have.
Why did this one post [Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts] touch such a nerve, Linda?
Linda Tirado: Because when poor people speak we’re supposed to be apologetic. We are not supposed to be intelligent, we are not supposed to be capable of higher moral thinking. We are supposed to be quiet and quiescent and happy for what we can get. Because if you’re the sort of person who needs charity you’re meant to be grateful.
I am not grateful, I never was grateful. I challenge a system in which I was forced to beg for charity when I hold down four jobs and people call me lazy. I will not apologise for that. I will not apologise for my poverty. Up until there are enough jobs to go around you cannot blame the unemployed. If there are not enough houses to go around you cannot blame the homeless. If there’s a systemic problem you cannot blame an individual for being trapped in that system.
Topics: inequality, author interview
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Tags: poverty, Utah, USA
Duration: 24'18"

09:06
Mediawatch for 22 May 2016
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The news media and privacy in the social media era; regional TV rejigged; tragic journalism.
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Duration: 33'17"

09:40
Mark Houlahan - Shakespearian Aotearoa
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Shakespeare's work first arrived in Aotearoa on Captain Cook's Endeavour in 1769. Waves of later migrants then brought with them Victorian double-column small-type copies of his writing, and throughout the 19th century travelling players performed Shakespeare in settlements around the country. Dr Mark Houlahan is a senior lecturer in English and teaches Shakespeare at Waikato University, is president of the Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association and has a special interest in the place of Shakespeare in New Zealand. Mark Houlahan is participating in a panel discussion about Shakespeare at Escape! Festival in Tauranga, June 3-6.
Topics: arts
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Tags: Shakespeare, Mark Houlahan, Escape! Festival
Duration: 15'48"

10:06
The funny business of competitive tickling
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Journalist turned documentary maker, David Farrier joins Wallace to explain his down-the-rabbit-hole experience making his film Tickled. Tickled began as a look at the world of competitive tickling, but quickly turned into a twisted tale of bullying, lawsuits and threats.
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Journalist David Farrier goes inside the world of competitive endurance tickling in his new film Tickled.
Journalist David Farrier, looking for stories to add to his arsenal of the weird, quirky and slightly whacky, stumbled upon the world of competitive tickling. What was supposed to be a two and half minute light clip for the late night news ended up becoming a film, a film that has less to do with tickling and more to do with legal threats, bullying, and a dark and twisted tale of a creepy sub culture.
The Hollywood Reporter said “it’s a cyber-detective story all-too insane to be true”. But it is true. Tickled, which was co-directed with Dylan Reeve rolls into US theatres on June 17th.
Read an edited excerpt of the interview below:
So you find out about competitive tickling, and that’s how it starts…
Yeah, I saw this video online of these athletic young men in Adidas gear and they were flown into Los Angeles from all over the world, including new Zealand, and it’s a tickling contest. The money’s really good, it’s a couple thousand dollars in cash and they put you in a really nice hotel in downtown LA. All you need to do is tickle on camera. For me, it was this whacky, crazy… like ultimate Frisbee, just this weird new sport I had never heard of.
Perfect for two minutes of the late news.
Totally. And it gets harder and harder. I did that job for nine years and it was becoming harder and harder to find things on the internet that would surprise people because your Facebook feed is just curated with crazy stuff. It’s hard to find fresh stories in the world of pop culture to shock people and I thought tickling was it. I reached out to the organisers and got pushback straight away and that was when I went, ‘Oh, okay, they don’t want a story done about this sport. They’re trying to recruit people and yet they don’t want it done’.
You emailed an organisation called Jane O’Brien Media.
Yeah, she was a woman based in LA who just loves tickling, loves crazy reality shows and her latest thing was tickling contests, which apparently were this big thing in the Japanese market and there’s great money in it and you go and tickle on camera and that’s it.
And the response you get is extraordinary. ‘We don’t want anything to do with a homosexual journalist’.
Yeah, and it was completely out of the blue. It was weird because, why does that matter? It was on their public Facebook wall, it wasn’t like a private email to me, it was on a Facebook page where they have 20,000 Likes, it’s very public. And also the sport just seemed inherently super gay because it’s buff, young, good looking dudes tickling each other. Straight away there was this pushback, and I started blogging about it and then organically my friend Dylan started blogging about it and digging into the web presence of these people and as we did that, we then started getting letters from lawyers in New York representing Jane O’Brien, we got a lawyer in New Zealand hired by Jane O’Brien Media, there was a private investigator on my doorstep… it happened very quickly. It went from like 0 to 100 in the space of like, two days. It was just insane.
And then you thought, ‘Oh my gosh, we’ve got a story!’
Yeah, it was a story story. The number of times I’d go up to TV3 and say, 'I’d love to do an hour-long doco on this', they were usually terrible ideas I think, plus, it’s hard to make documentaries in New Zealand. You’ve got your Inside New Zealand slots, it’s difficult. But this just seemed like ticking every possible box, so straight away we went to Kickstarter. There was a tickling competition in Los Angeles, the company was mysterious and super intense and had a lot of money so we went to America and started shooting.

Topics: arts
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Tags: tickling, David Farrier, Documentary Films, Hollywood
Duration: 20'44"

10:26
Pala Molisa - A Ni Vanuatu Radical Accountant
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Pala Molisa is the son of two of the leading lights of Vanuatu's independence movement, he represented Vanuatu in weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games, and he's an advocate of a radical new accountancy that brings a whole raft of social indicators to your typical balance sheet. Pala Molisa is a lecturer at Victoria University Business school.
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Pala Molisa is the son of two of the leading lights of Vanuatu's independence movement, he represented Vanuatu in weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games, and he's an advocate of a radical new accountancy that brings a whole raft of social indicators to your typical balance sheet.
Pala Molisa is now a lecturer at Victoria University Business school.
Wallace Chapman asks him how his parents' activisim and the Vanuatu independence struggle has influenced his ideas:
Topics: Pacific, politics
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Tags: Vanuatu, accountancy, weight lifting
Duration: 31'58"

11:05
John Kirwan - life and influences
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John Kirwan is one of the most prolific try-scorers in All Black history. He's a former coach of the Italian and Japanese national rugby teams, and of course, the Blues. He talks to Wallace about rugby, history, music, food and dealing with depression. This is the latest in our occasional series: Influential Kiwis talk about their Influences. If there's an influential Kiwi you'd like to hear interviewed drop us line: sunday@radionz.co.nz
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John Kirwan talks with Wallace about rugby, history, music, food and dealing with depression.
John Kirwan is one of the most prolific try-scorers in All Black history. He's a former coach of the Italian and Japanese national rugby teams, and of course, the Blues.
This is the latest in our occasional series Influential Kiwis talk about their Influences. If there's an influential Kiwi you'd like to hear interviewed drop a line to sunday@radionz.co.nz
Topics: author interview, sport, history, food, health
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Tags: rugby, Sir John Kirwan, Italy, mental health, depression
Duration: 53'16"

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7:08 Darren Brunk - World Humanitarian Summit
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UN figures show 125 million people around the world are in need of humanitarian assistance - and 87.6 million are currently receiving such help. Darren Brunk is Humanitarian Coordinator for the New Zealand Council for International Development, the umbrella organisation for New Zealand NGOs that do aid work. He's in Istanbul for the UN World Humanitarian Summit - set up by the secretary-general to deal with a sweeping list of challenges.
7:30 News headlines
7:32 The Week in Parliament
7:47 Christoph Bartneck - Lego Violence
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Dr Christoph Bartneck from the University of Canterbury has been investigating the perceived violence in the product catalogues of major toy producer, Lego, from the years 1978-2014 and the frequency of weapon bricks in LEGO sets. He talks to Wallace about his findings.
Associate Professor Christoph Bartneck is a researcher at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory.
8:12 Insight: Road vs Rail in Northland
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This week on Insight, Lois Williams examines 'road vs rail' in Northland, as increasing numbers of log trucks hurtle through the region's rural pockets.
Produced by Teresa Cowie.
8:40 Linda Tirado - Down and Out in Utah and Washington DC
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Linda Tirado is the author of Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America. The book began as a first person blog post about living in poverty in Utah that went viral. The blog helped Linda Tirado raise tens of thousands of dollars to fund the writing of the book. And then, almost inevitably, some in the media began to question her story and her right to speak on behalf of the downtrodden.
9:06 Mediawatch
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Mediawatch investigates attitudes to privacy in the age of social media, a big re-jig of regional TV and what can happen when a news outlet sheds its journalists.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Mark Houlahan - Shakespearian Aotearoa
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Shakespeare's work first arrived in Aotearoa on Captain Cook's Endeavour in 1769. Waves of later migrants then brought with them Victorian double-column small-type copies of his writing, and throughout the 19th century travelling players performed Shakespeare in settlements around the country. Dr Mark Houlahan is a senior lecturer in English and teaches Shakespeare at Waikato University, is president of the Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association and has a special interest in the place of Shakespeare in New Zealand.
Mark Houlahan is participating in a panel discussion about Shakespeare at Escape! Festival in Tauranga, June 3-6.

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10:06 David Farrier - Tickled
Journalist turned documentary maker, David Farrier joins Wallace to explain his down-the-rabbit-hole experience making his film Tickled. Tickled began as a look at the world of competitive tickling, but quickly turned into a twisted tale of bullying, lawsuits and threats.
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10:26 Pala Molisa - A Ni Vanuatu Radical Accountant
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Pala Molisa is the son of two of the leading lights of Vanuatu's independence movement, he represented Vanuatu in weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games, and he's an advocate of a radical new accountancy that brings a whole raft of social indicators to your typical balance sheet. Pala Molisa is a lecturer at Victoria University Business school.

11:05 John Kirwan - Life and Influences
John Kirwan is one of the most prolific try-scorers in All Black history. He's a former coach of the Italian and Japanese national rugby teams, and of course, the Blues. He talks to Wallace about rugby, history, music, food and dealing with depression.
This is the latest in our occasional series: Influential Kiwis talk about their Influences. If there's an influential Kiwi you'd like to hear interviewed drop us line: sunday@radionz.co.nz
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Artist: Charlie Rich
Song: San Francisco is a Lonely Town
Composer: B Peters
Album: LateNightTales – Nouvelle Vague
Label: Sony Music
Broadcast Time: 8.40am
Artist: Young Galaxy
Song: This is Fire
Composer: Young Galaxy
Album: Ultramarine Paper073
Label: Paper Bag Records
Broadcast Time: 9.40am

Sweet Thing from Astral Weeks – by Van Morrison

===12:11 PM. | Spectrum===
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They come to Dargaville's Circus Kumarani once a week , and leave their disabilities behind. A dozen from two local trusts learn juggling, stilt walking, acrobatics, rope work, and they even play with fire. This troupe is preparing for its annual fire spectacular, marking Matariki next month (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
My Shout: Another Round at The Thistle Inn
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Maori chief Te Rauparaha drank there, suffragettes protested there, six o'clock swillers guzzled at the bar and both sides of the Springbok tour movement argued there. Wellington's oldest pub The Thistle Inn has been open for almost 180 years, and now it's hosting a play about many pivotal moments in its, and New Zealand's history. Director of My Shout Kerryn Palmer and her students at Victoria University have been researching the pub's history.
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Maori chief Te Rauparaha drank there, suffragettes protested there, six o'clock swillers guzzled at the bar and both sides of the Springbok tour movement argued there. Wellington's oldest pub The Thistle Inn has been open for almost 180 years, and now it's hosting a play about many pivotal moments in its, and New Zealand's history. Director of My Shout Kerryn Palmer and her students at Victoria University have been researching the pub's history.
Topics: arts, history
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: theatre, bar, My Shout, The Thistle Inn, Kerryn Palmer, Victoria University of Wellington
Duration: 7'51"

12:50
Plays with a Purpose
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Palmerston North's Centrepoint Theatre is determined to get people thinking and talking about the current refugee crisis. It's hosting three plays questioning whether countries like ours have a responsibility to help displaced refugees. Angie Farrow's work The Politician's Wife which was Shortlisted for the 2016 Adam NZ Play Award, premieres as part of the Plays with a Purpose season. The other two come from overseas. White Rabbit Red Rabbit is an international hit, and there's a reading of Lampedusa by Anders Lustgarten. Lynn Freeman talks to Angie Farrow and Centrepoint's artistic director Jeff Kingsford-Brown.
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The Centrepoint Theatre in Palmerston North is determined to get people thinking and talking about the current refugee crisis.
On 28 May (Amnesty International Day) they launch the Plays with a Purpose season – three plays questioning whether countries like ours have a responsibility to help displaced refugees. The plays are Angie Farrow's The Politician's Wife (which was shortlisted for the 2016 Adam NZ Play Award), international hit White Rabbit Red Rabbit and a reading of Lampedusa by Anders Lustgarten.
Topics: arts
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: theatre, refugees and migrants, Centrepoint Theatre, Plays with a Purpose
Duration: 10'06"

13:28
Jazz giant Ramsey Lewis
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Ramsey Lewis will be part of Christchurch's in-crowd next week. The multi-Grammy award winning composer and pianist is headlining the New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival there. He's one of the most successful jazz pianists in the world, with 80 albums under his belt. Lynn caught up with Ramsey from his home-town of Chicago.
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Ramsey Lewis will be part of Christchurch's in-crowd next week. The multi-Grammy award winning composer and pianist is headlining the New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival there. He's one of the most successful jazz pianists in the world, with 80 albums under his belt. Lynn caught up with Ramsey from his home-town of Chicago.
Topics: arts, music
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Tags: Ramsey Lewis, New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival, The In Crowd
Duration: 14'39"

13:30
Poetry on the Beach
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Aucklanders love going to the beach but not all of them love poetry. Is it because they just haven't met each other yet? A poet and calligrapher think the obvious solution is to write giant poems in the sand.
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Aucklanders love going to the beach but not all of them love poetry. Is it because they just haven't met each other yet? Poet Paul White and calligrapher Peter Gilderdale from AUT University thought the obvious answer was to go to the seaside and write giant poems in the sand. So they've embarked on a collaboration doing just that. Justin Gregory met them at Castor Bay beach as they prepared for an afternoon's work.
To write a giant poem on a beach in beautiful, well-formed italic lettering requires both peace of mind and an almost Zen-like acceptance of things beyond your control; it’s a problem John Keats never had to contend with.
Calligrapher Peter Gilderdale and poet Paul White’s approach to bringing poetry to the people is unique.
"When you arrive, suddenly half the sand [on the beach] has gone. The equation is always different and with each tide it will be different," says Gilderdale.
The solution, he says, is to turn up with an open mind and be responsive to the conditions before deciding what the poem will be and how it will look.
"It's got to feel right. The weather, the feel of the beach, it's got to resonate with the poem."
Gilderdale uses two rakes to write the poems directly on to the sand while White keeps an eye on the text and the spelling. The two men make their choice from an existing collection of 100 sea-themed poems written by White in response to an Alice Munro short-story.
When White approached Gilderdale about making some calligraphy for the collection, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the latter already had an idea in mind.
“He said ‘I’m interested in a thing called Environmental Calligraphy and I thought: ‘that’s going to be interesting’.”
Gilderdale uses an approach dubbed Actor Network Theory which suggests human and non-humans can participate in and affect systems and networks.
In this case the beach with its stones, rocks, seaweed and sand, is just as involved in the creation of the poem as the duo, passers-by and the many dogs that run across the sand as they work. All help shape the final work.

“When I’m thinking about the writing I want to be aware. Once you start then it’s a matter of responding to a whole lot of things that you don’t expect to happen - like hitting rocks and hitting wet sand that doesn’t want to write. I want the beach to be a part of the equation,” Gilderdale says.
White believes that writing poems on a beach allows them to be read in a fuller, more exacting way. A poem in a book can be ignored but when it is written in letters more than a metre high, it demands more.
“It almost gets a concentrated piece of attention that might have some more effect [on people].”
The pair have so far written four poems on beaches around Auckland. They are photographing and filming the project and believe an exhibition of the works will come about one day.
Just over an hour since starting work, a puffing, sweating Gilderdale has finished. The beach, he says, had a lot to say in the final shape of the work but he seems a little bit happy with what he has made. White keeps a respectful distance from his collaborator and seems cautious about praising him. But he smiles when Gilderdale isn’t looking.
Seen from the cliff above the beach, this four line, 100 metre-long poem is an impressive and beautiful sight but it will soon be washed away by the incoming tide. Between now and then it can be appreciated by a handful of readers who walk through and around it and by the two men who worked so hard to create it.
Poem – untitled.
I’ve come to watch the oyster catchers pick with orange beaks
at shells that echo seas and storms from other shores.
They poke like readers dipping into poems for their meaty bits
and almost choking on a small half hidden pearl.
By Paul White.
Topics: arts
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: literary arts, poetry, geography
Duration: 11'20"

13:48
The Magic Flute
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New Zealand Opera is hoping tried and trusted Mozart opera The Magic Flute will be a winner, but set and costumes aside, it all hinges on the singers. Lynn Freeman met two of the stars: Australian Samuel Dundas (Papageno) and New Zealander Emma Fraser (Pamina).
Topics: arts
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Tags: New Zealand Opera, Mozart, The Magic Flute, Samuel Dundas, Emma Fraser
Duration: 22'49"

14:06
The Laugh Track - Fan Brigade
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The Fan Brigade is musical comedy duo Amanda Kennedy and Livi Mitchell. They play favourite comedy tracks from Sarah Millican, Shapi Khorsandi, Angela Barnes and Inside Amy Schumer.
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The Fan Brigade is musical comedy duo Amanda Kennedy and Livi Mitchell. They play favourite comedy tracks from Sarah Millican, Shapi Khorsandi, Angela Barnes and Inside Amy Schumer.
Topics: arts
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Tags: The Fan Brigade, Amanda Kennedy, Livi Mitchell, Sarah Millican, Shapi Khorsandi, Angela Barnes, Inside Amy Schumer, comedy
Duration: 21'09"

14:35
Tracey Slaughter - Deleted Scened for Lovers
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Prize-winning short fiction writer and essayist Tracey Slaughter's new collection of short stories has been a long time coming, but it's been worth the wait. Tracey talks about and reads from 'Deleted Scenes for Lovers'.
Topics: author interview, books
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Tags: Tracey Slaughter, Deleted Scenes for Lovers, short stories
Duration: 16'14"

14:48
Painting Elephants - Bulbul Sharma
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All over India this year, children in remote villages are painting elephants. Not the real thing, but half size fibreglass artworks. Helping them use art material they may never have seen before is high profile Indian artist Bulbul Sharma. She's been commissioned by the NGO Elephant Family to work with village children on the elephants, to help raise awareness of threats to the population through habitat loss and poaching.
Topics: arts
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Tags: Bulbul Sharma, Elephant Family, India, glass
Duration: 8'35"

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12.40 My Shout
Maori chief Te Rauparaha drank there, suffragettes protested there, six o'clock swillers guzzled at the bar and both sides of the Springbok tour movement argued there. Wellington's oldest pub The Thistle Inn has been open for almost 180 years, and now it's hosting a play about many pivotal moments in its, and New Zealand's history. Director of My Shout Kerryn Palmer and her students at Victoria University have been researching the pub's history.
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12.48 Plays with a Purpose
Palmerston North's Centrepoint Theatre is determined to get people thinking and talking about the current refugee crisis. It's hosting three plays questioning whether countries like ours have a responsibility to help displaced refugees. Angie Farrow's work The Politician's Wife which was Shortlisted for the 2016 Adam NZ Play Award, premieres as part of the Plays with a Purpose season. The other two come from overseas. White Rabbit Red Rabbit is an international hit, and there's a reading of Lampedusa by Anders Lustgarten. Lynn Freeman talks to Angie Farrow and Centrepoint's artistic director Jeff Kingsford-Brown.
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1.10 At the Movies
Dan Slevin reviews the first feature film appearance for smartphone game heroes: Angry Birds; Michael Moore's new documentary Where to Invade Next and discusses the growth of 'alternative arts content' in our cinemas.

1.35 Jazz Great Ramsey Lewis
Ramsey Lewis will be part of Christchurch's in-crowd next week. The multi-Grammy award winning composer and pianist is headlining the New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival there. He's one of the most successful jazz pianists in the world, with 80 albums under his belt. Lynn caught up with Ramsey from his home-town of Chicago.
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1.45 The Magic Flute
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New Zealand Opera is hoping tried and trusted Mozart opera The Magic Flute will be a winner, but set and costumes aside, it all hinges on the singers. Lynn Freeman met two of the stars: Australian Samuel Dundas (Papageno) and New Zealander Emma Fraser (Pamina).

2.05 The Laugh Track - Fan Brigade
The Fan Brigade is musical comedy duo Amanda Kennedy and Livi Mitchell. They play favourite comedy tracks from Sarah Millican, Shapi Khorsandi, Angela Barnes and Inside Amy Schumer.
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2.25 Beach Poetry
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Aucklanders love going to the beach but not all of them love poetry. Is it because they just haven't met each other yet? Poet Paul White and calligrapher Peter Gilderdale from AUT University thought the obvious answer was to go to the seaside and write giant poems in the sand. So they've embarked on a collaboration doing just that.
Justin Gregory met them at Castor Bay beach as they prepared for an afternoon's work. He asked Paul to recite the poem to be "published".

2.35 Tracey Slaughter - Deleted Scenes for Lovers
Prize-winning short fiction writer and essayist Tracey Slaughter's new collection of short stories has been a long time coming, but it's worth the wait. Tracey reads from 'Deleted Scenes for Lovers'.
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2.50 Painting Elephants - Bulbul Sharma
All over India this year, children in remote villages are painting elephants. Not the real thing, but half size fibreglass artworks. Helping them use art material they may never have seen before is high profile Indian artist Bulbul Sharma.
She's been commissioned by the NGO Elephant Family to work with village children on the elephants, to help raise awareness of threats to the population through habitat loss and poaching.
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3.05 Drama at 3
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Gross by Adam Goodall: a comic drama painting a portrait of an obsessive.

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Artist: Clancy Brothers
Song: Beer Beer Beer
Composer: trad
Album: The Clancy Brothers Live! With Robbie O'Connell
Label: Vanguard
Played at: 12.38

Artist: Dubliners
Song: The Pub with No Beer
Composer: Parsons
Album: The Dubliners: The Best Of The Original Dubliners (Compilation)
Label: EMI
Played at: 12.59

Artist: Ramsey Lewis
Song: The In Crowd
Composer: Page
Album: Ramsey Lewis: Priceless Jazz Collection (Compilation)
Label: GRP
Played at: 1.38

Artist: Ramsey Lewis
Song: Betcha By Golly, Wow
Composer: Linda Creed / Thom Bell
Album: Taking Another Look
Label: Hidden Beach
Played at: 1.45

Artist: Gary Portnoy & Judy Hart
Song: Cheers Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Composer: Portnoy/ Hart
Album: 100 Greatest American TV Themes: 1957-2010
Label: Silvascreen
Played at: 1.58

Artist: Blues Brothers
Song: Hey Bartender
Composer: Floyd Dixon
Album: Briefcase Full Of Blues / The Blues Brothers [Original Soundtrack]
Label: Atlantic
Played at: 2.58

Artist: Barry Manilow
Song: Copacabana
Composer: Feldman, Manilow, Sussman
Album: Manilow
Label: RCA
Played at: 3.58

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Gross by Adam Goodall - Critics say the movie "Final Destination 3" is '...crass.. ' '...vulgar...', '...butchery as a spectator sport.' Adam Goodall disagrees, and he wants you to disagree too! (RNZ)

===4:06 PM. | None (National)===
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Gene Genie - Genetics and Health: In the third of five panels considering the implications of genetic research Dr Adam Rutherford discusses medical genetics and epigenetics with University of Auckland and Auckland DHB researchers Dr Don Love, Dr Rinki Murphy and Professor Cristin Print (3 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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Canada's Atheist Minister
Reverend Gretta Vosper is a minister in the United Church of Canada, an author and an avowed atheist. She is open about her lack of faith in a supernatural God and preaches that acting like a Christian is more important than believing like one. Now her controversial beliefs are testing the limits of her famously liberal church, and may lead to her being defrocked. Jennifer Chevalier travels to Toronto to meet with Gretta Vosper and find out why her congregation prefers a church without God. Jennifer also hears from a minister who feels Gretta’s views are fundamentally at odds with what the United Church of Canada stands for. But a meeting with a third minister reveals that Gretta’s views are not as rare as they might seem. (BBCWS)

===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
Meeting Erana Hemmingsen
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On May 15 Erana Hemmingsen lost her life after a long illness. Late last year Justine Murray visited Erana at her Wainuiomata home where she talked about her love of music, iwi radio and her whakapapa links that go back to Denmark.
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Notable Ngāti Pōrou and Tūhoe broadcaster, musician and performer Erana Hemmingsen died last weekend. Justine Murray remembers meeting her.
It took me a wee while to find Erana Hemmingsen’s house when I visited her in Wainuiomata in October 2015. I remember thinking that I would possibly hear loud māori music booming from her home, perhaps a Te Mana Motuhake Ō Tūhoe Flag fluttering in the wind.
Instead her small home, the one she’d lived in when she was two years old, was in the middle of a long street, a five minute walk to the shops. This house, nestled into a suburban flank of the Rimutaka range was the first one available to her parents when they shifted to Wellington, she says they didn’t mind being ‘over the hill’.
There was a wheelchair ramp outside the front door and for a fleeting second I wondered who it was for, then I join the dots in my head - ah yes, it’s for Erana.
You see, Erana’s tall, imposing stature was the image I remembered from seeing her perform at many kaupapa māori events over the years. Not one to parade around on stage, she just stood there, her towering frame effortlessly belting out a song. Erana would duet with her sister Jackie at the annual gala days at Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Nga Mokopuna and at the various māori music events on the calendar.
Her long dreads hung well down her back, she sometimes wore light purple John Lennon-esque glasses, there was a definite presence about her. So for her to be in a wheelchair was not at the forefront of my mind when I knocked on her door.
My visit was carefully calculated; it had to be a time when she wouldn’t have any doctor’s or hospital appointments and when she would be able to exert the energy required to host a visitor. And she had to want to talk. I didn’t want to assume that this well-known māori radio broadcaster, a keen interviewer herself, would say yes; things had changed and I was mindful that she was in poor health. But a few facebook direct messages, texts and calls later, we’d arranged to meet.
The reason for my visit was initially to talk about hospice and why māori choose to use hospice services. Linda Olsen, who works at Te Omanga Hospice in Lower Hutt suggested I get Erana’s point of view. Erana, it turned out, had known Linda when she was a child.
To be clear, at the time of my visit Erana hadn’t stayed at the hospice but she did use their day services.
She opened the door with a smile and with my tendency to overly express my gratitude, I must have said thank you a dozen times over the next hour. Working as a māori producer, the words of my late mentor, Richard Knight rang in my ears. He told me that ‘for every story you do, ask yourself this… who is doing who the favour?”
For Erana to say yes to the interview, the ‘hōhaness’ of me interrupting her morning; let’s just say I added another ‘thank you’.
Within a few minutes, the interview turned into a chat reminiscent of ‘This Is Your Life’. Instead of talking about palliative care, it ended up being about her colourful career.
The Hemmingsen name is Danish, and one of her wishes was to visit Denmark.
“I would have liked to have gone to Demark to see where the Hemmingsen’s come from, on my mum’s side we are Whiteheads but I know they came from England. But I wouldn’t have minded going to Denmark, I might be the only brown person. I used to imagine going there and saying I’m a Hemmingsen”
Erana was largely associated with Wellington-based iwi radio station, Te Upoko o Te Ika and eventually became the station’s Programme Director. Talkback was her thing and the first subject she talked about on the airwaves stemmed from a visit to TVNZ and the food served in the Green Room.
“I had worked in iwi radio for many years and then I’d get called back in to help lift the radio station. For me especially for Te Upoko o te Ika, because I had been there since the beginning, if they called out for help kei te pai, I would help in whatever way I could.”
Erana spent a few years at Mangamuka in the North where she helped to train up-and-coming on-air staff.
She qualified as a teacher and worked in Kōkiri Marae Kōhanga Reo and relieved from time to time at Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Nga Mokopuna.
“There was one part where I would go there (the radio station) for the breakfast show, do the show then take off for school. I enjoyed it....then it would be funny because the kids would say; Whaea we just heard you on the radio.”
Erana, her sister Jackie Hemmingsen and Heni Te Poono formed the band Tuahine. They toured from time to time, released albums and were part of the tight-knit māori music community in the 1980’s. Erana said her sister, who went by Sister J, was a talented songwriter.
“There was ourselves (Tuahine), Black Katz and Ahurangi (which was Hori Chapman), and then Tauira came in, there was some new ones coming in and we were like, gosh we are getting old”
When I met Erana she was had lung cancer with impacts on her kidneys and liver as well.
When I visited her in October 2015 she described how the doctors had initially given her four months, but it had been two years since that prognosis.
At the end of our kōrero, she added;
“There’s a lot going on in the world, all I want to say is follow your dream whatever it is, don’t let anything get in the way. If you hit a stumbling block, that’s alright just get up again, or maybe you go and take a slightly different road. Things are out there, and they’re out there for you to take advantage of.”
Erana Hemmingsen died on May 15th, 2016 and lay at Te Kakano Marae and Kōkiri Marae in Lower Hutt, before travelling to her final resting place at Waikaremoana.
E te Manu Tioriori haere atu rā ki ou Matua Tipuna.

Note: The programme about Hospice will air at a later date.
Topics: te ao Maori, music
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Tags: Iwi Radio, Erana Hemmingsen, Tuahine
Duration: 27'42"

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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