RNZ National. 2016-06-19. 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:

19 June 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 My Place by Carolyn McCurdie (RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBCWS); 5:10 Mihipeka: Time of Turmoil by Mihipeka Edwards (1 of 12, RNZ); 5:45 NZ Society

===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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The Littlest Whale, by Margaret Albert, told by Karl Kite Rangi ; The Bones in the River, by Jane Buxton, told by Whetu Fala ; Life Cycle, by Joy Cowley, told by Moira Wairama, Tony Hopkins and Prue Langbein ; Gun Metal Skies and Bleak Tuesday, by Eliza Bidois, told by Glynnis Paraha ; Tony and the Butterfly, by Judith Marra Scott, told by Ole Maiava ; Gun Metal Skies and Bleak Tuesday, by Eliza Bidois, told by Glynnis Paraha

===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, the week in Parliament and music 7:43 The Week in Parliament An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house 8:10 Insight An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs 9:06 Mediawatch Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in New Zealand's news media (RNZ)

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07:10
Brexit - A Panel of Ex-Pats
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With Britain set to vote on whether to remain in the European Union or go it alone this coming Thursday, Sunday Morning asks three ex-pat Brits what they think. IT professional Fitz Bowen is a first generation British citizen of Jamaican-heritage now living in Wellington; Sam Watherston is an English chef based Tauranga; and, Richard Hall is a former officer in the British Army and now the executive director of AUT's South Campus.
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Duration: 15'45"

07:27
All Blacks vs Wales recap with Joe Porter
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RNZ Sports reporter Joe Porter breaks down the Wellington test...
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Duration: 4'43"

07:33
The Week In Parliament for 19 June 2016
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Finance Minister Bill English lodges a certificate of financial veto to block Labour MP Sue Moroney's Parental Leave and Employment Protection (6 Months' Paid Leave) Amendment Bill; the Battle of Health Ministers past and present - between Annette King and Jonathan Coleman - continues in committee rooms and chamber; Greens co-leader James Shaw complains about Government responses to questions and their blocking the tabling of documents; Government faces questions on homelessness & the economy; Ministers including Amy Adams, Jonathan Coleman and Gerry Brownlee appear before select committees for scrutiny of this year's budget allocations for their ministries; MPs express sympathy for victims of the Orlando shooting; Speaker declines Andrew Little's request for a snap debate on New Zealand's refugee quota; The Coroners Amendment Bill passes final reading - as do the Riccarton Racecourse Development Enabling Bill and the Riccarton Racecourse Bill; and Leader of the House Gerry Brownlee gives a preview of the next week back after the one-week adjournment.
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Duration: 15'18"

07:50
Gabrielle Emery - The Asia-Pacific Disaster Zone
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Asia Pacific is the world's most disaster prone region - in the past 45 years 88% of all people affected by natural disasters have been in our part of the world - Gabrielle Emery joins Wallace to discuss the challenges of getting the right help to the people when it's most needed.
Topics: climate, environment
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Duration: 10'54"

08:12
Insight: NZ's Most Poisoned Places
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Ian Telfer explores whether efforts to clean-up the toxic legacies of New Zealand's industrial past have stalled.
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The clean-up is finally beginning for a handful of New Zealand's most toxic sites, but there are thousands more in the queue behind them.
The government set up a register for the thousands of former factories, sawmills and agricultural chemical dumps seven years ago but, since then, the subject has once again sunk from public view.
Has the clean-up effort been quietly placed on the backburner?
Insight: New Zealand's Most Poisoned Places
Joe Harawira looks like a healthy 70-year-old man who has taken good care of himself. He has had to.
In fact, one of his arms is paralysed and he feels constant pain throughout his body - having recovered slowly from near-total paralysis in the mid 1990s.
"For six years, I had to learn to hold a knife and fork again, I had to walk all over again. I lost all my functions except my brain."
He is sure it all came from toxic chemical poisoning at the former Whakatane Mill, where he worked for 29 years.
He has battled for 33 years for recognition of the health effects of his exposure, and is now cheering for the Kopeopeo Canal - home to one of New Zealand's largest ever toxic clean-ups.
It is unlikely that project would be happening if he hadn't dedicated a large part of his life to having the mill's legacy recognised.
From Ngāti Awa's social and health centre, a modern and light building on the outskirts of Whakatane, Mr Harawira co-ordinates a group of former timber men called the Sawmill Workers Against Poisons.
He and thousands of other sawmill workers were "practically bathing" in the anti-sap stain chemical pentachlorophenol (PCP), unaware that it was heavily contaminated by dioxins, he said.
The government recognised the group in 2010, and offered them dedicated health services.
That was a big win, and so was the planned $10.2 million clean-up of the Kopeopeo Canal, Mr Harawira said.
The canal itself is an ordinary, even enticing-looking waterway, which quietly drains the Rangitaiki Plains near Whakatane.
Ducks swim around, seemingly oblivious to the poison below.
Contaminated stormwater from the mill regularly washed into the canal for half a century until the operation closed in the 1980s, leaving the mud shot through with dioxins.
The World Health Organisation has declared dioxins - which can cause reproductive and developmental problems, damage the immune system, interfere with hormones and cause cancer - one of the most dangerous known chemicals.
Swimming in the canal is forbidden, and so is eating the eels that live in it: those plump kaimoana that were once a traditional food source for local Māori.
The Canal Remediation Project, led by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council, aims to clear and clean the now silted-up canal.
The plan, which changed in response to public concern, is to lift the 40,000m3 of contaminated mud, using a suction pump, dredge and hoses, from the canal onto paddocks that have been turned into contained treatment zones.
The team did a trial last year of an innovative clean-up method called bio-remediation, which will use fungi and bacteria to eat up the dioxins.
All that remains of that trial is two shipping containers, with the mud in fabric sausages at the bottom, planted out in poplar trees.
The project manager, Brendon Love, said the project would remove 70 to 80 percent of all the dioxins still in the district, though it could take 15 years.
If it works out, this will be a good news story - but there are no guarantees the method will work, and the costs are large.
One site among thousands
The Kopeopeo Canal is also just one of thousands of New Zealand sites contaminated by past industrial practices.
Past estimates by the Ministry for the Environment put the number of sites at approximately 8000, including about 1500 high risk sites. It said the cost for all clean-ups would be billions of dollars.
Against this, the government has set a budget of $2.6m a year for contaminated site clean-ups, though it has also funded one-off projects including the $22.5m clean-up of the Tui Mine in 2008.
Two years ago, the government began keeping a top 10 list of the most urgent clean-ups, called the Contaminated Sites Remediation Fund Priority List.
Insight has looked at the progress of the top 10, and found that the top four projects - the Prohibition and Alexander mines (#1 and #2), the Kopeopeo Canal (#3) and Port Nelson's Calwell Slipway (#4) - have received remediation funding, and are expected to begin within the next year.
The Department of Conservation said it would finally begin next month on the country's worst site: the historic Prohibition gold mine near Waiuta on the West Coast, which has arsenic minerals lying on its surface.
Years of gold mining disturbed the naturally occurring arsenic and brought it to the surface, where it is now present at 5000 times the safe limit.
Two other projects on the list - the Rotowaro Carbonisation Works (#7), near Huntly, and the former Dunedin gasworks (#10) - are awaiting funding decisions, with the cost of the clean-ups not yet known.
Another site, on Bayly Road in Taranaki (#6), has since been found not to be contaminated.
Work on the other three sites - a contaminated groundwater aquifer in Auckland, and a stream and former gasworks in Wellington - has stalled or has no action planned, despite the sites being known about and studied for decades.
The Auckland Council and Greater Wellington Regional Council told Insight they believed the clean-ups would cost millions of dollars, and they felt there was little public pressure on them to act.
Clean-up deadline pushed back
Below the patchy progress on the government's own priority list, what of the thousands of others?
The Ministry for the Environment confirmed the date for regional councils to investigate high-risk sites was last year pushed out to 2020, and the deadline for cleaning them up was now 2030.
Its minister, Nick Smith, said the clean-up effort had not stalled - it was just not being hurried.
Contaminated sites were one of New Zealand's middle-level environmental challenges and not as much of a priority as climate change, clean freshwater or oceans management. Dr Smith said.
"The government's ambition is to be just consistently clocking our way through [the clean-ups], in a considered and sensible way."
Former Greenpeace toxics campaigner Gordon Jackman, however, said the national effort had stalled and gone under the radar.
The Kopeopeo Canal clean-up was a good project but there were at least 36 other contaminated waste sites around Whakatane that were being ignored, he said.
Work on other timber mills, and the hundreds of toxic sites that appeared on lists held by regional councils, were mostly stuck and there was no real plan nor money to deal with them, he said.
"It's a very serious issue, and it's appalling that nothing's being done."
Mr Harawira said work had started on some of the other sites, in the form of a contaminated sites working group and a link-up with the Health Research Council to fund studies and remediation plans.
He wouldn't give up and wanted the government recognition he had fought so hard for turn into lasting good, he said.
As his own people, Ngāti Awa would say, he said, "if there's something wrong with the land, there's something wrong with us".
Are you living near a contaminated site? Email ian.telfer@radionz.co.nz
Follow Insight on Twitter
http://www.radionz.co.nz/tags/New%20Zealand's%20Most%20Poisoned%20Places View the full investigation into New Zealand's Most Poisoned Places
Topics: environment
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Tags: environment, Toxic Waste, Onehunga, Waiuta, contamination, New Zealand's Most Poisoned Places
Duration: 28'39"

08:40
Beatriz Bustos-Oyanedel - Art and Politics in South America
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Beatriz Bustos-Oyanedel is the curator of Space To Dream - an exhibition showcasing the work of 41 South American artists. She joins Wallace to explain the importance and history of political artwork in South American countries.
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Duration: 16'32"

09:08
Mediawatch for 19 June 2016
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Sky TV's long-serving boss talks to Mediawatch about the proposed merger with Vodafone - and broadcasters becoming departments of big telcos.
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Duration: 32'05"

09:42
Adrien Taylor - Drowning Bangladesh
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Journalist and filmmaker, Adrien Taylor, joins Wallace to talk about his documentary ,Thirty Million, which looks at how rising sea levels are going to devastate Bangladesh.
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Journalist and filmmaker Adrien Taylor joins Wallace Chapman to talk about his documentary Thirty Million, which looks at how rising sea levels are going to devastate Bangladesh.
Thirty Million - trailer

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Duration: 18'02"

10:07
CK Stead - A Shelf Life
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Man of letters, and Poet Laureate, CK Stead, joins Wallace to discuss his latest book - Shelf Life - a collection of essays ranging from T.S Eliot to Eleanor Catton.
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Duration: 25'44"

10:30
Pronunciation of Maori place names announced on trains
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The pronunciation of Maori place names announced on Wellington trains has not always been accurate, but the Regional Council is on track to change all that.
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Duration: 3'11"

10:40
Sam Watherston - a Chef's Life
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Sam Watherston is a Tauranga-based chef who's worked under Jamie Oliver, taught cookery to troubled kids in Britain, set up Just Blend - a smoothy to the door service he hopes to take nation-wide, and will be cooking at the Loemis Winter Soltice Feast in Wellington this coming Saturday.
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Duration: 13'04"

11:06
Andrew Denton on voluntary assisted dying
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Andrew Denton is probably best known here as an Australian television presenter and comedian, but his new role is a much more serious one. He's become a leading campaigner for physician-assisted dying, better known as voluntary euthanasia. He shares his own story of how watching his own father die led him to his views.
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The question of voluntary euthanasia continues to be divisive in New Zealand and MPs remain reluctant to tackle head-on this complex moral issue.
Australian television presenter and comedian Andrew Denton has become a leading campaigner on the issue. He talks with Wallace Chapman about how watching his own father die led him to his views.
Interview highlights
What do you call it?
Andrew Denton: I think ‘voluntary assisted dying’ sums it up best of all because it talks about what it is. It’s voluntary – which is the absolute core of these laws wherever they exist and wherever they’ve been proposed. It’s dying – almost all the people who access these laws are manifestly dying. And it’s assisted – it’s medical assistance to do that.
But one thing it is not is suicide – is that right?
Andrew Denton: That’s right. There is a significant difference and I think many people understand this, but let me spell it out. Suicide, which is a tragedy in our society, usually involves rational thinking – where a person believes that the problems in their lives cannot be fixed makes an irrational decision to end their life. Voluntary assisted dying involves a rational person in concert with others – medical professionals and usually their family – facing suffering which cannot be medically relieved, seeking help and making a decision to end that suffering. They’re very, very different things.
Is it self-administered? Does that seen as the best way to go?
It varies. In Europe, mostly it’s done by injection. That is to do with cultural issues. It’s very different between Europe and America, and in Europe there is a great belief and trust in doctors to take that kind of action.
In America – quite different. They have self-administering. You are given medication which you and only you can choose to take. Interestingly, in Oregon, where [legal assisted dying] exists, I was fascinated to discover that 30% or more of people that get this medication – even though by definition of law they have a terminal illness and less than six months to live – nonetheless choose not to take it.
One of the fascinating truths that has come out about that is the palliative nature of this medicine – simply having control over what may happen to you and what your family may have to experience as you die, gives these people the kind of comfort that they don’t have without the protection of this law.
That is very fascinating, just the fact of having control over all aspects of your life, including death with dignity, may ensure that you sit down with your family and go ‘OK, well, I can live a little longer’.
That’s exactly right. What research has shown is that in countries where these laws don’t exist – particularly we’ve seen this in Australia – there’s this tragic circumstance where many elderly people with chronic, irreversible disease are taking their lives in lonely and violent ways.
Andrew, how did you come to be passionate about voluntary assisted dying?
The way that most people do, I’ve discovered. My father, who was a very funny powerful man, died of congestive heart failure and other problems in a hospital in Australia. And he was given then – what is still the only legally available method now – increasing doses of sedatives to settle his pain. But in the last three days of his life it didn’t settle his pain – not his and not ours. And watching him die in pain was the most profoundly shocking thing that’s happened in my life.
A life-changing experience.
Yes. And as I’ve explored this over the last 16 months I have been privileged – if that’s word – entrusted, with the most extraordinary stories. I’ve been able to spend time with people who are dying and their families. And you’d have to have a heart of stone not to be deeply, deeply moved by the kind of suffering that people are being put through because there aren’t these kind of laws to protect them.
What I saw overseas as I spoke with family members whose parents had had cancer and had been gently euthanised, I saw just a total difference between the cruelty that can exist in a country where there’s no law and the compassion that does exist in a country where there is a law.
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Duration: 30'13"

11:40
Alison Weir - The Tudors
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Alison Weir is one of Britain's foremost historians. She joins Wallace to talk about the enduring fascination of the The Tudors and her latest book focusing on Henry VIII's first wife, Katherine of Aragon.
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Duration: 22'07"

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7:08 Brexit - A Panel of Ex-Pats
With Britain set to vote on whether to remain in the European Union or go it alone this coming Thursday, Sunday Morning asks three ex-pat Brits what they think. IT professional Fitz Bowen is a first generation British citizen of Jamaican-heritage now living in Wellington; Sam Watherston is an English chef based Tauranga; and, Richard Hall is a former officer in the British Army and now the executive director of AUT's South Campus.
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7:30 News headlines
7:32 The Week in Parliament
7:47 Gabrielle Emery - The Asia-Pacific Disaster Zone
Asia Pacific is the world's most disaster prone region - in the past 45 years 88% of all people affected by natural disasters have been in our part of the world - Gabrielle Emery joins Wallace to discuss the challenges of getting the right help to the people when it's most needed.
8:12 Insight: New Zealand's Most Poisoned Places
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It is estimated the country has tens of thousands of toxic waste sites - land, streams and rivers badly polluted by former factories, sawmills and agricultural chemical dumps. Some are buried under our biggest cities and often little is known about whether they are slowly poisoning the environment and people who live there. The Government set up a national register of contaminated sites in 2008 to bring the problem into the open, but activity has subsided and now there are few traces of progress. Ian Telfer has visited some of the top 10 sites and asks: Has anything changed in the past decade? And is the country doing enough to deal with the legacies of its industrial past?
8:40 Beatriz Bustos-Oyanedel - Art and Politics in South America
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Beatriz Bustos-Oyanedel is the curator of Space To Dream - an exhibition showcasing the work of 41 South American artists. She joins Wallace to explain the importance and history of political artwork in South American countries.
9:06 Mediawatch
Sky TV's long-serving boss talks to Mediawatch about the proposed merger with Vodafone - and broadcasters becoming departments of big telcos. Also: changing the game for sport on TV; the Police minister's controversial comments about speeding; nuclear headlines that didn't fit the facts.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Adrien Taylor - Drowning Bangladesh
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Journalist and filmmaker, Adrien Taylor, joins Wallace to talk about his documentary ,Thirty Million, which looks at how rising sea levels are going to devastate Bangladesh.
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10:06 CK Stead - A Shelf Life
Man of letters, and Poet Laureate, CK Stead, joins Wallace to discuss his latest book - Shelf Life - a collection of essays ranging from T.S Eliot to Eleanor Catton.
10:42 Sam Watherston - a Chef's Life
Sam Watherston is a Tauranga-based chef who's worked under Jamie Oliver, taught cookery to troubled kids in Britain, set up Just Blend - a smoothy to the door service he hopes to take nation-wide, and will be cooking at the Loemis Winter Soltice Feast in Wellington this coming Saturday.
11:05 Andrew Denton - Euthanasia
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Andrew Denton is probably best known here as an Australian television presenter and comedian, but his new role is a much more serious one. He's become a leading campaigner for physician-assisted dying, better known as voluntary euthanasia. He shares his own story of how watching his own father die led him to his views.

11:40 Alison Weir - The Tudors
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Alison Weir is one of Britain's foremost historians. She joins Wallace to talk about the enduring fascination of the The Tudors and her latest book focusing on Henry VIII's first wife, Katherine of Aragon.

===12:11 PM. | Spectrum===
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People, places and events in New Zealand. (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
Caricaturist Jeff Bell
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Caricaturist Jeff Bell says the art form can be seen as cruel, but it's actually about finding the essence of a person.He fell in love with political caricature after discovering New Zealand's Murray Webb, Mad Magazine, and British satirical TV programme Spitting Image. Jeff was a runner up in the New Zealand Listener Young Cartoonist Award in 2013, and now is about to reveal his latest drawings at this first solo exhibition, in his hometown of Rangiora.
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Caricaturist Jeff Bell says the art form can be seen as cruel, but it's actually about finding the essence of a person.He fell in love with political caricature after discovering New Zealand's Murray Webb, Mad Magazine, and British satirical TV programme Spitting Image. Jeff was a runner up in the New Zealand Listener Young Cartoonist Award in 2013, and now is about to reveal his latest drawings at this first solo exhibition, in his hometown of Rangiora.
Topics: arts, politics, media
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: political cartoons, drawing
Duration: 7'46"

12:50
Graham Sheffield, Arts Director of the British Council
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Graham Sheffield has shaken things up at the British Council, since taking up the job of Arts Director five years ago.He's rebuilt and expanded the British Council's international arts programme which covers more than 110 countries including Brazil, Qatar and Mexico. He's even managed to secure more funding for his programme during lean years for many arts organisations.
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Graham Sheffield has shaken things up at the British Council, since taking up the job of Arts Director five years ago.He's rebuilt and expanded the British Council's international arts programme which covers more than 110 countries including Brazil, Qatar and Mexico. He's even managed to secure more funding for his programme during lean years for many arts organisations. Lynn Freeman talked to Graham, while he was here on a flying visit.
Topics: arts, conflict
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Duration: 9'12"

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Giant weta at Burning Man
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A giant, articulated steel Weta will represent New Zealand at one of the world's biggest outdoor art installation events. For 30 years, at the Burning Man, hundreds of artists from around the world build massive outdoor artworks - often several stories high - in the heart of the Nevada desert. Some are set on fire, while others stay on site or are sold off. But the Giant Weta will return to New Zealand. Lynn Freeman talks to Hippathy Valentine, this country's Burning Man representative who first went to the event at Black Rock City back in 2007.
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A giant, articulated steel Weta will represent New Zealand at one of the world's biggest outdoor art installation events. For 30 years, at the Burning Man, hundreds of artists from around the world build massive outdoor artworks - often several stories high - in the heart of the Nevada desert. Some are set on fire, while others stay on site or are sold off. But the Giant Weta will return to New Zealand. Lynn Freeman talks to Hippathy Valentine, this country's Burning Man representative who first went to the event at Black Rock City back in 2007.
Topics: arts
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: USA, Burning Man, Kiwiburn, Hippathy Valentine, weta
Duration: 10'03"

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Sir Richard Taylor on concept designer Gus Hunter
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Skull Island in the Peter Jackson movie King Kong was a pretty daunting location. Even more daunting was the fact that it's not real. Much of it was the work of Samoan-born concept designer at Weta Workshop, Gus Hunter. Gus is one of five alumni of Wellington's Massey College of Creative Arts recently inducted into Massey's Hall of Fame, and one of his biggest fans is Weta's Sir Richard Taylor, himself a Hall of Famer.
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Skull Island in the Peter Jackson movie King Kong was a pretty daunting location. Even more daunting was the fact that it's not real. Much of it was the work of Samoan-born concept designer at Weta Workshop, Gus Hunter. Gus is one of five alumni of Wellington's Massey College of Creative Arts recently inducted into Massey's Hall of Fame, and one of his biggest fans is Weta's Sir Richard Taylor, himself a Hall of Famer.
Topics: arts
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: weta, film, design, drawing, Massey
Duration: 14'59"

14:06
The Laugh Track - Tomás Ford
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Australian Fringe performer Tomás Ford is about to bring his show Crap Music Rave Party to New Zealand. He's a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe, and his notoriety has spread (he says) "like a dirty secret." On the Laugh Track, Tomas picks fellow fringe performers Luke McGregor, The Bedroom Philosopher, Alisdair Lists Everyhting and Lady Rizo.
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Australian Fringe performer Tomás Ford is about to bring his show Crap Music Rave Party to New Zealand. He's a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe, and his notoriety has spread (he says) "like a dirty secret." On the Laugh Track, Tomas picks fellow fringe performers Luke McGregor, The Bedroom Philosopher, Alisdair Lists Everyhting and Lady Rizo.
Topics: arts, music
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Duration: 20'36"

14:27
Everything Anyone Ever Wanted
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Choreographer Natalie Maria Clark unwraps the pitfalls of growing up in the digital age in a new dance theatre show at Q Theatre. Sonia Sly has more...
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How fearful should we be of the future and what are the pressures involved in growing up in a digitally immersive world that requires everyone in it to switch on in order to play the game of life? Choreographer Natalie Maria Clark unwraps some of the issues and questions that plague millennials in her new show, Everything Anyone Ever Wanted.
Topics: arts, music, life and society
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: dance, choreography, Q Theatre, youth
Duration: 8'38"

14:35
Danyl McLauchlan's Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley
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Some streets have their own personality - Beale Street in Memphis, Bourbon Street in New Orleans - and in Welllington, that haven of Bohemians, Aro Street. A mystery about mathematics, labyrinths, giants and reality is how Danyl McLauchlan describes his latest novel, Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley. Three years ago Danyl published Unspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley - which also blends mystery and comedy in a characterful Wellington suburb.
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Some streets have their own personality - Beale Street in Memphis, Bourbon Street in New Orleans - and in Welllington, that haven of Bohemians, Aro Street. A mystery about mathematics, labyrinths, giants and reality is how Danyl McLauchlan describes his latest novel, Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley. Three years ago Danyl published Unspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley - which also blends mystery and comedy in a characterful Wellington suburb.
Topics: arts, books
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: comedy, Aro, Aro Valley, literature
Duration: 10'09"

14:50
Christchurch Cathedral Choir
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The Christchurch Cathedral Choir's history goes back to 1881, and it's told in a new book. Peter Simpson, has researched and written Singing to God - and he's well qualified, having sung in the Christchurch Cathedral Choir for 52 years. Peter's wife Ruth also sings, and their daughter Kirsten is a professional musician. Lynn Freeman speaks to Peter and Kirsten Simpson.
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The Christchurch Cathedral Choir's history goes back to 1881, and it's told in a new book. Peter Simpson, has researched and written Singing to God - and he's well qualified, having sung in the Christchurch Cathedral Choir for 52 years. Peter's wife Ruth also sings, their daughter Kirsten is a professional musician. Lynn Freeman speaks to Peter Simpson and to Kirsten, first asking Peter about his memories of joining the choir in 1947, with his mother's encouragement.
Topics: arts, music, history, spiritual practices
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: choir, choral, Canterbury earthquakes
Duration: 9'58"

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12:40 Caricaturist Jeff Bell
Caricaturist Jeff Bell says the art form can be seen as cruel, but it's actually about finding the essence of a person.He fell in love with political caricature after discovering New Zealand's Murray Webb, Mad Magazine, and British satirical TV programme Spitting Image. Jeff was a runner up in the New Zealand Listener Young Cartoonist Award in 2013, and now is about to reveal his latest drawings at this first solo exhibition, in his hometown of Rangiora.
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12:50 Graham Sheffield, Arts Director of the British Council
Graham Sheffield has shaken things up at the British Council, since taking up the job of Arts Director five years ago.He's rebuilt and expanded the British Council's international arts programme which covers more than 110 countries including Brazil, Qatar and Mexico. He's even managed to secure more funding for his programme during lean years for many arts organisations. Lynn Freeman talked to Graham, while he was here on a flying visit.
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01:10 At The Movies
Simon Morris wonders what happened to traditional, mainstream movies, squeezed out of the cinemas between, on the one hand, gigantic blockbuster franchises, and on the other, by small, festival-friendly independent films. He looks at two recent examples - heist movie Now you see me 2, and hostage drama Money Monster. He also talks to New Zealand Film Commission CEO Dave Gibson about a very busy next 12 months.

01:34 Giant weta at Burning Man
A giant, articulated steel Weta will represent New Zealand at one of the world's biggest outdoor art installation events. For 30 years, at the Burning Man, hundreds of artists from around the world build massive outdoor artworks - often several stories high - in the heart of the Nevada desert. Some are set on fire, while others stay on site or are sold off. But the Giant Weta will return to New Zealand. Lynn Freeman talks to Hippathy Valentine, this country's Burning Man representative who first went to the event at Black Rock City back in 2007.
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01:47 Sir Richard Taylor on concept designer Gus Hunter
Skull Island in the Peter Jackson movie King Kong was a pretty daunting location. Even more daunting was the fact that it's not real. Much of it was the work of Samoan-born concept designer at Weta Workshop, Gus Hunter. Gus is one of five alumni of Wellington's Massey College of Creative Arts recently inducted into Massey's Hall of Fame, and one of his biggest fans is Weta's Sir Richard Taylor, himself a Hall of Famer.
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14:06 The Laugh Track - Tomás Ford
Australian Fringe performer Tomás Ford is about to bring his show Crap Music Rave Party to New Zealand. He's a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe, and his notoriety has spread (he says) "like a dirty secret." On the Laugh Track, Tomas picks fellow fringe performers Luke McGregor, The Bedroom Philosopher, Alisdair Lists Everyhting and Lady Rizo.
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14:25 Everything Anyone Ever Wanted
Choreographer Natalie Maria Clark unwraps the pitfalls of growing up in the digital age in a new dance theatre show at Q Theatre. Sonia Sly has more...
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14:38 Novelist Danyl McLauchlan's new book Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley
Some streets have their own personality - Beale Street in Memphis, Bourbon Street in New Orleans - and in Welllington, that haven of Bohemians, Aro Street. A mystery about mathematics, labyrinths, giants and reality is how Danyl McLauchlan describes his latest novel, Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley. Three years ago Danyl published Unspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley - which also blends mystery and comedy in a characterful Wellington suburb.
14:49 Christchurch Cathedral Choir
The Christchurch Cathedral Choir's history goes back to 1881, and it's told in a new book. Peter Simpson, has researched and written Singing to God - and he's well qualified, having sung in the Christchurch Cathedral Choir for 52 years. Peter's wife Ruth also sings, their daughter Kirsten is a professional musician. Lynn Freeman speaks to Peter Simpson and to Kirsten, first asking Peter about his memories of joining the choir in 1947, with his mother's encouragement.
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15:06 Drama at 3 - Passing Through (Part One)
Part One of a classic one-man show; the late Mervyn Thompson's autobiographical Passing Through.

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The autobiographical one-man show which explored New Zealand identity and effectively became an obituary for one of New Zealand theatre's more colourful and controversial figures in 20th Century Theatre. (Part 1 of 2, RNZ)

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Terror and Technology - The Unabomber
Jim Benjamin Ramm revisits the extraordinary story of the Unabomber - how Theodore Kaczynski, a reclusive maths prodigy, terrorised America, and how the media amplified his cause. (BBCWS)

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A roundup of today's news and sport

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The Spiritual Journey of Muhammad Ali
When Cassius Clay converted from his Baptist Christian upbringing to join the Nation of Islam he told a press conference that "a rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing." How did Islam shape his sporting life, his activism and his politics? William Crawley explores the spiritual journey of Muhammad Ali from the Christian origins to his famous conversion to the politically charged Nation of Islam and then his eventual embrace of orthodox Sunni Islam. We hear how his faith changed and in later life he started to follow the more mystical Sufi Islam.(BBCWS)

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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
Turning the Tide on Suicide - part one
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Former comedian Mike King and hip hop artist King Kapisi talk about their work with young people towards reducing suicide rates.
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Turning the Tide on Suicide is a three-part series by Justine Murray that looks into the issue of mental health awareness and how Māori communities and organisations address suicide.
Mike King
Mike King is in the hope-selling business. He flicks through the years of his life like pages of a book, using his experiences as teaching notes for the youth he addresses. Over 100,000 young people and parents have heard Mike speak at schools, marae and conferences on mental health awareness and how parents can change their thinking when dealing with their children.
The former comedian hung up his mic 18 months ago and says he feels ‘lighter’ physically and mentally. His wallet feels lighter, too.
"I wouldn’t trade in what I’m doing now for anything in the world. Ten years ago I was a millionaire. I was riding around on V8 motorbikes, Harley-Davidsons...I used to fly overseas for holidays and I was miserable. I was trying to find my true self, and I couldn’t find him, which lead to a life of drugs and alcohol and ego. Now I’m broke, living in South Auckland and never been happier."

At the peak of his career as an entertainer, he hosted his own late night talk show and was a staple part of the comedy circuit, but eventually felt making jokes at the expense of other people’s feelings became bothersome. His widely publicised battle with drug addiction and depression is a stark contrast to his work today for the charitable trust, The Key to Life.
One of the trust's projects is Target Zero, which aims to stop suicides completely.
"If, within our families, sports groups, [and] classrooms, we all make a vow that we will have zero suicides in our family this year, and here are the tools to talk about it... if we keep that goal going and spread it to our Waka Ama groups, our rugby teams, our work colleagues... target zero is achievable."

Bill Urale, aka King Kapisi
Bill Urale, who goes by his pseudonym King Kapisi, is a hip hop artist and musician who has been performing since the early 1990s.
Bill grew up in Wellington in a creative family whom he calls the Urale Clan. His mum was an artist, and his sisters are film directors, playwrights and writers. Over the years he has taken multi-tasking to another level running the community event Elevated Family Park Jam with his wife, singer Teremoana Rapley.
There’s music, three-on-three b’ball, workshops, and dance competitions because King Kapisi believes a simple mantra - the kids need something to do.
"The problems that I do find with academia is that you talk about it, and you analyse it but then you don’t actually put that in action. But I’m on the other side just saying listen, with all that knowledge that you have and your profession and all of that, what did you actually do to help the community?"

Aside from event management and making music, he makes t-shirts for his company The Plantation Store, deejays in rural communities, and when he has time, travels overseas on tour or to talk to young people – his most recent trip was to Noumea, New Caledonia.
His ‘full steam ahead’ approach came crumbling down around him at one point when over three days he only had eight hours sleep. At the time, a personal relationship was strained, he competed in a boxing match, and then had to perform a gig hours after.
"After the boxing match, I was all battered and bruised and I started having those same low thoughts, and I was thinking, those are those same thoughts I had when I was 19... I was thinking to myself 'I can have those type of thoughts and I can pull myself out. How about the people that can’t pull themselves out?' So I started organising my own events so I can inspire youth they way I was inspired."

King Kapisi travels the country attending speaking engagements and says it’s through music, hip hop culture, emceeing and sport that he connects with young people.
"It doesn’t have to be mana ties for me, I feel that if I can change someone’s life and just help then that’s something good. I like money, but that’s not my drive... I’m into helping the people."

Mehemea kei te noho koe i te pouritanga, tēnā whātoro atu ki tou whanau, ki ou hoa piripono rānei. Atu i tērā, anei ētahi o nga roopu hei awhi i a koe.
If you are experiencing depression, reach out to whanau or close friends.
Here are a number of sites with information on ways to get help.

The Lowdown
Depression.org.nz
Like Mind

If you need to talk to someone about your own mental health, try these helplines. If it is an emergency, call 111.
Lifeline - 0800 543 354
Depression Helpline - 0800 111 757
Healthline - 0800 611 116
Suicide Crisis Helpline (aimed at those in distress, or those who are concerned about the wellbeing of someone else) - 0508 828 865 (0508 TAUTOKO)
Youthline - 0800 376 633, free text 234 or email talk@youthline.co.nz
Topics: te ao Maori, life and society
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Mike King, King Kapisi, Te Runanga o Ngati Pikiao
Duration: 28'10"

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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