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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:

31 July 2016

===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Te Wherowhero by Pei Te Hurunui Jones (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 1:45 Go Ahead Caller (RNZ) 2:05 Heart and Soul (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday; 3:05 Tall Half Backs by Graham Hutchins (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 (7 of 14, RNZ); 5:45 NZ Society

===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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Our Nan, Queen of the Gypsies, by Priscilla Cameron, told by Carol Smith; Dance For Me, by Dot Meharry, told by Miriama McDowell; Oh Georgina, by Dorothy Butler, told by Alison Wall; The Real Neat Soccer Team, by Norman Bilbrough, told by Brooke Williams; The Lizard, by Lesley Marshall, told by Madeleine McNamara; Aunt Maud the Motorcycle Witch, by Anthony Holcroft, told by Dorothy McKegg

===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
John Cocks and Dave Bamford - Mountain Men
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The New Zealand Alpine Club is worried that a dramatic growth in the number of tourists is putting pressure on our mountain environment. From dealing with human waste to limiting helicopter flights overhead - the impact on our most treasured and pristine areas is taking its toll and compromising the landscape.
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The New Zealand Alpine Club is worried that a dramatic growth in the number of tourists is putting pressure on our mountain environment. From dealing with human waste to limiting helicopter flights overhead - the impact on our most treasured and pristine areas is taking its toll and compromising the landscape.
Topics: life and society, health, sport
Regions:
Tags: tourism, mountains, alpine activities, conservation
Duration: 19'41"

07:30
The Week In Parliament for 31 July 2016
BODY:
The Speaker, David Carter, talks about Question Time, the difference between answering and addressing questions, the upcoming review of Standing Orders, settling into the job, his daily routine and the time he ordered the prime minister out of the chamber.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 15'00"

07:50
Brent Budowsky - The Race is On
BODY:
Brent Budowsky is based in Washington DC and is a columnist for The Hill. He reviews the Republican and Democratic conventions and looks ahead to what's next in the battle for the US presidency now the candidates have been formally nominated.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: US politics, National Democratic Convention
Duration: 8'43"

08:12
Insight: The Horror of NZ's Suicide Rates
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New Zealand's suicide rates remain stubbornly high. Philippa Tolley explores what else can be done to turn them around.
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This story discusses suicide and could be upsetting to some people. Contact details for support services can be found at the end of this story.
Suicide rates in New Zealand have remained unacceptably high since declines in the 1990s, despite a decade-long prevention plan and strategy.
The figures are so high that suicide is the third highest cause of death after heart disease and lung cancer.
So what will stop New Zealanders taking their own lives at such appalling rates?
Joshua Simmons raced into the gym during a break between IT contract jobs, kit bag over his shoulder. The boxing and martial arts centre became his second home earlier this year as he ground through weeks of training to be ready for a charity boxing match to raise funds for Key to Life, a charitable trust that has a long-term goal of zero suicide in New Zealand.
But, for Joshua, this wasn't entirely a random act of charity. He'd already fought his way back from a very dark place, only months earlier, and was now determined to speak about his experience to help others break out of that sense of isolation.
"Last year, when I got out of a long-term relationship, one of hardest things was coping with what you are gong through and never having experienced those emotions before. It didn't matter what was going on in your life or those other good aspects, all you could think about was the negative. Everything kept going down and down and getting worse and worse."
Sitting down cross-legged in the bright blue padded training area, he described the continued effort to meet social obligations to "fit into the norm".
"There's that stigma, I suppose, you want to talk about your feelings but you [feel] you shouldn't. Especially as a man, you've got that expectation that you shouldn't feel emotions; that you should just be this rock."

His gaze became more fixed as he recalled the night when he reached a crisis. There was one point where the police were called out, and they were looking for him all night.
"I just drove off, thinking there was no point in going on and wanting to end the pain, but then you calm down and start to think and I was thinking about my daughter and the ramifications if I was to kill myself and then she wouldn't have a dad."
Time with a counsellor, help from a GP for insomnia and a flatmate who treated him as "just a normal person" all helped him turn the situation around.
Joshua is anything but alone in reaching that point of desperation.
Provisional figures released by the Chief Coroner (PDF, 981KB) indicate 564 people took their own lives in the year 2014/2015, the highest number in the eight years that the figures have been released.
The most recent finalised statistics from the Ministry of Health show that in 2012, just over 3000 people were treated in hospital after a suicide attempt, having seriously harmed themselves. In 2011, New Zealand's youth suicide rate was the second highest in the OECD.
The World Health Organisation considers many deaths from suicide are preventable - and there are programme leaders, coordinators and volunteers here which feel they are beginning to make a difference.
Le Va, based in south Auckland, leads the suicide prevention strategy for Pasifika communities around New Zealand. Its chief executive, Dr Monique Faleafa, is enthusiastic about changes she can see in the communities she works with. It may seem like a small step but a willingness to speak about suicide is, for her, a big shift.
"What I can see and hear and feel in Pasifika communities is a sense of readiness to address the situation and while that doesn't seem like we've come far, that tapu, sacred area of talking about suicide now is on the table to discuss."
For her colleague, Leilani Fina'i Clarke, helping to save lives isn't just theoretical. She lost a daughter to suicide over three years ago and wants to make sure her communities have the knowledge about risks and ways to help that she didn't have when her own child was in need.
What she knows only too well is the stigma that is attached to suicide. That's why that readiness to talk is so important to break down traditional responses. "That blame, shame and stigmas is really thick in communities but profoundly concentrated in Pacific communities," she said.
Neil Bateup, meanwhile, runs a dairy farm and 650 cows in Te Hoe in Waikato and is the chairman of the Rural Support Trust for the Waikato, Hauraki and Coromandel.
He said calls to the trust suggested that, with the downturn in dairy prices, many farmers were feeling the strain. Financial stress was really the big one, he said.
"Financial stress plays itself out in all different ways; it can be relationship problems, it can be relationships between the farmer and staff, in some cases the farmer has had to let staff go, so they are actually working harder themselves ... and in behind all that is the fact that farmers do work on their own a lot and they don't have a big support network around them."
Mr Bateup said, given all those factors, the situation could build on itself and it was important farmers sought help.
New suicide prevention plan on the way
While awareness of risk factors is increasing, and changes are being seen in some of the most vulnerable groups, the overall figures remain depressingly unchanged.
After a drop in rates in the late 1990s, the number of people who take their lives every year has remained at a relatively static level even though prevention programmes and strategies have been in place for more than a decade - and have an end date of this year.
In the run-up to the Australian election, the National Association of Psychiatrists supported calls by other mental health organisations to reduce that country's national suicide rate by 10 percent by 2020 and by 50 percent by 2026. No such plans are in the offing here.
New Zealand has done the "immediate and easy" to drive down the suicide rates, according to the Director of Mental Health, Dr Jon Crawshaw.
"We're now getting into the heavy duty and tough stuff and looking at a much more systematic approach. Talking about suicide prevention without looking at the wider social and justice sector intervention programme becomes unhelpful," he said.
The two main current policies, the Suicide Prevention Strategy and the Suicide Prevention Action Plan, both come to an end this year. But timing for the new framework is still some time off, although elements of the two previous policies will continue, as will more recently introduced initiatives at district health boards.
It was better to get it right than to rush, Dr Crawshaw said.
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If you would like help, here are some options:

Lifeline: 0800 543 354 - available 24/7
Suicide Crisis Helpline: 0508 828 865 (0508 TAUTOKO) - available 24/7
Youthline: 0800 376 633
Samaritans: 0800 726 666 - available 24/7
Kidsline: 0800 543 754 - available 24/7
Whatsup: 0800 942 8787 - 1pm to 10pm weekdays, 3pm to 10pm weekends
Depression Helpline: 0800 111 757 - available 24/7
Rainbow Youth: (09) 376 4155

If it is an emergency and you feel like you or someone else is at risk, call 111.
Topics: health, life and society
Regions:
Tags: Maori, Pasifika, suicide, youth
Duration: 28'23"

08:40
What we're reading
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New Zealanders are voracious readers. Whitcoulls Head of Books, Joan MacKenzie, joins Wallace to talk about our reading habits - what our children are reading; why we still prefer international authors to homegrown ones; and why crime novels are still so incredibly popular.
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New Zealanders are voracious readers of...?
Whitcoulls Head of Books Joan MacKenzie joins Wallace Chapman to talk about our national reading habits – what children are reading; why we still prefer international authors to homegrown ones; and why crime novels are still so incredibly popular.
Topics: books
Regions:
Tags: books, hobbies
Duration: 18'27"

09:40
David Howman - Standing Tall for Clean Athletes
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Counting down to the Rio Olympic Games, Wallace talks to David Howman, the New Zealander who recently stepped down from his role as Director General of WADA - the World Anti-Doping Agency. He says he was "gobsmacked" by the Russian state-sanctioned doping programme, but fears it's not the only country encouraging wide-scale cheating.
Topics: sport, crime
Regions:
Tags: Wada, cheating, Rio Olympics
Duration: 21'02"

10:07
Craig Sisterson - Kiwi Crime Novels
BODY:
The shortlist for this year's Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel was announced this week. Award founder and convener of the judging panel Craig Sisterson takes a look at the finalists and reflects on what makes Kiwi crime novels different.
Topics: arts, books, media
Regions:
Tags: books, Dame Ngaio Marsh, Ngaio Marsh Award, crime novels
Duration: 19'27"

10:30
Drew Philp - Walking to the Republican National Convention
BODY:
Earlier this month journalist Mike Carter told us about walking from Liverpool to London and being struck by a deep well of discontentment fuelling the Brexit vote. Journalist Drew Philp has made a similar journey - from Detroit to Cleveland - and found a similar sense of anger, fear and distrust of the political elites along the way.
Topics: politics, life and society
Regions:
Tags: Detroit, Cleveland, US politics, Republican National Convention
Duration: 30'33"

11:10
Zana Fraillon - Growing up in Detention
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Author Zana Fraillon discusses her young adult novel, The Bone Sparrow, about a boy born to a refugee in a an Australian permanent detention centre and who, by the age of 10, has never been beyond the centre's locked gates.
Topics: author interview, books
Regions:
Tags: Zana Fraillon, The Bone Sparrow
Duration: 16'51"

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7:08 John Cocks and Dave Bamford - Mountain Men
Mountain environments around the world are under pressure from dramatic growth in tourism. NZ Alpine Club past president John Cocks, and Dave Bamford, who runs a sustainable tourism consultancy business, discuss the issues - from dealing with human waste, to track erosion and scenic flights. They are organising the international Sustainable Summits Conference on next week at Aoraki Mt Cook National Park.
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7:30 News headlines
7:32 The Week in Parliament
7:47 Brent Budowsky - The Race is On
Brent Budowsky is based in Washington DC and is a columnist for The Hill. He reviews the Republican and Democratic conventions and looks ahead to what's next in the battle for the US presidency now the candidates have been formally nominated.
8:12 Insight : The Horror of NZ's Suicide Rate
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The most recent statistics show one New Zealander took their own life every 17 hours. Suicide in 2013 was the third highest cause of premature death. But such rates have been know about for years. As current official Health Ministry strategies come to an end, Philippa Tolley asks what else is being planned?

Lifeline: 0800 543 354 (available 24/7)
Suicide Crisis Helpline: 0508 828 865 (0508 TAUTOKO) (available 24/7)

8:40 Joan MacKenzie - What We're Reading
New Zealanders are voracious readers. Whitcoulls Head of Books, Joan MacKenzie, joins Wallace to talk about our reading habits - what our children are reading; why we still prefer international authors to homegrown ones; and why crime novels are still so incredibly popular.
9:06 Mediawatch
False claims can spread faster than the truth in the online age. How can the media fight back with the facts? Also: RNZ's feature programmes scaled back as on-demand listening is ramped up, and TV drama choices confounding the critics.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 David Howman - Standing Tall for Clean Athletes
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Counting down to the Rio Olympic Games, Wallace talks to David Howman, the New Zealander who recently stepped down from his role as Director General of WADA - the World Anti-Doping Agency. He says he was "gobsmacked" by the Russian state-sanctioned doping programme, but fears it's not the only country encouraging wide-scale cheating.
10:06 Craig Sisterson - Kiwi Crime Novels
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The shortlist for this year's Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel was announced this week. Award founder and convener of the judging panel Craig Sisterson takes a look at the finalists and reflects on what makes Kiwi crime novels different.
10:30 Drew Philp - Walking to the Republican National Convention
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Earlier this month journalist Mike Carter told us about walking from Liverpool to London and being struck by a deep well of discontentment fuelling the Brexit vote. Journalist Drew Philp has made a similar journey - from Detroit to Cleveland - and found a similar sense of anger, fear and distrust of the political elites along the way.
11:05 Zana Fraillon - Growing up in Detention
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Author Zana Fraillon discusses her young adult novel, The Bone Sparrow, about a boy born to a refugee in a an Australian permanent detention centre and who, by the age of 10, has never been beyond the centre's locked gates.
11:25 A Wrinkle in Time - A Series Looking at Ageing
In part two of Noelle McCarthy's series on ageing, Noelle visits the Dunedin Study to find out about the results of its groundbreaking ageing study and how it's changing the game for healthy ageing research.

===12:11 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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12:14
The National Film Unit
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The National Film Unit closed down in 1990, leaving us hundreds of documentaries, films and TV dramas, tourism promos and newsreels covering wars and sporting events through to very personal stories. It was also a training ground for many big players in our film and TV industries, including actor Sam Neil and directors John Laing, Sam Pillsbury and Hugh Macdonald and cameramen like Lynton Diggle and Brian Brake. NZ On Screen has launched a collection to mark the 75th anniversary of the National Film Unit and its rich and diverse collection. It includes the unit's well known series Weekly Review, Pictorial Parade and New Zealand Mirror, as well as its first film, the 1941 wartime morale booster Country Lads, Snows of Aorangi by Brian Brake - the first NFU film to be nominated for an Academy Award - through to footage of chimps on bikes as part of a government road safety message. In the first of a two-part RNZ documentary about the National Film Unit's history and legacy, Lynn Freeman talks to film historians Simon Sigley and Dr Roger Horrocks: Archives New Zealand also has an online collection of NFU productions, while Nga Taonga Sound and Vision is home to interviews with many NFU personnel. Thanks also to Te Ara on-line Encyclopaedia of New Zealand.
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The National Film Unit closed down in 1990, leaving us hundreds of documentaries, films and TV dramas, tourism promos and newsreels covering wars and sporting events through to very personal stories. It was also a training ground for many big players in our film and TV industries, including actor Sam Neil and directors John Laing, Sam Pillsbury and Hugh Macdonald and cameramen like Lynton Diggle and Brian Brake. NZ On Screen has launched a collection to mark the 75th anniversary of the National Film Unit and its rich and diverse collection. It includes the unit's well known series Weekly Review, Pictorial Parade and New Zealand Mirror, as well as its first film, the 1941 wartime morale booster Country Lads, Snows of Aorangi by Brian Brake - the first NFU film to be nominated for an Academy Award - through to footage of chimps on bikes as part of a government road safety message. In the first of a two-part RNZ documentary about the National Film Unit's history and legacy, Lynn Freeman talks to film historians Simon Sigley and Dr Roger Horrocks: Archives New Zealand also has an on-line collection of NFU productions, while Nga Taonga Sound and Vision is home to interviews with many NFU personnel. Thanks also to Te Ara online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand.
Topics: movies, history
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 31'42"

12:48
Artist Tiffany Singh
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Tiffany Singh is creating an installation about the plight of refugees in New Zealand - and like the refugees whose stories she'll be sharing, she needs help. Tiffany works a lot with communities to produce public artworks, using materials like prayer flags. This time, it's boats. Over the next few months, we plan to follow Tiffany as she creates her large-scale work for Waiheke Island's Sculpture On The Gulf event in February next year. Lynn Freeman talks to Tiffany and to one of her collaborators, Abann Yor from Auckland Refugee Coalition.
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Tiffany Singh is creating an installation about the plight of refugees in New Zealand - and like the refugees whose stories she'll be sharing, she needs help. Tiffany works a lot with communities to produce public artworks, using materials like prayer flags. This time, it's boats. Over the next few months, we plan to follow Tiffany as she creates her large-scale work for Waiheke Island's Sculpture On The Gulf event in February next year. Lynn Freeman talks to Tiffany and to one of her collaborators, Abann Yor from Auckland Refugee Coalition.
Topics: arts, refugees and migrants
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags:
Duration: 11'22"

13:34
If it worked once, why can't it work again?
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If there was one film - you'd think - that never needed to be remade, it's the famous Oscar-winning epic Ben Hur from 1959. But it's back, in a year that's seen cover-versions of other famous films swamp the cinemas - The Jungle Book, Cinderella, a new Magnificent Seven. The most controversial was the new Ghostbusters... So why do it? Have any cover versions of a classic movie been any good? Very few of them seem to have the impact of the original hits. Simon Morris and Lynn Freeman invite Dan Slevin and Megan Whelan to answer the thorny subject - "Remakes - is there any excuse?"
Topics: movies, arts
Regions:
Tags: remakes
Duration: 9'17"

13:48
Walker Evans - the Magazine Photographer
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American Walker Evans is a name you'll find in most histories of photography as both important and influential figure from the 1920s to the 70s. He produced images for magazines and art galleries, with a particular interest in photographing the everyday, from tips, graffiti, and shop window displays to postcards. The photo essays he produced for magazines had been rather overlooked until British writer, curator, artist and historian Dr David Campany started his own research into the photographer and his work. David's written a book, and curated an exhibition Walker Evans: The Magazine Work that's just opened in Wellington's Adam Art Gallery. Lynn Freeman talks to David about Walker Evans, and his own early experiences behind a camera.
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American Walker Evans is a name you'll find in most histories of photography as both important and influential figure from the 1920s to the 70s. He produced images for magazines and art galleries, with a particular interest in photographing the everyday, from tips, graffiti, and shop window displays to postcards. The photo essays he produced for magazines had been rather overlooked until British writer, curator, artist and historian Dr David Campany started his own research into the photographer and his work. David's written a book, and curated an exhibition Walker Evans: The Magazine Work that's just opened in Wellington's Adam Art Gallery. Lynn Freeman talks to David about Walker Evans, and his own early experiences behind a camera.
Topics: media
Regions:
Tags: photography, Walker Evans
Duration: 19'39"

14:06
The Laugh Track - Nisha Madhan and Stephen Bain
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Theatremakers Nisha Madhan and Stephen Bain choose clips from Ali G, Black Books, Seinfeld - and Donald Trump!
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Theatremakers Nisha Madhan and Stephen Bain choose clips from Ali G, Black Books, Seinfeld - and Donald Trump!

Topics: arts, economy
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: theatre, comedy
Duration: 19'53"

14:25
Commedia dell'Arte comes to Aotearoa
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If you were to come up with half a dozen Kiwi stereotypes, what would they be? A group of Auckland actors have spent the past couple of years thinking about this and creating masks to represent them on stage. They describe their new work, Leilani, as 'aotearoa del arte'. Commedia Dell'Arte is a form of masked theatre that pokes fun at authority figures and stereotypes using stock characters like Pantalone and Zanni. In the Mahuika Theatre Company production at Auckland's Q Theatre, the stock characters range from a greedy corporate businessman to a crafty K Road streetworker. Lynn Freeman talks to the play's director, Pedro Ilgenfritz, and to actor Irasa Siave about the origins of Comeedia dell'Arte.
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If you were to come up with half a dozen Kiwi stereotypes, what would they be? A group of Auckland actors have spent the past couple of years thinking about this and creating masks to represent them on stage. They describe their new work, Leilani, as 'aotearoa del arte'. Commedia Dell'Arte is a form of masked theatre that pokes fun at authority figures and stereotypes using stock characters like Pantalone and Zanni. In the Mahuika Theatre Company production at Auckland's Q Theatre, the stock characters range from a greedy corporate businessman to a crafty K Road streetworker. Lynn Freeman talks to the play's director, Pedro Ilgenfritz, and to actor Irasa Siave about the origins of Comeedia dell'Arte.
Topics: arts, life and society
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: theatre, Commedia Dell'Arte masks
Duration: 10'02"

14:40
Fiona Kidman's new novel
BODY:
Dame Fiona Kidman has written a family epic that also covers this country's history during a time of huge change. In All Day At The Movies, a young widow comes to Motueka with her little girl to start a new life in the early 1950s, leaving life as a librarian to work on the tobacco fields. Nothing goes according to plan, and decisions she makes will have profound conseqences for all her children throughout their lives. Lynn Freeman talks to Dame Fiona, and Liz Banas reads from the novel.
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Dame Fiona Kidman has written a family epic that also covers this country's history during a time of huge change. In All Day at the Movies, a young widow comes to Motueka with her little girl to start a new life in the early 1950s, leaving life as a librarian to work on the tobacco fields. Nothing goes according to plan, and decisions she makes will have profound conseqences for all her children throughout their lives. Lynn Freeman talks to Dame Fiona, and Liz Banas reads from the novel.
Topics: arts, books, author interview, history
Regions: Tasman
Tags:
Duration: 13'55"

14:50
Beyonce, a Haka and a Viral Video
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Beyonce's response to a spontaneous haka performed backstage during the singer's 2013 New Zealand tour, was an online sensation - not entirely in a good way. Beyonce posted a video of the spontaneous haka online... and her spontaneous reaction which included putting her tongue out and slapping her thighs. While those involved in the haka seemed delighted with her excitement, online comments were often vicious. Now an essay about the response to Beyone's response, if you get our drift, has won Nicola Hyland - who is a Lecturer in Theatre in Victoria's School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies - an international prize.
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Beyonce's response to a spontaneous haka performed backstage during the singer's 2013 New Zealand tour, was an online sensation - not entirely in a good way. Beyonce posted a video of the spontaneous haka online...and her spontaneous reaction which included putting her tongue out and slapping her thighs. While those involved in the haka seemed delighted with her excitement, online comments were often vicious. Now an essay about the response to Beyone's response, if you get our drift, has won Nicola Hyland - who's a Lecturer in Theatre in Victoria's School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies - an international prize. Nicola takes Lynn Freeman back to that night in October 2013.
Topics: arts, te ao Maori, music, life and society, technology
Regions: Auckland Region, Wellington Region
Tags: Beyonce, writing
Duration: 9'01"

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12:15 The National Film Unit
The National Film Unit closed down in 1990, leaving us hundreds of documentaries, films and TV dramas, tourism promos and newsreels covering wars and sporting events through to very personal stories. It was also a training ground for many big players in our film and TV industries, including actor Sam Neil and directors John Laing, Sam Pillsbury and Hugh Macdonald and cameramen like Lynton Diggle and Brian Brake. NZ On Screen has launched a collection to mark the 75th anniversary of the National Film Unit and its rich and diverse collection. It includes the unit's well known series Weekly Review, Pictorial Parade and New Zealand Mirror, as well as its first film, the 1941 wartime morale booster Country Lads, Snows of Aorangi by Brian Brake - the first NFU film to be nominated for an Academy Award - through to footage of chimps on bikes as part of a government road safety message. In the first of a two-part RNZ documentary about the National Film Unit's history and legacy, Lynn Freeman talks to film historians Simon Sigley and Dr Roger Horrocks: Archives New Zealand also has an online collection of NFU productions, while Nga Taonga Sound and Vision is home to interviews with many NFU personnel. Thanks also to Te Ara on-line Encyclopaedia of New Zealand.
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12:47 Artist Tiffany Singh
Tiffany Singh is creating an installation about the plight of refugees in New Zealand - and like the refugees whose stories she'll be sharing, she needs help. Tiffany works a lot with communities to produce public artworks, using materials like prayer flags. This time, it's boats. Over the next few months, we plan to follow Tiffany as she creates her large-scale work for Waiheke Island's Sculpture On The Gulf event in February next year. Lynn Freeman talks to Tiffany and to one of her collaborators, Abann Yor from Auckland Refugee Coalition.
1:10 At The Movies
This week - Star Trek beyond, Jake Gyllenhaal in Demolition and an interview with Grimur Hakonarson, director the Iceland comedy-drama Rams, which pick up a major award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
1:34 If it worked once, why can't it work again?
If there was one film - you'd think - that never needed to be remade, it's the famous Oscar-winning epic Ben Hur from 1959. But it's back, in a year that's seen cover-versions of other famous films swamp the cinemas - The Jungle Book, Cinderella, a new Magnificent Seven. The most controversial was the new Ghostbusters... So why do it? Have any cover versions of a classic movie been any good? Very few of them seem to have the impact of the original hits. Simon Morris and Lynn Freeman invite Dan Slevin and Megan Whelan to answer the thorny subject - "Remakes - is there any excuse?"
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1:48 Walker Evans - the Magazine Photographer
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American Walker Evans is a name you'll find in most histories of photography as both important and influential figure from the 1920s to the 70s. He produced images for magazines and art galleries, with a particular interest in photographing the everyday, from tips, graffiti, and shop window displays to postcards. The photo essays he produced for magazines had been rather overlooked until British writer, curator, artist and historian Dr David Campany started his own research into the photographer and his work. David's written a book, and curated an exhibition Walker Evans: The Magazine Work that's just opened in Wellington's Adam Art Gallery. Lynn Freeman talks to David about Walker Evans, and his own early experiences behind a camera.
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2:06 The Laugh Track - Nisha Madhan and Stephen Bain
Theatremakers Nisha Madhan and Stephen Bain choose clips from Ali G, Black Books, Seinfeld - and Donald Trump!
2:25 Commedia dell'Arte comes to Aotearoa
If you were to come up with half a dozen Kiwi stereotypes, what would they be? A group of Auckland actors have spent the past couple of years thinking about this and creating masks to represent them on stage. They describe their new work, Leilani, as 'aotearoa del arte'. Commedia Dell'Arte is a form of masked theatre that pokes fun at authority figures and stereotypes using stock characters like Pantalone and Zanni. In the Mahuika Theatre Company production at Auckland's Q Theatre, the stock characters range from a greedy corporate businessman to a crafty K Road streetworker. Lynn Freeman talks to the play's director, Pedro Ilgenfritz, and to actor Irasa Siave about the origins of Comeedia dell'Arte.
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2:40 Fiona Kidman's new novel
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Dame Fiona Kidman has written a family epic that also covers this country's history during a time of huge change. In All day at the Movies, a young widow comes to Motueka with her little girl to start a new life in the early 1950s, leaving life as a librarian to work on the tobacco fields. Nothing goes according to plan, and decisions she makes will have profound conseqences for all her children throughout their lives. Lynn Freeman talks to Dame Fiona, and Liz Banas reads from the novel.

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2:49 Beyonce, a Haka and a Viral Video
Beyonce's response to a spontaneous haka performed backstage during the singer's 2013 New Zealand tour, was an online sensation - not entirely in a good way. Beyonce posted a video of the spontaneous haka online...and her spontaneous reaction which included putting her tongue out and slapping her thighs. While those involved in the haka seemed delighted with her excitement, online comments were often vicious. Now an essay about the response to Beyone's response, if you get our drift, has won Nicola Hyland - who's a Lecturer in Theatre in Victoria's School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies - an international prize. Nicola takes Lynn Freeman back to that night in October 2013.
[embed] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ3NxDFqACE
3:06 Drama at 3
Sci-fi serial Wulfsyarn, and a dose of Kiwi Noir.

===12:12 PM. | Spectrum===
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The Spectrum team presents the final programme of the 42-year-long series (RNZ)

===1:10 PM. | At The Movies===
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A weekly topical magazine programme about current film releases and film-related topics. (RNZ)

===2:05 PM. | None (National)===
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===3:04 PM. | None (National)===
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An epic futuristic tale of the tragic maiden voyage of the gargantuan strarship, The Nightingale, captained by the enigmatic and fatally flawed, Jon Wilberfoss. (Part 2 of 10, RNZ)

===3:35 PM. | None (National)===
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Classic radio crime drama from the Police files of New Zealand. (Part 1 of 10, RNZ)

===4:06 PM. | None (National)===
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A selection of documentaries, discussions and lectures of note from New Zealand and beyond.

===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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Personal approaches to religious belief and spirituality from around the world (BBC)

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

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18:06
The Sweetness of the Kumara
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In part one of this four part series, Te Ahi Kaa seeks out a variety of interpretations of whakatauki or proverbial sayings, this week Kaore te kumara e korero ana mo tona ake reka, The Kumara doesn't brag about it's own sweetness, is discussed further.
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Sir Hirini Moko Mead (Ngāti Awa, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Tūhourangi, Tuhoe) describes a whakataukī as the following;
“It’s a very succinct message which places a high value on a certain aspect of human behaviour. These are stated as universal truths that people need to be aware of, and that people need to use to guide their behaviour and also to guide their judgements about what to say and what not to say and what to do, and what not to do.
Kāore te kumara e kōrero ana mo tōna ake reka.

The kumara does not brag about its own sweetness.
This whakataukī has a number of interpretations. For some people it is a helpful reminder to be humble and to practise humility. For others arguably it is a hindrance, a reminder that you should not be seen as boastful, or bragging, perhaps taking the notion of humility to the extreme. In the first of this four-part series, Te Ahi Kaa looks at a few whakataukī (proverbs) that are often heard today explored further with a series of interviews to find out other people’s interpretations of these and their place in Māori society.
Senior Curator Māori Puawai Cairns (Ngai te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāti Pukenga) has had a love/hate relationship with this whakataukī. In a previous workplace she put up signs that read ‘We are all about the sweetness’ in her office in an effort to encourage her team mates. Puawai describes the notion of practising this whakatauki as a delicate dance between remaining humble and having a space to talk about yourself.
Dr Wayne Ngata (Te Aitanga a Hauiti) says the whakataukī represents manaakitanga. Practising humility is about putting others before yourself.
"Ko te tino tikanga pea o tērā kōrero mo te manaaki tangata, he wa tonu me whakamana, he wa ano kia kaua e pena mo te manaaki tangata…So that whole saying around the kumara does not speak about its own sweetness is really about humility…that might take a number of forms. People may think that being still, quiet and insignificant is about being humble when in fact it might be the opposite."
Dr Nick Roskruge (Te Ati Awa, Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Pōrou) knows a thing of two about taewa (potatoes) and kumara. He is the chairman of Tahuri Whenua, The National Māori Vegetable Growers Collective, and is a senior lecturer of horticulture at Massey University in Palmerston North. The whakataukī is not to be taken in a literal sense, Dr Roskruge says. The kumara was the staple part of the diet, it was used for trading, and was able to secure the health of rangatira. It guaranteed survival.
“All of our movements and in all of our migrations there are some things that have been partner to our activities, the kumara is one of them…things like this whakataukī and waiata, it reinforced our understanding of that….It’s been a part of our whakapapa forever”
This week Dr Roskruge travelled to Thailand for his work and over the years he has published books about growing maara kai (vegetable gardens), interwoven with whakataukī that relate to the harvesting and the environment. In relation to this particular whakataukī he remembers the advice from his grandfather.
“Our koro said to be humble was to be strong. That’s sort of one of those old ideas we don’t really practise the same these days, so I think partly what this whakataukī recognises is sometimes you didn’t have to be in the front row and out there.”
Te Reo Wainene o Tua (The Sweet Story of Yester-year), is a collective of Māori language storytellers. During the school holidays the group hosted school children from Te Whanau a Apanui at Te Koputu Kōrero a Ta Hirini Moko Mead, the library space at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiārangi in Whakatane.
Professor Taiarahia Black (Tuhoe) works at Awanuiārangi and believes that storytelling is a relevant platform to explore whakatauāki. He describes himself as a millennial thinker and says that we should be building new proverbs.
“I like to think we address the question of recognition of what our people have achieved. My take on it now, in the millennial thinking area is, no, let's identify the contribution that the successive generations have contributed in whanau, hapu and iwi."
Dr Ella Henry is a Television and film personality and a Senior Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology. I ask her if she considers this whakataukī as something that holds Māori back from fully expressing themselves.
“It certainly is an impediment if that his part of your value system…for many of us working in corporations if we went to get promoted or if we want a job, we have to shout from the rooftop about how sweet we are, and that’s antithetical for many people who believe in his philosophical perspective. So many Māori are caught, we’re hung between these two value systems.”
In many ways, Tamati Waaka (Tuhoe, Ngāti Pukeko, Te Whanau a Apanui) has also been in the spotlight.
As a young college student he won consecutive titles in the Nga Manu Kōrero Speech competitions, he is a tutor of the kapahaka group Te Whanau a Apanui, a certified Te Reo Māori Translator, and a storyteller with Te Reo Wainene o Tua (The Sweet Story of Yester-year) collective.
He believes there is a time, place and purpose to adhere to these different whakataukī, and they are not for everyone.
“In the Whakatane area because we don’t like metaphors these days, we don’t know what it means, we just want to be straight forward. If you were to turn to a little kid and say, I don’t want you to be like a kumara and talk about how sweet you are they are gonna look at you sideways. Our grandparents actually they just cut to the chase, they say belittle yourself, always be humble, me whakaiti, so we hear that quite often, especially me because I’m the opposite of humble.”
Matiu Dickson (1952 - 2016) was Associate Dean at Te Piringa – Faculty of Law at the University of Waikato. A composer, Kapahaka Judge, cultural advisor and senior lecturer, for him the purpose of the whakataukī, kāore te kumara e kōrero ana mo tōna ake reka is about leaders recognising that others can step up to take their place on the marae.
“I believe that in Māori gatherings we all go as a group, if you are a rangatira of a group it’s not important that you should be the speaker, in fact it is more acceptable that somebody should speak on your behalf, that’s what that’s about, because you shouldn’t get up and be whakahihi, you should humble yourself.”
Topics: life and society, te ao Maori, education, food, identity
Regions: Bay of Plenty, East Coast
Tags: te reo Maori, kumara, whakatauki
Duration: 31'53"

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===6:40 PM. | Voices===
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===7:05 PM. | TED Radio Hour===
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A crafted hour of ideas worth sharing presented by Guy Raz (NPR)

===8:06 PM. | Sunday Night===
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8:13pm
Diana Dors
Part of a Sharon Crosbie interview from 1979.

9:20pm
Billy Kristian : from the Invaders to Night
One of New Zealands top bass guitarists on his musical career.
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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