RNZ National. 2016-08-27. 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:

27 August 2016

===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight (RNZ); 12:30 Laugh Track (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (BBC); 2:05 NZ Live; 3:05 Lady Jean by Noel Virtue read by Anne Budd (RNZ); 3:30 The Week (RNZ); 4:30 Global Business (BBCWS); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 Voices (RNZ)

===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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The Dragon Kings and the Porcupine, by David Somerset, told by Catherine Downes ; Tracey-Jane and Holly: At the Baths, by Barbara Anderson, told by Ginette McDonald ; Julie Rescues Big Mack, by Roger Hall, told by Emily Perkins; Jellybean, by Tessa Duder, told by Helen Jones ; Nanny Mihi and the Rainbow, by Melanie Drewery, told by Helen Pearse Otene ; Professor Pong and the Alphabetical Manufacturizers, by Peter Friend, told by Luanne Gordon

===7:10 AM. | Country Life===
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Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)

===8:10 AM. | Saturday Morning===
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A mixture of current affairs and feature interviews, until midday (RNZ)

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08:13
Cécile Maisonneuve and Marie-Anne Gobert: future cities
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Kim Hill talks to Cécile Maisonneuve, President of La Fabrique de la Cité, and a senior adviser and former head of the Centre for Energy at the French Institute for International Relations, and to Marie-Anne Gobert, Senior Advisor, Smart and Sustainable City, for the Greater Lyon Metropolis. They are panellists for the Cities of Tomorrow: A Better Life? seriesof events, chaired by Kim Hill and supported by the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Embassy of France.
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Kim Hill talks with Cécile Maisonneuve, President of La Fabrique de la Cité, and a senior adviser and former head of the Centre for Energy at the French Institute for International Relations, and Marie-Anne Gobert, Senior Advisor, Smart and Sustainable City, for the Greater Lyon Metropolis.
They were panellists in the Cities of Tomorrow: A Better Life? series at WORD Christchurch 2016, which was chaired by Kim Hill and supported by the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Embassy of France.

Topics: environment, history, housing, identity, inequality, law, life and society, politics, refugees and migrants, technology, transport
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: cities, Christchurch, burkini
Duration: 20'32"

08:42
Sheila Watt-Cloutier: Arctic and Inuit
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Sheila Watt-Cloutier is an environmental and human rights advocate who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for her work on how global climate change is affecting human rights, especially in the Arctic.
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Sheila Watt-Cloutier is a Canadian Inuit environmental and human rights activist who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for her work on how global climate change is affecting human rights, especially in the Arctic.
She was an influential force behind the adoption of the Stockholm Convention to ban persistent organic pollutants (POPs), which accumulate strongly in Arctic food chains.
POPs accumulate in the bodies of Inuit, many of whom continue to subsist on local food.
She tells her story in the 2015 book The Right To Be Cold which looks at the effects of climate change on Inuit communities.
She is in New Zealand for the 2050 panel, the WORD Christchurch and the Dunedin Writers and Readers Pop-Up Session.
Topics: author interview, climate, conflict, education, environment, food, health, history, identity, inequality, language, life and society, politics, sport, technology, transport, weather
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Arctic, Inuit, dogs, United Nations, human rights
Duration: 28'32"

09:08
Elizabeth Hay: Canada and nostalgia
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Kim Hill talks to Canadian writer Elizabeth Hay, a former radio broadcaster, and the author of many short story collections and novels, most recently, His Whole Life. She speaks at two WORD Christchurch sessions Canadian Tales: Elizabeth Hay and the panel discussion About a Boy, and at the Dunedin Writers and Readers Pop-Up Session.
Topics: arts, author interview, education, health, history, identity, language, life and society, spiritual practices
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Canada, radio, nostalgia, Christchurch, gardening, editing, family
Duration: 37'02"

09:45
Mohamed Hassan: slam poetics
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Kim Hill talks to Mohamed Hassan, an Auckland journalist for RNZ, and co-founder of Waxed Poetic Revival, a member of the South Auckland Poets Collective, and the 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion. This year he released his first poetry collection, A Felling of Things.
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Mohamed Hassan is a slam poet and journalist for RNZ.
He talks with Kim Hill about his "quite terrifying" move from Cairo to Auckland aged eight, overcoming his stutter and his love of spoken word poetry.
“The environment in a slam is very special because here is an audience that is automatically part of this process – they’re encouraged to click their fingers at things they like, they’re encouraged to holler, they’re encouraged to cheer in the middle of your poem. And at the end of it you feel like these people really want to hear your story - and that’s magical.”
Mohamed recently appeared at the WORD Christchurch Writers Festival.
Topics: arts, author interview, books, health, identity, language
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Egypt, poetry, Chicago, engineering, depression, journalism
Duration: 15'53"

10:07
Leigh Hopkinson: stripping and empathy
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Kim Hill talks to Leigh Hopkinson, a New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based writer and editor, whose first book is a memoir about her years working in striptease - Two Decades Naked.
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Melbourne-based writer and editor Leigh Hopkinson has written a memoir about her years working in striptease - Two Decades Naked.
Leigh was a guest at the WORD Christchurch 2016.
Topics: author interview, business, history, identity, inequality, law, life and society, spiritual practices
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: striptease, sex work, feminism, drugs, Melbourne, Christchurch, ayahusca, yoga
Duration: 26'05"

10:25
Sam Crofskey and Joseph Hullen: thriving in Christchurch
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Kim Hill talks to Sam Crofskey, the owner of C1 Espresso in the Christchurch CBD, which reopened in 2012 after the Canterbury earthquakes and will celebrate its twentieth anniversary this year. He spoke on the WORD Christchurch panel, How Are We Doing, Christchurch?, and this week launched Let's Take a Walk, a pop-up book for children about the quakes that he created with his wife Fleur and illustrator Hannah Beehre. He is joined by Joseph Hullen (Ngai Tuahuriri, Ngai Tahu), a hunter gatherer, fisherman, explorer, kaitiaki and storyteller who has spent a lifetime gathering traditional kai and listening to stories about his hapu. He is a whakapapa researcher for Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, and is leading three sold-out walking tours during WORD Christchurch along the banks of the Otakaro (Avon River), uncovering the city's history.
Topics: arts, author interview, books, business, climate, environment, history, identity, Pacific, politics, rural, spiritual practices, te ao Maori
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: coffee, C1, Samoa, Avon, Ngai Tahu, water, walking
Duration: 27'10"

11:07
Jay Clarkson: pluck and luckies
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Kim Hill talks to singer-songwriter Jay Clarkson, who has been performing since 1980 as a solo artist and in bands that include The Playthings, They Were Expendable, and Breathing Cage. Her latest album, SPUR, was released last year, and she will talk and perform at In Love with These Times: A Flying Nun Celebration during WORD Christchurch.
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Singer-songwriter Jay Clarkson has been performing since 1980 as a solo artist and in bands that include The Playthings, They Were Expendable, and Breathing Cage. Her latest album, SPUR (Zelle Records), was released last year, and she will talk and perform at In Love with These Times: A Flying Nun Celebration (27 August) during WORD Christchurch.
Topics: arts, history, life and society, music
Regions: Canterbury, Otago
Tags: Alzheimer’s
Duration: 14'51"

11:22
Duncan Grieve and Barnaby Bennett: publishing and journalism
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Kim Hill talks to Duncan Grieve, the founder and editor of The Spinoff, an Auckland-based online magazine and custom content creator. He appears at three WORD Christchurch events: The Spinoff After Dark, The Sunday Fringe - How to Start a Magazine, and Reimagining Journalism Later in the interview he is joined by Barnaby Bennett, co-founder of Freerange Press, and teacher of architectural theory and design at universities in Australia and New Zealand. He is co-editor of the essay collection Don't Dream It's Over: Reimagining Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, which will be launched at WORD Christchurch.
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Kim Hill talks with Duncan Grieve – the founder and editor of The Spinoff; and Barnaby Bennett – the co-founder of Freerange Press.
Duncan Grieve has been writing about music, sport, business and music for over ten years, and has won Canon Awards for both sport and arts writing. He appeared in three events at WORD Christchurch 2016.
Barnaby Bennett is co-founder of Freerange Press. He teaches architectural theory and design and has edited (with Emma Johnson, Giovanni Tiso and Sarah Illingworth) the essay collection Don’t Dream It’s Over: Reimagining Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, which was launched at WORD Christchurch 2016.
Topics: author interview, books, business, economy, education, history, housing, identity, inequality, internet, law, life and society, media, money, politics, sport, technology
Regions: Canterbury, Auckland Region
Tags: Joseph Hullen, journalism, Christchurch, The Spinoff, Simon Wilson, Russell Brown, Andrew Tidball, baby boomers, Hayden Donnell, burkini
Duration: 36'59"

11:55
Listener Feedback to Saturday 27 August 2016
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Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 27 August, 2016.
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Duration: 3'27"

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8:12 Cécile Maisonneuve and Marie-Anne Gobert
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Cécile Maisonneuve is President of La Fabrique de la Cité, and a senior adviser and former head of the Centre for Energy at the French Institute for International Relations. She works with various French and international think tanks, and is a member of Vox Femina, promoting women in media. Marie-Anne Gobert is the Senior Advisor, Smart and Sustainable City, for the Greater Lyon Metropolis, France’s second largest city. They are panellists for the Cities of Tomorrow: A Better Life? series of events, chaired by Kim Hill and supported by the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Embassy of France. The last panel discussion is on 27 August during the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival 2016.

8:35 Sheila Watt-Cloutier
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Sheila Watt-Cloutier is an environmental and human rights advocate who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for her work on how global climate change is affecting human rights, especially in the Arctic. She was an influential force behind the adoption of the Stockholm Convention to ban persistent organic pollutants, which accumulate strongly in Arctic food chains, and tells her story in the 2015 book The Right To Be Cold (Penguin). She and will speak at the 2050 panel (26 August) and The Right To Be Cold (28 August) during WORD Christchurch, and then at the Dunedin Writers and Readers Pop-Up Session (28 August).

9:05 Elizabeth Hay
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Canadian writer Elizabeth Hay is a former radio broadcaster, and the author of many short story collections and novels, including A Student of Weather, Late Nights on Air and, most recently, His Whole Life (Hachette, ISBN 9780857055460). She will speak at the WORD Christchurch session Canadian Tales: Elizabeth Hay (26 August), the panel discussion About a Boy (27 August), and at the Dunedin Writers and Readers Pop-Up Session (28 August).

9:45 Mohamed Hassan
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Mohamed Hassan is an Auckland journalist for RNZ, a co-founder of Waxed Poetic Revival, a member of the South Auckland Poets Collective, and the 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion. He has performed his work across New Zealand and overseas, and this year released his first poetry collection, A Felling of Things (Waxed Poetic Revival). He appears in Where Do You Get Your Ideas From? and Hear My Voice (both 27 August) at WORD Christchurch.

10:05 Leigh Hopkinson
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Leigh Hopkinson is a New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based writer and editor, whose work has appeared in publications on both sides of the Tasman. Her first book is a memoir about her years working in striptease, Two Decades Naked (Hachette), and she is a guest at WORD Christchurch for PechaKucha Night (25 August), and the Work/ Sex session (28 August).

10:25 Sam Crofskey
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Sam Crofskey is the owner of C1 Espresso in the Christchurch CBD, which reopened in 2012 after the Canterbury earthquakes and will celebrate its twentieth anniversary this year. He spoke on the WORD Christchurch panel, How Are We Doing, Christchurch?, and this week launched Let’s Take a Walk, a pop-up book for children about the quakes that he created with his wife Fleur, and illustrator Hannah Beehre.
[gallery:2419] Images from the pop-up book, Let's Take a Walk
10:40 Joseph Hullen
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Joseph Hullen (Ngāi Tūāhuriri, Ngāi Tahu) is a hunter gatherer, a fisherman, an explorer, a kaitiaki and storyteller who has spent a lifetime gathering traditional kai and listening to stories about his hapū. He is a whakapapa researcher for Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, and is leading three sold-out walking tours during WORD Christchurch along the banks of the Ōtākaro (Avon River), uncovering the city’s history.

11:05 Jay Clarkson
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Singer-songwriter Jay Clarkson has been performing since 1980 as a solo artist and in bands that include The Playthings, They Were Expendable, and Breathing Cage. Her latest album, SPUR (Zelle Records), was released last year, and she will talk and perform at In Love with These Times: A Flying Nun Celebration (27 August) during WORD Christchurch.

11:25 Duncan Grieve
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Duncan Grieve is the founder and editor of The Spinoff, an Auckland-based online magazine and custom content creator. He has been writing about music, sport, business and music for over ten years, and has won Canon Awards for both sport and arts writing. He appears at three WORD Christchurch events: The Spinoff After Dark (27 August), The Sunday Fringe – How to Start a Magazine (28 August), and Reimagining Journalism (28 August).

11:45 Barnaby Bennett
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Barnaby Bennett is co-founder of Freerange Press, publisher of a range of books including Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV (2012) and Once in a Lifetime: City Building After Disaster in Christchurch (2014). He teaches architectural theory and design at universities in Australia and New Zealand, and has edited (with Emma Johnson, Giovanni Tiso and Sarah Illingworth) the essay collection Don’t Dream It’s Over: Reimagining Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, which will be launched on 28 August at WORD Christchurch.

This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Christchurch operator: Andrew Collins
Wellington operator: Brad Warrington
Research by Infofind

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Artist: Jay Clarkson
Song: Luckies
Composer: Jay Clarkson
Live in the Christchurch studio of RNZ
Broadcast: 11:20

===12:11 PM. | This Way Up===
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Slices of life for curious minds. (RNZ)

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12:01
E-cigarettes: do the benefits outweigh the risks?
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New Zealand's about to change the law so people can legally buy e-cigarettes containing nicotine here. This Way Up reviews the current state of our knowledge about the safety of the vaping and the e-liquids being sold here.
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New Zealand is about to change its laws governing the sale and marketing of e-cigarettes - but how safe are the vaping products and e-liquids currently being sold? And what would a regulated vaping industry look like?
The Ministry of Health is collecting submissions on a plan to allow people to legally buy e-cigarettes containing nicotine, before recommending law changes to the government by the end of this year.
E-cigarette liquids containing nicotine are currently banned under the Medicines Act, although people can buy products containing nicotine online from overseas for personal use. In practice, current rules aren't being enforced so if you want to you can buy nicotine e-liquids over the counter just about anywhere in New Zealand.
According to vaping advocates and some public health experts, vaping technology offers a safe and effective way to help people stop smoking and could be a valuable measure to save some of the 6 million lives lost worldwide to tobacco smoking every year.
But questions remain over the safety of inhaling flavoured e-liquids over the long term. Meanwhile there are concerns about a potential 'gateway effect' – that vaping could be introducing children and non-smokers to nicotine.
Others question the efficacy of vaping as a smoking cessation tool, saying its effectiveness isn't supported by the robust evidence behind other therapies such as patches and nicotine-replacement gum.
“It is probably reasonable to say there is no scientific consensus on how the total potential benefits of e-cigarette availability compare to the total potential harms in the longer term” - Richard Edwards, et al (The NZ Medical Journal, Nov 2015).

Vaping 101
An electronic cigarette or e-cigarette is a handheld electronic device that was invented by a Chinese pharmacist back in 2003. It vapourises a flavoured liquid by drawing it over a heated coil and the user inhales this vapour. That's why using an e-cigarette is often called vaping.
Today vaping units look more like an MP3 player or a smartphone than a cigarette; they've morphed into personal vapourisers, modular, hi-tech, fully customisable products that can even connect to the internet.
No one is quite sure how many people are using e-cigarettes in New Zealand today. Estimates suggest that anywhere from 13 percent to 20 percent of the population have tried them, with a far smaller proportion using them regularly: the Ministry of Health estimates that about 30,000 adults are using them every month.
And it isn’t just ex-smokers who are vaping to help them kick tobacco. A new generation of consumers are embracing these sleek devices as a lifestyle choice, experimenting with flavoured e-liquids (and making their own), customising their vaping units, and doing smoke tricks that attract millions of views on YouTube.

Does vaping work to stop people smoking?
The BBC journalist Michael Mosley recently took up vaping for a month to explore the latest science around e-cigarettes for a BBC documentary called 'E-cigarettes: Miracle or Menace?'
He said it’s already clear that vaping is far safer than smoking tobacco, and that some evidence would already have appeared if their use was linked to serious health concerns.
“I started off feeling quite cynical about e-cigarettes and I ended up being quite convinced that with the right controls, particularly advertising controls, they do have the potential to deliver benefit” - Michael Mosley.

One of the leading studies looking at how effective e-cigarettes are as a way to help smokers kick the habit was conducted here in New Zealand by Professor Chris Bullen of the University of Auckland. Published in The Lancet in 2013, the researchers tracked 657 people and found that e-cigarettes, with or without nicotine, seemed to be just as effective as nicotine patches at helping smokers to quit.
Professor Bullen said that recent advances in the technology should mean that e-cigarettes would be an even more efficient nicotine delivery mechanism today.
“I think the weight of evidence now is that they certainly do help some people both in terms of quitting smoking but also in cutting down the numbers of cigarettes they smoke. The problem is we haven’t had a whole lot of time to do this research yet so the science of e-cigarettes is in its infancy although the number of publications that have been coming out about e-cigarettes seems to have gone exponential in the last 12 months to the point where it’s very, very hard to keep up” - Professor Chris Bullen.

The Ministry of Health's spokesman Professor Hayden McRobbie accepted that people are using e-cigarettes to help them stop smoking, but said there is not enough evidence they are effective. “We have only got two studies so far and that is certainly not enough for the Ministry of Health to make recommendations that people should go out there and use e-cigarettes, ” he said.
He said further research is needed before e-cigarettes can be accepted as an approved treatment to stop smoking. Although short-term use appeared to be safe, he said the results of long-term exposure to e-cigarette vapour remain unknown.
E-liquids: what’s in them and are they safe?
The e-cigarette market is unregulated in New Zealand. With no testing or product labelling regime in place, there is a lot that consumers don’t know and can’t tell about what's in some of the e-liquids they are buying, including where and how they're produced.
We bought a range of e-liquids and found that some revealed little or no information about what was in them and where they were made. And it’s not easy to do this research yourself. When we approached two local labs to see if we could get some e-liquids currently on sale in New Zealand tested, they both said they couldn't do the work.
It's not an ideal state of affairs - a fact acknowledged by the industry group the New Zealand Vaping Alliance, which is calling for stricter safety, labelling and testing rules so that e-liquids sold here have to comply with tougher British standards.
The basic ingredients of an e-liquid are propylene glycol, vegetable glycerine and flavourings, with or without nicotine added.
Although propylene glycol, for example, is widely used by the food industry we still don’t fully understand what gets produced when you heat these ingredients up and inhale them. And if you look online there seems to be no shortage of stories and studies claiming that personal vapourisers can release harmful chemicals.
These include known carcinogens like formaldehyde, respiratory irritants like acrolein, and also diacetyl - a compound linked to a potentially deadly lung condition called 'popcorn lung' that's affected some workers in microwave popcorn factories in the US. So some e-liquids are sold and marketed as being 'diacetyl free'.
But this is where things start getting murky because some of these studies have been criticised as they involve burning rather than vapourising the various chemical constituents, making them unreliable. There have even been claims that some of these unfavourable studies are backed by the tobacco industry to make vaping seem more risky than it really is.
Professor Ian Shaw is a toxicologist based at The University of Canterbury. He said that the big challenge is to measure what happens to ingredients when they are heated, because what you inhale could be quite different to the base ingredients in isolation.
Propylene glycol, for example, was an approved food additive widely used as a preservative and anti-drying agent to stop baked products becoming dry and stale. Ian Shaw said it's also used as ‘dry ice’ in theatres, so the health and safety effects of being exposed to it and even inhaling it are fairly well understood.
“Most of the studies are saying that the effects are far less than cigarette smoke so the studies are looking at e-cigarettes as a way of stopping smoking” - Professor Ian Shaw.

Future regulation
With the Ministry of Health reviewing current laws and deciding how it is going to regulate e-cigarettes, what could the market for e-cigarettes and vaping products look like in New Zealand in the future? Do we treat these products like medicines to be dispensed at a pharmacy, or make them available in a similar way to tobacco or alcohol?
The Ministry of Health said it doesn’t yet have a position on who should be responsible for the better testing and labelling requirements that many accept should be applied to e-liquids and vaping devices. For Nell Rice of Cosmic, one of the country’s biggest retailers of vaping products, responsibility for selling safe products should lie with retailers, overseen by the Ministry of Health.
Meanwhile any stricter testing and labelling requirements will come at a cost. If experience overseas is any guide, then these costs are likely to be passed onto consumers, making vaping products more expensive to buy. It might also reduce the range of products on offer and this could stifle innovation and the development of better, safer products in the future.
There’s is also the challenge of testing customisable vaping products which can operate at a range of temperatures. That’s one reason why UK regulations in this area speak of testing for emissions '..when consumed under normal or reasonably foreseen conditions".
According to Professor Richard Edwards of the University of Otago's Department of Public Health, higher compliance costs and regulatory hurdles also tend to favour the tobacco industry, increasing concerns about its involvement in the emerging (and rapidly growing) e-cigarette market as an alternative revenue source.
Professor Edwards has been reviewing how e-cigarettes could be controlled here in New Zealand based on what's happening overseas. He said it will be difficult to find the right approach and suspected we will follow overseas practice, meaning that only e-liquids and devices that have been approved for use in the United States or the European Union will be able to be sold here.
He could also foresee a situation where vaping products would be sold on a restricted basis at pharmacies and at specialist vape shops, with trained staff maximising the chances that the products are being used to help people quit smoking. But he recognised that this is a delicate balancing act.
“We shouldn’t have a situation where the regulations on e-cigarettes are much stronger than on cigarettes. That would seem to make no sense. Cigarettes are much more dangerous”- Professor Richard Edwards.

Final thoughts
With vaping technology relatively new and still developing, and the science underpinning it still in a state of flux, what messages can would-be vapers extract?
Although there is widespread acceptance that inhaling e-vapour is substantially safer than smoking cigarettes, no-one is prepared to say that vaping is entirely risk-free, with the long-term effect of vapourising and inhaling e-cigarette ingredients as yet unknown.
That situation isn't helped by the lack of a robust and coherent system of testing and labelling e-liquids here in New Zealand. Perhaps a law change will provide more certainty for consumers, and hopefully more solid research is on its way.
In the meantime, the best advice seems to be: only start vaping if you're doing so to help you quit smoking, and not as a lifestyle choice.
Also do your research online, and ask questions of the retailers you're buying from about their products - how they're made, what they contain and where they are produced. And if they can't, or won't, answer your questions then consider taking your business elsewhere.
Topics: health
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Tags: smoking, cigarettes, vaping, e-liquids, e-cigarettes, safety, toxicology, regulation, tobacco, tobacco industry
Duration: 48'34"

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===1:10 PM. | Music 101===
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The best songs, music-related stories, interviews, live music, industry news and music documentaries from NZ and the world

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Eva Prowse - Humid Nights
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Wellington songwriter Eva Prowse has made a move from violin infused country folk to midi driven synth pop with her latest album Humid Nights. Kirsten Johnstone gets the stories behind the songs.
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Wellington songwriter Eva Prowse has made a move from violin infused country folk to midi driven synth pop with her latest album Humid Nights. Kirsten Johnstone gets the stories behind the songs.
Humid Nights
"That one is about a night we had on the Long Island Iced Tea buckets in Cambodia. Crazy night. I drank far too much and had a fantastic fight with my boyfriend at the time. The night ended with me yelling 'get in that effing tuk-tuk' really loudly in the middle of the street. The next day was a bit rough."
20th Century
"That's about traveling through Russia. We had this beautiful sweet little tour guide, who took us around all the churches and told us stories about Tsars and Tsarinas, and I was kinda like 'yeah but I wanna hear about Stalin! I wanna know where the KGB building was!' but they skipped over that whole period - a.k.a. the 20th Century."
The Wannabe
"This is a big nod to The Spice Girls. They're my favourite band of all time. I wouldn't say they're the best band of all time, but definitely my favourite. I have four best friends, that I have since we were four. So 26 years. And we used to dress up as The Spice Girls - I was Baby Spice - and we've got hordes of photos, and we did all the dances. I think that has a lot to do with why I love The Spice Girls. And also I love pop music! If we're honest, the songs, you know, they're not the greatest. I went back to things like Madonna and Kate Bush and Cyndi Lauper."
No Man
"This is inspired by Game Of Thrones. It's about all the kick-arse female characters."
Click on the audio link above for more about how the album was made, and why the shift in style.
Humid Nights is out on Friday August 26th, and available here.
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Tags: Eva Prowse, Chris Prowse, Spice Girls, pop, midi, synths, violin
Duration: 11'29"

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Louis Baker Rainbow
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Louis Baker Rainbow
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"I’ve always been inspired by all the colours between black and white. Colour encapsulates love for me. The song is very vulnerable and authentic to who I am – and you only get that kind of emotion through real, lived-in experience.” - Louis Baker
Wellington song-smith Louis Baker has new songs up his sleeves - written and recorded with new friends and collaborators, and reflecting new experiences.
Louis is a soul singer/songwriter that started young. At 11 he picked up the guitar, and he was writing songs by 16. The following year he was a finalist in the Play It Strange secondary schools composition competition.
After being selected for the 2012 intake of the Red Bull Music Academy in New York City, Baker recorded an EP in 2014 with Andy Lovegrove - the producer behind Breaks Co-Op and Supergrass - which they recorded in a North London studio.
One of those songs 'Back On My Feet' was a finalist for the 2014 Silver Scroll - which recognises excellence in New Zealand songwriting.
Baker’s also performed at festivals across the world, including Field Days, Sziget Festival, Sonar Festival, The Great Escape, and Splendor in the Grass, building an appetite for bigger crowds as well as more intimate spaces.
"Music seems to take people different places ... to share what you've got and what your message is," he said.
His brand new song 'Rainbow' was written in New Zealand and recorded at Red Bull Studios in London with The Nextmen’s Brad Ellis, who brings his background in hip hop production to the song's soulful vibe.
Take your first look at the video here:
The video is a single shot, conceived by Baker himself and executed by director Ben Hawker and cinematographer Simon Godsiff.
'Rainbow' is carried by an emotional vocal performance, set to the elegantly austere backing of acoustic guitar, piano, keyboards and gentle percussion. Baker acknowledged the early influences of albums like Fat Freddy's Drop's Based on a True Story and Home Land and Sea by Trinity Roots, as he discusses with Nick Bollinger.
Produced by RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King
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Duration: 7'54"

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The Calais Sessions
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'The Calais Sessions' was recorded in the vast refugee camp in Calais, known by the inhabitants as The Jungle. The driving force behind the album is Vanessa Lucas-Smith who talks about the recording, the refugees and their incredible resilience in the face of such inhumane adversity.
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'The Calais Sessions' was recorded in the vast refugee camp in Calais, known by its inhabitants as The Jungle. The driving force behind the album is Vanessa Lucas-Smith who talks about the recording, the refugees and their incredible resilience in the face of inhumane adversity.
"We never expected an album to come out of it," says curator and classical cellist Vanessa Lucas-Smith. "I think the major thing was to present a different side to the people there.
"In September (2015) there was a lot of bad press - and you only see one side of them and actually the side we see are people like us, professional people who have been forced to flee because of the war and persecution."
She had gone to the French port city as a volunteer, and became curious as to whether or not there were musicians at the camp. "We thought that if there were musicians there, they'd miss playing. So that was the beginnings of it."
Vanessa and a group of volunteer musicians and aid workers set up a make-shift studio powered by generators and collected some instruments together for a weekend workshop. From that first session, they got three songs which appear on the album.
Vanessa reports that the conditions in the Calais camp are grim. There are about 9000 people there from nine different nations. There’s mud, make-shift tents, no electricity, massive rats, very few water sources. And the journeys people have made to get there have been soul-destroying.
"It's so difficult for people to tell their stories. They'll tell it to us in a tent or shelter, because they feel secure about it, but it's so emotional and harrowing and terrible to speak about it, they won't tell it on the news or a radio programme. But it's the stories that people need to hear."
The Calais Sessions is an exceptional and heartfelt album that reaffirms that music can be ‘bread for the soul’.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Vanessa Lucas-Smith, refugee crisis, Calais Refugee Camp, The Jungle, Citizens UK Charity Trust
Duration: 16'47"

17:15
Introducing: girlboss
BODY:
girlboss introduces her song 'Mrs. Doubtfire'.
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Name of project: girlboss
Real name: Lucy Botting
Age (of project): Two months (in my bedroom). But, two days (IRL)
Hometown: Christchurch
Associated acts: Wet Wings
Formative musical experience: My mum introducing me to her Brian Eno vinyls when I was a teenager.
Musical Guilty Pleasure: M people. No regrets.
Music Details
Artist: girlboss
Songs: Mrs Doubtfire
Comp: L.Botting
Album: Single
Label: Private
Topics: music
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Introducing, girlboss, Wet Wings, alternative, rock
Duration: 6'20"

13:45
Eastern Bloc - Double A
BODY:
Wellington electro-bass duo Eastern Bloc perform a forensic analysis of their new track Astro Boy. Yadana Saw visits the scene of the beats.
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Wellington electro-bass duo Eastern Bloc perform a forensic analysis of their new track Astro Boy. Yadana Saw visits the scene of the beats.
Music Details
Artist: Eastern Bloc
Song: Astro Boy
Composer: Eastern Bloc, Montell 2099
Album: Double A
Label: Private
Topics: music
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Eastern Bloc, Montell2099, bass music, DJ
Duration: 17'09"

16:10
The Mixtape - Lizzie Marvelly
BODY:
In this week's mixtape, Lizzie Marvelly shares the songs that have travelled around the globe with her. She speaks with Yadana Saw.
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Lizzie Marvelly shares the songs that have travelled around the globe with her. She speaks with Yadana Saw.
Music Details
Artist: Mariah Carey
Song: Fantasy
Comp: Belew, Carey, Frantz, Hall, Weymouth,Stanley
Album: Daydream
Label: Warner

Artist: Nat King Cole
Song: Nature Boy
Comp: Eden, Ahbez
Album: The Unforgetable
Label: Capitol

Artist: Scribe
Song: Dreaming
Comp: Luafutu, Wadams
Album: The Crusader
Label: Dirty Records

Artist: Dave Dobbyn
Song: Welcome Home
Comp: Dobbyn
Album: Available Light
Label: Sony

Artist: BANKS
Song: Waiting Game
Comp: J. Banks, C. Taylor
Album: Goddess
Label: Harvest

Artist: David Bowie
Song: Life on Mars?
Comp: Bowie
Album: Hunky Dory
Label:EMI

Artist:Joni Mitchell
Song:A Case Of You
Comp: Joni Mitchell
Album: Both Sides Now
Label: Reprise

Artist: Beyonce
Song: Run The World (Girls)
Comp: Nash, Knowlesm Pentz, Taylor, Palmer, Van de Wall
Album: 4
Label: Columbia
Topics: music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Lizzie Marvelly, The Mixtape, feminism, music industry
Duration: 54'59"

15:00
King Loser - '16 Comeback Special
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King Loser's mesmerising mix of snappy surf guitar, sloppy drones, reckless rock'n'roll and croony covers stood them apart from their local contemporaries in the early mid-'90s. Now King Loser are about to tread the boards again. How will their reunion play out?
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King Loser's mesmerising mix of snappy surf guitar, sloppy drones, reckless rock'n'roll and croony covers stood them apart from their local contemporaries in the early mid-'90s. The nucleus of the group – multi-instrumentalist Celia Patel (a.k.a. Mancini, aka Pavlova) and guitarist Chris Heazlewood – had five prolific years making music together, but volatile chemistry and self-destructive tendencies took their toll. Now King Loser are about to tread the boards again. How will their reunion play out?
“I’m on the edge of a precipice looking a long way down.” Guitarist Chris Heazlewood has good reasons for feeling apprehensive about the forthcoming two-week run of King Loser shows. He’s only just clawed his way back up the cliff, following a descent that began 25 years ago.

You may have seen him on the news last year, talking about the life-saving Hepatitis C drugs that he had imported from India for a fraction of the price they are available for in New Zealand. He spoke candidly about the band being paid in drugs, and the dirty needles that he contracted the disease from. He was in a pretty bad state, his liver was about to give up. Nine months later, he’s feeling much better. His head is clear, and he’s finally off the Methadone.

“I could happily stay at home, and have cups of tea and walk the dog. Spend my days reading, playing the guitar and synthesiser.” But he’s agreed to do the King Loser tour – with caveats in place. “I don’t want to be in a dramatic, hard-drinking, drug-taking place.” He’s looking forward to playing the music again.

According to Celia, King Loser never broke up. “This is no golden-oldies nostalgia grey-haired pot-belly thing,” she says. They have unfinished business. Unfulfilled promise.

Chris says of his relationship with Celia: “While it was the meeting of two epic forces, it was also a very destructive bringing together of two people who might have been better off not meeting at all.”

King Loser’s big bang happened in 1991 when Dunedin's Chris Heazlewood met Celia Patel – who later became Celia Pavlova and now goes by Celia Mancini.
Both had been in loads of bands already – Chris had grown up going to gigs by The Clean, The Dead C, Peter Jefferies and The Puddle. He had taught himself guitar and played in Sferic Experiment, had his own band Olla, and had released solo records.
Celia was in five bands in Christchurch including The Axel Grinders and Into the Void, and fronted a band called The After Dinner Mints. “She manipulated all these older men into dressing up in tuxedos and playing old Sandy Shaw, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, at racecourses, corporate conferences,” Chris says. “And she would be paid thousands of dollars.”

So when Glenn Campbell of Auckland band Solid Gold Hell was looking to put together a Cabaret band, he summoned both Chris and Celia, along with drummer Duane Zarakov, and quickly found himself booted out of his own band. The trio bonded over their love of instrumental surf music by the likes of Dick Dale and Link Wray. They started rehearsing straight away, above Bob Frisbee’s studios on Mayoral Drive. “We took an Akai stereo two-track up with us, and we would have a cheap cask of red wine, and we’d play for three or four hours,” says Chris. “He was a blistering motherf***ing guitarist,” recalls Celia. “Duane and I looked at each other and our mouths dropped open!”
A string of support shows quickly followed, with Straitjacket Fits, The Chills and The 3Ds. They built a reputation for primal, out of control, but impressive live gigs, including one notorious show at the Las Vegas strip club on K Road.
The band had a few different drummers along the way, depending on the city they were based in at the time. Celia and Chris had high standards for their bandmates: “I always needed a jazz drummer,” says Celia. “Someone who could play like Keith Moon on a jazz ship.”
“We might have been complete arseholes as well” says Chris. “They might have got sick of the drinking or the aggressive stage presence. Often I would yell at drummers 'Is that all you’ve got?!' in the middle of a tune.”
Chris had been a heavy drinker from his teen years in Dunedin. He says, “It wasn’t until I got to Auckland that I realised that standing in the hallway of a party with a 750ml bottle of vodka and drinking the whole thing was not normal.” Alongside Celia, his dependencies moved to drugs – whatever was available. “It didn’t do anything positive. Drugs – they’re not good to have with an artistic medium,” says Chris.
Their fraught three-album agreement with Flying Nun was on the proviso that the label got the band overseas. They were set to play shows in New York with Sonic Youth in 1996, but circumstances conspired against them. The band’s studio gear and merchandise were burgled, which sent Chris spinning into a mental breakdown and a stint living under a bridge. “It was all too much – the bottom dropped out of my life.”
And that was it. Celia tried to get another guitarist to make the US tour, but no one could replace Chris. Chris pulled the pieces of his life back together enough to continue playing and releasing records, but continued his daily opiates. Both would pop up now and then for gigs through the 2000s, and just as suddenly disappear again.
Last year though, a video appeared that had been filmed at the Audio Foundation in Auckland. It’s of King Loser performing The Grateful Dead’s ‘Morning Dew’, which appeared on their album You Cannot Kill What Does Not Live. Celia has two broken arms and she’s missing teeth, but it’s not stopping her swigging wine from the bottle and dancing. It’s unrehearsed and recorded on a phone, but it’s all still there. On-again off-again bandmate Sean O’Reilly was with Chris when Celia stormed the stage. “She brought her own drummer,” says Chris.
“I was in hospital and my friend Bobbylon, he’s a drummer, he was there too,” Celia says. “We heard [Chris and Sean] were playing, so we came down and saw them.” Celia had been knocked off her scooter by a car – for which there is a pending court case.
“I don’t know what would stop Celia,” says Chris.
Celia is clearly delighted that she’s got the old gang back together again. “I get to play with Sean, Chris and Tribal again. What a lucky girl! And they have to put up with me. Jesus, poor things.”

King Loser: Chris Heazlewood, Celia Mancini, Lance ‘Tribal Thunder’ Strickland and Sean O'Reilly play The Others Way this weekend, and have dates around the country until 22 September.

King Loser’s profile on Audioculture
Music Details
Artist: King Loser
Song: Neurons, Stairway To Heaven, Exit The King
Composer: Heazlewood
Album: Sonic Super Free Hi-Fi
Label: Flying Nun
Artist: King Loser
Song: Surf Lost
Composer: Celia Patel
Album: Sonic Super Free Hi-Fi
Label: Flying Nun
Artist: King Loser
Song: Flippin The Bird, '76 Comeback,
Composer: King Loser
Album: You Cannot Kill What Does Not Live
Label: Flying Nun
Artist: King Loser
Song: Misirlou
Composer: M Leeds/S Russel/N Roubans
Album: You Cannot Kill What Does Not Live
Label: Flying Nun
Artist: King Loser
Song: Cyclonic Vibration
Composer: King Loser
Album: Caul Of The Outlaw
Label: Flying Nun
Artist: King Loser
Song: Morning Dew
Composer: Dobson/Rose
Album: You Cannot Kill What Does Not Live
Label: Flying Nun
Topics: music, history
Regions:
Tags: King Loser, surf-rock, Flying Nun, Chris Heazlewood, reunion tour, The Others Way
Duration: 22'20"

19:30
Blond by Frank Ocean
BODY:
Nick Bollinger considers the long-awaited return of Frank Ocean.
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Nick Bollinger considers the long-awaited return of R&B auteur Frank Ocean.
After a four-year silence, this month saw a veritable tsunami of new work from Frank Ocean, with the release of Blond and - almost simultaneously - a personally curated 360-page coffee-table magazine, Boys Don’t Cry, and 45-minute video album with its own soundtrack.
I haven’t seen the mag and I’m not going to spend too much time discussing the video either: essentially a 45-minute metaphor for the creative process in which Ocean builds himself a spiral staircase, then climbs it. But I have been spending some time with what is clearly the main event: the 70-minute, 17-track follow-up to one of the most acclaimed R&B albums of the decade, 2012’s Channel Orange.
Channel Orange was rightly hailed as an important work: an R&B album informed by hip-hop, rather than the other way round, full of unusual yet imperishable melodies and unpredictable, innovative structures. Perhaps most importantly, it heralded a new kind of R&B artist, whose work is revealingly personal, often conflicted, and whose chief subject is self-analysis.
There’s plenty of all that on Blond too, though it is not simply Channel Orange Volume 2. If anything, Ocean’s melodies have grown more seductive, his structures more eccentric.
Though it opens with ‘Nikes’, with its extreme yet weirdly appealing treatment of Ocean’s voice and a compellingly lopsided beat, the bulk of the album has no beats at all. It’s mostly Ocean, accompanying himself either on keyboard or guitar, at times completely solo. It’s a reinvention, in a way, of the 70s soft-rock singer-songwriter, only with the benefit of endless sonic manipulations, which can intensify the sense of solitary contemplation.
So what does Frank Ocean contemplate in his solitude? There may not have been a hip-hop album in the past twelve months that hasn’t referred in some way to the Trayvon Martin killing, or the Black Lives Matter campaign in general, and Ocean checks this box right at the beginning, noting in ‘Nikes’ how he looks at an image of Trayvon and sees himself. But the way he personalises even this subject underlines the way that, for Ocean, the personal is paramount. And for most of the album he’s thinking – if not agonising – about his own relationships, apparently with both women and men, continually shifting between past and present as he recalls old loves, serenades current ones, and considers the temptations and pitfalls of promiscuity.
In ‘Siegfried’ he even allows himself to imagine for a moment settling down with ‘two kids and a swimming pool’, yet in the same verse berates himself for his lack of bravery. He may be self-absorbed, but he’s nothing if not self-critical.
The way Ocean slides in and out of his memories is matched to appropriately woozy musical atmospheres. Among Blond's contributors is Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, whose presence can be most felt in the abstract ambience of tracks like ‘Siegfried’, which aren’t a million miles from the Radiohead of A Moon Shaped Pool. Though the arrangements tend to be sparse – almost the opposite of Kanye West’s maximalism – there are moments of genuine sonic experimentation.
There are also elements of spoken collage: a mother (Frank’s own, perhaps?) warning a son about the dangers of drug use; the sad if somewhat first-world problems of a French DJ whose girlfriend drops him over a Facebook misunderstanding.
But Blond would hardly be a contemporary hip-hop album if it didn’t have a few celebrity cameos, and some big names are notably present. There’s Kendrick Lamar and, briefly, Beyonce, who adds some wordless wailing to one cut. But these appearances feel essentially symbolic, as if simply to confirm that Ocean belongs in this esteemed company. Surely the most spectacular guest appearance is the one by OutKast’s Andre 3000. It’s brief, breathlessly impressive.
Andre’s rap stands out partly because it’s an over-the-top moment in an album that favours understatement. And, in spite of such potential scene-stealing, the focus of the album is firmly on the voice – or voices – of Ocean. Though in many ways he follows the singer-songwriter tradition, hip-hop is in his DNA. And while he’s proven he’s more than capable of writing lovely melodies, it’s in his nature to appropriate someone else’s tune when it suits, importing the lyrics along with it.
I don’t think it’s even a sample of The Beatles’ ‘Here There and Everywhere’ that Ocean slips into ‘White Ferrari’; rather, he just ‘becomes’ McCartney for those brief lines, and he does the same thing with the lesser-known – yet notably Beatle-esque – Elliott Smith on ‘Seigfried’.
It’s significant that when Frank Ocean borrows it’s not from old funk or R&B but from wonderful melodists like McCartney and Elliott Smith. You can hear that, in some ways, these are his role models. Yet what Ocean does on Blond is at least as far from The Beatles or Elliott Smith as it is from mainstream R&B or hip-hop. And that’s perhaps the chief reason this album has been so highly anticipated: because Frank Ocean is currently one of the few artists around who can be relied on to make a record that you know really isn’t going to sound like anyone else.
Song featured: Nikes, Solo, Solo Reprise, Ivy, Siegfried, Nights, White Ferrari, Pink and White.
Blond was released on Boys Don't Cry and is currently available exclusively on iTunes.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: music, music review, Frank Ocean
Duration: 12'27"

=SHOW NOTES=

=PLAYLIST=

Artist: The Mohawks
Song: The Champ
Comp: The Mohawks
Album: Single
Label: Pama Records
The Sampler: Frank Ocean
Artist: Frank Ocean
Song: Nikes
Comp: Ocean/Palmer/Palmer/Palmer
Album: Blond
Label: Universal

Artist: Frank Ocean
Song: Solo
Comp: Ocean/Rundgren
Album: Blond
Label: Universal

Artist: Frank Ocean
Song: Solo Reprise
Comp: Benjamin/Dean
Album: Blond
Label: Universal

Artist: Frank Ocean
Song: Ivy
Comp: Ocean
Album: Blond
Label: Universal

Artist: Frank Ocean
Song: Siegfried
Comp: Ocean/Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starr/Ludwig/Smith
Album: Blond
Label: Universal

Artist: Frank Ocean
Song: Nights
Comp: Ocean/Uzowuru
Album: Blond
Label: Universal

Artist: Frank Ocean
Song: White Ferrari
Comp: Ocean/Lennon/McCartney/James/Litherland
Album: Blond
Label: Universal

Artist: Frank Ocean
Song: Pink and White
Comp: Ocean/Williams/Tyler/Okonma
Album: Blond
Label: Universal
Artist: Thundercat
Song: Bus in These Streets
Comp: S.Bruner
Album: Single
Label: Brainfeeder
Artist: TLC
Song: Creep
Comp: D.Austin
Album: CrazySexyCool
Label: LaFace, Arista
Artist: Eastern Bloc
Song: Astro Boy
Composer: Eastern Bloc, Montell 2099
Album: Double A
Label: Private
Eastern Bloc - Double A
Artist: Eastern Bloc
Song: Astro Boy
Composer: Eastern Bloc, Montell 2099
Album: Double A
Label: Private
The Calais Sessions
Artist: Danny Rowe
Song: Sounds of the Jungle
Composer: Danny Rowe
Album: The Calais Sessions
Label: 2016 Sessions of the World

Artist: Bogdan Vacarescu
Song: Deskovo Oro
Composer: Bogdan Vacarescu
Album: The Calais Sessions
Label: 2016 Sessions of the World

Artist: Mohammed Ismail
Song: Ismail
Composer: Mohammed Ismail
Album: The Calais Sessions
Label: 2016 Sessions of the World

Artist: Andy Kyte,
Song: Khandahar
Composer: Andy Kyte
Album: The Calais Sessions
Label: 2016 Sessions of the World

Artist: The Evangelist Church Singers
Song: Halleluyah
Composer: n/a
Album: The Calais Sessions
Label: 2016 Sessions of the World

Artist: Moheddin Aljabi
Song: The Lost Singer
Composer: Moheddin Aljabi
Album: The Calais Sessions
Label: 2016 Sessions of the World

Artist: Carolina Ferrer
Song: La Llorona
Composer: Carolina Ferrer
Album: The Calais Sessions
Label: 2016 Sessions of the World

Artist: Kasper King
Song: University Story
Composer: Kasper King
Album: The Calais Sessions
Label: 2016 Sessions of the World

Artist: Laurens Price-Nowak
Song: Nothing
Composer: Laurens Price-Nowak
Album: The Calais Sessions
Label: 2016 Sessions of the World
Artist: Alsarah and the Nubatones
Song: Ya Watan
Comp: Alsarah and the Nubatones
Album: Manara
Label: WONDERWHEEL Recordings
Eva Prowse
Artist: Eva Prowse
Songs: Humid Nights, 20th Century, The Wannabe, No Man, Running From Youth, Modern Girls
Composer: Prowse
Album: Humid Nights
Label: Aeroplane Music
Artist: MNDSGN
Song: Cosmic Perspective
Comp: R.Ancheta
Album: Body Wash
Label: Stones Throw
Louis Baker: Rainbow
Artist: Louis Baker
Songs: Rainbow
Composer: L.Baker
Album: Single
Label: Aston Road
Artist: Glass Animals
Song: Season 2 Episode 3
Composer: Glass Animals
Album: How to Be a Human Being
Label: Wolf Tone
Artist: Dexter Story
Song: Wejene Aloa ft. Kamasi Washington
Composer: T. Gessesse
Album: Wejene Aloa single
Label: Soundways
King Loser
Artist: Outkast
Songs: Wheels of Steel
Composer: A.Benjamin, A.Patton
Album: ATLiens
Label: LaFace
Artist: girlboss
Songs: Mrs Doubtfire
Composer: L.Botting
Album: Single
Label: Private
Artist: Flyying Colours
Song: Mindfullness
Composer: Flyying Colours
Album: Mindfullness
Label: Club AC30
Artist: Angel Olsen
Songs: Give It Up, Shut Up Kiss Me, Never Be Mine, Sister, Pops, Woman, Intern
Composer: A. Olson
Album: My Woman
Label: Jagjaguwar
Artist: Mary Latimore
Songs: Bold Rides
Composer: M. Latimore
Album: Bold Rides single
Label: Mary Latimore
The Mixtape: Lizzie Marvelly
Artist: Mariah Carey
Song: Fantasy
Comp: Belew, Carey, Frantz, Hall, Weymouth,Stanley
Album: Daydream
Label: Warner

Artist: Nat King Cole
Song: Nature Boy
Comp: Eden, Ahbez
Album: The Unforgetable
Label: Capitol

Artist: Scribe
Song: Dreaming
Comp: Luafutu, Wadams
Album: The Crusader
Label: Dirty Records

Artist: Dave Dobbyn
Song: Welcome Home
Comp: Dobbyn
Album: Available Light
Label: Sony

Artist: BANKS
Song: Waiting Game
Comp: J. Banks, C. Taylor
Album: Goddess
Label: Harvest

Artist: David Bowie
Song: Life on Mars?
Comp: Bowie
Album: Hunky Dory
Label:EMI

Artist:Joni Mitchell
Song:A Case Of You
Comp: Joni Mitchell
Album: Both Sides Now
Label: Reprise

Artist: Beyonce
Song: Run The World (Girls)
Comp: Nash, Knowlesm Pentz, Taylor, Palmer, Van de Wall
Album: 4
Label: Columbia

===5:11 PM. | Focus on Politics===
=DESCRIPTION=

Analysis of political issues presented by RNZ's Parliamentary team (RNZ)

===5:30 PM. | Tagata o te Moana===
=AUDIO=

People on Fiji's devastated Koro Island are foraging for wild food, milling their own timber and sewing fishing nets out of vines to survive six months after Cyclone Winston; There's a tone of reconciliation in Papua New Guinea as the academic year resumes after disruptions at the country's three main universities; New Zealand and Australia have been urged to come up with a joint plan to deal with asylum seekers without putting them through detention at a protest in Wellington; Incentives for Pacific doctors and strategies for tackling health issues have been workshopped in New Zealand this week; The Papua New Guinea government's 2016 PNG Mid-year Economic and Fiscal Outlook shows a collapse in revenue for a second consecutive year; A businessman in the Cook Islands is planning a small hydro electricity operation to satisfy some of Rarotonga's night time power needs; An American is trying to help troubled youths in Tonga with getting them into skateboarding; DNA experts are to investigate a collection of 18th century pigtails believed to be from the Bounty mutineers who settled Pitcairn Island in the late 1700s.
=DESCRIPTION=

Pacific news, features, interviews and music for all New Zealanders, giving an insight into the diverse cultures of the Pacific people (RNZI)

===6:06 PM. | Great Encounters===
=DESCRIPTION=

In-depth interviews selected from RNZ National's feature programmes during the week (RNZ)

===7:06 PM. | Saturday Night===
=DESCRIPTION=

Saturday nights on RNZ National is where Phil O'Brien plays the songs YOU want to hear. All music from 7 till midnight (RNZ)

=AUDIO=

=SHOW NOTES=

7 - 8pm

Mark Germino - Rex Bob Lowenstein
Sandie Shaw - Monsieur Dupont
Manhattan Transfer - Operator
Joseph Locke - Goodbye
Count Basie - The James Bond Theme
Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day
Linda Ronstadt -When Will I Be Loved
John Hore-Grenell - Down On The Farm
Louis Armstrong - It's A Wonderful World
Dragon - April Sun In Cuba
Glen Campbell - Try A Little Kindness
Etta James - Tell Mama
Boz Scaggs - Your Good Thing Is About To End

8 - 9pm

Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now
Brighouse And Rastrick Band - Floral Dance
Hopetoun Brown - Knitted Into My Bones
Glen Campbell - These Days
The Persuasions - Man Oh Man
Greg Johnson - Isabelle
Quincy Conserve - Ride The Rain
Icehouse - Great Southern Land
Laura Nyro - Sweet Blindness
Mel Torme - Blue Moon

9 - 10pm

Dr. John - Such A Night
Annie Lennox - Love Song For A Vampire
Prince - Dreaming About You
Mel Parsons - Alberta Sun
Warren Zevon - Desperadoes Under The Eaves
Michael Jackson - A Place With No Name
Hollis Brown - Oh Sweet Nuthin'
Rico Rodriguez - Work Song
Texas - Wrapped In Clothes Of Blue
The Red Devils - I Wish You Would

10 - 11pm

Willie DIxon - I Can't Quit You Baby'
Jefferson Starship - Miracles
Max Jury - Down By The Seaside
Eric Carmen - Sunrise
The Angels - We've Got To Get Out Of This Place
Joe Williams - S'wonderful
John Grant and Tracey Thorn - Disappointng
Lonnie Mack - Where There's A Will There's A Way
Squeeze - Tempted

11pm - Midnight: Late Night Phil

Jonathan Edwards - Morning Train
Count Basie - From Russia With Love
Jackie DeShannon - Bette Davis Eyes
Dale Hawkins - Suzie Q
Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You
Jean-Michel Jarre - Eldorado
Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives
Garbage - Stupid Girl
Walter Carlos - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major - First Movement
Heart - Magic Man
Emerson Lake and Palmer - Lucky Man