A recording of Radio New Zealand National from 5am to midnight. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
08 February 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 History Repeated (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 2:05 Spiritual Outlook (RNZ); 2:30 Hymns on Sunday; 3:05 Phoebe's Mother, by Judith White (RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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Old Man and the Cat, by Anthony Holcroft, told by Ray Henwood; The Very Short Forest, by Denise Potbury, told by Jarrod Rawiri; Mid River Rescue, by Fleur Beale, told by Mark Hadlow; Shark Goggles and Dog Pooh Jam, by Emma Neale, told by Beulah Koale; Song of the Digger, by Barbara Hill, told by Alison Wall; Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Robert Browning, told by Dick Weir (RNZ)
===7:08 AM. | Sunday Morning===
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A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, in-depth documentaries, sport from the outfield, politics from the insiders, plus Mediawatch, music, Counterpoint and The Week in Parliament
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07:09
Leave fossil fuels in ground to limit global warming says study
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Given the ongoing warming trend of planet earth, would it be better just to 'leave the coal in the hole'? Christophe McGlade has co-authored a study, published in the journal Nature, which says which fossil fuels and where, cannot be exploited if we want to keep the global temperature rise under the 2 degrees safety limit agreed by the world's nations.
Topics: environment, Pacific, politics, business
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Tags: oil, gas, energy
Duration: 11'16"
07:20
Investors urged to take money out of fossil fuel companies
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Aaron Packard is the Oceania Regional Coordinator of 350.org, a grassroots global climate movement organising Global Divestment Days.
Topics: environment, Pacific, politics, business
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Tags: oil, gas, energy
Duration: 11'22"
07:30
Fossil fuel sector responds to call to cut exploration & divest
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Chris Baker is CEO of Straterra, an incorporated society which advocates for the New Zealand minerals and mining sector.
Topics: environment, Pacific, politics, business
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Tags: oil, gas, energy
Duration: 12'36"
07:45
Energy Minister says NZ plays big role in climate change talks
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Simon Bridges is the Minister of Energy and Resources and Associate Minister for Climate Change Issues.
Topics: environment, Pacific, politics, business
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Tags: oil, gas, energy
Duration: 12'04"
08:12
Insight for 8 February 2015 - Japan Earthquake Recovery
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As the fourth anniversary of the earthquake which devastated Christchurch approaches, the slow pace of the rebuild has surprised many. But how quickly have other earthquake hit cities returned to their former glory? Radio New Zealand Christchurch reporter, Rachel Graham, visited Japan for an Insight documentary to compare the progress made in the Sendai area, almost four years after it was hit by a magnitude 9 earthquake and a mega tsunami. She also visited Kobe to look at the impact on that city, and the lessons learnt, 20 years after it was hit by a major earthquake.
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Almost four years on from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Onagawa, a small coastal town in the Tohuku region, is only just starting the slow process of recovery.
When Insight visited the town in mid-January, it was a cold but fine and still winter's day.
Listen to Insight: Japan Earthquake Recovery
Onagawa was a town of about 10,000 people, nestled into a bay with a bustling downtown, full of office buildings, shops and restaurants.
After the tsunami struck, 827 people were dead and three quarters of the town's commercial and residential buildings were destroyed.
Onagawa Mayor Yoshiaki Suda took us to see how the rebuild is progressing.
Standing on a hill overlooking what was once central Onagawa, the most obvious signs of progress were the new groundworks underway and a collection of large machinery.
"We can not be 100 percent happy, or satisfied, (with progress)," Mr Suda said, "but when I see that the road is completed, that makes me very happy. Still, right now what I have in mind is to complete this area by March, and then start the rebuilding of the commercial area."
In Christchurch, reconstruction in the central city has been very slow, with the main rebuilding going on on the fringes, or in the Government's anchor projects.
In Onagawa, the local council has had financial support from the central government, but it is also facing trying to pay for a reconstruction when its population has fallen to around 7000 people.
The town is constructing new residential land at a higher level, and hopes to make it available soon for purchase by those who want to rebuild.
In Christchurch 80,000 homes have been either repaired or rebuilt under Earthquake Commission or private insurance cover, but that leaves over 10,000 homeowners still waiting for repairs to be finished or to even start.
In Japan, earthquake insurance is still quite uncommon, with only about a quarter of households having the cover, so people largely have to finance any reconstruction or repair themselves.
In Onagawa the local government bought the land from people whose homes were destroyed, and people who want to rebuild in the town can get two million yen (approx $NZ20,000) from the national government and five million yen ($NZ58,000) from the local government, as a contribution towards reconstruction.
With 75 percent of all housing destroyed in Onagawa, there is still a huge need for temporary homes.
Currently there are nine temporary housing complexes in Onagawa, providing a home to about 1000 households, including the mayor's.
Some people have been living in the homes for three years now and the mayor expects they may be needed for another three.
Remembering Kobe
Kobe is another city which has learned the damaging impact of an earthquake the hard way.
In 1995 on 17 January, 6434 people died and 65,000 buildings were destroyed when Kobe was hit by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake, known as the Great Hanshin earthquake, which then sparked hugely destructive fires which raged across the city.
The night before the 20th anniversary of the Great Hanshin earthquake, families of those who died gathered in Higashi-Yuenchi Park to listen to music, pray and to discuss what could be done to ensure people are prepared for any future disasters.
Ojima Migiwa, who was three years old when her father was killed in the earthquake, was part of the gathering.
She feels strongly that Kobe should lead the way in ensuring Japan learns the lessons from past disasters.
"If you look at the streets or the townscape it is almost fully recovered, but it's not something we can forget about. This kind of event should be initiated by Kobe city, and not only at this time but also around 11 March (the time of the tsunami in Tohoku)," Ms Migiwa said.
The next morning, before dawn, thousands gathered in the park in preparation for the anniversary of the moment at 5.46am in 1995 which changed their city.
As the crowd grew, a flame was taken from a memorial torch, which is always kept alight, and then people passed the flame hand to hand, lighting candles and lanterns in memory of those who died.
At the moment the earthquake struck, a bell tolled followed by a moment's silence.
Lessons ahead
In Kobe, at the peak of the disaster over 200,000 people were staying in emergency shelters, and block after block of housing had been destroyed.
In Christchurch, 7857 homes were red-zoned, and the owners have had to start again in different areas, with a Government payout for their property.
In Kobe, the Government also brought in land readjustment to pay for the rebuild of homes and infrastructure, which meant that where there was once, for example, a dozen two-storey homes, there is now a tall apartment block on a smaller area of land.
Kobe's Nagata ward was one of the worst affected areas in the 1995 earthquake.
At the time of the earthquake, the Takatori Catholic Church in Nagata helped coordinate volunteers and set up a community radio station to get information out to local people.
Junichi Hibino, who still runs the radio station, says the earthquake continues to have an impact on the local community.
He says at first glance the city seems to have fully recovered but he wonders whether the land readjustments really reflect the residents' wishes.
"I believe it was necessary for a very fast recovery, but clearly the focus was on infrastructure. So the recovery we have now may not actually be the one the residents wanted it to be."
Topics: Canterbury earthquakes
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Rachel Graham
Duration: 27'29"
08:40
Trevor Grant - Cricket and Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka will play New Zealand in the opening game of the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Trevor Grant fears the Sri Lankan government uses the team to launder its image and he will be in New Zealand speaking at public meetings in Auckland, Wellington and Lower Hutt. Trevor is a veteran journalist and the former chief cricket writer at The Age in Melbourne. These days he works as a broadcaster, advocate and writer on refugee issues in Australia and as a convenor with the Tamil Refugee Council. He is the author of Sri Lanka's Secrets: How The Rajapaksa Regime Gets Away With Murder, published by Monash University Publishing.
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Sri Lanka will play New Zealand in the opening game of the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Veteran journalist and former cricket writer Trevor Grant fears the Sri Lankan government uses the team to launder its image.
Trevor Grant is a veteran journalist and the former chief cricket writer at The Age in Melbourne. These days he works as a broadcaster, advocate and writer on refugee issues in Australia and as a convenor with the Tamil Refugee Council. He is the author of Sri Lanka's Secrets: How The Rajapaksa Regime Gets Away With Murder, published by Monash University Publishing.
Trevor Grant will be in New Zealand speaking at public meetings in Auckland, Wellington and Lower Hutt.
Topics: politics, sport
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Tags: cricket, Sri Lanka, human rights
Duration: 14'38"
09:09
Mediawatch for 8 February 2015
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Screening the Rugby World Cup; Lydia Ko a no-go on screen - but number one in the news; clarification on Whanganui toddler coverage; the spread of the Christchurch 'sex romp' story; drama from Denmark is a hit here, but is our system serving us well?
Topics: media
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Duration: 30'54"
09:40
Dame Claudia Orange - The Treaty
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28 years since the release of the first comprehensive study of the Treaty in her book The Treaty of Waitangi, historian and Te Papa's Head of Research Dame Claudia Orange speaks to Wallace Chapman from Paihia, near the Treaty ground, and reflects on progress made, the crossroads at which the nation has found itself, and prospects for a post-settlement future.
Topics: te ao Maori, politics
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Tags: Treaty of Waitangi, Claudia Orange
Duration: 14'43"
10:08
Judge Carolyn Henwood - Rating the Family Group Conference
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A world leading practice, the family group conference puts victims and offenders round the same table. New Zealand's Gift to the World: The Youth Justice Family Group Conference is co-authored by Judge Carolyn Henwood. She talks to Wallace Chapman about the family group conference's success rate - what's working and what's not?
Topics: crime, author interview
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Tags: family group conference, youth crime, Judge Carolyn Henwood, justice
Duration: 29'14"
10:38
Sir Harold Marshall - Acoustical science
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Sir Harold Marshall is an award-winning and ground breaking acoustic architect who loves Bach. Knighted for services to acoustical science, the stunning new ultra-modern concert hall the Philharmonie de Paris is the latest in a long line of prestigious projects he's been involved with. Sir Harold explains why it is in fact the "great grandchild" of Christchurch's Town Hall.
Topics: arts, music
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Tags: Bach, Philharmonie de Paris, Christchurch town hall, Marshall Day Acoustics, architecture
Duration: 22'22"
11:08
Sniping - History, Legality and Entertainment Value
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American Sniper is breaking box office records in the United States and around the world. And it has divided the public and critics alike between those who see the biopic's central character Chris Kyle - the most lethal sniper in US history - as a hero and those who argue he was a brutal killer. Sunday producer Jeremy Rose speaks to historian, professor Glyn Harper about attitudes to snipers during the First World War; and Wallace Chapman interviews Tim Wood, a former military lawyer with the Royal Air Force and now a senior lecturer at Massey University's Centre for Defence and Security Studies; and former New Zealand soldier and budding filmmaker Jason Cayless - whose first short film was about a sniper fighting terrorists.
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Former New Zealand soldier and budding filmmaker Jason Cayless.
American Sniper is breaking box office records in the United States and around the world. And it has divided the public and critics alike between those who see the biopic's central character Chris Kyle – the most lethal sniper in US history – as a hero and those who argue he was a brutal killer.
Sunday producer Jeremy Rose speaks to historian, professor Glyn Harper about attitudes to snipers during the First World War; and Wallace Chapman interviews Tim Wood, a former military lawyer with the Royal Air Force and now a senior lecturer at Massey University's Centre for Defence and Security Studies; and former New Zealand soldier and budding filmmaker Jason Cayless – whose first short film was about a sniper fighting terrorists.
Topics: defence force
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Tags: RAF, American Sniper, snipers, military, Iraq, ethics
Duration: 42'16"
11:50
Libby Hakaraia - Maori Film in Berlin
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Libby Hakaraia is a journalist, filmmaker and the director of the Maoriland Film Festival. She's currently in Berlin at the European Film Market showcasing a collection of Maori short films.
Topics: te ao Maori, arts
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Tags: Maoriland Film festival, Berlin, film
Duration: 8'29"
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7:08 Current affairs – Call to Keep the Coal in the Hole
Christophe McGlade from University College London talks to Wallace about his study, recently published in the journal Nature, which says much of the world’s fossil fuels must be left in the ground in order to keep the global temperature rise under the 2-degree safety limit agreed by the world's nations. Aaron Packard, Oceania region co-ordinator for 350.org will talk about the grassroots global climate movement’s Global Divestment Days Feb 13 and 14, encouraging investors to pull out of fossil fuel companies.
Left: Aaron Packard. Right: 350.org Tokelau team
Then Wallace speaks to Chris Baker, the chief executive of Straterra, an organisation that represents the NZ minerals and mining sector, about how the industry is meeting these challenges. Finally, Simon Bridges, Minister of Energy and Resources and Associate Minister for Climate Change Issues talks about New Zealand’s response to the competing demands to both extract fossil fuels – and tackle global warming.
8:12 Insight Japan’s Earthquake Recovery
As the fourth anniversary of the earthquake which devastated Christchurch approaches, the slow pace of the rebuild has surprised many. Radio New Zealand reporter, Rachel Graham, has visited Japan to compare how much progress has been made in the Sendai area, almost four years after it was hit by a magnitude 9 earthquake and a mega tsunami. She also visits Kobe to look the impact on that city, and the lessons learnt, in the 20 years since it was hit by a major earthquake. Produced by Philippa Tolley.
Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the devastating Kobe earthquake in Japan. Photo: Rachel Graham
8:40 Trevor Grant – Cricket and Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka plays New Zealand in the opening game of the 2015 Cricket World Cup next Saturday. Trevor Grant fears the Sri Lankan government uses the team to launder its image and he is in New Zealand next week speaking at public meetings in Auckland, Wellington and Lower Hutt. Trevor is a veteran journalist and the former chief cricket writer at The Age in Melbourne. These days he works as a broadcaster, advocate and writer on refugee issues in Australia and as a convenor with the Tamil Refugee Council. He is the author of Sri Lanka's Secrets: How The Rajapaksa Regime Gets Away With Murder, published by Monash University Publishing.
9:06 Mediawatch
Mediawatch looks at how Lydia Ko’s rise to number one in golf topped the news bulletins – but you won’t see her play golf on TV, and why there seems to be no scrap over screening the Rugby World Cup this year. Also: Danish drama’s a hit on TV here, but a former funding chief says our system’s not serving us so well.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Dame Claudia Orange – The Treaty
28 years since the release of the first comprehensive study of the Treaty in her book The Treaty of Waitangi, historian and Te Papa's Head of Research Dame Claudia Orange speaks to Wallace from Paihia, near the Treaty ground, and reflects on progress made, the crossroads at which the nation has found itself, and prospects for a post-settlement future.
10:06 Judge Carolyn Henwood – Rating the Family Group Conference
A world leading practice, the family group conference puts victims and offenders round the same table. The book, NZ's Gift to the World - the Youth Justice Family Group Conference is co-authored by Judge Carolyn Henwood. She talks to Wallace about the family group conference’s success rate – what’s working and what’s not?
10:40 Sir Harold Marshall – Acoustical Science
Sir Harold Marshall is an award-winning and ground breaking acoustic architect who loves Bach. Knighted for services to acoustical science, the stunning new ultra-modern concert hall the Philharmonie de Paris is the latest in a long line of prestigious projects he's been involved with. Sir Harold explains why it is in fact the “great grandchild” of Christchurch’s Town Hall.
The Grande Salle at the Philharmonie de Paris
11:05 Libby Hakaraia – Maori Film in Berlin
Libby Hakaraia is a journalist, filmmaker and the director of the Maoriland Film Festival. She’s currently in Berlin at the European Film Market showcasing a collection of Maori short films.
11:15 Sniping – History, Legality and Entertainment Value
American Sniper is breaking box office records in the United States and around the world. And it has divided the public and critics alike between those who see the bio-pic’s central character Chris Kyle – the most lethal sniper in US history – as a hero and those who argue he was a brutal killer. Sunday producer Jeremy Rose speaks to historian, professor Glyn Harper about attitudes to snipers during the First World War; and Wallace Chapman interviews Tim Wood, a former military lawyer with the Royal Air Force and now a senior lecturer at Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies; and former New Zealand soldier and budding filmmaker Jason Cayless – whose first short film was about a sniper fighting terrorists.
Picture: Jason Cayless
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Sunday Morning is produced by Christine Cessford, Zara Potts and Jeremy Rose
Research: Julie Daly
Wellington operator: Shaun D Wilson
Auckland operator: Andre Upston
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Artist: Jonah Tolchin
Song: Low Life
Composer: Tobias the Owl
Album: Clover Lane
Label: Yep Roc
Played At: 08:38
Artist: Lou Rawls
Song: You've Made Me So Very Happy
Composer: Gordy Jr, Holloway, Wilson, Holloway
Album: You're Good For Me
Label: Capitol
Played At: 09:40
Artist: Bach Ensemble & Helmuth Rilling
Song: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
Composer: J.S. Bach
Album: Cantatas BWV 188, 190-192
Label: Hänssler Classic
Played At: 10:39
Artist: Hirini Melbourne
Song: Purerehua
Album: Toiapiapi
Label: Titi Tangiao
Played at: 11:35
===12:12 PM. | Spectrum===
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People, places and events in NZ (RNZ)
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12:06
Catch of the day
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Every time Auckland couple Sue and Scott Tindale throw their fishing lines over the side, they are trying to hook yet another record. And with over 200 approved and pending world records to their names, the Tindales' have certainly proved their angling prowess. Spectrum's Lisa Thompson meets the Tindales and learns how their passion is now providing crucial scientific information about New Zealand fish species.
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“We don’t need wallpaper in this house,” jokes Scott Tindale as he gazes around his front hall.
And he’s right, for every inch of available wall space is covered in framed certificates, each denoting a world angling record for either himself or his wife Sue.
The pair currently hold nearly 220 approved and pending International Game Fish Association (IGFA) records between them, and they’re still hoping to hook more.
While Scott grew up fishing from a young age, Sue had never picked up a rod until she met her husband in 1985. But it wasn’t long before she took his hints.
“He used to teach people to dive, so he’d take me out on the Manukau and leave me with fishing rods all around the place all baited up while he took a lesson,” Sue says laughing.
“I’d get bored so I’d stick the line down…but I was a bit of a wuss in those days and didn’t want to get the fish off the line so I’d just wind it up to the top of the rod and stick it in the holder and go and grab another rod and it used to drive him crazy with all these fish flapping around in the wind!”
“Like a flag waving in the wind,” says Scott with a smile and a roll of the eyes.
However, since catching her first world record in 2003 – a 3.1 kilogram Kahawai that remains the current women’s 3 kg (6 lb.) line record – Sue has never looked back.
And neither has Scott, with his first world record coming a year earlier when he caught a 167.6 kilogram smooth hammerhead Shark that continues to hold the All-Tackle title.
Catching big ones runs in the family. Scott's great-grandfather with a Hammerhead Shark and a Marlin caught off the coast of Whangaroa, Northland, and his great-aunt with the catch of the day in front of the Whangaroa Hotel.
But it’s not all about the record chasing.
The Tindales are now helping to provide crucial information about New Zealand fish species to scientists both here and overseas.
Having been involved in more than 50 research projects, the couple are currently helping the Department of Conservation locate and satellite tag Great White sharks in the Kaipara Harbour, so more can be learned about the movements of the endangered species.
“It’s a thrill to be able to help contribute information for research and educational purposes,” says Sue. “It’s reignited our passion for angling.”
And it’s a passion that recently saw the pair travel to Florida, to receive lifetime achievement awards from the IGFA.
They’re the only New Zealanders to be bestowed the honours with the IGFA stating the Tindales ‘truly embody the association’s ideals of ethical angling and productive science’.
Join Spectrum’s Lisa Thompson as she meets the husband and wife team who can’t wait to see what their next casts will turn up.
Topics: science
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Tags: fishing, angling
Duration: 22'49"
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===12:40 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, including: 3:04 The Drama Hour
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12:36
The Rarotonga Project
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There's a new artists' residency in Rarotonga, so new it's still under construction on land inherited by a couple of young New Zealand Cook Islanders. Maria Tanner is a journalist. Pouarii Tanner a writer and Sam Thomas started the artist-run space in Auckland, Snake Pit.
Topics: arts, Pacific
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Tags: artist residency, Cook Islands, Rarotonga
Duration: 9'00"
12:47
Ashburton gallery
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In just a few days Ashburton's flash new public art gallery will be officially opened, but with no art on show. How can it be? Ashburton Mayor Angus McKay explains why the building is over budget, seemingly unpopular with locals, and bereft of art.
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In a few days Ashburton’s flash new public art gallery will be officially opened, but with no art on show. How can it be?
Ashburton Mayor Angus McKay (left) explains why the building is over budget, seemingly unpopular with locals, and bereft of art.
Topics: arts
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: art galleries, Ashburton, Ashburton art gallery
Duration: 16'41"
13:34
Anya Whitlock - Fabric phantoms
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Anya Whitlock, is an artist in her own right and she works in art departments for TV shows like the mega new fantasy TV series Shannara being filmed in New Zealand. Her new Fabric Phantom series exhibition which uses textiles collected from around the world, is on at the Pierre Peeters Gallery.
Topics: arts
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Tags: fabric, textiles
Duration: 9'34"
13:47
Auckland Fringe Festival
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Fringe Festivals are usually great opportunities for testing new and edgy kinds of art and performance. But this year's Auckland Fringe sees a slightly older avant-garde form making a strong comeback. Standing Room Only's Justin Gregory talks to Stephen Bain of Winning Productions and Fiona McNamara from Binge Culture collective.
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This year’s Auckland Fringe Festival sees two different companies messing with audience expectations and tossing away the very idea of black box theatre. Fiona McNamara from Wellington group Binge Culture Collective tells Justin Gregory from Standing Room Only that things are changing.
“Performance like this is often called live art or live performance rather than theatre. Often there isn’t necessarily a linear narrative in what we’re doing. Or there is some kind of linear narrative but it’s in some way broken or chopped and changed a bit.”
Post-dramatic performance (or post-dramatic theatre) has a bone to pick with theatrical representation and orthodox ways of engaging with the audience. It tosses out action and replaces it with atmosphere. Narrative is sometimes nixed in favour of premise. One of Binge Culture’s two contributions to this year’s Fringe is a show called Whales. A group of actors performing as whales swim through Queen Street and then strand themselves in Aotea Square. A response team asks passers-by to look after the pod by placing wet towels on them and keeping them cool with buckets of water. Fiona says this kind of work is what Binge are all about.
“We make live performance where we really like to have the audience as the centre of the work, (work) that really relies on the audience and uses them as a key participant.”
Experimental theatre stalwart Stephen Bain has crafted a tribute to the long-gone Ponsonby of yesteryear. It’s a walking tour called I Wanna Be Na Nah Na Nah Nah. Two separate groups of audience members walk towards each other from different ends of Ponsonby Road, while listening through wireless headphones to music and stories about the suburb. After meeting in the middle, they cross over and then listen to what the other group has already heard.
The material for the show comes from the memories of two writers, Tessa Mitchell and Dave Fane, who both grew up in pre-posh Ponsonby.
“It’s very much about experiencing what Ponsonby is now, experiencing what walking is now. And so we think about the way space is used as well as the layers of history and the stories that are going on”
Stephen says the trend towards performing outside of usual theatrical venues is being led by both performers and audiences.
“When we walk on the street we create a history. We create things that happen because we stop, we talk to people. We are the thing that’s there. So we’re no longer separated at all from the action. We’re not outside of that.”
So get along, grab yourself a headset - or a whale – and make yourself a part of a performance. You are the show, after all.
Topics: arts
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Fringe, arts festival, Auckland Fringe
Duration: 10'47"
14:25
Headland
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Introducing new New Zealand literary journal, Headland made for the online generation. Laura McNeur and Liesl Nunns are the founding editors of this journal, which concentrates on short stories and creative non-fiction. Writers are currently invited to submit their work for the second issue by 20 February 2015.
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The editorial team at Headland's launch on Monday 26 January 2015. From left: Stef Head, Laura McNeur, Jenna Tinkle, Amanda Newth and Liesl Nunns.
Introducing new New Zealand literary journal, Headland made for the online generation. Laura McNeur and Liesl Nunns are the founding editors of this journal, which concentrates on short stories and creative non-fiction.
Writers are currently invited to submit their work for the second issue by 20 February 2015.
Topics: books, arts, internet
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Tags: creative non-fiction, literature, literary journal
Duration: 7'10"
14:34
Late night comedy
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With Prime recently picking up The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, we look at the massive beast that is American late night comedy. Bill Carter has written two books about some of the seismic late night television manoeuvrings. 1994's The Late Shift documented Jay Leno's rise to be the successor of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, and the fallout resulting in David Letterman setting up a direct competitor. 2011's The War For Late Night focused on Jay Leno giving up the Tonight Show to Conan O'Brian but taking back the Tonight Show crown a year after retiring from it. Bill Carter has been a media reporter for decades and covers the television beat for The New York Times. He spoke to Shaun D Wilson.
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With Prime recently picking up The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, we look at the massive beast that is American late night comedy. Bill Carter has written two books about some of the seismic late night television manoeuvrings. 1994’s The Late Shift documented Jay Leno’s rise to be the successor of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, and the fallout resulting in David Letterman setting up a direct competitor. 2011’s The War For Late Night focused on Jay Leno giving up the Tonight Show to Conan O’Brian but taking back the Tonight Show crown a year after retiring from it.
Bill Carter has been a media reporter for decades and covers the television beat for The New York Times. He spoke to Shaun D Wilson.
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Tags: Prime TV, television, comedy, The Colbert Report, Tina Fey, The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Larry Wilmore, Seth Myers, James Corden, Bruce Springsteen, music, David Letterman
Duration: 13'58"
14:49
High Mountain Flowing Water
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Lynda Chanwai-Earle met renowned New Zealand composer Jack Body and a group of visiting Chinese virtuoso performers at a special one-off performance in Wellington recently, to learn more about the art of collaboration with one of our very best.
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High Mountain Flowing Water. Image courtesy of Confucius Institute, Victoria University.
Lynda Chanwai-Earle met renowned New Zealand composer Jack Body and a group of visiting Chinese virtuoso performers at a special one-off performance in Wellington recently, to learn more about the art of collaboration with one of our very best.
From left: Dong Fei (Kunqu Opera), composer Jack Body, Wu Na (guqin) and Gao Ping (pianist). Photo: Lynda Chanwai-Earle.
Topics: music, arts
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Tags: Jack Body, Chinese opera, collaboration
Duration: 10'54"
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12:39 The Rarotonga Project
There's a new artists' residency in Rarotonga, so new it’s still under construction on land inherited by a couple of young New Zealand Cook Islanders. Maria Tanner is a journalist. Pouarii Tanner a writer and Sam Thomas started the artist-run space in Auckland, Snake Pit.
12:47 Ashburton gallery
In just a few days Ashburton’s flash new public art gallery will be officially opened, but with no art on show. How can it be? Ashburton Mayor Angus McKay explains why the building is over budget, seemingly unpopular with locals, and bereft of art.
1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris
Simon Morris looks at the many Oscar hopefuls that came out over the summer holidays. Titles include Birdman, American Sniper, The Imitation Game and Wild.
1:34 Anya Whitlock - Fabric phantoms
Anya Whitlock, is an artist in her own right and she works in art departments for TV shows like the mega new fantasy TV series Shannara being filmed in New Zealand. Her new Fabric Phantom series exhibition which uses textiles collected from around the world, is on at the Pierre Peeters Gallery.
1:47 Auckland Fringe Festival: 'I Wanna Be Na Nah Na Nah Nah' and 'Whales'
Fringe Festivals are usually great opportunities for testing new and edgy kinds of art and performance. But this year’s Auckland Fringe sees a slightly older avant-garde form making a strong comeback. Standing Room Only’s Justin Gregory talks to Stephen Bain of Winning Productions and Fiona McNamara from Binge Culture collective
2:05 The Laugh Track
Today’s guests are sisters Renee and Roseanne Liang, writers for stage and screen and both guests at this year’s Chinese New Year. Renee is about to premiere two plays, Same Moon and The Two Farting Sisters in Wellington and Auckland. She is also offering a free writing workshop exploring real-life experiences using the techniques of literary fiction.
2:26 Bill Carter and late night comedy
With Prime recently picking up The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, we look at the massive beast that is American late night comedy. Bill Carter has written two books about some of the seismic late night television manoeuvrings. 1994’s The Late Shift documented Jay Leno’s rise to be the successor of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, and the fallout resulting in David Letterman setting up a direct competitor. 2011’s The War For Late Night focused on Jay Leno giving up the Tonight Show to Conan O’Brian but taking back the Tonight Show crown a year after retiring from it.
Bill Carter has been a media reporter for decades and covers the television beat for The New York Times. He spoke to Shaun D Wilson.
2:38 Headland
Introducing new New Zealand literary journal, Headland made for the online generation. Laura McNeur and Liesl Nunns are the founding editors of this journal, which concentrates on short stories and creative non-fiction. Writers are currently invited to submit their work for the second issue by 20 February 2015.
2:49 High Mountain – Flowing Water
Lynda Chanwai-Earle met renowned New Zealand composer Jack Body and a group of visiting Chinese virtuoso performers at a special one-off performance in Wellington recently, to learn more about the art of collaboration with one of our very best.
3:05 The Drama Hour
The Boxer by Matthew Saville. A humorous look at the life of Robert Fitzsimmons, the Timaru blacksmith who became the first boxer to hold ‘world titles’ in three weight classes.
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A roundup of today's news and sport
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Exploring different spiritual, moral and ethical issues and topics (RNZ)
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Maori news and interviews from throughout the motu (RNZ)
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Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)
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18:06
Whakatāuki for 8 o Hui-Tanguru (February) 2015
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He honore, he kororia, maungarongo ki te whenua, whakaaro pai ki nga tangata katoa. Honour and Glory on high, peace on earth and goodwill to all people. This week's whakatauki is explained by Kurt Komene no Te Ati Awa.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Tags: whakatauki, te reo Maori, Te Ati Awa
Duration: 26"
18:08
Treaty Debates 2015 - Healing the past, building a future
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This year's Treaty Debate panel is Peter Douglas CEO of Te Ohu Kaimoana; Jamie Tuuta CEO of Te Tumu Paeroa; Matiu Rei Executive Director at Ngati Toa Rangatira and Rahui Papa, Chairman of the Executive Board of Waikato-Tainui iwi, Te Arataura. Highlights of the Treaty Debate (recorded on the 29th January 2015) includes discussion about the settlement process, the relationships formed during this process both within iwi and the crown, and the way forward.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Rahui Papa, Jamie Tuuta, Matiu Rei, Peter Douglas
Duration: 23'43"
18:32
Te Ra o te Raukura - Star Olsen
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Every year Star Olsen sets up his stall at the Te Ra o te Raukura, the two day whanau festival, the trouble is he actually doesn't sell anything. His stall is his trusty van and he spends time soaking up the music and atmosphere. As one of the key organisers of the event, that attracts thousands to Te Whiti Park, Lower Hutt, Star recalls how the event came about, and the logistics of organising Te Ra o te Raukura every year.
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Te Ra o te Raukura family festival is an annual event hosted by iwi radio station, AtiAwa Toa FM. It was first staged twenty-one years ago at Waiwhetu Marae, Lower Hutt. As it grew it shifted to the nearby Te Whiti Park.
Every year Star Olsen sets up his stall at Te Ra o te Raukura, the thing is, he actually doesn't sell anything. His stall is his trusty van and he spends time soaking up the music and atmosphere.
Olsen - who is one of the key organisers of the event - arrived in Lower Hutt during the early 1960s as part of the urban drift. The two-day festival was first thought of as a way to bring newly arrived whanau together.
Today, thousands head to the festival where music echoes across Te Whiti Park, food stalls are plentiful and carnival rides cater for the young children.
Justine Murray is there and talks to a few of the artists and stallholders, asks some of the spectators what Waitangi Day means to them, and finds out more from Te Ra o te Raukura organiser Star Olsen.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Te Ra o te Raukura
Duration: 5'24"
18:37
Experiencing Te Ra o te Raukura
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Kurt Komene is the tutor of the kaumatua kapahaka group Te Roopu Taikura o Te Kahui Herekawe, this year the group performed on stage at Te Ra o te Raukura. Kurt talks about the iwi connections and why the festival is another way to strengthen those ties. Frank Crawford and Frank Topia are both skilled weavers who set up a stall to sell their wares, from clutch purses to bangles, hats and backpacks, they both talk about their kaupapa with Justine Murray.
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Kurt Komene, and members of Te Kāhui Herekawe Rongo, Francis and Rosina.
Kurt Komene is the tutor of the kaumatua kapahaka group Te Roopu Taikura o Te Kahui Herekawe, this year the group performed on stage at Te Ra o te Raukura.
Kurt talks about the iwi connections and why the festival is another way to strengthen those ties.
Frank Topia, Raranga tutor at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa Ki Porirua and Hiri Crawford.
Frank Crawford and Frank Topia are both skilled weavers who set up a stall to sell their wares, from clutch purses to bangles, hats and backpacks, they both talk about their kaupapa with Justine Murray.
Topics: te ao Maori, arts
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Tags: weaving, Te Ra o te Raukura
Duration: 6'20"
18:43
What does Waitangi day mean to you?
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Justine Murray asks the question at Te Ra o te Raukura whanau festival, Lower Hutt on February 1st, 2015.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Tags: Waitangi Day
Duration: 2'22"
18:45
Ngā Tāonga Kōrero - Sir Apirana Ngata at Waitangi
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In an archival recording from 1940, Sir Apirana Turupa Ngata is at the opening of the Whare Runanga meeting house at Te Tii Marae, Waitangi. The opening coincided with the centenary celebrations of the signing of the Treaty. In his speech, Ngata talks about the relationship between maori and pakeha.
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In this archival recording from 1940, Sir Apirana Turupa Ngata is at the opening of the Whare Runanga meeting house at Te Tii Marae, Waitangi. The opening coincided with the centenary celebrations of the signing of the Treaty. In his speech, Ngata talks about the relationship between maori and pakeha.
Archival material supplied by Ngā Tāonga Sound and Vision.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions: Northland
Tags: Nga Taonga Kōrero
Duration: 6'48"
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Kurt Komene is the tutor of the Kapahaka group Te Roopu Taikura o Te Kāhui Herekawe from the Waitara, Ngāmotu and Parihaka regions. Taranaki whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika is the group of descendants from Taranaki iwi that reside in Wellington. For Kurt, visiting Te Ra o Te Raukura is about reconnecting to their wider whanau; he talks about his experience and explains the Raukura feather and its significance to Taranaki Iwi.
Kurt Komene, and members of Te Kāhui Herekawe Rongo, Francis and Rosina.
Frank Topia, Raranga tutor at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa Ki Porirua and Hiri Crawford.
Healing the Past, Building the future was the discussion topic at this year’s Treaty Debate. The panel is Peter Douglas Chairman at Te Ohu Kaimoana; Jamie Tuuta Chief Executive of Te Tumu Paeroa (The new Māori Trustee); Rahui Papa Chairman of Te Arataura and Matiu Rei Executive Director of Ngāti Toa Rangatira. Te Ahi Kaa presents highlights of the panel discussion.
(Left to Right) Peter Douglas, Jamie Tuuta, Matiu Rei and Rahui Papa. Photo credit: Rawinia Parata
In an archival recording from 1940, Sir Apirana Turupa Ngata (1874 – 1950) speaks at the opening of the meeting house, Whare Rūnanga at Te Tii Marae, Waitangi on the centenary of the 1840 signing of Te tiriti. In his speech, Ngata refers to the house Whare Rūnanga as symbolic of the involvement māori had in the signing of the treaty.
Archival material in this episode of Te Ahi Kaa was supplied by Ngā Tāonga Sound and Vision.
Waiata featured: ‘Beautiful People’ performed by Trinity Roots from the album True (2002).
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The issues and experience of disability (RNZ)
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A Job Well Done
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Until a few months ago, Selwyn Cook had no idea how many people he'd employed who live with disabilities. He says he doesn't count them and just employs the best person for the job. It turns out that in the past 3 years, Selwyn has employed more than 70 staff with disabilities. His business runs 12 'Z' service stations in Waikato. Late last year Selwyn received the Employer Award at the Attitude Awards. Each year the honour goes to a person who sees opportunities and not barriers in their work place for people with disabilities.
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Selwyn Cook
Until a few months ago, Selwyn Cook had no idea how many people he’d employed who live with disabilities. He says he doesn’t count them and just employs the best person for the job. It turns out that in the past three years, Selwyn has employed more than 70 staff with disabilities. His business runs 12 ‘Z’ service stations in Waikato. Late last year Selwyn received the Employer Award at the Attitude Awards. Each year the honour goes to a person who sees opportunities and not barriers in their work place for people with disabilities.
Biju Thomas was standing in the wings ready to step onto the stage when his boss Selwyn Cook was named the winner of the Employer Award at the Attitude Awards last December. A group of Selwyn’s staff had travelled in secret to the glitzy, black tie event in Auckland to acknowledge the man who had given them a break when others would not. In the past three years Selwyn, who runs 12 ‘Z’ service stations in Waikato, has employed more than 70 people who live with disabilities. However those numbers were not known to Selwyn.
“Well, we sort of don’t keep statistics on employing people with disabilities. We’ve never really thought about that… because we just really go out and hire the best people we can.”
Biju Thomas
Biju is one of them. Biju had lost the use of one arm in an accident and had been looking for a job for seven months before making contact with Selwyn through the recruitment agency, Workbridge. He’s been working for Selwyn for the past one and a half years and has proved himself such an asset to the team that he’s in demand from the managers of other ‘Z’ sites around Waikato when their regular workers have a day off.
Selwyn says Biju is one of his many ‘super-stars’.
“The people that come to our workplace with disabilities bring something to the employment relationship not detract from it. They make my life and my teams life and our customers life that much more pleasant rather than being a burden or a chore because we have to accommodate them.”
Topics: disability
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Tags: Workbridge, employment, Z Service Stations
Duration: 23'32"
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One in Five for 8 February 2015
Carol Stiles: Good evening and welcome to One in Five. It’s the first programme back for 2015 and it’s good to be with you. In early December last year, on World Disability Day, the Attitude Awards were held. For the past 70 years the awards have been celebrating the achievements of people in New Zealand who live with a disability. The awards also recognise people who work alongside disabled people. One of the awards each year goes to an employer who promotes equality in the workplace, someone who doesn’t see barriers, but sees opportunities. This year it went to Selwyn Cook. Selwyn and his wife Shirley own a business that runs 12 ‘Z’ petrol stations in Hamilton and its surrounding towns. They employ about 100 people who are a mix of full and part-timers. Selwyn said it was a bit of a surprise when he was told that in the past 3 years he’s employed more than 70 people who live with a disability. The awards night was a night of surprise, too.
Selwyn Cook: It was a big night, a very big night. (Chuckles)
Carol Stiles: Were you delighted?
Selwyn Cook: Oh, absolutely delighted. And the actual thrill of the evening, the cherry on the cake, was just as I was ready to walk off the stage Simon Dallow said ‘Well, we’ve just got some of your team here to just acknowledge you’ and they all came out from behind the back curtain. And I feel a lump swelling already in my throat because it was just a really moving moment, yeah.
Carol Stiles: Tell me about the people you employ.
Selwyn Cook: Well, we sort of don’t keep statistics on employing people with disabilities. We’ve never really thought about that. And in fact it was Workbridge who were good enough to share those numbers with us. Because we just really go out and hire the best people we can. And it’s Workbridge who just keep bringing superstars to our door, ring the bell and here they are. And we’ve just got so many wonderful people over the years who have agreed to come and work for us. And many are still out there. They come all the time - just really, really great people. Biju is one of our many superstars. Biju lost the use of his right arm in a motor accident in India. He and his wife have two young children. Their story is rather sad. Biju had to come to New Zealand to really find value in his life again. Biju has received 150, at last count, online ‘Wow’ feedbacks. Customers going to our sites have the opportunity to go online and recognise our people. He has received 150 of these. Now, Biju is a fantastic barista and he only has the use of one arm. He received the award last year, a Z Award, for being the region’s customer service hero through the way he interacts with customers through these ‘Wow’ recognitions. And he’s out there washing windows. There’s hardly a customer who gets missed. And Biju does a fantastic job washing windows and serving and talking to people on our forecourts, which he is right now at Z Frankton in Hamilton.
So this is the site leader. They’re from Radio New Zealand. And this is Biju.
Biju Thomas: I’m Biju.
Carol Stiles: Hello, how are you?
Biju Thomas: I’m good, thank you.
In India when I was young, at the age of 28, I met with an accident. While going by car a lorry came and hit it as a head-on collision. And this right part of my hand is paralysed. I was working in a company there in India. This company’s name was Union Carbide. After my accident I was working in different positions in the different places. After getting the disability, struggle was there. You can’t grow up once you become disabled. And we planned to come to New Zealand as a family. For seven months I have been without work here, so roaming around all the places to get work. As a disabled guy to find work is quite difficult for me. Then I contacted Workbridge, Ross. First he tested me, then he found that I am quite capable in doing things. Then he helped me put me into Selwyn’s place and I was working here for the last 1, 1.5 years now. So I delight my customers who come to my shop. I feel this is my shop. I feel as acting as my own shop. So when a customer comes in I make them happy.
Carol Stiles: Can you remember when Biju came to see you?
Ross MacKenzie: I can remember when Biju came quite vividly. And at the time we did think because of Biju’s disability he was going to provide a number of challenges for us. But he demonstrated very, very quickly that he had the willingness and the desire to work and was quite capable of overcoming the challenges that his disability presented. He’s a remarkable man.
Biju Thomas: I’ve been going to different sites and working for every site. And whenever I go to any of the sites I work hard, much harder than I work in most of my sites so that the manager of that site feels that this guy is a good guy. And what happened, they call me every time. We call it coverage if somebody is not coming I go to Te Awamutu, I go to Cambridge, wherever they call I just go and make my hours.
Carol Stiles: How many hours a week do you work?
Biju Thomas: 45 hours a week and 90 hours in 2 weeks.
Carol Stiles: So he’s in hot demand.
Biju Thomas: Yeah, I’m in demand.
(All laugh)
Ross: Now he’s in demand with the media.
Biju Thomas: I think that more of the disabled people should get into work, people should get into some job.
Carol Stiles: It’s getting the employers to say ‘Hey, come and work for me’ that’s the problem.
Ross: It definitely is. I’m continually looking for more employers like Selwyn, who has really taken to heart his ability to provide opportunities for people who have a disability or a perceived disability. In most instances the biggest disability has been in the top two inches of the employer’s head. And Selwyn has seen the light there and over the last three years has employed just over 70 people through Workbridge. All of those people have disabilities, some of them are very, very pronounced, like Biju’s. Others may be not quite as severe. But every one of them has been provided with a wonderful opportunity with Selwyn and a good company, an employer that cares about the people that he does employ, and it’s just been really neat to have somebody like him that we’ve been able to work with. So we are continually looking for other employers. We have a few in Hamilton who are willing just to accept the fact that if you want good staff don’t let the perception that a disability is going to have a negative impact on how they do the job. Our people are motivated, they have a willingness and capacity to work, and in the right environment they all turn out to be stars.
Carol Stiles: I’m talking to Ross Mackenzie, who’s with Workbridge, which is a… Well, you’re an employment consultant, aren’t you?
Ross: Workbridge is an employment consultancy and we work with people who have disabilities. We work with them, finding them employment. We’ve got to bear in mind, as well, that all of our clients are competing on an open job market and we’re not looking for people to employ our clients just because they have a disability. People employ our clients, our jobseekers, because they are the best person for the job. I would like to see this become quite contagious. (Laughs) There’s some things you don’t want to be contagious, but the more people that start to think like Selwyn Cook, the more jobseekers we’re going to be able to help.
Carol Stiles: Selwyn was telling me before that often the jobs that people come to with Z, with him, they lead to other things, as well.
Ross: That’s right. I reviewed some of our clients just about six weeks ago to find out where they were. One lady that we placed three years ago, she was still there. These are just clients that I picked out at random. Others have moved on, gone to university, others have moved on, gone to other jobs that I guess are a little bit another rung up the skills ladder. And this is something that Z celebrates. When one of their people moves on to a better job, they don’t get all upset about it because they’re losing an employee, they celebrate because they see one of their staff moving on to better things. And that’s really great. It’s just so totally positive all the way through.
Biju Thomas: Can I make a coffee for you? Which coffee do you want?
Carol Stiles: laughs I’ll have another one. A long black. It’s my fourth today, but that’s alright.
(All laugh)
Biju Thomas: To get the sugar with one hand, it’s quite difficult, putting the sugar inside the cup. So what I do, I just fix it here, and then take the scissors and just cut it off.
Biju Thomas: Hello, how are you?
Man: I’m good, mate.
Carol Stiles: Can you remember the first time Workbridge approached you and the first person you employed through them?
Selwyn Cook: The first person, Chris Simpson, worked for us for five years as a customer service representative doing night shift at our Te Rapa site. Now, sadly, Chris has passed now, but he was an absolute inspiration to the reality of ‘there’s no such thing as a disability’. Chris had one leg, he’d had a number of medical complications in his life and was on crutches. But, boy, could he show the rest of us a thing or two about how to do his job. He had to travel by bus and public transport. I don’t ever remember him missing a shift. And in the morning the site was just spotless. But it was his customer service that really was outstanding, and we’d often see Chris out there on the forecourt with a bonnet resting on his head as he was checking oil and serving our customers in just a wonderful way. I guess that sowed the seed a long time ago that Workbridge, for example, was an incredible agency and help to us at finding just some really great people.
Carol Stiles: I know there’s support available for employers. Sometimes they might have to adapt the workplace for a worker. Do you take them up on that?
Selwyn Yes, as and when necessary. There’s a lot of support to get a lot of people in the workplace. What we haven’t done is ever taken a subsidy for staff because we don’t hire people with disabilities. We just hire good people. So the subsidies are irrelevant.
Selwyn Just straight ahead.
Carol Stiles: Straight ahead.
Selwyn Cook: This is Kim. Kim is our team assistant up here at SSC and she’s also our Good in the Hood co-ordinator.
Kim Smith: I’ve been working for Selwyn for just over six months now.
Carol Stiles: How did you get the job?
Kim Smith: I was looking for a job and I was struggling to find one, even being a qualified accountant. And I applied through Workbridge and basically came up for the interview and didn’t actually leave the room. (Laughs)
Selwyn We wouldn’t let her go. It was an interview of one and Kim just was everything we were looking for. So I think before she left the car park, before her and Ross Mackenzie from Workbridge were gone, we’d given her the contract to sign so she didn’t slip from our grasp.
Carol Stiles: You’re vision impaired, is that right?
Kim Smith: Yeah, I can see about a metre in front of me and I don’t have any peripheral vision.
Carol Stiles: What does your job entail?
Kim Smith: The team assistance I do, quite a bit of admin comes through my desk. And I also co-ordinate the charity progamme for SSC.
Selwyn Cook: Kim, she’s being very humble. She’s our Good in the Hood co-ordinator for our cluster. Now, the Good in the Hood programme, if that’s the word, is really about part of us, again, being part of New Zealand, and recognising the organisations and charities and schools that are all in the neighbourhoods where we do business. Now she’s hiding her light under a bushel a bit here because we’ve just come off an incredible weekend, over 500 children in Hamilton this past weekend. There were three events that Kim organised where we had a very talented New Zealand magician come to Hamilton and a lot of support acts around him. And we were able to pull together what we call a special magic Christmas, where over 500 kids, as I said, this past weekend, have just been absolutely delighted by some awesome magic and some wonderful stuff all around it. Kim organised it.
Carol Stiles: How difficult was it for you to find a job?
Kim Smith: It was very difficult. I put in a lot of applications. I’m quite open about my disability because I’m the expert of what I can see. I’d rather have that conversation up front so I put in a lot of applications to a lot of different accounting firms, to a lot of different admin. I spent years being self-employed but also bouncing off the idea of wanting to be employed. So, yeah, it was very, very difficult and very heartbreaking at times just not being able to get an interview or speak to anybody.
Carol Stiles: So when you were offered a job on the spot… (Laughs) ..what did you do?
Kim Smith: Um, I think I was in shock, to be honest, to start with, because I just couldn’t believe I’d found somebody who was even willing to have that conversation and to employ me on the spot. It was just something I couldn’t believe could actually happen to me.
Carol Stiles: You have to take public transport and a taxi. Tell me how you get here every day.
Kim Smith: I catch two taxis and a bus so it takes me about an hour to get here. And also the same in reverse on the way home.
Carol Stiles: In the course of this job I hear often that employment is one of the biggest issues and that some of the responsibility lies with encouragement to take on people that maybe they wouldn’t have in the past.
Selwyn Cook: I find a little bit of trouble relating to all this because I’ve sincerely never gone out to hire someone with a disability. It’s just happened because they’re great people and tick all our boxes when we have a vacancy and then we’re looking for an applicant. But I guess if we can generalise the people that come to our workplace with disabilities bring something to the employment relationship, not detract from it. They make my life and our team’s life and our customer’s life that much more pleasant, rather than being a burden or a chore because we have to accommodate them. Perhaps they realise that life isn’t always fair. They have a work ethic that is a work ethic that my grandparents talk about. You know, they don’t get man flu. They turn up, often through… Chris Simpson and Kim and other people, they’ve got to take trains, planes and automobiles to get to work. A great effort to get to the workplace, but they do it. And I have never had issues of performance. They’re just passionate people. They delight in serving our customers and they enrich our lives.
Shelley is our administrator. This is Shelley here. And also in charge of training and recruitment.
Carol Stiles: Shelley, what’s your story? How did you come to be working here?
Shelley Jeffrey: I had been off work for about three years, three and a bit years. And I was dealing with a wonderful lady through Workbridge. Her name was Rosemary Ryan. And just through the difficulties that I’ve got, it was really looking for a precise sort of a role. As time went by she said ‘I think I’ve got something for you’. And so I was put forward to Selwyn and then I came up and met them all, overwhelmed by all of these people. And they were just absolutely wonderful. And I felt really welcomed here and I felt safe here, and that was a very important thing for me.
Carol Stiles: So what was it? What were your specific needs in a job?
Shelley Jeffrey: At that time I couldn’t be under too much in the way of pressure. I couldn’t have too many things going on at the one time. I needed to be able to learn what they wanted doing and be able to concentrate on that, and just enjoy quite a peaceful, quiet environment, which is exactly what it was. I had a work-related… This is an interesting one. I had a work-related mental injury which saw me suffer from a major depressive episode, which put me off work for three years. Because of what took place it’s taken me a really, really long time. So to be able to come back into an environment that is safe… And of course I didn’t let any of this out by the time I came to work so Selwyn really had no idea what and who he was dealing with because I’m not one-armed and I don’t have poor eyesight but I just have a… I have a brain that perhaps doesn’t function as well as what it used to due to the trauma that it suffered. So, yeah, it’s just been a time thing. My role is I check the stocks of fuel for each site each day just in case something goes a little bit wrong. I chase the people who drive off from the sites without paying for their fuel. It could be for a variety of reasons, too, by the way. They’re not all bad people. But the part that I probably love the most is anything to do with HR and support so that’s where my background comes from, in management and HR and training and all of that sort of stuff. So, yeah, I take great interest in the people that I recruit and make sure that when they go to site that they’re in a safe place mentally and they’re coping with it because every new job has its challenges.
Selwyn Cook: I was just going to say again Shelley is hiding her light under a bushel a little bit. Yes, definitely came into our role as an administrator. But where she has shone is as a training facilitator and a recruitment co-ordinator for people. And recently Shelley put her hand up as being a facilitator in a training program for our staff and has just really blown us all away with her pride and passion that she puts into that role. Amazing.
Man: How are you?
Selwyn Cook: Very good. How is everybody? We’re going to steal Carl. He’s going to be a media star.
Woman: Good on you, Carl. Good stuff, eh?
Carol Stiles: Carl, how long have you been working for z?
Carl Shore: Just over two years. I finished off my job here at Z through Workbridge. I was looking for full-time employment and they help people with brain injuries, which I have. And they were kind enough to help me find this job.
Carol Stiles: What do you need from an employer?
Carl Shore: I guess the most important thing for me, from an employer, is someone whose understanding of the difficulties that I have with my brain injury. The staff here are very supportive, which helps me a lot. And just that understanding and the patience, I guess.
Selwyn Cook: Carl is our concierge so the forecourt out here is basically his. And we get so many compliments about Carl. Again, the online survey feedbacks and other feedbacks, of course. Carl is very frequently coming to our attention in that way and he’s also the site safety officer. And that’s something he’s passionately taken on board.
Carol Stiles: What do you like about your job?
Carl Shore: I like the fact that I get to meet different people every day and get to make people walk out of here with a smile and happy. I’ve built up quite a good rapport with my customers. I’ve got quite a lot of regulars that come in and want to be served by me, so that’s quite nice.
Carol Stiles: Carl Shore ending that report. You also heard from Kim Smith, Shelley Jeffrey, Biju Thomas, Ross Mackenzie from Workbridge and Attitude Employer of the Year Selwyn Cook.
A couple of weeks ago I just happened to receive a press release from Workbridge announcing that, in the last financial year, it helped 3,400 people with a disability, injury or illness find employment. It’s a nationwide employment agency. The southern Work and Income region (which covers from Timaru to Invercargill) saw the largest number of successful job placements - 841 people got jobs, followed by Auckland with 557, and the Nelson, Blenheim, Motueka, West Coast region with 450.
I’m Carol Stiles and that was One in Five. We’ll be back next week with more on the issues and experience of disability. Have a great week. Kia ora mai.
===7:35 PM. | Voices===
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Asians, Africans, indigenous Americans and more in NZ, aimed at promoting a greater understanding of our ethnic minority communities (RNZ)
===8:06 PM. | Sounds Historical===
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NZ stories from the past (RNZ)
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20:05
Sounds Historical for 8 Feburary 2015 ( Part 1 )
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Stories of yesteryear from around New Zealand.
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Duration: 53'28"
21:05
Sounds Historical for 8 Feburary 2015 ( Part 2 )
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Stories of yesteryear from around New Zealand.
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Duration: 55'11"
=SHOW NOTES=
8:06 Today in New Zealand History 3’36”
Sales Tax introduced 8 February 1932.
8:12 Artist: Society Jazzmen (1972) 3’39”
Song: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Composer: n/s
Album: Vintage Trad
Label: Zodiac promovintage
8:17 Through the dark shadow: the story of the Otira Tunnel 20’04”
A 1950's dramatised story of the Arthurs Pass road and the Otira Tunnel construction projects. The programme was produced in Auckland for the Commonwealth Exchange Programme.
8:37 Artist: Harry Lauder 2’57”
Song: Keep Right on to the End of the Road
Composer: Lauder
Album: The First Knight of the Music Hall
Label: Acrobat
8:40 Motor Torpedo Boat Experiences in World War Two 10’16”
A recording made on July 18 1944 in Manfredonia, southern Italy, by Sub-lieutenant J. Okeby who tells of his experiences while serving in the Adriatic sea area, where the navy was disrupting the coastal traffic that supplied the German army. Sometimes boarding parties jumped aboard and took over a ship complete with cargo. Sub-lieutenant Okeby tells the story of the ship that was the first to employ these tactics.
8:52 War Report Episode 22 6’48”
From CAL Treadwell’s memories of New Zealand troops in Egypt and VD and the Wazzir incident. His description of reinforcements marching over the Rimutakas to Trentham. Jack Mullins recalls inter-platoon rugby.
Artist: John McCormack
Song: There’s a Long Long Trail A Winding
Composer: King/Elliott
Album: Oh, It’s a Lovely War Vol 2
Label: CD41 486309
Artist: Murray Johnson
Song: Pack of Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag
Composer: George Asaf / Felix Powell
Album: Songs of World War One
Label: Goentertainment 557331
Artist: Morton Harvey
Song: I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
Composer: n/s
Album: Songs of World War One
Label: Goentertainment 557331
8:58 Artist: Radio New Zealand Studio Orchestra (Ken Avery soloist) 3’33”
Song: She’s Out of My Life
Composer: Bahler
Album: Orchestral Gold Vol 1
Label: Kiwi Tartar TRL 005
9:07 As I Remember 3’04”
Wartime by Noel Vickridge of Hamilton read by Damon Taylor.
9:11 Artist: Les Brown and his Orchestra with Doris Day 3’12"
Song: Sentimental Journey
Composer: Les Brown and Ben Homer
Album: 1940s Vol 1
Label: n/s
9:15 Te Anau 18’25"
A 1953 feature about the history of Te Anau, narrated by Roy Woodward. An unidentified Maori woman tells a Waitaha legend about the Lake Te Anau. She talks of another legend among southern Maori about a glowing cave, which is now believed to be the then recently re-discovered glow-worm caves. Lawson Burrows and Wilson Campbell both speak about their re-discovery of the caves and how they made the caves accessible to visitors. The presenter describes the caves and Lawson Burrows explains how they ran electrical lines to the caves.
9:34 Artist: Sonny James 2’34”
Song: Young Love
Composer: Cartey
Album: Original Hits 1956
Label: n/s
9:37 Book of the Week 16’32”
A Bloody Road Home by Chris Pugsley, Penguin ISBN 978 014357 1896. Military historian Chris Pugsley discusses his history of the New Zealand Division in the Second World War including the performance of its leaders and the qualities found in the ranks.
9:55 Artist: 5th Infantry Brigade Band 3’58”
Song: Maori Battalion Marching Songg
Composer: Amohau
Album: Ake! Ake! Kia Kaha E!
Label: Atoll ACD 206
9:58 Artist: Radio New Zealand Studio Orchestra (soloist Colin Hemmingson) 2’45”
Song: Don’t Give Up On Us Baby
Composer: MacCauley
Album: Orchestral Gold Vol 1
Label: Kiwi Tartar TRL 005
===10:12 PM. | Mediawatch===
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Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)
===11:04 PM. | None (National)===
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Q's Mixed Bag: Quincy's career in transition, featuring Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Leslie Gore, film and TV music (3 of 7, Radio Express)