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:
15 March 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); 2:35 Hymns for Sunday; 3:05 Losing It, by Sandy McKay (7 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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What a Dump, by Tony Peet, told by Nicola Kawana; The Woolly Cap, by Mary Parker, told by Lucy Sheehan; Mrs Parata and the Cuckoo, by Ruth Darroch, told by Tanea Heke; The Lizard, by Lesley Marshall, told by Madeleine McNamara; Barney and the Eels, by David Somerset, told by Bernard Kearns; Clickety Clack, by Jean Anderson, told by Katherine Beasley; Will I go to Earth, Mother? by Patrick Hudson, told by Francis Bell (RNZ)
===7:08 AM. | Sunday Morning===
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A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, documentaries including Insight, sport from the outfield, politics from the insiders, plus Mediawatch, music and The Week in Parliament
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00:00
Mediawatch Extra March 2015
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The online-only companion to Mediawatch devoted to your queries and comments. This month: privacy and prurience after a so-called sex romp; advertorials and sponsored content; a possible case of ANZAC fatigue on TV; angst over bogus balancing of climate change opinion; crowdsourcing successes and failures - and an apology to grieving fans of Star Trek.
Topics: media
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Duration: 42'00"
07:10
The rise of IS and demise of media freedom in Libya
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Libya has seen many changes, and much turmoil since Muammar Gaddafi's opponents rose up against him in the wake of the Arab spring..
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Tags: Middle East, ISIS
Duration: 10'47"
07:20
Samoa debates new law offering passports for investors
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Samoa's Opposition leader says a proposed new law giving passports for investment is a recipe for corruption and will drive long-time Samoans out of business.
Topics: Pacific
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Tags: Samoa, citizenship, passports
Duration: 6'48"
07:45
The Week in Parliament for 15 March
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Government announcement of new bridges in Northland dominates week. John Key juggles hats. MPs' pay bill put on back burner. Flag referendum bill sent to select committee. TVNZ bosses up before Parliament. Security & Intelligence Committee opens its doors. Phil Goff laments stolen motorbike. Auckland's "lone Kauri" comes up in DoC review.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 14'36"
07:45
Constitucion rebuilds after huge quake in 2010
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On February 27th 2010 Chile experienced one of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded. It was 8.8 in magnitude.
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Tags: Chile
Duration: 12'36"
08:12
Insight for 15 March 2015 - Moving More Government to Auckland
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Todd Niall explores if Auckland needs extra support from government.
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The Public Service has been told it needs to find new, more effective ways to work in Auckland.
Insight has obtained a previously unreleased report that calls for a higher-level of public service executives to be based in the city, with greater autonomy over how their departments and ministries work.
Listen to Insight - Moving More Government to Auckland
The move is one of a series of recommendations in a report to the State Services Commission, by the former chief executive of the Auckland Council, Doug McKay.
The report notes that with the creation of the single Auckland Council in 2010, the Government now has a partner with capability to equal government ministries, but also with a good reach into its communities.
The McKay report was completed late last year, but had been closely-held until it was released to Radio New Zealand News.
Mr McKay calls for a group of tier-two public service executives to live and work in Auckland, and answer directly to their chief executives on priorities in the city. He also wants more Auckland-specific policy developed in Auckland.
"What worries a lot of people I talk to is that the capability of policy development for Auckland in Wellington, is very low at the moment," Mr McKay told Radio New Zealand's Insight.
"We have Wellington officials who just don't understand enough about Auckland. And that's a danger."
"It's a danger because Auckland ministers and MPs are very engaged with their communities, and they are at a disadvantage because in the absence of really high-quality policy developed for Auckland, which we're not getting out of Wellington at the moment, advocacy can rule," he said.
Mr McKay notes that both the police and the Transport Agency have adapted well to the new council structure in Auckland, and that there are also ad-hoc examples of specific local initiatives where the public service has worked well.
The State Services Commission has responded by appointing its first deputy commissioner in Auckland. Lewis Holden, the chief executive of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, will take up the role in May.
Mr Holden's initial task will be to canvass Auckland views on the recommendations in the McKay report, and develop his own recommendations on the public service, within 6 to 9 months.
He led the work a decade ago to set up the Government's first multi-agency office in the city, now called the Auckland Policy Office, and which he describes as a tentative step.
"Those of us who've lived and worked in Wellington tend to see things almost from the perspective of the way Government is organised," said Mr Holden.
"I think there was a recognition 10 years ago that that isn't necessarily the way the general public and Auckland public and business and communities see issues and problems. They don't tend to categorise their life experiences into the way Government is structured."
The McKay report and the State Services Commission both argue the scale of Auckland and its problems, and the importance of the city to the country's economy, may demand new ways of working.
Mr McKay cites Auckland's ethnic diversity as an example of why public services face different challenges in the city.
"It is unclear whether government leaders have grasped the significance of the changing demographics of Auckland. In the near future, the majority of Aucklanders will be younger, and Asian, Maori or Pasifika," he writes in his report.
"Pacific peoples comprise 35 percent of the population in the counties Manukau District Health Board area of South Auckland. Maori are 18 percent, and almost 14 percent of the population is Indian."
The Government has begun another initiative, separate to the work being done by the State Services Commission.
A Treasury-funded venture called the "Auckland Co-design Lab" is getting underway in South Auckland. It involves a small team of lateral thinkers, working outside the normal public service structure, exploring new solutions to deep-seated problems.
Its director Jane Strange says it will be able to work-in with government, council and community groups on five pilot projects, such a new ways to assist multi-generation families into owning new styles of homes.
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Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland Council, government, Auckland Transport, Auckland housing market
Duration: 27'43"
08:38
Billy Apple - Major Retrospective
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Billy Apple is widely regarded as New Zealand's most significant conceptual artist. He's been recognised internationally, his works are in the Tate Britain, Guggenheim and other collections. The Auckland Art Gallery has a major retrospective of his work - over 200 pieces from all stages of his career. Billy Apple joins Wallace in the studio.
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Billy Apple, Motion Picture Meets the Apple 1963. Courtesy of the Chartwell Collection (detail).
Billy Apple is widely regarded as New Zealand's most significant conceptual artist. He's been recognised internationally, his works are in the Tate Britain, Guggenheim and other collections. The Auckland Art Gallery has a major retrospective of his work - over 200 pieces from all stages of his career.
Billy Apple joins Wallace in the studio.
Topics: arts
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Tags: painting, Billy Apple
Duration: 16'37"
09:17
Mediawatch for 15 March 2015
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How the media managed the 1080 scare; spying and surveillance revelations keep on coming - along with claims they're nothing new; Australian journalists resist data retention in the name of national security; how Maori TV handled unexpected criticism in one of their own broadcasts; an apology to grieving Trekkies.
Topics: media
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Duration: 31'32"
09:42
Justin Rockefeller - Giving it Away
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He has one of the most instantly recognisable surnames on the planet. So just how did entrepreneur Justin Rockefeller get involved in philanthropy?
Topics: money, business
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Tags: Justin Rockefeller, philanthropy
Duration: 17'00"
10:06
Alan Rickman - Causing Chaos
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Actor Alan Rickman talks to Wallace about his latest movie A Little Chaos - a story about the great landscape architect, Andre Le Notre - the man behind the celebrated gardens at Versailles. Alan Rickman discusses directing and starring in the film and working with Kate Winslet, as well as his role as Severus Snape and the legacy of the Harry Potter years. Plus, we find out just what he thinks about his own, wicked voice.
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Alan Rickman and Kate Winslet (centre) in a scene from the movie, A Little Chaos.
Actor Alan Rickman talks to Wallace about his latest movie A Little Chaos, a story about the great landscape architect, Andre Le Notre – the man behind the celebrated gardens at Versailles.
Alan discusses directing and starring in the film and working with Kate Winslet, as well as his role as Severus Snape and the legacy of the Harry Potter years. Plus, we find out just what he thinks about his own, wicked voice.
Topics: arts
Regions:
Tags: Alan Rickman, Versailles, film
Duration: 12'17"
10:26
Erik Kayser - Baking Bread
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French master baker Erik Kayser joins Wallace to talk about his new book The Larousse Book of Bread.
Topics: food
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Tags: Eric Kayser, bread, baking
Duration: 14'04"
10:45
Juliano Salgado - The Salt of the Earth
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There is a well-known series of images of an open cast mine with a sea of people climbing up and down ladders, extracting soil by hand. It is the work of Brazilian photographer Sebastio Salgado. Filmmaker Wim Wenders is a huge fan of Salgado and has co-directed a film about his life and work called The Salt of the Earth, nominated for Best Documentary at the 2015 Academy Awards. The other director is Salgado's son - filmmaker Juliano Salgado, who joins Wallace to talk about the new movie.
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Image courtesy Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.
There is a well-known series of images of an open cast mine with a sea of people climbing up and down ladders, extracting soil by hand. It is the work of Brazilian photographer Sebastio Salgado.
Filmmaker Wim Wenders is a huge fan of Salgado and has co-directed a film about his life and work called The Salt of the Earth, nominated for Best Documentary at the 2015 Academy Awards.
The other director is Salgado's son – filmmaker Juliano Salgado, who joins Wallace Chapman to talk about the new movie.
Topics: arts
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Tags: Juliano Selgado, Wim Wenders, film, Sebastio Salgado
Duration: 16'14"
11:05
Roysten Abel - Cooking up a Drama
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Director Roysten Abel serves up drama and food in The Kitchen - a story about cooking as a metaphor for life, playing at the Auckland Arts Festival. On stage a couple cook up steamy vats of payasam, a traditional Indian dessert, while behind them 12 drummers beat out a rhythm. Theatre audience bonus: They get to eat the payasam.
Topics: arts, food
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Tags: Auckland Arts Festival, theatre
Duration: 17'13"
11:24
Georgia Prince and Muriel Clark - Off on OE
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For many New Zealanders, the big OE is a rite of passage. A new exhibition at the Auckland City Library pulls together a range of photographs, mementos, and diaries that document the way that our Overseas Experience has changed over the years. Curator Georgia Prince and OE pioneer Muriel Clark join us.
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Air New Zealand Douglas DC-8-52 at Sydney Airport, early 1970s.
For many New Zealanders, the big O.E. is a rite of passage.
A new exhibition at the Auckland City Library pulls together a range of photographs, mementos, and diaries that document the way that our Overseas Experience has changed over the years.
Curator Georgia Prince and O.E. pioneer Muriel Clark join Wallace Chapman about adventures in foreign lands.
Topics: arts
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: O.E., travel
Duration: 11'45"
11:44
Alistair Fraser - Playing Taonga Puoro
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Musician Alistair Fraser says the Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum has a great collection of taonga puoro/taoka puoro (musical instruments of the Maori). He played and recorded the instruments for a CD - then donated the finished product back to the museum to help it raise money to look after the instruments.
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Alistair Fraser's person collection of taonga pūoro.
Musician Alistair Fraser says the Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum has a great collection of taonga pūoro/taoka puoro (Māori musical instruments).
He played and recorded the instruments for a CD, then donated the finished product back to the museum to help it raise money to look after the instruments.
He talked to Wallace Chapman about project.
Topics: te ao Maori, music
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: taonga puoro, Okains Bay, museums
Duration: 15'06"
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7:08 Current affairs
Yasmine Ryan is a NZ journalist based in Tunis who has just returned from Libya. She talks to Wallace about how Islamic State came to get a presence in Libya, the danger there for journalists, and the new head of the army. Also in this hour – The Week in Parliament, and rebuilding the Chilean city of Constitution after its huge earthquake in 2010.
8:12 Insight Moving More Government to Auckland
Auckland, by world standards, is not only disproportionately large compared with the country it sits in, but also vastly more diverse, and growing faster than other parts. Insight looks at whether the Government needs to radically change the way it makes policy for, and operates in, the country's biggest city. Commentators and analysts argue that increasingly, public service chiefs are out of touch with Auckland's challenges, and that the consequences of staying out of touch will be serious. Radio New Zealand’s Auckland correspondent, Todd Niall, explores what the city thinks needs to happen in the future.
Produced by Philippa Tolley.
8:40 Billy Apple – Major Retrospective
Billy Apple is widely regarded as New Zealand’s most significant conceptual artist. He's been recognised internationally, his works are in the Tate Britain, Guggenheim and other collections. The Auckland Art Gallery has a major retrospective of his work – over 200 pieces from all stages of his career. Billy Apple joins Wallace in the studio.
Image: Billy Apple Motion Picture Meets the Apple (detail) 1963
9:06 Mediawatch
Mediawatch looks at how the media managed the 1080 scare story; and how revelations about spying and surveillance keep on coming, along with claims that they’re no big deal. Also: An apology for grieving Trekkies; and how Maori TV handled some unexpected criticism.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Justin Rockefeller – Giving it Away
He has one of the most instantly recognisable surnames on the planet. So just how did entrepreneur Justin Rockefeller get involved in philanthropy?
10:06 Alan Rickman – Causing Chaos
Actor Alan Rickman talks to Wallace about his latest movie A Little Chaos - a story about the great landscape architect, Andre Le Notre – the man behind the celebrated gardens at Versailles. Alan Rickman discusses directing and starring in the film and working with Kate Winslet, as well as his role as Severus Snape and the legacy of the Harry Potter years. Plus, we find out just what he thinks about his own, wicked voice.
Alan Rickman and Kate Winslet (centre) in a scene from the movie, A Little Chaos
10:25 Erik Kayster – Baking Bread
French master baker Erik Kayser joins Wallace to talk about his new book The Larousse Book of Bread.
10:45 Juliano Salgado – The Salt of the Earth
There is a well-known series of images of an open cast mine with a sea of people climbing up and down ladders, extracting soil by hand. It is the work of Brazilian photographer Sebastio Salgado. Filmmaker Wim Wenders is a huge fan of Salgado and has co-directed a film about his life and work called The Salt of the Earth, nominated for Best Documentary at the 2015 Academy Awards. The other director is Salgado's son – filmmaker Juliano Salgado, who joins Wallace to talk about the new movie.
Image courtesy Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
11:05 Roysten Abel – Cooking up a Drama
Director Roysten Abel serves up drama and food in The Kitchen – a story about cooking as a metaphor for life, playing at the Auckland Arts Festival. On stage a couple cook up steamy vats of payasam, a traditional Indian dessert, while behind them 12 drummers beat out a rhythm. Theatre audience bonus: They get to eat the payasam.
11:25 Georgia Prince and Muriel Clark – Off on OE
For many New Zealanders, the big OE is a rite of passage. A new exhibition at the Auckland City Library pulls together a range of photographs, mementos, and diaries that document the way that our Overseas Experience has changed over the years. Curator Georgia Prince and OE pioneer Muriel Clark join us.
11:45 Alistair Fraser – Playing Taonga Puoro
Musician Alistair Fraser says the Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum has a great collection of taonga pūoro/taoka pūoro (musical instruments of the Māori). He played and recorded the instruments for a CD – then donated the finished product back to the museum to help it raise money to look after the instruments.
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Sunday Morning is produced by Christine Cessford, Zara Potts and Jeremy Rose
Music: Zen Yates-Fill
Research: Clare Gleeson
Wellington operator: Brad Warrington
Auckland operator: Andre Upston
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===12:12 PM. | Spectrum===
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In January 1993, publican Paddy Feaney claimed to have sighted a large Moa near Lake Brunner on the South Island's West Coast. Paddy's sighting of what was thought to be a long extinct native bird sparked off Moa Mania and was picked up by press, radio and television around the world, not to mention Moa hysteria in the tiny Lake Brunner settlement of Moana. Spectrum's Jack Perkins compiled a special report on Moa Mania (RNZ)
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12:10
Moa Mania
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In January 1993, publican Paddy Freaney claimed to have sighted a large moa near Lake Brunner on the South Island West Coast. Paddy's sighting of what was thought to be a long extinct native bird, sparked off a Moa Mania and was picked up by press, radio and television around the world, not to mention moa hysteria in the tiny Lake Brunner settlement of Moana. Spectrum's Jack Perkins compiled a special report on Moa Mania. (first broadcast in January 1993).
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Moa, Euryapteryx curtus,. Purchased 2006. CC BY-NC-ND licence. Te Papa (S.044281)
‘I wrestled him – big as a deer I’d say – but we crashed down a slope and he ran away. Yeah - it was a bird alright!’
This 'encounter' with a moa was just one of many eye-popping stories which surfaced in 1993 after Irishman Paddy Freaney, host of the Bealey pub near Arthur’s Pass on the South Island's West Coast, made public his sighting of a large moa. Paddy’s sighting of what was thought to be a long extinct native bird, sparked off a moa mania that was picked up by press, radio and television around the world, not to mention the gleeful responses of the inhabitants in the tiny Lake Brunner settlement of Moana, near where the moa was seen.
Moana locals claimed to have seen moa in the main street running past the pub. A nearby zoo owner insisted that she had captured a pair but they escaped. British bookmakers put the existence of the moa at 1000 to 1, same as the Loch Ness Monster but this didn’t throw the locals.
"Scotland has its Loch Ness Monster, Nessie, so why can’t we have a Lake Brunner Moa, Brunnessie", they argued.
Left: Heavy-footed Moa. Pachyornis elephantopus. From the series: Extinct Birds of New Zealand., 2005, Masterton, by Paul Martinson. Purchased 2006. CC BY-NC-ND licence. Te Papa (2006-0010-1/20) Right: A reconstruction of Maori hunting Moa, collection of Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Ta-u-rangi, 31840
‘Moa hunters’, in the form of commercial radio personalities, helicoptered in armed with plastic hunting rifles. This failed to amuse Paddy Freaney who insisted that his sighting was no joke.
Spectrum’s Jack Perkins compiled a special report on Moa Mania (first broadcast in January 1993).
Ngarua Caves, Takaka Hill, Tasman. Photo: flyingkiwigirl (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Topics: life and society, rural
Regions: West Coast
Tags: moa, Moa hoaxes, Moa sightings, Craigieburn ranges, Bealey, Arthur’s Pass, Lake Brunner, Moana, West Coast
Duration: 25'05"
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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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12:39
Recycling silver jewellery
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Jeweller and environmentalist Fran Carter plans to turn people's unfashionable unwanted sterling silver jewellery into contemporary works of art. To donate, email Fran or pop into Toi Poneke, 61 Able Smith St in Wellington.
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Jeweller and environmentalist Fran Carter plans to turn people's unfashionable unwanted sterling silver jewellery into contemporary works of art. To donate, email Fran or pop into Toi Pōneke, 61 Able Smith St in Wellington.
Topics: arts
Regions:
Tags: jewellery, Fran Carter
Duration: 7'11"
12:47
The War Play
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Phil Braithwaite the great nephew of executed then pardoned First World War soldier Jack Braithwaite, turns his story into a stage play - The War Play at the Fortune Theatre.
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Phil Braithwaite the great nephew of executed then pardoned First World War soldier Jack Braithwaite, turns his story into a stage play – The War Play at the Fortune Theatre.
Topics: arts
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Tags: WW1, Phillip Braithwaite, Jack Braithwaite, theatre
Duration: 8'58"
13:34
Francis Gallop
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Francis Gallop is a designer and occasional writer and director based in Edinburgh - though right now, he's working with design students at Toi Whakaari NZ Drama school on a film-based project. He's a champion of new writing and site specific performance. Notable works have included Inferno a labyrinthine staging of Dante's epic with a cast of 80 through the bowels of Glasgow, and Sweet Fanny Adams in Eden, an adult fairytale that unfolded across seven acres of landscaped woodland. Francis has worked with many of Scotland's leading companies including the Royal Lyceum, the Tron and Boilerhouse.
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Francis Gallop is a designer and occasional writer and director based in Edinburgh – though right now, he’s working with design students at Toi Whakaari NZ Drama school on a film-based project. He’s a champion of new writing and site specific performance. Notable works have included Inferno a labyrinthine staging of Dante’s epic with a cast of 80 through the bowels of Glasgow, and Sweet Fanny Adams in Eden, an adult fairytale that unfolded across seven acres of landscaped woodland. Francis has worked with many of Scotland’s leading companies including the Royal Lyceum, the Tron and Boilerhouse.
Topics: arts
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Tags: Francis Gallop, site specific theatre, Glasgow, Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School, theatre
Duration: 10'22"
13:47
Thomas Monckton likes to make people laugh
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Last year, The Pianist won the 2014 Total Theatre Award for Best Circus Show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is a production that has seen Thomas Monckton travel between New Zealand and Europe, collaborating alongside Finnish Company, Circo Aereo. It seems like a giant (and almost unlikely) leap for the small town boy - born in Patea, he now resides in Paris - a place that saw him initially sleeping in a tent and living on the city streets, on his arrival. The Pianist is on at Circa Theatre in Wellington until 21 March, before heading to Auckland's Herald Theatre and The Festival of Colour (Wanaka) in April.
Topics: arts
Regions:
Tags: theatre, Thomas Monckton, clowning, dance, mime, performing arts, acting, comedy
Duration: 14'39"
13:50
Clowning about with Thomas Monckton
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Thomas Monckton likes to make people laugh. With an untamed mop of wild, red hair he embodies characters of the slightly crazed, and eccentric. Notwithstanding his current, touring solo show in which he plays a concert pianist whose dishevelled mane begins to reflect the chaotic nature of his attempts at performance-a highly physical show, Thomas says, five minutes in and he's already dripping with sweat. Last year, The Pianist won the 2014 Total Theatre Award for Best Circus Show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is a production that has seen Thomas travel between New Zealand and Europe, collaborating alongside Finnish Company, Circo Aereo.
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Last year, The Pianist won the 2014 Total Theatre Award for Best Circus Show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is a production that has seen Thomas Monckton travel between New Zealand and Europe, collaborating alongside Finnish Company, Circo Aereo. It seems like a giant (and almost unlikely) leap for the small town boy – born in Patea, he now resides in Paris – a place that saw him initially sleeping in a tent and living on the city streets, on his arrival.
The Pianist is on at Circa Theatre in Wellington until 21 March, before heading to Auckland’s Herald Theatre and The Festival of Colour (Wanaka) in April.
Topics: arts
Regions:
Tags: theatre, dance, mime, performing arts, acting, comedy
Duration: 14'39"
14:28
Author interview - Tanya Moir
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Tanya Moir talks about her 12-year-old protagonist Winstone, who escapes his dire home and school life to seek sanctuary in the wilderness of Central Otago. The Legend of Winstone Blackhat is published by Vintage.
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Tanya Moir talks about her 12-year-old protagonist Winstone, who escapes his dire home and school life to seek sanctuary in the wilderness of Central Otago. The Legend of Winstone Blackhat is published by Vintage.
Topics: arts, books, author interview
Regions: Otago
Tags: Tanya Moir, Central Otago
Duration: 11'40"
14:38
Steubenville
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Kiwi Eleanor Bishop bases her new show on a notorious rape that was revealed to the victim via tweets. Eleanor is studying directing in America on a Fulbright Scholarship at the Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama in Pittsburgh. For Steubenville, which opens this week, she's using the rape trial transcript as well as interviews, and for good measure, she's mixing in the Sleeping Beauty story.
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Kiwi Eleanor Bishop bases her new show on a notorious rape that was revealed to the victim via tweets. Eleanor is studying directing in America on a Fulbright Scholarship at the Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama in Pittsburgh. For Steubenville, which opens this week, she's using the rape trial transcript as well as interviews, and for good measure, she's mixing in the Sleeping Beauty story.
Eleanor Bishop directs Molly Griggs in Steubenville
Topics: arts, crime
Regions:
Tags: Eleanor Bishop, Steubenville, rape culture, USA, theatre
Duration: 7'55"
14:49
Farewelling Terry Pratchett
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Fantasy writer and satirist Terry Pratchett created The Discworld, a place where millions of readers have lingered with his many wonderfully flawed characters. Few writers have 70 books to their name. Death came for Sir Terry on Friday. Simon Morris and Lynn are among his many fans and we replay an interview broadcast on What's Going On, back in 2002.
Topics: author interview, books
Regions:
Tags: Terry Pratchett, Discworld, fantasy
Duration: 7'59"
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12:39 Recycling silver jewellery
Jeweller and environmentalist Fran Carter plans to turn people's unfashionable unwanted sterling silver jewellery into contemporary works of art. To donate, email Fran or pop into Toi Pōneke, 61 Able Smith St in Wellington.
12:47 The War Play
Phil Braithwaite the great nephew of executed then pardoned First World War soldier Jack Braithwaite, turns his story into a stage play – The War Play at the Fortune Theatre.
1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris
Simon Morris looks at three rather average films: fantasy epic Seventh Son, starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore, conman comedy Focus with Will Smith, and Kidnapping Mr Heineken starring Anthony Hopkins as the snatched beer baron.
1:34 Francis Gallop
Francis Gallop is a designer and occasional writer and director based in Edinburgh – though right now, he’s working with design students at Toi Whakaari NZ Drama school on a film-based project. He’s a champion of new writing and site specific performance. Notable works have included Inferno a labyrinthine staging of Dante’s epic with a cast of 80 through the bowels of Glasgow, and Sweet Fanny Adams in Eden, an adult fairytale that unfolded across seven acres of landscaped woodland. Francis has worked with many of Scotland’s leading companies including the Royal Lyceum, the Tron and Boilerhouse.
1:47 Thomas Monckton likes to make people laugh
Last year, The Pianist won the 2014 Total Theatre Award for Best Circus Show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is a production that has seen Thomas Monckton travel between New Zealand and Europe, collaborating alongside Finnish Company, Circo Aereo. It seems like a giant (and almost unlikely) leap for the small town boy – born in Patea, he now resides in Paris – a place that saw him initially sleeping in a tent and living on the city streets, on his arrival.
The Pianist is on at Circa Theatre in Wellington until 21 March, before heading to Auckland’s Herald Theatre and The Festival of Colour (Wanaka) in April.
2:05 The Laugh Track
Actor Gavin Rutherford is about to appear in the New Zealand premier of a Broadway production of Charles Dickens’ unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Wellington’s Circa Theatre, opening on 28 March.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood cast includes Lloyd Scott, Judith Gibson, Awhimai Fraser, Barbara Graham and Gavin Rutherford
2:26 Author interview
Tanya Moir talks about her 12-year-old protagonist Winstone, who escapes his dire home and school life to seek sanctuary in the wilderness of Central Otago. The Legend of Winstone Blackhat is published by Vintage.
2:38 Steubenville
Kiwi Eleanor Bishop bases her new show on a notorious rape that was revealed to the victim via tweets. Eleanor is studying directing in America on a Fulbright Scholarship at the Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama in Pittsburgh. For Steubenville, which opens this week, she's using the rape trial transcript as well as interviews, and for good measure, she's mixing in the Sleeping Beauty story.
Eleanor Bishop directs Molly Griggs in Steubenville
2:49 Farewelling Terry Pratchett
Fantasy writer and satirist Terry Pratchett created The Discworld, a place where millions of readers have lingered with his many wonderfully flawed characters. Few writers have 70 books to their name. Death came for Sir Terry on Friday. Simon Morris and Lynn are among his many fans and we replay an interview broadcast on What’s Going On, back in 2002.
3:05 The Drama Hour
This week on the drama hour – strange cubes on the street and strange voices on the air waves. Tune in for the final piece of the remarkable multi-platform event that is Stranger Things.
===4:06 PM. | None (National)===
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In 1787 at the age of 15, Esther Abrahams was convicted of stealing lace and was transported to New South Wales with her infant daughter on one of The First Fleet ships. On board she met Lieutenant George Johnston, and the couple went on to have seven children. They became well-to-do land owners and George eventually held the post of Lieutenant-Governor of the colony (ABC)
===5:00 PM. | None (National)===
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A roundup of today's news and sport
===5:11 PM. | Spiritual Outlook===
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Exploring different spiritual, moral and ethical issues and topics (RNZ)
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17:05
Spiritual Outlook for 15 March 2015
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How a ceramic garden is providing comfort to the whanau of Mercy Hospice in Auckland.
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The courtyard at Mercy Hospice in Auckland with the memorial ceramic panels on the walls
“I have my days still when I get upset and even when I’m up here I can get upset, but it’s just a peaceful place to remember Jason.”
– Don Cassidy
For Don Cassidy and his wife Cheryl, their son Jason is never far from their minds. Jason was just 26 when he was diagnosed with bowel cancer in October 1999. He died three months later. In his final months, Jason and his family received support and care through Mercy Hospice on Mountain Road in Epsom. Don says even though they were some of the darkest days for the Cassidy family, he can never say thank enough for the kindness and grace shown to them by Mercy Hospice staff.
“They just looked after him, they were wonderful. We could never thank them enough for what they did for him and for us as well… we could stay the night in his room and they used to feed us and look after us as well.”
And so began a relationship between the Cassidys and Mercy that has lasted more than 15 years but was truly cemented when Mercy Hospice moved to its current site on College Hill in 2007.
It was here two years later, that the hospice began installing remembrance tiles on its courtyard walls. The Cassidy’s were invited to choose one of these ceramic birds or leaves in memory of Jason. Don and Cheryl are now regular visitors to the courtyard. “That’s the nice part of it, we can come up here we know as part of a family and we’re always made to feel welcome and we can sit out here as long as we like… it’s really a wonderful place.”
A place and a space that has been enhanced through the work and vision of Auckland ceramicist Bob Steiner and his wife Alison.
Bob and Alison Steiner in front of a batch of newly fired ceramics at their Avondale pottery studio
Bob Steiner’s career in pottery was ignited at the age of 15 when he received his first throwing wheel from his father. Inspired by a secondary-school art teacher, Bob built a diesel-fuelled kiln at home and never looked back. Ten years living and working in the Hokianga in the Far North, fostered a passion for integrating New Zealand’s native flora and fauna into his ceramic work.
Back in Auckland it was his garden in Kingsland that continued to inspire him. When Bob decided he wanted to create larger pieces for outdoor settings, it was his wife Alison who saw the potential in the courtyard of Mercy Hospice. “I kept looking at the wall art thinking it is so beautiful it would really good to see it on mass... I went to Mercy Hospice and talked to them about doing a composition just in their foyer. And she said ‘well we’ve got this big courtyard’ and I went out there and it was like, wow this is really amazing… and it evolved from there.”
As the panels were composed, the individual tiles were sold to raise all important funds for Mercy, provides specialist palliative care to around 1000 people with life limiting illnesses and their families. The memorial garden was completed in February of this year, with the unveiling of the final composition and in total the art installation covers more than 16 meters of wall space.
Titled Past, present and future the project serves a double purpose, as much for the pleasure of the living as a remembrance of those who are no longer here. While Bob Steiner and his wife Alison say they feel a great responsibility about how the installation and its impact, they say it’s a project they feel honoured to be involved with. “It’s really special and you don’t want people to feel like it’s just a commercial thing,” says Alison. "Yes we have to make a living but on the other side of it it’s just sharing and giving people the opportunity to have something beautiful around them… it’s really lovely to know that there are items there giving them pleasure or comfort.”
Topics: life and society, spiritual practices, arts
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Tags: hospice, palliative care
Duration: 25'11"
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===5:40 PM. | None (National)===
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Maori news and interviews from throughout the motu (RNZ)
===6:06 PM. | Te Ahi Kaa===
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Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)
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18:08
Indigenous Convicts - Hindsight
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The stories of Hohepa Te Umuroa of Ngāti Hau (Te Ati Haunui a Pāpārangi), Khoi San Leader David Sturraman and Aborigine Musquito are woven into a documentary produced by Lorena Allam and Louis Mitchell from the Social History show Hindsight broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) Radio National.
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Grave of Hohepa Te Umuroa. New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives. Ref: PAColl-6388-58. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
The stories of Hohepa Te Umuroa of Ngāti Hau (Te Ati Haunui a Pāpārangi), Khoi San Leader David Sturraman and Aborigine Musquito are woven into a documentary produced by Lorena Allam and Louis Mitchell from the Social History show Hindsight broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) Radio National.
Hohepa Te Umuroa (c. 1820 – 1847) was arrested and charged with rebellion against the Queen following an attack at the Boulcott farm in the Hutt Valley. Following a court martial for Hohepa ordered by Governor George Grey; Hohepa and five of this kinsman were not able to defend themselves in court due to language barriers and no legal representation, the men pleaded guilty.
Instead of regarding the men as Prisoners of War, they were shipped off as Criminal Convicts to Van Diemens Land, and then to a penal colony on Maria Island, Tasmania.
In this documentary, historians Kristyn Harman and Clare Land tell the stories of these three men, the reasons why they were taken away from their homelands to their sad deaths on foreign soil, and the emotional plight of the men’s descendants to return their bones, home.
Topics: history, te ao Maori
Regions: Whanganui
Tags: Hohepa Te Umuroa
Duration: 40'02"
18:08
Whakatauki mo 15 o Poutū te rangi (March) 2015
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Toitu te kupu, Toitu te mana, Toitu te whenua. Hold fast to Maori culture, with language, with mana and without land, the essence of being Maori will be lost.
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Toitu te kupu, toitu te mana, toitu te whenua - Hold fast to Māori culture, without language, without mana and without land, the essence of Māori be lost.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 30"
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===7:06 PM. | One In Five===
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The issues and experience of disability (RNZ)
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19:06
Attitude - Part 1
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Smooth-talking James has a lot of attitude and doesn't tolerate fools gladly. Then he's blinded in an accident and finds other people's attitudes to him have changed completely.
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Duration: 26'10"
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Attitude was recorded on location in Christchurch, including in Cathedral Square before the earthquakes. The cast includes a real guide-dog Zinny. Zinny seemed untroubled by the fact that he was playing a girl – Blondie: A key role in the play itself. Zinny’s owner, Teri McElroy, provided assistance. The cast included Paul McLaughlin and Eilish Moran. Eilish’s character Laura is a wheelchair user and the Court theatre provided the prop-chair – which had to be wheeled back each evening.
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Desde el Alma, by Osvaldo Pugliese, EMI, Allsenica 8358862
Milonga de mis Amores, by Osvaldo Pugliese, EMI, Allsenica 8358862
Mignight Mystery by Chris Marshall, Bruton BR431
===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)
===7:45 PM. | In Parliament===
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An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house (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 15 March 2015 ( Part 1 )
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Stories of yesteryear from around New Zealand
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Duration: 53'53"
21:05
Sounds Historical for 15 March 2015 ( Part 2 )
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Stories of yesteryear from around New Zealand
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Duration: 56'08"
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8:10 Today In New Zealand History 4’30”
Death of artist Nicolas Chevalier 15 March 1902.
8:17 Artist: Kevin Lynch and the Bruce family with the Don Spence Combo 4’10”
Song: It’s A Lovely Day
Composer: Lynch
Album: n/a
Label: 45 HMV PR 555
Produced in the 1970s for Fiordland Travel (now Real Journeys). Kevin Lynch died at Arrowtown in 2008 at the age of 60.
8:23 Homework
Name at least four New Zealand locations which are named after New Zealand Premiers/Prime Ministers.
8:25 The Home Guard in WWII
The Northland Home Guard in World War Two. Ex-policeman Spencer Gawlor recalls his Home Guard service in the Houhora district in Northland. Recalls that the Japanese were expected to land in Exhibition Bay and that the Battle of the Coral Sea saved New Zealand. Recorded in April 1976.
8:34 1985 robbery in Gore 9’20”
Multiple news flash excerpts from Radio New Zealand's 4ZG station manager, Lance Eccles and announcer, Stu Kelly as they report on an armed robbery and homicide as it happens outside the radio station, in the Main Street, Gore. 6 Jun 1985
Kevin Fox, aged 32, and his wife Donna, aged 26, were those who died. They were in their car and for 40 minutes Kevin Fox was in the back seat holding a shotgun to his wife's neck. Then he shot her and was shot by police as he left the car. The couple had sent a hostage into the bank to cash a cheque, apparently for a drug deal. And he had quietly raised the alarm. Those appeals over the radio to stay away had little effect and crowds gathered.
8:44 Waiouru Revisited 8’18”
In 1952 Colin McKay visited the army camp at Waiouru and recorded his memories of army training there.
8:53 War Report 27 6’20”
By early 1915 the garrison on Samoa was being relieved so that men like Leonard Leary could be sent overseas. Leary describes the replacements and his own next move which was to England to join the artillery at Woolwich.
By 1915 songs were beginning to emerge which actually reflected the events of the war, like “The Old Contemptibles” which commemorates the original British Expeditionary Force, wiped out by the end of 1914.
The phrase “conscientious objector” was now being heard more often and one man who refused to serve, Duncan McCormack explains his attitude. In these early days, before conscription, there was growing pressure on young men to volunteer and in March 1915, as training for the new rugby season was about to begin, some senior club teams had to withdraw from the competitions as so many players had joined up. One Dunedin club was taken to task for still fielding a team - back came the response from the club secretary pointing out that of last year’s senior team, four men were already overseas and two were about to leave, one was up country for his health and six were married men. It’s fair to say that the horrors of war were yet to come. The troops were certainly away from home but only occasionally would a telegram arrive bearing bad news. In January 1915 four men died on active service, in February seven died and in March there were also seven, but in April after the Anzac landings 271 New Zealand soldiers would be killed.
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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: Robert Carr
Song: The Old Contemptibles
Composer: Carr
Album: Oh, It’s a Lovely War Vol 2
Label: CD41 486309
9:05 As I Remember 1’46”
Whitebait by Lynette Elphick of Blaketown, Greymouth read by Maggie Hedge.
9:07 The Nurses’ Organisation have just launched their oral history website
In this extract a brief memory from June Rapson (nee Page), an only child, who was born in Dunedin in 1927 before her family moved to Lawrence for most of her childhood. She decided to go nursing as it was one of the few occupations which provided accommodation. June began at Dunedin Public Hospital in 1946, and while she remembers there being a lot of rules for the student nurses, ‘it was fun’ to be in a class with girls she became good friends with.
9:09 Artist: Bunny Walters 3’22”
Song: Brandy
Composer: English/Kerr
Album: n/a
Label: 45 Impact IR 1073
Walters born in Katikati and in 1978 recorded a promotional record for the Labour Party called "To Be Free with Labour". Brandy a big hit in 1972
9:14 Homework
Name at least four New Zealand locations which are named after New Zealand Premiers/Prime Ministers.
9:15 This Is New Zealand 11’36”
An episode of a 1950s series in which Jim Henderson reports on the tobacco growers of Nelson province.
9:28 The 50th anniversary of the opening of the Benmore power station on the Waitaki River 29:48
This documentary was produced in the studios of the NZBC in Timaru It includes interviews with the men on the job at Benmore, Aviemore and Waitaki dams. Excerpts of a ballad "Song of the Waitaki", sung by The Plainsmen, are interspersed with short interviews with interviewees, who are mostly unidentified. Unidentified men describe Benmore Dam; a shift operator and a station operator talk about their roles at the power station; a man talks about recreational boating on the lakes. An unidentified man talks about the building of Aviemore Dam and work to beautify the surrounding area; a man talks about recruiting the workforce to build the dams; a man talks about the batching plant which has been used at several dams in Central Otago; several men talk about what it is like living and working in Otematata. A man talks about the history of the Waitaki power project which started in 1928. He moves to different areas of the station and dam and describes their functions. He explains how salmon are relocated when they become caught in the dam tail race. Station operator Brian Parsons talks about his role.
Historian William Vance talks about the history of the Waitaki Valley and river and reads a description of the area by an early European settler. He talks about its Maori history and the swaggers, diggers and shearers who passed through the region. An unidentified man talks about future plans to develop canals and hydro stations at Lakes Tekapo, Pukaki and Ohau.
Written and produced by 3ZC announcer Bill Timmings, historical data supplied by William Vance, technical supervision by Richard McClay.
===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. | Hidden Treasures===
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(1 of 8, Radio Express)
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Artist: Smokeshop
Song: Fusion at Room Temperature
Composer: Watson, Smokeshop
Album: Fusion at Room Temperature
Label: Pagan Records
Artist: The Funkees
Song: Dancing Time
Composer: The Funkees
Album: Dancing Time: The Best of Eastern Nigeria's Afro-Rock Exponents
Label: Soundway Recordings UK
Artist: Annie Lennox
Song: I Put A Spell On You
Composer: Screaming Jay Hawkins
Album: Nostalgia
Label: Blue Note Records
Artist: Fanfare Ciocarlia
Song: Que Dolor
Composer: Fanfare Ciocarlia
Album: Best of Gypsy Brass
Label: Asphalt Tango
Artist: Marlon Williams
Song: Dark Child
Composer: T Moore, Marlon Williams
Album: Kiwi Hit Disc 178
Label: Caroline
Artist: Ry Cooder
Song: Fernando Sez
Composer: Ry Cooder
Album: I Flathead
Label: Nonesuch Records
Artist: Automobile Blues
Song: Lightnin' Hopkins
Composer: Lightnin' Hopkins
Album: 101 - Mojo Hand - The Essential Lightnin' Hopkins
Label: 2013 AP music Ltd
Artist: William Bell
Song: Born Under a Bad Sign
Composer: William Bell, Booker T Jones
Album: The Complete Stax / Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 2: 1968-1971
Label: Stax Records
Artist: The McCoys
Song: Sorrow
Composer: Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Richard Gottehrer
Album: Hang On Sloopy - The Best of the McCoys
Label: Sony Music
Artist: Family
Song: Hung Up Down
Composer: Roger Chapman, Charlie Whitney
Album: Family Entertainment
Label: Reprise Records
Artist: Starlings
Song: Thats it you're in trouble
Composer: Sheehan
Album: Valid
Label: Anxious
Artist: Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon
Song: Joggie Boogie
Composer: Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon
Album: Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Artist: The Gloaming
Song: Sailor's Bonnett
Composer: The Gloaming
Album: The Gloaming
Label: Real world Records
Artist: Tangerine Dream
Song: Stratosfear
Composer: Froese, Baumann, Franke
Album: Stratosfear
Label: Virgin Records 1976