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:
23 March 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris (RNZ); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:30 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 In the Land of the Dancing Kings, by Paul Horan (1 of 5, RNZ); 3:30 Science (RNZ); 5:10 War Report (RNZ)
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:18 Pacific News 6:22 Rural News 6:27 and 8:45 Te Manu Korihi News 6:44 and 7:41 NZ Newspapers 6:47 Business News 7:42 and 8:34 Sports News 6:46 and 7:24 Traffic
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06:00
Top Stories for Monday 23 March 2015
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As the Salvation Army rejects its potential role in the government's social housing policy, we ask Bill English if it's a programme going nowhere. In Vanuatu, aid workers say the trickle of aid getting through isnt enough and Martin Guptil's innings of a lifetime, and what it means as the Black Caps prepare to meet South Africa.
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Duration: 33'25"
06:06
Sports News for 23 March 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'08"
06:15
Pacific News for 23 March 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'34"
06:23
Morning Rural News for 23 March 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'07"
06:28
Te Manu Korihi News for 23 March 2015
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The national rate of people being hospitalised for rheumatic fever has dropped further than officials thought it would; The Ministry of Education has backed down after it was taken to court over its intervention at a Māori immersion school; A South Taranaki tribe is visiting places in the South Island this week where their ancestors were sent to in the 1800s as punishment for rising up against the Crown for seizing their whenua.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Duration: 3'28"
06:41
Salvation Army rejects Govt's social housing plan
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The Government's plans to sell off as many as eight thousand state houses to social housing providers has been dealt a major blow.
Topics: housing, politics
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Tags: Salvation Army, Andrew Little
Duration: 2'02"
06:44
Radio NZ's cricket correspondent on latest World Cup action
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A double ton from Martin Guptill ensured New Zealand's place at the semifinals of the Cricket World Cup.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Cricket World Cup
Duration: 3'24"
06:48
Lower milk costs expected to boost Fonterra's earnings
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Analysts are expecting a rebound in Fonterra's half-year earnings when it reports on Wednesday, thanks in part to lower milk costs.
Topics: business
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Tags: Fonterra
Duration: 2'42"
06:51
Pumpkin Patch will continue to improve company performance
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Pumpkin Patch says it remains on track to reap the full benefit of its plan to reverse the company's fortunes this financial year.
Topics: business
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Tags: Pumpkin Patch
Duration: 1'47"
06:53
Analyst: Xero now has a fighting chance in the United States
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The analyst who questioned whether Xero could succeed at all in the United States is now forecasting it will achieve a 5 percent market share there.
Topics: business
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Tags: Xero
Duration: 3'07"
06:56
Jim Parker in Australia
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Across the Tasman, and an investment bank has bowed to pressure from the New South Wales state government and doctored its research on a contentious privatisation plan.
Topics: business
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 1'04"
06:57
Week ahead
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On the corporate front, Fonterra releases its half-year earnings on Wednesday, as does Kathmandu and Nufarm, while Hallenstein Glasson reports its half-year results on Friday.
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Duration: 26"
06:58
Morning Markets for 23 March 2015
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On Wall St, stocks rose following a fall in the US dollar, pushing the Nasdaq to a 15-year high and helping the S&P 500 snap a three-week string of losses.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'24"
07:07
Sports News for 23 March 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'06"
07:11
Salvation Army not up for buying ex-state houses
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The Government's plans to sell off as many as eight thousand state houses to social housing providers has been dealt a major blow.
Topics: housing, politics
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Tags: Salvation Army
Duration: 4'34"
07:16
Government responds to Salvation Army decision
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Listening to that is the Finance and Housing New Zealand Minister, Bill English.
Topics: housing, politics
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Tags: Salvation Army
Duration: 2'53"
07:19
Report on the state of Vanuatu's outer islands
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Residents on Vanuatu's outer Islands are running out of food and water and desperately need help.
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Tags: Vanuatu, Cyclone Pam
Duration: 3'59"
07:24
Nicky Hager on latest Snowden revelations
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The investigative journalist, Nicky Hager, says New Zealand's electronic spy agency spied on candidates vying to be the director general of the World Trade Organisation in a bid to help the New Zealand contender Tim Groser.
Topics: politics
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Tags: GCSB, WTO, World Trade Organisation
Duration: 3'57"
07:28
Comment from RNZ political editor
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Listening to that is our political editor Brent Edwards.
Topics: politics
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Tags: WTO, GCSB, World Trade Organisation
Duration: 3'15"
07:31
Black Caps face South Africa for place in final
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Martin Guptill cemented his place in cricketing history on Saturday, by recording the highest ever World Cup score of 237 not out.
Topics: sport
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Tags: cricket
Duration: 3'48"
07:38
Crowds gather for protest against Auckland wharf expansion
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Protestors are demanding that the expansion of a downtown Auckland wharf is stopped.
Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland wharf, protestors
Duration: 3'06"
07:41
Auckland mayor absent from wharf protest
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Listening to that is the Auckland Mayor Len Brown.
Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland wharf, protestors
Duration: 3'36"
07:45
Phil Goff weighs in on wharf extension plan
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Listening to that was Labour's Auckland affairs spokesman and potential mayoral candidate Phil Goff.
Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland wharf, protestors
Duration: 3'37"
07:51
Long-awaited free trade deal with Korea to be signed
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A free trade deal between New Zealand and Korea will be signed and sealed in Seoul today -- an agreement that's been tough to negotiate and has taken five years to conclude.
Topics: politics, business
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Tags: Korea, free trade deal
Duration: 3'12"
07:54
Police label annual Dunedin party unsafe
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The University of Otago says if the man who smashed an ambulance windscreen at a Dunedin street party turns out to be a student, he will face disciplinary action and could be expelled from the university.
Topics: crime
Regions: Otago
Tags: Dunedin, street party
Duration: 2'58"
07:57
Weather clears in Wanaka for NASA balloon launch
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NASA is preparing to launch a gigantic super balloon from Wanaka in a test to see whether the area can be used for experiements into the future.
Topics: science
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Tags: NASA, balloon, super balloon
Duration: 2'36"
08:07
Sports News for 23 March 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'07"
08:11
Government's social housing policy in ruins
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Opposition parties say the Government's social housing policy is in ruins following the Salvation Army's decision not to buy any state houses.
Topics: politics, housing
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Tags: Salvation Army
Duration: 2'42"
08:14
Social housing providers want more detail on state house sales
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But the Finance and Housing New Zealand Minister Bill English says the plan isn't dead and the Government is still working with social housing providers.
Topics: politics, housing
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Tags: Salvation Army, social housing
Duration: 3'23"
08:17
NASA balloon launch over Wanaka
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Reporter Steve Wilde joins us again from Wanaka
Topics: science
Regions: Otago
Tags: NASA, balloon, balloon launch
Duration: 1'08"
08:19
A New Zealander fights for aid for Vanuatu
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Residents of Vanuatu's outer islands are still waiting for aid more than a week after Cyclone Pam tore across the archipelago
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Tags: Vanuatu, Cyclone Pam
Duration: 3'42"
08:23
Increase in refugee quota wont be considered til next year
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The government says it has no immediate plans to increase the number of refugees accepted into New Zealand each year.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Duration: 4'00"
08:27
Guptill's knock lauded by former Black Cap Jacob Oram
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Martin Guptill cemented his place in cricketing history on Saturday, by recording the highest ever World Cup score of 237 not out.
Topics: sport
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Tags: cricket, Cricket World Cup
Duration: 3'39"
08:31
Markets Update for 23 March 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'04"
08:36
More prisoners to study while in jail
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The offer of more places for people wanting to study while in prison is being hailed as a step in the right direction.
Topics: crime, education
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Tags: re-offending, prisoners, study while in prison
Duration: 3'10"
08:39
Convicted murderer turned PhD graduate
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Dr Paul Wood spent 11 years in prison for murdering his drug dealer at age 18, but completed Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Psychology and Philosophy while in prison.
Topics: crime, education
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Tags: re-offending, prisoners, study while in prison
Duration: 3'12"
08:44
Te Manu Korihi News for 23 March 2015
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Parents who removed their children from a Māori immersion state school say they've been betrayed by the Ministry of Education; The national rate of people being hospitalised for rheumatic fever has dropped further than officials thought it would; A South Taranaki tribe is visiting places in the South Island this week where their ancestors were sent to in the 1800s as punishment for rising up against the Crown for seizing their whenua.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Duration: 3'12"
08:47
Unease over work, immigration for international students
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Educators are divided over using the promise of jobs and permanent residence to entice foreign students to this country.
Topics: education, refugees and migrants
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Tags: foreign students, Work rights
Duration: 3'11"
08:50
Wgtn takes over Akl as the city settling most refugees
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Wellington has overtaken Auckland as the city that accommodates the most refugees.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: refugees, settlement
Duration: 3'34"
08:54
Phil Kafcaloudes with news from Australia
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Time to chat to our Melbourne correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes.
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Duration: 5'01"
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===9:06 AM. | Nine To Noon===
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Current affairs and topics of interest, including: 10:45 The Reading: Eggs for Easter, by Barbara Anderson As he trudges home from the store with "the usual" purchase, a widower recalls his late wife and her mannerisms (RNZ)
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09:05
Mother committed to Reeva Steenkamp's legacy
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Reeva Steenkamp's mother, June Steenkamp has written a book about the family's ordeal and she's in New Zealand for a domestic violence speaking engagement hosted by the charity Shine.
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Her face is instantly recognisable. But it’s not the epitaph any parent would want.
Reeva Steenkamp, qualified lawyer and professional model, was shot and killed by her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius in his home in Pretoria, South Africa, a little over two years ago.
He was already famous as the “Blade Runner”; the athlete who defied his disability to take on the best in the world.
For Reeva’s mother, June Steenkamp, the loss of her 29-year-old daughter in the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013 was “the beginning of a nightmare”.
Her book - Reeva - A Mother's Story - begins with those words.
Pistorius admitted shooting Reeva, but said he mistook her for an intruder before firing four shots through the bathroom door.
He pleaded not guilty to murder but was convicted of culpable homicide, similar to manslaughter, and jailed for five years.
June and Barry Steenkamp attended the lengthy, emotionally-charged trial poring over “every piece of evidence” to figure what had happened in the lead up to their daughter’s death.
"We want to find some comfort from being able to think our daughter died without suffering," June Steenkamp said.
At times, it was too much.
"My distress became uncontainable… the trial phase is over, but we don't have closure."
The Steenkamp family is focused on establishing a trust in Reeva’s name to help build a women’s shelter in Port Elizabeth.
June Steenkamp talks on Nine to Noon.
June Steenkamp will speak at an event, hosted by the charity Shine, about domestic violence in Auckland this Saturday (March 28).
HELPLINE
If you or someone you know is affected by domestic abuse call Shine’s national helpline on 0508 744 633 (9am to 11pm, 7 days a week) or visit www.2shine.org.nz
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Tags: Reeva Steenkamp, Oscar Pistorius, South Africa, domestic violence
Duration: 26'08"
09:37
New Zealand joins global genetic study into Anorexia Nervosa
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Cynthia Bulik is here to launch the New Zealand arm of the global genetic study into anorexia nervosa. The New Zealand study is hosted by the University of Otago, Christchurch. Professor Bulik is the Founding Director of the University of North Carolina Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders and Professor at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
Topics: health, education
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Tags: anorexia
Duration: 10'52"
09:51
Europe Correspondent Seamus Kearney
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Ongoing political negotiations over the Greek debt situation. Local elections in France. Protests in Dublin over wate charges.
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Tags: Europe
Duration: 7'56"
10:06
Beverley Forrester - Vocal champion of Wool
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Beverley Forrester is a farmer, sheep breeder, fashion designer, yarn manufacturer, tourism operator and a vocal champion of wool. She says a generation of consumers have been bombarded with cheap, mass produced, synthetic alternatives, but she believes there's a resurgence in demand for the living fibre, and for knitting, which she describes as "the new yoga". After the sudden death of her farmer husband Jim Forrester just before his 54th birthday, Beverley found herself running their Hurunui farm and sheep stud. She's developed a successful brand of natural coloured, undyed yarns, which are now sold internationally, as well as her own fashion label. Beverley Forrester talks with Kathryn Ryan about her love of what she believes is New Zealand's best primary product.
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Beverley Forrester is a farmer, sheep breeder, fashion designer, yarn manufacturer, tourism operator and a vocal champion of wool.
She says a generation of consumers have been bombarded with cheap, mass produced, synthetic alternatives, but she believes there's a resurgence in demand for the living fibre, and for knitting, which she describes as "the new yoga".
After the sudden death of her farmer husband Jim Forrester just before his 54th birthday, Beverley found herself running their Hurunui farm and sheep stud.
She’s developed a successful brand of natural coloured, undyed yarns, which are now sold internationally, as well as her own fashion label.
Beverley Forrester talks with Kathryn Ryan about her love of what she believes is New Zealand’s best primary product.
Topics: rural, business, life and society, environment, economy, history
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Tags: wool, Beverley Forrester
Duration: 30'41"
10:41
Book review: 'Whale Years' by Gregory O'Brien
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Published by Auckland University Press. Reviewed by David Hill.
Topics: books
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Duration: 3'28"
11:06
Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams
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Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams on the Northland by-election, Phil Goff and the Auckland Mayoralty.
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Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams on the Northland by-election, Phil Goff and the Auckland Mayoralty.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 25'51"
11:35
Beetroot with Nicola Galloway
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Chef and Nelson-based food writer Nicola Galloway's recipes focus on using nutrient-rich ingredients and reducing refined sugar and grains. Nicola is also particularly interested in traditional cooking techniques and food preservation. She says we can learn a lot from how our great-grandparents ate, free of packaged food and sourced within a small area. Recipes: Raw Beetroot and Feta Salad, Marinated Beetroot and Chocolate Beetroot Brownies.
Topics: food
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Tags: Nicola Galloway, beetroot
Duration: 12'41"
11:48
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
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Outdoorsman and adventurer Kennedy Warne discusses cartographic curiosities, including a map that shows where would you end up if you drilled straight through the earth from your back yard.
Topics: life and society, environment
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Tags: maps, cartography, Kennedy Warne
Duration: 11'37"
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09:05 June Steenkamp, mother of Reeva Steenkamp
Reeva Steenkamp's mother June Steenkamp is currently in New Zealand making sure her daughter's memory is kept alive.
A qualified lawyer and professional model, South African Reeva Steenkamp was 29 when she was killed in the Pretorian home of her boyfriend, Olympian Oscar Pistorius. She was shot multiple times in early hours of Valentine's Day 2013, while locked in the bathroom.
Pistorius who is a double-amputee Olympic sprinter admitted shooting her, saying he mistook her for an intruder before firing four shots through the bathroom door. He pleaded not guilty to murder and after a lengthy trial last year, was convicted of culpable homicide, (which is similar to manslaughter)and jailed for five years. Reeva Steenkamp's mother, June Steenkamp has written a book about the family's ordeal and she's in New Zealand for a domestic violence speaking engagement hosted by the charity Shine.
The Light at the End of the Tunnel black tie dinner on 28 March at the Heritage Auckland Hotel is the only public speaking engagement in New Zealand by Mrs Steenkamp.
If you or someone you know is affected by domestic abuse call Shine's national helpline on 0508 744 633 (9 am to 11pm, 7 days a week) or visit Shine.
Book: Reeva: A Mother's Story by June Steenkamp, published by Little Brown UK RRP$37.99
09:20 New Zealand joins global genetic study into Anorexia Nervosa
Cynthia Bulik is here to launch the New Zealand arm of the global genetic study into Anorexia Nervosa. The New Zealand study is hosted by the University of Otago, Christchurch.
Professor Bulik is the Founding Director of the University of North Carolina Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders and Professor at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
09:45 Europe Correspondent Seamus Kearney
10:05 Beverley Forrester - Vocal champion of Wool
Beverley Forrester is a farmer, sheep breeder, fashion designer, yarn manufacturer, tourism operator and a vocal champion of wool. She says a generation of consumers have been bombarded with cheap, mass produced, synthetic alternatives, but she believes there's a resurgence in demand for the living fibre, and for knitting, which she describes as "the new yoga". After the sudden death of her farmer husband Jim Forrester just before his 54th birthday, Beverley found herself running their Hurunui farm and sheep stud. She’s developed a successful brand of natural coloured, undyed yarns, which are now sold internationally, as well as her own fashion label. Beverley Forrester talks with Kathryn Ryan about her love of what she believes is New Zealand’s best primary product.
Photo by Guy Frederick.
10:35 Book review: 'Whale Years' by Gregory O'Brien
Published by Auckland University Press. Reviewed by David Hill.
10:45 The Reading: 'Eggs for Easter' by Barbara Anderson
As he trudges home from the store with “the usual” purchase, a widower recalls his late wife and her mannerisms. (1 of 1, RNZ).
11:05 Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams
Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams on the Northland by-election, Phil Goff and the Auckland Mayoralty.
11:30 Beetroot with Nicola Galloway
Chef and Nelson-based food writer Nicola Galloway's recipes focus on using nutrient-rich ingredients and reducing refined sugar and grains.
Nicola is also particularly interested in traditional cooking techniques and food preservation. She says we can learn a lot from how our great-grandparents ate, free of packaged food and sourced within a small area.
Recipes: Raw Beetroot and Feta Salad, Marinated Beetroot and Chocolate Beetroot Brownies
11:45 Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Outdoorsman and adventurer Kennedy Warne discusses cartographic curiosities, including a map that shows where would you end up if you drilled straight through the earth from your back yard.
Maps collected by author and New York Times columnist Frank Jacobs in a book called Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities. Two of the curious maps are one that looks at how to divvy up the Antarctic pie fairly, and one that looks at antipodes.
On the seriously useful cartographic side, there is a terrific website put together by Christchurch web developer Gavin Harriss that puts the entire collection of Land Information NZ topo maps together in a single seamless map site. Type in the name of any mountain, lake, river, beach, bay, glacier etc and the NZ Topo Map will zoom you in with all the lavish detail contained on 1:50 topo maps. This is a website to linger over and dream big adventurous dreams. Much more interesting to explorers that Google Maps/Earth, which are visually nice, but don't give you the land information of topomaps.
Gallery: A peachy walk in Northland
Volcanic plug protrudes through forest on Bream Head, with Marsden Point oil refinery in distance. Photograph by Kennedy Warne.
===Noon | Midday Report===
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Radio New Zealand news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including: 12:16 Business News 12:26 Sport 12:34 Rural News 12:43 Worldwatch
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12:00
Midday News for 23 March 2015
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A disciplinary hearing for the engineer whose company designed Christchurch's CTV building and the founder of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, dies.
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Duration: 15'14"
12:17
2degrees buys ISP Snap: plans to deliver content too
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The mobile phone provider, Two Degrees, says it can now offer a full range of telecommunication services to customers with the purchase of Snap.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'15"
12:19
Consumer confidence picks up
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Consumer confidence has picked up, due to falling petrol prices and mortgage rates, boosting household's spending power.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'22"
12:20
Netflix will launch its New Zealand service tomorrow
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Netflix will launch its New Zealand service tomorrow, with its cheapest plans starting at just under 10 dollars a month.
Topics: business
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Tags: Netflix
Duration: 56"
12:24
Midday Markets for 23 March 2015
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Don Lewthwaite at First NZ Capital.
Topics: business
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'38"
12:27
Midday Sports News for 23 March 2015
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Injury has struck the New Zealand cricket side a day out from their World Cup semi final against South Africa in Auckland.
Topics: sport
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Tags: cricket
Duration: 2'49"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 23 March 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 7'49"
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===1:06 PM. | Afternoons===
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Information and debate, people and places around NZ
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13:10
Your Song - Citizen
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Vanessa Rushton from Wellington has chosen "Citizen" from Trinity Roots.
Topics: music
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Duration: 12'11"
13:20
New Zealand Retro: The Miniskirt
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Former Fashion and Beauty Editor, Michal McKay. Dr Tanisha C. Ford is an assistant professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Popular radio and television personality Jennie Goodwin.
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Left: Wellington meter maids wearing new uniforms, 1973. Photo: Alexander Turnbull Library. Right: Young women in mini skirts dancing. Photo: Revelle Jackson/Upper Hutt City Library Heritage Collections.
The history and impact of the miniskirt with former fashion and beauty editor Michal McKay; Dr Tanisha C. Ford, an assistant professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; and popular radio and television personality Jennie Goodwin.
Three American college students in 1973 wearing shorts, a miniskirt, and a minidress. Image: Ed Uthman (CC BY.SA 2.0).
Topics: history
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Tags: fashion
Duration: 39'37"
14:10
Tsunami Blind Spot - Professor James Goff
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New research has found that New Zealand has a tsunami 'blind spot' and it's our west coast.
Topics: science, environment
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Tags: tsunamis
Duration: 10'07"
14:20
Traditional navigation - Hek Busby
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New Zealand's first centre for traditional navigation training is $500,000 away from being completed. Hekenukumai Busby is a Northland master waka carver and expert in traditional celestial navigation.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Tags: waka
Duration: 8'05"
14:45
Feature album - Disintegration
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Today's feature album is Disintegration by The Cure from 1989.
Topics: music
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Tags: The Cure
Duration: 16'27"
15:10
Boston's Notorious Unsolved Art Heist - Stephen Kurkjian
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25 years ago this month, thieves pulled off the largest art heist in world history stealing 13 pieces of art, including Vermeer's, The Concert; three Rembrandts, five sketches by Degas and a Manet portrait right off the walls at a Museum in Boston. The giant Rembrandt painting, more than 1.6 meters tall, was cut from its frame. No one has ever been arrested and none of the priceless art has ever been recovered. Pulitizer prize winning writer, Stephen Kurkjian assembles a cast of characters from the shadowy world of Boston's underworld as possible suspects in his book Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist.
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Twenty-five years ago this month, two thieves dressed as police officers tricked their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and stole 13 important works of art.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
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In 81 minutes, they cut the 1.5 metre tall Sea of Galilee painting by Rembrandt out of its frame, along with precious art from Manet, Vermeer and Degas.
Pulitzer Prize winning writer Stephen Kurkjian has written a book on the crime, Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist.
"It's a disgrace that this crime has not been solved," Mr Kurkijan says.
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When the buzzer rang at 1.24am at the museum, the guard saw two men in police uniforms and let them in.
They asked him to step away from his desk and he complied.
"[The guard's] favourite band, the Grateful Dead, was playing the following day," Mr Kurkjian says.
"He desperately wanted to go to that concert. He knew if he did not comply with what the men who he presumed were police said, he would be arrested and he would miss that concert."
The guard and the only other man on duty were tied up and the thieves went to work, slashing works from their frames and breaking glass.
"Did they know what they were looking for? Yes," Mr Kurkjian says.
"They were not collecting commissioned art work to order like say Dr. No in a James Bond movie. This is the work of thugs. That gives me an idea as to the kind of people who made their way into the museum."
Mr Kurkjian has spent 20 years researching the heist, and says he discovered a link with organized crime in Boston.
He says Boston gang leaders believed they could use the masterpieces to negotiate with the FBI.
"It made sense that if you get artwork and the FBI wants it dearly enough to get it back, they will do business with you," says Mr Kurkjian.
After 25 years, and a longstanding $5 million reward, none of the artwork has ever been recovered.
"It's not common knowledge who pulled off this score," according to Mr Kurkjian.
"My sense is the people who did this got scared they were going to get arrested and most of them got killed before they could say what happened to it."
Empty frames still hang where the Rembrandt and Vermeer once graced the museum walls.
Mr Kurkjian is convinced the paintings would one day return to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
"I do believe there are members of the bad guy's family who know pieces of the puzzle and if those people can be appealed to, it can be recovered. This artwork is our collective treasure. It belongs to all of us."
Topics: crime, history
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15:30
Confucius Classroom Opens
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The students at Wellington Girls' College should be proud, the Minister of Education is launching the opening of their own Confucius Classroom as a result of their dedication to the learning of Chinese. Sponsored by the Confucius Institute at Victoria University and the Chinese Government, these global classrooms provide dedicated language lessons and in-depth cultural learning. Lynda attends the big event to learn more.
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Chinese teacher, Wang Liwei and Head Girl, Alex Loo
Dàjiāhǎo, wǒ jiào Alex Loo... Firstly I would like to thank Minister Parata, Ambassador Wang and Tony Browne for speaking and thank all our guests for attending this opening. It is an incredible honor to have our Chinese classroom designated as a Confucius Classroom.
– Alex Loo, Head Girl, Wellington Girls' College.
Alex Loo has always wanted to learn Mandarin but her New Zealand Chinese family gradually lost the ability to speak their heritage language at home. Alex is one of two Head Girls at Wellington Girls' College. Now a year 13 senior student Alex has been studying Chinese language and culture since year nine and her dedication has paid off.
The Mandarin Language Assistant performs the guzheng (Chinese zither) and then Alex delivers her speech to a packed assembly in the school hall, in flawless Mandarin.
The opening of this dedicated Confucius Classroom is a dream come true for many students like Alex.
From second left: Principal Julia Davidson, Minister of Education Hekia Parata, Chinese Ambassador Wang Lutong and Mayor Celia Wade-Brown
Principal Julia Davidson tells me that the new resources means new electronic equipment to enable video-conferencing with schools across the country or even academic institutions in China. It's the opening of a doorway to opportunities like regular school trips to China too.
Anything we can do to expand their horizons. We see providing language as another way of helping them to regain their cultural heritage. It's a real badge of honor.
Tony Browne, Chair, Victoria University of Wellington Confucius Institute is also our former Ambassador to China (2004-9). He explains that this is not just about learning a language, this is about understanding a culture and a people, a very important country with close ties to New Zealand. He says China is becoming so much a part of the future of New Zealand.
If you go into a school in Europe or America and they have a Confucius Classroom it means something. This is an international designation, an international standard, a real achievement.
Tony tells me that there are only two Confucius Classrooms at schools in Wellington, and only four at schools in the lower part of the North Island, associated with the Confucius Institute at Victoria University. In each case it's an international designation, they are achieved by many years of committed teaching of Chinese language, many years of effort. In the case of Wellington College it's over 25 years of effort. "These are schools that are pioneers of learning Chinese in New Zealand before it became fashionable."
Director of the Confucius Institute, Wen Powles tells me that what Wellington Girls' College is now part of is a world-wide network of schools with Confucius Classrooms. "These are the foremost schools across the world teaching Chinese. Obviously they've been given this recognition for a reason, the reason is both their longevity in teaching Chinese and their programming having Chinese as part of their curriculum. Having taught Chinese since 1988, Wellington Girls College fully deserve this honor."
Wen explains that trips to China are available to any schools but having a Confucius Classroom means the college will be recognised across China as worthy of support.
I've met quite a few graduates from the college with Chinese in their toolkit and these girls seem to me to be very well prepared to operate in the world outside, in many fields.
Gallery: More pictures from the opening
Minister of Education, Hekia Parata opens the classroom
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Duration: 9'55"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 23 March 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 13'16"
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1:10 Your Song
Citizen by Trinity Roots. Requested by Vanessa Rushton of Wellington
1:20 New Zealand Retro: The Miniskirt
Former Fashion and Beauty Editor, Michal McKay
Dr Tanisha C. Ford is an assistant professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Popular radio and television personality Jennie Goodwin
Archival audio supplied by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
2:10 Tsunami Blind Spot - Professor James Goff
New research has found that New Zealand has a tsunami 'blind spot' and it's our west coast
2:20 Traditional navigation - Hek Busby
New Zealand's first centre for traditional navigation training is $500,000 away from being completed. Hekenukumai Busby is a Northland master waka carver and expert in traditional celestial navigation
2:30 NZ Reading - Double Happiness
Joe Bennett explains bullshit and begins with the use of conflation, the practice of treating two distinct concepts as if they were one
2:45 Feature album
Disintegration by The Cure
3:10 Feature interview - Stephen Kurkjian
25 years ago this month, thieves pulled off the largest art heist in world history stealing 13 pieces of art, including Vermeer's, The Concert; three Rembrandts, five sketches by Degas and a Manet portrait right off the walls at a Museum in Boston. The giant Rembrandt painting, more than 1.6 meters tall, was cut from its frame. No one has ever been arrested and none of the priceless art has ever been recovered. Pulitizer prize winning writer, Stephen Kurkjian assembles a cast of characters from the shadowy world of Boston's underworld as possible suspects in his book Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist
3:30 Voices - Susan Chanwai-Earle
Lynda Chanwai-Earle attends Wellington Girls' College as they open their own "Confucius classroom" - a resource providing students with not just dedicated Chinese lessons but life enriching experiences like opportunities to travel to China. Lynda attends the big event to learn more
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
With Simon Mercep, Zoe George, Rosemary McLeod and Tainui Stephens
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AFTERNOONS/PANEL WITH SIMON MERCEP AND JIM MORA
Monday 23 March
YOUR SONG:
ARTIST: Trinity Roots
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ARTIST: The Cure
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TITLE: Fascination Street
COMP: Gallup, Smith, Thompson, Tolhurst
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===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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15:45
The Panel pre-show for 23 March 2015
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16:00
The Panel with Rosemary McLeod and Tainui Stephens (Part 1)
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Topics: Intro; Salvation Army says no to buying state houses; Alcohol and risky behaviour; and Hikitia crane death.
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Duration: 24'15"
16:10
Intro
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What the Panelists Rosemary McLeod and Tainui Stevens have been up to.
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Duration: 5'28"
16:15
Salvation Army says no to buying state houses
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Where does the Salvation Army saying "no" to buying more state houses leave the government's policy? Political editor for Fairfax Media Tracy Watkins joins the Panel to explore the possibilities.
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Duration: 7'59"
16:22
Alcohol and risky behaviour
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Dunedin student keg party sees the streets erupt into mayhem and an ambulance trashed.
Topics: life and society
Regions: Otago
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Duration: 3'30"
16:26
Hikitia crane death
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Dr Marc Wilson the head of psychology at Victoria University joins the Panel to talk about the connection between social media, alcohol and risky behaviour.
Topics: life and society
Regions: Wellington Region
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Duration: 7'05"
16:35
Black Caps win over West Indies
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Martin Guptill's incredible performance against the West Indies.
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Duration: 4'03"
16:35
The Panel with Rosemary McLeod and Tainui Stephens (Part 2)
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Topics: Black Caps win over West Indies; Panel Says; School boy airport breach; Pak n Save apologises over golliwog and retired policeman dobbing in parents.
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16:39
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Rosemary McLeod and Tainui Stevens have been thinking about.
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16:43
School boy airport breach
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Two St Bede's rowers took a High Court injunction and won after being banned from a competition. They'd breached security at Auckland Airport. Greg Watts of the NZ Security Association joins the Panel to tell us if security is up to scratch.
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Tags: Auckland Airport, rowing, St Bede's College
Duration: 9'47"
16:56
Pak n Save apologises over golliwog
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A Pak n Save in Hamilton has admitted making an error in judgment after allowing golliwogs on its shelves. Are golliwogs still seen by most people as racist dolls?
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16:58
Retired policeman dobbing in parents
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Some parents at a Takapuna school are up in arms after a retired policeman took pictures and laid complaints of what he thinks is dangerous driving by parents.
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme
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Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 23 March 2015
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Dive squad poised to go into the ocean in search for missing boy; Court overrules ban on St Bede's rowers; Ship master fined after being five times over the legal limit; Blackcaps forced to make a last minute change; Lee Kuan Yew dies aged 91; Councillors call for a new debate over port expansion.
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17:08
Dive squad poised to go into the ocean in search for missing boy
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A police dive squad is poised to go into the ocean off cliffs in the Catlins for a second time this afternoon in their search for missing Invercargill boy Michael Zhao-Beckenridge.
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Regions: Southland
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Duration: 3'55"
17:11
Court overrules ban on St Bede's rowers
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Two boys rowed in top school races on Lake Karapiro today within an hour of a court slapping down their college's ban on them competing.
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Duration: 5'28"
17:17
Ship master fined after being five times over the legal limit
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A ship's captain who was five times over the legal limit has been fined for operating a 38 thousand tonne vessel with excess breath alcohol.
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Duration: 2'56"
17:19
Blackcaps forced to make a last minute change
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The Blackcaps have been forced to make a change to their squad for their Cricket World Cup semi-final against South Africa at Eden Park tomorrow.
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Duration: 2'15"
17:22
Lee Kuan Yew dies aged 91
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Lee Kuan Yew, the authoritian leader who transformed Singapore from a colonial backwater into global trade and financial centre has died, aged 91.
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Duration: 4'10"
17:27
Councillors call for a new debate over port expansion
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Two Auckland councillors are calling for a new debate over the imminent expansion of the city's wharves.
Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 3'43"
17:34
Evening Business for 23 March 2015
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News from the business sector including a market report.
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Duration: 2'39"
17:38
Prisoner in intensive care
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A prisoner is a serious condition in hospital after being attacked by other inmates in Hawke's Bay Prison.
Topics: law
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: prison
Duration: 3'14"
17:41
Surgeon told to apologise over the care of an elderly patient
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A former Blenheim surgeon with a history of patients dying on his operating table has been told to apologise over the care given to an elderly patient in 2012.
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17:45
NZ's new trade deal with Korea
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New Zealand exporters will automatically save 65-million-dollars a year under a trade deal signed with Korea today, rising to 230-million over the next 15 or so years.
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Duration: 4'48"
17:50
Chch school says it's been blindsided by proposal to shut it down
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A Christchurch school says it's been blindsided by a proposal to shut it down. Redcliffs School has been running out of a deaf education centre in Sumner since the earthquakes.
Topics: education
Regions: Canterbury
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Duration: 4'55"
17:54
Jury hears Lundy told detective he had been an absolute wreck
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A jury has today seen a video interview in which Mark Lundy told police that since his wife and daughter were killed he had been an absolute wreck and wasn't sleeping.
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Duration: 2'17"
17:57
28th Māori Battalion veteran dies aged 96
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The country's last surviving original 28th Māori Battalion members has died at the age of 96.
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Duration: 2'54"
18:08
Sports News for 23 March 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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18:11
High Court says college ban on rowers was hasty
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A High Court judge says a Christchurch college didn't fully and fairly consider what went on when it banned two boys from rowing in the top schools' regatta this week.
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Duration: 3'24"
18:15
Coma and breathing trouble after man given incorrect drug
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A community support worker gave a man the wrong drug with life-threatening consequences after failing to do the necessary checks.
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Duration: 3'06"
18:18
One agency wants 500 houses, others question consortium chances
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A big community housing group is putting its hand up to buy 500 state houses, at the same time as other agencies are downplaying the prospects of a workable consortium.
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Duration: 3'34"
18:22
Labour to ask IGIS to investigate new spy claims
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The Labour Party leader, Andrew Little, says he will ask the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security to investigate new claims about the Government's spy agency.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 3'04"
18:25
New Zealander who interviewed Lee Kuan Yew remembers him
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People in Singapore are mourning the loss of Lee Kuan Yew, the man who transformed the country from a small port city into a wealthy global hub.
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Duration: 6'26"
18:35
A new disciplinary hearing against the CTV's building engineer
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The lawyer for the engineer of the collapsed CTV building has told a disciplinary hearing it wasn't clear if Alan Reay was meant to declare any building failures he was involved with.
Topics: Canterbury earthquakes
Regions: Canterbury
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Duration: 2'54"
18:38
Report exonerates charity workers removed from Nauru detention centre
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Nine charity workers who were removed from Nauru amid claims that they encouraged asylum seekers at the detention centre to hurt themselves may sue the federal government after they were cleared by an official report.
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Duration: 4'34"
18:43
Prosecution sums up in Prasad case in High Court in Auckland
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A jury has been told one of two men accused of killing an Auckland man by setting him on fire, was desperate for money, and his co-accused was recruited because violence was needed to get the cash.
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18:46
Te Manu Korihi News for 23 March 2015
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The country's last surviving original 28th Māori Battalion member has died at the age of 96; The Electoral Commission's reminding new Māori voters of their choices, in the lead-up to the Northland by-election; A book that contains an illustrated history of Māori culture and people has been shortlisted in the 2015 Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize.
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Duration: 3'25"
18:51
Rosco the dog triggers large scale emergency
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Firefighters, helicopter and police were called to the rescue in Tauranga yesterday when Rosco the dog took his toy for a swim and triggered a major emergency.
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Duration: 3'06"
18:58
Thousands of NYers at funeral for 7 siblings killed in fire
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Thousands of New Yorkers have attended a funeral service for the seven siblings killed in a Brooklyn house fire.
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Duration: 2'39"
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including: 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries 9:30 Insight: An award-winning documentary programme (RNZ)
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20:35
Native Fish
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New Zealand fish with Stella McQueen, self-confessed native fish geek, author and field worker... freshwater mussels as well as a freshwater limpet that secretes glowing mucus when disturbed.
Topics: science, environment
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Duration: 16'06"
20:59
Conundrum Clue 1
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Conundrum clue 1.
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21:10
Advancing Racial Equity
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Integrating a strategy to deal with systemic racism - Courageous Conversations About Race (CCAR), with Matthew Farry, manager of Equity and Diversity, People and Culture at Unitec.
Topics: life and society, education
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Tags: racial equity, racism, institutional racism
Duration: 20'35"
21:59
Conundrum Clue 2
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Conundrum clue 2.
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Duration: 14"
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7:10 Talking Northern Territory
In light of the AusTalk Project, linguist Bruce Birch from Australian National University's Iwaidja Documentation Project, is attempting to ascertain if Territorians speak differently to other Australians.
8:10 Windows on the World
International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.
8:40 New Zealand fish with Stella McQueen
New Zealand fish with Stella McQueen, self-confessed native fish geek, author and field worker... freshwater mussels as well a freshwater limpet that secretes glowing mucus when disturbed.
9:10 Advancing racial equity
Integrating a strategy to deal with systemic racism - Courageous Conversations About Race (CCAR), with Matthew Farry, manager of Equity and Diversity, People & Culture at Unitec.
9:30 Insight
10:00 Late Edition
A review of the news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.
11:06 Beale Street Caravan
Live performances drawn from concerts recorded in the US for The Blues Foundation who are based in Memphis Tennessee.
===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
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Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National
===11:06 PM. | Beale Street Caravan===
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David Knowles introduces the Memphis-based radio show with an international reputation for its location recordings of blues musicians live in concert (11 of 13, BSC)