A 24-hour recording of Radio New Zealand National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
26 April 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 on Sunday 3:05 Coming Home, by Bronwyn Elsmore (RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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A special selection from Radio New Zealand's children's story collection (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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07:10
Kunda Dixit - the latest on the Nepal quake
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Kunda Dixit, editor of The Nepali Times, speaks to Sunday Morning from the devastated Nepalese capital Kathmandu.
Topics: international aid and development, refugees and migrants
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Tags: Nepal earthquake, Nepal, earthquake
Duration: 9'00"
07:20
Anzac Day update from Gallipoli
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In true Anzac spirit a New Zealander is in Gallipoli covering events for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Ollie Wards talks about the wrap up of commemorations from the Dardanelles.
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Tags: ANZAC Cove, Anzac, Anzac Day
Duration: 4'12"
07:25
French Polynesian corruption case collapses
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A serious and long-running French Polynesian court case, involving the former president Gaston Flosse, collapses as the prosecution team trips up over a technicality, bringing the territory's entire judicial process into question.
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Duration: 6'28"
07:28
The Week In Parliament for 26 April 2015
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Final week of the Easter adjournment sees no committee meetings, so we look ahead to next week's Annual Review Debate - and also look back to the Commerce Committee's financial review of TVNZ.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 15'00"
07:34
The Week in Parliament for 26 April 2015
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Final week of the Easter adjournment sees no committee meetings, so we look ahead to next week's Annual Review Debate - and also look back to the Commerce Committee's financial review of TVNZ.
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Duration: 15'03"
07:45
Greg Bryant - laughter and faking it
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Laughter the best medicine, but what about fake laughter? UCLA's Communication Studies' Associate Professor Greg Bryant talks about the evolution of the laugh, and how to tell the genuine article from a forced facsimile.
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Duration: 11'26"
08:12
Insight for 26 April 2015 - Centenary of Gallipoli Landings
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Philippa Tolley follows the days events in Gallipoli and assesses their impact.
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Following the Anzac Day commemorations at Gallipoli itself, Insight highlights the special moments from the Dawn Service through to Chunuk Bair.
The Lone Pine at Gallipoli. Photo: Wikicommons.
"We were walking along on our way back up to The Neck cemetery, and [historian] Ian [McGibbon] …. found a bone and he immediately stopped…. and he very gently eased it out of the ground and when that bone came out of the ground, to me, that’s where it suddenly hit me… It was already quite a hard situation to be trying to report on, having just come out of the trench. When we saw this bone, it was clearly a limb, it was an arm or a leg, and I found than very difficult …. to actually be faced with that was quite confronting , and suddenly you realised these are people, these are young men, these are people’s children, these are people’s brothers."
- Susie Ferguson
Philippa Tolley speaks to the Radio New Zealand team at Gallipoli about how those attending have responded to the events marking the occasion 100 years on.
Topics: defence force
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Tags: WW1, Gallipoli, Anzac
Duration: 33'34"
08:40
Ashish Adhikary - Member of New Zealand Nepal Society
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Nepalese New Zealander Ashish Adhikary is a member of the New Zealand Nepal Society and speaks to us from Auckland. His wife and children are in the Nepalese capital and like many in Kathmandu are sheltering in make shift tents as aftershocks continue to rattle the quake riven city.
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Duration: 3'38"
08:41
Gallipoli, a Turkish perspective
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Nejat Kavvas has lived in New Zealand for close to 40-years and is a former Turkish honorary consul to this country. He says a century on the Gallipoli campaign has brought the two countries closer together but that the Turkish view of the conflict is still too rarely heard in New Zealand.
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Tags: Gallipoli, Anzac, WW1
Duration: 19'11"
09:10
Mediawatch for 26 April 2015
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The PM's ponytail pulling saga - and how The Herald's handling of it spawned another story; coverage of the Anzac anniversary - and another centenary the media mostly missed, and; how millions of irreplaceable images from our papers' archives ended up in Arkansas - and in limbo.
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Duration: 30'35"
09:45
Andrew Dean - Debts and Legacies
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Andrew Dean was born during the time of National Party finance minister Ruth Richardson's 'mother of all budgets' an experience he's written about in his book 'Ruth, Roger and Me - Debts and Legacies'.
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Andrew Dean was born during the time of National Party finance minister Ruth Richardson's 'mother of all budgets'.
In Ruth, Roger, and Me - Debts and Legacies Andrew Dean explores the lives of the generation of young people brought up in the shadow of the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s.
He talks to Wallace Chapman about the pressures on the group he calls ‘the children of the Mother of All Budgets.’
Topics: books, author interview, money, politics
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Tags: Rogernomics, Ruthinasia, economy
Duration: 15'11"
10:10
Chris Walsh - Cowardice
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Boston University's Chris Walsh has been examining the relationship and balance between courage and cowardice, and how this has been represented in Western literature since the time of Socrates.
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Duration: 24'15"
10:40
Xinran - Buy Me the Sky
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Xinran on her latest book 'Buy Me The Sky', about the impact of China's one-child policy on those born after 1970. She is coming to New Zealand for next month's Auckland Writers Festival.
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Xinran is a journalist and author. She was a popular radio presenter in China – her show focused in the lives of women and she wrote about those experiences in The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices.
She talks to Wallace Chapman about her latest book Buy Me The Sky, an investigation of the impact of China’s one-child policy on those born after 1970.
Topics: books, author interview
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Duration: 23'59"
11:06
Wanaka based mountaineering company loses staff in Nepal
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Two Nepalese staff working for Wanaka based mountain guiding company Adventure Consultants have been killed following the earthquake in Nepal.
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Duration: 2'06"
11:08
Ben Okri - London to Lagos
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Novelist and poet Ben Okri had his first novel, Flowers and Shadows, published when he was 21, and has devoted much of his work to describing the social and political chaos in Nigeria, where he was born. His book The Famished Road won the Booker Prize and his most recent novel is called The Age of Magic. He talks to Wallace about his multi-dimensional world, and his non-linear writing. Ben Okri is coming to New Zealand for next month's Auckland Writers Festival.
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Novelist and poet Ben Okri had his first novel, Flowers and Shadows, published when he was 21, and has devoted much of his work to describing the social and political chaos in Nigeria, where he was born.
His book The Famished Road won the Booker Prize and his most recent novel is called The Age of Magic.
He talks to Wallace Chapman about his multi-dimensional world, and his non-linear writing.
Topics: books, author interview
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Duration: 22'04"
11:35
Rob McBride and Debbie Ryan - stirring the imagination
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Australian architect couple Rob McBride and Debbie Ryan reveal the influences on their extraordinary designs, some of which have been described as 'unlikely'. Co-founders of Melbourne's McBride Charles Ryan architectural studio, they have received endless prizes, not least the World's Best House Award for their 'Klein Bottle House'. They're touring for Architectural Design New Zealand's 'Stirring the Imagination' seminar series.
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Klein Bottle House.
Gallery: Rob McBride and Debbie Ryan
Australian architect couple Rob McBride and Debbie Ryan reveal the influences on their extraordinary designs, some of which have been described as "unlikely". They talk to Wallace Chapman.
The co-founders of Melbourne's McBride Charles Ryan architectural studio, they have received endless prizes, not least the World's Best House Award for their 'Klein Bottle House'.
Rob McBride and Debbie Ryan are touring New Zealand for Architectural Design New Zealand’s Stirring the Imagination seminar series.
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Tags: design, architecture, housing
Duration: 24'16"
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7:08 Current affairs
Editor of the Nepali Times Kunda Dixit updates on Kathmandu's devastating earthquake, a report from Gallipoli on the day’s ANZAC commemorations; former French Polynesia president Gaston Flosse is off the hook after his corruption case collapses on a technicality; The Week in Parliament; and UCLA's Communication Studies Associate Professor Greg Bryant talks about his research into the evolution of laughter, and how to hear the difference between genuine and fake laughter. Photo: Greg Bryant
8:12 Insight The Centenary of the Gallipoli Landings
Following the Anzac Day commemorations at Gallipoli itself, Insight highlights the special moments from the dawn service through to Chunuk Bair. Philippa Tolley speaks to the Radio New Zealand team at Gallipoli, about how those attending have responded to the events marking the occasion 100 years on.
8:40 Nejat Kavvas – A Turkish view of Gallipoli
Glass artist Nejat Kavvas has lived in New Zealand for close to 40 years and is a former Turkish honorary consul in Auckland. He says a century on, the Gallipoli campaign has brought the two countries closer together but that the Turkish view of the conflict is still too rarely heard in New Zealand.
9:06 Mediawatch
Mediawatch looks at the exhaustive coverage of the ANZAC anniversary – and another centenary the media missed. Also coverage of ‘ponytail-gate’; and how irreplaceable images from our papers’ archive ended up in Arkansas, and in limbo.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Andrew Dean – Ruth, Roger and Me
In Ruth, Roger, and Me, author Andrew Dean explores the lives of the generation of young people brought up in the shadow of the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. He talks to Wallace about the pressures on the group he calls ‘the children of the Mother of All Budgets.’
10:06 Chris Walsh – Cowardice
In his book, Cowardice, A Brief History, associate director of the College of Arts and Sciences Writing Programme at Boston University Chris Walsh offers the first comprehensive study of this often-avoided subject. He reviews the changing connotations of cowardice over the past couple of centuries, exploring its military significance as well as that beyond the battlefield: How the concept of cowardice has been re-examined, and how the use of the word has faded.
10:30 Xinran – One Child Policy
Xinran is a journalist and author. She was a popular radio presenter in China – her show focused in the lives of women and she wrote about those experiences in The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices. She talks to Wallace about her latest book Buy Me The Sky, an investigation of the impact of China’s one-child policy on those born after 1970. Xinran is coming to New Zealand for next month's Auckland Writers Festival.
11:05 Ben Okri – London to Lagos
Novelist and poet Ben Okri had his first novel, Flowers and Shadows, published when he was 21, and has devoted much of his work to describing the social and political chaos in Nigeria, where he was born. His book The Famished Road won the Booker Prize and his most recent novel is called The Age of Magic. He talks to Wallace about his multi-dimensional world, and his non-linear writing. Ben Okri is coming to New Zealand for next month’s Auckland Writers Festival.
11:30 Rob McBride and Debbie Ryan – Stirring the Imagination
Australian architect couple Rob McBride and Debbie Ryan reveal the influences on their extraordinary designs, some of which have been described as "unlikely". Co-founders of Melbourne's McBride Charles Ryan architectural studio, they have received endless prizes, not least the World's Best House Award for their 'Klein Bottle House'. They’re touring for Architectural Design New Zealand’s Stirring the Imagination seminar series.
Gallery: Rob McBride and Debbie Ryan
Klein Bottle House
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Artist: Diana Ross
Song: Upside Down
Composer: Rodgers/Edwards
Album: The Boss
Label: Motown
Artist: Paul Kelly
Song: Righteous Woman
Composer: Kelly
Album: The Merri Soul Sessions
Label: 2015 Radio New Zealand Recording
Artist: Miles Davis
Song: Cobra
Composer: Davies/Miller
Album: Amandla
Label: Warner Brothers Records
===12:12 PM. | Spectrum===
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Taupo's annual Medieval Fair celebrates the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, an attempt to make peace between unpopular and unscrupulous King John and the English barons. Magna Carta has resonated down the ages influencing the thinking behind the American Declaration of Independence and even NZ's Treaty of Waitangi (RNZ)
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12:06
Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
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Taupo's annual Medieval Fair celebrates the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, an attempt to make peace between unpopular and unscrupulous King John and the English barons. Magna Carta has resonated down the ages influencing the thinking behind the American Declaration of Independence and even New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi.
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Unpopular and unscrupulous King John reluctantly accepts the demands being read out to him from Magna Carta by an English baron while Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton, who drew up Magna Carta, looks on.
"Hear Ye, Hear Ye! I have matters of great import to announce from Magna Carta!"
Taupo’s Tongariro domain is a long way in time and distance from the signing of Magna Carta 800 years ago at Runnymeade near Windsor but for the medievalists gathered here it’s well worth celebrating.
After the short reenactment, history lecturer Lindsay Diggelmann, watched by a suspicious King John, explains how Magna Carta (Latin for Great Charter) has resonated down the ages.
Copy of Magna Carta and archers sharpen their skills at the butts.
Magna Carta has influenced other great documents such as the American Declaration of Independence and even New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi.
A village blacksmith describes his ancient craft to a fascinated young onlooker.
Spectrum’s Jack Perkins explores Taupo’s Medieval Fair. In addition to Magna Carta celebrations, he also discovers Druids, battling knights and a host of activities typical of a village green of long ago.
Topics: history, life and society
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Magna Carta, Taupo Medieval Fair, Druids, medieval blacksmith
Duration: 23'52"
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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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12:35
Bid for Venice Biennale
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We look ahead to New Zealand's bid to attract international attention at this year's Venice Biennale... all up almost one and a half million dollars of taxpayer and private money is backing Simon Denny's take on five eyes and mass surveillance. The head of the CNZ mission to the Biennale, Heather Galbraith, talks about the art, the value of New Zealand being there, and the logistics.
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We look ahead to New Zealand's bid to attract international attention at this year's Venice Biennale... all up almost one and a half million dollars of taxpayer and private money is backing Simon Denny's take on five eyes and mass surveillance. The head of the CNZ mission to the Biennale, Heather Galbraith, talks about the art, the value of New Zealand being there, and the logistics.
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Duration: 18'00"
13:34
German theatre director Uta Plate
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She's worked with marginalised young people around the world - including asylum-seekers, children in care and prisoners for 20 years. But German theatre director Uta Plate wasn't prepared for the hopelessness many young people in New Zealand told her they were feeling. Uta's been working with drama students at Toi Whakaari in Wellington and taken workshops around the country as the Goethe-Institut New Zealand 2015 Artist in Residence.
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She's worked with marginalised young people around the world - including asylum-seekers, children in care and prisoners for 20 years. But German theatre director Uta Plate wasn't prepared for the hopelessness many young people in New Zealand told her they were feeling.
Uta's been working with drama students at Toi Whakaari in Wellington and taken workshops around the country as the Goethe-Institut New Zealand 2015 Artist in Residence.
She says that in Germany this country looks like paradise. But the stories young people shared with her revealed New Zealand's darker side, including our disturbing statistics of high youth suicide rates, and violence against children. Many of the young people she's helped to express themselves on stage, talk about feeling powerless.
Topics: arts, life and society
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Tags: Toi Whakaari, suicide, theatre, youth
Duration: 9'30"
13:45
Entrenchments 2015
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A month-long creative event at Victoria University sets out to translate conflict into art as part of the First World War Centenary commemorations. Entrenchments 2015 uses technology, social media and visual art to reinterpret written texts and experiences of life in the trenches 100 years ago.
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A series of projects and creative conversations have been taking place at Victoria University via Wai-te Ata Press and The New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation, in conjunction with the Canadian High Commission.
Director of Wai-te-Ata Press Dr Sydney Shep, says that Entrenchments 2015 is a project that has allowed them to take the concept of a military trench and turn it upside down, examining what it mean to have entrenched ideas about war, what it mean to have a narrative that should be contested, and to look closely at how art mediates between the worlds of politics and culture. “Using technology today, we can broaden out the scope of the conversation," she says.
Taking interdisciplinary artists, some of the elements of the project include reinterpretations of written texts such as Patricia Grace’s novel Tu, which traces the experience of a young man who joins the Maori Battalion.
Sarah Laing, a Wellington-based creative writer and graphic designer has been enlisted to illustrate aspects of the book. She has chosen fragments of Grace’s text and is producing a series of miniature zines, comics and posters which she has begun illustrating in water colour and pen. Working with a short turn around adds to the challenge, along with the prospect of Patricia Grace herself, attending an exhibition where Sarah’s work will be presented on April 28th.
“Patricia Grace is a hero of mine [her] writing is beautiful and there are so many poignant moments, and so many moments that lend themselves to illustrative responses.”
Marco Sonzogni has been working intensively on the project. As a Literary translation scholar, he says that he uses any opportunity to bring words into contact with other realities and Entrenchments 2015 has been one of his most satisfying projects to-date and he puts that down to the creative conversations that have generated as a result.
“Incidentally I’m not so keen on commemorating war events. I respect what has happened and I feel for the families of those who have lost their lives and possibly given us a better world. But until we change the way we think and the way we look things, and until we engage on a daily basis on peaceful conversations, there is always going to be war.”
A highlight for Marco, has been the discovery of Canadian comic artist Julian Peters, who takes classical poems and illustrates and reinterprets them visually, into comic form. Invited to participate in Entrenchments 2015, Julian has been creating daily illustrations in response to daily text messages sent via the WW100 project.
Q & A with Julian Peters
How long have you been working as a comic illustrator?
As a kid I drew tons of comics, but I stopped as teenager, and started up again more seriously about ten years ago.
What attracted you to the idea of using poetry and interpreting this in a visual medium?
My return to comics was prompted by my idea to create a biography of Arthur Rimbaud in graphic novel form. The inspiration came from some drawings of the enfant terrible of French poetry done by his companion Paul Verlaine that I thought made him look a little like a dishevelled, bohemian version of Tin Tin. Although I unfortunately never finished this project, it had the effect of pairing poetry and comics in my mind, and got me thinking of other ways in which the two art forms could be combined.
Poetry is often thought of as the highest expression of language, the form in which words are pushed to the limits of their communicative potential. Comics too, is a language of a kind, with a full arsenal of its own particular expressive techniques, and it is an endlessly inspiring challenge to try to translate the power of poetry into visual form through the creative deployment of these techniques.
How would you describe your visual aesthetic?
I try to adapt my style somewhat to the poetic material at hand, but I’m always striving for a certain gracefulness of line, and the avoidance of visual clichés. I spent part of my formative comics reading years as a child in Italy, and most of my biggest influences as a comics artist still come from Italian comics.
What appealed to you about the Entrenchments project?
I think the First World War was such a traumatic and incomprehensibly insane experience for the societies that lived through it that it became very difficult to speak of it outside of a very narrow and rigidly codified set of rhetorical tropes –honour, sacrifice, sunsets, etc. The same is true of the visual rhetoric commemorating the war as seen in the monuments to the fallen, Remembrance Day ceremonies, and so on. The creation of new visual accompaniments to WWI-related texts provides an opportunity to subvert both the literary and artistic clichés through which the war is generally presented to us, and which, partly just through their very familiarity, can blind us to the true horror of the experiences they ostensibly serve to commemorate.
Lastly… is this concept of interpreting poetry into comic form a genre in itself?
The person generally credited with inventing poetry comics is the American writer and artist Dave Morice, who created some humorous visual renderings of a great number of classic poems beginning in the late seventies. I didn’t really know of anyone else who was creating poetry comics when I began to do my own about seven or eight years ago, but in the last few years the genre has really taken off, and there’s all kinds of really interesting stuff coming out every day, it seems.
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Duration: 20'58"
14:30
Conductor and composer Christian Lindberg
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He's been voted one of the Brass Players of the 20th century, an honour he shares with Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong. Now Christian Lindberg has a growing reputation as a conductor and composer. Swedish-born Christian is currently in Norway working with the orchestra he conducts - the Arctic Philharmonia - before coming to New Zealand to conduct and play trombone for the NZSO for its Aotearoa Plus season.
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He's been voted one of the Brass Players of the 20th century - to put that in context, he shared that honour with Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong. Now Christian Lindberg has a growing reputation as a conductor and composer.He's performed the classics from the trombone repertoire and premiered more than 300 contemporary works, many composed especially for him.
Swedish-born Christian is currently in Norway working with the orchestra he conducts - the Arctic Philharmonia - before coming to New Zealand conduct and play the trombone for the NZSO for its Aotearoa Plus season, in Wellington this Friday 1 May and in Auckland the following night.
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Duration: 10'52"
14:40
One Summer in Venice
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Happiness is very 'in' at the moment; on Facebook for example, people are encouraged to post something that makes them happy every day for 100 days. In her latest novel, One Summer in Venice, Auckland writer Nicky Pellegrino sends middle-aged Dolly Martinelli off on a quest to find just ten things that could hold the key to her happiness. Dolly arrives in Venice for an eventful summer, leaving her disgruntled husband and daughter behind.
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Happiness is very 'in' at the moment; on Facebook for example, people are encouraged to post something that makes them happy every day for 100 days. In her latest novel, One Summer in Venice, Auckland writer Nicky Pellegrino sends middle-aged Dolly Martinelli off on a quest to find just ten things that could hold the key to her happiness. Dolly arrives in Venice for an eventful summer, leaving her disgruntled husband and daughter behind. One Summer in Venice is a Hachette publication.
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Duration: 10'43"
14:50
The Writer's Diet
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Flabby writing, says English Professor Helen Sword, is weighed down with passives, prepositions, be-verbs and waste words. So she's written her own slim book with tips for writers wanting to hone their craft. She's called it The Writer's Diet. Professor Sword is Director for the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education at the University of Auckland, and she's included excerpts from work of some students and academics in the book.
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Flabby writing, says English Professor Helen Sword, is weighed down with passives, prepositions, be-verbs and waste words. So she's written her own slim book with tips for writers wanting to hone their craft. She's called it The Writer's Diet. Professor Sword is Director for the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education at the University of Auckland, and she's included excerpts from work of some students and academics in the book. Her TedEd talk on Zombie Nouns has been viewed 180,000 times. The Writer's Diet is published by Auckland University Press.
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Duration: 10'50"
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12:39 Bid for Venice Biennale
We look ahead to New Zealand's bid to attract international attention at this year's Venice Biennale... all up almost one and a half million dollars of taxpayer and private money is backing Simon Denny's take on five eyes and mass surveillance. The head of the CNZ mission to the Biennale, Heather Galbraith, talks about the art, the value of New Zealand being there, and the logistics.
1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris
Simon Morris goes to the Broadway version of Of Mice and Men, starring James Franco. He also reviews action movie The Gunman, starring Sean Penn, and The Age Of Adaline – fantasy romance about a woman who never ages.
1:34 German theatre director Uta Plate
She's worked with marginalised young people around the world - including asylum-seekers, children in care and prisoners for 20 years. But German theatre director Uta Plate wasn't prepared for the hopelessness many young people in New Zealand told her they were feeling. Uta's been working with drama students at Toi Whakaari in Wellington and taken workshops around the country as the Goethe-Institut New Zealand 2015 Artist in Residence.
She says that in Germany this country looks like paradise. But the stories young people shared with her revealed New Zealand's darker side, including our disturbing statistics of high youth suicide rates, and violence against children. Many of the young people she's helped to express themselves on stage, talk about feeling powerless.
1:45 Entrenchments 2015
A series of projects and creative conversations have been taking place at Victoria University via Wai-te Ata Press and The New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation, in conjunction with the Canadian High Commission.
Sarah Laing, a Wellington-based creative writer and graphic designer has been enlisted to illustrate aspects of Patricia Grace’s novel Tu. She has chosen fragments of Grace’s text and is producing a series of miniature zines, comics and posters which she has begun illustrating in water colour and pen. Working with a short turn around adds to the challenge, along with the prospect of Patricia Grace herself, attending an exhibition where Sarah’s work will be presented on April 28th.
2:05 The Laugh Track
Welsh Comedian Lloyd Langford who’s coming to New Zealand for the Comedy Festival.
2:26 Conductor and composer, Christian Lindberg
He's been voted one of the Brass Players of the 20th century - to put that in context, he shared that honour with Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong. Now Christian Lindberg has a growing reputation as a conductor and composer.He's performed the classics from the trombone repertoire and premiered more than 300 contemporary works, many composed especially for him.
Swedish-born Christian is currently in Norway working with the orchestra he conducts - the Arctic Philharmonia - before coming to New Zealand conduct and play the trombone for the NZSO for its Aotearoa Plus season, in Wellington this Friday 1 May and in Auckland the following night.
2:38 One Summer in Venice
Happiness is very 'in' at the moment; on Facebook for example, people are encouraged to post something that makes them happy every day for 100 days. In her latest novel, One Summer in Venice, Auckland writer Nicky Pellegrino sends middle-aged Dolly Martinelli off on a quest to find just ten things that could hold the key to her happiness. Dolly arrives in Venice for an eventful summer, leaving her disgruntled husband and daughter behind. One Summer in Venice is a Hachette publication.
2:49 The Writer's Diet
Flabby writing, says English Professor Helen Sword, is weighed down with passives, prepositions, be-verbs and waste words. So she's written her own slim book with tips for writers wanting to hone their craft. She's called it The Writer's Diet. Professor Sword is Director for the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education at the University of Auckland, and she's included excerpts from work of some students and academics in the book. Her TedEd talk on Zombie Nouns has been viewed 180,000 times. The Writer's Diet is published by Auckland University Press.
3:05 The Drama Hour
We pay tribute to the actor and director Fergus Dick who sadly passed away just a few days ago. We feature a short story read by Fergus – his last recording for RNZ made just two years ago, and then a play directed by Fergus based on a Katherine Mansfield story, Mr Reginald Peacock’s Day.
===4:06 PM. | None (National)===
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BBC World Book Club with Guenter Grass
Guenter Grass, German Nobel literature prize-winner and author of The Tin Drum, died on April 13, 2015 aged 87. Before his death he had been described as "the world’s most important living writer".
Harriet Gilbert of the BBC Word Book Club looks back to the day she spent with Guenter after he invited her into his home in Germany to put listeners' questions to him about his internationally-celebrated novel The Tin Drum.
Bitter and impassioned, the book charts the rise and fall of Nazism through the mischievous eyes of Oskar Matzerath, a dwarf who decided to stop growing at the age of three. First published half a century ago, The Tin Drum was re-published in new translations all over the world to mark its 50th birthday in 2009. (BBC World Service).
===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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17:06
Selling Yoga
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Over the last few decades, yoga has exploded in popularity, especially in the west. But as it did so and also adapted to suit the needs of consumer culture, has it lost its connection to its ancient roots? Or are those roots more myth than reality? Justin Gregory investigates the arguments for and against
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Modern yoga and yoga-like practices are about as diverse as you can get. They range from quiet, incense-filled rooms led by softly spoken teachers to barn-like gyms with pumping music and everything in between, including hot yoga, baby yoga and even yoga in the nude.
But almost all claim at least a lineage, an authenticity and an association with what they believe are its ancient Indian roots. Practitioners often report a development in personal spirituality and self-growth as a result of time spent on the mat. However, American academic Andrea Jain says they might be fooling themselves.
“We are fooling ourselves to the extent that we think that spiritual content comes from its ancient Indian roots. Historically, that’s just not the case.”
Jain teaches at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis and is the author of a new book, Selling Yoga – from counterculture to pop culture. The book explores the growth of modern yoga from fringe practice to global popularity. She takes issue with claims of authenticity but also disagrees with those who say the spiritual claims of practitioners are nonsense.
“I think there is a real spiritual or religious dimension to popularized yoga. No, it’s not linked to ancient Indian roots, but it is linked to a certain religious dimension within modern consumer culture.”
Modern postural yoga is the term most often given to systems of yoga that emphasise breathing and physical postures. Andrea says these varieties were simply the most successful in the market when yoga underwent popularization and as a result became ubiquitous in the imagination of the west. As result, they are often attacked as being illegitimate, mere commodified forms with no real relationship to “true” yoga. In Selling Yoga, Jain argues that there is no such thing.
“(Yoga) has always been context-sensitive. In an historical sense, we can’t actually locate an authentic yoga tradition.” Jain cites yoga researcher Mark Singleton, who argues that modern postural yoga was invented in the early twentieth century during encounters between Indian nationalists and western physical culture advocates. Yoga, she says, is a hybrid form and always has been.
“It has constantly been in flux and taking new forms. Fundamentalist Hindus argue for yoga’s essential Hindu origins. I argue that this is wrong. Historically, yoga was practiced by Buddhists, by Jains and by others in South Asian history. Even in the Hindu context it didn’t have one essential form. It took many.”
The spiritual or religious aspects of postural yoga, Jain argues, stems in part from a belief that it is linked to the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali, first codified around 400 CE and built upon even older sources. She calls this a myth, but nonetheless acknowledges the sincerity of believers. Yoga studios, she says, also become a kind of sacred space for their users, a quiet, still place, set aside from the everyday world. There, the yoga student can meditate, still the mind and develop an enhanced sense of self while setting aside stress and ordinary concerns. So while modern yoga’s origins may not be authentically ancient and spiritual, the end effect often is.
Needless to say, plenty of yoga enthusiasts disagree with her, and like all things in a consumer-driven world, yoga is subject to fashion and its current level of popularity may not last. Andrea Jain, however, believes that, given certain conditions, yoga will continue to be as popular for quite a while yet.
“The basic tenet of consumer culture is that individuals can and should pick and choose commodities that fit their own lifestyle choices…as long as yoga advocates and entrepreneurs continue to successfully market yoga in a way that intersects with popular values, demands and desires… I think it will be really successful in consumer culture across the world.”
Topics: spiritual practices
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Duration: 24'10"
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===5:40 PM. | Te Manu Korihi===
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===6:06 PM. | Te Ahi Kaa===
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The Ode - Piripi Hoetawa
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E kore ratou e koroheketia Penei i a tatou kua mahue nei E kore hoki ratou e ngoikore Ahakoa pehea i nga ahuatanga o te wa. I te hekenga atu o te ra Tae noa ki te aranga mai i te ata Ka maumahara tonu tatou ki a ratou. Ka maumahara tonu tatou ki a ratou. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. We will remember them.
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Helene Leaf and Anania Wikaira
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In the Far North, Captain Harding Leaf is quite legendary. He fought in the first World War at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. An athletic man who also was known for his keen sense of humour, he served as Lieutenant in the Pioneer Battalion from 1914 - 1918, and enlisted in World War II in 1939.
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In the Far North, Captain Harding Leaf is quite legendary. He fought in the first World War at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. An athletic man who also was known for his keen sense of humour, he served as Lieutenant in the Pioneer Battalion from 1914 – 1918, and enlisted in World War II in 1939.
Te Hikutu hapū is located in Whirinaki in South Hokianga, and is a ten minute drive from Opononi and Rawene. This was the home of Captain Harding. He enlisted first in 1914 at the age of 24. It’s also the home of Helene Leaf, the grand-daughter and Anania Wikaira the great grandnephew of Captain Harding.
This ANZAC weekend they will take the kawe mate (the memory of Harding) to Te Māhurehure Marae in Auckland so the wider Nga Puhi and Te Hikutu descendants are able to rekindle that connection to Captain Harding. Helene Leaf will take a photo to hang in the Whare Tipuna at the Marae.
Whangarei based Radio New Zealand National Lois Williams is with Helene and Anania who talk about the service and the reputation of Captain Harding as recorded on CD the whanau compiled in 2006.
It includes details about his enlistment and the story of why he was awarded the Military Cross. Captain Harding was killed in action in Crete, 1941.
Although the service of Captain Harding is one of notable admiration by his descendants, there is the darker side where some Ngā Puhi māori men returned home broken and damaged. Helene and Anania talk about how after effects of war impacted upon their whanau.
Photo: Captain Harding Waipuke Leaf, Photo: Bradley Whanau.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions: Northland
Tags: Maori Battalion, Captain Harding Leaf, WW1, WW2, Anzac
Duration: 17'13"
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The effect of War - Puawai Cairns
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On April 18th the exhibition Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War opened at Te Papa, the National Museum in Wellington. As part of the curatorial team, Puawai Cairns has researched the lives of the some of the Māori men who fought at Gallipoli.
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On April 18 the exhibition Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War opened at Te Papa, the National Museum in Wellington. As part of the curatorial team, Puawai Cairns has researched the lives of the some of the Māori men who fought at Gallipoli. Some returned home. Many did not.
In her research she has read many diary entries and looked at thousands of images, in her mission to piece together their lives before and after serving overseas. A key text was Rikihana Carkeek’s book Home Little Māori Home. On a few occasions, Puawai used her social media platforms to track down descendants.
Puawai shares the story of Roy Delaney who enlisted at Te Karaka and who served in the Māori contingent in first World War, and Tiaki Makitanara who died of wounds on a hospital ship.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Te Papa, Puawai Cairns, WW1, Anzac, Gallipoli
Duration: 20'57"
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The Battalion - Jim Moriarty
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Te Rakau Hua o te Wao Tapu Trust is a theatre company that has performed in prisons, schools, marae, and even in the lounges of homes. Ngāti Toa actor Jim Moriarty has worked in film, television and theatre for the last forty years. The trust has performed the play, The Battalion since 2002, the stories main characters Georgia, Rimene and World War II veteran Paora. There are secrets that bubble to the surface, and Paora (played by Moriarty) is haunted by his past where he left his brother, thought to be dead, in Crete. The highly charged play uses dance, kapahaka, and waiata to tell the story. Written by Helen Pearse-Otene, Jim explains the story and the importance of honouring māori men who served overseas.
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Te Rakau Hua o te Wao Tapu Trust is a theatre company that has performed in prisons, schools, marae, and even in the lounges of homes. Ngāti Toa actor Jim Moriarty has worked in film, television and theatre for the last forty years.
The trust has performed the play, The Battalion since 2002, the stories main characters Georgia, Rimene and World War II veteran Paora. There are secrets that bubble to the surface, and Paora (played by Moriarty) is haunted by his past where he left his brother, thought to be dead, in Crete.
The highly charged play uses dance, kapahaka, and waiata to tell the story.
Written by Helen Pearse-Otene, Jim explains the story and the importance of honouring māori men who served overseas.
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Duration: 8'16"
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A New Direction
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This week on One in Five: staff describe it a magic place. We visit Nelson's Salisbury School, a residential special education facility for girls with intellectual and behavioural difficulties. Three years ago it faced closure by the Government but earned a reprieve when the High Court ruled the proposed closure unlawful. Now the school is seeking more students and looking to the future. Katy Gosset takes a tour of the facility as the pupils return from their holidays.
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Sarah-Jane is like many teenage girls. The walls of her room at Nelson's Salisbury School are covered in One Direction posters. And her own life has taken a change in direction.
Salisbury School caters for girls with intellectual disabilities and social and learning difficulties. And Sarah-Jane says, while she struggled with academic subjects at her previous college, at Salisbury she's found it easier to learn. "I guess it’s just about the opportunities that you don't really get. [at college] "
And, while she admits she misses her parents, she says the environment at Salisbury is fun. Returning to the facility after the holidays, she’s been keen to catch up with her friends but also eager to get back into school work. "Learning and seeing where the opportunities might take me".
Photo: Sarah-Jane in her bedroom at Salisbury School
A School Worth Fighting For
Salisbury School's principal, Brenda Ellis, started her career as a primary teacher in Otara, South Auckland. She says that experience has coloured everything she has done in education since. "I have always felt [...] a sense of wanting to improve outcomes [...] for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people."
But in 2012 the Education Minister, Hekia Parata, proposed closing Salisbury School and making Christchurch's Halswell Residential College for Boys co-educational. She says Salisbury's board felt strongly that parents should have a choice of educational options. "For us, that was worth fighting for."
Left: Weaving is one of the classroom activities at Salisbury School. Right: Students attend karate lessons each week
The school sought a judicial review and the High Court ruled that the proposed closure was unlawful. In mid-2013 Hekia Parata confirmed that Salisbury School would stay open. Ms Ellis says the focus is now on getting more students into the school, with only ten currently enrolled.
She says referrals come through an intensive wraparound service but she believes some parents find it hard to access a residential education for their children. She says the school is now working closely with the Ministry to explore re-establishing its own enrolment process, which would provide a second route into the facility.
"A Magic Place"
That's how Sue Stuart describes Nelson's Salisbury School. An employee for 34 years, she says the facility gives young women who have previously struggled to achieve or make friends, the skills to change their circumstances. "That's what happens: they get friendships, they achieve. They are not at the back of the classroom being ignored or bullied [...]. Here they've got everything."
Photo: Ashley, Renon and Bailey have been learning to flat together
Mrs Stuart admits staff "have been known to shed the odd tear" when the girls, who are mostly on 18-month placements, leave. And she says, over the years, she has received many letters from former students. "You can't get anything more rewarding than that."
Students explore the Richmond Fire Engine
Topics: disability
Regions: Nelson Region
Tags: special education, residential facility, independent living, intellectual disability
Duration: 25'06"
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A New Direction
Katy Gosset: Gosset: Hello, welcome to One in Five. I’m Katy Gosset. And today’s episode comes to you from Nelson’s Salisbury School. It’s just around dinnertime, and tonight we’re also privy to a sort of homecoming. The students have just returned for the new term, and I’m with the principle Brenda Ellis as she welcomes everyone back.
Brenda Ellis: This is where the girls live, and they have their kitchen in there. This is where they eat, as well.
Brenda Ellis: Hi, girls!
Girls: Hello!
Brenda Ellis: Hello. This is my friend. How was the plane? The plane was good?
Girl: Yes.
Brenda Ellis: How was your holiday?
Girl: I went to Christchurch and on the way I played in the snow.
Brenda Ellis: Was there snow down there? Was that your first time in the snow?
Girl: Mm-hm.
Brenda Ellis: That must have been wonderful, was it?
Girl: Mm-hm.
Brenda Ellis: Oh, I’m pleased for you. So you had a good holiday?
Girl: Yep.
Brenda Ellis: It’s lovely to see you. How was the flight, Bertha?
Woman: Oh, it was great.
Brenda Ellis: Bertha, this is Katy. Katy Gosset: is from Radio New Zealand.
Katy Gosset: Hi, nice to meet you.
Brenda Ellis: And this is her lovely daughter, Chance.
And, Chance, happy about coming back? (Laughs) You’re being a shy girl.
Katy Gosset: The girls usually stay here for about 18 months. In that time Brenda Ellis gets to know them all, and says the school caters for their particular learning needs.
Brenda Ellis: Salisbury is a very unique school. We are a residential special school for girls that have complex learning needs, which can include intellectual disability. Some of the girls have behavioural issues, as well. All of the girls have social and emotional difficulties. And that can mean making friends… having difficulty in forming friendships. I can mean not having had the opportunity or know how to become part of a team, that they have struggled in daily life and living skill development, as well as in the academic schoolwork. So an interesting range of challenges. And the girls are anywhere from the age of 12 through till about 16 years of age when they first enrol.
Katy Gosset: In the kitchen the first night meal is unveiled with some parents staying on to learn about their child’s school experience.
Brenda Ellis: Now, Bertha, let’s hope that the weather stays beautiful for you the whole time your down here. Isn’t it lovely?
Bertha: It’s beautiful down here. It’s raining in Auckland, it’s cold. It’s lovely down here.
Brenda Ellis: What do you think has been good for Chance, from your perspective?
Bertha: I tell you what, she didn’t want to come home. When I picked her up from the airport she said “Mum, if I could have run away from the airport I would have.” She didn’t want to come home from holiday, she wanted to stay.
Brenda Ellis: She wanted to stay in Salisbury? (Laughs) Aw, that means you must be really happy, Chance. Hopefully you’ll get some time to spend tomorrow in her class in kimi mātauranga. I think you’ll be really impressed, Bertha. I hope you will.
Bertha: Nah, her coming here was the best decision I ever made.
Brenda Ellis: That’s lovely to hear.
Bertha: If I had of heard of this place earlier I would have sent her here when she was much younger. I’ve had a lot of problems with her over the last two years. But coming here has been the best thing for her.
Brenda Ellis: It’s so good that you’re finding that it’s meeting her needs.
Brenda Ellis: What’s on the menu first night back?
Man: Schnitzel, Tana’s favourite. We’ve got some chunky potato wedges, cabbage, corn and peas and some garlic bread.
Katy Gosset: Are you the chef?
Man: No, no. I’m previously the chef. (Laughs)
Katy Gosset: There was laughter from the kitchen, then.
Kitchen worker: It’s always exciting when you open up the bain-marie to see what we’re going to eat tonight.
Brenda Ellis: So, Bertha, how long are you saying?
Bertha: Until February.
Brenda Ellis: Oh, fantastic. Well, we’ll get together and we’ll do some work together around how we can help you to help Chance when you go back.
Bertha: Eh, Chance? Chance?
Brenda Ellis: I can see that little Chancey smile. The karakia would be lovely, thank you.
Man: Would you like to start first?
(All sing in Maori)
Katy Gosset: From there it’s on to a second cottage where the older girls have been reunited after the holidays.
Brenda Ellis: Oh, it’s lovely and warm in here.
Cottage worker: It is, it’s lovely, Brenda.
Brenda Ellis: Hi, girls. Lovely to see you all. Hello, Miss. How are you? Lovely to see you. Can I introduce Katy? Katy is here having a look round and she’s doing a little bit of taping…
Katy Gosset: Hi there.
Brenda Ellis: ..and would love to get to know you a little bit better, I think. Did you have a great holiday, Kerry? Did you have a great time?
Kerry: Yes.
Brenda Ellis: And were you all on time on your flights?
Girls: No.
Brenda Ellis: How are you, Liz?
Katy Gosset: The students here come from across the country, but have formed strong friendships.
Cottage worker: When they arrived some of them were waiting for each other. I saw them coming up the path and they were flying at each other, hugging each other, and it was very touching.
Katy Gosset: They miss each other.
Brenda Ellis: They do.
Katy Gosset: The supportive environment of Salisbury School was threatened three years ago when the education minister Hekia Parata announced plans to close it, saying the girls could instead be enrolled at a boy’s residential school in Christchurch. The school sought a judicial review and the high court ruled that the government’s proposed closure was unlawful. In mid-2013 Ms Parata confirmed that Salisbury School would remain open.
Brenda Ellis: The legal process was an interesting process to go through. The board felt very strongly that there were robust reasons and good research, which indicated that closing Salisbury would mean less choice, if you like, for parents. Halswell Residential College was to become co-ed, and we felt that that then meant that parents didn’t have the option of single-sex residential education for girls such as the girls at Salisbury provide for. So for us that was worth fighting for.
Katy Gosset: She says the focus is now on finding new ways to bring students into the school.
Brenda Ellis: This is a very complex group of young people with a very high tariff. So we’ve recently had a very positive ERO report. And we’re working with the ministry closely at the moment around core pieces of work involving scoping, exploring, another enrollment process into Salisbury so that there might be two routes in. One is through the intensive wraparound and one we are looking to establish our own enrollment process back in. Because there seems to be a little bit of a disconnect and a difficulty for parents in accessing residential educations. So we’re in the middle of that piece of work at the moment.
Katy Gosset: Brenda Ellis says Salisbury’s most recent ERO report highlights improvements in behaviour management, as well as core literacy and numeracy.
Brenda Ellis: We’re getting great success with improving levels of learning with our girls, so essentially they’re five-plus years at least behind their same-age peers when they come to us in terms of their reading, their literacy and numeracy. And we really make a big difference in their achievement levels by focusing on literacy and numeracy through a lot of our programmes.
Katy Gosset: And she says it was the hope of seeing this kind of progress that drew her to the sector.
Brenda Ellis: I have always felt that I have a sense of wanting to improve outcomes, if you like, for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people. I trained as a primary school teacher and I worked in Otara in South Auckland, and I think my experience there has really coloured everything that I’ve done in education since. So it’s wanting to improve outcomes for those young people that… their life has been a little bit tricky.
Katy Gosset: After this we head down to the dormitory area where the girls get stuck into unpacking. And Sarah-Jane offers to show me her room and her One Direction posters.
Sarah-Jane: This is my room. This is my bed. And then on that wall is some memories of home. Me and my two little sisters, and that’s me and my mum. Most of them are me and my mum. And some friends and family. And then this is my really cool artwork.
Katy Gosset: It’s amazing. And I see that you’ve also got Harry Styles and his crew for company in here. One Direction making quite a prominent appearance. I take it you’re a fan.
Sarah-Jane: (Laughs) Yep. I’ve got a duvet, but it’s in the cupboard.
Katy Gosset: OK. And are these some certificates and things I see over here?
Sarah-Jane: Yeah. These are mostly targets and certificates for the week. These ones are just for the cleaning this room award.
Katy Gosset: Very good. So what have you found the place to be like since you’ve been here?
Sarah-Jane: Actually really fun. Like, for me, being here, yes, I do miss my parents and that, but I guess it’s just all the opportunities that you don’t really get up in, like… For me, I’m at college, but I struggle there with my subjects and that. But for me I can actually learn here and do it and not have any troubles doing it.
Katy Gosset: When you first arrived here today what were you most looking forward to doing or the person you were most looking forward to seeing when you got here?
Sarah-Jane: Um, my friends and just getting back into school and learning and seeing where opportunities might take me further in life.
Katy Gosset: So it was exciting to get back here?
Sarah-Jane: Yeah.
Katy Gosset: Just up the halls, Samara is also setting up her space.
Samara: A bit messy. (Laughs)
Brenda Ellis: Oh, not really. It looks pretty tidy. Tidier than my room.
Katy Gosset: So have you just brought everything in from scratch today?
And what are some of these awards and things around the walls?
Samara: That one is a friendship award.
Katy Gosset: What’s over here?
Samara: Just another award. You stay up late and get $5 pocket money.
Katy Gosset: Ok. How late are you allowed to stay up?
Samara: Probably about ten o’clock.
Katy Gosset: That’s pretty good. What do you do when you stay up?
Samara: Watch TV.
Katy Gosset: Right. So what do you think about Salisbury School?
Samara: It’s good.
Katy Gosset: What do you like about it?
Samara: Basically, maths. I like maths.
Katy Gosset: What about living here?
Samara: Fun.
Katy Gosset: What sort of things do you do with your friends?
Samara: Hang out at the playground.
Brenda Ellis: Where are you going tonight, Samara:?
Samara: Karate.
Brenda Ellis: What are you doing here?
Samara: Kick and hit.
Katy Gosset: Can you chop a wooden block in half?
Samara: (Laughs) No.
Brenda Ellis: Working up to it. (Laughs)
Katy Gosset: Not yet.
Brenda Ellis: That’s the graduation ceremony.
Katy Gosset: And as the girls settle in, Brenda Ellis admits that sometimes students don’t actually want to go home in the holidays.
Brenda Ellis: For a lot of our girls – I would almost confidently say up to 70% – they are girls who have come from disadvantaged home backgrounds, so there might have been levels of domestic abuse and sometimes sexual abuse within their lives before they came here to Salisbury. So Salisbury becomes very much a safe haven. And while that is only a percentage of our girls it’s a significant percentage. And they are able to develop relationships with staff where they feel safe. We provide counselling, we provide medical care. They make friends and they feel a sense of belonging and they don’t want to leave sometimes when the time comes, but we’re very careful with our transition process and we put a lot of emphasis on doing a really good job of transitioning them back into their local communities with as much support as we can. I should have mentioned the work that our residential staff do in terms of daily life and living skills development, too. So we have an independent flat here where the girls learn how go flatting. For the girls who have had disadvantaged backgrounds this shows them there’s another way and that they can aspire to living in a flatting situation where they can have control over their own money and learn how to be safe in the community, and the right types of relationships to develop. So that’s a really important part of what we do, as well.
Katy Gosset: Do you have girls who you’re sorry to see go, you and the other staff? Are there people you miss?
Brenda Ellis: We are always sorry to see the girls go. They live with you in a family kind of a situation, which is what we try and do here, have a community, a whanau type of setting… You can’t not miss them. But our goal is always to improve their life and learning and living outcomes, moving forward. And there are girls who have gone before their time is up because we feel that we’ve helped them as much as we can and that they’re ready to springboard, if you like, into to the next phase of their lives. But, yes, you miss every one of them. But that’s part of residential education. That’s part of education full stop.
Katy Gosset: Do you still remember individuals?
Brenda Ellis: Oh, yes. And our school has been around for a long time, but we still regularly get letters here enquiring after staff who have long left from girls who are now mothers themselves or were here 15 or 20 years ago, and they’re sort of writing in because they still feel a sense of connection to a place where they were happy and they were safe and they were succeeding and learning, in other areas of their lives where they hadn’t felt success before.
Katy Gosset: And an employee for 32 years, Sue Stuart, says the girls have been a big part of her life.
Sue Stuart: Nothing quite like seeing girls who really have never had good friendships or been able to achieve to do all those things here. And that’s what happens. They get friendships, they achieve, they are not at the back of the class being ignored or bullied or whatever. Yeah, they’ve got everything and they are just so well looked after. It’s a magic place. More magic probably, than the last few years, Brenda, I would… Yeah, I would say that.
Katy Gosset: Because you’ve had lower numbers and are better able to…
Sue Stuart: Our whole ethos has changed here. I think that that has made most probably the biggest impact and that is due credit to Brenda.
Sue Stuart: It’s when you see little wee chickens like this one, when she first came she didn’t know which way was up, but she’s got friends. She was talking about staff one day and she was listing all their great points and she said ‘And you give great hugs, Sue.’
(Both laugh)
Sue Stuart: But, you know, that’s because she is a wee girl and she does miss her family.
Katy Gosset: So how does it make you feel when she says ‘You give great hugs’?
Sue Stuart: I suppose you get to know the girls, you form relationships. And I think relationships are really very important with these girls that you get to know them and they learn to trust you. And it’s that thing that just keeps ticking over. That’s how we get the results we do, we have relationships with these girls. So, yeah, it makes you feel warm inside when they say ‘You give great hugs, Sue’ or ‘You’re funny’. Yeah, all these things that because we are loco parentis for them.
Katy Gosset: It must be hard for you when they go.
Sue Stuart: Oh, yes. (Laughs) We have been known to shed the odd tear. Yeah, certainly. And before we had our two-year term which we had for girls some girls we had, when I was here earlier, we had for eight years. So we were very much part of their life.
Katy Gosset: So they’re like your children?
Sue Stuart: And you’ll hear from them every now and then. Like a girl who is actually quite a troubled young lady, I still hear from her once a year. Photos of the children. She’s had a job. This girl would never have had any of that. She’s got her children. That could have not have happened because she came from such a dysfunctional family. And that’s the skills we taught her. I mean, if you can get anything more rewarding than that I’d like to know what it is. (Laughs) So yeah. Amazing place.
Katy Gosset: The last area that we’re visiting now is the part that effectively sets the students up for life beyond here.
(Knocking)
Woman Hello. Come in.
Brenda Ellis: We are very orderly, aren’t we? Done our dishes, have we, Ashley? Didn’t have any tonight, did you?
Ashley: We did. We had cakes.
Katy Gosset: This is the flatting house where Renon, Bailey and Ashley are learning to live together with the help of Suze Martin.
Suze Martin: We’re actually just starting to sit down. We’re doing good changes this term because we’ve got three girls that work so collaboratively together that we feel that instead of us telling them what to do, they’re moving on to the next stage and that’s seeing what needs to be done and doing it. You’re a lovely wee unit together, aren’t you?
Brenda Ellis: Its super independence, isn’t it?
Suze Martin: Tell Katy what you girls are meant to do in the flats.
Girl: We do all our own cooking, cleaning and… laughs
Suze Martin: Shopping for groceries.
Girl: You should be doing this. You’ve been here the longest.
Katy Gosset: What else do you guys do?
Girl: Thanks for the support, guys.
Suze Martin: A big part of it is that in here they have to resolve conflict by themselves, as well. So they actually need to work together and someone has to spend a bit of time teaching the really good social skills so when they go and move into a flat they know how to do the problems as they arise, rather than having to go to someone else to deal with them for them.
Katy Gosset: Here’s the scenario. So someone hasn’t cleaned the toilet or the toilet needs a clean, how do you decide to whose going to do it?
Girl: We have a job roster thing so every different week we’ll change the jobs. So one person will be on the toilet for a week and if they don’t clean it we’ll let them know they need to clean it.
Katy Gosset: And that works well, that process? You all discuss things fairly and people think ‘Yeah, fair cop. I should be doing that.’
Suze Martin: We’ve had no problems with jobs. As much as possible we let the girls be responsible for being ready on time for things, for getting what they need to do done in that timeframe, and they’re pretty amazing at doing it.
Katy Gosset: So do you guys get to choose what you’re going to cook for dinner?
Suze Martin: And what sort of things have you been making?
Bailey: We all cook different things. Last time Ash cooked potato-top pie, I cooked roast chicken and Renon cooked rice risotto, so we all cooked different things.
Suze Martin: Then they’ll choose their next recipe and we work alongside them and bit by bit they can completely do it by themselves. I’m not very good at that part, am I?
Girls: No. (Laughs)
Suze Martin: I have to sit and not pick up a spoon or anything, just let them go. It’s really hard. But they do very well.
Katy Gosset: You know what they say. Too many cooks spoil the broth. Do you have to chase her out of the kitchen sometimes and say ‘Be gone!’?
Renon: We have to tell her to go and sit down sometimes.
Suze Martin: Or you slap my hand with a wooden spoon. You’ve been known to do that a few times, too.
Katy Gosset: Alright. Did I overhear before that some of you guys have been cooking food at home over the holidays? How about you, Ashley? What does your family say?
Ashley: They said that I should do all the cooking at home.
(All laugh)
Suze Martin: And how many people? ‘Cause you’ve got eight at home. So cooking a meal for eight.
Renon: That’s a lot of people.
Katy Gosset: That is a lot of people. It’s a good effort. And do you find, Renon, that you are the wise leader because you’re a bit older? Do you pass on suggestions to the others?
(Girls laugh)
Renon: Um…
Suze Martin: I think you speak up for yourself a lot more than you used to, Renon, that you actually speak up for yourself, which is a huge thing for you to do. It’s very hard. It was very hard for you to start with, wasn’t it, to say when you didn’t like something that was happening? We’re very pleased that you can say to somebody ‘I’m not happy with that. No, I don’t want to.’ I just think these girls do so well, especially for their age. And I don’t think they realise how far they’ve come because when you ask them is it easy or is it hard, it was very hard when you first came. I think you’ve forgotten that, but it was hard to fit everything in. And now you can see the bench from when we had dinner. The dishes are done. And now it is easy. It’s just done because it needs to be done, and they actually can see when things need to be done. And I think that’s quite a big deal for girls age 13 and 16 to be able to do that. I couldn’t at that age.
(Girls laugh)
Katy Gosset: Alright.
Brenda Ellis: Well, off we go on our travels. Thanks, sweetheart. See you in the morning.
Katy Gosset: Thank you.
Brenda Ellis: Don’t be late for school.
(Women all laugh)
Katy Gosset: Since this programme was recorded some of the girls have moved on, and Brenda Ellis says there are now places available at Salisbury School. She says she’s working collaboratively with the ministry to help more students access what the school has to offer.
Well, that’s One in Five for today. You can find this and out other programmes by searching for One in Five at radionz.co.nz. We’ll be back next week with more on the experiences of disability around Aotearoa.
===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 Hour One - 26 April 2015
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Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic and often remarkable events and people of New Zealanad's past.
Topics: history
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Duration: 56'19"
21:05
Sounds Historical Hour Two - 26 April 2015
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Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past.
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Duration: 58'24"
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8:06 Today in New Zealand History 4’18”
Christ’s College begins 26 April 1852
8:12 Artist: Bruce Paine and company including Imogen Abernethy
Song: Day of Days
Composer: Paine
Album: n/a
Label: n/a
8:18 Dame Alison Holst DNZM CBE QSM - Part One 13’06”
Nine to Noon's longtime resident food expert, has been diagnosed with dementia and has withdrawn from her media roles. In this interview recorded in 1985 she talks to Jim Sullivan about her early days in television in the mid-1960s.
8:31 Artist: Murray Johnson
Song: Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag
Composer: Asif/Powell
Album: Songs of World War 1
Label: Goentertainment 557331
8:35 I Saw Them Fly- Part Four: The Birth of an Air Force 12’45”
A 1955 series of talks, introduced by Arnold Wall Jnr of 3YA Christchurch, in which Frederick Carpenter, who grew up in the village of Farnborough in the United Kingdom, recalls watching it become the centre of British aviation and his friendships with early aviators, from 1903 until the end of World War I.
8:48 Artist: Alfred Lester 2’39”
Song: Good-Bye-Ee
Composer: Weston/Lee
Album: Songs of World War 1
Label: Goentertainment 557331
8:51 War Report – 33 6’18”
The memories of men who landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915.
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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
8:57 Radio New Zealand Studio Orchestra (soloist Colin Hemmingson) 3’22”
Song: My Love
Composer: McCartney
Album: Orchestral Gold Vol 1
Label: Kiwi Tartar TRL 005
9:07 As I Remember 4’41”
Store-bought Toys by the late Daphne Blackshaw (nee Pilcher) supplied by her sister Colleen. Read by Maggie Hedge.
9:12 Artist: Bruce Paine and company including Imogen Abernethy
Song: Dear Mother
Composer: Paine
Album: n/a
Label: n/a
9:16 Homework
Three mystery voices
9:17 Italy – World War Two 4’17”
John Proudfoot, commentator with the New Zealand Broadcasting Service Mobile Unit, sends a despatch from the 8th Army Front on the New Zealanders advance from the Adige River to the Piave River, and the occupation of Padua and Venice. The crossing of the Adige River was made with little opposition and to the north of Adige resistance was weak and patchy. A spearhead of mobilised forces penetrated the enemy front passing small enemy pockets that were cleaned out by following troops. Venice was entered early that afternoon and behind this mobilised force lurked the remnants of the German 4 Paratroop Division. Thousands of German prisoners were taken including a German general and his staff. The German Command cannot hold up the allied advance.
9:21 Artist: John McCormack 3’02”
Song: Keep the Home Fires Burning
Composer: Ivor Novello/ Ford
Album: Songs of World War 1
Label: Goentertainment 557331
9:23 Stan McCabe talks about serving with 488 (NZ) Squadron 36’20”
Stan McCabe tells his story of serving with 488 (NZ) Squadron during World War Two in a Spectrum documentary produced by Alwyn Owen.
9:57 Artist:Radio New Zealand Studio Orchestra 2’59”
Song: Lucky Me
Composer: Black/Bourke
Album: Orchestral Gold Vol 1
Label: Tartar TRL 005
===10:12 PM. | Mediawatch===
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Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)
===11:04 PM. | Hidden Treasures===
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Trevor Reekie seeks out musical gems from niche markets around the globe, re-releases, and interesting sounds from the shallow end of the bit stream (6 of 8, RNZ)
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Artist: Smokeshop (opening theme)
Song: Fusion at Room Temperature
Composer: Watson, Smokeshop
Album: Fusion at Room Temperature
Label: Pagan
Artist: Mory Kanté
Song: Yeke Yeke
Composer: Mory Kanté
Album: Best Of Mory Kanté
Label: Barclay
Artist: Charles Bradley & Menahan Street Band
Song: Heartaches and Pain
Composer: Charles Bradley
Album: No Time for Dreaming
Label: Dap Tone Records
Artist: Agnes Obel
Song: Aventine
Composer: Agnes Obel
Album: Aventine
Label: PIAS
Artist: Ha The Unclear
Song: Kosmonzvt
Composer: M.Cathro,P.Cathro, B. Sargeant, T.Francis
Album: Bacterium, Look at Your Motor Go
Label: Ha The Unclear via Bandcamo
Artist: Songhoy Blues
Song: Soubour
Composer: Songhoy Blues
Album: Music in Exile
Label: Transgressive Records / PIAS
Artist: The Accidentals
Song: Bittersweet
Composer: Larson, Buist
Album: Bittersweet
Label: The Accidentals
Artist: Shelter Point
Song: Cut Me Loose
Composer: Robin Hearn, Liam Arnold
Album: single via Soundcloud
Label: Space + Time Records
Artist: Astor Piazzolla
Song: Astor's Speech / Tanguedia III
Composer: Astor Piazzolla
Album: The Central Park Concert
Label: Chesky Records
Artist: Jimmy Reed
Song: Take Out Some Insurance
Composer: Singleton
Album: Jimmy Reed Blues Master Works
Label: Delta Records
Artist: Lail Arad
Song: Winter
Composer: Lail Arad
Album: Someone New
Label: Notify Music
Artist: Martyn Bennett
Song: Blackbird - feat. What A Voice' sung by Lizzie Higgins
Composer: traditional – music by Martyn Bennett
Album: Grit
Label: Real World Records
Artist: SJD
Song: I Saw The Future
Composer: Sean James Donelly
Album: Saint John Divine
Label: Round Trip Mars
Artist: Bio Ritmo
Song: El Rayito
Composer: Bio Ritmo
Album: Bio Ritmo
Label: Locutor Records