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:
24 May 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 Wildfire, by Karen Curtis (7 of 10, Word Pictures); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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A Tramp to Ponga Saddle, by Kate Frykberg, told by Joanne Simpson; The Mysterious Mr Claw, by Stephen Sinclair, told by Peter Vere Jones; Tama's Putorino, by Tawai Te Rangi/Radha Sahar, told by Davina Whitehouse;; Brave Ben, by Roger Hall, told by Peter Brunt (RNZ)
===7:08 AM. | Sunday Morning===
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A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, documentaries, sport from the outfield, music and including: 7:43 The Week in Parliament: An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house (RNZ) 8:10 Insight: An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ) 9:06 Mediawatch: Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)
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07:12
Plight of the Rohingyas
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Burmese scholar and dissident Maung Zarni calls on New Zealand to condemn what he says is a campaign of genocide against the Rohingya people.
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Duration: 14'46"
07:25
Harmeet Sooden from Iraqi Kurdistan
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Harmeet Sooden is in Iraq with the NGO Christian Peacemaker Teams - CPT. His role is to analyse and document the growing ethno-sectarian tensions within the refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Topics: international aid and development
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Tags: Harmeet Sooden, Iraq, hostage, refugee camps, Iraqi Kurdistan
Duration: 4'12"
07:31
The Week In Parliament for Sunday 24 May 2015
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Budget Week staggers on towards the weekend after Government puts the House under urgency to pass four bills implementing Budget measures through all their stages. Opposition filibuster slows social housing bill to a crawl in its committee stage. NZ First's Ron Mark becomes second MP ordered from the chamber, joining Grant Robertson who was thrown out on Wednesday. Select committees briefed on mental health and reason for supporting the proposed order of flag change referendums. Budget Debate to resume next week.
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Duration: 15'00"
07:45
The demise of Campbell Live
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Academic Peter Thompson and Metro magazine editor Simon Wilson on the canning of Campbell Live.
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Duration: 9'57"
08:12
Insight for 24 May 2015 - Vanuatu & Tussles over Cyclone Aid
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Koroi Hawkins looks at the tussle over aid relief in the wake of Cyclone Pam
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In March, Cyclone Pam ravaged Vanuatu. Its 360 kilometre per hour winds wreaked havoc on the Pacific island archipelago leaving 11 dead, more than 90,000 people homeless and a damage bill of $600 million.
Insight takes a closer look at the power play behind the relief effort.
Listen to Insight - Vanuatu & the Tussle over Cyclone Aid:
It was only a few days after the cyclone they called the Monster had swept through Vanuatu.
I was accompanying a group of local business people who'd decided to club together, load up their barge and get food and water out to some of Vanuatu's more remote islands.
As we pulled into a bay in the Shepherds group in Vanuatu's north, we came across a gleaming super yacht, the Dragonfly, at anchor.
Curious and hoping for an internet connection so I could file my stories, our barge pulled up alongside.
Instead of wealthy yachties soaking up the tropical sun and feasting on delicacies, I found a crack team of medics, engineers and technicians, busy ferrying thousands of litres of water they had desalinated and purified via the yacht's on board system to villagers waiting on the beach.
"When the storm hit, we as a crew and fortunately, supported by the owners, felt that there was no better team to come down and help, providing aid, search and rescue, delivering water, delivering food and just trying to do as much as we can to help the people of Vanuatu," said the Dragonfly's skipper, Mike Gregory.
The owners weren't on board and did not want their identity revealed.
The multi-skilled and multi-national team included ex-navy seals who were running the logistics, a "smoke-jumper", doctors and water purification experts.
They were all brought together by the Dragonfly owners to deliver aid and provide an essential emergency response to Vanuatu's subsistence communities, most of whom had not received aid more than a week after the cyclone.
I left the barge and joined the team.
As a speaker of the local Bislama, I found a useful role translating for the crew as we made contact with the villages.
Over 12 days we traveled from the Shepherd Islands in the north right through to Tanna in the south.
It was going on two weeks since the cyclone and everywhere we went we found people in desperate need of help.
Some villages were in a worse state than others but the core needs were the same - water, food, shelter and medical supplies.
But Captain Gregory said it had not been easy getting the green light.
He said he had to first convince Vanuatu's disaster authorities they had a limited time to utilise his huge resource, a vessel with a 4500 nautical mile range and 27 knot capability to speed around the far flung islands.
Back in the capital Port Vila fast arriving international aid was being stacked and stored in warehouses.
Vanuatu's disaster management plan had kicked in led by the Vanuatu Disaster Management Office (NDMO), and all organisations had been banned from distributing their relief supplies until its disaster assessments were carried out.
The NDMO's technical advisor Benjamin Shing said there were two reasons why the government wanted to control the distribution of aid.
"The first one is to get government ownership over the reconstruction process and the relief efforts, but also to ensure that all the aid that's delivered is delivered in the most efficient and the most effective manner," said Mr Shing.
"It's also recognition that all our development partners are treated equally, and also to be transparent and accountable to them."
The government was also mindful of Vanuatu people's resilience.
"A lot of them live off their root crops and the government has calculated that they will still be able to survive with the food that they have and especially with the yam season at the present. The government is banking on the people being able to use those until relief supplies reach them," said the chief government spokesperson at the time, Kiery Mannaseh.
The assessments ended up taking two weeks and in that time people in need of food, shelter, water and medical supplies were left to fend for themselves.
Many people just wanted some indication that help was on its way.
"The people who are here just want to know if the government could give some answers to them quickly," said Sikal Iaruel, who had taken shelter in one of the numerous make-shift evacuation centres.
But help was still not coming. And while they refused to openly criticise the government, it was obvious NGOs and aid agencies were getting frustrated.
One of the NGOs, Save the Children, had begun delivering aid to evacuation centres despite the government ban.
Vanuatu's disaster authorities said they were trying to manage relief distribution so as to ensure social equity.
An emergency management expert and senior lecturer at Massey University, Jane Rovins, said Vanuatu's predicament was seen when disaster strikes all over the world.
"The problem in a place like Vanuatu is logistically it's a bit of a nightmare. You have hundreds of islands, some are inhabited and some are not. You have a lack of landing strips to bring in aircraft. You have a lack of deep water ports so they can't bring in the big shipments. You're relying on small boats, helicopters in a remote part of the world."
Aid delivery "complicated by politics"
A ni-Vanuatu academic at Victoria University of Wellington, Pala Molisa, said the aid distribution was also hampered by politics, "such as inter-communal politics, political issues around what communities get what, which leaders are seen to take the lead and so on".
Dr Rovins said Vanuatu's insistence on controlling aid was a growing global trend.
"We're seeing this more and more where governments are asserting themselves and saying 'we want your help, but you've got to help in ways we think we need help'."
Ian McInnes said a good disaster action plan shouldn't entail full disaster assessments before people get help.
"At some point it breaks down, and it's very important that government and the humanitarian actors get together and work out exactly how are they going to action those plans all the way to the end of the line because if it breaks before it gets to the community well it hasn't done the job."
Damage bill hits $610 million
In the next few weeks the Vanuatu government will wind up its humanitarian relief efforts and look to the reconstruction and rehabilitation phase.
The World Bank has said the country's damage bill is NZ$610 million. There is concern the country does not have the capacity to fund this with huge loans and there needs to be re-prioritisation of existing development projects.
Meanwhile, the Vanuatu government has called for future relief funding and donations to be channeled through its own coffers.
"Routing all aid through governments is a bad idea for all the obvious reasons not least it can be hard to trace," said Ian McInnes, the CEO of Tear Fund and the chairperson of New Zealand's NGO Disaster Relief Forum.
"There can be problems with corruption and that was the case in some of the early food distribution and I saw the government move quickly and rightly to say that they would prosecute anyone found stealing food aid.
Dr Rovins said the real question was whether the government had the ability to deal with tens of millions of dollars in aid.
"If they can prove fiscal management I have no problem with the idea that aid would go straight through the government. They know their country better than others."
Vanuatu is still reeling from the storm they called the Monster but many are calling it a miracle. After all, only 11 people died and major outbreaks of disease have been avoided.
The country has six months to hone its disaster management skills before the start of another cyclone season.
Topics: international aid and development
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Tags: Vanuatu, Cyclone Pam
Duration: 28'00"
08:35
Budget 2015 - our correspondents rate it
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Radio New Zealand's economics correspondent Patrick O'Meara, education correspondent John Gerritsen, health reporter Gareth Thomas, and Auckland issues reporter Todd Niall speak with Wallace about the budget and what it means for the country.
Topics: politics, economy
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Duration: 20'00"
09:10
Mediawatch for 24 May 2015
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Mediaworks news boss on pulling the plug on TV3's Campbell Live - and John Campbell's exit; the focus on the Prince's Harry's female fans - and the flag; regional newspapers missing out on late breaking news, and; publicising snacks and drinks we can't even buy.
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Duration: 32'16"
09:40
Hamish Parkinson - Fly or Die
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Comedian Hamish Parkinson - the winner of this year's Billy T Award - reflects on what makes him laugh and his show 'Fly or Die'.
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Comedian Hamish Parkinson - the winner of this year's Billy T Award - reflects on what makes him laugh and his show 'Fly or Die'
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Tags: comedians, Hamish Parkinson
Duration: 10'55"
10:10
Pras Michel - Sweet Micky for President
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This week Wallace Chapman talks to former Fugee Pras Michel about his music and his venture into politics - mobilising the successful Haitian presidential campaign for musician Michel Martell, aka Sweet Micky.
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A New Yorker born of Haitian migrant parents, Pras Michel was the co-founder of the platinum selling band The Fugees – with Lauryn Hill and his cousin Wyclef Jean. They were the biggest hip hop act in the world.
Wallace Chapman talks to Pras Michel about his music and his venture into politics – mobilising the ultimately successful presidential campaign for Haiti musician Michel Martell, aka Sweet Micky.
Pras Michel is the producer of the documentary, Sweet Micky for President, which is screening at the Documentary Edge Festival.
Topics: music, politics
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Tags: Pras Michael, Haiti, Sweet Micky
Duration: 24'57"
10:35
Jose Da Silva - The Art of David Lynch
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Jose da Silva is the curator of the David Lynch retrospective Between Two Worlds now showing at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane.
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Jose Da Silva is the curator of a David Lynch retrospective Between Two Worlds now showing at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane.
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Duration: 18'07"
11:10
Irvin Mayfield - New Orleans Jazz
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Wallace Chapman talks to Irvin Mayfield about his city New Orleans and its music.
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New Orleans is seen as the cradle of jazz - but it's the city that almost broke on the back of Hurricane Katrina. Then-mayor Ray Nagin appointed a young trumpeter as cultural ambassador of New Orleans - Irvin Mayfield.
Wallace Chapman talks to Irvin Mayfield about his city and its music.
Mayfield is professor and artistic director at the New Orleans Institute of Jazz at the University of New Orleans, and founder of the 16 piece New Orleans Jazz Orchestra which he is bringing to NZ, with Memphis-born star Dee Dee Bridgewater, for the Wellington Jazz Festival on June 4.
Photo: Irvin Mayfield by Greg Miles.
Topics: music
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Tags: New Orleans, jazz, trumpet, Wellington Jazz Festival
Duration: 19'32"
11:30
Curt Tofteland - Shakespeare Behind Bars
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The Shakespeare Behind Bars programme is an internationally acclaimed programme in the United States for both offenders and ex-offenders, offering theatrical experiences that deal with personal and social issues, to aid re-integration into society.
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Tags: theatre, USA, Shakespeare, prisoner rehabilitation
Duration: 17'58"
11:50
Eurovision 2015
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Eurovision fan Todd Niall joins us with a live report from downtown Auckland on this year's final.
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Eurovision fan Todd Niall joins us with a live report from downtown Auckland on this year's final.
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Duration: 10'04"
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7:08 Current affairs
Burmese scholar and dissident Maung Zarni calls on New Zealand to condemn what he says is a campaign of genocide against the Rohingya people; former hostage Harmeet Sooden live from Iraq; the Week in Parliament; and academic Peter Thompson and Metro editor Simon Wilson on the canning of Campbell Live.
8:12 Insight
This week, Insight explores Vanuatu's approach to disaster management in the wake of Cyclone Pam.
Produced by Philippa Tolley.
8:40 Budget 2015 - How do our correspondents rate it?
Radio New Zealand's economics correspondent Patrick O'Meara, education correspondent John Gerritsen, health reporter Gareth Thomas, and Auckland issues reporter Todd Niall talk to Wallace about the budget and what it means for the country.
9:06 Mediawatch
Mediawatch talks to the man who pulled the plug on John Campbell's crusading current affairs show. Also: how female fans of the bachelor Prince became the focus during his recent royal tour - and why regional papers might be missing more late breaking news.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Hamish Parkinson - Fly or Die
Comedian Hamish Parkinson - the winner of this year's Billy T Award - reflects on what makes him laugh and his show 'Fly or Die'
10:06 Pras Michel - Sweet Micky
A New Yorker born of Haitian migrant parents, Pras Michel was the co-founder of the platinum selling band The Fugees – with Lauryn Hill and his cousin Wyclef Jean. They were the biggest hip hop act in the world. This week Wallace Chapman talks to Pras Michel about his music and his venture into politics - mobilising the ultimately successful presidential campaign for Haiti musician Michel Martell, aka Sweet Micky. Pras Michel is the producer of the documentary, Sweet Micky for President, which is screening at the Documentary Edge Festival.
10:40 Jose Da Silva - The Art of David Lynch
Jose Da Silva is the curator of a David Lynch retrospective Between Two Worlds now showing at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane.
11:05 Irvin Mayfield - New Orleans Jazz
New Orleans is seen as the cradle of jazz - but it's the city that almost broke on the back of Hurricane Katrina. Then mayor Ray Nagin appointed a young trumpeter as cultural ambassador of New Orleans - Irvin Mayfield. Wallace Chapman talks to Irvin Mayfield about his city and its music. Mayfield is professor and artistic director at the New Orleans Institute of Jazz at the University of New Orleans, and founder of the 16 piece New Orleans Jazz Orchestra which he is bringing to NZ, with Memphis-born star Dee Dee Bridgewater, for the Wellington Jazz Festival on June 4.
Irvin Mayfield - Photo Credit Greg Miles
11:30 Curt Tofteland - Shakespeare Behind Bars
Curt Tofteland is the man behind The Shakespeare Behind Bars programme, an internationally acclaimed programme in the United States for both offenders and ex-offenders, offering theatrical experiences that deal with personal and social issues, to aid re-integration into society.
11:53 Eurovision - Down Under
Eurovision fan Todd Niall joins us with a live report from downtown Auckland on this year's final.
A photo posted by Wallace Chapman (@wallacechapman) on Apr 30, 2015 at 8:00pm PDT
Playlist:
The Fugees - Ready or Not
Irvin Mayfield - Great Steps
Rebecca Del Rio - Llorando
Run DMC - Walk This Way
Irvin Mayfield - Movement 2
Mans Zelmerlow - Heroes
===12:12 PM. | Spectrum===
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The little town of Waihi has two little WW1 mysteries, both involving honours boards. The Waihi Museum has just been gifted one board which used to hang in the town's Methodist church but hadn't been seen since the church closed in the early 1990's. Word is that it was found recently at a tip and has been restored by persons unknown. The museum's also trying to track down an honours board that used to hang in the town's King's Theatre. Apparently it listed former pupils from the Waihi District High School who enlisted to fight in the War to End All Wars. That's now nowhere to be found and nobody seems to know anything about it (RNZ)
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12:15
Waihi’s Little WWI Mysteries
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Two little World War One mysteries for the little town of Waihi; it’s all about two rolls of honour created for the men and youths from the town who went to fight in the First World War.
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Waihi Museum and gang.
“I like doing sleuthing” Harriet Taylor Waihi Museum.
Two little World War One mysteries for the little town of Waihi; it’s all about two rolls of honour created for the men and youths from the town who went to fight in the First World War. One’s been handed in to the local museum, and the museum is now on a hunt for a second.The thing is, until recently, no one realised they were even missing.
The Waihi Museum says the board it’s been given, used to hang in the town’s Methodist church. It hadn’t been seen since the church closed in the early 1990’s, until it was recently spotted in a store room at the Waihi Beach RSA.
The word is that it had been found at a tip and then restored by person or persons unknown… but it’s all a bit foggy really.
The museum’s also trying to track down an honours board that used to hang in the town’s King’s Theatre.Museum researcher Harriet Taylor came across articles about the second board while she was trying to find out more about the Methodist Church board.
Newspapers of the time say the King’s Theatre board listed former pupils from the Waihi District High School who enlisted to fight. That’s now nowhere to found and nobody seems to know anything about it.
Harriet says there’s also confusion about when the Methodist church board was first unveiled. Church records indicate 1916 but one newspaper article records the opening as 1919.
Details of Honours Board; Waihi Museum Battle of Jutland landing at Anzac Cove and signature of artist.
Extract from J B Beeche’s book.‘More Precious than Gold’ the history of the Methodist Church in Waihi.
“… Throughout the First World War the congregation, and more especially the ladies, contributed to the civic war effort; several young men served overseas; and the trustees provided an artistic Roll of Honour which was unveiled as early as April, 1916."
But a New Zealand Herald article dated 3 June 1919 says
"...When the Roll of Honour was unveiled an impressive service was held at the Methodist Church on Sunday, the ceremony being performed by the Rev S Henderson. After the sermon, 'The Last Post' was sounded, and the hymn, 'Abide with Me', was sung."
Berys Daly from the Museum says the hand painted board could actually have been added to, which could explain the differing dates. Berys says the board is beautifully painted with a detailed scene of fighting at “Gaba Tepe” (aka Anzac Cove, Gallipoli) in 1915, and another of the Battle of Jutland in 1916.The artist has signed it “B J Radford 1919”.
Meanwhile a Herald article from 1916, describes the missing King’s Theatre honours board as;
“…an artistic piece of work, plainly yet richly framed. An appropriate design shows the figures of Britannia standing in the upper right hand corner, sounding a clarion call to arms across the globe of New Zealand, represented in the lower left-hand corner by a sturdy young colonial in football costume”.
The old King’s Theatre building is now a charity shop and Harriet says one local who used to be based there reckons he’s crawled all over the building, and there’s no sign of the missing board.
100-thousand New Zealanders enlisted in the First World War, out of the population of just over a million at the time. About seventeen thousand of them were killed. Forty one-thousand were wounded, and further one thousand of them perished within five years. Waihi Museum has a register of one hundred and eighteen local men who died.
The Museum’s Harriet Taylor says she’s now on the prowl for more information about the two honours boards. She has a long term plan to research the life stories of all those, whose names appear on them.Seems like her sleuthing talents will be put to good use!
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Duration: 21'46"
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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: 1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris: A weekly topical magazine about current film releases and film related topics (RNZ) 2:05 Laugh Track 3:04 The Drama Hour: Show Down, by Margaret Escott - adapted by Elspect Sandys Elspect Sandys' adaptation of the 1936 novel charting a Waikato dairy farmer's love affair and marriage with an upper-class Englishwoman visiting NZ (F, RNZ)
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12:37
Ali Bramwell and Nine Dragon Heads at the Venice Biennale
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Kiwi artist Ali Bramwell has covered a street cleaner's trolley with aluminium and hidden a Theremin inside it, as her contribution to an international exhibition that's running alongside the 56th Venice Biennale. Her musical trolley is also a tribute to the cleaners and porters who transport visitors' luggage along paved streets and over bridges in the carless city of canals. Lynn Freeman visited long-time member of South Korean collective Nine Dragon Heads Ali Bramwell at the exhibition site near Venice's Grand Canal.
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Kiwi artist Ali Bramwell has covered a street cleaner's trolley with aluminium and hidden a Theremin inside it, as her contribution to an international exhibition that's running alongside the 56th Venice Biennale. Her musical trolley is also a tribute to the cleaners and porters who transport visitors' luggage along paved streets and over bridges in the carless city of canals. Lynn Freeman visited long-time member of South Korean collective Nine Dragon Heads Ali Bramwell at the exhibition site near Venice's Grand Canal.
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Tags: travel, Venice, Venice Biennale, Nine Dragon Heads, Theremin
Duration: 11'52"
12:48
Huhu Studios take on the world
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New Zealand was stunned to hear about a co-production of a New Zealand studio with China, reportedly worth nearly one billion dollars, that's nothing to do with Weta Workshop. It's Auckland's Huhu Studios. They're co-producing a 3D animated feature called Beast of Burden - budgeted at $20 million, with another 16 movies expected.
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New Zealand was stunned to hear about a co-production of a New Zealand studio with China, reportedly worth nearly one billion dollars, that’s nothing to do with Weta Workshop. It's Auckland's Huhu Studios. They're co-producing a 3D animated feature called Beast of Burden - budgeted at $20 million, with another 16 movies expected.
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Duration: 9'03"
13:33
Documentaries on the Edge
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Each year the Documentary Edge Festival receives hundreds of submissions from around the world, which are then whittled down to mere fifty or so: a rather compact number that also needs to cover a broad range of topics and themes in order to appeal to a wide audience. Sonia Sly speaks with Dan Shannan the director of the festival.
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Each year the Documentary Edge Festival receives hundreds of submissions from around the world, which are then whittled down to mere fifty or so: a rather compact number that also needs to cover a broad range of topics and themes in order to appeal to a wide audience.
But while submissions for festivals come in thick and fast, for Director of the festival, Dan Shannan, having access to technology and a camera isn’t enough to make a film worthy of being selected: “There’s no doubt that access to technology these days allows film makers, and people in general to tell their stories, but in order to make a film that reaches a film festival, first and foremost you must have a good story and you need to be able to tell that story. So just because you have access to a camera and a recording device doesn’t mean that you are going to make a good film.”
Sweet Mickey for President screenshot.
In this year’s programme you can expect the unexpected and the stories are both riveting and compelling; from Sweet Mickey for President which follows musician Pras Michele as he fights for change by launching a campaign to back a cross-dressing pop star to run for President in Haiti; to the perspectives of children growing up in same-sex families in ‘Gayby Baby’, life in the surrounds of a garbage dump is explored in ‘Something Better to Come’; in ‘See no Evil’ celebrity apes have been put to pasture and their unimaginable reality unfolds when they are no longer fit for either science or stardom; in ‘Tomorrow We Disappear’ a colony of performers in New Delhi are about to become dislocated from their home— forced out by modernity, and a concrete sky scraper due to replace the slum in which they have lived and formed a sense of community and belonging, and closer to home The Day that Changed My Life explores emotions and experiences of individuals who experienced the crisis and trauma of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
These are stories that force us to question what we value and why, and allow us for a brief moment to stand in someone else’s shoes, seeing through fresh eyes.
Shannan believes that documentaries have an important place in our society and a ‘good’ documentary should be no different to any other kind of film and should engage the viewer, inform, enlighten, entertain, and most importantly, stay with you.
“With the documentary genre you do have a wide range of types of films and topics; some are light some are serious, and some are both,” he says.
So is there a growing audience for documentaries?
According to Shannan, Hot Docs—the largest documentary festival in North America (Toronto)—had a 200,000 strong audience attend its festival this year, with people queuing up to see films and taking time out from their busy schedules. He would like to see this kind of culture happening in New Zealand, and again, a greater appreciation and support for the arts which would also enable New Zealand documentary makers to do what they do best—tell great stories.
But there are obstacles that impede New Zealand documentary makers from even beginning a project. Shannan finds it disconcerting that New Zealand is devoid of a public broadcaster dedicated to showing documentaries, and previously allocated slots that would have been home to quality content, have now been reallocated to reality television.
“The line is too blurred in my view. In the television landscape at the moment there are hardly any documentary slots for one-off [long-form] documentaries …reality television in a way, took over. It’s cheaper to produce, easier to make and broadcasters feel that that’s what the audiences want.”
He says it is appalling that there is no avenue for high quality content in New Zealand, and perhaps the impact falls well into the laps of our young Kiwis: “Children are being raised in this country not knowing what quality film or documentary is [because] they don’t have access to it…we want to see a change.”
Documentary Edge is a not-for-profit organisation that also runs workshops throughout the year and their core activity is to find and nurture emerging talent in New Zealand through running Master classes, seminars, and providing documentary makers with an opportunity to pitch their stories to a panel of funders.
Topics: arts, education
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Tags: film, documentary, Documentary Edge Festival, Cinema, Documentary Edge, film score
Duration: 24'55"
13:50
National Geographic photography
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One of the world's best photography exhibitions has come to Expressions Whirinaki Arts and Entertainment Centre in Upper Hutt, and is coming to Te Manawa in Palmerston North. 50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic shows images from around the world that often deal with nature, and mankind's uncomfortable interaction with it.
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Sub-Saharan Mali 1997, photo by Joanna B. Pinneo.
One of the world’s best photography exhibitions has come to Expressions Whirinaki Arts and Entertainment Centre in Upper Hutt, and is coming to Te Manawa in Palmerston North. 50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic shows images from around the world that often deal with nature, and mankind’s uncomfortable interaction with it.
Afghan Girl 1984, photo by Steve McCurry.
Topics: arts
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: photography, public art, National Geographic
Duration: 10'51"
14:04
The Laugh Track - Find Me a Maori Bride
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Writer Dane Giraud and Matariki Whatarau from Maori TV's cultural confusion comedy Find Me a Maori Bride talk comedy influences with Shaun D Wilson, and choose clips from Rodney Dangerfield, Trevor Noah, Cheech and Chong, and Billy T. James.
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The cast of Find Me a Maori Bride.
Writer Dane Giraud and Matariki Whatarau from Maori TV’s cultural confusion comedy Find Me a Maori Bride talk comedy influences with Shaun D Wilson, and choose clips from Rodney Dangerfield, Trevor Noah, Cheech and Chong, and Billy T. James.
Topics: arts, te ao Maori
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Duration: 21'25"
14:26
Finding comedic Success with Jeremy Elwood and Stephen Sinclair
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Not that long ago the idea of a New Zealand standup comedian making it in America would once have been a particularly big stretch. But that's the premise of Success - a tale of plagiarism, the price of fame and Tall Poppy Syndrome, which will debut at BATS Theatre in Wellington, before heading up to Auckland's Basement Theatre.
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Not that long ago the idea of a New Zealand standup comedian making it in America would once have been a particularly big stretch. But that's the premise of Success - a tale of plagiarism, the price of fame and Tall Poppy Syndrome, which will debut at BATS Theatre in Wellington, before heading up to Auckland’s Basement Theatre.
Jeremy Elwood in Success
Topics: arts
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Tags: comedy, theatre, acting, standup
Duration: 12'13"
14:38
The Mermaid Boy
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John Summers' debut book is a collection of stories that if you weren't paying attention you might mistake for fiction. The Mermaid Boy splits its time between formative times in Canterbury and Asia. Shaun D Wilson discovered a memoir that reads like a short story collection, jumping in place and time, collecting characters, and storing odd thoughts.
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John Summers' debut book is a collection of stories that if you weren't paying attention you might mistake for fiction. The Mermaid Boy splits its time between formative times in Canterbury and Asia. Shaun D Wilson discovered a memoir that reads like a short story collection, jumping in place and time, collecting characters, and storing odd thoughts.
Topics: arts, author interview
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Tags: China, Ronald Hughie Morrieson
Duration: 10'10"
14:47
Katherine Mansfield's Urewera Notebook
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When we think of Katherine Mansfield, we tend not to think of her as a good, keen, outdoors-woman. Rather more Bloomsbury than Barry Crump. But a camping trip into the Ureweras in 1907 had a lasting impact on her life and writing. Anna Plumridge has edited a newly transcribed edition of The Urewera Notebook by Katherine Mansfield, and says it's a unique part of the Mansfield canon.
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When we think of Katherine Mansfield, we tend not to think of her as a good, keen, outdoors-woman. Rather more Bloomsbury than Barry Crump. But a camping trip into the Ureweras in 1907 had a lasting impact on her life and writing. Anna Plumridge has edited a newly transcribed edition of The Urewera Notebook by Katherine Mansfield, and says it's a unique part of the Mansfield canon.
Topics: arts, author interview
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Tags: Katherine Mansfield, publishing, maps
Duration: 10'41"
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12:37 Ali Bramwell and Nine Dragon Heads at the Venice Biennale
Kiwi artist Ali Bramwell has covered a street cleaner's trolley with aluminium and hidden a Theremin inside it, as her contribution to an international exhibition that's running alongside the 56th Venice Biennale. Her musical trolley is also a tribute to the cleaners and porters who transport visitors' luggage along paved streets and over bridges in the carless city of canals. Lynn Freeman visited long-time member of South Korean collective Nine Dragon Heads Ali Bramwell at the exhibition site near Venice's Grand Canal.
12:48 Huhu Studios take on the world
New Zealand was stunned to hear about a co-production of a New Zealand studio with China, reportedly worth nearly one billion dollars, that’s nothing to do with Weta Workshop. It's Auckland's Huhu Studios. They're co-producing a 3D animated feature called Beast of Burden - budgeted at $20 million, with another 16 movies expected.
1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris
A Royal Night Out puts the future Queen Elizabeth into a frothy comedy, Wild Tales is an Oscar-nominated Argentinian collection of short, dark stories and Mad Max Fury Road sees Max return 30 years after his last outing.
1:33 Documentaries on the Edge
Sonia Sly chats to Christopher Dudman who has documented never seen before footage of devastation caused by the Christchurch earthquake, and US Music Consultant Karyn Rachtman talks about her ability to match the director's vision to a sound track. She has been collaborating on a documentary that follows a Haitian pop star who runs for the presidency.
1:50 National Geographic photography
One of the world’s best photography exhibitions has come to Expressions Whirinaki Arts and Entertainment Centre in Upper Hutt, and is coming to Te Manawa in Palmerston North. 50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic shows images from around the world that often deal with nature, and mankind’s uncomfortable interaction with it.
Left: Afghan Girl 1984, photo by Steve McCurry. Right: Sub-Saharan Mali 1997, photo by Joanna B. Pinneo
2:04 The Laugh Track – Find Me a Maori Bride
Writer Dane Giraud and Matariki Whatarau from Maori TV’s cultural confusion comedy Find Me a Maori Bride talk comedy influences with Shaun D Wilson, and choose clips from Rodney Dangerfield, Trevor Noah, Cheech and Chong, and Billy T. James.
The cast of Find Me a Maori Bride
2:26 Finding comedic Success with Jeremy Elwood and Stephen Sinclair
Not that long ago the idea of a New Zealand standup comedian making it in America would once have been a particularly big stretch. But that's the premise of Success - a tale of plagiarism, the price of fame and Tall Poppy Syndrome, which will debut at BATS Theatre in Wellington, before heading up to Auckland’s Basement Theatre.
Jeremy Elwood in Success
2:38 The Mermaid Boy
John Summers' debut book is a collection of stories that if you weren't paying attention you might mistake for fiction. The Mermaid Boy splits its time between formative times in Canterbury and Asia. Shaun D Wilson discovered a memoir that reads like a short story collection, jumping in place and time, collecting characters, and storing odd thoughts.
2:48 Katherine Mansfield’s Urewera Notebook
When we think of Katherine Mansfield, we tend not to think of her as a good, keen, outdoors-woman. Rather more Bloomsbury than Barry Crump. But a camping trip into the Ureweras in 1907 had a lasting impact on her life and writing. Anna Plumridge has edited a newly transcribed edition of The Urewera Notebook by Katherine Mansfield, and says it's a unique part of the Mansfield canon.
3:05 The Drama Hour
Showdown, Part 2 - Adapted by Elspeth Sandys from the original novel by Margaret Escott.
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Artist: The Shirelles
Song: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World
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Artist: K D Lang and The Reclines
Song: Johnny Get Angry (Live)
Played at: 12:35
Artist: Fat Boy Slim
Song: Mad Flava
Composer: Fatboy Slim
Album: Halfway Between The Gutter and The Stars
Played at: 12:57
Artist: Natasha Bedingfield
Song: We're All Mad
Composer: Natasha Bedingfield, Danielle Brisebois, Nick Lashley
Album: Natasha Bedingfield
Label: Epic
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Artist: Dinah Washington
Song: Mad About The Boy
Composer: Noël Coward
Album: The Best of Dinah Washington: Mad About The Boy
Label: Mercury
Played at: 1:45
Artist: The J. Geils Band
Song: Freeze-Frame
Composer: Wolf-Justman
Album: Freeze Frame
Label: EMI
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Artist: David Byne
Song: She's Mad
Composer: David Bryne
Album: uh-oh
Label: Luaka Bop
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Artist: Aerosmith
Song: Don't Get Mad, Get Even
Album: Pump
Played at: 2:06
Artist: Ron Wallace
Song: Don't Get Mad
Composer: Regan, Wallace, Wallace
Album: Bound and Determined
Label: Sony
Played at: 2:37
Artist: The Animals
Song: I'm Mad Again
Composer: Hooker
Album: The Complete Animals
Label: EMI
Played at: 2:57
Artist: Madness
Song: Baggy Trousers
Composer: McPherson, Foreman, Barson
Album: It's Madness
Label: Virgin
Played at: 3:57
===4:06 PM. | Sunday 4 'til 8===
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4:06 The Sunday Feature: The Queen Salote Tupou III Lecture
4:30 Somalia: Back from the Brink (BBC)
5:00 The 5 O'Clock Report
A roundup of today's news and sport
5:11 Spiritual Outlook
Exploring different spiritual, moral and ethical issues and topics (RNZ)
5:40 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi
Maori news and interviews from throughout the motu (RNZ)
6:06 Te Ahi Kaa
Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)
7:06 One in Five
The issues and experience of disability (RNZ)
7:35 Voices
Asians, Africans, indigenous Americans and more in NZ, aimed at promoting a greater understanding of our ethnic minority communities (RNZ)
7:45 The Week in Parliament
An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house (RNZ)
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16:04
Queen Salote Tupou III Lecture 2014
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Malia Viviena 'Alisi Numia Taumoepeau, Tonga's former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, offers reflections on law, democracy, Pacific traditions, and Tongan political culture.
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Democratic change in Tonga at a deliberate pace, but effective
Tonga's former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Malia Viviena 'Alisi Numia Taumoepeau offers reflections on law, democracy, Pacific traditions, and Tongan political culture.
“We have done some things right in Tonga,” says Malia Viviena ‘Alisi Numia Taumoepeau. She cites the 1875 constitution that declares the country’s Bill of Rights in the following words:
Since it appears to be the will of God that man should be free, as he has made all men of one blood, therefore shall the people of Tonga, and all who sojourn in this kingdom, be free for ever. And all men may use their lives and persons and times, to acquire and possess property, and to dispose of their labour, and the fruit of their hands, as they will.
“Way back in 1875 we were pretty cool,” she comments. “In the paradise of the Pacific we had it right. And today we still wave our flag and our constitution, as our most treasured possessions.” She agrees that Tonga has struggled through different issues, but says “we will survive.”
The latest changes made to the constitution expanded political rights to encompass all citizens. The law now allows 17 people’s representatives, and nine nobles’ representatives, and the King and the Privy Council are no longer a part of Executive Government.
However, these democratic reforms were not significant, or soon enough, for some concerned about the pace of change.
In 2006 riots broke out in the capital of Nuku‘alofa and protestors invaded her Attorney-General’s office at Parliament. Taumoepeau notched the tension down, however, by requesting that before the demands be put to her, the unexpected visitors pray together with her. They acceded and once the tension had dissipated, the discussions proceeded much more calmly.
Women’s representation in Tongan politics is still one area of concern for her. Despite workshops and training for potential women candidates, there are still no women MPs elected to the Tongan parliament, and she was appointed to her roles as Minister of Justice and Attorney General.
However, Taumoepeau is not distressed by this. “I am at peace because we are walking at the pace that we can handle. There are some who want to rush us, and some who want us to shut up and sit down. But no way. We are just going to walk at our pace, and we will reach the goals that we set for ourselves.”
Considering other innovations, she thinks that the creation of a new role of Ombudsman is significant because of the messages it sends about good governance and respect for the law and human rights. She also approves of the role incorporating the functions of the anti-corruption commissioner.
Pleased about the transition to greater democracy in Tonga, Taumoepeau acknowledges the role of New Zealand tertiary education in training future leaders in Tonga – those who will return to take up the challenge of further transforming the democratic institutions of her homeland.
The inaugural 2014 Queen Salote Tupou III Lecture was given at Massey University in Auckland in memory of the former Queen of Tonga. The speaker at this event, recorded in December 2014, was Tonga’s former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General Malia Viviena ‘Alisi Numia Taumoepeau.
Topics: international aid and development, arts, health, history, language, law, media, Pacific, politics
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Tags: Tonga, constitutional reform, 1875 bill of rights, nobility, commoners, social change, elections, MP, parliament, prime minister, riots, Samoa, good governance, ombudsman, anti-corruption, Queen Salote, Malia Viviena ‘Alisi Numia Taumoepeau, Bainimarama
Duration: 24'09"
17:06
Singing to Save a Language
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It's often said that a nation without its language is a nation without a soul. Spiritual Outlook producer Justin Gregory reports on efforts here in New Zealand and also in Niue to preserve their language from what seems to be an irreversible decline through the singing of hymns.
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“Our language is under threat. The younger generation now speak English at school and even at home. The Niuean language is fading away.”
In the village of Avatele the local church is taking practical measures to ensure its youngest members use and understand their native tongue. The entire service and almost all of the hymns are in Vagahau Niue, or the Niuean language. The village pastor is the Reverend Petesa Sionetuato and he says this practice is essential to sustain the language.
The Reverend says that while the home should be the first classroom for the learning of language, culture and heritage, it is essential to back that up with the everyday experience of speaking Vagahau Niue.
“We go out of our way to speak the language to them. Most of the sermons and the hymns, it’s all in Niuean, and also the reading of the Bible.”
The current population of Niue is only around 1600 but more than 15 times that number of people who identify as Niuean live in New Zealand. This is why one advocate says the future and the preservation of Vagahau Niue lies here - and not back home.
“Just two weeks ago I was there for the Niue Arts Festival and I was speaking Niuean to (the younger people) and one child said to me ‘What are you saying? Can you speak English?’”
Niuean-born Ione Aleke Fa’avae is a broadcaster and a language advocate who is very aware of the challenges that his native language faces both at home and abroad.
Fa’avae says that when Niueans move to New Zealand and no longer live in a focused, village community, then inevitably their language skills decline and will struggle to be sustained amongst their children. According to Te Ara – The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, as of 2013 only 18% of all Niueans living in New Zealand could speak their language proficiently. In 1996 the number was 32%. By contrast more than 60% of Samoan and Tongan New Zealanders were able to hold a conversation in their own language. Fa’avae argues that a lack of formal educational support, such as bilingual units at primary and secondary schools and at tertiary level, only increase the difficulties. Other Pacific languages that do have such resources are doing much better.
Niue is often described as a religious society with almost 100% of people living on the island identifying as having some connection to the Christian faith. That number drops in New Zealand but is still significant. Despite this, Fa’avae is unconvinced that religion is the way to save the language.
“Times have changed. Not many young people are attending church services.”
Instead, he suggests that the performing arts are the avenue through which young people can engage with the language – especially the long-running and successful Polyfest, a multi-day celebration of Māori and Pacific cultures for secondary school students.
“I think that’s the way to go nowadays. And to maybe set up a Pacific Island language Commission here in New Zealand.”
Fa’avae hopes that once the language has been somewhat stabilised amongst the expatriate community, then they can assist in its revival back home. He imagines a time when Niue uses English for everyday administration but Vagahau Niue for all other purposes, especially in cultural situations. Te agrHH his is still far from ideal and he is not overly optimistic about the language’s chances of survival.
“That’s not good at all because you’re losing the meaning of it and the value.”
In 2015, Niue Language Week is being held from 12-18 October.
Produced by Justin Gregory For Radio New Zealand National.
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Topics: spiritual practices, language, Pacific
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Niue, New Zealand, singing, hymns, Pasifika, Polyfest
Duration: 20'10"
18:01
Albert Belz - Playwright
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Playwright Albert Belz talks about writing for radio, and how it compares to the stage and screen.
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Skin Writing follows the drama of three central characters, Niwa Te Aratapu, Pushy Te Aratapu and Matt Tewano. The serial drama was produced by Jason Te Kare as a radio drama platform for new emerging māori writers.
Award winning Playwrights Briar Grace Smith and Albert Belz were the first to write episodes for the first season.
Digital Wairua, Z is for Gypsy and Grasshopper Leaps was written by Albert Belz (nō Ngāti Pōrou, Ngā Puhi and Ngāti Pokai). He admits that writing for radio drama allowed him to condense the script for on air broadcast as opposed to working with more time when writing for the stage. He talks to Justine Murray about the Skin Writing episodes and how he comes up with story ideas.
With Theatre I give different kinds of instructions, I'm thinking more of the image. In radio I'm thinking how is it going to sound, what kind of audio is going to happen here, and what does the producer or director need to see in their minds.
Albert Belz spent most of his life in Auckland, but grew up in Whakatane and Minginui in the Eastern Bay of Plenty. After a short stint playing Dr Ropata's Nephew Manny on Shortland Streeet in 1995, he turned down a second offer to play his character in the hospital drama, to focus on University. In 2001, Albert started his career as a writer for the screen and stage and a stint as a story liner on Shortland Street. His work includes his debut play Te Maunga (2001), Awhi Tapu (2003) Yours Truly (2006) Te Karakia, Whero's New Net (2008) and the Show band Musical Raising the Titanics (2010).
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Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: drama, Jason Te Kare, Albert Belz
Duration: 10'41"
19:06
The Cost of a Coffee
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It's almost five years since the first of the earthquakes that rocked Canterbury, causing loss of life and destroying many buildings and homes. Much during that period of struggle has already been documented. But one Canterbury researcher wants to find out more about how the disability community has fared since the earthquakes. Johnny Bourke shares his phD research with Katy Gosset. And they take a tour of the central city to see what could be done to make the new Christchurch more accessible.
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Johnny Bourke and a research participant Marie in Christchurch's Restart Mall
"Let's grab a coffee in town." On the face of it, that sounds like an effortless way to meet a friend.
For Marie, a wheelchair user who lives in Christchurch, it's not so easy. "When someone invites me somewhere, [...] I don't think about, 'do I want to go?' I think about 'can I go?'."
Marie drives her own car but often finds it hard to get a park. That's because she needs a wide parking space that allows a mechanised system in the boot of her car to pull the wheelchair back into the vehicle from the driver's door. Other limiting factors can involve the lack of curb cuts, lowered areas that enable a wheel chair user to cross roads.
Stowing her wheelchair in the car boot with the retractable arm
Marie works in the city and also attends many concerts around Christchurch but damaged footpaths, obstacles and inaccessible buildings mean some areas in the inner city remain off limits if she is on her own. "Parts of the city I've just stayed away from completely. There was just too much disruption."
Using a manual wheelchair brings particular challenges as her wheels can get stuck in paving stones or troughs and going too fast can result in her falling out. Other forms of paving can be jarring and cause her feet to slip off the foot plates of her chair. "There just doesn't seem to be much thought as to how people need to access public areas."
Marie admits she seldom thought about these issues before she needed a wheelchair and says planning for people with disabilities often seems to be an "afterthought". "Suddenly they think 'We might have to make room for people in wheelchairs or disabled people' and then it's done after the event, rather than forward planning."
The Legacy of the Earthquakes
Marie is one of 13 research participants in a doctorate being undertaken by Johnny Bourke at the University of Canterbury. He is examining the barriers that people in wheelchairs face several years after the Canterbury earthquakes. Mr Bourke said there was data documenting the experiences of people with disabilities during and immediately after natural disasters.
But he found very little literature looking at the long-term effects of such an event on the disability community. Mr Bourke said a number of patterns had already emerged with participants citing the importance of friends and family in helping them feel involved in the community. But he said community inclusion also takes energy and many interviewees said everyday tasks could prove exhausting. "How much planning and time can go into just doing what most people would consider to be quite run-of the-mill activities such as finding a park, [...] or just accessing a hairdresser or meeting friends for a coffee."
He said prior to the earthquakes people using wheelchairs already expended a high level of energy but, since the quakes, they were facing new barriers that required even more effort to overcome. He also found that the effort expended often went unrewarded with people in wheelchairs getting stuck in the middle of a journey. "Sometimes you'll be going down a path and you'll get to the end and there's no curb cut or you'll get into a building and there's a couple of steps onto the next level."
Mr Bourke said, prior to using a wheelchair, he himself had little insight into the kind of infrastructure that is needed. And the research revealed an ironic situation whereby the fact that some environments excluded the disabled community meant that the developers were unaware of how many people with disabilities would like to access a particular area. Mr Bourke said the research also showed the link between feeling included in the community and personal well-being. "If you have to stay outside of a shop or [...] a building while your family goes into the building it doesn't feel that great."
He said good accessibility could also mean that people in wheelchairs felt less conspicuous. Mr Bourke's doctorate is being supervised by the School of Health Sciences at the University's College of Education. The next phase of his research will involve a further survey of participants and he hopes his work will ultimately influence local and central government policy on accessibility.
Topics: disability
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: research, wheelchair users, Canterbury rebuild, Canterbury University, accessibility, barriers to community engagement
Duration: 25'43"
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4:07 The Sunday Feature: The Queen Salote Tupou III Lecture
Malia Viviena ‘Alisi Numia Taumoepeau, Tonga’s former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, offers reflections on democracy, Pacific traditions, and Tongan political culture. Recorded by Radio New Zealand in association with Massey University.
4:30 Somalia: Back from the Brink
It has been nearly four years since the Somali militant group al-Shabab was forced out of the capital Mogadishu. Since then, parts of the city have started to come back to life but the security situation remains dangerous. Africa correspondent Andrew Harding returns to Mogadishu to talk to security officials charged with keeping the country safe, and to speak to al-Shabab defectors who are part of the government’s new amnesty scheme. Is Somalia turning the tide against the extremists of al-Shabab? (BBC)
See the BBC website for more on this programme.
5:00 The 5 O'Clock Report
A roundup of today's news and sport.
5:12 Spiritual Outlook
Exploring different spiritual, moral and ethical issues and topics (RNZ)
5:40 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi
Maori news and interviews from throughout the motu (RNZ)
6:06 Te Ahi Kaa
Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)
7:06 One In Five
The issues and experience of disability (RNZ)
7:35 Voices
A weekly programme that highlights Asians, Africans, indigenous Americans and more in New Zealand, aimed at promoting a greater understanding of our ethnic minority communities (RNZ)
===8:06 PM. | Sounds Historical===
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NZ stories from the past (RNZ)
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20:05
Sounds Historical for 24 May 2015 ( Part 1 )
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Stories of yesteryear from around New Zealand.
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Duration: 53'53"
21:05
Sounds Historical for 24 May 2015 ( Part 2 )
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Stories of yesteryear from around New Zealand.
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Duration: 56'18"
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8:09 Today in New Zealand History 4'34”
The First Parliament meets on 24 May 1854.
8:16 Artist: National Band of New Zealand 2’39”
Song: Buglers’ Holiday
Composer: Leroy Anderson
Album: The Virtuoso Brass in Concert
Label: Kiwi LC 47
From National Band of New Zealand concert in Wellington Town Hall 19 January 1967.
8:21 Ida Gaskin 5’19”
Maggie Barry interviews Ida Gaskin in November 1987. Ida Gaskin was president of the Workers Education Association and a Member of the Advisory Committee Group that is considering alternative funding for community based education. She speaks about the groups that are covered by community education and her hopes to raise the profile of those working outside of tertiary institutions. She explains their request for a share of tertiary funding should be recognised as equal to that of any tertiary adult education institution and stresses the importance of supporting instruction in rural areas and for women in general.
Ida Gaskin is one of this country’s most inspiring teachers. Her knowledge of Shakespeare led to her to winning Mastermind in 1983.
8:28 Artist: Pat Rogers 3’10”
Song: Sheep Cocky
Composer: Rogers
Album: 45
Label: Kiwi SA 25 (1960)
Pat Rogers was a Wellington tram diver who wrote a number of songs and was the singer in the “hit” version of Peter Cape’s “Taumarunui”.
8:32 Tales from the Brewery 8’32”
Extracts from a 1980s 4ZB series “My Kind of Town” in which Jim Sullivan asked old-timers about the early days at Dunedin’s Speight’s brewery. Interviews with Bob Greenslade; ex-Speight’s manager, Jack Longford; Speight’s employee, Godfrey Monk; cooper Norrie Lewis; Bob McSkimming.
8:41 Artist: Eddie Howell 2’37”
Song: Tell Laura I Love Her
Composer: Barry/Raleigh
Album: Polite Company
Label: Zodiac
A 1960 No 1 hit for Ricky Valance.
8:45 Jack Denvir – war hero 6’53”
In this BBC Radio Newsreel of 14 March 1944 BBC Cairo correspondent Kenneth Matthews tells of the experiences of Jack Denvir - a New Zealand soldier who fought with the Slovenian partisan forces during World War Two. The shortwave broadcast opens with greetings to Jack Denvir's wife at Maori Point, Karamea. Broadcast by the BBC shortwave service to the Pacific. Devnir was later a taxi driver in Temuka and died in Blenheim in March 1973.
9:52 War Report 37 6’45”
From The Press
To-day it is our sad duty to report a large number of names of New Zealanders killed in action in the operations about the Dardanelles. For various reasons connected with the nature of the operations, it has apparently been impossible until now to secure exact information concerning those gallant men who gave their lives in the first desperate fighting on the Gallipoli Peninsula. We have all of us felt very sincerely for those of our people who, not reading the names of their boys in the lists hitherto published, have been racked by anxiety as to whether I they were well or whether they were amongst the unrecorded slain. The country is full of sorrow and of sympathy for those who are stricken.
From Bay of Plenty Times
General Hamilton's report shows that two thousand Turks were killed out of seven thousand casualties inflicted by the Australasians on the 19th inst.
On May 24 1915 an armistice was declared to allow both sides to bury their dead. Recollections from three New Zealanders who took part in the armistice.
9:07 As I Remember 3’28”
When Tax Was Paid in Stamps by Viv Hansen of Ashburton. Read by Rob Webb.
9:11 Artist: The Kini Quartet 3’19”
Song: I Only Have Eyes For You
Composer: Dubbin/Warren
Album: Polite Company
Label: Zodiac
Song from 1934 film Dames and a big hit again in 1959.
9:15 HMS (HMNZS) Achilles War Hero 15’07”
Lt Thomas Luckman of the Achilles recalls serving on the ship. Recordings made in Wellington at the welcome to the crew in April 1940 after the Battle of the River Plate. A part of Captain Parry's speech in which he acknowledges their sister ships Ajax and Exeter, pays tribute to those killed in battle, mentions funds raised by the ship's company for families left behind and visits made by crew to those relations. Three cheers are given for all members of the Achilles crew.
9:32 Artist: Johnny Hamblyn 2’31"
Song: That’s a Sad Affair
Composer: n/s
Album: Kiwi Nostalgia
Label: Platinum
Originally a Jim Reeves hit. Hamblyn, a farmer from Northland who won a talent quest and toured with a country show in 1955 and released several 78s.
9:35 Anthony Wilding, tennis champion. (Recorded 1960) Part Two 16’58”
Asquith Thomson (the first archivist for the NZBS) and another unidentified narrator introduce the programme, outlining the career of 'the greatest tennis player New Zealand has ever produced'. He won the singles championship at Wimbledon four times and from 1907-1914 he dominated the doubles at Wimbledon with his partner Sir Norman Brooks.
His Wimbledon career is recalled, with details of various victories and defeats. It is believed his career was probably at an end when World War I broke out, as he was 30 and had been competing in world-class tennis for ten years. He lost his Wimbledon title in 1914 to Norman Brooks, who recalls the match. Together they went on to win the 1914 Davis Cup doubles in New York, but Wilding lost his singles match.
When the war broke out he hurried back from the United States and his friend Winston Churchill suggested he join the Royal Marines. In April 1915 he was promoted to captain and given command of a unit in the armoured car force, which consisted of armour-plated Rolls Royce vehicles mounted with machine guns and drawing Hotchkiss guns behind them.
During the second battle of Ypres on 9th of May, his unit went into action early in the morning on the front line at Neuve Chappelle and fired some 400 rounds. By afternoon his group had to take shelter in a dug-out after coming under heavy bombardment. They received a direct hit and Wilding was killed instantly.
9:53 Artist: National Band of New Zealand 2’23”
Song: Tricky Trombones
Composer: Helyer
Album: The Virtuoso Brass in Concert
Label: Kiwi LC 47
9:57 Pioneers in North Otago 2’23”
A 1965 talk in which Mr E. Burt recalls early North Otago and life in a small township.
===10:12 PM. | Mediawatch===
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Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)
===11:04 PM. | None (National)===
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We hear about the journeys of show bands like the Maori Volcanics, the Quin Tiki's and the Hi Fives in Australia, America and Asia (2 of 3, RNZ)