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:
25 May 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris (RNZ); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:30 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 Wildfire, by Karen Curtis and Alannah O'Sullivan (8 of 10, Word Pictures); 3:30 Science (RNZ); 5:10 War Report (RNZ)
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:18 Pacific News 6:22 Rural News 6:27 and 8:45 Te Manu Korihi News 6:44 and 7:41 NZ Newspapers 6:47 Business News 7:42 and 8:34 Sports News 6:46 and 7:34 Traffic
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06:00
Top Stories for Monday 25 May 2015
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Government accused of stealing from future generations, Dual citizen of NZ, Australia desperate to return from Syria, Prime Minister reacts to Abbott's decision on foreign fighters, Dunedin blanketed as snow hits the deep south, Wellington woman takes her fight to die to High Court and Pora lawyer calls for rethink on foetal alcohol syndrome.
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Duration: 32'59"
06:06
Sports News for 25 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'44"
06:19
Pacific News for 25 May 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'50"
06:25
Morning Rural News for 25 May 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'11"
06:29
Te Manu Korihi News for 25 May 2015
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A Northland group who opposes an agreement between the Crown and Ngāpuhi says it will continue stand against it right to the bitter end; Several holiday home owners say Treaty settlements are taking away their legitimate private rights; An alliance between a Waikato trade academy and schools in the rohe is proving fruitful for rangatahi with more gaining qualifications than they did in the traditional school system.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Tags:
Duration: 3'14"
06:43
Government accused of stealing from future generations
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The Government is being accused of stealing from future generations by scrapping the thousand-dollar KiwiSaver kickstart payment.
Topics: politics
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Tags: KiwiSaver, KiwiSaver kickstart, budget 2015
Duration: 2'56"
06:48
AFT Pharma looks to go public to fund global expansion
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A New Zealand pharmaceutical company is looking at a public listing to help accelerate its global expansion plans.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: pharmaceutical, AFT Pharma
Duration: 1'44"
06:50
Challenges of working with Government on property - KPMG
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A partner at KPMG, Adrian Wimmers, warns that potential property developers will need to get their sums right if they want to work with the Government on building affordable houses on Crown-owned land in Auckland.
Topics: business, economy, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Crown-owned land, property developers
Duration: 2'26"
06:52
Fed chair makes warning
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The chair of the United States Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, says she expects the central bank to begin raising interest rates sometime this year.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: United States Federal Reserve
Duration: 22"
06:53
Ryman says it cannot grow fast enough to meet demand
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Ryman Healthcare says it cannot grow fast enough to meet the pent-up demand for its services.
Topics: business, economy, health
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Tags: healthcare, Ryman Healthcare, retirement village, aged care
Duration: 1'12"
06:54
Airline industry association calling for price regulations
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An airline industry lobby group has reiterated its call for a change in the rules covering the way airports charge for aviation services.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: airline industry, airports, Christchurch Airport, Airline Association
Duration: 1'30"
06:55
Hellaby says economy is uneven
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The investment firm, Hellaby Holdings, says economic growth remains uneven.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Hellaby Holdings
Duration: 1'10"
06:56
Jim Parker in Australia
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Across the Tasman, and Australia's mining leaders are fighting among themselves over alleged manipulation of the iron ore market.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Australia, iron ore, mining
Duration: 1'04"
06:59
Morning Markets for 25 May 2015
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The New Zealand dollar begins the week at 73.14 US cents, 93.40 Australian, 47.21 British pence, point-6641 euro, 88.87 yen, 4.53 renminbi and the TWI is at 76.08.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'00"
07:06
Sports News for 25 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'22"
07:11
Dual citizen of NZ, Australia desperate to return from Syria
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A dual citizen of New Zealand and Australia who traveled to Syria last year on a humanitarian mission is reportedly negotiating with federal authorities in a desperate attempt to return to Australia.
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Tags: Syria, Australia
Duration: 9'20"
07:21
Prime Minister reacts to Abbott's decision on foreign fighters
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Susie Ferguson speaks with the Prime Minister John Key.
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Tags: Syria, Australia, John Key, Tony Abbott
Duration: 3'25"
07:25
Dunedin blanketed as snow hits the deep south
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Time now for our traffic update, southwesterly storms are causing treacherous driving conditions throughout the south.
Topics: weather, climate
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Duration: 1'54"
07:28
Wellington woman takes her fight to die to High Court
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A Wellington woman's fight to die with her doctor's help will this morning take its next step with the start of a trial in the High Court in Wellington.
Topics: law, life and society
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Tags: Lecretia Seales, assisted dying
Duration: 3'18"
07:35
Pora lawyer calls for rethink on foetal alcohol syndrome
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In his first interviews since his conviction for the 1992 rape and murder of Susan Burdett was quashed, Teina Pora's anger at the police and justice system was clear.
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Tags: Susan Burdett, Teina Pora
Duration: 5'48"
07:41
Anti-euthanasia campaigner - changing the law is wrong for NZ
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Dr Kevin Yuill is an anti-euthanasia author and campaigner visiting from the UK.
Topics: law, life and society
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Tags: euthanasia, assisted dying
Duration: 5'39"
07:45
Snow hits the deep south
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Dunedin reporter Darryl Baser joins us from Dunedin.
Topics: weather
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Tags: South Island, snow
Duration: 1'48"
07:50
Alexandra to Cromwell badly affected by weather
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Chris Diack is a radio presenter at Radio Cromwell.
Topics: weather
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Tags: South Island, snow
Duration: 3'24"
07:56
US mathematician dies in car crash
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US mathematician John Nash, who provided the inspiration for the Oscar-winning movie 'A Beautiful Mind', has died in a car crash.
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Tags: John Nash, A Beautiful Mind
Duration: 4'00"
08:06
Sports News for 25 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'14"
08:11
Abbott to strip Australian terrorists of citizenship
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A dual citizen of New Zealand and Australia who traveled to Syria last year on a humanitarian mission is reportedly negotiating with federal authorities in a desperate attempt to return to Australia.
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Tags: Syria, Australia, foreign fighter legislation
Duration: 6'52"
08:17
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder key factor
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The diagnosis that Teina Pora was suffering from foetal alcohol spectrum disorder was a key factor in the quashing of his conviction by the Privy Council.
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Tags: Teina Pora, foetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Duration: 5'12"
08:24
Kicking the kickstart - possibly not a problem
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The government's decision to cut the thousand dollar kickstart from KiwiSaver is painting a bleak future for some.
Topics: politics
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Tags: budget 2015, KiwiSaver, KiwiSaver kickstart
Duration: 3'33"
08:28
Hundreds oppose rural hospital funding cuts
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Hundreds of Central Otago residents are turning up at public meetings in a bid to convince the Southern District Health Board not to cut costs at their only hospital.
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Regions: Otago
Tags: rural hospitals, Southern District Health Board
Duration: 3'04"
08:31
Markets Update for 25 May 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 59"
08:37
Dozens of arrests in downtown Cleveland at protests escalate
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Chaos erupted in the streets of downtown Cleveland after police officer Michael Brelo was acquitted of manslaughter.
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Tags: Cleveland, USA, Michael Brelo
Duration: 4'25"
08:41
Science boss attacks funding system
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The head of one of the country's top scientific institutes has unleashed a war of words on the state of science funding in New Zealand.
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Tags: science funding
Duration: 3'25"
08:45
Black Caps dominate at Lord's
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England has turned the tables on the Black Caps at Lord's with a fight-back from captain Alistair Cook.
Topics: sport
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Tags: cricket
Duration: 4'06"
08:50
Te Manu Korihi News for 25 May 2015
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A Northland group who opposes an agreement between the Crown and Ngāpuhi says it will continue stand against it right to the bitter end; Several holiday home owners say Treaty settlements are taking away their legitimate private rights; A Northland iwi station that was razed in a blaze last week has risen from the ashes; An alliance between a Waikato trade academy and schools in the rohe is proving fruitful for rangatahi with more gaining qualifications than they did in the traditional school system.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Tags:
Duration: 2'58"
08:53
Voting underway in Hundertwasser referendum
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More than 20 percent of Whangarei ratepayers have voted already in a binding public referendum that will decide if the old harbour board building will be transformed into a Hundertwasser Art centre.
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Regions: Northland
Tags: Whangarei, Hundertwasser Art centre
Duration: 3'44"
08:57
Phil Kafcaloudes with news from Australia
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Time to chat to our Melbourne correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes.
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 2'22"
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===9:06 AM. | Nine To Noon===
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Current affairs and topics of interest, including: 10:45 The Reading: Before I Forget, by Jacqueline Fahey (1 of 5, RNZ)
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09:08
Getting funding for independent science research is getting tougher
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Kate McGrath is the director of the MacDiarmid institute.
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Kathryn Ryan talks to Kate McGrath, the director of the MacDiarmid institute.
Related
Call for changes to research fund
Topics: science
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Tags: funding, Marsden, MacDiarmid
Duration: 12'57"
09:22
Migrant relief missions in the Mediterranean
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A DIY team of sea rescuers has launched its second season of migrant relief missions in the Mediterranean, bracing for the spiraling humanitarian crisis to get even worse.
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More migrants lose their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea than at any border in the world, and the numbers attempting the perilous journey between Libya and Europe is expected to surge this year.
In response to this humanitarian crisis, the Migrant Offshore Aid Station and its 40 metre ship, the Phoenix, was founded by a wealthy husband a wife team Chris and Regina Caterambone.
In its first year the MOAS operation picked up 3,000 migrants at sea.
The inspiration behind MOAS started in 2013 when the Caterambone's spotted a winter coat floating on the waves near the Italian Island of Lampedusa, and when they learnt it was from a dead migrant they felt compelled to do more.
This year the DIY team of sea rescuers, has joined up with Doctors Without Borders and launched its second season of migrant relief missions, a six month operation from May - October 2015 .
They have already picked up 1,441 migrants in two weeks.
With 1,800 deaths already this year, growing anarchy in the Middle East, and a scaled down coast guard the numbers are expected to soar.
Meanwhile, to combat the huge influx in migrants, the European Union has agreed to establish a naval force to target people-traffickers, which may involve the deployment of warships and surveillance aircraft off the coast of Libya, as early as next month.
Nine to Noon's Kathryn Ryan talks to 47-year-old Martin Xuereb, Malta's former Chief of Defense - now the director of The Migrant Offshore Aid Station.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: Mediterranean, Malta
Duration: 13'30"
09:40
Australian farmers take class action against ANZ
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A group of farmers in Australia have launched a class action suit against ANZ Bank, which they accuse of kicking them off their land after forcing new loan agreements on them. Sydney barrister Peter King is representing farmers in Tasmania, Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria in the class action suit against ANZ Bank.
Topics: rural, farming
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Tags: Australia, ANZ Bank
Duration: 9'50"
09:50
Middle East correspondent, Kate Shuttleworth
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Kate Shuttleworth has been reading the 'Breaking the Silence' Report.
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Tags: Israel, Gaza, Breaking the Silence Report
Duration: 10'01"
10:12
Hekenukumai Busby, master waka carver
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Hekenukumai Busby, known as Hec, is a Master Waka Carver, a Maori leader and an authority on Polynesian and Maori celestial navigation. He's crafted more than 30 waka, and was awarded an MBE in recognition of his role in the revival of ocean voyaging and navigation using traditional Polynesian double hull canoes. From humble beginnings in the Far North, Hec was inspired to build waka after a childhood visit to Waitangi. Now 82, he's the subject of a new book by Jeff Evans, called Heke-nuku-mai-nga-iwi Busby: Not Here by Chance.
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Top: 33 Nga Toki 1974, Hec amidships, Walter front right. Bottom left: whaikorero at Kerikeri stone house. Bottom right: With Dan Whiu, carving canoe house.
Hekenukumai Busby, known as Hec, is a master waka carver, a Maori leader and an authority on Polynesian and Maori celestial navigation. He’s crafted more than 30 waka, and was awarded an MBE in recognition of his role in the revival of ocean voyaging and navigation using traditional Polynesian double hull canoes.
From humble beginnings in the Far North, Hec was inspired to build waka after a childhood visit to Waitangi.
Now 82, he’s the subject of a new book by Jeff Evans, called Heke-nuku-mai-nga-iwi Busby: Not Here by Chance.
Hek Busby talks to Kathryn Ryan about his life and work.
Related stories
Traditional navigation - Hec Busby
New Zealand's first centre for traditional navigation training is $500,000 away from being completed. Hekenukumai Busby is a Northland master waka carver and expert in traditional celestial navigation. March 2015.
Hekenukumai Busby and the Star Compass
Maraea Rakuraku visits the home of Master Navigator and Waka Builder, Hekenukumai Busby and experiences the purpose built star compass. June 2014.
Hekenukumai Busby: Navigating from Ahipara to Awanui
Maraea Rakuraku takes a roadtrip with Hekenukumai Busby from his marae in Ahipara to his home in Awanui where they talk bridges of the metaphorical and physical kind. March 2014.
Hekenukumai Busby and Jack Thatcher
As recipients at this year's Te Waka Toi awards in Wellington, Hekenukumai and Jack reflect on their relationship that began some twenty years ago, and the busy year they've both had.October 2013.
Hector Busby: waka builder
Hekenukumai (Hec) Busby, MBE, is a master waka carver and master navigator who has carved 26 waka and passed on his knowledge to keen sailors the world over. February 2010.
Topics: te ao Maori, author interview
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Tags: Hekenukumai Busby, Far North, master waka carver, celestial navigation, Te Aurere
Duration: 27'33"
10:39
Book Review: The Reader on the 6.27
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The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent. Published byMacmillan, RRP$34.99
Topics: books
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Tags: Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, The Reader on the 6.27
Duration: 6'14"
11:10
Politics with Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
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Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike William discuss Bill English's 7th budget.
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Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike William discuss Bill English's 7th budget.
Topics: politics
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Tags: budget 2015
Duration: 22'29"
11:32
Growing Chinese tea in Waikato
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Traditionally business people in Asia drink tea after dinner. When Tzu Chen arrived here from Taiwan, he couldn't find a good tea - but saw lots of camellias in Waikato. Now after nearly 20 years of hard work, tears and careful propagation they have 1.5 million lush sweet tea bushes, which spread over 48 hectares. Gigi Crawford is the GM of Zealong Tea, she says lots of people would have given up a long time ago but the founder didn't have a tea background, he just had an idea, and a love of tea.
Topics: food
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Zealong Tea, tea, sweet tea
Duration: 12'25"
11:48
Urbanist Tommy Honey
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Housing affordability is in the news daily here but sometimes we forget that it is, if not a global issue, then at least an issue globally. While here in NZ the issue is (currently) focussed on the unaffordability of owning, elsewhere it is about the impact on renting.
Topics: housing
Regions:
Tags: renting, housing affordability
Duration: 11'07"
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09:05 Getting funding for independent science research is getting tougher
Kate McGrath is the director of the MacDiarmid Institute.
09:20 Martin Xuereb, MOAS director, and Malta's former Chief of Defence
A DIY team of sea rescuers has launched its second season of migrant relief missions in the Mediterranean, bracing for the spiralling humanitarian crisis to get even worse.
Martin Xuereb is Malta's former Chief of Defence and the director of MOAS, the Migrant Offshore Aid Station.
MOAS fears this year could be one of the only SAR vessels patrolling the waters near Libya in 2015.
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09:30 Australian farmers take class action against ANZ Bank
A group of farmers in Australia have launched a class action suit against ANZ Bank, which they accuse of kicking them off their land after forcing new loan agreements on them.
In 2009, at the height of the global financial crisis, ANZ bought the entire 2.4 billion dollar loan book of the Australian Wheat Board - which at the time was wholly owned by wheatgrowers and was a major rural lender through its subsidiary, Landmark Operations Limited.
ANZ then revised the loan repayment schedules for borrowers, including 10 thousand agribusinesses - in some cases bringing the loan repayment dates forward by 20 years.
Sydney barrister Peter King is representing farmers in Tasmania, Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria in the class action suit against ANZ Bank.
09:45 Middle East correspondent, Kate Shuttleworth
10:05 Hekenukumai Busby, Master Waka Carver
Hekenukumai Busby, known as Hec, is a Master Waka Carver, a Maori leader and an authority on Polynesian and Maori celestial navigation. He’s crafted more than 30 waka, and was awarded an MBE in recognition of his role in the revival of ocean voyaging and navigation using traditional Polynesian double hull canoes. From humble beginnings in the Far North, Hec was inspired to build waka after a childhood visit to Waitangi. Now 82, he’s the subject of a new book by Jeff Evans, called Heke-nuku-mai-nga-iwi Busby: Not Here by Chance.
Top: 33 Nga Toki 1974, Hec amidships, Walter front right. Bottom left: whaikorero at Kerikeri stone house. Bottom right: With Dan Whiu, carving canoe house
10:30 Book review: 'The Reader on the 6.27' by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
Published by Macmillan RRP$34.99. Reviewed by Gail Pittaway
10:45 The Reading: Before I Forget, by Jacqueline Fahey
The second volume of memoirs by well-known painter, feminist and writer Jacqueline Fahey. (1 of 5, RNZ)
11:05 Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
11:30 Growing Chinese tea in Waikato
Traditionally business people in Asia drink tea after dinner. When Tzu Chen arrived here from Taiwan, he couldn't find a good tea - but saw lots of camellias in Waikato.
In 1996, Tzu and his son Vincent, with the help of the local mayor, imported 1500 tea seedlings from Taiwan. They were left with only 130 after a rigorous quarantine from New Zealand's Ministry of Agriculture. Apparently he drove a big truck to collect it all - but when he got there he found he didn't need it. But Gigi says it wasn't all bad because they ended up with the strong bushes which has made them so successful. In 2003 the first four hectares of oolong were planted.
Now after nearly 20 years of hard work, tears and careful propagation they have 1.5 million lush sweet tea bushes, which spread over 48 hectares. Gigi Crawford is the GM of Zealong Tea, she says lots of people would have given up a long time ago but the founder didn't have a tea background, he just had an idea, and a love of tea.
11:45 Urbanist Tommy Honey
Housing affordability is in the news daily here but sometimes we forget that it is, if not a global issue, then at least an issue globally. While here in NZ the issue is (currently) focussed on the unaffordability of owning, elsewhere it is about the impact on renting.
Links:
The Deep Roots of America's Housing Affordability Crisis, CityLab
With London's Affordability Crisis, a New Breed of Activism, CityLab
Where Working Households Are Struggling the Most to Pay Their Rent, CityLab
Generation Rent
'Horror and pity' for Gen Rent, NZ Herald
=PLAYLIST=
Artist: Hello Sailor
Song: Gutter Black
Composer: McArtney
Album: Hello Sailor
Label: NZ On Air kiwi gold disc
Time: 09.36am
Artist: Lawrence Arabia
Song: Lick Your Wounds
Composer: Milne
Album: The Sparrow
Label: Honarary Bedouin
Time: 10.35am
Artist: Bob Dylan
Song: Corrina Corrina
Composer: Dylan
Album: The Freewheelin Bob Dylan
Label: CBS
Time: 11.30am
Artist: Don McGlashan
Song: On My Way to You
Composer: McGlashan
Album: Lucky Stars
Label: Private
Time: 11.44am
===Noon | Midday Report===
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Radio New Zealand news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including: 12:16 Business News 12:26 Sport 12:34 Rural News 12:43 Worldwatch
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12:00
Midday News for 25 May 2015
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Legal action begins at Wellington's High Court for a woman who wants the right to die and snow closes roads and delays flights in the south.
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Duration: 15'06"
12:17
Contact investors to receive $367m special dividend
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Contact Energy has dropped plans to invest in power stations overseas in favour of paying investors a 367-million dollar special dividend.
Topics: business
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Tags: Contact Energy
Duration: 1'41"
12:19
Apple Fields directors fined
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The two directors of Apple Fields have been fined 30-thousand dollars each at the Christchurch District Court for failing to file financial accounts on time.
Topics: business
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Tags: Apple Fields
Duration: 43"
12:20
Methven's full year profit rises 21%
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The shower and tapware maker, Methven, has lifted its full year profit by a fifth.
Topics: business
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Tags: Methven
Duration: 1'06"
12:21
Evolve exceeds prospectus guidance in first financial period
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Evolve Education Group says it's exceeded its prospectus forecasts, with a smaller full year loss, driven by higher-than-expected revenue.
Topics: business
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Tags: Evolve Education Group
Duration: 1'34"
12:24
Midday Markets for 25 May 2015
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Don Lewthwaite at First NZ Capital.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'34"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 25 May 2015
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The Black Caps batsman Ross Taylor concedes England have the upper hand heading into tonight's final day of the first cricket test at Lord's.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'52"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 25 May 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Tags:
Duration: 7'45"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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Information and debate, people and places around NZ
=AUDIO=
13:08
Your Song - Lousiana 1927
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Phil Tilbury from Napier has chosen 'Lousiana 1927' Sung by Aaron Neville.
Topics: music
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Tags: Aaron Neville
Duration: 11'55"
13:20
New Zealand Retro: the ute
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If you think of the 'working class man', or woman, one vehicle seems to fit better than most. Certainly in this country and in Australia, where Jimmy Barnes wrote that song. It was a car for work, a car for play, it was usually, but not always, a Holden or a Ford. It was the ute!
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The Retro this week delves into the world of the ute, in particular the classic Australian made Holdens and Ford Falcons of the 1960s and '70s.
These were vehicles tailor made for tradespeople and farmers, and as one of our guests discusses, they were “masculine” cars which announced to the world that a teenager had become a man.
Simon Mercep also talk to the owner of a Chrysler Valiant ute, and to a long time surfie who explains that while the utes were useful, it was covered vehicles like the Sandman which meant you could take your surfboard and your mattress to the beach for an overnight stay.
Guiding us through the history and cultural significance of the ute is motoring writer Peter Gill.
Gallery
Topics: history
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Tags: vehicles, trucks, utes
Duration: 39'51"
14:10
Weather Man - Alan Mason
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Change is in the air after nearly a century of weather watching for a Feilding family. Alan Mason's family have been recording the weather in Feilding for 98 years. But now, at the age of 94, Mr Mason is starting to think about passing on his thermometer.
Topics: weather
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: Feilding
Duration: 11'42"
14:48
Feature album - Sounds Of Silence.
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The feature album today is the second album from Simon and Garfunkel, the album that turned them into stars.
Topics: music
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Duration: 11'23"
15:09
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot
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In the aftermath of the Korean War, a war New Zealand took part in, a young North Korean fighter pilot got in a MIG 15 plane and flew across the border to South Korea. He fled a country ruled by a tyrant, the Great Leader, who established a dynasty that continues today with his grandson, Kim Jong Un. It's believed Kim Jong Un recently ordered the execution of a minister with anti-aircraft guns for falling asleep at a meeting. Former Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden explains the history of North Korea and the often bizarre behavior of its leaders through the stories of two men in his new book, The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and The Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom.
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North Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, is one of the most secretive countries in the world. Its citizens aren’t allowed to leave. Tourists can see only what officials allow. Its history is dominated by its Great Leader, Kim Il-Sung, who invaded South Korea and started the Korean War, where New Zealanders served as part of a UN force in the 1950's. Journalist and author Blaine Harden covered North Korea for the Washington Post. He says that the system started by the Great Leader in 1948 continues today with his grandson, Kim Il-Sung. “It’s a rule by fear, intimidation and exile to the concentration camps and that’s what kept the totalitarian system going longer than any other in world history” Harden says. He has written a book that sheds light on North Korea today through the stories of two men. The book is called The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and The Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom. It's about the Kim Il-sung who started a dynasty that continues today and a young pilot who escaped the country in a MIG 15 plane.
An example of North Korea’s past connecting with modern times is the reported execution of Kim’s defence minister, Hyon Yong-chol, allegedly by anti-aircraft gun fire a few weeks ago. Although the reports of the execution are unconfirmed, Harden says it is clear the defence minister is no longer appearing where he normally does. “There is a pattern now under Kim Jung Un of going after those considered to be disloyal. He executed his own Uncle who was very senior in the leadership and had close ties to China. The numbers of senior officials who’ve been executed is estimated around 60 to 70 at this point. He’s consolidating power and doing it more bloodily than his Father or Grandfather did” Harden explains.
The story of how North Korea came to be begins with Kim Il-Sung, who Harden says was first installed as a puppet for the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin at the end of the Second World War. “He turned out to be much more than a puppet. He was gifted demagogue and managed to have great popularity with the North Korean people. At the same time he was a Stalinist in a way that out did Stalin." Kim started concentration camps, closed the borders, controlled information. “He attempted and succeeded in controlling the minds of a great many people in North Korea” Harden adds.
Stalin gave Kim the green light to invade South Korea and start the Korean War in 1950. “The Americans and the South Koreans were caught with their pants down’ Harden says. North Korean troops faced little opposition at first, and occupied all of Korea in a matter of weeks." But, Harden says, the Americans came back with a vengeance with carpet bombing. “American B-29s ,big bombers, could fly without opposition and leisurely pulverize North Korea ” according to Harden. He says 85 percent of the structures in the country were destroyed and up to 20 percent of the population was killed. “It’s a level of savagery in bombing that’s really unprecedented in American warfare."
Harden says Kim used the destruction to his advantage. “Kim knew that virtually everyone still alive in his country had a relative killed by the Americans. He told his people the Americans could come again unless you give me your completely loyalty and put up with hard times indefinitely." He says the same story is now told by his Grandson.
A young North Korean named No Kum Sok never believed the stories about the Americans told by the Great Leader in the 1950’s. He dreamed of escaping to America as a teenager when the Soviet Union first came to North Korea. “He became an actor, a liar and he pretended to love his Great Leader” Harden says, which allowed him to become the youngest jet fighter pilot in North Korea. “He got his hands on the greatest escape module, a MIG 15” Harden says. During the war, he tried to avoid killing Americans. Seven weeks after the war ended "he got in that MIG during a routine training flight and flew South”.
As luck would have it, the radar was off on the American air base where No landed. He became Kenneth Rowe and is still alive today.
The North Korea he left has hardly changed. North Korea, Harden says, has been able to maintain its communist nature longer than any other for many reasons, particularly “the capacity of the Kim ruling family to sustain cruelty to its own people. In totalitarian states usually the state co-exists and disappears with the big man. Hitler died, the Nazi regime was gone. Stalin died and within a few years the gulag faded away. Mao died China fundamentally changed. Kim Il-Sung died in 1994 and his son died in 2011 and now the grandson is there and nothing has changed." In North Korea, Harden says, it is as if the country is still at war with the United States, still traumatized by the carpet bombing. The people, he says, believe the Americans could invade at any time. “I think the best way for New Zealanders or anyone else to understand North Korea is to think of that country as living in the 1950s."
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The Mooncake and the Kūmura
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The Mooncake and the Kūmura is a debut play from award winning new playwright Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen. It first performed at the Loft, Q Theatre as part of the Auckland Arts Festival earlier this year. Layered with myth and fable, the play is a moving story about a mixed-up Maori Chinese love affair that sprouts among rows and rows of potatoes - set in NZ nearly 90 years ago. Lynda meets playwright Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen at the heart of market gardening country - Otaki - to learn more.
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Women - ha! and Maori, they don't understand us!
Charles Chan as Choi, the old Chinese Market gardener - excerpt from The Mooncake and the Kūmura by Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen.
Yee, played by Yosan An is a young Chinese labourer, he’s discussing Maori women needing work with Choi, an old Chinese market gardener. It sets the scene for a love story between Chinese and Maori around 90 years ago, at a time when these communities were very poor and marginalised.
The play The Mooncake and the Kūmara, was a sold out hit at the recent Auckland Arts Festival earlier this year. The themes, an exploration of the lives of Chinese and Maori market gardeners in New Zealand is loosely based on the family history of writer Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen – about her Maori and Chinese grandparents.
You're greeted by the crowing of roosters and squealing of piglets at the gates of the Totaranui Orchards in Otaki, an area steeped in market gardening history – and the home of Auckland Arts Festival director Carla van Zon.
Mei-Lin is Carla's house guest and as far as market gardening stories go - this is the perfect setting for our interview. We’re surrounded by free range chooks, pigs and the heady aromas of homemade cider made from the sprawling apple orchard as Mei-Lin tells me about the inspiration behind her play, the love story between her grandparents Nan and Goong-goong.
It was a call out for short plays (about Asian themes or written by Asian writers) from The Oryza Foundation in Auckland which first prompted Mei-Lin to write the play with her cousin Kiel McNaughton in 2008. This production is an ‘extended’ version of their 10 minute original.
The play is based on the "true" life story about how Mei-Lin's Maori grandmother Alice Williams (Nan) and Chinese grandfather Joe Kum Chee (Goong Goong) met in 1929. Collective family histories are always open to interpretation and MeLin's version is just that.
Chu Moi 徐妹 was the name of Joe Kum Chee's first wife. It was common for Chinese men to leave loved ones and family back home to seek work around the globe, at first in gold-mining and later in market gardening, labouring and laundry services.
According to the New Zealand Chinese Association publication Sons of the Soil Joe Kum Chee came from the village of Nam Ling, in the Poon Yue district, Canton. Joe arrived in New Zealand in 1924 at the age of 21 with his father. Joe and his father laboured on market gardens around the Stratford area. This is where Joe at the age of 26 met Alice Williams - a decade younger than him.
Alice Williams came from the Tainui settlement at Ngāruawāhia, and a new marae called Tūrangawaewae. The leader of the marae was the whaea Te Puea Hērangi (1883–1952) the granddaughter of Tāwhiao Te Wherowhero, the second Māori King.
Te Puea emerged as a leader during the First World War. She opposed the government’s policy of conscripting Māori for war service, at a time when Tainui invasion and confiscation of their lands. After the war Te Puea helped set up the Tainui settlement, the new marae and the fledgling King Movement (Kiingitanga). The settlement became a kind of ‘national marae’.
Te Puea hosted politicians and dignitaries and helped restore the national status of the Kiingitanga. She became a crucial figure in reviving the Kiingitanga (King Movement) among Tainui people in the twentieth century. Alice Williams's mother was one of the whaea that helped host at the marae.
Mei-Lin laughs as she tells me that there are many nostalgic versions of how her grandparents met but Mei-Lin's version is probably closest to the truth of the gritty, harsh realities of the times. Market gardening wasn't a stroll in the meadows, it all about survival and sheer hard graft.
They're moving where the money is, they're all on the make. They just want to survive.
"They were so poor, both Goong and Nan. Nan's father had died, so where is this mum [Mei-Lin's great-grandmother] with her 10 children going to find a way to feed and clothe all these children? Nan was only 16 when she got together with Goong."
It was tough times for Maori and Chinese - the Great Depression, post W.W.1. and entering the era of W.W.2. Joe and Alice went on to purchase green grocer and fruit shops in Stratford and Hawera from 1937 to 1945 before moving to Palmerston North and gradually expanding their market gardening business.
According to Mei-Lin Joe and Alice had around 13 children and Joe and Alice continued to toil on their gardens throughout each pregnancy. "The older siblings became the babysitters."
Mei-Lin is the first Maori-Chinese playwright to bring to New Zealand's audience a play with an entirely Maori and Chinese theme.
This is an ‘extended’ version of a 10 minute play I wrote with my cousin Kiel McNaughton back in 2008. Both of us, at separate times in our lives, had wanted to write a play about our Goong-Goong (from Southern China/Guangzhou) and Nan (from Taranaki via Wanganui via Waikato), so we got together on weekends and worked on the 10 minute version of the play. We submitted it for a collection of plays being produced under the banner Asian Tales and it grew from there. - See more at: http://www.qtheatre.co.nz/news/artist-pass-mei-lin-te-puea-hansen#sthash.pnGFsB7X.dpuf
Carla van Zon, Director of the Auckland Arts Festival is quick to point out that The Mooncake and the Kūmura was selected on the merit of its' writing.
Festival director Carla Van Zon is about to feed her 40 odd piglets, Carla tells us she loved this play from the outset because of its earthy authenticity. She loved the fact that the older hardened Maori and Chinese characters grew softer in the telling of the play, losing their racist misconceptions of each other.
Mei-Lin pays particular credit to Katie's direction. "It was great to have Katie Wolf direct, she comes from Taranaki and she could relate to the Maori side of my family."And what about the title? Mei-Lin tells me she liked it because it was evocative of Aesop's fables;
"Threaded throughout the play are fables, where the Chinese characters tell Maori legends and Maori characters tell Chinese fables, with lots of artistic license of course!"
The debut season sold out and there are plans to tour this to festivals around the country, Carla and Mei-Lin would like to premiere it for one night in Otaki too, for the population of market gardening families in the region.
After all - it is a love story set among rows and rows of potatoes. Who wouldn't be enamored with that?
The Mooncake and the Kūmara
Auckland Arts Festival 5th – 10th March 2015, at the Loft, Q Theatre, Auckland.
Playwright: Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen
Direction: Katie Wolfe
Cast: Yoson An, Charles Chan, Kip Chapman, Awhina-Rose Henare Ashby, Waimihi Hotere, Chye-Ling Huang
Design Team: John Verryt, Paul Lim, Drew McMillan, Elizabeth Whiting
Play excerpts recorded at the Loft, Q Theatre, Auckland, NZ by Justin Gregory and Aleyna Martinez for Radio New Zealand.
Topics: history, arts, education, rural, spiritual practices, language, food, te ao Maori
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: Chinese, theatre, market gardening, Otaki, cultural practices
Duration: 17'18"
15:47
The Panel pre-show for 25 May 2015
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1:10 Your Song
Lousiana 1927. Sung by Aaron Neville. Chosen by Phil Tilbury in Napier.
1:20 New Zealand Retro: The Great NZ Ute.
With motoring journalist Peter Gill, Holden fan and tradesman Mark Mohring, South Island farmer Guy Sutherland, Chrysler Valiant tradesman and fan Lenny Gardner and Taranaki surfie and Bedford fan, Wayne "Arch" Arthur.
Archival audio supplied by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
2:10 Weather Man - Alan Mason
Change is in the air after nearly a century of weather watching for a Feilding family.
Alan Mason's family have been recording the weather in Feilding for 98 years. But now, at the age of 94, Mr Mason is starting to think about passing on his thermometer.
2:20 BBC Witness - Fiji Coup
In May 2000, a group of ethnic Fijian gunmen broke into parliament and declared a coup. Led by charismatic failed businessman George Speight, they took the prime minister and several MPs hostage for 56 days. Ricardo Morris was a journalist for Fiji's Daily Post at the time.
2:30 NZ Reading - 'Burying The Crystal Palace' by Naomi Ramsay
Returning to the scene of the crime, she uncovers the family heirloom she stole all those years ago.
2:45 Feature album
Sounds Of Silence. Simon and Garfunkel.
3:10 Feature interview - Blaine Harden
In the aftermath of the Korean War, a war New Zealand took part in, a young North Korean fighter pilot got in a MIG 15 plane and flew across the border to South Korea. He fled a country ruled by a tyrant, the Great Leader, who established a dynasty that continues today with his grandson, Kim Jong Un. It's believed Kim Jong Un recently ordered the execution of a minister with anti-aircraft guns for falling asleep at a meeting. Former Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden explains the history of North Korea and the often bizarre behavior of its leaders through the stories of two men in his new book, The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and The Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom.
3:30 The Mooncake And The Kumara - Lynda Chanwai-Earle
Layered with myth and fable, The Mooncake and the Kumara is a moving play about a messed-up Maori Chinese love affair that sprouts among rows and rows of potatoes - set in NZ nearly 90 years ago. Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets award-winning playwright on the soil in Otaki to learn more.
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What the world is talking about. With Noelle McCarthy, Jim Mora, Ella Henry and Matt Nippert.
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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The Panel pre-show for 25 May 2015
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16:03
The Panel with Ella Henry and Matt Nippert (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Ella Henry and Matt Nippert have been up to. A cold May day. New Zealand troops in Iraq aren't far from Radmadia which was recently over run by ISIS. Robert Ayson of Victoria University joins the Panel to talk about the need for boots on the ground. Laurence Kubiak of the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research joins the Panel to talk about whether the government is financially on track for providing super.
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The Panel with Ella Henry and Matt Nippert (Part 2)
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Some words from the Oxford Junior Dictionary have been culled. Words to do with the natural world have lost their place while ones to do with technology have been added. What the Panelists Ella Henry and Matt Nippert have been thinking about. Sir Owen Glenn says people would give more to innovation and good causes if there was a better tax incentive. Mark Keating of the Business School at the University of Auckland tells us what would and wouldn't work. Women being given cash for propping up their husbands' careers, which is decried by some and seen as feminism-enhancing by others. New Plymouth is the first centre to have NZ Post's new-style parcel and mail operation. Where to now for other traditional services? New variations of synthetic cannabis have seen more than 30 people admitted to hospital.
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Weather
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A cold May day.
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NZ troops in Iraq
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New Zealand troops in Iraq aren't far from Radmadia which was recently over run by ISIS. Robert Ayson of Victoria University joins the Panel to talk about the need for boots on the ground.
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Superannuation
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Laurence Kubiak of the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research joins the Panel to talk about whether the government is financially on track for providing super.
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Nature words
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Some words from the Oxford Junior Dictionary have been culled. Words to do with the natural world have lost their place while ones to do with technology have been added.
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Philanthropic donations
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Sir Owen Glenn says people would give more to innovation and good causes if there was a better tax incentive. Mark Keating of the Business School at the University of Auckland tells us what would and wouldn't work.
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Duration: 10'15"
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Wife bonus
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Women being given cash for propping up their husbands' careers, which is decried by some and seen as feminism-enhancing by others.
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NZ Post
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New Plymouth is the first centre to have NZ Post's new-style parcel and mail operation. Where to now for other traditional services?
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Synthetic cannabis
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New variations of synthetic cannabis have seen more than 30 people admitted to hospital.
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Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 25 May 2015
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A woman with brain cancer fights in court for the right to die on her own terms. A signal of a tougher stance against returning foreign fighters and New 10 year passports will cost $180.
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Woman with terminal cancer fights for right to die
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A Wellington woman, whose fight for the right to die on her own terms is being argued in the High Court today, probably has only weeks to live.
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More on the the Lecretia Seales case
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Our reporter Sharon Lundy has been at the High Court in Wellington.
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PM signals tougher stand on returning foreign fighters.
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The Prime Minister is signalling the Government might toughen its approach to foreign fighters as part of its review of the country's spy laws.
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17:17
Lindt Cafe gunman was given Australian protection visa
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To Australia, where an inquest's heard the Sydney seige gunman lied about being a spy to get to stay in the country.
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New 10 year passports will cost $180
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The Cabinet has approved the return of 10-year passports which will cost 180 dollars to renew, up from 135 dollars.
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17:27
Snow day instead of school day
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The first polar blast of the season was not the snowmaggedon some predicted, but it's been enough to disrupt travellers and shut some schools.
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17:34
Today's market update
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The New Zealand dollar didn't move much today, after falling over the weekend on the back of fresh economic data in the United States.
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17:36
Physio had sex with client - inquiry
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A physiotherapist denies he acted unprofessionally by having sex with a patient. The woman in her 20s was pursued just hours after her final consultation.
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17:39
ACT rejects bid to have Maurice Williamson join
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The ACT Party says it has rejected an approach from its former leader, Don Brash, to have the National Party MP Maurice Williamson join the party.
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17:44
Trial of pawnshop killer winding up
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A jury's been told a man who killed two others in an Auckland pawn shop last year did it because of jealousy and anger, and was clearly sane at the time.
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17:48
Rise in complaints against police
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The number of complaints against the police has already surpassed last year's total less than halfway through the year.
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17:52
Legislation is same as holding 'gun to their head'
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Some bach owners in west Auckland say a 'gun is been held to their heads' because of a piece of Treaty of Waitangi legislation. They've been given until the end of this week to sign up to limited legal access to their holiday homes - or lose their guaranteed rights of way all together. From Te Manu Korihi, Andrew McRae reports.
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17:57
Seal invades Papakura street searching for a sunny spot
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A New Zealand fur seal that disrupted morning traffic in the Auckland suburb of Papakura has been herded back to the side of a creek that runs into Manakau Harbour.
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Duration: 2'07"
18:07
Sports News for 25 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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18:12
Woman with terminal cancer argues she should be allowed to die
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A Wellington High Court has heard a desperate plea from a woman with terminal brain cancer to let her die on her own terms.
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Duration: 2'51"
18:15
Court told chequebook justice led to Pike disaster decision
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A court's been told chequebook justice overcame the public interest when charges weren't laid against the head of Pike River Coal, over the disaster that killed 29 men.
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Duration: 2'57"
18:18
Iraq hits back after criticism from US about Ramadi
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Iraq has hit back at Washington after it accused Iraqi forces of lacking the will to fight the Islamic State, which scored a resounding victory a week earlier with the capture of Ramadi.
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Duration: 5'49"
18:23
Former SCF investors raise $117k for possible civil claim
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South Canterbury Finance investors who lost millions of dollars have pledged more than a hundred-thousand dollars to fund a possible legal claim.
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Duration: 2'24"
18:27
Official stats show hazardous drinking has halved
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Puzzling figures have emerged suggesting a halving of problem drinking in Canterbury.
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Duration: 4'12"
18:35
Japan's US$453m in aid to Pacific for climate change
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Japan has announced it will give hundreds of millions of dollars of aid towards tackling climate change in the Pacific Islands, which an expert says is a large symbolic gesture.
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Duration: 2'37"
18:43
Members of Sri Lanka's women cricket team forced to do sex
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An investigation has found Sri Lanka's top women cricket players have been forced to have sex with officials to keep their places in the national team.
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Duration: 3'23"
18:45
Fijian MP suspended for two years for slur against speaker
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A Fijian MP has been kicked out of parliament for two years over slurs against the Speaker.
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Duration: 2'11"
18:48
Te Manu Korihi News for 25 May 2015
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Some bach owners in west Auckland say a 'gun is been held to their heads' because of a piece of Treaty of Waitangi legislation; A Far North housing provider says tax breaks given to some families in the Budget could knock them off the list for a state house; A group of New Zealand health experts is urging the Government to introduce a tax on fizzy drinks and adopt other strategies to help combat obesity in Māori children and rangatahi (young people).
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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19:15
A Colourful Time
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The colour of light has a major impact on how our body clock perceives the time of day, with Dr Timothy Brown from the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester.
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Duration: 17'58"
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Body Parts
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Professor Emerita in Science Communication at the University of Otago Jean Fleming, on (quirky) human anatomy. Molecular clocks, the way your cells sense the daily rhythms.
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Conundrum Clue 2
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...with a reprise of clue 1. Listen on Friday for the answer.
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7:10 A Colourful Time
The colour of light has a major impact on how our body clock perceives the time of day, with Dr Timothy Brown from the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester.
8:10 Windows on the World
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8:40 Body Parts
Professor Emerita in Science Communication at the University of Otago Jean Fleming, on (quirky) human anatomy. Molecular clocks, the way your cells sense the daily rhythms.
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10:00 Late Edition
A review of the news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.
11:06 Blues Unlimited
Exploring the wonderful world of the Blues and its history, heritage and rich cultural traditions with host "Sleepy Boy Hawkins" (3 of 12, PRX)
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Exploring the wonderful world of the Blues and its history, heritage and rich cultural traditions with host "Sleepy Boy Hawkins" (3 of 12, PRX)