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:
07 June 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 Ties, by Glenis Jones, told by Heather O'Carroll (RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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Kiss Kiss Yuk Yuk, by Kyle Mewburn, told by George Henare; The Great Queen's Birthday Shemozzle, by Judith Holloway, told by Jennifer Ludlam; How to sell a Donkey, by Dorothy Butler, told by Megan Edwards; Hugo's Pet, by Margaret Mahy, told by Katherine Beasley (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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07:10
Salil Shetty - New Zealand refugee quota
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Amnesty International's Secretary General Salil Shetty is calling for New Zealand to double its refugee quota from its current level of 750, which has not been increased in 30-years.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: refugee quota
Duration: 13'51"
07:25
Ken Laban - Jerry Collins' passing
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Rugby commentator, city councillor, broadcaster, and Collins family friend, Ken Laban, talks about the tragic loss of Jerry Collins and partner Alana Madill.
Topics: sport
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Jerry Collins
Duration: 5'55"
07:50
David Ellis - coming home
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Dr David Ellis has spent four years researching the New Zealand repatriation experience, looking at how well we cope when coming home and the influences on that experience.
Topics: economy, life and society
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Tags: repatriation
Duration: 10'28"
08:12
Insight for 7 June 2015 - The Superannuation Conundrum
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Anusha Bradley explores how NZ will pay for superannuation in the future and the impact on generations to come.
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Loaded with student debt and high city house prices, many in "Generation Y" feel like they're getting a raw deal and then there's the prospect of paying for another generation's pensions.
Students at the University of Auckland told Insight that the looming burden of ballooning superannuation meant their prospects felt rather grim.
Listen to Insight: The Superannuation Conundrum
Many of those advocating for change have talked about the possibility of hostility and resentment building up between the generations as the reality of the pension dilemma becomes clearer.
Nursing student, Rachel Munn, said she loved the fact New Zealand Superannuation was a universal payment because it embodied the spirit of equality. But she admitted the growing cost was a worry.
"For us, as we work, a bigger chunk of our taxes is, I guess, going on an older population and as we age we have to think about our kids as well...the burden will be on them too."
New Zealand Super will cost $11 billion this year. By 2030, that bill will rise to $30bn and swell to $100bn by 2060.
All superannuation costs are paid for by current taxpayers, but there will be fewer of them in the future. In the 1960s there were seven workers for every pensioner. Today, the ratio is five to one. By 2030, it'll be just two to one.
Other students on campus told Insight they didn't think New Zealand Super would be around when they finally retired.
"I do think the age should be higher, but it won't get done because you don't want to be the government that does that," said one student.
"I expect I'll be paying for my own superannuation and I won't be getting NZ Super," another added.
"It's a little bit scary thinking we may not have same system in place when we're old and we're going to have to work a lot harder because we'll need a lot more money to live on," said another.
In fact, most were preparing for a future where they would have to rely on their own savings in retirement.
That's top of mind for the Retirement Commissioner Diane Maxwell. She believes that whatever happens with superannuation in the future, people will have to provide more for themselves.
"Now, I don't want to be scaremongering with that. It's not that people will be living in absolute poverty with no government assistance. But simply there will be pressure points and it will be harder for the government to pay out the rate they do, at the age they, and to as many people as they do," she said.
She believes part of the solution is to educate future retirees as early as possible. Two years ago the Commission for Financial Capability piloted a financial literacy programme with a small group of schools on Auckland's North Shore.
At Upper Harbour Primary School, students as young as five are taking part in the programme, learning about money, saving and debt. The Commission is hoping to roll out the programme to more schools across Auckland this year.
Despite that message of self reliance, the University of Auckland's Retirement Policy and Research Centre co-director, Susan St John, believes younger generations will feel the pinch of an aging population.
"The working age population will be squeezed mercilessly. They'll get ever lower benefits, tax credits and lots of student debt, while an older, mostly, more affluent population lives longer and takes what is seen as an unfair share of resources."
Susan St John believed means testing super to exclude the wealthiest pensioners would save about $1 billion a year, which could then be redirected to the poorest families, easing inequality.
An author on inequality issues, Max Rashbrooke, believed tensions between younger and older generations would grow unless steps were taken to ensure superannuation was maintained and affordable in the future.
"We do run the risk of seeing quite significant generational clashes, and if we don't fix the issues around superannuation and ensure there's a solid future for New Zealand Super, that's just going to add that resentment that already exists," he said.
The former Labour Finance Minister, Sir Michael Cullen, shares those fears.
"The real danger is that the young will be impoverished at the expense of the old by the middle of the century if we continue on our current path."
But Finance Minister, Bill English, said the government did not need to make any changes to New Zealand Superannuation because it could afford to keep the status quo.
He said other areas of government spending, such as health and welfare, were more "amenable to change" than Super.
"If we succeed in managing health costs and welfare dependency then that makes it more likely a reasonable pension can be sustained," he said.
The Super Fund
Sir Michael Cullen recognised the role savings would have to play in paying for future superannuation. He created the New Zealand Superannuation Fund in 2001 to help mitigate some of these costs.
The fund is now worth $29.3 billion, averaging a rate of return of more than 10 percent.
But even at its projected peak in 2080 the fund will only cover about 15 percent of the total annual Super bill.
The Super Fund chief executive Adrian Orr said its ability to pay for future costs was being limited by the government's decision to stop putting money into it when the global financial crisis hit in 2008.
While the fund has made some very good returns to date, Mr Orr did not expect that to continue.
"In the absence of our returns and capital contributions going into the fund then the only alternatives are either higher future tax rates, higher future public debt, or lower generosity of future retirement incomes."
"It's important to continue to save and get the best returns possible because the alternatives are high risk strategies themselves," he added.
Finance Minister Bill English said the government had not been willing to borrow money to put into the Fund.
Net government debt currently sits at 28 percent of GDP.
Mr English said payments would resume once the Government had reduced its net debt to 20 percent of GDP, which it expects to hit in 2020.
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Topics: economy
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Tags: NZ Superannuation Fund, superannunation, pensions
Duration: 28'34"
08:40
Declan Greene - playwright
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Australian playwright Declan Greene has made quite an impact on the world's stages, and his new show 'Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography' is about to debut at Auckland's Silo theatre.
Topics: arts
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Tags: theatre
Duration: 19'09"
09:30
Mediawatch for 7 June 2015
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Should people convicted of serious crimes be free to talk to the media?; a review of reporting racial issues picks out one particular paper; big-name papers end up publishing the same stuff twice.
Topics: media
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: race relations, Fairfax Media
Duration: 31'48"
09:40
Ken Cosgrove - Political Marketing
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Associate Professor of Government at Boston's Suffolk University on winning the hearts and minds of voters.
Topics: politics
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Tags: marketing, voting, political campaigns
Duration: 20'56"
10:08
Renters I - Jane
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Sunday Morning producer Christine Cessford visits with Jane, a renter in Wellington's Lyall Bay, and finds that her living conditions are neither commensurate with the rent paid nor adequate for a safe and secure home.
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Sunday Morning producer Christine Cessford visits with Jane, a renter in Wellngton's Lyall Bay, and finds that her living conditions are neither commensurate with the rent paid nor adequate for a safe and secure home.
Topics: housing
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Lyall Bay, renting
Duration: 9'41"
10:18
Renters II - Shamubeel Eaqub
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NZ Institute of Economic Research principal economist on the the country's evolving rental market, the basis of his new book 'Generation Rent - Rethinking New Zealand's Priorities'.
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Wallace Chapman and the Sunday Morning team examine how New Zealand society views those of us who rent, and the impact that has on the homes we pay to live in.
Selena and Shamubeel Eaqub.
If you choose, or are forced to choose, to rent – should you also just accept that your home is going to be inferior because that’s the territory of being a tenant?
NZ Institute of Economic Research principal economist Shamubeel Eaqub doesn’t think so. The country's evolving rental market is the basis of his and Selena Eaqub's new book Generation Rent - Rethinking New Zealand's Priorities, (Bridget Williams Books). Shamubeel talks to Wallace about the need for Kiwis to change our attitude towards renting and home ownership.
Two women share their experiences of renting and the impact on their physical and emotional health.
Sunday Morning producer Christine Cessford visits with Jane, a renter in Wellngton's Lyall Bay, and finds that her living conditions are neither commensurate with the rent paid nor adequate for a safe and secure home.
An advocacy group for renters was launched in Wellington recently - Wellington Renters United. Kayla spoke at its launch and this is her story of renting.
Wallace Chapman also talks to Andrew King, the executive officer of the New Zealand Property Investors Federation which represents around 6000 of the country's approximately 300,000 landlords.
He has his own ideas on how to make rental housing a better deal for landlords and tenants.
Topics: housing
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Tags: rental housing
Duration: 18'18"
10:35
Renters III - Kayla
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An advocacy group for renters was launched in Wellington recently - Wellington Renters United. Kayla spoke at its launch and this is her story.
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An advocacy group for renters was launched in Wellington recently - Wellington Renters United. Kayla spoke at its launch and this is her story of renting and it's impact on physical and emotional health.
Topics: housing
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Wellington, renting
Duration: 5'27"
10:45
Renters IV - Andrew King
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Executive Officer of the New Zealand Property Investors Federation which represents around 6000 of the country's approximately 300,000 landlords.
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Andrew King is the executive officer of the New Zealand Property Investors Federation which represents around 6000 of the country's approximately 300,000 landlords.
He has his own ideas on how to make rental housing a better deal for landlords and tenants.
Topics: housing
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Tags: renting, landlords
Duration: 12'29"
11:05
Christine Forster - Australian marriage equality
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Gay rights campaigner and Sydney city councilor on the journey to marriage equality across the Tasman, in the time of a conservative government led by her brother Tony Abbott.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: sexuality, marriage equality, Australia
Duration: 13'53"
11:18
Reverend Bob Scott - In The Middle Of It
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Colourful and candid Christian campaigner for the cowed, with his new memoir 'In The Middle Of It'.
Topics: books, author interview
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Tags: spiritual practices, Christianity
Duration: 18'16"
11:40
Danielle Moreau - Coronation Street
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Legal researcher, mother of two young, and Coro blogger on the history and evolution of the world's favourite street.
Topics: media
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Tags: Coronation Street, television
Duration: 16'30"
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7:08 Current affairs
Amnesty International’s Secretary General Salil Shetty is calling for New Zealand to double its refugee quota from its current level of 750. Shetty is a former chief executive of ActionAid and a long-time campaigner for human rights; a geopolitical storm is coming to a head in the grouping of Melanesian states known as the Melanesian Spearhead Group. Plus: the repatriation experience for Kiwis coming home, and The Week in Parliament.
8:12 Insight The Superannuation Conundrum
New Zealand Superannuation is set to become the government's biggest single expense, with costs expected to triple to $30 billion by 2030. The Prime Minister has ruled out raising the age of eligibility or changing the way Super is handed out, while at the same time pledging to reduce the government's debt. Insight explores how the costs of an ageing population will be paid for.
Produced by Philippa Tolley.
8:40 Declan Greene – Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography
Australian playwright Declan Greene has made quite an impact in the world of theatre – his plays have been staged from Melbourne to Washington – and his new show Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography is about to debut in Auckland.
9:06 Mediawatch
Mediawatch looks at whether people convicted of serious crimes should be free to talk to the media, and if a recent review of reporting racial issues was right to pick out one particular paper. Also: How did some big-name papers end up publishing the same stuff twice?
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Ken Cosgrove – Political Marketing
Ken Cosgrove is Associate Professor of Government at Suffolk University in Boston, US. Ken’s research interests centre on political branding and he is the author of Branded Conservatives: How the Brand Brought the American Right from the Periphery to the Center of American Politics. He talks to Wallace about how political marketing wins hearts and minds – and how Hillary Clinton is branding her campaign for the Democratic nomination.
10:06 Renters – Society’s Second-class Citizens
In this hour we examine how New Zealand society traditionally views those of us who rent – and the impact that has on the homes we pay to live in. If you choose, or are forced to choose, to rent – should you also just accept that your home is going to be inferior because that’s the territory of being a tenant? Shamubeel Eaqub doesn’t think so, and he talks to Wallace about the need for Kiwis to change our attitude towards renting and home ownership. Wallace also talks to Andrew King, the executive officer of the New Zealand Property Investors Federation who has his own ideas on how to make rental housing a better deal for landlords and tenants. Plus: Two Wellington women share their experiences of renting and the impact on their physical and emotional health.
Shamubeel Eaqub and Selena Eaqub are the authors of Generation Rent – Rethinking New Zealand’s Priorities, published by Bridget Williams Books as part of the BWB Texts series.
Tenants' organisation Wellington Renters United.
Shamubeel and Selena Eaqub
11:05 Christine Forster – Marriage Equality in Australia
As Australia looks to introduce its Marriage Equality Bill, the debate around same sex marriage is heating up. Christine Forster is openly gay and is a leading voice in supporting the Bill – and she is also the sister of Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Christine speaks to Wallace about her life in local politics, and the challenges she faces in her determination to see marriage equality in Australia.
11:20 Bob Scott – Gay in the Church
The reverend Bob Scott is an openly gay Anglican priest. His book, In the Middle of It reflects on his remarkable life. He speaks to Wallace about the challenges of being gay in his line of work, and of being at the forefront of the anti-racism movement in New Zealand.
11:40 Danielle Moreau – Watching a Decades-old Soap Opera So You Don’t Have To
“Being husband and wife, we’re psychotic.” - Malapropist Hilda Ogden, trying to tell the assembled faithful at the Rovers Return that she always knows what Stan is thinking – and so begins the latest entry in Danielle Moreau’s hilarious blog Coronation Street of Old in which she returns to episodes from 1976 – the characters, the humour, the haircuts, and the affairs. Danielle talks to Wallace about her labour of love for Coro.
===12:12 PM. | Spectrum===
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Spectrum's Jack Perkins explores the philosophy and history of Levin's Radio Reading Service which provides regional and national news and current affairs for the print disabled. A print disabled person is anyone who cannot see, hold, understand or access every day printed literature. The Radio Reading Service turns print into sound for anyone who finds it difficult to read conventional print (RNZ)
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12:10
Spectrum for 7 June 2015 - Print into Sound
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Spectrum's Jack Perkins explores the philosophy and history of Levin's Radio Reading Service which provides regional and national news and current affairs for the print disabled. A Print Disabled person is anyone who cannot see, hold, understand or access every day printed literature. The Radio Reading Service turns print into sound for anyone who finds it difficult to read conventional print.
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(From left) Allen Little, Adrian Kealey, Steve Jepson, Chloe Eastham, Ash Bell, Eddie Perkins. Just a few of the 75 people who turn print into sound at the Levin Radio Reading Service.
In New Zealand, 99,000 people have difficulty reading or accessing conventional print, that’s three percent of the population.
At Levin's Radio Reading Service, 75 volunteers turn print into sound, providing 22 hours a day of local, national and international news and current affairs for anyone who cannot see, hold, understand or access every day printed literature.
Established in 1985, the Radio Reading Service made its first broadcast in May 1987. The idea of providing practical help for the print disabled caught on in a big way with the Levin and Horowhenua communities. Locals provided technical gear, labour, ideas – you name it, the list is long – for the fledgling not-for-profit service. Typically, it was a local motorcycle gang who dug the trench allowing a co-ax cable to connect with the transmitter.
Trained operators and readers record the material and manage the station providing over 120 hours of broadcasting each week on 1602 KHz AM to the Horowhenua and Manawatu regions of New Zealand, and also on 107.3 MHz FM to Levin. This broadcast is also streamed live through the Radio Reading Service - click on the Listen Live button.
A new initiative, supported by Access Internet Radio, has been introduced providing ‘On-Demand’ listening via Podcasts, or stored audio files of selected broadcasts.
Jack Perkins explores the philosophy and history of the service.
Radio Reading Service Christmas party.
Topics: disability, internet, language, life and society, media, technology
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Tags: Radio Reading Service, Levin, Horowhenua, radio technology, current affairs, news, literacy, accessibility, volunteering
Duration: 25'05"
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===12:40 PM. | Standing Room Only===
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It's an 'all access pass' to what's happening in the worlds of arts and entertainment, including: 3:04 The Drama Hour: Highlighting radio playwriting and performance
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12:39
Decades in colour
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Before colour televisions there were colourful coloured home movies and now Greenstone TV want to tell the story of New Zealand summers from the 50s, 60s and 70s in a new series called Decades in Colour.
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Before colour televisions there were colourful coloured home movies and now Greenstone TV want to tell the story of New Zealand summers from the 50s, 60s and 70s in a new series called Decades in Colour. Alex Reed has got the funds and now she’s on the hunt for some footage, as she explaines to Lynn Freeman.
Do you have footage you’d like to share? Call Greenstone TV 09 6307 333 or email decades@greenstonetv.com or get in touch on Facebook.
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Tags: home movies, decades in colour
Duration: 9'05"
12:47
Playmarket competition
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This years joint winners of this year's Playmarket B4 25 competition Cassandra Tse and Nathan Joe for their works Long Ago, Long Ago and Hippolytus Veiled.
Topics: arts
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Tags: theatre, competition
Duration: 9'16"
13:34
Porirua Proud
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Porirua north of Wellington is the home of one of our leading art venues. Pataka Gallery. Museum curator Alice Masters takes us through how they are celebrating the city's 50th birthday.
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Porirua north of Wellington struggles with a reputation for being one of the disadvantaged parts of the country, though it's also the home of one of our leading art venues. Pataka Gallery and Museum curator Alice Masters takes us through how they are is marking the city's 50th birthday with an exhibition looking at its history - through images, interviews and artefacts.
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Topics: arts
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Tags: Pataka, Porirua
Duration: 9'48"
13:47
Shakespeare-era London
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University of Auckland's Professor Tom Bishop and a group of post-graduate English students have been allocated the task of researching a Sixteenth Century building believed to be the first custom-built theatre since the Romans as part of the Map of Early Modern London project.
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University of Auckland's Professor Tom Bishop and a group of post-graduate English students have been allocated the task of researching a Sixteenth Century building believed to be the first custom-built theatre since the Romans as part of the Map of Early Modern London project.
Topics: history
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Tags: shakespare, London
Duration: 12'43"
14:26
Naked Discourse: You Occupy My Body By Looking
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Performance artist, Virginia Kennard's latest work, You Occupy My Body by Looking deconstructs notions about the female body and 'how' we look at it. Lists written in donated lipsticks are written on the gallery wall; female mannequin legs are placed strategically on chairs and prompt questions about gender and sexuality, and naked Barbie dolls-one black and nine white-pose questions about race.
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Naked Barbie dolls, lipstick lists and collected materials are used to investigate how we look at the naked form through an improvised performance installation. In You Occupy My Body by Looking, Virginia Kennard explores social boundaries, gender and race. She asks what messages are conveyed through exposing the human form in all of its glory?
Topics: arts
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Virginia Kennard, Sonia Sly, Toi Poneke Gallery, community, culture, feminism, women, nudity, sexuality, gender, race, visual art, performance, music, dance, video, social media
Duration: 13'19"
14:38
Shards of Hope
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Fijian-born Kiwi Nalini Singh has struck gold and hit the New York Times bestsellers list with her dark, futuristic series about psy-changelings called Arrows.
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Fijian-born Kiwi Nalini Singh has struck gold – and hit the New York Times bestsellers list – with her dark, futuristic series about psy-changelings called Arrows. The latest and 14th book in the series, Shards of Hope, returns to a world were emotions were deliberately erased from a race through 'the Silence'. It was the way to stop violence and insanity from creating mayhem. But the Silence has been broken.
Topics: arts
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Tags: authors, arrows
Duration: 9'41"
14:49
Essence of a Landscape
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French-Canadian painter Micheline Robinson is exhibiting paintings inspired by the New Zealand landscape. Essence of a Landscape is available to view at Arts in Oxford from June 10th until July 1st.
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Presence Felt by Micheline Robinson
French-Canadian painter Micheline Robinson is exhibiting paintings inspired by the New Zealand landscape, during June. All the works consist of lines and drips instead of brush strokes. She manages to create the images of vineyards, thicket and the South Island countryside by moving the canvas. Essence of a Landscape is available to view at Arts in Oxford from June 10th until July 1st.
Topics: arts
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Tags: newzealand, painter, Oxford, landscape
Duration: 8'12"
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12:39 Decades in colour
Before colour televisions there was colourful coloured home movies and now Greenstone TV want to tell the story of New Zealand summers from the 50s, 60s and 70s in a new series called Decades in Colour. Alex Reed has got the funds and now she’s on the hunt for some footage.
Do you have footage you’d like to share? Call Greenstone TV 09 6307 333 or email decades@greenstonetv.com or get in touch on Facebook.
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12:47 Playmarket competition
Writing for the stage in New Zealand is unlikely to make you big bucks, but that hasn't deterred the winners of this year's Playmarket B4 25 competition... and this year the calibre of the finalists was so high that Cassandra Tse and Nathan Joe were named joint winners for their work Long Ago, Long Ago and Hippolytus Veiled.
1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris
Simon Morris looks at two revivals – old-fashioned disaster movie San Andreas, starring Dwayne Johnson, and a nostalgic look back on Walt Disney’s 1950's view of the future, Tomorrowland, starring George Clooney. He also reviews an Irish film, Noble, based on real-life philanthropist, Christina Noble.
1:34 Porirua Proud
Porirua north of Wellington struggles with a reputation for being one of the disadvantaged parts of the country, though it's also the home of one of our leading art venues. Pataka Gallery and Museum curator Alice Masters takes us through how they are is marking the city's 50th birthday with an exhibition looking at its history - through images, interviews and artefacts.
1:47 Shakespeare-era London
Have you ever wondered what Shakespeare-era London looked like? The University of Auckland's Professor Tom Bishop and a group of post-graduate English students have been allocated the task of researching a Sixteenth Century building believed to be the first custom-built theatre since the Romans as part of the Map of Early Modern London project.
2:05 The Laugh Track - Rob Harris
When it comes to comedy Auckland has The Classic, and now Wellington is catching up with VK’s Comedy and Blues bar. This week Simon Morris chats to “semi-Canadian” and bar shareholder Rob Harris who has been here on and off for six years. His comedy choices include Abbott and Costello, Patrice O’Neal, Paul F. Tomkins and Seinfeld.
2:26 You Occupy My Body by Looking
Naked Barbie dolls, lipstick lists and collected materials are used to investigate how we look at the naked form through an improvised performance installation. In You Occupy My Body by Looking, Virginia Kennard explores social boundaries, gender and race. She asks what messages are conveyed through exposing the human form in all of its glory?
2:38 Shards of Hope
Fijian-born Kiwi Nalini Singh has struck gold – and hit the New York Times bestsellers list – with her dark, futuristic series about psy-changelings called Arrows. The latest and 14th book in the series, Shards of Hope, returns to a world were emotions were deliberately erased from a race through 'the Silence'. It was the way to stop violence and insanity from creating mayhem. But the Silence has been broken.
2:49 Essence of a Landscape
French-Canadian painter Micheline Robinson is exhibiting paintings inspired by the New Zealand landscape, during June. All the works consist of lines and drips instead of brush strokes. She manages to create the images of vineyards, thicket and the South Island countryside by moving the canvas. Essence of a Landscape is available to view at Arts in Oxford from June 10th until July 1st.
3:05 The Drama Hour
Fresh Off the Boat by Oscar Kightley and Simon Small
===4:06 PM. | Sunday 4 'til 8===
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4:06 The Sunday Feature: A Brief History of Anger
Spats, tantrums, explosions and the occasional childish moment caught on microphone from the archive. American satirist Joe Queenan looks into the history of anger.
With contributions from Christopher Hitchens, Conrad Black, Russell Crowe, Joan Rivers, Joan Bakewell, and Johnny Cash. Plus, interviews with John Sergeant, Natalie Haynes and Matthew Parris, and a running commentary of anger from the presenter himself. (BBCWS). Listen again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s259c
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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18:06
Skinwriting Series 2 - Episodes 4 and 5
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The drama continues in the second season of Skin Writing produced by Jason Te Kare. Award winning Playwrights Jamie McCaskill and Miria George wrote episodes for the radio drama serial set in a Taa Moko studio, Underworld.
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Season 2 of Skinwriting returns this week in Te Ahi Kaa, the series was produced by Jason Te Kare who based the characters of the series on the story of Mataora and Niwareka and origins of Taa Moko.
I wanted to try and take away the stigma of learning te reo māori, of being māori and not knowing how to speak your language. There are people with a whole lot of mana who also don't have their language, who will go through that journey of learning it within their lifetimes.
Jamie McCaskill on writing Kia Ora Bro.
Award-winning playwrights Miria George and Jamie McCaskill.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: taa moko, Skin Writing, drama, Miria George, Jamie McCaskill
Duration: 26'02"
18:32
Skinwriting 2 - Miria George and Jamie McCaskill
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Miria George wrote Niwa Begins and Jamie McCaskill wrote Kia ora Bro, issues of sexism and the stigma of not speaking te reo m-aori were the themes of their episodes. Both are also working on the month long Ahi Kaa festival in Wellington that begins on June 9th, they talk about the line-up with Justine Murray.
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Miria George and Jamie McCaskill wrote episodes in the second season of Skinwriting. Miria George (Te Arawa, Kuki Airani) has a Masters in Creative Writing from Victoria University at the International Institute of Modern Letters, her works include ..And What Remains, He Reo Aroha co-written by Jamie McCaskill, Sunset Road and Urban Hymns, she runs Tawata Productions alongside fellow playwright Hone Kouka.
My Dad and Brother had told me about a tatau artist from the pacific and it was about the rhythm of the uhi and that really stuck in my head. When you're a writer you collect gems on the way that just imbed themselves in your brain, and that was one and I was able to to weave that into Niwa Begins, because I think I wrote this episode while I was in the Cook Islands, so there was alot of tatau, cook island influence coming in there.
Miria George, on writing Niwa Begins.
Jamie McCaskill (Ngāti Tamatera) wrote three episodes for the second season of Skinwriting, he admits that writing for radio allowed him to push the boundaries in his approach to his writing, it was not easy given the small time frame in comparison to writing for theatre. He talks about the episode he wrote, with Justine Murray.
Both writers are in Wellington to perform and oversee the Ahi Kaa Festival that begins on June 9th until July 11. Dance troupe White Face Crew, The Modern Māori Quartet and plays from Aroha White, Briar Grace-Smith, Jamie McCaskill and Hone Kouka will feature as part of the line-up. Both Jamie and Miria talk discuss the inaugural festival.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: drama, Miria George, Jamie McCaskill, Skin Writing
Duration: 20'31"
19:05
Looking for Love
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This week on One in Five: One man's long quest for love. American artist and writer David Matthews spent years sticking quirky personal ads on lamp posts. It brought him some dates but nothing that lasted. Undeterred, he took his story to a film maker, Julie Sokolow. The result was "Aspie Seeks Love", an award winning documentary in which David Matthews discusses his diagnosis of Aspergers Syndrome and shares the ups and downs of dating. He and Julie talk to Katy Gosset about the film making journey.
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David Matthews in his childhood home. Photo courtesy Aspie Seeks Love
"I've been looking for love for a very, very long time."
Forty-something American artist and writer, David Matthews is probably not alone in his quest for a partner in life. But not everyone gets a film made about their search. David is the star of Aspie Seeks Love, a documentary that follows his romantic adventures as he looks back at years of personal ads and starts to dabble in Internet dating. The film, by Julie Sokolow, also delves into his diagnosis of Aspergers Syndrome at the age of 41.
David says, over the years, he's had "severe difficulties" in meeting members of the opposite sex due to his personality and appearance. "I'm not the Adonis type, to say the least." He also says his voice has an "affectless" quality. "I talk like Bullwinkle (an animated 1960s TV character) on barbiturates." And he says others have told him he has a "robotic affect". "A woman with whom I once tried to form a relationship called me "a friendly robot" after hearing my voice."
David also believes some woman are turned off by his "not exactly hip" interests such as alternative comics, thrift store records and vintage educational films. He says these days like-minded people can easily find each other on the Internet but he grew up in the pre-cyber era. "I had to make personal contact with people at parties, art galleries and clubs and that proved difficult for me, due to my shyness."
As part of his search for a possible partner, David spent years writing personal ads in the form of fliers that he posted on lamp posts around his home town of Pittsburgh. He says these posters gained some attention but nothing that lasted. "Due to the way I presented myself, a good portion of the women can't get past my so-called geekiness"
His next step was to email a film director, Julie Sokolow, and suggest she make a movie about him to impress a woman he wanted to date. As it turned out, the woman wasn't interested but Julie Sokolow decided to take up the film project.
A Really Cool Moment
– That's how Julie Sokolow describes receiving that first email from David. She had seen him around town and thought him a stylish and intriguing figure so she agreed to meet him for a coffee. She says she still has that first tape-recorded interview and holds it "pretty dear". "I can just hear myself cracking up with every other line he says. He's just so witty and that really told me to make the film about him."
Director Julie Sokolow with David Matthews. Photo courtesy Aspie Seeks Love
The pair spent the next few years filming David's romantic endeavours including his ventures into Internet dating. "One of [...] people's favourite scenes in the film is watching David create an on-line dating profile."
The project has been well received and was judged Best Documentary Feature Film at both the Omaha and Cinequest Film Festivals. But Julie's goals for the documentary are simple. "If people just get exposed to David and his work through this, that's great. And if people come out with an understanding of [...] people on the spectrum or a new appreciation and empathy for that experience, that's all we could ever ask for."
My Own Unique Person
David Matthews also hopes to educate others that people who have Aspergers or are on the Autism spectrum have the same desires, needs and aspirations as "so-called neuro-typicals". "Just because I do not express emotions doesn't mean I do not feel emotions." He says he experiences emotions that are different from what neuro-typical people feel. "Throughout my past few years I've felt sadness and happiness and romantic desperation in my own inimitable way."
And he says, while he sometimes uses the term "aspie" to describe himself, his neurological condition is separate from who he is. "I am not Aspergers. In other words, I am my own unique person. I am David Matthews."
David Matthews goes on a date. Photo courtesy Aspie Seeks Love
As for the burning question: has David found love? He says people will have to watch the documentary to find out but teases with this comment: "Let's just say my dating life has turned out rather well."
People wanting to view the film can host screenings in their areas by visiting the producer's page on Tugg.
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Topics: disability
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Tags: Aspergers Syndrome, film making, documentary, dating, perceptions, USA
Duration: 26'13"
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4:07 The Sunday Feature: A Brief History of Anger
Spats, tantrums, explosions and the occasional childish moment caught on microphone from the archive. American satirist Joe Queenan looks into the history of anger.
With contributions from Christopher Hitchens, Conrad Black, Russell Crowe, Joan Rivers, Joan Bakewell, and Johnny Cash. Plus, interviews with John Sergeant, Natalie Haynes and Matthew Parris, and a running commentary of anger from the presenter himself. (BBCWS)
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)
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NZ stories from the past (RNZ)
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Sounds Historical Hour One - 7 June 2015
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Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic and often remarkable events of New Zealand's past.
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Duration: 54'06"
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Sounds Historical Hour Two - 7 June 2015
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Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past.
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Duration: 56'38"
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8:09 Today in New Zealand History 4’01"
First Rhodes Scholar chosen: James Allan Thomson of Otago University, 7 June 1904
8:14 Artist: Addington Workshops Band (Drum major R L Troon gives the ‘Quick March’ conducted by Mervyn Waters) 3’20”
Song: Colonel Bogey
Composer: Alford
Album: Marching Along
Label: Fidelity FR 114
Founded in 1883 and funded by a levy on all employees and made up of workshop employees, the band was formed to feature at picnics and other social events. Surviving a recess, two world wars and several name changes, Addington Brass is still an integral part of the Christchurch community. With the addition of a junior brass academy the future of the band is now looking better than ever.
8:18 I Hope They Never Put the Road In 15’16”
Extracts from a 1973 Spectrum documentary in which Peter Kingston talks to landholders in Pelorous Sound about their way of life.
8:34 Artist: Uncle Tom’s Friendly Road Children’s Choir (1962) 1’59”
Song: The Lord’s Prayer
Composer: Tom Garland
Album: Thanks Be to God
Label: Kiwi EA 71
8:37 The Antony Wilding Story – Updated 11’05”
In the last two episodes of Sounds Historical we’ve listened to a1960 documentary about the life of New Zealand’s most famous tennis player, Antony Wilding who was killed in action in May 1915. Since then his story has been told several times and even today his life continues to be researched. His great-niece, actress Anna Wilding, discusses today’s efforts to have his life story told.
8:49 Artist: Dunstan Trio (Roy Harbour, Graeme Anderson and Stewart Clark) 2’25”
Song: Winter in Central Otago
Composer: Words of David McKee Wright/Dunstan Trio
Album: Dunstan Trio
Label: Broadway (Dunedin)
WINTER IN CENTRAL OTAGO
Wild winter on the frozen hills,
The rocky peaks, the ice-bound rills,
The lowering red of early morning,
The even with its misty chills.
The feathery snowflakes earthward flying,
The wintry sunbeams faintly dying,
The icy fingers in the gorges,
The harsh-voiced birds on low wing crying.
Below, the mist-enshrouded plain,
The winds that wail like men in pain;
Beyond, the everlasting mountains,
The glacier and the wild moraine.
Aspiring’s peak that cleaves the sky,
The western range where sunsets die,
The distant Clutha's shadowy valley,
The eastward Taieri winding nigh.
Without, the stormy winter night;
Within, the peat-fire leaping bright,
Tobacco incense softly curling,
The play of wit and fancy light.
Ah, who would give such joys as these
for sunny summer’s dusty breeze?
While loud and long the tempest thunders,
And every pleasure knows to please.
David McKee Wright
Puketoi, 15 June 1895 – The Bulletin 27 June 1895
8:52 War Report 39 6’54"
By the end of May about 230 New Zealanders had lost their lives at Gallipoli and 40 or so men were reported missing. The armistice near the end of May had been the only opportunity to deal with the bodies in no man’s land. Memories of Bill East from Havelock and Russell Weir of the Wellington Regiment who were there and at Quinn’s Post in early June. An extract from a documentary “Voices of Gallipoli” by Maurice Shadbolt.
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Artist: John McCormack
Song: There’s a Long Long Trail A Winding
Composer: King/Elliott
Album: Oh, It’s a Lovely War Vol 2
Label: CD41 486309
9:04 As I Remember 5’37”
In Service at Ngaiotonga by Robin Shepherd of Kaitaia. Read by Phil Smith.
9:11 Artist: Tim Finn and the Herbs 4’08”
Song: Parihaka
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Album: Parihaka
Label: EMI 870
"Parihaka'" is a single by New Zealand singer/songwriter Tim Finn featuring Herbs, released in 1989. The song tells the story of the Taranaki Parihaka peaceful protests. Finn was given a book on the topic (Dick Scott's Ask That Mountain) by his sister and asked to write a song about it.
9:16 Where are they now? Milk Delivery boys 1’47”
Home milk delivery seems to have stopped in the mid-1990s. Is it finished entirely? Home deliveries began again in part of Invercargill in 2009 but have they lasted?
From April 1989 Dunedin milk delivery boy, Simon Barr talks to Janice Rodenburg about the results of award talks for the delivery workers. He says the young people who have taken part in the talks are pleased with the results and that it has been an interesting experience for them.
9:20 Artist: Standard Four Pupils at Mt Roskill Primary School, Auckland (with teacher John Tremewan) 3’31”
Song: Puff
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Label: Kiwi SA 35 (1963)
A group of children from Mount Roskill Primary School trained by John Tremewan. Monte Hine plays the guitar accompaniment. "Little Folksingers" were founded in 1961 by John Tremewan and in 1966 the group, 32 school girls aged between 10 and 13, landed a five-year contract with recording company HMV.
9:24 The Weka Pass Railway 18’22"
Jim Sullivan spends an afternoon with Les Dew and Harry Henderson of the steam railway in Weka Pass in North Canterbury in 2001.
9:43 Artist: Walter Sinton (xylophone), Margaret Gardiner (piano) 2’10”
Song: Now is the Hour
Composer: Clement Scott (music) and Maewa Kaihau & Dorothy Stewart (arrangement and lyrics).
Album: Xylophone Frolics
Label Viking VE 177 (1965)
9:47 Book of the Week 10’50”
Before Hobson by Tony Simpson. Tony Simpson discusses his new book which examines pre-Waitangi New Zealand history. Blythswood Press, ISBN 978 0 473 31284 8
===10:12 PM. | Mediawatch===
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Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)