A 24-hour recording of Radio New Zealand National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
26 July 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 The Cave, by A P Gaskell, read by Martyn Sanderson (RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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Marko and the Golden Fleece, by David Somerset, told by Dick Weir; To The Dump!, by Sharon Whillis, told by Kelson Henderson; Kapai goes White Water Rafting, by Uncle Anzac, told by Pio Terei; Jack's Birthday, by Norman Bilbrough, told by Brian Sergent; The Choosing Day, by Jennifer Beck, told by Ginette McDonald; Hohepa's Goodbye, by Kingi McKinnon, told by Willie Davis; Suzie, by David Somerset, told by Donna Akersten; Fishing with Spiderwebs, by Lina Nelisi, told by Tausili Mose; Peer Gynt and the Trolls, by David Somerset, told by Peter Vere-Jones; Eddie Hakaraia, written and told by Eliza Bidois; The Six Brothers, by Dorothy Butler, told by Megan Edward; Back Seat Brigade, by Janice Marriott, told by Paul Harrop
===7:08 AM. | Sunday Morning===
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A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, documentaries, sport from the outfield, music and including: 7:43 The Week in Parliament: An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house (RNZ) 8:10 Insight: An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ) 9:06 Mediawatch: Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)
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07:12
Who are SERCO?
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The issue of privatized prisons has once again come into the fore with the emergence over the last week of a series of videos showing inmates participating in organized fight clubs, smoking drugs, and allegations of extortion and rape in the SERCO run Mt Eden prison. Antony Lowenstein is an independent journalist based in South Sudan, a Guardian columnist, and author of the forthcoming book, Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out of Catastrophe. So who are SERCO - they deal in security, but what else do they deal in?
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The issue of privatized prisons has come to the fore over the past week after a series of videos showing inmates participating in organized fight clubs, smoking drugs, and allegations of extortion and rape in the SERCO run Mt Eden prison.
Antony Lowenstein is an independent journalist based in South Sudan, a Guardian columnist, and author of the forthcoming book, Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out of Catastrophe. He talks to Wallace Chapman about who SERCO are - they deal in security, but what else do they do?
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Tags: Serco, private prisons, prison
Duration: 10'19"
07:20
Prospects bleak for Nauru and Manus Island refugees
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Since 2013, any unauthorised maritime arrival entering Australian waters is sent to Manus Island or Nauru, for processing and resettlement in a participating regional state but not Australia. While processing moves at a glacial pace, those already found to be refugees still face uncertainty, abuse and difficult conditions.
Topics: Pacific
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Tags: Nauru, Manus
Duration: 3'39"
07:25
The National Party annual conference
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The National Party's annual conference is on in Auckland this weekend and housing, the economy, and the problems at Mt Eden Prison have all featured.
Topics: politics
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Tags: National Party
Duration: 6'46"
07:30
The Week in Parliament for 26 July 2015
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Photo finishes for a number of Members' Bills; Snap debate on problems at Mt Eden Prison; Urgency accorded for road speed limits fix; Questions about foreign property investor register; Submissions on Taxation (Land Information and Offshore Persons Information) Bill; Auditor General's report on Whanau Ora presented; Justice & Electoral Committee begins inquiry into 2014 election; Rafael Gonzalez Montero appointed Deputy Clerk; MPs mark 150th years of Wellington as Capital City, about which we speak with Parliamentary Historian John Martin.
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Duration: 14'42"
07:46
The price of life calculator
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How much is a life worth? Can we put a price on the most precious commodity of them all? In country with a publicly funded health system, society has to do just that. A group of public health researchers at Otago Medical School have developed an on-line calculator to help decide how much society should pay for life saving interventions. Sunday producer Jeremy Rose talked with Otago Medical School's Professor Tony Blakely and associate professor Nick Wilson.
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Professor Tony Blakely and Associate Professor Nick Wilson with the online health calculator. Photo RNZ/Jeremy Rose.
How much is a life worth? Can we put a price on the most precious commodity of them all? In country with a publicly funded health system, society has to do just that. A group of public health researchers at Otago Medical School have developed an on-line calculator to help decide how much society should pay for life saving interventions.
Sunday producer Jeremy Rose talked with Otago Medical School's Professor Tony Blakely and associate professor Nick Wilson.
Topics: life and society, health
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Tags: death, public health, health funding
Duration: 12'47"
08:12
Insight for 26 July 2015 - Power Struggle - Nuclear & Japan
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Cushla Norman reports from Japan on the reopening of nuclear power plants 2 years after the Fukushima meltdown post the tsunami
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By Cushla Norman
Japan is about to flick the switch back to nuclear power despite widespread opposition from a public still grappling with Fukushima, the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Listen to Insight: Power struggle - Japan's Nuclear Comeback
All of the country's 54 nuclear power plants were gradually shut down after a 15 metre tsunami, triggered by a magnitude 9 earthquake, smashed into the Fukushima Daiichi plant causing three reactors to melt down on 11 March, 2011.
The Sendai plant on Kyushu, Japan's third largest island, was the first to get the green light to restart under stricter safety regulations. It has finished refueling its number one reactor, which is expected to fire up in mid-August, and the number two reactor is due to start in October.
Before the disaster, nuclear energy accounted for about 30 percent of Japan's electricity generation, but since September 2013, when the last power plant was turned off, it has been zero. In the absence of nuclear power, Japan's utilities have ramped up the amount of gas, coal and oil they import from overseas. The Federation of Electric Power Companies, a consortium for Japan's 10 largest power producers, says the country relies on imports for 96 percent of its primary energy supply; and even if nuclear power is in the mix, dependency is still at 82 percent.
The Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, a pro-nuclear lobby group, said the increase in fossil fuel use was costing the country and the environment. The imports are costing an extra 3.7 trillion yen ($NZ45 billion) a year, leading to a 20 percent jump in power bills for households and a 30 percent increase for businesses. Furthermore, annual carbon emissions have also risen by an additional 10 percent, it said.
The environment and economics are routinely cited by nuclear power proponents as reasons for Japan getting its idle power plants back up and running. However, the catastrophe that was Fukushima still lingers in the minds of many.
The disaster displaced 120,000 people - "nuclear refugees", who now live in temporary housing. Mueno Kanno, a farmer from Iitate Village, which is part of the evacuated zone, is unsure whether he will ever return home. "The nuclear accident inflicted huge psychological damage on us. Even if we think we're physically healthy, we are not so mentally," he said.
Dr Masaharu Tsubokura, a haematologist in Minamisoma, 23km away from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, says the disaster has caused more psychological than physical harm.
He has screened about 100,000 people over four years and in 99 percent of children and 97 percent of adults found no cesium, a radioactive substance that is one of the main sources of internal radiation exposure. He says well-managed food control helped to stop radiation exposure from reaching chronic levels.
Dr Tsubokura says he is not able to tell if there's been a spike in the incidence of cancer following the disaster because there isn't reliable data, but he doesn't think the people of Fukushima are at a higher risk of developing the disease.
Having witnessed the pain a nuclear disaster causes, Dr Tsubokura is personally against the energy source. However, he does acknowledge the good it has done in providing jobs in communities that otherwise had very little. "One old lady said, 'without nuclear power I couldn't send my son to university, without nuclear power I couldn't give food to my sons and daughters'. But without nuclear power many people will lose jobs and the social structure will change dramatically. That will kill many people, too many people," Dr Tsubokura added.
The Fukushima crisis has been estimated to have cost the Japanese government 11 to 12 trillion yen. A chunk of that money has been spent on decontamination work - scraping the top layer of soil off the land and replacing it with fresh sand. Japan's environment ministry is aiming to decontaminate about 25,000 hectares of land across the 11 municipalities it ordered to evacuate. The problem for the government is where to store the contaminated material.
At the moment, massive 1- 2 tonne black bags of the waste sit in piles all over the Fukushima countryside. An intermediate storage facility near the Daiichi plant is being planned, but the bags can only stay there for 30 years. Where they go after that is a mystery, but the government has promised the people of Fukushima they won't stay in their prefecture forever.
Tougher safety standards have been introduced since the disaster, such as seismic strengthening and higher sea walls. However, this isn't enough for the anti-nuclear group, Citizens' Nuclear Information Center, which is supporting residents living near power plants to challenge them in court. The group's secretary-general, Ban Hideyuki, says lawsuits will be filed against the restart of all of Japan's 43 operable power plants.
Getting approval for the first reactors at the Sendai plant on Kyushu to go back online hasn't been easy for the plant's operators, Kyushu Electric. The restart was subject to legal action by locals wanting an injunction, which was declined by a judge. However it was a different story for the Takahama plant in Fukui Prefecture, western Japan, where the court ruled in favour of the residents.
The Japanese government's target is for nuclear power to generate 20 - 22 percent of the country's energy supply by 2030. However, with dozens of lawsuits in the pipeline, that goal could be in jeopardy.
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Topics: energy
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Tags: nuclear power, protest, electricity
Duration: 28'14"
08:40
Sean McKenna in Brazil
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This week the craft beer company Moa announced it was shipping 200,000 bottles to Brazil. So how is the craft beer scene in South America's largest country? Former Radio New Zealand producer Sean McKenna fills us in on that and life in general in South America's biggest country.
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Tags: Brazil
Duration: 13'53"
09:10
Mediawatch for 26 July 2015
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How a scary story about an imminent ice age went round the world recently, even though most experts said it was nonsense. Also: how journalists have more in common with cops than they might like to think; people being angry ending up on the evening news; changing the tune on our trains. Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
Topics: media
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Tags: ice age, Phil Rudd, cooked up, Auckland housing
Duration: 30'46"
09:40
Sarah Leberman - Smashing the Glass Ceiling
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Professor Sarah Leberman is the creator of Massey University's Young Women's Leadership Programme, which aims to empower female high school students and teach them how to be leaders in sport and in work.
Topics: life and society, education
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Tags: women, employment, environmental leadership, gender equality, pay equity
Duration: 17'00"
10:08
Bianca Zander - The Author Down Under
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Novelist Bianca Zander joins Wallace to talk about her novel, The Predictions. Bianca Zander teaches creative writing at Auckland University of Technology and is a recipient of the Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson New Writers' Bursary and the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship.
Topics: books, author interview
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Tags: Bianca Zander
Duration: 15'50"
10:30
Tim Aspinall and Paul Hamilton - Margarine Sculptures
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Paul Aspinall, an award winning margarine sculptor, and AUT chef lecturer Paul Hamilton tell us about the history and craft of margarine sculpting. Popular in the 1970s and '80s the sculptures, which are often kitsch and always inedible, appear to be making a comeback with a display planned for next week's NZ Chef National Salon.
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Paul Aspinall, an award winning margarine sculptor, and AUT chef lecturer Paul Hamilton tell Wallace Chapman about the history and craft of margarine sculpting. Popular in the 1970s and '80s the sculptures, which are often kitsch and always inedible, appear to be making a comeback with a display planned for next week's NZ Chef National Salon.
Topics: arts, food
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Tags: margarine, Valentines
Duration: 21'22"
10:50
Otis Frizzell - Un Chico Suerte
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Otis Frizell, the co-owner of The Lucky Taco which won Expedia 2013's Best Food Truck award, is just back from research trip to Mexico where he's been checking out the street food and culture that inspired his business.
Topics: food
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Tags: Mexican food, Expedia
Duration: 8'51"
11:05
Lucy Sussex - Crime Blockbuster
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New Zealand-born Lucy Sussex has written Blockbuster!, the story of Fergus Hume and his book 'The Mystery of a Hansom Cab ', the biggest and fastest-selling detective novel of the 1800s and Australia's first literary blockbuster. Hume sold the copyright for just 50 pounds, missing out on a fortune when the book became a run-away success and later helped to define the genre of crime fiction.
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New Zealand-born Lucy Sussex has written Blockbuster! the story of Fergus Hume and his book, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab - the biggest and fastest-selling detective novel of the 1800s and Australia's first literary blockbuster.
Hume sold the copyright for just 50 pounds, missing out on a fortune when the book became a run-away success and later helped to define the genre of crime fiction.
Topics: books, author interview
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Tags: Lucy Sussex, crime writing
Duration: 23'53"
11:35
Sam Brower - Prophet's Prey
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Sam Brower worked for seven years to crack open the secretive world of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). His work led to the arrest and conviction of prophet Warren Jeffs, who is currently serving a life sentence plus 20 years in a Texas prison for child sexual assault. His book, Prophet's Prey, detailing the investigation, has been made into a documentary of the same name, with music and narration by Nick Cave. It is screening at the NZ International Film Festival.
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Sam Brower worked for seven years to crack open the secretive world of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS).
His work led to the arrest and conviction of prophet Warren Jeffs, who is currently serving a life sentence plus 20 years in a Texas prison for child sexual assault.
Brower's book, Prophet's Prey, detailing the investigation, has been made into a documentary of the same name, with music and narration by Nick Cave. It is screening at the NZ International Film Festival.
Sam Brower talks to Wallace Chapman about his work.
Topics: arts
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Tags: film, NZIFF, Prophet's Prey, Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, Nick Cave, Warren Jeffs, polygamy, child abuse
Duration: 23'20"
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7:08 Current affairs: Author Antony Lowenstein on private prison operator SERCO; a calculator that helps puts a price on life; RNZI update on the plight of refugees processed at Manus and Nauru; RNZ political editor Brent Edwards live from the National Party’s annual conference; and This Week in Parliament.
8:12 Insight Power struggle: Japan's nuclear comeback
Japan is preparing for a return to nuclear power production next month, four years after the earthquake and tsunami that led to the meltdown of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. But there is strong opposition to the reopening of Japan's nuclear power plants, which were all gradually shut down after the disaster for safety upgrades. As Cushla Norman reports from Tokyo, the restarts are unpopular with a public still grappling with the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Produced by Philippa Tolley.
8:40 Sean McKenna – Brazil: Beer, Beats and Corruption
Sean McKenna is a former Radio New Zealand producer and music critic. He’s currently in Brazil and has been sampling local beers, music and keeping an eye on the corruption scandals threatening to bring down the government.
9:06 Mediawatch
On Mediawatch: how a scary story about an imminent ice age went round the world recently even though most experts said it was nonsense. Also: how journalists have more in common with cops than they might like to think; people being angry ending up on the evening news; changing the tune on our trains
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Sarah Leberman – Smashing the Glass Ceiling
Professor Sarah Leberman is the creator of Massey University’s Young Women's Leadership Programme which aims to empower female high school students and teach them how to be leaders in sport and in work.
10:06 Bianca Zander – The Author Down Under
Novelist Bianca Zander joins Wallace to talk about her novel, The Predictions. Bianca Zander teaches creative writing at Auckland University of Technology and is a recipient of the Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson New Writers' Bursary and the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship.
10:21 Tim Aspinall and Paul Hamilton - Margarine Sculptures
Paul Aspinall, an award winning margarine sculptor, and AUT chef lecturer Paul Hamilton tell us about the history and craft of margarine sculpting. Popular in the 1970s and ‘80s the sculptures – which are often kitsch and always inedible – appear to be making a comeback with a display planned for next week’s NZ Chef National Salon.
10:48 Otis Frizell – Un Chico Suerte
Otis Frizell, the co-owner of The Lucky Taco which won Expedia 2013’s Best Food Truck award, is just back from research trip to Mexico where he’s been checking out the street food and culture that inspired his business.
11:06 Lucy Sussex - Crime Blockbuster
New Zealand-born Lucy Sussex has written Blockbuster! the story of Fergus Hume and his book, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab - the biggest and fastest-selling detective novel of the 1800s and Australia's first literary blockbuster. Hume sold the copyright for just 50 pounds, missing out on a fortune when the book became a run-away success and later helped to define the genre of crime fiction.
11:35 Sam Brower - Prophet's Prey
Sam Brower worked for seven years to crack open the secretive world of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). His work led to the arrest and conviction of prophet Warren Jeffs, who is currently serving a life sentence plus 20 years in a Texas prison for child sexual assault. His book, Prophet's Prey, detailing the investigation, has been made into a documentary of the same name, with music and narration by Nick Cave. It is screening at the NZ International Film Festival.
===12:12 PM. | Spectrum===
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12:10
Carpentry and Camaraderie
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They come for the carpentry and the mateship, and along the way they're restoring an Whangarei landmark.
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"This building is going to be restored back to its original glory."
– Jeff Griggs,Whangarei Men's Shed
She’s a bit down at heel, Whangarei’s old railway station building. But if a bunch of keen retired handymen have their way, she’ll be all sparkling again one day. The Whangarei Men’s Shed bought the big 1925 building for just a dollar last year from the local council. They plan to restore the building’s exterior, but revamp the inside for their own use.They have to raise about 1.1million dollars to do it all but it seems like the blokes are all as keen as mustard.
The Railway Station was officially opened on 11th March 1925 by the Minister of Railways and future Prime Minister Gordon Coates. It marked the joining of Whangarei and its isolated regional rail lines north, to the main trunk line running south to Auckland. The station cost about nine thousand pounds and was designed by architect George Troup who famously designed Dunedin’s station.
At 600 square metres, the station’s size reflected the status of Whangarei as Northland’s most important town. But by the second half of the 20th century, rail use was being eroded by road and air transport. Passenger trains stopped coming to Whangarei in 1977, and the building was bought by the local City Council in the 1990’s. Since then its use has been patchy and its beauty has faded. The Whangarei Men’s Shed Club plans to change all that.
There are about 900-Mens Sheds in Australia, and fifty or so in New Zealand.The Men’s Shed movement began as a place for retired men to do their carpentry and metal working, when they no longer had room in their downsized homes. They come for the carpentry but stay for the camaraderie. A Whangarei health professional is already studying the health benefits of the weekly get togethers.
"The company of the guys, its great. That's why I come."
– Alf, 84
The average age of the Whangarei men’s shed is about seventy, and one of the founders Jeff Griggs says members have an amazing array of talents, including fund raising, particularly vital for future plans. Jeff says the building has been saved from demolition because of its Grade two listing with Heritage New Zealand.
Jeff says the Whangarei City Council was quite apologetic about the state of the building when it showed the Men’s Shed people through. Water poured through the ceilings and there was lots of mould. But he says his members could only see great potential. Council did urgent and expensive repairs to the roof but members have paid for repairs to plumbing and electrical wiring.
Eventually the building will include a carpentry workshop, metal shop, model room, and lunch room. Member Duncan Sutherland says the rest of the building will be leased to other businesses to improve cash flow.
Men’s Shed members plan to do as much of the building and restoration work as they physically can.They reckon it'll take them at least three years and possibly ten!
Topics: life and society, health
Regions: Northland
Tags: Whangarei Men’s Shed, Whangarei City Council, New Zealand Railways, Lotteries World War One Environment and Heritage Fund, Lotteries Community Facilities Fund, Foundation North
Duration: 23'03"
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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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12:40
Getting a fair cut
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It's a sore point with many visual artists - that they don't get a cut at each time one of their works is sold. Nothing is likely to happen legally any time soon to change that. But a new art business in Auckland believes living artists are entitled to resale royalties so it's going to offer them voluntarily. Simon Bowerbank and Charles Ninow of Bowerbank Ninow explain how and why they're going to offer living artists 2.5% of the hammer price of their art works.
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Charles Ninow and Simon Bowerbank.
It's a sore point with many visual artists – that they don't get a cut at each time one of their works is sold.
Nothing is likely to happen legally any time soon to change that. But a new art business in Auckland believes living artists are entitled to resale royalties so it's going to offer them voluntarily.
Simon Bowerbank and Charles Ninow of Bowerbank Ninow explain how and why they’re going to offer living artists 2.5 percent of the hammer price of their art works.
Topics: arts
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: visual art, royalties, auction, Bowerbank Ninow
Duration: 8'08"
12:50
Little Criminals
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The way many New Zealand children in state care were abused and victimised is explored in a new TV documentary inspired by the memoir of writer David Cohen. Writer and producer David White read David Cohen's book Little Criminals and was so moved and outraged that he made the documentary about three men who spent time as youngsters at the now notorious Epuni Boys' Home. Little Criminals screens on Prime TV.
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The way many New Zealand children in state care were abused and victimised is explored in a new TV documentary inspired by the memoir of writer David Cohen. Writer and producer David White read David Cohen’s book Little Criminals and was so moved and outraged that he made the documentary about three men who spent time as youngsters at the now notorious Epuni Boys' Home.
Little Criminals screens on Prime this Tuesday night.
Topics: arts, crime
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: television, documentary, prison
Duration: 12'11"
13:34
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
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Arts patron Peggy Guggenheim bequeathed her art-filled home in Venice to the city when she died, leaving it in the hands of a trust to manage. It's now the city's second biggest tourist attractions, and its Picassos, Manet's and Pollock's offer an alternative to the classical art and architecture that Venice is famous for. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection's Director, Philip Rylands, talks about the art and the extraordinary woman behind it.
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Arts patron Peggy Guggenheim bequeathed her art-filled home in Venice to the city when she died, leaving it in the hands of a trust to manage. It's now the city's second biggest tourist attractions, and its Picassos, Manets and Pollocks offer an alternative to the classical art and architecture that Venice is famous for. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection's Director, Philip Rylands, talks about the art and the extraordinary woman behind it.
Topics: arts
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Tags: Venice, Guggenheim, gallery
Duration: 10'37"
13:47
Coming together on the Tex-Mex border
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Turner Ross and his brother Bill create lo-fi documentaries documenting little-heard but uniquely American stories. Turner Ross told Shaun D Wilson about their non-fiction take on the western genre, set in two towns on either side of the Texan and Mexican border. Two of The Ross Brothers films, Western and Tchoupitoulas are both showing in the New Zealand International Film Festival.
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Turner Ross and his brother Bill create lo-fi documentaries documenting little-heard but uniquely American stories. Turner Ross told Shaun D Wilson about their non-fiction take on the western genre, set in two towns on either side of the Texan and Mexican border. Two of The Ross Brothers films, Western and Tchoupitoulas are both showing in the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Topics: arts
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Tags: NZIFF, The Ross Brothers, film, documentary, Texas, Mexico, New Orleans
Duration: 8'22"
14:27
The Wrecking Crew
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A documentary about the loose group of Hollywood musos nicknamed The Wrecking Crew. The son of Tommy Tedesco, one of these legendary session musicians, has made a film about them, which is about to play at the International Film Festival. Simon Morris speaks to Donny Todesco about The Wrecking Crew which is playing at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
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A documentary about the loose group of Hollywood musos nicknamed "The Wrecking Crew". The son of Tommy Tedesco, one of these legendary session musicians, has made a film about them, which is about to play at the International Film Festival.
Simon Morris speaks to Donny Todesco about The Wrecking Crew which is playing at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Topics: music
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Tags: The Wrecking Crew, Los Angeles, Hal Blaine, Glenn Campbell, Tommy Tedesco, Phil Spector, NZIFF
Duration: 11'50"
14:38
Frankenstein
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Frankenstein fans are in for a double treat next month. New Zealand gets its premiere of a London National Theatre production of the horror story, and a film starring James MacAvoy is coming out. Centrepoint theatre in Palmerston North is marking its 41st year by undertaking its most ambitious production yet. This version of Frankenstein starred actor of the moment Benedict Cumberbatch when it was on stage then filmed. Karlos Drinkwater is playing Frankenstein's creation and says around two hundred years on from Mary Shelley writing the book, its themes are absolutely current.
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Photo by Alexander Hallag
Frankenstein fans are in for a double treat next month. New Zealand gets its premiere of a London National Theatre production of the horror story, and a film starring James MacAvoy is coming out. Centrepoint theatre in Palmerston North is marking its 41st year by undertaking its most ambitious production yet. This version of Frankenstein starred actor of the moment Benedict Cumberbatch when it was on stage then filmed.
Karlos Drinkwater is playing Frankenstein's creation and says around two hundred years on from Mary Shelley writing the book, its themes are absolutely current.
Topics: arts
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: theatre, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, acting
Duration: 6'19"
14:47
Louise Potiki Bryant and Paddy Free: In Transit
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To be a married couple who are also both artists is to constantly skip between the everyday and the ephemeral. Choreographer Louise Potiki Bryant and musician Paddy Free know that better than most and have put that line between the divine and the mundane at the heart of their new work, In Transit, one of three dances in Lumina, the New Zealand Dance Company's upcoming season of new works. Justin Gregory goes to Louise and Paddy's home to meet them and to talk about how you do art while also doing the dishes.
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To be a married couple who are also both artists is to constantly skip between the everyday and the ephemeral. Choreographer Louise Potiki Bryant and musician Paddy Free know that better than most and have put that line between the divine and the mundane at the heart of their new work, In Transit, one of three dances in Lumina, the New Zealand Dance Company’s upcoming season of new works. Justin Gregory goes to Louise and Paddy’s home to meet them and to talk about how you do art while also doing the dishes.
You can talk about really deep ideas but you still have to take the trash out.
Art can come from some odd places. It was a broken clothes dryer and the awful sound it would make when turned on that provided the musical inspiration for In Transit. How does a dryer inspire a dance soundtrack? Let Louise tell you.
"We had to get rid of (our) dryer because it died. It had a really good clunky sound and that's probably why it did die."
"It was making these groaning noises, along with smoke..." adds Paddy.
"So I got Paddy to record the dryer.."
"...and then I processed it, put it through a bunch of algorithms that repitched it randomly...and that's formed the backbone of the soundtrack."
"Yeah," says Louise "I was interested in mundane sounds that might make beautiful music."
Mundane – common, ordinary, banal or unimaginative. Not really words you can apply to people who find music in broken household appliances. Mundane can also means a focus on worldly issues rather than heavenly ones. And it was in one of the most earthbound –and most mundane - of all places that the inspiration for this show first struck Louise.
I was sitting in an airport in Singapore and just thinking about being in transit, between time zones and I started to think about how life could be seen as a continuous series of transitions.
Louise argues that within certain cultural practices there is always transition from one state to another; through the ritual of powhiri, manuhiri become tangata whenua. But within any ritual there is also a midpoint of being neither one thing nor the other, a liminal state of ambiguity before the transition is complete. Louise points out that Te Kore, the Māori concept of the void or of a world beyond this one, is also a place of potential, where non-being can become being.
"When you double up the idea of Te Korekore it (is) so nothing that it becomes something. I find it quite easy myself as a dancer to work in that in-between space."
But Louise is not working by herself. She has a team of dancers and, maybe more to the point, a husband to collaborate with. When your working life so obviously overlaps with your home life, do you need to put any kind of rules in place to make sure it all balances out? No, apparently. It’s that mix of the divine and the mundane again. Louise says that while the couple set aside time in their working day to collaborate and plan, it is often when they are engaged in ordinary, everyday tasks like doing the dishes that ideas spring up. But do they feel a need to please or impress each other with the quality of their work and ideas? Both say yes.
"We ask each other what..."begins Paddy.
"I value Paddy's opinion very highly," interrupts Louise, hilariously. "He's very honest, and sometimes I can take that a bit personally. But I like that he's honest and he'll give me the most critical opinion out of anyone."
Is that an easy thing for Paddy to do? He splutters a bit then responds.
"Sometimes, sometimes not. If I love something or if I've got reservations and I dance around the subject Lou can always tell. It cuts both ways. We're usually pretty good. Even if we can just say what's not happening yet without knowing how to fix the problem or what direction we want to move off into.'
Or not move at all. The interesting problem in this work for Paddy as both composer and audio visual designer is to try to represent that moment of not moving, of being stuck. Because that’s not really how music works.
"Music is always about a journey from A to B. You start at one state and you end at another state. This one is actually a bit different because perhaps we are allowed to just hover a bit in limbo-land. That's a challenge for me because I'm usually wanting to deliver,deliver, deliver."
I think it's about choosing the rate of the pace of change. (Music) puts your mind in a state of setting up expectation and then surprising you. And it's when you get the correct balance of expectation and surprise that music is good.
The provocation for the overall Lumina season of works is to be at the intersection of contemporary light, sound and movement. It’s been a year since Louise and Paddy were last in a rehearsal room working with the New Zealand Dance Company and very soon they’ll go back there to see if they are still at that intersection. Louise is completely comfortable with the idea that they may not be; that the show may have traveled a bit from where it began. So is Paddy.
It's removing the blemishes until what you're left with doesn't offend in any way. When I'm listening to a piece that I'm working on, if it carries me away, beginning to end, and my conscious mind isn't engaged at any point, then I know the piece is finished.
So it seems like a year of dreaming over the dishes has seen the show move but not depart from its starting point. Hopefully all Louise and Paddy have to do now is tidy up the transit lounge before everyone arrives.
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Tags: dance, Pitch Black, choreography
Duration: 10'46"
=SHOW NOTES=
12:38 Getting a fair cut
It's a sore point with many visual artists – that they don't get a cut at each time one of their works is sold. Nothing is likely to happen legally any time soon to change that. But a new art business in Auckland believes living artists are entitled to resale royalties so it's going to offer them voluntarily. Simon Bowerbank and Charles Ninow of Bowerbank Ninow explain how and why they’re going to offer living artists 2.5 percent of the hammer price of their art works.
Charles Ninow and Simon Bowerbank
12:45 Little Criminals
The way many New Zealand children in state care were abused and victimised is explored in a new TV documentary inspired by the memoir of writer David Cohen. Writer and producer David White read David Cohen’s book Little Criminals and was so moved and outraged that he made the documentary about three men who spent time as youngsters at the now notorious Epuni Boys' Home. Little Criminals screens on Prime this Tuesday night.
1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris
Simon Morris looks at the new Marvel Comics movie, Ant-Man. He also talks to former Marvel villain, Sir Ben Kingsley, aka The Mandarin, about his new film Learning To Drive, and a career that has spanned Mahatma Gandhi, Ringo Starr and the Olsen Twins!
1:34 Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Arts patron Peggy Guggenheim bequeathed her art-filled home in Venice to the city when she died, leaving it in the hands of a trust to manage. It's now the city's second biggest tourist attractions, and its Picassos, Manet's and Pollock's offer an alternative to the classical art and architecture that Venice is famous for. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection's Director, Philip Rylands, talks about the art and the extraordinary woman behind it.
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1:45 Coming together on the Tex-Mex border
Turner Ross and his brother Bill create lo-fi documentaries documenting little-heard but uniquely American stories. Turner Ross told Shaun D Wilson about their non-fiction take on the western genre, set in two towns on either side of the Texan and Mexican border. Two of The Ross Brothers films, Western and Tchoupitoulas are both showing in the New Zealand International Film Festival.
[video] https://youtu.be/GE82qSIcmI0
2:05 The Laugh Track
Peter Feeney is that noble, if under-valued, thing – a jobbing actor. No job too big or too small, whether it's parts in big, overseas projects like Spartacus and Ash versus Evil Dead, or scene-stealing bits in Agent Anna and Auckland Daze. Peter has also written screenplays, he's a published author, and he teaches acting, while his one-man show A night with Beau Tyler toured 30 centres around the country.
He's about to star in another stage production Between two waves, and to make it more interesting, he's directing it as well. Between Two Waves opens at the Herald Theatre in Auckland on August the 4th.
2:26 The Wrecking Crew
A documentary about the loose group of Hollywood musos nicknamed "The Wrecking Crew". The son of Tommy Tedesco, one of these legendary session musicians, has made a film about them, which is about to play at the International Film Festival. Simon Morris speaks to Donny Todesco about The Wrecking Crew which is playing at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
2:38 Frankenstein
Frankenstein fans are in for a double treat next month. New Zealand gets its premiere of a London National Theatre production of the horror story, and a film starring James MacAvoy is coming out. Centrepoint theatre is marking its 41st year by undertaking its most ambitious production yet. This version of Frankenstein starred actor of the moment Benedict Cumberbatch when it was on stage then filmed.
Karlos Drinkwater is playing Frankenstein's creation for Centrepoint and says around two hundred years on from Mary Shelley writing the book, its themes are absolutely current. Frankenstein opens at Centrepoint theatre on the 7th of August in Palmerston North.
Photo by Alexander Hallag
2:49 Louise Potiki Bryant and Paddy Free: In Transit
To be a married couple who are also both artists is to constantly skip between the everyday and the ephemeral. Choreographer Louise Potiki Bryant and musician Paddy Free know that better than most and have put that line between the divine and the mundane at the heart of their new work, In Transit, one of three dances in Lumina, the New Zealand Dance Company’s upcoming season of new works. Justin Gregory goes to Louise and Paddy’s home to meet them and to talk about how you do art while also doing the dishes.
3:05 The Drama Hour
Stand Up Love by Gavin McGibbon.
Can love survive in the cynical world of stand-up comedy?
===4:06 PM. | None (National)===
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4:06 The Sunday Feature: You Call This Art?
Filmmakers, performance artists, musicians, actors, sculptors and writers explore their approach to creating art. In this edition, actor Cliff Curtis, musician and artist Phil Dadson and writer Damien Wilkins talk with host Justin Gregory improvisation versus preparation and debate the question of what artists owe to the place they come from. And historian Georgina White reveals Havelock North's unusual history of occult worship (F, RNZ)
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
Māori 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)
===8:06 PM. | Sounds Historical===
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NZ stories from the past (RNZ)
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20:05
Sounds Historical for 26 July 2015 (Part 1)
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Stories of yesteryear from around New Zealand
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Duration: 53'58"
21:05
Sounds Historical for 26 July 2015 (Part 2)
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Stories of yesteryear from around New Zealand
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Duration: 56'38"
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===10:12 PM. | Mediawatch===
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Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)
===11:04 PM. | None (National)===
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Bhangra: Bhangra music began as part of harvest celebrations in Punjab but today it is influencing music in dance clubs worldwide with hotbeds of Bhangra culture springing up all over the world: from Delhi to London to Vancouver to LA. Even if you don't think you know Bhangra, I guarantee you do. The light bulb dance move? That comes from Bhangra. Plus your body probably knows the feeling of hearing a dhol drum (hint - it's a feeling that says, move, dance!). This documentary features lots of great Bhangra music plus interviews with Canadian TV personality Monika Deol; early UK Bhangra stars Apna Sangeet and Heera Group; current Bhangra sensation Jazzy B; Vancouver's fast-rising Bhangra fusion group, Delhi 2 Dublin, and a behind-the-scenes look at the Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration Competition (F, CBC)