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:
02 August 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 Heart of Dafur, by Lisa French Blaker (7 of 12, RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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The Real Neat Soccer Team, by Norman Bilbrough, told by Brooke Williams; Boy at the Door, by Anthony Holcroft, told by Michael Haigh; Tame and Puti at the Beach, by Apirana Taylor, told by Peter Kaa; Boy at the Door, by Anthony Holcroft, told by Michael Haigh; Book Awards
===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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07:11
Trade minister says NZ couldn't have signed a trade deal
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New Zealand's trade minister says there is no way New Zealand could have signed a trade deal at the TPP talks in Hawaii without a proper breakthrough on dairy. Tim Groser's remarks follow the failure by 12 nations representing 40% of the world's economy to reach agreement on a trade deal for a big chunk of the Pacific Rim - in spite of four days of talks and months of preparatory work. Negotiators insist there WAS progress at the talks, but say agreement stalled over intellectual property rights, auto parts and three big agricultural items including the dairy industry.
Topics: economy, business, farming, politics
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Tags: TPP, trade
Duration: 5'07"
07:15
NZ trade envoy Mike Petersen on the TPP
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The TPP is the largest free trade agreement in history. Collectively the TPP economioes represent more than $27 trillion of GDP. It covers such diverse areas as investment rules, intellectual property protection and market access - for Mexico and Japans, the auto industry is imporant for us it is dairy. New Zealand's special agricultural trade envoy, Mike Petersen, is on Maui.
Topics: economy, business, farming, politics
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Tags: TPP, trade
Duration: 4'40"
07:20
Former US trade rep responds to TPP
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Clayton Yeutter, was the United States Trade Representative for the Reagan government and helped launch the Uruguay Round of global trade negotiations in the 1980s. He went on to serve as the US Agriculture Secretary and now works as an international trade adviser to the Washington DC firm Hogan Lovells, where his clients have included Fonterra.
Topics: economy, business, farming, politics
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Tags: TPP, trade
Duration: 6'31"
07:26
Labour Leader responds to TPP latest
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Leader of the Labour Andrew Little says how Labour would have managed the TPP.
Topics: economy, business, farming, politics
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Tags: TPP, trade, Andrew Little, Labour
Duration: 4'17"
07:30
The Week in Parliament for 2 August 2015
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MPs celebrate Māori Language Week; Winston Peters ejected from chamber on Tuesday; Government faces questions about TPP negotiations; Health and Safety Reform Bill passes second reading; ACT's David Seymour goes AWOL on Wednesday night; NZ Flag Referendums Bill makes progress; Social Services Committee considers a petition on CYF care and the Justice and Electoral Committee continues its Inquiry into the 2014 Election.
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Duration: 15'00"
07:50
Winston Peters on the TPP and the future of NZ First
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Winston Peters on the TPP and growing the New Zealand First party. He joins us from New Zealand First's annual conference in Rotorua.
Topics: politics
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: New Zealand First, Winston Peters, TPP
Duration: 10'13"
08:40
Trade Minister Tim Groser on the TPP
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Trade Minister Tim Groser told our economics correspondent Patrick O'Meara that the failure to secure a decent deal for dairy should not obsure gains made for other agricultural goods.
Topics: politics, economy
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 6'30"
08:50
TPP critic Jane Kelsey responds to latest
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Professor Jane Kelsey has been a critic of the TPP and talks to Wallace Chapman about the fine print.
Topics: politics, economy, business, farming
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Tags: TPP, trade
Duration: 8'21"
09:10
Mediawatch for 2 August 2015
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How the media coped with TPP secrecy; new TV shows getting taxpayer backing, and some that aren't; a local TV channel coming out from under the radar; a rare fair go from a foreign quiz show .
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Duration: 31'57"
09:40
Ezekiel Raui - From the Wharekura to the White House
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Ezekiel Raui - the head boy at Taipa Area School in Northland - attended the first ever Tribal Youth Gathering at the White House in Washington DC last month. He was one of four young Māori to attend the event and was surprised to discover that Native American tribes have more than 1,000 separate treaties with the US government.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Tags: White House, Native American, Māori, Taipa
Duration: 9'21"
10:10
Paul Moon - Remarkable New Zealanders
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Dr Paul Moon discusses his new book Face to Face - featuring conversations with 12 remarkable New Zealanders including Sir Bob Jones, Sir Richard Hadlee, Patricia Grace and Michael Houston.
Topics: arts, author interview, books
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Tags: New Zealanders, Paul Moon
Duration: 15'15"
10:30
David Slack - Bullrush
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You don't need a referee, you don't need a whistle, and you don't need a ball. It's dangerous, it's exciting, and often it's been banned - it's Bullrush. David Slack has written a book about this great New Zealand game.
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Children playing a variation on tag. Photo CC BY 2.0 EJ Fox.
You don't need a referee, you don't need a whistle, and you don't need a ball. It's dangerous, it's exciting, and often it's been banned - it's Bullrush.
David Slack talks to Wallace Chapman about the book he has written about this game, which has been popular with generations of New Zealand children, and banned by various schools and parents.
Topics: sport, author interview, books, history
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Tags: bullrush, David Slack, childhood, games
Duration: 19'28"
10:50
Deon Swiggs - Locally-led Recovery
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Rebuild Christchurch founder, Deon Swiggs joins Wallace to talk about why many Christchurch residents want a locally-led recovery.
Topics: Canterbury earthquakes
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Christchurch, CERA, earthquake recovery
Duration: 6'40"
11:10
Rebecca Rasool - Intimates Interview
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Rebecca Rasool, 24, is the co-owner and designer of a fledgling lingerie label called Her Apparel Intimates. She's busy designing and sewing a collection in her flat in Brooklyn, Wellington, after a surprise invitation to show at NZ Fashion Week. She explains to Wallace the intricacies of lingerie - and why underwear is more important to women than it is to men.
Topics: business, arts
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Tags: NZ Fashion Week, fashion, lingerie
Duration: 12'00"
11:30
Sarah Pressman - :)
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Researchers are finding that wearing a smile can slow down the heart and reduce stress. The work follows research that established that the act of smiling can make you feel happier. Sarah Pressman is an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the interplay between positive emotions, social relationships, stress, and health.
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Researchers are finding that wearing a smile can slow down the heart and reduce stress. The work follows research that established that the act of smiling can make you feel happier.
Sarah Pressman is an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the interplay between positive emotions, social relationships, stress, and health. She talks to Wallace Chapman.
Topics: health, life and society
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Tags: smiling, mental health, psychology
Duration: 22'04"
11:45
Children’s Music Awards 2015
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The awards are announced on Sunday morning and Wallace talks to the winner of this year's best album.
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The big winner this year is fleaBITE, who took home two awards – the Recorded Music NZ Best Childrens’ Music Album (Tui Award) for The Jungle is Jumping, and the What Now Best Children’s Music Video Award (chosen by audience vote) for ‘Don’t Sit Under the Poo Tree’, created by Stephen Templer and Ross Payne.
Recorded Music NZ’s Damian Vaughan said “FleaBite consistently make wonderful music and ‘The Jungle is Jumping’ is another excellent record for young ones....A finely crafted collection of kids songs that also showcases a fantastic range of musical styles.”
Wallace Chapman talks to the woman behind the sounds Robin Nathan, a.k.a. FleaBITE.
The APRA Best Children’s Music Song was won by Levity Beet and Daniel Stryczek for their song ‘There’s One in the Bush’, about Aotearoa’s native dinosaur, the Tuatara. Multi-instrumentalist Levity also took home the inaugural NZ On Air children’s music grant – $10,000 towards the recording of a song and a music video.
We interviewed Levity Beet about winning the Children's Song of the Year in 2012 and spoke more generally to Levity Beet about his work in 2010.
Topics: music
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Duration: 8'49"
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7:08 Current affairs
Focus on the Trans Pacific Partnership, or TPP, plus the New Zealand First annual conference in Rotorua and The Week in Parliament.
8:12 Insight Mediterranean Rescue
Hundreds of migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean this year, from overcrowded boats heading for Europe from Libya. The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse reports on the dramatic rescue of 500 African migrants trying to cross the sea and then follows two of them as they make their way to Europe.
8:40 TPP
We continue our coverage of the latest on the Trans Pacific Partnership.
9:06 Mediawatch
How the media coped with the veil of secrecy over the TPP, and a local TV channel coming out from under the radar. Also: Some new TV shows backed by New Zealand on Air – and some that aren’t; and how foreign TV quiz shows don’t give local viewers a fair go.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:35 Ezekiel Raui - From the Wharekura to the White House
Ezekiel Raui – the head boy at Taipa Area School in Northland – attended the first ever Tribal Youth Gathering at the White House in Washington DC last month. He was one of four young Māori to attend the event and was surprised to discover that Native American tribes have more than 1,000 separate treaties with the US government.
9:45 Te Haumihiata Mason – New Words in Te Reo
Language is an ever evolving thing – and none more so than the Māori language which is continually updating and adding new words to its lexicon. Te Haumihiata Mason joins us to talk about how the Māori Language Commission comes up with the multitudes of new words in reo every year.
10:06 Paul Moon – Remarkable New Zealanders
Dr Paul Moon discusses his new book Face to Face – featuring conversations with 12 remarkable New Zealanders including Sir Bob Jones, Sir Richard Hadlee, Patricia Grace and Michael Houston.
10:30 David Slack – Bullrush
You don’t need a referee, you don’t need a whistle, and you don’t need a ball. It’s dangerous, it’s exciting, and often it’s been banned – it’s Bullrush. David Slack has written a book about this great New Zealand game.
10:50 Deon Swiggs – Locally-led Recovery
Rebuild Christchurch founder, Deon Swiggs joins Wallace to talk about why many Christchurch residents want a locally-led recovery.
11:05 Rebecca Rasool – Intimates Interview
Rebecca Rasool, 24, is the co-owner and designer of a fledgling lingerie label called Her Apparel Intimates. She’s busy designing and sewing a collection in her flat in Brooklyn, Wellington, after a surprise invitation to show at NZ Fashion Week. She explains to Wallace the intricacies of lingerie – and why underwear is more important to women than it is to men.
Rebecca Rasool (right) wearing some of her designer underwear.
11:20 Sarah Pressman – :)
Researchers are finding that wearing a smile can slow down the heart and reduce stress. The work follows research that established that the act of smiling can make you feel happier. Sarah Pressman is an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the interplay between positive emotions, social relationships, stress, and health.
11:45 Children’s Music Awards 2015
The awards are announced on Sunday morning and Wallace talks to the winner of this year’s best album.
===12:12 PM. | Spectrum===
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12:05
Mr Tuna - saving the rangitaiki’s taonga
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Bill Kerrison is helping save our native longfin eels or tuna. Each year he traps and transfers eels and other native fish species past a series of dams on the Rangitaiki River in the Bay of Plenty, so they can continue maturing or head out to sea to breed. Spectrum's Lisa Thompson meets the man locals have nicknamed 'Mr Tuna'.
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“My priority right from day one was water. Because if we haven’t got good water, where’s our next two generations from my children, and their children and their children, gonna be?” - Bill Kerrison
Bill Kerrison has lived near water – salt and fresh – his whole life. And despite stints mining, farming and in forestry, he's always managed to find his way back his life source. Much like his beloved tuna, or native longfin eels.
While these sleek, black giants have a reputation for lurking in the murky depths of our waterways, Bill Kerrison regards them as one of the most intelligent species of fish on the planet and has a deep connection with what he affectionately calls his beauties.
A connection that started way back in the 1940s in Thames, when as a young boy, he befriended a sinewy mass of eels that lived under the local jetty.
He was put to work on his father’s mullet boat but when a storm left her a wreck, the family packed their bags and moved further up the Coromandel Peninsula to go shearing.
“I loved it, I loved it, it was right in my environment,” says Bill. “But I ended up running away from home…people have their fights…and of course alcohol is a big distribution to that…I knew I had to go.”
So at 14 and a half, Bill hitched a ride across the Hauraki Plains to his older brother’s house near Rotowaro in the Waikato.
“That was it, I was underground just after I was 15 and stayed underground until I got called up into the armed services…that was the beginning of my man’s life then.”
After the army, Bill spent time in freezing works and as an engineer, before finally coming to Edgecumbe to run a fish and chip shop. It was here that he met his second wife Ruby, whom he affectionately calls 'mum'.
After the 1987 Edgecumbe earthquake Bill and Ruby moved inland to farm at Galatea. And while it's 70 kilometres from the coast, water was once again close by.
Behind the Kerrison's property flows the mighty Rangitaiki River, the longest in the Bay of Plenty, 155 kilometres in length. Once free-flowing, the river is now damned for hydroelectricity. And it was on the banks of the Aniwhenua dam that Bill's life took a significant turn in 1991, when he came face-to-face with his beloved long-fin eels again.
“I was only about 20 metres from the screens and I could see all these big dead bodies lying on the concrete. All these huge eels, they were mangled up.”
For over a decade the migrating eels had been getting stuck against the screens in front of the intake pipes to the dam. Bill says they were removed and dumped on the side of the river before being unceremoniously buried. And if any were lucky enough to get through, they were quickly mutilated by the huge turbines.
Native longfin eels can grow to 3 metres and 40 kilograms and some will live to over 100 years in our rivers and lakes. But many will return to the ocean after 40 to 80 years and swim to Tonga to reproduce. The juvenile eels or elvers will then make the return journey back to New Zealand - a 5000 kilometre round trip.
Heartbroken by the disruption in the life cycle of a generation of Rangitaiki eels, Bill knew he had to help.
“I had to decide then what was going to change my life into changing this whole matter, I just said ‘It stops here today.’”
For nearly quarter of a century, Bill Kerrison has been working tirelessly to help save the Rangitaiki’s eels. Each year he traps and transfers the eels and other native fish species past a series of dams, so they can continue maturing or head out to sea to breed.
It's estimated he's so far helped relocate 30 million eels, clocking up 25,000 kilometres annually in his car in the process. While he knows he can't save them all, Bill says every eel he does save "is a bonus".
Come autumn when the adult eels start migrating downstream, Bill will spend nights out on the hydro lakes in his small boat catching the fish and relocating them below the dams. And in the spring, he starts the process of trapping millions of elvers below the Matahina Dam and driving them to locations above the power stations where they can mature.
Bill recycles water used by the dam system into the river and attracted by the slightly warmer water, the elvers make their way to left bank directly below the outflow and make their way up a race into a holding tank. And it's not just the baby eels that are benefiting from Bill's trap. Koura or freshwater crayfish also find their way into the tank, along with bullies.
Bill Kerrison is nearly 80 and thinks it's time to start contemplating handing on the reigns to someone else. He has plans to spend more time on the coast with Ruby.
It's been a project like none other for him. He's battled vandals, poachers, power stations, butted heads with scientists and even members of his own iwi, in his quest to transfer the eels, but it's never deterred him from his determination to help his beloved tuna. And with a good team of helpers now behind him and the creation of the Rangitaiki River Forum in 2012, Bill's now confident his departure won't see all of his good work undone.
Lisa Thompson recently travelled to the Bay of Plenty to meet Mr Tuna.
Video: River story winner Bill Kerrison - Saving NZ's longfin eel courtesy of Gareth Morgan
Topics: environment, farming, rural, science, te ao Māori, education
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: longfin eels, Rangitaiki River, eels, river restoration, water quality, tuna
Duration: 26'43"
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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: Once on Chunuk Bair by Maurice Shadbolt (1 of 2)
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12:43
Cinematographer Maria Ines Manchego
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New Zealand cinematographer who almost had to drop out at the American Film Institute because of high fees, has won a new scholarship to help women in the film industry.
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Duration: 7'17"
12:51
Drew James - Performing Arts Network of New Zealand
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Long time arts manager, entrepreneur and Festival director Drew James is the Senior Producer for the PANNZ touring agency. He talks about the first four shows selected to tour the country, why they were chosen, and what's in it for them and for the regions.
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Duration: 11'08"
13:30
Fashion Talent on the Rise: Lucilla Gray
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Lucilla Gray is tipped as hot new talent at New Zealand Fashion Week 2015, but she has already shown a collection at this year's London Fashion Week, with an invitation on the table for Paris. She talks to Sonia Sly about her off-shore experience, designing for the high-end market, the benefits of Instagram, and why she feels it is important to make a name for herself in New Zealand.
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Twenty-three-year-old fashion designer Lucilla Gray was born in Lincolnshire and moved to New Zealand when she was seven years old.
She spoke to Sonia Sly in the lead-up to New Zealand Fashion Week about her design process, showing at London Fashion Week, and why she feels it is important to have a presence here.
Sonia: You’ve received a few accolades right throughout your study. How has this helped you to launch your own label?
Lucilla: I think it’s helped quite a lot. I did ID in Dunedin and I got an award there… I think everything really happened from that. After that I was asked to go over to Amsterdam for an emerging designer exhibition which I decided to do. Fashion is a really hard industry so when you come across these opportunities you really have to go with them.
Sonia: How did London Fashion Week come about for you?
Lucilla: After Amsterdam I got introduced to a PR company in London, so they took me on as one of their clients.
Sonia: How important is it to be represented by an agency?
Lucilla: It gets your stuff out there. They know the right people to introduce your label to. They have stylists coming in all the time, so they might spot something on your rack and go ‘that that’s perfect for my shoot', so they’ll nab it and fingers crossed it’ll end up in a publication.
Did you know from the outset that you were going to go from study to launching your own label?
I’ve always had quite a strong aesthetic. My parents have always had their own business as well, so it was quite natural for me to push to do my own thing. Yeah, I just knew it was the right move for me at the right time just because everything has been going so well, so I thought I better keep going. My parents help me a lot with the business side, but a lot of it is really hard work to be honest. You’ve gotta get stuck in and get on with it.
Why have you decided to go through New Zealand Fashion Week since you’ve been invited already overseas?
Lucilla: I think you always need to have support from your own country. I think it’s important to support your location industry as well, because that’s where I’m based, so I need to have a presence here as well as try and make a dent overseas. I’ve been invited to London and Paris. [and] I think I’m going to go to London because I had a really successful trip when I did London last time.
Sonia: What was your experience like in London, and what did you take away from it?
Lucilla: All the designers are quite supportive of each other. You’re stuck with them for the whole week, so it’s really fun. What I noticed was that everyone’s aesthetic for their collections—they’re quite different. Everyone almost has like a different niche so you never really feel like you’re treading on anyone’s toes.
How would you describe the Lucilla Gray aesthetic?
My work always has a strong feminine theme, but it’s quite powerful so I like to have quite strong silhouettes. A lot of people say it’s quite minimal, but I always try to mix in some crazy print to mix it up a bit. Collections need to develop each season and you need to keep growing the aesthetic.
Sonia: What are you showing at New Zealand Fashion Week?
Lucilla: I’m actually going to be showing my summer collection at NZ Fashion Week, [it’s] the collection that I’m getting ready for London. The colour palette’s quite summer: greys, green, blue. It’s a little bit more feminine, but has a natural feel to it. Definitely layering for this collection which will make it feel a bit more wintery. Fashion week in NZ is Autumn/ Winter 16,[but] I’ve already done my Autumn Winter collection which I showed in London, so I’m just going to show my Spring/Summer.
Sonia: What are you currently inspired by?
Lucilla: I’m really interested in androgyny and gender fluidity. I think there’s quite a big feminist movement at the moment. When you look at the catwalks a lot of the men’s collections that have just been for Spring/Summer could be girls—you can’t tell. I think that’s really interesting and I want to play on that more in my work.
Sonia: You design primarily for a high-end market, was that intentional?
Lucilla: It’s kind of happened, but I’ve always enjoyed designing a little bit conceptually using really nice fabrics and materials. I’m still trying to work out how it all fits together [because] every country’s industry is really different. My last collection, I sewed the whole thing myself. I think when you make it yourself you know what goes into it and it really puts your own stamp on it. I did about ten looks, so probably about 20 garments.
Sonia: Which aspect of the process do you enjoy the most?
Lucilla: I actually really enjoy sewing and the designing part. I’ve always been good at construction, so it’s quite relaxing to just sit at the machine and sew up a garment.
Sonia: How did you go about developing your unique voice in the industry?
Lucilla: I think it’s really important to have a very unique aesthetic. The industry is pretty saturated, so you’ve got to find a way to make your voice heard. But I think it’s always good to stay on top of what everyone’s up to, so you can either do something completely different, or be current. You’ve got to be aware of what’s going on culturally. The digital age has been really good for emerging designers [and] I think Instagram’s been huge for fashion. I’ve managed to connect with people who maybe wouldn’t have seen my work before and now are huge fans, and I love keeping in touch with everyone on there. You really create a community around your work.
Sonia: Are there any obstacles that stand in your way in the lead-up to fashion week?
Lucilla: At any point if you start getting concerned about not getting everything ready, then you just have to stay up later. I just want to do something that’s a bit magical and maybe inspire people of the potential for high-end fashion here.
Topics: arts, education, internet, media
Regions: Wellington Region, Auckland Region, Otago
Tags: NZFW 2015, London, Paris, fashion, design, Instagram, social media, Massey University, Showroom22, Murray Bevan, Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin
Duration: 10'24"
13:35
Budget films with Toi Poneke
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Wellington's arts centre Toi Poneke is celebrating its 10th birthday on Saturday with an open day, including a panel discussion offering tips on 'making film on a low budget'. On the panel are filmmaker and film and television editor Alex Liu, Marshall Smith from the Screen Composer's Guild, and experienced documentary maker Anna Cottrell.
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Duration: 23'30"
13:50
Mavis! documentary director Jessica Edwards
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Jessica Edwards on her documentary Mavis! which features one of the great singers of the last century, the extraordinary Mavis Staples.
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Duration: 9'02"
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Romance writers Louise Groarke and Bronwyn Sell
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Two New Zealand writers have just returned from the Romance Writers of America awards in New York after being picked from around two thousand other romance novelists as award finalists. Campbells Bay author Louise Groarke writes as Louisa George and Bronwyn Sell whose pen name is Brynn Kelly lives on the Hibiscus Coast.
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Duration: 13'46"
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Cantabrian composer Chris Cree Brown
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Chris Cree Brown is the latest New Zealand artist to produce work commemorating Gallipoli for the battle's centenary.
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Duration: 12'38"
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12:39 Cinematographer Maria Ines Manchego
A New Zealand cinematographer who almost had to drop out of her course at the American Film Institute because of the high fees, has won a new scholarship to help women in the film industry. Maria Ines Manchego was picked from 25 keen applicants for the first JC Cine-Fem Scholarship is the first annual scholarship for a female screen practitioner. Part of the prize is financial, which means Maria can finish her two year course, and she'll also get to work as an intern with filmmaker Jane Campion, who's been right behind the scholarship.A new scholarship will be introduced next year focussing on a different area of the industry where there aren't enough women represented.
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12:47 Drew James, Senior Producer for the PANNZ touring agency
Earlier in the year SRO reported on Creative New Zealand's new approach to encouraging shows to tour the country, getting art out into the regions and helping companies to make money and hone their work. The Performing Arts Network of New Zealand, or PANNZ, got the gig and are about to tour four companies - three musicals and one play. Long time arts manager, entrepreneur and Festival director Drew James is the Senior Producer for the PANNZ touring agency. He talks about the first four shows selected to tour the country, why they were chosen, and what's in it for them and for the regions.
1:10 At The Movies with Simon Morris
1:34 Wellington's arts centre Toi Pōneke
These days you can make a film using your smart phone - but is that the future for filmmakers with low to zero budgets? Wellington's arts centre Toi Pōneke is celebrating its 10th birthday on Saturday with an open day, including a panel discussion offering tips on 'making film on a low budget'?
On the panel are filmmaker and film and television editor Alex Liu; Marshall Smith from the Screen Composer's Guild and in the chair is experienced documentary maker Anna Cottrell; Anna's chairing the panel on Saturday at Toi Poneke in Wellington.
1:47 Two musical highlights of this year's New Zealand International Film Festival
Two of the musical highlights of this year's New Zealand International Film Festival are documentaries about the lives of two brilliant female soul singers. One, Amy Winehouse, famously ended badly, the other doesn't seem likely to end anytime soon. It's called Mavis!, and it features one of the great singers of the last century, the extraordinary Mavis Staples. The two great female voices of Sixties soul and R&B - Aretha Franklin and Mavis Staples - both came out of the urban gospel movement of Chicago and Detroit. But for many, Mavis was the more authentic because she never strayed far from her roots. Her fans included Martin Luther King, Bob Dylan, Public Enemy, Prince - and the director of the film Mavis! Jessica Edwards.
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2:05 The Laugh Track
2:26 Fashion Talent on the Rise: Lucilla Gray
Lucilla Gray is tipped as hot new talent at New Zealand Fashion Week 2015, but she has already shown a collection at this year’s London Fashion Week, with an invitation on the table for Paris. She talks to Sonia Sly about her off-shore experience, designing for the high-end market, the benefits of Instagram, and why she feels it is important to make a name for herself in New Zealand.
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2:38 Romance writers
Two New Zealand writers have just returned from the Romance Writers of America awards in New York after being picked from around two thousand other romance novelists as award finalists. Campbells Bay author Louise Groarke writes as Louisa George and Bronwyn Sell whose pen name is Brynn Kelly lives on the Hibiscus Coast.
Louise's finalist novel Enemies with Benefits is one of 11 novels she has published so far with Harlequin Mills & Boon, a subsidiary of HarperCollins and the world's largest publisher of romance fiction. Louise Groarke writing as Louisa George.
Bronwyn's romance suspense, Deception Island, made it into the ultra-competitive Golden Heart awards for unpublished romance manuscripts. It won't be unpublished for long, it's coming out mid next year.
2:49 Cantabrian composer Chris Cree Brown
Chris Cree Brown is the latest New Zealand artist to produce work commemorating Gallipoli for the battle's centenary. He's not just creating a soundscape but matching it with images for a work created for the NZ Trio. Chris is an Associate Professor at the University of Canterbury's School of Music and his many compositions include orchestral pieces and film scores.
His Gallipoli work is part of NZ Trio's Fragment series on at Auckland's Q Theatre's Loft from the 9th of August.
3:05 The Drama Hour
===4:06 PM. | Sunday 4 'til 8===
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4:06 The Sunday Feature - The Cook, the Carpenter and the Migrants
As the first port of call for most of the boats that survive the journey from North Africa, Italy has more first-hand experience than most European countries of the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Emma-Jane Kirby meets ordinary Italians to hear about the practicalities of the arrival of so many desperate people and how they are coping emotionally seeing such sadness and suffering in close proximity.
Housewife Maria Gratzia is a volunteer chef with a big heart and a big voice. Each week she doles out hundreds of kilos of pasta to the newly arrived migrants.
Emma talks to a grave digger who has buried many of the bodies washed up on the beach, a hospital director who has had to completely reorganise his hospital to cope with the new patients, an optician who rescued dozens of drowning migrants on a weekend sailing trip and a carpenter who makes crosses for migrants from the wrecks of the boats that brought them to Europe. (BBC World Service)
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)
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17:10
The Spirited Gift
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They come from all round Northland to eat, listen to music and GIVE in return.
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We're all just making it up as we go along to be honest. We're just pretending to be cooks." Daring Donna.
They‘re calling it the “Gift Economy”. For that you get a freshly cooked meal, made from screamingly fresh, local produce… and live music.In exchange you pay what you can afford. It all happens at the Earth House in Northland, run by two spirited women.
Meet Daring Donna, That’s the name she goes by round these parts. For the last two years she and her band of very willing helpers has turned this amazing house made of mud bricks into a community centre at Peria.
Peria is a small rural district about thirteen kilometres inland from Taipa on the coast at Doubtless Bay…and about an hour’s drive from Kerikeri.
The house of hand-made bricks, crazy mosaics, and with pinnacles, pediments and spires straight out of Dr Seuss, was built not-quite-single-handedly by 85-year old Dhaj Sumner back in 1993.
When Daring Donna turned up and said she wanted to create a community house there, and to practice her gift economy ideas, Dhaj was right behind it and turned the house over.
By allowing the Gift Economy system to operate at my house , I'm not just blathering on about the world being a mess. I'm trying to do something about it."
So you see, it’s all to do with giving. Daring Donna and others grow the produce, hand it over, and then Donna makes a gift of the cooked lunch. The musicians give their music, eat the lunch, and the other diners give their cash.
In theory all expenses will be covered, and everyone will be happy.
Today Donna has collected vegetables and fruit from around the valley, there’re lentils and beans, there’s pumpkin soup, home baked gluten free bread and coconut creamy desserts. The house is catering for about thirty people for a sunny Sunday lunch.
The kitchen has recently been upgraded with the help of six thousand dollars in crowd funding. Donna’s steaming ahead today with helpers, partner Darren Hunter, and young volunteers Luka and Jade.
The Auckland Trio which is playing today, comprises Sarah Spence, cello, Greg McGarity on viola and keyboard, and Elena Abramova, violin. They play a mixture of classical and folk music.
According to Daring Donna, there’s a good reason why the sun is beating down on this lunch party in Peria on a winter’s afternoon. She issued a severe warning to the guardian angels in Dhaj’s garden that it must be fine. Donna reckons there’s wonderful strong energy in Northland. It’s an energy that makes her get up in the morning and be a cheerful, useful person.
For Dhaj Sumner the house and property is particularly spiritual. She says the land whispered “gotcha” when she first walked on it. She’s never wanted to leave. She loves what the community house is doing because she says it puts into action her beliefs that a society based only on the almighty dollar is skew if.
By the end of the sunny afternoon, everyone seems full of food and content to let the music wash over them. There’s a discreet queue as people pop cash into the “gift box”.
Donna and Dhaj are pleased. Donna’s already planning to next lunch, which for the first time will be prepared by the Earth House Youth Crew.
Topics: life and society, spiritual practices, food, music
Regions: Northland
Tags: Peria, Taipa, Doubtless Bay, Kerikeri, Earth House, Auckland Trio, Gift Economy
Duration: 20'55"
19:06
Accessing an education
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Katy Gosset heads south to Studentville - Otago University. Some scarfies may get a bad rap for partying but many others are just grateful for the chance to pursue an education - in some cases with a bit of help. Each year some 800 students use the university's Disability Information and Support Service. Katy Gosset meets one of them and gets a taste of campus life.
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Welcome to Otago University
Your education starts here.
With a red button.
Thousands of young people head south each year to study, make friends and, in some cases, party. About 800 of them will need some extra help. And that’s where the university’s Disability Information and Support Student Services come in.
Wide, accessible doorways with push button entries, a lecture note-taking service and a team of student advisors. They’re all part of the system that allows students with disabilities to access the same quality education as everyone else.
The service’s manager, Melissa Lethaby, says students also have access to a study room with ergonomic furniture, a trolley for carrying their books around the library, as well as readers and writers to help them sit exams. She says, when she started with the service in 2002, it supported just 325 people and that figure has now more than doubled. And, while the numbers might be pleasing, it’s seeing the students achieve that is most rewarding.
“We provide them, I guess, [...] with the training wheels and then, once they’re self-sufficient, they’re off, up and running.”
The "D-Word"
Paige Aitcheson is one of the students who uses the service after being diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of 11.
“I really struggled with it for so many years. I called it the D-word. You couldn’t even use the D-word in our house.”
She says she felt embarrassed about her diagnosis and initially kept it a secret from friends.
“Before that I thought I was dumb and stupid. I didn’t really understand, I guess, what dyslexia was.”
Once diagnosed, Paige attended lessons at SPELD and began to achieve academically at school. She later became an advocate for students with dyslexia, speaking at her own and other schools about the condition. She decided to pursue a degree in physical education as exercise had always been a refuge from her learning disability.
“I struggled at school, in the classroom, so, for me, sport was the thing that I felt equal [at] and felt that my dyslexia didn’t really affect me.”
She says her physical education teacher literally changed her life when he told her she was naturally gifted at the theory of PE and should go to university.
“I kind of just laughed out loud accidentally because I can’t even spell university, [...] but yet he wanted me to go and study it.”
Levelling the Playing Field
Paige says, throughout high school and, now, at university, she has a reader/writer during exams. That means someone will read the questions to her to ensure she understands them and then write out her dictated answers.
But she says using a reader/writer is a skill in itself.
“People struggle using them at first but, for me, once you know yourself and how to best utilise the reader/writer they become a real asset to [...] learning, I guess. It levels the playing field.”
Paige says, in the past, her exam results did not reflect her true ability as she was unable to use more expressive words because she couldn’t spell them
“So, if I had a reader writer, then I could use the exact words I wanted to use and I wasn’t limited by my spelling ability or my writing frequency.”
She says accessing a reader/writer does require a formal diagnosis of dyslexia and the right documentation and getting that can be an expensive process. She’s grateful to the Disability Information and Support Student Services for funding an assessment for her. Paige says some people can become disheartened by a diagnosis like dyslexia but she was determined to get an education.
“I just use it as a driving force and I’m not going to let my [...] learning disability affect me.”
And she believes the Disability Information and Support Student Services play an important role.
“You still have the right support to achieve what anyone else can achieve”.
Listen to this interview
Topics: disability, education, life and society
Regions: Otago
Tags: Otago University, Disability Information and Support Service, accessibility, dyslexia, reader writers, Dunedin
Duration: 27'49"
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4:07 The Sunday Feature: The Cook, the Carpenter and the Migrants
As the first port of call for most of the boats that survive the journey from North Africa, Italy has more first-hand experience than most European countries of the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Emma-Jane Kirby meets ordinary Italians to hear about the practicalities of the arrival of so many desperate people and how they are coping emotionally seeing such sadness and suffering in close proximity.
Housewife Maria Gratzia is a volunteer chef with a big heart and a big voice. Each week she doles out hundreds of kilos of pasta to the newly arrived migrants.
Emma talks to a grave digger who has buried many of the bodies washed up on the beach, a hospital director who has had to completely reorganise his hospital to cope with the new patients, an optician who rescued dozens of drowning migrants on a weekend sailing trip and a carpenter who makes crosses for migrants from the wrecks of the boats that brought them to Europe. (BBC World Service)
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
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
A weekly programme that highlights Asians, Africans, indigenous Americans and more in New Zealand, aimed at promoting a greater understanding of our ethnic minority communities (RNZ)
===8:06 PM. | Sounds Historical===
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NZ stories from the past (RNZ)
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20:05
Sounds Historical (Part 1) for 2 August 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: 55'49"
21:05
Sounds Historical (Part 2) for 2 August 2015
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Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past.
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Duration: 58'51"
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8:07 Today in New Zealand History
French Whaler Buys Banks Peninsula, 2 August 1838.
8:06 Artist: Bridge City Jazzmen
Song: Back Home in Indianna
Composer: McDonald/Hanley
Album: Viscount Music Vaults
Label: Zodiac promobridge
8:18 Postal History
An extract from a 1950 Broadcasts to School programme telling the story of the mail service- "Something We're Proud Of". 7'58"
8:25 Artist: Phyl Mounce and Lee Smith
Song: Honeymoon on a Rocketship
Composer: Johnny Masters
Album: In a Country Mood
Label: Stebbing/Zodiac 2'59"
A 1953 hit for Hank Snow.
8:31 Some radio oddities from recent additions to Sound Archives. Wellington's Radio 2ZB,
"Women's Session" 1939 commercials for Lampton House Wellington & Shoe Paint "Fascinac" by Taubmans. The sound of spitfire bombers overhead accompanied by unidentified male commentary. Protect Soap radio commercial. Comedic stand-up commentary from unidentified male. Prestige Millinery radio commercial. 5'45"
8:38 The Sounds Doctor.
A 1973 Spectrum in which Jack Perkins joins Dr Victor Jacobsen on his rounds and talks with him about the unique launch medical service he provides for the Marlborough Sounds. Part One. 14"18"
8:51 War Report 47 2 August 2015
Extract from diary of Colonel William Malone commenting on the order to take part in the coming battle at Chunuk Bair.
A newspaper report on the re-naming of German Bay on Banks Peninsula.
Leonard Leary recalls the condition of the troops in the few days before Chunuk Bair:
"By that time the New Zealand Brigade had been some months on Gallipoli and every man was affected to some degree by dysentery and its terrible weakening affects. I would like to stress the fact that in health and strength, the men taking part in the action were only shadows of what they'd been when they landed. Probably half of them ought to have been in hospital. I had been with the Wellington Battalion machine gun section on Walker's Ridge for several weeks and every other day, when not with the gun, had seen the pathetic sight of men going down to the beach to sick parade some of them so weak that they had to sit and rest every hundred yards or so, every bone could be seen. Their eyes seemed huge in their hollow sockets and it could truthfully be said they were nothing but skin and bone. A few hours later the same men could be seen returning to their units, in the same slow and uncertain manner, having been given medicine by the medical officer. The shortage of men was so acute that unless one was almost dying there was little chance of being evacuated. Men were sometimes found dead on the latrines in the morning. From the beginning, food had consisted mainly bully beef and hard biscuits with sometimes cheese and jam, and usually for breakfast a rasher of fat belly of bacon, seldom with more than one thin strip of lean. Rations were piled in stacks, without cover, in the hot sun and during the daytime most of the most of the contents of a tin of beef could be poured out leaving some coarse strings of beef behind. Bacon and beef were so salty that an effort was needed to swallow the stuff. Jam was usually poured from the tin. Whole cheeses melted and became blobs of grease on the ground. Over the whole area of ANZAC there was a smell of dead and rotting bodies and this was noticeable some distance out to sea."
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
Artist: John McCormack Song: Keep the Home Fires Burning
Composer Novello Album: Oh, It's a Lovely War Vol 1 Label: CD41 6'03"
9:08 As I Remember
Some Recollections of Early Radio by the late Charles Wheeler (born 1914) supplied by his nephew Paul Wheeler of Dunedin. Read by Phil Smith. 5'25"
9:15 Artist: Jack Riggir the Singing Cowboy
Song: The Little Old White House
Album: In a Country Mood
Label: Stebbing/Zodiac 1945-56 2'52"
9:19 On the Bench in the 1920s
William Meldrum recalls his days as a magistrate on the West Coast after World War One. Recorded in 1957. 7'19"
9:27 Artist: Wild Geese
Song: Ridge of Messines
Composer: Neil Frances
Album: Promises to Keep
Label: Private CD 5'14'
9:34 Life as a prisoner of war at Bardia in North Africa
Recorded by Gunner George Stephenson for the wartime Mobile Unit. Some 190 British soldiers including New Zealanders, Tommies, South Africans and a few RAF personnel. Stephenson notes that the life of a POW is not a happy one and things were anything but pleasant when they were forced to endure captivity at Bardia, the German stronghold in Libya. A few required medical treatment and were taken by hospital ship to Italy. On the 27 November 1941 the allies were attacked at 7.30 am and they were forced to surrender after being surrounded by tanks. Following their capture they were forced to march 20 miles starting at 12.30pm. They arrived at their destination at 9.9 that night tired, foot sore and weary. The next day the 129 allied POWs were shifted into a compound 85 by 40 yards that was to be their home for the next five weeks and which had no shelter what so ever. Part One. 6"51"
Recorded January 1941 and an artilleryman called George Stephenson was killed June 1942 age 25.
9:42 Artist Joyce Grenfell and Norman Wisdon
Song: Narcissus (The Laughing Record)
Composer: Nevin
Label: Sanctuary Classics (1952) 3'9"
9:45 A Piano for All Seasons
Margaret Fahey talks about her life as a cinema and theatre pianist in Timaru in the 1930s. An extract from a 1976 Spectrum programme. Part 1 15'58"
===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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Nancy Sinatra hosts this one-hour special looking back at Frank Sinatra's early years (1939-1952)