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:
17 August 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris (RNZ); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:30 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 The 10PM Question, by Kate de Goldi (8 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 Science (RNZ); 5:10 War Report (RNZ)
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:18 Pacific News 6:22 Rural News 6:27 and 8:45 Te Manu Korihi News 6:44 and 7:41 NZ Newspapers 6:47 Business News 7:42 and 8:34 Sports News 6:46 and 7:34 Traffic
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06:00
Top Stories for Monday 17 August 2015
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A new analysis of foreign investment crunches data on who is buying the most land in New Zealand - and finds it's not China, but Canada. Rescuers search for survivors of a plane with 54 people on board, crashed in West Papua. Also on Morning Report.. A poor first quarter costs the Silver Ferns in the Netball World Cup final.
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Duration: 32'18"
06:06
Sports News for 17 August 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'17"
06:19
Pacific News for 17 August 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'33"
06:22
Morning Rural News for 17 August 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'19"
06:26
Te Manu Korihi News for 17 August 2015
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A Māori trust says Top Energy's bid to use land that is part of their Waitangi Tribunal claim is hugely offensive; The Labour MP Kelvin Davis says many Māori feel disenfranchised and believe the political system is stacked against them; A book to commemorate a group that's promoted Māori interests at New Zealand's eight universities for a decade has been launched at Parliament.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'27"
06:38
Canada the biggest Foreign Direct Investor in NZ
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A new report on foreign direct investment in New Zealand shows that China was not the dominant investor in the past two years - it was Canada.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Canada
Duration: 3'31"
06:42
Labour says Trade Minister is arrogant
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The acting Labour leader Annette King is accusing the trade minister of arrogance over his comments about opponents of the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Topics: politics
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 1'57"
06:46
Institute of Directors says fees lagging behind
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A survey of company directors has found only half of respondents felt they were fairly compensated for their work and level of responsiblity they take on.
Topics: business
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Tags: directors fees
Duration: 2'14"
06:50
Shareholder group says one size doesn't fit all
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The Shareholders' Association says there's no doubt directors carry a larger workload than they did in the past, but that doesn't mean there should be an across-the-board increase in the fees they're paid.
Topics: business
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Tags: directors fees
Duration: 1'12"
06:50
S & P cuts one part of the credit rating of four largest banks
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The global credit rating agency, Standard and Poor's, has cut one part of the credit rating of the country's four largest banks due to increased risks from the persistent strength of Auckland's property market.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Standard and Poor's
Duration: 1'19"
06:51
Foreigners are continuing to invest heavily in NZ - report
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Foreigners are continuing to invest heavily in New Zealand, and it's not just in dairy and land.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: foreign investment
Duration: 3'10"
06:54
Jim Parker in Australia
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To Australia now, and the country's major banks are raising billions of dollars in new capital to meet stricter regulatory requirements.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 2'34"
06:56
Week ahead
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In this week's business agenda...
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Week ahead
Duration: 1'08"
06:58
Business briefs
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Standard and Poor's has left the ratings on the four major Australian banks unchanged despite increased economic risks in New Zealand's financial system.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 27"
07:07
Sports News for 17 August 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'02"
07:11
Canadians invest strongly in NZ
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A new report on foreign direct investment in New Zealand shows China was not the dominant investor in the past two years - it was Canada.
Topics: business
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Tags: Canada, foreign investment
Duration: 5'53"
07:20
Silver Ferns defeated in World Cup final
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The netball world cup dream is over for the Silver Ferns after they succumbed 58-55 to Australia in last night's final in Sydney.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Netball World Cup, netball, Silver Ferns
Duration: 4'30"
07:25
Child poverty group says Working for Families needs overhaul
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The Child Poverty Action Group is calling for a radical overhaul of support to low income families to improve the lives of the poorest children.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Child Poverty Action Group
Duration: 4'06"
07:29
Hopes fade for survivors following explosions in China
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The death toll from massive explosions which ripped through China's port of Tianjin on Wednesday has risen to 112 people as hopes of finding any more survivors fade.
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Tags: China, Tianjin, Tianjin explosions
Duration: 4'04"
07:37
Labour slams delayed action to improve state houses
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The Labour Party says it is a shame it's taken the death of a child to make the Government realise that its state housing stock needs to be better maintained.
Topics: housing, politics
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Tags: state housing
Duration: 2'35"
07:40
Government pushing ahead with State Housing sale
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Staying with state houses. The Government is pushing ahead with its plans to sell one to two-thousand state houses, possibly to Australian organisations.
Topics: housing, politics
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Tags: state housing
Duration: 4'39"
07:44
Brazilian protestors again call for impeachment of president
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A year out from the Rio Olympics, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's leadership is under increasing pressure with thousands of protestors yesterday again taking to the streets of major cities to demonstrate against her Government.
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Tags: Brazili, President Dilma Rousseff, protests
Duration: 2'56"
07:47
Steve Hansen has just two weeks to name his World Cup squad
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The All Blacks squad has disbanded after the side's 41-13 Bledisloe Cup win over the Wallabies at Eden Park on Saturday night.
Topics: sport
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Tags: All Blacks, rugby
Duration: 2'57"
07:53
Girls may be better at IT than boys
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School girls are doing better at IT than boys but depite this, tech firms are struggling to attract women to work for them.
Topics: education, business
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Tags: IT, girls
Duration: 3'17"
07:56
President Obama's eclectic music taste revealed
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The White House has released two playlists on the music app Spotify, all hand chosen by the President of the United States himself.
Topics: music
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Tags: Barack Obama
Duration: 3'33"
08:07
Sports News for 17 August 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'13"
08:11
Key says Landcorp free to continue dairy conversions
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Dairy conversions from the SOE landcorp are set to go full steam ahead despite the dairy slump
Topics: politics
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Tags: dairy conversions, Landcorp
Duration: 6'10"
08:18
Massive TPP protests at the weekend
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The Trade Minister, Tim Groser, is dismissing the concerns of thousands of people who turned out at the weekend to protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Topics: politics
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 5'20"
08:23
Maori farmers feeling the dairy squeeze
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The downturn in the dairy industry has led to belt-tightening - not just at Fonterra and in the regions but also in the Māori dairy farming sector.
Topics: te ao Maori, farming
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Tags: dairy
Duration: 4'05"
08:27
Police hope passage of time may bring new leads
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Twenty years ago today a young Christchurch mother, Angela Blackmoore, was murdered in her home. Her killer has never been identified.
Topics: crime
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Angela Blackmoore
Duration: 3'41"
08:31
Markets Update for 17 August 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'07"
08:38
Silver Ferns struggle after slow final first quarter
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That was the sound of Australian netball fans cheering the victory of their team against the Silver Ferns in yesterday's World Cup Final.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Silver Ferns, Netball World Cup, netball
Duration: 4'12"
08:42
Medical students complain of bullying
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Medical students say they're being racially targeted, verbally and sexually harassed at work by more senior medical staff.
Topics: business, education, health
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Tags: harassment, bullying
Duration: 3'23"
08:46
Te Manu Korihi News for 17 August 2015
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A Māori trust says Top Energy's bid to use land that is part of their Waitangi Tribunal claim is hugely offensive; The Labour MP Kelvin Davis says many Māori feel disenfranchised and believe the political system is stacked against them; A book to commemorate a group that's promoted Māori interests at New Zealand's eight universities for a decade has been launched at Parliament.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'28"
08:50
China's top choir to sing in Auckland tonight
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China's most prestigious national theatre group, the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theatre will perform in Auckland tonight at a sold out concert commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
Topics: music, arts
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Tags: China National Opera and Dance Drama Theatre
Duration: 3'34"
08:54
NZ artist donates painting to Scotland
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A 96-year-old New Zealand artist has donated a painting worth a quarter of a million dollars to the city of Dundee, Scotland.
Topics: arts
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Tags: Ron Stenberg, Scotland
Duration: 3'18"
08:57
Phil Kafcaloudes with news from Australia
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Time to chat to our Melbourne correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes.
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Duration: 2'33"
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===9:06 AM. | Nine To Noon===
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Current affairs and topics of interest, including: 10:45 The Reading: Gutter Black, by Dave McArtney Highlights from the intimate memoir by the late Dave McArtney, a founding member of one of NZ's iconic rock bands, 'Hello Sailor', recalling their days of creativity, misadventure, success and excess (4 of 6, RNZ)
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09:08
Liquidator seeks money from former Ross investors
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Liquidators of convicted fraudster David Ross's Ponzi scheme are trying to claw back more money from investors who got their money out early. A successful clawback test case against one of three investors who were paid out by Ross before his company collapsed has resulted in the liquidators PWC making claims against 25 more former Ross clients. Bruce Tichbon heads the Ross Asset Management Investors Group, which supports those who lost investments in the Ross ponzi scheme.
Topics: business
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Tags: Ponzi scheme, Ross Asset Management
Duration: 12'57"
09:21
The plight of traumatised refugee families coming to NZ
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Jeff Thomas is General Manager of Refugee Trauma Recovery, and Rachel O'Connor, who is National Programme Development Manager for Red Cross.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Duration: 21'15"
09:42
Do computer cookies lead to tailored pricing?
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Some computer experts believe the cookies embedded in our computers when we visit websites, are in some cases being used to tailor pricing for on-line purchases, based on information gathered about the computer user.
Topics: technology, security
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Tags: internet
Duration: 7'11"
09:50
Middle East correspondent Kiran Nazish
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Latest updates on the various conflicts in the Middle Eastern countries.
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Duration: 9'26"
10:06
Adán Tijerina, General Manager at Orchestra Wellington
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Adan Tijerina was born in Mexico and raised in Washington State in the US. After moving to New Zealand he became a part owner of the iconic restaurant and bar, the Matterhorn, as well as playing in several local bands. He was recruited by Orchestra Wellington to shake things up and break the mould... including driving up and expanding classical music audiences as well as nuturing future musicians.
Topics: music
Regions: Wellington Region
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Duration: 26'01"
10:36
Book review: 'Johnny Enzed '
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'Johnny Enzed The NZ Soldier in the First World War 1914-1918' Edited by Glyn Harper. Published by Exisle Publishing RRP$55.00. Reviewed by Gail Pittaway.
Topics: books, conflict, defence force
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Duration: 6'23"
11:06
Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
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The weekend TPP protests.
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The weekend TPP protests.
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Duration: 21'15"
11:30
Traditionally Tuscan Italian sweet treats
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How did two South Africans come to be making authentic Italian dolce in Christchurch? We talk to Paula Barbafiera about the humble origins of her Traditionally Tuscan wholesale bakery, and the delicious sweet treats they make.
Topics: food
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Tags: Tuscany, panforte
Duration: 11'00"
11:45
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
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A squeeze of lemon on your kereru fritter? and embracing the serpent.
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By Kennedy Warne
The official start of spring is another month away, but with daffodils, jonquils, paper whites and early cheer tossing their heads in sprightly dance in my garden, it feels like the season is here. The other morning I watched a song thrush on the lawn gathering nesting material and doing a little jiggy dance. It won’t be long till pipiwharauroa, the shining cuckoo, arrives back from its winter holiday in the tropics.
Of course, nothing says spring like the start of the whitebait season a couple of days ago. But it took freshwater ecologist Mike Joy to make a startling connection between whitebait and another native species that has been in the news in a culinary connection: kereru. New Zealanders are eating threatened species—whitebait—and they can buy it from the supermarket.
We have 54 native freshwater fish. Three quarters of them are threatened species. 20 years ago, less than one quarter were threatened. Four of the five main whitebait species are classified by DoC as “at risk, populations declining.” “We’re frittering away out whitebait,” says Jane Goodman, DoC’s freshwater technical advisor. The main causes of decline are water abstraction, irrigation, habitat loss—and trout.
And here’s where it gets interesting: think of all the money and effort we putting into controlling and eradicating rats, stoats, weasels, feral cats—the predators of our unique and threatened land creatures. Yet we give the “weasel of the waterways” a pass. We understand that our endemic terrestrial species can’t cope with predation pressure from introduced mammals, but don’t often make the connection that our endemic freshwater species are also facing unsustainable predation pressure from introduced fish.
Joy says that a first step in shoring up our declining galaxiid (whitebait) species would be to ban commercial whitebaiting and make the whitebait catch recreational only (as it is with trout. “If you gave our native fish the same protection that we give to our trout, there would be a huge improvement,” he says.
Protection of native fish would also benefit other species, including one which depends utterly on a fish called the koaro to survive. That species is the kakahi or kaeo, the freshwater mussel. Kakahi have a long and close connection with Māori. They were valuable kai, the juice was a food for infants and a medicine, and the shells were used for everything from vegetable scrapers and hair cutters to rattles on kites. A colourful whakatauki invokes the mussel like this: “The husband who diligently dredges for mussels will enjoy his wife’s affections while the husband who lazes around the house will have his head thumped!”
Like most other freshwater species, kaeo is in decline. Part of the reason for kaeo’s decline in the wild is its recondite reproductive habits. All river-dwelling molluscs face a significant life-history challenge: how to avoid having one’s eggs and larvae swept out to sea by the current. Kaeo overcome this problem by producing larvae that hitch a ride upriver with fish—specifically the native freshwater galaxiid known as koaro.
Larval kaeo latch on to the gills of a passing koaro and live there, obtaining both transport and nutrients until they are large enough to hop off and take up a sedentary life on the riverbed. The decline of galaxiid populations through nutrient overload and other environmental problems in waterways has cost the molluscs their host, and kaeo numbers have dwindled accordingly.
Kentucky farmer–poet Wendell Berry said “We must make our lives fit our places”—and I would add, “We must also make our lives fit our species.” Some of those species are freshwater fish. Whitebait are as much our biological treasures as kiwi and kakapo, and we need to be their guardians.
To do so, we could derive some inspiration from Amazonian tribes with their profound sense of connection to the natural world. A film in the current film festival, doing the rounds of New Zealand centres at the moment, offers some beautiful insights into the Amazonian way.
“Embrace of the Serpent” focuses on the life of the Karamakate, Mover of Worlds. The movie is based on actual trips in the Amazon made by two explorers, German ethnographer Theodor Koch-Grunberg, who visited the Pemon Indians of North-West Brazil in 1911, and American scientist Richard Evans Schultes, who followed in his footsteps with Koch-Grunberg’s journals for a guide, three decades later.
There is much trenchant comparison between the rich inner lives of the Cohiuano and the venal superficiality of the Europeans who come into their midst. Karamakate says: “I had a dream once, of a white spirit who did not know how to dream. He was sick, and the only way he could heal was by learning to dream.”
Yet even the “mover of worlds” can find himself bereft of connection to the sustaining world. At one powerful moment in the film, Karamakate is drawing on a rock face above a river. The explorer Schultes asks him what he’s doing, and he admits that he is no longer hearing the voice of the creatures he paints. “Animals, plants, rocks—they all went silent. The line is broken. I am empty. How could I forget the gifts the gods have given us? Now [these drawings] are just pictures on rocks.”
At another point, Karamakate explains that, before he can become a warrior, every Cohiuano man has to leave everything behind and go into the jungle, guided only by his dreams. In that journey he has to discover, completely alone, who he really is. Some get lost and never come back. But those that do are ready to face whatever may come.
Speaking of facing whatever may come, I have been inspired by the story of Kimberley Chambers, who just made history by being the first woman to swim almost 50 km in the open ocean from the Farallon Islands to Golden Gate Bridge, taking 17 hours. She adds this to a long list of marathon swims she has been making since 2012. She is only the sixth person to complete the Oceans Seven—seven long-distance open-water swims that are considered the marathon swimming equivalent of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge. They include the channel between Scotland and Ireland (where, in the course of her swim, Chambers was stung 200 times by lion’s mane jellyfish), Cook Strait, the channel between Maui and Molokai, the English Channel, the Catalina Channel (LA/Channel Islands), the Tsugaru Strait (Honshu/Hokkaido) and the Strait of Gibraltar.
The story of how she got into marathon swimming is remarkable. Raised on a farm in the King Country, she was a ballerina for most of her childhood and teenage years. She became a software designer at Adobe Systems in San Francisco, but in 2009 had a bad fall down a staircase. She almost lost a leg to internal swelling, and it took her two years to learn to walk again. She decided to start swimming as a way of building strength and finding a new discipline in which to excel, and was soon doing 80 lengths of the pool each training session. Today, she says, she gets up every morning at 4.15 to swim in a pool for 1.5 hours, then swims in San Francisco Bay. She says one of the reasons she enjoys the sport of marathon swimming is that there is “no gold medal, no cash prize, you’re competing with your mind.” In addition, she speaks of the “sacredness of swimming,” the sense of connection to the ocean world, of being immersed in the sea every day.
I am reminded of the lines of e. e. cummings:
for whatever we lose (like a you or me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea
Listen to Kennedy's interview with Kathryn Ryan.
Topics: rural, environment, life and society
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Tags: Kennedy Warne, whitebait
Duration: 13'54"
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09:05 Liquidator seeks money from former Ross Asset Management investors
Liquidators of convicted fraudster David Ross's Ponzi scheme are trying to claw back more money from investors who got their money out early.
A successful clawback test case against one of three investors who were paid out by Ross before his company collapsed has resulted in the liquidators PWC making claims against 25 more former Ross clients.
Bruce Tichbon heads the Ross Asset Management Investors Group, which supports those who lost investments in the Ross ponzi scheme.
09:20 The plight of traumatised refugee families coming to NZ and how well they're supported
An organisation providing specialist mental health services for traumatised refugees, says New Zealand needs to do much more for them and their families. While refugees brought in under the UN quota system get six months of government funded support, those who come under the family reunification quota get no formal support or help, despite often suffering from the same trauma as their refugee family member.
Jeff Thomas is General Manager of Refugee Trauma Recovery. We also speak with Rachel O'Connor, National Programme Development Manager for Red Cross.
09:30 Do computer cookies lead to tailored pricing?
Some computer experts believe the cookies embedded in our computers when we visit websites, are in some cases being used to tailor pricing for on-line purchases, based on information gathered about the computer user.
Dr Peter Gutmann is a computer scientist at Auckland University.
09:45 Middle East correspondent Kiran Nazish
10:05 Adán Tijerina, the Mexican-born General Manager at Orchestra Wellington
Adan Tijerina was born in Mexico and raised in Washington State in the US. After moving to New Zealand he became a part owner of the iconic restaurant and bar, the Matterhorn, as well as playing in several local bands.
He was recruited by Orchestra Wellington to shake things up and break the mould... including driving up and expanding classical music audiences as well as nuturing future musicians.
10:35 Book review: 'Johnny Enzed The NZ Soldier in the First World War 1914-1918' Edited by Glyn Harper
Published by Exisle Publishing. Reviewed by Gail Pittaway.
10:45 The Reading: 'Gutter Black' by Dave McArtney
Highlights from the intimate memoir by the late Dave McArtney, a founding member of one of NZ's iconic rock bands, 'Hello Sailor' recalling their days of creativity, misadventure, success and excess. Read by Phil O'Brien. (4 of 6, RNZ)
11:05 Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
11:20 Traditionally Tuscan Italian sweet treats
How did two South Africans come to be making authentic Italian dolce in Christchurch? We talk to Paula Barbafiera about the humble origins of her Traditionally Tuscan wholesale bakery, and the delicious sweet treats they make.
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11:45 Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
A squeeze of lemon on your kereru fritter? and embracing the serpent.
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=PLAYLIST=
Artist: Eden Mulholland
Song: Utopia
Composer: Mulholland
Album: Hunted Haunted
Label: Private
Time: 10.32am
Artist: Dionne Warwick
Song: Walk on By
Composer: Burt Bacharach
Label: EMI
Time: 10.44am
Artist: The Unfaithful Ways
Song: Katie Darling
Composer: Williams
Album: Free Rein
Label: Aeroplane
Time: 11.20am
Artist: Sister Sledge
Song: Thinking of You
Composer: Rodger / Edwards
Album: Hunted Haunted
Label: Old Gold
Time: 11.44 am
===Noon | Midday Report===
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Radio New Zealand news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including: 12:16 Business News 12:26 Sport 12:34 Rural News 12:43 Worldwatch
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12:00
Midday News for 17 August 2015
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New Zealand's largest foreign investor is revealed and the US takes over to become New Zealand wine's largest export market by value.
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Duration: 15'00"
12:16
Contact Energy's profit falls by 43 percent
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Contact Energy's profit has fallen by nearly half, due in part to intense competition for customers.
Topics: business
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Tags: energy
Duration: 1'14"
12:19
Freightways says full-year result reflects overall group strength
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Freightways says it's delivered a strong full-year financial result, driven by an improved performance across all businesses and regions.
Topics: business
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Tags: Freightways, transport
Duration: 1'39"
12:22
Chinese keen to build new businesses - report
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A report has found Chinese investors have been keen to build new businesses, rather than just buying existing ones.
Topics: business
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Tags: Cina, investment
Duration: 1'15"
12:24
Economist says services sector still robust
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An economist says the services sector is still showing robust growth.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: banking
Duration: 1'00"
12:26
Chorus says Commission should base final prices on real costs
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Chorus says the price it can charge users on the network should be based on real costs, rather than on the Commerce Commission's hypothetical model.
Topics: business
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Tags: Chorus
Duration: 52"
12:27
Midday Markets for 17 August 2015
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Don Lewthwaite at First NZ Capital.
Topics: business
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'16"
12:28
Midday Sports News for 17 August 2015
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After several close calls at the majors, Australian golfer Jason Day has claimed an emotional breakthrough victory at the PGA Championship in Wisconsin.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'45"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 17 August 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 8'09"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
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13:10
Song You Have To Hear - The Avenue
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'The Avenue' by Miles Calder and the Rumours chosen by Harvey from Eastbourne.
Topics: music
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Duration: 4'29"
13:14
India's Daughter - Leslee Udwin
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Jyoti Singh, a physiotherapy student, was brutally gang-raped and tortured to death by six men in a moving bus in New Delhi on December 16, 2012. The crimes against the 23-year-old led to widespread protests throughout India. In 2013, four men were sentenced to death after they were convicted of rape and murder. A fifth man died in Tihar Jail. The sixth, who was under the age of 18, was given a three-year sentence. Leslee Udwin, is the director and producer of the documentary, India's Daughter.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Jyoti Singh, India's Daughter, Leslee Udwin, India, documentary, film
Duration: 16'51"
13:32
White Man Behind A Desk - Robbie Nicol
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Our guest may be New Zealand's very own John Oliver or Jon Stewart. He's Robbie Nicol, also known as 'White Man Behind A Desk'. The Wellingtonian's online show is gathering quite a bit of attention with the satirical videos having more than 130,000 views across Facebook and YouTube. They deal with topics like, climate change, social bonds and invading Iraq.
Topics: politics
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: White Man Behind A Desk, Robbie Nicol, comedy
Duration: 12'50"
13:45
Feature Album - Doolittle
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Doolittle - The Pixies. Chosen by Madeleine Hawkesby.
Topics: music
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Duration: 15'29"
14:10
TV review with Alex Casey
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Alex Casey looks at Humans, Inside Amy Schumer, Bachelor in Paradise and Story.
Topics: media
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Tags: television
Duration: 10'54"
14:20
Video Games with Aaron Scott
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Aaron Scott looks at Rare Replay and Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor.
Topics: media
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Tags: video games
Duration: 11'22"
14:35
Book review with Pip Adams
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Pip Adams looks at Bound: An Ode to Falling In Love? and Pukeahu: An Exploration.
Topics: books
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Tags: book review
Duration: 6'33"
14:45
Music review with Russell Brown
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Russell Brown looks at The Phoenix Foundation as remixed by Neil Finn; Blair Parks and Electric Wire Hustle featuring Kimbra.
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Duration: 15'48"
15:10
70 Is The New 50 - Dr Rudi Westendorp
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70 is the new 50. Or so it seems when you look at the stats that show we're living longer. Dr Rudi Westendorp is one of the world's leading experts in geriatric medicine. He says we shouldn't be afraid about getting older. He's written a book about the ageing revolution that explains how we can actually embrace being senior citizens. His book is called 'Growing Old Without Feeling Older'.
Topics: health, science
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Duration: 24'40"
15:30
Children celebrate Shenzhen Culture
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In a rare opportunity to learn from top international performers from China, 300 students from primary and secondary schools in Wellington are attending a special showcase of traditional Chinese folk dancing, music and acrobatics. Broken bones are just part of the job Lynda Chanwai-Earle discovers, when she goes backstage afterwards with a small group of lucky secondary students as they meet the stars face-to-face - to learn more about their lives, cultures and extraordinary skills.
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By Lynda Chanwai-Earle
Shenzhen Cultural Week hit Wellington when 26 of Shenzhen City’s top performing artists presented a cultural showcase of traditional Chinese performance at the Soundings Theatre at the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa on Wellington’s waterfront.
In a rare opportunity to learn from top international performers from China, primary and secondary school students attended a free performance with a question and answer session held afterwards.
Broken bones are just part of the job, as Lynda Chanwai-Earle discovers when she goes backstage afterwards with a small group of lucky secondary students as they meet the stars face-to-face - to learn more about their lives, cultures and extraordinary skills.
After the performance an even luckier select group of students studying Chinese at Wellington East Girls College went backstage to meet performers face-to-face to learn more.The showcase was sponsored by the Chinese Embassy and Wellington City Council.
Three-hundred school children chattered excitedly as they filled the foyer of Soundings Theatre. Eager Ngaio School students flocked to tell me their expectations of the upcoming performance and what they understand about Shenzhen City in Southern China – the centre for this performing troupe.
Eleven-year-old Isobel tells me she is studying Chinese – in the Q&A she wants to ask the performers what they like most about China. Nine-year-old Angeline loves acrobatics, also popular with nine year old Lila who is crazy about ballet dancing.
They’ve been selected from nine schools across Wellington region to attend this special showcase by 26 of Shenzhen City’s top performing artists that includes Mongolian dance, folk music, acrobatics and magic – all part of Discover China Shenzhen Cultural Week.
The opening dance is followed by four acrobats physically juggling large straw hats and each other with deft agility. Then delighting the students - an ensemble of traditional folk musicians from Guangdong Province perform a classic; The race-horse with the 2000-year-old Pi-pa or Chinese lute, the 17 bamboo pipes of the ancient Sheng, the 21 stringed gu-zheng or Chinese zither and the two-stringed er-hu, or upright fiddle.
Dancers dressed as Terracotta warriors from the Qin Dynasty's famous buried army (209 BCE) leap and glide across the stage to be followed by the magic show – a huge hit. The magician delighted students by turning silk handkerchiefs into marching sticks and amongst the squeals he miraculously catches a (very real looking) fish on the end of a line dangled into the audience – before making the fish disappear again.
During the Q & A session afterwards the school children eagerly asked questions; “How long did it take to train as an acrobat?” Co-MC Julian Zhu helps translate for the performers; “Not long – only 10 years!”
Backstage afterwards four students studying Chinese at Wellington East Girls College along with their Chinese teacher Karen Hu asked questions, again with the aid of MC and translator Julian Zhu.
Senior student Lucy introduces herself in Mandarin and asks if they’d been to New Zealand before. The performers tell her they haven’t, this is their first time. A Chinese New Zealander herself, senior student Mika asks what the performers like about New Zealand; “Everything! Mostly the weather and lovely blue skies.”
Fighting the giggles, Isla asks where the fish disappeared to. “You’ll have to ask the magician!” laugh the performers, but that's one magic trick that they won't divulge. Emily asks if the long, elaborate Mongolian costumes are difficult to dance in. Julian Zhu translates that in Mongolia they usually wear these kind of garments every day. The dancers trained with these costumes and are used to it.
Ming Ming (English name) the choreographer explains that they have been trained by a dance teacher from Mongolia along with other traditional dance forms at a famous Dance and Performance Academy in Beijing, but all performers are based in Shenzhen City.
Emily asks – do you start young? How hard is the training? “Yes, we start at the age of six but make it part of their whole life.” How old are they now? The acrobats reply; 21, 19, 16 and 17. “The same age as us, and we can’t do anything like that!” exclaims Mika in awe.
Have the acrobats and dancers ever had any serious injuries? One of the acrobats pulls up his legging to show his foot. This time their Chinese teacher Karen Hu translates;
That’s part of the sport – they train every day, he has a broken right foot – it can happen any time.
Simon Ding, the Production Manager for the Shenzhen Cultural Group explains more about Southern China’s newest city.
“Shenzhen is a migrant city – the youngest city in China at only 35 years of age but it’s the southernmost gate to China on the border to Hong Kong. It’s a special economic zone – with very powerful economic development. Even though it’s young the city is very keen on the development of culture. Shenzhen wants to promote young talent and expose this to international audiences.”
Where was the troupe performing before this? “We were performing in the Cook islands, at the 50th anniversary of the Cook Island’s Constitution.” Where to next? “We will tour around the European countries for Chinese New Year in 2016.”
Mika tells the performers that she’s been to Shenzhen City but mostly for the shopping and a little sightseeing. She thanks them graciously for giving her insight into their culture. Meanwhile there are hugs and thrilled exclamations all around – their Chinese Teacher Karen Hu has just discovered that she’s from the same town in Shenzhen as some of the performers.
The event has been bit like a lovely family reunion, with lots of exciting culture, performances and dazzling costumes in the mix.
Topics: language, education, life and society, arts
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Tags: Chinese folk dancing, Shenzhen City, China, arts, culture, entertainment, cultural practice
Duration: 11'27"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 17 August 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 13'33"
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1:10 Songs You Have To Hear
The Avenue - Miles Calder and the Rumours.
1:20 India's Daughter - Leslee Udwin
Jyoti Singh, a physiotherapy student, was brutally gang-raped and tortured to death by six men in a moving bus in New Delhi on December 16, 2012. The crimes against the 23-year-old led to widespread protests throughout India. In 2013, four men were sentenced to death after they were convicted of rape and murder. A fifth man died in Tihar Jail. The sixth, who was under the age of 18, was given a three-year sentence. Leslee Udwin, is the director and producer of the documentary, India's Daughter.
1:30 White Man Behind A Desk - Robbie Nicol
Our guest may be New Zealand's very own John Oliver or Jon Stewart. He's Robbie Nicol, also known as 'White Man Behind A Desk'. The Wellingtonian's online show is gathering quite a bit of attention. With the satirical videos having more than 130,000 views across Facebook and YouTube. They deal with topics like, climate change, social bonds and invading Iraq.
1:40 Feature album
Doolittle - The Pixies. Chosen by Madeleine Hawkesby.
2:10 The Critics
1. TV review - Alex Casey
2. Books - Pip Adams
3 Video Games - Aaron Scott
4 New Music - Russell Brown
3:10 70 Is The New 50 - Dr Rudi Westendorp
70 is the new 50. Or so it seems when you look at the stats that show we're living longer. Dr Rudi Westendorp is one of the world's leading experts in geriatric medicine. He says we shouldn't be afraid about getting older. He's written a book about the ageing revolution that explains how we can actually embrace being senior citizens. His book is called 'Growing Old Without Feeling Older'.
3:35 Voices Acrobats - Lynda Chanwai-Earle
Broken bones are just part of the job. Lynda Chanwai-Earle goes backstage with some lucky secondary school students from Wellington as they meet star acrobats and dancers from Shenzhen City, China - to learn more about their lives, cultures and extraordinary skills.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Jesse Mulligan and Jim Mora and Noelle McCarthy.
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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15:45
The Panel pre-show for 17 August 2015
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Duration: 13'33"
16:05
The Panel with Joe Bennett and Susan Guthrie (Part 1)
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Intro, Oh Canada, TPP, (Sir) Ritchie McCaw, Drunks fill emergency departments.
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Duration: 22'32"
16:06
The Panel with Joe Bennett and Susan Guthrie (Part 2)
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Corporate ethics, Panel Says, Monitoring employees, Auckland house valuation halved, Flag mood.
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Duration: 27'36"
16:08
Intro
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What the Panelists Joe Bennett and Susan Guthrie have been up to.
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Duration: 3'56"
16:11
Oh Canada
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Canada is the top overseas investor in New Zealand. Not China.
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Duration: 4'50"
16:16
The TPP
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Will New Zealand fold under pressure of TPP negotiations putting our dairy industry in peril? We ask Al Gillespie of the University of Waikato.
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Duration: 8'36"
16:25
(Sir) Ritchie McCaw
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The idea of outgoing All Blacks caption Ritchie McCaw being given a knighthood is being touted again.
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Duration: 1'42"
16:26
Drunks fill emergency dept
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Tougher drinking laws called for as Wellington Hospital bears the brunt of the ready flow of alcohol in the community.
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Duration: 2'50"
16:33
Corporate ethics
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On-line retailer Amazon is being outed as a company which rules its workers under a culture of fear.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: work, employment, corporate ethics
Duration: 8'12"
16:41
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Joe Bennett and Susan Guthrie have been thinking about.
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Duration: 5'41"
16:48
Monitoring employees
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Some workers in the UK are being fitted with GPS devices to monitor their every move. Lawyer Gareth Abinor joins the Panel to discuss if we should be worried.
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Tags: workplace, Employees
Duration: 5'25"
16:51
Auckland house valuation halved
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A property in Parnell in Auckland had its CV halved after its owner questioned the $12.5m valuation placed on it. We ask Steve McNamara of Property InDepth how this kind of discrepancy is possible.
Topics: housing
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 4'56"
16:58
Flag mood
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The PM claims the country's mood is changing over the prospect of a new flag.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 3'14"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme
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17:00
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 17 August 2015
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Morphine brought from home to deal with mother's pain. Innocent bystander shot can't sue police. Online GST by Christmas. Searchers find wrecked plane in remote mountains. Labour questions value added by foreign investors. Former All Black pleads guilty to charge from drunken duck-shoot. Carmaker's fuel-use claims not for real.
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Duration: 24'29"
17:08
Morphine brought from home to deal with mother's pain
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A woman in her 50s dying of cancer in an Oamaru rest home got such poor palliative care her daughter brought more morphine from home to deal with her agony.
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Tags: palliative care, rest homes
Duration: 2'47"
17:10
Innocent bystander shot can't sue police
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The High Court has thrown out a bid for compensation from an innocent bystander who was shot and injured by the police as they closed in on fugitive gunman.
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Duration: 4'13"
17:15
Online GST by Christmas
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New Zealanders can expect to be paying GST on online and overseas purchases, either imported or bought online, by Christmas.
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Duration: 4'03"
17:19
Searchers find wrecked plane in remote mountains
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Indonesian searchers have located the wreckage of an airliner that crashed yesterday with 54 people on board.
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Duration: 3'01"
17:24
Labour questions value added by foreign investors
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Opposition parties are questioning whether foreign investors are adding value to the economy when they buy productive land in New Zealand.
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Duration: 3'01"
17:26
Former All Black pleads guilty to charge from drunken duck-shoot
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A former All Black has pleaded guilty to his part in a drunken duck-shooting trip in Central Otago but wants to be discharged without conviction.
Topics: law, sport
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Duration: 2'52"
17:35
Evening Business for 17 August 2015
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News from the business sector including a market report.
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Duration: 2'18"
17:39
Only London's public transport more expensive than Auckland's
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Auckland's trains and buses are among the most expensive, in fact second only to London, according to a new report comparing 32 cities.
Topics: transport
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 4'29"
17:44
Carmaker's fuel-use claims not for real
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Car maker Ford says the fuel use figures it advertises for its cars shouldn't be taken as real world examples.
Topics: transport
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Duration: 4'07"
17:47
Proposed job cuts at Oamaru Mail
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One of New Zealand's oldest daily newspapers, the Oamaru Mail, is expected to be cut to a weekly paper.
Topics: media
Regions: Otago
Tags: newspaper
Duration: 3'32"
17:52
Gorilla charges glass, man banned from park
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A man's been banned from a Canterbury zoo after agitating the new gorillas to the point the 190 kilo silverback charged the glass, smacking into it.
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Tags: Orana Park, zoo
Duration: 3'40"
17:55
Bronze sculpture of the second Maori King has been unveiled
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A bronze sculpture of the second Maori King has been unveiled at a ceremony in Hamilton.
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Duration: 3'47"
18:06
Sports News for 17 August 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 3'45"
18:12
Major study highlights serious gaps in bowel cancer care
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A third of patients with bowel cancer in this country don't find out they have the disease until they reach a hospital emergency department.
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Duration: 4'49"
18:18
Gas-burning power station to close
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Contact Energy is closing down its gas-fired Otahuhu power station at the cost of some jobs, though environmentalists are pleased.
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Duration: 2'33"
18:21
Pastor accused of molesting girls
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A Hutt Valley pastor has gone on trial accused of molesting two young girls.
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Regions: Wellington Region
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Duration: 2'14"
18:23
Early odds for the Rugby World Cup
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If the All Blacks weren't strong favourites to win the Rugby World Cup, they are now after smashing the Wallabies 41- 13 to keep the Bledisloe Cup.
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Tags: All Blacks, RWC 2015, TAB
Duration: 3'13"
18:35
Young man left with paralysed right shoulder
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A young man was left with a paralysed right shoulder after his doctor cut a lump out of his neck.
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Duration: 4'11"
18:43
Canada biggest foreign investor in New Zealand in the last two years
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Canada has beaten out China, Australia and the US as the biggest foreign direct investor in New Zealand in the last two years.
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Duration: 3'40"
18:47
Te Manu Korihi News for 17 August 2015
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A former social worker in south Auckland says people have become desensitised to the number of Maori and Pasifika families living in poor housing, garages and even cars; A bronze bust of the second Maori King has been unveiled at a ceremony in Hamilton; The commercial arm of a major Waikato iwi has appointed a new chief executive.
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Duration: 3'34"
18:51
Americans can't get enough of New Zealand wine
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The United States has overtaken Australia to become the country's largest wine export market, spending 372-million-dollars in the year to June.
Topics: business
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Duration: 4'12"
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including: 7:30 The Best of Upbeat: Selected Eva Radich exchanges with personalities from the world of music and the arts (RNZ) 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries 9:30 Insight: An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ)
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19:12
Scarred For Life
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The impact of hidden scars on the lives of women - with Lee Kofman, RMIT PhD researcher and writer.
Topics: identity
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Duration: 17'53"
20:42
Soil Science
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The importance of soils for food security and essential ecosystem functions has been acknowledged by declaring 2015 the International Year of Soils, with Landcare Research scientist Pierre Roudier... Antarctic soils.
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Duration: 16'19"
20:59
Conundrum clue one for Monday17 August
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Conundrum Clue one for Monday 17 August
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21:59
Conundrum Clue two for Monday 17 August
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Conundrum Clue two for Monday 17 August.
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7:10 Scarred for life
The impact of hidden scars on the lives of women - with Lee Kofman, RMIT PhD researcher and writer.
7:35 Upbeat: Composer John Elmsly
John Elmsly has just begun his tenure as the Composer-in-Residence at Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music. John studied electronic music composition at Victoria University with Douglas Lilburn whose centenary is being marked this year.
8:10 Windows on the World
International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.
8:40 pm Soil science
The importance of soils for food security and essential ecosystem functions has been acknowledged by declaring 2015 the International Year of Soils, with Landcare Research scientist Pierre Roudier... Antarctic soils.
9:10 pm Calling all red-heads
Ginger-haired Stuart Parry plans to put on the inaugural Gingers: The Gathering festival (ideally in Plymouth) next UK summer in 2016, to bring together others like himself (that's one to two per cent of the human population) that have the MC1R gene.
9:30 Insight
10:00 Late Edition
A review of the news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.
11:06 Beale Street Caravan
Although first touted as a country act in the 1990s, Miami's Mavericks sound is a blend of Tex-Mex, Latin and Cuban touches, along with pure 50’s rock ‘n’ roll, and of course, country
Led by Raul Malo, who sounds a little like Roy Orbison, they take the stage aboard Delbert McClinton's Sandy Beaches Cruise in front of an enthusiastic crowd.
===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
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Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National
===11:06 PM. | Beale Street Caravan===
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David Knowles introduces the Memphis-based radio show with an international reputation for its location recordings of blues musicians live in concert (3 of 13, BSC)