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:
01 September 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
=DESCRIPTION=
Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Spectrum (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (RNZ); 2:05 Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy (3 of 13, PRX) 3:05 Footprints in the Sand, written and read by Sarah Boddy (2 of 5, RNZ); 3:30 An Author's View (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
=DESCRIPTION=
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
=AUDIO=
06:00
Top Stories for Tuesday 1 September 2015
BODY:
John Key says he won't allow more refugees into the country without the support they need to resettle. Why are New Zealanders among the fattest in the world? Researchers hope to find out in a study launched this morning and a woman who was seriously injured when she slipped on wet tiles successfully prosecutes Otago University. We talk to her lawyer.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 32'50"
06:06
Sports News for 1 September 2015
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'03"
06:08
Provincial Mayors say Jetstar in it for the long haul
BODY:
Provincial mayors in areas where Jetstar will now fly into are certain the airline is in it for the long haul, yet they refuse to reveal how long the contract is actually for.
Topics: transport, business
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: Jetstar
Duration: 4'03"
06:18
Morning Rural News for 1 September 2015
BODY:
News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 4'20"
06:22
Pacific News for 1 September 2015
BODY:
The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'40"
06:26
Te Manu Korihi News for 1 September 2015
BODY:
Ngati Paoa is threatening court action following the Maori King's announcement that Tainui Waikato has business in Auckland; Dover Samuels is giving evidence about being whipped for speaking Maori at school at the te Paparahi o te Raki Waitangi Tribunal hearing today; An expert in social work is warning that any move to shift Child, Youth and Family services to the private sector could endanger Maori tamariki; The counsel for Ngati Kahu says the Waitangi Tribunal is 'missing the mark' for iwi and is too scared to order the Crown to return land to iwi.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'46"
06:42
New study aims to find out how genetics influences obesity
BODY:
New Zealand scientists are planning the biggest study ever into the genetic reasons behind New Zealand's obesity epidemic.
Topics: science
Regions:
Tags: obesity, genetics
Duration: 2'15"
06:46
Divisions in Labour over charter schools policy
BODY:
Trouble is brewing in the Labour Party caucus over its policy on charter schools.
Topics: politics, education
Regions:
Tags: charter schools
Duration: 2'44"
06:49
Business confidence continues to tumble
BODY:
Business confidence has continued to tumble, hitting fresh six year lows
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: Business confidence
Duration: 1'47"
06:51
Treasury says economic growth may slow
BODY:
The Treasury says economic growth may slow to 2 percent this year due to cooling domestic demand.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: Treasury
Duration: 30"
06:52
Housing consents rise sharply in July
BODY:
Economists are not getting carried away despite a surge in consents for new houses and apartments, led by Auckland.
Topics: business, economy, housing
Regions:
Tags: consents
Duration: 1'38"
06:53
Call for tax change on seismic strengthening falls on deaf ears
BODY:
A lobby group demanding tax relief for earthquake strengthening work on buildings says it's being ignored by the Government.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: earthquake strengthening
Duration: 3'13"
06:56
Jetstar names four new regional routes
BODY:
A business lobby groups says Jetstar's stronger regional presense may encourage more firms to base themselves outside the main urban centres.
Topics: business, transport
Regions:
Tags: Jetstar
Duration: 1'27"
06:58
Earnings news
BODY:
Foley Family Wines has reported a sharp drop in profit, falling 71 percent to 1 point 2 million dollars in the year to June compared with the previous year, due to valuation changes.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: Earnings
Duration: 47"
06:59
Morning markets for 1 September 2015
BODY:
On Wall Street, stocks have fallen after weekend comments from Federal Reserve vice chairman Stanley Fischer appeared to keep the door open for a rate hike in September.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 41"
07:07
Sports News for 1 September 2015
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'02"
07:11
Migrant crisis in Europe
BODY:
The European Union is to hold emergency talks about the migrant and refugee crisis.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: European Union, EU, refugees
Duration: 3'47"
07:15
PM ruling out emergency refugee quota for NZ
BODY:
In July alone, the number of migrants that reached the EU's borders topped 100,000 for the first time
Topics: refugees and migrants, politics
Regions:
Tags: refugee quota
Duration: 2'53"
07:19
NZ's biggest genetic study into why people are fat launched
BODY:
An ambitious attempt to find out why New Zealanders are some of the fattest people in the world has been launched in Queenstown today.
Topics: science
Regions:
Tags: obesity, genetics
Duration: 3'39"
07:23
Andrew Little responds to criticism trouble's brewing
BODY:
The Labour leader has whipped two rebel MPs into line after they appeared to contradict Labour's policy opposing charter schools.
Topics: te ao Maori, education
Regions:
Tags: charter schools
Duration: 6'46"
07:29
Forecasters warn farmers to brace for El Nino
BODY:
Today marks the first day of Spring, but forecasters are predicting windier and stormier weather than normal before Christmas.
Topics: weather
Regions:
Tags: spring
Duration: 2'39"
07:36
Otago pleads guilty to health and safety prosecution
BODY:
A woman who took Otago University to court over slipping on wet tiles has won 60-thousand dollars.
Topics: education, health
Regions:
Tags: Otago University
Duration: 4'01"
07:40
Provincial mayors say Jetstar in it for the long haul
BODY:
Provincial mayors in areas about to get Jetstar flights are adamant the airline is in it for the long haul.
Topics: transport, business
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: Jetstar
Duration: 2'26"
07:46
Two new reports show biz confidence and growth down
BODY:
Business confidence, a good indicator of where the economy is headed, has hit a six year low according to ANZ data yesterday.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: Business confidence
Duration: 6'00"
07:52
Education union joins gender pay discrimination stoush
BODY:
A union representing hundreds of female teacher aides is the latest to announce legal action over pay discrimination.
Topics: education, business, law
Regions:
Tags: pay equity
Duration: 3'08"
07:55
Iwi looks at peat mining in Far North
BODY:
A Northland iwi is looking at a proposal for a new extraction industry for former wetlands in the Far North - mining peat.
Topics: te ao Maori, business
Regions: Northland
Tags: mining peat
Duration: 3'46"
08:07
Sports News for 1 September 2015
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'20"
08:11
Migrant crisis has roots in a broken Syria
BODY:
The migrant crisis is beginning to divide Europe, as hundreds of thousands of refugees flee Arab and North African countries.
Topics: refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags: Europe, migrant crisis
Duration: 4'01"
08:17
Amnesty International unimpressed with PM's refugee stance
BODY:
New Zealand hasn't increased its refugee quota since it was first set at 800 almost thirty years ago, in 1987.
Topics: refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags: refugee quota
Duration: 3'16"
08:20
Jetsar expected to use regional routes as a feeder service
BODY:
Jetstar's chosen its four new regional routes. The budget arm of Qantas is launching flights from Auckland to Nelson, Napier, New Plymouth and Palmerston North; while Wellington to Nelson will also be added.
Topics: transport, business
Regions:
Tags: Jetstar
Duration: 4'37"
08:25
Otago University statement re tile injury court case
BODY:
Otago University says no one was available for an interview this morning, but they did send Morning Report a statement.
Topics: health, law
Regions: Otago
Tags: slippery tiles
Duration: 56"
08:26
Scientists hope genes hold key to obesity
BODY:
A million dollar study into the genetic reasons behind New Zealand's obesity epidemic has been announced today.
Topics: science
Regions:
Tags: obesity, genetics
Duration: 4'54"
08:31
Markets Update for 1 September 2015
BODY:
A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 1'16"
08:37
Dover Samuels to tell Tribunal of beatings for speaking te reo
BODY:
Northland's veteran of Maori politics, Dover Samuels is giving evidence to the Waitangi Tribunal today about a subject he's never spoken of before in public - the brutal punishment of young Maori children in the 1940s for speaking te reo Maori at school.
Topics: te ao Maori, education
Regions: Northland
Tags: Dover Samuels, Waitangi Tribunal, brutal punishment
Duration: 3'53"
08:41
Rotorua farmers fear new nitrogen rules
BODY:
Farmers in the Lake Rotorua catchment fear their businesses may become unprofitable when rules to help clean-up the lake are brought in.
Topics: farming, rural, law, environment
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Lake Rotorua
Duration: 3'57"
08:47
Te Manu Korihi News for 1 September 2015
BODY:
Ngati Paoa is threatening court action following the Maori King's announcement that Tainui Waikato has business in Auckland; Dover Samuels is giving evidence about being whipped for speaking Maori at school at the te Paparahi o te Raki Waitangi Tribunal hearing today; The counsel for Ngati Kahu says the Waitangi Tribunal is 'missing the mark' for iwi and is too scared to order the Crown to return land to iwi; An expert in social work is warning that any move to shift Child, Youth and Family services to the private sector could endanger Māori tamariki;
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'54"
08:51
US Open kicks off
BODY:
The US Open is underway, and all eyes are on the defending champion Serena Williams as aims to be the first player since Steffi Graf to claim the coveted 'Grand Slam'.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags: US Open, tennis
Duration: 2'48"
08:53
Plastic pollution a growing threat to seabirds
BODY:
A new scientific paper published today says plastic pollution is a growing threat to seabirds, from tiny storm petrels right up to the mighty albatrosses.
Topics: environment, science
Regions:
Tags: plastic pollution
Duration: 3'27"
08:56
Final four flag options announced today
BODY:
The Cabinet has signed off the final four New Zealand flag designs, which will be made public in just over an hour.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: NZ flag
Duration: 1'23"
=SHOW NOTES=
===9:06 AM. | Nine To Noon===
=DESCRIPTION=
Current affairs and topics of interest, including: 10:45 The Reading: In the Palace Gardens, by Sarah Quigley, told by Anna Julienne (2 of 3, RNZ)
=AUDIO=
09:13
Parliament's inquiry into assisted dying
BODY:
The health select committee has agreed to hold an inquiry into assisted dying. The inquiry is in response to a petition signed by nearly 9000 people, and asked for an investigation into public attitudes on medically assisted dying in the event of a terminal illness or irreversible condition which makes life unbearable. Health Select Committee chairman Simon O'Connor discusses the committee's approach.
Topics: health, life and society, politics
Regions:
Tags: assisted dying
Duration: 9'46"
09:23
Scathing Senate report into Nauru detention centre conditions
BODY:
The Australian senate inquiry has released a scathing report on the detention centre on Nauru, saying all children should be removed from the camps. It has also called for a "full audit" of allegations of sexual abuse, child abuse and other criminal conduct. Ian Rintoul is the spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition of Australia.
Topics: refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 11'28"
09:35
Is NZ doing its fair share for the European migrant crisis?
BODY:
The Prime Minister is ruling out an emergency intake of refugees in response to the migrant crisis in Europe. New Zealand has not increased its refugee quota since 1987, yet our population has grown 40 per cent in that time, and our quota has actually dropped 50 places, since then. Murdoch Stephens is the spokesperson and lead researcher for Doing Our Bit a group that has been campaigning for over two and a half years, to double New Zealand's Refugee Quota.
Topics: refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 10'46"
09:49
US correspondent Steve Almond
BODY:
Ashley Madison data dump, Tesla's New Car Is Off the Charts, Miley Cyrus Is Pan-Sexual
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: USA
Duration: 9'04"
10:09
Feminism, economics, & who cooked Adam Smith's dinner?
BODY:
Katrine Marcal, author of Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?, argues there is a fatal flaw in our continued reliance on Adam Smith's representation of how the economy works. She believes it places an over-emphasis on self-interest and 'economic man'. Katrine Marcal argues economics isn't about money it is about how we view people, and sometimes how we ignore them. Giving birth to babies, raising children, cultivating a garden, or taking care of Adam Smith so he could write Wealth of Nations. None of this counted in his standard economic model. So is it time to re-think economic science?
EXTENDED BODY:
Katrine Marcal, author of Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?, argues there is a fatal flaw in our continued reliance on Adam Smith's representation of how the economy works. She believes it places an over-emphasis on self-interest and 'economic man'.
Katrine Marcal argues economics isn't about money, it is about how we view people, and sometimes how we ignore them. Giving birth to babies, raising children, cultivating a garden, or taking care of Adam Smith so he could write Wealth of Nations... none of this counted in his standard economic model.
So is it time to re-think economic science?
Topics: author interview, inequality, economy, politics
Regions:
Tags: women, economics
Duration: 23'28"
10:33
Book Review: The Party Line by Sue Orr
BODY:
Reviewed by Carole Beu, published by Vintage.
Topics: books
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 6'37"
11:07
Business commentator Rod Oram
BODY:
The company results season.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 8'56"
11:16
Straight Outta Christchurch - Scribe and The White Guitar
BODY:
Rapper, Malo Luafutu, aka Scribe, and his dad Fa'amoana, front up about The White Guitar, a powerful & rhythmical recreation of the troubled, triumphant story of their family. The White Guitar combines live performances from Scribe, AV projection and illusion in a breathtaking landmark production (Hannah Playhouse Wellington, September 1 to 5 and Court Theatre Christchurch, September 10 to 13).
EXTENDED BODY:
Rapper Malo Luafutu, aka Scribe, and his dad Fa'amoana Luafutu front up about The White Guitar, a powerful and rhythmical recreation of the troubled, triumphant story of their family. The White Guitar combines live performances from Scribe, AV projection and illusion in a breathtaking landmark production.
The White Guitar: Hannah Playhouse Wellington, September 1 to 5 and Court Theatre Christchurch, September 10 to 13.
Topics: identity, life and society, Pacific, music
Regions:
Tags: Scribe, The White Guitar
Duration: 31'23"
11:47
Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
BODY:
Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz
Topics: media
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 10'59"
=SHOW NOTES=
09:05 Parliament's inquiry into assisted dying
The health select committee has agreed to hold an inquiry into assisted dying. The inquiry is in response to a petition signed by nearly 9000 people, and asked for an investigation into public attitudes on medically assisted dying in the event of a terminal illness or irreversible condition which makes life unbearable.
Health Select Committee chairman Simon O'Connor discusses the committee's approach.
09:25 Scathing Senate report into Nauru detention centre conditions
The Australian senate inquiry has released a scathing report on the detention centre on Nauru, saying all children should be removed from the camps. It has also called for a "full audit" of allegations of sexual abuse, child abuse and other criminal conduct. Ian Rintoul is the spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition of Australia.
09:30 Is NZ doing its fair share when it comes to the European migrant crisis?
The Prime Minister is ruling out an emergency intake of refugees in response to the migrant crisis in Europe. New Zealand has not increased its refugee quota since 1987, yet our population has grown 40 per cent in that time, and our quota has actually dropped 50 places, since then. Murdoch Stephens is the spokesperson and lead researcher for Doing Our Bit a group that has been campaigning for over two and a half years, to double New Zealand's Refugee Quota.
09:45 US correspondent Steve Almond
10:05 Feminism, economics, & who cooked Adam Smith's dinner?
[image:46491:half]
Katrine Marcal, author of Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?, argues there is a fatal flaw in our continued reliance on Adam Smith's representation of how the economy works. She believes it places an over-emphasis on self-interest and 'economic man'. Katrine Marcal argues economics isn't about money it is about how we view people, and sometimes how we ignore them. Giving birth to babies, raising children, cultivating a garden, or taking care of Adam Smith so he could write Wealth of Nations. None of this counted in his standard economic model. So is it time to re-think economic science?
10:30 Book Review: The Party Line by Sue Orr
Reviewed by Carole Beu, Published by Vintage.
10:45 The Reading: In the Palace Gardens, by Sarah Quigley
Told by Anna Julienne (Part 2 of 3)
An only child with several different role models faces the choice between her artistic love and the profession of her parents (2 of 3, RNZ).
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
11:20 Straight Outta Christchurch - Scribe and The White Guitar
Rapper, Malo Luafutu, aka Scribe, and his dad Fa'amoana, front up about The White Guitar, a powerful & rhythmical recreation of the troubled, triumphant story of their family. The White Guitar combines live performances from Scribe, AV projection and illusion in a breathtaking landmark production (Hannah Playhouse Wellington, September 1 to 5 and Court Theatre Christchurch, September 10 to 13)
[gallery:1380]
11:45 Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on
gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz
=PLAYLIST=
Artist: Liam Finn
Song: Energy Spent
Time: 9.10
Artist: Winter Mountain
Song: Shed a Little Light
Time: 9.46
Artist: Emma Paki
Song: System Virtue
Time:10.42
Artist: Scribe
Song: Crusader
Time: 11.20
Artist: Jimi Hendrix
Song: Wind Cries Mary
Time: 11.35
Artist: Scribe
Song: Dreaming
Time: 11.45
===Noon | Midday Report===
=DESCRIPTION=
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
=AUDIO=
12:00
Midday News for 1 September 2015
BODY:
The four designs for the alternative New Zealand flag have been revealed; heavy rain and gale-force winds are battering parts of the country.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 15'03"
12:17
Terms of trade rise in June quarter
BODY:
Higher dairy prices have helped lift the country's purchasing power with the rest of the world.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'18"
12:17
Kiwi falls after weaker confidence and stronger US dollar
BODY:
The New Zealand dollar has fallen to six year lows against its American counterpart, following weaker business confidence and signals the United States may raise interest rates this month.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'09"
12:19
Trading halt on A2 Milk
BODY:
A2 Milk says it still hasn't heard from a consortium about a potential takeover offer.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: A2
Duration: 42"
12:20
Property values rise
BODY:
Residential property values have risen at the fastest rate in eight years. The latest QV House Price Index shows national values jumped 11.3% in the year to August, and are now 29% higher than in 2007.
Topics: business, economy, housing
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 37"
12:21
Sanford sell a boat as part of plans to exit tuna industry
BODY:
The fishing company, Sanford, has sold one of its boats as part of its plans to exit the tuna industry. The company sold the San Nanumea from its Pacific Tuna fleet in a deal that remains confidential for now.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'00"
12:23
Midday Markets for 1 September 2015
BODY:
Belinda Stanley at Craigs Investment Partners has the latest from the markets.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 2'11"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 1 September 2015
BODY:
Novak Djokovic makes an impressive start to US open.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'32"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 1 September 2015
BODY:
News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 7'42"
=SHOW NOTES=
===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
=DESCRIPTION=
An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
=AUDIO=
13:10
Song You Have To Hear - Menton
BODY:
Described as indie via Americana by The Guardian, the band is Palace Winter and the song, Menton.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 5'41"
13:16
New Zealand Flag - the final four
BODY:
The final four flag alternative designs have been unveiled. The Flag Consideration Panel chose 40 from more than 10,000 designs that were submitted, and Cabinet signed off on the final four yesterday. Our political reporter, Benedict Collins, was at the unveiling at Te Papa this morning.
Topics: politics
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: New Zealand Flag
Duration: 3'39"
13:20
Opera singer Simon O'Neill
BODY:
Simon O'Neil was supposed to join us on the programme previously but we were told he was 'scheduled to die that day'. He's a New Zealand native, he's studied at the Juilliard Opera Center, he's a Fulbright Scholar and he even appears on a New Zealand postage stamp. Simon O'Neill is one of the finest heldentenors around.
Topics: arts, music
Regions:
Tags: Tosca, Simon O'neill, New Zealand Opera, opera
Duration: 11'40"
13:33
Going West Books and Writers Festival
BODY:
Auckland's Going West Books and Writers Festival is turning 20. And this month they are celebrating with home-grown authors, playwrights and songwriters. Naomi McCleary is the festival founder.
Topics: arts, books
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Going West Books and Writers Festival, Naomi McCleary, Festivals
Duration: 6'59"
13:40
Feature Album - Electric Ladyland
BODY:
Actor/writer/director Josh Thomson chooses Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix. Josh has recently been announced in the lead role for feature film Chief Gary.
Topics: arts, music
Regions:
Tags: film, comedy
Duration: 22'27"
14:08
Flag design - which of the final four?
BODY:
The final four flag alternative designs have been unveiled. The Flag Consideration Panel chose 40 from more than 10 thousand designs that were submitted, and Cabinet signed off on the final four. Talking through the designs is Dan Newman. Dan is the former Global Marketing Design Director at Xero, and the curator of flagdesign.nz, a website dedicated to documenting the redesign of the flag.
Topics: politics
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: New Zealand Flag, Dan Newman, flagdesign.nz
Duration: 5'14"
14:17
Spring cleaning - Michelle Danholm
BODY:
The first day of spring is here and it's the perfect time to spring clean your home. Professional organiser Michelle Danholm gives tips on decluttering including what to keep, throw away, sell or donate. How starting small is a good thing. Why quality over quantity is important and how spring cleaning can be cathartic.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: cleaning
Duration: 6'08"
14:20
Greatest Kiwi Concert You've Ever Seen - The Rolling Stones
BODY:
This time the focus is on The Rolling Stones in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Invercargill and Dunedin in 1965 and 1973. Featured guests include formerly Invercargill based fan Dave Hogan, music journalist Graham Reid, and Ray Columbus and the Invaders lead guitarist Dave Russell.
Topics: music, history
Regions:
Tags: The Rolling Stones, rock
Duration: 36'43"
15:10
National Geographic - Bryan Christy - ivory funding terrorism
BODY:
In central Africa, dead elephants are financing terrorism. Terrorist groups and rebel militia are killing thousands upon thousands of elephants to sell or trade their ivory tusks for weapons. An investigative team from National Geographic hid a GPS device inside some fake tusks to track the ivory from Africa to the illegal market. The story about the illegal trade and the journey of the fake ivory tusks is in the September issue of National Geographic and in a documentary on the he National Geographic Channel called Warlords of Ivory We talk to investigative reporter Bryan Christy.
Topics: environment
Regions:
Tags: National Geographi, animals, ivory trade
Duration: 25'31"
15:46
The Panel pre-show for 1 September 2015
BODY:
Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 13'13"
21:06
Firing up the Plant Barbecue
BODY:
To find the best plants to use in green firebreaks, biologists are testing the flammability of plants on the 'plant barbecue'
EXTENDED BODY:
By Alison Ballance
Here’s one for the truly vegetarian. A barbecue styled on an Argentinian model for sizzling the perfect steak is being used to chargrill plants. But the aim is not to produce a gourmet dinner – rather, it’s to test the flammability of different plants.
“One of the key things we’re doing with this work is trying to identify native plants, especially, that might be useful to plant as green firebreaks … which help reduce the spread of fire.”
Tim Curran, ecologist, Lincoln University
To date manuka, kanuka, gorse, broom, pine, Coprosma, hakea, silver beech and fivefinger, to name but a few, have been put to the blow torch – with some interesting results. Native silver beech is surprisingly flammable, while introduced broom has thick green stems that struggle to burn. Kanuka and gorse are both highly flammable, as are most early successional species.
In their current research project Tim Curran from Lincoln University and Sarah Wyse from the University of Auckland are testing shoot flammability. They select 70-cm shoots from a range of species and then burn them either on their own or as a ‘mixed grill’ of two different species. This allows them to measure the flammability of plants on their own but also in the kind of combinations that occur in real life when a highly flammable species may cause a less flammable species to ignite or vice versa. In one of the tests I watched the kanuka reached a sizzling 745°C, as measured by the laser infrared thermometer, and it burnt for more than a minute, while the broom is was with spluttered out after just a few seconds.
The only work previously done in this area in New Zealand was a qualitative survey of fire managers, carried out about 15 years ago, which resulted in a ranking of species by flammability. This current project is empirically testing that ranking in an effort to improve it.
Sarah says that there has been a surprisingly good correlation between the expert opinions and the current tests, with a few exceptions. “Kauri, flax and ake ake aren’t as flammable as the ranking suggested they would be, whereas rimu and silver beech were more flammable than we expected.”
Tim says the implications of this are interesting: a long drought on the usually wet West Coast could result in much more intense forest fires. And climate change scenarios point to hotter drier windier weather in some places which could have consequences for fires in different ecosystems.
Although we don’t tend to think of New Zealand as having a strong history of fire, this is due more to the kind of weather we experience than having plants that are fire resistant. Lightning is a big cause of natural fires, but lightning storms here are often accompanied by heavy rain. Before humans settled New Zealand lightning and volcanic activity were the two main causes of fire, but the main cause for the past 750 years has been deliberate burning by humans.
Fortunately New Zealand fires don’t tend to be as large or as destructive as those in other parts of the world.
“One of the things that drives the very intense fires you get in the western United States and in Australia is extreme fire conditions – very dry conditions, maybe a drought for several years," says Tim. "There may not have been a fire through there for quite a while, so there’s been a build-up of fuel. You get all of those things combined and you get some really dangerous fire weather and you’ll get what’s known as a crown or canopy fire … and they’re the most dangerous ones and also the most destructive.”
Our Changing World has previously spoken with Grant Pearce from Scion about fire research in New Zealand.
A recent paper in the journal PLOS ONE suggests that fires set by a small Polynesian population in New Zealand about 750 years ago may have caused fire-vulnerable forests to shift to shrub land over decades, rather than over centuries, as previously thought.
Topics: science, environment
Regions:
Tags: bush fires, fires, flammability, native plants, plant barbecue, gorse
Duration: 28'47"
=SHOW NOTES=
1:10 Songs You Have To Hear
Menton by Palace Winter.
1:20 New Zealand Flag - Benedict Collins
The final four flag alternative designs have been unveiled. The Flag Consideration Panel chose 40 from more than 10,000 designs that were submitted, and Cabinet signed off on the final four yesterday. Our political reporter, Benedict Collins, was at the unveiling at Te Papa this morning.
1:25 Opera singer - Simon O'Neill
Our guest was supposed to join us on the programme yesterday, but, we were told he was 'scheduled to die that day'. Fortunately, he has made it in to speak with us today. He's a New Zealand native, he's studied at the Juilliard Opera Center, he's a Fulbright Scholar and he even appears on a New Zealand postage stamp. Simon O'Neill is one of the finest heldentenors around.
1:35 Going West Books and Writers Festival - Naomi McCleary
Auckland's Going West Books and Writers Festival is turning 20. And this month they are celebrating with home-grown authors, playwrights and songwriters. Naomi McCleary is the festival founder.
1:40 Feature Album
Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix. Chosen by Josh Thomson.
2:10 New Zealand Flag - Dan Newman
The final four flag alternative designs have been unveiled. The Flag Consideration Panel chose 40 from more than 10-thousand designs that were submitted, and Cabinet signed off on the final four yesterday. With us now to talk through the designs is Dan Newman. Dan is the former Global Marketing Design Director at Xero. And the curator of flagdesign.nz, a website dedicated to documenting the redesign of the flag.
[image:46564:quarter]
2:15 Spring Cleaning - Michelle Danholm
The first day of spring is here and it's the perfect time to spring clean your home. Professional organiser Michelle Danholm gives tips on decluttering including what to keep, throw away, sell or donate. How starting small is a good thing. Why quality over quantity is important and how spring cleaning can be cathartic.
2:20 The Greatest Kiwi Concert You've Ever Seen
1965, 1973 Rolling Stones in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Invercargill and Dunedin. Featured guests include former Invercargill based fan Dave Hogan, music journalist Graham Reid and Invaders lead guitarist Dave Russel.
[gallery:1382]
3:10 National Geographic - Bryan Christy
In central Africa, dead elephants are financing terrorism. Terrorist groups and rebel militia are killing thousands upon thousands of elephants to sell or trade their ivory tusks for weapons. An investigative team from National Geographic hid a GPS device inside some fake tusks to track the ivory from Africa to the illegal market. The story about the illegal trade and the journey of the fake ivory tusks is in the September issue of National Geographic and in a documentary on the he National Geographic Channel called Warlords of Ivory We talk to investigative reporter Bryan Christy.
3:35 Our Changing World - Alison Ballance
It's modelled on an Argentinian bbq for cooking meat, and it incorporates a flame thrower - but instead of sizzling the perfect steak, Lincon University's Tim Curran and University of Auckland's Sarah Wyse are cooking up gorse, manuka and Coprosma on their 'plant bbq'. They've fired up the barbie to show Alison Ballance.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Noelle McCarthy
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
=DESCRIPTION=
An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
=AUDIO=
15:46
The Panel pre-show for 1 September 2015
BODY:
Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 13'13"
16:05
The Panel with Lisa Scott and Matt Lowrie (Part 1)
BODY:
Four flags have been revealed as the top picks to replace our current national flag. What does a multi-million dollar study into obesity and New Zealand genetics is hope to achieve? Are Auckland and Queenstown New Zealand's friendliest cities?
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 23'49"
16:07
The Panel with Lisa Scott and Matt Lowrie (Part 2)
BODY:
Are we too dedicated to work? What the Panelists Lisa Scott and Matt Lowrie have been thinking about. What exactly is business confidence? EQC has spent $68m on travel-related costs since the September 2010 quake. Kanye West for President in 2020. Labour MP Grant Robertson has come to the defence of his colleague Jacinda Ardern.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 25'17"
16:10
Panel Intro
BODY:
What The Panelists Lisa Scott and Matt Lowrie have been up to.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 4'19"
16:12
And then there were four
BODY:
Four flags have been revealed as the top picks to replace our current national flag. Dr Claire Robinson tells us what she thinks of the designs, and the political marketing behind them.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: New Zealand Flag, design
Duration: 9'56"
16:19
Genetics and obesity
BODY:
Professor Tony Merriman joins The Panel to discuss what a multi-million dollar study into obesity and New Zealand genetics is hoped to achieve.
Topics: health
Regions:
Tags: obesity
Duration: 7'29"
16:28
Friendly cities
BODY:
Do you agree with the survey in Condé Nast Traveler magazine that Auckland and Queenstown are New Zealand's friendliest cities?
Topics:
Regions: Auckland Region, Otago
Tags:
Duration: 2'04"
16:35
The 24 hour work day
BODY:
Are employees too available outside of work hours?
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'52"
16:39
Panel Says
BODY:
What the Panelists Lisa Scott and Matt Lowrie have been thinking about.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 4'27"
16:48
So business confidence is?
BODY:
What exactly is business confidence? We ask economist Michael Gordon.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 7'33"
16:50
Kanye 2020
BODY:
Kanye wants to put the West into the West Wing.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: Kanye West
Duration: 37"
16:52
Siesta
BODY:
The health benefits of a daytime nap.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'34"
16:55
EQC's $68m travel bill
BODY:
The Earthquake Commission has spent $68m on travel-related costs since the September 2010 quake.
Topics:
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: eqc, Canterbury earthquake
Duration: 2'31"
16:56
MH370 flaperon
BODY:
There's still uncertainty around the piece of jet wing found on Reunion Island.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: MH370
Duration: 1'24"
16:59
Ardern's knight in shining armour
BODY:
Labour MP Grant Robertson has come to the defence of his colleague Jacinda Ardern.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: Labour
Duration: 1'25"
=SHOW NOTES=
===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
=DESCRIPTION=
Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme
=AUDIO=
17:00
Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 1 September 2015
BODY:
Designer says flags are poor; Victim of killing revealed as a convicted paedophile; Government support parties support refugee increase; Refugee council says NZ meeting refugee quota; Dover Samuels tells of brutal school beatings; Meth taking lawyer hopes to avoid conviction; Hubbard investor gets cash back; Ashburton marks a year since WINZ shooting.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 24'40"
17:09
Flag shortlist released
BODY:
We're down to four in the battle to design a new national flag, and people are already complaining they look too similar. Three of them have a silver fern, while the other is an unfurled fern, a koru. Neither the Prime Minister nor Richie McCaw will be complaining - both want a silver fern.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: New Zealand Flag, design
Duration: 7'34"
17:17
Victim of killing revealed as a convicted paedophile
BODY:
The victim of a killing in central Hamilton last month has been revealed as a convicted paedophile. 71-year old Jacques Donker died after being punched and hit over the head with a full bottle of whiskey in a public toilet cubicle.
Topics: crime
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'47"
17:19
Goverment support parties support refugee increase
BODY:
All three of the Government's support partners say there's strong case for New Zealand's annual refugee quota to be increased from the current 750 to at least a thousand people.
Topics: politics, refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'16"
17:22
Refugee council says NZ meeting refugee quota
BODY:
The Refugee Council says New Zealand is meeting its refugee quota, despite official figures showing it is not taking enough people from Syria. A year and a half ago the Government promised to take in one hundred Syrian refugees as part of its annual quota of 750.
Topics: refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'53"
17:22
Final four flags announced
BODY:
The Prime Minister, John Key, says there is enough variety for the public to choose between, in the final four alternative flag designs revealed. Three of the four flags feature the silver fern, two of those also with the Southern Cross, and the fourth flag - a koru .
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: New Zealand Flag
Duration: 3'23"
17:25
Meth taking lawyer hopes to avoid conviction
BODY:
A lawyer who's admitted having methamphetamine is hoping to escape convictions. The man, aged in his forties, works for a well known firm and appeared at the Auckland District Court today. He was declined name suppression in the face of opposition from the media but his lawyer has indicated he will appeal that decision to the High Court.
Topics: law
Regions:
Tags: drug
Duration: 2'24"
17:27
Ashburton marks a year since WINZ shooting
BODY:
The Ashburton community and Ministry of Social Development staff today marked the first anniversary of the deaths of two workers in their local Work and Income office.
Topics: crime
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'22"
17:35
Evening Business for 1 September 2015
BODY:
News from the business sector including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 2'32"
17:40
Dover Samuels tells of brutal school beatings
BODY:
The prominent Northland kaumatua, Dover Samuels has told the Waitangi Tribunal a generation of Maori children were subjected to painful and degrading beatings for speaking te reo at school.
Topics: education, te ao Maori, language, politics
Regions:
Tags: te reo
Duration: 2'47"
17:43
Sexual allegations at Opotiki College investigated
BODY:
The Police are investigating sexual allegations involving students at Opotiki College in Bay of Plenty. They won't say what the allegations are, but that they don't involve teachers.
Topics: crime
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags:
Duration: 1'38"
17:44
Hubbard investor gets cash back
BODY:
The statutory managers of an Allan Hubbard investment fund say all the money investors put in has been returned. Grant Thornton Statutory Managers says investors in the Hubbard Management Fund have received just over $35 million dollars, which repays all original capital, along with a small surplus pool.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: Hubbard Management Fund
Duration: 3'36"
17:48
Harsh weather hits the country
BODY:
Gales and heavy rain battered many parts of the country today, causing havoc on roads. Two women were injured when the ferry they were on hit a rogue wave on their way to Waiheke Island.
Topics: weather
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'50"
17:53
Hawkes Bay iwi say Crown hasn't cut numbers of Maori offending
BODY:
Two Hawkes Bay iwi entities are backing a retired probation officer's urgent claim alleging the Crown has failed to cut the high number of Maori in prison and their reoffending.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags:
Duration: 3'41"
17:57
Police in Queensland hunt for body of murdered woman
BODY:
The police in Queensland are scouring bushland on the outskirts of the Gold Coast, where they say a murdered New Zealand woman may be buried.
Topics: crime
Regions:
Tags: Australia
Duration: 4'14"
18:07
Sports News for 1 September 2015
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'09"
18:12
Designer says flags are poor
BODY:
A designer says the four alternative proposed national flags are poorly thought out and too complex. The Government's panel has whittled more than 10 thousand designs down to four, and people are already complaining they look too similar. Three of them have a silver fern, while the other is an unfurled fern, a koru.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: New Zealand Flag, design
Duration: 4'12"
18:19
Red Cross joining voices calling for increase of refugee quota
BODY:
All of the government's support partners say there's a strong case for New Zealand's annual refugee quota to be increased from 750, to at least 1000.
Topics: politics, refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'01"
18:22
Bill for June central North Island floods hits $275m
BODY:
The economic impact of the June floods in the central North Island now tops more than a quarter of a billion dollars.
Topics: weather
Regions: Taranaki, Whanganui
Tags:
Duration: 3'00"
18:26
Nauru asylum centre child abuse "horrific"
BODY:
The Australian Government is dismissing a scathing Senate inquiry that found a culture of abuse at its asylum centre on Nauru as a political witch hunt. The Federal Senate Committee has heard from witnesses who told of child abuse, sexual assault, violence, deprivation and mental suffering at the centre.
Topics: politics, refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags: Australia
Duration: 5'12"
18:36
Tree Council warns of mass felling
BODY:
The Tree Council warns large areas of vegetation in Auckland will be cut down in the next decade thanks to a law change that comes into effect on Thursday. Changes to the Resource Management Act mean many trees on private urban properties are no longer protected.
Topics: environment
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: trees
Duration: 4'49"
18:44
Work to start on Christchurch Catholic cathedral
BODY:
The Christchurch Catholic Diocese has been given permission to start pulling down parts of its earthquake damaged cathedral so it can restore parts of the building.
Topics:
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Canterbury earthquakes
Duration: 3'12"
18:48
Te Manu Korihi News for 1 September 2015
BODY:
An East Coast family are fighting to keep their ancestral land not once, but twice; Ngati Paoa in Auckland says it's with a heavy heart that the iwi considers court action to affirm its mana whenua rights in the city; Ngati Whakatere says it's not confident the Horowhenua District Council will meet the cultural expectations the iwi sets for wastewater developments in Shannon; Maori tourism operators say they are poised to take advantage of a worldwide trend of tourists wanting to have experiences and cultural activities, instead of looking at buildings and going shopping.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'51"
=SHOW NOTES=
===7:06 PM. | Nights===
=DESCRIPTION=
Entertainment and information, including: 7:30 The Sampler: A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases (RNZ) 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries 9:06 The Tuesday Feature: Indigenous and Pacific Experiences in WW1 The First World War had a great impact on many communities and cultures in the South Pacific region. Three speakers with different ethnic backgrounds discuss the 'other' narratives their research has revealed (RNZ)
=AUDIO=
19:12
Our Own Odysseys: Tracy Farr in Mildura
BODY:
Australian-born, Wellington-based writer Tracy Farr just spent a month at a writing residency in the Australian town of Mildura for their writers festival.
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: odysseys, Australia, Mildura, Mildura Writers Festival
Duration: 17'10"
20:42
Military history
BODY:
Historian and author of New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919, Damien Fenton discusses the Italian Front during the First World War.
Topics: history, politics, defence force
Regions:
Tags: military history, First World War, Italy, Italian Front, Western Front.
Duration: 16'15"
20:59
Conundrum Clue 3.
BODY:
Listen in this Friday night for the answer
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 22"
21:59
Conundrum Clue 4.
BODY:
Listen in on Friday night for the answer.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 20"
=SHOW NOTES=
7:10 Our Own Odysseys: Tracy Farr in Mildura
Australian-born, Wellington-based writer Tracy Farr just spent a month at a writing residency in the Australian town of Mildura for their writers festival.
[image:46486:full]
7:30 The Sampler
=SHOW NOTES=
=AUDIO=
19:30
Travelling Alone with Tift Merritt
BODY:
Nick Bollinger talks to Texan singer-songwriter Tift Merritt ahead of her upcoming Auckland show.
EXTENDED BODY:
Tift Merritt. Photo by Parker Fitzgerald.
Nick Bollinger talks to Texan singer-songwriter Tift Merritt ahead of her upcoming Auckland show.
Tift Merritt is a Texas-born, North Carolina-raised and currently New York-based singer-songwriter. Travelling Alone, her most recent solo work, has been out now for a good two or three years, but it’s an album I’ve kept coming back to; full of good songs, to which Merritt lends an authentic southern-ness that seems to speak directly from the places she grew up. Like Merritt’s four earlier albums, Travelling Alone roams the boundaries of rootsy Americana, becoming more contemplative when she moves to the piano, more rocking when her band kicks in. But if Americana is effectively this southern singer’s native tongue, she hasn’t let culture or geography restrict her.
Night, a 2013 collaboration with classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein, saw the singer interpreting Franz Schubert, Billie Holiday and Henry Purcell, while last year saw her touring as a guitarist and singer for the eclectic singer and violin player Andrew Bird, and she features prominently on his latest album: a collection of songs by gothic country duo The Handsome Family, with the suitably unsettling title Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of.
Tift Merritt, who plays at Auckland’s Tuning Fork on 7 September, talks to Nick Bollinger about her southern roots and eclectic career.
Songs played:
Listen to more from The Sampler
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: music, music review, Tift Merritt, Andrew Bird, Texas
Duration: 14'33"
19:30
Star Wars by Wilco
BODY:
Nick Bollinger reviews the latest album from alt-country rockers Wilco.
EXTENDED BODY:
Wilco. Photo by Zoran Orlic.
Nick Bollinger reveals in the latest album from alt-country rockers Wilco.
Wilco’s ninth album has been available, at least in some form, since mid-July, when it appeared suddenly, as many albums do these days, as a free download - “a gift from Wilco” - on the band’s website. The freebee disappeared a couple of weeks ago, just before the album became available as a physical CD. And by the middle of next month it will apparently be available on vinyl as well. There are eleven songs and, totalling just over half an hour in length, the approach seems almost the opposite of the one that defined their last album, The Whole Love. That album was defined by intricate arrangements, contrasting tempos, a wide range of sounds and song lengths. Here, the emphasis is songs that are short, snappy and upbeat, with an almost T.Rex-ish directness. There are moments where you can hear the musical cobwebs being swept away, as in the dissonant, almost Captain Beefheart-style instrumental that kicks off the album. Beyond that lie some truly lovely melodies, plenty of Jeff Tweedy’s idiosyncratic imagery and enough memorable songs to convince me that after 20 years Wilco remains a band one can rely on, if never second-guess.
Songs played:
Listen to more from The Sampler
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: music, music review, Wilco, Jeff Tweedy
Duration: 7'26"
19:30
AEONS EP by Electric Wire Hustle
BODY:
Melody Thomas assesses a new EP from local soultronica duo Electric Wire Hustle.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: music, music review, Electric Wire Hustle, loop
Duration: 8'34"
19:30
The Sampler: Wilco, Electric Wire Hustle, Tift Merritt
BODY:
Nick Bollinger reviews the latest album from alt-country rockers Wilco, Melody Thomas checks out a new EP from soultronica duo Electric Wire Hustle, and Texan singer-songwriter Tift Merritt talks to Nick ahead of her upcoming Auckland show.
EXTENDED BODY:
Wilco. Photo by Zoran Orlic.
Nick Bollinger reveals the latest album from alt-country rockers Wilco, Melody Thomas checks out a new EP from soultronica duo Electric Wire Hustle and Teaxan singer-songwriter Tift Merritt talks to Nick ahead of her upcoming Auckland show.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: music, music review, Wilco, Jeff Tweedy, Tift Merritt, Electric Wire Hustle
Duration: 29'34"
19:45
Aeons by Electric Wire Hustle
BODY:
Melody Thomas reviews a brand new EP from future-soul duo Electric Wire Hustle.
EXTENDED BODY:
Melody Thomas assesses a new EP from local soultronica duo Electric Wire Hustle.
Electric Wire Hustle have made a name for themselves by deftly navigating the choppy waters where the seas of hip hop, jazz, soul and electronica collide. It’s ambitious stuff - and when it works, it works beautifully.
Lyrically, Aeons more than lives up to the band’s intentions of taking the listener on a journey. There are times where the momentum of the music plateaus, the initial beauty of a sonic landscape made paler by repetition, but the EP itself is hugely dynamic. From the atmospheric soul of opening track 'Aeons', we move to a full on cosmic assault with 'Brother Sun', featuring Hamilton's most effervescent export Kimbra, before we’re sent searching in the 'Desert of The Real', fleeing from the man with Truth and, finally, marching slowly as part of a righteous hikoi led by Deva Mahal. It's a powerful note to go out on.
Listen to more from The Sampler
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: music review
Duration: 8'34"
7:30 The Sampler
A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases.
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 Military history
Historian and author of New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919, Damien Fenton discusses the Italian Front during the First World War.
9:06 The Reeves Lecture: The Promise and Challenge of 2015
The promise and challenge of 2015 is the focus of this lecture by the Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. With an eye to the current and future commitments for sustainable development – economic, environmental, and social – Miss Clark surveys many areas of international concern.
She also speaks about the grounding which her political life in New Zealand gave her for her current global work, and pulls from her local experience some signs of hope for the future.
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 The Shed
Award winning former British broadcaster Mark Coles presents his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet. A glorious mix of brand new sounds from all over the world, real conversations with music makers and tales of everyday life as seen from an English garden shed (10 of 13, MCM).
===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
=DESCRIPTION=
Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National
===11:06 PM. | None (National)===
=DESCRIPTION=
Award winning former British broadcaster Mark Coles presents his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet. A glorious mix of brand new sounds from all over the world, real conversations with music makers and tales of everyday life as seen from an English garden shed (10 of 13, MCM)