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:
03 September 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 One in Five (RNZ); 1:05 Discovery (BBC); 2:05 The Thursday Feature (RNZ); 3:05 Footprints in the Sand, written and read by Sarah Boddy (4 of 5, RNZ); 3:30 NZ Books (RNZ): 5:10 Witness (BBC)
===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
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06:00
Top Stories for Thursday 3 September 2015
BODY:
Nine people are taken to hospital after a house fire in Palmerston North. There are unconfirmed reports of one fatality. The refugee crisis deepens in Europe. European leaders search for answers and repair times for earthquake prone buildings are to be fast tracked as new legislation comes into effect.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 31'53"
06:06
Sports News for 3 September 2015
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'12"
06:10
House fire in Palmerston North
BODY:
An update on the house fire in Palmerston North.
Topics:
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: house fire
Duration: 57"
06:12
Christchurch mayor says life has completely changed
BODY:
The Christchurch mayor says life has completely changed for so many Cantabrians in five short years.
Topics: history
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: earthquakes, fifth anniversary
Duration: 2'46"
06:15
Timing is everything when vaccinating children
BODY:
A paediatrician says timing is everything when it comes to getting their children vaccinated from disease and illness.
Topics: health
Regions:
Tags: vaccination
Duration: 3'00"
06:21
Pacific News for 3 September 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'48"
06:24
Morning Rural News for 3 September 2015
BODY:
News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 4'19"
06:28
Te Manu Korihi News for 3 September 2015
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A Māori boarding school's board of trustees is holding hui with its owner, the Presbyterian Church, to find strategies to stop it from closing; A South Taranaki iwi says it is disappointed its fight to prevent a liquor outlet opening near a skatepark in Hawera has been lost;The co-Leader of the Maori Party, Marama Fox, says she has a Maori Party tee shirt ready for Tamaki Makaurau MP, Peeni Henare; Water New Zealand is encouraging local governments to form partnerships with iwi to co-manage natural resources.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'43"
06:47
Briscoe Group stands firm on takeover bid for Kathmandu
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Briscoe Group is standing firm on its takeover bid for Kathmandu Holdings.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: Briscoe Group
Duration: 1'06"
06:48
Commodity prices fall for the fifth consecutive month
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Commodity prices have declined for the fifth consecutive month.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: commodity prices
Duration: 2'31"
06:50
Kiwi Property says Westgate part of its plan for Akl growth
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Kiwi Property says its new acquisition of a major retail centre in north-west Auckland is part of its plan to grow its presence in the region.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: Kiwi Property
Duration: 2'12"
06:52
Fund raises money for social startups
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A new initiative aiming to raise one million dollars for young social entrepreneurs has launched this week.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: Future Fund, Inspiring Stories Trust
Duration: 2'41"
06:55
Small business profile update - Furnware
BODY:
Now to an update on the school furniture maker, Furnware, a Hawke's Bay firm profiled back in 2009.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: Furnware
Duration: 3'03"
06:58
Morning markets for 3 September 2015
BODY:
Global stockmarkets have recovered some ground on recent losses - due to worries over the health of China's economy.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 1'04"
07:07
Sports News for 3 September 2015
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'47"
07:11
Serious house fire in Palmerston North
BODY:
Nine people have been taken to hospital after a house fire in Palmerston North.
Topics:
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: house fire
Duration: 3'39"
07:16
Europe needs to work together to solve refugee crisis, UN
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So what can New Zealand do? A spokesperson for the UN's High Commission for Refugees, Adrian Edwards, says what's happening in Europe is part of a much wider global problem.
Topics: refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags: UN, Europe
Duration: 1'17"
07:19
Time to fix quake-prone buildings halved
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Repair times for earthquake prone buildings around the country have been slashed in half.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: earthquake, earthquake prone buildings
Duration: 4'02"
07:23
Building owner says strengthening changes make no difference
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The Wellington mayor Celia Wade-Brown says the city is "well ahead of the game" in terms of assessing and strengthening its earthquake-prone buildings.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: earthquakes, earthquake prone buildings
Duration: 2'22"
07:26
President Obama secures support for Iran deal
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The international deal to roll back Iran's nuclear programme will now go ahead, after it gained enough support in the United States' senate just hours ago.
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Regions:
Tags: USA, Iran's nuclear programme
Duration: 2'16"
07:28
New job for British newspaper editor Rebekah Brooks
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Rebekah Brooks, the British newspaper editor who was at the centre the News of the World phone hacking scandal will return as chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper operations on Monday.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: UK
Duration: 3'54"
07:36
Feedback largely positive for a proposed cyclist buffer zone
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It could soon be illegal for motorists not to give cyclists ample space when overtaking them.
Topics: law, transport
Regions:
Tags: cycling, cyclists
Duration: 2'25"
07:39
Study shows parents warned about vaccines can delay it
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New research suggests parents looking to vaccinate their newborns are twice as likely to defer it if they're discouraged.
Topics: health
Regions:
Tags: vaccinations
Duration: 3'42"
07:46
Aust financial commentators still expect interest rate cut
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Australia may've weathered the global financial crisis better than most, but economic growth is in a slump.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: Australia
Duration: 3'51"
07:50
Mayor happy to delay rebuild to keep rates down
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The Christchurch mayor says she's determined to reduce further rates rises, even if it means delaying parts of the rebuild.
Topics: politics
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: rates
Duration: 3'46"
07:54
Wellington car washers risking $1000 fine- Councillor
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Porirua City Council may've taken credit for banning driveway car washing but it turns out the entire Wellington region is already prohibited.
Topics: politics
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Porirua City Council
Duration: 5'06"
08:07
Sports News for 3 September 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'04"
08:11
UN says it's a refugee crisis
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As thousands of refugees try to make their way north, the tale of human misery continues to grow.
Topics: refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags: UN, Europe
Duration: 5'43"
08:17
The Red Cross is helping migrants in Macedonia
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As migrants make their way north from Turkey, to Greece, and then up through Europe, they're crossing through the tiny state of Macedonia.
Topics: refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags: Macedonia
Duration: 3'30"
08:20
Migrants arrive in Germany
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And for some of the luckier refugees, the journey is coming to an end at the Munich train station in Germany.
Topics: refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags: Germany
Duration: 1'28"
08:22
Update on serious house fire in Palmerston North
BODY:
Now to the latest on the house fire in Palmerston North.
Topics:
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: house fire
Duration: 3'37"
08:26
Fixing earthquake prone buildings to cost one billion dollars
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A new government move to fast track work on earthquake prone buildings will cost about a billion dollars, the Building and Housing Minister, Nick Smith revealed on Morning Report this morning.
Topics: politics
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: earthquakes, earthquake prone buildings
Duration: 6'19"
08:32
Markets Update for 3 September 2015
BODY:
A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 1'09"
08:38
Markets recover as China's worries ease
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Markets around the world have recovered some of their recent losses overnight, supported by China's measures to re-invigorate that country's markets.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: markets, world
Duration: 2'52"
08:40
Newly discovered curve in the Alpine fault
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The Mackenzie District is sitting above a newly discovered curve in the Alpine fault.
Topics: environment
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: MacKenzie District, Alpine Fault
Duration: 2'35"
08:43
Public transport advocates welcome double deckers
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Double decker buses are on the way for Auckland as early as next month.
Topics: transport
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Double decker buses
Duration: 2'03"
08:47
Te Manu Korihi News for 3 September 2015
BODY:
A Māori boarding school's board of trustees is holding hui with its owner, the Presbyterian Church, to find strategies to stop it from closing; A South Taranaki iwi says it is disappointed its fight to prevent a liquor outlet opening near a skatepark in Hawera has been lost;The co-Leader of the Maori Party, Marama Fox, says she has a Maori Party tee shirt ready for Tamaki Makaurau MP, Peeni Henare; Water New Zealand is encouraging local governments to form partnerships with iwi to co-manage natural resources.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'40"
08:50
Paua Council unimpressed with lastest flouting of the law
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The council advocating for fair access to paua is unimpressed by the latest illegal fishing operation exposed in Hawkes Bay.
Topics: crime
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: paua, paua poaching
Duration: 2'31"
08:53
US Tennis Open
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Our correspondent Judy Lessing is with us.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: USA, tennis
Duration: 1'38"
08:55
Public pressure forces liquor store to remain shut
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Public pressure has forced the closure of a neighbourhood liquor store in Nelson, uncovering a potential loop hole in licensing laws.
Topics: law
Regions: Nelson Region
Tags: liquor store
Duration: 3'06"
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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: Driving to Midnight, by Sarah Quigley, read by Holly Shanahan Two women are driving through Sweden on New Year's Eve eating pastries and waiting for midnight (RNZ)
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09:08
Too many exercising women aren't eating enough
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A stark warning that too many exercising women are not eating enough, with potential serious impacts on their fertility as well as bone and heart health. Dr Stella Milsom, Senior Reproductive Endochrinologist at National Women's Health in Auckland says she sees women every week who exercise for recreation but don't understand how to nourish their bodies adequately. We also hear from Dr Carlene Starck, an athlete and sport and exercise scientist from Massey University , and Dr Holly Thorpe, Waikato University Senior Lecturer in Sport and Leisure studies and convenor of the Female Athlete Health Symposium which begins today.
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A stark warning that too many exercising women are not eating enough, with potential serious impacts on their fertility as well as bone and heart health.
Dr Stella Milsom, Senior Reproductive Endochrinologist at National Women's Health in Auckland says she sees women every week who exercise for recreation but don't understand how to nourish their bodies adequately. We also hear from Dr Carlene Starck, an athlete and sport and exercise scientist from Massey University, and Dr Holly Thorpe, Waikato University Senior Lecturer in Sport and Leisure studies and convenor of the Female Athlete Health Symposium which begins today.
Topics: health, life and society
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 26'09"
09:38
Study shows 90% of seabirds have plastic in their guts.
BODY:
A new international study estimates 90 percent of the world's seabirds have pieces of plastic in their stomachs. The Tasmania based Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, CSIRO, has been studying birds and marine debris for several decades and has used computer modelling to look at how badly seabirds are being affected as more and more plastic goes into the ocean. Dr Denise Hardesty is one of the lead researchers.
Topics: environment
Regions:
Tags: ocean, plastic, pollution, seabirds
Duration: 11'31"
09:48
UK correspondent, Matthew Parris
BODY:
The refugee crisis in Europe and its impact on the UK. The Labour party leadership. New job for British newspaper editor Rebekah Brooks.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: UK
Duration: 10'49"
10:10
Celia Lashlie's children speak about her legacy
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Bek Henderson and Gene Hyde and a group of Celia supporters are trying to progress her unfinished work. Celia Lashlie was an author, researcher, sociologist, parenting expert, social justice advocate, former prison officer and much loved commentator on Nine to Noon. She died in February this year, just weeks after discovering she had advanced cancer.
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Bek Henderson and Gene Hyde and a group of Celia Lashlie supporters are trying to progress her unfinished work.
Celia Lashlie was an author, researcher, sociologist, parenting expert, social justice advocate, former prison officer and much loved commentator on Nine to Noon. She died in February this year, just weeks after discovering she had advanced cancer.
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: Celia Lashlie
Duration: 29'45"
10:40
Book review: The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
BODY:
Reviewed by Rae McGregor, published by Bantam Australia, RRP $37.00
Topics: books
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 4'59"
11:08
New technology with Robbie Allan
BODY:
Senior Facebook staff now work for the US government.
Topics: technology
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 17'18"
11:29
Parenting - Playbourhood, getting children outside to play
BODY:
Mike Lanza is the author of Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Place for Play. He also blogs at Playborhood.com. He's focussed on getting children outside of the house to play, getting them away from screens. He has created a neighborhood play life for his three boys - at his home in Menlo Park, California, and all the neighbours' kids are welcome in the yard. He's also discovered and written about dozens of neighborhoods throughout North America that are doing innovative things to make a vibrant life for kids. Prior to his writing career, Mike was a five-time software and internet entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. He holds an MA in Education, an MBA, and an MA and BA in Economics, all from Stanford University.
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Mike Lanza is the author of Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Place for Play. He also blogs at Playborhood.com. He's focussed on getting children outside of the house to play, getting them away from screens. He has created a neighborhood play life for his three boys - at his home in Menlo Park, California, and all the neighbours' kids are welcome in the yard. He's also discovered and written about dozens of neighborhoods throughout North America that are doing innovative things to make a vibrant life for kids.
Prior to his writing career, Mike Lanza was a five-time software and internet entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. He holds an MA in Education, an MBA, and an MA and BA in Economics, all from Stanford University.
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: Mike Lanza, playbourhood, playborhood, childhood play
Duration: 16'11"
11:46
TV Review with Lara Strongman
BODY:
Sunday theatre seasons and 'Struggle Street'.
Topics: media
Regions:
Tags: television
Duration: 13'20"
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09:05 Warning that too many exercising women are undernourished and damaging their health
A stark warning that too many exercising women are not eating enough, with potential serious impacts on their fertility as well as bone and heart health. Dr Stella Milsom, Senior Reproductive Endochrinologist at National Women's Health in Auckland says she sees women every week who exercise for recreation but don't understand how to nourish their bodies adequately. We also hear from Dr Carlene Starck, an athlete and sport and exercise scientist from Massey University , and Dr Holly Thorpe, Waikato University Senior Lecturer in Sport and Leisure studies and convenor of the Female Athlete Health Symposium which begins today.
09:30 Study shows 90 percent of seabirds have plastic in their guts
A new international study estimates 90 percent of the world's seabirds have pieces of plastic in their stomachs. The Tasmania based Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, CSIRO, has been studying birds and marine debris for several decades and has used computer modelling to look at how badly seabirds are being affected as more and more plastic goes into the ocean.
Dr Denise Hardesty is one of the lead researchers.
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09:45 UK correspondent, Matthew Parris
10:05 Celia Lashlie's children speak about her legacy
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Bek Henderson and Gene Hyde and a group of Celia supporters are trying to progress her unfinished work.
Celia Lashlie was an author, researcher, sociologist, parenting expert, social justice advocate, former prison officer and much loved commentator on Nine to Noon. She died in February this year, just weeks after discovering she had advanced cancer.
10:35 Book review: The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
10:45 The Reading
"Driving to Midnight" a short story by Sarah Quigley read by Holly Shanahan.
Two women are driving through Sweden on new years eve eating pastries and waiting for midnight.
11:05 New technology with Robbie Allan
11:25 Parenting - Playbourhood, getting children outside to play
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Mike Lanza is the author of Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Place for Play. He also blogs at Playborhood.com. He's focussed on getting children outside of the house to play, getting them away from screens. He has created a neighborhood play life for his three boys - at his home in Menlo Park, California, and all the neighbours' kids are welcome in the yard. He's also discovered and written about dozens of neighborhoods throughout North America that are doing innovative things to make a vibrant life for kids. Prior to his writing career, Mike was a five-time software and internet entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. He holds an MA in Education, an MBA, and an MA and BA in Economics, all from Stanford University.
11:45 TV Review with Lara Strongman
Playlist
Artist: Bryan Ferry
Song: Let's Stick Together
Composer: Ferry
Album: Bryan Ferry
Label: Virgin
Time: 9:35
Artist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Song: Breathless
Composer: Cave
Album: Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Label: Mute
Time: 11:20
===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 3 September 2015
BODY:
A house fire in Palmerston North is believed to have killed two people; New Zealand suspends funding to Nauru over concerns about civil rights abuses.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 15'14"
12:17
Residential building activity falls
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Residential building activity has fallen, which economists say is due to the pace of repairing earthquake damaged homes in Christchurch easing back.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'16"
12:19
Auckland house prices fall in August, expected to rise again
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Auckland's largest real estate broker says the market is at a crossroads after house sale prices declined last month, snapping five months of record setting increases.
Topics: business, economy
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags:
Duration: 1'37"
12:20
Demand for retail space heats up
BODY:
Demand for prime retail space in Auckland and Wellington is heating up.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: retail
Duration: 1'50"
12:22
Kathmandu reiterates its opposition to takeover offer
BODY:
Kathmandu has reiterated its opposition to Briscoe's takeover offer.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 42"
12:23
Liquidation application sought for Naked Bus
BODY:
Go-Bus Transport has made an application to place Naked Bus into liquidation.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 42"
12:24
Midday Markets for 3 September 2015
BODY:
For the latest from the markets we're joined by Andrew Cathie at Craigs Investment Partners.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'34"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 3 September 2015
BODY:
None of the players who missed out on the All Blacks world cup squad have given coach Steve Hansen the third degree, and not many problems for the seeded players so far today at the US Open tennis championship in New York.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'32"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 3 September 2015
BODY:
News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 7'39"
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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 - Love Is
BODY:
Rod Stewart's new single 'Love Is', from his 30th solo studio album; Another Country.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 4'49"
13:10
White Man Behind A Desk - Robbie Nichol
BODY:
Last month we met Robbie Nichol who produces and presents the online satire series White Man Behind A Desk. His lastest episode is about the TPPA trade agreement.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 6'16"
13:15
Capitaine Bougainville - Lindy Laird
BODY:
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Capitaine Bougainville tragedy - the ship caught fire off the East coast of Northland in 1975, 16 people lost their lives. The Northern Advocate's Lindy Laird joins us to discuss what happened, and what the plans are for the commemoration this weekend.
Topics: history
Regions: Northland
Tags: Capitaine Bougainville tragedy
Duration: 9'01"
13:25
Native Nelson Garden - The Fishers
BODY:
When Martyn and Su Fisher moved in to their 21-hectare overgrown bush property in Nelson, they arrived with one hand trowel and very little knowledge of the huge conservation task ahead of them. Almost 12 years on, and the native block of bush has been restored, pests have been eliminated and a broad range of vegetation and rare plants are abundant. Now the couple are looking to sell the property, and need someone with the right skills and know-how to continue on their good work.
Topics: environment
Regions: Nelson Region
Tags:
Duration: 6'45"
13:35
Fitting in Standing Out – Dr Harold Hillman
BODY:
Harold is an author, leadership expert and clinical psychologist. Working with many of our top corporates, including Air New Zealand and Fonterra, Hillman was a member of the task force commissioned by the Clinton administration in 1993 to end discrimination against gay citizens wanting to serve openly in the US military, and now works with the New Zealand armed forces around gender equality and leadership issues.
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Dr Harold Hillman is an author, leadership expert and clinical psychologist. Working with many of our top corporates, including Air New Zealand and Fonterra, Hillman was a member of the task force commissioned by the Clinton administration in 1993 to end discrimination against gay citizens wanting to serve openly in the US military, and now works with the New Zealand armed forces around gender equality and leadership issues.
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: equality, gender, sexuality
Duration: 14'43"
13:45
Favourite Album - The Velvet Underground and Nico
BODY:
Natasha Frost from the Wireless choses her favourite album today by The Velvet Underground.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Velvet Underground
Duration: 14'03"
14:20
Roadmap - Foxton
BODY:
This week on the roadmap, it's Foxton. On State Highway One, 90km north of Wellington, and about 30km south west of Palmerston North. It was once a major deep river port serving the burgeoning flax industry of the Manawatu. By the end of the 19th century, there were 50 flax mills running in and around Foxton, shipping flax to Australia and all over the world through the boom times of the late 1800's.
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Foxton – on State Highway One, 90ks north of Wellington, and about 30 ks south west of Palmerston North.
Foxton was once a major deep river port serving the burgeoning flax industry of the Manawatu. By the end of the 19th century, there were 50 flax mills running in and around Foxton, shipping flax to Australia and all over the world through the boom times of the late 1800s.
Jesse talks to locals Judy Sanson from the Windmill Trust; Jim who runs the horse tram; one of the organisers of the National Kite Surfing Champs, Glen; and Fred Paul, a Foxton man of many talents.
Topics:
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: Foxton
Duration: 43'02"
15:10
The Expats - Jody BrettKelly
BODY:
Our expat this week is a freelance writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, and blogger, living in Oakland with her husband and four children.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: travel, USA
Duration: 13'02"
15:20
Masterpieces - Mike Dickison
BODY:
Every week we invite a New Zealander who is an expert in their field to talk about their favourite artefact in their field. A poet's favourite poem, a painter's favourite painting, etc. Today's guest is Mike Dickison, curator of natural history at Wanganui regional museum. He'll be talking about the Upland Moa.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: natural history, museums, moa
Duration: 9'11"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 3 September 2015
BODY:
Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
Topics:
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Tags:
Duration: 14'19"
=SHOW NOTES=
1:10 First Song
Rod Stewart - 'Love Is'.
1:20 Capitaine Bougainville - Lindy Laird
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Capitaine Bougainville tragedy - the ship caught fire off the East coast of Northland in 1975, 16 people lost their lives. The Northern Advocate's Lindy Laird joins us to discuss what happened, and what the plans are for the commemoration this weekend.
1.25 Native Nelson Garden - The Fishers
When Martyn and Su Fisher moved in to their 21-hectare overgrown bush property in Nelson, they arrived with one hand trowel and very little knowledge of the huge conservation task ahead of them. Almost 12 years on, and the native block of bush has been restored, pests have been eliminated and a broad range of vegetation and rare plants are abundant. Now the couple are looking to sell the property, and need someone with the right skills and know-how to continue on their good work.
1.34 Gender Equality - Dr Harold Hillman
Harold is an author, leadership expert and clinical psychologist. Working with many of our top corporates, including Air New Zealand and Fonterra, Hillman was a member of the task force commissioned by the Clinton administration in 1993 to end discrimination against gay citizens wanting to serve openly in the US military, and now works with the New Zealand armed forces around gender equality and leadership issues.
1:40 Favourite Album
Natasha Frost from the Wireless choses her favourite album today by the Velvet Underground
2:10 White Man Behind A Desk - Robbie Nichol
Last month we met Robbie Nichol who produces and presents the online satire series White Man Behind A Desk. His lastest episode is about the TPPA trade agreement.
2:10 Roadmap - Foxton
This week on the roadmap, it's Foxton. On State Highway One, 90km north of Wellington, and about 30km south west of Palmerston North. It was once a major deep river port serving the burgeoning flax industry of the Manawatu. By the end of the 19th century, there were 50 flax mills running in and around Foxton, shipping flax to Australia and all over the world through the boom times of the late 1800s.
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3:10 The Expats - Jody BrettKelly
Our expat this week is a freelance writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, and blogger, living in Oakland with her husband and four children.
3:25 Masterpieces - Mike Dickison
Every week we invite a New Zealander who is an expert in their field to talk about their favourite artefact in their field. A poet's favourite poem, a painter's favourite painting, etc. Today's guest is Mike Dickison, curator of natural history at Wanganui regional museum. He'll be talking about the Upland Moa.
3:35 Our Changing World - New Zealand's first ocean glider takes to the seas
The state-of-the-art ocean research glider Manaia – named in a public competition after the motif often carved into the figureheads of sea-going waka to give spiritual direction to the waka’s journey – is one of about 500 around the world, but the first and only one in New Zealand.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
Music Details
OPENING SONG:
ARTIST: Rod Stewart
TITLE: LOVE IS
COMP: Steward
ALBUM: Another Country
LABEL: Capitol
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Velvet Underground and Nico
TITLE: Sunday Morning
COMP: Cale, Reed
ALBUM: Velvet Underground and Nico
LABEL: Polydor
ARTIST: Velvet Underground and Nico
TITLE: I'm Waiting For The Man
COMP: Reed
ALBUM: Velvet Underground and Nico
LABEL: Polydor
ARTIST: Velvet Underground and Nico
TITLE: There She Goes Again
COMP: Reed
ALBUM: Velvet Underground and Nico
LABEL: Polydor
ARTIST: Velvet Underground and Nico
TITLE: Femme Fatale
COMP: Reed
ALBUM: Velvet Underground and Nico
LABEL: Polydor
ROADMAP:
ARTIST: George Strait
TITLE: The Chair
COMP: Cochran, Dillon
ALBUM: George Strait: 50 Number Ones (Compilation)
LABEL: MCA
ARTIST: Golden Earring
TITLE: Radar Love
COMP: George Kooymans/Barry Hay
ALBUM: Golden Earring: Collected (Compilation)
LABEL: Universal
ARTIST: Julio & Willie
TITLE: To all the girls I've loved before
COMP: David, Hammond
ALBUM: Julio Iglesias: Love Songs (Compilation)
LABEL: Sony
ARTIST: Six60
TITLE: Don't Forget Your Roots
COMP: Six60
ALBUM: Six60
LABEL: Universal
3.30 SONG
ARTIST: Gillian Welch
TITLE: The way it will be
COMP: Welch, Rawlings
ALBUM: The Harrow And The Harvest
LABEL: Acony
THE PANEL:
ARTIST: The Verve
TITLE: Bittersweet Symphony
COMP: Ashcroft, Jagger, Richards
ALBUM: Urban Hymns
LABEL: Virgin
===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 3 September 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'19"
16:05
The Panel Clarke Gayford and Jock Anderson with (Part 1)
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Topics - Westpac's chief economist Dominick Stephens discusses if the Auckland housing bubble is (a) real and (b) is due to burst. Lloyds bank is warning the greatest threat to New Zealand \iusn't the bursting of a housing bubble but a crash of the share market. Much talk about silver ferns but not by the All Blacks who've been gagged over the flag, after the horse has bolted.
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Duration: 22'22"
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The Panel Clark Gayford and Jock Andersonwith (Part 2)
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Topics - Be negative for a more positive work experience. Be negative for a more positive work experience. Social media advertising expert Vaughn Davis tells us about promotions disguised as news stories. Merve Bigden who runs the Natural Flames Experience in Murchison joins the Panel about the attraction that was described by the BBC as a secret.
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Duration: 26'50"
16:10
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Clarke Gayford and Jock Anderson have been up to.
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Duration: 3'40"
16:12
Auckland housing bubble
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Westpac's chief economist Dominick Stephens discusses if the Auckland housing bubble is (a) real and (b) is due to burst.
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Duration: 9'03"
16:20
NZ's biggest threat - share market crash
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Lloyds bank is warning the greatest threat to New Zealand isn't the bursting of a housing bubble but a crash of the share market.
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Duration: 40"
16:23
The fern on the flag
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Much talk about silver ferns but not by the All Blacks who've been gagged over the flag. After the horse has bolted.
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Duration: 8'55"
16:32
The negatives about positivity
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Be negative for a more positive work experience.
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Duration: 3'19"
16:38
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Jock Anderson and Clarke Gayford have been thinking about.
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Duration: 6'13"
16:42
Advertising by stealth
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Social media advertising expert Vaughn Davis tells us about promotions disguised as news stories.
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Duration: 6'01"
16:50
Secret flames now world famous
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Merve Bigden who runs the Natural Flames Experience in Murchison joins the Panel about the attraction that was described by the BBC as a secret.
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Duration: 6'42"
16:57
When is an MP not an MP?
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National MP Maurice Williamson has offended people at an awards dinner where he was MC.
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Duration: 2'08"
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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 Thursday 3 September 2015
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Six year old and her grandmother die in house fire, Government backtracks on refugee stance, MP Williamson apologises for sexually explicit jokes, Foreign Minister indefinitely suspends aid for Nauru, Australia's heaviest fleece new world record, Iwi gain first right to develop surplus land for housing and Trust goes to court to keep Bridgecorp boss in jail.
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Duration: 25'58"
17:06
Six year old and her grandmother die in house fire
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The family of a six-year-old girl and her grandmother who died in a fire early this morning are telling police there were working smoke alarms in their Palmerston North state house.
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Duration: 5'09"
17:14
Government backtracks on refugee stance
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The Prime Minister has backtracked on his earlier refusals to boost the number of refugees New Zealand takes under its annual quota.
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Duration: 2'45"
17:15
MP Williamson apologises for sexually explicit jokes
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The gaffe-prone National MP Maurice Williamson has apologised after his sexually explicit jokes at a conference awards dinner prompted several delegates to walk out.
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Duration: 2'54"
17:20
Foreign Minister indefinitely suspends aid for Nauru
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New Zealand has indefinitely suspended more than a million dollars of annual aid to Nauru, because it remains unconvinced the government there has done anything to improve basic civil and human rights.
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Duration: 2'45"
17:23
Australia's heaviest fleece new world record
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The Australians have shorn a world record off New Zealand - for the heaviest fleece from a merino sheep.
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Duration: 3'51"
17:29
All Blacks draw World Cup inspiration from their fans
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The All Blacks went to the nation today for their last public appearances in the provinces before the Rugby World Cup.
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Duration: 3'03"
17:33
Evening Business for 3 September 2015
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News from the business sector including a market report.
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Duration: 2'10"
17:36
Iwi gain first right to develop surplus land for housing
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The Government and iwi in Auckland have resolved their stand-off over developing surplus Crown land for housing.
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Duration: 4'51"
17:44
Trust goes to court to keep Bridgecorp boss in jail
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The Sensible Sentencing Trust is taking legal action to try and stop the head of failed finance company Bridgecorp from being released on parole within days.
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Duration: 3'20"
17:48
6 points for a try - or make it 7?, says Hansen
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The All Blacks coach Steve Hansen says a try should be worth seven points, not five.
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Duration: 3'44"
17:52
Marae repairs in high demand as some hit 100 years old
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The demand for repairs for marae around the country is growing as many reach 100 years old.
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Duration: 3'26"
17:55
Rape accused had no intention of a dinner date - Crown
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The Crown has told a jury that a police custody officer accused of rape picked up a woman he met online with no money and no intention of taking her out for dinner.
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Duration: 2'56"
18:08
Sports News for 3 September 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'57"
18:12
Smoke alarm probably woke family in burning house
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A neighbour woken by children screaming at a Palmerston North house where a child and her grandmother died in a fire today says the whole street will be devastated.
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Duration: 3'20"
18:18
Government is cutting aid to Nauru's justice system
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The New Zealand Government is cutting aid to Nauru's justice system because of draconian civil rights abuses and its former chief justice says Australia should follow suit.
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Duration: 4'48"
18:25
Labour - PM should publicly reprimand Maurice Williamson
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The Labour Party says the Prime Minister John Key should publicly reprimand his Pakuranga MP Maurice Williamson for his highly offensive behaviour as MC at a conference awards dinner.
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Duration: 2'20"
18:27
Chinese Navy ships in the Bering Sea
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The United States is keeping a close eye on five Chinese navy ships operating in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska.
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Duration: 3'32"
18:39
Supplies reach Russian scientists besieged by polar bears
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Fresh supplies have been flown to a group of Russian climate scientists besieged by a pack hungry polar bears up on the Arctic Circle.
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Duration: 4'19"
18:44
China uses huge display of might to announce big cut in troops
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China's President has announced he will cut 300,000 troops from the world's largest military machine; numbering 2.3 million.
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Duration: 4'14"
18:48
Te Manu Korihi News for 3 September 2015
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Iwi in Auckland have ultimately secured the first right of refusal to develop housing on surplus crown land; The demand for repairs for marae around the country is growing as many reach 100 years old; A hot lunches initiative in Auckland schools has seen a rise in learning and attendance among rangatahi over the winter months.
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Duration: 3'14"
18:55
Unmanned helicopters now certified to fly in NZ
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An unmanned helicopter for spraying crops has won the first approval given out under new aviation rules around using drones.
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Duration: 3'37"
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including: 7:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris: Current film releases and film related topics (RNZ) 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries 9:06 Our Changing World: Science and environment news from NZ and the world (RNZ)
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19:12
The wet megalakes
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The story of the arid Australian interior (and how the dry mega lakes were once wet) - with Dr. Tim Cohen, geomorphologist at the University of Wollongong.
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Duration: 15'23"
20:42
Jamaican music
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Placing the needle on the one drop of riddim, rocksteady, ska and roots and culture with deejay and toaster Miles Buckingham. The Hookim brothers & Channel 1...
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Tags: Jamaica, reggae, dub.
Duration: 20'32"
20:59
Conundrum Clue 7
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Listen in tomorrow night for the answer
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Duration: 21"
21:59
Conundrum Clue 8
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Listen in tomorrow night for the answer
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Duration: 41"
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7:10 The wet megalakes
The story of the arid Australian interior (and how the dry mega lakes were once wet) - with Dr. Tim Cohen, geomorphologist at the University of Wollongong.
7:30 At the Movies
7:30 At the Movies
Films and movie business with Simon Morris.
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 Jamaican music
Placing the needle on the one drop of riddim, rocksteady, ska and roots and culture with deejay and toaster Miles Buckingham. The Hookim brothers & Channel 1...
9:06 Our Changing World
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21:06
Firing up the Plant Barbecue
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To find the best plants to use in green firebreaks, biologists are testing the flammability of plants on the 'plant barbecue'
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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.
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Duration: 28'47"
21:20
Mission Complete: New Zealand's first ocean glider takes to the seas
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NIWA oceanographers retrieve an autonomous ocean glider after a successful two-week deployment to explore physical and biological properties of the ocean.
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by Veronika Meduna
We look in the sky and we see different cloud patterns on a different day and that’s what the ocean looks like, but we just don’t have the same amount of data to know what that variability is.
Joanne O'Callaghan, NIWA
Following a successful two-week deployment off the coast of the North Island, oceanographers were happy to see Manaia back aboard ship. The state-of-the-art ocean research glider, named in a public competition after the motif often carved into the figureheads of sea-going waka to give spiritual direction to the waka’s journey – is one of about 500 around the world, but the first and only one in New Zealand.
Joanne O’Callaghan, a coastal oceanographer with the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research, says the autonomous vehicle can be programmed and navigated from her laptop, where she also receives a signal each time it returns to the surface.
During its fortnight at sea, the glider travelled 500 kilometres, yo-yoing between the surface and a pre-programmed water depth and collecting data on temperature, salinity, oxygen levels and turbidity. It was set to call back every two hours to transmit the data – which was “exciting and nerve-racking” for the team. “It was amazing how quickly I got into the two-hour routine, day and night. It was a bit like waiting for a teenager to come home at night,” says Joanne.
Just like drones are increasingly used in land-based research, autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs, help researchers to collect continuous and multiple data sets over an extended period of time. Manaia’s focus will be on the waters above the continental shelf, in depths of a few hundred metres, which are not covered by any other technologies.
The key things we are trying to learn about is what the structure of the ocean looks like below the surface. We’ve had satellites circulating and giving us global maps of sea surface properties, but what we’re trying to understand from these sorts of technologies is what’s below the surface.
The glider carries a number of sensors to measure physical and biological properties, including one that measures fluorescence as a way of monitoring phytoplankton in the water column. “If we can tie them all back together we get an understanding of the biophysical coupling of ocean ecosystems, which has implications for understanding the food chain.”
Unlike powered submarines, the glider does not use a propeller to move through the water. It is driven by a buoyancy engine which allows it to glide up or down in the ocean. Its wings convert vertical displacement into horizontal motion, resulting in a saw-tooth dive pattern, at a speed of about half a knot.
Later this year, the glider will be deployed again to explore the North-East Shelf of the North Island, between the Hauraki Gulf in the north and East Cape-Poverty Bay in the south.
The aim of this research programme is to understand how boundary currents and upwelling influence coastal productivity, biogeochemistry and ecosystem connectivity. The team has already anchored eight moorings to the seafloor that will stay in position for a year to collect information on the ocean’s flow and stratification, together with sediment traps that collect falling marine particles. The moorings will provide insights into how nutrients are formed and transferred between the ocean surface and the deep ocean. Manaia’s effort will complement the information gathered by the moorings.
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Duration: 12'10"
21:34
Junk Food: plastic pollution is a growing threat to seabirds
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A new study says that 90% of the world's seabirds ingest plastic, and those seabirds that feed in the Tasman Sea are most at risk from plastic
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Alison Ballance
A new study on seabirds and plastic rubbish gives a new meaning to the term ‘junk food’. New Zealand is well known for being the world’s seabird capital, with 10% of all seabirds on the planet breeding here. What’s less well known is the enormous – and rapidly growing - threat that plastic rubbish in the ocean poses to them.
Seabirds eat the plastic, after mistaking it to for food, and it can block or rupture their gut, or lead to poisoning caused either by toxins in the plastic itself or by chemicals that the plastic has absorbed.
The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also says that the problem is worst, not in tropical gyres such as the Pacific’s great garbage patch which are known to accumulate vast amounts of plastic rubbish, but rather in the southern ocean, where plastic pollution is less but seabird numbers are at their highest.
Lead researcher Dr Chris Wilcox from CSIRO in Australia says the study’s key findings are summarised in the paper’s title: ‘Threat of plastic pollution to seabirds is global, pervasive and increasing.’
“When we analyse all the data we find, essentially, that plastic is in the majority of the world’s seabirds, whether you think of that that by individual birds or by species,” says Dr Wilcox. “And that appears to be growing.”
Worldwide plastic production has been doubling every 11 years, and in places the amount of plastic pollution has reached more than half a million pieces per square kilometre of ocean. Plastic debris concentrates in five large tropical ocean gyres, such as the well-known Pacific garbage patch. But surprisingly the study has found that the highest risk to seabirds from plastics actually occurs in the southern ocean.
“We found the most birds affected along a band at the edge of the Southern Ocean, so at the bottom of the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian oceans,” says Dr Wilcox. “And that pattern is driven by the fact that although there’s lots of plastic in the garbage patches there aren’t that many species there. The highest bird species richness is in the Southern Ocean. Essentially the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand turned out to have the highest predicted number of species affected … The birds that occur in that area are particularly prone to ingesting plastic, so that’s shearwaters and other allied species.”
The study has come up with some alarming figures: extrapolating forward from old data the researchers suggest that 90% of birds are ingesting plastic at the moment and they expect that figure to rise to 99% by 2050.
Co-author Dr Denise Hardesty from CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere says seabirds are excellent indicators of ecosystem health. “Finding such widespread estimates of plastic in seabirds is borne out by some of the fieldwork we’ve carried out where I’ve found nearly 200 pieces of plastic in a single seabird,” she says.
Karen Baird is seabird advocate for Forest and Bird and Birdlife International, and the regional coordinator for Birdlife International’s marine programme for Oceania, and she says that the study definitely rings alarm bells.
“I think what was a surprise was the fact that the risk is really related to seabird density and occurrence, and not the amount of plastic,” says Ms Baird. “So the fact that the Tasman Sea came out as an area of high risk is of great concern to us, particularly as a number of our seabirds feed in the Tasman.”
Dr Graeme Elliott from the Department of Conservation has been studying wandering albatrosses on New Zealand’s subantarctic islands for more than 20 years. He says that bits of plastic are a common sight around the birds’ nests.
“For our birds, particularly the Gibson’s wandering albatross from the Auckland Islands, the Tasman Sea is the main place they go to feed while they’re raising their chicks,” says Dr Elliott. “The stuff we see is mostly small, so we see a lot of bottle caps, so they’re obviously picking up this stuff at sea, and bringing it onshore to feed their chicks, along with the squid and fish that they feed the chicks.”
Dr Elliott also reports that albatross chicks about to fledge and fly regurgitate the contents of their crop; this usually includes a number of squid beaks, and surveys of many of these over a number of years have shown that about one in four of these contain pieces of small plastic, many of which are blue.
Seabird expert Graeme Taylor from the Department of Conservation says that the different lifestyles of seabird species means they are not equally susceptible to plastic. “Birds that dive deeply for live prey are going to eat less plastic than those that pick at prey items on the surface,” he says. “Prions and storm petrels eat fish eggs and salps, and so they confuse plastic beads with these prey items. Diurnal feeders that eat krill in swarms will eat more plastic than seabirds that feed more often at night on bioluminescent prey or those species that eat larger prey items like fish or squid. None of these things seem to be considered in the paper.”
Graeme Taylor says he is surprised that the Tasman Sea comes out as such a high risk area. “What surprised me the most was the Laysan albatrosses, Phoebastria, didn’t show up as having high ingestion rates in the model. The large numbers of chick corpses I saw on Midway Island in the 1990s with plastic filled stomachs suggests this group of seabirds are exposed to higher plastic mortality rates than most other seabird species that I am aware of.”
The study authors say that producing and using less plastic and having more effective waste management could help reduce this growing threat to the world’s seabirds, many of which are threatened from other causes such as predation, fishery by-catch mortality and climate change.
Graeme Taylor says that although he has reservations about the paper, its value is in demonstrating that plastic debris in the ocean is increasing at a great rate over time and more seabird species and individuals will get exposed to this increasing floating garbage heap.
The work was carried out as part of a national marine debris project supported by CSIRO and Shell’s Social investment program as well as the marine debris working group at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, with support from Ocean Conservancy.
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Duration: 10'19"
21:36
Human hunting and Stewart Island Shags
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Hunting by Maori had very different effects on the Stewart Island and Otago populations of Stewart Island shags.
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By Alison Ballance
Stewart Island shags living in Otago were hunted almost to extinction by early Maori, and have never fully recovered. Their cousins at Stewart Island, however, got off lightly, with little hunting pressure and have been able to maintain a strong , genetically diverse population. Jon Waters and Nic Rawlence have a new paper out in the journal Molecular Ecology that confirms that human hunting, rather than climate change, was the cause of declines and extinctions amongst New Zealand’s mega fauna, and highlights the different trajectories that Stewart Island shag populations went through in different regions.
This builds on previous work which showed that previously unknown mainland species of sea lions and yellow-eyed penguins were hunted to extinction on mainland New Zealand within several hundred years of Maori settlement. These extinct populations were later replaced by species colonising from the subantarctic.
The team used modern and ancient DNA to complement archaeological evidence gathered from Maori middens, and say that it highlights the importance of looking for regional differences in time and space when investigating the impacts of human hunting on animal species.
Jon Waters has featured previously on Our Changing World with Catherine Collins talking about the extinction of a previously unrecognised species of sealion, caused by Maori hunting on mainland New Zealand.
Nic Rawlence has previously featured on the show, along with archaeologist Ian Smith, talking about the prehistory of Waitaha and yellow-eyed penguins.
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Tags: extinctions, climate change, hunting, megafauna, shags, birds, Maori history, wildlife
Duration: 9'07"
21:38
'Albatross' - a poem
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Janis Freegard reads her poem 'Albatross' from The Glass Rooster, published by Auckland University Press
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Tags: royal albatross, Taiaroa Head, seabirds, poetry
Duration: 1'49"
21:40
Theta-R - a sound and light installation
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Among the works at the recent Lux festival in Wellington was an audiovisual kinetic sculpture called Theta-R
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By Alison Ballance
The Lux festival brought crowds to Wellington’s waterfront each evening last week, and among the works was θr, an audiovisual kinetic sculpture by Mo Zareei and Jim Murphy. Mo is a PhD student in mechatronics and sound at Victoria University, and Jim is a recent graduate of the same course.
Jim has been on Our Changing World previously in a story about Chime Red, a Victoria University collaboration between music and engineering students using three Tesla coils, the MechBass robotic bass guitar and robotic drums.
Mo has featured in a previous story about robotics and music of the future.
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Duration: 4'40"
21:46
Psychology of Climate Change
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Victoria University psychology lecturer Marc Wilson discusses why some people remain unsure about climate change, despite the overwhelming evidence.
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by Veronika Meduna
A recent survey (pdf) carried out by the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study at the University of Auckland shows than more than two thirds of New Zealanders believe that climate change is happening and that we are causing it.
But despite the evidence and the near-100 per cent consensus in the science community, one in every five people remains unsure whether climate change is a result of our greenhouse gas emissions.
Victoria University psychology lecturer Marc Wilson discusses why that is the case and what it takes to change long-held views.
He also presented his findings together with Tim Naish, the director of Victoria University's Antarctic Research Centre, in a lecture which is available here.
Topics: science, climate
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Tags: climate denial, confirmation bias, climate change, psychology
Duration: 16'33"
9:06 Our Changing World
Science and environment news from New Zealand and the world.
10:17 Late Edition
A review of the leading 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 Music 101 pocket edition
A contemporary music magazine with interviews and music from New Zealand and overseas artists, coverage of new releases, tours, live sessions, music festivals and events.
===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. | Music 101===
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Music, interviews, live performances, behind the scenes, industry issues, career profiles, new, back catalogue, undiscovered, greatest hits, tall tales - with a focus on NZ (RNZ)