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:
06 September 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 History Repeated (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 2:05 Spiritual Outlook (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday; 3:05 Just a Name, by Siobhan Harvey (RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC); 5:45 NZ Society (RNZ)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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CB Radio Catches Robbers, by J Edward Brown, told by Ole Maiava; Land Under the Earth, by Ron Bacon, told by Temuera Morrison; Got It!, by Adrienne Jansen, told by James Tito; Second Hand, by Adrienne Frater, told by Bridget O:Donnell; The Frown, by Janet Slater Bottin, told by Jim Moriarty; The Catalogue of the Universe, by Margaret Mahy, told by Geraldine Brophy
===7:08 AM. | Sunday Morning===
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A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, documentaries, sport from the outfield, music and including: 7:43 The Week in Parliament: An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house (RNZ) 8:10 Insight: An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ) 9:06 Mediawatch: Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)
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07:10
Urs Signer - Open Borders Open Homes
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Urs Signer this week launched the 'Open Borders Open Homes' Facebook page which has seen hundreds of New Zealanders offering to host refugee families.
Topics: housing, health, conflict, international aid and development
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Tags: refugees and migrants, Facebook, social media
Duration: 11'09"
07:25
Ann Hood - Refugees as Survivors
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Dr Ann Hood is chief executive of Refugees as Survivors NZ, which provides mental health and other health care services to refugees at the Mangere Resettlement Centre. Her organisation works with refugee communities and helps with rehabilitation for victims of torture and survivors of trauma.
Topics: refugees and migrants, housing
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Tags: mental health, rehabilitation, health care
Duration: 6'25"
07:45
Anton Marcus - Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zones
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Anton Marcus is Joint-Secretary of Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zones and General Services Employees' Union which represents thousands of workers in the so-called free trade zones.
Topics: inequality
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Tags: Sri Lanka, free trade, unions
Duration: 12'11"
08:12
Insight for 6 September 2015 - Fossil Fuels - Necessity or Lethal Indulgence ?
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Eric Fryberg explores what future lies ahead for fossil fuels.
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World leaders may try to come to an agreement on limiting energy consumption, but the world appears to be struggling to lose its coal, gas and oil consuming habits.
There is scientific consensus that the world cannot burn all its fossil fuel reserves without passing the 2 degree temperature threshold leaders are hoping to achieve.
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But the world appears to be struggling to lose its coal, gas and oil consuming habits.
Listen to Insight: Fossil Fuels - Necessity or Lethal Indulgence?
The International Energy Agency forecasts the use of coal to rise by 2.1 percent a year to 2019, bringing annual consumption to 9 billion tonnes.
Oil consumption is about 95 million barrels a day, or 12 million tonnes, and was also forecast to rise.
Delegates from around the world meet in Paris in just under three months for the next UN climate change conference to try to find a way to make sure previous commitments are implemented.
The main commitment agreed to four years ago in Cancun in Mexico, was that the temperature of the world should not rise more than two degrees Celsius above the average levels that applied before the industrial revolution started two and a half centuries ago.
New Zealand would take to Paris a target of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, which works out at 11 percent below the usual climate base date of 1990.
This has been criticised as inadequate by many environmentalists in this country and overseas, and has sharpened debate on the use of fossil fuels.
Unlike biofuels, the burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that had previously been sequestered safely underground.
Exact details of the quantity and location of fossil fuels that should remain unused in trying to keep within the 2C temperature limit were published earlier this year.
But consumption of fossil fuels is increasing, albeit more slowly.
The risks of climate change associated with burning coal and gas cannot be underestimated according to the anti-coal activist and former Green Party co-leader, Jeanette Fitzsimons.
"It's leading to hugely intense storms, more floods, more heat waves, more droughts, icecaps melting, glaciers melting, sea levels rising, oceans getting acidic," she said.
"We don't want to go there, it is a one way street, it just gets worse and worse."
The summit in Paris is overseen by the UN body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
It's deputy chairman, Professor Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, said to achieve any success, the world must act fast. Two thirds of the CO2 that can be emitted while meeting the two degree target has already gone into the atmosphere, he said.
"The total amount of CO2 that can still be emitted is 1000 billion tonnes of CO2,
"One thousand billion tonnes might seem a lot, but humanity emits approximately 40 billion tonnes every year.
"At that rate it is only 25 years left."
Officials in New Zealand point proudly to the fact that 80 percent of electricity and 40 percent of primary energy is produced from renewable sources, which was far better than most countries.
But New Zealand's target for reduction of emissions was still criticised as being too low.
Those supporting the fossil fuel industry argued they have made the world what it is, hugely increasing the comforts and opportunities of billions of people, and their importance cannot be ignored.
One of them, Richard Tacon of the coal company Bathurst Resources, said people in the South Island could not get by without the coal supplied by his company.
"We have got major dairy companies, food manufacturers, schools, hospitals, meat packers, abattoirs, that sort of business," he said.
"Electricity is six to seven times more expensive per gigajoule, and there is no reticulated gas in the South Island, so the only alternative is the burning of wood products which are very expensive and are not really available in the South Island."
Cameron Madgwick, of the Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, makes another point: The environment was not the only thing to take into account in assessing energy policies.
"Another issue is energy security," he said.
"We have all heard of the ongoing need for energy to support the lives that we all have at the moment.
"There is also the issue of energy equity.There are a couple of billion people living around the world who do not even have electricity of any form and the equity argument looks to make sure there is some equitable use of energy so we can't say that people in the developing world can't enjoy the things we enjoy in the developed world."
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Topics: energy, climate, environment
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Tags: fossil fuels, climate change
Duration: 27'13"
08:40
Denis Dwyer - Tom Ellison and the Silver Fern
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Tom Ellison wrote the first book on rugby, captained the All Blacks in 1893, was, if not the first, one of the first Maori lawyers, and was responsible for putting the silver fern on the All Black jersey. Denis Dwyer is the author of the recently published: Black Jersey Silver Fern: Tom Ellison - The First Maori to Captain the All Blacks.
Topics: sport, te ao Maori, author interview
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Tags: rugby, Tom Ellison, silver fern
Duration: 13'08"
09:10
Mediawatch for 6 September 2015
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Upsetting images of the dead; flipping the focus on a local tragedy; staying onside with the All Blacks, and; will we get the information we need fifteen years from now?
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Duration: 34'56"
09:37
Cats and the internet
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It might seem like a frivolous subject, but cats play a big role in shaping our culture, society and language. Jason Eppink is Assistant Curator of Digital Media at the Museum of the Moving Image. He's curated How Cats Took Over The Internet, which analyses human interaction with cats through the internet.
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Cats and the internet. It might seem like a frivolous subject, but these furry creatures play a bigger role in both our online and actual lives than we think.
There are film festivals dedicated to cat videos; Instagram accounts for people posting photos of their cats on Saturdays and a language that’s evolved from cat memes. There’s also a more sinister side to cats online, with metadata of cat images being used to map exactly where that cat - and their owner - lives.
The Museum of Moving Images in New York currently has an exhibition documenting moving cat images, curated by Jason Eppink.
How Cats Took Over The Internet documents how cats are depicted in the media, from early cartoons and Meowchat - which first appeared in 1995 and consists of online users role playing as their cats - to memes, gifs, videos, fads and cat celebrities.
While it might look like they have taken over the internet, less than one percent of internet traffic contains cat content. The internet has even been described as a virtual cat park, a social space for cat lovers in the same way that dog lovers congregate at a dog park.
Cats are in more than a third of the households in the West, with the biggest cat fans from Europe, Russia, the United States and Japan, which is considered to be the “epicentre” for cats on the internet. New Zealand has 1.4 million cats.
While the exhibition features cats, it’s more about the impact these animals have on humans. “I’m not a person who watches cat videos for fun (but) I was seeing friends and communities doing this and the big question was I want to understand why,” Eppink says.
“It’s how we as humans take photos and videos of cats and distribute them to satisfy our own needs and desires as humans … There’s something pleasurable about the voyeurism.”
We anthropomorphise – attribute human like intentions, behaviours and emotions to – cats, according to Jason. “We project emotions onto things that aren’t humans to try to understand them. That’s something we do a lot when we are watching cat videos.”
The exhibition features cat videos curated by Will Braden, founder of the Internet Cat Video Festival. Featured videos include Kitten v Lizard (2013) and Cute Cat Yoga (2011).
Another popular cat video is Nyan Cat (2011) – a cartoon cat that flies through space leaving a rainbow in its wake. Jason says has spawned a global cult following. “It’s mesmerising. I love how a whole community on the web have latched onto this and made their own versions. There’s hundreds, almost one from every country. From celebrating their own video game characters to creating the mythology of who Nyan Cat is.”
Another cat that has a cult following is Grumpy Cat, who has nearly 300,000 Twitter followers and was recently photographed sitting in the US Open trophy. Jason describes Grumpy Cat as an A-list celebrity.
“It’s exploded over the last couple of years. As humans we’ve always had celebrities. And there’s something that aligns with our desire for celebrities and our desire for cuteness.”
Cat fads have also come and gone. From Caturdays to cat breading. The latest online fad for cats aligns with the current political races happening in the United States. Trump Your Cat involves brushing your cat then shaping the removed fur into a toupe. “You put it on top of your cat, ala Donald Trump, post it online and revel in the similarities,” Eppink says.
For a man who has spent so much time looking at cats online, does he have one in reality? “I don’t. I’m allergic!” he concludes.
Where the obsession begins
“Cats transcend media, they are unpredictable, there’s an impression of immediacy and that what is happening couldn’t be coerced and seems more authentic,” New Zealand researcher Dr Radha O’Meara says.
“They are popular across a range of cultures, classes and languages… and they are part of our daily life anywhere. When the camera phone became part of our life one thing to naturally take videos of are our cats.”
Humans and dogs are aware that they are being filmed, but cats aren’t, and that’s what makes cat videos special, O’Meara says. “Cats couldn’t care less about the camera and they are doing whatever they want to do anyway. And that’s what seems authentic to us. We are catching life unawares.”
Cat videos also have sociological, psychological and physical benefits. Cat ownership was once considered to be an individual and private endeavour, while dog ownership was open and public. But since the rise of the internet cat lovers have been able to converge in the virtual cat park.
“People are identifying as a cat person and they use that as a badge of their own identity,” O’Meara says. “We can spend more time watching cat videos than with our cats. There are also a whole lot of people who like cats but don’t own one … but they do want to connect with the animal world.”
Watching cat videos can also be good for our health, she says. “It helps slow the heart rate and to relax, particularly in end-of-life scenarios, the physical contact, patting and cuddling when verbal communication deteriorate.”
Just for lol
Cats have not only permeated our home lives, art and mental health, the furry friends have also influenced the evolution of language through LOLspeak, a playful language which came about through cat memes.
LOLspeak is a written language that has changed overtime. It is characterised by child-like or English-learner grammar, playful spelling, smatterings of extra punctuation, and many running jokes, according to LOLspeak expert Lauren Gawnes, who is an ELDP Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS, University of London.
She's worked on I can haz language play: The construction of language and identity in LOLspeak with Jill Vaughan.
“You might just use a little bit of LOLspeak by starting an email with 'hai!!!1!', while 'heavy' LOLspeak might be almost unreadable to an outsider.”
In 2007, an image of an enthusiastic British Shorthair with the caption "I can has cheezburger” was posted by blogger Eric Nakagawa. That meme took over the internet and lead to the creation of multi-million dollar meme website I Can Has Cheezburger (ICHC).
It brought LOLspeak – the language which is a playful form of English that came to be used as a representation of how cats (specifically LOLcats) might speak – to the fore.
“LOLspeak’s origins were before ICHC, with its history traced back to a variety of web user groups such as 4Chan, especially forums that would have 'Caturday' Saturdays when people would post captioned cat pictures,” Gawnes says.
Since 2007 a group of LOLspeak enthusiasts have been translating the Bible into LOLspeak, giving a feline theological perspective, and integrating a variety of existing cat memes into the narrative. “LOLcats are often goofy, funny, and accident-prone,” Gawnes says.
LOLspeak has crept into and out of our everyday language. It’s all depends on how much time you’ve spent on the internet, more accurately between 2007-2010.
“LOLspeak, and LOLcats, are 'vintage' by internet standards, webspeak moves fast,” Gawnes says. "When I show students examples of LOLspeak now they think it's quaint, they're too busy using emoji or snapchatting".
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Topics: internet, life and society
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Tags: cats
Duration: 13'41"
09:50
Why are we so fascinated with cats online?
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New Zealand researcher Dr Radha O'Meara has been researching the impact cats have on us and why we like to film them. The answer is surprising.
Topics: internet, life and society
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Tags: cats
Duration: 13'18"
10:10
Alison Parr - Remembering Christchurch
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Oral historian Alison Parr has given voice to the people of Christchurch five years on from the devastating earthquake that shattered their city in her recently released 'Remembering Christchurch: Voices from Decades Past'.
Topics: Canterbury earthquakes, history
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: author interview, Christchurch
Duration: 13'09"
10:20
Sarah Waters - Lesbian Fiction
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Bestselling UK author of six novels including Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith and The Night Watch, which have also been made into TV series.
Topics: author interview
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Tags: lesbianism, lesbian, lesbian fiction
Duration: 16'30"
10:40
David Greig - Singing to the Choir
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Playwright David Greig was born in Scotland but grew up in Nigeria. His award winning play The Events - opened at Auckland's Silo Theatre this week. The play features a different Auckland choir each night.
Topics: arts
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Tags: theatre, playwright, Nigeria
Duration: 19'42"
11:10
Lesley Riddoch - The Corbyn Factor
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The popularity of UK Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn has taken many by surprise - especially his colleagues at Westminster who admit they have barely spoken to him during his decades as an MP. Lesley Riddoch is a Scotland-based author, journalist, broadcaster and commentator. She discusses Jeremy Corbyn's appeal - the message and the man - and the Blairite-led bid to undermine his campaign.
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Tags: Jeremy Corbyn, UK Labour Party, UK
Duration: 18'25"
11:25
Jim Rader - Bernie Sanders
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Senator Bernie Sanders was until recently probably best known for being one of the few self-described socialists to be voted into public office in the United States: first as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont in 1981, followed by a stint in Congress and then the Senate. More recently he's been attracting massive crowds in his campaign to become the Democratic presidential candidate. Jim Rader, who's known Sanders since the early 1960s, reflects on Sanders' politics and beliefs.
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Tags: USA, USA Elections, Bernie Sanders
Duration: 15'25"
11:43
Karen McMillan - Surviving Cancer
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Author and cancer survivor Karen McMillan joins Wallace to talk about her new book: Unbreakable Spirit - facing the challenge of cancer in New Zealand.
Topics: health, author interview, life and society
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Tags: cancer
Duration: 15'25"
19:45
The Week in Parliament for 6 September 2015
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With Parliament adjourned and no select committee meetings held during the week, we take a closer look at the practices and procedures around Question Time.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 13'28"
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7:08 Urs Signer - Open Borders Open Homes
Urs Signer this week launched the 'Open Borders Open Homes' Facebook page which has seen hundreds of New Zealanders offering to host refugee families.
7:22 Ann Hood - Refugees as Survivors
Dr Ann Hood is chief executive of Refugees as Survivors NZ, which provides mental health and other health care services to refugees at the Mangere Resettlement Centre. Her organisation works with refugee communities and helps with rehabilitation for victims of torture and survivors of trauma.
7:32 The Week in Parliament
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7:47 Anton Marcus - Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zones
Anton Marcus is Joint-Secretary of Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zones and General Services Employees' Union which represents thousands of workers in the so-called free trade zones.
8:12 Insight: Fossil Fuels - Necessity or Lethal Indulgence
Fossil fuels still fire many aspects of our economy. That's despite the fact their role in adding to the CO2 levels in the atmosphere is well known. And the search for new supplies continues, even though environmentalists warn of the climate change consequences of burning even the known resources still underground. Eric Frykberg explores what future lies ahead for fossil fuels.
Produced by Philippa Tolley.
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8:40 Denis Dwyer - Tom Ellison and the Silver Fern
Tom Ellison wrote the first book on rugby, captained the All Blacks in 1893, was, if not the first, one of the first Maori lawyers, and was responsible for putting the silver fern on the All Black jersey. Denis Dwyer is the author of the recently published: Black Jersey Silver Fern: Tom Ellison - The First Maori to Captain the All Blacks.
9:06 Mediawatch
On Mediawatch: a new project asking if we'll be getting decent news and information from the media in fifteen years' time; handling confronting images from tragedies overseas; claims that the unveiling of the RWC squad politicised rugby - and even the push for a new flag.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:37 Jason Eppink and Radha O'Meara - Cats and the Internet
Jason Eppink is assistant curator of digital media at the Museum of the Moving Image. He's curated "How Cats took over the Internet" which looks at how humans interact with cats on the internet. And Radha O'Meara, a media studies lecturer at Massey University, has made a careful study of just why human are so fascinated by the antics of cats.
10:06 Alison Parr - Remembering Christchurch
Oral historian Alison Parr has given voice to the people of Christchurch five years on from the devastating earthquake that shattered their city in her recently released. Remembering Christchurch: Voices from Decades Past.
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10:22 Sarah Waters - Lesbian Fiction
UK writer Sarah Waters is the bestselling author of six novels including Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith and The Night Watch, which have also been made into TV series. Sarah is perhaps best known for setting her work in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists. She talks about her life and career and her new book, The Paying Guests, which has recently been shortlisted for The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Sarah Waters will be appearing at the Christchurch Arts Festival in association with WORD Christchurch, on Monday, Sept 7.
10:39 David Greig - Singing to the Choir
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Playwright David Greig was born in Scotland but grew up in Nigeria. His award winning play The Events - opened at Auckland's Silo Theatre this week. The play features a different Auckland choir each night.
11:05 Lesley Riddoch - The Corbyn Factor
The popularity of UK Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn has taken many by surprise - especially his colleagues at Westminster who admit they have barely spoken to him during his decades as an MP. Lesley Riddoch is a Scotland-based author, journalist, broadcaster and commentator. She discusses Jeremy Corbyn's appeal - the message and the man - and the Blairite-led bid to undermine his campaign.
11:20 Jim Rader - Bernie Sanders
Senator Bernie Sanders was until recently probably best known for being one of the few self-described socialists to be voted into public office in the United States: first as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont in 1981, followed by a stint in Congress and then the Senate. More recently he's been attracting massive crowds in his campaign to become the Democratic presidential candidate. Jim Rader, who's known Sanders since the early 1960s, reflects on Sanders' politics and beliefs.
11:40 Karen McMillan - Surviving Cancer
Author and cancer survivor, Karen McMillan joins Wallace to talk about her new book: Unbreakable Spirit - facing the challenge of cancer in New Zealand.
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Artist: Rosy Tin Teacaddy
Song: Deliverance
Composer: Cummins, Ewens
Album: The Homeward Stretch
Label: EARL GREY
Broadcast Time:8:40
Artist: Kelley Stoltz
Song: When you Forget
Composer: Kelley Stoltz
Album: Circular Sounds
Label: Sub Pop
Broadcast Time:11:35
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After 56 years in National Radio and 43 producing Spectrum, Jack Perkins is calling it a day. His swan song is a chat with Spectrum's co-founder, Alwyn (Hop) Owen about the life and times of Spectrum. The pair began Spectrum in 1972 (F, RNZ)
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12:10
Spectrum's Life and Times - Part 2
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After 56 years in National Radio and 43 producing Spectrum, Jack Perkins is calling it a day. His swan song is a 2 part chat with Spectrum's co-founder, Alwyn (Hop) Owen about the life and times of Spectrum. The pair began Spectrum in 1972. (part 2 of 2)
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Soon after Spectrum began in 1972, Hop Owen and Jack Perkins flexed their muscles and produced All the Queen’s Men, a recreation of the battle at Gate Pā, Tauranga in 1864 between colonial forces and Māori. The programme broke new ground. Spectrum hired a dozen actors as well as teams of Pākehā and Māori to do battle and a stretch of farmland was turned into something resembling a film set rather than a radio production.
Spectrum wasn’t just tied to history – wing stands on a tiger moth in full flight, hang gliding, accompanying SAS recruits on a ‘test to destruction’ – nothing daunted Spectrum.
Hop Owen’s satirical pen pushed other boundaries – he poked fun at the traditional Kiwi wedding and end-of-year school speeches, brought Queen Victoria to colonial New Zealand disguised as a highland gentleman, introduced a bit of acid into the syrup surrounding the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana in 1981.
By the 1980s, Spectrum was also recording overseas, particularly the Australian outback and their prolific oral history output provided grist for several books.
In the second of two programmes, Spectrum’s co-founders, Alwyn (Hop) Owen and Jack Perkins continue their chat about the life and times of Spectrum.
Listen to some of the original Spectrums referred to in this programme
Gallery: Just a few of the team of Spectrum producers over the years
Topics: author interview, history, life and society, media
Regions: Wellington Region, West Coast, Auckland Region
Tags: National Radio, Radio documentary, Spectrum, radio history, New Zealand character
Duration: 27'26"
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===12:40 PM. | Standing Room Only===
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It's an 'all access pass' to what's happening in the worlds of arts and entertainment, including: 3:04 The Drama Hour: The Godwits Fly, by Robin Hyde "You were English and not English. It took me time to realise that England was far away" - so thinks Eliza Hannay in The Godwits Fly, dramatised for radio by Fiona Kidman from Robin Hyde's classic NZ novel (F, RNZ)
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12:42
The questions most asked of singer/songwriters - Devin Abrams
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Songwriting is both an art and a craft. It is also often a mystery, even to the songwriter! Where does a song idea come from? How do you fit lyrics to a melody? What makes a song work? These are some questions budding songwriters ask. And the Christchurch Arts Festival hopes to cast a light on the subject when it brings together singer-songwriters Julia Deans (of Fur Patrol) and Devin Abrams (of Shapeshifter and Pacific Heights) who is about to launch a solo album.
Topics: music
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Tags: Christchurch Arts Festival, arts festivals, Shapeshifter, Pacific Heights
Duration: 6'54"
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The questions most asked of singer/songwriters - Devin Abrams
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Songwriting is both an art and a craft. It is also often a mystery, even to the songwriter! Where does a song idea come from? How do you fit lyrics to a melody? What makes a song work? These are some questions budding songwriters ask. And the Christchurch Arts Festival hopes to cast a light on the subject when it brings together singer-songwriters Julia Deans (of Fur Patrol) and Devin Abrams (of Shapeshifter and Pacific Heights) who is about to launch a solo album.
Topics: music
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Tags: Christchurch Arts Festival, arts festivals, Shapeshifter, Pacific Heights
Duration: 11'35"
12:50
Bold proposal for a Pan-Pacific venue at Venice's Biennale
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Pacific nations - including New Zealand - that want to take part in the Venice Art Biennale have to find their own places to exhibit each time in the overcrowded city. But what if there was an easier way for us to take part in the world's biggest contemporary art event? Curator, photographer and Creative Arts Lecturer at Massey Simon Mark is pushing for a Pan-Pacific pavillion at the 2019 Biennale, where nations could pool resources to secure a good spot.
Topics: Pacific, arts
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Tags: Venice Biennale, Massey University
Duration: 15'33"
13:34
First woman to climb Mount Cook to be immortalised on film
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The big story this year is the increasing visibility of women-focused movies. Not just hit films like Trainwreck, Pitch Perfect, Fifty Shades of Grey and Ricki and the Flash but women-driven production companies, collectives and writers' labs. New Zealand filmmaker Anita Ross pitched her film script about pioneering mountaineer Freda Du Faur to Vermont's Stowe Workshop, and they loved it. The film is called Cloud Piercer.
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The big story this year is the increasing visibility of women-focused movies and women-driven production companies, collectives and writers' labs.
New Zealand filmmaker Anita Ross pitched her film script about pioneering mountaineer Freda Du Faur to Vermont's Stowe Workshop, and they loved it. The film is called Cloud Piercer.
Topics: arts
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Tags: te ao Maori, film
Duration: 11'18"
13:47
The first Maori Miss New Zealand inspires a new play
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A play inspired by the crowning of Maureen Kingi as the first Maori Miss New Zealand back in 1962 is among the new work that's part of a festival that's been revived after a 25-year hiatus. Auckland's Te Pou venue in New Lynn has brought back the Koanga Festival as part of the Going West Festival. Two of the featured Maori writers are newcomer Cian Elyse White whose play Te Puhi is about the Maori Miss New Zealand event, while established playwright Albert Belz is presenting his new work The Great American Scream.
Topics: te ao Maori, arts
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: plays, theatre, Miss New Zealand, writing
Duration: 11'51"
14:06
The Laugh Track - Joe Mande
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Joe Mande is a stand-up and writer who has worked on sitcom Parks and Recreation and the sketch comedy Kroll Show. In 2014 he released a comedy album in the style of a hip-hop mixtape. Joe's now writing for Aziz Ansari's new show for Netflix, and touring New Zealand. Joe plays some of his favourite comedy from Tig Notaro, John Mulaney, and Nate Bargatze.
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Joe Mande is a stand-up and writer who has worked on sitcom Parks and Recreation and the sketch comedy Kroll Show. In 2014 he released a comedy album in the style of a hip-hop mixtape. Joe's now writing for Aziz Ansari’s new show for Netflix, and touring New Zealand. Joe plays some of his favourite comedy from Tig Notaro, John Mulaney, and Nate Bargatze.
Topics: arts
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Tags: comedy, Parks and Recreation, Aziz Ansari, Kroll Show, Joe Mande, Tig Notaro, John Mulaney, Nate Bargatze
Duration: 20'59"
14:25
Cast iron horses to delicate, fading-light artworks – Max Patte
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A Wellington sculptor and his former workmates from Weta Workshop have come up with new technology for light-works that can fade and change colour so slowly, it's imperceptible to the eye. British-born sculptor Max Patte was Head of Sculpture at Weta for almost a decade before branching out on his own. If you've walked along Wellington's waterfront you've probably seen his bronze figure leaning into the wind, or perhaps you've seen pictures of the giant cast iron horses he created for Michael Hill's golf course sculpture garden in Queenstown. These days Max is working with light rather than metal, creating works for two solo exhibitions at Shed 11 in Wellington, and in October as part of Auckland Art Week at the Allpress Gallery.
Topics: arts
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: sculpture, light, weta
Duration: 14'49"
14:37
Sue Orr on her first novel The Party Line
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The relationship between farmers and sharemilkers is at the heart of short story writer Sue Orr's first foray into writing a novel. She's based it on one of her short stories called Gypsy Day, when sharemilkers take up new contracts around the country. While most of the time sharemilkers and the farmers they work for get on well, Sue's imagined a scenario where things go terribly wrong because of secrets and lies that tear the small community apart. The Party Line is published by Vintage.
Topics: author interview, arts, rural
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Duration: 24'23"
14:45
The Black
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A new play called The Black opens this week at Auckland's Basement Theatre. It's playwright Josephine Stewart Tewhiu's take on depression and uses acting, animation and live illustration to tell the tale of a young woman called Cleo who is being stalked by a black horse.
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I want someone who's depressed to watch it - to feel like they're not alone.
In the new play by Josephine Stewart-Tewhiu, a young woman named Cleo is stalked by her depression in the form of large, black - and talking - horse. Josephine says the idea of using a horse came out of a long struggle to find a way to write about depression.
'I didn't know how to write about something that's nothing, and formless. So I needed to give form to that thing. And when I did, and when I gave myself permission to give it a voice and make it almost surreal, it worked.'
I feel a movement behind me. I turn and in the distance a single black horse is standing at the lights. It's pawing the ground with its hoof, stamping impatiently. There's blood coming out of its nose, steam from its breath haloes its head - Cleo. (Josephine Stewart-Tewhiu.)
As a physical manifestation of depression and with the ability to speak, The Black is given licence to say things - the kind of things no friend would dare to tell you, or that you would ever dare to tell yourself. 'All those terrible things that you think and you're not allowed to say, The Black says' laughs Josephine.
She dismisses any idea of a tragicomic backstory involving the lead character and a horse and instead points to the use of horses as symbols in art and mythology. Horses are beautiful and romantic creatures, Josephine says and connects them to the way in which creativity and depression are romanticised by the public.
In a recent and somewhat contested study, scientists in Iceland reported that on average, people in creative professions were 25% more likely to carry the gene variants for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia than people in other kinds of employment. This study is hardly undeniable proof of the old idea of the tortured genius, but most in the theatre game would say they know plenty of unhappy artists. For Josephine, the issue of creativity and a possible link with depression is less theoretical. She has experienced depression since her teens and feels that the subject is not being discussed enough, especially in her industry.
'I noticed a real lack of it in our theatre. Rob Mokaraka wrote this beautiful piece called Shot Bro: Confessions of a Depressed Bullet about his own battles with mental illness, but they seem to just spike up and disappear. I wanted to tell it.'
I think it is relevant and I think it is important.
The play, which features acting, animation and live drawing is directed by Thomas Sainsbury. He is uncertain about the link between depression and creativity but points to a possible causal factor.
'I guess (creative people) talk more about life and more about existence. So therefore maybe you would ask these questions that might tip people into depressive episodes.'
Thomas talks up the humorous aspects of the script, arguing that comedy is an extremely appropriate way to talk about a subject as serious as mental illness.
Depression is an absurd affliction. It lends itself to comedy quite well because it is so absurd.
Actor Kate McGill, who plays a character in the play called Sondra, agrees and argues that laughter is the best way to deal with the darkness.
'Within the play there is lots of nuance and lots of funny...it is educational but it's also very human and real. I think people will really respond to the beautiful depth as well as the eccentricity in it.'
And Josephine says the heartache and the humour of The Black is creature we all know.
Giving people permission to laugh at themselves is really important. It takes the power out of it a little bit when you can laugh.
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Topics: arts, health
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: arts, health, theatre, animation, depression
Duration: 8'30"
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12:44 Answering the questions most asked of singer/songwriters – Devin Abrams
Songwriting is both an art and a craft. It is also often a mystery, even to the songwriter! Where does a song idea come from? How do you fit lyrics to a melody? What makes a song work? These are some questions budding songwriters ask. And the Christchurch Arts Festival hopes to cast a light on the subject when it brings together singer-songwriters Julia Deans (of Fur Patrol) and Devin Abrams (of Shapeshifter and Pacific Heights) who is about to launch a solo album.
12:51 A bold proposal for a Pan-Pacific venue at the Venice Art Biennale
Pacific nations – including New Zealand – that want to take part in the Venice Art Biennale have to find their own places to exhibit each time in the overcrowded city. But what if there was an easier way for us to take part in the world's biggest contemporary art event? Curator, photographer and Creative Arts Lecturer at Massey Simon Mark is pushing for a Pan-Pacific pavillion at the 2019 Biennale, where nations could pool resources to secure a good spot.
1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris
1:34 The first woman to climb Mount Cook to be immortalised on film
The big story this year is the increasing visibility of women-focused movies. Not just hit films like Trainwreck, Pitch Perfect, Fifty Shades of Grey – and this week, Ricki and the Flash – but women-driven production companies, collectives and writers' labs. New Zealand filmmaker Anita Ross pitched her film script about pioneering mountaineer Freda Du Faur to Vermont's Stowe Workshop, and they loved it. The film is called Cloud Piercer.
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1:47 The first Māori Miss NZ inspires a new play
A play inspired by the crowning of Maureen Kingi as the first Māori Miss New Zealand back in 1962 is among the new work that's part of a festival that's been revived after a 25-year hiatus. Auckland's Te Pou venue in New Lynn has brought back the Kōanga Festival as part of the Going West Festival. Two of the featured Māori writers are newcomer Cian Elyse White whose play Te Puhi is about the Maori Miss New Zealand event, while established playwright Albert Belz is presenting his new work The Great American Scream.
2:05 The Laugh Track: Visiting American stand-up and sitcom writer Joe Mande
Joe Mande is a stand-up and writer who has worked on sitcom Parks and Recreation and the sketch comedy Kroll Show. In 2014 he released a comedy album in the style of a hip-hop mixtape. Joe's now writing for Aziz Ansari’s new show for Netflix, and touring New Zealand.
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2:25 From life-sized cast iron horses to delicate, fading-light artworks – Max Patte
A Wellington sculptor and his former workmates from Weta Workshop have come up with new technology for light-works that can fade and change colour so slowly, it's imperceptible to the eye. British-born sculptor Max Patte was Head of Sculpture at Weta for almost a decade before branching out on his own. If you've walked along Wellington's waterfront you've probably seen his bronze figure leaning into the wind... or perhaps you've seen pictures of the giant cast iron horses he created for Michael Hill's golf course sculpture garden in Queenstown. These days Max is working with light rather than metal, creating works for two solo exhibitions. The Wellington exhibition opens on Saturday at Shed 11, and in October as part of Auckland Art Week he'll have a show on at the Allpress Gallery.
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2:37 Sue Orr on her first novel The Party Line
The relationship between farmers and sharemilkers is at the heart of short story writer Sue Orr's first foray into writing a novel. She's based it on one of her short stories called Gypsy Day, when sharemilkers take up new contracts around the country. While most of the time sharemilkers and the farmers they work for get on well, Sue's imagined a scenario where things go terribly wrong because of secrets and lies that tear the small community apart.The Party Line is published by Vintage.
2:50 The Black
A new play called The Black opens this week at Auckland's Basement Theatre. Its playwright Josephine Stewart Tewhiu's take on depression and uses acting, animation and live illustration to tell the tale of a young woman called Cleo who is being stalked by a black horse.
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3:05 The Drama Hour: Mechanical Bimbos in the Asteroid Belt and The Godwits Fly - part three
===4:06 PM. | None (National)===
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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)
===5:00 PM. | None (National)===
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A roundup of today's news and sport
===5:11 PM. | Spiritual Outlook===
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Exploring different spiritual, moral and ethical issues and topics (RNZ)
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02:05
Spiritual Outlook: The moral dilemma for Military Chaplains
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Mike Gourley explores the moral dilemma for Christian clerics serving in the Military in discussion with: Stephanie du Fresne, Advocate for Quaker Peace and Social Witness; Rev John Neal, former Principal Defence Chaplain; Pauline Law,: former Principal Naval Chaplain; Jenny Dawson, Anglican Priest & Theologian.
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An olive tree for peace arriving at this year's Anzac Day commemoration in the Hague, which coincided with the 100 year anniversary of the founding of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. A NZ Quaker woman was there with some help from Quaker Peace and Service Aotearoa New Zealand. Photo: Supplied.
In this edition of Spirituality Mike Gourley explores the moral dilemma facing Christian clerics, as Chaplains, enlisted in military service. They’ve been called Clergy in Khaki. Later in the programme, Mike talks with by former air force chaplain John Neal and former principal Navy chaplain, Pauline Law – both committed Christians. First though, we hear a strictly pacifist perspective, from Stephanie Du Fresne, an advocate for Quaker Peace and Service.
'Quaker' is the nick-name given to the Religious Society of Friends, dating back to the days of its founder, George Fox, who refused to take up arms during the English civil war, either in the service of Cromwell, or the Monarchy. Imprisoned for his views, a judge said Fox should “quake and tremble” in the face of authority, whereupon Fox responded that the powers-that-be should “quake and tremble before Divine Authority!”
Stephanie Du Fresne says that as a matter of principle, Quakers always seek out a peaceful alternative to war, even at the expense of their own lives. Although they have struggled with the notion of war in the cause of defeating dark and oppressive forces.
Former Air-force chaplain, John Neal says that when he graduated as a chaplain in 1980, the debate over Vietnam was well and truly over, but the bigger, moral question still remains: Can followers of the Prince of Peace take up arms for the purpose of killing?
Former Principal Navy Chaplain, Pauline Law says she didn’t feel herself there was a conflict of interest between Christian beliefs and military service.
And like John Neale, Pauline Law says it’s a matter of giving service to those who are doing a job the Government has determined needs to be done… Pauline Law says it’s the same issue for prison chaplains: you may not approve of a prisoners’ deeds, or the prison system. But it is still necessary to provide the service nonetheless.
Topics: spiritual practices
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Tags: Defence, Christianity, morality, religion, military
Duration: 27'31"
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===5:40 PM. | Te Manu Korihi===
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Maori news and interviews from throughout the motu (RNZ)
===6:06 PM. | Te Ahi Kaa===
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Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)
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18:06
Soldiers Road Portraits
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It was the creativity of her mother and a trip to the New York that inspired Taaniko Nordstrom to create a business taking portraits. The subjects of the portrait wear a mix of traditional and modern clothing worn during colonial times in Aotearoa. Justine Murray visits their studio at Papamoa.
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Taaniko Nordstrom and Vienna Nordstrom are the creative duo behind Soldiers Road Portraits based in Papamoa, what started as an idea inspired by a trip to New York has grown into a home based business.
Justine Murray visits their studio, and sits in on a session with Travel Blogger, Amber Harris nō Tainui.
Taaniko Nordstrom found her inspiration after a trip to New York, the visits to the museams and exhibitions jogged her memory back to her Whare Tipuna (meeting house) and seeing the pictures of her ancestors on the back wall. Upon her return home, she experimented with the concept of posing while wearing colonial clothing, tāonga, and wearing kirituhi (non-traditional taa moko), she posted the photos online to just her Facebook friends, and triggered a raft of positive responses.
Spurred on by the feedback she set about building her ideas for a portrait business, she tapped into the artistic talent of her sister-in-law Vienna. Taaniko showed her those first images, albeit on her ipad, and she agreed it was a great idea. The pairs first outing would be the Kawhia Kai Festival clocking up 40 sittings. In the last few years they have travelled a dozen times to Australia, and earlier this year to Hawaii.
Up until this point we feel that as Māori, the indigenous injustices through photography have happened to our Tipuna, alot of those Goldie portraits, I mean I might be talking out (of line) here, but I don't know how much of those royalties got back to that whanau. So, we like to give the rights of those images to the people, we consider it a tāonga, this is our koha. As soon as you receive that tāonga, it is yours, you would never give someone a tāonga and say oh but we''ll have half of it back please.
We had people saying you guys are idiots, maybe we are, but I leave work feeling good about what I'm doing.
- Taaniko Nordstrom
As a former caregiver and international Air New Zealand air hostess, Taaniko believes she has found her dream Job, both women are under 30 years old, and own their business.
I try and envison the final product and I just try and get them sitting up straight, framing it up well, and getting the right angle. At Matatini we had a woman come and she had her tupuna (picture) who had moko under the eyes, and in between the brow, from Ngai Tahu. We've often had people that bring photos of their tupuna. Even if they don't, and they see their finished portrait, they say I look like my grandmother or great grandmother. We want you to see your tupuna in your portrait, that's our whole idea of these vintage style portraits.
- Vienna Nordstrom
Taaniko and Vienna are adamant that their job is not about just getting dressed up and taking a photo. The ability to connect with people, establish links and empower Māori is the kaupapa of Soldiers Road Portraits. Social media promotion has spread across the digital media spectrum, the pictures are their advertisements. They have had families that sit for, what will be their first time family portrait. Justine Murray visits their studio and sits in on a session with Travel Blogger, Amber Harris nō Tainui.
Topics: arts, te ao Maori
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Taaniko Nordstrom, Vienna Nordstrom
Duration: 42'04"
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===7:06 PM. | One In Five===
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The issues and experience of disability (RNZ)
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19:06
Barney should be knighted
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A mother shares the ups and downs of living with autism.
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Bernie Wastney’s describes her 19-year-old son as six foot two and absolutely gorgeous. Her son was diagnosed with autism when he was one. He is treated as a taonga (treasure) by Bernie’s whanau.
“The teenage kids are a little bit envious because they just say he’s got the best life. [They say] he never has to get up and do jobs like we do – he can sleep in, he sleeps when he wants, he wakes when he wants. So they think he’s got a great life,” Bernie says.
However life with a severely autistic child can be exhausting and challenging. Bernie shared her experiences as a Māori mother and autism advocate in a keynote address at the recent Altogether Autism conference in Auckland. Her son has rarely slept more than four hours at a time and he has kicked out the windscreen of her car three times.
Bernie says when her son was diagnosed she wished someone had told her she could relax and everything would be OK. She wasn’t prepared for how public her life would become with the stream of people coming into her home taking notes on her family.
And she recommends professionals take the time to establish a relationship with Māori families. “Don’t rush straight into a meeting and race straight into it.”
Bernie says her son is happy most of the time. His favourite thing to do is watch Barney the purple dinosaur on the computer the DVD or the iPad. “I love Barney… he’s just the best. I think Barney should be knighted… It makes him happy. Those are his happy moments.”
Topics: disability
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Tags: autism, disability, Bernie Wastney
Duration: 14'45"
19:06
The right note
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Five years ago, 21-year-old Georgia Steel hadn't picked up a viola. Now she's playing it in the National Youth Orchestra.
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Five years ago, 21-year-old Georgia Steel hadn't picked up a viola. Now she's playing it in the National Youth Orchestra.
Georgia has a visual impairment and is using the latest technology to improve her musical skills.
She now uses a large tablet, which is the size of a computer screen, to display her music. Georgia enlarges the score to a size she can comfortably read and changes the page with a foot pedal. The tablet sits perfectly on a music stand.
And she has been able to do away with the cumbersome A3 pages she used to put into a booklet and that would invariably topple off the stand.
Georgia says she no longer has to memorise everything she plays or otherwise try to guess what a written note is by working out the distance between it and the previous note.
Playing in an orchestra has opened up a new world to Georgia. “I just think there’s nothing quite like the sound of 100 players joining together and playing music… I would like to be able to play professionally in an orchestra. Yeah, that’s my end goal.”
Topics: disability, music
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Tags: Visual impairment, National Youth Orchestra, Viola, Orchestras
Duration: 9'55"
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===7:35 PM. | Voices===
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Asians, Africans, indigenous Americans and more in NZ, aimed at promoting a greater understanding of our ethnic minority communities (RNZ)
===7:45 PM. | In Parliament===
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An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house (RNZ)
===8:06 PM. | Sounds Historical===
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NZ stories from the past (RNZ)
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20:05
Sounds Historical Hour One - 6 September 2015
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Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the dramatic, colourful and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past
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Duration: 54'26"
21:05
Sounds Historical Hour Two - 6 September 2015
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Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the dramatic,colourful and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past.
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Duration: 56'46"
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8:08 Today in New Zealand History
On 6 September 1903, famous linguist Harold Williams reports from Germany in his new role as Times correspondent.
8:15 Artist: Four and One More and the Zodiac Mellotones
Song: Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes
Composer: Moore
8:18 Memories of a Film Projectionist
Doug Harvey talks to Jonathon Denis about his career in the cinema. Part 2
8:25 Artist: Mavis Rivers
Song: Kiss of Fire
Composer: n/s
8:29 A New Zealander at the Japanese Surrender 70 Years Ago - 2 September 1945
An unidentified officer on HMNZS Gambia introduces naval Lieutenant I. D. (John) Allingham, who gives an account of the surrender ceremony and signing aboard the US S Missouri. He was an aide for the New Zealand signatory, Air Vice-Marshal Isitt, and witnessed the event at close quarters. He describes American sailors packing every vantage point to watch the historic occasion; he lists the signatories who were present, including 11 Japanese representatives and American General MacArthur. He describes the different uniforms of those present and the exchanging of pens. An air salute passed over the Missouri and then he returned to Gambia.
8:37 Artist: The Big City Six
Song: What is the Thing?
Composer: Green
Album: A Night on the Town
Label: Zodiac
8:40 Station T.O.T
A recording of early children's radio session, hosted by two young boys, one called Albert. It features 9 year old violinist Alan Loveday (later an outstanding professional musician). Don Richardson - piano accordion plays Canadian Capers. The T.O.T. Chorus sing a song about Switzerland with yodelling. Xylophone item by John and Elisabeth Tait. The Junior Hillbilly Hotshots with Ragtime Cowboy Joe.
8:52 War Report 52
Poems written home from Gallipoli to his family at Gimmerburn, Maniototo, by Trooper Jack Duncan. Introduced by Adam Macauley and read by Duncan Smith.
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Artist: John McCormack
Song: There’s a Long Long Trail A Winding
Composer: King/Elliott
Album: Oh, It’s a Lovely War Vol 2
Label: CD41 486309
9:00 News
9:06 As I Remember
The Shacklock Range by Robin Shepherd of Kaitaia.
9:08 Artist: Phil Tilbury
Song: At My Mother’s House in Dunedin
Composer: Tilbury
9:15 Film pioneer Stanhope Andrews recalls the early days of what became the National Film Unit in the 1940s
Andrews is described as “an ideas man who campaigned for a Government film body. Stanhope Andrews would become the National Film Unit's first manager. Andrews commanded the Unit for a decade. Along the way he oversaw dramatic expansion, set up regular newsreel Weekly Review, and opened the door to filmmakers of both genders. Includes an extract from film “Country Lads”. Recorded in 1962.
9:28 Artist: Coral Cummins and Alan Dunford with Doug Caldwell Quartet
Song: Foodosophy
Composer: Dunford
9:32 The Story of Kershaws of Martinborough.
Pain and Kershaw has been in business since 1873 and Rob Webb talks to third-generation Kershaw family member David Kershaw who ran the business until recent times.
9:49 Artist: Del Harris with Reg Gould’s Orchestra
Song: Shanghai
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9:52 The Radio Doctor
An example of a radio talk by Dr H (Harold) B Turbott from the 1960s. The topic is diet and the role of the potato. In 1943 Prime Minister Fraser sacked the controller of the National Commercial Broadcasting Service, C. G. Scrimgeour (‘Uncle Scrim’), and invited Turbott to take over his daily health talks. This supposedly temporary arrangement lasted until 1946. In 1952 Harold Turbott was persuaded by Minister of Health Jack Marshall to revive this role and deliver weekly health talks geared towards disease prevention. He maintained this schedule for more than three decades. Copies of these talks were sent to every public health nurse as background information for their own addresses to patients and community groups. Selected broadcasts ended up in print with the publication of Radio talks on health in 1946. From 1952 many were reprinted in the monthly Department of Health magazine, Health. A reference guide to his talks was published in 1969 as Guidelines to health, a book described by the journal as ‘small enough not to intimidate a busy housewife’. A second edition was released in 1983. On 24 March 1984 the Evening Post reported that ‘The radio doctor, Dr Harold Turbott, tuned out this morning without even a hint that it was his final medical broadcast after a 41-year career’. In 1987 he received the Mobil Radio Award.
===10:12 PM. | Mediawatch===
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Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)
===11:04 PM. | None (National)===
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The story of Carole King's classic album Tapestry, including insightful interviews with Carole King, producer Lou Adler, her friend Graham Nash and journalist David Wild of Rolling Stone. Their comments touch on nearly every aspect of the album's production, its impact on the music industry, Carole King's songwriting process and how her career developed from the Brill Building to Tapestry and beyond (Joyride Media)