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:
13 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 The Angels Cut, by Elizabeth Knox (5 of 15, 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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Planet Boring, by Michael Wilson, told by Tim Balme; Hello Jack, by Norman Bilbrough, told by Steven Lovatt; Bobby and the Fruit Business, by Gary Syme, told by Grant Tilly; A Bird called Henry, by Elizabeth Smither, told by Kate Ward; 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
Lesley Riddoch - Discussing British Labour Party's new leader
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Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has been elected Leader of the British Labour Party. We discuss the results of this surprising, divisive and sometimes vitriolic leadership contest with UK commentator Lesley Riddoch.
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Tags: Jeremy Corbyn, Lesley Riddoch, UK, UK Labour Party, UK Labour leadership
Duration: 8'29"
07:17
Chris Trotter - Discussing British Labour Party's new leader
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Chris Trotter gives us his point of view on what the New Zealand Labour Party can learn from the UK campaign.
Topics: politics
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Tags: NZ Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, Chris Trotter, UK, UK Labour Party
Duration: 6'26"
07:25
El Nino leaving its mark in the Pacific
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There are fears that the lack of water could result in major food shortages around the Pacific - including in Vanuatu.
Topics: climate, Pacific
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Tags: Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea
Duration: 4'52"
07:30
The Week In Parliament for 13 September 2015
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Government faces questions on its response to the Syrian refugee crisis, which is also the subject of a briefing to the Foreign Affairs, Defence & Trade Committee; Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler reduces the Official Cash Rate to 2.75% - providing more question fodder for the Opposition; Government passes two Treaty Settlements and a Tax Bill; Opposition criticism of the upcoming flag referenda continues; MPs pay tribute to the Queen on becoming longest reigning British monarch.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 15'08"
08:12
Insight for 13 September 2015 - Relationship Turmoil
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Catherine Hutton has the inside story on the sudden demise of Relationships Aotearoa.
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Couples counselling could be harder to get as the Government's priorities around where its counselling dollars should go change.
The country's oldest and largest counselling service, Relationships Aotearoa closed in June.
And a report leaked to Radio New Zealand detailing the finances of the failed counselling service suggests the Government was indifferent about its future.
But clients and one organisation that has now taken on some of its work are worried couples' counselling could suffer as the needs of others take priority.
When Relationships Aotearoa closed, two organisations were hastily contracted to provide services, Stand Children's Services and Vitae.
In the past three months Stand has seen more than 360 former clients of Relationships Aotearoa, mostly individuals and couples.
Vitae estimates it's seen another 50 people.
Stand's chief executive Fiona Inkpen said it was moving to a new contract with the Ministry of Social Development which would cater for families, but not individuals and couples.
And as the Government moves to prioritise counselling children over couples, clients like Rachel* who felt two more counselling sessions would have solved her issues, now faces long delays in the Family Court.
She said the Government's focus on just vulnerable children is too narrow.
"Obviously we need to be focussing on our children, but we also need to realise that children live in families and there's a saying that if you want to leave the children safe look after the parents."
She said the child's whole family needed to be taken into consideration.
"If this therapy was going to be working for my ex-husband and I, that was only ever going to be good for our child [too]."
Rachel believes the service's closure leaves a hole and she is not getting the help she needs.
"It does feel like there weren't any safety nets put in place, I mean I'm ok and my son's fine and we'll just go through the court process, which is going to be not quite ok, but what about those other families out there that have not been contacted?"
Social Development Minister Anne Tolley said there would always be a need for counselling services, but it was clear these would be more targeted in future.
Mrs Tolley said it would be up to individual communities to decide if couples counselling was a priority.
"It will just depend on what the need is, how that community sees that as a priority."
Meanwhile, the Minister said her department was conducting internal reviews of the way it funded and managed Relationships Aotearoa and anything it had learned will be incorporated into its Community Investment Strategy, which would determine future funding.
*Not her real name
Read the background reports:
Transforming Not-For-Profit Services,Vital Signs Consulting 2015
Relationships Aotearoa Incorporated, Report to the Board of Governance, PWC 2015
Follow Insight on Twitter
Topics: life and society
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Tags: counselling, trauma, Anglican Family Care
Duration: 26'58"
08:38
Melinda Tankard Reist - Impact of Sexualised Imagery
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International advocate against the sexual exploitation of women and children, Melinda Tankard Reist discusses the pervasive influence of sexualised imagery in popular culture.
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Is media and popular culture fuelling international sex trafficking? Author and advocate against the sexual exploitation of women and children Melinda Tankard Reist believes so.
Reist is the co-founder of Collective Shout – a campaigning movement which exposes organisations and corporates that objectify women and sexualise girls in order to sell products or services. She is in New Zealand on behalf of TEAR Fund – an international aid organisation that works to combat human trafficking – to speak about how sexualisation fuels sex trafficking, and also interferes with the physical development of youth.
Wallace Chapman asks her just what is sex trafficking and how big is the problem?
Topics: inequality, media
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Tags: rape culture, sexual exploitation, sexualized imagery, popular culture
Duration: 19'41"
09:30
Mediawatch for 13 September 2015
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All Blacks overexposure; everyone rates Richie - almost; claims of a dignity deficit in online news; not wrong for long.
Topics: media
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Tags: All Blacks, online, news, RWC 2015, Richie McCaw
Duration: 33'17"
09:43
Etienne Clement - Plunder in the Pacific
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Etienne Clément is UNESCO's man in Apia. In the 1990s he was instrumental in having Angkor Wat in Cambodia declared a World Heritage site. Now he's calling on Pacific nations to put a halt to the illegal market in cultural artefacts which are sought after by collectors in Europe and America.
Topics: Pacific, arts
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Tags: Samoa, Melanesia, Angkor Wat
Duration: 17'05"
10:06
Alison Mau and Elizabeth Roberts - Sex Change Pioneer
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Elizabeth Roberts underwent the first sex change operation in New Zealand in 1969. In her book First Lady – written by journalist Alison Mau – Liz describes her transition from Garry to Elizabeth. It's an insightful, truthful and often brutal account of her life and of her pioneering sexual reassignment surgery.
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Two historic events happened on the same day in July 1969 – humans landed on the moon and Liz Roberts underwent the first sex change operation in New Zealand.
First Lady is an insightful, truthful and often brutal account of the boy Garry to the woman Elizabeth from childhood in a conservative family to careers highs in dressmaking and hairdressing and a life punctuated by surgery and its ongoing effects.
Wallace Chapman speaks with the author of First Lady, journalist and presenter Alison Mau.
Topics: author interview, books, life and society
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Tags: First Lady, Alison Mau, Elizabeth Roberts, transgender, gender, sexual reassignment
Duration: 36'34"
10:43
Stuart Young and Cindy Diver - Verbatim Theatre
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Verbatim Theatre interviews people about their experience, then actors plug in little headsets and act out these interviews. Dunedin's Talking House Collective used the strategy in Hush: a play about family violence. The Talking House Collective is now on a national tour with The Keys are in the Margarine - using the verbatim style to look at the world of dementia.
Topics: arts, life and society
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Tags: theatre, Verbatim Theatre, Talking House Collective, dementia, Alzheimer's
Duration: 14'45"
11:06
Joan Baez - Music and Friends
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Joan Baez is more than just a singer of folk songs. She talks to Wallace about her life, her work, her music and her friendships with some of history's greatest people. Joan Baez is touring New Zealand next month.
Topics: music
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Tags: Joan Baez, Bob Dylan
Duration: 22'15"
11:28
Jemaine Clement - Romantic Lead
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Jemaine Clement's new movie People, Places, Things is showing now at cinemas around New Zealand.
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The very dry and very funny Jemaine Clement joins Wallace to talk about his new movie People, Places, Things – his first big screen role as romantic lead. Oh, and he draws us a mouse.
Jemaine Clement's new movie People, Places, Things is showing now at cinemas around New Zealand.
Topics: arts
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Tags: Jemaine Clement, film
Duration: 15'47"
11:44
Sonya Cotter - Interior Design
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Sonya Cotter is at the Auckland Home Show this weekend and tells Wallace that green is pretty hot right now.
Topics: arts
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Tags: design, colour forecasting, interior design
Duration: 14'37"
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7:08 Current affairs
We discuss the new leader of the UK Labour Party – the results of this surprising, divisive and sometimes vitriolic leadership contest – with UK commentator Lesley Riddoch. Then Chris Trotter gives us his point of view on what the NZ Labour Party can learn from the UK campaign. Plus – Pacific countries are feeling the impact impact of El Nino, especially in the highlands of PNG; and The Week in Parliament.
7:47 Yasmine Ryan - Biography of a Killer
This interview did not proceed for technical reasons and is rescheduled for Sunday 20 September.
Retired DGSE agent Jean-Luc Kister this week apologised for his part in the killing of Fernando Pereira in the Rainbow Warrior bombing 30 years ago. Tunis-based freelance journalist Yasmine Ryan has been looking into the French secret agent’s time in Tunisia and France’s use of violence as a foreign policy tool.
8:12 Insight - Relationship Turmoil
In June, the country's oldest and largest counseling service closed its doors.For six decades Relationships Aotearoa provided counseling to individuals, couples and families. But chronic under-funding, contractual difficulties, poor governance and the Government’s changing priorities overwhelmed Relationships Aotearoa. Catherine Hutton asks what the implications are for those who used the services and other similar organisations that rely on government support to do their work?
Produced by Teresa Cowie
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8:40 Melinda Tankard Reist – Impact of Sexualised Imagery
International advocate against the sexual exploitation of women and children, Melinda Tankard Reist discusses the pervasive influence of sexualized imagery in popular culture. Is the objectification of women and children fuelling international sex trafficking? Melinda Reist believes so and she explains why on Sunday Morning. Melinda is in NZ in association with the Tear Fund.
9:06 Mediawatch
The media go over the top on the All Blacks and Richie McCaw’s greatness. Also: Efforts to persuade online news media not to share stories of people in distress; and a surprising claim by a top media boss corrected.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
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9:40 Etienne Clement - Plunder in the Pacific
Etienne Clément is UNESCO’s man in Apia. In the 1990s he was instrumental in having Angkor Wat in Cambodia declared a World Heritage site. Now he’s calling on Pacific nations to put a halt to the illegal market in cultural artefacts – particularly Melanesian carvings – which are sought after by collectors in Europe and America.
10:06 Alison Mau and Elizabeth Roberts - Sex Change Pioneer
Long before Caitlyn Jenner, there was Elizabeth Roberts, who underwent the first sex change operation in New Zealand in 1969. In her book First Lady – written by journalist Alison Mau – Liz describes her transition from Garry to Elizabeth. It’s an insightful, truthful and often brutal account of her life and of her pioneering sexual reassignment surgery.
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10:42 Stuart Young and Cindy Diver - Verbatim Theatre
Verbatim Theatre interviews people about their experience, then actors plug in little headsets and act out these interviews. Dunedin's Talking House Collective used the strategy in Hush: a play about family violence. The Talking House Collective is now on a national tour with The Keys are in the Margarine – using the verbatim style to look at the world of dementia. Cindy Diver and Stuart Young join Wallace to talk about the project.
11:05 Joan Baez - Music and Friends
Joan Baez barely needs an introduction. An iconic figure of the sixties – Joan Baez is more than just a singer of folk songs. She talks to Wallace about her life, her work, her music and her friendships with some of history’s greatest people. Joan Baez is touring NZ next month
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11:28 Jemaine Clement - Romantic Lead
The very dry and very funny Jemaine Clement joins Wallace to talk about his new movie People, Places, Things – his first big screen role as romantic lead. Oh, and he draws us a mouse.
11:44 Sonya Cotter - Interior Design
Sonya Cotter is an interior designer and an expert in colour forecasting. She is at the Auckland Home Show this weekend and tells Wallace that green is pretty hot right now.
===12:12 PM. | Spectrum===
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People, places and events in NZ (RNZ)
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12:15
Long Haul: Remote Rescues by Otago's Flying Paramedics
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Long flights and remote locations are the norm for the pilots and paramedics of the Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust and they also cop a fair bit of adverse weather. Their patch covers 28 per cent of New Zealand's land mass yet their sparsely-spread clientele make up just six per cent of the population. Katy Gosset visits the crew to hear about challenging rescues in the Southern Ocean and the daily drive to make a difference for each patient.
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"Time seemed to stand still. I knew the Otago rescue choppers were coming."
On board a foreign fishing vessel 180 km off the New Zealand Coast, Marty Bowers waited for help as he grappled with a life threatening injury.
"I'd seen [the helicopter crew] before but I never thought I'd be seeing them hovering above the deck of a ship to pick me up."
Mr Bowers lost part of his arm after it got caught in a hydraulic pump and he was forced to break his own limb to save himself.
“It got to the stage where the pain was so bad that it just turned itself into noise.”
But he says that gave him the clarity he needed to take action.
“Perhaps if it hadn’t have hurt so much I might not be here.”
But Marty also owes his life to the work of the rescue helicopter which flew for an hour to reach the ship. The light was fading and there was a strong swell as a crew member was winched down to collect Marty.
“He obviously got a call from on high, in the chopper, that they were running out of light [and] running out of fuel.”
He said the indication was that if they mucked around they might not make it home.
“He just looked at me and said “Sorry, Marty this is going to bloody hurt. And he was quite right.”
As the chopper flew towards Dunedin Hospital Marty learnt that he was a “Status One” patient. “That was when I realised it was actually a bit more serious than what I thought.”
Senior paramedic, Doug Flett, is described by a colleague as a guy who “expects nothing and gives everything.”
He wasn’t the paramedic who rescued Marty but, in 2005, he was named New Zealander of the Year by North and South magazine for an equally challenging mission at sea. He was winched onto a ship and spent the night attending to a seriously ill man who subsequently died.
Doug Flett says its often the off-shore jobs that make the hair on the back of his neck stand on end.
“The Southern Ocean is a pretty unforgiving sort of place, big distances and nowhere really to land down there.”
And he says in some cases the patient has been injured for a long time but it has taken several days for a vessel to within range of the helicopter.
“We pull out all the stops and we can only do what we can do and do it safely.”
For Graeme Gale, the service really is “all about the patient”. “That’s what we’re here for. There’s nothing else.”
He set up the rescue helicopter in 1994 and says, for him, the satisfaction comes from providing a lifeline to the many small communities dotted about Otago. The service receives support from the Otago Regional Council but still needs to raise between $500,000 and $1 million each year and Graeme Gale says much of this money is raised by local communities and service clubs.
Their patch covers 28 per cent of New Zealand's land mass, yet their sparsely-spread clientele make up just six per cent of the population. That makes for a lot of long flights, remote locations and often adverse weather.
Katy Gosset visits the crew to hear about challenging rescues and the daily drive to make a difference for each patient.
Topics: health, transport
Regions: Otago
Tags: Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust, rescue at sea, intensive care retrieval
Duration: 25'15"
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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: 1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris 3:04 The Drama Hour: And the Sun Stood Still, by Dava Sobel The story of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer and mathematician who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe in which the Sun stands at the centre. Plagued by self-doubt and threatened by religious censure, Copernicus resisted the publication of his work until just before his death in 1543 (1 of 2, LA Theatreworks)
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12:43
Web series
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This week the New Zealand web series High Road triumphed at the Berlin Web Fest, picking up the Grand Jury Prize, and confirming what its loyal followers already know - you can make great drama for next to nothing. But that's not all. High Road - the story of a burnt-out DJ, played by Mark Mitchenson - has not only picked up gongs everywhere from Bilbao to Sicily. It's currently Number One on the World Leader Board, the web-series World Cup. But creative quality is one thing. Getting a global audience is quite another. Simon Morris brings together a panel to discuss the future for web series and ways of getting them a bigger audience. On the panel are : Fiona Powell (Editor/Producer WebShowCentral and Web Series Channel) , Brenda Leeuwenberg (Head of Digital, New Zealand On Air) and RNZ's Megan Whelan.
Topics: media, internet, arts
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Tags: web series
Duration: 15'25"
13:34
Rare glimpse of original Christchurch Town Hall Designs
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Now the Christchurch Town Hall rebuild is officially happening, a rare opportunity has come up to see the original plans from 1968.The Warren & Mahoney drawings are kept in the MacMillan Brown Libraries and they're releasing 20 large detailed reproductions for the exhibition in Sumner. Liam Nolan from the Christchurch City council and Samuel Miller from Lang Masters Hollywood3 Sumner talk about the plans, past and future, and the master builder behind the winning design Charles Luney. The Christchurch Town Hall drawings go on show on Wednesday at the Lang Master's Hollywood3 Cinema in Sumner. The drawings run alongside the Feature documentary "Charles Luney - Master Builder" (60minute colour documentary film) - narrated by John Coley, soundtrack by Blair Parkes and directed by Samuel Miller.
Topics: arts
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Christchurch town hall, Christchurch, design, architecture, film, documentary
Duration: 7'29"
13:45
Blog Life
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What does it take to become a digital influencer and how does one set themselves apart in an environment that is fast becoming oversaturated with blogs and Instagram accounts? Sonia Sly meets Katherine and James. K. Lowe, who between them, have amassed a significant online following on Instagram and ex-pat Kiwi Isaac Hindin-Miller shares the secrets to his international blogging success.
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“Instagram is the most quantifiable--you see immediately how many people are liking. I always think it’s like I’m competing in a competition every day of the week.” - Isaac Hindin-Miller.
A smart phone, a good photographer and an ability to identify your personal brand are just some of the keys required to succeed as a ‘digital influencer.’ But what is the reality behind the images and what kinds of pressures exist for those who play the numbers game on Instagram?
Between them, tight-knit siblings Katherine and James K. Lowe have amassed nearly 170k followers on the visual social media platform and it’s a big deal. These are the kind of numbers that draw brands and designers to work with them. In August Katherine worked as a stylist for Kate Sylvester’s show at Marr Factory; a fashion event in Auckland run by hair stylist Stephen Marr while brother James was busy shooting Karen Walker’s Marr Factory show, and also shot her recently released eyewear campaign Pool Side.
Although the pair are comfortable working alongside the country’s biggest names in the fashion industry they remain adamant that it all ‘just happened.’ They shrug off the numbers accumulating at the top of their Instagram accounts, but are also hyper-aware of themselves and their personal brands.
James’ Instagram profile features photographs that he’s shot for designer campaigns, the odd picture of food or a pair of trainers, and yes behind the scenes ‘real’ life photographs of him hanging out with his girlfriend the one and only LORDE. While Katherine’s account is all about healthy food, friends and fitness with a laid-back minimal approach to personal style that also translates into her styling for photo shoots, think: hair tucks, caps, trainers and sweatshirts.
“We were early adopters [and] it was good timing” - Katherine Lowe
Neither James or Katherine had a master plan, but both recognize that opportunities have come as a result of Katherine’s blog ‘Katherine is Awesome’; a place where she shares her highs and low(es) and continues - as she did when she started - styling shoots with models and getting James to photograph them.
Running the blog for around 6 years now she isn’t as motivated as she used to be: “I’ve got this love hate thing with it” she says. Adding to that she feels frustrated at having to deal with other people’s demands and expectations with people sending in emails requesting contacts for fashion PR companies and questions about how to get free clothes.
On the other side of the blogging coin is New York-based style blogger Isaac Hindin-Miller who was recently flown back to New Zealand as an international delegate for New Zealand Fashion Week. He’s warm, friendly and down-to-earth, just as his blog persona on ‘Isaac likes’ suggests. Shifting from writing to making a living as a personal style blogger came to fruition after shifting to New York four years ago.
The only way that it became viable for bloggers to make money was through personal style” - Isaac Hindin-Miller
To continue with his writing Isaac began working as a contributor for the New York Times - a game changer that opened up other doors including writing for GQ Magazine, Esquire, Business of Fashion, and of late, writing relationship advice for Leandra Medine’s renowned Man Repeller.
But Isaac maintains that writing for high profile publications doesn’t necessarily drive traffic to his own website.
“My business model has changed a lot because I wanted to be a journalist [and] I wanted to write for these publications, but now I’ll do it just to keep my name at that level of the publication, because when you’re writing for a publication you’re building their brand, it’s not about yourself”.
Isaac is hard-working, ambitious and loves having his photograph taken which is prefect for the nature of his job. Growing an audience is also vital to keeping him afloat in a highly competitive industry where bloggers are competing for the same opportunities -being dressed by designers and then showing the looks online. The down side of his job is that he never leaves the office and his iPhone is an essential tool that never leaves his side.
“What’s changed now is that it used to be that you wrote a blog, but now you write a blog, you’ve got Twitter, Instagram... Instagram is a good 20-hours a week of what I do now. There’s all these different channels that you have to be active in and that you have to have an engaged audience on” - Isaac Hindin-Miller
Isaac cites travel as an important aspect of style blogging because it showcases the idea of an ‘aspirational lifestyle'.
“You don’t see the tears behind the scenes” he laughs.
Check out Isaac on Instagram here.
Listen to the audio story to hear Isaac’s Instagram tips and why his favourite clothes are the pieces he buys himself.
Topics: media, technology, internet, life and society
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: New York, The New Yorker, GQ Magazine, Style.com, Man Repeller, Katherine is Awesome, Isaac Likes, fashion, digital, Instagram, photography, blogging, bloggers, stylists, models, beauty
Duration: 15'28"
14:28
Sir Donald Bradman's grand daughter is more of an all-rounder
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Australian soprano Greta Bradman is a recitalist, concert and stage performer with many awards to her name - which might sound familiar. Greta's also the granddaughter of Australian cricketing legend Sir Donald Bradman. Musically, she's an all rounder and she's coming over to New Zealand to perform in a show called From Broadway to La Scala. Last year Greta took out the Australian International Opera Award, just four years after going professional as a concert classical singer. She is performing at the Auckland Town Hall on Friday, and in Christchurch next Sunday.
Topics: music, arts
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Tags: opera, classical music
Duration: 7'32"
14:35
New York Publisher Jonathan Galassi
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Since the mid 1980s Jonathan Galassi has been a legendary figure in the New York publishing scene. That's when he moved to long established publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux www.fsgoriginals.com/books. As its President, he soon established a reputation for signing on novelists like Jonathan Franzan and Marilynne Robinson who could both win literary awards and sell in big numbers. While working with writers, he's also one himself as a published poet, translator and contributor to The New York Review of Books. Recently he released his first novel, Muse, a satire based in the publishing world he knows so well. Jonathan Galassi has just been in Wellington as a guest of Victoria University.
Topics: books
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Tags: publishing
Duration: 22'03"
14:49
Jewellers' international handshake
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For almost two years 11 emerging New Zealand contemporary jewellers have been mentored by big international names in jewellery. Now the work of mentors and mentees is being shown side by side for the first time. The Handshake project paired the Kiwi jewellers with their heros at the start of last year. They've collaborated using online video and email. So how did it work? Mentor David Neale from Melbourne in Australia, and Hastings jeweller Vanessa Arthur talk about their collaboration. Mentors & Mentees, is on at AVID Gallery in Wellington.
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For almost two years 11 emerging New Zealand contemporary jewellers have been mentored by big names international names in jewellery. Now the work of mentors and mentees is being shown side by side for the first time.
The Handshake project paired the Kiwi jewellers with their heros at the start of last year. They've collaborated using online video and email.
So how did it work? Mentor David Neale from Melbourne in Australia, and to Hastings jeweller Vanessa Arthur talk about their collaboration.
Mentors & Mentees, is on at AVID Gallery in Wellington.
Topics: arts, media, business, internet
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Tags: mentoring, jewellers
Duration: 9'50"
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12:39 Web series - small budgets and small audiences but is that about to change?
This week the New Zealand web series High Road triumphed at the Berlin Web Fest, picking up the Grand Jury Prize, and confirming what its loyal followers already know - you can make great drama for next to nothing. But that's not all. High Road - the story of a burnt-out DJ, played by Mark Mitchenson - has not only picked up gongs everywhere from Bilbao to Sicily. It's currently Number One on the World Leader Board, the web-series World Cup. But creative quality is one thing. Getting a global audience is quite another. Simon Morris brings together a panel to discuss the future for web series and ways of getting them a bigger audience. On the panel are : Fiona Powell (Editor/Producer WebShowCentral and Web Series Channel) , Brenda Leeuwenberg (Head of Digital, New Zealand On Air) and RNZ's Megan Whelan.
1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris
1:34 Rare glimpse of original Christchurch Town Hall Designs
Now the Christchurch Town Hall rebuild is officially happening, a rare opportunity has come up to see the original plans from 1968.The Warren & Mahoney drawings are kept in the MacMillan Brown Libraries and they're releasing 20 large detailed reproductions for the exhibition in Sumner.. Liam Nolan from the Christchurch City council and Samuel Miller from Lang Masters Hollywood3 Sumner talk about the plans, past and future, and the master builder behind the winning design Charles Luney. The Christchurch Town Hall drawings go on show on Wednesday at the Lang Master's Hollywood3 Cinema in Sumner. The drawings run alongside the Feature documentary "Charles Luney - Master Builder" (60minute colour documentary film) - narrated by John Coley, soundtrack by Blair Parkes and directed by Samuel Miller Trailer:
[embed] www.vimeo.com/97303473
1:47 The secret life of Bloggers
What does it take to become a digital influencer and how does one set themselves apart in an environment that is fast becoming oversaturated with blogs and Instagram accounts? Sonia Sly meets Katherine and James. K. Lowe, who between them, have amassed a significant online following on Instagram and ex-pat Kiwi Isaac Hinden-Miller shares the secrets to his international blogging success.
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2:05 The Laugh Track
Shane Cortese (Chicago, Shortland Street, Nothing Trivial) stars in a production of the Broadway classic Guys and Dolls for the Auckland Theatre Company. Guys and Dolls premiered in 1950 and originally ran for 1200 performances. The original won five Tony Awards including Best New Musical and was subsequently made into the famous film starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra. The ATC production opens in late October.
2:26 Cricketing legend Sir Donald Bradman's grand daughter is more of an all-rounder
Australian soprano Greta Bradman is recitalist, concert and stage performer with many awards to her name...which might sound familiar. Greta's also the granddaughter of Australian cricketing legend Sir Donald Bradman. Musically, she's an all rounder and she's coming over to New Zealand to perform in a show called From Broadway to La Scala. Last year Greta took out the Australian International Opera Award, just four years after going professional as a concert classical singer. She is performing at the Auckland Town Hall, on Friday and in Christchurch next Sunday.
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2:38 New York Publisher Jonathan Galassi on picking winners and finally publishing his own first novel
Since the mid 1980s, Jonathan Galassi has been a legendary figure in the New York publishing scene. That's when he moved to long established publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux www.fsgoriginals.com/books.
As its President, he soon established a reputation for signing on novelists like Jonathan Franzan and Marilynne Robinson who could both win literary awards and sell in big numbers.
While working with writers, he's also one himself as a published poet, translator and contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Recently he released his first novel, Muse, a satire based in the publishing world he knows so well. Jonathan Galassi has just been in Wellington as a guest of Victoria University.
2:49 Jewellers' international handshake
For almost two years 11 emerging New Zealand contemporary jewellers have been mentored by big names international names in jewellery.Now the work of mentors and mentees is being shown side by side for the first time. The Handshake project paired the Kiwi jewellers with their heros at the start of last year. They've collaborated using online video and email. So how did it work? Mentor David Neale from Melbourne in Australia, and to Hastings jeweller Vanessa Arthur talk about their collaboration. Mentors & Mentees, is on at AVID Gallery in Wellington.
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3:05 The Drama Hour
The first in a series of LA Theatre Works productions exploring scientific themes. And we kick the series off today with As The Sun Stood Still ,a drama about renaissance astronomer and cleric Copernicus who risked everything in the struggle to complete his research.
===4:06 PM. | None (National)===
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===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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Renu Augul travels to Kathmandu to find out how Hindus and Buddhists there have looked to their faith in the aftermath of the earthquake in 2015.
Renu explores how many in Nepal feel the earthquake had a divine motive, and that the quake occurred because sins had increased on earth, and that it was cleansing itself of the sins and the sinners.
She travels to Sankata Temple, right in the heart of Kathmandu, which miraculously sustained no damage and witnessed no deaths in the immediate vicinity. Most of the faithful here credit their patron deity for their safety. “Sankata le thapyo sabai,” (Sankata took on the damages) says one believer, implying that the Sankata goddesses protected them.
But many others communities were devastated and Renu meets the faithful who have looked to the Gods for answers. She witnesses the various ‘Poojas’ (forgiveness rituals) carried out as the people here attempt to atone for the sins they feel they have afflicted on their land.
The reconstruction of the country is just at the beginning but Renu finds that for the people of different faiths in Nepal, it’s the relationship with their religion, Buddhist and Hindu, which needs the most work.
See the BBC website for this programme
===5:40 PM. | Te Manu Korihi===
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Māori 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
Millan Ruka - River Ranger
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Millan Ruka works as a river patrol ranger in Northland, encouraging the community and local councils to bring back the health of the rivers. It all began five years ago when Millan became aware of the dire polluted state of the Wairua River on the outskirts of Whangarei. Lois WIlliams gets an insight into this environment crusader on a mission.
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Lois Williams is Radio New Zealand's Northland reporter. In part three of Te Reo o te Raki, Voices of the North Lois sits down with river patrol ranger Millan Ruka to talk about his life.
As a teenager Millan fought for boxing titles. Today he fights for the health of Northland's rivers.
It's five years since Millan Ruka stood on the banks of the Wairua River with his 80 year old uncle Henry - and realised what he'd lost. The awa (river) he'd swam in and fished as a boy had turned into a sewer. After years of working overseas as a builder and project manager he'd come home to Whangarei to find intensive dairy farming had polluted the once-pristine waters.
"We just stood beside the river and couldn't believe how bad it was. It was stagnant, red and green and brown in colour, and this was on a fine day when there wasn't sediment running. And it was paru - you could smell it, you know? It was so full of agricultural run-off. We sort of stood there looking at where uncle used to swim and bathe. And I thought I've got to find out what's causing it" - Millan Ruka
It was a moment that changed his life. Instead of winding down to a comfortable semi-retirement with time for his dual passions of horse-trekking and kayaking, Millan found himself at the age of 60 with a new and arduous mission - to clean up the rivers. Being a practical sort of bloke he started with the basics, good gear. He spent more than a hundred thousand dollars of his retirement savings on an American riverboat, a truck to tow it and and a trailer with launching gear. He bought a camera with GPS function, and he and Uncle Henry, now in his 80s, set about documenting the damage, paddling and motoring up and down the waterways of his childhood and filming what they saw.
He was not prepared for what he saw. Cows grazed the unfenced banks, roamed the stream beds and defecated in the water that carried their waste all the way to the Kaipara harbour. Millan began bombarding the Northland Regional Council with highly detailed river reports showing the degradation, and the locations mapped by GPS. Eventually people sat up and took notice.
"The first day coming down the Whakapara, from where the old whanau homestead was, I couldn't believe it. There was cow crap, urine, mud everywhere , just a foul stench all the way down" - Millan Ruka
Members of Millan Ruka's hapu, Te Uriroroi, Te Parawhau and Te Mahurehure, had been working quietly for years to protect their awa, and persuade farmers to fence off their stock, with success in some cases. But the efforts of the lone river crusader, spending his savings to confront the powers-that-be with the unpalatable truth about dirty dairy, captured the public's attention and pricked the council's conscience. Council began subsidising fences, and as Fonterra brought more pressure to bear on dairy farmers to clean up, more fences and hotwires started appearing along the riverbanks. And Millan Ruka was able to secure some funding to continue his work from conservation sources. He says his job is far from done - there are still stretches of the rivers that are unprotected and there's no clean stream accord for cattle farmers. In catchments like the Hatea beef cattle continue to pollute the water that flows into the Whangarei Falls and the harbour where the Whangarei Council has spent $60 million on sewerage systems to keep out human waste. That's a target Millan Ruka now has in his sights.
"I was starting to peel an orange, and then I realised how dirty my body was, my clothing, my waka and I just didn't feel clean enough, you know, to eat my kai. And, yeah, I started to cry on that day. Because of the enormity of it all" - Millan Ruka (on the first time he patrolled the river in 2010)
He says he's stubborn, and a cowboy from way back. His backstory reveals he's also extremely resourceful.
He left school at 14, worked with his father as a house-painter and hawker, and trained in his teens as a boxer, representing New Zealand. He joined the Merchant Navy, left it it to marry and bluffed his way onto construction sites to learn carpentry. He became a self-employed builder in Whangarei despite a lack of formal training, building one of the city's first pole houses - still standing today. And he went on to supervise major construction projects in places like Papua New Guinea before he finally qualified as a builder in his 50s, going on to become a building industry certifier .
These days he indulges his inner cowboy by organising horse-trekking trips to places like Texas.This is clearly not a man who quits. Perhaps the whakatauki Ko Au te Awa, Ko te Awa Ko Au (I am the River, and the River is me) reflects the hard work, stamina and unwavering determination of Millan Ruka.
Topics: environment
Regions: Northland
Tags: Millan Ruka, Lois Williams
Duration: 38'55"
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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
Tania Humphreys: A Tale of Tourette's
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An insight into the world of Tourette's Syndrome. Canterbury woman, Tania Humphreys hits, kicks and sometimes throws things. And she has a wide range of verbal exclamations. But these are involuntary sounds and movements, or tics, that are part of a largely misunderstood condition. In this interview, originally broadcast on Easter Monday, Tania talks Tourette's with Katy Gosset
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Tania Humphreys has been known to hit and kick, and she says, if she has a fork in her hand, it's best that people be out of hand's reach.
The Canterbury woman has Tourette's Syndrome and when she feels her "aura" or, as she puts it, a huge build-up of energy between her shoulders, she knows a tic is on its way. For her a tic can be anything from a verbal exclamation to a physical movement such as flicking her fingers, hitting or wrenching her neck.
Tania says Tourette's is a genetic neurological condition and the sounds and movements are involuntary.
She says the condition is greatly misunderstood and many people tend to associate it only with coprolalia (involuntary swearing) as this is the feature most often portrayed in films or other popular media.
But she says only a small portion of the population who have Tourette's actually swear involuntarily.
"Because I have coprolalia, I can sort of see the funny side in it, but if anybody was making jokes at my expense I wouldn't be happy, and I do feel for all the children out there who are going through it."
She says despite having a range of tics, the way they present at different times is "completely random".
"I have no idea what tic is going to come." She says the physical tics mean she has, on occasion, hit her husband while other family members have "worn" glasses of water and lemonade. And she says she will ask people to leave the kitchen if she is working with a knife to ensure she doesn't hurt them.
Tania says her older children ignore Tourette's while the younger ones sometimes adopt their own versions of her tics. But she says, on the whole, her family find the tics entertaining.
"They know it's Mum - they just live with it"
Getting a Reaction
"People that know me love it." But Tania Humphreys says people in the street often stare at her.
"When I'm ticcing really badly people will look at me like, "Ok, that's just a bit random, a bit weird."
On an airplane she explains to people that she might hit them. "When you tell people to move [because] you want to kick them, you get really strange looks."
On one occasion she was at a bottle store with friends and was initially refused alcohol because she was squatting and swearing and the attendant thought she was intoxicated. However she explained that she had a neurological condition and was subsequently served. But Tania says, generally, people are both understanding of, and fascinated by, the condition.
She says Camp Twitch, last year's national get together for people with Tourette's, was the first time she had met other adults with the condition. And she says, when she saw a woman sitting alone with no one else within hand or leg's reach, she knew she'd found someone with similar tics to her own. "We got along like a house on fire - it was awesome."
The Toll of the Tics
Tania says Tourette's is very much a part of her personality. "It definitely makes me who I am and how I take on the world" However she has little control over what comments will emerge. "I don't think there's any part of my brain that screens for appropriateness .. it just comes out when it comes out."
The condition does take its toll: the frequency of the tics increases with stress and Tania noticed hers were exacerbated by the earthquakes. "They affect your thinking and they affect your whole body."
She tries to reduce them when she's working but says she can't tame them completely. "I don't like to suppress them. I think suppressing them just makes them worse."
Tania has found that she doesn't tic when swimming and says the only day she didn't tic at all was her wedding day - to the chagrin of her brothers who, she says, were looking forward to it. “They were like, “Yes, she’s going to tic, this is going to be hilarious" - not a single tic !” But Tania says she would like to reduce the impact of the condition.
"If I could make the toll of the tics less on my body, then I wouldn't change them because they're fun."
But she wouldn’t want to be the source of anyone’s joke. "It's alright to have a laugh with us but not at us."
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: disability, employment, Tourette's Syndrome, coprolalia
Duration: 21'05"
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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 for 13 September 2015 (Part 1)
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Stories of yesteryear from around New Zealand
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Duration: 53'57"
20:06
Sounds Historical Hour One - 13 September 2015
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Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past.
Topics: history
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Duration: 57'02"
21:04
Sounds Historical Hour Two - 13 September 2015
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Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past.
Topics: history
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Duration: 58'45"
21:05
Sounds Historical for 13 September 2015 (Part 2)
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Stories of yesteryear from around New Zealand
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Duration: 56'09"
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8:08 Today in New Zealand History
First Woman MP, this day in1933 Elizabeth McCombs was elected. 3'58"
8:13 Artist: Crombie Murdoch and Esme Stephens
Song: How High the Moon
Composer: Harris/Lewis
Album: How High the Moon
Label: Stebbing Zodiac 2'03"
8:16 From the Back Country (1992)
Aspects of farming in Taranaki. 14'03"
8:31 Artist: Rina Menzies with the Julian Lee Quartet
Song: Candy Lips
Composer: n/s
Album: How High the Moon
Label: Stebbing Zodiac 2'22'
8:24 The Story of Awanui Radio in Northland
Bill Walker the first engineer at the site in 1913 describes the equipment and the daily operations before the station was dismantled in 1929. 11'54"
8:47 Artist: Phil Garland
Song: Farewell to Geraldine
Composer: Joe Fleming/Garland
Album: Springtime in the Mountains
Label: Kiwi SLC 178 4'15"
8:53 War Report 53
Cecil Malthus describes being in hospital in September 1915 after being evacuated from Gallipoli and Jim Warner describes his training in New Zealand during the latter part of 1915. A newspaper report describes plans to farewell a further Māori contingent.
Music:
Artist: John McCormack
Song: There's a Long Long Trail A Winding
Composer: King/Elliott
Album: Oh, It's a Lovely War Vol 2
Label: CD41 486309
Artist: Helen Clark Song: Your King and Country Want You
Composer: Paul Rubens
Album: Oh, It's a Lovely War Vol 1
Label: CD41 486286 7'05"
00:53:25 FILL: Artist: Radio New Zealand Studio Orchestra
Song: I'll Put You Together Again
Composer: Black/Steven
Album: Orchestral Gold Vol 2
Label: Tartar TRL 005
9:08 As I Remember
The School Picnic by the late Daphne Blackshaw, sent in by her sister Colleen. Read by Sandy Powell. 4'32"
9:13 Artist: Inia Te Wiata (piano Ernest Lush)
Song: Arran Homing Song
Composer: arr. Noble
Album: Inia Te Wiata A popular Recital
Label: Kiwi SLC 248 3'08"
9:18 An Audio Oddity
There was a time when watching the advertising slides before the film was part of the fun of going to the pictures. Each kid would be allotted a slide as they came up and if a boy got a slide advertising women's underwear he was in big trouble. In later years these slides were graced with a sound track and one has just been taken in by Sound Archives. Recorded by Kerridge Odeon for its Oamaru theatre in about 1974 it features 4ZB announcers Neil Collins and Jim Sullivan. 2'03""
9:21 Artist: Gil Dech (piano)
Song: Remembrance
Composer: n/s
Album: 25 Hits of the 50s
Label: Platinum 3'32"
9:25 Ken "Don" Donaldson recalls his early career in radio in the 1930s
He began in Dunedin and was a popular announcer on 4ZB before he later held administration roles, including as manager of WNTV1. 14'37"
9:34 Artist: The Big City Six
Song: Gra Mamou
Composer: n/s
Album: How High the Moon
Label: Stebbing Zodiac 2'24"
9:39 A 1958 report on a new machine at Wakari Hospital, Dunedin
An unidentified doctor talks about the new radiotherapy machine purchased through public donations at Wakari Hospital, Dunedin. The new Betatron X-Ray cancer treatment is described and sound effects of the machine working are heard. The public raised the equivalent of $5 million in today's values.
9:41 Artist: Glen Moffatt (1995)
Song: Somewhere in New Zealand Tonight
Composer: Moffatt
Album: Godzone Country
Label: Sony 3'08"
9:45 Book of the Week - Remembering Christchurch, Voices from Decades Past by Alison Parr Penguin ISBN 978 0143 573371
Alison Parr discusses her book which is based on an oral history project and plays three extracts from the interviews used in the book. Jim Curnow gives details of running a milk bar in the 1960s and 1970s; Valerie Heinze remembers her days as an art student and Robert Consedine recalls the Catholic youth dances in Addington. 15'39"
9:55 FILL: Artist: Radio New Zealand Studio Orchestra
Song: You Needed Me
Composer: Goodrum
Album: Orchestral Gold Vol 2
Label: Tartar TRL 005
===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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Tony Bennett and his duet partners (Amy Winehouse, Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin, John Mayer and more) discuss the art of collaboration on timeless pop standards - including one of Amy Winehouse's final recordings (Joyride Media)