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:
20 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 (12 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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Big Sister, by Norman Bilbrough, told by Grace Hoete; Rescue from Uptop, by Alan and Jill Bagnall, told by Miriama McDowell; The Right Hand Man, by Ruth Corrin, told by Stuart Devenie; Stewed Cat, by Ruth Corrin, told by Stuart Devenie; 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
Rugby - Our National Obsession
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Kicking off with Rugby: As the Rugby World Cup gets underway in the UK, we have a panel discussion looking at how sports - and rugby in particular - dominate the national culture. Are sports, arts and science mutually exclusive and is it fair that sports should play such a role in our national identity? John Daniell and Mike Hutcheson join Wallace for a panel discussion.
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As the Rugby World Cup gets underway in the UK, Wallace Chapman looks at how sport – and rugby in particular – dominates the national culture. Are sports, arts and science mutually exclusive, and is it fair that sports should play such a role in our national identity?
John Daniell and Mike Hutcheson join Wallace for a panel discussion.
Topics: sport, life and society, identity
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Tags: rugby, culture, national identity
Duration: 17'23"
07:30
The Week In Parliament Sunday 20 September 2015
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Sue Moroney's Paid Parental Leave Bill passes first reading by 61 votes to 60 with the support of United Future's Peter Dunne; MPs' references to absent members raise objections; Privileges Committee tables report on social media in the House; Gerry Brownlee indicates extended hours next week - to the disgruntlement of the Opposition; David Parker presents his members' bill calling for a minimum wage for contractors to select committee; Law and Order Committee briefed on the New Zealand Public Interest Project; MPs debate appointment of Peter Boshier as the next Chief Ombudsman, along with other appointments; New Zealand First's Ron Mark outlines his party's support for the current flag.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 15'08"
07:48
Yasmine Ryan - Biography of a Killer
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It took him 30 years but the week before last retired DGSE agent Jean-Luc Kister apologised for his part in the killing of Fernando Pereira in the 1985 Rainbow Warrior bombing. 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.
Topics: history, crime, politics
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Tags: Greenpeace, Fernando Pereira, Raindow Warrior
Duration: 6'30"
07:52
Pacific Arts Festival 2016 in Guam
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Mary Baines has the story on the selection chosen to represent New Zealand at next years Pacific Arts Festival in Guam.
Topics: Pacific
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Tags: Pacific Arts Festival, Guam
Duration: 4'35"
08:12
Insight for 20 September 2015 - Taxing the Digital Age
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Philippa Tolley asks if it is possible to tax online purchases effectively.
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The government wants to soak up the tax that's leaking out of online sales. But is there a simple solution that won't cost more than the tax collected?
The exponential growth of e-commerce means the government can no longer ignore the absence of potential tax revenue from its coffers.
Collecting Goods and Services Tax (GST) on goods, downloads and services bought in New Zealand, but supplied from offshore, seems a simple concept, but it is fraught with difficulty in practice.
The argument put forward by Retail NZ for GST to be extended to online buying has been one of fairness.
Fought under #eFairnessNZ, the business group called the lack of GST on many online activities involving overseas companies a "loophole". It said lack of action was hurting Government finances, damaging local businesses and costing New Zealand jobs.
But the first area to be tackled was not the goods bought online that currently escape GST, because they fall below the threshold of $400, but services and so-called intangibles; e-books, music, television and film.
Revenue Minister Todd McLay estimated $40m in potential tax revenue was being lost in this sector each year. The number wasn't huge in the overall tax take, but it was important. He said it would pay for a new school or a whole lot of hip operations and added that people and businesses tended to feel unhappy if others were not paying their share.
"If we don't find a way to make sure GST covers this trade, then at some point we might have to consider increasing tax rates or GST rates in New Zealand."
Consultation on this first step to extend GST to cover services and digital downloads purchased from overseas closes in a few days. But it has taken years of discussions on the international stage to establish common rules to make sure businesses and individuals are not doubled taxed.
The careful approach to bringing in these changes has been applauded by a Victoria University consumption tax expert, David White.
"You don't want to be the first cab off the rank. We're a tiny country. For services there has to be agreement over who has jurisdiction to tax …Nowadays with the internet, you don't just trade with familiar jurisdictions that speak the same language and we have a lot of interconnections. The moment someone sets up a website, just a small New Zealand enterprise, the moment that happens they are an international trader" – David White.
The system currently under consideration would require overseas traders to register for GST and gather the charge on any local sales.
But many experts in the field flag the possible ease of tax avoidance. People have been legitimately using methods such as Virtual Private Networks or VPNs for security and privacy reasons and to access services blocked to users in different parts of the world. Consumer's technology writer Hadyn Green can see it happening all the time.
"When you connect to the internet you go through this VPN and it looks like you're from another country… So Amazon goes you're from the US you're not from New Zealand, we're not going to charge you that GST."
From the other end of the transaction, he raised the possibility that some services might choose not to bother with the New Zealand market and its need to register for GST at all.
"There are quite a few music and streaming services online and not all of them are big players and if someone has a new start up or a new music service like "Tidal" by the famous Jay Z … are they just going to go, you know if we have to be registered for New Zealand let's not bother".
The difficulties seem to grow when it comes to working out if it would be practical to gather GST on a wider range to goods ordered in from overseas. So far no country has come up with a workable solution that does not cost more to set up than the extra tax gathered.
At the moment there is no GST to pay on most goods with a value of $400 or less. In the last month Australia has announced that it will drop its current threshold of AU$1,000 – one of the highest in the world – down to zero. That means from 2017 everything would be liable for GST.
Whether those tax policies announced in Australia will influence the direction New Zealand is taking is a pressing question.
Going a step further and joining forces in some sort of geographical tax zone is a concept worth exploring according to the GST Partner at consulting firm PWC Eugen Trombitas.
"Our clients – the corporates on the US west coast – are saying wouldn't it be nice to have simple and consistent rules not just across Australia and New Zealand but the Asia-Pacific region."
A concept like that would mean challenging ideas such as one country collecting tax on behalf of another. Could New Zealand collect tax on behalf of Australia, Japan or South Korea, Eugen Trombitas asks? While not on the table for discussion yet, talks like that might make the idea of levying GST on the millions of parcels that arrive in the country each year seem relatively simple.
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Topics: internet
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Tags: Online purchase tax
Duration: 28'05"
08:40
Ross Mountain - Lebanon's massive refugee intake
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Ross Mountain was, until a couple of week's ago, heading up the UN's response to the refugee crisis in Lebanon. The east Mediterranean nation has over the last year taken in 2,000 times more refugees per capita than New Zealand.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: refugee quota, United Nations
Duration: 18'36"
09:10
Mediawatch for 20 September 2015
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Scouting for gossip and clicks; shake-up at NZME; Coach Hansen's wit and wisdom on show; companies coughing up for content; The Spinoff, and; more double-up trouble.
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Duration: 33'44"
09:40
Tony Seba - Historic Disruption
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Lecturer in entrepreneurship, disruption and clean energy at Stanford University. His focus is on clean energy and the technological advances which disrupt and change our lives.
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Tony Seba is a lecturer in entrepreneurship, disruption and clean energy at Stanford University. His focus is on clean energy and the technological advances which disrupt and change our lives.
Seba tells Wallace Chapman that when technology disruptions happen, they can happen very quickly. He predicts that people born in 2015 will never drive as by 2030 all cars will drive themselves, and we probably won’t own them.
Topics: energy, environment, technology, transport
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Tags: Tony Seba, electric cars, self-drive cars
Duration: 19'53"
10:08
Andrew Laking - Empire City
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Kiwi Andrew Laking has toured the world - performing in over 1,500 cities - with Irish band Grada. Now he's back home and has published his first book: Empire City: Songs of Wellington..
Topics: music, author interview
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Tags: Grada
Duration: 22'21"
10:30
Lucy Jones - 'The Earthquake Lady'
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Dr Lucy Jones is among the world's most influential seismologists and, as a native of California, she also has the practical experience of living on shaky ground.
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Dr Lucy Jones – 'The Earthquake Lady' – is among the world's most influential seismologists and, as a native of California, she also has the practical experience of living on shaky ground.
Dr Jones is a science adviser for the US Geological Survey and an expert on foreshocks. She was one of the first to use statistical analysis to predict the likelihood that any given tremor will be followed by a bigger one.
She talks with Wallace Chapman about bringing to life the often dull subject of preparedness.
Topics: science
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Tags: seismology, earthquakes, California
Duration: 27'32"
11:10
Dr Louise Mahler - Speaking Up
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Former opera singer turned voice coach who believes "the voice is a choice" and that we can all learn how to use our voices to better effect. She discusses her new book Resonate and gives some helpful advice on how to overcome those physical and mental blocks that may hold us back when we need to be heard.
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Opera singer-turned-voice coach Louise Mahler believes "the voice is a choice" and we can all learn use our voices more effectively.
She discusses her new book Resonate and gives some helpful advice on how to overcome those physical and mental blocks that hold us back when we need to be heard.
Topics: books, author interview
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Tags: Louise Mahler, voice
Duration: 20'51"
11:30
Anton Blank - for Someone I Love
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Arapera Blank was one of New Zealand's first bilingual poets and, in 1958, was the first Maori writer to win a Katherine Mansfield award. Her work is an insight into biculturalism and feminism, and of Maori society on the cusp of being integrated into the country's urban cultures. Anton Blank is the son of Arapera and her Swiss husband Pius. He has recently published his mother's work in a book called For Someone I Love - A collection of writing by Arapera Blank. It's a volume of her poetry, short stories and essays, accompanied by photos taken by Pius.
Topics: books, author interview, history, te ao Maori
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Tags: Arapera Blank, Anton Blank, Katherine Mansfield Award
Duration: 16'46"
11:45
Search for Anglo-Indians
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Social anthropologist Dr Robyn Andrews from Massey University has been awarded a $20,000 grant for her research project 'The Invisible Indian: The Anglo-Indian Diaspora in New Zealand'. Anglo-Indian is a subculture of offspring born to an Indian mother and a European father - but not the other way around. Dr Andrews has set up a Facebook page to make contact with Anglo-Indians in NZ.
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Social anthropologist Dr Robyn Andrews from Massey University has been awarded a $20,000 grant for her research project 'The Invisible Indian: The Anglo-Indian Diaspora in New Zealand'.
Anglo-Indian is a subculture of offspring born to an Indian mother and a European father - but not the other way around. Dr Andrews has set up a Facebook page to make contact with Anglo-Indians in New Zealand.
Topics: identity, history
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Tags: Anglo-Indian culture, Dr Robyn Andrews
Duration: 11'01"
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7:08 Current affairs - Rugby - Our National Obsession
Kicking off with Rugby: As the Rugby World Cup gets underway in the UK, we have a panel discussion looking at how sports - and rugby in particular - dominate the national culture. Are sports, arts and science mutually exclusive and is it fair that sports should play such a role in our national identity? Professional rugby player and author John Daniell and executive director of the Image Centre Group, Mike Hutcheson share their opinions. Also this hour: The Week in Parliament; the big Kiwi contingent at the Pacific Arts Festival in Guam; and Yasmine Ryan - Biography of a Killer: It took him 30 years but the week before last retired DGSE agent Jean-Luc Kister apologised for his part in the killing of Fernando Pereira in the 1985 Rainbow Warrior bombing. 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 Taxing the Digital Age
The government wants to soak up the tax leaking out of online sales, and digital downloads and services are first in line to be hit with GST. Next to be tackled are cheaper goods bought over the internet. But is there a system that won't cost more than the tax collected? And what about the multi-national online players? Should they be paying their fair share of company tax for operating in New Zealand? Philippa Tolley investigates.
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8:40 Ross Mountain - Lebanon's 1.5 Million+ Refugee Quota
In the last year Lebanon has taken in 2000 times more refugees per capita than New Zealand. An international effort has seen 100,000 of 500,000 school-aged refugees placed into schools - a significant achievement but the challenges facing the refugees and Lebanon remain huge. Ross Mountain, a New Zealander, was until very recently coordinating the UN's response to the refugee crisis in Lebanon.
9:06 Mediawatch
Is 'sponsored content' just advertising in disguise - or is it also a good way to pay for good journalism? Also: A new site serving up gossip and showbiz news, and unexpected insights from reporting the rugby.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
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9:37 Tony Seba - Historic Disruption
Tony Seba says anyone born in 2015 will never drive. The reason: By 2030 all cars will be solar powered and they will drive themselves - and we probably won't own them. Tony Seba is a lecturer in entrepreneurship, disruption and clean energy at Stanford University.
His focus is on clean energy and the technological advances which disrupt and change our lives.
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10:06 Andrew Laking - Empire City
Kiwi Andrew Laking has toured the world - performing in over 1500 cities - with Irish band Grada. Now he's back home and has published his first book: Empire City: Songs of Wellington. It's a history of Wellington with pictures by documentary painter Bob Kerr, and an accompanying CD of original songs that includes guest appearances by the likes of Brett McKenzie and Toby Laing.
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10:30 Lucy Jones - 'The Earthquake Lady'
In the week that Santiago was rocked by a huge earthquake that sent shock waves around the Pacific, we're all reminded that it's vital to know what to do in a disaster. Dr Lucy Jones is among the world's most influential seismologists and, as a native of California, she also has the practical experience of living on shaky ground. Dr Jones is known as The Earthquake Lady. She is a science adviser for the US Geological Survey and an expert on foreshocks. She was one of the first the use statistical analysis to predict the likelihood that any given tremor will be followed by a bigger one.
Information on the New Zealand Shakeout - the national earthquake drill on October 15 - can be found at http://www.shakeout.govt.nz/index.html
11:06 Dr. Louise Mahler - Speaking Up
Former opera singer turned voice coach Dr Louise Mahler believes "the voice is a choice" and we can all learn how to use our voices to better effect. She talks discusses her new book Resonate and gives some helpful advice on how to overcome those physical and mental blocks that may hold us back when we need to be heard
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11:27 Anton Blank - for Someone I Love
Arapera Blank was one of New Zealand's first bilingual poets and, in 1958, was the first Maori writer to win a Katherine Mansfield award. Her work is an insight into biculturalism and feminism, and of Maori society on the cusp of being integrated into the country's urban cultures. Anton Blank is the son of Arapera and her Swiss husband Pius. He has recently published his mother's work in a book called For Someone I Love - A collection of writing by Arapera Blank. It's a volume of her poetry, short stories and essays, accompanied by photos taken by Pius.
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11:44 Robyn Andrews - Search for Anglo-Indians
Social anthropologist Dr Robyn Andrews from Massey University has been awarded a $20,000 grant for her research project 'The Invisible Indian: The Anglo-Indian Diaspora in New Zealand'. Anglo-Indian is a subculture of offspring born to an Indian mother and a European father - but not the other way around. Dr Andrews has set up a Facebook page to make contact with Anglo-Indians in NZ.
===12:12 PM. | Spectrum===
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People, places and events in NZ (RNZ)
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12:10
The Tin Man of Tirau
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When Henry Clothier wanted to rejuvenate the public toilets in the small South Waikato town of Tirau, he knew just the man for the job - his son Steven. That's because no-one else wanted to tackle Henry's vision of building a huge corrugated dog to accompany the town's already existing sheep-shaped wool shop. 16 years later and Tirau's corrugated dog is standing strong on State Highway One and has become a local landmark.
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When Henry Clothier wanted to rejuvenate the public toilets in the small South Waikato town of Tirau, he knew just the man for the job – his son Steven.
That’s because no-one else wanted to tackle Henry’s vision of building a huge corrugated dog to accompany the town’s already existing sheep-shaped wool shop.
While Steve was initially reluctant to take on the job, his wife Sheryn says it proved “character building” for the mechanic-turned-handyman.
“Everyone in the community really pitched in…they were all in there painting…and of course, they all had an opinion,” she says laughing.
“He was told that was too far forward, too far down, too far up, too far backwards! He didn’t lack for feedback.”
However, 16 years later and Tirau’s corrugated dog is standing strong on State Highway One and has become a local landmark.
Since then, orders for Steve and Sheryn’s corrugated creations have poured in from not just New Zealand, but across the globe.
And if that doesn’t keep them busy enough, Steve also supplies recycled parts from around 100 classic Mercedes Benz cars he keeps on the couple’s property, whilst Sheryn runs courses on how to successfully create and run sustainable lifestyle blocks.
Join Spectrum’s Lisa Thompson as she meets the couple behind Tirau’s tin-turnaround.
Topics: farming, rural, arts
Regions: Waikato
Tags: corrugated iron, Tirau, Mercedes Benz cars, recycling, permaculture, sustainability
Duration: 24'23"
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From Spectrum 20 September 2015
16 years ago Henry Clothier of Tirau had a vision of building a huge corrugated dog to accompany the town’s sheep-shaped wool shop. Now the dog is a local landmark and the Clothier family sends their corrugated creations across the globe.
===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 (F, LA Theatreworks)
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12:38
World of Wearable Circus Art
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There's a high flying new prize in this year's World of Wearable Art Awards Show. The 2015 Performance Art Costume Award will be presented to an entry that 'could dwell in the spectacular & magical world of the circus'. It's being judged by someone who knows exactly what that means - he's Benoit Mathieu, Vice President of Costumes and Creative Spaces for international circus company, Cirque du Soleil. The winner of the award will receive $5000 in prize money, plus an internship at the world famous Cirque du Soleil International Headquarters in Montreal, Canada. The awards will be announced Friday 25 September 2015 in Wellington.
Topics: arts
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Tags: World of Wearable Art Awards, Cirque du Soleil, fashion
Duration: 10'20"
12:47
Real Life Police Shooting of Bystander Inspires New Play
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A timely new play in Auckland is taking a hard look at a difficult subject. Officer 27, by award-winning playwright Aroha Awarau, is a fictional take on the accidental shooting in 2009 of Auckland man Halatau Naitoko by members of the police Armed Offenders Squad. In Aroha's reworking, Niuean mother Tulia's grief for the son she has lost has overtaken her life. She believes the only way she can achieve closure is to meet with the officer responsible for killing her boy. Justin Gregory meets with Aroha Awarau to talk about fiction versus fact in drama and to ask what responsibility Aroha might owe to the real victims in this story.
Topics: arts
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Duration: 10'44"
13:34
Brand Activation and Spreading the Word
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Creative campaign strategist Anna Dean helps people to spread the word on-line about their productions - whether they're feature films, ad campaigns or - why not? - web-series. Anna was the first New Zealander accepted to take part in one of the workshops hosted by the UK's famous Pixel Lab, and she's back to share her experiences at the annual Big Screen Symposium.
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Creative campaign strategist Anna Dean helps people to spread the word on-line about their productions, whether they're feature films, ad campaigns or web-series.
Anna was the first New Zealander accepted to take part in one of the workshops hosted by the UK's famous Pixel Lab, and she's back to share her experiences at the annual Big Screen Symposium.
She talks to Lynn Freeman about storytelling in the online space and using digital platforms to tell new and interesting stories.
Websites mentioned in this interview:
SBS Cronulla Riots project
Hollow
The Polar Sea
Bob Dylan
Johnny Cash
The Jinx
Pirate fishing
Riftworld Chronicles
World Without Oil
Topics: arts, media, business
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Tags: Pixel Lab
Duration: 13'56"
13:47
NZ TV Series Top 40 - Agree or Disagree?
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NZ On Screen has compiled a top 40 list of New Zealand TV Series. Within a few days of it going on line, it's hearing from people asking why their personal favourites aren't on the list, series like Bro' town and Woolly Valley. Irene Gardiner explains how they picked the top 40 and plays clips from some of them.
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NZ On Screen has compiled a top 40 list of New Zealand TV Series. Within a few days of it going on line, it's hearing from people asking why their personal favourites aren't on the list, series like Bro' town and Woolly Valley.
Irene Gardiner explains how they picked the top 40 and plays clips from some of them.
Topics: arts, history, media
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Tags: television, NZ On Screen
Duration: 8'29"
14:26
Albert Wendt - A Memoir of a Long Literary Life
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Writer Albert Wendt has been thinking a lot recently about his childhood home in Samoa - a suburb of Apia.He's written a lot about Vaipe in his stories, poetry and novels over the years but in a new essay, he questions whether he's portrayed it accurately. Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater - A Writers's Early Life is full of Albert's reflections on Samoa, past and present, and his own life - he's now 75, struggling with poor health and anxiety, but still writing and still sharp.The Essay is published by BWB Texts. http://www.bwb.co.nz/authors/albert-wendt
Topics: arts, books, Pacific, author interview
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Tags: apia, Vaipe
Duration: 11'16"
14:38
Kathy Temin's Monumental Memorial Project in Auckland
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In Australia Kathy Temin is best known for creating abstracted forests and for recording and sharing oral histories She's chosen Auckland to mount her most ambitious project yet, which combines the two practices. The Memorial Project incorporates survivor testimonies captured at war memorial events and is also her personal homage and goes some way to reclaim her father's internment in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany. Kathy Temin is an Associate Professor at MDA, Monash University Melbourne and this exhibition was completed while she was this year's Elam Artist in Residence. The Memorial Project opens on the 2nd of October at Auckland's Gus Fisher Gallery.
Topics: arts, history
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Tags: war memorial, oral history
Duration: 11'45"
14:48
How Soon is Too Soon?
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Just before Norwegian Anders Breivik killed and injured more than 280 people four years ago, he sent out a 15-hundred page manifesto. The rambling document contained racist propaganda, philosophical reflections and bomb manuals. It also featured interviews he conducted with himself, together with diary entries. Three Danish theatre makers have written a play based on that manifesto, which saw them embroiled in a media debate about whether the production should go ahead, this was in 2012 soon after the shootings. The production did go on and now it's about to be performed in New Zealand for the first time. The Director and producer, Anders Falstie-Jensen and Edwin Wright talk about the play and the controversy that surrounded it when it was first performed in Norway in 2012. MANIFESTO 2083 premieres at The Basement in Auckland on the 29th of September.
Topics: arts
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Tags: MANIFESTO 2083, theatre, Anders Breivik
Duration: 11'04"
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12:39 World of Wearable Circus Art
There's a high flying new prize in this year's World of Wearable Art Awards Show. The 2015 Performance Art Costume Award will be presented to an entry that 'could dwell in the spectacular & magical world of the circus'. It's being judged by someone who knows exactly what that means - he's Benoit Mathieu, Vice President of Costumes and Creative Spaces for international circus company, Cirque du Soleil.
The winner of the award will receive $5000 in prize money, plus an internship at the world famous Cirque du Soleil International Headquarters in Montreal, Canada. The awards will be announced Friday 25 September 2015 in Wellington.
12:47 Real Life Police Shooting of Bystander Inspires New Play
A timely new play in Auckland is taking a hard look at a difficult subject. Officer 27, by award-winning playwright Aroha Awarau, is a fictional take on the accidental shooting in 2009 of Auckland man Halatau Naitoko by members of the police Armed Offenders Squad. In Aroha's reworking, Niuean mother Tulia's grief for the son she has lost has overtaken her life. She believes the only way she can achieve closure is to meet with the officer responsible for killing her boy. Justin Gregory meets with Aroha Awarau to talk about fiction versus fact in drama and to ask what responsibility Aroha might owe to the real victims in this story.
1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris
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1:34 Brand Activation and Spreading the Word
Creative campaign strategist Anna Dean helps people to spread the word on-line about their productions - whether they're feature films, ad campaigns or - why not? - web-series. Anna was the first New Zealander accepted to take part in one of the workshops hosted by the UK's famous Pixel Lab, and she's back to share her experiences at the annual Big Screen Symposium.
Websites mentioned in this interview:
SBS Cronulla Riots project
Hollow
The Polar Sea
Bob Dylan
Johnny Cash
The Jinx
Pirate fishing
Riftworld Chronicles
World Without Oil
1:47 NZ TV Series Top 40 - Agree or Disagree?
NZ On Screen has compiled a top 40 list of New Zealand TV Series. Within a few days of it going on line, it's hearing from people asking why their personal favourites aren't on the list, series like Bro' town and Woolly Valley. Irene Gardiner explains how they picked the top 40 and plays clips from some of them.
website: www.nzonscreen.com
facebook: facebook.com/nzonscreen
twitter: @nzonscreen
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2:05 The Laugh Track: Esther Povitsky
LA-Based Little Esther Povitsky is part of a wave of great America comediennes and she's heading our way. She's talking about some of those comediennes on the Laugh Track - Emily Heller, Nikki Glaser, Chelsea Peretti and Beth Stelling. Esther is performing at the Tuning Fork in Auckland on September the 30th, and the next day at Wellington's Fringe bar.
2:26 Albert Wendt - A Memoir of a Long Literary Life
Writer Albert Wendt has been thinking a lot recently about his childhood home in Samoa - a suburb of Apia.He's written a lot about Vaipe in his stories, poetry and novels over the years but in a new essay, he questions whether he's portrayed it accurately. Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater - A Writers's Early Life is full of Albert's reflections on Samoa, past and present, and his own life - he's now 75, struggling with poor health and anxiety, but still writing and still sharp.The Essay is published by BWB Texts. http://www.bwb.co.nz/authors/albert-wendt
2:38 Australian Artist Kathy Temin's Monumental Memorial Project in Auckland
In Australia Kathy Temin is best known for creating abstracted forests and for recording and sharing oral histories She's chosen Auckland to mount her most ambitious project yet, which combines the two practices. The Memorial Project incorporates survivor testimonies captured at war memorial events and is also her personal homage and goes some way to reclaim her father's internment in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany. Kathy Temin is an Associate Professor at MDA, Monash University Melbourne and this exhibition was completed while she was this year's Elam Artist in Residence. The Memorial Project opens on the 2nd of October at Auckland's Gus Fisher Gallery.
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2:49 How Soon is Too Soon?
Just before Norwegian Anders Breivik killed and injured more than 280 people four years ago, he sent out a 15-hundred page manifesto. The rambling document contained racist propaganda, philosophical reflections and bomb manuals. It also featured interviews he conducted with himself, together with diary entries. Three Danish theatre makers have written a play based on that manifesto, which saw them embroiled in a media debate about whether the production should go ahead, this was in 2012 soon after the shootings. The production did go on and now it's about to be performed in New Zealand for the first time. The Director and producer, Anders Falstie-Jensen and Edwin Wright talk about the play and the controversy that surrounded it when it was first performed in Norway in 2012. MANIFESTO 2083 premieres at The Basement in Auckland on the 29th of September.
3:05 The Drama Hour
The second part of the L.A. Theatre Works production And the Sun Stood Still about Renaissance cleric and astronomer Copernicus. There is also an interview with the play's writer Dava Sobel.
===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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Almost half of Britain's Muslim population is under 25 and born in the country. Yet many of the country's imams are foreign-born and elderly, leading to claims that they can be out of touch with their communities. After the bombings in London on 7th July 2005, the UK government decided an emphasis on 'homegrown' imams - born and trained in the UK - was seen as key in engaging young Muslims and curbing extremism.
A decade on, Samira Ahmed explores the changing role of the imam in Britain. Under an increasing media spotlight, their job includes not just the traditional roles of teaching and leading prayers, but counselling and pastoral care, helping third and fourth generations understand their identity as British Muslims. It can be a 24/7 role and the pay can be terrible. At the same time they are finding themselves pulled between the demands of the government, media, their communities and more traditional, conservative mosque committees and trustees.
Samira visits the seminaries and colleges where many of Britain's imams are trained, and meets graduates who have left behind mosques, instead providing spiritual guidance online or in their own homes. She asks whether the next generation of Britain's imams are equipped to provide the spiritual guidance and community engagement necessary to help young Muslims come to terms with their identity in increasingly challenging times.
See the BBC website for this programme
===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
Porgy and Bess - 50 years since NZ performance
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Steve Danby rummages through the archives and provides an insight into the New Zealand Opera Company's production of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. The cast included American performers, an all-Māori chorus and the famous baritone – and arguably star of the production – Inia Te Wiata. The year was 1965, and Māori broadcaster Wiremu Parker covered the spectacle. In fact it was The Māori Programme show that made the only recordings of the rehearsal. Steve analyses the Opera, its popular score and the landscape of the country at that time.
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Nga Tāonga Kōrero is a house of treasures, not just the miles of ancient recording tape, but sharp archivists who notice things and think “There’s a story there”. Sarah Johnston is one of these treasures. Sarah noticed that back in 1965 the old 'Māori Programme' covered a production of George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess, with a largely Māori cast. Maybe we could do something for the 50th anniversary?
Now, I was just a little tacker in 1965, but even I remember that Porgy and Bess was a REALLY BIG THING, like the Miss New Zealand Pageant or the Auckland Easter Show or the Golden Shears. I remember that we had a copy of the theatre programme kicking around at home, I think my parents went on a social club bus trip to Auckland to see it. Three hours each way from Thames in those days, even without a huge tail-back at the old Kopu Bridge!
When I listened to the audio from Nga Tāonga Kōrero, it turned out to be great. In 1965, the Māori Programme was mainly presented by Wiremu Parker, and I doff my cap to the better man – he absolutely aced it. Wiremu talked to many of the people behind the production, asked all the right questions, and – almost inadvertently - made the only recordings of the cast performing.
Fifty years on, there are quite a few survivors from the Porgy cast, and I thought about interviewing some of them for you; I had a lovely talk with author Apirana Taylor, who was in the show as a ten year old. But interviewing survivors would have filled a show all by itself. And that would have meant leaving most of Wiremu Parker’s original recording work on the cutting room floor. So, in the end I decided to let all these wonderful voices from the past tell the story, the way they did at the time. (Well, with a smidgeon of linking commentary from muggins here to put it in historical context...)
Part of the reason that Porgy and Bess was a big thing was that musical theatre was a big thing. Nowadays musical theatre’s still a very lucrative business. But it’s a total niche universe, like bagpipe music or reggae: no-one outside the loop gives a damn. The only way most of us know about a new Broadway show is when there’s a new logo on Nanna’s coffee mugs and sweatshirts. Most people can’t name any musicals that have opened on Broadway in the last decade, or sing any of the songs.
But fifty years ago, everyone knew a few showtunes. The Liverpool soccer anthem 'You’ll Never Walk Alone' actually started life in a Rogers and Hammerstein show. Most people with a record-player owned a few cast recordings of shows like My Fair Lady or The Sound of Music or Porgy and Bess. With fewer media outlets, people were exposed to far more varieties of music. On radio, the music mix was more like Saturday Nights on RNZ National, with all genres of music bundled up willy-nilly. Nowadays, music radio is vastly duller, and apps like Pandora let each of us live in our own personal musical ghetto.
- Steve Danby
A 50th anniversary of Porgy and Bess
Listen to Steve Danby's insight into the opera production Porgy and Bess performed by the New Zealand Opera Company in 1965.
Steve Danby grew up in Thames, and studied at Victoria University.
Since then, he's had a typical career for a minor literary figure. He edited a national gay magazine called "Pink Triangle" and served on both the Film and Literature Board of Review, and the Board of Taki Rua Theatre. He began broadcasting with Radio Active, and he's been Radio New Zealand's resident trouble-maker for about twenty-five years. Starting as a playwright for radio drama, he eventually ended up as head of the Drama Unit. He also made innumerable music documentaries for RNZ Concert.
Topics: arts
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Inia te Wiata, Ella Gerber, Wiremu Parker, Porgy and Bess
Duration: 51'20"
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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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19:05
Post-Polio Predicament
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Edith Morris contracted polio in the 1940's when she was 6 months old. Now, like 60% of people who have been affected by polio, Edith has Post-Polio Syndrome.
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A polio survivor and former president of Polio NZ says people who have had polio are falling through the cracks in the medical system and are not receiving the care they need.
The last polio epidemic in New Zealand was in the 1950’s and Edith Morris says there are still hundreds of New Zealanders who contracted polio then and in the decades before, who are living with post-polio syndrome but few medical professionals know how to treat it. She says post-polio syndrome affects 60 percent of people who have had polio and the markers are muscular and brain fatigue, pain and new weakness.
“As we age we are sort of like the dinosaurs that are moving out of reality… The medical profession almost know nil. They don’t get trained in it at medical school. Physios don’t get trained in it and so when we come along we feel like real antiques. “I’d like to see to see more interest from the medical profession to say even though we don’t know what’s going on we are willing to learn But at the moment it’s more like, well you are old and what do you expect when you get to your age.“
Edith Morris says it is not surprising there’s little motivation for doctors and physios to learn about post-polio syndrome because they may only come across half a dozen people who have had polio during their career.
However she says people who had polio many years ago expect a quality of life as they age. “Don’t dismiss us. We are still here. We’re not going anywhere til the day we die.”
Edith says thankfully there are no new cases of polio coming through but there are people immigrating to New Zealand from pockets of the world who have had polio much more recently. She says they will need crutches and braces and, as the years pass, a portion will develop post-polio syndrome
Edith says post-polio syndrome is the result of living a life dragging a compromised body around.
“It’s like getting to be a little old lady long before it’s time to be a little old lady.”
Topics: health, life and society
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Tags: polio, post-polio syndrome, Wilson Home, disability
Duration: 14'27"
19:06
Sparkplugs for the Spirit
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Kylee Black knows what it's like to be isolated because of a chronic illness, so she set up Spirit Sparkplugs.
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Kylee Black knows what it’s like to be isolated because of a chronic illness.
Seven years ago, 21 year old Kylee developed Complex Regional Pain Disorder. She spent months in bed and years confined to home.
Kylee says that experience made her realise there are dozens of other disabled or sick young people who are invisible to the rest of society because their condition keeps them hidden away. So she set up Spirit Sparkplugs.
With the help of people who donate items to be given away, Kylee sends personalised parcels to lift the spirits of people who might be having a bad day. So far she has posted 600 packages.
Topics: health, life and society
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Tags: chronic regional pain disorder, Spirit Sparkplugs
Duration: 8'06"
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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 20 September 2015 (part 1)
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Stories of yesteryear form around New Zealand
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Duration: 53'23"
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Sounds Historical for 20 September 2015 (Part 2)
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Stories of yesteryear from around New Zealand
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8:09 Today in New Zealand History
Death of Sir George Grey, 20 September 1898. 4'07"
8:14 Artist: The Duplicats with Johnny Thomson
Song: Get Out Those Old Records
Composer: Lombardo/Leob
Album: How High the Moon
Label: Stebbing Zodiac 2'38"
8:18 An extract from a 1960s episode of the Jack Maybury Quiz Show 'Scoop the Pool'
George Hawker of Christchurch and eight-year-old Keith Stewart of Paeroa win big prizes. 15'34"
8:34 Artist: Cole Wilson and the Tumbleweeds (1950)
Song: Maple on the Hill
Composer: Locklin
Album: Godzone Country
Label: Sony 2'28"
8:37 From the Back Country with Jack Perkins
A 1994 interview with Dr Roger Lentle, "Doctor-Hunter". 9'56"'
8:48 Artist: Frazer Daly
Song: Mister and Mississippi
Composer: Gordon
Album: 78
Label: Tanza Z105 2'54"
8:53 War Report 54
Doug Dibley recalls volunteering to help in troop camp hospitals but ending up being shipped to Gallipoli as a stretcher bearer. Reports from "The Press" giving details of the background of those men killed in August when more than 400 New Zealanders died at Gallipoli.
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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
Artist: John McCormack
Song: It's a Long Way to Tipperary
Composer: n/s
Album: Oh, It's a Lovely War Vol 1
Label: CD41 486286 6'54"
9:04 As I Remember
The Far End of the Farm by the late Daphne Blackshaw, sent in by her sister Colleen. Read by Sandy Powell. 4'40"
9:10 Artist: Esme Stephens and Julian Lee
Song: Goodbye Sweetheart
Composer: n/s
Album: How High the Moon
Label: Stebbing Zodiac 3'06"
9:15 A New Zealander in Nazareth
Dr William Bathgate tells of his medical missionary work in Nazareth Recorded in 1941 when the broadcasting Mobile Unit was with the New Zealand troops in the region. 7'15"
9:24 Artist: Colin Wood (baritone)
Song: I Travel the Road
Composer: Thayer
Album: private recording
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On 1YA in 1930s. Served with air force in World War Two - recordings restored by Terrence O'Neill-Joyce many years later.
9:30 The Search for U308
This production was written and produced by Roy Woodward and recorded in the Greymouth Studios of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service in 1957. Frederick Cassin and Charles Jacobsen tell of their accidental discovery of traces of the uranium element, U308, they found near Berlins, in the Buller Gorge, on the West Coast of the South Island. Dr Eric Marsden of the Dominion Laboratory describes the properties of uranium.
There are recordings, made at the site of the find, with people employed by the Mines Department, Geologist Alan Beck, Tasman MacKey (who also demonstrates the Geiger counter in action) and Don Bullen. 27'57"
===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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A documentary about legendary western-swing musician, composer and band leader Bob Wills. Bob Wills was the Elvis Presley of Western Swing, a style of music that developed in the 1940s and 1950s that mixed country with jazz and undertones of blues and topical pop music of the day (Joyride Media)