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:
09 October 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Health Check (BBC); 1:05 The Friday Feature: A History of Student Radio #2 (RNZ); 2:05 NZ Society (RNZ); 2:30 The Sampler; 3:05 Another Chance, by Lindy Kelly (RNZ); 3:30 The Why Factor (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC)
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour
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06:00
Top Stories for Friday 9 October 2015
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McClay tells Solid Energy to support Huntly mine workers, Four top football officials suspended by Fifa, Horowhenua mayor says town reeling from discovery of boy's body, Waitarere left shocked after 10 year old boy's body found, US govt report faults Camp Taji, Transtasman relationship tested, Blood test to pinpoint heart attack, and Rapid growth threatens Auckland environment.
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Duration: 29'25"
06:06
Sports News for 9 October 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'19"
06:10
McClay tells Solid Energy to support Huntly mine workers
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The State-Owned Enterprises Minister Todd McClay says he has asked Solid Energy to make sure Huntly East mine workers are supported.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Solid Energy, coal mining
Duration: 1'54"
06:12
Four top football officials suspended by Fifa
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Four of the most influential men in football, including Fifa president Sepp Blatter, have been sanctioned by the governing body's disciplinary arm. Rob Harris is the Associated Press sports reporter.
Topics: sport
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Tags: FIFA, Sepp Blatter
Duration: 3'47"
06:20
Pacific News for 9 October 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'40"
06:23
Morning Rural News for 9 October 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'04"
06:27
Te Manu Korihi News for 9 October 2015
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Māori claimants in Levin are making the most of their first chance to stake their claim to Lake Horowhenua and are calling for an end to its pollution; The Vice-President Māori of the Council of Trade Unions has attacked the Federation of Māori Authorities for its support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement; Tribal leadership and celebrating 20 years since the signing of the Waikato-Tainui Treaty settlement are the two main agendas of this year's Tainui Rangatahi Taumata Hui.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Duration: 3'08"
06:38
Horowhenua mayor says town reeling from discovery of boy's body
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Police investigators will today continue examining the spot on Waitarere Beach near Levin where the body of a missing boy was found yesterday. The Horowhenua mayor Brendan Duffy spoke with reporter Tiana Barns.
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Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Alex Fisher
Duration: 2'10"
06:41
Local councillor looks forward to life after mining for Huntly
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Solid Energy's plan to close the Huntly East mine is the latest in a series of body blows for the North Waikato town. Waikato district councillor and Huntly resident Graeme Tait speaks with Kim Hill.
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Regions: Waikato
Tags: Solid Energy, Huntly
Duration: 3'50"
06:48
NZ dollar spikes to high against US
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The New Zealand dollar has had a strong run higher reaching a near-seven week high against the U.S. dollar as investors have unwound bets that the kiwi would be weaker in the near term.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'45"
06:50
Bumper migration gains to slow, jobless to rise
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The strong growth in immigration over the past year may continue for a while and push up unemployment and keep fuelling consumer demand, but it is likely to run out of steam, according to a Westpac bank study.
Topics: business, economy, refugees and migrants
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Duration: 1'52"
06:52
A2 Milk sees fast growing demand of infant formula in China
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The specialty milk producer, A2 Milk, says it's seeing fast growing demand for its infant formula product at home and in China.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: dairy, China, A2 Milk
Duration: 2'31"
06:54
NZ publishers create KPEX - an online advertising marketplace
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New Zealand's four largest commercial media companies have joined forces to create a private marketplace for advertising agencies and others to buy online ads.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: advertising
Duration: 1'42"
06:58
Morning Markets for 9 October 2015
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Wall Street is little changed ahead of the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve's September meeting - when it kept rates on hold.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'03"
07:06
Sports News for 9 October 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'00"
07:10
Waitarere left shocked after 10 year old boy's body found
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The Waitarere Beach community is in shock after 10-year-old Alex Fisher was found dead yesterday. The police are treating the death as suspicious and spent the night guarding the crime scene.
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Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Alex Fisher
Duration: 2'07"
07:12
10 year old boy's body found
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Alex Ashton speaks to Morning Report from Waitarere Beach.
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Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Alex Fisher
Duration: 2'04"
07:15
US govt report faults Camp Taji
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A high-level report says the US Defence Department can't rule out the possibility ammunition stored at Camp Taji in Iraq is being supplied to militias that don't have the backing of the American government. Radio New Zealand's political editor Jane Patterson was in Camp Taji this week.
Topics: defence force
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Tags: Camp Taji, Iraq
Duration: 4'27"
07:19
Super Fund boss taking $1.4 billion loss in his stride
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The New Zealand Superannuation Fund lost almost one point four billion dollars in value during August as the turmoil in the Chinese economy spread to other markets around the world.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Superannuation Fund
Duration: 3'28"
07:23
Huntly reacts to Solid Energy job losses
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The 68 miners who lost their jobs at Solid Energy's Huntly East mine yesterday will return to work this morning to start winding down its operations and prepare for its imminent closure.
Topics: business
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Tags: Solid Energy
Duration: 4'22"
07:27
Tongan fans hopeful for World Cup upset against All Blacks
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Tongan rugby fans say with a World Cup full of upsets so far, there's no reason why they can't beat the All Blacks in their final pool game tomorrow morning.
Topics: sport
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Tags: RWC 2015, rugby, Tonga
Duration: 3'26"
07:40
Transtasman relationship tested
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The friendly transtasman relationship is being tested by Australia's decision to round up New Zealand-born criminals and put them in detention pending deportation.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: Australia, deportation
Duration: 5'53"
07:44
Blood test to pinpoint heart attack
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Researchers in Scotland say a simple blood test could rule out a heart attack in two-thirds of people arriving at hospitals with chest pains. Dr Martin Than is an emergency medicine specialist at Christchurch Public Hospital.
Topics: health
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Tags: blood tests, heart attacks, chest pains
Duration: 5'14"
07:50
Rapid growth threatens Auckland environment
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Auckland Council insists it's doing enough to prepare the city to cope with a predicted population boom and the environmental harm that'll come with it. Auckland's mayor is Len Brown speaks with Guyon Espiner.
Topics: environment
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 3'13"
07:53
Tuwharetoa chief exhumed from Auckland cemetery
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The decendants of a Tuwharetoa chief who has been buried in an Auckland Cemetary for nearly a century, are exhuming his body this morning and taking him home to Waitetoko near Taupo.
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Tags: Tuwharetoa, Ngahira Paora Tokoahu Te Aramoana
Duration: 4'18"
07:58
Latest from the scene of chief's exhumation
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The decendants of a Tuwharetoa chief who has been buried in an Auckland Cemetary for nearly a century, are exhuming his body this morning and taking him home to Waitetoko near Taupo. Mihingarangi Forbes is at Waikumete Cemetery and speaks with Kim Hill.
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Tags: Tuwharetoa, Ngahira Paora Tokoahu Te Aramoana
Duration: 2'34"
08:06
Sports News for 9 October 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'02"
08:10
Local MP says Waitarere shaken by Alex Fisher's death
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The Waitarere Beach community is in shock after the search for 10-year-old Alex Fisher ended with the discovery of his body in sand dunes yesterday. Local MP Nathan Guy spent time with the police during the search for Alex.
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Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Alex Fisher, Waitarere
Duration: 3'39"
08:14
All Blacks looking for team to 'click' against Tonga
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Rugby World Cup pool play wraps up this weekend, with the All Blacks playing their final match against Tonga on Saturday.
Topics: sport
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Tags: rugby, RWC 2015
Duration: 3'12"
08:17
Solid Energy confident Huntly closure will be one of a kind
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Solid Energy it is optimistic that yesterday's axing of its underground coal mine at Huntly East will be the only one of its kind. Eric Frykberg reports.
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Regions: Waikato
Tags: Solid Energy, Huntly
Duration: 3'15"
08:25
Govt accused of failing to hold charter schools to account
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The Government's being accused of failing to hold charter schools to account by blocking a plan to compare their results with those of state schools.
Topics: education
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Tags: charter schools
Duration: 2'46"
08:26
Markets Update for 9 October 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 46"
08:27
Education expert says charter schools getting kid gloves
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Professor John O'Neill Director of the Institute of Education at Massey University was among those arguing for the benchmarking.
Topics: education, politics
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Tags: charter schools
Duration: 4'26"
08:36
Controversial comments from US presidential candidate
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The US republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has made controversial comments about gun laws in the wake of the Oregon community college shooting. Washington correspondent Priscilla Huff joins Morning Report.
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Tags: USA, Ben Carson
Duration: 4'49"
08:41
NZ Film veteran hails TPP copyright extension
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A provision in the Trans Pacific Partnership deal to extend copyright protection of films, books and music from 50 years to 70 years has provoked criticism the creative industries will be stifled.
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Tags: TPP, copyright
Duration: 3'59"
08:46
Māori take Lake Horowhenua claim to Waitangi Tribunal
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Māori claimants in Levin are making the most of their first opportunity to stake their claim to Lake Horowhenua and urge an end to its pollution.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Duration: 3'27"
08:50
Liquid diet reduces flare-ups from Crohn's in young people
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New research may improve the treatment of children and teenagers with acute flare-ups of debilitating and incurable Crohn's disease.
Topics: health
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Tags: diet, Crohn's Disease
Duration: 3'21"
08:57
Kerry-Anne Walsh with news from Australia
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Let's have a chat to our Canberra correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh.
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 3'20"
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===9:06 AM. | Nine To Noon===
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Current affairs and topics of interest, including: 10:45 The Reading: Speed of Light, by Joy Cowley, read by Simon Leary (F, RNZ)
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09:08
10 year old's death a "scar" on the Waitarere Beach community
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Horowhenua District Mayor Brendan Duffy says the death of Alex Fisher is a "scar in our community". The 10 year old's body was found yesterday after a mammoth four day search by hundreds of volunteers and emergency service staff. Police removed his body from the beach area last night. They have now launched a homicide investigation. A vigil for Alex will be held on Sunday. The tragedy has hit the three communities of Ohau, Waitarere, and Levin.
Topics:
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: Horowhenua, Alex Fisher
Duration: 11'14"
09:19
Do taxes make you healthier?
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Dr. Frank Chaloupka discusses the efficacy of tax control policies on tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use. He is a distinguished professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is an internationally respected scientist in the area of tobacco control. He is the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center on the Economics of Tobacco Control, and also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research's Health Economics Program and Program on Children. Recently, he along with two other smoking control experts , David Sweanor, and Kennet Warner, called for tobacco taxes to be set proportionately to the harm.
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Dr. Frank Chaloupka is a distinguished professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is an internationally respected scientist in the area of tobacco control.
He is the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center on the Economics of Tobacco Control, and also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research's Health Economics Program and Program on Children.
Recently, he along with two other smoking control experts , David Sweanor, and Kennet Warner, called for tobacco taxes to be set proportionately to the harm.
He talks to Kathryn Ryan about the efficacy of tax control policies on tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use.
Topics: health, business
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Tags: tax, tobacco, alcohol
Duration: 17'01"
09:30
You got big dreams? You want fame?
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More than 350 Wellingtonians aged 10-70 have been putting on their dancing shoes and dusting off their lycra eager to star in the huge public spectacle that's kicking off the New Zealand Festival. Around 350 people turned up to three days of auditions from the 5-7th of October in the hope of taking part in Le Grand Continental®. Created by Montreal choreographer Sylvain Émard, the high octane performance has delighted audiences across the world, wowing over 80,000 people from New York to South Korea. In its Wellington version, Le Grand Continental® will be a 30-minute show located in the heart of the city, at Civic Square on 26th of February.
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...we're not talking elaborate song-and-dance numbers performed by sweaty New York dance students, (remember the classic TV show from 1982?) we're talking Le Grand Continental® - the massive public event kicking off the New Zealand Festival next year.
More than 350 Wellingtonians aged 10-70 danced their hearts out over three days of tough auditions at Toi Whakaari on 5-7 October eager to be one of 150 dancers taking over Civic Square next February.
Created by Montreal choreographer Sylvain Émard, the huge public spectacle, designed for nimble amateurs, combines elements of traditional line dancing with contemporary dance, and the mix is infectious, taking the spirit of old-fashioned communal dance and bringing it up-to-date.
The result is a huge, joyful convergence of energy, with a mass of people coming together.
Sylvain Émard talked to Kathryn Ryan.
The high-octane performance has delighted audiences across the world, wowing over 80,000 people in Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, Ottawa, Boston, Vancouver and South Korea. Sylvain Émard has also created a Mexican version of it - 'El Gran Continental'.
In its Wellington version, Le Grand Continental® will be a 30-minute show located in the heart of the city, at Civic Square on 26th of February.
Here's what some of the people from the auditions in the capital said about being in it:
"I'm very nervous, but I've always wanted to be a dancer. I got to 33 and I just started to learn to dance and I love it .This is a great chance to work with a professional" - Katrina Kelly
Brian Cashmal who does 'Dancing with Parkinsons' says he just wants "a bit of a giggle".
"I've been going to Zumba for a few years and I love it. I thought it would be a great way to celebrate turning 70" - Pam Baraclough.
See you there!
Topics: arts
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Tags: dance, Le Grand Continental
Duration: 12'47"
09:52
Asia correspondent Lucy Hornby
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The latest news and politics from Asia.
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Tags: Asia
Duration: 7'36"
10:08
Visions of War
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In his latest book, 'Light It Up: The Marine Eye for Battle in the War for Iraq ' historian John Pettegrew takes a look at the crucial role visual culture has played in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He examines the effects of 'war porn', and popular images of battle, in video games and on TV, as well as how military technologies of seeing have determined the killing power of the American war effort.
Topics: author interview, media, life and society, conflict
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Tags: war, Iraq, USA, video games, visual culture
Duration: 26'29"
10:37
Book Review: Children's Books
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John McIntyre from The Children's Bookshop in Wellington reviews The Boy at The Top of the Mountain by John Boyne published by Corgi ISBN 978-0-552-57354-2, The Eagle in the Snow by Michael Morpurgo published by Harper Collins ISBN 978-0-00-81346-7, and Evie's War by Anna MacKenzie published by Longacre ISBN 978-3-77553-765-6.
Topics: books
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Tags: childrens books
Duration: 8'28"
11:06
Music review with Grant Smithies
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Unafraid to appear hopelessly fashionable, this week Grant Smithies applies his ears to hipster-friendly releases from feted Brooklyn electro-chick Empress Of, New Jersey indie stalwarts Yo La Tengo and perennially septic Manchester punks, The Fall.
Topics: music
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Duration: 26'15"
11:32
Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
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With the latest disgrace of Sepp Blatter and who's hot and who's not mid-way through pool play at the Rugby World Cup?
Topics: sport
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Duration: 14'22"
11:48
The Week That Was
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With comedians Te Radar and Irene Pink.
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Tags: comedy, humour
Duration: 11'15"
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09:05 10 year old's death a "scar" on the Waitarere Beach community
Horowhenua District Mayor Brendan Duffy says the death of Alex Fisher is a "scar in our community". The 10 year old's body was found yesterday after a mammoth four day search by hundreds of volunteers and emergency service staff. Police removed his body from the beach area last night. They have now launched a homicide investigation. A vigil for Alex will be held on Sunday.The tragedy has hit the three communities of Ohau, Waitarere and Levin.
09:20 Do taxes make you healthier ?
Dr. Frank Chaloupka discusses the efficacy of tax control policies on tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use. He is a distinguished professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is an internationally respected scientist in the area of tobacco control. He is the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center on the Economics of Tobacco Control, and also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research's Health Economics Program and Program on Children. Recently, he along with two other smoking control experts , David Sweanor, and Kennet Warner, called for tobacco taxes to be set proportionately to the harm.
09:30 You got big dreams? You want fame?....
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More than 350 Wellingtonians aged 10-70 have been putting on their dancing shoes and dusting off their lycra eager to star in the huge public spectacle that's kicking off the New Zealand Festival. Around 350 people turned up to three days of auditions from the 5-7th of October in the hope of taking part in Le Grand Continental®.
Created by Montreal choreographer Sylvain Émard, the high octane performance has delighted audiences across the world, wowing over 80,000 people from New York to South Korea.
In its Wellington version, Le Grand Continental® will be a 30-minute show located in the heart of the city, at Civic Square on 26th of February.
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09:45 Asia correspondent Lucy Hornby
10:05 Visions of War
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In his latest book, 'Light It Up: The Marine Eye for Battle in the War for Iraq ' historian John Pettegrew takes a look at the crucial role visual culture has played in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
He examines the effects of 'war porn', and popular images of battle, in video games and on TV, as well as how military technologies of seeing have determined the killing power of the American war effort.
He is co-editor of the three- volume work, Public Women, 'Public Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism'; author and editor of 'A Pragmatist's Progress: Richard Rorty and American Intellectual History'; and author of 'Brutes in Suits: Male Sensibility in America, 1890-1920', an examination of the putatively male instinct of aggressiveness as constructed in modern U.S. social science, law, literature, and sports and military cultures. He is also director of The Veterans Empathy Project, an on-going work in oral history focused on the military experience among U.S. soldiers and marines in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Its purpose is to bridge the gap in the United States today between veterans of foreign wars and civilians who never served in the military
10:30 Book Review: Children's Books
John McIntyre from The Children's Bookshop in Wellington reviews
The Boy at The Top of the Mountain by John Boyne published by Corgi ISBN 978-0-552-57354-2
The Eagle in the Snow by Michael Morpurgo published by Harper Collins ISBN 978-0-00-81346-7
Evie's War by Anna MacKenzie published by Longacre ISBN 978-3-77553-765-6
10:45 The Reading: Speed Of Light by Joy Cowley read by Simon Leary (Part 10 of 10)
11:05 Music review with Grant Smithies
Unafraid to appear hopelessly fashionable, this week Grant Smithies applies his ears to hipster-friendly releases from feted Brooklyn electro-chick Empress Of, New Jersey indie stalwarts Yo La Tengo and perennially septic Manchester punks, The Fall.
Artist: Empress Of
Song: Standard
Comp: Lorely Rodriguez
Album: Me
Label: XL/ The Label
Broadcast Time: 3’39
Artist: Empress Of
Song: How Do You Do It
Comp: Lorely Rodriguez
Album: Me
Label: XL/ The Label
Broadcast Time: 3’45
Two cuts off the debut LP from Brooklyn solo artist Lorely Rodriguez, who previously built an audience by uploading anonymous 60 second song sketches called Colorminutes to YouTube.
Artist: Yo La Tengo
Song: Deeper Into Movies
Comp: Kaplan/ Hubley/ McNew
Album: Stuff Like That There
Label: Matador/The Label
Broadcast Time: 5’10”
A quarter-century on from 1990’s career-definingly splendid covers/ reboots collection Fakebook, these New Jersey indie stalwarts produce a “sequel” covers album, and it’s a ripper.
Artist: The Fall
Song: Snazzy
Comp: Mark E. Smith
Album: Sub-Lingual Tablet
Label: (Cherry Red/ Southbound)
Broadcast Time: 4’45”
In a year marked by many overly polite rock records, it’s comforting to hear Mark E. Smith still spitting out hectoring, bile-drenched invective over a sound as abrasive as iron filings down your Y-fronts. Sub-Lingual Tablet is their 31st studio album in 39 years, and a great appetiser before they play here in NZ next week…
11:30 Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
11:45 The Week That Was with comedians Te Radar and Irene Pink
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Artist: James Hunter
Song: Chicken Switch
Composer: Hunter
Album: Minute by Minute
Label: Fantasy
Time: 9:36
Artist: Marlena Shaw
Song: California Soul
Album: The Spice of Life
Label: Cadet Records
Time: 10:37
===Noon | Midday Report===
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Radio New Zealand news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including: 12:16 Business News 12:26 Sport 12:34 Rural News 12:43 Worldwatch
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12:00
Midday News for 9 October 2015
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Police continue investigations into the death of Alex Fisher and thousands of children are in families affected by benefit sanctions.
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Duration: 15'07"
12:17
Electronic card retail sales pick up
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Retail sales, using electronic cards, in September, were the strongest in four months, according to official numbers out this morning.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'43"
12:19
NZ dollar spike to 6-wk high temporary
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The New Zealand dollar hit a near-two month high overnight, touching 67 U.S. cents, and so far this month, it's risen more than 4 percent.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: New Zealand dollar
Duration: 1'37"
12:20
Edison says Snakk trading at 50% discount to its global peers
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The investment researcher, Edison, says the mobile advertising company, Snakk Media, is trading at a significant, near-50-percent discount to its global peer group.
Topics: business
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Tags: Snakk Media
Duration: 1'22"
12:23
A2 Milk raises $40 Mln in new shares
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Specialty milk producer, A2 Milk Company, has raised 40-million dollars through a sale in a placement of shares to institutional investors.
Topics: business
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Tags: A2 Milk
Duration: 41"
12:24
Midday markets for 9 October 2015
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Brad Gordon at Macquarie Private Wealth.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'40"
12:25
United Airlines plans to begin flying direct to Auckland
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United Airlines plans to begin flying direct to Auckland from the United States, from the middle of next year.
Topics: business
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Tags: United Airlines
Duration: 19"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 9 October 2015
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UEFA's defied FIFA's suspension of Michel Platini saying he won't be replaced as head of European football's governing body and gave him its backing in the appeal process.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'48"
12:34
Midday Rural News for 9 October 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 8'39"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
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13:09
First Song
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'Restless' - New Order
Topics: music
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Duration: 6'06"
13:15
Northland power outage
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Northland reporter Lois Williams gives an update on the power outage in the far north.
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Regions: Northland
Tags: electricity
Duration: 2'37"
13:17
Work Ethics and 'Making a Fuss' - Cecile Meier
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Making a fuss is not something New Zealanders are particularly good at, according to Cecile Meier. It's the topic of the half Swiss, half French journalists' latest opinion column for The Press. And now she's going to tell us why.
Topics: life and society
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: work
Duration: 9'05"
13:27
'Floating Classroom' - Tash Luxton
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Marlborough may be set to get a floating classroom. That's the hope of Conservation Kids New Zealand and the Lochmara Wildlife Recovery Trust. The idea is to relocate a glass-bottom boat to the sounds, and run education programmes from it. One of the people behind the idea, is Conservation Kids New Zealand founder, Tash Luxton.
Topics: education
Regions: Marlborough
Tags: floating classroom
Duration: 5'49"
13:33
Critter of the Week - Canterbury mudfish
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The Canterbury Mudfish is our Critter of The Week. It a series where we focus on the lesser-known threatened species. Nicola Toki is the Department of Conservation's threatened species ambassador.
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The Canterbury Mudfish is our Critter of The Week. It is a series where we focus on the lesser-known threatened species.
Nicola Toki is the Department of Conservation's threatened species ambassador.
She tells Jon Bridges about the Canterbury Mudfish.
Topics: environment, science
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Canterbury Mudfis
Duration: 9'08"
13:43
Feature Album
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Dinah Washington 'The Best In Blues", chosen by Kristina Simons.
Topics: music
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Duration: 17'38"
14:00
The Morepork - Part 2
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Mark Masterson is a mild mannered student by day but by night he protects the city as the mighty masked hero The Morepork.
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Duration: 4'26"
14:12
Cobwebs and Colonials : Sarah Mathew and the Founding of Auckland
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The city of Auckland was founded in 1840 in a mix of hope and compromise and the occasion was marked with a suitably pompous ceremony. Just one eyewitness account remains from that day, and it was written by the only Pakeha woman present.
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Sarah Mathew was born in London in 1805, and for ten years worked as a governess. In her late 20’s Sarah agreed to marry her cousin Felton Mathew and follow him out to Australia where he had obtained a position as a surveyor. He left for Sydney in 1829 and two years later, Sarah followed – the first of a remarkable six journeys she made between Britain and the southern hemisphere, all the more impressive when you learn that she suffered terribly from sea sickness. She arrived in Sydney in January 1832, married Felton and then almost immediately went with him on his long surveying trips into the bush.
Author Tessa Duder has written a biography of Sarah, drawing upon the journals and diaries she wrote during her long life in the colonies and back home in England. She believes Sarah would have assisted Felton with the hard physical work of surveying and shared his hardships under canvas in the baking New South Wales sun.
'The extraordinary thing is, she kept the diaries. She wrote the books day in and day out.'
Sarah and Felton suffered two stillbirths while in Sydney and in her journals there are hints of other misfortunes. This was the start of a run of mixed luck for the couple. Felton lost his job in 1839 due to disagreements between Sydney and London over which had the power to make civic appointments. He was quickly shoulder-tapped by William Hobson to help found the planned colony of New Zealand and to advise on the location of a capital city.
Felton sailed to the Bay of Islands in January 1840 and was present at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. Sarah arrived three months later.
I expect we shall very shortly be sent off again to survey and lay out another town in which the seat of government will be fixed. Felton has selected a very favourable situation for the purpose. It is to be called Auckland.
For two months on a tiny boat, Sarah and Felton sailed and surveyed from Northland to Thames, climbing seemingly every mountain and exploring rivers, streams and harbours. Despite some initial misgivings on Felton’s behalf, a site on the Waitemata harbour was chosen and on September 18 1840 a ceremony was held to mark the founding of the nation’s new capital. Sarah was the only Pakeha woman present on shore and typically, she wrote it all down.
A beautiful morning seemed to smile on the auspicious circumstances of taking formal possession of a certain portion of the land. About half past twelve the whole party landed and proceeded to the height where the flag staff was raised and ready to receive the royal standard. The flag was run up and the whole assembly gave three cheers and a salute of 21 guns fired. Her majesty’s health was most rapturously drunk with cheers long and loud. The gentleman got up a boat race among themselves and a canoe race for the natives and this closed the day’s festivity. There was no rain though it threatened frequently, a good omen I hope for the prosperity of the new city which is to rise on this spot. In the evening the captain gave us a few songs but had shouted himself hoarse in honour of her majesty in the morning.
Felton was named surveyor general for the new capital. He got to work, climbing hills and volcanoes, walking the length and breadth of the isthmus, sketching, planning, thinking. His notebooks survive and are on display in Auckland Library’s Sir George Grey Special Collections.
In just two months Felton finished his design for the layout of Auckland. It was centred on what is now Albert Park and consists of a series of circular streets with crescents, circuses and squares, with a wonderful jetty arching out into the harbour. There’s reclaimed land and well-laid out suburban areas and hardly a straight line to be found. The Cobweb, as it became known, was an elegant and beautiful design. Everyone hated it. Especially the editor of the local newspaper.
It is supposed that Mr Mathew, the distinguished surveyor, who is a native of Bath, took the plan of that town and after improving it to his own taste, then applied it to Auckland. Where however well it might suit the fine brick and stone buildings of Bath it does not seem at all to answer.
Despite being criticised for being too pretty, too impractical and too expensive, the design was signed off by Governor Hobson - who immediately ruined it by stealing the best part for his own home. And when it was decided to put military barracks in Albert Park - at the heart of the design - Felton’s cobweb was dead and his reputation died with it.
Things continued to go downhill for Sarah and her husband. Felton lost his job – again – and traveled to England to protest. Sarah went with him. When they returned, they quickly fell out with the new Governor, Sir George Grey.
My husband’s health continued very precarious and he had the mortification to find that (Grey) had already filled up the appointments which had been offered to and accepted by my husband, pretending that the circumstances of the colony required the police magistrate to be a military man and the postmaster general was not required at all.
Felton's health was declining and his enemies were growing. They considered him officious, venal, on the make, incompetent and obsessed with regulations and rules. John Logan Campbell, often called the Father of Auckland, liked to refer to Felton as “Red Tape”.
Disappointments, dismissals and the snobbery of the expat community broke the couple. They eventually gave up and in 1847 began the journey back home to Britain. But in Lima, Peru, Felton succumbed to his long illness and died.
He gradually sank and departed on the 26th of November. I cannot write of this dreadful time.
Sarah Mathew continued the journey to Britain, alone. She was 42 years old.
In 1858 she once more sailed to Auckland to settle her affairs, staying for four years in the rapidly growing city that had become, to her eyes, nearly unrecognisable. Sarah went home for the final time to Britain and died there in 1890, having never remarried.
In her life she had traveled farther than many and seen more than most. She had met and mixed with Tāmati Wāka Nene and Te Rauparaha, Samuel Marsden, James Busby, Governors Hobson and Grey and many, many more. And she wrote it all down, all the journeys, and all the people, the very few triumphs and the many setbacks of her life with Felton in the colonies. Sarah Mathew left a remarkable series of documents detailing both early colonial life here and in Australia and modestly, her own achievements. Tessa Duder is adamant that she deserves to be remembered.
'She was a woman outside of her time. It was noted by other women at the time that she went on these trips with her husband in tones of some amazement. There's been quite a bit of attention paid to Eliza Hobson and Mary Ann Martin, wife of the first Chief Justice. Personally I think Sarah should be up with (them) and that's one of the reasons why I wrote the book because I feel that she does deserve to be right up there.'
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Duration: 10'15"
14:24
NZ Live - Adam McGrath
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Folk singer Adam McGrath performs live from our Auckland music studio.
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Duration: 35'45"
15:06
Food with Jonny Schwass
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Five Simple Spring Dishes.
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15:20
Weekend Wine - Cameron Douglas
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Cameron Douglas (MS) Master Sommelier and tenured lecturer at AUT Auckland.
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Duration: 7'41"
15:28
Movie Review - Richard Swainson
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The Martian & Queen And Country.
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Duration: 8'18"
15:36
New Music - Yadana Saw
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Bowie
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15:45
The Panel pre-show for 9 October 2015
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1.05 First Song
'Restless' - New Order
1.12 Power failure
Lois Williams on a power failure affect huge are of the Far North.
1.17 Work Ethics and 'Making a Fuss' - Cecile Meier
Making a fuss is not something New Zealanders are particularly good at, according to Cecile Meier. It's the topic of the half Swiss, half French journalists' latest opinion column for The Press. And now she's going to tell us why.
1.20 6-hour working week
Daniel Wackner (Swedish Public Radio) explodes a myth about a 6-hour working week
1.27 'Floating Classroom' - Tash Luxton
Marlborough may be set to get a floating classroom. That's the hope of Conservation Kids New Zealand and the Lochmara Wildlife Recovery Trust. The idea is to relocate a glass-bottom boat to the sounds, and run education programmes from it. One of the people behind the idea, is Conservation Kids New Zealand founder, Tash Luxton.
1.34 Critter of the Week - Canterbury mudfish
The Canterbury Mudfish is our Critter of The Week. It a series where we focus on the lesser-known threatened species. Nicola Toki is the Department of Conservation's threatened species ambassador.
1.40 Feature Album
Dinah Washington 'The Best In Blues".
2:08 The Morepork
2:12 Cobwebs and Colonials: Sarah Mathew and the Founding of Auckland.
On today's programme we hear an eyewitness account of the founding of Auckland.
2:20 NZ Live - Adam McGrath
Folk singer Adam McGrath performs live from our Auckland music studio.
3.10 Food - Jonny Schwass
3.20 Weekend Wine - Cameron Douglas
3.25 Movie Review - Richard Swainson
The Martian & Queen And Country
3.33 New Music - Yadana Saw
Bowie
3:45 Panel Pre-Show
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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The Panel pre-show for 9 October 2015
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Duration: 14'50"
16:03
The Panel with Lynda Hallinan and Tainui Stephens (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Lynda Hallinan and Tainui Stephens have been up to. The government's blocked the information on the performance of charter schools. Super fund head Adrian Orr warns of Auckland house price drop. Nutritionist Claire Turnbull explains why it was easier to be slimmer in the 1980s
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The Panel with Lynda Hallinan and Tainui Stephens (Part 2)
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Actor Daniel Craig says he'd only play James Bond again for the money. What the Panelists Lynda Hallinan and Tainui Stephens have been thinking about.Research New Zealand has been running very interesting polls on the flag and on how welcoming we are of refugees. Sports writer with this week's thoughts on the Rugby World Cup.
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Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Lynda Hallinan and Tainui Stephens have been up to.
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Charter school performance
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The government's blocked the information on the performance of charter schools.
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Duration: 3'30"
16:17
Auckland house price drop
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Super fund head Adrian Orr warns of Auckland house price drop
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16:20
How to be slim like in the 80s
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Nutritionist Claire Turnbull explains why it was easier to be slimmer in the 1980s
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Duration: 9'34"
16:33
Daniel Craig in it for the money
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Actor Daniel Craig says he'd only play James Bond again for the money.
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16:37
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Lynda Hallinan and Tainui Stephens have been thinking about.
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16:44
Research NZ on the flag and refugees
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Research New Zealand has been running very interesting polls on the flag and on how welcoming we are of refugees.
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RWC with Mark Reason
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Sports writer with this week's thoughts on the Rugby World Cup.
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme 6:35 Focus on Politics Analysis of significant political issues presented by Radio New Zealand's parliamentary reporting team (RNZ)
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Checkpoint Top Stories for Friday 9 October 2015
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Alex Fisher's family comments for the first time since his death. Thousands of children hit by benefit sanctions and Australia's new Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, visits NZ next week.
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Horowhenua mayor says family reeling
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For the first time, the family of 10-year-old Alex Fisher, have commented publicly, saying they are devastated by his death.
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Duration: 4'34"
17:11
Australia's new Prime Minister to visit NZ
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Australia's new Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, will make an official visit to New Zealand next week.
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Duration: 4'16"
17:16
Thousands of children hit by benefit sanctions
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New data shows about 2000 children on any one day are living in households where their parents have lost up to half their benefits because they've failed to turn up to an appointment in most cases.
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Duration: 3'40"
17:20
Kaitaia businesses man irate at power cut
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Far North business people are fuming over the power cut that switched off an entire district for several hours today.
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Duration: 3'09"
17:23
ERA shows leniency to Bangladeshi employer
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The Employment Relations Authority has decided not to take a tough line with a Bangladeshi employer who hired illegal immigrants and destroyed evidence.
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Duration: 2'35"
17:26
Two veterans honoured for role in liberating France
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The Legion of Honour is going to Flying Officer Donald Ivey, who flew in the Mosquitoes of Squadron 487 during the D-Day landings. The same squadron carried out the daring raid to bomb a Gestapo prison in Amiens to free French Resistance fighters.
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Duration: 3'48"
17:33
Today's market update
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Government figures show retail sales using electronic cards have seen the strongest growth in four months.
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Duration: 2'15"
17:35
Crown rejects Dotcom's call to pause extradition hearing
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The Crown says no amount of expert evidence will erase the fact that Kim Dotcom's Megaupload business knowingly paid users for violating copyright.
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Duration: 2'16"
17:38
Payroll blunder leaves police millions out of pocket
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Police officers, both serving and retired, are owed millions of dollars after a major error was found in the force's payroll system.
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All Blacks need strong performance against Tonga
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The All Blacks will need a strong performance against Tonga in their final Rugby World Cup pool match tomorrow morning.
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Duration: 4'26"
17:46
Sentencing for fraudster who pretended to have cancer delayed
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A judge says she's alarmed a fraudster wants to continually delay her sentencing and has called on police to verify reports and letters from mental health providers.
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Duration: 2'37"
17:48
Horowhenua Lake stoush heats up
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A rowing club in Levin says it is refusing to be bullied out of its building next to Lake Horowhenua by some local Māori. The Horowhenua Rowing Club hopes a Waitangi Tribunal hearing into Māori claims to the lake, will let it know if it can stay where it's been for the past 50 years. Te Manu Korihi reporter Leigh Marama McLachlan went to Lake Horowhenua.
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Duration: 3'34"
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Heavy downpours more likely to worsen water quality on beaches
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Heavy downpours are more likely to worsen water quality and cause sickness on Auckland's beaches, rather than the prospect of El Nino weather and a swelling population.
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Duration: 3'21"
17:55
Murphy misses being on the grid for Great Race
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For the first time in more than 20 years, the New Zealand driver and four time winner, Greg Murphy, won't be contesting the Great Race - the Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama in Australia.
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Duration: 3'23"
18:07
Sports News for 9 October 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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18:11
Fresh evidence of thousands of children hit by benefit cuts
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The Ministry of Social Development has provided a snapshot of the number of children whose parents had lost up to half their benefits for failing to, for the most part, turn up for a meeting.
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Duration: 3'20"
18:18
Weekends biggest match at Rugby World Cup
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While the All Blacks face Tonga tomorrow at the Rugby World Cup, probably the biggest match of the weekend is at Twickenham, where Australia takes on Wales.
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Duration: 3'16"
18:21
New Zealand's potentially increased TPP health costs
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A drug patent lawyer says a Pacific-wide trade agreement to keep the protection period for new generation biological drugs at five years is good news for New Zealand's healthcare bill, if accurate.
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Duration: 3'49"
18:35
A closer look at the TPP
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After years of wrangling the largest regional trade deal in the world, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, was finally settled this week. Our political reporter, Chris Bramwell, takes a look what the deal means for New Zealand and what the next steps will be.
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Duration: 15'22"
18:50
Te Manu Korihi News for 9 October 2015
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A group of Māori and Pacific delegates travelling to Guam next year will all have to apply for U.S visas; A rowing club in Levin says it is refusing to be bullied out of its building next to Lake Horowhenua by local Māori; Organisers say a display of art by homeless west Auckland people will show off their artistic talents and provide a new perspective on them.
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18:54
NZ gets a top placing from ex-pats for lifestyle
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New Zealand has come second in a worldwide survey of ex-pats as the most preferred place to live.
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including: 8:25 Spotlight 9:06 Country Life: Memorable scenes, people and places in rural NZ (RNZ)
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20:12
Sport United Kingdom
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BBC sports journalist Russell Fuller keeps the score court side... how those of Great Britain are feeling about their teams' performances thus far in this English-hosted Rugby World Cup (the final game is set for Saturday 31 October 2015).
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Duration: 14'55"
20:50
Conundrum Answer
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This weeks winner is Sharon from Christchurch.
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22:17
Late Edition for 9 October 2015
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The family of 10-year-old Alex Fisher, have commented publicly, saying they are devastated by his death. Auckland Council insists it's doing enough to prepare the city to cope with a predicted population boom and the environmental harm that'll come with it and in Dateline Pacific, the PNG government denies magistrate's investigation is linked to the PM's case.
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7:06 Sonic Tonic
8:10 Me Kōrero
An affable end-of-the-week evening exchange of ideas, advice, evocations and/or opinions.
8:25 Music Feature: Global Beats: Ghana Pt. 2
Seven up-and-coming Ghanaian musicians perform songs especially for the BBC and talk about what inspires them in Ghana and beyond. In part two of Global Beats: Ghana Edition, London-based DJ Rita Ray continues her search for a new generation of Ghanaian musicians, who perform songs and talk about what inspires them in Ghana and beyond.
9:06 Country Life
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21:05
Proud to Be a Farmer
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Shane McManaway is spear-heading a campaign to showcase farming's 'good stories'.
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Shane McManaway is spearheading a campaign to showcase farming's 'good stories' after he noticed farming was getting an unecessarily bad rap.
Shane tells Carol Stiles the biggest misconceptions he's fighting relate to environmentalism and animal welfare.
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21:09
Regional Wrap
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The grass is growing in Bay of Plenty and for many dairy herds mating is underway. In the South Island high winds added to the excitement of tailing on farms in the Otago lakes district.
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The grass is growing in Bay of Plenty and for many dairy herds mating is underway. In the South Island high winds added to the excitement of tailing on farms in the Otago lakes district.
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Duration: 7'54"
21:25
On a Knife's Edge
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Some days up to 100 people see Lloyd Franklin's sign and pull in to have a chat to him at his Kuaotunu property. Lloyd hand forges knives. He's been doing it for 29 years now and he sells them around the world. The knives start as a piece of a car spring… then it's hours and hours of painstaking, hot and sometimes dangerous work to craft them into a well-balanced, flexible, durable and extremely sharp 'one-off' knife.
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Some days up to 100 people see Lloyd Franklin's sign and pull in to have a chat to him at his Kuaotunu property. Lloyd hand forges knives. He's been doing it for 29 years now and he sells them around the world. The knives start as a piece of a car spring… then it's hours and hours of painstaking, hot and sometimes dangerous work to craft them into a well-balanced, flexible, durable and extremely sharp 'one-off' knife.
Topics: rural, arts
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Coromandel, knives, Kuaotunu
Duration: 13'37"
21:29
Blockhill
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Motivated by the converging problems of environmental degradation, over population, peak oil and climate change, Olmec and Melisa Sinclair employ permaculture principals to develop resilient solutions for food production, shelter, energy and water on their property near Cheviot.
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Motivated by the converging problems of environmental degradation, over population, peak oil and climate change, Olmec and Melisa Sinclair (above) have spent several years developing a block of land that focuses on resilient solutions for food production, shelter, energy and water.
The long, thin peninsula shaped property sits between the road and a 30 metre high cliff up the Leader Valley in North Canterbury. At the bottom of the cliff a bushy gully hides a fast flowing river. In the distance Mount Parnassus has greened up after some welcomed rain in what has been an extremely dry year.
The land, which was once a series of overgrown paddocks, has been transformed into a permaculture food forest. A diverse range of trees, shrubs and vegetables are continually being fertilised by ducks, chickens and pigs to form a well-balanced and productive ecosystem.
Olmec and Melisa have implemented solutions for capturing rainwater and runoff. This helps build soil, nourish crops, prevent erosion, minimise drought and reduce or eliminate irrigation needs. They use swales and terraces to halt the flow of water and nutrient off the land and allow it infiltrate and hydrate the soil.
Olmec says: “Swales are a ditch on contour that traps water so the swales at the top of the landscape fill up with water first and over the next day or so, depending on how much rain you’ve had, that water passes through the land and you’ll see it filling up the swales down the slope over time”.
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Duration: 23'22"
9:06 Country Life
Motivated by the converging problems of environmental degradation, overpopulation, peak oil and climate change, Olmec and Melisa Sinclair employ permaculture principals to develop resilient solutions for food production, shelter, energy and water at their organic lifestyle block near Cheviot. Also, some days up to 100 people see Lloyd Franklin's sign and pull in to have a chat to him at his Kuaotunu property. Lloyd hand-forges knives. He’s been doing it for 29 years now and he sells them around the world. The knives start as a piece of a car spring, then it’s hours and hours of painstaking, hot and sometimes dangerous work to craft them into a well-balanced, flexible, durable and extremely sharp ‘one-off’ knife.
10:17 Late Edition
A review of the leading news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.
11:06 Strange Celestial Road
A journey into the music and myths of Sun Ra: Earthly Beginnings (1 of 4, RNZ)
===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
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Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National
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A journey into the music and myths of Sun Ra: Earthly Beginnings (1 of 4, RNZ)