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:
26 November 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 One in Five (RNZ); 1:05 Discovery (BBC); 2:05 The Thursday Feature (RNZ); 3:05 The Night Book, by Charlotte Grimshaw, read by Michael Hurst (11 of 12, RNZ); 3:30 NZ Books (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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RNZ's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour 6:16 and 6:50 Business News 6:18 Pacific News 6:26 Rural News 6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers
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06:00
Top Stories for Thursday 26 November 2015
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US military say catalogue of blunders led to air strike on hospital;Serco has gone to High Court challenging report on Mt Eden prison;Firefighters battle big forest fire near Blenheim;Crewman of downed Russian bomber jet alive and rescued;Academics decry "dangerous trend" of limiting academic freedom;Alpine cliff team want break in weather in Fox Glacier recovery;Two jerseys once worn by All Black great George Nepia are up for sale;Labour manages one concession in Australia;Parent vows to fight closure of Redcliffs school;Gigatown Dunedin promising more visible signs after slow first year;Swift-watch ruffles a few feathers on Auckland's west coast.
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Duration: 39'14"
06:06
Sports News for 26 November 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'01"
06:10
Human and process errors blamed for attack on Afghan hospital
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The US military has blamed human error for its devastating attack on a Doctors Without Border hospital in Afghanistan which killed 30 staff and patients in October.
Topics: conflict, defence force, health
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Tags: Doctors Without Borders, Afghan hospital, military attacks, human errors
Duration: 3'00"
06:18
Firefighters battling large forest fire near Blenheim
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About 60 firefighters are continuing to battle a large forest fire near Blenheim this morning.
Topics: environment
Regions: Marlborough
Tags: Blenheim, forest fires
Duration: 2'31"
06:21
First Gigatown says Dunedin should take pride in its fast fibre
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Those leading the world's first Gigatown project say Dunedin should be proud of what its achieved.
Topics: technology
Regions: Otago
Tags: Dunedin, Gigatown projects, broadband, internet speeds
Duration: 3'00"
06:26
Morning Rural News for 26 November 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'08"
06:40
Fire crew battle to bring blaze under control
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Firefighters are continuing to battle a large forest fire in the Waikakaho Valley near Blenheim.
Topics: environment
Regions: Marlborough
Tags: Blenheim, forest fires, fire fighters, Waikakaho Valley
Duration: 3'01"
06:45
Russian jet pilot rescued
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The war of words continues over Turkey's shooting down of a Syrian based Russian bomber.
Topics: conflict, defence force
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Tags: Turkey, Russia, warplanes, pilots
Duration: 5'13"
06:47
Fonterra nails colours to the China mast
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Dairy giant Fonterra is nailing its commercial colours and much of its future to China and emerging markets as it struggles in the face of weak demand and prices.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'48"
06:50
UDC Finance sees strong profit and revenue growth
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The ANZ Bank's local business and consumer finance arm, UDC, has lifted its annual profit by 11 percent, on the back of solid lending growth.
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Duration: 1'17"
06:52
Orion Health increases spending on research and development
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Health software provider Orion Health is spending more on research and development to keep up with global demand for health management software.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'23"
06:59
Morning markets
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Morning markets.
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Duration: 1'31"
07:06
Sports News for 26 November 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'57"
07:12
Catalogue of blunders led to air strike on hospital
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The American military has admitted taking nearly 20 minutes to call off a mistaken air strike on a hospital in Afghanistan last month that killed 30 people.
Topics: conflict, defence force, health
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Tags: Afghan hospitals, US military, Doctors Without Borders, airstrikes, military errors
Duration: 5'33"
07:15
Serco has gone to High Court challenging report on Mt Eden
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The private prison operator Serco has gone to the High Court challenging a draft report on organised fights and other violence at Mt Eden Prison.
Topics: law
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Mt Eden prison, Serco, organised fights, draft reports
Duration: 2'31"
07:20
Firefighters battle big forest fire near Blenheim
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Firefighters are continuing to battle a large forest fire near Blenheim this morning.
Topics: environment
Regions: Marlborough
Tags: Blenheim, forest fires, fire fighters, Waikakaho Valley
Duration: 2'27"
07:23
Crewman of downed Russian bomber jet alive and rescued
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It took twelve hours and one Russian marine was killed during the operation, but one crewman of Russia's downed bomber jet has been rescued.
Topics: conflict, defence force, transport
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Tags: Russia, Turkey, pilots, bombers
Duration: 4'04"
07:25
Alpine cliff team want break in weather in Fox Glacier recovery
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The rescue effort at Fox Glacier has already resumed this morning.
Topics: transport, weather, life and society
Regions: Southland
Tags: Fox Glacier, helicopter crash
Duration: 1'39"
07:28
Two jerseys worn by All Black great George Nepia up for sale
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Two jerseys once worn by All Black great George Nepia are up for sale at an auction house in Wales tomorrow.
Topics: sport, te ao Maori
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Tags: All Blacks, All Blacks jerseys, Wales, auctions
Duration: 3'49"
07:35
Labour manages one concession in Australia
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The Labour leader, Andrew Little, may have managed to elicit one concession on his visit to Canberra for the rights of New Zealanders living in Australia.
Topics: politics, disability, health
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Tags: Labour Party, concessions, Australia, disability insurance schemes
Duration: 3'16"
07:42
Academics decry "dangerous trend" of limiting academic freedom
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The head of the Tertiary Education Union says it's dangerous that government departments are withholding data and clamping down on public commentary from academics.
Topics: law, education, politics, identity, language, inequality, life and society
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Tags: Tertiary Education Union, freedom of speech, data withholding, police, public commentary, government departments, Ministry of Police
Duration: 3'29"
07:45
Parent vows to fight closure of Redcliffs school
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A parent of a child at Christchurch's Redcliffs Primary School says she will continue to fight to try to stop the Education Minister shutting the school.
Topics: education, politics
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Tags: Redcliffs Primary School, Christchurch, Ministry Of Education, school closures
Duration: 3'59"
07:50
Gigatown Dunedin promising more visible signs after slow start
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The leaders of Dunedin's Gigatown project say the project is about to hit its stride after criticism of its slow start.
Topics: technology, education
Regions: Otago
Tags: Dunedin, Gig City, Gigatown, broadband, internet speeds, competition, subsidies
Duration: 3'59"
07:57
Swift-watch ruffles a few feathers on Auckland's west coast
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For the past few days, the country has been all a-flutter as rumours have been flying about that the American song bird, Taylor Swift, had landed in New Zealand.
Topics: music, environment, arts, life and society
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Bethells Beach, Waitakere, west coast beaches, conservation, dotterels, nesting dotterels, dotterel chicks, endangered species, Tay Tay, films, film crews, Music videos, film permits, vehicles, Taylor Swift
Duration: 3'49"
08:06
Sports News for 26 November 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'06"
08:10
Labour MP says report on Serco not the whitewash he feared
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Serco has gone to the High Court to challenge a draft report by the Prison Inspectorate on organised fights and other violence at the prison.
Topics: law, politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Mt Eden prison, Serco, draft reports
Duration: 2'21"
08:15
Pharmac study sparks cancer upset
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Cancer experts are bitterly disputing a Pharmac claim that New Zealanders' access to cancer drugs compares well with Australia.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: cancer drugs, Pharmac
Duration: 3'53"
08:17
Helicopters take recovery teams to Fox Glacier crash site
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Recovery teams are back up on Fox Glacier today.
Topics: transport, weather, life and society
Regions: Southland
Tags: Fox Glacier, helicopter crash
Duration: 5'31"
08:22
Department of Conservation says ecosystems taking a sting
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The Department of Conservation is worried about large scale honey operations on its land.
Topics: environment, politics
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Tags: Department of Conservation, honeybees, pollination processes
Duration: 2'43"
08:25
Wellington councillors debate the merits of runway extension
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Plans to extend the runway at Wellington Airport are finding both champions and opponents.
Topics: transport, politics
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Wellington Airport, runway extensions, local body politics, David Lee, Justin Lester
Duration: 5'49"
08:29
Markets Update for 26 November 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 45"
08:35
Labour leader may have elicited one concession from Australia
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The Labour Party leader, Andrew Little, may have managed to wring one concession on his visit to Canberra for the rights of New Zealanders living in Australia.
Topics: politics, inequality, disability, health
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Tags: Andrew Little, Labour Party, Australia, NZ residents in Australia, concessions, disability insurance schemes
Duration: 4'31"
08:45
Mayor says Hamilton homeless project could be replicated
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We've been reporting on the increasing numbers of people asking for help with emergency housing. Yesterday we carried an interview with a spokesperson from the Ministry of Social Development who admitted there is a shortage of emergency housing but who pointed to their work with not-for-profit organisations.
Topics: housing, politics
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Tags: homelessness, emergency housing, Ministry of Social Development, People's Project, Paula Bennett
Duration: 4'00"
08:48
Stream of submitters opposed to Ecan Bill
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Government MPs sat largely silent yesterday as a stream of submitters stated their opposition to the Environment Canterbury Bill to a select committee in Christchurch.
Topics: environment, politics
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Tags: Christchurch, Environment Canterbury Bill, select committees, local body governments
Duration: 3'32"
08:52
Turakina Maori Girls College to shut
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After 110 years of educating young Maori women, Turakina Maori Girls Boarding School will close its doors next week.
Topics: education, politics, inequality, te ao Maori
Regions: Manawatu, Whanganui
Tags: Turakina, Rangitikei, Ministry Of Education, Hekia Parata, Turakina Maori Girls Boarding School, school closures
Duration: 3'07"
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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: An Awfully Big Adventure, by Jane Tolerton (14 of 15, RNZ)
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09:10
Tradie shortage in Auckland prompts fears for building targets
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Auckland builders say they are being forced to turn down work because of a huge shortage of skilled labour in the city. Complete Build director Amon Johnson says they are having to go outside of the normal recruiting pool to find enough labourers. It has recruited one fifth of its workers from overseas, and has hired 18 local apprentices.
Topics: housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland housing shortages, skilled labour
Duration: 21'46"
09:25
Nepal's crippling fuel crisis escalates
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There have been fresh clashes in Nepal over the country's new constitution, which has already led to a two month border blockade with India, severe fuel shortages, and the paralysis of key agencies.
Topics: environment, conflict, economy, transport, international aid and development, politics
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Tags: Nepal, India, fuel crises, border blockades, aid agencies, political tensions
Duration: 12'36"
09:35
Is it time to ban the world's most widely used pesticide?
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Growing evidence is showing the negative consequences of neonicotinoid pesticides. The latest is that they are not only harming bees but also their ability to polinate plants. Research, recently published in Nature, has shown for the first time that neonicotinoids affect the plants that rely on bees, raising fears about lower agriculture yields and the natural ecosystems that depend on bees for survival. Dara Stanley was the study's lead researcher. Previous studies have found that the controversial pesticides, the most widely used insecticides in the world, can affect bees and bumblebees, but haven't measured whether they disrupt their ability to pollinate plants.
Topics: environment, farming, food
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Tags: bees, pesticides
Duration: 8'27"
09:50
UK correspondent Matthew Parris
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UK correspondent Matthew Parris.
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Duration: 7'02"
10:10
Bat photographer Merlin Tuttle
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Merlin Tuttle is a photographer with difficult subjects. His quarry are extremely fast, small and normally only come out when it's dark. Bats. While trying to get the best snap Merlin Tuttle has hidden from lions in a waste deep, crocodile infested river - run from murderous communist guerrillas in Caracas, confronted shotgun-wielding moonshiners in caves and had part of his lung dissolved by toxic fumes from a gigantic pile of bat droppings. What's driven him to persist is a deep affection for the winged mammals which he says are not only extremely intelligent and social but also vital allies in the fight against insect pests. Merlin says the greatest threat to bats is human fear and in an effort to dispel that fear he's published a book, The Secret Lives of Bats.
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Merlin Tuttle is a photographer with difficult subjects. His quarry are extremely fast, small and normally only come out when it's dark. Bats. While trying to get the best snap Merlin Tuttle has hidden from lions in a waste deep, crocodile infested river - run from murderous communist guerrillas in Caracas, confronted shotgun-wielding moonshiners in caves and had part of his lung dissolved by toxic fumes from a gigantic pile of bat droppings.
What's driven him to persist is a deep affection for the winged mammals which he says are not only extremely intelligent and social but also vital allies in the fight against insect pests. Merlin says the greatest threat to bats is human fear and in an effort to dispel that fear he's published a book – The Secret Lives of Bats.
You can find more of Merlin Tuttle's bat photo's - and learn more about his conservation work at www.merlintuttle.com
Topics: arts, books, environment, science, technology
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Tags: bats, vampire bats, conservation, pollination, photography, photographers, Merlin Tuttle, The Secret Lives of Bats
Duration: 30'16"
10:40
Book Review - Pour me a Life
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Pour me a Life was written by A. A. Gill, published by Orion and reviewed by Anne Else.
Topics: books
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Tags: books, Pour me a Life
Duration: 6'41"
11:10
New technology with Mark Pesce
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Mark Pesce discusses new ways that finance and banking services are being provided to people who have never had access to financial institutions. http://www.firstaccessmarket.com/ Mark Pesce is a futurist, writer, educator and broadcaster
Topics: business, education, technology
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Duration: 17'35"
11:30
How to talk to kids about scary world events
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What are the best ways to talk to children about world events such as terrorist attacks, ISIS beheadings and war? http://www.theparentingplace.com John Cowan of the parenting advice and resource website, The Parenting Place http://www.theparentingplace.com says when children hear or see these stories on the news their imaginations fill the gaps between the facts.
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What are the best ways to talk to children about world events such as terrorist attacks, ISIS beheadings and war?
John Cowan of the parenting advice and resource website The Parenting Place tells Kathryn Ryan that when children hear or see these stories on the news their imaginations fill in the gaps between the facts.
Topics: conflict
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Tags: parenting, terrorism, ISIS
Duration: 19'08"
11:50
Viewing with Paul Casserly
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TV and Film writer Paul Casserly ruminates on the fallout from the Music Award and gets stuck into a tsunami of new local online shows - from Jiwi's Machines to The Late Night Big Breakfast.
Topics: arts, media
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Duration: 10'41"
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09:05 Tradie shortage in Auckland prompts fears for building targets
There have been warnings of a looming crisis in the building industry for at least the last four years. Now builders say they are so short of labourers they are being forced to turn down work and go outside of the normal recruiting pool. Amon Johnson, is the director of the Auckland bulding company Complete Build.Daniel Fuemana is Unitec's head of building technology.
09:20 Nepal's crippling fuel crisis escalates
There have been fresh clashes in Nepal over the country's new constitution, which has already led to a two month border blockade with India, severe fuel shortages, and the paralysis of key agencies.
Aid groups, supporting people hit by major earthquakes in April and May say the blockade has affected hundreds of thousands of people. It's also increasing political tensions as many Nepalese accuse India of supporting the protesters. Kunda Dixit is the editor of the Nepal Times.
09:30 Is it time to ban the world's most widely used pesticide?
Growing evidence is showing the negative consequences of neonicotinoid pesticides. The latest is that they are not only harming bees but also their ability to polinate plants. Research, recently published in Nature, has shown for the first time that neonicotinoids affect the plants that rely on bees, raising fears about lower agriculture yields and the natural ecosystems that depend on bees for survival. Dara Stanley was the study's lead researcher.
Previous studies have found that the controversial pesticides, the most widely used insecticides in the world, can affect bees and bumblebees, but haven't measured whether they disrupt their ability to pollinate plants.
09:45 UK correspondent Matthew Parris
The British Chancellor's autumn statement - George Osborne has surprised his critics with a U-turn on tax credit cuts and vowing to protect police budgets in his spending review.
10:05 World famous bat photographer Merlin Tuttle
Merlin Tuttle is a photographer with difficult subjects. His quarry are extremely fast, small and normally only come out when it's dark. Bats.
[gallery:1597] Photos reproduced with permission from Merlin Tuttle
While trying to get the best snap Merlin Tuttle has hidden from lions in a waste deep, crocodile infested river - run from murderous communist guerrillas in Caracas, confronted shotgun-wielding moonshiners in caves and had part of his lung dissolved by toxic fumes from a gigantic pile of bat droppings. What's driven him to persist is a deep affection for the winged mammals which he says are not only extremely intelligent and social but also vital allies in the fight against insect pests. Merlin says the greatest threat to bats is human fear and in an effort to dispel that fear he's published a book, The Secret Lives of Bats.
10:30 Book Review: Pour Me a Life by A.A. Gill
Reviewed by Anne Else, published by Orion
10:45 The Reading: An Awfully Big Adventure by Jane Tolerton
New Zealand Works War One veterans tell their stories (Part 14 of 15)
11:05 New technology with Mark Pesce
Futurist, writer, educator and broadcaster, Mark Pesce discusses new ways that finance and banking services are being provided to people who have never had access to financial institutions.
http://www.firstaccessmarket.com/
11:25 Talking to children about scary world events
For children, news of terrorist attacks and war can make the world seem like a very scary place. So what are the best ways to talk to kids about these kinds of world events? Auckland based parenting commentator and author, John Cowan says when children hear or see these stories on the news their imaginations fill the gaps between the facts, so it's really important for adults and parents to talk to kids about what is happening, and provide reassurance and context.
11:45 Viewing with Paul Casserly
TV and Film writer Paul Casserly ruminates on the fallout from the Music Award and gets stuck into a tsunami of new local online shows - from Jiwi's Machines to The Late Night Big Breakfast.
===Noon | Midday Report===
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RNZ 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 26 November 2015
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The bodies of the remaining three victims from Saturday's helicopter crash on Fox Glacier have been recovered and Firefighters who have worked non-stop since yesterday are still trying to contain a big forest fire in Marlborough.
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Duration: 17'19"
12:20
Arvida rest homes deliver strong H1 profit
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Resthome and retirement village operator Arvida Group has reported a solid half year profit of 7-point-4 million dollars as it expanded through the acquisition three Auckland retirement villages from Aria.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Arvida Group
Duration: 1'24"
12:21
Gentrack's full year net profit triples
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The airport and utilities software company, Gentrack, has seen its full year profit more than triple despite falling short of its revenue forecast.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Gentrack
Duration: 1'38"
12:22
Profit Roundup
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The NZX-listed cancer diagnostic company, Pacific Edge, has seen its first half sales revenue more than triple, but it still made a loss on the year earlier.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 33"
12:22
Copy of Profit Roundup
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The NZX-listed cancer diagnostic company, Pacific Edge, has seen its first half sales revenue more than triple, but it still made a loss on the year earlier.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 33"
12:26
Annual trade deficit stays close to 6-year high in October
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New Zealand's annual trade deficit has stayed close to a six year high in October, as exports fell more than imports.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'16"
12:29
Midday Markets for 26 November 2015
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Belinda Stanley at Craigs Investment Partners
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'15"
12:30
Midday Sports News for 26 November 2015
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The Australian opening batsman David Warner believes there has been far too much talk about the pink ball in the leadup to the inaugural day-night Test against New Zealand starting in Adelaide tomorrow.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 3'05"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 26 November 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 6'46"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
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13:10
First Song
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'Acknowledgement' (from Love Supreme) - John Coltrane.
Topics: music
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Tags: John Coltrane, Love Supreme
Duration: 9'04"
13:20
Hottest Year - Karl Braganza
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This year is shaping up to be the hottest year on record, and next year it could get even hotter. The United Nations World Meteorological Organisation has released a statement ahead of the climate change conference in Paris. Dr Karl Braganza is the Head of Climate Monitoring at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, he also worked on the report
Topics: climate
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Duration: 8'18"
13:28
Maori Sport - Hera Waitai
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It is the 25th annual Maori sports awards this Saturday. And alongside the All Blacks, a lesser known team nominated for Best Sports Team this year is a group of women who won the Tug-o-war competition at the World Indigenous Games in Brazil. Hera Waitai is one of ten women from KaiMatariki Aotearoa
Topics: sport, te ao Maori
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Tags: Tug-o-war, Maori Sports Awards, World Indigenous Games
Duration: 8'11"
13:37
Poetry - Sam Hunt
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Sam Hunt talks to Jesse about turning 70 and a new book of poetry he has on the way
Topics: arts
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Tags: poetry
Duration: 10'25"
13:47
Favourite Album
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The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. Chosen by Melody Thomas.
Topics: music
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Tags: Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
Duration: 12'22"
14:08
Money - Mary Holm
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Today's topic is: Are you in the best KiwiSaver fund for you?
Topics: economy
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Tags: KiwiSaver
Duration: 22'51"
14:45
Food Guests - Antonio Carluccio and Sean Connolly
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Antonio Carluccio and Sean Connelly join Jesse to discuss Italian themed Christmas meals
Topics: food
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Tags: Italian Food, Christmas
Duration: 13'10"
15:07
Masterpieces - Rob Tuwhare
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Rob Tuwhare shares a poem written by his father.
Topics: arts
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Tags: Rob Tuwhare
Duration: 14'03"
15:22
The Expats - Dan Smith
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Dan Smith is a New Zealand tattooist living and working in Los Angeles.
Topics: arts, life and society
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Tags: Dan Smith, tattoos
Duration: 9'04"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 26 November 2015
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What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zoe George.
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Duration: 14'03"
21:06
'This issue will define my generation'
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A group of young New Zealand is heading to Paris as part of the official Youth Delegation to observe the UN climate talks.
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Concerned but undeterred.
That is how Lisa McLaren described her state of mind a day before she left for Paris this week to attend a youth climate conference in the lead-up to the UN climate talks.
Lisa is part of the nine-strong New Zealand Youth Delegation – all people in their 20s who have been selected to represent New Zealand and to advocate for a fair and liveable world for their generation.
In Paris, they will join thousands of other young people from countries throughout the world calling for stronger action on climate change.
Lisa says the group has discussed the recent attacks in Paris but everybody was determined to go anyway because the issue was too important.
This is something that will impact everyday New Zealanders, whether it will be through higher cost of importing products or issues around climate migrants. This will impact everybody.
Francisco Hernandez says the group wants to influence policy development and “expose the lack of action behind the rhetoric about a clean green New Zealand”.
“I am from the Philippines originally and have seen the impact of climate change on my hometown. These sort of climate-related disasters are going to get worse as climate change accelerates and I think that young people have a responsibility to do what we can to limit the damage and to future-proof our economies and societies.”
James Young-Drew says climate change defines his generation.
“It’s a global problem which touches all aspects of our lives. There will be economic consequences, there are moral components, human rights aspects. It touches on inter-generational equity and issues of social justice and because I’m in a position of relative privilege I want to do everything in my power to try and avoid these outcomes."
After the youth conference, the New Zealand team will observe during COP21, the 21st Conference of Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and report back to youth groups back home.
The COP21 meeting in Paris is expected to produce a legally binding agreement that commits countries to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. The UN’s climate chief, Christiana Figueres, told Our Changing World in an earlier interview that a two-degree warming limit is an important goal, but that the pledges countries have submitted fall rather short of it.
Francisco Hernandez says on current pledges, the world is headed for 2.7 to 3.5 degrees of warming.
We can do better and get to a target below 2 degrees, but if no-one was working in the climate space and people didn’t see this as an issues, we would be headed to above 4 degrees.
Earlier this month, meteorologists at the UK's Met Hadley Centre have revealed that the rise in global mean temperature at the Earth's surface is set to reach 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels for the first time.
New Zealand's target is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 11 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030.
Whatever the specific outcome of the Paris talks, the team says they are optimistic that it will set a course towards a decarbonised world.
Topics: science, environment, climate
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Tags: New Zealand Youth Delegation, Paric Climate Talks, UNFCCC, COP21, climate change, Paris
Duration: 15'22"
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1:10 First Song
'Acknowledgement' (from Love Supreme) – John Coltrane.
1:15 Hottest Year - Karl Braganza
This year is shaping up to be the hottest year on record, and next year it could get even hotter.
1:20 Maori Sport - Hera Waitai
It is the 25th annual Maori sports awards this Saturday. And alongside the All Blacks, a lesser known team nominated for Best Sports Team this year is a group of women who won the Tug-o-war competition at the World Indigenous Games in Brazil.
1:30 Poetry - Sam Hunt
New Zealand poetry icon Sam Hunt tells Jesse Mulligan about some of his favourite poems.
1:40 Favourite Album
The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. Chosen by Melody Thomas.
2:10 Money With Mary Holm
Today's topic is: Are you in the best KiwiSaver fund for you?
2:30 Sirocco - Peta Mathias
In part nine of 'Sirocco', a trip to another town rewards our travellers with some wonderful sights, but they're hardly comfortable.
2:45 Food Guests - Antonio Carluccio and Sean Connolly
Antonio and Sean join Jesse Mulligan to discuss Italian themed Christmas meals.
3:10 Masterpieces
Rob Tuwhare shares a poem written by his father, Hone.
3:25 The Expats
Dan Smith is a New Zealand tattooist living and working in Los Angeles.
3:30 Our Changing World
This week, a team of young New Zealanders left for Paris to join thousands of others ahead of the UN climate summit.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zoe George.
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Thursday 26th November
OPENING SONG:
ARTIST: John Coltrane
TITLE: Acknowledgment
COMP: Coltrane
ALBUM: A Love Supreme [Remaster]
LABEL: Impulse
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Lauryn Hill
TITLE: Doo Woop (That Thing)
COMP: Hill
ALBUM: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: Lauryn Hill
TITLE: To Zion
COMP: Hill
ALBUM: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: Lauryn Hill
TITLE: Everything is Everything
COMP: Hill, Newton
ALBUM: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: Lauryn Hill
TITLE: Lost Ones
COMP: Hill
ALBUM: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
LABEL: Columbia
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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15:45
The Panel pre-show for 26 November 2015
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What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zoe George.
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Duration: 14'03"
16:05
The Panel with Josie McNaught and Cas Carter (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Josie McNaught and Cas Carter have been up to. Driver behaviour consultant Peter Sheppard talks about the latest statistics on driver distraction and if it's right to blame mobile phones. And Economist Eric Crampton discusses gender diversity in leadership positions.
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Duration: 24'34"
16:06
The Panel with Josie McNaught and Cas Carter (Part2)
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A new book by two heavyweight academics, Engineers of Jihad, contends that engineers are nine times more likely to be terrorists than you would expect by chance. Dr Peter Flanagan of the New Zealand Blood Service talks about hijama cupping and if it helps the blood. A boss smashed a worker's desk with a hammer. Employment lawyer Gareth Abdinor discusses the employment and criminal law aspects. And american singer Taylor Swift is being pillioried for the environmental disruption her film crew caused on a west Auckland beach.
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Duration: 25'36"
16:07
The Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Josie McNaught and Cas Carter have been up to.
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Duration: 5'46"
16:14
Distracted drivers
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Driver behaviour consultant Peter Sheppard talks about the latest statistics on driver distraction and if it's right to blame mobile phones.
Topics: law, transport, technology
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Tags: mobile phones, driving
Duration: 9'52"
16:23
Gender diversity in leadership positions
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Economist Eric Crampton discusses gender diversity in leadership positions.
Topics: inequality, business
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Tags: Gender Diversity
Duration: 8'51"
16:34
Engineers most likely to terrorise
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A new book by two heavyweight academics, Engineers of Jihad, contends that engineers are nine times more likely to be terrorists than you would expect by chance.
Topics: security, technology
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Tags: engineering, terrorism
Duration: 6'47"
16:41
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Josie McNaught and Cas Carter have been thinking about.
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Duration: 7'09"
16:48
Cupping for health
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Dr Peter Flanagan of the New Zealand Blood Service talks about hijama cupping and if it helps the blood.
Topics: health, sport
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Tags: blood, Sonny Bill Williams, Hijama
Duration: 5'35"
16:54
Desk hammer attack
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A boss smashed a worker's desk with a hammer. Employment lawyer Gareth Abdinor discusses the employment and criminal law aspects.
Topics: law
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: hammer, employment law
Duration: 3'49"
16:58
Taylor Swift and the dotterel
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American singer Taylor Swift is being pillioried for the environmental disruption her film crew caused on a west Auckland beach.
Topics: law, crime, arts, environment
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Taylor Swift, Film Crew, Dotterel
Duration: 3'49"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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RNZ's two-hour news and current affairs programme
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Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 26 November 2015
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Recovery teams have today brought down the remaining three victims from the Fox Glacier chopper crash, plus key parts of the wreckage. The Government has had to abandon its most controversial plans to change the Resource Management Act. Political analysis from Jane Patterson. A Taranaki business couple behind a million dollar tax fraud have been jailed but IRD doesn't fancy its chances of recovering the money. And another eleven criminals deported from Australia have this afternoon arrived in Auckland.
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Duration: 19'10"
17:07
Last three bodies, wreckage lifted off Fox Glacier
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Recovery teams have today brought down the remaining three victims from the Fox Glacier chopper crash, plus key parts of the wreckage.
Topics: transport, rural
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Duration: 5'00"
17:13
Maori Party gives RMA changes its blessing
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The Government has had to abandon its most controversial plans to change the Resource Management Act.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Resource Management Act, Maori Party
Duration: 2'54"
17:15
Political analysis from Jane Patterson
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Our Political Editor Jane Patterson is with us now.
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Tags: Resource Management Act, Maori Party
Duration: 2'55"
17:19
Taranaki couple jailed for $1million plus tax fraud
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A Taranaki business couple behind a million dollar tax fraud have been jailed but IRD doesn't fancy its chances of recovering the money.
Topics: crime, business
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: IRD, tax
Duration: 3'26"
17:26
Another 11 criminals deported from Australia to Auckland
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Another eleven criminals deported from Australia have this afternoon arrived in Auckland.
Topics: law, crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Australian detention centres, Christmas Island, deportation
Duration: 4'34"
17:35
Evening Business for 26 November 2015
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News from the business sector including a market report.
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Duration: 2'02"
17:37
Medical charity demands to see full US report
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The US military's found a whole series of human errors led to it shelling an Afghan hospital killing at least 30 patients and doctors - but Medecins San Frontieres is demanding to see its full report.
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Tags: Medecins San Frontieres, Afghanistan
Duration: 3'42"
17:40
Marlborough forest fire burns fiercely, toll climbs
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The Waikakaho Valley forest fire in Marlborough is still burning fiercely more than 24 hours after nine helicopters and fire crews moved in to tackle it.
Topics: environment
Regions: Marlborough
Tags: fire, Waikakaho Valley
Duration: 3'26"
17:44
Just two illegal toothfishing boats left - MFAT
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The Government says there are just two illegal fishing boats left hunting toothfish in Antarctic waters thanks to international anti-poaching operations.
Topics: environment
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Duration: 2'59"
17:47
Aaron Roigard's friend questioned in court
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A friend of a Taranaki farmhand, who police say was killed by his father, choked up in court today when he talked about his mate's relationship with the mother of his two children.
Topics: crime
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: Aaron Roigard
Duration: 4'24"
17:54
Villawood detainee meets Little
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A detainee who met with the Andrew Little behind the wire in Sydney today holds out little hope the Labour leader can help him directly.
Topics: law
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Duration: 2'38"
17:57
Sonny Bill Williams sister named in NZ Sevens team
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All Black Sonny Bill Williams has to share the limelight with his sister Niall.
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Duration: 2'33"
18:07
Sports News for 26 November 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'35"
18:11
Maori Party gives RMA changes its blessing
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The Government has had to abandon its most controversial plans to change the Resource Management Act. The Environment Minister, Nick Smith talks to us.
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Duration: 3'34"
18:17
Ex- US Air Force men call for an end to targeted killings
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To the US, where four ex-Air Force men with more than 20 years experience between them operating military drones, have written an open letter to Barack Obama calling for an end to targeted killings.
Topics: conflict, politics
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Duration: 4'27"
18:22
Police whistleblower details PNG abuses
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An Australian police whistleblower says he has seen killings and other crimes in PNG but the Australian Government is turning a blind eye.
Topics: crime, Pacific
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Tags: Australian Detentioin Centres, Papua New Guinea
Duration: 5'00"
18:28
Power lines insulated to protect falcons
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A power line company has installed insulation at some of its sites to stop falcons being electrocuted.
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Duration: 3'16"
18:40
2015 World's warmest on record- but not for NZ
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Weather scientists here are ruling out the warmest year on record for New Zealand
Topics: climate, weather
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Duration: 1'52"
18:42
Partner of NZer in detention worries about his mental health
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The partner of a New Zealander detained under tough visa laws in Australia says she is very worried about her partner's mental state.
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Duration: 2'59"
18:45
France gathers Pacific leaders ahead of COP21
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The French president Francois Hollande has gathered Pacific leaders in Paris overnight for a summit, before crucial climate change talks which start on Monday.
Topics: politics, climate, Pacific
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Tags: COP21, France, Paris
Duration: 3'11"
18:48
Activists oppose proposed caged chicken farm
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Animal rights activists are vowing to step up protest action as a company takes its proposal to build one of the country's biggest caged chicken farms to the Environment Court.
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Tags: animal rights, Chicken Farms
Duration: 1'55"
18:50
Law change would let principals run more than 1 school
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Principals could be allowed to run more than one school and schools will find it easier to adjust their opening hours, under a proposed law change tabled today.
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Duration: 3'15"
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Councillors clash over controversial campsite
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Plans for a freedom camping ground near Wellington's Owhiro Bay have been stymied by a group of Wellington city councillors - for now.
Topics: transport, environment, politics
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: freedom camping, Owhiro Bay
Duration: 3'20"
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including: 7:30 At the Movies
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At The Movies #620 END OF THE FRANCHISE.
A brief discussion on why the last episode of a long-running franchise is usually such hard work - for both the film-maker and the audience. Certainly not a patch on the first, fine, careless rapture of episode 1.
Then - this week's reviews:
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 - directed by Francis Lawrence , starring Jennifer Lawrence, Julianne Moore, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth
[embed]https://youtu.be/Zk3yLI0q794
Secret In Their Eyes - directed by Billy Ray, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgNRNSrXxIw
5 to 7 - directed by Victor Levin, starring Anton Yelchin, Berenice Marlohe and Glenn Close
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At The Movies for 26 November 2015
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On At The Movies, Simon Morris discovers whether the final Hunger Games is worth the wait, and reviews an American cover version of the Oscar-winning, Argentinean thriller Secret In Their Eyes. And 5 To 7 is a French-New York gem.
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Duration: 23'54"
7:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris: Current film releases and film related topics (RNZ) 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries 9:06 Our Changing World
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21:05
Antarctic glacier's past rapid retreat
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Research published today provides the first geological evidence for the potential of runaway ice loss in Antarctica.
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Research by New Zealand geoscientists, published overnight in the journal Nature Communications, reveals that Antarctic glaciers have retreated rapidly in the past, and that all it took was a minor climate warming.
A team led by Richard Jones, a postdoctoral research fellow at Victoria University, collected and analysed rocks from different elevations along the Mackay Glacier, which drains the massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS).
The EAIS has long been thought more stable than the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, where the melting of several glaciers has now reached the point of no return, according to a NASA study published last year. This research adds evidence that the EAIS is not a sleeping giant, but has in the past responded quickly to warming.
Dr Jones says the chemical analysis of the rocks the team collected shows the Mackay Glacier retreated and thinned rapidly about 7000 years ago, and the retreat continued for several centuries.
He says the rate of retreat was similar to that seen today in glaciers in West Antarctica, where satellite observations show the ice sheet is thinning in response to a warming ocean, and losing more than 150 cubic kilometres of ice each year.
Quite a few of the outlet glaciers of the Antarctic ice sheet are thinning rapidly and are theorised to undergo massive changes in ice loss.
Associate professor Andrew Mackintosh, who is part of the research team, says the results provide the first geological evidence for the potential of runaway ice loss in Antarctica, triggered by what scientists describe as marine ice sheet instability.
“Before Richard’s study, we had theory about how ice sheets might respond and we had computer models that encapsulate this theory, but we had no direct geological evidence that this had occurred in the past.
"This gives us an example of how this can occur, the period of time that this might extend over, and the rate at which the ice might be lost."
The concept of marine ice sheet instability describes how parts of Antarctica’s ice sheet grounded below sea level will react to warming.
Dr Mackintosh says when most people think about glaciers, they think they sit on top of a mountain range. While that is true in many cases, he says large ice sheets can flow into deep troughs where the underlying rock lies below sea level.
“As ice sheets grow, they coalesce and thicken and invade the land that sits below sea level. They displace the sea. But that means that they have a vulnerability when they start to retreat. That area that used to be the ocean is then exposed again."
As a glacier begins to retreat backwards, thicker parts of ice flow with greater stress, and that can lead to a runaway feedback loop. “A little bit of ice retreat leads to much greater rates of ice loss.”
Dr Jones says the team chose the Mackay Glacier because of the morphology of the underlying rock.
There is a similar trough downstream of the Mackay Glacier. So the theory was that this glacier retreated in the past and must have experienced a similar thinning, but we didn’t know about the response time. This study is important in recognising the fact that this occurred and persisted for several hundred years.”
He says the trigger that set off the rapid retreat could have been minor. “Just a couple of years of warmer ocean temperatures would have been enough to initiate the retreat of that particular glacier, but then once it encountered this deep trough, that would have accelerated the ice loss.”
Dr Mackintosh says the findings came as a surprise.
“We went down there to understand the retreat of the ice sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum, when the ice sheet was larger than present, about 20,000 years ago. We know there’s an ice sheet there today … and that it was bigger in the past and we were trying to find out when that change occurred.
What Richard found is really dramatic. Most of this change occurred in one event that lasted for just a few hundred years and that occurred about 7000 years ago.
Ice core research has shown the climate in Antarctica returned to something similar to today’s climate about 12,000 years ago, as the world was emerging from the ice age, he says.
“The warming that occurred at the end of that last ice age was the trigger of the massive retreat of the ice sheet, and at a certain point the Mackay Glacier became independent of that large ice sheet and then underwent its own rapid transformation about 7000 years ago.”
The team will return to Antarctica in January to study a much larger glacier, which also drains the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, to look at its past thinning history.
The research was published in the journal Nature Communications.
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Duration: 9'47"
21:06
'This issue will define my generation'
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A group of young New Zealand is heading to Paris as part of the official Youth Delegation to observe the UN climate talks.
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Concerned but undeterred.
That is how Lisa McLaren described her state of mind a day before she left for Paris this week to attend a youth climate conference in the lead-up to the UN climate talks.
Lisa is part of the nine-strong New Zealand Youth Delegation – all people in their 20s who have been selected to represent New Zealand and to advocate for a fair and liveable world for their generation.
In Paris, they will join thousands of other young people from countries throughout the world calling for stronger action on climate change.
Lisa says the group has discussed the recent attacks in Paris but everybody was determined to go anyway because the issue was too important.
This is something that will impact everyday New Zealanders, whether it will be through higher cost of importing products or issues around climate migrants. This will impact everybody.
Francisco Hernandez says the group wants to influence policy development and “expose the lack of action behind the rhetoric about a clean green New Zealand”.
“I am from the Philippines originally and have seen the impact of climate change on my hometown. These sort of climate-related disasters are going to get worse as climate change accelerates and I think that young people have a responsibility to do what we can to limit the damage and to future-proof our economies and societies.”
James Young-Drew says climate change defines his generation.
“It’s a global problem which touches all aspects of our lives. There will be economic consequences, there are moral components, human rights aspects. It touches on inter-generational equity and issues of social justice and because I’m in a position of relative privilege I want to do everything in my power to try and avoid these outcomes."
After the youth conference, the New Zealand team will observe during COP21, the 21st Conference of Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and report back to youth groups back home.
The COP21 meeting in Paris is expected to produce a legally binding agreement that commits countries to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. The UN’s climate chief, Christiana Figueres, told Our Changing World in an earlier interview that a two-degree warming limit is an important goal, but that the pledges countries have submitted fall rather short of it.
Francisco Hernandez says on current pledges, the world is headed for 2.7 to 3.5 degrees of warming.
We can do better and get to a target below 2 degrees, but if no-one was working in the climate space and people didn’t see this as an issues, we would be headed to above 4 degrees.
Earlier this month, meteorologists at the UK's Met Hadley Centre have revealed that the rise in global mean temperature at the Earth's surface is set to reach 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels for the first time.
New Zealand's target is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 11 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030.
Whatever the specific outcome of the Paris talks, the team says they are optimistic that it will set a course towards a decarbonised world.
Topics: science, environment, climate
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Tags: New Zealand Youth Delegation, Paric Climate Talks, UNFCCC, COP21, climate change, Paris
Duration: 15'22"
21:20
Tea bag science
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Tea bags containing red and green tea leaves have been buried in the soil for three months, to give insights into tussock grassland ecosystems and how they are being affected by climate change
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Tea bags. Most of us use them to make a cup of tea, But not Landcare Research ecologist Barbara Anderson. This avowed coffee drinker sees them as an indispensable bit of scientific kit.
“They’re really expensive tea bags, as far as tea bags go, but as far as scientific equipment goes they’re really cheap.”
And these are not just any old tea bags. They are a particular brand that isn’t sold in New Zealand, and Barbara and husband Ralf Ohlemüller, who collaborates on this research, had to ask various friends and family members to send them boxes of tea bags from overseas. This was quite a big ask as the team used 810 tea bags in their field experiments, with more required for use as controls.
Barbara says the Lipton tea bags really just standardised litter bags, filled with a known quantity of tea that has already been analysed by the Netherlands team that came up with the Tea Bag Index. The advantage of these particular tea bags is the synthetic bag, which doesn’t rot when it is buried in the ground.
“You weigh them, put them in the ground, and leave them for three months. The green and red tea leaves decompose at different rates, and that means you can use the different rates to find out the organic matter – or tea leaves in this case – that decomposes versus that which will stay in the ground as carbon.”
The research team is looking at how much carbon is in the soil system, and whether it’s acting as a carbon sink (storing carbon) or a carbon source (producing carbon).
Ralf, who is in the Department of Geography at the University of Otago says that “once we can quantify how climate drives whether a system is a carbon source or a carbon sink, we can then make a model of how climate or climate change impacts on these ecosystem properties.”
The study site is Barbara’s family’s farm in the Cardrona valley near Wanaka. The team were interested in how rates of decomposition vary with altitude and exposure, and they chose a prominent ridge on Mt Cardrona stretching from the peak at 1936 metres to the valley floor at 500 metres. Pairs of red and green tea bags were buried 10 centimetres deep each 100 metres. They were buried in January and pulled out in April, so were in the ground for summer. Temperature and soil moisture data were collected for every site.
When the team went to collect the tea bags at the end of April they had to battle an early fall of snow, which made finding and retrieving all the bags very challenging. “We had to chip them out of the ice” says Master’s student Robbert McCann.
“Basically we want to get a whole lot of information at one site across an elevation and an aspect gradient to look at the effect of microclimate” says Barbara.
“We really need to look at fine-scale studies if we want to say where climate changes and how it changes, and how it affects all species in mountainous environments” adds Ralf.
Ralf says that the weather information they have collected over two years is an exceptional record of climate across an altitudinal gradient, as it is difficult to collect this kind of information in mountain environments. It has given them precise figures around how much colder it is at high altitudes or on shady slopes, compared to lower or sunnier sites.
“There is a lot of research going at the moment about species living in mountainous species and what happens to these species – to plants and insects – under changing climates,” says Ralf. “And clearly, as it warms, these species will have to move up the mountain to track the climate that they need or like. And on lots of mountains they’ll simply run out of space. But what this sort of research shows is that maybe the species don’t actually have to move up the mountains – maybe they just have to go around the sides.”
This study is part of a wider research project into tussock grasslands and alpine regions, which Ralf says are very important for the water cycle and for endemic species,
Barbara was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship in 2012, which provides funding for 5 years. The tea bag study is part of Robbert McCann’s research for a Master’s degree.
The results of the New Zealand tea bag research will eventually be compared with other similar studies around the world, all carried out using identical tea bags and following the Tea Bag Index.
Topics: science, environment, farming
Regions: Otago
Tags: climate change, ecology, soil, decomposition, tea bags, tussock grassland, Cardrona Valley, Wanaka
Duration: 12'43"
21:34
Life at the edge
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Light is crucial to the creatures that live on the ocean floor around Antarctica, but they have to get by without it for several weeks. NIWA marine ecologist Vonda Cummings explains how.
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On land, Antarctica is almost monochromatic. But just below the sea ice that surrounds the continent, the ocean floor teems with life and colour.
Sponges, corals, starfish, tube worms, shellfish, sea urchins and metre-long carnivorous nemertean worms all manage to forge a living in super-cooled water temperatures, with fluctuating food supplies and extremes in light conditions.
Light is crucial for life, but off the Antarctic coast, marine creatures have to get by without it for weeks during the long polar winter.
NIWA marine ecologist Vonda Cummings studies these Antarctic seafloor ecosystems.
She says despite these challenging conditions, invertebrate marine life around Antarctica is diverse. Many species are similar to those one would find in more temperate coastal waters, but some major groups, like crabs for example, are missing completely. Others flourish in numbers not seen in warmer waters.
Ice determines life under water. Only less than 1 per cent of the light that reaches the surface of the ice passes through it, cultivating patches of algae on the underside.
These algae are the ocean’s primary producers and the first link in the food web, but with the stark contrast in light between the Antarctic seasons, such food supplies fluctuate from feast to famine.
Vonda Cummings says bottom-dwelling creatures are well adapted to their dim and cold environment.
”A lot of them feed in multiple different ways. They might be filter feeders, scavengers or predators, so they are really good opportunistic feeders. They just take what they can get.”
But she says their finely tuned lifestyle at the edge means that they cope less well with gradual changes, such as warming seas and ocean acidification.
“The major thing is that these organisms have adapted to living within a certain range of temperatures. We are expecting massive - massive on their scale - changes over their lifetime. While a one or two degree increase in temperature might not seem much to us, when those guys are used to living within a one-to-two degree temperature range, that might just take them out of their tolerance envelope.”
Vonda Cummings is one of the speakers in the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Luminaries lecture series and will present her talk in Christchurch on Thursday 26. You can also watch the live-stream.
Topics: science, environment, Antarctica, climate
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Tags: Antarctic Ocean, benthos, polar night, coastal ecosystems
Duration: 9'33"
21:45
Limiting nitrate leaching on dairy farms
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Massey University soil scientists are investigating how taking cows off paddocks during certain times of the year could significantly reduce the amount of nitrate leaching into waterways.
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Nitrate leaching is a significant environmental issue, particularly on dairy farms, but soil scientists at Massey University are investigating how taking cows off pasture during certain periods of the year could reduce the problem, while potentially even increasing production.
When cows graze on a paddock, they deposit a patch of concentrated nitrogen every time they pee. From there, it can leach through the soil and pollute groundwater and streams.
At Massey University’s research dairy farm, Mike Hedley and his team are using a barn to take cows off pasture during certain times of the day to reduce nitrate leaching.
“A cow only takes about four hours to eat its grass and it doesn’t need to be in the paddock all the while between morning and evening milking and it can drop its urine somewhere else rather than in the field. It is those urine patches that cause most of the nitrate leaching.”
The project is part of Pastoral 21, a series of trials run in collaboration between the dairy industry and researchers to increase productivity while decreasing the environmental footprint of dairy farming.
The Massey University team is comparing traditional pasture grazing with farm management practices that either house cows part-time in a barn or take the herd off pasture in winter or on wet days.
In soil pits throughout the pasture, the team collects water samples after heavy rainfall to monitor the concentrations of nitrate, potassium, calcium and phosphate. Water is also collected from surface run-off plots to measure phosphate lost from the surface of the soil during a storm event.
Another aspect of the research is to monitor the impact of treading damage, or pugging, on pasture growth. James Hanly says the team developed a ‘puggometer’ to measure the relationship between soil moisture, treading damage and grass growth and to work out a protocol when cows would best be taken off pasture.
During the periods of housing, any effluent is collected in a pond and can be applied back to the paddock more evenly, either by spraying or injecting it into the soil at times when the soil is just dry and warm enough to avoid any drainage and nitrate leaching.
Mike Hedley says earlier trials have shown that on-off grazing practices can cut nitrate leaching by half, but even if housing is used only during autumn, it still reduces the problem by 38 per cent.
“Taking this from here to the farm-scale is the next step. Farmers could use the pugging score to recognise when they should take cows off the paddock. In terms of choosing the time of year when to put the cows into the house or stand them off, we recognise that if a farmer did that all year round it’s an awful lot of extra work. But if you focus on the autumn and summer period, certainly in the North Island and on non-irrigated farms, it fits much better into that part of the year.”
Even though the practice mitigates the problem of nitrate leaching, he says it remains to be seen if it can also increase production.
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Duration: 17'12"
9:06 Our Changing World: Science and environment news from NZ and the world (RNZ)
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Mathematics
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Making the numbers add up is Dr. Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research... statistics and probability, and how humans are not very good at grasping these types of mathematical concepts...
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Duration: 20'29"
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The Cultural Ambassadors - Hip-Hop
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University of Auckland ethnomusicologist Dr. Kirsten Zemke raps about hip hop music and culture... Hip Hop pedagogy
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University of Auckland ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke raps with Bryan Crump about hip-hop music and culture.
In this episode – hip-hop pedagogy / hip-hop as a tool for education.
Topics: music, life and society
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Duration: 20'48"
20:59
Conundrum Clue 7
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Conundrum Clue 8
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7:12 MATHEMATICS
making the numbers add up is Dr. Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research... statistics and probability, and how humans are not very good at grasping these types of mathematical concepts...
7:35 At the Movies
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8:12 Windows on the World - The Drug Mules of the Andes
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8:43 The Cultural Ambassadors - HIP HOP
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