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:
19 December 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight (RNZ); 12:30 Laugh Track (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (BBC); 2:05 NZ Live (RNZ); 3:05 The Other Condition, by J Edward Brown (RNZ); 3:30 The Week (RNZ); 4:30 Global Business (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 Voices (RNZ)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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Sanele - the storyteller, by Jaqualine Chapman, told by Jacob Rajan; Silver Scooter, by Norman Bilbrough, told by Angie Meiklejohn; Christmas Chair, by Jillian Squire, told by Michael Haigh; Nanny Mihi's Christmas, by Melanie Drewery, told by Helen Pearse Otene; Piggity Wiggity Jiggity Jig and the Camping Holiday, by Diana Neild, told by Peter Land; Storytime, by Apirana Taylor, told by Apirana Taylor; Sam, Max, Harold and Jane Roberts meet Dracula, by Roger Hall, told by Bruce Phillips
===7:08 AM. | Country Life===
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Memorable scenes, people and places in rural NZ (RNZ)
===8:10 AM. | Saturday Morning===
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A mixture of current affairs and feature interviews, until midday (RNZ)
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08:12
Jeremy Leggett: winning the carbon war
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Founder of the solar energy company Solarcentury, and international charity organisation SolarAid, chair of the not-for-profit financial think tank Carbon Tracker, and climate and energy activist and historian who is updating his book, The Winning of the Carbon War, to include coverage of the Paris Climate Summit.
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Is it safe yet? In Paris on 12 December, 195 countries agreed on a plan to reduce greenhouse gases and try to hold temperatures to just 1.5 degrees centigrade (if possible) above pre-industrial levels. British social entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett was there.
Jeremy Leggett is the founder of the solar energy company Solarcentury, and international charity organisation SolarAid. He chairs the not-for-profit financial think tank Carbon Tracker, and is a climate and energy activist and historian who is currently updating his book The Winning of the Carbon War to include coverage of the Paris Climate Summit (for publication in early 2016). He was the inaugural Hillary Laureate at the Hillary Insitute in 2009.
Jeremy Leggett tells Kim Hill that what happened in Paris was like nothing else in human history – the world's first agreement to fight an existential threat to life as we know it on the planet.
Topics: author interview, business, economy, energy, environment, climate, farming, health, history, media, money, politics, science, technology, world
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Duration: 25'38"
08:35
Cindy Gallop: sex, porn and technology
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After a background in advertsising, Cindy Gallop launched the startups MakeLoveNotPorn (on the intersection of technology with human sexuality and experience), and IfWeRanTheWorld (an experiment to find an easy way for people and businesses to turn good intentions into action).
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"Our mission is purely and simply to help make it easier to talk about sex in the real world."
Cindy Gallop joined British advertising company Bartle Bogle Hegarty in 1989, and was chair of its board of directors by the time she left the company. She founded her own brand and business innovation consultancy, Cindy Gallop LLC in 2006. At the 2009 TED conference launched her startup MakeLoveNotPorn (an antidote to what she called technology's hardcore impact on human behaviour) which positioned her as a global evangelist for 'sextech' – the intersection of technology with human sexuality and experience.
In 2010, she launched IfWeRanTheWorld, an experiment to find a quick, simple and easy way for people and businesses to turn good intentions into action. Cindy Gallop is visiting Wellington for Webstock 2016 (9-12 February, St James Theatre), and for Extraordinary Tales of Strength & Daring (14 February, Opera House).
Cindy tells Kim Hill that it is precisely because we don't talk about sex that porn acts as default sex education for today's online generation.
Topics: business, economy, education, health, internet, life and society, media, technology
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Tags: sex, pornography
Duration: 22'09"
09:05
Robert Dessaix: adoption, love and writing
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Hobart-based writer, whose books include the memoirs A Mother's Disgrace and What Days Are For: a Collection of Musings. He is a guest at Writer's Week at the 2016 New Zealand Festival.
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Robert Dessaix's musings about love and death and the meaning of life have made him one of Australia’s best loved writers. His books and essays are informed by his travels, his passion for Russia and Russian, his deep literary knowledge and a kind of outsider status – gay, adopted – belied by his rich and multicultural friendships.
The Hobart-based writer's books include the memoirs A Mother’s Disgrace (1994, A&R Classics), and What Days Are For: a Collection of Musings (2012, Vintage). He is a guest at Writer’s Week at the 2016 New Zealand Festival, where he will talk about Enid Blyton (12 March).
"I really don't think that anyone is interested in little Robert's life.They're interested in their own lives. And what they read me for – I think – is the permission that I give them to tell themselves and their friends their own stories."
Topics: author interview, books, education, health, identity, language, life and society, spiritual practices, world
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: travel, adoption, Turgenev, India, Australia, Christian Science, Hobart, masculinity, alcohol, Andre Gide, Angkor Wat, bats
Duration: 42'35"
09:45
Art with Mary Kisler: restoring paintings and frames
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Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discussing the restoration of 19th century paintings and frames.
Topics: arts, history
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: paintings
Duration: 10'23"
10:05
Books 2015 with Laura Kroetsch and Kate De Goldi
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Laura Kroetsch is director of Adelaide Writers' Week at the 2016 Adelaide Festival. Kate De Goldi's most recent novel is From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle, and the stage adaptation of her 2012 book, The ACB with Honora Lee, will debut next year as part of the New Zealand Festival. They discuss the year in publishing and their favourite reads of 2015.
Topics: books
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Adelaide, Henry Green, Elena Ferrante, Tim Parks, Kate Clanchy, Sara Taylor, Max Porter, Martha Baillie, Patrick deWitt, Steve Silberman, Robert Macfarlane, Carrie Brownstein, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Lauren Goff, Hanya Yanagihara, Thomas Pierce, Fiona McFarlane, Julia Elliott, Sarah Ruhl, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Maggie Nelson, Helen Macdonald, Jonathan Bate, Piet Oudolf
Duration: 50'32"
11:05
Music Books 2015 with Nick Bollinger
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Writer, broadcaster, musician and record producer who was awarded the 2015 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington for Goneville, his music memoir about the 1970s, which will be published next year. Nick discusses some of the best books about and by musicians published in 2015.
Topics: author interview, books, music
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, Pauly Fuemana, Simon Grigg, Kim Gordon, Chrissy Hynde, Richard Goldstein, Robert Christgau, Allen Klein, Fred Goodman, Sam Phillips, Peter Guralnick
Duration: 23'37"
11:30
Poetry 2015 with Gregory O'Brien
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Painter, poet, curator and writer whose latest book is See What I Can See: New Zealand Photography for the Young and Curious. He discusses some of the highlights of New Zealand poetry in 2015.
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Painter, poet, curator and writer whose latest book is See What I Can See: New Zealand Photography for the Young and Curious. He discusses some of the highlights of New Zealand poetry in 2015.
Topics: arts, books, education, environment, language
Regions: Auckland Region, Wellington Region, Otago
Tags: poetry, Charles Brasch, Iain Lonie, David Howard, Vincent O'Sullivan, Annabel Hawkins, Makaro Press, Frankie McMillan, Dinah Hawken, Brent Kininmont, Maurice Askew, Morgan Bach, Joan Fleming, Emma Neale, Otago University Press, Peter Bland, Kevin Ireland, Karl Maugham
Duration: 28'33"
11:55
Listener Feedback to Saturday 19 December 2015
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Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 19 December.
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Duration: 33"
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This is our final programme for 2015. Thanks for all your email, texts, suggestions, criticisms and other interactions with the programme. They are appreciated.
Next Saturday sees the return of The Weekend, hosted by Lynn Freeman (8am to midday, Saturdays and Sundays, 26 December 2015 to 17 January 2016).
Selected repeats of Saturday Morning interviews will be broadcast on RNZ Monday through Sunday between 6:00pm and 7:00pm, and 8:00pm to 9:00pm, alongside selections from Nine to Noon and Sunday Morning. (The TED Radio Hour will be broadcast between 7:00pm and 8:00pm.)
A selection of Saturday Morning interviews will also be available next week, here on the Saturday web page.
Kim Hill returns on Saturday 23 January 2016. Her guests include Burt Reynolds and Sufjan Stevens.
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8:12 Jeremy Leggett: after COP21
British social entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett is the founder of the solar energy company Solarcentury, and international charity organisation SolarAid. He chairs the not-for-profit financial think tank Carbon Tracker, and is a climate and energy activist and historian who is currently updating his book, The Winning of the Carbon War, to include coverage of the Paris Climate Summit (for publication in early 2016). He was the inaugural Hillary Laureate at the Hillary Insitute in 2009.
8:35 Cindy Gallop: sex and technology
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Cindy Gallop joined British advertising company Bartle Bogle Hegarty in 1989, and was chair of its board of directors by the time she left the company. She founded her own brand and business innovation consultancy, Cindy Gallop LLC, in 2006, and launched her startup, MakeLoveNotPorn, at the 2009 TED conference, which positioned her as a global evangelist for sextech, the disruptive intersection of technology with human sexuality and experience. In 2010, she launched IfWeRanTheWorld, an experiment to find a quick, simple and easy way for people and businesses to turn good intentions into action. Cindy Gallop is visiting Wellington for Webstock 2016 (9-12 February, St James Theatre), and for Extraordinary Tales of Strength & Daring (14 February, Opera House).
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9:05 Robert Dessaix: adoption, marriage and writing
Robert Dessaix is a Hobart-based write. His books include the memoirs A Mother’s Disgrace (1994, A&R Classics), and What Days Are For: a Collection of Musings (2012, Vintage). He is a guest at Writer’s Week at the 2016 New Zealand Festival, where he will talk about Enid Blyton (12 March).
9:45 Art with Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. She will discuss the restoration of 19th century paintings and frames.
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10:05 Books 2015 with Laura Kroetsch and Kate De Goldi
Laura Kroetsch is the director of Adelaide Writers’ Week (27 February to 3 March) at the 2016 Adelaide Festival (26 February to 14 March). Kate De Goldi’s most recent novel is From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle (Longacre), and the stage adaptation of her 2012 book, The ACB with Honora Lee, will debut next year at Circa Theatre (27 February to 26 March) as part of the New Zealand Festival. They discuss the year in publishing and their favourite reads of 2015, as detailed below.
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11:05 Music Books 2015 with Nick Bollinger
Nick Bollinger is a musician (Windy City Strugglers), record producer, writer (How to Listen to Pop Music, 100 Essential New Zealand Albums) and broadcaster (The Sampler). He was awarded the 2015 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington for Goneville, his music memoir about the 1970s and the outlaw heroes of the New Zealand rock scene, which will be published next year. Nick will discuss some of the best books about and by musicians published in 2015 (details below).
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11:30 Poetry 2015 with Gregory O’Brien
Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien is the author of a number of books. His latest book is See What I Can See: New Zealand Photography for the Young and Curious (Auckland University Press). He will discuss some of the highlights of New Zealand poetry in 2015 (details below).
This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Denver Grenell
Auckland engineer: Adrian Hollay
Research by Infofind
Kate De Goldi book list 2015
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Fates and Furies by Lauren Goff
The Shore by Sara Taylor
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
The Incident Report by Martha Baillie
Under Majordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt (also The Sisters Brothers)
Meeting the English by Kate Clanchy (also the short story collection, The Not-Dead and the Saved)
NeuroTribes: the Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
The Man Who Made Things Out of Wood by Robert Penn
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Also the following books, not mentioned on air:
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside ‘The Room’, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel See What I Can See by Gregory O'Brien
Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer
Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips
The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan
The Villa at the Edge of the Empire by Fiona Farrell
Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years Of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics And Graphic Novels=
Laura Kroetsch book list 2015
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
The Shore by Sara Taylor
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
The Incident Report by Martha Baillie
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt (also The Sisters Brothers)
Hall of Small Mammals by Thomas Pierce
The High Places by Fiona McFarlane (published early 2016)
The Wilds by Julia Elliott
Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell by Sarah Ruhl (also 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write)
Words in Air by Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Ted Hughes by Jonathan Bate
Hummelo: A Journey Through a Plantsman’s Life by Piet Oudolf
Also the following books, not mentioned on air:
Stoner by John Williams
Collected Poems by Mark Strand
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Music books with Nick Bollinger
Going Into the City by Robert Christgau
Another Little Piece of My Heart by Richard Goldstein
Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello
Girl In A Band by Kim Gordon
M Train by Patti Smith
Reckless by Chrissie Hynde
Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll by Fred Goodman
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock’n’Roll by Peter Guralnick
How Bizarre: Pauly Fuemana and the Song That Stormed the World by Simon Grigg
Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald
Poetry with Gregory O’Brien
Selected Poems of Charles Brasch, edited by Alan Roddick (Otago University Press)
Collected Poems of Iain Lonie, edited by David Howard (Otago University Press)
Being Here: Selected Poems by Vincent O’Sullivan (Victoria University Press)
This Must Be the __ Place by Annabel Hawkins (Mākaro Press)
There Are No Horses in Heaven by Frankie McMillan (Canterbury University Press)
Ocean and Stone by Dinah Hawken (Victoria University Press)
Beyond Puketapu by Dunstan Ward (Steele Roberts Publishing)
Some of Us Eat the Seeds by Morgan Bach (Victoria University Press)
Failed Love Poems by Joan Fleming (Victoria University Press)
Thuds Underneath by Brent Kininmont (Victoria University Press)
Looking Out To Sea by Kevin Ireland (Steele Roberts)
Now You Know by Michael Fitzsimons, with photos by Philip Birch (Fitzbeck Publishing)
Tender Machines by Emma Neale (Otago University Press)
Expecting Miracles by Peter Bland (Steele Roberts)
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Artist: The Temptations
Song: Silent Night
Album: Christmas Card
Label: Gordy, 1970
Broadcast: 11:30
===12:11 PM. | This Way Up===
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Exploring the things we use and consume. Some content may offend (RNZ)
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12:01
This Way Up Part 1
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Broadband prices, understanding Alzheimer's, treating phobias using VR, and how Football Manager blurs gaming and reality.
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Duration: 49'15"
12:15
Tech News: Broadband rates rise and UBER
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Peter Griffin has tech news, and broadband prices look like they're on the way up. Plus Uber and Facebook team up to make ordering a cab even easier, and safety fears over the hoverboard.
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Peter Griffin has tech news, and broadband prices look like they're on the way up. Plus Uber and Facebook team up to make ordering a cab even easier, and safety fears over the hoverboard.
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Duration: 13'34"
12:35
Understanding Alzheimer's
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Professor John Hardy's work was recognised last month with a US$3 million award from some of the biggest names in the world of technology. He's studying the brains of people suffering from Alzheimer's to understand the genetic basis of the disease and how to treat it.
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Alzheimer's disease is an incurable neurological condition that affects 35 million people worldwide. Almost 30,000 New Zealanders live with the disease, and there are predictions this figure will double over the next 15 years as we age.
But our understanding of what actually causes Alzheimer's and how it develops is still unclear. so finding a cure or a way to prevent it has been tricky.
Professor John Hardy is a British brain scientist whose work was recognised last month with a US$3 million (NZ$4.5 million) award from some of the biggest names in the world of technology.
He talks with Simon Morton about what he's learnt about the genetic basis of Alzheimer's and treatments for it from studying the brains of sufferers.
Topics: health, science
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Tags: Alzheimer's, genetics
Duration: 9'33"
12:35
Treating phobias with virtual reality
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At the heart of VR technology's appeal is its ability to simulate the real world in an entirely immersive, realistic and coherent way. This makes it a powerful tool for psychologists, who are using it to treat our anxieties and phobias. Kristen V. Brown of Fusion has been to a clinic in San Diego to see these virtual treatments in action.
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Psychologists and counsellors are finding virtual reality (VR) headsets an effective tool for the treatment of our deepest fears and anxieties.
With a profusion of VR hardware coming onto the market (including Samsung's Gear, Microsoft's HoloLens, Sony's Project Morpheus and the Oculus Rift) the prospects for virtual reality technology seem endless, and not just for gaming either.
For example, it's being used to train bus drivers to get used to new road layouts, and a new wave of innovation is targeting opportunities in areas like family photos, messaging, DIY and product assembly instructions.
At the heart of VR's appeal is its ability to simulate the real world in an entirely immersive, realistic and coherent way. This is also proving useful for psychologists and counsellors treating our anxieties and phobias, conditions that affect 1 in 10 of us during our lifetimes according to the Royal College of Psychiatry.
Simon Morton gets the latest from technology reporter Kristen V Brown, who recently saw these virtual treatments in action.
Topics: technology, health
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Tags: phobia, anxiety, treatment, VR, virtual reality, p
Duration: 9'16"
12:45
Football Manager
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Football Manager is a video game based on simulating life as a professional football manager in incredible detail. Gaming journalist Simon Parkin explores its global appeal.
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Football Manager is a video game based on simulating life as a professional football manager's job.
The game is incredibly detailed, from the buying and selling of players to salary caps and team talks.
Gaming journalist Simon Parkin explores its global appeal.
Topics: internet, technology
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Tags: gaming, computers, Football Manager
Duration: 12'01"
13:01
This Way Up Part 2
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Science's breakthrough discoveries of 2015, NZ Falcons, rise of the robot workers and animals' exaggerated weaponry.
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Duration: 51'45"
13:10
Method of gene editing named scientific breakthrough of 2015
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Dr Chris Smith discussed the journal Science's awards for the big discoveries and breakthroughs of 2015.
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A method of editing the genetic code has been named the journal Science's Breakthrough of the Year 2015.
Called CRISPR (“clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”), the technique involves precisely targeting parts of our genome by either cutting or pasting DNA. It's a tool that bacteria themselves use as a defense weapon, which is now being manipulated by scientists.
The work was done by two scientists - Jennifer Doudna from the University of California, Berkeley, and Emmanuelle Charpentier, now at the Max Planck Institute for Infection.
The technique is proving controversial but there is no doubting its impact and its potential usefulness. With an estimated 7.9 million children born with a serious birth defect of genetic or partially genetic origin around the world every year, the hope is that CRISPR could help stop diseases like like cystic fibrosis and Huntington's.
But there are fears the same technique could be used to change a person's genes to manipulate their appearance, intelligence, or even their identity.
According to Dr Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists some commentators have likened the CRISPR system to the Model T Ford, highlighting its "dependability, affordability and a transformative effect on society".
Other breakthroughs nominated for the year that achieved runner-up status included the New Horizons mission to Pluto, the development of an Ebola vaccine, and the discovery of the remains of homo naledi deep in a cave in South Africa.
Topics: science, health
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Tags: gene editing, CRISPR, homo naledi
Duration: 10'05"
13:20
The NZ Falcon
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The New Zealand falcon or karearea is New Zealand's only endemic bird of prey. We head out with Hugh Robertson, one of the authors of The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand, to find some.
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Tags: New Zealand falcon, kārearea
Duration: 10'10"
13:35
Rise of the Robots
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Martin Ford considers the future of the world's workforce in his book 'The Rise of the Robots' (One World).
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Martin Ford considers the future of the world's workforce in his book 'The Rise of the Robots' (One World).
Topics: technology, economy, author interview
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Tags: work, jobs, employment, workforce, robots, automat
Duration: 15'44"
13:50
Exaggerated weaponry
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If you're a male in an order of arachnids called the Harvestmen you can end up with jaws 10 times longer than your body! Greg Holwell at the University of Auckland studies this sort of 'exaggerated weaponry' in the animal kingdom.
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Survival of the fittest....where the individual who's fittest is the one who creates the most offspring.
Some of us try the non-evolutionary approach with aftershave or perfume, candle lit dinners or a romantic bike ride. But if you're a male harvestmen, in the class of arachnids, having a massive set of jaws makes you very fit indeed.
In some species of harvestmen, a bug that lives here in NZ and all around the world, they've evolved whopping great jaws that are 10 times longer than their body and weigh more than half of their total body weight! That's like a human having a jaw 20 metres long...great for eating whole cows but not so flash in a fight.
Why have some of these harvestmen evolved such an extreme set of gnashers? Greg Holwell at the University of Auckland is interested in these 'exaggerated weapons' that appear throughout the animal kingdom.
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Tags: animals, arachnids, Harvestmen, weaponry
Duration: 10'06"
=SHOW NOTES=
We're playing these tracks too...
Artist: Painted Palms
Track: Tracers
Composer: Chris Prudhomme and Reese Donohue
Album: Horizons
Label: POLYVINYL
Artist: The Dodos
Track: Fools
Composer: The Dodos
Album: Visiter
Label: WICHITA 156276
And our theme music is:
Artist: Jefferson Belt
Track: The Green Termite
Composer: Jefferson Belt
Album: Table Manners
Label: Round Trip Mars
===2:05 PM. | Music 101===
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The best songs, music-related stories, interviews, live music, industry news and music documentaries from NZ and the world
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15:05
Music 101's Favourite Releases of 2015
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Emma Smith, Yadana Saw, Zac Arnold, Melody Thomas, Kirsten Johnstone, Trevor Reekie, Sam Wicks and Zen Yates-Fill regroup to swap notes and share their best-loved local and international cuts for 2015.
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It's that time of the year when the Music 101 team gets together to map out their favourite new music releases. To assess the year that was.
Emma Smith, Yadana Saw, Zac Arnold, Melody Thomas, Kirsten Johnstone, Trevor Reekie, Sam Wicks and Zen Yates-Fill regroup to swap notes and share their best-loved local and international cuts for 2015.
Related Audio
Nick Bollinger's favourite local releases of 2015
Marlon Williams by Marlon Williams - review
Nadia Reid talks with Kim Hill
Tame Impala's Kevin Parker talks about Currents
Silicon's Kody Nielson talks about Personal Computer
Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Multi Love - review
The Phoenix Foundation play songs from Give Up Your Dreams in session
She's So Rad talk Tango
The Dance Asthmatics on the label, Melted Ice Cream
Half Free from U.S Girls - review
Sufjan Steven's Carrie and Lowell - review
Bassekou Kouyate at WOMAD 2013
Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly - review
Electric Wire Hustle in session
Music details
Artist: Marlon Williams
Song: Hello Miss Lonesome
Composer: Williams
Album: Marlon Williams
Label: Liberation
Artist: Nadia Reid
Song: Call the Days as They Were Known
Composer: Reid
Album: Listen To Formation, Look For The Signs
Label: SPUNK
Artist: Tame Impala
Song: Let It Happen
Composer: Parker
Album: Currents
Artist: Silicon
Songs: God Emoji
Composer: K.Nielson
Album: Personal Computer
Label: Weird World
Artist: Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Song: Multi-Love
Composer: R.Neilson
Album: Multi-Love
Label: JAGJAGUAR
Artist: The Phoenix Foundation
Song: Celestial Bodies
Composer: The Phoenix Foundation
Album: Give Up Your Dreams
Label: Universal
Artist: She's So Rad
Songs: Cool It
Composer: She's So Rad
Album: Tango
Label: From the Crate Records
Artist: The Dance Asthmatics
Song: Liquid Lunch
Composer:
Album: Liquid Lunch cassingle
Label: Melted Ice Cream
Artist: US Girls
Song: Damn That Valley
Composer: M.Remy
Album: Half Free
Label: 4ad
Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Song: Fourth of July
Composer: S.Stevens
Album: Carrie And Lowell
Label: Asthmatic Kitty
Artist: Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba
Song: Waati
Composer: B.Kouyate
Album: Ba Power
Label: Glitterbeat
Artist: Twerps
Song: I Don't Mind
Composer: Twerps
Album: Range Anxiety
Label: Merge
Artist: Kendrick Lamar
Song: Alright
Composer: K.Duckworth, P.Williams, M.Spears
Album: To Pimp a Butterfly
Label: Top Dawg, Aftermath, Interscope
Artist: Electric Wire Hustle feat. Deva Mahal
Song: March
Composer: Mahal,Te Kahika, Wright
Album: Aeons EP
Label: Loop Recordings
Artist: Skepta
Song: Shutdown
Composer: J.Adenuga
Album: Single
Label: Boy Better Know
Artist: Leisure
Song: Got It Bad
Composer: Leisure
Album: Single
Label: Private
Topics: music
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Tags: Best of 2015, music review
Duration: 49'47"
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2–3pm
The Sampler Best of 2015: New Zealand Selection
In the final Sampler for 2015, Nick Bollinger revisits some of the year’s outstanding local albums, with selections including SJD, The Phoenix Foundation, Princess Chelsea and The Chills.
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Coxsone’s Music
Studio One founder and the original kingpin of Jamaican music, Clement ‘Coxsone’ Dodd, has had a profound effect on popular music over the past 50 years – from the birth of ska to reggae to dancehall. Emma Smith talks with Soul Jazz Records founder Stuart Baker about Coxsone's formative recordings, collected for the first time in the new Soul Jazz compilation, Coxsone’s Music.
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A$AP Rocky
Named for the great Rakim Allah of Eric. B & Rakim fame, Rakim Mayers aka A$AP Rocky sets the tone sonically and visually for his style-conscious Harlem collective, A$AP Mob. His uptown aesthetic sensibilities have just seen him nominated for a Best Music Video Grammy for the trippy visuals to his song ‘LSD’; that Grammy will be awarded just a week out from his latest NZ run in the New Year. Ahead of the ceremony, he tells us about his lysergically enhanced video treatment.
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3–4pm
M101 Best of 2015 Panel
It’s that time of the year when the Music 101 team gets together to map out their favourite new music releases. To assess the year that was, Emma Smith, Yadana Saw, Zac Arnold, Melody Thomas, Kirsten Johnstone, Trevor Reekie, Sam Wicks and Zen Yates-Fill regroup to swap notes and share their best-loved local and international cuts for 2015.
Gig Guide
4-5pm
Aotearoa Futurism Part Two: South Pacific Futurists
If Afrofuturism is where science fiction and technology meets popular culture of the African diaspora, could it be happening in Aotearoa too? In part two of Aotearoa Futurism, Sophie Wilson and Dan Taipua put this question to Northland teen metal band, Alien Weaponry, MC turned game developer, Billy Herotech, multimedia artists Lisa Reihana and Coco Solid who are redefining the contemporary image of indigenous and the Pacific diaspora.
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Anatomy of a Song Series 2: The Black Seeds’ ‘Cool Me Down’
Anatomy of a Song is a radio series produced by our friends at RDU in Christchurch, in which Spanky Moore and selected New Zealand musicians dissect the different elements of one of their tracks, getting to the bottom of what makes that song special. This week he looks at The Black Seeds’ ‘Cool Me Down’.
METZ - Eraser
METZ vocalist and guitarist Alex Edkins introduces their new song, inspired by the David Lynch classic, Eraserhead.
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2-3pm
Artist: Jakob
Song: Emergent
Composer: Jakob
Album: Sines
Label: Shoot The Freak
The Sampler: Nick's Picks 2015, Local
Artist: The Phoenix Foundation
Songs: Mountain, Celestial Bodies, Give Up Your Dreams
Composer: Phoenix Foundation
Album: Give Up Your Dreams
Label: Universal
Artist: SJD
Songs: Little Pieces, I Saw The Future, I Wanna Be Foolish
Composer: Donnelly
Album: Saint John Divine
Label: Round Trip Mars
Artist: Princess Chelsea
Songs: We Are Very Happy, Is It All OK?, We Were Meant 2 B
Composer: Nikkel
Album: The Great Cybernetic Depression
Label: Lil’ Chief
Artist: Don McGlashan
Songs: Lucky Stars, For Your Touch, Girl Make Your Own Mind Up
Composer: McGlashan
Album: Lucky Stars
Label: Independent
Artist: The Floral Clocks
Songs: Torn With Love, Florida Angels, Hello Miss Lonesome
Composer: White/Von Sturmer
Album: Desert Fire
Label: The Floral Clocks
Artist: The Chills
Songs: Underwater Wasteland, When The Poor Can Reach The Moon
Composer: Phillipps
Album: Silver Bullets
Label: Fire
Artist: Tiny Ruins & Hamish Kilgour
Songs: Little Did I Know, Turn Around
Composer: Fullbrook
Song: Tread Softly
Composer/Fullbrook/Yeats
Album: Hurtling Through
Label: Flying Nun/Spunk
Artist: Lontalius
Song: Kick in the Head
Composer: Johnston
Label: Partisan
Artist: The Naenae Express
Song: Overlander
Composer: The Naenae Express
Album: The Naenae Express
Label: The Naenae Express
Coxsone's Music
Artist: Sound Dimension
Song: Real Rock
Composer: Dodd
Album: Real Rock
Label: Studio One
Artist: Don Drummond
Song: Roll On Sweet Don
Composer: Drummond
Album: Coxsone's Music
Label: Soul Jazz
Artist: Smiley Lewis
Song: Shame Shame Shame
Composer: Lewis
Album: Shame Shame Shame
Label: Imperial
Artist: Workshop Musicians
Song: Calypso Jazz
Composer: Traditional
Album: Coxsone's Music
Label: Soul Jazz
Artist: Roland Alphonso
Song: Counter Punch
Composer: Fuller/ Brown
Album: Coxsone's Music
Label: Soul Jazz
Artist: Fats Domino
Song: Blueberry Hill
Composer: Lewis/Stock/Rose
Album: Blueberry Hill
Label: Imperial
Artist: Don Drummond and the City Slickers
Song: That Man Is Back
Composer: Drummond
Album: Coxsone's Music
Label: Soul Jazz
Artist: Owen Grey
Song: Best Twist
Composer: Grey
Album: Coxsone's Music
Label: Soul Jazz
Artist: The Blues Busters
Song: You Had It All Wrong
Composer: Scorcher
Album: Coxsone's Music
Label: Soul Jazz
Artist: Derrick Harriot
Song: Answer Me
Composer: Harriot
Album: Coxsone's Music
Label: Soul Jazz
A$AP Rocky
Artist: A$AP Rocky
Song: L$D
Composer: R.Mayers, I.de Boni, M.Burman, H.Delgado, B.Gentry, M.Mule, J.Scheffer
Album: At.Long.Last.A$AP
Label: A$AP Worldwide, RCA
Artist: A$AP Rocky feat. Schoolboy Q
Song: Electric Body
Composer: R.Mayers, Q.Hanley, B.Burton, D.Colquit, H.Delgado, E.Perez, T.Walton
Album: At.Long.Last.A$AP
Label: A$AP Worldwide, RCA
Artist: A$AP Rocky
Song: Fashion Killa
Composer: R.Mayers, H.Delgado, J.Laurence, D.Reznick, T.Nash, C.Stewart
Album: Long.Live.A$AP
Label: A$AP Worldwide, RCA
Artist: A$AP Rocky feat. Joe Fox and Kanye West
Song: Jukebox Joints
Composer: R.Mayers, K.West, C.Pope, J.Fox, D.Sulaksono, W.Moore, W.Robinson
Album: At.Long.Last.A$AP
Label: A$AP Worldwide, RCA
3-4pm
Faves of 2015
Artist: Marlon Williams
Song: Hello Miss Lonesome
Composer: Williams
Album: Marlon Williams
Label: Liberation
Artist: Nadia Reid
Song: Call the Days as They Were Known
Composer: Reid
Album: Listen To Formation, Look For The Signs
Label: SPUNK
Artist: Tame Impala
Song: Let It Happen
Composer: Parker
Album: Currents
Artist: Silicon
Songs: God Emoji
Composer: K.Nielson
Album: Personal Computer
Label: Weird World
Artist: Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Song: Multi-Love
Composer: R.Neilson
Album: Multi-Love
Label: JAGJAGUAR
Artist: The Phoenix Foundation
Song: Celestial Bodies
Composer: The Phoenix Foundation
Album: Give Up Your Dreams
Label: Universal
Artist: She's So Rad
Songs: Cool It
Composer: She's So Rad
Album: Tango
Label: From the Crate Records
Artist: The Dance Asthmatics
Song: Liquid Lunch
Composer:
Album: Liquid Lunch cassingle
Label: Melted Ice Cream
Artist: US Girls
Song: Damn That Valley
Composer: M.Remy
Album: Half Free
Label: 4ad
Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Song: Fourth of July
Composer: S.Stevens
Album: Carrie And Lowell
Label: Asthmatic Kitty
Artist: Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba
Song: Waati
Composer: B.Kouyate
Album: Ba Power
Label: Glitterbeat
Artist: Twerps
Song: I Don't Mind
Composer: Twerps
Album: Range Anxiety
Label: Merge
Artist: Kendrick Lamar
Song: Alright
Composer: K.Duckworth, P.Williams, M.Spears
Album: To Pimp a Butterfly
Label: Top Dawg, Aftermath, Interscope
Artist: Electric Wire Hustle feat. Deva Mahal
Song: March
Composer: Mahal,Te Kahika, Wright
Album: Aeons EP
Label: Loop Recordings
Artist: Skepta
Song: Shutdown
Composer: J.Adenuga
Album: Single
Label: Boy Better Know
Artist: Leisure
Song: Got It Bad
Composer: Leisure
Album: Single
Label: Private
Gig Guide
Artist: Jamie XX
Song: SeeSaw, Obvs, Just Saying
Composer: Smith
Album: In Colour
Label: Young Turks
4-5pm
Aotearoa Futurism Pt 2
Artist: Alien Weaponry
Song: Hipocrite, Never As It Seems
Composer: Alien Weaponry
Album: Zego Sessions EP
Label: private
Artist: Alien Weaponry
Song: Ruana te Whenua
Composer: Alien Weaponry
Album: Unreleased
Label: Private
Artist: Billy Fluid
Song: Piwakawaka, Lady of my Life, Chasing Moonlight
Composer: E. Hillman
Album: Unreleased
Label: Private
Artist: 4ourmulafourfour
Song: Breaking Sand Castles, Our Last Kiss, One Small Step
Composer: 4ourmulafourfour
Album: Unreleased
Label: Private
Artist: Optimus Gryme feat. Billy Fluid
Song: Emotions
Composer: C.Brown, E. Hillman
Album: Unreleased
Label: Private
Artist: Lisa Reihana, James Pinker, Sean Cooper
Song: In Pursuit of Venus [Infected]
Composer: J.Pinker, S.Cooper
Label: Private
Artist: Lisa Reihana, James Pinker
Song: Let There Be Light, Fantastic Egg
Composer: J.Pinker
Label: private
Artist: Lisa Reihana, Angus McNaughton
Song: Hypergirls + Native Portraits + Tauira
Composer: A.McNaughton
Label: Private
Artist: Patea Maori Club
Song: Aku Raukura
Composer: Patea Maori Club
Album: Aku Raukura
Label: Maui
Artist: Badd Energy
Song: Underwater Pyramids
Composer: Badd Energy
Album: Underwater Pyramids
Label: Flying Nun
Artist: Coco Solid
Song: Pacific Rims Mixtape
Composer: J.Hansell
Album: Pacific Rims Mixtape
Label: Private
Artist: Underground Resistance
Song: Transition (Cover for International Women’s Day 2015)
Composer: UR, DJ Violet, Amor, Nightwave, N.Whang, Mamacita, J.Hansell
Label: Private
Anatomy of a Song: The Black Seeds
Artist: The Black Seeds
Song: Cool Me Down
Composer: The Black Seeds
Album: Into The Dojo
Label: Capitol
Interview: METZ
Artist: METZ
Song: Eraser
Composer: METZ
Album: Eraser
Label: Three One G
Artist: Doprah
Song: Lucid Visions
Composer: Doprah
Album:
Label
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===5:11 PM. | Focus on Politics===
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Analysis of significant political issues presented by RNZ's parliamentary reporting team (RNZ)
===5:45 PM. | Tagata o te Moana===
Tagata o te Moana for 19 December 2015
The leader of Tuvalu is happy with the outcome of the COP 21 meeting; Vanuatu gets ready for elections after weeks of political turmoil; Political will to stop illegal logging in PNG questioned; FFA says Tuna Commission meeting helpful despite criticism; Nauru observer mission gets more flak; Study to examine kava's link to drink-driving; Fiji and Samoa reflect on the first two rounds of the World Sevens Series.
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Pacific news, features, interviews and music (RNZ)
===6:06 PM. | Great Encounters===
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In-depth interviews selected from RNZ National's feature programmes during the week (RNZ)
===7:06 PM. | Saturday Night===
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An evening of requests, nostalgia and musical memories (RNZ)
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=SHOW NOTES=
7pm – 8pm
Edith Paif - Le Noël de la Rue (Christmas in the Streets)
Judy Garland - Star Of The East
Harry Belafonte - Mary’s Boy Child
Band Of The Grenadier Guards - Dunedin
Stornoway - The Great Procrastinator
Phil Garland - Farewell To Geraldine
Joan Sutherland - The Virgin’s Slumber Song
The Comedy Harmonists - In Silent Night
Patsy Cline - Just Out Of Reach
Joyce Grenfell & Norman Wisdom - Narcissus (The Laughing Song)
Elisabeth Von Trappe - Dona Nobis Pacem
The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy's Christmas
Renato Tebaldi & The New Philharmonia Orchestra/Anton Guadagno - O Holy Night
Budapest String Quartet - Scherzo Presto (Trout Quintet)
The Dillards - I'll Fly Away
8pm – 9pm
The Easybeats - Saturday Night
Ketty Lester - Love Letters
Van Morrison and Joss Stone - Wild Honey
Billy T James - When A Child Is Born
Sarah Vaughan - East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)
Diana Krall - In My Life
Elise & Doris Waters - Gert & Daisy Make A Christmas Pudding
Emerson Lake & Palmer - I Believe In Father Christmas
Kamahl - Perhaps Love
Jimmie Rodgers - Streets Of Laredo
Luciano Pavarotti - Gesu Bambino
Well-Strung - Silent Night
9pm – 10pm
Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
Frank Kelly - The Twelve Days Of Christmas
Archie Bleyer - Hernando’s Hideaway
Matt Bianco - Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed
The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York
Madness - Swan Lake
The Rolling Stones - Beast Of Burden
Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas
Dave Berry - Mama
The Statler Brothers - The Carols Those Kids Used To Sing
Fred Neil - The Dolphins
Keb Mo - The Door
Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives (the jazz version, live from Montreal)
10pm – 11pm
Alan Parsons Project - (The System Of) Dr Tarr & The Professor
Howlin’ Wolf - Spoonful
The Pointer Sisters - Chain Of Fools / How Long (Betcha Gotta Chick On The Side) / Yes We Can Can
Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
Waylon Jennings - Lonesome, On’ry And Mean
Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways
The Band - It Makes No Difference
Joe Ely - Gallo Del Ciello
11pm - Midnight
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - O Come All Ye Faithful / O Holy Night
Leon Russell - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
Twelve years ago this month, the great singer / songwriter Warren Zevon received five posthumous Grammy nominations for his last album The Wind. In the end, The Wind won two awards: Best Contemporary Folk Album, while a track off the album "Disorder in the House", his duet with Bruce Springsteen, was awarded Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal.
These posthumous awards were the first Grammys of Zevon's thirty-plus year career. He talks about the early days in Late Night Phil tonight.
Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (solo piano version)
Warren Zevon - Desperadoes Under The Eaves
Warren Zevon - Simple Man, Simple Dream
Warren Zevon - Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Warren Zevon - Mohammed's Radio
Warren Zevon - Cindy Cindy
Warren Zevon - Mama Couldn't Be Persuaded
Warren Zevon - Hasten Down The Wind
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (album version)
Warren Zevon - Lawyers Guns And Money