A 24-hour recording of RNZ 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 January 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Spectrum (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (RNZ); 2:05 Night Lights Classic Jazz (10 of 12, WFIU) 3:05 Aubergine Audi, by Peter Butler, read by Mick Rose (RNZ); 3:30 An Author's View (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, including: 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 Tuesday 19 January 2016
BODY:
One person is still in hospital after the dramatic tour boat fire off the Whakatane coast yesterday. We'll talk to the skipper of one of the vessels who came to the rescue and the grandparents of a terminally ill five year old fight to have her given medicinal cannabis.
Topics:
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Duration: 31'29"
06:06
Sports News for 19 January 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'44"
06:09
Torrential rain forecast to hit Nelson fails to fire
BODY:
So far there have been no reports of major flooding or damage from torrential rain which was forcast to hit Nelson, Marlborough, Taranaki and the Bay of Plenty overnight.
Topics: weather
Regions: Nelson Region
Tags: rain
Duration: 2'30"
06:12
Hunt to find who killed 69 year-old-woman continues
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The hunt to find who killed a 69 year-old-woman in her Auckland home is entering a fifth day.
Topics:
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Cun Xiu Tian, murder
Duration: 1'51"
06:19
NZ Carbon credit price rises following Paris agreement
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The cost of pouring greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere has reached the highest level in four years
Topics: environment
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Tags:
Duration: 2'44"
06:21
Early business news
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Our business editor, Gyles Beckford, is in now with what's happening in the financial world.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 2'45"
06:27
Morning Rural News for 19 January 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Tags:
Duration: 4'12"
06:40
Accident investigators will begin work today
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Accident investigators will begin work today to find out what caused a tourist boat to catch fire and sink off the coast of Whakatane yesterday afternoon.
Topics:
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Whakatane
Duration: 2'57"
06:42
Iran offers kiwi exporters potential
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The lifting of economic sanctions on Iran could open up a significant new market for New Zealands' exporters.
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Tags: Iran
Duration: 2'33"
06:50
Analysts look to China's economic data
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Analysts are looking to the release of some fresh China's economic data, due out later today, in the hope that it will help bring some stability to volatile financial markets.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: China
Duration: 3'37"
06:53
Employee confidence back in positive territory - survey
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Workers are being cautioned to expect the labour market to remain a relatively tough place this year, despite a rebound in sentiment.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: jobs
Duration: 1'13"
06:54
HR report reveals NZers least confident of wage rise
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Meanwhile, a report by a human resources firm, Randstad, reveals New Zealanders are not confident of a wage rise in the near term.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: wages
Duration: 1'09"
06:58
Morning markets for 19 January 2016
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American stocks are closed for Martin Luther day .. European markets were down between 0.2 and 0o.4 percent.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'07"
06:59
Business briefs
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Business reports coming out today.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags:
Duration: 23"
07:07
Sports News for 19 January 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'32"
07:11
Burned out passenger boat sitting below Whakatane harbour
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One person still in hospital after dramatic boat fire off Whakatane.
Topics:
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Whakatane
Duration: 2'36"
07:13
Rescue boat owner describes how they helped
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Terry Robinson is the owner of Morning Glory, which was one of the boats that went to help with the rescue.
Topics:
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Whakatane
Duration: 5'11"
07:19
Grandparents of dying 5-year-old fight for medical cannabis
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The grandparents of a five-year-old with terminal brain cancer have called in a lawyer after doctors refused to consider medical cannabis to treat the child.
Topics: health, law
Regions:
Tags: medical cannabis
Duration: 4'12"
07:24
Tennis rocked by match fixing allegations
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Tennis has become the latest major international sport to become ensnared in allegations of corruption.
Topics: sport
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Tags: match fixing, tennis
Duration: 6'46"
07:36
Gloves off as Clinton clashes with Sanders
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The battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination turned into an all in brawl in their final debate yesterday.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: US, Hillary Clinton
Duration: 5'28"
07:41
Exporters look forward to bigger trade with Iran
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Exporters say the lifting of sanctions on Iran is an opportunity for New Zealand to tap into new markets and renew its relationship with an old trading partner.
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Tags: Iran
Duration: 2'07"
07:41
Maori trust takes action on drowning rates
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150 children in Hawkes Bay have spent the past five days learning everything from life jackets to kaimoana.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags: Maori drownings
Duration: 4'31"
07:48
Former cannabis cafe owner weights in on debate
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A drug and alcohol counsellor, Jeanette Saxby, is serving a seven month sentence of home detention for running a cannabis cafe that also provided a number of medical patients with the drug.
Topics: health
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: medical cannabis
Duration: 4'37"
07:55
Did the new Checkpoint deliver?
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So how did the new multi-media approach, dubbed Radio with Pictures, work?
Topics: media
Regions:
Tags: Checkpoint
Duration: 4'56"
08:07
Sports News for 19 January 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'25"
08:11
Whakatane mayor relieved at textbook rescue of tourists
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Transport safety investigators will today begin their work to determine the cause of yesterday's charter boat blaze off the coast of Whakatane.
Topics:
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Whakatane
Duration: 4'36"
08:16
Iran's ambassador to NZ says lifting of sanctions huge boost
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New Zealand has started the process of removing the sanctions against Iran.
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Tags: Iran
Duration: 5'08"
08:21
British MPs dump on Trump in unprecedented debate
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Donald Trump's take no prisoners approach in his bid to become the Republican Party's presidential nominee may have won him considerable support, but it has also alienated many.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: UK
Duration: 2'56"
08:24
Gloves were off at US Democratic presidential debate
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The pair attacked each other's policies on guns, healthcare and their links with big money.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: US, Clinton
Duration: 4'09"
08:28
Labour suggests radical reform in employment policy
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As "a job for life" becomes a thing of the past, the Labour Party is promising a radical shift in employment policy.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: Labour
Duration: 5'20"
08:34
Markets Update for 19 January 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 56"
08:40
Financial markets await latest GDP data from China
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Financial markets across the globe are on tenterhooks as they await the latest economic data coming out of China.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: markets, China
Duration: 3'28"
08:43
Allegations of match-fixing overshadow Australian Open
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The first day of the Australian Open was dominated by media coverage the allegations of matchfixing of previous tournaments.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags: Australia, tennis
Duration: 3'24"
08:47
A 'useful amount' of rain falls in southern regions
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Rain has been falling in Canterbury for the past few days, but is it enough to dent the worst drought in decades?
Topics: weather
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: rain
Duration: 3'13"
08:51
PNG police to crack down on brutality in 2016
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The Papua New Guinea police chief has declared 2016 will be the year ill-discipline and police brutality are stamped out.
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Tags: Papua New Guinea
Duration: 3'06"
08:56
Pohutukawa flash a little less crimson
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For many New Zealanders the sight of a Pohutukawa tree in full bloom signals the start of summer.
Topics: climate, environment
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Tags: Pohutukawa trees
Duration: 2'26"
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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: Now and Then, by David Hill, read by Nick Blake
Snapshots of the changing face of New Zealand glimpsed through a group of friends who gather every ten years in memory of one of their number who died in the 1970s (2 of 5)
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09:08
Claims matchfixing rife at top levels of tennis
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The investigation by BuzzFeed News and the BBC is based on a cache of leaked documents from inside the sport, interviews with whistleblowers, officials, players and match fixing experts. The investigative journalists have revealed gambling syndicates in Russia and Italy have placed suspicious bets on tennis matches - including at Wimbledon and the French Open and that tennis players are being targeted in hotel rooms at major tournaments and offered tens of thousands of dollars to fix their match. John Templon of Buzzfeed is one of the investigative journalists behind the story.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags: corruption, match fixing
Duration: 11'14"
09:19
Saudi Arabia-Iran Feud 'carries implications for all of us'
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James B. Smith, a former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (from 2009 to 2013) examines the diplomatic fallout of supercharged tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and how they impact on the geo-political situation in the Middle East. It follows the Saudi execution of a Shia Muslim cleric, the subsequent setting ablaze of the Saudi embassy in Tehran, Riyadh's expulsion of Iranian diplomats and Tehran accusing Saudi warplanes of bombing its embassy in Yemen, where Saudis and Iranians are involved on opposite sides of the country's civil war.
James B. Smith is also a former U.S. Air Force brigadier general and F-15 fighter pilot who served in Operation Desert Storm. He is currently the president of C&M International, an economic and political consulting firm. The former Ambassador says he doesn't expect the crisis to escalate into conflict, but it does impact negatively on future prospects for Syria and Yemen, and that has implications for all of us.
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James B. Smith, a former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (from 2009 to 2013) examines the diplomatic fallout of supercharged tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and how they impact on the geo-political situation in the Middle East.
It follows the Saudi execution of a Shia Muslim cleric, the subsequent setting ablaze of the Saudi embassy in Tehran, Riyadh's expulsion of Iranian diplomats and Tehran accusing Saudi warplanes of bombing its embassy in Yemen, where Saudis and Iranians are involved on opposite sides of the country's civil war.
Smith is also a former U.S. Air Force brigadier general and F-15 fighter pilot who served in Operation Desert Storm.
He is currently the president of C&M International, an economic and political consulting firm.
The former Ambassador says he doesn't expect the crisis to escalate into conflict, but it does impact negatively on future prospects for Syria and Yemen, and that has implications for all of us.
Topics: conflict, politics
Regions:
Tags: Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Iran
Duration: 12'21"
09:32
NZ Heart Modelling Research Fights World's Major Killer
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In New Zealand cardiovascular disease (heart, stroke and blood vessel disease) is still the leading cause of death, accounting for 30% of deaths annually. Nick Smith from the University of Auckland is working with research teams in the UK, to build individualised computer models of heart patients' blood flow before surgery to show which pipes should be unblocked. This makes surgery faster, cheaper, and more effective, with a potential reduction in secondary surgery, known as Type 2 failures, of up to 50%.
Topics: science, health
Regions:
Tags: heart disease
Duration: 13'05"
09:48
US correspondent Susan Milligan
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US correspondent Susan Milligan reports from Washington, DC
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: USA
Duration: 12'14"
10:06
Aboriginal rock star Archie Roach comes to NZ
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Singer, song-writer, guitarist, and activist, Archie Roach is coming to Wellington with 'Black Arm Band' to perform their acclaimed Dirtsong concert.
Archie Roach was forcibly removed from his family as part of the Stolen Generation of Aboriginal children, and it was his popular song 'Took The Children Away' which is widely credited for bringing the story of the Stolen Generations to a broad Australian audience. He talks to Nine to Noon about the importance of music and belonging, as well as his transformation from a homeless alcoholic to an influential indigenous performer.
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Born in 1956 at Framlingham Aboriginal mission in South Western Victoria, Archie Roach was forcibly removed from his family as part of the Stolen Generation of Aboriginal children, and it was his popular song ‘Took The Children Away’ which is widely credited for bringing the story of the Stolen Generations to a broad Australian audience.
He talks to Nine to Noon's Lynn Freeman about the importance of music and belonging, as well as his transformation from a homeless alcoholic to an influential indigenous performer who has played with a host of musicians including; Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith.
Archie Roach is performing Dirtsong, which features songs sung in 11 different Aboriginal languages, at the Michael Fowler Centre on Sunday 28th February which is part of the 2016 New Zealand Festival.
from 'Took the Children Away'
This story’s right, this story’s true,
I would not tell lies to you
About the promises they did not keep,
How they fenced us in like sheep
Said to us come take our hand,
Set us up on mission land
Taught us to read and write and pray,
Then they took the children away
Snatched from their mothers breasts,
Said this is for the best
Took them away…
Topics: arts, identity, history, inequality, life and society, music, politics
Regions:
Tags: Australia, Archie Roach, Aboriginal, Indigenous
Duration: 32'30"
10:38
Book Review: Best Books of 2015
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'The Bees' by Laline Paul. 'All the Light We Cannot See' by Anthony Doerr. 'Station 11 - Emily St ' by John Mandel. 'The Bold Ship Pehnomenal' by Sarah Johnson. 'Southsea Vagabonds' by J W Wray. Reviewed by Elisabeth Easther.
Topics: books
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 9'04"
11:06
Business commentator Rod Oram
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Market reaction to the US Federal Reserve's rise in interest rates last week. The World Trade Organisation's historic breakthrough on banning subsidies for agricultural exports. Calling quits on the Doha negotiations.
Topics: business, technology
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 18'10"
11:28
Restaurant secrets
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Larissa Dubecki is a former waitress and now a food writer and critic based in Melbourne. Her book Prick with a Fork dishes the dirt on Australia's hospitality industry. It tells what really goes on in some restaurant kitchens.
Topics: author interview
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 15'04"
11:45
Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
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Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz
Topics: media
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 14'51"
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09:05 Investigative journalists claim matchfixing rife at top levels of tennis
The investigation by BuzzFeed News and the BBC is based on a cache of leaked documents from inside the sport, interviews with whistleblowers, officials, players and match fixing experts. The investigative journalists have revealed gambling syndicates in Russia and Italy have placed suspicious bets on tennis matches - including at Wimbledon and the French Open and that tennis players are being targeted in hotel rooms at major tournaments and offered tens of thousands of dollars to fix their match.
John Templon of Buzzfeed is one of the investigative journalists behind the story.
09:15 Saudi Arabia-Iran Feud 'carries implications for all of us'.
James B. Smith, a former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (from 2009 to 2013) examines the diplomatic fallout of supercharged tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and how they impact on the geo-political situation in the Middle East.
It follows the Saudi execution of a Shia Muslim cleric, the subsequent setting ablaze of the Saudi embassy in Tehran, Riyadh's expulsion of Iranian diplomats and Tehran accusing Saudi warplanes of bombing its embassy in Yemen, where Saudis and Iranians are involved on opposite sides of the country's civil war.
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James B. Smith is also a former U.S. Air Force brigadier general and F-15 fighter pilot who served in Operation Desert Storm. He is currently the president of C&M International, an economic and political consulting firm.
The former Ambassador says he doesn't expect the crisis to escalate into conflict, but it does impact negatively on future prospects for Syria and Yemen, and that has implications for all of us.
09:30 NZ Heart Modelling Research Fights World's Major Killer
In New Zealand cardiovascular disease (heart, stroke and blood vessel disease) is still the leading cause of death, accounting for 30% of deaths annually.
Nick Smith from the University of Auckland is working with research teams in the UK, to build individualised computer models of heart patients' blood flow before surgery to show which pipes should be unblocked. This makes surgery faster, cheaper, and more effective, with a potential reduction in secondary surgery, known as Type 2 failures, of up to 50%.
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These same modelling techniques, known as 'cardiac physiome' can also be applied to heart arrhythmia, specifically pacemakers. Taking an MRI image, Nic and his team are able to tell the surgeon exactly where the pacemaker should go and are able to reduce the failure rate to around 15% by doing the modelling work first.
Nick Smith is the Dean of Engineering at the University of Auckland, a professor of bio-medical engineering at Kings College London, and a visiting professor of computational physiology at the University of Oxford.
9:45 US correspondent Susan Milligan
10:05 Aboriginal rock star Archie Roach comes to NZ
Singer, song-writer, guitarist, and activist, Archie Roach is coming to Wellington as part of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander super group, 'Black Arm Band' to perform their acclaimed Dirtsong concert.
Born in 1956 at Framlingham Aboriginal mission in South Western Victoria, Archie Roach was forcibly removed from his family as part of the Stolen Generation of Aboriginal children, and it was his popular song ‘Took The Children Away’ which is widely credited for bringing the story of the Stolen Generations to a broad Australian audience.
He talks to Nine to Noon about the importance of music and belonging, as well as his transformation from a homeless alcoholic to an influential indigenous performer who has played with a host of musicians including; Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith.
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Dirtsong, which features songs sung in 11 different Aboriginal languages, will be performed at the Michael Fowler Centre on Sunday 28th February during the 2016 New Zealand Festival.
[embed] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI2NrSjItBA
from 'Took the Children Away'
This story’s right, this story’s true,
I would not tell lies to you
About the promises they did not keep,
How they fenced us in like sheep
Said to us come take our hand,
Set us up on mission land
Taught us to read and write and pray,
Then they took the children away
Snatched from their mothers breasts,
Said this is for the best
Took them away…
10:35 Book review
Best Books of 2015, reviewed by Elisabeth Easther
The Bees by Laline Paul
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Station 11 - Emily St John Mandel
The Bold Ship Pehnomenal by Sarah Johnson
Southsea Vagabonds by J W Wray
10:45 The Reading
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
11:30 Restaurant secrets
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Larissa Dubecki is a former waitress and now a food writer and critic based in Melbourne. Her book Prick with a Fork dishes the dirt on Australia's hospitality industry. It tells what really goes on in some restaurant kitchens.
11:45 Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz
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Artist: The White Stripes
Song: Effect and Cause
Composer: White
Album: Icky Thump
Label: XL
Time: 09:45
Artist: Paul Kelly, Dewayne Everettsmith
Song: This Land is Mine
Album: Dirtsong
Time: 10:35
Artist: Split Enz
Song: Poor Boy
Composer: Finn
Label: T1 Group
Time: 11:25
===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 19 January 2016
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Debris from a tour boat that burned and sank off Whakatane is washing ashore. And business confidence has bounced off a near five-year low, with firms more confident about their own prospects and looking to hire more staff.
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Tags:
Duration: 15'24"
12:17
SkyCity's share price rises more than 4% on profit expectations
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The casino operator, SkyCity Entertainment Group, has seen its share price rise more than 3 percent this morning on news that its first half profit will be as much as 30 percent up on last year.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: SkyCity Entertainment Group
Duration: 1'29"
12:19
Business opinion picks up in Q4 - NZIER survey
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Business confidence has bounced off a near five year low, with firms more confident about their own prospects and looking to hire more staff.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: New Zealand Institute of Economic Research
Duration: 2'01"
12:21
Employers need to tell staff if they can't give pay rises
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The human resources firm, Randstad, says workers can be motivated by more than just a pay rise.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: Randstad
Duration: 48"
12:22
China economic data expected to point to growth, not recession
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A New Zealand investment analyst says the release of Chinese economic data, this afternoon, is more likely than not to point to steady economic growth, which should help alleviate fears of a looming global recession.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: China, recession, growth
Duration: 1'46"
12:23
Midday Markets for 19 January 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Keith Ferguson at Craigs Investment Partners
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'28"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 19 January 2016
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The Breakers coach Dean Vickerman is to be replaced by his assistant Paul Henare at the end of ANBL baskebtall season. Another former player Dillon Boucher is to become General Manager, replacing Richard Clarke.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags: basketball, Tennis. Rugby, Premier League
Duration: 2'34"
12:34
Midday Rural News for 19 January 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Tags:
Duration: 9'17"
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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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Heartache Tonight - The Eagles.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: The Eagles.
Duration: 4'53"
13:14
Glenn Frey - Steven Gaydos
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Eagles guitarist and singer Glenn Frey has died aged 67, the band has announced. He died in New York City on Monday from complications arising from rheumatoid arthritis, colitis and pneumonia. Steven Gaydos is the executive editor of Variety Magazine.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: The Eagles, death
Duration: 4'37"
13:18
Whakatane - Andrew McRae
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A Whakatane tourism company is shocked at the loss one of it's three vessels in a fire at sea - but the good news is no lives were lost and no-one was seriously injured. The Pee Jay 5 was carrying 53-passengers and seven crew when a fire started in its engine room as it returned from a trip to White Island yesterday afternoon. The cause of the fire is yet to be determined. Our reporter Andrew McRae is in Whakatane.
Topics: transport
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Whakatane, boat, White Island, The Pee Jay 5
Duration: 4'44"
13:23
Fish Talk - Lucy van Oosterom
BODY:
Lucy van Oosterom is from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland. And she's made a bit of a breakthrough for Lucy and marine scientists. She been listening to fish talk.
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Lucy van Oosterom is from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland. And she's made a bit of a breakthrough for Lucy and marine scientists. She been listening to fish talk.
Topics: environment, science
Regions:
Tags: School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, fish
Duration: 9'31"
13:33
Why 'It's Not Fair' - Assistant Professor Peter Blake
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'It's not fair' is a phrase most parents will hear from their child at some point. And new research has come out looking at just how a child's sense of fairness develops. American psychologists Peter Blake, Katherine McAuliffe and Felix Warneken studied close to nine hundred children, in seven diverse cultures. To find out if our sense of fairness is innate or learned socially. The paper is called The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies. Peter Blake is an assistant professor and the director of the Social Development and Learning Lab, at Boston University.
Topics: life and society, science
Regions:
Tags: Boston University, psychology, fairness, Social Development and Learning Lab
Duration: 12'39"
13:46
Favourite Album
BODY:
Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Small Faces, Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
Duration: 13'21"
14:10
Royal Albatross - Nick Butcher
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A rare northern royal albatross has been nursed back to health, and released back into the wild this morning. The toroa was found critically injured near Moa Point in Wellington earlier this month. And Wellington Zoo has been working hard to save it. RNZ's reporter, Nick Butcher, was on the boat this morning to witness its release.
Topics: environment
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Northern royal albatross, Wellington Zoo
Duration: 5'52"
14:22
Great New Zealand Concerts
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Today's Great New Zealand Concert was the only New Zealand Concert on the "Reality" world tour featuring rock legend David Bowie.
Topics: music
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Tags:
Duration: 36'06"
15:10
Dr Lee Goldman
BODY:
If dieting is on your list of New Years' resolutions, evolution may be standing in your way. What once helped the human race survive, like storing fat, may be killing us. Many of our current epidemics, obesity, depression, heart attack and stroke can be put down to traits we haven't shed from our ancient ancestors according to cardiologist Dr. Lee Goldman, a dean at the Columbia University medical school, He talks about this spin on evolutionary biology in his new book, "Too Much of a Good Thing: How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us."
Topics: author interview, health, books
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Tags: Too Much of a Good Thing: How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us, genes, Columbia University medical school
Duration: 19'23"
15:46
The Panel pre-show for 19 January 2016
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What the world is talking about, with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
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Duration: 13'09"
21:06
Lake Wanaka's grebes
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John Darby began building floating nest platforms for Lake Wanaka's grebes three years ago - and they're a resounding success
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Meet the Australasian crested grebe, a lake bird that is more closely related to penguins and albatrosses than it is to ducks.
It is so aquatic that it can’t walk on land; it can pull itself on and off its nest, but that’s the extent of its terrestrial forays.
A bird can disappear from one lake and turn up on another, but no one in New Zealand has ever witnessed it flying. In other words, it’s a bird beset by mysteries.
But for the past three years John Darby, a penguin and albatross biologist who retired inland to Wanaka, has been unravelling some of this bird’s secrets.
What began as a passing desire to help out a single pair of birds that were trying – and repeatedly failing – to breed on Lake Wanaka has become a passion.
And it’s a passion that has spread from John to the entire township of Wanaka – and beyond.
“The grebe had such a reputation, not just with me but with all biologists, as being this really quite extraordinary bird. And the opportunity to see them, to seem them breeding and then to do what we’ve been able to do has been astonishing. I just never believed that I would be doing this three years after I started.”
John Darby, biologist and grebe minder, Lake Wanaka
What John realised early on was that the problem for the grebes was the way water levels in Lake Wanaka rise and fall, markedly and often. The grebes would build a nest platform at the lake edge only to be swamped by a flood event, or left high and dry when water levels receded.
The grebes were trying to nest near the small marina, just 100 or so metres from downtown Wanaka, and what John noticed was that the marina was a floating one, designed to rise and fall with the lake.
So, he built an experimental nesting platform. One of the marina boat owners gave him some plywood, and the local swimming pool gave him some broken pool noodles, with John figuring that what worked as flotation in the pool would also work in the lake. He stapled weed matting to the plywood platform, and after weaving willow branches into it as a base he piled it with lakeweed to resemble a real grebe nest.
Then, with the permission of the marina and its users he attached the platform by rope to one arm of the marina, and waited. He didn’t have to wait long before the unlucky grebes, spotting a golden opportunity, claimed the floating nest platform as their own and successfully raised a clutch of chicks.
Somehow news of these fantastic floating nest platforms spread within the Otago grebe population and by the middle of the following winter seven pairs of grebes turned up at the marina. They were so keen that they began breeding in mid-winter, just one of many unusual and previously unrecorded behaviours that John has observed in Lake Wanaka’s grebes.
John’s response was to start building more – and more – floating nest platforms, and the more he built, the more birds turned up to use them. This spring and summer he has had 17 pairs of birds using the nests at different times, with up to 18 grebes present at any one time.
Once the grebes have built a nest they are very loyal to it. John has rescued nest platforms that have broken free in storms and floated away, and had the birds return to incubate their eggs within minutes of him reattaching it. He has had to move a nest off the transom of a boat, on to one of the floating nests, and the female moved right onto the nest in its new location without hesitating.
The great thing about John’s floating nest platforms is that they isolate the grebes from the vagaries of changing water levels, and being on the marina also keeps them away from predators, including dogs out walking with their owners.
The birds are perfectly happy with their boat neighbours, carrying on with life as usual even as boats come and go, while the boat owners in turn are delighted to share the marina with the birds. And the wider population of Wanaka is just as enamoured with these elegant birds, and the entertaining performances they put on just a few metres offshore.
With a safe nest location sorted, the grebes now spend lots of time in the stretch of water between the marina and the foreshore, courting and dancing, fighting each other over territory, and raising their chicks. The adults and chicks abandon the nest platform within a few days of hatching, and the little chicks are carried around on their parent’s back, riding “like little charioteers” as John describes it.
The parent birds take it in turn to carry the chicks while the other bird chases down little fish to feed them.
The other item that is frequently fed to the chicks is feathers. John says that the birds pluck a small feather from their own chest, dip it in the water and then offer it to the chicks to eat. He has no idea why the birds do this.
"One theory is that it helps the chick deal with and absorb fish bones, while the second is that it helps them to avoid parasitic infections.”
John wonders if it is also a way of getting water to the chicks, but he says if that was the case then they wouldn’t need to eat the feathers. This is just one of the many observations that John has been making about the grebes: he has noticed, for instance, that they lay five eggs in their first clutch and usually three in their second, and that they always lay one infertile egg., and he has been wondering why.
Regular waterfront walkers have taken to carrying binoculars so they can check up on the birds as they pass, collaring John to ask him probing questions about aspects of the birds’ behaviour.
John’s regular columns in the local newspaper are avidly read and talked about, and busloads of overseas birders and photographers have been known to turn up for what John says are the best views of Australasian grebes in the country (and possibly the world).
Operation Grebe is becoming much larger than just John, as a number of keen volunteers are stepping up to fund the nest platforms and help him in their construction and daily management. And with 76 chicks fledged in the last three years, there’s no shortage of grebes to keep John and the other grebe fans busy for years to come.
Note from a listener on flying grebes
Listener Steve Atwood wrote in to say that, contrary to John's comment that grebes are never seen flying, he has seen them flying on several occasions. Here is one of Steve's photos (right) of a grebe taking off. Steve writes:
"Grebes are a particular favourite of mine and have been part of my life since a toddler. My experience of them began as a toddler when my parents built a bach at Lake Clearwater in the Ashburton Lakes, one of their strongholds.
They can, of course, fly very well and used to breed in the high country and Fiordland Lakes of the South Island and then fly to the coastal lakes for the winter. In recent years in Canterbury, grebes have started to change their behaviour and remain on the coastal lakes and breed there. Remarkably, they have chosen some of the small lakes and ponds within Christchurch City such as Roto Kohatu at the top end of Sawyers Arms Road, the main lake at Clearwater Resort and the Kaiapoi Lakes in Kaiapoi to breed in (among others). They are also now breeding on Lake Ellesmere and Lake Forsyth."
Topics: environment, science
Regions: Otago
Tags: birds, Australasian crested grebes, conservation, ornithology, Lake Wanaka
Duration: 21'24"
=SHOW NOTES=
1:10 First Song
Heartache Tonight - The Eagles.
1:15 Glen Frey - Steven Gaydos
Eagles guitarist and singer Glenn Frey has died aged 67, the band has announced. He died in New York City on Monday from complications arising from rheumatoid arthritis, colitis and pneumonia. Steven Gaydos is the executive editor of Variety Magazine.
1:20 Whakatane - Andrew McRae
A Whakatane tourism company is shocked at the loss one of it's three vessels in a fire at sea - but the good news is no lives were lost and no-one was seriously injured. The Pee Jay 5 was carrying 53-passengers and seven crew when a fire started in its engine room as it returned from a trip to White Island yesterday afternoon. The cause of the fire is yet to be determined. Our reporter Andrew McRae is in Whakatane.
1:25 Fish Talk - Lucy van Oosterom
Lucy van Oosterom is from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland. And she's made a bit of a breakthrough for Lucy and marine scientists. She been listening to fish talk.
1:30 Why 'It's Not Fair' - Assistant Professor Peter Blake
'It's not fair' is a phrase most parents will hear from their child at some point. And new research has come out looking at just how a child's sense of fairness develops. American psychologists Peter Blake, Katherine McAuliffe and Felix Warneken studied close to nine hundred children, in seven diverse cultures. To find out if our sense of fairness is innate or learned socially. The paper is called The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies. Peter Blake is an assistant professor and the director of the Social Development and Learning Lab, at Boston University.
1:40 Favourite Album
Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces. Chosen by Lyn Henderson.
2:10 Royal Albatross - Nick Butcher
A rare northern royal albatross has been nursed back to health, and released back into the wild this morning. The toroa was found critically injured near Moa Point in Wellington earlier this month. And Wellington Zoo has been working hard to save it. RNZ's reporter, Nick Butcher, was on the boat this morning to witness its release.
2:15 BBC Witness - Tintin
Now we're going back to January 1929, and the first appearance of one of the most famous cartoon characters in history. Lucy Burns of the BBC World Service History programme 'Witness' recalls the story of Tintin.
2:20 Great New Zealand Concerts
Today's Great New Zealand Concert was the only New Zealand Concert on the "Reality" world tour featuring rock legend David Bowie.
3:10 Feature Interview - Dr Lee Goldman
If dieting is on your list of New Years' resolutions, evolution may be standing in your way. What once helped the human race survive, like storing fat, may be killing us. Many of our current epidemics, obesity, depression, heart attack and stroke can be put down to traits we haven't shed from our ancient ancestors according to cardiologist Dr. Lee Goldman, a dean at the Columbia University medical school, He talks about this spin on evolutionary biology in his new book, "Too Much of a Good Thing: How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us."
3:30 Our Changing World
Three years ago a single pair of rare Australasian crested grebes were trying to nest at the Lake Wanaka marina - and failing. Enter retired penguin and albatross biologist John Darby who started building floating nest platforms - and sparked a grebe population boom. Alison Ballance joins John, some busy grebes and interested passers-by to find out more about this avian success story for the most aquatic of waterfowl.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about, with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
=PLAYLIST=
JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST: The Eagles
TITLE: Heartache Tonight
COMP: Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Bob Seger, Souther
ALBUM: The Long Run
LABEL: Elektra
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: The Small Faces
TITLE: Lazy Sunday
COMP: Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane
ALBUM: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
LABEL: Intermediate
ARTIST: The Small Faces
TITLE: Rollin' Over
COMP: Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane
ALBUM: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
LABEL: Intermediate
ARTIST: The Small Faces
TITLE: Mad John
COMP: Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane
ALBUM: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
LABEL: Intermediate
ARTIST: The Small Faces
TITLE: Happy Days Toy Town
COMP: Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane
ALBUM: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
LABEL: Intermediate
GREAT NEW ZEALAND CONCERT:
ARTIST: David Bowie
TITLE: Rebel Rebel
COMP: David Bowie
ALBUM: Reality Tour (Live):
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: David Bowie
TITLE: Changes
COMP: David Bowie
ALBUM: Reality Tour (Live)
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: David Bowie
TITLE: All The young Dudes
COMP: David Bowie
ALBUM: Reality Tour (Live)
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: David Bowie
TITLE: Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars
COMP: David Bowie
ALBUM: Reality Tour (Live)
LABEL: Columbia
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
=DESCRIPTION=
An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
=AUDIO=
15:46
The Panel pre-show for 19 January 2016
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What the world is talking about, with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
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Duration: 13'09"
16:04
The Panel with Josie McNaught and Penny Ashton (Part 1)
BODY:
What the Panelists Josie McNaught and Penny Ashton have been up to. Roger Brooking of the Howard League for Penal Reform discusses whether a New Plymouth judge is right in saying the government's encouraging non-imprisonment of offenders. Aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas talks about turbulance.
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Duration: 24'39"
16:05
The Panel with Josie McNaught and Penny Ashton (Part 2)
BODY:
There's a very positive side to putting things off. What the Panelists Josie McNaught and Peny Ashton have been thinking about. One of the biggest bands of the '70s has lost it's lead guitarist. Glenn Frey has died at the age of 67. Are our traffic lights the best they could be to prevent congestion? We ask Matthew Hoyle of the Auckland Transport Operations Centre. And The boss of IKEA, Steve Howard, has come out and said something you'd think is counter-productive to his company's fortunes, he says we've hit peak home furnishings.
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Duration: 25'42"
16:06
The Panel Intro
BODY:
What the Panelists Josie McNaught and Penny Ashton have been up to.
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Duration: 4'13"
16:11
Prison population
BODY:
Roger Brooking of the Howard League for Penal Reform discusses whether a New Plymouth judge is right in saying the government's encouraging non-imprisonment of offenders.
Topics: crime, law
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: New Plymouth District Court
Duration: 12'48"
16:24
Nightmare turbulance on Air NZ flight
BODY:
Aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas talks about turbulance.
Topics: transport
Regions:
Tags: Turbulence, Air New Zealand, safety, air travel
Duration: 7'36"
16:34
Positive procastination
BODY:
There's a very positive side to putting things off.
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: procrastination, motivation
Duration: 4'03"
16:38
Panel Says
BODY:
What the Panelists Josie McNaught and Peny Ashton have been thinking about.
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Duration: 6'42"
16:45
Eagles member Glenn Frey's death
BODY:
One of the biggest bands of the '70s has lost it's lead guitarist. Glenn Frey has died at the age of 67.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Eagles, Guitarist
Duration: 3'36"
16:48
Traffic light technology
BODY:
Are our traffic lights the best they could be to prevent congestion? We ask Matthew Hoyle of the Auckland Transport Operations Centre.
Topics: transport
Regions:
Tags: traffic lights
Duration: 8'09"
16:56
IKEA boss says we've reached "peak stuff"
BODY:
IKEA is the world's biggest furniture retailer. The boss of IKEA, Steve Howard, has come out and said something you'd think is counter-productive to his company's fortunes, he says we've hit peak home furnishings.
Topics: business, life and society
Regions:
Tags: IKEA
Duration: 3'05"
=SHOW NOTES=
===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
=DESCRIPTION=
RNZ's drive-time news and current affairs programme
=AUDIO=
17:00
Checkpoint with John Campbell, 19th January 2016
BODY:
Look back at the complete programme, with presenter John Campbell.
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Duration: 00"
17:09
Police Minister defends electronic monitoring system
BODY:
Electronic monitoring is under the spotlight as a dangerous fugitive continues to evade police after cutting off his ankle bracelet.
Topics: crime, law
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Ankle bracelets, Monitoring
Duration: 6'13"
17:15
White Island Tours owner discusses tour boat fire
BODY:
The owner of a tour boat that caught fire with 60 people on board off the Whakatane coast says his company isn't fully insured.
Topics: transport
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: White Island Tours
Duration: 6'46"
17:23
Suspension wanted for GP charged with stupefying patients
BODY:
A family doctor facing serious criminal charges is fighting an attempt to prevent him from seeing patients until the case is decided.
Topics: law, health
Regions:
Tags: Wellington District Court, assault
Duration: 3'02"
17:26
Turbulence causes terror on Air NZ flight
BODY:
An Air New Zealand flight from Tokyo to Auckland at the weekend caused terror when severe turbulence sent it dropping through the air, half-way through its dinner service
Topics: transport
Regions:
Tags: Air New Zealand, Turbulence
Duration: 4'23"
17:33
Evening Business for 19 January 2016
BODY:
News from the business sector including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 3'41"
17:36
Kiwi former soldier still detained in Australia
BODY:
As Australia uses immigration law like a blunt weapon, with controversy surrounding detention on Christmas Island, on Nauru, and on Manus, a New Zealander has now been held in a maximum security prison in Perth, for over two months.
Topics: refugees and migrants, law
Regions:
Tags: Australia, Detainees, Perth
Duration: 5'30"
17:42
Neighbour of Cun Xiu Tian sees potential suspect
BODY:
A neighbour of the 69 year old woman who was brutally killed in Auckland says she saw a man fitting the police's description of the potential suspect.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: murder, Glenvil Lane
Duration: 4'56"
17:47
Breakers announce new coach and CEO
BODY:
Yes, they've won four of the past five championships, but today the New Zealand Breakers announced a pretty major shake-up.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags: basketball, New Zealand Breakers
Duration: 3'52"
17:55
Albatross set free from Wellington zoo
BODY:
A rare Albatross with a wing span of nearly three-metres that had to have a badly injured eye removed, was set free today off the coast of Wellington following a fortnight of recovering at the zoo.
Topics: environment
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Toroa, Wellington Zoo
Duration: 3'27"
18:08
Whakatane boat fire causes hospitalisations
BODY:
The Transport Accident Investigation Commission says it is too early to speculate on the cause of a fire that destroyed a tourist boat off the coast of Whakatane yesterday afternoon.
Topics: transport
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Transport Accident Investigation Commission, Whakatane, Pee Jay 5, White Island Tours
Duration: 3'55"
18:12
NZ Ambassador to UN pushes for access to Syria
BODY:
The beseiged Syrian town of Madaya, a former holiday resort, where people are now starving to death, because, according to its critics, the Syrian Government simply doesn't care enough to save them.
Topics: conflict
Regions:
Tags: Syria, UN, Madaya
Duration: 4'23"
18:16
Probable carcinogenic pesticide not yet banned in NZ
BODY:
A chemical the World Health Organisation considers 'probably carcinogenic' will continue to be used in New Zealand, despite calls for a ban.
Topics: law, environment
Regions:
Tags: World Health Organisation, pesticide, Weed Killer, Glyphosate
Duration: 3'41"
18:21
Sotheby's markets $10m Queenstown estate
BODY:
The Auckland property market gets a lot of media attention but in Queenstown an increase in the resident population is driving up prices there too.
Topics: economy, housing
Regions: Otago
Tags: Queenstown, property
Duration: 4'22"
18:25
Queenstown to get affordable housing area
BODY:
If you don't have a spare ten million dollars, Queenstown's first low cost housing area was today given interim approval.
Topics: economy, housing
Regions: Otago
Tags: Queenstown, property
Duration: 2'51"
=SHOW NOTES=
===6:30 PM. | Worldwatch===
=DESCRIPTION=
===7:06 PM. | Nights===
=DESCRIPTION=
RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
=AUDIO=
19:12
Own Own Odysseys - At the End of the Hippy Trail
BODY:
Rotorua chef Rick Morse on his early travels as a young man, particularly round Darwin, which was the end of the 'Hippy Trail'...
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: Darwin, Hippy Trail
Duration: 23'01"
20:42
Nights' Pundit - Economics
BODY:
There's no such thing as a free lunch - with independent scholar Brian Easton... the state of the world economy - especially what is going on in China...
Topics: economy, business, history, life and society, money
Regions:
Tags: economics, China, world economy
Duration: 17'58"
20:59
Conundrum Clue 3
BODY:
Listen on Friday for the answer.
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Duration: 12"
21:59
Conundrum Clue 4
BODY:
Listen on Friday for the answer.
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Duration: 33"
=SHOW NOTES=
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7:12 Own Own Odysseys - At the End of the Hippy Trail
Rotorua chef Rick Morse on his early travels as a young man, particularly round Darwin, which was the end of the 'Hippy Trail'...
7:30 The Sampler
7:30 The Sampler
music album reviews & music discussion with Nick Bollinger
8:12 Window on the World - The Truth About Diabetes pt 1 of 4
international public radio documentaries
8:43 Nights' Pundit - Economics
there's no such thing as a free lunch - with independent scholar Brian Easton... the state of the world economy - especially what is going on in China...
pundit roster: Economics, Philosophy, Right Thinking, Military History, Feminism, Left Thinking, Mathematics, NZ History, Religion & Kai A Miro (Maori Issues)
8:59 conundrum clue 3
9:07 Tuesday Feature - Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2015 - Tim Winton
9:59 conundrum clue 4
10:17 Late Edition
a round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International
11:07 At the Eleventh Hour - The Shed
music representing Planet Earth's myriad of cultures
... nights' time is the right time...
===8:13 PM. | Windows On The World===
=DESCRIPTION=
International public radio features and documentaries
===9:06 PM. | None (National)===
=DESCRIPTION=
Tim Winton is a leading exponent of short and long form fiction earning superlatives from reviewers. He's has written on class, hospitals and the "chronically underrated" Western Australian town of Albany and talks about it all with Jim Mora.
===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
=DESCRIPTION=
RNZ news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from RNZ National
===11:06 PM. | None (National)===
=DESCRIPTION=
Award winning former British broadcaster Mark Coles presents his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet. A glorious mix of brand new sounds from all over the world, real conversations with music makers and tales of everyday life as seen from an English garden shed. (5 of 13, MCM)