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:
02 February 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 (12 of 12, WFIU) 3:05 Double Happiness - How Bullshit Works, writen and read by Joe Bennett (2 of 5, 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 2 February 2016
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Zika emergency talks take place in Geneva;TPP critics say US will put presure on other nations to rejig agreement;Prime Minister John Key discusses TPP signing;Sale of Far North island to Chinese buyer OKed after inquiry;Iowa Caucuses get underway;For first time, number of women lawyers matches men;Fonterra calls on discussion about slimmed down board;Auckland quarry redevelopment could go to court;Government joins Three Kings redevelopment proceedings.
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Duration: 41'16"
06:07
Sports News for 2 February 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'42"
06:10
Iowa caucuses signal start of US presidential campaign
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After a colourful and controversial lead up, it's business time for those hoping to contest the United States presidency.
Topics: politics
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Tags: US elections, iowa
Duration: 3'54"
06:20
Early business news for 2 February 2016
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Early business news.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'19"
06:26
Morning Rural News for 2 February 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'07"
06:33
Sports News for 2 February 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'32"
06:35
NZ won't move if US calls for longer monopolies for drugs
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The Trade Minister, Todd McClay, says he won't be swayed by pressure to accept a longer monopoly protection period for next generation drugs.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 2'26"
06:40
Fonterra owners seek smaller board, but still wants farmers
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Fonterra is asking farmers to have a say on how the dairy giant should be governed.
Topics: rural, farming
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Tags: Fonterra
Duration: 1'28"
06:49
Kathmandu says it's on track to meet profit expectations
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The outdoor clothing and equipment retailer, Kathmandu Holdings, says it's on track to deliver on its full year profit guidance, with solid Christmas holiday sales in Australia and New Zealand.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Kathmandu
Duration: 2'01"
06:52
Ryman buys third Melbourne development site
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The retirement village company, Ryman Healthcare, has bought its third development site in Melbourne, and is on track to open five there by 2020.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Ryman Healthcare
Duration: 1'39"
06:54
Falling prices for out of favour commodities
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Out of favour, old economy commodities such as coal and oil could be profitable investment opportunities even though their long term outlook is terminal.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'14"
06:55
Medical gel firm eyes crowd funding
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Now to a firm that flies under the radar... this week we look at the biotech medical gels manufacturer, Nemidon.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'32"
06:57
Reserve Bank of Australia decides on interest rates today
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The Reserve Bank of Australia will decide whether to hold or cut its benchmark interest rate today.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'10"
06:59
Morning markets
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Wall Street's started the week lower, after weak Chinese economic data increased worries about a global slowdown.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'02"
07:07
Sports News for 2 February 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'37"
07:10
TPP critics say US will put presure on other nations
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Opponents of the Trans Pacific Partnership are warning the United States will try to strong arm other nations into accepting longer monopoly protection periods for next generation drugs at this week's signing.
Topics: business, politics
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 3'00"
07:15
Prime Minister John Key discusses TPP signing
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John Key says he expects the agreement to be signed as negotiated.
Topics: business, politics
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 4'25"
07:17
Iowa Caucuses get underway
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Voting starts in the Iowa primaries begins at 1 o'clock today with Democratic and Republican candidates making last minute pitches to party members.
Topics: politics
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Tags: US elections
Duration: 5'03"
07:20
Sale of Far North island to Chinese buyer OKed after inquiry
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After a five year investigation, the Overseas Investment Office has decided it has no grounds for legal action over the controversial sale of a secluded island in the Far North.
Topics: environment, business, politics
Regions: Northland
Tags: Motukawaiti Island, OIO, land sale
Duration: 4'50"
07:27
For first time, number of women lawyers matches men
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For the first time, this year there'll be equal numbers of men and women lawyers.
Topics: business, law
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Duration: 3'38"
07:35
Zika emergency talks take place in Geneva
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The World Health Organisation has declared the Zika virus outbreak a Global Health Emergency, following emergency talks in Geneva.
Topics: health
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Tags: zika virus, WHO
Duration: 6'55"
07:45
Fonterra calls on discussion about slimmed down board
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Fonterra is reviewing its governance structure, saying it wants farmers to tell it what they expect from the cooperative's board of directors.
Topics: business, rural, farming
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Tags: Fonterra
Duration: 5'11"
07:47
Auckland quarry redevelopment could go to court
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An Auckland community group says it is happy to face the government in court in an appeal against a billion dollar redevelopment of an Auckland quarry.
Topics: business, politics, environment
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Tags: Three Kings quarry
Duration: 2'27"
07:50
Government joins Three Kings redevelopment proceedings
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An Auckland community group says it is happy to face the government in court in an appeal against a billion dollar redevelopment of an Auckland quarry. Listening to that is the Housing Minister, Nick Smith.
Topics: business, politics, environment
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Tags: Three Kings quarry
Duration: 5'07"
07:57
Taranaki tramp set to ease Tongariro Crossing congestion
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The Department of Conservation is looking at ways to ease chronic overcrowding on the Tongariro Alpine Crossing.
Topics: sport, environment
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Tongariro Crossing
Duration: 3'49"
08:07
Sports News for 2 February 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'15"
08:12
WHO declares Zika virus outbreak a global health emergency
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The World Health Organisation has declared the Zika virus outbreak a Global Health Emergency.
Topics: health, environment
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Tags: zika virus, WHO, Global Health Emergency
Duration: 4'05"
08:15
Big quake north of NZ confuses earthquake monitors
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The string of quakes felt across the North Island is in fact one earthquake which has caused lots of false earthquakes. It's very deep and was centred 300 - 500 kilometres north of New Zealand.
Topics: environment
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Tags: earthquakes
Duration: 3'41"
08:20
Record numbers from China expected over Chinese New Year
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The tourism sector is gearing up for record numbers of Chinese tourists expected to touch down in the country this month to celebrate Chinese New Year.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: Chinese New Year
Duration: 3'29"
08:24
Questions remain over next generation drugs in TPP
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Opponents of the Trans Pacific Partnership are warning the United States will try to seek an eight years monopoly protection for next generation drugs, rather than five.
Topics: politics, health
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 3'54"
08:27
Voters of Iowa about to cast first votes
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Today the voters of Iowa will go to caucus, marking the first formal step in the process to elect the Democratic and Republican candidates for the presidency.
Topics: politics
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Tags: US elections
Duration: 4'24"
08:29
Market update for 2 February 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 55"
08:35
Rigorous tests for potential wasp biocontrol
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A new mite species is being tested in the hope it can reduce the country's wasp population.
Topics: environment
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Tags: [wasp control
Duration: 4'33"
08:43
Fijian opposition party suspended for month
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One of Fiji's two Opposition parties has been suspended for a month on Monday for contravening a decree governing political parties.
Topics: Pacific, politics
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Tags: Fiji
Duration: 2'33"
08:47
Australia's most senior IS recruiter reportedly dead
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Australia's most senior recruiter for Islamic State is reported to have been killed.
Topics: conflict, crime
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Tags: IS, terrorism
Duration: 3'59"
08:51
Investors agitate for fuller disclosure
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The New Zealand Superannuation Fund says it is developing a strategy to deal with the impact of climate change on its investments.
Topics: climate, politics
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Tags: superannuation funds, climate change, Disclosure
Duration: 3'36"
08:55
Rotorua programme gets vulnerable kids into education
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A programme to get vulnerable children into early childhood education has been even more successful than hoped.
Topics: education, te ao Maori
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Rotorua, Tiaho Tamariki, Early Childhood Education
Duration: 3'26"
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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: South Sea Vagabonds, by John Wray, read by Alex Greig A classic New Zealand sea adventure story about a man during the depression who lost his job, built a boat and sailed it around the Pacific (7 of 10, RNZ)
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09:07
Still no Pacific team in expanded super rugby comp
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The Super 15 rugby competition expands to 18 teams this year, but despite the fact Pacific Island players are constantly being recruited for other rugby nations, there's still no Pacific team.
Topics: Pacific, sport
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Tags: Super 18 rugby
Duration: 18'37"
09:25
The power of diagnosis
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Diagnosis is one of medicine's principle tools. It explains what's going on, gives treatment options, provides a prognosis, and much more. Getting a diagnosis can be life altering, the diagnostic utterance, "cancer", " life-threatening", "benign" can mark a momentous shift in your life.
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Diagnosis is one of medicine's principle tools. It explains what's going on, gives treatment options, provides a prognosis, and much more.
It also has its limitations and is messier than what most people imagine. It can stigmatise, over-simplify and even medicalise a normal life experience. What 'counts' as an illness or a disease can depend on context, political and commercial will, and on what matters in society. What doesn't fit can bring particular aspects of suffering to the fore while leaving others in the background. Delivering a diagnosis can de-stabilise a person's sense of themselves and future potential, often as powerfully as the ailment itself.
Kathryn Ryan looks at the history, power and limitations of diagnosis with Annemarie Jutel and Bronwyn Thompson:
Annemarie Jutel is the author of Putting a Name to it, Diagnosis in Contemporary Society and Professor at Victoria University's Graduate School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health who, after training and working as a nurse, left clinical practice to study the sociological aspects of health and illness. She's just published a special issue journal on the topic, in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. There is also a Diagnosis in Contemporary Society Facebook page.
Bronwyn Thompson is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Musculoskeletal Medicine at the University of Otago, Christchurch. She is also a Chronic Pain sufferer. She remembers her experience of getting a diagnosis 30 years ago.
Topics: health
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Tags: diagnosis, sociology, chronic pain
Duration: 20'53"
09:50
US correspondent Susan Milligan
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US correspondent Susan Milligan reports from Washington DC.
Topics: politics
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Tags: US elections
Duration: 11'54"
10:10
Psychiatrist Darold Treffert on Savant syndrome
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Psychiatrist Darold Treffert who has spent 5 decades studying people with savant syndrome, and says there may be a buried prodigy in all of us.
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Psychiatrist, Darold Treffert has spent five decades studying people with autism and savant syndrome. He has written several definitive books on the topic, and was a consultant on the film Rain Man, featuring Dustin Hoffman as an autistic savant.
Dr Treffert says while most savants are born that way, some ordinary people have become savants after a head injury or stroke, which he says indicates a buried potential in all of us.
Dr Treffert works at St Agnes hospital in Wisconsin, which has just opened the Treffert Center to ensure his research continues
One of the savants Dr Treffert has looked at is New Zealander Jonathan Petty, who is blind and autistic but began displaying remarkable piano abilities from an early age - including being able to play any tune he has just heard.
Jonathan is now 27, this video was taken when he was about 3 years old:
Darold Treffert talked to Nine to Noon about his study of savant syndrome.
Topics: health, education, life and society
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Tags: Savant syndrome, autism
Duration: 29'09"
10:40
Book Review: For the Most Beautiful by Emily Hauser
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For the Most Beautiful. Written by Emily Hauser, reviewed by Anne Else and published by Double Day.
Topics: books
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Tags: For the Most Beautiful
Duration: 5'58"
11:10
Business commentator Rod Oram
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Rod Oram discusses the latest cut in payout forecasts by dairy processors and Fonterra's governance review.
Topics: business, technology
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Duration: 17'39"
11:35
NZ companies at risk of being digital casualties
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Daniel Vidal is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the University of Auckland Graduate School of Management.He is appealing to New Zealand companies to include their best IT brains on their executive team.
Topics: technology, business
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Tags: Daniel Vidal, business, digital strategy, Chief Information Officer, Auckland University
Duration: 16'34"
11:45
Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
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Gavin Ellis gives his first impressions of News Hub at 6pm on TV3 and its website that has been scrubbed clean of any 3News associations and asks is click-baiting affecting the way our news stories are being written?
Topics: arts
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Duration: 14'46"
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09:05 Why there is still no Pacific team in super rugby
The Super 15 rugby competition expands to 18 teams this year, but despite the fact Pacific Island players are constantly being recruited for other rugby nations, there's still no Pacific team.
Former Samoa Captain and Waikato chiefs player Mahonri Schwalger. He is now back in Apia where he runs his own rugby academy, preparing young players for teams in other countries.
Koli Sewabu represented Fiji at two rugby world cups, and has played for professional clubs and teams around the world - he is now working at Massey University, where he co-authored a major study on the treatment of Pacific islands players in rugby
09:20 The power & limitations of diagnosis
Diagnosis is one of medicine's principle tools. It explains what's going on, gives treatment options, provides a prognosis, and much more. Getting a diagnosis can be life altering, the diagnostic utterance, "cancer", " life-threatening", "benign" can mark a momentous shift in your life.
But it also has its limitations and is messier than what most people imagine. It can stigmatize, over-simplify and even medicalise a normal life experience. What 'counts' as an illness or a disease can depend on context, political and commercial will, and on what matters in society. What doesn't fit, can bring particular aspects of suffering to the fore while leaving others in the background. Delivering a diagnosis can de-stabilise a person's sense of themselves and future potential, often as powerfully as the ailment itself.
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Annemarie Jutel is the author of Putting a Name to it, Diagnosis in Contemporary Society and Professor at Victoria University's Graduate School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health who, after training and working as a nurse, left clinical practice to study the sociological aspects of health and illness. She's just published a special issue journal on the topic, in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. There is also a Diagnosis in Contemporary Society facebook page.
Bronwyn Thompson is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Musculoskeletal Medicine at the University of Otago, Christchurch. She is also a Chronic Pain sufferer. She remembers her experience of getting a diagnosis 30 years ago.
09:45 US correspondent Susan Milligan
Susan Milligan reports from the USA on the day voting starts in the Iowa primaries.
10:05 Savant Syndrome: Psychiatrist Darold Treffert
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Psychiatrist, Darold Treffert has spent five decades studying people with autism and savant syndrome. He has written several definitive books on the topic, and was a consultant on the film Rain Man, featuring Dustin Hoffman as an autistic savant. Dr Treffert says while most savants are born that way, some ordinary people have become savants after a head injury or stroke, which he says indicates a buried potential in all of us.
Dr Treffert works at St Agnes hospital in Wisconsin, which has just opened the Treffert Center to ensure his research continues
One of the savants Dr Treffert has looked at is New Zealander Jonathan Petty, who is blind and autistic but began displaying remarkable piano abilities from an early age - including being able to play any tune he has just heard.
Jonathan is now 27, this video was taken when he was around 3 years old:
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10:35 Book Review: For the Most Beautiful by Emily Hauser
Reviewed by Anne Else
Published by Double Day
10:45 The Reading
11:05 Business Commentator Rod Oram
Rod Oram discusses the latest cut in payout forecasts by dairy processors and Fonterra's governance review
11:30 NZ companies at risk of being digital casualties
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Daniel Vidal is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the University of Auckland Graduate School of Management.He is appealing to New Zealand companies to include their best IT brains on their executive team. Professor Vidal teaches the Strategic Chief Information Officer Programme. He says companies risk becoming digital casualties if they just use their IT people for infrastructure and service, rather than letting them also contribute at a strategic level. Particularly at risk are small New Zealand firms which because of their size can struggle to align technology to an overall business strategy.
11:45 Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
Gavin Ellis gives his first impressions of News Hub at 6pm on TV3 and its website that has been scrubbed clean of any 3News associations and asks is click-baiting affecting the way our news stories are being written?
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Artist: The Black Keys
Song: Run Right Back
Composer: Auerbach / Carney
Album: El Camino
Label: Nonesuch
Time: 10.10
Artist: Goldenhorse
Song: Maybe Tomorrow
Album: Riverhead
Time: 11.19
===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 2 February 2016
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Brazil says the global emergency declared over the Zika virus is no threat to the Olympics and a big proportion of detainees deported from Australia are returning to crime.
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Duration: 15'19"
12:17
Fletcher Building, is to buy the Higgins Group
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New Zealand's largest construction company, Fletcher Building, is to buy the Higgins Group road building and maintenance company for 315-million dollars.
Topics: business
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Tags: Higgins Group
Duration: 1'26"
12:19
Fletcher Building more value broken ujp - broking report
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Interestingly the Fletcher Building deal comes a day after broking house First NZ Capital said the group is worth more broken up than it is together.
Topics: business
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Tags: Fletcher Building
Duration: 31"
12:20
Cash Converters on the expansion trail
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The second-hand retail chain, Cash Converters, is on the expansion trail - with hopes of getting to 50 stores in the next couple of years.
Topics: business
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Tags: Cash Converters
Duration: 2'36"
12:22
Midday Markets for 2 February 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Angus Marks at First NZ Capital
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'00"
12:25
Business briefs
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Australian-based Mosman Oil & Gas has backed out of a deal to buy petroleum assets in Taranaki because of the slump in oil prices.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'12"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 2 February 2016
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The New Zealand cricket coach Mike Hesson says they haven't hyped up the Australian series anymore than playing any other country.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'26"
12:34
Midday Rural News for 2 February 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 9'09"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
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13:09
First Song
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'Somebody' - Mi-Sex
Topics: music
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Duration: 5'10"
13:15
Iowa Caucuses - Aaron Blake
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It's heating up in Iowa, and presidential hopefuls have been making last minute pitches to party members today. The caucus process is the first formal step, in the process to elect the Democratic and Republican candidates for the presidency. Aaron Blake is the managing editor of The Fix, the Washington Post's top political blog.
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Tags: US
Duration: 12'01"
13:27
Iowa Caucuses - Jane Patterson
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RNZ political editor Jane Patterson is in Des Moines.
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Tags: US
Duration: 8'32"
13:36
Therapy Research - Dr Mei Williams
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Psychologists at Massey University are investigating whether a new approach to therapy which has been successful in England could be adapted to New Zealand to help thousands suffering depression and less severe mental health conditions. It's called Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Topics: health
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Duration: 11'51"
13:48
Favourite Album
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Rochelle Dalziel has chosen the soundtrack to the (2001) movie De-Lovely.
Topics: music
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Duration: 12'22"
14:08
Lawyers Gender Balance - Ursula Cheer
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This year marks the first time there will be equal numbers of men and women lawyers. Women law graduates have outnumbered men for more than a decade, and the Law Society says those practicing will soon overtake men. But, while 60 percent of law graduates are women, the Law Society says less than 40 percent become partners.
Topics: law
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Duration: 11'00"
14:15
Surf Lifesavers Turn To Drone Technology
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The Karekare Surf Lifesaving Club is one of the oldest in the country but amongst the first to adopt new technologies. Club patrol captain Matt Wade has spent the summer trialling a surveillance drone in the hope that it will speed up response times and save more lives. Spoken Features producer Justin Gregory joined Matt at the clubhouse on Auckland's West Coast to see for himself their new set of eyes in the sky.
Topics: technology
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: lifesaving, drones, Karekare
Duration: 9'06"
14:19
Great NZ Concerts - The Eagles (2015)
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Today, on the Great New Zealand Concert, a band which included New Zealand on their concert itinerary four times in their 40 year career. This is no ordinary band though: They've won six Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, had six Number One Albums, one of which was the biggest selling album of the 20th century. They amassed total record sales in excess of 150 million units, enough to make them the fifth highest-selling American band in history.
Topics: music
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Duration: 40'40"
15:07
Media Circus - Kim Goldman
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Kim Goldman found herself in a situation she never could have imagined when her brother Ron Goldman was murdered and American football star OJ Simpson went on trial. She was just 23 years old in June 1994 and in the middle of a media frenzy. She's now a victims' advocate who helps other families who suddenly find themselves grieving for a terrible loss in the media spotlight. She's spoken to families who have suffered loss in high profile cases like Debra Tate whose sister Sharon was one of the Charles Manson murder victims. Kim Goldman talks about her book, Media Circus: A Look at Private Tragedy in the Public Eye.
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Kim Goldman found herself in a situation she never could have imagined when her brother Ron Goldman was murdered and American football star OJ Simpson went on trial.
She was just 23 years old in June 1994 and in the middle of a media frenzy. She's now a victims' advocate who helps other families who suddenly find themselves grieving for a terrible loss in the media spotlight.
She's spoken to families who have suffered loss in high profile cases like Debra Tate whose sister Sharon was one of the Charles Manson murder victims.
Kim Goldman talks about her book, Media Circus: A Look at Private Tragedy in the Public Eye.
Topics: author interview
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Duration: 23'28"
15:46
The Panel pre-show for 2 February 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 13'53"
21:06
Booming bitterns
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Australasian bitterns are one of New Zealand's most cryptic and threatened wetland birds, and the males attract females with a deep foghorn boom.
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Elvis Presley. Howard Morrison. Prince Tui Teka. Barry White. Bing Crosby. Tama Tomoana. Louis Armstrong. These deceased crooners have all loaned their names to some booming baritone birds – in the name of science, of course.
The seven boomers are male Australasian bitterns, and they are part of Massey University PhD student’s Emma Williams research into developing monitoring methods for cryptic species.
Emma describes bitterns as the “the most elusive and cryptic of all species”. They live in dense raupo in wetlands and around the edge of small lakes, and look “pretty much the same as the raupo”.
“Their plumage is light and dark brown streaks, and when they see us coming they go into the ‘freeze’ pose. They straighten themselves up and point their beak towards the sky, and all those streaks line up exactly with the raupo – it makes them very difficult to see. And if it’s windy they’ll even sway with the wind, to make themselves blend even more.”
And as well as being a tall thin brown bird, Emma says these “masters of disguise” can also flatten themselves on the ground. “Most people don’t know they do this, and they can completely disappear.”
Emma’s main study site has been Lake Hatuma (or Whatumā) near Waipukurau in Hawke’s Bay. She has radiotagged seven male bitterns, which means she is able to locate those birds. This has allowed her to then test various methods of detecting birds, including using her specially trained bittern dog, Kimi, who has just achieved full conservation dog certification.
To catch male birds in the first place, Emma recorded the deep foghorn-like booms that the males make each evening and dawn during the breeding season. She played recordings of the booming next to a live capture cage that contained a mirror – when the local bittern approached to see who its rival might be it would see its own reflection, and rush into the trap, thinking it was another bird.
While it is relatively easy to catch the male birds, it is the female birds that Emma is hoping to catch using her dog, as very little is known about their behaviour. Radio tagging females would allow her to follow the breeding success of the birds.
Emma has developed an intimate knowledge of some of the behaviour of her male birds.
“Just before a male starts start booming, he’ll actually jump up and down and create a platform for himself, a bit of a bowl. So sometimes you’ll see him, this bit of brown hopping up and down above the raupo. When he’s happy he’ll crouch, puff himself up and then start to boom.”
Emma describes bittern booming as being akin to bagpipe playing.
“It’s compressed air being pushed out of his oesophagus, exactly like you’d push air through a bagpipe. His long neck is the tube, and his body is the bag that is squeezed.”
Like kakapo, male bitterns boom to attract females for mating. Females then incubate eggs and raise chicks on their own nearby, although they chase the male away if he comes too close.
The radio-tagged birds have revealed some amazing long distance journeys, says Emma. Over a dry summer, all seven radiotagged male birds left Lake Hatuma. Six turned up on various farms, hanging out in small patches of raupo along spring-fed creeks. Emma says the birds were right under the farmer’s noses, but nobody knew they were until she tracked them.
One bird flew 15 kilometres, and Emma says the seventh bird travelled further than that as he disappeared, and she didn’t find him until he turned up at Lake Hatuma again after an eight month absence.
A juvenile Australasian bittern in Australia flew more than 550 kilometres.
Bitterns feed on small fish, eels and frogs in shallow water. When I visited Emma at Lake Hatuma she found two birds feeding together in mid-morning in a flooded paddock several hundred metres from the nearest raupo patch. She didn’t know the identity of the second bird.
Australasian bitterns are listed as Nationally Endangered. This summer a few bitterns turned up in places around Christchurch, and have been radiotagged and released back into wetlands.
There are thought to be fewer than 1000 Australasian bitterns in New Zealand. They are also found in Australia and New Caledonia.
World Wetland's Day is marked each year on 2 February.
Topics: environment, science
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Duration: 14'27"
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1:10 First Song
'Somebody' - Mi-Sex.
1:15 Iowa Caucuses - Aaron Blake
It's heating up in Iowa, and presidential hopefuls have been making last minute pitches to party members today. The caucus process is the first formal step, in the process to elect the Democratic and Republican candidates for the presidency. Aaron Blake is the managing editor of The Fix, the Washington Post's top political blog.
1:25 Iowa Caucuses - Jane Patterson
RNZ political editor Jane Patterson is in Des Moines. Jane is at the Democrat caucus at the State Historical Building.
1:35 Therapy Research - Dr Mei Williams
Psychologists at Massey University are investigating whether a new approach to therapy which has been successful in England, could be adapted to New Zealand to help thousands suffering depression and less severe mental health conditions. It's called Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and Dr Mei Williams from Massey School of Psychology, is here to tell us about it.
1:40 Favourite Album
Rochelle Dalziel has chosen the soundtrack to the (2001) movie De-Lovely.
2:10 Lawyers Gender Balance - Ursula Cheer
This year marks the first time there will be equal numbers of men and women lawyers.
Women law graduates have outnumbered men for more than a decade, and the Law Society says those practicing will soon overtake men. But, while 60 percent of law graduates are women, the Law Society says less than 40 percent become partners.
2:20 Great NZ Concerts - The Eagles (2015)
Today, on the Great New Zealand Concert, a band which included New Zealand on their concert itinerary four times in their 40 year career. This is no ordinary band though: They've won six Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, had six Number One Albums, one of which was the biggest selling album of the 20th century. They amassed total record sales in excess of 150 million units, enough to make them the fifth highest-selling American band in history.
3:10 Media Circus - Kim Goldman
Kim Goldman found herself in a situation she never could have imagined when her brother Ron Goldman was murdered and American football star OJ Simpson went on trial. She was just 23 years old in June 1994 and in the middle of a media frenzy. She's now a victims' advocate who helps other families who suddenly find themselves grieving for a terrible loss in the media spotlight. She's spoken to families who have suffered loss in high profile cases like Debra Tate whose sister Sharon was one of the Charles Manson murder victims. Kim Goldman talks about her book, Media Circus: A Look at Private Tragedy in the Public Eye.
3:30 Our Changing World
Bitterns boast some of the best bird camouflage around but it hasn't been enough to prevent them becoming nationally endangered. Alison Ballance heads out in a kayak onto Lake Hatuma, in Hawke's Bay, with Massey University PhD student Emma Williams, to hear why she has given her booming birds names such as Prince Tui Teka, Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Julie Moffett.
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JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST: Mi Sex
SONG: Somebody
COMP: Mi Sex
ALBUM: Extended Play
LABEL: Download
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Robbie Williams
TITLE: It's De Lovely
COMP: Col Porter
ALBUM: De Lovely (Soundtrack)
LABEL: iTunes
ARTIST: Alanis Morissette
TITLE: Let's Fall In Love
COMP: Col Porter
ALBUM: De Lovely (Soundtrack)
LABEL: iTunes
THE GREAT NZ CONCERT: EAGLES 2015
ARTIST: The Eagles (lead vocals - Glenn Frey)
TITLE: Take It Easy
COMP: Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey
ALBUM: Hell Freezes Over
LABEL: Warner
ARTIST: The Eagles (lead vocals - Don Henley)
TITLE: Get Over It
COMP: Don Henley, Glenn Frey
ALBUM: Hell Freezes Over
LABEL: Warner
ARTIST: Kasey Chambers
TITLE: Hollywood
COMP: Kasey Chambers
ALBUM: Wayward Angel
LABEL: Warner
ARTIST: The Eagles (lead vocals - Don Henley)
TITLE: Tequila Sunrise
COMP: Don Henley, Glenn Frey
ALBUM: Hell Freezes Over
LABEL: Warner
ARTIST: The Eagles (lead vocals - Timothy B. Schmit)
TITLE: I Can't Tell You Why
COMP: DonHenley, GlennFrey, Timothy B. Schmit
ALBUM: Hell Freezes Over
LABEL: Warner
ADDITIONAL MUSIC:
ARTIST: Arcade Fire
TITLE: Wake Up
COMP: Arcade Fire
ALBUM: Funeral
LABEL: Merge
PANEL - HALF TIME SONG:
ARTIST: Supertramp
TITLE: Give A Little Bit
COMP: Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson
ALBUM: Even In The Quietest Moments
LABEL: A&M
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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15:46
The Panel pre-show for 2 February 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 13'53"
16:03
The Panel with Ali Jones and Ellen Read (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Ali Jones and Ellen Read have been up to. Auckland Council is upping sticks and heading out of the CBD on Thursday incase TPP signing protests incringe on their work. Should Police just not bother with vehicle pursuits for fear of people getting hurt or killed? A anti-woman blogger who promotes the idea of "legal" rape has called for like-minded men to meet on Saturday. A real estate agent propositioned a woman with her two children in a McDonald's car park. Another held open homes in P contaminated houses. We talk to employment lawyer Gareth Abdinor about what employers should do in these situations. . It's the last day for people to register their submissions on voluntary euthanasia.
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Duration: 23'12"
16:05
The Panel with Ali Jones and Ellen Read (Part 2)
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Research from Indiana University finds women are much more financially giving than men. hat the Panelists Ali Jones and Ellen Read have been thinking about. The results of the Iowa Republican and Democratic Caucuses in the US Presidential race are expected anytime soon. Twenty-four countries have been affected by the Zika virus. We talk to Professor Michael Baker about how worrying this outbreak is. High house prices in Auckland are affecting the returns of property investors, as was said might well happen on The Panel last year. The Tourism Council says its members are shocked by images of cows in lakes.
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Duration: 28'01"
16:07
Panel intro
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What the Panelists Ali Jones and Ellen Read have been up to.
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Duration: 4'29"
16:11
Auckland Council skedaddles at sniff of TPP touble
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Auckland Council is upping sticks and heading out of the CBD on Thursday incase TPP signing protests incringe on their work.
Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 2'02"
16:13
Police backing off
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Should Police just not bother with vehicle pursuits for fear of people getting hurt or killed?
Topics: crime
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Duration: 3'32"
16:17
Neo-masculinity
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A anti-woman blogger who promotes the idea of "legal" rape has called for like-minded men to meet on Saturday.
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Duration: 3'18"
16:20
Want sex? Here's my card
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A real estate agent propositioned a woman with her two children in a McDonald's car park. Another held open homes in P contaminated houses. We talk to employment lawyer Gareth Abdinor about what employers should do in these situations.
Topics: law
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Tags: employment
Duration: 6'23"
16:27
Voluntary euthanasia submissions
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It's the last day for people to register their submissions on voluntary euthanasia.
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Duration: 2'56"
16:32
Women give much more to charity
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Research from Indiana University finds women are much more financially giving than men.
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Duration: 6'17"
16:38
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Ali Jones and Ellen Read have been thinking about.
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Duration: 5'53"
16:44
Iowa caucuses
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The results of the Iowa Republican and Democratic Caucuses in the US Presidential race are expected anytime soon.
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Duration: 3'49"
16:48
Zika a global health emergency
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Twenty-four countries have been affected by the Zika virus. We talk to Professor Michael Baker about how worrying this outbreak is.
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Duration: 5'17"
16:54
High house prices in Auckland
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High house prices in Auckland are affecting the returns of property investors, as was said might well happen on The Panel last year.
Topics: housing
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 3'00"
16:56
Clean green image crumbling?
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The Tourism Council says its members are shocked by images of cows in lakes.
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Duration: 3'24"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
=DESCRIPTION=
RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme
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17:00
Checkpoint wth John Campbell, 2nd February 2016
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Watch Tuesday's full programme. It begins 7 mins, 45 sec in.
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17:10
John Key invited to Waitangi but confusion over invitation
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A Ngapuhi kuia has invited the Prime Minister to attend Waitangi commemorations at Te Tii Marae.
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Duration: 5'05"
17:16
Show-time for the signing of the controversial TPP
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Our economics correspondent Patrick O'Meara has been at an official briefing about what's going to happen with the signing at SkyCity in Auckland and he joins us from nearby.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 3'23"
17:19
The ISDS elements of the TPP
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One of the most contentious, and contended, elements of the TPP, is the ISDS - the Investor State Dispute Settlement. In short, this grants an investor, a corporation for example, a mechanism to use dispute settlement proceedings against a foreign government.
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Duration: 1'57"
17:21
US public law specialist says no appeal provisions in TPP
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So, are there formal appeal provisions that go over and above the ISDS forum? We went to an expert in American Public Law.
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Duration: 4'32"
17:25
'Wrong' alternative NZ flag on Harbour Bridge to come down
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Turning to the much-criticised potential new flag flying on Auckland's Harbour Bridge.
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Duration: 2'59"
17:29
Ted Cruz beats Donald Trump in Iowa
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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has beaten billionaire Donald Trump in Iowa's Republican presidential nominating contest
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Duration: 1'26"
17:30
Jane Patterson reports from Donald Trump's non-victory party
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RNZ's political editor, Jane Patterson, who's at what was meant to be Donald Trump's victory party, at the Sheraton Hotel, West Des Moines.
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Duration: 3'49"
17:36
Business news with Nona Pelletier
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Turning to business news now with Nona Pelletier and our biggest construction company Fletcher Building is buying the roading and maintenance firm Higgins Group for 315 million dollars.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 3'31"
17:40
Kaeo people fume over state of water supply
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In the small Northland town of Kaeo, there's something in the water.
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Tags: Kaeo, water
Duration: 3'28"
17:43
Bishop adamant no promises made on UN head on her watch
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Former New Zealand Prime Minister, Helen Clark, is at the heart of a new Australian political scrap.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 4'10"
17:47
Concerns about meals on wheels food
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This afternoon representatives from the Compass Group have met with staff from the Southern DHB to discuss concerns about the quality of the food it is providing to meals on wheels clients in Dunedin and Invercargill.
Topics: food
Regions: Otago
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Duration: 4'41"
17:52
Animal rights groups condemn trophy hunting club auctions
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An animal protection group says money raised by an American trophy hunting club auctioning off New Zealand hunts will be used to kill endangered and vulnerable species.
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Duration: 3'18"
17:55
Women loses job during cancer treatment
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A woman whose job was given to someone else while she received cancer treatment has lost her case for unfair dismissal, and must pay 3-thousand dollars to her former company.
Topics: law
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Duration: 2'55"
18:08
Worksafe says not productive to prosecute farmers
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Worksafe New Zealand says prosecuting farmers would not be a productive way of improving safety in the agricultural sector.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 1'55"
18:10
Security ramps up as TPP opponents prepare for signing
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The TPP signing is a couple of days away, and security preparations are now taking place at the venue, Sky City in Auckland.
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Duration: 6'08"
18:17
Businesses braced for TPP protest disruption
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Businesses are bracing themselves for a different kind of trickle down effect from the Trans-Pacific Partnership - disruption in the heart of Auckland's CBD.
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Duration: 2'44"
18:20
Alarm bells over voting in controversial Shelly Bay sale plan
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Some Taranaki Whanui iwi members are concerned that an iwi employee is handling votes on a controversial proposal to sell land at Shelly Bay in Wellington.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'19"
18:23
Hopes after school healthy cooking will go national
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Two Auckland women have launched a cooking programme in conjunction with one of the country's biggest after school care providers in a bid to help children learn to cook healthy food.
Topics: education, food
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 5'48"
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===6:30 PM. | Worldwatch===
=DESCRIPTION=
===7:06 PM. | Nights===
=DESCRIPTION=
RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
=AUDIO=
19:12
Our Own Odysseys: Greek Village Doppelganger
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Lynda Mara traveled with her mother, to the islands of Samos, Paros and Mykonos in 1996, where she enjoyed dazzling white architecture (they put salt in the plaster to make it sparkle) met working donkeys, got locked out during the siesta, met a spitting image of her daughter and didn't smash a single plate...
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Lynda Mara traveled with her mother, to the islands of Samos, Paros and Mykonos in 1996.
While there she enjoyed dazzling white architecture (they put salt in the plaster to make it sparkle) met working donkeys, got locked out during the siesta and met a spitting image of her daughter.
But they didn't smash a single plate.
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Tags: travel, Greese, daughter.
Duration: 18'17"
20:42
Nights' Pundit - Right Thinking
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The rationales of individual freedom and personal responsibility with Eric Crampton, head of research at The New Zealand Initiative... economics and digital content: copyright, censorship and Netflix...
Topics: politics, economy, life and society
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Tags: individual freedom, personal responsibilty, copyright, censorship, Netflix.
Duration: 16'47"
20:59
Conundrum Clue 3
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Listen in on Friday night for the answer
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Duration: 1'04"
21:59
Conundrum Clue 4
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Listen in on Friday night for the answer
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Duration: 32"
=SHOW NOTES=
7:12 Our Own Odysseys: Greek Village Doppelganger
Lynda Mara traveled with her mother, to the islands of Samos, Paros and Mykonos in 1996, where she enjoyed dazzling white architecture (they put salt in the plaster to make it sparkle) met working donkeys, got locked out during the siesta, met a spitting image of her daughter and didn’t smash a single plate...
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7:30 The Sampler
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19:35
The Sampler for 2 February 2016
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This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger reviews a reimagining of a John Cale classic; the sophisticated folk of Aoife O'Donovan; and a survey of the musical geography of Mali.
Topics: music
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Tags: music, music review, Aoife O'donovan, John Cale, Mali
Duration: 30'00"
19:37
M: FANS/Music For A New Society by John Cale
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Nick Bollinger revisits a reimagining of a John Cale classic.
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Nick Bollinger revisits a reimagining of a John Cale classic.
Though largely overlooked at the time, John Cale’s 1982 album Music For A New Society has become something of a cult classic among Cale-fanciers.
Of course the term ‘cult classic’ might be applied to Cale himself. The Welsh-born, classically-trained musician has managed to sustain a career of fifty years and counting, without ever having anything like a hit. Yet along the way he’s created some of the most admired and influential work in rock, from the groundbreaking inventions of the Velvet Underground, through his productions of The Stooges, Patti Smith, and The Modern Lovers, to his own exploratory solo work.
Music For A New Society is as exploratory and as solitary an album as Cale ever made. By his own account, he was not in the best frame of mind at the time of the original recording. His life was dominated by alcohol and drugs, and the songs belied the optimism of the album’s title. The opening track ‘Taking Your Life In Your Hands’ finds a mother being taken away by ‘blue men in uniform’ for an unnamed crime. One worries about the children.
In his new version, the stately piano chords of the original have gone, replaced by a funereal beat and a forbidding electronic landscape. Is it improved? I have to say I favour the plainer, melodic approach of the 1982 version. Still, it shows Cale’s commitment to creativity. He’s not just reeling off an old favourite; he’s stripping it bare, then rebuilding it using modern tools. And that goes for the whole album.
Cale has said that in remaking this album he found himself loathing ‘each and every character written about in those original recordings’. And that’s understandable. The characters in these songs voice some pretty disturbing and nihilistic sentiments. Yet Cale’s original delivery imbued those characters with a humanity that these new, far more objective readings, seem to lack.
It’s obvious that Cale is in a different physical and psychological place now than he was when he wrote these songs, and just as well; if he weren’t, he’d be lucky to be here at all. And the way in which he has gone about shining a light on this largely forgotten collection, dragging the songs into the present, treating it as a creative rather than nostalgic project, is only to be admired. And neither is he coercing us into accepting his revisions; the new CD comes with a second disc, the original long-out-of-print recording, remastered and sounding as scary and unsentimental as ever.
Songs played: Prelude; Changes Made; Taking Your Life In Your Hands; Thoughtless Kind; Chinese Envoy; Broken Bird; If You Were Still Around
Topics: music
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Tags: music, music review, John Cale, Velvet Underground
Duration: 12'20"
19:45
The Sampler - Aoife O'Donovan
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Nick Bollinger reviews the sophisticated folk of Aoife O'Donovan.
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Nick Bollinger surrenders to the sophisticated folk of Aoife O'Donovan.
Aoife O’Donovan was a member of Crooked Still, a forward-looking folk group from Boston who combined bluegrass roots with jazz virtuosity. Since going solo, her music has become an even more accomplished hybrid.
In The Magic Hour is Aoife O’Donovan’s lush new album, and the follow-up to Fossils, her 2013 solo debut. There’s clearly a niche here – a sophisticated country-folk sound – that O’Donovan is angling to occupy. But the warm familiarity is just a way of drawing you into a record that quietly reshapes the genre.
O’Donovan has worked for the second time with producer and engineer Tucker Martine (Decemberists, R.E.M.) and he seems to be just the person to help realise her ambitions in the studio. There’s a lot going on, from swooping string lines to restless rhythms and chord changes Joni Mitchell might have come up with.
But if In The Magic Hour finds O’Donovan weaving ever more sophisticated compositions, she also looks back, not just musically but to the formative experiences of childhood. As her name would suggest O’Donovan’s roots are Irish. And though she was born and brought up in New England, her childhood was peppered with visits to her ancestral home of County Cork, in the Republic of Ireland. That’s where she would spend summers with her Irish grandfather and some of his twenty-six grandchildren. He died, age 93, around the time O’Donovan began work on this album, but his presence is felt tangibly, particularly in ‘Donal Og’, which incorporates what sounds like a field recording of him singing. The effect is both ghostlike and comforting.
Songs played: Stanley Park; Porch Light; The King Of All Birds; Magpie; Donal Og; Not The Leaving; Magic Hour
Topics: music
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Tags: music, music review, Aoife O'donovan, Crooked Still
Duration: 8'08"
19:55
Lost in Mali
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Nick Bollinger surveys a new compilation mapping the musical geography of Mali.
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Nick Bollinger surveys a new compilation mapping the musical geography of Mali.
As you’d expect from a continent of more than a billion people, Africa is the source of many and varied types of music. In recent years the most roadworthy has come from the West African nation of Mali: the music that’s been dubbed the desert blues.
Though desert bluesmen like Ali Farka Toure, bands like Tinariwen and guitar heroes like Bombino have become internationally renowned, Lost In Mali presents a selection of Malian performers previously unheard outside their country. And it demolishes any notion that Malian music is nothing but the desert blues.
The collection covers a lot of territory, both geographically and musically, from the urban sounds of the capital Bamako to the more rural and traditional music of the south and far north.
There’s Bwazan from Segou in south-central Mali on the River Niger, with their rich, polyrhythmic dance music centred on the balafon - a large wooden xylophone. There’s an ancient hunting song sung to a plucked, percussive accompaniment by a group called Barou Drame. At the more contemporary end of things, there’s one from Kas 2 Kastro, with more than a tinge of reggae.
And what of the so-called ‘music ban’ imposed in the north of Mali in 2012 by occupying religious extremists? Technically it was lifted in early 2013 after the region was ‘liberated’ by the French army. And though the terrorist attack on the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako last November resulted in the cancellation of a number of musical events around the capital, there’s a sense that the oppression has only served to radicalise the culture. A direct response to the religious and political unrest is the beautiful call for peace by the Niafunke-based Alkibar Jr.
As a survey of styles currently found in West Africa, Lost In Mali may be incomplete; even so, listening to this album must be one of the most enjoyable ways to get lost.
Songs played: Yawoye, An Ka Foli Ke, Diagatoula, Lousane, Kaya, La Paix
Topics: music
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Tags: Mali, Africa, music, music review
Duration: 9'43"
7:30 The Sampler
music album reviews & music discussion with Nick Bollinger
8:12 Window on the World - The Truth About Diabetes pt 3 of 4
international public radio documentaries
8:43 Nights' Pundit - Right Thinking
the rationales of individual freedom and personal responsibility with Eric Crampton, head of research at The New Zealand Initiative... economics and digital content: copyright, censorship and Netflix...
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: CK Stead
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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===
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International public radio features and documentaries
===9:06 PM. | None (National)===
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C.K. Stead is one of New Zealand's foremost literary figures. A distinguished novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist and Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland, Stead has won many awards and fellowships. He became a Member of the Order of New Zealand in 2007, and is one of only two living writers to hold that honour
===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
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RNZ news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from RNZ National
===11:06 PM. | None (National)===
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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. (7 of 13, MCM)