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:
04 March 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Health Check (BBC); 1:05 The Friday Feature: Selfies in the Galleries; 2:05 NZ Society; 2:30 The Sampler (RNZ); 3:05 Sorry, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, by Peter Bland (3 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 The Why Factor (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 The Day in Parliament
===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 Friday 4 March 2016
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Many in African community feel unfairly treated by police, Fiji's tourism industry galvanises to get visitors back, Stabbed liquor store owner too scared to go back to work, Criminal underworld, kidnappers remain focus in victim's death, NZ reports possible case of sexual transmitted Zika virus, Young Africans say they're being unfairly targeted by police, and Half Fiji's homes need to be rebuilt.
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Duration: 33'34"
06:06
Sports News for 4 March 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'23"
06:09
Republican's Mitt Romney labels Trump as 'phony', 'fraud'
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Republican ex-presidential candidate Mitt Romney has delivered a stiniging attack on Donald Trump calling him a conman and a fake. Our Washington correspondent is Simon Marks.
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Tags: USA, Donald Trump
Duration: 5'20"
06:14
Tributes flooded in cricketing great
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Tributes from around the world are flowing in for Martin Crowe. Scyld Berry from the Telegraph says the cricketer found a niche in cricket history no one else has occupied.
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Tags: Martin Crowe
Duration: 4'28"
06:20
Early business news for 4 March 2016
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Jonathan Mitchell with news from the business sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'31"
06:26
Morning Rural News for 4 March 2016
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'06"
06:39
Many in African community feel unfairly treated by police
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Some young Africans say they've been racially profiled, harrassed and in some instances, physically beaten by the police. The accounts are part of a report put out by the Auckland University of Technology's social services department.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: racial discrimination, equality
Duration: 4'15"
06:43
Former teammate says Crowe was "all class"
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A former teammate of Martin Crowe says he felt like a mere mortal playing alongside the world-class batsman. John Morrison spoke to RNZ sports editor Stephen Hewson.
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Tags: Martin Crowe
Duration: 2'31"
06:46
Fiji's tourism industry galvanises to get visitors back
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The tourism industry in Fiji is banding together to attract overseas visitors back in the wake of Cyclone Winston, but as Bridget Tunnicliffe reports the industry has already leapt to action.
Topics: Pacific
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Tags: Fiji, Cyclone Winstone
Duration: 3'39"
06:51
Value of building work at 26 year high in Q4
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The value of building work done in the final quarter of last year has hit a 26-year high. ANZ Bank senior economist Mark Smith expects the momentum will continue into this year.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 58"
06:52
Commodities notch small gain in February
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The ANZ Bank's commodity price index rose for the first time in four months in February.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 29"
06:53
NZ bond market sees noticable increase in corporate issues
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Big companies have wasted no time in going direct to the investing public with bond issues since the start of the year, carrying on last year's momentum.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'48"
06:55
Another solid year of mergers and acquisitions seen this year
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The year is barely two months old but we've already had several large takeovers announced.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'01"
06:57
Financial reporting could be clearer - External Reporting Board
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A crown entity in charge of setting standards in financial reporting by companies says there's room to make things clearer.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'42"
06:58
Morning Markets for 4 March 2016
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The New Zealand sharemarket ended on a record high and the Australian 200 index rose more than 1%.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'07"
07:06
Sports News for 4 March 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'24"
07:10
Young Africans say they're profiled, harrassed by NZ police
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Young Africans say they've been racially profiled, harrassed and in some instances, physically beaten by police. Mohamed Hassan reports.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: racial discrimination, police
Duration: 4'58"
07:20
Sir Richard Hadlee remembers Martin Crowe as
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A close friend of Martin Crowe's has described the cricketing great as a very obsessive cricket player, always striving for perfect. Sir Richard Hadlee says Martin Crowe's death wasn't unexpected but it's still come as a shock.
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Tags: Martin Crowe
Duration: 5'15"
07:24
Crowe remembered as "New Zealand's best batsman"
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The journalist and author Joseph Romanos wrote the book Tortured Genius about Crowe in 1995 and went on to help edit Crowe's own book Raw in 2013.
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Tags: Martin Crowe
Duration: 5'32"
07:29
Stabbed liquor store owner too scared to go back to work
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Sarabjit Singh, the liquor store owner who was stabbed in the back outside his own store says he's too scared to go back to work. He spoke with Kim Baker Wilson from his hospital bed.
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Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Sarabjit Singh
Duration: 2'25"
07:35
Criminal underworld, kidnappers remain focus in victim's death
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Auckland's criminal underworld and the identity of the kidnappers of a woman who died trying to escape them remain the focus of the police homicide investigation. Murielle Baker reports.
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Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Jindarat Prutsiriporn
Duration: 2'09"
07:42
NZ reports possible case of sexual transmitted Zika virus
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A woman in New Zealand has tested positive for Zika, without having visited an affected country. Auckland University's Dr Siouxsie Wiles is with me in the studio joins Morning Report.
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Tags: zika virus
Duration: 5'07"
07:48
MPs outraged at prison visit letter
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MPs are accusing the Corrections Minister of being overly controlling. Judith Collins has sent a letter to all MPs asking them to go through her office before visiting prisons and to give a reasonable amount of notice. Demelza Leslie reports.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Corrections, Judith Collins
Duration: 2'30"
07:50
HB regional councillors vent frustration over Ruataniwha Dam
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A group of Hawke's Bay regional councillors say the 600-million Ruataniwha water storage project is a ratepayers nightmare that can only be stopped at the ballot box.
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Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Ruataniwha water storage project
Duration: 3'24"
07:55
Immersive theatre on show at New Zealand Festival
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Standing Room Only's Lynn Freeman joins the show to talk about the New Zealand Festival.
Topics: arts
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Duration: 5'33"
08:06
Sports News for 4 March 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'51"
08:10
Book of memories for Martin Crowe
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Tributes are flowing in from all around the world for cricketing legend, Martin Crowe who died yesterday, aged 53, after a long battle with cancer. Tiana Barns looks back at the life of the batting great.
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Tags: Martin Crowe
Duration: 2'37"
08:14
Young Africans say they're being unfairly targeted by police
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A number of young Africans say they are being unfairly treated by a racist justice system. Their accounts are part of a report put out by the Auckland University of Technology's Social Sciences department. Dr Camille Nakhid is the author of the report and an associate professor at AUT.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: racial discrimination, racial profiling
Duration: 5'58"
08:20
Half Fiji's homes need to be rebuilt
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Damage assessors are estimating that about half of Fiji's homes will need to be rebuilt. A ship carrying aid and damage assessment teams around the remote Lau island group that was heavily hit by Cyclone Winston, returned to Suva last night. Alex Perrottet was on board.
Topics: Pacific
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Tags: Fiji, Cyclone Winston
Duration: 3'53"
08:24
Coroner: Avalanche killed trio on Aoraki Mount Cook
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The veteran mountain guide who escaped a fatal icefall that killed three overseas climbers on Aoraki Mt Cook says the conditions that day were too bad for him to continue. Dave McKinley was the last person to make contact with Johann Viellehner and his son Raphael from Germany, and Michael Bishop from Australia.
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Tags: Aoraki Mt Cook, mountain climbing
Duration: 4'37"
08:30
Markets Update for 4 March 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 52"
08:39
Who would be a better President for NZ as Trump and Clinton gain momentum?
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Who would be a better President from New Zealand's point of view? Our political editor Jane Patterson reports.
Topics: politics
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Tags: USA
Duration: 2'23"
08:43
NZ Warriors hopes high as NRL season kicks off
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The National Rugby League competition is underway. After finishing a disappointing 13th placing in last year's comeptition, there's a lot of expectation on the Warriors to make the playoffs this year, as Matt Chatterton reports.
Topics: sport
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Tags: NRL, rugby
Duration: 3'15"
08:46
Mitchell Pearce handed down heaviest fine in NRL history
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The drunken Australia Day antics of a Sydney Roosters player have scored him the heaviest fine in Australian rugby league history.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Mitchell Pearce
Duration: 3'53"
08:50
Whanganui newspaper bucks national decline in readership
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While most of the nation's mastheads are losing readers, a few daily newspapers are bucking the trend. The editor of the Wanganui Chronicle is Mark Dawson.
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Duration: 5'10"
08:57
Kerry-Anne Walsh with news from Australia
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Let's have a chat to our Canberra correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh
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Duration: 2'46"
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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: Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera read by George Henare (5 of 15, RNZ)
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09:09
MH370 search head on new debris find
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New debris found on a beach in the southeast African nation of Mozambique has been tentatively identified as a part from the same type of aircraft as MH370. A massive grid search of the Indian Ocean floor is underway, lead by the Australian Transportation Safety Board. Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan talks to Kathryn about the significance of the latest find and how much longer the search will continue.
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Tags: MH370
Duration: 15'01"
09:20
Nelson medical cannabis case
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A Nelson woman who avoided a lengthy jail term for importing cannabis hopes her case will help other medicinal users. Rebecca Reider, who has complex chronic pain syndrome, was facing five charges for possession of cannabis oil and other products. She was also charged with importing cannabis products - chocolate bars with edible cannabis; a conviction which could have resulted in an eight-year jail term. She was discharged without conviction. Her lawyer Sue Grey argued the law allows exemptions where the medication was prescribed overseas.
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A Nelson woman has avoided a lengthy jail term for importing cannabis products after a judge discharged her without conviction.
Rebecca Reider, who has complex chronic pain syndrome, was facing five charges of possession of cannabis oil and other products.
She was also charged with importing cannabis products, including medicated chocolate, a conviction for which could have resulted in an eight-year jail term.
However, her lawyer Sue Grey was able to use a clause in the Misuse of Drugs Act to argue the law allows exemptions, when the drug is prescribed overseas, for up to one month's supply
Ms Reider, who is from California, had obtained a medical prescription for the cannabis product when she was visiting family. She later posted herself the cannabis chocolate to her Nelson address.
A judge in Nelson this week discharged Ms Reider without conviction on all charges.
Sue Grey told Nine to Noon if her client had had the medicated chocolate with her when she came back to New Zealand it would not have been an issue under the legal exemption. It was only because she posted it and it was intercepted that she was charged.
Ms Grey quoted the section of the Misuse of Drugs Act that she argued on behalf of her client:
"A person, may, while entering or leaving New Zealand, possess a controlled drug that's required for treating a medical condition, of the person - or of a person in their care or control - if the quantity of the drug is no more than one month of supply and it's lawfully supplied to the person overseas and supplied for the purpose of treating a medical condition."
She said her clients' cannabis was legally prescribed overseas by a doctor, it was a proper medicated product and, if brought back to New Zealand by Miss Reider, it seems it would have fallen within the law's one month exemption.
However, the judge accepted the consequences of Ms Reider's offending (in receiving it in the post) were the same, and ruled that she be discharged without conviction.
Ms Grey said it was sad people had to be wealthy enough to travel overseas to access medical cannabis products.
"It seems to me that we urgently need a law change so that we can make it the same for everybody. If you've got a treatment that works - why can't you use it?"
Ms Grey said the whole purpose of the Misuse of Drugs Act was to protect people against dangerous things, but the medical issue was completely different, with different considerations.
"The way I read it, it's quite a simple job for parliament, or the minister, to reschedule medicinal drugs and make it so much easier for people to access them when they need them."
The government is reviewing the guidelines for considering applications for medical cannabis. The guidelines were introduced in response to the case of critically ill Nelson teenager, Alex Renton, who died in in July following a prolonged epileptic seizure. He is so far the only person to have received ministerial approval for medical cannabis.
In a statement, Ms Reider said while the ruling was a significant win for the right to medicinal cannabis, she still felt like she had lost.
"The police entered my home with no warning, violated my privacy and took away an essential pain medication that was helping me deal with a very challenging health condition."
She said cannabis had been instrumental in relieving her muscle spasms, and while Australia and the US had moved forward on the medical cannabis issue, New Zealand remained "in the dark ages".
Topics: health
Regions: Tasman
Tags: cannabis, medicinal cannabis, Rebecca Reider
Duration: 11'19"
09:35
Why have so many schools banned kids from climbing trees?
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The Principals Association estimates that most primary schools have banned tree climbing for safety reasons. AUT Sport and recreation researcher, Dr Scott Duncan says this is short sighted and limits kid's opportunities to challenge themselves physically and get closer to nature. He'll join other parenting and recreation experts next week to speak at event called Rewild the Child - hosted by visiting British documentary maker David Bond, whom we interviewed back in 2014 about his attempts to get his kids off their screens and into the outdoors.
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The Principals' Federation estimates that most primary schools have banned tree climbing for safety reasons.
But AUT Sport and recreation researcher Dr Scott Duncan says this is shortsighted and limits children's opportunities to challenge themselves physically and get closer to nature.
He'll join other parenting and recreation experts next week at an event called Rewild the Child – hosted by visiting British documentary maker David Bond, whom we interviewed back in 2014 about his attempts to get his kids off their screens and into the outdoors.
Dr Duncan is urging schools to relax their rules and allow unstructured play including tree-climbing and fighting with sticks he told Nine to Noon that many schools had banned children from climbing trees or playing games such as bull rush because of pressure from parents.
But he said schools should relax their rules.
"So allow contact games, allow stick-playing, you know stick-fighting, allow climbing trees, allow bikes even, allow scooters."
Dr Duncan said injuries and bullying reduced when children were allowed to manage the risks of their play themselves.
"They work out what's safe, they work out their little rules, they have a complex set of rules which everyone seems to adhere to because they've made it up themselves, they have peer mediators so if there's any arguments or conflicts they step up and people come in and sort it out for them. It's actually quite remarkable when you give children a little bit of leash to do this sort of thing just how they can step up and perform."
He said unstructured play had many clear benefits including increased creativity, leadership, responsibility and socialisation skills.
"In fact just recently a study came out which showed that actually unstructured play improved children's executive function, which is the higher order thinking, ability to make good decisions. So there's enough evidence out there now to suggest it really is a positive thing, but for whatever reason we have this feeling within our society at the moment that we have to protect our kids."
Dr Duncan said he had never encountered a school that had adopted the free play approach and found it had not worked.
He said Swanson School in Auckland found that bullying disappeared after it moved to encourage unstructured play in its playground.
He said parents were supportive of the approach once it was explained to them.
Kathryn Ryan talks with Dr Scott Duncan about the pros and cons of tree climbing:
Dr Scott Duncan on Jesse Mulligan 1-4 (8 October 2015)
David Bond on Jesse Mulligan 1-4 (22 February 2016)
Topics: life and society, education
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Duration: 11'55"
09:50
Pacific issues correspondent, Michael Field
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The US tuna treaty and how it has led to a bill tabled in the US Congress to ban American aid to the South Pacific. Is Fiji coping with Cyclone Winston and has it changed the relationship with Australia and New Zealand?
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Duration: 9'38"
10:14
Ice fishing huts of Canada
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Ice fishing is as quintessential a winter activity in Canada as ice hockey, skiing and curling. In temperatures as low as -20 Celsius, fishermen and women - but mostly men - head out onto Canada's many frozen lakes and bays, erecting temporary shelters, inside which they cut a hole in the ice and get fishing. Toronto-based Richard Johnson has spent more than nine winters traveling to all of Canada's provinces photographing the quirky, personalised ice huts.
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Ice fishing is as quintessential a winter activity in Canada as ice hockey, skiing and curling.
In temperatures as low as -20 Celsius, fishermen and women - but mostly men - head out onto Canada's many frozen lakes and bays, erecting temporary shelters, inside which they cut a hole in the ice and get fishing.
Toronto-based Richard Johnson has spent more than nine winters traveling to all of Canada's provinces photographing the quirky, personalised ice huts.
He talks to Kathryn Ryan.
Topics: arts, life and society, sport
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Tags: Canada, fishing, ice fishing
Duration: 21'01"
10:40
Children's Book Review with Lesley Stead
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Lesley Stead of Paige's Book Gallery in Whanganui reviews four picture book biographies for children; Swan. The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova, Coco Chanel, Manfish, A Story of Jacques Cousteau, and Shackleton's Journey.
Topics: books
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Tags: Children's Books
Duration: 9'22"
11:06
Grant Smithies on Womad
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Founded by Peter Gabriel in 1982, WOMAD launched here in NZ a decade later (1992), with this year's event taking place March 18th-20th at Taranaki's Bowl of Brooklands. Grant Smithies checks out three key acts from this year's festival (Songhoy Blues, Asha Bhosle and De La Soul) and also unleashes a classic single from Manchester punk band, Buzzcocks, who are touring around the same time.
Topics: music
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Tags: WOMAD
Duration: 27'36"
11:30
Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
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On Martin Crowe and what did we learn from the first week of the new expanded 5 country Super rugby competition.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 12'18"
11:45
The week that was with Te Radar and Michele A'Court
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How Pretty Faces Affect Your Memory and more form the week that was.
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Duration: 11'53"
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09:05 MH370 search head on new debris find
New debris found on a beach in the southeast African nation of Mozambique has been tentatively identified as a part from the same type of aircraft as MH370. The aircraft disappeared with 239 people on board on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing almost two years ago. A massive grid search of the Indian Ocean floor is underway, lead by the Australian Transportation Safety Board. Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan talks to Kathryn about the significance of the latest find and how much longer the search will continue.
09:20 Nelson medical cannabis case
A Nelson woman who avoided a lengthy jail term for importing cannabis hopes her case will help other medicinal users. Rebecca Reider, who has complex chronic pain syndrome, was facing five charges for possession of cannabis oil and other products. She was also charged with importing cannabis products - chocolate bars with edible cannabis; a conviction which could have resulted in an eight-year jail term. She was discharged without conviction. Her lawyer Sue Grey argued the law allows exemptions where the medication was prescribed overseas.
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09:30 Why have so many schools banned kids from climbing trees?
The Principals Association estimates that most primary schools have banned tree climbing for safety reasons. AUT Sport and recreation researcher, Dr Scott Duncan says this is short sighted and limits kid's opportunities to challenge themselves physically and get closer to nature.
He'll join other parenting and recreation experts next week to speak at event called Rewild the Child - hosted by visiting British documentary maker David Bond, whom we interviewed back in 2014 about his attempts to get his kids off their screens and into the outdoors.
09:45 Pacific issues correspondent, Michael Field
10:05 Ice fishing huts of Canada
Icefishing is as quintessential a winter activity in Canada as ice hockey, skiing and curling.
In temperatures as low as -20 Celsius, fishermen and women - but mostly men - head out onto Canada's many frozen lakes and bays, erecting temporary shelters, inside which they cut a hole in the ice and get fishing.
Toronto based Richard Johnson has spent more than nine winters traveling to all of Canada's provinces photographing the quirky, personalised ice huts
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10:35 Children's Book Review with Lesley Stead
Lesley Stead of Paige's Book Gallery in Whanganui reviews four picture book biographies for children.
Swan. The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova
Author: Laurel Snyder
Illustrator: Julie Morstad
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Genre: Non-fiction picture book
Coco Chanel
Author: Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Illustrator: Ana Albero
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Genre: Non-fiction picture book
Translator: Emma Martinez
Manfish. A Story of Jacques Cousteau
Author: Jennifer Berne
Illustrator: Eric Puybaret
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Genre: Non-fiction picture book
Shackleton's Journey
Author: William Grill
Illustrator: William Grill
Publisher: Flying Eye Books
Genre: Non-fiction picture book
10:45 The Reading
Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera read by George Henare (Part 5 of 15)
11:05 Grant Smithies on Womad
Founded by Peter Gabriel in 1982, WOMAD launched here in NZ a decade later (1992), with this year's event taking place March 18th-20th at Taranaki's Bowl of Brooklands. Grant Smithies checks out three key acts from this year's festival (Songhoy Blues, Asha Bhosle and De La Soul) and also unleashes a classic single from Manchester punk band, Buzzcocks, who are touring around the same time.
11:30 Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
11:45 The week that was with Te Radar and Michele A'Court
===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 4 March 2016
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Meat giant Affco is found to have ignored its own safety rules and the police deny racist treatment of Africans.
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Duration: 14'59"
12:17
Restaurant Brands to buy large NSW KFC franchise for A$82.4M
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New Zealand's Restaurant Brands has seen its share price rise 10 percent this morning, on news that it's buying the largest KFC franshise business in New South Wales.
Topics: business
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Tags: Restaurant Brands
Duration: 2'13"
12:19
More schemes of arrangements picked as takeover method
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A scheme of arrangement requires a lower level of acceptances be completed thus avoiding the more strict provision of the takeovers code.
Topics: business
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Tags: takeovers code, Takeovers
Duration: 1'55"
12:21
Australian growth surprise rekindles lucky country tag
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The Australian economy appears to be perking up and emerging from the slump in commodity prices that has savaged the mining sector.
Topics: business
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 1'14"
12:22
Midday Markets for 4 March 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Andrew Cathie at Craigs Investment Partners.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'42"
12:25
Business briefs
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The cinema software company, Vista Group, says it's established a new venture with the Beijing Weying Technology Company, to take advantage of the expanding film market in China.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'12"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 4 March 2016
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The reigning Olympic champions, single sculler Mahe Drysdale along with the men's pair of Hamish and Eric Murray head a team of 31 rowers named at Lake Karapiro just a short time ago for the Rio Olympics in August.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'20"
12:34
Midday Rural News for 4 March 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 9'39"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
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13:13
Napier Port Development - Garth Cowie
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A new wharf at Napier Port will be the port's biggest single investment since it was established. The CEO of the Port of Napier is Garth Cowie. The big question is what it is going to cost?
Topics: transport
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Napier, wharf, port
Duration: 10'04"
13:23
Auckland Arts Festival - Justin Gregory
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It's day three of the 2016 Auckland Arts Festival. Justin Gregory has been out and about to see some of the shows on offer.
Topics: arts
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland Arts Festival
Duration: 7'09"
13:32
Photobook New Zealand - Tim J. Veling
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Photobook New Zealand is New Zealand's first festival celebrating independent photography books. The Wellington event, runs from 11 -13 March, and includes a book fair of self-published and small press photography books from here, Australia and the US. And, special exhibitions of photography books from the Asia Pacific region, Mexico and experimental New Zealand books. Tim J Veling is a Christchurch-based photographer, and a keynote speaker at the event. And he's with us now to talk about the festival, and his work.
Topics: arts
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Photobook New Zealand, photography
Duration: 5'43"
13:37
Critter Of The Week - Nicola Toki
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Nicola Toki, DOC's threatened species ambassador, finds a new species each week for us to discover. This week it's the Foveaux shag.
Topics: environment, science
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Duration: 8'06"
13:46
Favourite Album
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Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith.
Topics: music
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Duration: 9'10"
13:54
Claims that Oracle Team USA broke the rules
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Former Wall Street Journal reporter G. Bruce Knecht has written a new book, claiming to have uncovered evidence that Oracle Team USA broke the rules. The book is called The Comeback and Bruce is with us from the States.
Topics: author interview
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Duration: 4'49"
14:18
NZ Live - Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band
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On NZ live today a seven-piece band from Wellington playing old-style New Orleans jazz. The Roseneath Cenntenial Rag Time Band is back on the road again and planning a long-awaited and much-anticipated 2nd studio album.
Topics: music
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Tags: Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band
Duration: 40'27"
15:08
Food with Tom Hishon
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Tom Hishon from Orphans Kitchen talks about his root-to-leaf initiative and shares his recipe for Farro and Courgette Cannelloni.
Topics: food
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Duration: 9'42"
15:08
Food with Tom Hishon
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Tom Hishon from Orphans Kitchen talks about his root-to-leaf initiative and shares his recipe for Farro and Courgette Cannelloni.
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Duration: 9'42"
15:18
Wine with Cameron Douglas
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Master Sommelier Cameron Douglas presents some thoughts on Pinot Noir.
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Duration: 7'47"
15:25
Movies with Dr Richard Swainson
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Dr Richard Swainson has been to see Dad's Army and Mahana.
Topics: arts
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Tags: films
Duration: 12'45"
15:39
Music with Zac Arnold
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Zac Arnold previews this weekend's Music 101 programme.
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Duration: 7'40"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 4 March 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'03"
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1:15 Napier Port Development - Garth Cowie
A new wharf at Napier Port will be the port's biggest single investment since it was established. The CEO of the Port of Napier is Garth Cowie. The big question is what it is going to cost?
1:25 Auckland Arts Festival - Justin Gregory
It's day three of the 2016 Auckland Arts Festival. Justin Gregory has been out and about to see some of the shows on offer.
1:32 Photobook New Zealand - Tim J. Veling
Photobook New Zealand is New Zealand's first festival celebrating independent photography books. The Wellington event, runs from 11 -13 March, and includes a book fair of self-published and small press photography books from here, Australia and the US. And, special exhibitions of photography books from the Asia Pacific region, Mexico and experimental New Zealand books. Tim J Veling is a Christchurch-based photographer, and a keynote speaker at the event. And he's with us now to talk about the festival, and his work.
1:37 Critter Of The Week - Nicola Toki
Nicola Toki, DOC's threatened species ambassador, finds a new species each week for us to discover. This week it's the Foveaux shag.
1:40 Favourite Album
Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith.
1:55 The Comeback - G. Bruce Knecht
Former Wall Street Journal reporter G. Bruce Knecht has written a new book, claiming to have uncovered evidence that Oracle Team USA broke the rules. The book is called The Comeback, and Bruce speaks with us from the States.
2:10 NZ Live - The Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band
Today we welcome a seven piece band from Wellington, playing old-style New Orleans jazz.
2:20 New Zealand Society
A new Auckland theatre show gets you out of the black box and into the back seat of a car.
3:10 Food, Wine, Movies and Music for the Weekend
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Tom Hishon from Orphans Kitchen talks about his root-to-leaf initiative and shares his recipe for Farro and Courgette Cannelloni.
Master Sommelier Cameron Douglas presents some thoughts on Pinot Noir.
Dr Richard Swainson has been to see Dad's Army and Mahana.
Zac Arnold previews this weekend's Music 101 programme.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
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JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST: Ramsay Lewis Trio
SONG: The "In" Crowd
COMP: Billy Page
ALBUM: The Ramsay Lewis Trio
LABEL: Argo
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Elliot Smith
TITLE: Needle in The Hay
COMP: Elliot Smith
ALBUM: Elliot Smith
LABEL: Kill Rock Stars
ARTIST: Elliot Smith
TITLE: Coming Up Roses
COMP: Elliot Smith
ALBUM: Elliot Smith
LABEL: Kill Rock Stars
NEW ZEALAND LIVE:
ARTIST: Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band
TITLE: Girl I'm Gonna Leave You
COMP: Dayle Jellyman
ALBUM: Unreleased
LIVE: RNZ Wgtn
ARTIST: Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band
TITLE: Dead Man Walking
COMP: Mike Jenson
ALBUM: Ooh My Baby (EP)
LIVE: RNZ Wgtn
ARTIST: Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band
TITLE: My Sweet Sugar Pies
COMP: Dayle Jellyman, Frankie Curac
ALBUM: Ooh My Baby (EP)
LIVE: RNZ Wgtn
ARTIST: Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band
TITLE: Mean Old Woman
COMP: Dayle Jellyman
ALBUM: Roseneath Centennial Ragtime Band
LIVE: RNZ Wgtn
PANEL - HALF TIME SONG:
ARTIST: Bic Runga
TITLE: Get Some Sleep
COMP: Bic Runga
ALBUM: Beautiful Collision
LABEL: Columbia
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
=DESCRIPTION=
An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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15:45
The Panel pre-show for 4 March 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'03"
16:03
The Panel with Selwyn Manning and Ali Jones (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Selwyn Manning and Ali Jones have been up to. Lawyer James Dunne discusses where the medicinal cannabis laws are at. Barrister Anne Stevens talks about the denial of an appeal for athlete Oscar Pistorius who killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Donald Trump launches a scathing attack on Mitt Romey.
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Duration: 25'19"
16:05
The Panel with Selwyn Manning and Ali Jones (Part 2)
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A formula's been created that will give you a great night's sleep. What the Panelists Selwyn Manning and Ali Jones have been thinking about. Journalism lecturer Lyn Barnes talks about the pressure put on reporters to access grieving families. When you gotta go you gotta go. But you'd better plan at least an hour ahead when you're doing the Tongariro Crossing. A 25m tall oak is at the centre of a fight between a property developer and the local Council. The deaths of two prominent New Zealanders this week - Dr Ranginui Walker and Martin Crowe.
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Duration: 25'28"
16:07
Intro
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What the Panelists Selwyn Manning and Ali Jones have been up to.
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Duration: 4'36"
16:12
Cannabis oil
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Lawyer James Dunne discusses where the medicinal cannabis laws are at.
Topics: health
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Tags: cannabis
Duration: 6'33"
16:18
Pistorius appeal rejected
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Barrister Anne Stevens talks about the denial of an appeal for athlete Oscar Pistorius who killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
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Duration: 6'30"
16:25
Trump vs Romney
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Donald Trump launches a scathing attack on Mitt Romey.
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Tags: Donald Trump, Mitt Romey
Duration: 7'14"
16:35
Sleeping by numbers
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A formula's been created that will give you a great night's sleep.
Topics: health
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Duration: 4'25"
16:40
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Selwyn Manning and Ali Jones have been thinking about.
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Duration: 5'43"
16:45
Journalists and death
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Journalism lecturer Lyn Barnes talks about the pressure put on reporters to access grieving families.
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Duration: 7'27"
16:52
Cleaning up after tourists
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When you gotta go you gotta go. But you'd better plan at least an hour ahead when you're doing the Tongariro Crossing.
Topics: business
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Tags: tourism
Duration: 3'40"
16:56
Will giant Mosgiel oak get the chop?
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A 25m tall oak is at the centre of a fight between a property developer and the local Council.
Topics: environment
Regions: Otago
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Duration: 2'34"
16:58
Tributes to Ranginui Walker and Martin Crowe
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The deaths of two prominent New Zealanders this week - Dr Ranginui Walker and Martin Crowe.
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Duration: 1'03"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme
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17:00
Checkpoint with John Campbell, Friday 4th March 2016
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Watch Friday's full programme. It starts five minutes in.
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Duration: 00"
17:09
Customs seize 40 kilos of methamphetamine
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Customs have seized 40 kilos of methamphetamine, valued around $40 million, and over $1 million in cash and luxury cars. Customs Investigation Manager Maurice O'Brien joins Checkpoint.
Topics: crime
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Tags: methamphetamine
Duration: 4'37"
17:13
Police respond to allegations of racist treatment
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Police have responded to claims that Africans in Auckland received racist treatment. Superintendent Wally Haumaha joins Checkpoint.
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Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: police
Duration: 4'39"
17:18
Cleaner tried to apologise while impaled
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A judge has found meat company Affco guilty of breaching health and safety law after a cleaner's head was impaled by a hook, leaving him suspended in mid air.
Topics: law, crime
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: AFFCO
Duration: 3'18"
17:21
Prepared Produce Limited fined
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And in a reserved decision released today, Prepared Produce Limited was fined $196,000 for six offences and ordered to pay $57,000 in reparation to three victims whose fingers were amputated in a belt slicing machine.
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Duration: 54"
17:23
Wellington homeless shelter about to run out of money
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Wellington Night Shelter is making an urgent plea to ratepayers for extra money to keep the service open.
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Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Wellington Night Shelter
Duration: 4'00"
17:27
Hundreds attend final farewell to Ranginui Walker
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Hundreds of people have attended a funeral service at Orakei Marae for Dr Ranginui Walker, who died on Monday aged 83. Maori Issues correspondent Mihingarangi Forbes reports.
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Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Dr Ranginui Walker
Duration: 2'36"
17:30
Goats on the loose in West Coast's Blackball
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Sixteen goats are on the loose in Blackball, on the West Coast, and the Grey District Council is looking for their owner.
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Regions: West Coast
Tags: goats
Duration: 3'20"
17:36
Evening business for 4 March 2016
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News from the business sector, including a market report.
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Duration: 2'28"
17:39
Crown finishes calling witnesses in WINZ murder trial
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The crown has finished calling its witnesses in the trial of Russell Tully, the man accused of murdering Ashburton WINZ employees Peggy Noble and Leigh Cleveland. Sally Murphy reports.
Topics: crime
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Russell Tully
Duration: 3'31"
17:43
Calls for more openness in NZ-EU free trade talks
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Critics of the Trans-Pacific-Partnership, the TPPA, are calling on the Government not to make the same mistake when free trade talks start with the European Union, and keep them secret.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 3'52"
17:47
The "strangest, least predicatable" US presidential campaign
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Mitt Romney, the Republican Party's last Presidential Candidate, he lost to Obama in 2012, has launched an almost unprecedented attack on Donald Trump.
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Duration: 5'35"
17:52
Anniversary of Fukushima earthquake approaching
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Thursday will mark five years since a magnitude 9 earthquake struck Japan triggering a tsunami and killing almost 16,000 people.
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Duration: 1'29"
17:53
Young man dancing with nanny goes viral
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Jarryd Stoneman filmed himself dancing with his 93-year-old nanny, Katie - and was astonished and humbled by the reception it received online. They join Checkpoint.
Topics: life and society
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: dance
Duration: 5'26"
18:09
Another opinion poll has shed doubt on flag change
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Another opinion poll has shed doubt on the chances of a new flag for New Zealand.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 2'13"
18:14
Gold medal trio to head NZ's biggest ever Olympic rowing team
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Single sculler Mahe Drysdale and men's pair Hamish and Eric Murray will head New Zealand's biggest ever rowing team at the Rio Olympics in August.
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Duration: 2'46"
18:17
Sports news for 4 March 2016
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The Breakers take on the Perth Wildcats in a must-win match tonight at the North Shore Events Centre.
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Duration: 3'50"
18:21
Counting underway in Samoan election
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With vote-counting underway in Samoa, which held its general election today, Autagavaia Tipi Autagavaia joins Checkpoint from the electoral office to discuss the results.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 2'14"
18:23
Auckland child asks for doggie donations
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For her birthday, five-year-old Sophia Bidois asked friends to bring gifts for dogs in a South Auckland animal shelter, rather than presents for her. She and her mum joined Checkpoint.
Topics: life and society
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: dogs
Duration: 2'56"
18:27
Celebrating Ranginui Walker with a waiata
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Western Springs College's Maori immersion unit, Nga Puna O Waiorea, ended Dr Ranginui Walker's funeral today with a waiata, to celebrate an extraordinary New Zealander's life.
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Duration: 3'00"
18:45
Focus on Politics for 4 March 2016
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Gang members and their families are now in the Government's sights, with the release of a multi-pronged anti-gang initiative. The Police Minister, and the Minister of Social Development have announced a plan to gather more information, tackle illegal drugs and firearms, and to break up gang membership that has continued from one generation to the next.
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Duration: 15'33"
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===6:30 PM. | Worldwatch===
=DESCRIPTION=
The stories behind the international headlines
===6:43 PM. | Focus on Politics===
=DESCRIPTION=
Analysis of significant political issues presented by RNZ's parliamentary reporting team (RNZ)
===7:06 PM. | Nights===
=DESCRIPTION=
RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
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20:10
Nights' Sport - United States of America
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LA Times sports journalist Helene Elliott likes fast moving competitions where pucks are hit by sticks... Los Angeles are finally getting a National Football League team back; and National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League will be moving toward their playoffs...
Topics: sport
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Tags: USA, gridiron, tennis, basketball, NFL, NBA
Duration: 16'23"
20:50
Conundrum - answer
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This weeks answer.
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7:07 Sonic Tonic - waste
music with magic and mischief spun into an surreal sensation of mayhem and maybe magnificence...
8:12 Nights' Sport - United States of America
LA Times sports journalist Helene Elliott likes fast moving competitions where pucks are hit by sticks... Los Angeles are finally getting a National Football League team back; and National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League will be moving toward their playoffs...
sport roster: Europe, Australia, United Kingdom & United States of America, plus sports beyond the primary codes
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8:25 Spotlight - Splore 2016
musical Kiwis (under a spotlight)
8:53 Conundrum answer - an explanation of clues & winner's song
9:07 Country Life
keeping it rural
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 The Friday Finale - Duane Allman: Skydog Radio Special
... nights' time is the right time...
===9:06 PM. | Country Life===
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Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand
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21:05
Fiji - On The Land after Cyclone Winston
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Horticulture consultant Kyle Stice says it will be many months before crops devastated by Cyclone Winston in Fiji are back in production.
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Horticulture consultant Kyle Stice says it will be many months before crops devastated by Cyclone Winston in Fiji are back in production.
Topics: weather
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Tags: Fiji, Cyclone Winston, horticulture, Nadi
Duration: 4'32"
21:10
Seed Saving for Cyclones
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Sant Kumar has a nursery in Nadi and has managed to protect his plants from two devastating cyclones. When word comes through that a cyclone is approaching, he unclips and folds away his shade cloth and runs trays of seedlings into racks in shipping containers. He's already back in business following Cyclone Winston.
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Sant Kumar has a nursery in Nadi and has managed to protect his plants from two devastating cyclones. When word comes through that a cyclone is approaching, he unclips and folds away his shade cloth and runs trays of seedlings into racks in shipping containers. He's already back in business following Cyclone Winston.
Topics: weather, farming
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Tags: Fiji, Cyclone Winston, horticulture, Nadi, plant nursery
Duration: 2'13"
21:12
Regional Wrap
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Wairarapa has been sweltering while down south the ram is out on early country.
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Wairarapa has been sweltering while down south the ram is out on early country.
Topics: rural, farming
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Tags: farming conditions
Duration: 6'18"
21:17
Spinning the Wheel
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In 1940 Walter Ashford started making spinning wheels and weaving looms. 76 years on his son Richard and his wife Elizabeth Ashford are still running the family business that has made over 500,000 spinning wheels and 300,000 weaving looms.
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In 1934 Walter Ashford founded Ashford Handicrafts in the Christchurch suburb of New Brighton. Eighty-two years later his son Richard and wife Elizabeth Ashford are still running the family business that has become a world leader in the manufacture of quality wooden textile equipment.
"The business started with Dad and his sister making wooden stools and my aunty, she would weave sea grass tops onto them and Dad would sell them around Christchurch off the back of his bike". Richard says.
In 1940 Walter began making spinning wheels after being approached by a magazine wanting a local business to make spinning wheels for the war effort. During the Second World War more than 3000 of Walter's spinning wheels were made and used to make garments for soldiers, sailors and prisoners of war all around the world. Since then Ashford Handicrafts have made over 500,000 spinning wheels and 300,000 weaving looms and business is still booming.
Elizabeth Ashford has edited and published several educational books on spinning knitting, weaving, dying and felting and has produced a number of instructional YouTube videos in a studio above the Ashford showroom in Ashburton. The most popular video, called Weaving on the SampleIt Loom, has had over one million views.
Topics: rural
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Ashford Handicrafts, spinning wheel, weaving loom, wool
Duration: 11'06"
21:29
Kaimanawa King
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Rockstar was rounded up in the 2014 Kaimanawa muster. Three weeks later the four-year-old wild horse had a rider on his back. He then went on to win the Kaimanawa Heritage Stallion Challenge; a competition to highlight the breed and to show how trainers can work wonders with the feral horses.
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Rockstar is living up to his name.
Just ten months after being mustered from the foothills of the Kaimanawa Range the former feral horse strutted his stuff at last year's Horse of the Year Show and took the top prize in the Kaimanawa Heritage Stallion Challenge.
Tina Fagan, who prepared Rockstar for stardom, says he loves the limelight and isn't at all fazed by loud music or cheering crowds.
She says it's incredible given he had not seen a person, a vehicle or a fence before he was mustered by helicpoter in 2014.
"I can only imagine what a horse sees us as the first time it sees us. I mean we must look like some sort of an alien creature."
Tina owns a Sports Horse stud at Pukekawa in Northern Waikato and was leading Rockstar around just a week after he had been msutered. Within three weeks he was being ridden.
Thirteen trainers were allocated a wild Kaimanawa stallion to train. Tina says the Stallion Challenge showcased training techniques and also promoted the breed.
Every two years the Department of Conservation musters Kaimanwa horses to keep the wild population at 300.
Following the 2014 muster 147 horses found homes and 15 were sent to slaughter.
This year's muster is scheduled for late May or early June and counts suggest 200 horses will be coming in from the wild.
Topics: rural
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Kaimanawa horses, Kaimanawa muster
Duration: 11'09"
21:39
Gumboots - Finding New Zealand's Oldest Pair
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The Country Life team is on the hunt for New Zealand's oldest pair of gumboots. Most farmers attending the Kauroa Weaner sale near Raglan agreed that one or two years was their oldest pair. However one farmer reckons he has 40 year old ones, they belonged to his grandfather and are lurking "under rubbish somewhere at home." Tell us how old your boots are, and the most interesting place they've been worn. Write to us at: Country Life, PO Box 9490, Hamilton 3240 or email: country@radionz.co.nz
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The Country Life team is on the hunt for New Zealand's oldest pair of gumboots. Most farmers attending the Kauroa Weaner sale near Raglan agreed that one or two years was their oldest pair. However one farmer reckons he has 40 year old ones, they belonged to his grandfather and are lurking "under rubbish somewhere at home." Tell us how old your boots are, and the most interesting place they've been worn. Write to us at: Country Life, PO Box 9490, Hamilton 3240 or email: country@radionz.co.nz
Topics: rural, farming
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Tags: gumboots, red bands
Duration: 3'58"
21:43
Sheep Milking with Landcorp
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Landcorp, in a joint venture partnership, has set up a sheep milking farm called Spring Sheep Dairy on the Central Plateau. Three thousand East Friesians have been milked this season with nearly all the milk ending up as a high value nutritional product in Taiwan. Those working with the sheep say they're friendly and calm and happily walk into the milking parlour to get their daily top up feed. The sheep are slightly more difficult to shear with their big udders, and weighing in at 100 kilos they're nearly twice the weight of normal sheep. Shearer Chad Hopkins says it will take about six days to get through the flock, and it's hard work, "but give us a few beers and we'll be happy."
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Landcorp, in a joint venture partnership, has set up a sheep milking farm called Spring Sheep Dairy on the Central Plateau. Three thousand East Friesians have been milked this season with nearly all the milk ending up as a high value nutritional product in Taiwan. Those working with the sheep say they're friendly and calm and happily walk into the milking parlour to get their daily top up feed.
The sheep are slightly more difficult to shear with their big udders, and weighing in at 100 kilos they're nearly twice the weight of normal sheep. Shearer Chad Hopkins says it will take about six days to get through the flock, and it's hard work, "but give us a few beers and we'll be happy."
Topics: rural, farming
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: East Friesians, milking sheep
Duration: 10'44"
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===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)===
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