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:
15 March 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 The Retro Cocktail Hour (KPR) 3:05 Juggling with Mandarins, by V M Jones, read by Matt Whelan (2 of 10, 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 15 March 2016
BODY:
It was dodgy plumbing products yesterday - today the quality of more imported building supplies are questioned. Dairies in South Auckland say they are giving up calling police for help and Little says banks toe line over dairy debt.
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Duration: 29'03"
06:06
Sports News for 15 March 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'38"
06:09
Aid agencies struggle to deliver food supplies
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New peace talks aimed at halting the fighting in Syria have begun in Geneva overnight.
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Tags: Syria
Duration: 5'25"
06:15
UN reviews NZ's Human Rights record
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New Zealand's human rights record is being scrutinised by the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva.
Topics: politics
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Tags: UN, Human Rights Committee
Duration: 4'09"
06:22
Early business news
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'34"
06:25
Morning Rural News for 15 March 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 3'59"
06:34
Markets Update for 15 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: 59"
06:41
Israel says countries looking to trade with Iran should be wary
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Israel's ambassador to New Zealand says any country looking to develop a closer trading relationship with Iran should be wary, given its past actions.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Israel, Iran
Duration: 2'14"
06:43
Perth family sues over NZers disappearance after MH370 crash
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The family of Paul Weeks, one of the New Zealand victims in the MH370 crash, are claiming mental harm and sudden shock in the lawsuit they've just filed against Malaysia Airlines.
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Tags: MH370, Malaysia Airlines
Duration: 3'31"
06:50
RBNZ hammers expectations message
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The Reserve Bank is reiterating that it will cut rates further if consumers and businesses keep thinking low inflation is here to stay.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: inflation
Duration: 2'25"
06:53
Tech savy companies making mark on established financial firms
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The accounting firm, PWC, says established banks and insurance companies have an element of fear about new tech-driven competitors -- but are willing to join forces to bring them up to speed.
Topics: business
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Tags: PwC
Duration: 2'01"
06:55
Small company directors expected to struggle with new rules
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The Institute of Directors is concerned how about how well directors of small companies will cope with the implementation of new health and safety regulations that come into force next month.
Topics: business
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Tags: directors
Duration: 1'26"
06:57
Morning markets for 15 March 2016
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American stocks are little changed, investors choosing to be cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'03"
06:58
Business briefs
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Industriual property developer Argosy has bought a site in a North Shore Business Park in Auckland for $8.1 million .. It says it will spend another $14.2 million to develop the site for a tenant at another of its properties who needs a bigger space.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'27"
07:07
Sports News for 15 March 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'37"
07:11
Building industry to launch probe into dodgy building supplies
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Major building industry bodies are looking into product quality after fielding a flood of calls from worried members about a wide range of untested imports.
Topics: housing
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Tags: product quality, imports
Duration: 6'23"
07:18
Papakura dairy owners fed up with police
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Dairies in a south Auckland suburb say they've stopped reporting robberies to police in recent months because nothing is being done and nobody's being held accountable.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: dairies
Duration: 3'23"
07:21
South Auckland dairy owners losing faith in police
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Calum Penrose is the Papakura ward councillor on the Auckland Council.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: dairys
Duration: 3'17"
07:27
Auckland Airport changes taxi tender process
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Auckland airport taxis and complaints have gone hand in hand for years.
Topics: transport
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: taxis, Auckland Airport
Duration: 3'43"
07:35
Dietitians NZ unlikey to accept more money from Coca-Cola
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Dietitians New Zealand says it's highly unlikely to accept money from Coca-Cola again after figures showed the multinational gave it more than 7-thousand-dollars over five years.
Topics: health
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Tags: Coca-Cola, Dietitians New Zealand
Duration: 3'31"
07:38
Little says banks toe line over dairy debt
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The Labour Leader Andrew Little wants commercial banks "stiff armed" or prevented from forcing struggling and heavily indebted dairy farmers off their land.
Topics: farming, business, politics
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Tags: dairy prices, banks
Duration: 5'37"
07:44
Man who killed another in road rage wins bid to stay
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A man who killed a 78-year-old grandfather in a road-rage attack has won his bid to stay in the country.
Topics: crime, law
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Bio O'Brien
Duration: 2'30"
07:47
Maori MPs call for apology on 'racist' Kiwi Meter survey
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Maori MPs are calling for the state broadcaster TVNZ to apologise and retract questions they say are racist from a Kiwi Meter survey which seeks to find out how Kiwi we all are.
Topics: media
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Tags: TVNZ
Duration: 3'42"
07:51
Proposed changes to the RMA go too far
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The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment says proposed changes to the Resource Management Act go too far.
Topics: environment, politics, law
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Tags: RMA, DOC
Duration: 3'33"
07:55
NZ new fiver named as a finalist for banknote of the year
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The new five dollar note has been in the tills for only a few months and already it's among the world's best.
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Tags: money, hillary
Duration: 2'07"
08:07
Sports News for 15 March 2016
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'13"
08:10
Building industry calling for compulsory certification
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Major building industry bodies have launched their own inquiry into the quality of imported building supplies.
Topics: housing
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Tags: building supplies
Duration: 6'01"
08:17
Russia's president orders troops to quit Syria
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The Russian president Vladimir Putin has announced that he has ordered his forces to begin withdrawing from Syria, saying they have achieved their goals in the country.
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Tags: Russia, Syria
Duration: 3'23"
08:20
Rebels MC say Australia's kiwi bikie cull unfair to families
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Australia's cull of New Zealanders it considers undesirable has spread from those jailed for crimes to bikies and other gang members.
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Tags: Australia, immigration
Duration: 3'59"
08:24
Black Caps face reality of life without Brendon McCullum
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Life without Brendon McCullum begins officially tomorrow for the Black Caps, when their Twenty20 cricket world cup campaign begins in India.
Topics: sport
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Tags: cricket
Duration: 4'25"
08:29
Coca-Cola funding under scrutiny
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An American professor of global nutrition says Coca-Cola's support of prominent health researchers is reminiscent of tactics used by the tobacco industry
Topics: health
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Tags: Coca-Cola
Duration: 4'23"
08:39
New report estimates cost of illegal tuna fishing
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A major report on illegal and unreported tuna fishing in the Pacific will be made public today.
Topics: environment, Pacific
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Tags: fishing
Duration: 3'13"
08:43
February records spike in global temperatures
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The month of February has smashed all previous global temperature records.
Topics: weather, climate
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Tags: February, global temperature records
Duration: 3'09"
08:50
Iranian Foreign Minister visits NZ,
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The Iranian Foreign Minister has defended his country's human rights record, as his country and New Zealand work towards closer trade links.
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Tags: Iran
Duration: 3'19"
08:53
TVNZ's 'special treatment' question widely criticised
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Television New Zealand says it has no intention of removing a question asking whether Maori should receive special treatment from its online Kiwi Meter survey.
Topics: media, te ao Maori
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Tags: TVNZ
Duration: 4'44"
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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 (12 of 15, Word Pictures)
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09:10
Russia begins withdrawing troops from Syria
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The Russian President, Vladimir Putin told the Kremlin that their mission had been accomplished and it is now time to focus on peacetalks. Russia entered the Syrian civil war last September, and its bombing campaign helped the Syrian government forces to recapture territory from rebel groups. But it has been accused by Syrian activists and human rights groups of targeting moderate opposition groups and causing significant civilian casualites. Berlin based journalist Lucian Kim has been covering Russia and its role in eastern europe and the middle east for two decades.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Russia, Syria
Duration: 12'38"
09:22
Govt looking at radical shake up of decile funding system
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The Secondary Principal's Council says the government is planning a radical shakeup of the school decile funding system, using data gathered about children from across government agencies. The council has seen documents from the Education Ministry showing a system is being considered which would identify children at risk of educational underachievement, according to four factors. Allan Vester is the chair of the NZ Secondary Principal's Council
Topics: education
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Duration: 14'40"
09:37
Getting ahead through smarter migration policies
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How can we attract skilled, creative and entrepreneurial people born in other countries? How can our 'seventeenth region' - the more than 600,000 New Zealanders living abroad, be a greater national asset ? Julie Fry is a consulting economist who divides her time between New York and a family farm near Motueka. She has worked on migration policy issues since the early 1990s, designing programmes and advising agencies including The Treasury, Te Puni Kokiri, and HM Treasury in London. She has written a book with Hayden Glass called, Going Places, which argues that we could do significantly better if we changed some of our policies.
Topics: economy, business, refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags: migration, visas
Duration: 12'33"
09:50
US correspondent Susan Milligan
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Presidential Elections.
Topics: politics
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Tags: US
Duration: 10'22"
10:08
Pakistani entrepreneur, philanthropist Seema Aziz
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More than 25 million children are out of school in Pakistan, which has the second lowest literacy rate in the world. Seema Aziz is Pakistan's most successful businesswoman, founder of a high-end fashion business. She's also the founder of CARE Pakistan, which runs 450 schools around the country, educating 195 thousand children. Her aim is to reach one million. She talks to Kathryn Ryan about her belief that access to schooling is the country's biggest opportunity.
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More than 25 million children are out of school in Pakistan, which has the second lowest literacy rate in the world.
Seema Aziz is Pakistan's most successful businesswoman, founder of a high-end fashion business.
She's also the founder of CARE Pakistan, which runs 450 schools around the country, educating 195,000 children - but her aim is to reach one million.
She talks to Kathryn Ryan about her belief that access to schooling is the country's biggest opportunity.
Topics: education
Regions:
Tags: development, aid
Duration: 29'57"
10:39
Book review - Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama
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Reviewed by Quentin Johnson, published by Hachette.
Topics: books
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Duration: 3'24"
11:07
Business commentator Rod Oram
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Interest rate cuts and monetary policy. Fonterra leadership changes.
Topics: business, technology
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Duration: 16'53"
11:24
Valentijn Dhaenens and his Big Mouth
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From overblown rhetoric to subtle discourse, Belgium's Valentijn Dhaenens uses his Big Mouth to explore the manipulative power of words.
His one-man show BigMouth makes its New Zealand debut at this year's Auckland Arts Festival
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It's not what you say but how you say it that matters.
From Socrates to Martin Luther King and Osama bin Laden, Belgium's Valentijn Dhaenens pays homage to oration by using the best speeches of all time to show the power of words, for both good and evil.
Whether they're spoken, shouted, or whispered he explores inspirational public speeches from the past 2,500 years.
He speaks to Nine to Noon's Kathryn Ryan
Valentijn's one-man show BigMouth makes its New Zealand debut this week at the Auckland Arts Festival.
Read Paul Bushnell's review of the show here.
Topics: arts, politics
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Tags: Valentijn Dhaenens
Duration: 18'29"
11:44
Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
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Gavin Ellis discusses the media merry-go-round that keeps spinning with the resignation of NZME's CEO Jane Hastings. She achieved the integration of the New Zealand Herald and The Radio Network but failed to bring about a promised IPO and website paywall. What does the changing of the guard mean? Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz
Topics: media
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Duration: 15'58"
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09:05 Russia begins withdrawing troops from Syria
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin told the Kremlin that their mission had been accomplished and it is now time to focus on peacetalks.
Russia entered the Syrian civil war last September, and its bombing campaign helped the Syrian government forces to recapture territory from rebel groups.
But it has been accused by Syrian activists and human rights groups of targeting moderate opposition groups and causing significant civilian casualites.
Berlin based journalist Lucian Kim has been covering Russia and its role in eastern europe and the middle east for two decades.
09:20 Getting ahead through smarter migration policies
How can we attract skilled, creative and entrepreneurial people born in other countries? How can our 'seventeenth region' - the more than 600,000 New Zealanders living abroad, be a greater national asset ?
Julie Fry is a consulting economist who divides her time between New York and a family farm near Motueka. She has worked on migration policy issues since the early 1990s, designing programmes and advising agencies including The Treasury, Te Puni Kōkiri, and HM Treasury in London.
She has written a book with Hayden Glass called, Going Places, which argues that we could do significantly better if we changed some of our policies.
09:45 US correspondent Susan Milligan
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10:05 Pakistani entrepreneur, businesswoman and philanthropist Seema Aziz
More than 25 million children are out of school in Pakistan, which has the second lowest literacy rate in the world. Seema Aziz is Pakistan's most successful businesswoman, founder of a high-end fashion business. She's also the founder of CARE Pakistan, which runs 450 schools around the country, educating 195 thousand children. Her aim is to reach one million. She talks to Kathryn Ryan about her belief that access to schooling is the country's biggest opportunity.
10:35 Book review: Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama
Reviewed by Quentin Johnson
Published by Hachette
10:45 The Reading: Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera read by George Henare (Part 12 of 15)
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
11:20 Valentijn Dhaenens and his Big Mouth
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It's not what you say but how you say it that matters. From Socrates to Martin Luther King and Osama bin Laden, Belgium's Valentijn Dhaenens pays homage to oration by using the best speeches of all time to show the power of words, for both good and evil.
His one-man show 'BigMouth' makes its New Zealand debut at Auckland Arts Festival 2016.
11:45 Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
Gavin Ellis discusses the media merry-go-round that keeps spinning with the resignation of NZME's CEO Jane Hastings. She achieved the integration of the New Zealand Herald and The Radio Network but failed to bring about a promised IPO and website paywall. What does the changing of the guard mean?
Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz
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Artist: Ellie Goulding
Song: Starry Eyed
Composer: Goulding /Latimer
Album: Lights
Label: Polydor
Time: 10:43
===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 15 March 2016
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The Social Development Minister, Anne Tolley, says she would consider allowing the registration of child sex offenders to be reviewed after 15 years. The Labour Party leader, Andrew Little, says a Labour-led government would consider forcing banks to pass on central bank interest rate cuts to their customers.
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Duration: 15'01"
12:17
Countdown eyes New World as it builds new stores
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The supermarket chain, Countdown, is on the expansion trail as it goes head-to-head with Foodstuffs' New World and Pak'N Save.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Countdown, supermarkets
Duration: 1'57"
12:19
Partnerships between established firms & new kids on the block
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The changing shape of the financial services business is forcing established banks and insurance companies to join up with new tech-driven competitors.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: banks, Financial services
Duration: 1'15"
12:20
Synlait to pay farmers bonuses
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The small Canterbury dairy company, Synlait, is paying its farmer-suppliers a total of around 6 million dollars in bonuses, on top of its milk price.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Synlait, dairy, Bonuses
Duration: 33"
12:20
Payroll Practioners says Holiday Act is a political hot potato
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The Payroll Practitioners' Association doubts the confusion and problems surrounding the Holidays Act, will be sorted out anytime soon.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Holidays Act, Payroll Practitioners' Association
Duration: 1'59"
12:22
Midday Markets for 15 March 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: 2'15"
12:24
Business briefs
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The property developer, Goodman Property Trust, says it's sold the office component of its Connect Business Park in Auckland to a local investor for almost 41 million dollars
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Goodman Property Trust
Duration: 1'07"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 15 March 2016
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The New Zealand cricketers face the toughest possible start to the World T20 tournament tonight as they take on hosts and favourites India in Nagpur.
Topics: sport
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Tags: cricket
Duration: 2'47"
12:34
Midday Rural News for 15 March 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Tags:
Duration: 8'57"
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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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13:16
The Cacophony Project - Grant Ryan
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The sound of the local dawn chorus is set to become louder, if Grant Ryan has anything to do with it. He's invented a Cacophonometer... or simply put, a bit of hardware that's in the bush, that records sounds and sends the recordings to the cloud. It's part of The Cacophony Project and it's aim is to help create a healthier ecosystem.
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"It's literally a 'canary in the mine' type thing. If it's a healthy environment you hear lots of birds – if you don't, it's not."
The sound of the New Zealand dawn chorus is set to become louder if Grant Ryan has anything to do with it.
He's invented a Cacophonometer... or simply put, a bit of hardware that records sounds from the bush and sends the recordings to the cloud. It's part of The Cacophony Project, which aims is to help create a healthier ecosystem.
Grant Ryan spoke to Jesse Mulligan about his dream to spread digital ears all over the country:
Topics: rural, environment, science
Regions:
Tags: birds, Birdsong, native birds, Cacophonometer, The Cacophony Project
Duration: 10'36"
13:26
Kakapo 125 Project - Sandy Baines
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The Kakapo 125 project was launched last night. It aims to sequence the genomes of every kakapo in the world. And it's the first time it's been done for an entire species. The project is being undertaken by Genetics Otago and New Zealand Genomics Ltd, with support from the Government. Sandy Baines is the chief operating officer at New Zealand Genomics Ltd.
Topics: rural, environment, science
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Tags: kakapo, genetics, Genetics Otago, New Zealand Genomics, genome sequencing
Duration: 7'14"
13:33
New Zealand Festival - Lynn Freeman
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The Modern Maori Quartet, work by a dance legend, small metal objects and a booze soaked rock 'n' roll cabaret are all coming up in the third and final week of the New Zealand Festival in Wellington. Standing Room Only presenter Lynn Freeman can't wait!
Topics: arts, music
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Tags: New Zealand Festival
Duration: 8'39"
13:42
Favourite Album - Watch Your Step
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Watch Your Step - Ted Hawkins
Topics: music
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Tags: Watch Your Step
Duration: 15'40"
14:09
Women Behind The Law - Dr Rhonda Powell
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The University of Canterbury is holding a seminar called Women Behind The Law. And its aim is to talk about the role of women in cases, and how they have influenced the development of law in New Zealand. One of the speakers is Dr Rhonda Powell, who's a lecturer at the University of Canterbury School of Law.
Topics: law, life and society, inequality
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Tags: University Of Canterbury, Women Behind The Law, women
Duration: 9'46"
14:19
Great NZ Concerts - Simon and Garfunkel's Old Friends Tour
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During a six decades long career, Simon & Garfunkel recorded just five studio albums but each was laced with hit singles. The duo came to New Zealand in 1983 and again, 26 years later, in June 2009. Today we remember their Classic New Zealand Concert of 7 years ago.
Topics: music
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Tags: concerts
Duration: 40'35"
15:11
Somini Sengupta
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They say you can never go home again. But after 30 years away, Somini Sengupta, who was born in Calcutta, returned to India to be the New Delhi bureau chief for The New York Times. She says the country was barely recognisable from the one she and her family left in 1975 when they immigrated to California. It is a country trying to reconcile its past where sex and caste determine destiny, and its future.
Topics: refugees and migrants, life and society, author interview
Regions:
Tags: Canada, California, India, Calcutta
Duration: 22'32"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 15 March 2016
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What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
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Duration: 13'30"
21:06
CarpN Neutral - doing good things with bad koi carp
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Introduced koi carp are a nuisance in lakes and rivers in the Waikato, and the CarpN Neutral project catches them and turns their bodies into fertiliser for use in native revegetation programmes.
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The Carp-N Neutral project in the Waikato is trying to make good from a bad pest fish, and turn back the orange tide that has taken over the streams, lakes and wetlands of the Waikato in the last few decades.
Freshwater ecologist Bruno David is spearheading the Waikato Regional Council initiative, which aims to harness the nutrients contained in nuisance koi carp and repurpose them for beneficial environmental outcomes.
Each spring, thousands of koi carp leave the streams and wetlands of the Waikato and head to lakes such as Waikare to spawn.
The project literally heads the migrating koi carp off at the pass, sending them up a specially-designed fish pass at the Lake Waikare outlet where they get caught in a fish trap. The fish trap is a cage with a mesh that is large enough to allow smaller native fish to swim through, but which traps the much larger koi carp and other pest fish such as bullhead catfish.
“One female koi carp can potentially produce 400,000 eggs, so [when we catch] one fish we’ve prevented nearly half a million baby fish,” says Bruno.
Many Waikato lakes, such as Lake Waikare, suffer from excess nitrogen and phosphorous runoff from surrounding farmland. Although the koi carp stir up sediment in the lake as they feed, their advantage is that they also remove nutrients.
“[Koi carp] are aquatic vacuum cleaners basically. They use their feelers and big ‘juju’ lips to fossick around in the sediment after small organisms.”
Rather than waste the nutrients that end up incorporated into the fish flesh, Bruno has been developing a Carp-N Neutral project that uses the fish as a source of environmentally friendly fertiliser, rich in potassium, phosphorous and nitrogen, that can replace the expensive fertiliser tablets currently used in revegetation programmes, which use synthesised nitrogen and mined phosphorous..
“Effectively what we’re doing is recycling a whole lot of nutrients,” says Bruno. “We’re trying to replace that fertiliser tablet with an invasive organism, and using a recycled nutrient rather than one that was mined or synthesised.”
Small koi carp look like goldfish (although they have barbels around their mouth that goldfish lack), and it is thought they were introduced to New Zealand in a consignment of goldfish during the 1950s. It wasn’t until the 1970s that they reached large enough numbers to have a noticeable effect in lake and rivers.
In the four years that it has been running, the trial Carp-N Neutral project has removed 35 tonnes of invasive fish from Lake Waikare.
The Carp-N Neutral process uses thermophilic digestion to turn koi carp into fertiliser pellets. After the fish are euthanased their bodies are put into a large digestor along with a ‘starter’ that contains the bacteria Bacillus subtilis.
Bruno says the aerobic bacteria “like to eat protein and generate heat … and all we need to do is provide them air.”
The digestion process is rapid: it takes 48-72 hours to break down 3-4 tonnes of fish into a dry granular fishmeal that Bruno has nicknamed ‘carpuccino.’ This is then mixed with locally sourced biochar – they are currently using waste corn - and sent to a factory to be turned into pellets.
The biochar provides carbon and structure, binds ammonia, reduces aroma and helps create a slow-release fertiliser.
The fertiliser pellets are being trialled at four dune restoration sites. The idea is that there used to be large numbers of seabirds that would have once naturally supplied lots of nutrients in the form of guano.
Another by-product of the digestion process is an oily liquid that can be diluted and used as fertiliser.
Bruno says they have also been trialling the fishy-smelling liquid as a bait for stoat and rat traps, with promising results.
“It’s the concept of using one invasive species to control another invasive,” says Bruno. “We’re trying to make a few wins like that.”
In future, the Waikato Regional Council would like to consider creating biochar from invasive trees such as willows that they remove in large numbers from the Waikato’s wetlands.
Bruno David won a national environmental Green Ribbon Award in 2015 in the "caring for our water” category for the prototype Carp-N Neutral project, which he hopes to expand to several other sites in the Waikato.
Bruno David won the 2014 New Zealand National Fielddays Society Innovation Award for his work with native freshwater fish. He was on Our Changing World last year talking about ‘kokopu condos’ and ‘tuna townhouses’, which are innovative homes for freshwater fish in urban streams.
Topics: science, environment
Regions: Waikato
Tags: introduced species, pests, fish, koi carp, Lake Waikare, Waikato Regional Council
Duration: 14'52"
=SHOW NOTES=
1:10 First Song
'Sittin' Here' - St Germain.
1:17 The Cacophony Project - Grant Ryan
The sound of the local dawn chorus is set to become louder, if Grant Ryan has anything to do with it. He's invented a Cacophonometer... or simply put, a bit of hardware that's in the bush, that records sounds and sends the recordings to the cloud. It's part of The Cacophony Project and it's aim is to help create a healthier ecosystem.
1:27 Sushi! - Endo Kazutoshi and Nic Watt
One of the world's most celebrated sushi chefs is in New Zealand. Endo Kazutoshi is recreating his acclaimed sushi at an series of events at the award winning MASU restaurant in Auckland.
1:34 New Zealand Festival - Lynn Freeman
The Modern Maori Quartet, work by a dance legend, small metal objects and a booze soaked rock 'n' roll cabaret are all coming up in the third and final week of the New Zealand Festival in Wellington. Standing Room Only presenter Lynn Freeman can't wait!
1:40 Favourite Album
Watch Your Step - Ted Hawkins.
2:10 Women Behind The Law - Dr Rhonda Powell
The University of Canterbury is holding a seminar called Women Behind The Law. And its aim is to talk about the role of women in cases, and how they have influenced the development of law in New Zealand. One of the speakers is Dr Rhonda Powell, who's a lecturer at the University of Canterbury School of Law.
2:20 Great New Zealand Concerts - Simon and Garfunkel's Old Friends Tour (2009)
During a six decades long career, Simon & Garfunkel recorded just five studio albums but each was laced with hit singles. The duo came to New Zealand in 1983 and again, 26 years later, in June 2009. Today we remember their Classic New Zealand Concert of 7 years ago.
3:10 Feature Interview - Somini Sengupta
They say you can never go home again. But after 30 years away, Somini Sengupta, who was born in Calcutta, returned to India to be the New Delhi bureau chief for The New York Times. She says the country was barely recognisable from the one she and her family left in 1975 when they immigrated to California. It is a country trying to reconcile its past where sex and caste determine destiny, and its future.
3:30 Our Changing World
Koi carp are a significant problem in some Waikato Lakes, and Waikato Regional Council's Bruno David has come up with a solution that not only removes the unwanted introduced fish from the lakes, but does something useful with the bodies. Alison joins Bruno at a fish trap and he shows her how the fish are caught, dispatched and then fed into a biodigestor to produce 'carp-uccino' and fertiliser pellets that are then used to give native plantings a boost.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
=PLAYLIST=
JESSE'S PICK:
ARTIST: St. Germain
SONG: Sittin' Here
COMP: Ludovic Navarre
ALBUM: St Germain
LABEL: Download
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Ted Hawkins
TITLE: Sorry You're Sick
COMP: Ted Hawkins
ALBUM: Watch Your Step
LABEL: Rounder
ARTIST: Ted Hawkins
TITLE: Bring It Home To Daddy
COMP: Ted Hawkins
ALBUM: Watch Your Step
LABEL: Rounder
ARTIST: Ted Hawkins
TITLE: If You Love Me
COMP: Ted Hawkins
ALBUM: Watch Your Step
LABEL: Rounder
ARTIST: Ted Hawkins
TITLE: Sorry You're Sick
COMP: Stay Close To Me
ALBUM: Watch Your Step
LABEL: Rounder
ARTIST: Ted Hawkins
TITLE: Who Got My Natual Comb
COMP: Ted Hawkins
ALBUM: Watch Your Step
LABEL: Rounder
THE GREAT NEW ZEALAND CONCERT:
ARTIST: Simon & Garfunkel
TITLE: Homeward Bound
COMP: Paul Simon
ALBUM: Old Friends: Live On Stage (Madison Square Garden, NYC (Dec 2, 2003)
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: Simon & Garfunkel
TITLE: America
COMP: Paul Simon
ALBUM: Old Friends: Live On Stage (Madison Square Garden, NYC (Dec 2, 2003)
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: Simon & Garfunkel
TITLE: Cecilia
COMP: Paul Simon
ALBUM: Old Friends: Live On Stage (Madison Square Garden, NYC (Dec 2, 2003)
LABEL: Columbia
PANEL - HALF TIME SONG:
ARTIST: Klaatu
TITLE: Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
COMP: Terry Draper, John Woloschuk
ALBUM: 3:47 EST
LABEL: Daffodil
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
=DESCRIPTION=
An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
=AUDIO=
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 15 March 2016
BODY:
What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 13'30"
16:05
The Panel with Ella Henry and Tim Watkin (Part 1)
BODY:
What the Panelists Ella Henry and Tim Watkin have been up to. Greg O'Connor of the Police Association discusses resources and Police responses. The idea of building a new football stadium on Auckland's waterfront has been floated again. And the visiting Iranian Foreign Minister has been questioned about his country's human rights record.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 25'17"
16:06
The Panel with Ella Henry and Tim Watkin (Part 2)
BODY:
Today is World Contact Day. Originated by the International Flying Saucer Bureau. What the Panelists Ella Henry and Tim Watkin have been thinbking about. Peter Kaiser has been the principal of Auckland's Tirimoana School for 25 years. He talks about a new idea on how to target education funding. Massive has taken pot shots at red heads and has a provocative cover to go with a story about students doing sex work. And Coca-Cola is outting funding into academic studies. Is that ok?
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 25'23"
16:07
Intro
BODY:
What the Panelists Ella Henrey and Tim Watkin have been up to.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'47"
16:07
Police no-shows
BODY:
Greg O'Connor of the Police Association discusses resources and Police responses.
Topics: crime, law
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: police, dairies, Robberies
Duration: 13'28"
16:24
Echoed call for new Auckland stadium
BODY:
The idea of building a new football stadium on Auckland's waterfront has been floated again.
Topics: sport
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Stadium, football
Duration: 3'25"
16:28
Iranian human rights
BODY:
The visiting Iranian Foreign Minister has been questioned about his country's human rights record.
Topics: law
Regions:
Tags: Iran, human rights
Duration: 4'35"
16:35
World Contact Day
BODY:
"Calling occupants of interplanetary craft!" Today is World Contact Day. Originated by the International Flying Saucer Bureau.
Topics: life and society, science
Regions:
Tags: World Contact Day, UFOs, aliens
Duration: 3'14"
16:38
Panel Says
BODY:
What the Panelists Ella Henry and Tim Watkin have been thinbking about.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 4'38"
16:42
Proposed school funding system
BODY:
Peter Kaiser has been the principal of Auckland's Tirimoana School for 25 years. He talks about a new idea on how to target education funding.
Topics: education, politics
Regions:
Tags: Department Of Education, Funsing, schools, decile system
Duration: 13'15"
16:56
Student mag offends red heads
BODY:
Massive has taken pot shots at red heads and has a provocative cover to go with a story about students doing sex work.
Topics: education, media
Regions:
Tags: Massey, magazine, Redheads
Duration: 1'20"
16:58
Funded by Coca-Cola
BODY:
Coca-Cola is putting funding into academic studies. Is that ok?
Topics: business, politics
Regions:
Tags: Coca-Cola, funding
Duration: 2'44"
=SHOW NOTES=
===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
=DESCRIPTION=
RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme
=AUDIO=
12:00
Checkpoint with John Campbell, Tuesday 15th March 2016
BODY:
Watch Tuesday's full programme here. It starts five minutes in.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 00"
17:09
Replacement for school deciles suggested
BODY:
A leaked Education Ministry proposal reportedly suggests replacing the school decile system with a system that links the money to individual children.
Topics: education, politics
Regions:
Tags: Education Ministry, decile system, schools, funding
Duration: 3'06"
17:13
Principals discuss impacts of funding changes
BODY:
How would a change to the funding system impact on schools? Manurewa East School and Wellington College principals Phil Palfrey and Roger Moses join Checkpoint.
Topics: education, politics
Regions:
Tags: Education Ministry, decile system, schools, funding
Duration: 6'24"
17:19
English says Labour's call to force banks a 'pretty dumb idea'
BODY:
Finance Minister Bill English has described Labour leader Andrew Little's suggestion to force banks to pass on Official Cash Rate cuts to customers as a 'pretty dumb idea'.
Topics: economy, politics
Regions:
Tags: Reserve Bank, banks, interest rates, parliament
Duration: 3'24"
17:23
Shamubeel Eaqub comments on Labour leader's banks proposal
BODY:
Economist and author Shamubeel Eaqub joins Checkpoint to discuss Labour leader Andrew Little's suggestion to force banks to pass on Official Cash Rate cuts to customers.
Topics: economy, politics
Regions:
Tags: Reserve Bank, banks, interest rates, parliament
Duration: 3'52"
17:27
Auckland airport clamps down on sky-high taxi fares
BODY:
Auckland Airport has announced a crackdown on taxi companies charging passengers high prices. Driver Manmohan Dua joins Checkpoint.
Topics: transport
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland Airport, taxis, Charges
Duration: 4'10"
17:31
How do taxi costs between Auckland city and airport vary?
BODY:
Some taxi companies charge more than double their competitors for fares to and from the airport. Alex Ashton joins John in the studio.
Topics: transport
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland Airport, taxis, Charges
Duration: 1'35"
17:36
Evening business for 15 March 2016
BODY:
News from the business sector including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 1'50"
17:38
Bunnings workers suspended over apron actions
BODY:
Bunnings workers have received suspension notifications after removing their work aprons, as part of low-key industrial action on contract negotiations.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: Bunnings, unions, workers, Suspension
Duration: 4'07"
17:41
Are electric work standards up to scratch?
BODY:
The Master Electricians Association says safeguards are in place for people getting electrical work done in their homes. Eric Frykberg reports.
Topics: business, law
Regions:
Tags: Master Electricians Association, Electrical Parts
Duration: 3'18"
17:46
Engineer found guilty of $2m fraud may head to prison
BODY:
The former Mighty River Power engineer found guilty today of a $2 million fraud has been told by a judge that he's likely to face prison. Reporter Edward Gay joins Checkpoint.
Topics: crime
Regions:
Tags: Mighty River Power, fraud
Duration: 2'55"
17:49
A lot on the line for Rubio, Trump in Super Tuesday
BODY:
After a week of intense campaigning, the third Super Tuesday is tomorrow - and may prove decisive for Clinton and Trump's campaigns.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: America, Republican Primaries, Super Tuesday
Duration: 3'27"
17:52
Navy commander denies assault allegations
BODY:
A navy commander has told a court martial he did not touch, grab or poke a junior officer at a bar on the Devonport Naval Base in Auckland nearly four years ago.
Topics: defence force, crime
Regions:
Tags: navy, indecent assault
Duration: 3'11"
17:56
Crisis looms on how to dispose of the dead
BODY:
At the Cemeteries and Crematoria Conference in Nelson, funeral industry representatives have been discussing where and how to bury people, in the face of land scarcity.
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: Cemeteries and Crematoria Conference
Duration: 3'19"
18:10
Taxi drivers hope to take business off Uber after rules change
BODY:
Taxi drivers at Auckland Airport hope to take more business off the likes of ride sharing company Uber after changes that will mean cheaper fares.
Topics: transport
Regions:
Tags: taxi drivers, taxis, Uber
Duration: 2'10"
18:15
Suspension notifications for Bunnings workers removing aprons
BODY:
Bunnings workers from 29 stores around the country have received suspension notifications after removing their work aprons, as part of low key industrial action.
Topics: business, law
Regions:
Tags: Bunnings, unions, Suspensions
Duration: 2'51"
18:18
Black Caps ready to play in T20 World Cup
BODY:
The Black Caps are bracing for a trial by spin when they open their World Twenty20 cricket campaign against hosts India in Nagpur overnight.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags: Black Caps, cricket, India, World Twenty20
Duration: 4'18"
18:24
Minister open to sex offender register appeals
BODY:
Child sex offenders could request to be taken off a proposed register after 15 years, following concerns the policy might prove to be too harsh.
Topics: crime, law
Regions:
Tags: Child sex offenders, Register
Duration: 3'06"
18:50
Today In Parliament for 15 March 2016 - evening edition
BODY:
Scrappy start to the week with John Key and Winston Peters having a right honourable stoush, each accusing the other of misleading the House and demanding an apology. The Speaker, David Carter, was having none of that and was repeatedly back on his feet restoring order. Questions for the prime minister were dominated by the pressure on dairy farmers from lower milk prices and servicing bank loans.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 5'13"
=SHOW NOTES=
===6:30 PM. | Worldwatch===
=DESCRIPTION=
The stories behind the international headlines
===7:06 PM. | Nights===
=DESCRIPTION=
RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
=AUDIO=
19:10
Our Own Odysseys - The Camino Limp
BODY:
The difficult and magical moments Anthea Wade experienced while walking the ancient pilgrim path from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: travel, Camino Way, Walking the Camino
Duration: 17'37"
20:40
Nights' Pundit - Religion
BODY:
Religious Studies Professor Douglas Pratt from University of Waikato on one's faith in God or gods ... Reactive Co-Radicalisation - a new form of religious extremism has arguably emerged, one which paradoxically portrays itself as a counter to another perceived extremism regarded as a real and imminent threat.
Topics: spiritual practices, life and society
Regions:
Tags: religion, Radicalisation
Duration: 16'36"
20:59
Conundrum Clue 3
BODY:
Clue 3.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 10"
21:59
Conundrum Clue 4
BODY:
Clue 4.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 41"
=SHOW NOTES=
[image:62313:full]
7:12 Our Own Odysseys - The Camino Limp
the difficult and magical moments Anthea Wade experienced while walking the ancient pilgrim path from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain...
7:30 The Sampler
=SHOW NOTES=
=AUDIO=
19:02
Untitled Unmastered by Kendrick Lamar
BODY:
Nick Bollinger reviews a surprise release from visiting rap star Kendrick Lamar.
EXTENDED BODY:
Nick Bollinger reviews a surprise release from visiting rap star Kendrick Lamar
At a time when the music business is going through much-publicised upheavals – from the means of delivery to the revenue streams - some are sticking doggedly to the old ways. Take the album release. There are plenty still getting the big build-up, long roll-out treatment. But that strategy has been challenged these past few weeks by unexpected and totally attention-hoovering releases from the likes of Rihanna and Kanye West. And now this: eight new tracks from the Compton rapper who made last year’s astonishing To Pimp A Butterfly, and who performs at Western Springs in Auckland Saturday March 19.
In some ways it’s hard to even think of this unexpected offering as an album. At 35 minutes, it’s quite a bit shorter than your average hip-hop disc. And if it doesn’t have an overall title, neither does any the individual songs, which are identified only by the date they were recorded. With most of them originating from 2014, it seems they were leftovers from Butterfly.
On that album, Kendrick’s gifts were on full display, from the fluency of his rhymes to the abstract jazziness of his settings, to – perhaps most crucially of all – the way he would continually shift his lyrical gaze between the social and the personal. And that’s what he continues to do in these out-takes.
After an unpromising Barry White-style seduction monologue, which I guess we’ll call foreplay, we get a taste of this rapper’s virtuosity - a Kendrick vision of Armageddon, that looks suspiciously like the America he is already living in.
Though in many ways Untitled/Unmastered is a collection of leftovers, it’s not without its own shape. And you might hear the culmination of these eight tracks in the one that concludes the set, where a typically conflicted Kendrick considers his own success in terms of the plight of other black Americans and ultimately, in the last verse, refugees.
Kendrick Lamar’s Untitled/Unmastered isn’t a follow-up so much as a supplement to To Pimp A Butterfly. But it just reinforces the widely-held contention that he is currently the most important voice in hip-hop, working at the peak of his powers. And with his New Zealand visit imminent, its surprise release couldn’t be more timely.
Songs played: Untitled #1,2,3,5,6,7,8
Untitled Unmastered is available on Aftermath/Interscope
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Kendrick Lamar, music review, music
Duration: 9'40"
19:03
Dig In Deep by Bonnie Raitt
BODY:
Nick Bollinger checks a reliably heartfelt set from Bonnie Raitt.
EXTENDED BODY:
Nick Bollinger checks a reliably heartfelt set from Bonnie Raitt.
What’s the new Bonnie Raitt album like? The short answer is: like the other Bonnie Raitt albums. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.
On the opening track you have heard several Raitt trademarks, even before she sings; the smouldering funk groove that kicks the whole thing off, and that glassy glissando she plays on her electric slide guitar before launching into the vocal. The song, ‘Unintended Consequence Of Love’ – which she wrote with the pianist Jon Cleary – is one of broadly two types of song she has always defaulted to.
The other is a kind of ballad Raitt does almost better than anyone else. The ultimate example might be ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’, the top twenty hit Raitt had in 1991 when after two decades as a cult hero she finally broke through to the mainstream. And while none of the ballads here as good as that one, the weary understatement in Raitt’s voice still lifts Bonnie Bishop’s ‘Undone’ and her own ‘The Ones We Couldn’t Be’ well above the generic, as she sings from inside their lyrics, of regret and wisdom born from hard experience.
The album is called Dig In Deep and for the most part that’s what Raitt does. She and her long-time band (anchored by drummer Ricky Fataar) dig into some dark, earthy grooves and Bonnie certainly mines the hearts of the ballads. But the whole thing is characterised by a kind of risk-averse-ness. There are so many records she hasn’t made before: an album that looks back to her blues roots, perhaps (she learned bottleneck guitar firsthand from ageing delta bluesmen Son House and Fred McDowell), or something with the New Orleans musicians that have had such an influence on her sound. Instead we have a fine record; just one I feel I already knew.
Songs played: Undone, Shakin’ Shakin Shakes, The Ones We Couldn’t Be, The Comin’ Round is Goin’ Through, I Need You Tonight, I Knew, Unintended Consequence of Love.
Dig In Deep is available on Redwing Records.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Bonnie Raitt, music, music review
Duration: 9'45"
19:30
Soul Sok Séga: Séga Sounds from Mauritius 1973–1979
BODY:
Nick Bollinger savors a compilation of vintage funk from the island of Mauritius.
EXTENDED BODY:
Nick Bollinger savors a compilation of vintage funk from the island of Mauritius.
Mauritius is a volcanic island in the Indian Ocean. It has been colonised at different times by Dutch, French and British, and has a multiethnic population of Indian, African, European and Chinese descent. And, as it turns out, produced – in the 1970s – a few of the most mindbendingly funky dance records I’ve ever heard.
The first time I heard the title track by Ti L’Afrique I could have sworn I was listening to the Meters, the seminal New Orleans funk combo – at least until that impassioned Creole vocal came in. And I must say I’m still wondering what the instrument is that sounds like an electric hippopotamus.
The traditional folk music of Mauritius is known as Sega, and most of these tracks are, in some way, outgrowths on the Sega tradition, though obviously blended with other influences, from funk and soul to western pop. In its original form, the main instruments in sega – other than voices – were the triangle and a goatskin drum called a ravanne, and in the more folkish tracks those instruments are still a very audible presence.
At the other end, you’ll find musicians like the guitarist Jean Claude who seem to have little at all to do with the sega tradition, and more to do with Carlos Santana and Jimi Hendrix.
Soul Sok Sega is a wonderful collection of hitherto very obscure recordings. There’s quite a variety, but all have in common an inherent syncopation. It’s as though all these musicians internally hear the on-beat, but no one is boring enough to want to play it. The result is polyrhythmic paradise.
Songs played: Soul Sok Sega, Eliza, Sega Lenoir, Sega Souval, Manuel Bitor, No Mari Fini Alle, Mademoiselle
Soul Sok Sega: Sega Sounds From Mauritius 1973-1979 is available on Strut Records.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: SEGA, Mauritius, music review, Soul Sok Sega
Duration: 9'51"
19:30
The Sampler for 15 March 2016
BODY:
In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger reviews a surprise release from visiting rap star Kendrick Lamar; a reliably heartfelt set from Bonnie Raitt; and a compilation of vintage funk from the island of Mauritius.
EXTENDED BODY:
In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger reviews a surprise release from visiting rap star Kendrick Lamar; a reliably heartfelt set from Bonnie Raitt; and a compilation of vintage funk from the island of Mauritius.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Kendrick Lamar, Bonnie Raitt, Soul Sok Sega, Mauritius
Duration: 29'14"
7:30 The Sampler
music album reviews & music discussion with Nick Bollinger
8:12 Window on the World - Found in Translation
international public radio documentaries
8:43 Nights' Pundit - Religion
religious studies Prof. Douglas Pratt from University of Waikato on one's faith in God or gods... Reactive Co-Radicalisation -a new form of religious extremism has arguably emerged, one which paradoxically portrays itself as a counter to another perceived extremism regarded as a real and imminent threat...
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 - Exchanges at the Frontier: Is Pain an Emotion?
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 from a myriad of cultures
... nights' time is the right time...
===7:35 PM. | The Sampler===
=DESCRIPTION=
A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases
=AUDIO=
19:02
Untitled Unmastered by Kendrick Lamar
BODY:
Nick Bollinger reviews a surprise release from visiting rap star Kendrick Lamar.
EXTENDED BODY:
Nick Bollinger reviews a surprise release from visiting rap star Kendrick Lamar
At a time when the music business is going through much-publicised upheavals – from the means of delivery to the revenue streams - some are sticking doggedly to the old ways. Take the album release. There are plenty still getting the big build-up, long roll-out treatment. But that strategy has been challenged these past few weeks by unexpected and totally attention-hoovering releases from the likes of Rihanna and Kanye West. And now this: eight new tracks from the Compton rapper who made last year’s astonishing To Pimp A Butterfly, and who performs at Western Springs in Auckland Saturday March 19.
In some ways it’s hard to even think of this unexpected offering as an album. At 35 minutes, it’s quite a bit shorter than your average hip-hop disc. And if it doesn’t have an overall title, neither does any the individual songs, which are identified only by the date they were recorded. With most of them originating from 2014, it seems they were leftovers from Butterfly.
On that album, Kendrick’s gifts were on full display, from the fluency of his rhymes to the abstract jazziness of his settings, to – perhaps most crucially of all – the way he would continually shift his lyrical gaze between the social and the personal. And that’s what he continues to do in these out-takes.
After an unpromising Barry White-style seduction monologue, which I guess we’ll call foreplay, we get a taste of this rapper’s virtuosity - a Kendrick vision of Armageddon, that looks suspiciously like the America he is already living in.
Though in many ways Untitled/Unmastered is a collection of leftovers, it’s not without its own shape. And you might hear the culmination of these eight tracks in the one that concludes the set, where a typically conflicted Kendrick considers his own success in terms of the plight of other black Americans and ultimately, in the last verse, refugees.
Kendrick Lamar’s Untitled/Unmastered isn’t a follow-up so much as a supplement to To Pimp A Butterfly. But it just reinforces the widely-held contention that he is currently the most important voice in hip-hop, working at the peak of his powers. And with his New Zealand visit imminent, its surprise release couldn’t be more timely.
Songs played: Untitled #1,2,3,5,6,7,8
Untitled Unmastered is available on Aftermath/Interscope
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Kendrick Lamar, music review, music
Duration: 9'40"
19:03
Dig In Deep by Bonnie Raitt
BODY:
Nick Bollinger checks a reliably heartfelt set from Bonnie Raitt.
EXTENDED BODY:
Nick Bollinger checks a reliably heartfelt set from Bonnie Raitt.
What’s the new Bonnie Raitt album like? The short answer is: like the other Bonnie Raitt albums. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.
On the opening track you have heard several Raitt trademarks, even before she sings; the smouldering funk groove that kicks the whole thing off, and that glassy glissando she plays on her electric slide guitar before launching into the vocal. The song, ‘Unintended Consequence Of Love’ – which she wrote with the pianist Jon Cleary – is one of broadly two types of song she has always defaulted to.
The other is a kind of ballad Raitt does almost better than anyone else. The ultimate example might be ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’, the top twenty hit Raitt had in 1991 when after two decades as a cult hero she finally broke through to the mainstream. And while none of the ballads here as good as that one, the weary understatement in Raitt’s voice still lifts Bonnie Bishop’s ‘Undone’ and her own ‘The Ones We Couldn’t Be’ well above the generic, as she sings from inside their lyrics, of regret and wisdom born from hard experience.
The album is called Dig In Deep and for the most part that’s what Raitt does. She and her long-time band (anchored by drummer Ricky Fataar) dig into some dark, earthy grooves and Bonnie certainly mines the hearts of the ballads. But the whole thing is characterised by a kind of risk-averse-ness. There are so many records she hasn’t made before: an album that looks back to her blues roots, perhaps (she learned bottleneck guitar firsthand from ageing delta bluesmen Son House and Fred McDowell), or something with the New Orleans musicians that have had such an influence on her sound. Instead we have a fine record; just one I feel I already knew.
Songs played: Undone, Shakin’ Shakin Shakes, The Ones We Couldn’t Be, The Comin’ Round is Goin’ Through, I Need You Tonight, I Knew, Unintended Consequence of Love.
Dig In Deep is available on Redwing Records.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Bonnie Raitt, music, music review
Duration: 9'45"
19:30
Soul Sok Séga: Séga Sounds from Mauritius 1973–1979
BODY:
Nick Bollinger savors a compilation of vintage funk from the island of Mauritius.
EXTENDED BODY:
Nick Bollinger savors a compilation of vintage funk from the island of Mauritius.
Mauritius is a volcanic island in the Indian Ocean. It has been colonised at different times by Dutch, French and British, and has a multiethnic population of Indian, African, European and Chinese descent. And, as it turns out, produced – in the 1970s – a few of the most mindbendingly funky dance records I’ve ever heard.
The first time I heard the title track by Ti L’Afrique I could have sworn I was listening to the Meters, the seminal New Orleans funk combo – at least until that impassioned Creole vocal came in. And I must say I’m still wondering what the instrument is that sounds like an electric hippopotamus.
The traditional folk music of Mauritius is known as Sega, and most of these tracks are, in some way, outgrowths on the Sega tradition, though obviously blended with other influences, from funk and soul to western pop. In its original form, the main instruments in sega – other than voices – were the triangle and a goatskin drum called a ravanne, and in the more folkish tracks those instruments are still a very audible presence.
At the other end, you’ll find musicians like the guitarist Jean Claude who seem to have little at all to do with the sega tradition, and more to do with Carlos Santana and Jimi Hendrix.
Soul Sok Sega is a wonderful collection of hitherto very obscure recordings. There’s quite a variety, but all have in common an inherent syncopation. It’s as though all these musicians internally hear the on-beat, but no one is boring enough to want to play it. The result is polyrhythmic paradise.
Songs played: Soul Sok Sega, Eliza, Sega Lenoir, Sega Souval, Manuel Bitor, No Mari Fini Alle, Mademoiselle
Soul Sok Sega: Sega Sounds From Mauritius 1973-1979 is available on Strut Records.
Topics: music
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Tags: SEGA, Mauritius, music review, Soul Sok Sega
Duration: 9'51"
19:30
The Sampler for 15 March 2016
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In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger reviews a surprise release from visiting rap star Kendrick Lamar; a reliably heartfelt set from Bonnie Raitt; and a compilation of vintage funk from the island of Mauritius.
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In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger reviews a surprise release from visiting rap star Kendrick Lamar; a reliably heartfelt set from Bonnie Raitt; and a compilation of vintage funk from the island of Mauritius.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Kendrick Lamar, Bonnie Raitt, Soul Sok Sega, Mauritius
Duration: 29'14"
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