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:
17 April 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Police Files of NZ (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 2:05 Heart and Soul (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday; 3:05 The Dream of Nikau Jam by Peter Hawes (7 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC); 5:10 Mihipeka - The Early Years, by Mikipeka Edwards (7 of 15, RNZ); 5:45 NZ Society
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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The Check Shirt Bird, by David Somerset, told by Peter Vere-Jones; Elspeth and the Phantom, by Anthony McCarten, told by Anne Budd; The Loblolly Boy, by James Norcliffe, told by Dick Weir; The Go Cart, by Cindy Maguire Todd, told by Peter Hambleton; The Hunt, by Winifred Owen, told by Mark Hadlow
===7:10 AM. | Sunday Morning===
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A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, documentaries, sport from the outfield, politics from the insiders, plus Mediawatch and music 7:43 The Week in Parliament An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house 8:10 Insight An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs 9:06 Mediawatch Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in New Zealand's news media (RNZ)
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07:08
David Geary - Trudeaumania Part Deux
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Trudeaumania was the phrase coined in the 1960s to capture the excitement generated during the early days of Canadian politician Pierre Trudeau premiership. Now it's his son Justin who has the world's media gushing. Kiwi playwright David Geary is based in Vancouver and he joins Wallace to talk about Trudeaumania part deux; a new ballet about truth and reconciliation, and the little talked about pass system that once confined first nation peoples to their reservations.
Topics: politics, conflict, education, history, inequality, language
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Tags: Canada, First Nations, David Geary, residential schools, indigenous affairs, Metis people, apartheid, Vancouver, tarsands, NDP, Liberal Party
Duration: 20'30"
07:30
The Week In Parliament for 17 April 2016
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Health Minister Jonathan Coleman and his Labour shadow Annette King square off in question time and the annual review debate; Te Pire mo Te Reo Maori Maori Language Bill passes final reading; New Zealand First's Ron Mark takes offence at remarks made by Jonathan Coleman and leads his party out of the chamber in protest; Prime Minister faces questions about tax havens; Committees hear submissions on the TPPA & RMA reform legislation; Annual Review Debate kicks off on Wednesday and is interrupted with 4 hours 33 minutes remaining, with the House adjourned for two weeks.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 15'21"
07:47
James Hoban - Competitive Farming
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When James Hoban was growing up he put competitors in the Young Farmer of the Year awards on a pedestal alongside the All Blacks. Now, he's a finalist in the Young Farmer Contest for the second year in a row showing off his skills in everything from hand milking a goat to hanging a gate.
Topics: farming, rural
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Tags: Young Farmer Contest, agrisports, exam, dairying, budget
Duration: 11'49"
08:12
Insight - The Special Education Struggle
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RNZs Education Correspondent John Gerritsen, investigates what's working and what's not in special education, as it faces unprecedented scrutiny from parents, teachers and the government.
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Special education is under unprecedented scrutiny from parents, teachers and the government. What's working and what's not?
At Newmarket School in Auckland, a specialist teacher is working one-on-one with a child who has special education needs. She is asking her to arrange coloured sticks in columns representing "tens" and "ones".
At another table, a teacher's aide sits with two more children while the school's special education needs coordinator (SENCO) talks with a local resource teacher of learning and behaviour (RTLB) who advises teachers on how to work with children with disabilities.
At first glance it's simply a snapshot of the special education system at work. But look a bit deeper and some of the strains on the system are evident: The specialist teacher is paid for from the school's operational funding, the SENCO role was created by the school from its staffing entitlement, and the RTLB says that while she can come up with good plans for integrating children into the classroom, there isn't always the money to make them happen.
The Ministry of Education admits the system is not sustainable, but it says change is coming in the form of an "update" that will make special education simpler and better coordinated.
The Ministry's head of sector enablement and support, Katrina Casey, says the details are still being finalised, but the aim is to make the system simpler and better co-ordinated.
"We're looking at changing the system so that we basically have everything designed out from the child and we look at building on the things that we know work and that work incredibly well, and also looking at tailoring and targetting services and making sure that all the parts of the system that are delivered in different places are working together in the interests of the needs of the child."
A lot of criticism of special education centres on its funding, but Ms Casey says the ministry is not expecting to get more money for the update.
"Before you can talk about funding you need to be convinced the system is the most efficient it can be and we're not convinced about that."
Trial projects the ministry is running this year to help shape the update are already making improvements that people had not thought possible and that shows improvements can be made without more funding, she says.
The Education Minister, Hekia Parata, says the government has been investing more in special education.
"We are currently spending $590 million, or just over, on special education and that has increased by 29 percent from six years ago, so there is more funding. But are we getting the best out of that funding is the question we're trying to answer, and I don't think we are."
That will not go down well with the families of children with disabilities or with teachers and principals - especially at schools in poorer neighbourhoods.
Ministry figures show schools in the lowest five deciles have only 40 percent of the school roll but 61 percent of the children in the Ongoing Resourcing Scheme, 60 percent of the children in the ministry's Behaviour Service, and 52 percent of the children who are with the Communication Service.
The deputy principal at decile one primary Manurewa East School in Auckland, Kathlene Porter, says the school has a special education register of about 30 to 50 children - far more than the five or so children listed on the register of the nearby decile 10 school where she used to work.
"The only difference is the socio-economic area. There is a direct correlation between not just educational needs for those children, but also the health needs, the social needs, the access to housing, budgeting, resourcing through WINZ and social development and what is on our register - it can't be denied, it's fact."
Manurewa East's principal, Phil Palfrey, is a member of the Principals' Federation's executive with responsibilities for special education.
He is positive about the special education update, but doubts it will go far enough, especially given the growing number of children with behaviour problems.
They do understand what we're dealing with, I get that, but right now there's nothing significant supporting us for those children."
Another part of the sector crying out for more funding is early childhood education.
It has 20 percent of the children in the education system, but gets only 5 percent of the special education funding.
Katrina Casey says the update will ensure children get help earlier, but the chief executive of the Early Childhood Council, Peter Reynolds, says change cannot come soon enough.
"The model isn't working, it's got to be changed and it's got to be done quickly. It's okay to take your time over doing a review or whatever you want to call it but at the end of the day we've got people falling through the gaps right now and they shouldn't have to."
At Newmarket School in Auckland the transition from early childhood education to the classroom is the focus of one of 22 trial projects the ministry is running as part of its update.
It is trying to ensure children with special needs are well supported when they start school and the principal, Wendy Kofoed, says it is already making a difference.
"From a school's perspective we now have a bridge between the early childhood centre and the school. So rather than children rock-up on their fifth birthday ready to start school and the teacher and the school having no supports in place, not having met parents in some cases, we now are able to nest the child through into that starting school process."
For all the talk of levels of support and pools of funding, parents and disability advocates often complain that schools and teachers don't actually want the cost and hassle of having children with special needs in their classrooms.
Giovanni Tiso is the father of a child with special education needs and he believes the problem is rooted in the structure of the school system.
"At the moment the policy is such that it rewards schools that aren't inclusive by virtue of the fact that if you do use your operational funding to support children with special needs above and beyond the very little provision there is, that's money that could have gone somewhere else. Because there's competition between schools that creates a very powerful incentive not to have children with special needs in your school."
Mr Tiso says schools that welcome children with special needs are also punished in their national standards results, which looked a lot worse than those of schools with fewer children with special needs.
Disability advocacy group IHC says the result is discrimination and it has made a complaint under the Human Rights Act which it hopes will reach court this year.
IHC director of advocacy Trish Grant says there will have to be major changes if the IHC wins its case.
The government, however, is backing the update, saying this will free up resources and improve the system
Ms Grant is unconvinced: "From what we've seen we're not confident that there's anything new or different in here that's going to address the issues that have been consistently raised by principals, by teacher unions and by families and advocacy groups like IHC."
Topics: education
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Tags: education, special education, Education Ministry
Duration: 27'53"
08:40
Katherine Clarke - Whakawhetu: Helping Our Most Vulnerable
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New Zealand has a policy that all babies should have ten free visits in their first year of life - but worrying new statistics show that 6.7% of babies have not received a single visit from either a midwife or health worker before their 1st birthday. Child advocacy group Whakawhetu says this could be because of unconscious bias within the health system itself. National Manager of Whakawhetu Kathrine Clarke joins Wallace to talk about how we need to ensure the most vulnerable babies are not forgotten.
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An advocate for children's health says more needs to be done to reduce the number of Maori babies dying suddenly and unexpectedly.
Maori make up more than 60-percent of sudden infant deaths in New Zealand.
Child advocacy group Whakawhetu's national manager, Katherine Clarke, told Sunday Morning that in the two regions where the issue had been prioritised, there had been a fall in the number of deaths.
She said the Ministry of Health was now asking other regions to make addressing the problem a priority.
"We're really pleased that the Ministry of Health, and they've said: 'We'll let's now focus on 15 DHB regions, make it a priority, and then...we'll monitor the decline'."
Listen to Katherine Clarke speaking with Wallace Chapman:
Topics: health, te ao Maori
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Tags: Whakawhetu, Maori Child Health, SIDS
Duration: 19'04"
09:10
Mediawatch for 17 April 2016
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Local bids to ban begging make national news; more awkward questions about The Panama Papers - and the future of big leaks; a celebrity sex scandal overseas sparks a legal and ethical quandary here.
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Duration: 31'43"
09:40
Tamsin Hanly - Taking NZ History into Schools
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Tamsin Hanly is a former primary school teacher who is so passionate about the need to teach New Zealand history in our schools that she mortgaged her house to fund a six volume curriculum covering more than two hundred years of history from both Maori and Pakeha perspectives. You can find out more about the project at the Critical Histories website.
Topics: te ao Maori, history, education
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Tags: Land Wars, New Zealand Wars, whenua, curriculum
Duration: 17'45"
10:10
Judith Durham - Say Goodbye
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Judith Durham - the golden voice of The Seekers - is on her last ever solo tour of New Zealand. She's singing all the big hits like Georgy Girl and The Carnival is Over, plus some later songs she's added to her solo repertoire. She talks to Wallace about how a shy girl made it huge on the international stage, then decided at 24 that she really needed to quit the band and find a husband before she became an old maid.
Topics: arts, music
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Tags: Judith Durham, The Seekers
Duration: 24'10"
10:40
Rhys Darby - Wilderpeople, Conchords and Stand-Up
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Rhys Darby is a busy man; as well as winning praise for his latest big-screen role in Taika Waititi's 'Hunt For the Wilderpeople' he's also headlining the International Comedy Festival. He speaks to Wallace about Wilderpeople, Conchords and the funny business of stand-up.
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Rhys Darby is a busy man. As well as winning praise for his latest big screen role in Taika Waititi's Hunt For the Wilderpeople, he's also headlining the International Comedy Festival.
He speaks with Wallace Chapman about Wilderpeople, Flight of the Conchords and the funny business of stand-up comedy.
Topics: arts
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Tags: comedy, Rhys Darby, Stand up comedy
Duration: 22'37"
11:10
Miya Tokumitsu - The Myth of 'Doing What You Love'
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These days everybody seems to want to do work that they love, that they're passionate about - nice work if you can get it - but what about those of us who have to work simply to pay the bills? Dr Miya Tokumitsu has written a book that busts open the myth of 'Doing What You Love' and she explains to Wallace why the idea is so dangerous.
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These days everybody wants to do work that they love, that they're passionate about... Nice work if you can get it, but what about those of us who have to work simply to pay the bills?
Dr Miya Tokumitsu has written a book that busts open the myth of 'doing what you love' and she explains to Wallace why the idea is so dangerous.
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Tags: work, Do What You Love, culture
Duration: 27'09"
11:35
Neil Oliver - Life on the Coast
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Scottish archaeologist, historian and author Neil Oliver is also the presenter of several BBC documentary series including 'A History of Scotland' and 'Vikings'. He is perhaps best known for the series 'Coast', which has been running for a decade. He discusses the factors that bind all people who live along the world's coastlines - and he fields eight vital questions about Scotland. Coast New Zealand premieres Tuesday 19th, 8.30pm on TV ONE.
Topics: arts, environment, history
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Tags: coast, BBC, Neil Oliver, Scotland
Duration: 21'20"
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7:08 David Geary - Trudeaumania Part Deux
Trudeaumania was the phrase coined in the 1960s to capture the excitement generated during the early days of Canadian politician Pierre Trudeau premiership. Well, now it's his son, Justin, who has the world's media gushing. Kiwi playwright David Geary is based in Vancouver and he joins Wallace to talk about Trudeaumania part deux; a new ballet about truth and reconciliation, and the little talked about pass system that once confined first nation peoples to their reservations.
7:30 News headlines
7:32 The Week in Parliament
7:47 James Hoban - Competitive Farming
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When James Hoban was growing up he put competitors in the Young Farmer of the Year awards on a pedestal alongside the All Blacks. Now, he's a finalist in the Young Farmer Contest for the second year in a row, showing off his skills in everything from hand milking a goat to hanging a gate.
8:12 Insight: The Struggle for Special Education
The education of children with disabilities is under major scrutiny. The Education Ministry is overhauling the way it helps the 80,000 children thought to have learning difficulties, a parliamentary select committee is examining how schools work with children with autism and other disorders, and the whole system is facing a human rights challenge from advocacy group IHC. RNZ education correspondent John Gerritsen investigates what's working and what's not to give struggling children a decent chance at school.
Produced by Teresa Cowie
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8:40 Kathrine Clarke - Whakawhetu: Helping Our Most Vulnerable
New Zealand has a policy that all babies should have 10 free health visits in their first year of life - but worrying new statistics show that 6.7 per cent of babies have not received a single visit from either a midwife or health worker before their first birthday. Child advocacy group Whakawhetu says this could be because of unconscious bias within the health system itself. National Manager of Whakawhetu Kathrine Clarke joins Wallace to talk about how we need to ensure the most vulnerable babies are not forgotten.
9:06 Mediawatch
Big money and small change - more awkward questions aired in the wake of the Panama Papers, and a bid to ban big-city begging hits the headlines. Also: Why a sex story overseas had media here asking if they should name names, and the ethical issues at stake.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Tamsin Hanly - Taking NZ History into Schools
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Tamsin Hanly is a former primary school teacher who is so passionate about the need to teach New Zealand history in our schools that she mortgaged her house to fund a six-volume curriculum covering more than 200 years of history from both Maori and Pakeha perspectives. You can find out more about the project at the criticalhistories.nz website.
10:06 Judith Durham - Say Goodbye
Judith Durham - the golden voice of The Seekers - is on her last ever solo tour of New Zealand. She's singing all the big hits like 'Georgy Girl' and 'The Carnival is Over', plus some later songs she's added to her solo repertoire. She talks to Wallace about how a shy girl made it huge on the international stage, then decided at 24 that she really needed to quit the band and find a husband before she became an old maid.
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10:38 Rhys Darby - Wilderpeople, Conchords and Stand-Up
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Rhys Darby is a busy man. As well as winning praise for his latest big screen role in Taika Waititi's Hunt For the Wilderpeople, he's also headlining the International Comedy Festival. He speaks to Wallace about Wilderpeople, Flight of the Conchords and the funny business of stand-up comedy.
11:05 Miya Tokumitsu - The Myth of 'Doing What You Love'
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These days everybody seems to want to do work that they love, that they're passionate about - nice work if you can get it - but what about those of us who have to work simply to pay the bills? Dr Miya Tokumitsu has written a book that busts open the myth of 'doing what you love' and she explains to Wallace why the idea is so dangerous.
11:35 Neil Oliver - Life on the Coast
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Scottish archaeologist, historian and author Neil Oliver is also the presenter of several BBC documentary series such as A History of Scotland and Vikings. He is perhaps best known for the series Coast, which has been running for a decade. He discusses the factors that bind all people who live along the world's coastlines - and Wallace puts him on the spot with eight vital questions about Scotland.
Coast New Zealand premieres Tuesday 19th, 8.30pm on TV ONE.
===12:11 PM. | Spectrum===
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Every semester, students from across the US will come together to sail around New Zealand. Over five weeks the students learn how to handle a tall ship while conducting scientific experiments and writing papers on our nation's political and cultural heritage. Justin Gregory joins the voyage for a few days to meet the students and find out why they chose a semester at sea.
===12:37 PM. | Standing Room Only===
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It's an 'all access pass' to what's happening in the worlds of arts and entertainment
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12:40
Mark Broatch
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Last week critic and commentator Iain Sharpe put the cat among the pigeons on the subject of literary criticism in this country. He claimed that our critics are, basically, gutless, that our media had reduced book reviews to a shadow of their former selves, and that they prefer covering a glossy overseas hit to a locally-written book anyway. New Zealand Listener Books & Culture Editor Mark Broatch has right of reply.
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Last week critic and commentator Iain Sharpe put the cat among the pigeons on the subject of literary criticism in this country. He claimed that our critics are, basically, gutless, that our media had reduced book reviews to a shadow of their former selves, and that they prefer covering a glossy overseas hit to a locally-written book anyway. New Zealand Listener Books & Culture Editor Mark Broatch has right of reply.
Topics: arts, books
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Tags: New Zealand Listener, critics, reviews
Duration: 8'47"
12:51
ALTER: Between Human and Non-Human
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A new exhibition at Auckland's Gus Fisher Gallery - Alter - invites international artists to "critically address the post-human" in a group exhibition of technoscientific art projects. Alter aims to provoke questions about relations between human and non-human, the virtual and the real. Deborah Lawler-Dormer is curating this exhibition as part of her PhD, for which she is working with Associate Professor Mark Sagar, at the University of Auckland, to build an avatar of herself.
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A new exhibition at Auckland's Gus Fisher Gallery - Alter - invites international artists to "critically address the post-human" in a group exhibition of technoscientific art projects. Alter aims to provoke questions about relations between human and non-human, the virtual and the real. Deborah Lawler-Dormer is curating this exhibition as part of her PhD, for which she is working with Associate Professor Mark Sagar, at the University of Auckland, to build an avatar of herself.
Topics: arts
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: technoscientific art projects, human and non-human, relations, virtual
Duration: 11'33"
13:34
Dual Identities in White/Other
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Actor Alice Canton explores the her dual identities in a solo show called White/Other and looks at what it means to be Chinese and Pakeha.
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Auckland-based actor Alice Canton is coming face-to-face with her Chinese and Pakeha identity in a solo show called White/ Other at The Basement Theatre by exploring that both sides of her bi-cultural identity at times feel alien and uncomfortable.
The 29-year-old was born on the South Island’s West Coast to a Malaysian Chinese mother and Kiwi father. She says the West Coast community was relatively conservative and not accepting of difference.
Discrimination was something that became part and parcel of her everyday life, “I became desensitised to it,” she says.
Canton feels that undercurrents of anti-Asian sentiment remain even with New Zealand’s shift towards fostering diversity. She points to the list of Chinese names that came out in the media last year in relation to the Auckland housing crisis.
“Part of that story resonates with what we were seeing in the newspapers 120 years ago,” she says, making reference to New Zealand’s history of discrimination towards Chinese migrants and the introduction of a Chinese Poll Tax and gender bans to deter further arrivals on our shores.
Dealing with some of these issues and exploring her identity was challenging for the Eurasian actor, who says she previously resisted telling a story of this nature.
“I don’t identify as ‘white’ and when I visited Malaysia for the first time [where my mother’s family are from] I felt completely disconnected. But once I acknowledged and accepted that it was all part of my own story it was easy, because I have a lifetime of experience and anecdotes that feed the work.”
Part of the drive behind the project is Canton’s desire to expand on the range of stories that have gone before her. She says she struggled to find similar voices to connect with when she was growing up and instead looked to the likes of Māori and Pasifika stories and theatre for inspiration.
“As I get older, I realise that I have a visibility and a platform as a performer and with that privilege comes great responsibility,” she says of being a role model for emerging bicultural or multicultural performers.
Importantly, she emphasises that as a whole New Zealanders need to free themselves from expectations of ‘cultural’ narratives that enter the arts and culture sphere.
“The act of having diverse voices can be enough and we shouldn’t project that these voices must tell prescribed stories about our cultural or migrant experience, or even our experiences of otherness.”
White/ Other is on at The Basement theatre until 21 April.
Topics: arts, business
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: theatre, solo show, Chinese, Pakeha, European, identity, Basement theatre, Auckland, multiculturalism, Asian, community, education
Duration: 11'12"
13:50
Stuart Maunder: Noel Coward
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By the 1930's lyricist, dramatist, writer, painter and wit Sir Noel Coward was supposedly the highest earning author in the western world. Opera New Zealand General Manager Stuart Maunder will be treading the boards as part of Auckland Writer's Week at the end of next month in Mad about Noel.
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By the 1930's lyricist, dramatist, writer, painter and wit Sir Noel Coward was supposedly the highest earning author in the western world. Opera New Zealand General Manager Stuart Maunder will be treading the boards as part of Auckland Writer's Week at the end of next month in Mad about Noel.
Topics: arts, music
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Tags: Noel Coward, theatre, Opera New Zealand
Duration: 12'01"
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Geoffrey Batchen: Cameraless Photography
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Today, if you have a smartphone, you have a camera with you wherever you go. But how were the first ever photos taken? Professor of Art History at Victoria University and world-renowned historian Geoffrey Batchen is the curator of 'Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph' exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth.
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Today, if you have a smartphone, you have a camera with you wherever you go. But how were the first ever photos taken? Professor of Art History at Victoria University and world-renowned historian Geoffrey Batchen is the curator of 'Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph' exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth.
Topics: arts
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: Len Lye, cameraless, Geoffrey Batchen, Govett-Brewster, New Plymouth, Emanations, photography
Duration: 13'52"
14:35
Nicky Pellegrino - Under Italian Skies
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Journalist and novelist Nicky Pellegrino returns to Italy, taking her protagonist Stella to a seaside villa in her latest novel Under Italian Skies. Stella is living in Camden, North London, when she finds the idyllic Villa Rosa on a house swap website. All she has to do is swap with its owner, Leo, to try out a whole new way of life.
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Journalist and novelist Nicky Pellegrino returns to Italy, taking her protagonist Stella to a seaside villa in her latest novel Under Italian Skies. Stella's living in Camden, North London, when she finds the idyllic Villa Rosa on a house swap website. All she has to do is swap with its owner, Leo, to try out a whole new way of life.
Topics: arts, author interview, books
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Tags: house swap, villa Rosa
Duration: 10'35"
14:45
A Trial
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Director and producer Joel Baxendale and Karin McCracken have devised a semi-improvised court room drama to be staged at Wellington's Bats Theatre next week investigating the debate over TVNZ's controversial Kiwimetre questionnaire. It's called A Trial.
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Director and producer Joel Baxendale and Karin McCracken have devised a semi-improvised court room drama to be staged at Wellington's Bats Theatre next week investigating the debate over TVNZ's controversial Kiwimetre questionnaire. It's called A Trial.
Topics: arts
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Joel Baxendale, Karin McCracken, Bats theatre, Kiwimetre, theatre
Duration: 10'13"
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12.40 Mark Broatch
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Last week critic and commentator Iain Sharpe put the cat among the pigeons on the subject of literary criticism in this country. He claimed that our critics are, basically, gutless, that our media had reduced book reviews to a shadow of their former selves, and that they prefer covering a glossy overseas hit to a locally-written book anyway. New Zealand Listener Books & Culture Editor Mark Broatch has right of reply.
12.50 ALTER: Between Human and Non-Human
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A new exhibition at Auckland's Gus Fisher Gallery - Alter - invites international artists to "critically address the post-human" in a group exhibition of technoscientific art projects. Alter aims to provoke questions about relations between human and non-human, the virtual and the real. Deborah Lawler-Dormer is curating this exhibition as part of her PhD, for which she is working with Associate Professor Mark Sagar, at the University of Auckland, to build an avatar of herself.
1.10 At the Movies
Two holiday films - The Huntsman - Winter's War, with its high-powered cast, led by Charlize Theron and Emily Blunt, and Zootopia, the latest smash hit from Disney Animation. Plus Andrea Bosshard and Shane Loader, creators of New Zealand independent film The Great Maiden's Blush.
1.35 White/Other
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Auckland actor Alice Canton says she has resisted digging into her Chinese Pakeha identity until now. She's performing a solo show called White/Other at the Basement Theatre and, as she tells Sonia Sly, she's coming face-to-face with the sides of herself that are unfamiliar and uncomfortable.
1.50 Stuart Maunder: Noel Coward
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By the 1930's lyricist, dramatist, writer, painter and wit Sir Noel Coward was supposedly the highest earning author in the western world. Opera New Zealand General Manager Stuart Maunder will be treading the boards as part of Auckland Writer's Week at the end of next month in Mad about Noel.
2:05 Laugh Track - Scott Blanks
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Scott Blanks previews the New Zealand International Comedy Festival with laugh tracks from Ismo Leikola, Angela Barnes, Nish Kumar, James Acaster and Lloyd Langford.
2.25 Geoffrey Batchen: Cameraless Photography
Today, if you have a smartphone, you have a camera with you wherever you go. But how were the first ever photos taken? Professor of Art History at Victoria University and world-renowned historian Geoffrey Batchen is the curator of 'Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph' exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth.
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2.35 Nicky Pellegrino - Under Italian Skies
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Journalist and novelist Nicky Pellegrino returns to Italy, taking her protagonist Stella to a seaside villa in her latest novel Under Italian Skies. Stella's living in Camden, North London, when she finds the idyllic Villa Rosa on a house swap website. All she has to do is swap with its owner, Leo, to try out a whole new way of life.
2.45 A Trial
Director and producer Joel Baxendale and Karin McCracken have devised a semi-improvised court room drama to be staged at Wellington's Bats Theatre next week investigating the debate over TVNZ's controversial Kiwimetre questionnaire. It's called A Trial.
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Drama at 3
3.06 New Zealand Lamb by Angie Farrow. A comic fantasy set on the day of New Zealand's Suffrage Centennial.
3.50 The late Janet Frame reads her story My Cousins Who Could Eat Cooked Turnips, recorded at the New Zealand International Festival in 1994.
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Highlighting radio playwriting and performance: New Zealand Lamb by Angie Farrow - A comic fantasy set on Suffrage Day 1993 (RNZ)
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The Salon (BBC)
Everything is up for discussion in the salon, where intimate and frank conversations take place between a woman and her hairstylist. Whether you view a haircut as a luxury or a necessity, a hair salon is at the frontline of how we think about female identity. Six journalists from around the world pay visits to salons across the world, from Tokyo to Johannesburg to Beirut and back. We’ll hear how women view issues of race, class, wealth, sexuality and beauty through the hair on their heads. Step inside the salon, where every haircut tells a story.
===5:00 PM. | None (National)===
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A roundup of today's news and sport
===5:11 PM. | None (National)===
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Liberating Faith (BBC)
In the days after the attacks on Paris, Mohammed Chirani – a French-Algerian – went on live French TV to tell supporters of so-called Islamic State that Allah would not protect them. "Know that our dead, the innocent French citizens, are in paradise and your dead, the terrorists, are in hell." He was, he went on, “waging war on them with the Koran”, challenging the extremists' interpretation of Islam verse by verse.
John Laurenson meets Chirani to learn how he aims to tackle the problem of radicalisation of Muslims in France where it is at its most dangerous: behind the walls of the countries prisons where approximately 50% of France’s prison inmates are Muslims. According to Chirani, “prisons are the breeding ground for radicalisation.” He aims to combat this with what he calls the “jihad of witness”
===5:40 PM. | Te Manu Korihi===
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===6:06 PM. | Te Ahi Kaa===
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Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)
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18:06
Māori Innovation - Pā Harakeke
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Maraeroa C Incorporation runs its tourism venture Pā Harakeke, an eco-cultural centre in the middle of Pureora Forest Park. In 2009 with the supports of its shareholders, the trust planted it's first crop of the beneficial perennial plant Ginseng. Justine Murray finds out about the trust's first commercial harvest and products that are in development with CEO Glen Katu and Ginseng Manager, Daniel Benefield.
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Te Ahi Kaa continues a series about innovation, visiting Pā Harakeke – a tourism venture at Pureora Forest Park in the Ruapehu District.
When Glen Katu asked his koroua what Maraeroa meant, he was told that it wasn't about a 'long marae'. Instead the name was referencing the hospitable nature of the marae, so it is the same for the people of the area.
Mai Rangitoto ki Tuhua (From Rangitoto to Tuhua) forms the regional boundaries of Ngāti Rereahu in the King Country. Glen recalls a trip back to Rereahu when he attended a meeting for the land trust Maraeroa C Incorporation. Glen's mother and his aunties were shareholders. At the meeting he wound up becoming a trustee so he decided to leave his job in Patea and a 27-year career in banking to return home to Te Kuiti.
"Maraeroa C was incorporated in 1973. Uncle Koro Wetere was our first chairman, and so he and his first board inherited 5,500 of barren land, you might say. The native trees had been harvested and milled and when they were all gone the Crown handed the land back to Maraeroa C, to the owners with no money. It was like a fallen forest."
In 2002 he was appointed the trust's CEO. Today Maraeroa C Incorporation has around 60 years left in its 99-year forestry lease with Hancock Forest Resource Management Limited. There are 1,200 shareholders and one of their main aspirations as a trust is to build their asset base, benefit its shareholders, create sustainable revenue streams and grow its assets.
When the trust was paid a dividend from their variable stumpage lease, they decided to invest in business and more importantly create business opportunities for whanau at Ngāti Rereahu. Business mentorship and funding from Te Puni Kōkiri and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment led to the creation of a business plan to create a forest and native plant experience Pā Harakeke (flax plant garden) an eco-cultural centre located at Pureora Forest was formed.
Replica pā buildings, a nursery, on-site accommodation for freedom campers and two chalet buildings would follow. However it would be the Timber Trail Bike Rides built on Te Pureora o Kahu mountain in 2013 that would increase tourist and local visitors by thousands per year.
The trust invested in shuttle services and mountain bikes to cater for increased visitors. One of its most recent innovative ventures is the growing and harvesting the perennial plant ginseng.
Manager of Ginseng & Natural Plantations Daniel Benefield says the trust was approached in 2006 by New Zealand Plant and Food Research to find a suitable Māori trust in the Central North Island area who were interested in growing ginseng. The pine forest and weather conditions were conducive to growing the plant.
A small room inside the eco-cultural centre space is where the Ginseng is stored and processed. The team then package the ginseng in large red and gold designed boxes which is then sold in their gift shop. In March this year, the trust attended its first gift fair in Auckland.
The first commercial harvest will be carried out this year and already Maraeroa C Incorporation are looking into developing ginseng products including lozenges and beauty products.
Topics: te ao Maori, business, life and society
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Tags: te reo Maori, Rereahu, Ginseng, Glen Katu
Duration: 31'57"
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===6:40 PM. | Voices===
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===7:05 PM. | TED Radio Hour===
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===8:06 PM. | Sunday Night===
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An evening of music and nostalgia (RNZ)
===10:12 PM. | Mediawatch===
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Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in New Zealand's news media (RNZ)
===10:45 PM. | In Parliament===
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===11:04 PM. | None (National)===
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An hour of music that's "shaken, not stirred" every week from the Underground Martini Bunker at Kansas Public Radio (12 of 12, KPR)