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:
22 April 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Health Check (BBC); 1:05 The Friday Feature; 2:05 NZ Society; 2:30 The Sampler (RNZ); 3:05 The Godley Letters read by Ginette McDonald and Sam Neill (1 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 The Why Factor (BBC); 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 Friday 22 April 2016
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Prince fans - the world over - mourn the death of their idol at the age of just 57. John Key gets access for New Zealand chilled meat into China and Auckland mayoral candidate Phil Goff claims 16 of the city's police stations are to close.
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Duration: 31'47"
06:06
Sports News for 22 April 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'02"
06:09
Pop singer Prince found dead at his Minnesota home
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The US pop legend Prince has been found dead at his Minnesota home.
Topics: music
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Tags: Prince, US
Duration: 5'57"
06:21
Early Business News for 22 April 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'05"
06:25
Morning Rural News for 22 April 2016
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News from the rural and farming sector
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 3'59"
06:41
Amway incentive event in Queenstown coup for NZ
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Queenstown's business community is welcoming what it calls the biggest sales event in New Zealand's history.
Topics: business
Regions: Otago
Tags: Amway China
Duration: 2'01"
06:44
Paris Agreement to be signed but will it be ratified?
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The historic Paris Agreement to tackle climate change will be signed tomorrow at a high-level ceremony in New York.
Topics: climate, politics
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Tags: climate change
Duration: 3'00"
06:49
Consumers seem to be shrugging off talk of economic slowdowns
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Consumers seem to be shrugging off talk of economic slowdowns and growing headwinds, and instead are basking in the prospect of rising house prices.
Topics: business
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Tags: consumer confidence
Duration: 2'01"
06:51
Migration and tourism bound to new highs in March
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The country is expected to keep reaping the economic gains from record numbers of people coming here to live or take a holiday for some time yet, according to one economist.
Topics: business
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Tags: tourism, migration
Duration: 1'44"
06:53
Electric buses for NZ Bus
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The country will have its first all electric bus in operation by the end of the year, but it may cost taxpayers and ratepayers more.
Topics: business, transport
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Tags: Nz Bus
Duration: 1'30"
06:55
Craig Presland appointed chief executive of Coop Business
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The new head of the industry body, Cooperative Business New Zealand, says cooperatives are a relevant and valid business structure but they need to keep up to date in the thinking and financing.
Topics: business
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Tags: cooperatives
Duration: 1'18"
06:56
AAA rating under threat in Australia
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Over to Australia, and the lucky country's triple-A rating is under threat.
Topics: business
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 1'12"
06:57
Morning markets for 22 April 2016
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Wall Street weaker today after a mixed bag of earnings reports and lower oil prices.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 58"
06:58
Business briefs
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The economy is facing further headwinds and turbulence along with more interest rate cuts according to ratings firm, Moodys.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'06"
07:07
Sports News for 22 April 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'05"
07:10
Pop singer Prince found dead at his Minnesota home
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His purple reign is over. Music legend Prince has been found dead at his Paisley Park studios in Minneapolis.
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The hugely influential musician, singer and songwriter Prince has died suddenly at his Minnesota home at the age of 57.
Variety Magazine executive editor Steven Gaydos said despite having recently had the flu, within the last few days Prince had been telling the world he was feeling great.
"He lived in a way that was very, very different and always enigmatic and mysterious, even his death seems.. catching everybody completely off guard," he told Morning Report
Mr Gaydos said Prince's mysteries would start unravelling, with the first one being what happened to him.
"Today we're talking about a man whose career was shrouded in so many enigmatic, funny, mysterious and interesting things and at the very beginning the first reaction that the engineers and the people in the studio had was 'What's going on with this guy? Who is this kid?"
Prince was found unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park Studios compound, which included his home, in the Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen, according to a Carver County Sheriff's Office statement. Emergency workers tried to revive him and he was pronounced dead a short time later.
The sheriff's office said it was investigating the circumstances. The local medical examiner declined to comment on the cause of death.
Prince became a global superstar in the 1980s, with albums such as 1999, Purple Rain and Sign O' the Times.
An innovative singer and songwriter whose music combined jazz, funk and disco, Prince is best known for hit songs like Purple Rain, Kiss and Raspberry Beret.
He first found fame in the late 1970s and over the next three decades became known as one of the most inventive and eccentric forces in American pop music.
Often making a statement with bold fashion choices, the diminutive star sometimes appeared on stage sporting ruffled shirts and tight pants or elaborate costumes, including chain mail covering his face, a shimmery orange tunic or bikini briefs.
Prince was regarded as a perfectionist who from 1993 to 2000 changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in what was seen as a protest against his record label at the time.
For a while, he was dubbed "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince."
Prince's manager, Kiran Sharma, tweeted a brief message:
Last week, the singer was briefly hospitalized with the flu after his plane made an emergency landing in Moline, Illinois, TMZ reported.
A representative told the celebrity news website TMZ that the singer had performed in Atlanta even though he was not feeling well and felt worse after boarding the plane for a flight back to Minnesota.
Prince, an intensely private person, won multiple Grammy awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
In 2007, he played the Super Bowl in one of the most celebrated such performances.
The NFL tweeted Prince's Super Bowl performance of Purple Rain:
Prince became a Jehovah's Witness about 15 years ago, and was a strict vegan. In 2009, he spoke in a PBS television interview about being born an epileptic and suffering seizures as a child.
He said he was also teased in school, and that "early in my career I tried to compensate by being as flashy as I could and as noisy as I could."
Prince won an Oscar for best original song score for "Purple Rain," the 1984 movie whose music was based on his album of the same name. He also starred in the movie.
His most recent album, HITnRUN: Phase Two was released in December 2015, and the artist had been on tour in the United States as recently as last week.
In 1993, Prince legally changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol, but later changed it back again.
He was born Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis on June 7, 1958, and is said to have written his first song at the age of 7. As well as singing and writing, he played multiple instruments, including guitar, keyboards and drums.
His music was marked by sexually charged lyrics and explosive live performances, while his private life was marked by a string of romances linking him with the likes of Madonna and Kim Basinger and Carmen Electra.
Prince was married twice: to his backup singer, Mayte Garcia, in 1996 and then to Manuela Testolini in 2001. Both marriages ended in divorce.
Twitter lit up with reaction from dismayed friends and fans. "Prince" was the top-trending term on the social media network in the United States on Thursday afternoon with more than 840,000 mentions.
Retired basketball star Shaquille O'Neal wrote: "R.I.P PRINCE, another icon gone too soon."
Film director Spike Lee said on Twitter: "I Miss My Brother. Prince Was A Funny Cat. Great Sense Of Humor."
Prince wrote hundreds of songs for himself and other artists and released 39 studio albums including four in the last 18 months.
Last month, publisher Spiegel & Grau announced that it acquired Prince's memoir, set for release in fall of 2017. "We're starting from the beginning from my first memory and hopefully we can go all the way up to the Super Bowl," Prince said.
Prince performed his first New Zealand concerts in Auckland only two months ago.
RNZ's Sam Wicks was at both concerts at ASB Theatre in Auckland and reviewed them for Music 101.
He sold more than 100 million records during his career.
- Reuters / BBC
Topics: music
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Tags: Prince, US
Duration: 9'21"
07:20
NZ gains access to export chilled meat to China
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The Government has gained access for chilled meat into China.
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Tags: China, chilled meat
Duration: 1'46"
07:22
Amway's elite salespeople heading to Queenstown
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They were there to hear the Prime Minister - and Minister of Tourism - John Key announce Queenstown will host 10-thousand Amway sales staff from China in two years time.
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Tags: China, Amway
Duration: 3'51"
07:26
Police refute claims 16 Auckland stations are closing
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Auckland mayoral candidate Phil Goff says 16 of the city's police stations are about to close.
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Duration: 5'49"
07:40
High rates of desperation in Fiji after Cyclone Winston
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Counsellors helping people in Fiji recover after Cyclone Winston say there are people in every village they visit in a desperate state psychologically and many others are severely affected.
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Duration: 3'11"
07:46
New rules for taxis and uber will even the playing field.
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The Taxi Federation says the government's shake-up of their industry will help even the playing feild.
Topics: transport
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Tags: taxis
Duration: 4'00"
07:51
This Anzac Day marks 100 years since the beginning
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Anzac Day is almost upon us, and this year marks a century since the very first Anzac Day.
Topics: defence force
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Tags: Anzac Day
Duration: 3'05"
07:55
75 years of the Royal Navy
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New Zealand's Navy is celebrating its 75th birthday this year.
Topics: defence force
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Tags: navy, 75th birthday
Duration: 5'07"
08:07
Sports News for 22 April 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'27"
08:11
Tributes pour in for Prince
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Tributes are flowing in for music legend Prince who was found dead at his Paisley Park, Minneaopolis home this morning.
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Tributes are flowing in for music legend Prince who was found dead at his Paisley Park, Minneaopolis home this morning.
Music reviewer and longtime Prince fan Marty Duda was at Prince's show in Auckland in February and said it was truly incredible.
He said Prince even eclipsed Michael Jackson, as far as creativity was concerned.
"Prince just did what all the all the great artists do or what he was driven to do.
"I'd put him right up there with Dylan and Bowie and those guys who surprised everyone, didn't pay attention to what was popular at the time."
Prince was a prolific musician with over 40 years in the record industry. He first found fame in 1978 and went on to sell more than a hundred million records.
Among many others, his hits included Purple Rain, Kiss, When Doves Cry, Diamonds and Pearls and Nothing Compares 2 U.
Prince had just played his first concert in New Zealand in February and was touring as recently as last week.
News of his death has come as a shock with many taking to social media to pay tribute.
Related stories
Topics: music
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Tags: Prince, US
Duration: 6'31"
08:18
Women convicted of manslaughter given home detention
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In what's believed to be a legal first, a woman who fatally stabbed her partner has been sentenced to home detention.
Topics: crime
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Mura Dean Tagatauli
Duration: 3'22"
08:21
Councils urgeed to do more on dog control
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Pressure is on for local councils to follow the lead of Auckland Council and grant amnesty to owners of unregistered menacing dogs.
Topics: politics, law
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Tags: dogs
Duration: 6'12"
08:27
$50 million deal secured for Queenstown resort
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As we've been reporting this morning ten thousand Amway workers from China are coming to Queenstown as part of the company's sales incentives reward scheme.
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Regions: Otago
Tags: China, Amway
Duration: 2'50"
08:29
Markets Update for 22 April 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 47"
08:35
Landlords responsible for accidental damage by tenants
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The Insurance Council says a landmark court of appeal decision removes the incentive for tenants to take care of their landlord's property.
Topics: business
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Tags: insurance, tenants
Duration: 3'28"
08:39
Cyclone-affected Fiji struggles to recover
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As we have been reporting Fiji has ended its official State of National Disaster in the last couple of days, two months after Cyclone Winston slammed into the country.
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Tags: Fiji, Cyclone Winston
Duration: 2'53"
08:41
Claims Pistorius beat girlfriend with cricket bat
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A new book says Oscar Pistorius attacked his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp with a cricket bat before shooting her dead.
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Tags: Oscar Pistorius, South Africa
Duration: 2'28"
08:43
Akl move to control menacing dogs 'step in right direction'
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Moves by the Auckland Council to control menacing dogs are being hailed as a step in the right direction but still short of what's needed to stop people being seriously injured.
Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: dogs
Duration: 3'13"
08:45
Budding young leaders tested in Nelson's outdoors
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More than 50 of the country's aspiring young environmental leaders, and a few from the Pacific, put their studies to the test in Nelson this week.
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Regions: Nelson Region
Tags: EnviroLeaders' Forum
Duration: 3'37"
08:49
NZ Bus signs on Calfornia company to refrofit trolley buses
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Trolley buses have been quintessentially Wellington for more than 60 years and now they're about to get a new lease of life.
Topics: transport
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Nz Bus
Duration: 2'50"
08:51
400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's death
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Saturday will mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, the poet and playwright many consider to be the finest master of the English language.
Topics: arts
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Tags: Shakespeare
Duration: 3'19"
08:56
Kerry-Anne Walsh with news from Australia
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Let's have a chat to our Canberra correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh.
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Duration: 3'11"
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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: Shackleton's Boat Journey by Captain Frank W. Worsley, read by Peter Elliot
An epic story of survival in Antarctic waters early in the 20th century told by the Akaroa-born master of Shackleton's ill-fated expedition ship, Endurance (6 of 10, RNZ)
(Unfortunately the audio for this Reading is not available online)
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09:09
Botched Beirut abduction - lawyer speaks out
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Sally Faulkner, Journalist Tara Brown and her film crew are back in Australia now after the plan to abduct Ms Faulkner's children went horribly wrong. They have been released after charges against them were dropped by Ms Faulkner's estranged husband. But four men from Child Abduction Recovery International, who carried out the plan, remain in custody in Beirut - we speak to Joe Karam, the Beirut based lawyer for two of them.
Topics: crime, media, law
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Tags: Channel 9
Duration: 16'33"
09:25
Cost of failed science proposals could eclipse funding
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The New Zealand Association of Scientists is warning this year's contestable funding round may have the lowest success rate yet. The NZAS says this year MBIE has put fewer restrictions on the type of projects being considered and says the success rate could end up being so low that the cost of writing up all the unsuccessful proposals could eclipse the total amount of funding on offer. The Association is discussing this issue and others at a conference celebrating its 75th anniversary this weekend.
Topics: science
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Tags: funding, science
Duration: 13'08"
09:38
Giving big data a voice
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Dr Robert Dale talks to Kathryn Ryan about using Natural Language Generation to get the most out of big data.
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Could the secret to making the most of big data be… a voice ?
With applications like Siri we can now ask our phones for quick answers to simple questions, but the bigger game in town is Natural Language Generation – or NLG – which enables big data to tell a rich and complex story.
Read an edited snapshot of Robert Dale and Kathryn Ryan's conversation:
We know our Google search will surf through a phenomenal amount of information and come back with a set of information. The next step that’s a bit more mind-bending is how the computer takes that information that’s processed and communicates it back to a human being in what we recognise as being language. How does that happen?
Really that’s driven by what we’ve come to learn about linguistics. It’s very much driven by science. And you can think about it as being codifying a capability that we all have naturally. So when we talk we know how to tell a story, we know how to put things together in an order that makes sense to the person we’re speaking to, we know what information we should emphasise, what information we should miss out, we know how to phrase things and describe things so that the person we’re talking to will understand us. And of course that’s going to depend on just who the audience is, so it’s very much tailored to the audience we’re talking to. All of those things we do effortlessly, but they are actually driven by rules in our heads. And if we can get at those rules, we can codify those rules and put them in software. And that’s essentially what we’re doing when we develop these kinds of applications.
How sophisticated is the language capacity of the computer?
Already very sophisticated. Where there are still challenges here is around the more nuanced aspects of language, like the use of analogies and metaphor and so on. We’re in a situation now where we know enough to be able to get the machine to talk very coherently and sensibly about factual information. So we can give the machine lots of data in many, many different domains. There is lots of work we do is in the finance domain. That's a very popular area for this technology right now.
How much is what you’re talking about here linking in to the so-called internet of things?
In the last few years the driver here has been big data, now it’s the internet of things. We are surrounded by sensors and pieces of machinery and trackers on our wrists and so on that are all spewing out all this data. Really what we’ve got there is a situation where machines are talking to machines and we are left out of the loop. And in many cases – not all – but in many cases we’d like to be part of that conversation, too. For that to happen we have to understand what that data means. So the rule here for NLG is to explain data in the world of the internet of things – to overcome that tsunami of information, if you like, to convey what’s important to the people who own the data in the first place.
Topics: technology
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Duration: 12'14"
09:50
Asia correspondent Charlotte Glennie
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Charlotte Glennie analyses John Key's visit to China and discusses the aftermath of the recent earthquakes in Kyushu, Japan.
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Tags: Asia
Duration: 8'22"
10:08
James Portnow - ethical gaming
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Like many teens growing up in the 90s James loved video games... but in his high school years that love became a damaging addiction. Eventually he overcame that compulsion and after a stint touring the United States as a rock musician James became a game designer. In his career James has worked on games ranging from the massively popular first person shooter series, Call of Duty, to the Facebook craze FarmVille. But he's best known as the writer of Extra Credits, a web-series tackling the promise and pitfalls of games. James is also interested in how game systems can be used for education - which he's explored through a side project, Extra History.
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Like many teens growing up in the 1990s James Portnow loved video games, but in his high school years that love became a damaging addiction.
Eventually, he overcame that compulsion and after a stint touring the United States as a rock musician, James became a game designer.
In his career, he has worked on games ranging from the massively popular first-person shooter series, Call of Duty, to the Facebook craze FarmVille.
But he's best known as the writer of Extra Credits, a web-series tackling the promise and pitfalls of games.
James is also interested in how game systems can be used for education - which he's explored through a side project, Extra History.
Read an edited snapshot of their conversation below:
Could you explain your own experience of [addiction] and then coming out of it?
Absolutely. I have been debating a lot between the word addiction and the word compulsion, because I think addiction is something much more chemical versus psychological, at least how we define it here in the US. But that is semantics. You are absolutely right.
In the ‘90s, there was a game called EverQuest and I’m actually good friends with the lead designer of that game these days, but it was a powerful game. It gave me a world that in some ways I liked better than my world at the time and that rewarded me for everything that I did and being the person who I am in a way that I didn’t necessarily see and wasn’t necessarily getting from the world that I lived in, from the real world as we call it.
Over time, eventually I had to realise that the real world was what I made of it and that it was my story, that I could make anything of it, that’s one thing that games taught me. I think the important thing that games teach is agency. They teach you that your choices matter, they have consequences and you are the star of the show. So I had to come to that conclusion.
Over the course of it, I lost a lot of things and it cost me a lot but at the same time it taught me a lot. There’s a lot about patience and understanding and even empathy that this experience taught me. It taught me how frail I actually am, in some ways. So I found that experience immensely valuable, although the cost was very high.
Did I read somewhere you saying that this addiction or compulsion, you reflect on it as being not so much about the game, but about what is going on in someone’s life, which you might, in fact apply to any form of addiction and compulsion. Was that something you wanted to draw attention to as well?
Yeah, absolutely because it’s one of those things that doesn’t only happen with this medium, right. We probably know somebody in our life who at some point or another just goes home, turns on the television and ignores everything else. It does really matter.
When you look at it among young people, because I have spoken to lots of young people who went through or are going through the same thing that I did… truth is, that much of it has to do with the rest of their life being worse than the game. That shouldn’t be the case. One of the reasons that we say games matter is because this is a tool we can use and things we learn from making these games are tools we can use to make the rest of our lives better.
If you look at our lives since the turn of the 20th Century. Since 1900 our leisure time has gotten so much more exciting, so much better with movies, television, games, all of these… it’s so much more exciting than when all people had to do was hit a ball with a stick and yet, the rest of our lives; our work time, our school time, has barely become more engaging and to me in some ways that is criminal. Therein lies the heart in why some people turn to these games as an escape, which becomes an addiction.
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Tags: video games
Duration: 29'02"
10:40
Book review - At the Existentialist Cafe
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'At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, & Apricot Cocktails' by Sarah Bakewell. Reviewed by: Tilly Lloyd, published by: Chatto & Windus.
Topics: books
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Duration: 5'55"
11:07
Music reviewer Jeremy Taylor
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Jeremy Taylor pays tribute to the singer, songwriter and performer Prince, as well as checking in on former Husker Du man Bob Mould's latest solo offering, along with a classic from the vault from Graham Nash.
Topics: music
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Duration: 27'50"
11:34
Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
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Sports Awards. Players who don't want to go to the Olympics.
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Duration: 11'26"
11:47
The week that was
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With Te Radar and Irene Pink.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: comedy
Duration: 12'43"
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09:05 Botched Beirut abduction - lawyer speaks out
Sally Faulkner, Journalist Tara Brown and her film crew are back in Australia now - after the plan to abduct Ms Faulkner's children went horribly wrong.
They have now been released after charges against them were dropped by Ms Faulkner's estranged husband. But four men from Child Abduction Recovery International, who carried out the plan, remain in custody in Beirut - we speak to Joe Karam, the Beirut based lawyer for two of them.
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09:20 Cost of failed science proposals could eclipse funding
The New Zealand Association of Scientists is warning this year's contestable funding round may have the lowest success rate yet. The NZAS says this year MBIE has put fewer restrictions on the type of projects being considered and says the success rate could end up being so low that the cost of writing up all the unsuccessful proposals could eclipse the total amount of funding on offer. The Association is discussing this issue and others at a conference celebrating its 75th anniversary this weekend.
09:30 Giving big data a voice
Dr Robert Dale talks to Kathryn Ryan about using natural language generation to get the most out of big data.
09:45 Asia correspondent Charlotte Glennie
Charlotte Glennie analyses John Key's visit to China and discusses the aftermath of the recent earthquakes in Kyushu, Japan.
10:05 James Portnow - ethical gaming
Like many teens growing up in the 90s James loved video games... but in his high school years that love became a damaging addiction. Eventually he overcame that compulsion and after a stint touring the United States as a rock musician James became a game designer. In his career James has worked on games ranging from the massively popular first person shooter series, Call of Duty, to the Facebook craze FarmVille. But he's best known as the writer of Extra Credits, a web-series tackling the promise and pitfalls of games.
James is also interested in how game systems can be used for education - which he's explored through a side project, Extra History.
10:35 Book review - At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, & Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
Reviewed by: Tilly Lloyd, published by: Chatto & Windus
10:45 The Reading Shackleton's Boat Journey by Captain Frank W. Worsley read by Peter Elliot (Part 6 of 10)
Note: The audio of the current 10.45am Reading is not available online.
11:05 Music reviewer Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor pays tribute to the singer, songwriter and performer Prince, as well as checking in on former Husker Du man Bob Mould's latest solo offering, along with a classic from the vault from Graham Nash.
Artist: Prince
Song: When You Were Mine, Disc 1 Track 6
Comp: Prince
Album: The Hits/ The B-Sides
Label: Paisley Park/ Warner Brothers
Broadcast Time: 3’44”
Song: She’s Always In My Hair, Disc 3 Track 14
Comp: Prince
Album: The Hits/ The B-Sides
Label: Paisley Park/ Warner Brothers
Broadcast Time: 3’27”
Song: When Doves Cry, Disc 1 Track 1
Comp: Prince
Album: The Hits/ The B-Sides
Label: Paisley Park/ Warner Brothers
Broadcast Time: 3’48”
Artist: Bob Mould
Song; Voices In My Head, Track 1
Comp: Bob Mould
Album: Patch The Sky
Label: Merge/ Southbound
Broadcast Time: 3'55"
Artist: Grand Rapids
Song: Singing Showers Golden Lights, Track 2
Comp: Ben King
Album: Faintheartedness
Label: Music Hype
Broadcast Time: 2'18"
11:30 Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
11:45 The week that was with Te Radar and Irene Pink
Featuring: Dueling bulldozers
===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 22 April 2016
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A manhunt in Porirua after a police dog is shot dead, local fans mourn American superstar Prince.
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Duration: 15'22"
12:17
Tourism infrastructure at bursting point
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An economist says tourism infrastructure is stretched and more investment needs to be made. The chief forecaster at consultancy Infometrics, Gareth Kiernan, says accommodation occupancy is stretched in peak times.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: tourism
Duration: 1'59"
12:20
Money transfer service aimed at migrants sees online growth
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A money transfer service says a surge in migration is fueling its rapid growth online. WorldRemit was set up in 2010 as a way to get funds quickly to families who need aid.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: money transferral, WorldRemit
Duration: 2'01"
12:25
Midday Markets for 22 April 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Bryan Shepherd at Macquarie Private Wealth.
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Duration: 2'40"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 22 April 2016
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Shot put stars Valerie Adams and Tom Walsh and 1500m runner Nick Willis headline the first list of track and field athletes selected for the New Zealand team for the Rio Olympic Games.
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Duration: 2'50"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 22 April 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 8'27"
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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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13:19
Wartime Propaganda - Steph Gibson
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Stephanie Gibson's expertise is in the area of First World War posters, emotional imagery and messaging. Poster were the most common form of messaging during those times.
Topics: history, arts
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Tags: Wwi, First World War posters
Duration: 10'09"
13:28
Pacific Impacts of War - Grace Hutton
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Not often talked about when we look back at World War one is the contribution from our neighbours throughout the Pacific. Up to 500 Cook Island men are thought to have been involved in fighting during this period, but up until now their efforts have not been widely talked about. There were also a number of Niueans who took up the call to enlist under the New Zealand Maori contingent.
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When we look back at World War One the contribution from our neighbours throughout the Pacific is rarely ever mentioned.
Up to 500 Cook Island men are thought to have been involved in fighting during this period, but up until now their efforts have not been widely talked about.
There were also a number of Niueans who took up the call to enlist under the New Zealand Māori contingent.
Ahead of Anzac Day, Jesse Mulligan talks to Grace Hutton about the sacrifice made by those from the Pacific.
Topics: history, Pacific
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Duration: 8'24"
13:40
Gallipoli: The Scale of our War - Kirstie Ross
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The display features the stories of seven Kiwi Soliders and a nurse and has attracted around 700 thousand visitors since it opened to the public in April last year. Lead Curator for this project is Kirstie Ross, she's also Te Papa's History Curator and is giving several floor talks at the museum this weekend.
Topics: history
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Duration: 8'37"
13:47
Favourite Album - Michael Hall
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Michael Hall is the head of Te Papa's imaging team, he's chosen Iggy Pop's New Values.
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Duration: 12'24"
14:20
NZ Live - Paddy Burgin's Wooden Box Band
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Paddy Burgin's Wooden Box Band performs live in the Atrium at Te Papa.
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Paddy Burgin's Wooden Box Band has brought in the weekend with a live performance in the atrium of Te Papa in Wellington.
The group has six members: Paddy Burgin (guitar and vocals), Jeremy Desmond (electric guitar), Murray Costello (bass), Bruce McNaught (cahon), Jessie Moss (backing vocals) and Emily Clemmet (backing vocals and trumpet).
The band's frontman - a capital city resident and a musician since childhood - is also known for making handcrafted acoustic guitars.
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Duration: 49'43"
15:10
Food with Martin Bosley
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Wellington Chef Martin Bosley debates the merits of bully beef, as provided to our servicemen during wartime. And shares his recipe for Corned Beef and Black Pudding Hash.
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Duration: 11'05"
15:20
Wine with Joelle Thomson
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Joelle recommends the Italian wine variety, Valpolicella, to accompany Martin's hash.
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Duration: 6'12"
15:25
Film review with Dr Richard Swainson
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Richard Swainson reviews Eye in the Sky and The Boss.
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Duration: 9'12"
15:30
Music with Melody Thomas
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Melody Thomas previews this weekend's edition of Music 101.
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Duration: 10'49"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 22 April 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 13'56"
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Today's programme is broadcast live from Te Papa Tongarewa on the Wellington waterfront.
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1:15 Wartime Propaganda - Steph Gibson
Stephanie Gibson's expertise is in the area of First World War posters, emotional imagery and messaging. Poster were the most common form of messaging during those times.
1:27 Pacific Impacts of War - Grace Hutton
Not often talked about when we look back at World War one is the contribution from our neighbours throughout the pacific. Up to 500 Cook Island men are thought to have been involved in fighting during this period, but up until now their efforts have not been widely talked about. There were also a number of Niueans who took up the call to enlist under the New Zealand Maori contingent.
1:34 Gallipoli: The Scale of our War - Kirstie Ross
We're at Te Papa talking all things related to Gallipoli 100 years ago. As part of the commemorations one of the most popular attractions to have been put in palace to mark the occasion is Gallipoli: The Scale of our War. The giant display features the stories of seven Kiwi Soliders and a nurse and has attracted around 700 thousand visitors since it opened to the public in April last year. Lead Curator for this project is Kirstie Ross, she's also Te Papa's History Curator and is giving several floor talks at the museum this weekend.
1:40 Favourite Album - Michael Hall
Michael Hall is the head of the Te Papa Imaging team. He talks to Jesse about his favourite album, New Values by Iggy Pop.
2:10 NZ Live
Paddy Burgin's Wooden Box Band performs live in the Atrium at Te Papa.
3:10 Food, Wine, Movies and Music
Wellington Chef Martin Bosley debates the merits of bully beef, as provided to our servicemen during wartime. And shares his recipe for Corned Beef and Black Pudding Hash.
Wine writer and educator Joelle Thomson sings the prasies of the Italian wine variety Valpollicella.
Our film reviewer Dr Richard Swainson reviews Eye in the Sky and The Boss.
Melody Thomas previews this weekend's edition of Music 101.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about, with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
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JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST: Prince and The Revolution
TITLE: Sometimes It Snows in April
COMP: Prince, Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman.
ALBUM: Parade
LABEL: Warner
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Iggy Pop
TITLE: The Endless Sea
COMP: Iggy Pop
ALBUM New Values
LABEL Arista
ARTIST: Iggy Pop
TITLE: Don't Look Down
COMP: Iggy Pop, James Williamson
ALBUM New Values
LABEL Arista
NEW ZEALAND LIVE: Paddy Burgin & The Wooden Box Band
ARTIST: Paddy Burgin & The Wooden Box Band
TITLE: Lover Don't Leap
COMP: Paddy Burgin
ALBUM: Gentle Landings
LIVE: RNZ (On Location at Te Papa)
ARTIST: Paddy Burgin & The Wooden Box Band
TITLE: Swift Current
COMP: Paddy Burgin
ALBUM: Gentle Landings
LIVE: RNZ (On Location at Te Papa)
ARTIST: Paddy Burgin & The Wooden Box Band
TITLE: Evelyn
COMP: Paddy Burgin
ALBUM: My Sweet Town
LIVE: RNZ (On Location at Te Papa)
ARTIST: Paddy Burgin & The Wooden Box Band
TITLE: Walkin' Down The Line
COMP: Bob Dylan
ALBUM: Gentle Landings
LIVE: RNZ (On Location at Te Papa)
ARTIST: Paddy Burgin & The Wooden Box Band
TITLE: The Garments of The Underclass
COMP: Paddy Burgin
ALBUM: My Sweet Town
LIVE: RNZ (On Location at Te Papa)
MUSIC 101 PROMO:
ARTIST: Prince
TITLE: Call My Name
COMP: Prince
ALBUM: Musicology
LABEL: NPG
THE PANEL: HALFTIME SONG
ARTIST: Sinead O'Connor
TITLE: Nothing Compares 2U
COMP: Prince
ALBUM: I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
LABEL: Chrysalis
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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15:45
The Panel pre-show for 22 April 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 13'56"
16:05
The Panel with Finlay MacDonald and Jane Clifton (Part 1)
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Topics - Dr Willem de Lange discusses his research on fault-lines in Waikato which puts Hamilton in greater risk of earthquake damage than previously thought, a report has confirmed what many Dunedin residents thought - flooding was caused by badly-maintained mud tanks. Lawyer Duncan Terris discusses the possible legal ramifications. Is the assumption that young people fritter away their money instead of saving harder to buy a house actually right?
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Duration: 23'28"
16:06
The Panel with Finlay MacDonald and Jane Clifton (Part 2)
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Topics - Musical phenomenon Prince has died at the age of 57. He appeared to be a complex creature. Economist Eric Crampton talks about the complexities of getting royalties for water.
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Duration: 26'57"
16:07
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Finlay MacDonald and Jane Clifton have been up to.
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Duration: 4'13"
16:12
Hamilton joins earthquake-risk cities
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Dr Willem de Lange discusses his research on fault-lines in Waikato which puts Hamilton in greater risk of earthquake damage than previously thought.
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Regions: Waikato
Tags: earthquakes
Duration: 7'14"
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Dunedin's mud tanks
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A report has confirmed what many Dunedin residents thought - flooding was caused by badly-maintained mud tanks. Lawyer Duncan Terris discusses the possible legal ramifications.
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Regions: Otago
Tags: flooding
Duration: 6'16"
16:25
Harsh words for young house buyers
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Is the assumption that young people fritter away their money instead of saving harder to buy a house actually right?
Topics: housing
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Duration: 5'41"
16:38
Farewell Prince
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Musical phenomenon Prince has died at the age of 57. He appeared to be a complex creature.
Topics: music
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Duration: 10'27"
16:43
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Finlay McDonald and Jane Clifton have been thinking about.
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Duration: 4'32"
16:48
Our water flowing overseas
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Economist Eric Crampton talks about the complexities of getting royalties for water.
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Duration: 11'17"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme
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Checkpoint with John Campbell, Friday 22nd April 2016
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Watch Friday's full programme here. It begins 5 minutes in.
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17:07
Police hunt for armed man who injured officer & killed dog
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Police are hunting for an armed man in Porirua after what they describe as a harrowing day in which an officer was injured and a police dog shot and killed. Adriana Weber reports live from Waitangirua.
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Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Porirua, police, Police Dog, Pita Rangi Tekira
Duration: 5'13"
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Shock and grief after news of Prince's death sets in
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The world is in shock after Prince died suddenly this morning, in his Minneapolis home. Tributes have been flowing for the 57-year-old artist considered one of the world's greatest musicians and songwriters.
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Duration: 1'02"
17:23
Loud cheers welcome Dunedin's first Syrian refugees
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Dunedin's largest intake of refugees in decades - 13 Syrian families - were greeted this morning with loud cheers. Ian Telfer was among the welcoming party at Dunedin airport
Topics: refugees and migrants
Regions: Otago
Tags: Syrian refugees
Duration: 3'53"
17:27
Syrian refugees handpicked by Pope Francis begin life in Italy
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12 Syrian refugees handpicked by Pope Francis on his visit to Lesbos last week, have begun their new life in Italy.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Duration: 1'45"
17:34
Evening Business for 22 April 2016
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News from the business sector including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'49"
17:37
Dunedin Mayor outraged after flood report finds multiple faults
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Dave Cull says he's outraged with council contractors Fulton Hogan and those charged with overseeing their work, following a damning report into catastrophic flooding in South Dunedin last year.
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Regions: Otago
Tags: Dunedin, flooding
Duration: 10'25"
17:47
Shot putter Tom Walsh talks Olympic medal hopes
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Shot Putter Tom Walsh is one of 10 track and field athletes named in the New Zealand team heading to the Rio Olympics. As the current World Indoor Champion, he's a strong medal contender.
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Duration: 5'47"
17:53
2 dead, 5 missing after coastal highway collapse in Rio
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Two people are dead and five people are missing after a portion of a coastal cyleway collapsed into the sea in Rio. Diane Hodges from Reuters reports.
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Duration: 1'21"
17:55
Masey University student guilty of manslaughter
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Chilling evidence described of the fatal control a young Massey University student exercised over his partner, eventually leading to her death. Ruth Hill reports.
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Tags: Jesse John Stuart Ferris-Bromley, Virginia Rose Ford
Duration: 2'54"
17:58
Aucklanders pay tribute to Prince via song
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Aucklanders pay tribute to Prince through song.
Topics: music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Prince
Duration: 2'20"
18:10
Modern music legend Prince mourned by world
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One of modern music's legends, Prince, is being mourned across the world. His first engineer and producer, Chris Moon, looks back at Prince's legacy.
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Duration: 10'14"
18:20
Cambodian refugee on how far he's come since settling in NZ
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As 13 new Syrian refugee families prepare for their first night in their new Dunedin homes, one of the last refugees to settle in the South Island city, Cambodian Hain Seng, looks back at how far he's come in the past 37 years.
Topics: refugees and migrants
Regions: Otago
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Duration: 5'26"
18:25
Barbara Cunningham named ANZAC of the Year
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Mataura resident Barbara Cunningham has been named ANZAC of the year.
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Duration: 3'24"
18:38
Focus on Politics for 22 April 2016
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New Zealand has made it clear to China during the Prime Minister's visit there this week that dairy access must be improved, as both parties negotiate an upgrade to the existing free trade agreement. While two-way trade has increased substantially since the agreement was signed between New Zealand and China eight years ago, many New Zealand businesses still face barriers in the Chinese market.
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Duration: 15'29"
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===6:30 PM. | Worldwatch===
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The stories behind the international headlines
===6:43 PM. | Focus on Politics===
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Analysis of significant political issues presented by RNZ's parliamentary reporting team (RNZ)
===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
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20:12
Nights' Sport - United Kingdom
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BBC sports journalist Russell Fuller keeps the score court side.
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Duration: 21'04"
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7:07 Sonic Tonic - Prince
Music with magic and mischief spun into an surreal sensation of mayhem and maybe magnificence. Tonight we celebrate the magic of Prince.
8:12 Nights' Sport - United Kingdom
BBC sports journalist Russell Fuller keeps the score court side.
8:30 Spotlight
In this week's "Secret Life of" Sam Scott delves into the world of Music Archiving
9:07 Country Life
Waikari artist, writer and environmentalist Sam Mahon meets with Medbury dairy farmer Dave Hislop to discuss their different views on farming methods and water issues in North Canterbury. Also, a small township North of Wellington is bringing the world to its doors, for a slice of prized Merino wool. Levana Textiles has been in Levin for about fifty years and because of its innovative technology, it's still producing products that are sought after internationally.
10:17 Late Edition
A round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International
11:07 The Friday Finale
David Bowie - Part 4: Pin Ups.David Bowie has been an innovator in popular music since the late 1960's, in this six part series presenter George Kay look's at Bowie's career and music.
In this episode series presenter George Kay looks at David Bowie's cover versions, and songs of his that other artists have covered ranging from the Kinks and Mott the Hopple through to Iggy Pop and Nirvana.
===9:06 PM. | Country Life===
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Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)
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21:05
Shear Pace
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Gisborne businesswoman Storm Baynes-Ryan has developed Shear Pace, a new app that assists sheep shearers with setting shearing tally goals and achieving them.
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Gisborne businesswoman Storm Baynes-Ryan has developed Shear Pace, a new app that assists sheep shearers with setting shearing tally goals and achieving them.
Topics: rural, farming
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Tags: Shear Pace, shearing, sheep, wool clip
Duration: 5'08"
21:10
Regional Wrap
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In the North Island farmers who sowed new grass and clovers earlier in March have had good growth and some are able to put stock onto it within four to six weeks. In the South Island dairy farmers are putting woodchip into wintering sheds and getting the calf sheds ready.
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In the North Island farmers who sowed new grass and clovers earlier in March have had good growth and some are able to put stock onto it within four to six weeks. In the South Island dairy farmers are putting woodchip into wintering sheds and getting the calf sheds ready.
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Duration: 3'38"
21:14
Cloth of Any Colour
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A small township North of Wellington is bringing the world to its doors, for a slice of prized Merino wool. Levana Textiles has been in Levin for about fifty years and because of its innovative technology, it's still producing products that are sought after internationally.The chief executive of The Merino Company-Levana textiles, Andy Wynne, says their "Nuyarn" merino wool is stronger, warmer, drier, and tougher than its competitors. Features intern producer Lucy Smith went along to meet the man behind the successful fabric factory, and she hunted out some archival material too.
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Levin may be a small Horowhenua town with a population of only 20,000 people, but it's home to a number of industries with a strong export focus.
One of them, Levana Textiles, is making a name for itself on the world scene with merino wool, and it plans to expand the business over the next few years.
Their wool is dyed to be optical white, allowing Levana to then re-colour it, to whatever colour they want.
The Merino Company Levana textiles chief executive Andy Wynne, says the ability to start with a very white fibre has let the company survive in the highly competitive export world, and they have a long list of international companies buying their fibre.
"One of the pitfalls of merino wool is that you don't get a white wool, it's yellow. Because you're dying on a yellow [base], your pastel shades often come out yellow. ...or a dirty pastel pink or blue. (Our) technology has been the catalyst in our growth and innovation."
Not only have they made their wool optical white, they're also now investing in new technology to do with spinning wool rather than twisting it.
Levana textiles has been around for over 50 years and featured in a promotional movie in the 1950s (Courtesy of Archives New Zealand)
Topics: rural
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Duration: 8'02"
21:22
My Lamb’s A-Field
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In 2011 Whanganui farmers Richard and Suze Redmayne set up Coastal Spring Lamb. They, along with a group of other coastal, family based, sheep farmers produce lamb specifically for selling between October and January. The lambs are some of the first born in the country and business has been growing each year. The original nine families have been joined by five more and since January last year, Coastal Spring Lamb has been exporting product to Vietnam. It's now added in Belgium, Singapore, Dubai and Thailand and has Hong Kong and Maccau on the list. On the export scene, Coastal Spring Lamb is followed by Coastal Lamb for the remaining weeks of the year.
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Coastal Spring Lamb, a farmer owned Lamb marketing brand is hitting export markets full on.
In 2011 Whanganui farmers Richard and Suze Redmayne set up Coastal Spring Lamb. They, along with a group of other coastal, family based, sheep farmers produce lamb specifically for selling between October and January. The lambs are some of the first born in the country and business has been growing each year.
The original nine families have been joined by five more and since January last year, Coastal Spring Lamb has been exporting product to Vietnam. It's now added in Belgium, Singapore, Dubai and Thailand and has Hong Kong and Macau on the list. On the export scene, Coastal Spring Lamb is followed by Coastal Lamb for the remaining weeks of the year.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions: Whanganui
Tags: Coastal spring lamb, coastal lamb, exports, chefs, Vietnam, Belgium, Thailand, Singapore, Dubai
Duration: 6'31"
21:27
The Water of my Land
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They don't agree about much, but at least they're willing to speak up. Waikari artist, writer and environmentalist Sam Mahon meets with Medbury dairy farmer Dave Hislop to discuss their different views on farming methods and water issues in North Canterbury.
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They don't agree about much but at least they're willing to speak up - and front up.
Artist, writer and environmentalist Sam Mahon is meeting with dairy farmer Dave Hislop to discuss their differing views on farming, water issues and the local community in North Canterbury.
Sam, who lives in a renovated flour mill in Waikari, is well known for using politically focused art to draw attention to water pollution issues in the Canterbury Region. For example, in 2009, he made a bust of Environment Minister Nick Smith entirely of cow dung. It was created as part of a campaign to stop the Hurunui River from being dammed for irrigation.
"When I took Charlie down to the river to go swimming a couple of weeks ago at the reserve, she was standing there waiting for the green sludge to go past, now the Neurotoxins like Cyanobacteria are only there because of increased nitrate levels," he says.
Dave is the majority owner of Medbury farm, a 500 hectare property that borders the Hurunui River. Dave and his family moved to the area from Wairarapa, where he was a sharemilker, eight years ago. Since then the farming operation has more than doubled in size and currently he's milking 1250 cows.
"Dairying is positive to the whole community, our farm employed two people before I got here, now there's twenty two so all that money goes through the community, it goes into the schools and the health centre, it makes our area more viable" he says.
Country Life producer Cosmo Kentish-Barnes facilitated the discussion. His plan was to meet on a hilltop with a fine vista of the region but it was raining, a rare event in North Canterbury, so they ended up chatting over a cuppa at Dave's farm.
Topics: rural, farming
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Tags: water, community, Hurunui River, dairy farming, sheep, dryland farming, drought, irrigation, Waikari, Hurunui Water Project, Lake Sumner, Dr Mike Joy, Dr Nick Smith David Caygill, Environment Canterbury
Duration: 25'00"
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===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
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RNZ news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from RNZ National
===11:06 PM. | None (National)===
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Pin Ups - George Kay focuses on Bowie's cover versions and songs of his that other artists have covered (4 of 6, RNZ)