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:
23 April 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight (RNZ); 12:30 Laugh Track (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (BBC); 2:05 NZ Live; 3:05 The Godley Letters read by Ginette McDonald and Sam Neill (2 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 The Week (RNZ); 4:30 Global Business (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 Voices (RNZ)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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Tim's Baby, by Sylvia Hickman, told by Mick Rose; Mango Surprise, by Dorothy Corry, told by Jacob Rajan; Elspeth and the Phantom, by Anthony McCarten, told by Anne Budd; There used to be a Maunga, by Karen Sidney, told by Glynnis Paraha; Going for a Swim, by Victor Rodger, told by Victor Rodger; How Much Would You Pay Me? by Pauline Cartwright, told by Joanne Simpson
===7:10 AM. | Country Life===
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Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)
===8:10 AM. | Saturday Morning===
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A mixture of current affairs and feature interviews, until midday (RNZ)
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08:10
Max Harris: Rhodes, racism and the politics of love
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Charlotte Graham interviews the Rhodes Scholar and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, who has returned here for Aspiring Conversations 2016 in Wanaka, to speak on a panel, The New Zealand Project, which is also the title of his forthcoming book.
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Max Harris is a Rhodes Scholar, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 2014. Before leaving New Zealand, he helped set up criminal justice group JustSpeak and Law For Change.
He was clerk to Chief Justice Sian Elias at the New Zealand Supreme Court, and has worked as a consultant in Helen Clark's office at the United Nations Development Programme.
His essay, The Politics of Love, is included in the recent collection The Interregnum: Rethinking New Zealand (BWB Texts), and he returns here for Aspiring Conversations 2016 in Wanaka (22-24 April) to speak with Bill English and David Farrar on a panel,The New Zealand Project, which is also the title of his book, to be published early next year.
He talks to Charlotte Graham.
Topics: education, history, inequality, politics, world
Regions: Auckland Region, Otago
Tags: Cecil Rhodes, racism, South Africa, Oxford, Morgan Godfery, Hillary Clinton
Duration: 17'10"
08:35
Petina Gappah: outsiders and authenticity
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Charlotte Graham interviews the Zimbabwean lawyer and writer (An Elegy for Easterly, The Book of Memory) who now lives in Geneva, where she provides legal aid on international trade law to developing countries. She will speak at three events at the Auckland Writers Festival.
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Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean international trade lawyer and writer whose short fiction collection An Elegy for Easterly (Faber & Faber), which tells the of the life and people in Zimbabwe, won the Guardian Best First Book Award in 2009.
She now lives in Geneva, where she provides legal aid on international trade law to developing countries.
Her debut novel, The Book of Memory (Faber & Faber), was published last year. It tells the story of an albino woman who is on death row in prison for killing the white man who raised her.
Gappah talks to Charlotte Graham ahead of her visit to New Zealand where she will speak at three events at the Auckland Writers Festival (10-15 May).
Topics: author interview, books, conflict, history, identity, inequality, language, law, politics, world
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, racism, Auckland Writers Festival, Outsiders
Duration: 29'51"
09:10
James Rhodes: madness, medication and music
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Charlotte Graham interviews the acclaimed British concert pianist, writer and television presenter who tells his story in Instrumental: a Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music.
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British concert pianist, writer and television presenter James Rhodes talks about his turbulent life.
"The unassailable fact is that music has, quite literally, saved my life, and I believe the lives of countless others. It provides company where there is none, understanding where there is confusion, comfort where there is distress and sheer unpolluted energy where there is a hollow shell of brokenness and fatigue" ~ James Rhodes.
James Rhodes tells his story in the 2015 book Instrumental: a Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music (Canongate). The book features an accompanying music soundtrack available on Spotify.
Topics: arts, author interview, books, disability, health, history, identity, law, music, technology, world
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Tags: child abuse, Beethoven, Jimmy Saville, Rotherham, EM Forster, Sokolov, Bach, creativity, madness, piano, Spotify
Duration: 48'01"
10:10
Juliette Burton: bodies, disorders and comedy
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Charlotte Graham interviews the award-winning writer and performer who is a supporter of the mental health and eating disorder charities, and is bringing her award-winning stand-up comedy show Look At Me to the 2016 NZ International Comedy Festival in Auckland and Wellington.
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Juliette Burton is an award-winning writer and performer makes work that asks us to question how we perceive ourselves and how we perceive others.
It's a question she has struggled with all her life. A long struggle with eating disorders left her close to death, and in and out of hospital during her teenage years.
Like many people she still finds body image difficult.
Using her experiences she aims to use her performance to bring our darkest thoughts to life, and look at the light side of them.
She is a supporter of the mental health charity Mind, an ambassador for eating disorder charity B-eat, and has worked with the facial disfigurement charity Changing Faces and body dysmorphic disorder charity BODY.
Her stand-up comedy show show Look At Me received five-star reviews in the UK press in 2014, was an official sold out show at Edinburgh Fringe 2015,
Burton is bringing her show to the 2016 NZ International Comedy Festival in Auckland (3-7 May) and Wellington (10-14 May).
She talks to Charlotte Graham ahead of her visit here.
Topics: arts, disability, food, health, identity, life and society, world
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Tags: Comedy Festival, body, eating disorders
Duration: 29'13"
10:40
Esther Juon: dancers and their feet
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Charlotte Graham interviews the Swiss-born former ballet dancer and teacher who has been working for 30 years to prevent unnecessary damage to young dancers' feet.
Topics: arts, education, health, internet
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: dance, ballet, Feet, pointe shoes
Duration: 22'53"
11:05
Freddy Declerck: helping Passchendaele pilgrims
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Charlotte Graham interviews an expert on the New Zealand Division's involvement on the battlefields of Flanders, who was Chairman of the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, President of the Passchendaele Society of Belgium, and has assisted New Zealanders in locating family members who died in Flanders Fields.
Topics: conflict, defence force, history, world
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Tags: Passchendaele, Belgium, Flanders Fields, WW1, war
Duration: 28'18"
11:40
Belinda Tuki: raw food and women power
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Charlotte Graham talks to the founder of The Honest Food Company, and creator of #AVIDGIRLBOSS, which has its inaugural event, Don't Tell Me to SHHHH.
Topics: business, education, food, health, identity, te ao Maori
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: vegan
Duration: 19'00"
11:55
Listener Feedback
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Charlotte Graham reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme.
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Duration: 3'30"
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8:12 Max Harris
Max Harris is a Rhodes Scholar, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 2014. Before leaving New Zealand, he helped set up criminal justice group JustSpeak and Law For Change. He was clerk to Chief Justice Sian Elias at the New Zealand Supreme Court, and has worked as a consultant in Helen Clark's office at the United Nations Development Programme. His essay, The Politics of Love, is included in the recent collection The Interregnum: Rethinking New Zealand (BWB Texts), and he returns here for Aspiring Conversations 2016 in Wanaka (22-24 April) to speak with Bill English and David Farrar on a panel, The New Zealand Project, which is also the title of his book, to be published early next year.
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8:30 Petina Gappah
Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer whose short fiction collection An Elegy for Easterly (Faber & Faber) won the Guardian Best First Book Award in 2009. She now lives in Geneva, where she provides legal aid on international trade law to developing countries. Her debut novel, The Book of Memory (Faber & Faber), was published last year, and she will speak at three events at the Auckland Writers Festival (10-15 May).
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9:05 James Rhodes
James Rhodes is an acclaimed British concert pianist, writer and television presenter who tells his story in the 2015 book Instrumental: a Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music (Canongate). The book features an accompanying music soundtrack, available on Spotify, and you can see James Rhodes on Youtube playing J S Bach arr. F Busoni Chaconne in D minor.
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10:05 Juliette Burton
Juliette Burton is an award-winning writer and performer who is a supporter of the mental health charity Mind, an ambassador for eating disorder charity B-eat, and has worked with the facial disfigurement charity Changing Faces and body dysmorphic disorder charity BODY. Her standup comedy show show Look At Me received five-star reviews in the UK press in 2014, was an official sold out show at Edinburgh Fringe 2015, and is coming to the 2016 NZ International Comedy Festival in Auckland (3-7 May) and Wellington (10-14 May).
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10:35 Esther Juon
Swiss-born New Zealand resident Esther Juon is a former ballet dancer and teacher. For the past 30 years, she has been working to prevent unnecessary damage to young dancers’ feet, working with health professionals to develop her Pointe Shoe Fitting System. She is a member of the Education Committee of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, who are working provide the latest information on dance training to teachers.
11:05 Freddy Declerck
Freddy Declerck is an expert on the New Zealand Division's involvement on the battlefields of Flanders. He was Chairman of the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 from 2004 to 2014, was President of the Passchendaele Society of Belgium until last year, and has assisted New Zealanders in locating family members who died in Flanders Fields. He brought a touring exhibition of World War One memorabilia, The Belgians Have Not Forgotten, to New Zealand in 2009, and played a major role in the twinning of the Zonnebeke Municipality in Belgium with the Waimakariri District Council in 2007.
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11:35 Belinda Tuki
Belinda Tuki is the founder of Auckland-based business The Honest Food Company, which produces handcrafted and raw paleo protein foods. She is also the creator of #AVIDGIRLBOSS, a women empowering transformational movement which has its inaugural event, Don't Tell Me to SHHHH, on 27 April in Greenlane.
This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Lianne Smith
Auckland engineer: Tony Stamp
Research by Infofind
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Artist: James Rhodes
Song: Prelude No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 28
Composer: F. Chopin
Album: Now Would All Freudians Please Stand Aside
Label: Signum, 2010
Broadcast: 9:05
Artist: James Rhodes
Song: Piano Sonatha No. 30 in E Major, Opus 109
Composer: L. V. Beethoven
Album: Now Would All Freudians Please Stand Aside
Label: Signum, 2010
Broadcast: 9:50
Artist: Prince
Song: Nothing Compares to U
Composer: Prince
Album: The 1992 live recording from the compilation The Hits / The B-Sides
Label: Paisley Park
Broadcast: 9:55
Artist: 50Hz, featuring Miss La
Song: Smooth Rhodes
Composer: Jeremy Geor
Album: Carbon
Label: LOOP, 2002
Broadcast: 11:35
===12:11 PM. | This Way Up===
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Exploring the things we use and consume. Some content may offend (RNZ)
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12:01
This Way Up Part 1
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Global hair trade, 'first night' sleep problems, communal living and tech news (Australia fights cybercrime and Magic Leap/augmented reality).
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Duration: 48'16"
12:15
The global hair trade
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From Hollywood to Europe, to the hair salons of Africa, the most highly prized human hair in the world to use in wigs, weaves and hair extensions comes from India. The market's now worth some US$250 million to the Indian economy; so where does all this hair come from? Justine Lang has just visited Tirupati temple in southern India, a major collection point.
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From Hollywood, to Europe, to the hair salons of Africa, the most highly prized human hair in the world for use in wigs, weaves and hair extensions comes from India.
The global hair market now contributes some US$250 million to the Indian economy; at prices of up to US$130 a kilo that's about 2,000 tons of hair! So where does all this hair come from and how does it get collected?
Well a single temple in southern India collects tons of human hair every week! That's because millions of people visit Tirupati hoping their prayers will be answered. But every miracle requires a sacrifice and many pilgrims sacrifice their hair. The practice stems from Indian mythology where the god Vishnu agreed to grant wishes to anyone offering their hair as a sacrifice.
To look at the sources of the global trade in human hair, the BBC's Justine Lang visited Tirupati temple in India.
"What I didn't know about Tirupati temple is that it's the most visited holy place in the world. More than Mecca, more than Jersualem, up to 100,000 people [a day] are going to this temple so it was an extraordinary visit just in terms of numbers," she said,
As well as making people's prayers come true (maybe!) the collection of hair's become a huge earner for the temples themselves.
"Everyone I talked to did not care where the hair ended up. I told them about the money, a lot of people didn't know there was a lot of money being made, and they didn't seem to mind because once you embark on a holy sacrifice, then where the hair goes doesn't matter."
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Tags: hair, India
Duration: 10'27"
12:25
First night sleep problems and testosterone
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Why do we always seem to sleep badly the first night we stay in a new place? Dr Chris Smith reports on a new study suggesting that we keep half of our brain on alert to guard for danger the first time we sleep somewhere. Also the male hormone testosterone causes arteries to harden and accumulate calcium deposits, explaining why heart disease is more prevalent among men.
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Why we sleep badly when we travel
A new study has shown that one half of the human brain remains on high alert the first time you sleep in a new place, a potential explanation for the poor sleep often reported by travellers.
Dr Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists told This Way Up's Simon Morton that this 'first-night effect' has been identified in human sleep research, and is regarded as a typical sleep disturbance. But until now nobody has really understood why it happens.
Now a paper in the journal Current Biology by Yuka Sasaki and her colleagues at Brown University has found that on the first night sleeping in a new location, the left hemispheres of a group of adult volunteers showed significantly different patterns of brainwaves compared with the opposite side of the brain or the left hemisphere on a subsequent night's sleep.
The researchers said that the results point to the conclusion "that troubled sleep in an unfamiliar environment is an act for survival over an unfamiliar and potentially dangerous environment by keeping one hemisphere partially more vigilant than the other hemisphere as a night watch, which wakes the sleeper up when unfamiliar external signals are detected."
Although the researchers only looked at the first phase of sleep, Dr Smith said that it always seemed to be the left hemisphere of the brain that played this role, reflecting the relative dominance of the left side of the brain in most people.
This could suggest that humans sleep like some animals, including birds and whales, that are known to rest one side of their brain at a time when they rest so that they can stay alert to danger.
Topics: science, health
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Tags: sleep, testosterone, heart disease, stroke
Duration: 9'37"
12:35
Communal living arrangements
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The changing dynamics of property prices, home ownership and a more mobile workforce mean that more people are sharing living spaces, and doing so for longer. All this is leading to opportunities for people trying to make a business out of offering flexible shared housing. Jana Kasperkevic has been taking a closer look at some of the communal living- or co-living- businesses in the market and how they work.
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The changing dynamics of rising rent and property prices, home ownership rates, and a more mobile workforce mean that more people are sharing living spaces, and doing it for longer. So in the US the number of 18 to 35 year olds living as roommates has almost doubled over the past 30 years.
All this is leading to opportunities for people trying to make a business out of offering flexible shared housing.
Jana Kasperkevic has been taking a closer look at some of the communal living- or co-living- businesses in the market and how they work.
Co-living examples: Open Door, Common. WeLive
Topics: housing
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Tags: shared, collaborative, co-living, accomodation
Duration: 11'07"
12:50
Tech: Magic Leap, augmented reality
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Peter Griffin with tech news and the Australian government spends up to establish a specialist cybercrime unit. Also an intriguing You Tube video and a big feature in Wired means that augmented/mixed reality and startup Magic Leap is getting some serious hype.
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Peter Griffin with tech news and this week an intriguing You Tube video and a big feature in Wired means that the augmented reality startup Magic Leap- Google's an investor- is getting some serious hype.
We look at some of the opportunities for augmented and mixed reality and the challenges this poses for Virtual Reality and for competing businesses like Microsoft's HoloLens and Oculus Rift.
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Duration: 10'52"
13:01
This Way Up Part 2
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The science of us: how genes work. Also, the weka.
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Duration: 51'44"
13:15
The science of us
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Our genes are increasingly viewed as dynamic; shifting and interacting in a myriad of strange and sometimes random ways. They can contribute not just to our physical traits but also our risk of disease, our mood, and perhaps even our memories. Kat Arney explains how genes work in her book 'Herding Hemingway's Cats' (Bloomsbury).
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"There are wonderful, mind-bending stories out there about the DNA that's in you, in every cell of your body, and how it works."
We've all heard about genes and genetics, the spirals of DNA curled up inside us that make us who we are, whether that's blue eyed, curly-haired, big nosed or prone to alcoholism, Alzheimer's or cancer.
But the picture emerging from those working in the field is not of DNA as some static, deterministic and immutable 'code of life' we've become accustomed to hearing about in the media.
Instead our genes are increasingly viewed as dynamic; shifting and interacting in strange and sometimes random ways.
Kat Arney got a doctorate in genetics from Cambridge University and did research in the field until she became a science communicator.
In her book 'Herding Hemingway's Cats' (Bloomsbury) she sets out to explain how genes work to a general audience.
In the book she explains complex ideas including epigenetics and heritability. Meanwhile, with more widespread medical use of genetic testing just around the corner, she looks at what all this could mean in the field of healthcare, for us as patients and for the doctors caring for us.
"In 5 to 10 years time your doctor will sit down and say 'your genetic results say x, y, z'. And you need to understand what does that mean for you, what does that mean for your family...for your health and the decisions you have to make about your treatment, or prevention or screening."
You can read an extract from the book here.
Topics: science, health
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Tags: genetics, DNA
Duration: 31'59"
13:45
Birds: Weka
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Hugh Robertson is one of the authors of The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand. We recently hopped on a boat to Kapiti Island with him on the hunt for the curious weka; it looks a bit like a brown chicken and is part of the rail family.
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Hugh Robertson is one of the authors of The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand. We recently hopped on a boat to Kapiti Island with him on the hunt for the curious weka; it looks a bit like a brown chicken and is part of the rail family.
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Duration: 13'37"
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We're playing these tracks too...
Artist: Palehound
Track: Cinammon
Composer: Ellen Kempner
Album: Dry Food
Label: Exploding In Sound Records
Artist: !!!
Track: All U Writers
Composer: Nic Offer at al
Album: As If
Label: Warp Records
Artist: Father Funk
Track: Gimme The Weed
Composer: Will Williamson
Album: 420 Freebie Series, Vol. 3
Label: Self published
And our theme music is:
Artist: Jefferson Belt
Track: The Green Termite
Composer: Jefferson Belt
Album: Table Manners
Label: Round Trip Mars
===2:05 PM. | Music 101===
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The best songs, music-related stories, interviews, live music, industry news and music documentaries from NZ and the world
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16:05
Bill Sevesi - A Lifetime In Music
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Ahead of his induction into the NZ Music Hall of Fame, Bill Sevesi talks to Trevor Reekie about his lifelong love of music.
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Bill Sevesi is to be honoured as the 2015 APRA Inductee into the NZ Music Hall of Fame. The 92 year old's long career began the early 1950s in the Auckland inner city suburb of Newton. The much loved band leader Bill Sevesi, and his band the Islanders, played a residency at the Orange Ballroom that lasted for 16 years.
He has mentored many musicians, recorded a large catalogue of albums and fulfilled his dream of ukuleles being taught to kids in schools .
Trevor Reekie visits Bill at his Mt Roskill home to talk about the music that has been so kind to him during his lifetime.
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Artist: Bill Sevesi and his Islanders
Song: Tiger Shark
Composer: Hodgkinson
Album: 25 Hawaiian Favourites
Label: Ode Records
Artist: Sione Aleke
Song: Loka Siliva
Composer: Trad arr Aleke
Album: n/a
Label: Rajon Music Group
Artist: Bill Sevesi
Song: Tahiti Nui
Composer: Sevesi
Album: The Magic Steel Guitar
Label: Rajon Music Group
Artist: Bill Sevesi
Song: Meama Chimes
Composer: Sevesi
Album: 25 Hawaiian Favourites
Label: Ode Records
Artist: Bill Sevesi
Song: Hula Lady
Composer: Sevesi
Album: Hula Lady
Label: Rajon Music Group
Artist: Bill Sevesi Team
Song: Isa Lei
Composer: trad – arranged Bill sevesi
Album: Bamboo Island
Label: rajon Music group
Artist: Bill Sevesi
Song: Steel Guitar Haunt With The Viking Studio Orchestra
Composer: Sevesi
Album: 25 Hawaiian Favourites
Label: Ode Records
Artist: Tex Morton
Song: Teardrops in my heart
Composer: Morton
Album: A Cowboys Life is good enough for me
Label: Jasmine Records
Artist: Bill Sevesi
Song: Come To Me With Mavis Rivers
Composer: Blennerhaasset, Kay
Album: 25 Hawaiian Favourites
Label: Ode Records
Artist: Bill Sevesi
Song: Analani E With Daphne Walker
Composer: Usaarca, Gerda
Album: 25 Hawaiian Favourites
Label: Ode Records
Artist: Bill Sevesi
Song: Waihi Moon With Daphne Walker
Composer: Bill Sevesi
Album: 25 Hawaiian Favourites
Label: Ode Records
Artist: Ronnie Sunden & Will Jess and the Jessters
Song: Sea of Love
Composer: Baptiste
Album: Kiwi Nostalgia Hits of the 60’s
Label: BMG
Artist: Ronnie Sunden & Will Jess and the Jessters
Song: Bye Bye Baby Goodbye
Composer: Frank McNutty
Album: Ronnie
Label: Viking
Artist: Bill Sevesi
Song: South Sea Affair With Trevor Edmondson
Composer: Edmondson
Album: 25 Hawaiian Favourites
Label: Ode Records
Artist: 3000 kiwileles
Song: Mali Mai
Composer: n/a
Album: 2013 New Zealand Ukulele Festival
Label: courtesy of New Zealand Ukulele Trust
Artist: Bill Sevesi
Song: Te Matangi
Composer:
Album: Hula Lady
Label: Rajon Music group
Topics: music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Will Jess, Bill Sevesi and his Islanders, Hawaiian Steel guitars, ukuleles, APRA Hall of Fame, Hawaiian music, Polynesia, Tonga
Duration: 24'38"
10:00
Play On: Behind the Scenes
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Tony Stamp stops by rehearsals for Play On, a performance at Auckland's Pop-up Globe that saw a selection of Shakespeare's soliloquies set to music.
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In Auckland’s Pop-up Globe, Play On set a selection of Shakespeare’s soliloquies to the music of Paul McLaney, and to the voices of a cast of actors and musicians, including Julia Deans, Laughton Kora, Maisey Rika and Mara TK.
“I’d say I’m a fan of [Shakespeare’s] stuff, but I’ve never been involved as a participant,” admits TK. “I think my introduction, like everyone else, was to Romeo & Juliet – but, yeah, it was the film version that got me interested.
“Paul’s been quite gracious in giving me some of the shorter pieces; some of these things are just epic, they’re so epic!”
The evening before their one-off performance, Tony Stamp visited the Play On dress-rehearsal to speak with the players bringing the Bard’s words to musical life.
RNZ Music recorded the show, and will be broadcasting highlights on Music 101 on April 23rd.
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Topics: music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Play On, Paul McLaney, Julia Deans, Mara TK, Laughton Kora, Maisey Rika, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Pop-Up Globe
Duration: 10'20"
17:00
Beastwars - The Death of All Things
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Beastwars 'obey the riff' on 'The Death Of All Things', their third and possibly final release.
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Over the course of two albums and and a lot of blood, sweat and touring, Wellington's Beastwars are one of the most loved bands in the country.
They released their third record The Death Of All Things with this comment, "It was a tough one to make but we couldn't be more proud of the way it turned out. A break up album that in some ways brought us together again as a band."
Zac Arnold caught up with Nathan 'Nato' Hickey and Matthew Hyde to find out how much truth is in a name.
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Music Details
Artist: Beastwars
Songs: Call To The Mountain, The Devil Took Her, Witches, The Death Of All Things
Composer: Beastwars
Album: The Death Of All Things
Label: Destroy Records
Topics: music
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Beastwars, The Death Of All Things, metal, rock, Nick Keller
Duration: 14'09"
06:00
All the world’s a stage
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How shall I celebrate thee? Let me count the ways... Today marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.
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Every possible angle on the life and work of William Shakespeare is being explored around the world to mark the 400th anniversary of his death.
“If music be the food of love...
In New Zealand, the Pop-up Globe theatre – a replica of Shakespeare’s old stomping ground in London - recently hosted Play On: A musical imagining of the great soliloquies. Twelve of Shakespeare's most well-loved solo soul-searchings were set to new music by Tui-award winning composer Paul McLaney, and presented as a song cycle by a dream cast of local actors and musicians. RNZ Music went behind the scenes of Play On, as well as recording the one-off performance on the 3 April 2016 for posterity.
The video shows Maisey Rika performing Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) in te reo Māori , Mara TK performing 'The Sound & The Fury' and Esther Stephens performing Love's Labour's Lost.
You can hear more from the show here:
How shall I celebrate thee? Let me count the ways...
The Pop Up Globe has been so successful its Auckland theatre season has been extended, and elsewhere in New Zealand there’s a Bard’s Birthday lunch hosted by the Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ (Shakespeare's birthday and death day are both celebrated on 23 April) and the annual Sheila Winn Shakespeare Festival for secondary school students kicks off on 2 June.
Elsewhere in the world one theatre company is presenting the complete murders - all 74 of the stabbings, poisonings, smotherings and smashings to be found in the 38 plays. Chicago’s chefs are cooking up 38 culinary interpretations of the dramas. And at the Edinburgh Fringe festival each night’s performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream features a different cast member... extremely drunk. The remaining cast do their best to improvise around them.
From a writer who never even made it to university, Shakespeare’s monologues (solo speeches), soliloquys (solo soul-searchings) and sonnets (14-line poems) remain the most read and performed in the English language, not to mention the translations into every modern language as well as Klingon... and Māori, and many words and phrases coined by the bard remain in common use today.
Play On Music Details
'Karakia' (Maisey Rika)
'Heart's Ease' from Romeo & Juliet - Act 4, Scene 5 (Paul McLaney / all cast)
'The Deeds of Mercy' from The Merchant of Venice - Act 4, Scene 1 (Maisey Rika)
'Until This Night' from Romeo & Juliet - Act 1, Scene 5 (Mara TK)
'The Lunatic, The Lover & The Madman' from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Act 5, Scene 2 (Julia Deans)
'Love' from Love's Labour's Lost - Act 4, Scene 3 (Esther Stephens)
'Come Away Death' from Twelfth Night - Act 2, Scene 4 (Paul McLaney)
'Sound & Fury' from Macbeth - Act 5, Scene 5 (Mara TK)
'Our Revels Now are Ended' from The Tempest - Act 4, Scene 1 (Laughton Kora)
'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' Sonnet 18 (Maisey Rika)
Topics: arts, history, music
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Tags: Shakespeare, Shakespeare Pop-Up Globe, Play On
Duration: 36'18"
14:00
Beastwars
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Over the course of two albums and and a lot of blood, sweat and touring, Wellington's Beastwars are one of the most loved bands in the country. They released their third record The Death Of All Things with this comment, "It was a tough one to make but we couldn't be more proud of the way it turned out. A break-up album that in some ways brought us together again as a band." Zac Arnold speaks with Nathan 'Nato' Hickey and Matthew Hyde, to find out how much truth is in a name.
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Duration: 13'11"
14:00
Music 101 Pocket Edition 83: Prince
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A tribute to the late Prince Rogers Nelson. Featuring Shayne Carter, Steven Thrasher and more with musical tributes from Trip Pony, Jesse Sheehan and our own house band Erotic City.
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Melody Thomas and Nick Bollinger host Music 101's tribute to the late Prince Rogers Nelson. Musician Shayne Carter, former Rip It Up editor Murray Cammick, The Guardian's Steven Thrasher and Prince fan and RNZ producer Mark Cubey share their thoughts on the Purple Music Maestro's legacy.
Trip Pony, Jesse Sheehan and our own house band Erotic City perform live versions of their favourite Prince tracks.
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Duration: 1h 01'07"
14:15
Steven Thrasher on Prince
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Guardian US' Writer-at-Large, Steven Thrasher speaks to Melody Thomas and Nick Bollinger about Prince's influence and legacy growing up as a gay, African-American youth.
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Guardian US' Writer-at-Large, Steven Thrasher speaks to Melody Thomas and Nick Bollinger about Prince's influence and legacy growing up as a gay, African-American youth.
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Topics: music, identity
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Tags: Steven Thrasher, black lives matter, Prince, LGBT
Duration: 9'32"
14:30
Shayne Carter remembers Prince
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Shayne Carter gives a persuasive explanation on Prince's guitar virtuosity and shares his favourite Prince track with Music 101
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Shayne Carter gives a persuasive explanation on Prince's guitar virtuosity and shares his favourite Prince track with Music 101
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Tags: Shayne Carter, Prince, Controversy, Eric Clapton
Duration: 10'08"
14:40
Murray Cammick on the legacy of Prince
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Murray Cammick, founder of local music mag Rip It Up, reflects on the career and musical output of Prince with M101's Melody Thomas and Nick Bollinger.
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Tags: Warner Music, Prince, MTV, record industry
Duration: 6'52"
14:45
Trip Pony - When Doves Cry
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When Doves Cry - Trip Pony's tribute to the late Prince Rogers Nelson
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When Doves Cry - Trip Pony's tribute to the late Prince Rogers Nelson
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Music 101's tribute to Prince
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Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Prince, trip pony, live music, Sami Sisters
Duration: 4'11"
15:25
Drax Project live in session at Blue Barn Studios
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Upon the release of their second EP T/W/OO Wellington's Drax Project perform a live acoustic session at Blue Barn Studios.
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Wellington quartet Drax Project started out as a fixture of the Friday night Cuba Street busking scene with drummer Matt Beachen and saxophonist Shaan Singh jamming for rent money. Their improvised interpretations of pop favourites attracted a loyal following, some extra band mates; with Sam Thomson on bass and Ben O'Leary on guitar, and sold-out gigs.
Releasing their second EP T/W/OO earlier this month, Drax Project enlisted Devon Abrams (Pacific Heights, ex-Shapeshifter) on production duties to record at Wellington's Blue Barn Studios.
Returning to scene of many late night studio sessions, Yadana Saw joins the band for a live, stripped back session of original and interpreted tunes.
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Kirsten Johnstone speaks to Drax Project
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Artist: Drax Project
Songs: City Lights, Cold
Composer: Drax Project
Album: RNZ Recording
Label: RNZ Recording
Artist: Drax Project
Song: Wildfire
Composer: Little Dragon, SBKTRT
Album: RNZ Recording
Label: RNZ Recording
Topics: music
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Drax Project, live music, Blue Barn Studios
Duration: 19'00"
16:05
Bill Sevesi Remembered
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Upon the death of ukulele master Bill Sevesi, M101's Melody Thomas speaks to Petrina Togi-Sa'ena about her recollections of the musician, teacher and band leader.
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This morning, Bill Sevesi died peacefully in his sleep aged 92. Sevesi is recognised for his ukulele and steel guitar prowess, which he flexed with his band The Islanders during their 16 year residency at Auckland's Orange Ballroom.
A prolific recording artist, he collaborated with vocalists such as Daphne Walker, and mentored many musicians, including The Yandall sisters and Annie Crummer.
Known as the Godfather of the ukulele, in his latter years he worked with the Play It Strange programme fulfilling his dream of seeing more Kiwi schoolchildren take up his signature instrument.
Last year he was honoured as the 2015 APRA Inductee into the NZ Music Hall of Fame.
Petrina Togi-Sa'ena, a colleague of Sevesi's, speaks with Melody Thomas about his stature in the Pasifika community and how his musical prowess was somewhat responsible for her existence.
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Bill Sevesi - A Lifetime in Music
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Artist: Bill Sevesi
Song: Steel Guitar Rock
Composer: Bill Sevesi
Album: Bill Sevesi: The Great, South Seas Cruise
Label: Rajon
Topics: music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Bill Sevesi, ukelele, NZ Music Hall of Fame, Orange Ballroom
Duration: 8'05"
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Jesse Sheehan - Nothing Compares 2 U
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Jesse Sheehan pays tribute to the music of Prince with a cover of Nothing Compares 2 U
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Jesse Sheehan pays tribute to the music of Prince with a cover of Nothing Compares 2 U
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Duration: 3'40"
19:30
The Hope Six Demolition Project by PJ Harvey
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Nick Bollinger discusses the front-line dispatches of PJ Harvey's The Hope Six Demolition Project.
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Nick Bollinger discusses the front-line dispatches of PJ Harvey's The Hope Six Demolition Project.
Anyone familiar with PJ Harvey’s last album Let England Shake will notice that the preoccupations of that record haven’t gone away. A song cycle about war and nationalism, it took an almost impossibly weighty subject and created something shockingly listenable. And war is again the underlying theme of The Hope Six Demolition Project.
After the release of Let England Shake, Harvey undertook a series of journeys with photographer and film-maker Seamus Murphy, in places ravaged by war, such as Kosovo and Afghanistan. And in The Hope Six Demolition Project she reports on her observations, almost in the manner of a journalist or war correspondent. ‘The Ministry Of Defence’ might be as close to pure reportage as songwriting ever gets, as Harvey surveys the remains of a government building in Kabul, noting the mortar holes, sprayed graffiti and human excrement. The tone may seem dispassionate, yet as with any journalism, our gaze is guided by the writer. The words she finds - ‘scratched in biro pen: this is how the world will end’ – become a proxy for own voice, as she surveys the depressing scene, backed up with a riff that has all the gloomy weight of early Black Sabbath.
For much of the album – Harvey uses a male chorus in a kind of call-and-response style. There is something almost Brechtian about the way they take up her words in a plain, emotionless delivery, feeding into the sense of objectivity.
But it’s not just an album of war tourism. And crucial to the whole effect of the record is that the setting for a number of these songs is the United States, specifically Washington DC. Again there’s the piling up of images, as Harvey is guided around Washington’s blighted Ward 7. And despite the appealingly clattery garage-rock flavour of ‘The Community Of Hope’, the sum effect is as bleak as her depictions of Afghanistan or Kosovo. The fact that the city in which this takes place is the political heart of America hardly seems coincidental.
Some of Harvey’s lyrical snapshots are startling; others come close to cliché. If she identifies a cause of all this human suffering, it’s a familiar one: the unequal distribution of wealth, which she alludes to when she mashes together two old rhythm and blues choruses - ‘money honey, that’s what they want’ - in ‘The Ministry of Social Affairs’.
But there’s still some rock’n’roll mischief in PJ Harvey, even as she depicts a world without hope. It’s the Brecht thing again: upbeat songs to show us the misery of people’s lives.
Also somewhat Brechtian is the way the album was recorded: in public, as an installation project for London’s Somerset House arts centre, allowing the audience a look behind the curtain, stripping away the illusion and artifice that normally separates entertainer from audience. We’re all in this together, that process seems to say.
And yet Harvey knows that the separation between artist and audience is not easily dismantled, just as there remains a separation between the artist and her subject. And that’s never clearer than in the song that closes the album. As in the opening track, it finds Harvey as a passenger in a moving car, recording what she sees from the window. At one point a young beggar approaches, asking for change, yet before she has time to respond her vehicle speeds away.
As a metaphor for western guilt it may be heavy-handed. And on one level, you could hear PJ Harvey’s Hope Six Demolition Project as just a great big meditation on western guilt; one that doesn’t propose any original thoughts or solutions. But as an experiment in how a rock record can engage with the world – or at least with its audience – it has to be admired.
Songs featured: A Line in the Sand, The Ministry of Defence, The Community of Hope, Near the Memorials to Vietnam and Lincoln, Medicinals, The Ministry of Social Affairs, Dollar Dollar, The Wheel.
The Hope Six Demolition Project is available on Island Records
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Duration: 12'33"
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2-3pm
Artist: Leonard Charles
Song: The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
Composer: Prince
Album: Sign O’ The Times
Label: Paisley Park
Prince - Our Purple Pop Prophet
Artist: Prince
Song: I Wanna To Be Your Lover
Composer: Prince
Album: Prince
Label: Warner
Artist: Erotic City
Song: Raspberry Beret
Composer: Prince
Album: RNZ Recording
Label: RNZ Recording
Artist: Prince
Song: Controversy
Composer: Prince
Album: Controversy
Label: Warner
Artist: Trip Pony
Song: When Doves Cry
Composer: Prince
Album: RNZ Recording
Label: RNZ Recording
Artist: Erotic City
Song: Manic Monday
Composer: Prince
Album: RNZ Recording
Label: RNZ Recording
3-4pm
Artist: Silicon
Song: Love Peace
Composer: K. Neilson
Album: Personal Computer
Label: Weird World
Introducing: Waterfalls
Artist: Waterfalls
Song: Empty Arms Are Kinder
Composer: A. Johnson
Album: Single
Label: Private
Drax Project - Live in session at Blue Barn Studios
Artist: Drax Project
Songs: City Lights, Cold
Composer: Drax Project
Album: RNZ Recording
Label: RNZ Recording
Artist: Drax Project
Song: Wildfire
Composer: Little Dragon, SBKTRT
Album: RNZ Recording
Label: RNZ Recording
Artist: Prince
Song: The Cross
Composer: Prince
Album: Sign O’ The Times
Label: Paisley Park
The Sampler: PJ Harvey
Artist: PJ Harvey
Songs: A Line in the Sand, The Ministry of Defence, The Community of Hope, Near the Memorials to Vietnam and Lincoln, Medicinals, The Ministry of Social Affairs, Dollar Dollar, The Wheel.
Composer: PJ Harvey, Jerry McCain
Album: The Hope Six Demolition Project
Label: Island Records
Artist: Common
Song: Star 69 (PS. With Love). Featuring Bilal and Prince
Composer: Prince Oliver, Lynn, Prince Nelson, Poyser, Thompson, Yancey
Album: Electric Circus
Label: MCA
4-5pm
Artist: Bill Sevesi
Song: Steel Guitar Rock
Composer: Bill Sevesi
Album: Bill Sevesi: The Great, South Seas Cruise
Label: Rajon
Play On! Live at Pop-up Globe
'Karakia' (Maisey Rika)
'Heart's Ease' from Romeo & Juliet - Act 4, Scene 5 (Paul McLaney / all cast)
'The Deeds of Mercy' from The Merchant of Venice - Act 4, Scene 1 (Maisey Rika)
'Until This Night' from Romeo & Juliet - Act 1, Scene 5 (Mara TK)
'The Lunatic, The Lover & The Madman' from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Act 5, Scene 2 (Julia Deans)
'Love' from Love's Labour's Lost - Act 4, Scene 3 (Esther Stephens)
'Come Away Death' from Twelfth Night - Act 2, Scene 4 (Paul McLaney)
'Sound & Fury' from Macbeth - Act 5, Scene 5 (Mara TK)
'Our Revels Now are Ended' from The Tempest - Act 4, Scene 1 (Laughton Kora)
'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' Sonnet 18 (Maisey Rika)
Artist: Lawrence Arabia
Song: A Lake
Composer: J. Milne
Album: The Absolute Truth
Label: Honorary Bedouin
Artist: Prince
Song: North
Composer: Prince
Album: N.E.W.S.
Label: Paisley Park
===5:11 PM. | Focus on Politics===
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Analysis of political issues presented by RNZ's Parliamentary team (RNZ)
===5:30 PM. | Tagata o te Moana===
Tagata o te Moana for 23 April 2016
The PNG police force divided over major fraud case; Amnesty International says Indonesian police admit to torture; High rates of desperation in Fiji, post-Cyclone; An NGO hopes to stop exploitation of Pacific communities by creating sustainable livelihoods; A rare dissident ends his Fiji commentary; Norfolk Island seeks UN help in battle with Canberra; Oamaru provides a model for Pasifika integration; Plan to return Radio Vanuatu to its former glory; Player welfare a focus for new Pacific rugby initiative.
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Pacific news, features, interviews and music for all New Zealanders, giving an insight into the diverse cultures of the Pacific people (RNZI)
===6:06 PM. | Great Encounters===
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In-depth interviews selected from RNZ National's feature programmes during the week (RNZ)
===7:06 PM. | Saturday Night===
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Saturday nights on RNZ National is where Phil O'Brien plays the songs YOU want to hear. All music from 7 till midnight (RNZ)
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Note: this playlist is a work in progress. It's updated right up to - and during - the programme.
7 – 8
Dave Edmunds - Almost Saturday Night
Bing Crosby and Mary Martin – Lily Of Laguna
Ketty Lester – Love Letters
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy - Song Of Love
Victoria Wood - Barry And Freda
Sarah Vaughan - Black Coffee
Marianne Faithful - Plaisir d'Amour
Dion - I Ain't For It
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - Highland Cathedral
Julie Felix - The Last Thing On My Mind
Prince and Sheena Easton - The Arms Of Orion
Julie London - Cry Me A River
Lindi Ortega – Tin Star
Nat King Cole - What'll I Do
Mary Hopkin - Those Were The Days
8 – 9
Howling Wolf – Smokestack Lightning
The Peddlers - Lover
Cannonball Adderley – Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Dolly Parton – Little Sparrow
David Byrne – Au Fond Du Temple Saint
Joe Ely - West Texas Waltz
Prelude - After The Goldrush
Peter Dawson - Waltzing Matilda
The Pogues – A Man You Don’t Meet Every Day
John Hanlon - Lovely Lady
9 – 10
Nina Simone – Young, Gifted and Black
Elvis Costello And The Roots – Wake Me Up
Bob Dylan – Mr. Tambourine Man
Queen - Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
Gove Scrivener – Sugar Babe
Tony Joe White - Even Trolls Love Rock And Roll
A Saturday Night Special Feature: The Life And Times Of Bill Sevesi.
Trevor Reekie talked to the late Bill Sevesi following his 2015 inauguration into the NZ Music Hall Of Fame.
Stone The Crows - On The Highway
10 – 11
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus
Henson Cargill - Skip A Rope
Merle Haggard – Let’s Chase Each Other Round The Room
Taj Mahal – Oh Susannah
Hart Rouge - Dieu À Nos Cotés (with God On Our Side)
Cream – White Room
Alan Hull - Lady Eleanor
Georgie Fame - Mose Knows
Manhattan Transfer - A Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square
11 – Midnight
Duke Ellington - Flying Home
Late Night Phil – the week in music history.
The Stray Cats – Gene And Eddie
Mary J. Blige and U2 – One
Alan Price – House Of The Rising Sun
Badfinger – Baby Blue
George Burns – I Wish I Was 18 Again
Steve Marriott – My Girl
The Beatles – A Day In The Life
Prince - Musicology
Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb – Galveston
Ace – How Long
Amy Winehouse – All My Loving