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:
03 June 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 Just an Ordinary Day by Linda Burgess, read by Diedre O'Connor; 3:30 The Why Factor (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC) 5:45 The Day in Parliament
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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RNZ's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:16 and 6:50 Business News 6:18 Pacific News 6:26 Rural News 6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers
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06:00
Top Stories for Friday 3 June 2016
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Relatives of the two year old shot in Mangere talk about their grief. A steel trader with extensive experience in the Chinese steel industry says the Transport Minister Simon Bridges is reckless to play down the threat of weak steel and Holiday pay errors could top $2 billion.
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Duration: 29'58"
06:06
Sports News for 3 June 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'52"
06:09
Huntly highway contractors - 'wilfully blind'
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A veteran international steel trader says the Huntly highway contractors have been 'wilfully blind' to the risks of importing cheap steel and the Government is being reckless in its assertion the problem is a one-off.
Topics: business
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Tags: steel
Duration: 1'47"
06:11
Aviation export questions viability of runway extension
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An aviation expert says a new report into Wellington's proposed runway raises questions about the viability of the route.
Topics: transport
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Wellington International Airport
Duration: 2'38"
06:16
Allegation of fish dumping
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The Federation of Commercial Fisherman say recent allegations of fish dumping are not a fair representation of the industry.
Topics: business
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Tags: fishing
Duration: 3'45"
06:20
Early Business News for 3 June 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'21"
06:26
Morning Rural News for 3 June 2016
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'28"
06:38
Man due in court over child fatality
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A man is due to appear in court this morning, in relation to the death of a two-year-old who was shot in Auckland.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: shooting, Child
Duration: 1'39"
06:40
Minister accuses Treasury of trying to block bowel screening
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The Health Minister says Treasury has tried to block a much-awaited national roll-out of screening for bowel cancer.
Topics: health, politics
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Duration: 2'17"
06:45
Green Party heads into AGM
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The Green Party has long struggled with their relationship with Labour, but this week they have finally received a formal nod.
Topics: politics
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Tags: greens
Duration: 2'45"
06:50
Debt-to-income ratios may not impact house prices
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An economist says an introduction of debt-to-income-based limits on lending might not have a lasting impact on rampant house prices.
Topics: business, economy, housing
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Tags: house prices
Duration: 1'44"
06:52
NZ Super Fund has no specific plans for funds from Z Energy
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The New Zealand Super Fund says investments such as Z Energy aren't easy to find.
Topics: business
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Tags: New Zealand Super Fund
Duration: 1'45"
06:53
Restaurant Brands sees better days ahead for Carl's Jr brand
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The fast food company, Restaurant Brands, sees better days ahead for its burger brand, Carl's Jr, which disappointed with a fall in sales.
Topics: business
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Tags: Restaurant Brands, Carl's Jr
Duration: 1'46"
06:55
Manufacturers say immigration not answer
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Manufacturers say immigration is not the answer to New Zealand's technical skills shortage -- and more needs to be done to encourage children into science and engineering in the future.
Topics: business, education
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Tags: technical skills
Duration: 1'05"
06:56
NZ tech firm raises funds and wins award
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A local agri-technology company is on a high after raising four-and-a-half million dollars for product development and research and being named the best AG-Tech start up in a Silicon Valley technology competition.
Topics: business
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Tags: Engender Technology
Duration: 2'09"
06:58
Morning markets for 3 June 2016
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Wall Street tracking a touch higher this morning on what has been a fairly quiet week after initial buzz over the possibility of rate hikes in the United States as early as this month..
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 59"
06:59
Business briefs
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More than 11-thousand new vehicles were sold last month -- the strongest May sales since the Motor Industry Association began keeping records 41 years ago.
Topics: business
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Duration: 25"
07:07
Sports News for 3 June 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'48"
07:10
Man to appear in Manukau court after fatal shooting
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A man is due to appear in court this morning, in relation to the death of a two-year-old who was shot in Auckland.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: shooting, Child
Duration: 3'18"
07:14
Substandard steel being imported to NZ
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An experienced Asian steel trader says loose controls in New Zealand means 95 percent of substandard steel being imported is not detected and ends up in bridges and buildings.
Topics: business
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Tags: steel
Duration: 8'57"
07:25
Holiday pay errors could top $2b
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Up to seven hundred thousand New Zealanders may have been underpaid hundreds of dollars a year... to the tune of up to 2.2 billion dollars in total.
Topics: business
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Tags: pay
Duration: 2'45"
07:28
Helicopter company charged over deadly Fox Glacier crash
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The Civil Aviation Authority has charged the owner and quality assurance manager of the company behind a deadly helicopter crash last year.
Topics: transport
Regions: Otago
Tags: Alpine Adventures
Duration: 5'07"
07:37
The impact of NPS outside of Auckland
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The National Policy Statement published yesterday aims to force councils around the country to make sure enough land is freed up to keep pace with growth in demand for homes and businesses.
Topics: housing, politics
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Tags: National Policy Statement
Duration: 6'10"
07:43
Some long-haul flightshave to fly practically empty
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A new report on Wellington's proposed runway extension shows some long-haul flights to China and Los Angeles could take off only with hundreds of empty seats.
Topics: transport
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Wellington International Airport
Duration: 3'04"
07:50
Survey shows extend of youth homelessness
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Young people are still struggling to find decent housing eight years after the Government was warned about the problem by the Ministry of Social Development.
Topics: housing
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Tags: Young people
Duration: 3'34"
07:53
Tutankhamun's dagger made from meteoric iron
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Researchers have discovered the dagger entombed alongside the mummy of the Egyptian pharoah Tutankhamun was made of iron from outer space.
Topics: history
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Tags: Tutankhamun
Duration: 2'44"
07:57
Samoan Christian leaders distancing themselves
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Christian leaders in Samoa have distanced themselves from calls to ban Islam, as Muslim volunteers prepare to visit the country for dialogue.
Topics: spiritual practices
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Tags: Samoa
Duration: 3'00"
08:07
Sports News for 3 June 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'06"
08:10
International steel testing authorities alarmed
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International testing authorities alarmed at being implicated in the Huntly highway steel failures are moving to investigate what went wrong.
Topics: business
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Tags: steel, China
Duration: 3'52"
08:14
Former Labour and Green MPs discuss MoU
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Labour and the Greens are teaming up to push National out of power in the next election.
Topics: politics
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Tags: greens, Labour
Duration: 6'18"
08:21
Veteran urges NZ to repatriate soldiers
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A Vietnam war veteran is disappointed the New Zealand government refuses to follow Australia's lead and repatriate soldiers buried in Malaysia almost 50 years ago.
Topics: defence force
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Tags: Vietnam War
Duration: 4'47"
08:25
Wellington International Airport responds to report on runway.
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A new report on Wellington's proposed runway extension which shows even if extended 355 metres into the sea the runway would still be too short for many long haul planes.
Topics: transport
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Wellington International Airport
Duration: 5'40"
08:31
Markets Update for 3 June 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 54"
08:36
CTU urges government to fix holiday pay errors
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The Council of Trade Unions is urging the government to do more to fix errors in holiday pay which could top two billion dollars.
Topics: politics
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Tags: CTU, holiday pay
Duration: 2'10"
08:38
Clinton and Sanders take on the Golden State
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Hillary Clinton has launched a stinging attack on her Republican opposition, calling Donald Trump temperamentally unfit to become US president.
Topics: politics
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Tags: US
Duration: 6'10"
08:45
Digital disruption will cause more problems
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The nearly 100 thousand young people out of work and in training are estimated to be costing New Zealand millions of dollars each year - and that financial burden is predicted to grow.
Topics: business, technology
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Tags: jobs
Duration: 3'21"
08:48
Recovery still slow in Vanuatu
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More than a year after Cyclone Pam brought devastation to Vanuatu, many small businesses and schools are struggling to find their feet.
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Tags: Vanuatu
Duration: 3'04"
08:52
Maori health providers working hard
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While health statistics for tangata whenua often make for grim reading, Maori health providers are working hard to improve them.
Topics: health, te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'27"
08:57
Kerry-Anne Walsh with news from Australia
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Let's have a chat to our Canberra correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh.
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Tags: Australia, Kerry-Anne Walsh
Duration: 2'39"
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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: Fitz - The colonial adventures of James Edward Fitzgerald by Jenifer Roberts (10 of 10, RNZ)
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09:08
Surgical mesh campaigner
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Two women who've campaigned for years after suffering serious complications from surgical mesh implants have won a partial victory -with parliament's health select committee recomending a national register to track the devices. We speak to one of the women Charlotte Korte, and Dr Hanifa Koya - a gynaecologist at Wellington's Wakefield hospital who has removed more than 50 surgical mesh implants from patients.
Topics: health
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Tags: surgical mesh
Duration: 26'14"
09:35
What does science say about the risks of GM food?
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Do genetically modified crops make people sick? Could they damage the environment? Are they any better for the bottom line of farmers than conventional strains? Those are some of the key questions behind a massive scientific review carried out by the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. It was carried out by 20 academics - one of them is Mike Rodemeyer, a former policy professor at the University of Virginia
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Do genetically modified crops make people sick? Could they damage the environment? Are they any better for the bottom line of farmers than conventional strains? Those are some of the key questions behind a massive scientific review carried out in the United States.
The National Academy of Sciences review found there is no evidence that GMO crops pose a risk either to human health, or the environment - but neither is there much evidence that they improve farmer's bottom lines or reduce environmental damage from pesticides.
Kathryn Ryan talks with Mike Rodemeyer, one of the 20 academics who carried out the review. He is a former policy professor at the University of Virginia.
An edited snapshot of the interview
Mike Rodemeyer: Attitudes and concerns about biotechnology, genetic engineering of crops and food really are different in different parts of the world. So in the United States, for example, most people do not know that they have been eating ingredients from genetically engineered crops for 20 years. There’s not a lot of high knowledge. But there’s a small group of very concerned people who are concerned about the health impacts of GE foods. In Europe, consumer concerns about health remain very high, as well.
We’ve looked at both the economic issues – who benefits from this technology, we looked at the health effects and we looked at some of the environmental concerns that have been realised. The bottom line that we came up with – with respect to health – is that we could really find no persuasive evidence that there are any genetically engineered crops or foods that are any less safe or any more safe than conventional foods. There just was no difference between them when we looked at studies.
For some farmers this has been very beneficial, for some farmers clearly less so. One of the challenges has been that most of the crops that we have experience with have been developed for large-scale industrialised agriculture. We’re not seeing many crops yet that would be appropriate for smaller scale resistance-level farmers.
In the future we may be able to look at Omics technologies to help provide even clearer answers to the question of 'Is this plant like this other plant? Are there things in here that shouldn’t be here? And perhaps that will give both regulators a new tool and consumers more confidence, as well.
Topics: science, farming
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Tags: genetic modification, genetic engineering
Duration: 14'45"
09:49
Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things
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Kathryn talks to British architect and designer Rebecca Roke about her love of small scale architecture. Her new book Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things features 300 contemporary examples around the world, including small libraries, teahouses, sculptural forms, conceptual projects and shelters for pets.
Topics: life and society
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Duration: 9'39"
10:06
From Nordic Noir to a war where there are no heroes
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Danish actor Pilou Asbaek talks to Kathryn Ryan about being a spin doctor in Borgen, a Game of Thrones villian and an Afganistan veteran in 'A War'. A War will screen at the New Zealand International Film Festival 2016 in July.
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Danish actor Pilou Asbæk talks to Kathryn Ryan about being a spin doctor in Borgen, a Game of Thrones villian and an Afganistan veteran in 'A War'. A War will screen at the New Zealand International Film Festival 2016 in July.
Read an edited excerpt of their interview below:
Are you able to explain Borgen for people who haven’t seen it? What is it that makes the series so compelling?
First of all, good writers. It all comes down to good writers. Skilled, educated writers who know what they want and how to tell it. If you combine that with a good storyteller, in this case Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, who concepted the first couple of episode of Borgen. Then, you put one more thing into the mix – the incredible Sidse Babett Knudsen, who played the Prime Minister, she is, in my humble opinion, marvellous as the Prime Minister. I think that was the new thing. We combined politics with the private life with a very very strong female character.
People have been asking me the same questions a couple of years now. Why was it so compelling, why was it so powerful and why has it been travelling all around the world? If I knew, I would be the biggest, best and most wealthy producer in the world. This is only my private theory, but one of my conclusions is when we first screened Borgen in 2011, we had Sunday night, 8pm. This was something that was pre-paid by the Danish audience, so they would see it, because they want to check out what’s new. What’s this new big DR series? DR is like the BBC, but just in Denmark. They saw something new. They saw the same in The Bridge, which is also a Scandi drama. They saw strong female characters. The guys, (maybe I’m going to sound a little sexist) guys like to watch football, rugby, drink beer and go to the stadium. But when guys are at home, they need to do something wonderful with their wives or partners, so they let the partner choose.
Women want to see women be strong because we have had generation after generation of male dominance, so I think that’s one of the keys. So we combine the private, with the professional, with a strong female character.
That’s a really interesting insight, because when you compare with what’s happening in Hollywood, everyone now says television is the new place to be, to get drama of which we speak. It has for so long overloaded us, over-emoted, put music over everything, and it’s largely written strong female characters, particularly of a certain age, the very recipe that you are talking about here reversed all of that. It has stripped-back music, doesn’t over write, doesn’t over-emote and just makes us feel a part of what we are seeing.
You know, my favourite thing in American TV show in the last couple of years, was 30 seconds in Mad Men, where Jon Hamm comes home after a long day at work, opens up the refrigerator, takes out a bottle of milk, opens it and drinks it for 20 seconds. You would never get that in an American film, or in a Danish film, or a French film or an Asian film, because the film is one and a half to two hours. So why is TV so compelling? It takes time. We want time. We have a hectic, everyday life. We have to take care of our children, we have to go to work, these are the factors in our lives that makes us stress, but when we watch a TV show, we want to take time to watch it. TV needs to take time so that the characters become three dimensional. When I see a character do something that I do, I identify with him. I don’t identify with a guy who kills 25 terrorists and goes for a car chase through Manhattan. I don’t identify with that. I identify with the person who makes her or his best abilities at work and in the private sphere.
Kasper Juul is a critical character in Borgen for so many reasons…
I loved that character. Honestly I loved him. I learnt so much from Kasper Juul, I learned one thing. I learnt whenever you portray a character, he needs to be the best at something. In this case, Kasper was the best at writing. Sadly enough, he was also the best at lying and being manipulative. But then I learnt the second lesson, and that is that it’s not necessarily a bad thing, because you want to have these skills in your character that make them human. All of us lie. All of us can be manipulative. So I found out that, all right, you need to be good skills, but you also need to have flaws. Because flaws are what you identify with.
Topics: media, life and society
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Tags: films
Duration: 21'35"
10:28
The secret life of Kim Jong Un's aunt
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The intriguing story of the North Korean leaders' aunt, who defected to the United States in 1998. The Washington Post's Tokyo bureau chief, New Zealander Anna Fifield, recently interviewed her in New York City.
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New Zealander Anna Fifield is The Washington Post's bureau chief in Tokyo. She recently travelled to New York to interview Kim Jong Un's aunt, who defected to the United States in 1998.
Interview highlights
Anna Fifield: At the end of last year this aunt and uncle of Kim Jong Un – who had been living in completely living in complete anonymity in America for 18 years – came out of the woodwork and started suing some defectors in South Korea for defamation. And this really grabbed me because I thought, people say bad things about the Kim family all the time. Why would they suddenly come out now and start suing these defectors?
But they did. So I got in touch with their lawyer, and I asked if i could go and interview them, and eventually it did work out. So we travelled to New York and met them. I was quite sceptical. I wasn’t sure whether they’d show up and I wasn’t sure whether they really were who they said they were. But the minute the woman walked in I knew she was who she said she was ‘cause she looks like exactly like Kim Jong Un’s mother.
She was Jong Un’s guardian wihle he was at school in Switzerland. The three Kim children went to school in Switzerland and the aunt and uncle were there to look after them… These were their guardians and they posed as their parents while they were in Switzerland. So they knew the Kim family very well, and looked after them and tried to bring them up in as normal a way as possible while they were all living in Switzerland.
[Ko Yong Suk and Ri Gang] have been living in [the US] in complete anonymity all this time. Their kids have grown up as Korean Americans, all been to very good universities. The parents own a drycleaner, like so many Korean immigrants to the US. They had been really living this very unremarkable life.
They were kind of apprehensive about talking to me, about talking to anybody, really, about it… It just unfolded that they told me about taking care of Kim Jong Un in Switzerland and what he was like as a boy. They described someone who didn’t like studying very much, someone who was obsessed with basketball, which we know because he’s invited Dennis Rodman twice to North Korea. They painted him as quite a normal kid and they said they really tried to give him a normal life. They had birthday parties and they invited friends over and played with Lego, all normal kid things.
But having said that, they did tell me that Kim Jong Un had been designated the successor at the age of eight. They said that on his eight birthday there was a big party in Pyongyang and he was presented with a military uniform that had the stars to mark ‘general’ on it and that real generals were there bowing to this eight year old kid. So for all the normal life they tried to give him, clearly he grew up knowing that the would one day be King of North Korea.
The reason they chose to break their silence is because the uncle of Kim Jong Un [ Ri Gang] wants to return to North Korea on a visit. He was portraying himself as somebody who could be a bridge between the US and North Korea because he knows both countries so well now. Both of them were very careful about the kinds of things they said. They were not critical of the regime in any way. in fact they kept referring to Kim Jong Un as Chairman Kim Jong Un.
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Tags: Asia
Duration: 11'27"
10:39
Unity Books Review: Tuesday Nights in 1980
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'Tuesday Nights in 1980' by Molly Prentiss, reviewed by Kiran Dass, published by Hamish Hamilton.
Topics: books
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Duration: 6'06"
11:06
New music with Grant Smithies
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As a taster to next week's Wellington Jazz Festival, Grant Smithies previews three of the touring acts: veteran sax-man Wayne Shorter, Brooklyn jazz fusion collective Snarky Puppy and African "Ethio-Jazz" pioneer, Mulatu Astatke.
Topics: music
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Duration: 28'49"
11:35
Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
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A number of new faces in the All Black side to face Wales, and while Steve Adams' Oklahoma City didn't quite make it to the NBA final.. the kid form Rotorua is now a highly respected player in the NBA after his play-off performances.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 11'35"
11:47
The week that was with Te Radar and Elizabeth Easther
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A case of 'hipsterism' gone too far in Melbourne and a Dunedin woman's anger over attempts to sell a vacuum to her lasted until 10.45pm.
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Duration: 12'38"
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09:05 Surgical mesh campaigner
Two women who've campaigned for years after suffering serious complications from surgical mesh implants have won a partial victory -with parliament's health select committee recomending a national register to track the devices.
We speak to one of the women Charlotte Korte, and Dr Hanifa Koya - a gynaecologist at Wellington's Wakefield hospital who has removed more than 50 surgical mesh implants from patients.
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09:20 What has science got to say about the risk of GM food?
Do genetically modified crops make people sick? Could they damage the environment? Are they any better for the bottom line of farmers than conventional strains? Those are some of the key questions behind a massive scientific review carried out by the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. It was carried out by 20 academics - one of them is Mike Rodemeyer, a former policy professor at the University of Virginia
09:30 Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things
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Kathryn talks to British architect and designer Rebecca Roke about her love of small scale architecture. Her new book Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things features 300 contemporary examples around the world, including small libraries, teahouses, sculptural forms, conceptual projects and shelters for pets.
10:05 From Nordic Noir to a war where there are no heroes
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Danish actor Pilou Asbaek talks to Kathryn Ryan about being a spin doctor in Borgen, a Game of Thrones villian and an Afganistan veteran in 'A War'. A War will screen at the New Zealand International Film Festival 2016 in July.
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10:25 The Secret Life of Kim Jong Un's Aunt
The intriguing story of the North Korean leaders' aunt, who defected to the United States in 1998. The Washington Post's Tokyo bureau chief, New Zealander Anna Fifield, recently interviewed her in New York City.
10:35 Unity Books Review: Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss
reviewed by Kiran Dass, published by Hamish Hamilton
10:45 The Reading
Fitz by Jenifer Roberts, read by Owen Scott. Part 10 of 10.
11:05 New music with Grant Smithies
As a taster to next week's Wellington Jazz Festival, Grant Smithies previews three of the touring acts: veteran sax-man Wayne Shorter, Brooklyn jazz fusion collective Snarky Puppy and African "Ethio-Jazz" pioneer, Mulatu Astatke.
Artist: Mulatu Astatke
Song: Yègellé Tezeta
Comp: Astatke
Album: New York- Addis- London-The Story of Ethio-Jazz 1965-1975
Label: Strut/ Border
Broadcast Time: 3'14"
Artist: Mulatu Astatke
Song: Yekatit
Comp: Astatke
Album: New York- Addis- London-The Story of Ethio-Jazz 1965-1975
Label: Strut/ Border
Broadcast Time: 3'52"
Artist: Snarky Puppy
Song: Tarova
Comp: Michael League
Album: Culcha Vulcha
Label: Ropeadope
Broadcast Time: 3'39"
Artist: Miles Davis
Song: Iris
Comp: Wayne Shorter
Album: E.S.P.
Label: Columbia
Broadcast Time: 8'33"
11:30 Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
A number of new faces in the All Black side to face Wales, and while Steve Adams' Oklahoma City didn't quite make it to the NBA final.. the kid form Rotorua is now a highly respected player in the NBA after his play-off performances.
11:45 The week that was with Te Radar and Elizabeth Easther
A case of 'hipsterism' gone too far in Melbourne and a Dunedin woman's anger over attempts to sell a vacuum to her lasted until 10.45pm.
===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 3 June 2016
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Angry Mangere locals are called on to calm down after a toddler is killed, and an arrest for a second student loan defaulter.
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Duration: 15'32"
12:17
Co-op Bank increases full year profit
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The small locally owned Co-operative Bank has increased its full year profit by 16 % driven by increased lending and interest income.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Co-operative Bank
Duration: 2'55"
12:19
TSB ups profit
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The New Plymouth based TSB Bank has reported a net profit of 61.6 million dollars.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: TSB Bank
Duration: 39"
12:20
Building activity continues to expand
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Official figures show the volume of building work put in place in the March quarter climbed a seasonally adjusted 5-point-3 percent.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 54"
12:22
Australian growth rate mixed under surface
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To Australia and our correspondent in Sydney, Jim Parker.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 44"
12:26
Midday Markets for 3 June 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Brad Gordon at Macquarie Private Wealth.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'26"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 3 June 2016
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New Zealand golfer Danny Lee has rocketed into a share of third at the latest PGA Tour event in Ohio, and the All Blacks are hopeful a different approach to their pre-test buildup against Wales will shake off the "rust".
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'21"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 3 June 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 9'27"
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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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13:12
Phil Wallington on the end of Scout
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After just 9 months, Mediaworks is effectively canning it's controversial gossip website, Scout. This comes just weeks after the resignation of chief executive Mark Weldon after staff threatened a revolt. Television producer and journalist Phil Wallington says it was only a matter of time.
Topics: media
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Tags: Mediaworks, Scout
Duration: 9'22"
13:25
75 years ago the first women joined the police force
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75 years ago today ten women launched a new era in Policing when they began their Police training at the Newtown barracks in Wellington in 1941. Senior Sergeant, Marilyn Stobie, has been at the launch of celebrations in Auckland today - she joined the force in 1965.
Topics: life and society, law
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Tags: gender, police, police women
Duration: 10'46"
13:30
Critter of the Week
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DoC's threatened species ambassador, Nicola Toki talks about one of her favourite native plants, Pingao (known as Pikao in the South Island) - the golden sand sedge.
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DoC's threatened species ambassador, Nicola Toki talks about one of her favourite native plants, Pingao (known as Pingao in the South Island) - the golden sand sedge.
Pikao has plays the vital role of binding sand, which forms gentle, undulating dunes. Unfortunately the introduction of marram has meant that it got squeezed out, and marram binds sand in a much tighter fashion, creating high, steep sand dunes, which the pingao can't live on as well.
Topics: environment
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Duration: 10'58"
13:45
Favourite album - Candy
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"Candy" by Hannah Howes.
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Duration: 15'35"
14:10
Film with Richard Swainson
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Richard Swainson answers the quiz question and reviews "The Nice Guys" and the documentary "Tickled".
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Duration: 12'38"
14:11
Film - Richard Swainson
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Richard Swainson answers the quiz question and reviews "The Nice Guys" and the documentary "Tickled".
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Duration: 12'38"
14:20
NZ Live - Mel Parsons
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Mel Parsons has just been awarded the APRA Best Country Music Song for "Alberta Sun" at the New Zealand Country Music Awards. She joins us for NZ Live.
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The New Zealand Country Music Awards were held last night in Gore, a precursor to the annual Gold Guitar awards show being held over this long weekend.
Two big awards were announced: Best Country Music Album of the Year, won by The Warratahs for "Runaway Days", and the APRA Best Country Music Song for "Alberta Sun" by the fabulous Mel Parsons.
Hear Mel Parsons' full performance of four songs in our Auckland studio.
Related stories
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Duration: 34'23"
15:08
Geoff Scott tells us how to cook a perfect steak
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Chef Geoff Scott shares some of his tips today.
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Duration: 13'41"
15:20
Wine with Joelle Thompson
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Wine tutor and autjor, Joelle Thompson discusses wine that goes with a nice steak
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Wine tutor and autjor, Joelle Thompson discusses wine that goes with a nice steak.
She recommends Malbec, in particular, Terazes de Los Andes Malbec Mendoza - which retails at around $27.00
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Duration: 4'55"
15:35
Gardening - Tim Martin
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Tim Martin on growing winter veges.
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Ecologist and gardening expert, Tim Martin cultivates a magnificent fruit and vege garden at his Mt Wellington home in Auckland. He has some tips on keeping your garden going through the winter months, and the best things to grow.
Topics: food
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Duration: 10'02"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 3 June 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'35"
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1:10 First song
1:15 Phil Wallington on the end of Scout
After just 9 months, Mediaworks is effectively canning it's controversial gossip website, Scout..
The company which runs tv3 and 4, as well as 18 radio brands has announced that it is buying Rachel Glucina's stake in the website - and it willincorporate entertainment news into its newshub site.
Rachel Glucina will be leaving the company.
This comes just weeks after the resignation of chief executive Mark Weldon after staff threatened a revolt..
Television producer and journalist Phil Wallington says it was only a matter of time..
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1:20 75 years ago the first women joined the police force
75 years ago today ten women launched a new era in Policing when they began their Police training at the Newtown barracks in Wellington in 1941.
Senior Sergeant, Marilyn Stobie, has been at the launch of celebrations in Auckland today - she joined the force in 1965.
1:35 Critter of the Week
DoC's threatened species ambassador, Nicola Toki talks about one of her favourite native plants, Pingao (known as Pingao in the South Island) - the golden sand sedge.
Pikao has plays the vital role of binding sand, which forms gentle, undulating dunes. Unfortunately the introduction of marram has meant that it got squeezed out, and marram binds sand in a much tighter fashion, creating high, steep sand dunes, which the pingao can't live on as well.
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1:40 Favourite album; Candy by Hannah Howes
2:20 NZ Live
The New Zealand Country Music Awards were held last night in Gore, a pre-cursor to the annual Gold Guitar awards show being held over this long week end.
Two big awards were announced; The Best Country Music Album of the Year won by The Warratahs for their album "Runaway Days", and The APRA Best Country Music Song for "Alberta Sun" by the fabulous Mel Parsons who is our guest today on New Zealand Live.
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3:10 Geoff Scott tells us how to cook a perfect steak
After selling his Auckland restaurant, Vinnies, chef Geoff Scott has been doing a series of Cooking classes at Millys, focusing on learning the essential 'important' basics'. he shares some of those tips today.
3:20 Joelle Thompson on NZ's wine regions
3:35 Gardening: Tim Martin on growing winter veges
Ecologist and gardening expert, Tim Martin cultivates a magnificent fruit and vege garden at his Mt Wellington home in Auckland. He has some tips on keeping your garden going through the winter months, and the best things to grow.
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3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
===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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The Panel pre-show for 3 June 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'35"
16:05
The Panel with Lisa Scott and Michael Moynahan (Part 1)
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The latest twist in the EgypotAir crash story. This year Bill Gates warned about a loss of existing jobs. He predicts "an excess of labor resources" as robots and AI systems take over. The drivers of the government's limousines have been speeding regularly. Society's changed so has the way we bring up children.
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Duration: 24'55"
16:06
The Panel with Lisa Scott and Michael Moynahan (Part 2)
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Panelists Lisa Scott and Michael Moynahan have chosen music to illustrate a life well-lived. Patrick Morgan of the Cycling Advocates Network addresses some cycleway questions. Kelvin Davis has been warned by Judith Collins about going public on Corrections staff taking bribes. More sobering data on homelessness from the University of Otago. It's Steampunk weekend in Oamaru.
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Duration: 26'50"
16:07
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Lisa Scott and Michael Moynahan have been up to.
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Duration: 3'03"
16:12
The erratic story of EgyptAir MS804
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The latest twist in the EgypotAir crash story.
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Duration: 2'18"
16:14
Switzerland on the brink of implementing a universal income
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This year Bill Gates warned about a loss of existing jobs. He predicts "an excess of labor resources" as robots and AI systems take over.
Topics: life and society, science, technology
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Tags: robots, workforce, jobs, employment
Duration: 13'43"
16:26
Government limo drivers
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The drivers of the government's limousines have been speeding regularly.
Topics: politics, law
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Duration: 3'11"
16:28
Society marriage and children
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Society's changed so has the way we bring up children.
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Duration: 2'23"
16:32
Michael and Lisa's song choices
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Panelists Lisa Scott and Michael Moynahan have chosen music to illustrate a life well-lived.
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Duration: 3'52"
16:37
Panel says
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What the Panelists Lisa Scott and Michael Moynahan have been thinking about.
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16:44
Cycleways
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Patrick Morgan of the Cycling Advocates Network addresses some cycleway questions.
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Duration: 8'49"
16:53
Labour MP warned of attracting the wrong kind of attention
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Kelvin Davis has been warned by Judith Collins about going public on Corrections staff taking bribes.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 2'12"
16:55
Homelessness increasing
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More sobering data on homelessness from the University of Otago.
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Duration: 4'12"
16:58
Oamaru the Steampunk capital of NZ
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It's Steampunk weekend in Oamaru.
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Duration: 59"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme
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17:00
Checkpoint with John Campbell, Friday 3rd June 2016
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Watch Friday's full programme here.
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Duration: 00"
17:07
No bail for man charged after child's death
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There were emotional scenes outside the Manukau District Court this afternoon when an Auckland man charged with gun possession was denied bail.
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Duration: 2'05"
17:10
Sallies' disagreement over homeless action
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After the Prime Minister told reporters that people living in cars were refusing help, a rift has opened up between the government and the Salvation Army.
Topics: housing, politics
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Tags: homelessness, Salvation Army, MSD
Duration: 6'04"
17:16
Maori wardens deliver food to homeless
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Maori wardens have been working with Te Puea marae to deliver food to people living in cars and bushes on the streets of South Auckland.
Topics: housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Te Puea marae, homelessness
Duration: 7'53"
17:25
Luxury housing on the up in Akld
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Auckland has overtaken Toronto as the world's 'hottest' luxury housing market, according to Christie's Real Estate.
Topics: housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland housing market, Auckland property
Duration: 1'13"
17:27
4WD group to attempt vehicle recover
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A Southland 4WD group will attempt to recover their vehicles from the Old Man Range near Roxburgh in Central Otago tomorrow. District Mayor Tony Lepper joins Checkpoint.
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Duration: 5'19"
17:34
Evening Business for 3 June 2016
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News from the business sector, including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'20"
17:36
Residents fearful about East Beach erosion
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Residents of a Taranaki beach settlement say their homes will be swept into the sea unless something is done about erosion at East Beach in Waitara.
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Regions: Taranaki
Tags: erosion, Waitara
Duration: 5'36"
17:42
Boy missing in Japan found alive
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A 7-year-old boy who's been missing for six days in northern Japan has been found alive.
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Duration: 2'51"
17:44
Chch City Council looking at ways to ease parking in suburbs
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Christchurch residents frustrated with parked cars blocking driveways and taking every vacant space on their suburban streets, are hoping a Council plan to address the problems may offer some help.
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Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Christchurch, parking
Duration: 3'15"
17:48
Govt's legal aid budget boost questioned
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Legal aid lawyers do not believe the Government's biggest top-up to the Courts in more than a decade will help the people who need it most.
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Duration: 3'25"
17:51
Measles closes six schools
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A seventh school has had to close because of a suspected outbreak of measles. Maja Burry reports.
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Duration: 2'21"
17:55
Practise makes perfect for top flight musician
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Walkers and cyclists taking to pathways around Nelson Airport are often surprised to hear a few brass notes coming from behind the trees and shrubs. Our Nelson reporter Tracy Neal was one of them, and discovered the tunes are courtesy of musician Mike Ford.
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Duration: 3'57"
18:08
One in every 100 homeless in New Zealand
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On the day when the Salvation Army hit out at the Government over incorrect remarks that it had joined with officials to approach people living in cars; a new study has found growing numbers of homeless people. Demelza Leslie reports.
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Duration: 3'50"
18:12
What's it like to sleep in a refugee camp?
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There are now well over one million Syrian refugees living in refugee camps in Lebanon. Andy Robinson is a humanitarian officer for Tearfund, and has just spent the night in the camp with a Syrian family. He joins Checkpoint on skype video.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Duration: 3'28"
18:17
Sports news for 3 June 2016
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The latest sports news from the RNZ Sport team.
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Duration: 5'09"
18:22
Matariki celebrations underway in the capital
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Celebrations are getting underway marking Matariki, the Maori New Year. Laura Bootham from Te Manu Korihi has more.
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Duration: 3'14"
18:25
Young NZer with prosthetic hopes to inspire people
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Jess Quinn is an AUT student, Nike brand ambassador and model - whose instagram followers number almost 60,000. In her spare time, she mentors young cancer patients.
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Duration: 4'52"
18:45
Focus on Politics for 3 June 2016
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Labour and the Greens have made it official, signalling a formal working relationship, 18 months out from next year's general election. The agreement, represented by a memorandum of understanding, means they will work more closely on policy and campaign announcements - however they'll have their own distinct manifestos going into the election. The MOU also includes a "no surprises" policy which means the two parties will give each other prior notice of any major announcements and speeches. With political editor, Jane Patterson.
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Duration: 16'02"
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===6:30 PM. | Worldwatch===
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The stories behind the international headlines
===6:43 PM. | Focus on Politics===
=DESCRIPTION=
Analysis of significant political issues presented by RNZ's parliamentary reporting team (RNZ)
===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information 7:42 The Why Factor (BBC)
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20:12
Nights' Sport - Australia
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Point scoring across the ditch with ABC sports presenter Paul Kennedy...
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Duration: 17'09"
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7:07 Sonic Tonic
Music with magic and mischief, spun into an surreal sensation of mayhem and maybe magnificence. Tonight we're looking at perspective from a different angle.
7:45 Witness
Karakoram Highway In 1979 one of the great engineering feats of the twentieth century was completed and the Karakoram highway between Pakistan and China was finally opened to the public. The highway, also known as the Friendship Highway in China, was started in 1959. Due to its high elevation and the difficult conditions under which it was constructed, it's also sometimes referred to as the "Eighth Wonder of the World".
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8:12 Nights' Sport - Australia
ABC sports presenter Paul Kennedy tackles State of Origin, Jarryd Hayne's latest plans and the future of netball.
8:30 Spotlight
A first generation New Zealander from Niuean parents, Tigilau Ness has walked a path that saw him expelled from Mt Albert Grammar and become a member of the Polynesian Panthers protesting the Dawn Raids. He was an activist in the 1981 anti Springbok Tour which resulted in him being sentenced to 12 months imprisonment. However, music and family has always prevailed and got him through tough times. His integrity, community consciousness and well-grounded family values continue to permeate the man that he remains today.
9:07 Country Life
Dozens of cut & blow wave vouchers from the Kaos HQ hair salon in Invercargill have been gifted to dairy farmers in response to the plunging payout. The initiative is run by the Southern Dairy Women's Network in order to raise rural spirits and give women a chance to catch up with others and get some well-deserved pampering.
10:17 Brass Monkey
Mike O'Donnell is one of 2000 leather clad men and women gathering for 36th Brass Monkey motorcycling rally at the Idaburn Dam, Oturehua, Central Otago this weekend.
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10:25 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
Mixtape - Moana Maniapoto In our final New Zealand Music Month Mixtape, writer, broadcaster, filmmaker, singer and songwriter Moana Maniapoto plays us her favourite tunes from Aotearoa
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Sonic Tonic - Perspective
ARTIST: Jimmy Cliff
SONG: I can see clearly now
ARTIST: The Who
SONG: I can see for Miles
ARTIST: Patti Smith
SONG: 25th floor
ARTIST: They might be Giants
SONG: She's actual Size
ARTIST: Beyonce
SONG: If I was a boy
ARTIST: Lorde
SONG: Tennis Court
ARTIST: Public Enemy
SONG: Don't believe the Hype
ARTIST: Joni Mitchell
SONG: Both Sides Now
===9:06 PM. | Country Life===
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Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)
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12:00
NIWA's Seasonal Climate Outlook for June to August
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NIWA Forecaster Chris Brandolino describes what Kiwis can expect, in broad terms, in the way of rainfall and temperature over the coming winter season.
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NIWA Forecaster Chris Brandolino describes what Kiwis can expect, in broad terms, in the way of rainfall and temperature over the coming winter season.
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21:05
Drying Off
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Waikato Sharemilkers Andrew and Michelle McPherson milk 530 cows near Te Awamutu in Waikato. Country Life has visited them over the past year and in this episode they wrap the season up.
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Waikato Sharemilkers Andrew and Michelle McPherson milk 530 cows near Te Awamutu in Waikato. Country Life has visited them over the past year and in this episode they wrap the season up.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions: Waikato
Tags: dairy farming, milk, Sharemilkers
Duration: 5'01"
21:08
Regional Wrap
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In the North Island many regions had their first rain free days for a long time, at the end of the week, and autumn pasture covers are now looking pretty good. Stock are on winter rotation in Central Otago where temperatures went down to minus 8 degrees on Wednesday night.
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In the North Island many regions had their first rain free days for a long time, at the end of the week, and autumn pasture covers are now looking pretty good. Stock are on winter rotation in Central Otago where temperatures went down to minus 8 degrees on Wednesday night.
Topics: rural, farming
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Tags: farm conditions
Duration: 5'11"
21:13
Calling from Co. Kilkenny
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Suzanna Crampton farms on a property that has been in her family for seven generations. She raises rare Zwartble sheep and documents her rural life on social media.
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Suzanna Crampton farms on a property that has been in her family for seven generations. She raises rare Zwartble sheep and documents her rural life on social media.
Click here to go to Suzanna's website. Below are links to her social media sites, a film, a recipe and a cat shepherd...
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A short film about food in Ireland with Suzanna Crampton
Bodacious the Cat Shepherd
Suzanna's lamb stew recipe
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Tags: Zwartble sheep, Ireland
Duration: 6'57"
21:19
Pianist and Vegetable Guru Clyde Potter
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Clyde Potter owns Epicurean Supplies, an extensive, organic, market garden on the outskirts of Hastings. He was one of the first growers to get into many of the Asian greens three decades ago, and he loves growing things which are pushing the boundaries for what consumers normally eat. He's also consumed with a desire to play the piano. He has four on his property - from his humble bedroom/sitting room, to the staff kitchen and a work area.
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A prelude written by Chopin in Majorca often starts Clyde Potter's day, in fact piano playing usually takes up the first two hours of his day, but digging up celeriac or chopping radicchio may end it.
Clyde owns Epicurean Supplies, an extensive, organic, market garden on the outskirts of Hastings. He was one of the first growers to get into many of the Asian greens three decades ago, and he loves growing things which are pushing the boundaries for what consumers normally eat.
He has over 150 different vegetables and herbs on the property, and that's not including the range of different plants within each group. For example he has about 50 tomato varieties, and because tomato seed inparticular is expensive to import, he grows some just for seed production.
But he's also consumed with a desire to play the piano. He has four of them, including one in his humble sitting room, and one in the staff kitchen and work area.
Playing for Clyde is "a kind of perception, it's a kind of awakening, it's a bit like meditation, it feeds me in a kind of a way."
Growing things and piano playing are equal passions, and over the years it's been hard to balance the two. When he was growing medicinal herbs for Weleda he was so consumed by that, he gave up playing the piano. Seven years ago he went back to playing and now hopefully he's having success with life balance.
Producing vegetables and convincing the suspicious consumer to try new things like radicchio hasn't been easy. He sold his house to help pay the mortgage on his vegetable patch (he now lives on-site).
But he says "for better or for worse I try to be ahead of the trend and present stuff that will lead people on into something different," and even though it's not the way to make money, "I like things that are different."
Topics: rural, farming
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Chopin, piano, Organic, vegetable, Herbs, Weleda, Epicurean, Radicchio
Duration: 10'22"
21:29
Farming on the Fringe
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Dozens of cut & blow wave vouchers from the Kaos HQ hair salon in Invercargill have been gifted to dairy farmers in response to the plunging payout. The initiative is run by the Southern Dairy Women's Network in order to raise rural spirits and give women a chance to catch up with others and get some well-deserved pampering.
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Dozens of cut and blow wave vouchers from Kaos Hair Salon in Invercargill have been gifted to dairy farmers in response to the plunging payout.
“We really want to be able to give back to our rural communities because we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for our farmers,” said salon owner and hairdresser Michael Diack.
The initiative is run by the Southern Dairy Women’s Network in order to raise rural spirits and give women a chance to catch up with others and get some well-deserved pampering.
Michael and Felicity Diack have owned the salon on Tay Street for nearly 20 years and from listening to their rural client’s stories, they are acutely aware of the financial pressures some people are under at the moment.
“There are a lot of masks that people wear when you talk to them. When they are in the salon getting their hair done they really let those barriers down and they allow us into their worlds every now and then.”
As well as getting her hair styled, sharemilker Johanna O'Callaghan is also enjoying the social interaction with like-minded people.
“I think we underestimated the community, being together and having somewhere to talk, or seeing a friendly face that you know is really, really important, especially through tough times”.
So far Michael and Felicity have given out 80 vouchers and the farmers who have received them were nominated by others who felt they deserved a treat.
Katrina Thomas is the Southland Dairy Women’s Network convener.
“This initiative has been a huge hit in the region and it has also helped us to identify a number of women who needed additional support.''
Click here to visit the Southland Dairy Women’s Network Facebook page.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions: Southland
Tags: Dairy Women's Network, Kaos hair salon, dairy farming, stress, milk payout
Duration: 22'55"
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===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
=DESCRIPTION=
RNZ news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from RNZ National
===11:06 PM. | None (National)===
=DESCRIPTION=
Musical guests compile a C60, and talk us through their selections