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:
12 June 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Nga Taonga Korero (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 2:05 Heart and Soul (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday; 3:05 Da And The Inchworm by Paddy Richardson (RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:06 Met Service Coastal Weather Forecast (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC); 5:10 Mihipeka - The Early Years, by Mikipeka Edwards (14 of 15, RNZ); 5:45 NZ Society
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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Granny's Fireplace, by Sue Gibbison, told by Erina Daniels ; Matilda Jane Smith, by Trevor Wilson, told by Frances Edmond ; Last Words, by David Hill, told by Michele Amas ; Rock Dance, by Joy Cowley, told by Moira Wairama, Tony Hopkins and Prue Langbein ; Wheturangi, written and told by Eliza Bidois ; Bobby and the Fruit Business, by Gary Syme, told by Grant Tilly
===7:10 AM. | Sunday Morning===
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A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, documentaries, sport from the outfield, politics from the insiders, plus Mediawatch, the week in Parliament and music 7:43 The Week in Parliament An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house 8:10 Insight An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs 9:06 Mediawatch Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in New Zealand's news media (RNZ)
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07:30
The Week In Parliament for Sunday 12 June
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Budget Debate is completed, with the Government's spending estimates for the year ahead now up for scrutiny before select committees; While the Government manages a majority to pass the budget, it can't gather enough votes to halt progress on a members bill in the name of Sue Moroney seeking an extension to paid parental leave, with the Parental Leave and Employment Protection (6 Months' Paid Leave) Amendment Bill passing committee stage on Wednesday night; Adrian Rurawhe's Official Information (Parliamentary Under-Secretaries) Amendment Bill also passes its committee stage, but not without protest from David Seymour; Opposition complains about some of Mr Seymour's questions; Ministers Paula Bennett, Nick Smith and Simon Bridges appear before select committees to defend budget allocations; House wishes the Queen a happy 90th birthday; MPs pay tribute to Sir Graham Latimer who died Tuesday.
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Duration: 14'59"
07:10
Michael Reddell and Chris Green - Debt
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Economists Chris Green and Michael Reddell discuss New Zealand's growing debt problem. How much is too much debt? What about student loans? Household debt? And is there a limit to how much we can borrow?
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Duration: 20'51"
07:47
James Legge - Tenant-led Development
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James Legge is a director of Six Degrees Architects - a Melbourne-based practice that specialises in, among other things, tenant-led housing developments. He's a keynote speaker at Sustainable Housing Summits being held in Auckland and Christchurch later this week. The summits have been organised by the NZ Green Building Council.
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Duration: 8'37"
08:12
Insight: Transport to Save the Environment
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Eric Frykberg goes to Germany to find out how technology might be able to both support people's lifestyles and preserve the environment.
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People in western countries are constantly being told they are consuming too much, their environmental impact is too great, and their behaviour is hastening the risk of catastrophic climate change.
Are transport technologies that could avert a global crisis finally coming within reach - and will we grab them if they are?
Insight: Transport to Save the Environment
For two years now, electric cars have sped around racing circuits in what is called Formula E.
For Formula E chief executive Alejandro Agag, the future appears bright.
Teams like McLaren and Williams were helping to build electric racing cars, and big names heading the teams included Audi and Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, he said.
His cars were far cleaner than those in Formula One, but in other respects they had a lot in common, he said.
"The acceleration of electric cars can compare perfectly with the performance of any other category of racing cars... Zero to a hundred in about 2.9 seconds.
"We could go 250 to 260 kph in this car, we usually race it at 220, so performance is very high for the streets of the cities where we race."
Electric cars had the same future as other forms of mobility and would be the main form of car racing once most ordinary road cars were also electric, Mr Agag said.
But Formula One won't give up its leading status without a fight - not according to the man who is in charge of it worldwide, French automotive supremo and former rally driver Jean Todt.
He said he admired Formula E a lot, but it would not replace Formula One.
"We are talking about two different things. Will basketball replace soccer? Will rugby substitute for football? I don't think so. So there is no reason why Formula E should replace Formula One."
The argument over Formula E, and the size and shape of its potential impact, is just one example of the ongoing global debate over the environmental impact of transport.
As long ago as 2010, WWF warned that if everyone on earth had the same consumption levels as the average Briton, 2.75 planets would be needed to sustain them.
But what if over-consumption, including of relatively environmentally costly transport methods, is a bad habit that people just can't kick - worse than tobacco, or booze for an alcoholic?
Across the world, hard-headed business leaders are taking that human failing for granted, and assuming human nature will not change.
The transport industry, given its role in the increase in greenhouse gases, is at the forefront of the movement to drive change through technology.
It generated 23 percent of global CO2 emissions from fuel combustion in 2013, and that rate is forecast to grow.
Its leaders are conscious of the need for change, and they gathered last month for the International Transport Forum Annual Summit in the German city of Leipzig to talk about ways of doing this.
German luxury car maker BMW has emerged as one of the companies leading the race to build a new generation of vehicles, with electric cars already in production and plans to unveil a driverless car by 2021.
Porsche, Audi and Renault are also at the front of the pack in Europe, and are competing with other challengers based in the US.
One of the stars of green travel, who spoke in Leipzig, is JB Straubel - the co-founder and chief technical officer of Californian electric car company Tesla.
He told his audience there was no point in rejecting technology in an effort to reduce its negative effects - instead, he wanted to embrace technology in order to give people mobility with a low environmental impact.
Some journalists and researchers have suggested Tesla's electric vehicles are not as green as they seem, due to hidden environmental impacts. For example, depending on where they are used, they might run on electricity generated by fossil fuels.
Mr Straubel said his company's electric cars were proving very popular, and he rejected that criticism.
"The environmental footprint, whether it is the CO2 or raw energy needed to create the battery or the unique elements of the car, are offset by the cleaner operation of that car," Mr Straubel said.
"That payback happens within a few thousand miles of operating the car.
"That payback is fastest if you operate the car from sustainable energy. But even if you are using fossil fuel energy [ to generate the electricity], you still see a fundamental benefit. It is more efficient to generate that electricity centrally than it is to do it in individual power plants in hundreds of thousands of cars."
These are not the only companies producing electric cars - most others have them or are working on them.
Moving freight by road is another serious contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
Improvements in efficiency here are expected to come by losing the drivers, according to International Transport Forum Secretary-General Jose Viegas.
"Driverless trucks on motorways will be ready to go within two years," he said.
Driverless trucks, like driverless cars, use sophisticated programmes, satellite navigation and hazard detectors such as radar. Manufacturers argue they can operate safely, reliably and, perhaps most importantly, pretty much without pause.
Mr Viegas said economics would make them inevitable.
"The driver represents 50 percent of the cost, and it restricts the truck operation to eight hours a day. If you have no driver, the cost is half and the reach is three times longer.
"It is a massive game changer and if your company has this technology available and mine hasn't, and we are in the same market, two months later I am out of the game."
Driverless cars were also discussed in Leipzig, as were shared cars, as a way of reducing the total number of cars in use in any given town, and reducing transport's environmental impact while doing the same amount of work.
All this was aimed at finding a way to keep society going the way it is now, while at the same time reducing greenhouse gas emissions to a more manageable level.
With this line of thinking, the better use of technology is the only practical way forward.
However, not everyone thinks this argument stands up.
WWF New Zealand head of campaigns Peter Hardstaff said there was no single solution - and no technological silver bullet - for transport emissions.
"As a matter of priority, our government should be doing as much as possible to help reduce car, van and truck use and encourage walking, cycling, use of public transport and rail freight," he said.
"However, there are journeys for which these options are not practical, so electric vehicles can make an important and useful contribution.
"WWF New Zealand supports efforts to encourage their use but does not advocate promoting electric vehicles at the expense of, or instead of, other measures."
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Topics: transport, environment, technology
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Tags: electric cars, driverless cars, diverless trucks, global climate change
Duration: 27'13"
08:35
All Black test match recap
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The All Blacks displayed their superiority over Wales with a compelling five-tries-to-two 39-21 victory. But also Wales proved they will be no push over in this three-test series.
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Duration: 3'45"
08:40
World Day Against Child Labour
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Today, Sunday June 12th is the World Day Against Child Labour - by the International Labour Organisation. 168 million children are still in child labour in 2016. Closer to home, Child Labor Free is a New Zealand social enterprise that offers brands, retailers and companies in supply chains a three-tiered certification system - an important step to becoming child labor free.
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Duration: 16'48"
09:08
Mediawatch for 12 June 2016
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PM's Fiji trips puts spotlight on media freedom; another media mega-merger on the horizon; the shrinking options for NZ kids on TV.
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Duration: 32'38"
09:39
Richard Kreitner on the real Hillary Clinton
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Hillary Clinton made history this week when she was declared the Democratic Party nominee for the US presidency. Richard Kreitner is the editor of Who is Hillary Clinton? an anthology of The Nation Magazine's coverage of Hillary Clinton's career to date. Richard Kreitner is The Nation's assistant editor for special projects.
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“Hillary Clinton is a Rorschach test of our attitudes – including our unconscious ones – about women, feminism, sex and marriage, to say nothing of the Democratic Party, progressive politics, the United States and capitalism” – Katha Pollitt in the introduction to Who is Hillary Clinton?
Hillary Clinton made history last week when she was declared the Democratic Party nominee for the US presidency. Will she be the next president?
Wallace Chapman asks Richard Kreitner, the editor of Who is Hillary Clinton?, an anthology of The Nation Magazine's coverage of Hillary Clinton's career to date.
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Duration: 16'30"
10:07
Brin Jonathan Butler - The Legacy of Muhammad Ali
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Boxing writer Brin Jonathan Butler joins Wallace to give some astonishing insights into Muhammad Ali, the man, the boxer, the legend.
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Duration: 22'47"
10:37
The Real Housewives of Auckland
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Gilda Kirkpatrick, Louise Wallace, and Anne Batley-Burton are three of the Real Housewives of Auckland - a reality show that follows the lives of the rich and famous in New Zealand's biggest city. They discuss champagne, Cartier, cats and what it's like to live life in front of the camera.
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Duration: 21'20"
11:04
Roger Shepherd: the story of Flying Nun
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Flying Nun plays a central role in the cultural fabric of the NZ history - so much so that it's hard to talk about NZ music and not mention Flying Nun bands - such has been its impact. Founder Roger Shepherd joins Wallace to talk about how he started the iconic label with just $300 - plus we'll play some Flying Nun favourites.
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Flying Nun Records has a central role in New Zealand's cultural fabric. In fact, it's hard to talk about New Zealand music without mentioning Flying Nun bands.
Wallace Chapman finds out how founder Roger Shepherd started the iconic label with just $300 and plays some Flying Nun favourites.
Related audio:
Flying Nun Records - a great rock 'n' roll story presented by Karyn Hay (RNZ)
Extended Play - an in-depth look at the Flying Nun's classic EPs of the 1980s (RNZ)
Topics: music
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Tags: Flying Nun Records
Duration: 52'45"
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7:08 Michael Reddell and Chris Green - Debt
7:08 Economists Chris Green and Michael Reddell discuss New Zealand's growing debt problem. How much is too much debt? What about student loans? Household debt? And is there a limit to how much we can borrow?
7:32 The Week in Parliament
7:47 James Legge - Tenant-led Development
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James Legge is a director of Six Degrees Architects - a Melbourne-based practice that specialises in, among other things, tenant-led housing developments. He's a keynote speaker at Sustainable Housing Summits being held in Auckland and Christchurch later this week. The summits have been organised by the NZ Green Building Council.
8:12 Insight : Transport to Save the Environment
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This week on Insight, Eric Frykberg heads to Leipzig, in Germany, to find out how technology might be able to help people maintain their current way of life, without damaging the environment.
8:40 Richard Kreitner - The Real Hillary Clinton
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Hillary Clinton made history this week when she was declared the Democratic Party nominee for the US presidency. Richard Kreitner is the editor of Who is Hillary Clinton? an anthology of The Nation Magazine's coverage of Hillary Clinton's career to date. Richard Kreitner is The Nation's assistant editor for special projects.
9:06 Mediawatch
Children's programmes are vanishing from free-to-air TV. Why? And what's being done about it? Also: another media-mega merger; and, media freedom in post-coup Fiji.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Beatriz Bustos Oyanedel - South American Art and Politics
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Last month a Chilean artist going by the name Papas Fritas - or potato fritters - publicly burnt $500 worth of student debt, in Brazil artists have occupied government buildings around the country in protests at cuts to cultural budgets. So in South America, at least, politics and art definitely do mix. Beatriz Bustos Oyanedel is the co-curator of Space to Dream an exhibition showcasing the work of 41 South American artists currently on show at the Auckland Art Gallery. Beatriz talks to Wallace about the exhibition and art in South America in general.
10:06 Brin Jonathan Butler - The Legacy of Muhammad Ali
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Boxing writer Brin Jonathan Butler joins Wallace to give some astonishing insights into Muhammad Ali, the man, the boxer, the legend.
10:35 The Real Housewives of Auckland
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Gilda Kirkpatrick, Louise Wallace, and Anne Batley-Burton are three of the Real Housewives of Auckland - a reality show that follows the lives of the rich and famous in New Zealand's biggest city. They discuss champagne, Cartier, cats and what it's like to live life in front of the camera.
11:05 Roger Shepherd - The Story of Flying Nun
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Flying Nun plays a central role in the cultural fabric of the NZ history - so much so that it's hard to talk about NZ music and not mention Flying Nun bands - such has been its impact. Founder Roger Shepherd joins Wallace to talk about how he started the iconic label with just $300 - plus we'll play some Flying Nun favourites.
===12:11 PM. | Spectrum===
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People, places and events in New Zealand. (RNZ)
===12:37 PM. | Standing Room Only===
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It's an 'all access pass' to what's happening in the worlds of arts and entertainment
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12:40
Westside takes in the 1981 Springbok tour
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The classic New Zealand TV series Outrageous Fortune has become the gift that keeps on giving. Not only did it run for a record-breaking six series, it's turned into a franchise. We've already seen the West family's 70s origin story in the first series of Westside. Now as co-creator James Griffin tells Simon Morris; the Wests have made it to the 80s.
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The classic New Zealand TV series Outrageous Fortune has become the gift that keeps on giving. Not only did it run for a record-breaking six series, it's turned into a franchise. We've already seen the West family's 70s origin story in the first series of Westside.
Now as co-creator James Griffin tells Simon Morris; the Wests have made it to the 80s.
Topics: arts, politics, history
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: television, TV3, Westside, Outrageous Fortune, writing, Script writing, Springbok Tour
Duration: 8'32"
12:50
Sit on your art: 2D to 3D furniture
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You see some attractive objects hanging on an apartment wall, and assume they're purely ornamental. But what's this? Your host is taking the artwork down, and folding this two dimensional object into a three dimensional chair. This not your nana's stripy, red and white folding deck chair. While they're folded up the chair or table resembles a picture of furniture, as if photographed or drawn from an angle. The creator of these 2D to 3D furniture designs is Korean-born Jongha Choi who made them for his thesis at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
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You see some attractive objects hanging on an apartment wall, and assume they're purely ornamental. But what's this? Your host is taking the artwork down, and folding this two dimensional object into a three dimensional chair.
This not your nana's stripy, red and white folding deck chair. While they're folded up the chair or table resembles a picture of furniture, as if photographed or drawn from an angle.
The creator of these 2D to 3D furniture designs is Korean-born Jongha Choi who made them for his thesis at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
Topics: arts
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Tags: furniture, Korea, Netherlands, perspective, photography, design, inequality, performance art
Duration: 6'16"
13:33
Jahra Wasasala - Wahinetoa Nights
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One of the events on at the inaugural Pacific Dance Festival is Wahinetoa Nights featuring choreographer/dancer Jahra Wasasala, whose Auckland Fringe Festival show Mother/Jaw won five awards, including Best Dance Performance. Jahra spoke to Shaun D Wilson about dance, poetry, identity, Guam, and Janet Jackson.
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One of the events on at the inaugural Pacific Dance Festival is Wahinetoa Nights featuring choreographer/dancer Jahra Wasasala, whose Auckland Fringe Festival show Mother/Jaw won five awards, including Best Dance Performance.
Jahra spoke to Shaun D Wilson about dance, poetry, identity, Guam, and Janet Jackson.
Topics: arts, Pacific, identity, music, life and society
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: dance, poetry, contemporary dance, Janet Jackson, Pasifika
Duration: 13'40"
13:50
This Giant Papier Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy
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Standing Room Only was hoping to chat with Sir Richard Taylor about the spectacular work of Weta Workshop's Concept Design Department. Due to unforeseen events, that story has had to be postponed. But in its place, a film that rivals Weta's work in King Kong, Avatar and Lord of the Rings - if only for its title - This Giant Papier Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy! This Giant Papier Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy comes bearing awards - from the London and Boston Sci-fi Film Festivals, no less - and its about to make its debut at home.
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Standing Room Only was hoping to chat with Sir Richard Taylor about the spectacular work of Weta Workshop's Concept Design Department. Due to unforeseen events, that story has had to be postponed. But in its place, a film that rivals Weta's work in King Kong, Avatar and Lord of the Rings - if only for its title - This Giant Papier Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy! This Giant Papier Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy comes bearing awards - from the London and Boston Sci-fi Film Festivals, no less - and its about to make its debut at home.
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Tags: film, film festivals, This Giant Papier Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy, sci fi
Duration: 8'01"
14:06
The Laugh Track - Nathan Joe
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Nathan Joe is no longer a promising young playwright. In fact he's won two awards for being both young and delivering on that promise, having scooped up one of Playmarket's b425 award this year and last year. His plays Like Sex and Hippolytus Veiled - A Greek Tragedy premiere soon. Nathan's also The Lumière Reader's theatre editor. Comedy selections include Anthony Jesselnik, the TV Series Slings and Arrows, Maria Bamford, and Louis C.K.
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Nathan Joe is no longer a promising young playwright. In fact he's won two awards for being both young and delivering on that promise, having scooped up one of Playmarket's b425 award this year and last year. His plays Like Sex and Hippolytus Veiled - A Greek Tragedy premiere soon. Nathan's also The Lumière Reader's theatre editor. Comedy selections include Anthony Jesselnik, the TV Series Slings and Arrows, Maria Bamford, and Louis C.K.
Topics: arts, identity, media
Regions: Canterbury, Auckland Region
Tags: Anthony Jesselnik, Slings and Arrows, Maria Bamford, Louis C.K., comedy, theatre, theatre playwright, writing, Greece, sexuality, Euripedes, EquAsian
Duration: 20'43"
14:25
You can't touch… or look: the crazy world of hidden art
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If you want proof that the super-rich have moved on from the conspicuous consumption of the Medicis and the Borgias of Renaissance Italy, take a look at what they do with their art. Or rather, don't look. Millions of items of art are hidden away in dreary, private "free ports" around the world, especially in Switzerland. You don't make money to buy art. Art is money! A recent New York Times article co-written by Doreen Carvajal said it all in the headline: "One of the world's greatest art collections hides behind this fence".
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If you want proof that the super-rich have moved on from the conspicuous consumption of the Medicis and the Borgias of Renaissance Italy, take a look at what they do with their art. Or rather, don’t look. Millions of items of art are hidden away in dreary, private “free ports” around the world, especially in Switzerland. You don’t make money to buy art. Art is money! A recent New York Times article co-written by Doreen Carvajal said it all in the headline: “One of the world’s greatest art collections hides behind this fence”.
Topics: arts, inequality, business, history
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Tags: art collecting, tax
Duration: 11'12"
14:38
Jake Baxendale takes jazz to the next level
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Alto sax-player Jake Baxendale has recorded with the Rodger Fox Big Band, the Richter City Rebels, as well as his own group, The Jac. Now he's taking it to the next level, in Sydney and New York thanks to a scholarship from The Edwin Carr Foundation. Simon Morris talks to Jake about music, composition and whether you can differentiate these days between "jazz" and "not jazz".
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Alto sax-player Jake Baxendale has recorded with the Rodger Fox Big Band, the Richter City Rebels, as well as his own group, The Jac. Now he’s taking it to the next level, in Sydney and New York thanks to a scholarship from The Edwin Carr Foundation. Simon Morris talks to Jake about music, composition and whether you can differentiate these days between “jazz” and “not jazz”.
Topics: arts, music
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Rodger Fox Big Band, Richter City Rebels, The JAC, jazz, Edwin Carr Foundation, Dave Doulglas Wayne Shorter
Duration: 11'00"
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Te Hau Kainga: bringing theatremakers together
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In the arts community there's nothing more important than a place of one's own. Case in point - the new centre for Maori and Pacific Theatre in Wellington: Te Hau Kainga. Taki Rua, Tawata, and The Conch are forming a new hub of creative activity. Simon Morris spoke with Artistic Director of The Conch: Nina Nawalowalo, and Kahukura /CEO of Taki Rua: Tanemahuta Gray.
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In the arts community there's nothing more important than a place of one's own. Case in point - the new centre for Maori and Pacific Theatre in Wellington: Te Hau Kainga. Taki Rua, Tawata, and The Conch are forming a new hub of creative activity. Simon Morris spoke with Artistic Director of The Conch: Nina Nawalowalo, and Kahukura /CEO of Taki Rua: Tānemahuta Gray
Topics: arts, te ao Maori, Pacific
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Tags: theatre, The Conch, Taki Rua, Hau Kainga, Tawata
Duration: 8'57"
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12:42 Westside takes in the 1981 Springbok tour
The classic New Zealand TV series Outrageous Fortune has become the gift that keeps on giving. Not only did it run for a record-breaking six series, it's turned into a franchise. We've already seen the West family's 70s origin story in the first series of Westside.
[embed] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR8mxUzMKPg
Now as co-creator James Griffin tells Simon Morris; the Wests have made it to the 80s.
12:52 Sit on your art: 2D to 3D furniture
You see some attractive objects hanging on an apartment wall, and assume they're purely ornamental. But what's this? Your host is taking the artwork down, and folding this two dimensional object into a three dimensional chair.
[gallery:2120] Jongha Choi’s 2D to 3D Furniture
This not your nana's stripy, red and white folding deck chair. While they're folded up the chair or table resembles a picture of furniture, as if photographed or drawn from an angle.
The creator of these 2D to 3D furniture designs is Korean-born Jongha Choi who made them for his thesis at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
[embed] https://vimeo.com/157414762
1:10 At The Movies
Simon Morris returns to At the Movies, fresh from the Cannes Film Festival and the UK. He looks back at the cinema’s Greatest Show On Earth, and gets decided mixed messages from the up-market Competition for the Palme D’Or and the highly competitive Market. On top of that he follows in the footsteps of Harry Lime, the Third Man, in the streets of Vienna.
1:33 Jahra Wasasala - Wahinetoa Nights
One of the events on at the inaugural Pacific Dance Festival is Wahinetoa Nights featuring choreographer/dancer Jahra Wasasala, whose Auckland Fringe Festival show Mother/Jaw won five awards, including Best Dance Performance.
Jahra spoke to Shaun D Wilson about dance, poetry, identity, Guam, and Janet Jackson.
[embed] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0yQpaNCZaQ
1:50 This Giant Papier Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy
Standing Room Only was hoping to chat with Sir Richard Taylor about the spectacular work of Weta Workshop's Concept Design Department. Due to unforeseen events, that story has had to be postponed. But in its place, a film that rivals Weta's work in King Kong, Avatar and Lord of the Rings - if only for its title - This Giant Papier Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy! This Giant Papier Mache Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy comes bearing awards - from the London and Boston Sci-fi Film Festivals, no less - and its about to make its debut at home.
[embed] https://vimeo.com/170126934
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2:06 The Laugh Track – Nathan Joe
Nathan Joe is no longer a promising young playwright. In fact he's won two awards for being both young and delivering on that promise, having scooped up one of Playmarket's b425 award this year and last year. His plays Like Sex and Hippolytus Veiled - A Greek Tragedy premiere soon. Nathan's also The Lumière Reader's theatre editor. Comedy selections include Anthony Jesselnik, the TV Series Slings and Arrows, Maria Bamford, and Louis C.K.
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2:25 You can’t touch… or look: the crazy world of hidden art
If you want proof that the super-rich have moved on from the conspicuous consumption of the Medicis and the Borgias of Renaissance Italy, take a look at what they do with their art. Or rather, don’t look. Millions of items of art are hidden away in dreary, private “free ports” around the world, especially in Switzerland. You don’t make money to buy art. Art is money! A recent New York Times article co-written by Doreen Carvajal said it all in the headline: “One of the world’s greatest art collections hides behind this fence”.
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2:38 Jake Baxendale takes jazz to the next level
Alto sax-player Jake Baxendale has recorded with the Rodger Fox Big Band, the Richter City Rebels, as well as his own group, The Jac. Now he’s taking it to the next level, in Sydney and New York thanks to a scholarship from The Edwin Carr Foundation. Simon Morris talks to Jake about music, composition and whether you can differentiate these days between “jazz” and “not jazz”.
2:49 Te Hau Kainga: bringing theatremakers together
In the arts community there's nothing more important than a place of one's own. Case in point - the new centre for Maori and Pacific Theatre in Wellington: Te Hau Kainga. Taki Rua, Tawata, and The Conch are forming a new hub of creative activity. Simon Morris spoke with Artistic Director of The Conch: Nina Nawalowalo, and Kahukura /CEO of Taki Rua: Tānemahuta Gray
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3:06 Drama at 3 – Who The Hell Are We?
Dave Armstrong talks with fellow playwrights Carl Nixon, Pip Hall, Hone Kouka and Nancy Brunning about whether we are presenting our nation honestly on stage.
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3:50 The Art of Etiquette - Ballet
What's the correct behaviour for theatre audiences in the age of the omnipresent smartphone? Is it OK to wear jeans to the ballet? Should I give a standing ovation? Here's the first of a series on The Art of Etiquette. Upbeat's Eva Radich spoke to Sir Jon Trimmer whose been on stage for 58 years.
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Artist: The Swingers
Song: Counting The Beat
Composer: Swingers
Album: Counting The Beat
Label: Mushroom 330852
Played at: 12:12
Artist: Dean Waretini
Song: The Bridge
Composer: Ross, Tait
Album: Our Music Volume 1
Label: BMG 654560
Played at: 12:38
Artist: Dragon
Song: April Sun In Cuba
Composer: P. Hewson, M. Hunter
Album: Running Fire
Label: CBS 465 720
Played at: 12:42
Artist: Spilt Enz
Song: History Never Repeats
Composer: Finn
Album: The Best Of Split Enz: History Never Repeats
Label: FMR 335992
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Artist: The Clean
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Twenty-five years ago, thousands of Iraqi Kurds lost their lives as they fled the forces of Saddam Hussein into the Zagros and Taurus mountains of northern Iraq, towards Iran and Turkey. Massively outgunned, many were killed by the helicopter gunship fire and tanks at the command of Saddam’s well trained and brutal troops. Virtually the entire Kurdish population trekked up into the mountains through freezing rain and snow, where many perished before a safe haven was established under western air protection. The mass flight of the Kurds was yet another stage in the turbulent history of a people who have faced a constant struggle to establish their place in the world. BBC Middle East correspondent Jim Muir was there, and revisits the exodus with recordings he made then which have never been heard before. (BBCWS)
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Marilynne Robinson is a highly acclaimed American novelist and essayist whose most famous fan is President Barack Obama. A BBC Heart and Soul Documentary
===5:40 PM. | Te Manu Korihi===
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===6:06 PM. | Te Ahi Kaa===
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Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)
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18:06
Sir Graham Latimer - A Life in the North
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In a 1991 episode of Directions Graham Lattimer (1926 - 2016) talks about his life in the Far North.
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Ko Te Paatu te marae
Ko Te Konoti te whenua
Ko Mangatakauere me Mangataiore te awa
Ko Rangaunu te moana
Ko Kotipu me Pukehapai te maunga
Sir Graham Latimer was laid to rest at Te Paatu Marae in Pamapuria this week. The prominent leader was the former president of the New Zealand Māori Council and played a pivotal role in the interests of Māori.
In 1991 he gave an interview with Neville Glasgow for an episode of the programme Directions. The series featured a range of New Zealanders talking about their lives, their belief systems and their work.
As a tribute to Sir Graham Latimer, Te Ahi Kaa features the archival programme this week:
Interview highlights
On his entrance into the world
We were staying in the gum fields at Houhora and about a fortnight before mum was due to have me, they put her on a buggy to send her down to Kaitaia so that she’d be handy to the hospital. But when she got on the buggy I suppose the bumping around put her into labour, when she got to Waihora she started to labour and she had me on the side of the road, and the old house that they took me up to and I supposed bathed me and that, well it’s been renovated but it’s still on the corner, and I look there quite often with a little bit of emotion every time I go past their now.
On his parents
My father is a very strong Anglican and mum was a really strong Catholic when they first got married, that didn’t help too much because there was no love loss between the Catholics and the Anglicans above all a pakehā marrying a Māori. You were ostracised from both sides, mum was ostracised from both sides for a long time.
Your mother was pakehā?
That’s right she was a pakehā…she found it difficult living in a settlement because she couldn’t understand a word of Māori, to dad’s credit, dad never allowed anyone to speak Māori in our home in front of my mother. He said if you can’t attempt to talk English then you shouldn’t be coming to my home and upsetting my wife.
But on the other hand because my mother had married into a Māori family, the European side really didn’t take too kindly to that, and her own sisters, later in life had vehicles and they passed her on the road (she used to walk four and a half miles to do her shopping), and her own sisters and [their] husbands would pass her on the road rather than stopping to pick her up, so I know the agony of racism on both sides.
I tried to make a point of it that nobody in my life would get hurt through racism as far as I’m concerned.
On religion
How important was religion?
Religion was number one, we had prayer…dad read a passage from the Bible every night and every evening you have to all go into the sitting room while we had a service, thinking back sometimes, services seem to go on forever but I suppose they were only quarter of an hour, twenty minutes. You didn’t have a meal of any description without having grace over that meal.
If people came to the home and they wanted to see dad, he’d welcome them and have a short prayer, and talk to them and always end with a short prayer before they went away. So religion was to the forefront. My grandmother that’s my father’s mother, she was one of the Sunday school teachers, she used to ride for miles teaching Sunday school, of course her father was one of the intakes of the second ordained ministers in our area, so Anglican religion is very very strong in my tribal area in Ngāti Kahu.
On education
One thing about my father he insisted that we have the best of education that he could afford, he always used to say that the only endowment I can leave you is the best education that I can afford to give you, and if it means going to jail, I will go to jail to educate you. On two occasions he did go to jail because he couldn’t pay his bill at the drapery place.
So, education was the forefront, we had a reasonable education,..although mine was (laughs) the poorest educated one of the lot, I was only proficiency level. I decided to stay in Auckland and set sail on this road and try to be as good a pākehā as any pākehā could be.
Not forgetting the fact that I was born of Māori heritage, so I really set out on that trail, and tried to keep away from becoming involved in Māori land and Māori hui’s because they were time consuming, and very emotional. So I thought well if I’m going to get married to my wife and bring up my family I wanted to be certain that I was going to leave them in a position where they were able to carry on to develop themselves within the system that we lived in, remembering in the 40’s and 50’s Māori was still hardly recognised as ordinary citizens in this country. It wasn’t til 1943 that the first census was taken. That we actually become part and parcel of the community in 1943 and that mostly because they wanted to find out how many eligible male men in the settlements to join the army and go over and fight.
On leadership
My father with a number of people came to talk to me about becoming a leader in Māoridom especially at the home level. I said to them at that stage, they must be kidding themselves to think that I could ever do anything like that. But the sincerity of the request was something that concerned me. My father was to repeat that request on a number of occasions.
With my father and them on one side, and Mr Kemp Nathan on the other side always at you, you were sort of funnelled into a direction that you didn’t want to go in, but you had to go in because you were caught with the current.
In 1958, they (Ngāti Whatua) had a big hui at Oruawharo just north of Wellsford and it was during that night they would talk about who would lead the people for the future, who would become the main spokesman for the tribe. I went there more or less to take these old people because they had no car, and I was growling away in my thinking well you beggars you’re only using me to get me to take you to this hui.
So anyhow when I got here, I went to sleep, in the morning I woke up and went to have a wash, at that time you washed outside there was no such thing as hot water service… if you wanted a shave, you scraped away out in the cold. The old fella came out Kemp, and said to me it was a marvellous, a marvellous night last night, I said oh yes what were you doing? He said oh well we were selecting who’s the future spokesman and the leader of the people for Ngāti Whatua in the north and possibly for the whole of New Zealand. I suppose (laughs) naive as I was I said who did you people select? He said, you’re it son.
I suppose that was really the period when people start to put a greater responsibility on your shoulders.
All material supplied by Ngā Tāonga Sound and Vision . Special thanks to Sarah Johnston.
Topics: te ao Maori, life and society
Regions: Northland
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Duration: 30'05"
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