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:
09 July 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight (RNZ);
12:30 Laugh Track (RNZ);
1:05 From the World (BBC);
2:05 NZ Live;
3:05 The Conductor by Sarah Quigley read by Peter Bland (RNZ);
3:30 The Week (RNZ);
4:30 Global Business (BBC);
5:10 Witness (BBC);
5:45 Voices (RNZ)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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The Stereo, by Gill Ward, told by Susan Brady ; Dad's Takeaways, by Melanie Drewery, told by Jim Moriarty ; Lorna and the Ladybird, by Kevin Boon, told by Fiona Samuel ; Coyote, by Joy Cowley, told by Moira Wairama, Tony Hopkins and Prue Langbein ; Ballad of the Komako, by Eliza Bidois, told by Eliza Bidois ; Pip the Drip, by Judith Holloway, told by Catherine Downes
===7:10 AM. | Country Life===
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Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)
===8:10 AM. | Saturday Morning===
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A mixture of current affairs and feature interviews, until midday (RNZ)
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08:10
Simon Day: South Sudan
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Kim Hill talks to the head of external affairs for World Vision New Zealand, who recently visited South Sudan, which has its fifth anniversary of independence on 9 July, but is gripped by tribal-based civil war that has left thousands dead, millions of people displaced internally, and created huge food insecurity.
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The youngest country in the world, South Sudan has its fifth anniversary of independence on 9 July, but since 2013 has descended into tribal-based civil war that has left thousands dead, millions of people displaced internally, and created huge food insecurity.
Simon Day is head of external affairs for World Vision New Zealand, and recently visited South Sudan.
He said that there was much media and political attention in South Sudan five years ago when the nation was created, and despite the difficult task of bringing two conflicting tribes together to do so there had been a sense of hope at the time.
However, South Sudan now seemed almost like a forgotten conflict, with displacement of nearly 2.5 million people and the fact that hundreds of thousands of children's education had stopped.
"Without education they're going to have little choice but to engage in the conflict. Child malnutrition levels are affecting upwards of 500,000 children under five and this leads directly to stunted development and death in many cases.
"The levels of mortality in childbirth is extreme."
He visited, as well as a similar facility in Juba, Malakal city's Protection of Civilians centre, where World Vision was operating and which was subject to an attack by government soldiers on 17 and 18 February.
"City is a bit of a euphemism at this point," he said.
"And I've never seen anything like these places where people have chosen to live in such destitution for their own protection - but that cannot be guaranteed in any way.
"It really upset the people as well because they had come to these places to seek protection, they had fled their villages and their livelihoods in the hope that they would at least have safety and the fact that even that was so hard to find in South Sudan was really alarming."
He said the situation Juba had really deteriorated and over the last two nights there had been fighting with the UN coming under attack.
"The security in the entire country is just incredibly fragile."
"You could feel the nervousness wherever you went - it was quite unnerving to see armed people everywhere.
While many of the battles were ostensibly on behalf of either the President Salva Kiir Mayardit or the Vice President James Wani Igga, the situation was more complicated than that.
"It's not as simple as being defined by troops loyal to the president or the vice president, that comes down to both tribal conflicts, intercommunal conflicts, desperation to survive as environmental conditions destroy livelihoods and cattle is stolen - and in a big way I think it shows the difficulty of building a nation in a place like South Sudan."
Topics: conflict, aid and development, politics, refugees and migrants, security
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Tags: Sudan, South Sudan, World Vision, Unicef, United Nations
Duration: 20'40"
08:33
Gil Penalosa: liveable cities
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Kim Hill talks to Gil Penalosa, renowned internationally for his work transforming Bogota, Colombia, by developing public spaces and enabling effective transit. He runs 8-80 Cities, a non-profit organisation based on the idea that a city built for an eight-year-old and an 80-year-old will be good for everyone. He visited New Zealand this week for the biennial 2Walk&Cycle conference.
Topics: education, environment, housing, politics, technology, transport
Regions: Auckland Region, Wellington Region
Tags: Bogota, Colombia, 2Walk&Cycle
Duration: 26'05"
09:08
Caitlin Doughty: Lessons from the crematorium
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Kim Hill talks to funeral director and mortician Caitlin Doughty, creator of the web series Ask a Mortician, founder of The Order of the Good Death, and author of the 2014 book Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematorium. She will be a guest at the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival 2016.
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Caitlin Doughty is an American funeral director and mortician known for advocating death acceptance and the reform of Western funeral industry practices.
She is the creator of the web series Ask a Mortician, founder of The Order of the Good Death, and author of the 2014 book Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematorium (Canongate). She will also be a guest at the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival 2016 (24-28 August).
Ahead of her visit, she talks with Kim Hill from Los Angeles.
Topics: environment, law, life and society, spiritual practices
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Tags: Amber Carverly, embalming, Jessica Mitford, cremation, necrophilia, funerals
Duration: 26'25"
09:32
Sir Andrew Davis: eclectic conductivity
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Kim Hill talks to British conductor Sir Andrew Davis, music director and principal conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago, and chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He visited New Zealand to conduct the combined forces of the NZSO and NZSO National Youth Orchestra in a performance of French composer Olivier Messiaen's last work, Eclairs sur l'Au-Delà.
Topics: arts, history, music
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Tags: Oliver Messiaen, Orchestras, NZSO
Duration: 24'03"
10:15
Tim Jackson: prosperity without growth
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Kim Hill talks to Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey, Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, author of Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow, and recipient of the 2016 Hillary Laureate for exceptional mid-career leadership.
Topics: climate, environment, life and society, politics
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Tags: Thomas Pikkety, Thomas Malthus, Paul Ehrlich, Club of Rome, globalisation, Brexit, William James, climate change
Duration: 38'57"
11:10
Henry Brodaty: ageing and dementia
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Kim Hill talks to Professor Henry Brodaty, Professor of Psychogeriatrics at the University of New South Wales, founding director of the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre and co-director of CHeBA, the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing. He was awarded the 2016 Ryman Prize as international recognition of his three decades of work exploring ways to combat dementia.
Topics: health, life and society, science
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Tags: dementia, memory disorders, Ryman Prize, alzheimers, drugs, age
Duration: 26'53"
11:35
Elaine Yan Ling Ng: textiles and tehnology
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Kim Hill talks to Hong Kong-based designer Elaine Yan Ling Ng who interweaves technology with her textiles and furnishings at The Fabrick Lab. She visited Wellington as a keynote speaker for Nature Now, the 2016 Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand symposium.
Topics: arts, business, language, science, technology
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: London, Beijing, Hong Kong, China, fashion, textiles, batik, Taiwan, Svarovski
Duration: 26'45"
11:59
Listener Feedback for 9 July 2016
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Kim Hill reads listener feedback from Saturday Morning 9 July 2016.
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Duration: 13'39"
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8:12 Simon Day
Simon Day is head of external affairs for World Vision New Zealand, and recently visited South Sudan. The youngest country in the world has its fifth anniversary of independence on 9 July, but since 2013 has descended into tribal-based civil war that has left thousands dead, millions of people displaced internally, and created huge food insecurity.
[gallery:2237] South Sudan, June 2016. Photos and captions by Simon Day.
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8:30 Gil Penalosa
Gil Penalosa is renowned internationally for his work transforming Bogota, Colombia, by developing public spaces and enabling effective transit. He runs 8-80 Cities, a non-profit organisation based on the idea that a city built for an eight-year-old and an 80-year-old will be good for everyone. He visited New Zealand this week for the biennial 2Walk&Cycle conference.
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9:05 Caitlin Doughty
Caitlin Doughty is an American funeral director and mortician known for advocating death acceptance and the reform of Western funeral industry practices. She is the creator of the web series Ask a Mortician, founder of The Order of the Good Death, and author of the 2014 book Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematorium (Canongate). She will be a guest at the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival 2016 (24-28 August).
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9:35 Sir Andrew Davis
British conductor Sir Andrew Davis has served as music director and principal conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago since 2000, and since 2013 has been chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He is also conductor laureate of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He is visiting New Zealand to conduct the combined forces of the NZSO and NZSO National Youth Orchestra in a performance of French composer Olivier Messiaen’s last work, Eclairs sur l’Au-Delà, (Illuminations of the Beyond), with concerts in Wellington (8 July) and Auckland (9 July). The Wellington performance, preceded by a talk from Elizabeth Kerr about Messiaen's work, was broadcast on RNZ Concert.
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10:05 Tim Jackson
Ecological economist Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. He is the author of Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow (Routledge), and is a radio dramatist. Last month he was awarded the 2016 Hillary Laureate for exceptional mid-career leadership by the Hillary Institute of International Leadership.
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11:05 Henry Brodaty
Professor Henry Brodaty has spent his career working on ways to enhance the quality of life of older people with dementia and their families, and advocating for their rights. He is Professor of Psychogeriatrics at the University of New South Wales, the founding director of the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre and co-director of CHeBA, the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing. As a clinician looking after patients, he established the Aged Care Psychiatry department at Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney where he heads the Memory Disorders Clinic. Last week he was awarded the 2016 Ryman Prize, the world’s richest prize of its type ($250,000), as international recognition of his three decades of work exploring ways to combat dementia.
11:35 Elaine Yan Ling Ng
Elaine Yan Ling Ng is a Hong Kong-based designer who interweaves technology with her textiles and furnishings at The Fabrick Lab. She visited Wellington as a keynote speaker for Nature Now, the 2016 Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand symposium, co-hosted by Massey University and Te Papa.
[gallery:2249] Images of Elaine Yan Ling Ng and her textiles
This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Rachel Smith
Auckland engineer: Rangi Powick
Research by Infofind
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Artist: NZSO and the NZSO National Youth Orchestra
Song: Plusiers oiseaux des arbres de Vie, the ninth movement of Eclairs sur l’Au-Delà, (Illuminations of the Beyond),
Composer: Olivier Messiaen
Live recording by RNZ Concert at the MFC, Wellington, 8 July
Broadcast: 9:35
Artist: New Zealand National Youth Choir
Song: Kyrie, from Requiem
Composer: Sam Piper
Album: Winds That Whisper: New Zealand Choral Music from the 20th Century
Label: Trust, 1998
Broadcast: 10:05
Artist: William Tyler
Song: I’m Gonna Live Forever (If It Kills Me)
Composer: William Tyler
Album: Modern Country
Label: Merge, 2016
Broadcast: 10:55
===12:11 PM. | This Way Up===
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Exploring the things we use and consume. Some content may offend (RNZ)
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12:01
This Way Up 9 July 2016 Part 1
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What3Words, hi tech combat sport and tech news (Blackberry demise, NZ's digital curriculum and Tesla troubles).
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Duration: 48'54"
12:15
What3Words
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A new location and addressing system gives every 9 square metres of the earth a physical address using a combination of just 3 words. In Mongolia the post office has even started using this system to deliver the mail! According to the startup behind it, about 4 billion people around the world have no physical address. And without an address it's difficult and sometimes even impossible to open a bank account, deal with hospitals or government departments, let alone order anything online. We speak to Chris Sheldrick the CEO of What3Words.
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A new location and addressing system assigns every 9 metre square section of the planet a physical address using a combination of just 3 words.
In Mongolia the post office has already started using the system to deliver the mail!
According to the British startup behind it, What3Words, about 4 billion people in the world have no physical address. And without an address it's more difficult and sometimes even impossible to open a bank account, deal with hospitals or government departments....let alone shop online at Alibaba. Chris Sheldrick is the CEO of What3Words.
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Tags: address, location, GPS
Duration: 11'54"
12:30
Hi tech combat sport
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Unified Weapons Master combines sensor technology, armoured suits, real time injury modelling software and traditional martial arts weapons. The people behind the business (including 2 New Zealanders) hope to emulate the success of the UFC (The Ultimate Fighting Championship) whose owners transformed a business worth US$2 million in 2001, into a global giant now worth an estimated US$4 billion. David Pysden is the Chief Operating Officer of UWM.
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A pair of armoured hi tech gladiators batter each other with an assortment of weapons; and if all goes according to plan no one gets hurt! It's being billed as the next big thing in competitive martial arts.
The key technology enabling the sport is a bodysuit loaded with sensors measuring the location and force of every blow, and then software that scores every strike based on a real time calculation of the injuries it would actually cause if the fighter was wearing no armour and unprotected.
Unified Weapons Master is an Australian and New Zealand business that's hoping to emulate the success of The Ultimate Fighting Championship or UFC whose owners have transformed a 2 million dollar business into a global brand worth a reputed 4 billion dollars in the space of 15 years.
UWM held its first test fights in Wellington in March and David Pysden is its Chief Operating Officer.
Topics: technology, sport
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Tags: combat, sensors, martial arts, armour
Duration: 14'58"
12:45
Tech: NZ digital curriculum and Tesla troubles
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Technology news with Peter Griffin. This week, the demise of the iconic Blackberry Classic. Plus looming legal problems for the electric vehicle maker Tesla, and specifically the auto-pilot function on some of its cars, after the death of a driver using the system. Plus the planned introduction of a new digital technologies component into the New Zealand school curriculum; is it too little, too late?
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Technology news with Peter Griffin. This week, the demise of the iconic Blackberry Classic. Plus looming legal problems for the electric vehicle maker Tesla, and specifically the auto-pilot function on some of its cars, after the death of a driver using the system. Plus the planned introduction of a new digital technologies component into the New Zealand school curriculum; is it too little, too late?
Topics: technology, education
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Tags: schools, curriculum, digital, Tesla, driverless, autonomous, blackberry
Duration: 15'18"
13:01
This Way Up 9 July 2016 Part 2
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India's biometric census and beef trade, synthetic wine, dehumidifiers buyers' guide and fast vaccines.
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Duration: 52'10"
13:15
India's biometric census and beef trade
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India's about to complete the biggest biometric registration programme on the planet, with the records of its 1.25 billion population soon to reside on a massive government database. And despite the fact that India recently became the world's biggest beef exporter, people working in the meat trade are still subjected to threats and violence. Vidhi Doshi reports on a rise in meat-related vigilantism.
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India's about to complete the biggest biometric registration programme on the planet, with the records of its 1.25 billion population soon to reside on a massive government database.
Meanwhile, despite the fact that India recently became the world's biggest beef exporter, people working in the meat trade are still subjected to threats and violence. Vidhi Doshi reports on a rise in meat-related vigilantism.
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Tags: India, beef, biometrics, census
Duration: 12'57"
13:30
Lab made wine
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Two young biotechnology grads are trying to recreate expensive wines and rare vintages, using water, ethanol and some flavour molecules. Alec Lee of Ava Winery wants to make the flavours of top notch wine accessible to anyone without a grape in sight. But can the traditional art of winemaking really be recreated as a synthetic process undertaken in a lab?
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Wine making is traditionally viewed as part art and part science, a craft based on terroir and fruit quality, and a tribute to a wine-maker's nose, skill and taste. But could the art of oenology be reduced to a synthetic process undertaken in a lab?
Alec Lee of Ava Winery thinks so. He's making artificial 'wine' with not a grape in sight, turning water into something that tastes like wine in 15 minutes by combining H2O with some flavour compounds and ethanol.
The idea really took off on a visit to winery in California last year, when Mr Lee's co-founder saw a bottle of 1973 Chateau Montelena. That's a famed chardonnay that put Napa Valley and New World wines on the map when it won a prestigious wine competition in France in 1976.
Mr Lee wants to expose a new generation of younger wine drinkers to taste experiences they wouldn't otherwise be able to afford.
"We believe foods of the future will be designed the way clothing is designed and printed with the ease that we print on paper today. " Alec Lee, Ava Winery
Topics: science, food
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Tags: wine, taste, synthetic, artificial
Duration: 8'36"
13:40
Dehumidifiers: a buyer's guide
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George Block of consumer.org.nz reviews the best dehumidifiers on the market that can cope with New Zealand homes and conditions. With many models on the market being tested in tropical conditions, you need to dig behind the published specifications if you want to keep your home really dry.
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George Block of consumer.org.nz reviews the best dehumidifiers on the market for New Zealand homes and conditions.
With many models on the market being tested in tropical conditions, you need to dig behind the published specifications if you want to keep your home really dry.
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[Literage] refers to the amount of water the industry claims the dehumidifier will remove from the air over 24 hours. The trouble is the industry derives these figures from testing at 30 degrees Celsius and 80% humidity. Unless you live in South East Asia that’s nothing like the climate in our homes. We think the industry needs to adopt a more realistic testing standard, but it is quite difficult because this is the worldwide standard. In our temperate climate it’s not just realistic.
From the testing that we’ve done, one that we tested back in 2012 – the Goldair GD330 – in our view is probably the best on the market. The real difference between that one and every other model on the market is that it uses a different type of technology. [Other models] operate a bit like a refrigerator with the door taken off or a heat pump – and as a result their performance really falls at lower temperatures.
The Goldair [GD330]’s performance doesn’t degrade as much. We found it removed just as much water from the air at 8 degrees Celsius as it did at 16 degrees, whereas any of these refrigerant models which claimed to move 20 litres from the air, we found on average they only remove about 4 litres at lower temperatures.
[Dehumidifiers] are a stop-gap solution. We think the best way to stop dampness is at the source. If you’ve got water pooling under your home and seeping up into your floor, it’s going to be doing structural damage as it makes its way into your home. And while you’re removing that from the air quite effectively with a dehumidifier, you’re not going to be addressing that structural damage or the growth in mildew. The best thing to do is you’ve got water pooling under your home is to one, fix any drainpipe, guttering issues, try and get some better drainage. If that doesn’t work, install a moisture control sheet.
For a lot of us in rentals on the wrong side of a hill, we’re just not going to be able to do much to stop dampness in the home during the New Zealand winter – so that’s where dehumidifiers really come into their own.
[Dehumidifiers are not as expensive to run] as heaters. The real downside of that Goldair is that it costs about $180 a year to run whereas refrigerant models only cost about $60 a year to run. They only draw about 400 watts, so they’re not huge power users. They do put out heat at the same time. I don’t think energy efficiency should be your main concern with dehumidifiers because they are heating the room at the same time.
The best models have a digital humidistat, which his like a thermostat for humidity. But if you’ve got an old humidifier with a sort of rotary dial humidstat, you can go and buy a secondary humidity meter [a digital humidistat]. And that can be a good way to [avoid] spending $600 on a new dehumidifier.
I’d recommend if you’re really worried about sound and you’re going to be running it in the TV room ask to plug it in instore so you can get a read on that sound.
The main tip is don’t go for one of those mini dehumidifiers. They make some pretty bold claims, but they’re only really good enough for a wardrobe or a campervan.
It pays to consider to consider the GD330 if you’re going to be using it at lower temperatures. Any of the refrigerant models, below 10 degrees Celsius, they’re not going to go very well. They’ll get a litre or less out of the air. In contrast that GD330 is going to work all the way down to zero degrees.
In a warm, humid climate you fire up [the dehumidifier on] your heat pump and it’s cooling and dehumidifying at the same time. But in a New Zealand winter that’s really the opposite of what you want. You’re going to be dehumidifying a bit but you’re also going to be cooling your home quite a lot. We don’t think the heat pump dehumidifying mode is worth much.
In summer the best way to dehumidify is just to open a window, you know? Get adequate air through your home.
Topics: housing
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Tags: drying, dehumidifiers, consumer
Duration: 8'48"
13:50
Fast vaccines
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How feeling good rather than stressed out or depressed can give your immune system a boost. Plus a gene discovered in bacteria that harnesses the full power of sunlight could be used to increase crop yields by up to 30 percent. And a new approach to making vaccines using nano-particle technology could seriously speed up the process for new vaccine development. With Dr Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists.
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How feeling good rather than stressed out or depressed can give your immune system a boost. Plus a gene discovered in bacteria that harnesses the full power of sunlight could be used to increase crop yields by up to 30 percent. And a new approach to making vaccines using nano-particle technology could seriously speed up the process for new vaccine development. With Dr Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists.
Topics: science, health
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Tags: vaccines, placebo, crops, photosynthesis, sunlight, immune system
Duration: 12'08"
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We're playing these tracks too...
Artist: OMOH
Track: Luxembourg Park
Composer: OMOH
Album: OMOH is Leading Nowhere
Label: OMOH
Artist: Metronomy
Track: Old Skool
Composer: Metronomy
Album: Summer 08
Label: BECAUSE
Artist: The Love Committee
Track: Just As Long As I've Got You (DJ Dimitri Edit)
Composer: The Love Committee
Album: Fabriclive 36: James Murphy & Pat Mahoney
Label: FABRIC
===2:05 PM. | Music 101===
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The best songs, music-related stories, interviews, live music, industry news and music documentaries from NZ and the world
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13:20
Introducing: Sachi
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Sachi introduce their song 'South Central ft. Duckworth.'
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Name of project: SACHI
Real name/s: Will Thomas, Nick Chrisp
Age (of project): 2
Hometown: Auckland
Formative Musical Experience:
Will - Flume at Logan Campbell
Nick - Santana at Vector Arena
Musical Guilty Pleasure:
Nick - 'Teenage Dream' by Katy Perry
Will - 'All I Do Is Win' by DJ Khaled
Facebook / Soundcloud
Music Details
Artist: Sachi
Song: South Central ft. Duckworth
Composer: Sachi, Duckworth
Album: Lunch With Bianca
Label: Universal Music NZ
Topics: music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Introducing, Sachi, Duckworth
Duration: 4'42"
10:30
DJ Shadow: "Album titles should steer a project"
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Self-described perfectionist DJ Shadow talks to Sam Wicks about his latest album, The Mountain Will Fall.
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Sam Wicks digs into DJ Shadow's production perfectionism.
Californian beatmaker and producer DJ Shadow first made his mark with his sample-built, all-instrumental debut Endtroducing, a genre-defining release that still looms large over his back catalogue.
Twenty years on from Endtroducing, he has added only five more LPs to that catalogue – his latest being The Mountain Will Fall – a testament to his microscopic attention to detail.
Shadow has used all six of his albums' titles to steer their direction. The Mountain Will Fall comes from a single tweet, a note-to-self name to remind him that the end was in sight.
One step follows the next which leads the way to the next. There will be missteps but as long as the vision is whole, the mountain will fall
— DJ Shadow (@djshadow) 7 July 2015
"It's an analogy that I've used to help myself not get thrown off by the largeness of the moment and just try to take it piece by piece, day by day," he says. "I mean, I certainly don't have mountain climbing in my background, but I've been on some hikes before where you're like, 'I don't know how much more of this I can endure,' but you keep walking and you keep climbing and then by the end of it you look around and you're like, 'Wow, I came up all this way – look at the view.' So it can be daunting and it can seem large, but that analogy works for me."
Music Details
Artist: DJ Shadow
Song: Three Ralphs, The Mountain Will Fall, Suicide Pact, Bergschrund, Pitter Patter
Composer: J.Davis
Album: The Mountain Will Fall
Label: Mass Appeal Records
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DJ Shadow talks about implanting unmarked vinyl in record stores
Topics: music
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Tags: DJ Shadow, hip hop, electronic music
Duration: 13'53"
14:00
Hey Ho, Let’s Go! 40 Years of the Ramones
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Craig Leon, the producer behind the Ramones' 1976 debut LP, talks to Trevor Reekie about the album's 40th anniversary.
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In just 29 minutes of power chords and infectious pop songs, the self-titled debut of The Ramones launched the idea of punk and went on to sell millions of albums and T-shirts. On the eve of the reord’s 40th anniversary, Music 101 spoke to Ramones producer Craig Leon, in Abbey Road studios where he has just supervised a comprehensive 3-CD and vinyl reissue of the iconic album.
Craig Leon started his recording career in a home studio in Florida, before he was invited to New York to work as an assistant to producer Richard Gottehrer at Seymour Stein’s fledgling Sire Records. He has worked with a plethora of bands including the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, Suicide, even the Chills.
New York in the early seventies was the place to be. Within a few years free jazz, avant-garde classical, punk, disco and hip-hop all collided together in a city where lofts in Manhattan were still cheap.
Originally Leon hoped to sign Patti Smith but when she signed to Arista he started exploring the scene and found bands like Suicide and the Ramones. Leon says: “When you saw the Ramones especially in the beginning, it would be like a 20-minute performance-art piece…. They wouldn’t do ‘a’ song - it was an intact piece of work.”
The Ramones had a fierce work ethic, mainly inspired by drummer, arranger and producer Tommy Ramone, who knew a lot about the art scene. Vocalist Joey knew about AM radio and hit records by American girl groups like the Ronettes. Bassist Dee Dee Ramone knew the the streets, drugs and was the band’s primary song writer. Johnny Ramone kept the band grounded in hard rock and was figuring out how to make enough money and also keep the band in line. The band’s iconic image of ripped jeans, bowl haircuts, and leather jackets was a big part of their appeal but it was their repertoire of power-chord, 2-minute pop songs that inspired the band to try to become as commercially huge as their favorite band, The Bay City Rollers.
The Ramones quickly attracted a great team of experts around them. Arturo Vega designed their iconic tee shirts and logo did their light show; manager Danny Fields eventually introduced the band to Seymour Stein who had just formed Sire Records. Stein gave producer Craig Leon a budget of $7000 and 5 days in the studio and history was made.
Craig remembers how, during pre-production of the album, Tommy played to a metronome. “He looked like a little robot, like a member of Kraftwerk or something.”
The Ramones album was released on April 23 1976 to disappointing sales - it reached Number 111 on the US charts and only sold 7,000 copies, despite a mountain of press – but has gone on to sell millions and inspire thousands of punk bands.
The Ramones had no idea how they would be received when they came to London in July 1976. They bombed in Pittsburgh, but were adored in London.
Over time, the myth and the iconography of the Ramones has taken on a life of its own, in some ways obscuring their artistic achievement. Yet as The Observer’s Tim, Sommer has acknowledged, The Ramones was “an album so conceptually staggering, an absolute triumph of simplicity and art, that it is one of the greatest pop rock albums of all time.”
Or, as Dick Manitoba from the Dictators said, “The Ramones were the smartest dumb band you heard.” He wasn’t wrong.
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Duration: 16'39"
15:05
Troy Kingi live in session
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Troy Kingi stops by the M101 studios for a korero and couple of tunes from his forthcoming double album Guitar Party at Uncle's Bach.
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Musician-actor Troy Kingi, best known for his role as TK the selfie dad in Hunt for the Wilderpeople, drops into the RNZ studio to play a couple of tracks from his forthcoming double-album Guitar Party at Uncle’s Bach.
Whatever Troy Kingi turns his hand to he'll just glide through it, take his star-turn in Taika Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople as TK, the affable father who made a hash of his selfie with juvenile outlaw Ricky Baker in between cheering for the NZ Warriors
"All my lines were my improv lines. There was no line about the Warriors in the script."
Swimming through life is an appropriate metaphor for a certified diving instructor, which was Kingi's day job before the "singing and acting buzz took off".
The moment of necessary resourcefulness arose when the Kerikeri-based musician-actor and seafood addict needed to feed his growing family.
"I was doing music for a long time, but music wasn't bringing in the dollars,"
Following his wife's wise advice to find something he loved doing, Kingi took himself off to his local Northland dive shop and became a dive instructor.
Music and performance has been a constant for Troy since as his boarding school days where he picked up the guitar as one Te Aute College's kapa haka performers. Although most of his repetoire consisted of kapa haka standards and some Bone-Thuggs-In-Harmony, the family's relocation to Kerikeri saw Troy's musical horizons exposed to Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park when he attended the predominantly pakeha local high school. Now a firm fan of Queens of the Stone Age and "anything by Jack White", Troy describes himself as a dirt-blues guitarist.
In between raising his four children in Kerikeri, Troy has traversed the country performing live, starred in films such as Pa Boys and Mount Zion, and mentored prison inmates in the final season of Maori Television's Songs From The Inside. Which may explain why it's taken eight years to write and record his forthcoming double-album Guitar Party at Uncle's Bach.
The album is inspired by Troy's love of guitar singalongs from family gatherings, and recorded in Lyttelton at Ben Edwards' Sitting Room studio. Here he sits down with Yadana Saw to shares some of the tracks from the new release.
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Music details
Artist: Troy Kingi
Songs: Just a Phase, I Know Fate
Composer: T. Kingi
Album: RNZ Recording
Label: RNZ Recording
Topics: music
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Troy Kingi, Hunt For the Wilderpeople, live music, Northland, Kerikeri, kapa haka
Duration: 16'49"
15:05
DJ Spell - one last spin
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Current world DMC runner-up and #kupuhou viral video sensation, DJ Spell is getting ready to take another tilt at the turntable title. Yadana Saw checks out how preparations are going for the te reo tutor and trick-fingered vinyl spinner.
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World DMC Vice Champion, current NZ Champ, World online number #3 DJ Spell is well-known in hip hop circles for his trick-fingered vinyl skills. But he’s also a viral video star with his series of #kupuhou videos. Yadana Saw meets with the expert battle DJ and crash zoom artist.
Over an incredibly off-topic Facebook thread DJ Spell and I concoct a plan that involves a fast-food mission, a bit of rakuraku and a korero about his viral and vinyl successes. Social media is his native home, but getting some kanohi ki te kanohi is trickier as he gets ready for turntable tournament season.
Much like our Rio-bound Olympians, Spell is about to commence intense pre-competition training, which takes months and months of preparation.
“I hate it, it’s hard. The weeks leading up are really full on.”
Spell’s preparation ideally begins a year out as he carefully constructs his battle routine first selecting sounds and music that he will chop, change, manipulate and “flip” in order to show off his rhythmic skills with turntables and a mixer.
The world of pro turntablism is a specialised form of DJing where practitioners show off their technical abilities to beat-juggle, scratch and mix songs. It’s a world away from the club DJ playing your favourite tunes to get down on the dance-floor to.
Check out the video and see DJ Spell in preparation for his last New Zealand and World DMC contests.
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Topics: music, te ao Maori
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: DJ Spell, vinyl, DJ culture, hip hop, te reo, turntablism, DMC
Duration: 13'09"
16:30
The Chills Tour Diary
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Despite a 20 year break from touring overseas, The Chills still maintain a loyal fan base in the UK, US and Europe. Keyboardist for the band, and keen anthropologist, Oli Wilson, talks to the fans there to figure out what makes this love of The Chills so enduring and strong.
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Despite a 20 year break from touring overseas, The Chills still maintain a loyal fan base in the UK, US and Europe. Keyboardist for the band, and keen anthropologist, Oli Wilson, talks to the fans there to figure out what makes this love of The Chills so enduring and strong.
The Chills produced some of the biggest ‘hits’ of Flying Nun in the mid-80s to early 90s. Songs like ‘Pink Frost’ and ‘Heavenly Pop Hit’ struck a chord with audiences internationally. They were tipped by British music media for stardom. They collected some fans who would stick with them through thick and thin, like Jeff Kelson.
"We all looked to the UK for musical inspiration. The Clash, The Specials, Orange Juice - we thought it would never end - and then it ended. And then we heard this beacon coming from the other side of the world, from Dunedin."
Kelson explains the appeal of The Chills - "there's something other-worldly about it."
Leader, and only constant member, Martin Phillipps’ career took a nosedive, despite the international attention - or perhaps because of it. Depression, drug addiction, and illness ensued. There were a few quiet years for the prolific songwriter. But Phillipps is clean now, and the band’s lineup is more consistent than it ever was in the 80s.
It's 20 years since The Chills were in the US and their fans haven’t forgotten them. They've even picked up a new generation of fans. Oli Wilson speaks to a group of audience members in their mid-twenties who've driven to New York from Toronto for a show. They say: "We maybe listen to The Chills every day. Maybe every other day. It's those sad lyrics, with the poppy upbeat music. It's one of those conundrums that is just implanted in your brain."
As The Chills head through the UK and Europe they speak to others who saw them the first time around. Portsmouth resident Paul saw them at a disastrous show in 1990. "Everything that could go wrong did. Every string broke, strings flying everywhere." He says of Martin Phillips "He's a musical genius. End of discussion."
Hear more from more of The Chills fans, as well as some of the band themselves at the audio link above.
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Topics: music
Regions: Otago
Tags: Flying Nun, The Chills, pop, fans
Duration: 29'45"
19:30
Freetown Sound by Blood Orange
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Nick Bollinger reviews a musically and socially astute new album from black British New Yorker Devonte Hynes, who records as Blood Orange.
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Nick Bollinger reviews a musically and socially astute new album from black British New Yorker Devonte Hynes, who records as Blood Orange.
It’s been a year in which black social movements like the Black Lives Matter campaign have reached such critical mass that it would be surprising if there weren’t traces of it in the music. Even Beyonce – an artist who always seemed to exist in an airtight megastar bubble of her own – used her work this year to make political statements (see both her Lemonade video album and Superbowl performance.)
Here’s another album I think will stand as one of the year’s major black music releases. And it has plenty to say, politically, personally – and musically.
Freetown Sound is the third and latest album by Blood Orange: recording name of black, New York-based Englishman Devonte Hynes. And perhaps the only problem with labelling this a political record is singling out which particular cause it represents, as it seems to touch on so many. In the opening track – more an overture than an actual song – you’ll hear Hynes ruminating on his own identity, as an immigrant’s son, followed by slam-poet Ashlee Haze in her articulate address on the subject of black female representation.
And that’s just the beginning, as other tracks on this dense 17-song album acknowledge such topical concerns as police violence against black youth and queer and transgender rights. And yet the first thing that strikes me about this record is not its politics at all, but rather it’s mature musicality.
With subtly crafted songs, which remind me of Prince but also have some of the melodic generosity of Stevie Wonder, Freetown Sound is like the mixtape of Hynes’s mind, or - to borrow a metaphor from a friend of Hynes’ quoted in Pitchfork - a browser with 50 tabs open. Those tabs aren’t just musical bookmarks, but might also be pieces of poetry, oratory, interviews, movies, the music of the streets or the pulpit.
Found fragments are collaged into the song sequence, like notes in a margin, some of which recur as themes in the songs. You’ll hear the voice of Venus Xtravaganza, the late transgender performer, or the journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, with his sobering remarks on the life-and-death choices a black person might be making just in the way they dress. Sometimes several themes run together, as in ‘Hands Up’: a deceptively upbeat dance jam that seems at first to be about personal identity and discovering who you are, until the line ‘keep your hood off when you’re walking’ flashes us back to the Trayvon Martin killing, and reminds us that for some, personal identity might be a death sentence.
It’s not surprising that, as a US resident, Hynes’ reflects on black American issues, but Freetown Sound casts itself wider than that. The Freetown of the title refers to the capital city of Sierra Leone, where Hynes’ father originally came from. And there are times where he seems to be singing back to Africa.
But as dense a collage as Freetown Sound is, it is also full of moments where Hynes just lets the music speak; where a piano might wander meditatively like an Erik Satie miniature, or a saxophone take flight in the manner of a Dolphy or Coleman; or where Hynes simply seduces us with a beautiful melody. And beauty is as much a concern of Hynes’ as any of the other 50 tabs he has open on Freetown Sound. In a time of prejudice and violence, it is that pursuit of beauty that makes Blood Orange’s Freetown Sound stand out like nothing else.
Songs featured: Augustine, By Ourselves, E.V.P., Hadron Collider, With Him, Hands Up, Juicy, Thank You.
Freetown Sound is available on Domino Records.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: music, music review, blood orange
Duration: 11'16"
=SHOW NOTES=
=PLAYLIST=
Artist: The Chills
Song: Moonlight on Flesh
Composer: Phillips
Album: The Chills: The BBC Sessions
Label: Fire
Hey Ho! Let's Go! 40 years of the Ramones
Artist: The Ramones
Song: Blitzkrieg Bop (Single Version)
Composer: Tommy Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone
Album: The Ramones
Label: Sire Records
Artist: The Ramones
Song: Listen To My Heart, Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue, Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue (Demo), I Dont' Wanna Walk Around With You,
Today Your Love Tomorrow The World, 53rd & 3rd
Composer: Dee Dee Ramone
Album: The Ramones
Label: Sire Records
Artist: The Ramones
Song: Beat On The Brat, Judy Is A Punk, Chain Saw
Composer: Joey Ramone
Album: The Ramones
Label: Sire Records
Artist: The Ramones
Song: I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement
Composer: Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Ramone
Album: The Ramones
Label: Sire Records
Artist: The Ramones
Song: I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
Composer: Tommy Ramone
Album: The Ramones
Label: Sire Records
Artist: The Ramones
Song: Lets Dance
Composer: Jim Lee
Album: It’s Alive
Label: Sire Records
Artist: Pixies
Song: Um Chugga Lugga
Composer: Pixies
Album: Head Carrier
Label: Pixiesmusic
Artist: Reverend Horton Heat
Song: Psychobilly Freakout
Compomser: Reverend Horton Heat
Album: Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em
Label: Sub Pop
Artist: Jack White
Song: I Think I Found The Culprit
Composer: J. White
Album: Lazaretto
Label: Third Man Records
Troy Kingi: Live in Session
Artist: Troy Kingi
Songs: Just a Phase, I Know Fate
Composer: T. Kingi
Album: RNZ Recording
Label: RNZ Recording
Artist: Electric Wire Hustle
Song: Ex Machina
Composer: Mara TK
Album: Single
Label: Loop
Artist: Ben Salter
Song: The Stars My Destination
Composer: Ben Salter
Album: The Stars My Destination
Label: Universal Music
3-4pm
Artist: P-Money
Song: The Xpedition ft. 4 Corners
Composer: P. Waddams, 4 Corner
Album: Big Things
Label: Dirty Records
DJ Spell
Artist: Bob James
Song: Take Me to the Mardi Gras
Composer: P. Simon
Album: Two
Label: CTI Records
Artist: Leonard Charles
Song: People
Composer: J. Yancey
Album: Basement Donuts
Label: Hit+Run
DJ Shadow
Artist: DJ Shadow
Song: Three Ralphs, The Mountain Will Fall, Suicide Pact, Bergschrund, Pitter Patter
Composer: J.Davis
Album: The Mountain Will Fall
Label: Mass Appeal Records
Artist: Metronomy
Song: Hang Me Out To Dry ft. Robyn
Composer: Metronomy
Album: Summer 08
Label: Warner Music
Artist: The Naked and Famous
Song: Higher
Composer: The Naked and Famous
Album: Simple Forms
Label: Somewhat Damaged
Artist: Maderia
Song: Manipulator
Composer: K. Pflaum
Album: Bad Humours
Label: Carpark Records
Introducing: Sachi
Artist: Sachi
Song: South Central ft. Duckworth
Composer: Sachi, Duckworth
Album: Lunch With Bianca
Label: Universal Music NZ
Artist: BadBadNotGood
Song: Confession Pt II ft. Conlin Stetson
Composer: BadBadNotGood
Album: IV
Label: Innovative Leisure
4-5pm
The Chills Tour Diary
Artist: The Chills
Song: Silver Bullets
Composer: Phillipps
RNZ Recording
Artist: The Chills
Song: Come Home
Composer: Phillipps
Album: Sunburnt
Label: Flying Nun
Artist: The Chills
Song: Doledrums
Composer: Phillipps
Album: Kaleidescope
Label: Flying Nun
Artist: The Chills
Song: Part Past, Part Fiction
Composer: Phillipps
Album Peel Sessions
Label: Fire
Artist: Lee Hazlewood
Song: The Night Before
Composer: L. Moseley
Album: Cowboy in Sweden
Label: LHI Records
Artist: 19
Song: Black Bowie
Composer: O Ebombo
Album: Black Bowie single
Label: Oko Ebombo
Artist: Francis and the Lights
Song: Friends
Composer: F. F. Starlite, J. Vernon, R. Batmanglij, BJ Burton, A. Lammer, A. Rechtshaid, Cashmere Cat, B. Blanco
Album: Friends single
Label: Francis and the Lights
The Sampler: Blood Orange's Freetown Sound
Artist: Blood Orange
Songs: Augustine, By Ourselves, E.V.P., Hadron Collider, With Him, Hands Up, Juicy, Thank You
Composer: Hynes
Album: Freetown Sound
Label: Domino
Artist: Pearson Sound
Song: XLB
Composer: Pearson Sound
Album: XLB
Label: Hessle Audio
===5:11 PM. | Focus on Politics===
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Analysis of political issues presented by RNZ's Parliamentary team (RNZ)
===5:30 PM. | Tagata o te Moana===
Tagata o te Moana for 9 July 2016
Organisers of a week of reconciliation ceremonies held in Solomon Islands say the programme was a first step towards national healing; Campaign interference claims dog Nauru election; The Commonwealth Paliarmentary Association says ensuring young democracies follow the rule of law is a challenge; The election of the first woman district officer in Tongan local body politics has excited advocates about the prospects of more women featuring in future parliaments; Women MPs from New Zealand are helping boost women's representation in the Pacific through a new mentoring programme; Nearly half of the island countries and territories in the Pacific island region have brought in taxes to curb the islands' soaring rates of obesity and diabetes; Papua New Guinea and the Marshall Islands have received the worst ranking in a United States government report on human trafficking.
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Pacific news, features, interviews and music for all New Zealanders, giving an insight into the diverse cultures of the Pacific people (RNZI)
===6:06 PM. | Great Encounters===
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In-depth interviews selected from RNZ National's feature programmes during the week (RNZ)
===7:06 PM. | Saturday Night===
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Saturday nights on RNZ National is where Phil O'Brien plays the songs YOU want to hear. All music from 7 till midnight (RNZ)
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This playlist is a work in progress so keep checking for updates.
7 – 8pm
Joe Jackson - Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby
Julie London – Cry Me A River
Bonnie Raitt – Silver Lining
Bob Wallis - Come Along Please
Tom Jones – Green Green Grass Of Home
Manhattan Transfer - A Gal In Calico
Lonnie Mack - Why
Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn – Silver Threads And Golden Needles
Dave Clark Five - Everybody Knows
Clinton Ford – Goodbye Dolly Grey
Max Jury - Down By The Seaside
Kenny Ball - Midnight In Moscow
Stornoway - Josephine
Booker T and The M.G.'s - I Got A Woman
8 – 9pm
The Mills Brothers - Say Si Si
The Carpenters – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
Stan Freberg - The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
The Searchers – Needles And Pins
John McCormack - When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Rory Gallagher – Easy Come, Easy Go
Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years
Gerry Rafferty - Family Tree
Gene Vincent - Be Bop A Lula
The Andrews Sisters - The Strip Polka
The Swing Ninjas - My Belle
Ricky Nelson - Lonesome Town
The Band Of The Grenadier Guards – Imperial Echoes
9 – 10pm
Joe Ely - Coyotes Are Howlin'
Madrugada – Majesty
Cousin Joe Twoshacks – Be With You
Bronski Beat featuring Marc Almond - I Feel Love / Johnny Remember Me
Nick Drake - When The Day Is Done
Quincy Conserve – Alright In The City
The Rolling Stones – Time Waits For No One
Joni Mitchell - Overture / Cotton Avenue
Don McLean – Vincent
Phoenix Foundation – Hitchcock
Willy DeVille - I Call Your Name
10 – 11pm
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – I Shot The Sheriff
Dion - Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
Emerson, Lake and Palmer – The Great Gates Of Kiev
Bobby Bland - If Loving You Is Wrong
Jethro Tull – The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles
Dinah Washington - Making Whoopee
John Grant (feat. Tracey Thorne) - Disappointing
Queen - The Millionaire Waltz
Allen Toussaint and Elvis Costello - Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further?
11pm - Midnight. Late Night Phil.
We look and listen back to the week in music history.
Vintage Trouble - Blues Hand Me Down
Tiki Gods - Monte Carlo Nights
Michelle Branch (with Carlos Santana) - The Game Of Love
Jeremy Spencer - Red Hot Mama
Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger - I Can't Help Falling In Love With You
Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River
Santana - Soul Sacrifice
Ringo Starr - Drumming Is My Madness
Bob Dylan - Thunder On The Mountain
Joan Osborne and The Funk Brothers - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted?
The White Stripes - Jolene