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:
26 July 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Spectrum (RNZ); 1:15 From the World (BBC); 2:05 Hidden Treasures (RNZ) 3:05 Tall Half Backs by Graham Hutchins (1 of 15, RNZ); 3:30 An Author's View (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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RNZ's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:16 and 6:50 Business News 6:18 Pacific News 6:26 Rural News 6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers
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06:00
Top Stories for Tuesday 26 July 2016
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Calls for Trade Minister to quit as story keeps shifting, Germany reels from spate of violent attacks, Little - backflips over trade threats show govt's in disarray, Government's predator free NZ goal widely welcomed, Is the Crown doing enough to reduce Maori reoffending, Email scandal threatens to derail Democrats Congress.
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Duration: 28'13"
06:06
Sports News for 26 July 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'02"
06:20
Early Business News for 26 July 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'08"
06:25
Morning Rural News for 26 July 2016
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'04"
06:42
NZ First says Govt into the habit of changing its story
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New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says John Key should have been all over the possible trade retaliation by China over claims of surplus steel dumping.
Topics: politics
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Tags: China, steel dumping, Chinese steel
Duration: 2'19"
06:46
Germany reels from spate of violent attacks
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German authorities say a Syrian who blew himself up outside a music festival in Bavaria yesterday had pledged allegiance to Islamic State. Our correspondent in Germany, Ira Spitzer, says it was the latest in a spate of violent attacks by by men of Middle Eastern or Asian origin.
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Tags: Germany, Bavaria
Duration: 3'18"
06:50
Chinese bank eyes NZ expansion after cash boost
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One of China's largest banks is eyeing growth in New Zealand after giving its local branch a substantial capital injection.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: China
Duration: 2'19"
06:52
Buckley Systems expands to meeting growing demand
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Auckland-based technology manufacturing company, Buckley Systems, says it's rapidly expanding as international demand for its electro-magnet products grows.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'45"
06:54
Corporate governance codes can make compliance difficult
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The Institute of Directors and the law firm Chapman Tripp have teamed up to demonstrate how a plethora of corporate governance codes can make it difficult for listed companies to comply.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Chapman Tripp
Duration: 1'30"
06:56
Travel software startup looking for wholesale investors
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The developer of a social travel app, Gratia, is looking to raise up to half a million dollars to ready its sofware-as-a-service product for launch in New Zealand.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: travel apps, Gratia
Duration: 2'03"
06:56
Administrators appointed to Valleygirl and Temt
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Administrators have been appointed to the clothing firms Valleygirl and Temt.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 25"
06:57
Morning Markets Update for 26 July 2016
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Wall Street weaker as the Federal Reserve prepares to meet on interest rates.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'11"
07:06
Sports News for 26 July 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'23"
07:10
Calls for Trade Minister to quit as story keeps shifting
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The Minister of Trade's backflips over possible trade retaliation by China about claims of surplus steel dumping have led to calls for his resignation.
Topics: politics, economy, business
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Tags: trade, China, steel, Chinese steel
Duration: 3'12"
07:13
Little - backflips over trade threats show govt's in disarray
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Andrew Little says changing stories on Chinese trade threats show a government in disarray.
Topics: politics
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Tags: trade, China
Duration: 3'34"
07:16
Te Puea Marae winding down help for homeless
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Ten weeks after opening its doors, Te Puea marae is preparing to wind down its role in helping the homeless. We talk to the marae board chair Hurimoana Dennis.
Topics: politics, housing
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Tags: Te Puea marae
Duration: 4'44"
07:20
Government's predator free NZ goal widely welcomed
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The Government's drive to rid New Zealand of possums, stoats and rats by 2050 has been widely welcomed. But as our Politcial reporter Benedict Collins reports opposition parties are calling on the government to put its money where its mouth is.
Topics: politics, environment
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Tags: pests, rats, stoats, predator free
Duration: 2'56"
07:25
Predator eradication advocate delighted with new Govt policy
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Environmentalist Sir Rob Fenwick tells Morning Report he's delighted the Government has adopted a predator control policy he's advocated for years
Topics: environment
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Tags: pests, rats, stoats
Duration: 5'20"
07:35
Democratic National Convention off to a rocky start
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Hillary Clinton promises a unified Democratic Party convention in Philadelphia but as it's about to get under way, Bernie Sanders gets booed by his supporters when he tells them America must have a President Clinton, not a President Trump.
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Duration: 4'32"
07:40
First Union critical of detail around Countdown closures
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Thousands of supermarket staff face anxious wait to find out which Countdown stores will close. Yesterday the supermarket's Australian owner announced six New Zealand stores will close.
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Tags: Countdown, First Union
Duration: 4'06"
07:43
Retail analyst on Countdown's options
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Retail analyst Chris Wilkinson looks at Countdown's options but says they're unlikely to make details public while commercial negotiations are under way.
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Duration: 3'41"
07:48
NZ just a minnow among global steel ructions
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The ructions in New Zealand over steel supplies are nothing compared to what's happening overseas. Phil Pennington reports on international trade disputes, steel failures and job insecurity.
Topics: politics
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Tags: steel, trade
Duration: 3'53"
07:53
Is the Crown doing enough to reduce Maori reoffending
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The Waitangi Tribunal is being asked to decide whether the Corrections Department is doing enough to keep Maori out of jail. Sociologist Tracey McIntosh is among those who are making submissions.
Topics: te ao Maori, crime
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Tags: Waitangi Tribunal
Duration: 5'25"
08:07
Sports News for 26 July 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'45"
08:12
NZ China Council calls for cool heads over China trade stoush
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The NZ-China Council says there are no serious problems in the trade relationship but says the Government has not done a good job of handling talk of threats.
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Tags: trade, China
Duration: 4'48"
08:17
Three quarters of NZers on the job hunt
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Looking for a new job? You're not alone. Tom Furley looks at a study which shows that three out of four people are currently on the look out for a better role.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: empolyment, jobs
Duration: 3'11"
08:20
House prices forecast to fall as building activity takes off
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Economic forecastors Infometrics say a fall in house prices is coming, and is likely to be more severe in regional centres. Chief forecaster Gareth Kiernan explains the reasons.
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Tags: house prices
Duration: 5'00"
08:25
MPI itself concerned re kauri exports - evidence
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The High Court has heard evidence that the Ministry for Primary Industries had doubts about the legality of many of the swamp kauri exports it was approving from 2011 onwards.
Topics: politics, environment
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Tags: kauri, kauri exports, trade
Duration: 3'49"
08:27
Forest and Bird questions funding model for pest eradication
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Forest and Bird advocacy manager Kevin Hackwell tells Morning Report what his organisation makes of the Government's goal to eradicate rats, stoats, possums and feral cats from New Zealand over the next three decades.
Topics: environment
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Tags: Forest and Bird, pests predator free
Duration: 3'09"
08:35
Markets Update for 26 July 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 53"
08:37
Doing nothing on sea erosion not an option
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As the sea increasingly encroaches on their properties the residents of Haumoana fear that their time is running out. Our environment reporter Kate Gudsell visited the sea side settlement in Hawkes Bay.
Topics: environment
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: erosion
Duration: 2'58"
08:43
Email scandal threatens to derail Democrats Congress
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The Democratic Party convention gets under way without long time party leader Debbie Wasserman Shulz at the helm. Political columnist Brent Budowsky predicts party liberals will fall in behind Hillary Clinton despite their preference for Bernie Sanders.
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Tags: USA, USA Democratic Party
Duration: 4'38"
08:44
Doubts fall in interest rates will lower dollar
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There is doubt further cuts in interest rates by the Reserve Bank will do much to help lower the dollar. The central bank wants the currency to fall and the inflation rate to rise to 2 percent. Analysts say that's easier said than done as our Economics Correspondent Patrick O'Meara reports.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Reserve Bank cuts, interest rates, inflation
Duration: 2'44"
08:50
EQC gets 20 calls a day wanting work reviewed
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A landmark court settlement two months ago has led to a growing workload for the Earthquake Commission in Christchurch. Conan Young reports.
Topics: law
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Earthquake Commission, Canterbury earthquakes
Duration: 2'50"
08:55
Gene helps explain high levels of obesity in Samoa: study
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American researchers have discovered close to half of all Samoans have a gene that increases their risk of becoming obese. It's likely a results of the ancient migrations across the Pacific - those that survived were most likely to be those with the gene. Our Health Correspondent Karen Brown has been looking at the study.
Topics: Pacific, health
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Tags: Samoans, obesity, genetics
Duration: 3'45"
08:57
End of an era for Trans-Tasman Netball competition
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Last night's match was also the end of the Trans-Tasman competition as we know it. From next year, New Zealand and Australia will each run their own domestic competitions. Yvonne Willering is a former player and coach for the Silver Ferns.
Topics: sport
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Tags: netball, Trans-Tasman competition
Duration: 3'39"
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===9:06 AM. | Nine To Noon===
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Current affairs and topics of interest, including: 10:45 The Reading: When We Wake, by Karen Healy. Sixteen-year-old Tegan is happiest when playing the guitar, she's falling in love for the first time, and she's protesting the wrongs of the world. (Part 12 of 12, RNZ)
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09:08
The future of freedom camping
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With the pressure it is placing on communities around the country, including on sensitive sites, and the pollution left behind by freedom campers, a tourism consultant says local authorities need to innovate. David Hammond is a former Thames Coromandel chief executive and is now a tourism consultant, who convened the New Zealand Tourism Council Working Group on freedom camping.
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Tourist hotspots throughout the country have been hit hard by record levels of visitors to New Zealand, a tourism consultant says.
Tourism numbers have increased by 24 percent since 2013 and, in June 2016, reached 3,310,000.
And those camping away from paid accommodation are in the spotlight again, as some councils call for a national law to govern freedom camping.
An estimated 60,000 freedom campers visited the country annually over the last three years, according to the Ministry for Business Innovation and Employment.
In some areas, a lack of infrastructure such as car parks and toilet facilities means rubbish and human waste is being left in the open. There have also been reports of freedom campers disturbing breeding sites, and conflict with locals.
The Christchurch City Council is considering a total ban on freedom camping in vehicles without toilets.
While some councils had by-laws and could fine freedom campers if they breached rules, Grey District Mayor Tony Kokshoorn said this could be unfair on tourists who were unaware of what the rules were and more national consistency was needed.
Former Thames Coromandel chief executive and now tourism consultant David Hammond told Nine to Noon councils needed to be more innovative with how they paid for infrastructure and a national standard for freedom camping should be looked at.
Tourist numbers were at a peak and were last at this level during and after the 2011 Rugby World Cup. In the interim, councils had failed to invest in infrastructure, he said.
"We've been caught short," he said.
Alongside councils learning how to put pay-for-use models into their own area, there was a raft of work being done on everything from bed taxes and airport taxes to other models needed to fund infrastructure, he said.
"This comes into the debate about who should pay. We know we need more toilet and rubbish facilities. Should the ratepayer pay for it?
"Across the country, ratepayers on average are paying $37.90 already towards their tourism industry. In Tekapo, where it blew up last summer, ratepayers are paying over $80 per head of population. Should they be expected to pay more? No.''
He said local government needed to be more innovative, but it was not yet good at learning from other good working models.
Mr Hammond cited the example of Hot Water Beach, where the council put in a pay-for-use carpark.
"I know that was a fuss at an iconic site. It was put in for about $25,000 and in two and a half years it's raised $169,000. That money was ring-fenced and this year the council will be putting in very flash showers and toilets facilities for visitors out of money raised by the car parking.
"These are the type of innovations to off-set the cause for either government or ratepayers to pay that we need to learn from across the country.''
Topics: life and society, law, politics
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Tags: freedom camping, tourist, tourism, David Hammond
Duration: 23'10"
09:34
Mental capacity law - out of date?
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A two-year study has found that the country's law on whether people have the mental capacity to make decisions, needs an overhaul. Dunedin Barrister Alison Douglass has just published her findings on the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act, - the triple P law - which is three decades old. The law covers adults who have impaired decision-making ability through dementia, learning disabilities, mental illness or brain injury. The research - funded by the Law Foundation - says the law is out of date and unnecessarily complex, with no oversight of how it's implemented.
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A two-year study has found the law relating to people's mental capacity to make decisions needs an urgent overhaul.
The Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act covers adults with impaired decision-making ability because of dementia, learning disability, mental illness or brain injury.
It also covers powers of attorney and court appointments of welfare guardians.
Dunedin lawyer Alison Douglass, who has just published the findings of her comparative research, told Nine to Noon the law was passed in the 1980s in an era of de-institutionalisation and moves away from large psychiatric facilities.
Many people with mental disabilities were unable to consent or object to medical treatment, or to decisions around living arrangements and care, and the law urgently needed updating to protect their interests, she said.
The law was now out of date and too complex, she said.
"It was legislation of its time, really, but now there's quite a different social environment and we've got this explosion of eldercare and a real need to have a workable legal framework to respond," she said.
"We need a simpler, clearer law."
The rise of dementia and Alzheimer's disease with an ageing population meant there were more people with mental impairments in the community, Ms Douglass said.
The research was funded by the Law Foundation.
Read an executive summary of Ms Douglass' research (PDF, 196KB) or a full copy of the report (PDF, 5.8MB).
Topics: life and society, law
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Tags: law, legal, mental capacity, Alison Douglass, Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act, Law Foundation
Duration: 13'36"
09:48
US correspondent - Steve Almond
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Steve Almond on day one of the Democratic National Convention and also the resignation of the chair of the party's national committee. This follows leaked material which indicated the DNC tried to undermine Bernie Sanders' campaign.
Topics: politics
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Tags: USA, United States
Duration: 12'04"
10:09
Red Dust Over Shanghai
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Tyl von Randow takes us on a journey back in time to his childhood, as the son of the German Consul in Shanghai, growing up in the shadow of World War Two. His first book is Red Dust Over Shanghai, a Shanghai-New Zealand Memoir 1937-1954 takes the reader from China to the family's resettlement in New Zealand.
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It's a journey back in the time to the streets of Shanghai during the Japanese occupation of China.
Retired Auckland architect, Tyl von Randow's memoir Red Dust Over Shanghai tells of his childhood, and day-to-day life during the occupation, and of the post-war period of American rule and the Red Army's eventual triumph.
His book covers 1937-1954.
Tyl von Randow's family moved to New Zealand when he was a teenager, but his time in China is vivid in his memory.
It's been an interesting life, professionally as an architect, and also as a film and theatre actor.
Von Randow talks to Kathryn Ryan about his diverse experiences, and in particular as a German boy growing up in Shanghai in the shadow of World War Two.
He talks to Kathryn Ryan.
Topics: author interview, life and society
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Tags: Tyl von Randow, Shanghai childhood, memoir
Duration: 28'52"
10:38
Book review - Chasing a Dream: the Exploration of the Imaginary Pacific
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'Chasing a Dream: the Exploration of the Imaginary Pacific' by John Dunmore, reviewed by Quentin Johnson, published by Upstart Press.
Topics: books
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Duration: 5'56"
11:06
Business commentator - Rod Oram
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Rod Oram looks at Woolworths putting EziBuy up for sale, Z Energy offering instant discounts on petrol, and Contact Energy runs into legal problems trying to sell equipment from its Otahuhu power station.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 10'53"
11:19
Sophie Hardcastle on thriving with mental illness
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Sophie Hardcastle is a 22 year old Australian author, artist and surfer. She speaks at schools in NSW about her experiences with bipolar 1 disorder. Her memoir Running Like China was released last year, and her latest work is the novel, Breathing Under Water. For immediate help with issues like bipolar disorder contact Lifeline - 0800 543 354
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Sophie Hardcastle is a 22 year old Australian author, artist and surfer. She speaks at schools in NSW about her experiences with bipolar 1 disorder. Her memoir Running Like China was released last year, and her latest work is the novel, Breathing Under Water.
For immediate help with issues like bipolar disorder contact Lifeline - 0800 543 354
Topics: author interview
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Tags: Sophie Hardcastle, bipolor, mental illness
Duration: 28'23"
11:48
Media commentator - Gavin Ellis
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Gavin Ellis tackles the vexing question about whether media should identify mass shooters, when the killers are seeking fame and death.
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Duration: 11'50"
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09:05 The future of freedom camping
With the pressure it is placing on communities around the country, including on sensitive sites, and the pollution left behind by freedom campers, a tourism consultant says local authorities need to innovate. David Hammond is a former Thames Coromandel chief executive and is now a tourism consultant, who convened the New Zealand Tourism Council Working Group on freedom camping.
09:20 Mental capacity law out of date?
A two-year study has found that the country's law on whether people have the mental capacity to make decisions, needs an overhaul. Dunedin Barrister Alison Douglass has just published her findings on the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act, - the triple P law - which is three decades old. The law covers adults who have impaired decision-making ability through dementia, learning disabilities, mental illness or brain injury. The research - funded by the Law Foundation - says the law is out of date and unnecessarily complex, with no oversight of how it's implemented.
09:45 US correspondent
Steve Almond on day one of the Democratic National Convention and also the resignation of the chair of the party's national committee. This follows leaked material which indicated the DNC tried to undermine Bernie Sanders' campaign.
10:05 Red Dust Over Shanghai
Tyl von Randow takes us on a journey back in time to his childhood, as the son of the German Consul in Shanghai, growing up in the shadow of World War Two. His first book is Red Dust Over Shanghai, a Shanghai-New Zealand Memoir 1937-1954 takes the reader from China to the family's resettlement in New Zealand.
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10:35 Book review - Chasing a Dream: the Exploration of the Imaginary Pacific by John Dunmore
reviewed by Quentin Johnson, published by Upstart Press
10:45 The Reading
When We Wake by Karen Healy read by Francesca Emms (Part 12 of 12)
11:05 Business commentator
Rod Oram looks at Woolworths putting EziBuy up for sale, Z Energy offering instant discounts on petrol, and Contact Energy runs into legal problems trying to sell equipment from its Otahuhu power station.
11:20 Sophie Hardcastle on thriving with mental illness.
Sophie Hardcastle is a 22 year old Australian author, artist and surfer. She speaks at schools in NSW about her experiences with bipolar 1 disorder. Her memoir Running Like China was released last year, and her latest work is the novel, Breathing Under Water. For immediate help with issues like bipolar disorder contact Lifeline - 0800 543 354
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11:45 Media commentator
Gavin Ellis tackles the vexing question about whether media should identify mass shooters, when the killers are seeking fame and death.
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Artist: Oasis
Song: Songbird
Composer: Gallagher
Album: Heathen Chemistry
Label: Sony
Time: 9.32
Artist: The Clean
Song: Anything Could Happen
Composer: Kilgour/Kilgour/Scott
Album: Boodle Boodle Boodle EP
Label: Flying Nun
Time: 10.07
===Noon | Midday Report===
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RNZ news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including: 12:16 Business News 12:26 Sport 12:34 Rural News 12:43 Worldwatch
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12:00
Midday News for 26 July 2016
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A man stabs 15 disabled people to death in southwest Tokyo and uproar in Philadelphia at the US Democratic Party convention.
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Duration: 15'34"
12:17
Trade surplus in June
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As you may have heard in the news the country has posted a trade surplus, helped by higher record kiwifruit exports.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: trade surplus
Duration: 1'40"
12:19
Auckland office shortages causing anxiety for renters, buyers
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Investors and tenants are said to be increasingly anxious about the availability of office space in Auckland.
Topics: business
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: office space
Duration: 1'31"
12:21
Chinese bank looks to NZ retail operation
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One of the world's biggest banks has plans for a retail operation in New Zealand as it looks for growth.
Topics: business
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Tags: China, banks
Duration: 1'29"
12:23
Midday Markets for 26 July 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Andrew Cathie at Craigs Investment Partners.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'38"
12:26
Business briefs
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Westpac Bank is offering up to 250-million dollars worth of unsecured fixed rate 10-year notes, with discretion to accept an unlimited number of oversubscriptions.
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Duration: 24"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 26 July 2016
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A 2 metre 1 or six foot-seven Ukranian heavyweight stands in the way of Joseph Parker in his quest to be a world champion boxer.
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Duration: 2'36"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 26 July 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 7'46"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
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13:14
Predator Free NZ: Is it feasible?
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The government has announced it is joining the bold vision for a predator free country by 2050. But how realistic is it, and is the money promised going to be enough?
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The government has announced it is joining the bold vision for a predator free country by 2050. It will invest $28m over four years into projects that will remove rats, stoats and possums from around a million hectares of land and will contribute $1 for every $2 invested by councils and private groups.
But how realistic is it, and is the money promised going to be enough?
Our regular economics commentator, Geoff Simmons of the Morgan Foundation crunches the numbers.
Topics: environment
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Tags: predator free
Duration: 10'57"
13:25
Simon Marks at the Democrat Convention
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We cross live to correspondent, Simon Marks at the Democrats Convention in Philadelphia.
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We cross live to correspondent, Simon Marks at the Democrats Convention in Philadelphia
Topics: politics
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Tags: US, Democrats
Duration: 11'49"
13:36
Dan Slevin on movies about US political conventions
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With the Democratic Party's convention starting today and much of the world still reeling from the drama and comedy of the Republican event last week, Dan Slevin looks at how these uniquely American institutions have been represented on film.
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With the Democratic Party's convention starting today and much of the world still reeling from the drama and comedy of the Republican event last week, Dan Slevin looks at how these uniquely American institutions have been represented on film.
Topics: movies
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Duration: 9'59"
13:47
Favourite album
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Beatles - "Rubber Soul", chosen by Anna MacDonald.
Topics: music
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Duration: 12'37"
14:09
Book critic - Pip Adam
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Pip Adam on the joys of audio books and the best places to get them
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Pip Adam on the joys of audio books and the best places to get them
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Duration: 6'23"
14:16
Controlling predators without fences
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Under the Government's plan for a predator free New Zealand by 2050 is that by 2025 we have the ability to clear a 20 thousand hectare area of predators without needing protective fences. We speak to the team behind a predator research enclosure which is conducting trials on new ways of eradicating pests, including using scent as a lure. The Principle Scientist from Zero Invasive Predators, or ZIP, is Dr Elaine Murphy .
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Under the Government's plan for a predator-free New Zealand by 2050 is that by 2025 we have the ability to clear a 20,000-hectare area of predators without needing protective fences.
Related:
Predator Free NZ: Is it feasible?
Dr Elaine Murphy is head of Principle Scientist from Zero Invasive Predators, (or ZIP) – the team behind a predator research enclosure which is conducting trials on new ways of eradicating pests, including using scent as a lure.
She talks to Jesse Mulligan.
Read an edited excerpt of their conversation
How realistic is the government’s predator-free plan?
I think it’s entirely realistic, so at the moment we have been very good at sustained control. But the problem is that these pests just start coming back in so we need to get better at keeping them out. One way of doing that is using a fence, but what we are looking at is the concept of a virtual fence. So you clear the area of all the rats, stoats and possums and then you have various techniques to catch those animals as they come in. So at the moment we are trying various traps, and different lures and we are also going to be looking at deterrents. There’s a whole raft of things we can use.
How close do these traps need to be to each other to create such a barrier?
At the moment we are just experimenting with different things. So at the moment there is an area in the Marlborough sounds at Bottle Rock and the possum traps there are about 10 metres apart… But we are trialling different things to see if we can increase that spacing.
With the lures we have been trailing different social lures for rats and stoats, we tried food lures, but we found that stoat bedding was very attractive to other stoats – and it’s the same with rats.
How does it work with the bedding?
Stoats are very clean animals so they have these dens which they normally lie in with their prey – feathers from the birds they’ve been eating. And it gets that smell of a stoat itself and they are solitary, so if they start to smell another stoat they get quite curious as to who it is. So we have found that if you put another stoat bedding in a trap or a monitoring device another stoat will come to investigate it quite quickly.
Are stoats one of the hardest predators to catch?
They are really hard to catch, hey move over such a large area. A stoat home range might be 1-400 hectares. Which is quite low density but they cause so much damage and that’s the problem.
I was actually tracking stoats in Fiordland in the 1990s. We put a collar on a young stoat in December, and she was caught in January 65km away. So in one month she had travelled 65km in a straight line.
Whereas a rat can only travel about 50km maximum, right?
Well, a rat can weigh the same as a stoat, but its home range could only be quarter of a hectare. So in some ways, rats are a lot easier to work with and control because they move over such be small area. But there’s a lot more of them… and we’ve actually found that rats are talking to each other all the time in an ultrasonic way, and we have been looking at that try and develop ultrasonic lures.
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Duration: 9'21"
14:25
Great New Zealand Album: Traction by Supergroove
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Supergroove singer Karl Steven looks back on the making of their hit album, Traction.
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Supergroove were a massive home grown success story when the rock band came out and hit number one with their debut album Traction in 1994.
Consisting of seven band members the group was known for their dynamic live performances. They went their separate ways in 1997.
To talk about Traction and his favourite songs from it, Supergroove lead singer Karl Steven joined Jesse in the Auckland studio
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Duration: 34'25"
15:09
The House that Jack Ma Built
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There was a time when one of the richest men in China couldn't even get a job at Kentucky fried chicken. 'Jack' Ma also failed his university exam, twice.
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There was a time when one of the richest men in China couldn't even get a job at Kentucky Fried Chicken. 'Jack' Ma also failed his university exam, twice. But failure is often the fuel for entrepreneurs and it propelled Ma to set up his own business.
Alibaba is now a multi billion dollar e-commerce company.
Beijing based investment banker Duncan Clark has watched Ma's rise firsthand. His new book is called Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built.
It's not just the story of one man's accomplishments, it is the story of entrepreneurship and the silicon valley of China.
Read an edited excerpt from the interview below:
Was there anything online in China in 1995?
Well it turned out the very first people joining the internet were academics in physics in Beijing, connecting with Stanford University. But as we know, the internet started in the U.S. as a defense project and then a science project. It took a few years before the people of China were able to log on. Jack already had that vision, that it would have an impact. He had to try to convince people to send him money so he could advertise on the web that they couldn’t even access in China to bring them foreign clients. It was a very strong international vision that he had, always.
Is there anything like Alibaba in the West? I have been telling people it is like the Amazon of China, but that is not strictly true, is it?
It’s more than the Amazon of China. We think of Amazon as e-commerce in the West, it pioneered that. I think it is important to remember that there were never really efficient offline retailers. It’s so much more in China because it has brought efficiency, customer choice and trust that people had never experienced with the state-owned department stores and things like that. It has more of an emotional meaning I think, Alibaba, and also some of the other Chinese internet companies; they’re more pervasive in people’s lives than even some of the online companies that we use in the West.
Did China leap-frog brick-and-mortar retail shopping?
Yeah, I think you can say that. If you think about shops, they’re only open for x amount of hours per day and they’re closed for lunch sometimes (or at least in Paris they are) and they have inventory… in a perfect world, the internet is going to be more efficient. But in China there wasn’t that much to disrupt because people, not just in the big cities but in the smaller cities, they didn’t really have much choice and now they have the world at their fingertips.
Did SARS play some part in driving Chinese online to do their shopping?
It did actually. It turned out that when Alibaba launched its consumer e-commerce business it was just around the time of SARS in 2003. One, their programmers were stuck in an apartment. They couldn’t leave so they were just coding during that time because of the quarantine. But two, a lot of other people in China were stuck at home and were starting to get broadband connections to get news and music and then eventually buy things online. Ironically, by forcing people into their homes, SARS woke them up to the power of the internet and that just happened to coincide with the launch of that consumer e-commerce business.
Jack Ma talks about “focussing on the shrimp”. What does that mean apart from being just another Forrest Gump reference?
Yeah, exactly, he loves his Forrest Gump. He’s really talking about helping the ‘SMEs’, the small and medium-sized enterprises, get online. That’s really his vision from the beginning. Even before he founded Alibaba, he was helping those small companies in his home province of Zhejiang. He had a translation business and he was helping them translate the wares that they had and then later on put them online. Still to this day he really focuses on helping the small businesses reach the big, global markets and also the emerging Chinese consumer markets. Today the big market is the Chinese. Consumers themselves now can connect to a lot of these small merchants online. There is one website that is called Taobao, which is a big part of Alibaba, which has 10 million merchants selling online. A lot of people’s livelihoods actually depend on Alibaba, not just to buy things, but to sell.
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Duration: 19'51"
15:45
The Panel Pre-Show
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21:06
Project Activate - swimming in a flume
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Project Activate involved a group of 12-year-old Pacific Island students learning about healthy living and science - and it included a swim in a research flume pool.
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Take a bunch of Pacific Island students, add a nutrition expert and a physical education researcher and you have Project Activate.
The aim of Project Activate, which ran for a week during the school holidays, is to enthuse the 12-year-olds about healthy living and about science.
Finau Taungapeau is health promotion team leader at the Pacific Trust Otago, she says Project Activate has a couple of aims.
“We want to motivate and encourage them to take up science at school, but also at the same time we’re looking at healthy living, healthy eating and being active and fit.”
Nutrition expert Rebecca Wilson says the students are at the age where they’re starting to choose subjects, and also forming habits to take through their lifetime.
"This is a good time to influence them.”
Finau says the role of the Pacific Trust Otago is to get our people to be healthy, and also to try to excel in whatever subjects they want to do.
As well as cooking workshops, a sports tournament, the students get to experience different exercise equipment at the School of Physical Education at the University of Otago.
Scientist Jim Cotter led the exercise component of the Project, which included a swimming challenge in the flume, a circulating water channel is the only one of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.
The flume is 10 metres long and contains180 tonnes of water, which Jim says: “is a fair bit to get cranking around, essentially in a big loop".
He says the purpose of the week is to show the students how different forms of exercise can be valuable for heart health, and are all different.
He also says it’s important for them to experience how it feels to get their heart rate working at different levels of exertion.
“If they measure their heart rate while they’re doing these different forms of exercise then, if they want to, they can have some idea as to how hard they working their heart when they’re swimming, or cycling or running.”
“We’re also doing basketball, and hopefully what they’ll find there is their heart rate can be really high and they can get a really good cardiovascular workout doing a team game, yet they’re not even thinking about it.”
He points out that swimming, along with rowing, is a sport that is very good at oxygenating the brain, as it uses arms as well as legs.
Jim Cotter has previously been on Our Changing World talking about heat, exercise and heart health.
Topics: science, health, Pacific, life and society
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Duration: 11'17"
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1:10 First song
1:15 Predator Free NZ: Is it feasible?
The government has announced it is joining the bold vision for a predator free country by 2050. It will invest $28m over four years into projects that will remove rats, stoats and possums from around a million hectares of land and will contribute $1 for every $2 invested by councils and private groups.
But how realistic is it, and is the money promised going to be enough?
Our regular economics commentator, Geoff Simmons of the Morgan Foundation crunches the numbers.
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1:25 Simon Marks at the Democrat Convention
We cross live to correspondent, Simon Marks at the Democrats Convention in Philadelphia
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1:35 Dan Slevin on movies about US political conventions
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With the Democratic Party's convention starting today and much of the world still reeling from the drama and comedy of the Republican event last week, Dan Slevin looks at how these uniquely American institutions have been represented on film.
1:40 Favourite album
2:10 Controlling predators without fences
Under the Government's plan for a predator free New Zealand by 2050 is that by 2025 we have the ability to clear a 20 thousand hectare area of predators without needing protective fences.
We speak to the team behind a predator research enclosure which is conducting trials on new ways of eradicating pests, including using scent as a lure
The Principle Scientist from Zero Invasive Predators, or ZIP, is Dr Elaine Murphy .
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2:20 Books with Pip Adam
2:30 Great New Zealand Album: Traction by Supergroove
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Supergroove were a massive home grown success story when the rock band came out and hit number one with their debut album Traction in 1994.
Consisting of seven band members the group was known for their dynamic live performances. They went their separate ways in 1997.
To talk about Traction and his favourite songs from it, Supergroove lead singer Karl Stevens joins Jesse in the Auckland studio
3:10 The House that Jack Ma Built
There was a time when one of the richest men in China couldn't even get a job at Kentucky fried chicken. 'Jack' Ma also failed his university exam, twice. But failure is often the fuel for entrepreneurs and it propelled ma to set up his own business.
Alibaba is now a multi billion dollar e-commerce company.
Beijing based investment banker Duncan Clark has watched Ma's rise firsthand. His new book is called Alibaba: The house that Jack Ma Built.
It's not just the story of one man's accomplishments, it is the story of entrepreneurship and the silicon valley of China
3:30 Science and environment stories
Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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The Panel Pre-Show
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16:03
The Panel with Neil Miller and Chris Gallavin (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Neil Miller and Chris Gallavin have been up to. NPR bureau chief Karen Kasler discusses the first day of the US Democrat's convention. Most Councils are backing a proposal to bring back bottle refunds.
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Duration: 25'42"
16:05
The Panel with Neil Miller and Chris Gallavin (Part 2)
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Do most people want to feel important? What the Panelists Neil Miller and Chris Gallavin have been thinking about. Dr Rawiri Taonui discusses the success of various anti child abuse initiatives. The budget for combatting rats and stoats and other pests has been tripled.
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16:07
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16:11
Democrats National Convention day 1
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NPR bureau chief Karen Kasler discusses the first day of the US Democrat's convention.
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Duration: 17'06"
16:29
The return of cash for recycling?
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Most Councils are backing a proposal to bring back bottle refunds.
Topics: environment, politics
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Duration: 3'54"
16:35
Not seeking limelight
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Do most people want to feel important?
Topics: movies
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Duration: 6'42"
16:41
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What the Panelists Neil Miller and Chris Gallavin have been thinking about.
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16:47
Dobbing in child abusers for payment
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Dr Rawiri Taonui discusses the success of various anti child abuse initiatives.
Topics: crime
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Duration: 9'13"
16:57
Predator free
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The budget for combatting rats and stoats and other pests has been tripled.
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Duration: 2'04"
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===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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The Panel Pre-Show
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'08"
16:03
The Panel with Neil Miller and Chris Gallavin (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Neil Miller and Chris Gallavin have been up to. NPR bureau chief Karen Kasler discusses the first day of the US Democrat's convention. Most Councils are backing a proposal to bring back bottle refunds.
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Duration: 25'42"
16:05
The Panel with Neil Miller and Chris Gallavin (Part 2)
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Do most people want to feel important? What the Panelists Neil Miller and Chris Gallavin have been thinking about. Dr Rawiri Taonui discusses the success of various anti child abuse initiatives. The budget for combatting rats and stoats and other pests has been tripled.
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Duration: 25'05"
16:07
Panel Intro
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Duration: 4'20"
16:11
Democrats National Convention day 1
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NPR bureau chief Karen Kasler discusses the first day of the US Democrat's convention.
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Duration: 17'06"
16:29
The return of cash for recycling?
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Most Councils are backing a proposal to bring back bottle refunds.
Topics: environment, politics
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Duration: 3'54"
16:35
Not seeking limelight
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Do most people want to feel important?
Topics: movies
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Duration: 6'42"
16:41
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Neil Miller and Chris Gallavin have been thinking about.
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Duration: 6'29"
16:47
Dobbing in child abusers for payment
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Dr Rawiri Taonui discusses the success of various anti child abuse initiatives.
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Duration: 9'13"
16:57
Predator free
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The budget for combatting rats and stoats and other pests has been tripled.
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Duration: 2'04"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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Checkpoint with John Campbell, Tuesday 26 July 2016
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Watch Tuesday's full show here.
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17:08
Sanders endorses Clinton in DNC speech
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To applause from many and booing from some, former Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders finally delivered a passionate endorsement of Hillary Clinton and urged supporters to vote for her.
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Tags: USA, Democratic National Convention
Duration: 1'51"
17:10
Critical acclaim for FLOTUS' speech
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First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a speech on the first day of the Democratic National Convention that pundits say will replayed, quoted and anthologised for years to come.
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Duration: 6'06"
17:16
Knife attack kills 19 at hospital near Tokyo
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The worst mass murder in Japan in 70 years has left 19 people dead and 45 injured at a facility for the disabled near Tokyo. Washington Post correspondent Anna Fifield joins Checkpoint.
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Duration: 3'06"
17:19
Where are the affordable homes within SHAs?
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Special Housing Areas are blocks of land set aside by local and central government - but where are the affordable homes that their developers are legally bound to provide?
Topics: housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: SHA, affordable housing
Duration: 4'41"
17:24
Are SHAs helping first home buyers?
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First Home Buyers spokesperson Lesley Harris joins Checkpoint to discuss the impact SHAs had had on people hoping to buy their first homes.
Topics: housing
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Tags: SHAs
Duration: 2'01"
17:26
Building in Browns Bay
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Browns Bay, on the North Shore, is abuzz with building - but not in its Special Housing Area. Economist Donal Curtin joins Checkpoint.
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Duration: 2'07"
17:29
No affordable housing in Huapai
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Huapai, the largest Special Housing Area in the Auckland region, has no homes completed in that designated affordable price range.
Topics: housing
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Duration: 1'18"
17:32
Evening business for 26 July 2016
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News from the business sector, including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'40"
17:35
Nick Smith in the Auckland studio
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The Building and Housing Minister Nick Smith joins John Campbell live in the Auckland studio.
Topics: politics, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: affordable housing
Duration: 12'07"
17:48
Supermarket closure impacts small communities
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Hauraki district mayor John Tregidga says supermarket giant Progressive Enterprises' move to close supermarkets has a big impact on small communities with job losses and the risk of prices rising.
Topics: life and society, business
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Duration: 3'34"
17:50
Chinese student numbers bounce back
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The number of study visas granted to Chinese students has topped 30,000 for the first time in a decade, following several years of recovery from a big fall in the mid 2000s.
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Duration: 2'46"
17:53
Helicopter joins search for missing Upper Hutt woman
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A private helicopter company has joined a huge community-led search for the missing Upper Hutt woman Mary Berrington.
Topics: life and society
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: search, helicopter, Upper Hutt
Duration: 2'37"
17:56
Changes needed for public notices
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A failure by a Palmerston North newspaper to print a public notice has brought into sharp focus the need for councils to be more proactive about getting information to the public.
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Duration: 3'21"
18:08
First day of DNC held in Philadelphia
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At the DNC today, all of the factions of the party came together to hear their leaders: First Lady Michelle Obama, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders.
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Duration: 6'18"
18:15
19 dead in Japanese mass murder
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The worst mass murder in Japan in 70 years has left 19 people dead and 45 injured at a facility for the disabled near Tokyo.
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Duration: 1'22"
18:16
Sweet reward offered for stolen hives
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A honey company is hoping a $20,000 reward will lead to the recovery of 200 beehives stolen from the Topuni Forest in Northland a fortnight ago.
Topics: crime, food
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Duration: 3'44"
18:20
Big avalanche in Remarkables' back country
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Skiers and snowboarders are welcoming the latest snow dump brought by the recent cold snap but it has raised the risk of avalanches, particularly for those wanting to go off piste.
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Duration: 2'50"
18:23
More needed to prevent Maori reoffending, say iwi
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Members Ngati Kahungunu iwi say the Corrections department is not doing enough to stop Maori inmates from reoffending when they are released.
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Duration: 2'03"
18:25
Ukranian mountain stands in way of Parker
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Six foot seven Alexander Dimintrenko has been confirmed as Joseph Parker's next opponent as he prepares for his world championship bout.
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Duration: 1'50"
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Our Own Odysseys - A Journey Man
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Ray Trembath joined the New Zealand Army in 1972 as an Infantry soldier, leaving in the mid 80's going to South Africa to join the army there. Unable to enlist he then went to France and joined the French Foreign Legion where he completed his 5 years of service.
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Duration: 18'32"
20:12
Nights' Pundit - New Zealand History
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Senior Historian for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage Gavin McLean on the history of publishing and bookselling in NZ.
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Duration: 18'56"
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7:12 Our Own Odysseys - A Journey Man
Ray Trembath joined the New Zealand Army in 1972 as an Infantry soldier, leaving in the mid 80's going to South Africa to join the army there. Unable to enlist he then went to France and joined the French Foreign Legion where he completed his 5 years of service.
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7:30 The Sampler
Nick Bollinger reviews new releases after long absences from DJ Shadow and The Avalanches; an album of bittersweet longing from Lawrence Arabia and a set of local blues from King Leo.
8:12 Nights' Pundit - New Zealand History
Senior Historian for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage Gavin McLean on the history of publishing and bookselling in NZ.
8:30 Window on the World
Rio Tempest - On the eve of the Olympics, Shakespeare's mix of sex, politics and intrigue plays out in Rio. 400 years after Shakespeare's death, his plays have come to Brazil and are being played to packed houses in front of enthralled audiences who respond instinctively to their passionate mix of political corruption, violence, sex, death and the supernatural. A unique collaboration between international directors, academics and Brazilian actors has brought one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, The Tempest - in which he writes about the 'brave new world' of the Americas - to Rio de Janeiro. Writer and historian Jerry Brotton finds that the Brazilian world of carnival proves to be not so far away from the popular festival world of Elizabethan England, and sees how Shakespeare has been used by Brazilians to understand everything from their independence to military dictatorship and even the nation's celebrated television soap operas.
9:07 Tuesday Feature
Beyond Binary - Communities of intersex, genderqueer and bi-gender people are attempting to re-define gender identity, rejecting the categories of man, woman and transgender. It creates deep challenges for law, society, and conventional concepts about the very nature of gender. Will public opinion and legislation accommodate this new thinking, as many nations have accepted homosexuality? Or is defying the notion of gender simply too radical an idea?
10:17 Late Edition
A roundup of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International.
11:07 At the Eleventh Hour
Tonight in WOMAD - The World's Festival 2016 we feature a live performance from The Jerry Cans, a 5 piece band who live in the remote region of Northern Canada bordering the Arctic Circle. Their songs are performed in English and their indigenous language of Inuktitut.
===7:35 PM. | The Sampler===
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Absolute Truth by Lawrence Arabia
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Nick Bollinger reviews an album of bittersweet longing from Lawrence Arabia.
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Nick Bollinger reviews an album of bittersweet longing from Lawrence Arabia.
Nostalgia can be defined as a longing for a time in one’s past, and a key to those feelings can be hearing the music one grew up with. But can music evoke nostalgia even if you’ve never heard it before? Here’s an album that made me feel nostalgic almost from the opening notes.
To start with, the past is the actual subject of more than a few of the songs. There’s a voice Lawrence Arabia (recording name of James Milne) establishes early on, and which recurs throughout the ten tracks, who is almost like a narrator or character in a book. That voice is male, middle-class, suburban, of indeterminate age, but old enough to look back on his younger self, alternately wistful and the rueful. (Definitive song title: ‘What Became Of That Angry Young Man?’)
The sense of longing that is not just transmitted by the words but the music as well. And yet the period evoked is oddly non-specific. Milne hasn’t simply dialled up some retro sounds to signal the past. The longing seems to be embedded in the chord sequences, the plaintive rising of the melodies, the stoic ache of Milne’s voice.
Of course it’s pretty clear that Milne does have his favourite musical phases, which he happily nods to at different points during the album. There’s a flavour of disco-era-‘Listen To What The Man Said’-McCartney about ‘Another Country’ (this is, after all, a guy who once fronted a Paul McCartney tribute band.)
Again, though, it’s some alchemy that occurs between the music and the wry reflection of the lyrics that creates the sense of nostalgia. And it doesn’t even seem to matter whether we feel nostalgic about the same things as Milne. It’s the longing of the character he’s created here that we experience as listeners.
Milne co-produced the album with Mike Fabulous of The Black Seeds. The pair have worked together before, on the Fabulous/Arabia album Unlimited Buffet, and this new disc shares some of that album’s sonic furnishings. There are weird little dub sounds that pop up here and there, that push things further away from 60s retro.
Absolute Truth finds Milne refining his craft in ever more subtle ways. The melodies are daring and lovely, the lyrics bittersweet. And the whole thing gives me a sense of yearning for the past – if not my own, then somebody’s.
Absolute Truth is available on Flying Nun Records.
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Duration: 8'47"
19:30
The Sampler for 26 July
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In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger reviews new releases after long absences from DJ Shadow and The Avalanches; an album of bittersweet longing from Lawrence Arabia and a set of local blues from King Leo.
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In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger reviews new releases after long absences from DJ Shadow and The Avalanches; an album of bittersweet longing from Lawrence Arabia and a set of local blues from King Leo.
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Duration: 29'56"
19:30
Wildflower by Avalanches
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Nick Bollinger reviews the new release after a long absence from The Avalanches.
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Nick Bollinger reviews the new release after a long absence from The Avalanches.
It’s so long since Since I Left You - The Avalanches’ attention-grabbing 2001 debut – and there has been so little heard since from the Melbourne-based outfit other than occasional promises that ‘it won’t be long now!’ – that it’s hard to imagine how many different techniques were tried and abandoned, new directions taken and reversed, before they arrived at this. Because the results make it seem like it was all just one summer’s fun.
Wildflower is the suitably free-spirited, nature-evoking title for a set that might have been tailored as the soundtrack to a particularly psychedelic season.
There’s something of the early De La Soul’s daisy age philosophy about this music, and the way it filters all kinds of sounds – often breezy-bordering-on- cheesy - through a hip-hop sensibility.
It’s evident right from the first few tracks that, unlike DJ Shadow, the Avalanches have not forsaken their practice of collaging old vinyl. There seem to be layers upon layers of samples here. And it’s not necessarily some rare rediscovered funk sides; often it’s very mainstream and familiar records, recontextualised in surprising ways, like the way a fragment of Paul McCartney’s ‘Uncle Albert’ seems to rise to the surface from the watery depths of a track they call ‘Living Underwater’.
Bronx hip-hoppers Camp Lo provide the vocal framing around a cute sample from the Honey Cone’s soul classic ‘Want Ads’ on ‘Because I’m Me’. Rappers Danny Brown and MF Doom work around a prominent sample of the great Calypsonian Wilmouth Houdini and his 1940s homage to ‘Frankie Sinatra’. And on ‘The Noisy Eater’ veteran rapper Biz Markie, whose culinary daydreams are briefly interrupted by what sounds like a chorus of children singing ‘Come Together’.
The Beatle fragments are somehow appropriate. The Avalanches’ Wildflower might be the product of some parallel universe Summer Of Love, one where no one ever returned to reality long enough to produce a Sgt. Pepper or Beach Boys’ Smile; but rather kept taking whatever they were taking, watching the colours and patterns change, grooving on whatever music happened to be playing, and occasionally joining in.
Songs featured: Subways, Because I’m Me, Frankie Sinatra, Livin’ Underwater, The Noisy Eater.
Wildflower is available on Modular Recordings.
Topics: music
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Tags: music, music review, avalanches
Duration: 6'59"
19:30
The Mountain Will Fall by DJ Shadow
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Nick Bollinger samples the new release from DJ Shadow.
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Nick Bollinger samples the new release from DJ Shadow.
Identifying who it was that figured out old records could be the basis of new ones, is like arguing over who invented rock’n’roll. Still, if you are looking for landmarks in the evolution of sample-based music – records effectively made from the parts other records - there are a couple of albums that always rear their heads. One is DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing – the debut of the Californian deejay/producer Josh Davis, which has just passed its 20th anniversary.
In theory it is something of a departure. Read about its making and you’ll learn that it involved Davis putting aside the turntables and MPC sampler that had been the chief tools of Endtroducing and most of his subsequent work, in favour of Ableton Live, a software sequencer with instrument sounds, designed for live performance.
When you consider that Endtroducing was noted in the Guinness Book of Records as the First Completely Sampled Album, it’s easier to appreciate what a different approach Davis has taken in a track like ‘California’: a piece of moody electronica, which cycles through a series of chords while a synthesiser tone sinks ominously over a brittle machine-driven drum pattern. The only thing in that track I assume comes from Davis’s legendary library of 60,000 albums is the voice that occasionally intones the name of his home state.
Not that Shadow couldn’t be just as abstract as this when he was cutting up old vinyl. In fact, there are tracks here that might be more traditional than anything on Endtroducing. Like ‘The Sideshow’ – featuring little-known rapper Ernie Fresh – in which Davis’s turntables seem once again to be the main instrument. Rappers and singers have never been a huge component of Shadow’s records, and they are not really this time either, though one of the album’s liveliest moments is a cameo on ‘Nobody Speak’ from rappers Killer Mike and El-P of Run The Jewels.
One intriguing collaboration is ‘Bergschrund’, the single track here to feature the German electronic composer Nils Frahm. The two meet in a place that is perhaps closer to Frahm’s territory than Shadow’s, but breaks new ground for both. But mostly The Mountain Will Fall is moodier and darker than that; the palette is established right from the beginning with the album’s glacial title track and culminates in a couple of seriously elegiac pieces that come towards the album’s conclusion, with the ominous titles ‘Ghost Town’ and ‘Suicide Pact’.
DJ Shadow’s The Mountain Will Fall doesn’t have the kind of epochal resonance Endtroducing did, nor does it have its immediate appeal, or even its cohesiveness. Still it shows Josh Davis as a music maker who remains vital and engaged, whatever tools he might be using.
Songs featured: The Mountain Will Fall, California, Suicide Pact, The Sideshow, Nobody Speak.
The Mountain Will Fall is available on Mass Appeal Records.
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Tags: music, music review, DJ Shadow
Duration: 6'53"
19:30
Revival by King Leo
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Nick Bollinger checks a set of local blues from King Leo.
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Nick Bollinger checks a set of local blues from King Leo.
To repeat an often-quoted maxim, the blues roll on. And that’s not just in Mississippi or Chicago, but everywhere – here included.
King Leo is the performing name of Virginia-born, Dunedin-based musician Leo LaDell. And he’s just made one of the most persuasive local blues albums I’ve heard in a very long time. He’s one of those triple-if-not-quintuple threats; a singer, guitarist, songwriter - and harmonica and keyboard player - all of which he does excellently. He is master of this kind of relaxed front-porch picking, but he also has a fine band – complete with horn section – and they can drive the blues in a more urban direction when they need to.
While always identifiably blues, LaDell’s songs roam around the genre, and he’s not afraid to mix styles, either; in fact, one of the joys of this album is the unexpected intersections – like the steel guitar of producer John Egenes, which sends the Louisiana-style ‘Back It Off’ on a detour through Nashville.
Another ingredient LaDell adds to his blues is gospel. It’s hinted at in the album’s title, Revival, as well as its wonderful woodblock artwork. And it suits the tenor of his lyrics, which defy the blues stereotype of drinking-and-cheating-and-she-done-me-wrong-songs. LaDell’s songs are heartfelt and personal, and while secular, sometimes employ religious metaphors to carry a general message of being kind to others, and grateful for small mercies. King Leo’s Revival is a lovely album, which I’d recommend to anyone with a taste for blues of almost any kind. And it’s on vinyl as well as CD, and the vinyl sounds – feels and looks – particularly good.
Songs featured: It’ll Be Alright, You Were Taught, Back It Off, Heaven’s Right Here.
Revival is an independent release.
Topics: music
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Tags: music, music review, King Leo
Duration: 7'26"
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