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:
13 September 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Tuesday Special (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (RNZ); 2:05 David Bowie - Part 3: All the Glitters (RNZ) 3:05 Classical Music by Joy Cowley read by Peta Rutter (7 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 13 September 2016
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Police warn Indian students are being targetted by thieves using sex to extort money from them. A week long ceasefire begins in Syria. We look at whether white flight is really a problem for South Auckland schools? We cross to New York for the latest on the plunge in global markets.
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Duration: 25'15"
06:05
Sports News for 13 September 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'53"
06:08
Syria ceasefire begins
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As the ceasefire in Syria begins, we speak to the Carnegie Middle East Centre on the prospects for its success.
Topics: conflict
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Tags: ceasefire, Syria
Duration: 2'59"
06:13
Residents welcome Havelock North water inquiry
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The Government finalises details of its inquiry into Havelock North's water crisis, five weeks on from the first gastro outbreak. The inquiry will focus on the outbreak and the council's response, not liability.
Topics: health, business, politics
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Havelock North, gastro, Inquiry, water
Duration: 2'46"
06:15
New Zealand prepares to mark Battle of Somme
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New Zealand is preparing this week to mark its part in the first major battle on the Western Front in the First World War, the Battle of the Somme 100 years ago.
Topics: conflict, defence force
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Tags: Thiepval memorial, WW1
Duration: 3'25"
06:19
Early Business News for 13 September 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Federal Reserve, manpower survey, employment
Duration: 1'47"
06:26
Morning Rural News for 13 September 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions: Hawkes Bay, Waikato
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Duration: 4'22"
06:38
Indian students victim of sex extortion
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Indian foreign students are being robbed and blackmailed by criminals who use sex to trick them into compromising situations.
Topics: education, crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Indian students, Blackmail, sex
Duration: 1'44"
06:44
Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron to leave politics
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David Cameron is leaving parliament altogether, just three months after stepping down as the Prime Minister of Great Britain. His resignation will spark a by-election in his electorate of Witney.
Topics: politics
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Tags: David Cameron, Britain, parliament, Brexit
Duration: 2'53"
06:49
Sharemarket correction points to reorientation
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The current shakeout in sharemarkets around the world may lead to a rethink of investment targets.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Federal Reserve, utility stocks, NZX-50
Duration: 1'09"
06:50
More NZ companies looking to hire staff in final quarter
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The outlook for the labour market is more optimistic according to a new survey.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: manpower survey, employment
Duration: 59"
06:52
Proposed tax changes lack flexibility for young companies
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The industry supporting start-up and developing companies is concerned that plans to simplify employee share schemes lack the flexibility required to foster innovation and growth.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: tax, share schemes
Duration: 2'00"
06:54
Goodman Property says it's time to sell non-core assetts
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Industrial and retail property investor, Goodman Property Trust, says it's a good time to be selling non-core assets and reducing debt, ahead of a property market correction that's sure to come at some point.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: debt, market correction, cash, property
Duration: 1'22"
06:56
Start-up green-tech manufacturer looking for investors
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A start-up company, aiming to make high-tech consumer products that are built to last, is looking for investors keen to help bring its ideas to market.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: investment, Modular Poject, environmentally friendly
Duration: 1'40"
06:58
Morning Markets for 13 September 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 51"
07:05
Sports News for 13 September 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'02"
07:05
Sports News for 13 September 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'02"
07:09
Indian students victim of sex extortion
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Police in South Auckland are warning of an emerging trend of criminals using sex to blackmail Indian male students to rob them.
Topics: education, crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Indian students, sex, Blackmail
Duration: 2'58"
07:13
Cautious optimism for success of Syria's ceasefire
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The ceasefire in Syria has begun, as President Bashar al-Assad vows to retake every piece of land from opposition forces and rebuild the country.
Topics: conflict
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Tags: USA, Russia, Syria, ceasefire
Duration: 6'02"
07:20
White parents abandon South Auckland schools
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Figures show many white parents are happy to live in south Auckland but don't want their children to go to school there.
Topics: education, inequality
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: students, Pakeha, high schools
Duration: 4'19"
07:25
Global markets starting to recover after losses overnight
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We cross to Wall Street after another tough morning on the stock exchange. At one point the British FTSE was losing a billion pounds a minute. But the markets are now recovering.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: stock markets, USA, Federal Reserve, Britain, FTSE
Duration: 3'11"
07:25
Pneumonia bout causes Hillary Clinton to rethink schedule
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US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's ill health has forced her to cancel today's planned trip to California...and now Donald Trump promises to release his health records.
Topics: politics
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Tags: USA Elections, health, pneumonia, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
Duration: 2'53"
07:35
Ecologist say ignoring land use effects on water fatal flaw
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A freshwater ecologist says avoiding the effects of dairy farming on water quality could be a fatal flaw of the inquiry into the Havelock North water crisis.
Topics: environment, farming, health
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Court of Appeal, contamination, water, Campylobacter
Duration: 3'54"
07:39
Act hits out at National's 'socialist streak'
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The Government's coalition partner Act says the John Key led National Government is no longer hiding its socialist streak - it's bragging about it.
Topics: politics
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Tags: ACT, tax, socialism, National
Duration: 4'31"
07:43
Jordan Williams defended by his mother in Colin Craig trial
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Jordan Williams' mother tearfully defends his reputation during the Colin Craig defamation trial.
Topics: law, politics
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Tags: High Court, defamation, Colin Craig
Duration: 2'44"
07:46
Warriors dump head coach Andrew McFadden
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The New Zealand Warriors head coach Andrew McFadden has lost his job and Kiwis coach Stephen Kearney has been signed on to lead the team.
Topics: sport
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Tags: New Zealand Warriors, Stephen Kearney, Andrew McFadden
Duration: 3'34"
07:50
More records fall in the pool at Rio Paralympics
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More records have fallen at the Paralympic pool in Rio overnight. Christchurch swimmer Sophie Pascoe set a new Paralympic record of 1 minute 4.37 seconds in the 100 metre butterfly heat.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Rio 2016 Paralympics, Sophie Pascoe
Duration: 3'48"
07:56
PM reacts to arrests in Fiji
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The Prime Minister has arrived home from the Pacific Islands Forum. We ask him about the big Pacific news - the arrest of six senior opposition leaders in Fiji.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Pacific Islands Forum, Mahendra Chaudhry
Duration: 2'37"
08:05
Sports News for 13 September 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'23"
08:10
Pakeha parents avoid sending children to Sth Akl schools
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Pakeha parents appear to be avoiding South Auckland schools when it comes to educating their children.
Topics: education, inequality
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Pakeha, high schools, census
Duration: 6'10"
08:16
Architecture a factor in preventing Ashburton style tragedies
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The Ministry of Social Development says it won't comment until it is sentenced for failing to provide a safe work place at its Ashburton office where Russell Tully shot four employees, killing two of them. But Christchurch-based sociologist Jarrod Gilbert says design is one way to make buildings safer.
Topics: politics, law
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Tags: workplace safety, violence, architecture
Duration: 3'39"
08:20
Fiji Labour Leader uneasy over weekend's detentions
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The leader of Fiji's Labour Party Mahendra Chaudhry says his country has turned into a dictatorship. The former Prime Minister was one of six leaders detained after speaking at a meeting about the country's constitution.
Topics: politics, Pacific
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Tags: Fiji, Pacific Islands Forum
Duration: 4'49"
08:25
Thomas asked to withdraw from Akld mayoralty but stays on
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Auckland mayoral candidate Mark Thomas says he been approached to withdraw from the mayoralty race but he's not going to do so. He's going to battle on even though he has described himself as a 'rounding error'.
Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Mayoral elections
Duration: 4'58"
08:30
Markets Update for 13 September 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 54"
08:35
Springsteen to play in Chch on eve of quake anniversary
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The Boss is back - and he and his band, the E Street band, are going to Christchurch on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Canterbury earthquake this summer.
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Bruce Springsteen - The Boss - and the E Street band, are going to Christchurch on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Canterbury earthquake this summer.
Bruce Springsteen performing with the E Street Band in Norway last month. Photo: AFP
He will perform at AMI Stadium on 21 February before doing a show in Auckland.
The city council said the singer's first South Island concert will be a huge boost for the city, and bring thousands of extra visitors.
Organiser Darren Burden said he expected 40-50 percent of concertgoers to be from outside Christchurch, giving the city a multi-million dollar boost.
Springsteen and the E Street Band last performed in New Zealand in Auckland in 2014, when he dedicated his song 'My City of Ruins' to Christchurch.
Photo: AFP
Topics: music
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Bruce Spingsteen, Christchurch, anniversary, concert
Duration: 2'13"
08:41
Officials back clamp down on foreign ship skippers
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With New Zealand boat captains, officers and engineers struggling to find work, immigration officials agree it shouldn't be so easy for foreigners to get work visas.
Topics: transport, politics
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Tags: immigration, visas, shipping, employment
Duration: 2'31"
08:44
Three councils look to bring in coastal charges
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Boaties and marine farmers in Waikato, Bay of Plenty, and Marlborough are facing annual fees for using coastal land.
Topics: farming, business
Regions: Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Marlborough
Tags: annual fees, wharves, boat ramps
Duration: 3'03"
08:46
Maori health providers scrutinised more closely
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Māori health advocates suspect Māori health providers are subjected to more rigourous criteria than DHBs, despite assurance from the Ministry of Health that this isn't the case.
Topics: te ao Maori, health
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Tags: health providers, DHBs
Duration: 2'51"
08:55
NZ Bridge team into top eight of World Champs in Poland
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Six New Zealand bridge players have made it to the quarter final round of the world championships in Poland.
Topics: sport
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Tags: bridge, world championships.Poland, France, Spain
Duration: 4'46"
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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: Going Up is Easy by Lydia Bradey, with Laurence Fearnley. A life lived on the edge - quite literally. The riveting account of the controversial first ascent of Everest without supplementary oxygen by NZ mountaineer Lydia Bradey. (Part 2 of 10, RNZ)
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09:08
Foreign skippers taking jobs say local ship captains
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A ships captain with forty years experience at sea, says it's about time something's being done about the hold foreign skippers have on jobs in New Zealand. Immigration officials are considering changing rules that allow skippers and officers from overseas working on vessels here. Nine to Noon speaks to master mariner Captain Kevin Judkins.
Topics: business, transport
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Tags: immigration, shipping
Duration: 11'19"
09:24
Fighting zika and other viruses
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World-renowned New Zealand virologist Professor Robert Webster is a pioneering virologist who helped identify the avian strain of influenza. Based at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, he's delivering a lecture tonight at Auckland University on the likelihood of a lifetime innoculation against the flu virus. His visit here is sponsored by the University of Otago's Webster Centre for Infectious diseases. Lynn Freeman talks to Professor Webster about ever-mutating flu strains as well as the rampant spread of the Zika virus.
Topics: science
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Tags: health, Zika, flu, virus, Robert Webster, H5N1
Duration: 13'10"
09:37
Study of dead seabirds finds a third had eaten rubbish
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A new Australian study which found a third of dead seabirds studies had eaten rubbish, including plastics, polystyrene, rubber, balloons and fishing gear. The study, done jointly by researchers at the Universities of Tasmania, Queensland, and Australia's crown research institute, CSIRO, examined the intestines of 378 birds across 61 species. Lynn Freeman talks to lead investigator Lauren Roman, who is in New Zealand where she's been dissecting dead birds as part of a project with the Ornithological Society.
Topics: science
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Tags: seabird, rubbish, pollution, Lauren Roman
Duration: 13'24"
09:50
US correspondent Susan Milligan
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From the US, Susan Milligan with an update on Hillary Clinton's health, and whether North Korea is a hot US Presidential campaign topic.
Topics: politics
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Tags: USA, politics, Susan Milligan, Hillary Clinton
Duration: 9'29"
10:11
Sian Evans, social historian
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Sian Evans is a social historian and her latest book focuses on six women who she says changed society post world war one. The book called Queen Bees looks at how these extraordinary women who pushed the boundaries and whose influence is still felt today.
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Sian Evans is a social historian and her latest book focuses on six women who she says changed society post world war one. The book called Queen Bees looks at how these extraordinary women who pushed the boundaries and whose influence is still felt today.
Topics: author interview
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Tags: social history, Royalty, hostesses
Duration: 27'12"
10:38
Book review - What Remains of Me by A.L Gaylin
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Reviewed by Catriona Ferguson, published by Penguin Random House.
Topics: books
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Duration: 8'01"
11:06
Business commentator - Rod Oram
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Rod Oram on his research for his new book Three Cities which took him to Beijng, London and Chicago to look at how to make economics, politics and technology work.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Three Cities, Rod Oram
Duration: 22'05"
11:28
The changing demography of sport
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Nine to Noon talks to demographer, Paul Spoonley of Massey University, who says a diversifying population is changing sport.
Topics: economy, life and society
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Tags: demography of sport, Paul Spoonley
Duration: 12'50"
11:45
Media commentator - Gavin Ellis
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Gavin Ellis on media matters, including the joint venture between RNZ and AUT to produce last week's Auckland mayoral debate, and a 24 page feature in NZ Geographic shows the power of narrative long-form journalism.
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Duration: 13'58"
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09:05 Foreign skippers taking jobs say local ship captains
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A ships captain with forty years experience at sea, says it's about time something's being done about the hold foreign skippers have on jobs in New Zealand. Immigration officials are considering changing rules that allow skippers and officers from overseas working on vessels here. Nine to Noon speaks to master mariner Captain Kevin Judkins.
09:20 US-based NZ virologist Robert Webster on Zika and lifelong flu jabs
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World-renowned New Zealand virologist Professor Robert Webster is a pioneering virologist who helped identify the avian strain of influenza. Based at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, he's delivering a lecture tonight at Auckland University on the likelihood of a lifetime innoculation against the flu virus. His visit here is sponsored by the University of Otago's Webster Centre for Infectious diseases. Lynn Freeman talks to Professor Webster about ever-mutating flu strains as well as the rampant spread of the Zika virus. Other lecture dates in Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin here
09:30 Study of dead seabirds finds a third had eaten rubbish
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A new Australian study which found a third of dead seabirds studies had eaten rubbish, including plastics, polystyrene, rubber, balloons and fishing gear. The study, done jointly by researchers at the Universities of Tasmania, Queensland, and Australia's crown research institute, CSIRO, examined the intestines of 378 birds across 61 species. Lynn Freeman talks to lead investigator Lauren Roman, who is in New Zealand where she's been dissecting dead birds as part of a project with the Ornithological Society.
09:45 US correspondent Susan Milligan
From the US, Susan Milligan with an update on Hillary Clinton's health, and whether North Korea is a hot US Presidential campaign topic.
10:05 Sian Evans, social historian
Sian Evans is a social historian and her latest book focuses on six women who she says changed society post world war one. The book called Queen Bees looks at how these extraordinary women who pushed the boundaries and whose influence is still felt today.
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10:35 Book review - What Remains of Me by A.L Gaylin
Reviewed by Catriona Ferguson, published by Penguin Random House
10:45 The Reading
Going Up Is Easy by Lydia Bradey - Part 2 of 10
11:05 Business commentator
Rod Oram on his research for his new book Three Cities which took him to Beijng, London and Chicago to look at how to make economics, politics and technology work.
11:30 The changing demography of sport
Nine to Noon talks to demographer Paul Spoonley of Massey University, who says a diversifying population is changing sport.
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11:45 Media commentator
Gavin Ellis on media matters, including the joint venture between RNZ and AUT to produce last week's Auckland mayoral debate, and a 24 page feature in NZ Geographic shows the power of narrative long-form journalism.
===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 13 September 2016
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A golden day for New Zealand at the Paralympics and a cow is found dismembered on a farm.
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Duration: 15'33"
12:17
Jade first half revenue bounces back
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The Christchurch based softeware company, Jade, has reported a strong lift in first half revenue.
Topics: business
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Tags: Jade
Duration: 1'28"
12:18
Proposed tax rules could make NZ innovators less competitive
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A proposed change to the taxing of employee share schemes may deter the start up of technology companies in this country, according to an industry group.
Topics: business
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Tags: IRD, tax
Duration: 1'31"
12:20
Aussie Govt sets sights on retirement village sector
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Over the Tasman, and as New Zealand's biggest rest home operator Ryman Healthcare speeds up its expansion in Australia, the Australian Government has the sector in its sights.
Topics: business
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 1'04"
12:23
Midday Markets for 13 September 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by James Grigor at Macquarie Private Wealth.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'46"
12:25
Business briefs
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Windflow Technologies says it remains a going concern with the support of its largest shareholder, despite reporting an increased loss.
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Duration: 46"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 13 September 2016
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The director of the New Zealand Warriors, Jim Doyle, says he's confident Stephen Kearney can turn things around for the National Rugby League club.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'57"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 13 September 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 7'34"
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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
How 9/11 unfolded for George Bush and those around him
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First thing in the morning on September 11, 2001 President George W. Bush said to his chief of staff Andy Card "It should be an easy day". It was not. Journalist Garrett M Graff has spoken to all those who were with George Bush on that fateful day.
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First thing in the morning on September 11, 2001 President George W. Bush said to his chief of staff Andy Card "It should be an easy day". Things changed quickly at 8.45am and then 9.03am when two planes hit the World Trade Centre in New York. Andy Card was charged with telling the president about the second plane as the president read to a group of schoolchildren at Emma E Booker Elementary School in Sarasota Florida. The words he chose and what else was said that day by the people in the president's inner circle has been collected and shared for the first time in an incredible longform article on the website Politico.
The man who did all the research and has presented these memories and conversations in public for the first time is Garrett M Graff. He's also the author of the forthcoming book Raven Rock, which will detail the history of the US government's nuclear Doomsday plans during the Cold War.
Topics: conflict
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Tags: 911, US
Duration: 16'43"
13:31
Govt gets tough on former students now overseas
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Student debt has doubled since 2005 to 15 billion dollars...the biggest proportion of which is owed by people working overseas. And the NZ Union of Students Associations says students who've gone overeas to get valuable work experience and skills may be in too much in debt and scared to come home.
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Student debt has doubled since 2005 to 15 billion dollars...the biggest proportion of which is owed by people working overseas. And the NZ Union of Students Associations says students who've gone overeas to get valuable work experience and skills may be in too much in debt and scared to come home.
IRD is teaming up with the Australian Tax Office next month to get the contact details for New Zealanders who aren't paying back their loans. Repayment holidays were cut from three years to just 6 months in 201
The National President of the NZ Union of Students Association is Linsey Higgins.
The Wireless spoke to several students who are overseas - see their report here
Topics: education
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Tags: student loans
Duration: 8'20"
13:40
Dan Slevin: 1971 in film
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In response to our recent interview with music journalist David Hepworth, in which he argued that 1971 was the greatest ever year in music, RNZ's film guy, Dan Slevin is seeing if the same can be said of film.
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In response to our recent interview with music journalist David Hepworth, in which he argued that 1971 was the greatest ever year in music, RNZ's film guy, Dan Slevin is seeing if the same can be said of film.
Topics: movies
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Duration: 7'35"
13:47
Favourite album: Who You Are by Jessie J (2011)
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Chosen by Nicole Wijngaarden.
Topics: music
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Duration: 12'23"
14:09
No Holds Bard
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He's one of New Zealand's most renowned actors of the stage and screen, and Michael Hurst's most recent work, is the 'Shakespearean-ish' solo show, No Holds Bard.
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2.10 No Holds Bard
He's one of New Zealand's most renowned actors of the stage and screen, and Michael Hurst's most recent work, is the 'Shakespearean-ish' solo show, No Holds Bard. The Edinburgh Spotlight described it as 'a tsunami of a performance'. And it's part of Michael's plan to bring full-on performance to smaller places in New Zealand.
Topics: arts
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Tags: theatre, Michael Hurst, No Holds Bard
Duration: 8'50"
14:17
Book Critic: Charlotte Graham
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This week, a look at what's new in Young Adult fiction.
Topics: books
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Duration: 10'20"
14:29
Great New Zealand Album: Where Are The Boys by Th' Dudes
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Peter Urlich joined Jesse in the studio to talk about making Th' Dudes 1980 seminal album Where Are The Boys, which included hits such as 'Walking In Light' and 'Bliss'.
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Th' Dudes won the national Battle of The Bands contest in 1976 and three years later picked up Top Group and Single of The Year for 'Be Mine Tonight' at the New Zealand Music Awards.
In 1980 their seminal album Where Are The Boys? was released and they became a household name.
Lead vocalist and charismatic front man Peter Urlich joined Jesse Mulligan in the studio to talk about making the seminal album, which included hits such as 'Walking In Light' and 'Bliss'.
Topics: music
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Tags: Th' Dudes, Dave Dobbyn
Duration: 31'07"
15:07
Obscene fortune: the truth about Silicon Valley
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The image of Silicon Valley as a place where 20 something computer geeks can become billionaires and with hard work and a good idea is not right according to ex-Facebook employee Antonio Garcia Martinez.
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The image of Silicon Valley as a place where 20 something computer geeks can become billionaires with hard work and a good idea is a myth according to ex-Facebook employee Antonio Garcia Martinez.
He says it's more like The Game of Thrones. with middle managers fighting to form their own fiefdoms and where ruthlessness rivals Wall Street. He tells the secrets of start ups in his new book; Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley.
Martinez is a former start up CEO, advisor to Twitter and worked for two years as a product manager at Facebook before he was fired.
He gives his account of a cult-like culture that will stop at nothing to succeed; with Mark Zuckerberg as the supreme leader.
In the California community where so much of the technology we use every day is imagined, Martinez describes a culture of mass delusion, where everyone is a genius and all ideas are the next big thing.
So has he broken every Valley rule?
“Absolutely it’s the case that I’m breaking an unwritten code of silence around what goes on in tech companies.”
“Although the reaction hasn’t been nearly as negative as I thought it would be, and I think most Valley insiders recognise I’m only saying things that everyone inside already knows.”
In fact Martinez says he could probably still get a tech job if he really wanted one.
In reality ‘chaos monkey’ is a piece of software that replicates the actions of a crazed chimpanzee loose in a data centre.
“Chaos Monkey was bought by Netflix and they run it and it randomly turns off and kills different servers inside a server farm and it will test if they can screen House of Cards or whatever.
“Metaphorically what it means is Silicon Valley is basically the zoo of the chaos monkeys.”
He gives Uber and Airbnb as examples of Silicon Valley innovation that can have profound consequences for communities and economies.
“And they literally go around zapping one or other industry and changing it completely without really much thought to what it means for society.”
Topics: technology, author interview
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Tags: Antonio Garcia Martinez, Facebook
Duration: 21'17"
15:46
One Quick Question for 13 September 2016
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We find the answers to any queries you can think up.
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Why is 1 not a perfect number?
And what causes the static sound on the radio?
We have the answers!
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Duration: 3'51"
15:46
The Panel pre-show for 13 September 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 8'58"
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1:10 First song
1:15 How 9/11 unfolded for George Bush and those around him
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First thing in the morning on September 11, 2001 President George W. Bush said to his chief of staff Andy Card "It should be an easy day". Things changed quickly at 8.45am and then 9.03am when two planes hit the World Trade Centre in New York. Andy Card was charged with telling the president about the second plane as the president read to a group of schoolchildren at Emma E Booker Elementary School in Sarasota Florida. The words he chose and what else was said that day by the people in the president's inner circle has been collected and shared for the first time in an incredible longform article on the website Politico.
The man who did all the research and has presented these memories and conversations in public for the first time is Garrett M Graff. He's also the author of the forthcoming book Raven Rock, which will detail the history of the US government's nuclear Doomsday plans during the Cold War.
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1:25 Govt gets tough on former students now overseas
Student debt has doubled since 2005 to 15 billion dollars...the biggest proportion of which is owed by people working overseas. And the NZ Union of Students Associations says students who've gone overeas to get valuable work experience and skills may be in too much in debt and scared to come home.
IRD is teaming up with the Australian Tax Office next month to get the contact details for New Zealanders who aren't paying back their loans. Repayment holidays were cut from three years to just 6 months in 201
We speak to the National President of the NZ Union of Students Association Linsey Higgins
The Wireless spoke to several students who are overseas - see their report here.
1:35 Dan Slevin: 1971 in film
In response to our recent interview with music journalist David Hepworth, in which he argued that 1971 was the greatest ever year in music, RNZ's film guy, Dan Slevin is seeing if the same can be said of film.
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1:40 Favourite album: Who You Are by Jessie J (2011)
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2.10 No Holds Bard
He's one of New Zealand's most renowned actors of the stage and screen, and Michael Hurst's most recent work, is the 'Shakespearean-ish' solo show, No Holds Bard. The Edinburgh Spotlight described it as 'a tsunami of a performance'. And it's part of Michael's plan to bring full-on performance to smaller places in New Zealand.
2:20 Book Critic: Charlotte Graham
This week, a look at what's new in Young Adult fiction
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2:30 Great New Zealand Album: "Where Are The Boys" by Th' Dudes
Peter Urlich joins Jesse in the studio to talk about making Th' Dudes 1980 seminal album "Where Are The Boys", which included hits such as Walking In Light and Bliss.
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3:10 Obscene Fortune: the truth about Silicon Valley
The image of Silicon Valley as a place where 20 something computer geeks can become billionaires and with hard work and a good idea is not right according to ex-Facebook employee Antonio Garcia Martinez.
He says it's more like The Game of Thrones. with middle managers fighting to form their own fiefdoms and where ruthlessness rivals Wall Street. He tells the secrets of start ups in his new book, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley.
3:30 Our Changing World: Community conservation on the Kapiti Coast
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
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JESSE MULLIGAN AFTERNOONS / PANEL:
1pm - 5pm
Tuesday 13th September 2016
JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST: Bruce Springsteen
TITLE: Nebraska
COMP: Bruce Springsteen
ALBUM: Nebraska
LIVE: Columbia
FAVOURITE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Jessie J
TITLE: Price Tag
COMP: Jessica Cornish, Lukasz Gottwald, Claude Kelly, Bobby Ray Simmons, Jr.
ALBUM: Who You Are
LABEL: Island
ARTIST: Jessie J
TITLE: Who's Laughing now
COMP: Jessica Cornish, Talay Riley, Kyle Abrahams, George Astasio, Jon Shave, Peter Ighile, Jason Pebworth
ALBUM: Who You Are
LABEL: Island
ARTIST: Jessie J
TITLE: Stand Up
COMP: Jessica Cornish, Karl "K-Gee" Gordon, Chris Arnold, David Martin, Geoff Morrow
ALBUM: Who You Are
LABEL: Island
THE GREAT NEW ZEALAND ALBUM:
ARTIST: Th' Dudes
TITLE: Walking In Light
COMP: Dave Dobbyn, Ian Morris
ALBUM: Where Are The Boys?"
LABEL: Key
ARTIST: Th' Dudes
TITLE: On The Rox
COMP: Peter Urlich
ALBUM: Where Are The Boys?
LABEL: Key
ARTIST: Th' Dudes
TITLE: Bliss
COMP: Dave Dobbyn, Ian Morris
ALBUM: Where Are The Boys?
LABEL: Key
THE PANEL:
ARTIST: Bruce Springsteen
TITLE: My City In Ruins
COMP: Bruce Springsteen
ALBUM: The Rising.
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: Elton John
TITLE: Sitting Doing Nothing
COMP: Bernie Taupin, Elton John
ALBUM: Elton John:Dick James Demos, Volume 1
LABEL: DJM
===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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15:46
One Quick Question for 13 September 2016
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We find the answers to any queries you can think up.
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Why is 1 not a perfect number?
And what causes the static sound on the radio?
We have the answers!
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Duration: 3'51"
15:46
The Panel pre-show for 13 September 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 8'58"
16:03
The Panel with Ali Jones and Gary McCormick (Part 1)
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Ang Jury of Womens' Refuge talks about the announced changes to family violence law and if the government's got it right. Labour's Andrew Little "rejected" yesterday's One News Colmar Brunton Poll so the party released its own results today. Bruce Springsteen has announced dates for a New Zealand tour including a concert in Christchurch for the anniversary of the February 2011 earthquake. Your feedback about the long hours hospital doctors work.
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Duration: 23'49"
16:05
The Panel with Ali Jones and Gary McCormick (Part 2)
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People are fearful of not being busy. What the Panelists Ali Jones and Gary McCormick want to talk about. Dunedin criminal barrister Anne Stevens defends the judge who sentenced Nikolas Delegat who brutally beat up a police woman. Five people were caught drink driving in Queenstown at the weekend. Do bars need to take more responsibility? Indonesia considers alcohol ban. Candidate Mark Thomas gives up the Auckland mayoral race.
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Duration: 26'02"
16:07
Overhaul of family violence laws
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Ang Jury of Womens' Refuge talks about the announced changes to family violence law and if the government's got it right.
Topics: crime, politics, law
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Tags: family violence
Duration: 8'34"
16:16
Labour releases internal poll
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Labour's Andrew Little "rejected" yesterday's One News Colmar Brunton Poll so the party released its own results today.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Labour
Duration: 5'25"
16:22
Springsteen for quake anniversary concert
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Bruce Springsteen has announced dates for a New Zealand tour including a concert in Christchurch for the anniversary of the February 2011 earthquake.
Topics: music
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Tags: Bruce Springsteen
Duration: 4'52"
16:26
Listener feed back about doctors
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Your feedback about the long hours hospital doctors work
Topics: health
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Tags: doctors
Duration: 2'42"
16:34
Busy doesn't mean successful
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People are fearful of not being busy.
Topics: life and society
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Duration: 5'31"
16:38
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Ali Jones and Gary McCormick want to talk about.
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Duration: 6'13"
16:44
Police claim judge was bullied
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Dunedin criminal barrister Anne Stevens defends the judge who sentenced Nikolas Delegat who brutally beat up a police woman.
Topics: crime
Regions: Otago
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Duration: 8'06"
16:53
Queenstown drink driving
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Five people were caught drink driving in Queenstown at the weekend.Do bars need to take more responsibility?
Topics: crime
Regions: Otago
Tags: dring driving
Duration: 3'05"
16:56
Booze free Bali
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Indonesia considers alcohol ban.
Topics: crime
Regions: Otago
Tags: dring driving
Duration: 1'42"
16:58
Auckland mayoralty
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Candidate Mark Thomas concedes he can't win the Auckland mayoral race.
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Duration: 1'17"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme
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17:00
Checkpoint with John Campbell, Tuesday 13 September 2016
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Watch Tuesday's full show here.
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17:07
Govt to overhaul family violence laws
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The government plans to create new offences with tougher sentences in a bid to reduce New Zealand's "horrendous" family violence rate.
Topics: law
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Tags: family violence
Duration: 3'37"
17:10
Sophie Pascoe wins third gold at Rio
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Swimmer Sophie Pascoe has won her third gold medal at Rio, taking her tally of Paralympic medals to 14 in total, 9 of them gold.
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Tags: Sophie Pascoe, Paralympics, gold medal
Duration: 1'01"
17:11
Liam Malone wins gold at Paralympics
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Paralympian Liam Malone has won gold in Rio in the 200 metres race, smashing the world record set by Oscar Pistorius.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Paralympics, gold medal, Liam Malone
Duration: 4'08"
17:16
Colin Craig's behaviour 'dodgy', former press secretary says
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Colin Craig's former press secretary Rachel MacGregor has said in court the former Conservative Party leader's behaviour towards her was "dodgy". RNZ reporter Sarah Robson joins Checkpoint.
Topics: law
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Tags: Colin Craig, Rachel MacGregor, trial
Duration: 4'24"
17:20
Fijian workers say they were exploited in NZ
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An Auckland court has heard how a group of Fijian workers came to New Zealand for a better life, but were met with exploiation and exorbitant fees when they got here. Edward Gay was in court.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Feroz Ali, Fijian workers
Duration: 3'07"
17:21
Sentence of wealthy family's son criticised
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The son of wealthy wine magnates sentenced to 300 hours of community work and ordered to pay $5000 after assaulting a police officer should have gone to prison, the police association says.
Topics: crime
Regions: Otago
Tags: Nikolas Delegat, Delegat Wine Group, Sentence
Duration: 3'49"
17:25
Voters not sure who's who in Auckland mayoral race
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Is Auckland's mayoral race a done deal already? Checkpoint reporter Alex Ashton headed out to the streets to ask the public what they think about the upcoming local body election.
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It sounded like a concession speech from Auckland mayoral candidate Mark Thomas today.
The centre-right candidate put out a statement abruptly this morning, saying that unnamed people had asked him to pull out of the race because Labour MP Phil Goff was seen to be likely to be Auckland's next mayor.
But is the Auckland election really a done deal? And do people even recognise four of the supposed leading candidates?
RNZ headed to Onehunga Mall to conduct a highly unscientific poll in candidate recollection.
Many recognised Mr Goff, with some able to name the former minister, but nobody could name all four candidates without being prompted.
"She looks like one of the candidates on the signs for the election. The next council election. I think she's Krum? Mrs Krum?" said one man, whilst pointing to a picture of former Xero CEO Victoria Crone. It was later clarified he had mistaken her for Auckland councillor Denise Krum.
"I can't remember the other names."
Almost everyone knew Mr Goff, as demonstrated by a selection of quotes from passers-by:
"That's Goff, innit?
"Well, I don't know them all ... I know faces. But that's Phil Goff."
"Oh! I know! Phil Goff."
When asked if he knew any of the others, one man responded that he didn't.
"Maybe I've seen but not really familiar. But I know Phil Goff."
"Of course that's Phil Goff and Denise Krum, is it?" Again, this was while pointing to Ms Crone.
One recent poll, in August, suggested Mr Goff was leading the race to be mayor at 32 percent, followed by Ms Crone (8 percent) and Mr Palino (4.1 percent).
Activist Penny Bright came fourth (2.4 percent) and Mr Thomas came fifth (1.7 percent), but both results were within the margin of error - as was the result for policy analyst David Hay (1.4 percent).
The survey of 760 eligible voters, by Survey Sampling International (SSI) for The Spinoff, found 43.7 percent were undecided. It had a margin of error of +/- 3.6 percent.
The election will be held on 8 October.
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Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: auckland mayoral election
Duration: 3'52"
17:29
Ambulance services nearing funding crisis
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Ambulance services warn the safety of their patients and paramedics are at risk and more funding is urgently needed or they will face a crisis situation.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: Ambulances, funding, Wellington Free Ambulance, St Johns
Duration: 3'06"
17:34
Evening business for 13th September 2016
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News from the business sector, including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'01"
17:36
Labour leader releases internal polling in rare move
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Labour leader Andrew Little has released the party's internal polling after rejecting the results of a One News poll this week. RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson joins Checkpoint.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Andrew Little, Polling
Duration: 2'48"
17:39
DoC criticised for allowing cows in river
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The Department of Conservation is being criticised for allowing cows to graze next to a popular kayaking and fishing spot on the Hurunui River in North Canterbury.
Topics: farming, environment
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Department of Conservation, Hurunui River, Cows
Duration: 3'51"
17:53
Warriors turn to Kiwis coach Stephen Kearney
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The New Zealand Warriors have turned to former player and Kiwis coach Stephen Kearney after axing yet another new head coach, Andrew McFadden.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Andrew McFadden, Warriors, rugby league
Duration: 3'14"
17:58
Former UK PM resigns from Parliament
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The Former British Prime Minister David Cameron has stood down from Parliament ending his political career just months after losing the Brexit referendum.
Topics: politics
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Tags: David Cameron, UK, Resignation
Duration: 1'16"
18:07
Successful day for New Zealand Paralympians
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Swimmer Sophie Pascoe is now New Zealand's most successful Paralympian in history. Sophie Pascoe, Cameron Leslie and Mary Fisher join Checkpoint.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Sophie Pascoe, Paralympics, medals, Rio
Duration: 9'14"
18:17
Calls for Minister for Women to resign over Chiefs no-comment
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There are calls for the Minister for Women, Louise Upston, to resign, from those who say she should have spoken out more in the wake of the Chiefs stripper scandal.
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Tags: Louise Upston, Chiefs, stripper
Duration: 2'40"
18:23
Fiji recovers from Cyclone Winston
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RNZI reporter Alex Perrottet is in Fiji, to find out how the recovery from Cyclone Winston is going, and where the relief work is yet to help. He talks to Checkpoint.
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Duration: 3'24"
18:26
How to move beyond family violence
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Perpetrators and victims of family violence share their stories with John Campbell, and tell him how they hope for something better for themselves and their children.
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There’s eight people meeting at a North Island home and they all stand up when asked if they were abused as a child. Six of them grew up and abused others. They talk to John Campbell about what’s needed to break that cycle.
The government announced yesterday that it would overhaul family violence laws, injecting about $130 million over four years with the hope about 2300 incidents each year will be prevented.
That’s a little less than the 2 percent of family violence call-outs police attend every year.
Children are present at two thirds of them.
Vic Tamati of the It’s Not OK campaign, and Safe Man, Safe Families, told Checkpoint with John Campbell that it starts with the perpetrators.
“My focus is on us men. Us men who have always been unsafe, us men who have always been perpetrators, us men who have never known any other journey any other way.”
Mr Tamati confronted his own history of family violence, overcame it, and now works to help men move beyond it.
He introduced Checkpoint to people brave enough, and hopeful enough of something better, to confront their own history of family violence - and to courageously share their stories.
“If mum or dad were having a bad day, and especially dad, mum would cop it and then us kids would cop it,” one victim of family violence said.
“You kind of half expected to get the bash and then you let them do it and then it would be finished. The faster you cried or the faster you bled you knew then that yeah, it would stop.
“But if you stood there and tried to handle it then you’d just get more of a hiding….you just accept that’s what happens.”
Mr Tamati said it was up to the perpetrators to accept they are the problem.
“Because if there’s no perpetrators, there’s no victims...If we have safe families then our legacy is, we can pass that on to our kids.
“Otherwise it’s just going to be the same old, same old.”
Topics: crime, law, politics
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Tags: family violence, domestic violence
Duration: 10'26"
18:27
Springsteen to play first South Island concert in February
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"The Boss" Bruce Springsteen is set to play his first ever South Island concert next February on the eve of the six-year anniversary of the Canterbury quake.
Topics: music
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Christchurch
Duration: 2'49"
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===6:30 PM. | None (National)===
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Highlighting the RNZ stories you're sharing on-line
Anne Manne - The Life of I - The New Culture of Narcissism
===6:55 PM. | In Parliament===
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
=DESCRIPTION=
RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
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Our Own Odysseys - middle-aged cycling OE
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Janie Cook and her husband spent five months cycling around Europe in what she calls a mini middle-aged OE.
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In 2015 Janie Cook and her husband Graeme decided it was time to "borrow a year from retirement" and go on a freeform cycle tour of Europe.
Janie tells Bryan Crump that while cycling 'A to B' would have been much easier and involved a lot less "schlepping laden bikes up and down steps”, she and Graham wanted their OE to stand for open-endedness.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: travel, Europe, cycling
Duration: 19'15"
20:12
Nights' Pundit - Feminism
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Feminist blogger Deborah Russell talks about women in film. Who gets paid the most, who gets the roles, who gets to write the scripts and direct and produce the movies? She also tells us how to use the "Bechtel test". Plus her take on the fallout from the Chiefs alleged abuse of the woman they hired to strip at their end of season party.
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Feminist blogger Deborah Russell is talking about women in film. Who gets paid the most, who gets the roles, who gets to write the scripts and direct and produce the movies? She'll also tell us how to use the "Bechtel test".
Topics: life and society, media, history, identity
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Duration: 19'53"
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7:12 Our Own Odysseys - middle-aged cycling OE
Janie Cook and her husband spent five months cycling around Europe in what she calls a mini middle-aged OE.
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7:30 The Sampler
Nick Bollinger reviews a sparsely furnished set from Wilco; the latest instrumental journey from Auckland electro-jazz outfit Trip To The Moon; and the meeting of a bluegrass veteran and a great American folk poet.
8:12 Nights' Pundit - Feminism
Feminist blogger Deborah Russell on sexism in the film industry - A world where where male actors can grow old and still get the girl in her twenties, while women "disappear" after 40. She'll also tell us how to use the "Bechtel test".
8:30 Window on the World
Leaving the Fold - What does it take for someone to turn their back on their religious upbringing? What effect does that decision ultimately have on them and those around them? This programme explores the personal journeys of three people who walked away from their faiths and redefined their morality in a world without God.
9:07 Tuesday Feature
America Revisited #1 - BBC reporters begin a journey driving across the US from California to New York to gauge the mood of the country. They're asking people how their lives have changed over the past 8 years and what their hopes and fears are for the future. Has President Obama delivered all he promised or is the country more divided than ever?
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 WOMAD 2016
Tonight the final episode of WOMAD Taranaki - The World's Festival 2016' features a live performance by Ladysmith Black Mambazo from South Africa. During their long and exceptional career, Ladysmith Black Mambazo have been acclaimed ambassadors for South Africa, contributed to a multi million selling album by Paul Simon, won Grammy Awards and endeared themselves to a huge global audience with their blend of acapella harmonies.
===7:35 PM. | The Sampler===
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A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases
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The Sampler for 13 September
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In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger reviews a sparsely furnished set from Wilco; the latest instrumental journey from Auckland electro-jazz outfit Trip To The Moon; and the meeting of a bluegrass veteran and a great American folk poet.
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In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger reviews a sparsely furnished set from Wilco; the latest instrumental journey from Auckland electro-jazz outfit Trip To The Moon; and the meeting of a bluegrass veteran and a great American folk poet.
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Duration: 28'16"
19:30
Schmilco by Wilco
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Nick Bollinger reviews a sparsely furnished set from Wilco.
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Nick Bollinger reviews a sparsely furnished set from Wilco.
A new album from Wilco is a little surprising as it’s barely a year since their last one, the mischievously-titled Star Wars. That record stood out from the rest of their catalogue, and so does this, but for entirely different reasons.
Having developed over the years into a formidable musical machine, which fired on all pistons for their 2011 album The Whole Love, Star Wars was unexpectedly stripped down. The songs were uniformly short, and delivered with a directness that made me think more than once of T.Rex.
The new album apparently stems from those same sessions, which is how they have been able to turn it around so quickly. Yet the two sets are, in many ways, like day and night. A track like ‘Cry All Day’ is typical. It starts out almost as a solo Jeff Tweedy performance, his voice and strummed guitar front and centre. The rest of the band drifts in around him as the song gradually builds, until there’s actually quite a lot going on, though most of it remains peripheral; the spotlight stays firmly on the frontman. And that’s a pattern repeated throughout.
The dozen songs are all Tweedy originals - no co-writes this time – and they create a sense of Tweedy alone with his thoughts, while the other musicians hover in the shadows, adding dashes of colour rather than deep content. It’s at least as stripped down as Star Wars, but where that album turned the Wilco machine into a glam-punk rock band, the effect here is more of an acoustic singer-songwriter, with ambient and sometimes abstract accompaniment.
You can hear the avant-garde and improv backgrounds of guitarist Nels Cline and drummer Glen Kotche come into play in a track like ‘Common Sense’. Yet even here, the singer and song stands centre stage. And the reason becomes clearer once you get into the songs themselves. Tweedy has always been an arresting and original lyricist, and these songs have lyrics he wants you to hear. There’s a loose theme running through them, of examining his younger self from the perspective of middle-age. And if that sounds like a terribly dad-rock thing to do, it hardly makes for comforting or armchair listening.
‘Normal American Kids’ makes a strong opening statement, as Tweedy stares down the great divide, not just between middle-age and youth but between the kind of youth he was – the disaffected rock’n’roll rebel – and those ‘normal American kids’ he observed and felt so alienated from – “hated”, as he says at one point in the song. Does he understand them or relate more closely to them now? He never answers that, yet the question is clearly in his mind and floats behind some of the other songs on the record too. And that’s not where the self-examination ends.
“Happiness depends on who you blame”, Tweedy concludes in another song, ‘Happiness’, which seems inspired, at least in part, by a mother’s death. Just that line gives you something that could keep you awake at night, rolling it over in your mind. This isn’t whimsy, however lightly it’s delivered. Tweedy has distilled his thoughts here into tough nuggets of song. Like Star Wars before it, this album has a title that almost undercuts itself: Schmilco, they’ve called it – as if to say, who’s Wilco anyway? And at this point, that’s not a bad question. I hear Schmilco as essentially a Jeff Tweedy solo album, much as I did Sukierae, the 2014 set he made with his son Spencer. It’s personal, introspective and, for the most part, pretty serious. Which is not to say this is what Wilco is going to be from now on. They have thrown enough twists and turns in the past twenty years for an fan to know that.
Songs featured: Cry All Day, If I Ever Was A Child, Common Sense, Normal American Kids, Happiness, Say Goodbye.
Schmilco is available on dBpm Records.
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Duration: 8'39"
19:30
A Traveller's Tale by Trip to the Moon
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Nick Bollinger explores the latest instrumental journey from Auckland electro-jazz outfit Trip To The Moon.
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Nick Bollinger explores the latest instrumental journey from Auckland electro-jazz outfit Trip To The Moon.
There’s something both liberating and challenging about instrumental music. Without lyrics to tell you where you are, one has to rely on other signposts. So when Trip To The Moon call their latest album A Traveller’s Tale, I immediately start to imagine what the particulars of that journey might be. Listening to the title track I found myself wandering through the Kasbah. Somewhere there are echoes of a call to prayer; turn the corner and you’re slammed with some electrified Arabic rock ‘n’ roll.
Trip To The Moon have been making evocative, mostly wordless music for the past couple of decades. The Auckland outfit revolves around a duo: Tom Ludvigson and Trevor Reekie. Ludvigson is a pianist, Reekie a guitarist, though the tools they use to manipulate their instruments might be as crucial as anything they do with the keys and frets. Their compositions have their basis in jam sessions, which they record in their entirety, then sift for gems. Those gems become building blocks that are variously rearranged, replicated, and reinforced as structures.
Then they bring in other musicians who fill out the story, like saxophonist Jim Langabeer whose Arabic motifs led me to the Kasbah, or trumpeter Greg Johnson, who suggests an entirely different location in ‘Santa Monica Stroll’. The title refers to the fact that Johnson resides these days in Los Angeles, but the music takes me somewhere cooler.
At other times, they let the more melodic, linear elements go. What remains still has a shape, but you feel as though you are floating around the inside of that shape. On ‘Indrta’s Pearl’ Ludvigson seems to be meditating on the relationships within a tiny cluster of notes. The much-used term ‘ambient’ doesn’t do it justice; ambient suggests something ignorable, or static like the colour of a wall. But in a piece like this I hear curiosity and enquiry.
Trip To The Moon have been doing this a long time now and they know what they’re doing - or if they don’t, then they have learned to trust the process and know when it is taking them somewhere fruitful. A Traveller’s Tale feels like their most assured, coherent work yet. In an RNZ interview with Eva Radich Trevor Reekie described Trip To The Moon’s music as being more about the journey than the destination. I know what he means. Listening to A Traveller’s Tale, I never find myself asking ‘are we there yet?’ In fact, I don’t even think about where we are going; there’s too much to take in along the way.
Songs featured: A Traveller’s Tale, Santa Monica Stroll, Indra’s Pearl, Saudade, Down To Earth, Where Have I Been?
A Traveller’s Tale is available on Southbound Records.
Topics: music
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Tags: music review, Trip To The Moon, Trevor Reekie
Duration: 10'16"
19:30
Del and Woody by The Del McCoury Band
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Nick Bollinger acknowledges the meeting of a bluegrass veteran and a great American folk poet.
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Nick Bollinger acknowledges the meeting of a bluegrass veteran and a great American folk poet.
Nearly 50 years after his death, Woody Guthrie remains America’s greatest folk poet and it’s hard to imagine a time when songs like ‘This Land Is Your Land’ or ‘So Long It’s Been Good To Know Yuh' didn’t exist. Still, it was surprising when, back in the late 90s, Wilco and Billy Bragg turned up a whole lot of Guthrie songs no one had ever heard. And it seems that was just the tip of the iceberg. Now Del McCoury and his band have brought to life another dozen Guthrie compositions, that have until now remained unsung.
77 years old, yet still singing with a young man’s verve and vocal range, McCoury is a living link to the beginnings of the music known as bluegrass. In the early 60s he played banjo and sang with Bill Monroe, bluegrass’s founding father - inventor, in fact. Yet right through that decade, and most of the 70s and 80s as well, McCoury held down day jobs in construction and logging, only turning pro in the 90s, by which time his sons, and a couple of others, had joined him as The Del McCoury Band. And there’s something about having spent all those years making music outside the demands of commerce that has preserved the purity of his approach. This might be as close to Monroe’s original model as you’ll hear anywhere today. This isn’t newgrass, progressive hillbilly, or anything else.
That said, McCoury isn’t averse to a musical adventure. He’s jammed with the String Cheese incident, and few years ago made an album and toured with Steve Earle .It was at a festival in the late 2000s that McCoury made the acquaintance of Norah Guthrie, daughter of Woody and custodian of the Guthrie archives, which in addition to paintings, drawings, photos and prose holds that extraordinary collection of unrecorded songs. To Guthrie, writing verse was not that different to breathing. He wrote on a daily, if not hourly basis, and his subjects ranged from the profound to the plebeian.
Though Woody (born in 1912) was a generation older than McCoury, Norah heard in McCoury’s vintage country style the sort of music she could picture Woody playing, if he’d had a band. Yet for all their musical commonalities, McCoury, as it turned out, had little idea who Woody Guthrie was. The southern bluegrass world he came from was culturally a long way from the folk, art and protest movements in which Guthrie had been engaged. Yet he quickly realised that he actually knew many of Guthrie’s songs; he just hadn’t associated them with their author. And presented with a sheaf of unsung lyrics, McCoury proved Norah Guthrie’s instincts were right; he found himself singing the words as though they had just come tumbling out of his own head – whether in bewilderment at the New York City trains, poignant reflection on the loss of family members, or contemplating women’s fashions in hat-wear.
Apparently Norah Guthrie gave McCoury her blessing to change a word here and there if he had to; he didn’t. It’s as though Guthrie’s verses were written for his voice; the way he accentuates particular words – ‘buffalo trail’ or ‘government’ – has got to be exactly as Guthrie intended.
Mermaid Avenue – the two discs of Guthrie songs set by Wilco and Bragg – invited a reassessment of Guthrie’s talents. He had long been typecast as the dust bowl balladeer or writer of activist anthems. But songs like ‘My Flying Saucer’, ‘Airline To Heaven’, ‘Hoodoo Voodoo’ or ‘Walt Whitman’s Niece’ showed he could equally be a surrealist, a modernist or eroticist. Del and Woody, on the other hand, sets him in a tradition of country songwriters. If Mermaid Avenue made the case for Guthrie as a rock’n’roller, Del and Woody asserts him as a peer of Hank Williams. The two approaches are equal in their breadth of imagination, and their depth of humanity. And each, in its own way, rocks just as hard.
Songs featured: The New York Trains, Cheap Mike, Family Reunion, Wimmin’s Hats, The Government Road, Ain’t A Gonna Do.
Del and Woody is available on McCoury Music.
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Tags: music, music review, Del McCoury, Woody Guthrie
Duration: 9'24"
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