Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa
21 May - 12:32 am NZ
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Society & People
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20 Years Out! marks the twentieth anniversary of the passage of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill in New Zealand.
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Katrina Batten presents a selection of special interest programmes.
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Amelia Nurse sets out to discover how planes stay in the air, why boats float and what a dead man's pedal is. She takes us on a helicopter, a ferry, a train, a plane and an evening with Dial a Driver.
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Stories from Afghanistan
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Afternoons with Jim Mora is a programme based on the daring proposition that people are capable of thinking in the afternoon as well as in the morning. This show aims to banish post-prandial torpor with lots of audience interactivity.
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There is something for everyone in the wee small hours of a brand new day, every day, on our All Night Programme, a live-hosted programme of features, music, news and weather.
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Wellington, 1859, and a young German immigrant by the name of Friedrich August Krull writes a series of letters home to his mother.
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A morning of current affairs and conversation.
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A weekly report that highlights Asians in New Zealand, aimed at promoting a greater understanding of Asian New Zealanders.
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Short form documentaries about life in the Auckland region.
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George Andrews looks at the people and events that determined the route we followed on our journey towards nationhood.
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Chris Bramwell takes us behind the scenes at Parliament.
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Highlights from the Radio New Zealand schedule, hosted by Katrina Batten and Catriona MacLeod.
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A discussion series chaired by Kim Hill exploring the nature and implications of big data and how it may serve as a tool in facing the challenges of the current era.
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Four New Zealand writers and thinkers nominate the locally-grown work that they think has done the most to create our country, to inculcate an idea of ourselves and to nurture a notion of New Zealandness.
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Days after the city of Christchurch was devastated by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, This Way Up's presenter Simon Morton traversed the city using the Avon River as his route.
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Christmas Day on Radio New Zealand National
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The Waitakere Eco Village Project: The hunt is on for a site in Auckland for an ecologically sustainable co-housing community.
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A lecture series recorded in 2007 in the Great Hall, Parliament Buildings, at a symposium exploring the significance of the declaration of Dominion status for New Zealand in 1907.
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A five-part series examining aspects of the New Zealand Constitutional Review being carried out by the Government.
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A weekly programme of issues and stories of particular concern to the rural community, and also of interest to a general audience.
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A series of radio features from different parts of the world looking at subjects not often discussed at length in the media.
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After 17 years of smoking, Amelia Nurse gave up. She kept an audio diary as she set the slow wheels of change in motion.
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A four part series exploring the inter-faith rituals around death and burial in New Zealand.
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Where does the real power in New Zealand lie? That’s right, with a bunch of bureaucrats, underlings, officials, and lowly-ranked list MPs that you and I have never heard of.
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A special programme for Easter Monday.
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Hosted by Nigel Roberts, this forum explores issues and questions about the 2011 referendum on New Zealand’s voting system, recorded in front of an audience at Te Papa.
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A four part series exploring diving in New Zealand.
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Flavour comprises taste, aroma, odour, pungency and mouthfeel. Amelia Nurse takes Justin to chef Ryan Tattersal’s restaurant Cobar in Days Bay to discuss these elements of taste and conduct related experiments on the unsuspecting Carol Davidson.
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David Steemson visits four Auckland regional parks - Tawhitokino, Awhitu, Duder and Scandrett.
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David Steemson talks to people, many of whom have had unusual lives, about growing older.
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Amelia Nurse looks below the surface of the names of people we encounter every day to consider what names can tell us about the society they originated from, the naming protocols in other cultures, where they come from and why we have two or more names?
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John Bluck left a busy urban life and moved to a small country village north of Auckland. In this series he describes his attempts to learn the art of living rurally.
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A special programme for Easter.
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Great Barrier Island stands ninety kilometres away from Auckland City and is twenty eight thousand hectares of beautiful but rugged landscape and beaches. This four part series looks at issues arising from the changing dynamics of the island.
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In-depth interviews selected from Radio New Zealand National's feature programmes during the week.
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The inaugural He Waka Tangata Lecture in Social Science was presented by Professor Richard Bedford who reflected on contemporary social science in New Zealand.
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2009 marked the 40th anniversary of the incorporation of the Papua region into Indonesia. A controversial UN sponsored referendum decided the former Dutch colony's destiny in 1969, but there's still resistance to Indonesian rule. Johnny Blades of Radio New Zealand International looks at the events of 2009.
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A weekly programme exploring a range of philosophical, social, historical and environmental ideas.
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Intimacy plays a central role in the human experience. 'Love at first sight' used to happen at dances, at the pub, at work... but it’s a bit more complicated now.
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A series celebrating the work of New Zealand’s premier radio documentary producer.
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A Haida language play revitalises a community facing their language's extinction.
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A British soldier's daughter visits the places where he served in 1982, sharing his last letters home and his love of folk music in the place he died.
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Sonia Sly and Lynn Freeman take you on a journey to every corner of New Zealand.
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A day of reflection, conversation and entertainment.
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An award-winning radio series on sectarianism and mixed marriage in Australia.
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A look at New Zealand aspects of the life of Mary MacKillop - the Melbourne woman who co founded the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart) and became Australia's first Saint on 17 October 2010.
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Missing Something looks at abilities and senses that some people don't have, and how it affects them.
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The 1954 Parker-Hulme matricide was the famous murder behind Peter Jackson's film 'Heavenly Creatures'. Two teenage girls - Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme - murdered Pauline's mother. Ruth Beran speaks with some of the people involved in the investigation, and with Juliet Hulme, now known as novelist Anne Perry.
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Muslim Communities in New Zealand
A four part documentary series exploring the diversity of our country’s Muslim communities.
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Jason Moon takes a look into a small but well-established Indian community living in Nelson.
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Join Warwick Burke for the last few hours of the year.
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New Zealand As It Might Have Been
Producer Justin Gregory asks some of our best and brightest what would have happened if certain key events in our history had never occurred, and investigates life in New Zealand as it might have been.
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New Zealand Society: Eating Out
Amelia Nurse tells us a story about two significant eras in New Zealand restaurant history.
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Unfurling fresh ideas and sounds along with the best radio documentaries and features from here and overseas.
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From nine to noon every weekday, Kathryn Ryan talks to the people driving the news - in New Zealand and around the world. Delve beneath the headlines to find out the real story, listen to Nine to Noon's expert commentators and reviewers and catch up with the latest lifestyle trends on this award-winning programme.
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A three part documentary from Lynn Freeman about her experiences in Tanzania and Kenya.
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The issues and experience of disability.
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Keith Richardson talks to members of the British Pathfinder squadron whose job was to highlight enemy targets for following bomber crews in the 1940s.
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The history of New Zealand place names with Peter Dowling.
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Special programming for Queen's Birthday.
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Lynn Freeman visits the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary on the Gold Coast armed with a microphone and a curiosity about Australia's endangered creatures.
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Remembering Sir Paul Callaghan
An archive of lectures, interviews and discussions with this eminent New Zealand scientist.
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Radio New Zealand celebrates 60 years of international shortwave broadcasting.
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In this New Zealand Society series Amelia Nurse looks into what keeps us returning to the sea.
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A magazine programme with feature interviews on current affairs, science, literature, music and more.
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Instead of just talking to the experts, the Country Life team is getting its hands dirty and is off buying sheep.
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Sir Douglas Robb Lectures 2011
A series of three lectures by Tariq Ali.
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Documentaries about the life of Sir Edmund Hillary and audio from the state funeral.
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Amelia Nurse spent some time with former Air Force personnel from No 75 (Skyhawks) Squadron.
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Smart Talk at the Auckland Museum
A series of panel discussions recorded before an audience at the Auckland Museum, as part of the popular LATE at the Museum evenings.
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Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic, and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past.
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Tales of life in Te Waipounamu.
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Seventy years after the outbreak of war on the 18th July 1936, Radio New Zealand marked the anniversary with the experiences of two Kiwis who helped resist the onslaught of General Franco’s fascists against the government of Spain.
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Astronomer, meteoriticist and Jesuit Brother Guy Consalmagno gives students from Timaru High School a tour of Specola Vaticana, one of the oldest observatories in the world.
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Spectrum is a long-running documentary series – it began in 1972 – which captures the essence of New Zealand through stories, landscape and people.
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A seasonal interview-based programme on spiritual topics of wide ranging interest, alternating with the BBC's Heart And Soul programme.
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All sorts with good sports.
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An easy blend of music, interviews and stories from all over New Zealand and across the world. It’s the perfect holiday companion whether you’re winding down at the end of the old year, or powering up for the one to come. Your daily dose of sunshine on Radio New Zealand National.
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Discussion, features and ideas until midday.
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Tales of New Zealand Chinese History
Much is known about early Chinese settlement from the first influx of Chinese gold-miners in the mid 1800s, to the anti-Chinese immigration policy that evolved soon after. But some stories have rarely been told.
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The philosophy of Te Ahi Kaa is to reflect the diversity of Māori in the past, present and future. While bilingual in delivery, the programme incorporates Māori practices and values in its content, format and presentation.
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Bill Perkins' workmates in a Lancashire coal mine gave him the name 'Bantam Billy'. He was physically small and a fighter - a fighter for socialism which he saw as the only way of alleviating the harsh living and working conditions of the working classes in the 1900s.
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In this New Zealand Society feature Amelia Nurse takes a look at humour.
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Eminent New Zealand scientists explore the ideas of Darwin and their impact on society over the last 150 years.
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A 5-part series in which Sonia Sly deconstructs and looks at the many manifestations of our fears.
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This five part documentary series takes a fresh, contemporary look at the changing nature of the Chinese community in New Zealand.
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Exploring a wide range of subjects about New Zealand and Pacific history and culture, the MacMillan Brown Lecture series has been an institution at the University of Canterbury since 1941.
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The New Zealand National Anthem
The words and music to New Zealand's national anthem.
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A series set up in the memory of Bishop Sir Paul Reeves, former Archbishop of the Anglican Church of New Zealand, and Governor-General.
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Justin Gregory takes the Forgotten World Highway to stay at an historic hotel, rediscover a lost civilisation, talk about the past, present and future and join the locals for a drink or two as they celebrate all things Taranaki.
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The Te Papa treaty debates from 2005 up to the present.
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This Way Up is a weekly two-hour show that explores the things we use and consume.
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A collection of audio which explores the history of the Treaty of Waitangi.
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British Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse looks at two views of creation.
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Waitangi Day on Radio New Zealand National
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The annnual Waitangi Rua Rau Tau lecture looks forward to the Waitangi bicentenary in 2040.
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International public radio features and documentaries.
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Jared Davidson uncovers the story of the Industrial Workers of the World and their repression in NZ during the early 1900s and World War I.
Replay Radio
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