12 Apr 2013

Best of the Week - 12 April 2013

From Best Of The Week, 12:00 pm on 12 April 2013

Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 12 April. This week ......is New Zealand ready for the digital switchover to watch TV; changing the thinking of imprisonment and rehabilitation; how will giant Kauri trees cope with increasing droughts; Joan Dye Gussow - one of the earliest converts to the eat-locally-think-globally food movement; tracing the story of the impressionist artists' retreat Pumpkin Cottage; saving the native long-finned eel; Rick Bryant plays favourites; our most popular recreational fish - the kingfish and remembering George Lowe - one of two Kiwis on the 1953 Everest expedition.

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