Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa
13 February 2012 - 12:19 am NZ time
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Country Life
with David Knowles, Carol Stiles, Susan Murray & Cosmo Kentish-Barnes
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Audio from Friday 3 September 2010
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- 21:05 Intro and Pesticides in Food
Dr Meriel Watts of the Pesticide Action Network talks about The New Zealand Food Safety Authority's latest pesticide residue results. (6′46″)
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- 21:09 Regional Wrap
It's still wet all over the country and everyone wants sunshine. At least product prices appear to be improving. (6′14″)
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- 21:15 Possum Power
Possum trapper and fur trader Brian Adams also runs a successful tourist shop in Haast on the West Coast. (9′51″)
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- 21:19 Latitude 20 Degrees South
George Scott is manager of Lake Nash station in Australia's Northern Territory. He flies his own plane to regular get-togethers in Darwin, it takes five and a half hours each way and if he has to go to a meeting in Canberra, it takes five days - door to door! (9′59″)
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- 21:29 Waitakaruru Sculpture Park
John Wakeling has turned a derelict quarry in the Waikato countryside into an arboretum and sculpture park. (15′16″)
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Carol Stiles
Susan Murray
Cosmo Kentish-Barnes
Duncan Smith
Produced by Carol Stiles, Susan Murray and Cosmo Kentish-Barnes
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