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Audio from Sunday 21 March 2010
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- 08:12 Insight, Sunday 21 March: Irish Economy
Nigel Stirling visits Ireland to look at how the global recession has turned the roar of the Celtic tiger into a whimper. (28′09″)
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- 08:40 Xinran Xue - Message from an unknown Chinese Mother
Chris speaks with Chinese author and journalist Xinran Xue about her riveting new read "Message from an unknown Chinese Mother" and gains an insight into the societal predisposition for sons in a country that's recently legislated against having more than one child. (19′36″)
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- 09:10 Mediawatch for 21 March 2010
A widely condemned security scare scoop; Joanne Morris on six years in the chair at the outfit upholding broadcasting standards; and how TV channels use the news to plug their upcoming entertainment shows. (35′30″)
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- 09:45 John Gleisner - volunteer psychiatrist in Palestine
Chris speaks with this New Zealand psychiatrist who's recently returned from a voluntary stint at a hospital in Bethlehem. We glean an insight into the wrongs and rights of the fractured state of Palestine. (15′39″)
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- 10:10 Paul Tapsell - Cook and Tupaia
Academic, Professor Paul Tapsell speaks with Chris about his recent article detailing the cultural gulf of perception between James Cook and the men for whom he was captain on the Endeavour with that of the Tahitian warrior priest, or Tohunga, Tupaia. This Tahitian Rangitira, or noble, was their guide and interpreter around these southern seas. (33′46″)
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- 10:40 Dougal Stevenson - Notes from the South
Dougal looks at the campaign to save the Regent theatre on Dunedin's famous Octagon. (5′06″)
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- 11:10 Ideas for 21 March 2010: Smoke Free Aotearoa
Ideas examines the future of smoking. We hear about Bhutan and their longstanding defiance of the tobacco norm; Niue's attempts to become smokefree; the increasingly influential Maori anti-smoking lobby; and cigarette alternatives to help wean the addict. (53′13″)
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8:12 Insight: The Celtic Tiger - Boom and Bust
Until the global financial crisis struck, Ireland was held up as a shining example of how to run a successful modern economy. But it has fallen harder than most during the global recession and its banking system and economy are in a mess.
Written and Presented by Nigel Sterling
Produced by Sue Ingram
8:40 Chinese author Xinran
Xinran talks to Chris Laidlaw about the place of women in modern China. Xinran is the author of two best-selling books on China: The Good Women of China and Sky Burial. Her latest, Message From An Unknown Chinese Mother is made up of the stories of Chinese mothers whose daughters have been wrenched from them.
9:06 Mediawatch
This week talks to Joanne Morris, the outgoing chair of the Broadcasting Standards Authority, which upholds the standards our broadcasters are obliged to abide by. Mediawatch also looks at a newspaper's security scare story which sank like a soggy souffle and how our broadcasters use their news programmes these days to plug their own entertainment shows. Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:45 Psychiatrist John Gleisner talks to Chris Laidlaw about his experiences working for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Bethlehem
10:06 Professor Paul Tapsell
The head of Te Tumu, the University of Otago's school of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies discusses the resurgence of interest in Maori culture and language, but at the same time holds fears that traditions are "decaying beyond repair".
10:45 Hidden Treasures
Each week Trevor Reekie takes you on a trip that seeks out musical gems from niche markets around the globe, the latest re-releases and interesting sounds from the shallow end of the bit stream.
Produced by Trevor Reekie
11:05 Ideas: Smoke Free Aotearoa?
A surprising number of those making submissions to the recent Maori Affairs Select Committee Inquiry into the tobacco industry called for a complete ban on the sale of tobacco. So is it just - excuse the expression - a pipe dream or is a smoke free nation a realistic goal?
Presented by Chris Laidlaw
Produced by Jeremy Rose
Discussion, features and ideas until midday.
Chris Laidlaw presents a thought provoking range of interviews, documentaries and music over four entertaining hours each Sunday Morning.
Highlights include Insight at 8.15am, Mediawatch at 9.05am, extended interviews at 8.40am and 9.30am and after the news at 10am, and at 10:40am there's Trevor Reekie's Hidden Treasures, followed by listeners' feedback at 10:55am. Ideas rounds off the morning between 11am and midday.
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