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Notes from the south with Dougal Stevenson
Dougal waxes lyrical about breath of sealion redolent with Omega-3 and personifies sand dunes in their buxomness.
Ideas: electric vehicles
Often hailed as our future and salvation in terms of the ability to mobilise, electric vehicles are becoming more of a reality but what is an accurate expectation and timeframe. Chris and Jeremy look at cars, bikes and trains to find out what's in the electric pipeline.
Peace for the Holy Land?
The cradle that nurtured three major religions is all to often the crucible that foments hatred and conflict. Chris speaks with two sides in the complex argument that is Israel and Palestine. Former Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti proffers a Palestinian perspective then Dor Sapir from the Israeli Embassy to New Zealand in Canberra allows us an insight into the Zionist point of view. Both want peace for what is essentially their shared homeland.
Dr Richard Grant - ready for Asia
Dr Grant is the director of the Asia New Zealand Foundation and he speaks with Chris about the increasing importance of Asia to New Zealand and the cultural paradigm which is shifting from the traditional Eurocentric one to a more contemporary Asia Pacific focus.
Mediawatch for 22 November 2009
This week the Mediawatch team look at: rugby's grip on the sports media - and soccer suddenly in the spotlight; claims that cash-strapped media companies are going soft on the rich and powerful plus; the response to the revelation that a prominent writer has borrowed bits of other authors' books.
Peter Clark - aviation addict
If the smell of jet fuel excites more than your olfactory senses then you could be like Peter Clark. He's flown in and been aboard most aircraft you've possibly heard of and then some. Peter chronicles his airborne obsession in a new book called and lt;i and gt;Flying: Adventures of a New Zealand Aviation Addict and lt;/i and gt;.
Insight, Sunday 22 November: Wet House
Teresa Cowie looks at the controversy surrounding the attempt to set up the first wet house for homeless alcoholics
Ideas
The idea of a truly democaratic education lives on.
Peter Bush
Veteran photojournalist Peter Bush has been taking pictures for sixty years.
Paul Warren
Paul Warren discusses how babies learn to cry in the language their parents speak.
Mediawatch for 15 November 2009
Lack of scepticism in stories about stem cell treatments; the role of the media amid moves for more democracy in Tonga; more on businesses covering reporterscosts.
Dmitry Orlov
Dmitry Orlov is predicting the demise of the USA.
Insight for 15 November 2009: Media Freedom in the Pacific
Sara Vui-talitu looks at the daily challenges journalists face in the Pacific.
Ideas for 08 November 2009
This week Ideas takes a look at a popular, bottom-up approach to combatting climate change in the UK; it's called the 10:10 Campaign. A 10% reduction in carbon footprint by 2010 is the target for over 1,500 businesses and 40,000 individuals which includes Britain's PM, Cabinet and a few hundred MP's. We also look at how onerous a task it would be to achieve in this country and what steps are being made towards it.
Notes from the South with Dougal Stevenson
Heresy, sedition, obsentiy... Dougal gives us a peak from Dunedin.
Gareth Evans: nuclear weapons
Chris speaks with this former Australian Foreign Affairs Minister about his post-political career and prominence in international nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.
Paul Gough: iconography of commemoration
He's a professor of creative arts at the University of Western England in Bristol and an eminent artist specialising in military landscapes. Professor Paul Gough is here in Aotearoa ~ New Zealand for Blow '09, Massey University's creative art festival and he speaks with Chris.
Mediawatch for 08 November 2009
This week the Mediawatch team look at: assisted passage - companies encouraging media coverage by covering reporters' expenses; television news leaving little to the imagination and; the quest to get words right in the era of blogging, spellcheck and txting.
Michael Zuern: the fall of the wall
Chris speaks with the Director of the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin about the demise of his city's infamous wall back in 1989. What were the consequences for the two Germanies, Europe and the world order?
Insight, Sunday 8 November: Ngapuhi
Lois Williams looks at the primary grievance claims of the country's largest tribe: Ngapuhi
Ideas
This week Ideas looks at Americans who have chosen to call New Zealand home. A poet, a blueberry farmer and the founder of a community newspaper tell us about their experiences both here and in America.
Professor Robert Wade
Professor Robert Wade from the London School of Economics takes an eagle's eye view of the world economy.
Joe Van Belleghem
Joe Van Belleghem discusses environmentally sustainable approaches to building.
Mediawatch for 1 November 2009
TVNZ promo poses political problems; taking offence at what's in the news; the difficulties of sending up sensitive issues; 3D returns to TV, Hollywood . . . and Stratford.
Alex Fergusson
Alex Fergusson is the presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament.
Insight for 1 November 2009: Super City
Rowan Quinn looks at how the change to a Super City will affect Aucklanders, from rubbish collection to rates
Mediawatch Extra 29 October 2009
The online-only companion to Radio New Zealand's Mediawatch programme, taking in comments from listeners and updating recent stories from the show. This month: Samoa's tsunami; covering climate change and copied comment; the 'Mad Men' mocking us with their ads; and those silly schoolboys - fascist or just foolish?
John Andrews
How do you perceive New Zealand and being a New Zealander? What is it that makes the existence of Pakeha life different from that of Maori in terms of the Kiwi experience? John Andrews, scientist and now writer, has set out to explore these themes in his offering"No other home than this". He speaks with Chris.
Professor Antal Fekete
The Gold Standard is a currency system based around the premise that a paper-note's value is exchangeable for an agreed and predetermined volume of gold. Countries have universally retired this system replacing it with the 'fiat system' of legal tender. Professor Antal Fekete is a world renowned monetary expert and mathematician who believes it's time to bring back the gold as the standard.