14 Aug 2015

Best of the Week - 14 August 2015

From Best Of The Week, 12:00 pm on 14 August 2015

This week........John Campbell reveals what his multimedia programme will bring to Radio New Zealand, Judge "Billy" Murphy, Jr. on the law and policing in Baltimore , gay and transgender people still face discrimination nearly two years on from the first same-sex weddings, the uncoventional life of a lesbian Yorkshire landowner in the early nineteenth century, a young Indian New Zealand entrepreneur's award winning technology saves lives around the globe, actor Alan Alda on helping scientists communicate, tracking the Lapita people - ancestors of modern Polynesians across the Pacific, Australian rugby great Michael Lynagh on recovery from a major stroke, the talents of poet and musician Roger Lusby, and 92 year old musician Bill Sevesi is to be inducted into the NZ Music Hall of Fame.

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