11 Mar 2016

Best of the Week - 11 March 2016

From Best Of The Week, 12:00 pm on 11 March 2016

Highlights from RNZ National's programmes for the week ending Friday 11th March. This week.... the minimum wage - how high is too high, critics of the TPP want more transparency when free trade talks start with the European Union, how the principal of Naenae College transformed the troubled school and its pupils, the debate over electric cars, the business practices of successful drug lords, the implications of a new scientific technique to edit DNA, why certain types of fungi are being sought by molecular botanists and geneticists, the hacking of Queen Nefertiti revives the issue of cultural theft, the training of a wild Kaimanawa horse who took out a top prize in the Horse of the Year show, we meet the talented former Paris street busker who won last year's prestigious Mercury music prize.

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