Nine To Noon for Friday 11 June 2021

 

 

09:05 Education review recommends systematic shift

A new report finds children are being short-changed in primary school classrooms, with teachers and principals telling a review they need more time and resources to to do their jobs properly. The review by the NZ Educational Institute has called for changes including smaller class sizes, a teacher aide in every classroom and more access to special education and counselling.  It says staffing in primary and intermediate schools has changed little since the 1990s, and as a result schools are struggling to keep up with changes in society and in the way they are expected to teach. Liam Rutherford is the president of the Educational Institute, he speaks with Lynn Freeman.

09:20  Fury over Wellington arts restructure 

There is concern in Wellington art circles over the axing of a key role at Wellington's City Gallery.  Experience Wellington, owned by the city council, operates six cultural institutions, including Space Place at Carter Observatory, City Gallery Wellington, and the Cable Car Museum. It says it is adopting a new bi-cultural approach to curation with dedicated senior Toi Māori and Art curators, and there's to be a new role of Director of Māori Engagement across all six institutions. But in the shake-up City Gallery Wellington is losing its dedicated director - despite opposition from many in the arts sector. Lynn speaks with Professor of Fine Arts Massey University, Heather Galbraith who's a former senior curator at City Gallery Wellington; freelance curator, Nigel Borell,  a former Curator Māori at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Dr Sarah Rusholme, Chief Executive of Experience Wellington.

09:30 Kobolds: Jeremy Randerson

Actor Jeremy Randerson explores the ethics of saving native over other creatures in a sold out outdoor show in the mid-winter Lōemis Festival. Kobolds takes place in the dark in a park in the Wellington suburb of Melrose.  Jeremy tells Lynn Freeman audience members will need to be nimble on their feet and have a flashlight handy.

09:45 Asia correspondent Ed White

Ed has an update on Japan and the Olympic games, with the International Olympic Committee insisting that the games can and will go ahead despite frustratingly high Covid-19 infection numbers and a very slow vaccination programme. Taiwan also is grappling with a late and severe coronavirus outbreak.

Ed White is a correspondent with the Financial Times.

10:05 Single life: suits Emma John

Emma John speaks with Lynn Freeman about embracing single life in a world where being in a couple is seen as the endgame.  Marital bliss has failed to materialise for Emma, she hasn't found her 'other half', but she doesn't care.  Instead the British writer, podcaster and sports journalist has written about how never marrying or taking a long-term partner is a valid choice. Emma John's new memoir is Self Contained - Scenes from a Single Life.

10:35 Book review: Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan

Sally Wenley reviews Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan, published by Macmillan

10:45 The Reading

The Years Before my Death, part nine. David McPhail reads from his memoir. 

11:05 New music with Jeremy Taylor

The soaring emotion of Japanese Breakfast's third album, the emotional heavy weather of the 30-year-old Wedding Present 'Seamonsters', and a brand new song from 2021 Taite Prize winner Reb Fountain ahead of Record Store Day.

11:30 Sports commentator Dana Johannsen

Sport NZ's draft principles for transgender athletes are causing some disquiet in the sporting community, with 40 former Olympic and elite athletes writing to the minister for sport and recreation this week seeking an extension to the consultation period over its guiding principles. And the Black Caps second test against England is underway.

 

11:45 The week that was with

Comedians Te Radar and Irene Pink bring a few laughs

Music played in this show

Artist: Carniverous Plant Society
Track: My Mum is Proud of Me
Time played: 10.05

Artist: Weather Station
Track:Parking Lot
Time played:11:45