Sunday Morning for Sunday 10 July 2011
8:12 Insight: Embracing the Dragon
Insight looks at whether Taiwan's new relationship with China will bring opportunity, or hand more control to Beijing.
Written and presented by the BBC's Chris Hogg
8:40 Stevan Riley – Fire in Babylon
Fire in Babylon is the story of the glory days of West Indian cricket – back in the 1970s and ‘80s when the team, lead by the inspirational captain Clive Lloyd, blitzed all opposition. Set against the backdrop of apartheid in South Africa and unrest at home, it’s the story of how the West Indies triumphed over the colonial masters. And its got some great music. Chris talks to director, Stevan Riley.
Fire in Babylon is screening at the NZ International Film Festival
9:06 Mediawatch
Mediawatch looks at the naming and shaming of the man the media dubbed ‘the Jetstar urinator’; and how one politician got the blame for the lack of a crackdown on synthetic cannabis. Also on the programme: The man behind the alternative TV channel Stratos tells us it can fill the void of public service television, but how? And are those clever comedians on TV as off-the-cuff as they appear to be?
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Jim O’Brien – Cleaning the Cement
The cement industry is a big, dirty business, responsible for five percent of the world’s carbon emissions – and there’s a lot of work being done for a cleaner product. Jim O’Brien, the President of UEPG (Union Européenne des Producteurs de Granulats), the European Aggregates Association, is in New Zealand and he joins Chris to talk about cement companies amassing billions of dollars of carbon credits, and the race for carbon-neutral cement.
10:06 Tony Woods – Off the Grid in Afghanistan
New Zealander Tony Woods works alongside local people to build small-scale electricity projects in remote areas around Afghanistan. It can be a risky business but, as Tony tells Chris, the pay-off is worth it. His wind and solar power schemes improve living standards, bring job opportunities and some stability to towns and villages where the people are sick of conflict and want a better life.
Tony Woods is owner and director of Sustainable Energy Services Afghanistan. He is attending Engineering Change, New Zealand's first humanitarian-engineering conference, at the University of Auckland next weekend.
Trevor Reekie digs up new releases from UK chanteuse Thea Gilmore; and something new from UK-Indian born composer Nitin Sawhney.
Produced by Trevor Reekie
11.05 Ideas: Homosexual Law Reform 25 Years On
It’s 25 years since homosexuality became legal in New Zealand. Ideas talks to: former Wellington Central MP Fran Wilde, whose private members’ Homosexual Law Reform Bill finally changed the law in this country; Wellington counsellor and gay activist Bill Logan on the campaign for homosexual law reform and his life as an out gay man; and Phylesha Brown-Acton of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation about her work around the Pacific where homosexuality remains illegal in many countries.
Presented by Chris Laidlaw
Produced by Jeremy Rose
11.55 Feedback
What you, the listeners, say on the ideas and issues that have appeared in the programme.