Sunday Morning for Sunday 23 October 2011
8:12 Insight: Deep Sea Fishing Dollars
The New Zealand fishing industry is a $1.5 billion annual export earner. Fisheries reporter Nick Butcher asks if this country is failing to develop the industry and make the most of its earnings potential.
Produced by Philippa Tolley.
8:40 Hemana Waaka – Broadcasting in Te Reo
Pioneering Maori broadcaster Hemana Waaka heads Maori TV’s Te Reo World Cup commentary team. He talks to Chris about his career in broadcasting, writing the Maori sports dictionary, and how he is hanging up his boots to return to his whanau – and take a new career path – in Whakatane.
9:06 Mediawatch
Mediawatch looks at how one woeful Wallaby copped a mauling from our media, which were not as gracious in victory as the Australians were dignified in defeat. Mediawatch also asks visiting journalists what they make of our media during the Rugby World Cup – and what picture of New Zealand is being painted overseas. Also, who raised widely-reported fears that a cannibal killer was on the loose on a 'south sea island'?
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Phandu Skelemani – Life in Botswana
Botswana was one of the poorest countries in Africa when it gained independence from Britain in 1966. It has since transformed itself, becoming one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Botswana’s foreign minister Phandu Skelemani is visiting New Zealand and talks to Chris about his country and its close neighbours, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
10:06 Spiro Zavos and Paul Lewis – How to Watch the RWC Final
As the All Blacks prepare to face down the French Spiro Zavos, journalist and author of several books on rugby, including How to Watch the Rugby World Cup 2011, and Herald on Sunday sports editor Paul Lewis talk to Chris about how the Cup festival has gone on and off the field – and how the final is shaping up.
Spiro Zavos writes for The Roar
10.40 Notes from the South with Dougal Stevenson
Dougal’s been down to the Octagon to talk to the ‘Occupy Dunedin’ protestors.
10:45 Hidden Treasures
Trevor Reekie features a selection of music including the perennial Ry Cooder , kiwi hip-hop export Ladi6 and newcomer, Gambian Kora virtuoso Dawda Jobarteh.
Produced by Trevor Reekie
11.05 Ideas: From the Arab Spring to fall on Wall Street
2011 is shaping up to be an international year of protest with tent cities springing up in Israel, secondary school pupils occupying their schools in Chile, and hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets of Europe. Chris Laidlaw talks to Mark Kurlansky the author of ‘1968: the Year that Rocked the World’ about parallels with that momentous year, and Jeremy Rose speaks to protestors in Tunis, New York, Tel Aviv, Wellington and Santiago.
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.