Sunday Morning for Sunday 19 March 2017
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Antonia Kirkland - Global rape epidemic
7:10 AM.Antonia Kirkland is Legal Equality Programme Manager at Equality Now, an international human rights organisation working to protect and promote the rights of women and girls. The organisation recently… Read more Audio
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'I knew I was doing the wrong thing' - forced adoption in New Zealand
7:35 AM.Thousands of unwed women forced into adopting out their children from the 1950s to 1980s are now demanding an inquiry into the practice.
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Evita March - Dating trolls
7:47 AM.Think of an internet troll and what comes to mind? Chances are the picture in your mind's eye is male - possibly pasty and pale - but definitely male. But a recent study by Australian academic Evita… Read more Audio
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Insight: Poorer Schools - When the Middle Class Flee
8:12 AM.The number of Pākehā students in low-decile schools has plummeted over the past 15 years. In this Insight RNZs Education Correspondent John Gerritsen visits three schools to find out the impact on… Read more Audio
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Tre' Packard - Stunning SeaWalls
8:40 AM.Tre' Packard is the Hawaii-based founder and director of PangeaSeed, which uses art, science and education to further ocean conservation. Tre' Packard is in Napier, where this weekend the street art… Read more Audio
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The Holocaust: the voices of victims and killers
10:10 AM.TV producer and historian Laurence Rees has spent 25 years on his latest book, The Holocaust. It contains personal testimony of both survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust and shows the inner… Read more Audio
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Annie Potts - Animals and earthquakes
10:35 AM.After the magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Canterbury on 4 September 2010, most media reports claimed that no lives had been lost. But In fact, this first earthquake killed at least 3000 chickens… Read more Audio
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Bill Frisell - Jazz Virtuoso
11:10 AM.Grammy award winning guitar legend Bill Frisell joins Wallace to talk about how he has forged his own musical path in the world of jazz. Bill Frisell is coming to Aotearoa for the Wellington Jazz… Read more Audio
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John Boyne - Writing life
11:40 AM.John Boyne is one of Ireland's most successful writers - his novel, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, became a literary best-seller and was later released as a film. John talks to Wallace about his… Read more Audio
7:10 Antonia Kirkland - Global rape epidemic
Antonia Kirkland is Legal Equality Programme Manager at Equality Now, an international human rights organisation working to protect and promote the rights of women and girls. The organisation recently released a report - 'The World's Shame: The Global Rape Epidemic', which shows legal systems in many countries fail to protect women and girls from sexual violence and do not give access to real justice if violence is perpetrated.
7:30 News Headline
7:32 The House
A weekly digest of the events in Parliament.
Produced and presented by Daniela Maoate-Cox and Phil Smith
Photo: supplied
7:47 Evita March - Dating trolls
Think of an internet troll and what comes to mind? Chances are the picture in your mind's eye is male - possibly pasty and pale - but definitely male. But a recent study by Australian academic Evita March revealed that when it comes to trolling on dating sites, women are just as likely as men to be the culprits.
8:12 Insight: Poorer schools - when the middle class flee
A class at Huntly College Photo: RNZ/John Gerritsen
The number of Pakeha students in low-decile schools has plummeted over the past 15 years. RNZ's education correspondent John Gerritsen visits three schools that experienced that change, to find out whether there are wider implications for society.
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8:40 Tre' Packard - Stunning SeaWalls
Founder and director of PangeaSeed, Tre’ Packard Photo: Supplied
Tre' Packard is the Hawaii-based founder and director of PangeaSeed, which uses art, science and education to further ocean conservation. Tre' Packard is in Napier, where this weekend the street art festival, SeaWalls, gets under way with 20 muralists from around the world painting on walls around the city.
Mural by New Zealand artist Askew One on the side of the Napier City Council building Photo: Olivia Laita
9:06 Mediawatch
A new news organisation's scoop about eggs raises questions about food standards and covert filming - and prompts plenty of puns. Also: a new local Chinese TV channel with bold goals and one journalist's quest to unveil ministers' ties to bloggers.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Thomas Hellum - Slow TV
Thomas Hellum from Norway's public broadcaster, NRK, joins Wallace to talk about the phenomenon of 'Slow TV' - where audiences have been tuning in in their droves to watch 12 hour television shows about knitting or train rides.
Laurence Rees Photo: supplied
10:06 Laurence Rees - The Holocaust
Television producer and historian Laurence Rees has spent 25 years on his latest book, The Holocaust. It contains personal testimony of both survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust and shows the inner workings of the Third Reich. He joins Wallace to talk about how important it is to understand this grotesque era in European history.
10:35 Professor Annie Potts - Animals and earthquakes
Annie Potts Photo: supplied
After the magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Canterbury on 4 September 2010, most media reports claimed that no lives had been lost. But In fact, this first earthquake killed at least 3000 chickens, eight cows, one dog, a lemur and 150 aquarium fish. University of Canterbury associate professor Annie Potts, along with co-author Donelle Gadenne, wrote Animals in Emergencies: Learning from the Christchurch Earthquakes, revealing what happened to the animals during and after the series of quakes.
Annie Potts will give a public lecture, ‘Animals and natural disasters: Learning from recent earthquakes’, on Thursday 16 March, 7pm at UC Ilam campus, Christchurch. Register to attend free at: www.canterbury.ac.nz/ucconnect
Bill Frisell Photo: MICHAEL WILSON
11:05 Bill Frisell - Jazz virtuoso
Grammy award winning guitar legend Bill Frisell joins Wallace ahead of his upcoming New Zealand appearances - to talk about how he has forged his own musical path in the world of jazz.
11:35 John Boyne - Writing life
John Boyne Photo: supplied
John Boyne is one of Ireland's most successful writers - his novel,The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, became a literary best-seller and was later released as a film. John talks to Wallace about his latest book, The Heart's Invisible Furies, and why it is perhaps his most ambitious work to date.
Music played in this show
Artist: Mavis Staples
Song: Jesus Lay Down Beside Me
Composer: Nick Cave
Album: Livin' on High Note
Label: Anti
Played at: 8:40
Artist: Bill Frisell
Song: Mess' With the Kid
Composer: Wells, Guy
Album: Guitar in the Space Age
Label: OKeh
Played at: 11:05
Artist: Bill Frisell
Song: Sub-Conscious Lee
Composer: Konitz
Album: History, Mystery
Label: Nonesuch
Played at: 11:35