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2021-08-2803 minRNZ: Saturday MorningLillian Hanly: The tough decision of being tested for Huntington'sIn her new short documentary Fifty Percent, Lillian Hanly grapples with an agonising decision: should she get tested for Huntington's disease? Her grandfather, New Zealand artist and printmaker Pat Hanly, had the neurodegenerative disease, and her biological mother also has Huntington's - as do other members of her family.
2021-08-2722 minRNZ: Saturday MorningNZ Wars: Stories of TainuiA new documentary with accompanying podcast casts fresh light on a campaign in the New Zealand Wars. NZ Wars: Stories of Tainui is the third part of a series produced for RNZ by Great Southern Television and looks at the events surrounding the invasion of the Waikato by soldiers of the Crown in 1863. The action preserved the power of what is now one of Aotearoa's oldest political institutions- the Kingitanga- and paved the way for land confiscations that remain the subject of discussion (and Treaty settlements) to this day. We speak to the show's host and creator Mihingarangi Forbes, and...
2021-02-1228 minRNZ: Saturday MorningPhotographer Bruce Connew: NZ's colonial memorialsAcclaimed war photographer Bruce Connew has turned his lens on to our country's colonial memorials to document "a vocabulary of colonisation". His exhibition A Vocabulary at Te Uru Gallery in Titirangi, Auckland features 79 images of memorials and gravestones dating from 1863 through to 2015, and runs until February 14th. The exhibition also acts as a preview for a book of the same name due out in February featuring many more photographs.
2020-12-1822 minRNZ: Saturday MorningUS nuclear testing legacy lingers in the Marshall IslandsDuring the 1940s and 50s the US detonated 67 nuclear bombs on, in and above the Marshall Islands as part of its Cold War nuclear testing programme. The Marshall Islands are two chains of 29 coral atolls in the middle of the Pacific Ocean between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii. At the time, whole islands ceased to exist, hundreds of native Marshallese had to be relocated off their home islands and many were affected by fallout from the testing. The Marshallese continue to campaign for adequate compensation from the U.S. Runit Dome, on Enewetak Atoll, houses 88,000 square metres of contaminated soil...
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2020-12-1110 minRNZ: Saturday MorningFrancesca Goodman-Smith: tackling supermarket food waste26 year old Francesca Goodman-Smith is on a mission to tackle New Zealand's food waste problem. Working for Foodstuffs, one of the country's biggest supermarket chains, she's designed an award-winning waste minimisation programme across 130 stores.
2020-11-2818 minRNZ: Saturday MorningKathy Baughman McLeod: naming heat waves like hurricanesKathy Baughman McLeod is Director and Senior Vice President of the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center at the international affairs think tank, The Atlantic Council. Working on the intersection between business and future environmental risk, her old job at Bank of America involved planning the investment of US$125 billion into eco friendly projects by 2025. She also led a team at the Nature Conservancy using natural infrastructure (and tailored insurance policies) to reduce storm and flood risk in low lying economies through Latin America, Australia, Asia, the US, and the Caribbean. An author and documentary producer, Baughman McLeod now wants us...
2020-11-1315 minRNZ: Saturday MorningAigagalefili Fepulea'i-Tapua'i: Speaking up for South Auckland studentsAigagalefili Fepulea'i-Tapua'i has become a powerful voice for South Auckland students. The 17-year-old Aorere College head girl has spoken to the impact of Covid-19 on her fellow year 13 students - many of whom had to leave school to help support their families. And against continuing negative media portrayal of her community who were often on the front line as essential workers. In May this year, one of her Instagram posts went viral. She is an accomplished spoken word poet and last year she the New Zealand Storytellers competition with her piece Waiting for Water. She has just been announced as...
2020-10-0312 minRNZ: Saturday MorningCatherine Chidgey's new book Remote SympathyMulti award-winning New Zealand author Catherine Chidgey is just about to release a new book, Remote Sympathy. It's her sixth book - earlier novels In a Fishbone Church, Golden Deeds, and The Wish Child, have all won awards, both here in New Zealand and internationally. Like bestseller The Wish Child, Remote Sympathy is set in Nazi Germany. It tells the story of Frau Greta Hahn, the wife of SS Sturmbannfuhrer Dietrich Hahn, who has taken up a powerful position at the Buchenwald work camp - as its administrator. Catherine Chidgey has a degree in German and spent three years living...
2020-10-0216 min