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SATURDAY MARCH 14
This Is Us (RNZ National).
A series that falls into the
category of TV on the radio:
Iranian-New Zealand film-
maker Ghazaleh Golbakhsh
has made short profiles of
Muslims from many differ-
ent backgrounds, asking the
question “What do you love
most?” The answers include
“an addiction” to tennis,
camping and hiking, cooking
and hearing stories from a
beloved grandfather about an
ancestor who arrived in New
Zealand in 1908. tinyurl.com/
NZLThisIsSUNDAY MARCH 15
Opera on Sunday (RNZ concert,
6.00pm). American soprano
Lisette Oropesa dazzled in
this production of Massenet’s
Manon – her performancealone was “worth the price
of admission”, according to
the New York Times, her voice
“by turns brightly crystalline
and arrestingly powerful”. Her
compatriot, Michael Fabiano,
is Le Chevalier des Grieux, her
lover.WEDNESDAY MARCH 18
Music Alive (RNZ Concert,
8.00pm). Mozart and Schu-
bert feature in this Deutsche
Welle Festival concert with
tenor Julian Prégardien and
pianist Kit Armstrong. It’s
a rather sombre evening:
Schubert’s Winter Journey song
cycle, based on poems from
his friend Wilhelm Müller,
expresses themes of love, loss,
loneliness and despair. Works
by Mozart, such as Fantasia in
D minor, act as a commentary
and foil to the Schubert.by FIONA RAE
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92512, Wellesley St, Auckland 1141.WE LIVE IN NOPE
I think I get Diana Wichtel’s
point about the Prime
Minister’s unequivocal yes/
no answers (TV Review,
February 29).
It is “give politicians
enough nope and they’ll
hang themselves”.
Dean Donoghue
(Papamoa Beach)HATEFUL
I am appalled at the torrents
of hate speech in the media,
especially from front-people,
talkback hosts and the like.
We are supposed to be
permitted to express our
thoughts, but it seems to
depend on whether your
beliefs are the popular ones.
I am horrified at the way
Hannah Tamaki has been
mistreated so publicly.
Who wants to dance with
the stars, anyway?
AN Christie
(Rotorua)US AND THEM
On Wednesday, February
25, we woke up to major
news items: reports of
78,000 cases of Covid-19
around the world, with
deaths in Italy and Iran as
the struggle continues to
contain major outbreaks
before it becomes a
pandemic; stock markets
tumbling; and dozens of
kids seriously injured when
someone drove a car into a
carnival crowd in Germany.
So, what was the lead item
on RNZ National’s Morning
Report at 7am? The HarveyWeinstein court case on rape
charges.
I think this column
has discussed the
Americanisation of Radio
New Zealand before. It seems
to be getting worse.
I suppose it’s easy to play
audio clips of earnest court
reporters in the United States,
but a little more balance
would be really appreciated.
Greg Sligo
(Dunedin)THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT
I think I might speak for
many readers who are
tantalised by the trailers in
the Online column because
we don’t know how to use
those mini links.
Might you explain how to
get at the pieces?
There is a lot of online
information about how to
create the tiny URLs, but
nothing, it seems, about how
to crack the code and get at
the goods.
Lesley Cavanagh
(Snells Beach)
Talkback responds: We use
the website tinyurl.com to
turn enormously long browser
addresses into small ones and
it is probably the easiest way
of giving readers of a print
magazine a website address.
If you type the URL, such as
“tinyurl.com/NZLTang”, from
last week’s Online column,
into your internet address bar,
it will direct you to the correct
page.
The “NZL”, short for New
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PODCAST OF THE WEEK
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The Guardian in the UK has been making a series
about gene editing, which includes a podcast
series called The Gene Gap: Common Threads.
The difference is that, instead of asking the
scientists, it has turned to groups that might be
affected by technologies that could rewrite our
DNA, such as parents of children with chromo-
somal abnormalities.
tinyurl.com/NZLGeneGapJulian Prégardien, Music Alive,
Wednesday.Ghazaleh Golbakhsh,
This Is Us, Saturday.