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SUNDAY MARCH 11
The Hui (Three, 9.30am).
Current affairs series The
Hui – winner of Best Māori
Programme at last year’s
television awards – returns;
host Mihingarangi Forbes
is joined by reporters Rewa
Harriman, Ruwani Perera and
Raiha Johns. There’s now a
full complement of Sunday
morning current affairs
shows: Newshub Nation,
hosted by Lisa Owen, fol-
lows The Hui at 10.00am and
political interview series Q+A,
with Corin Dann, is back on
TVNZ 1 at 9.00am. On Monday,
Māori Television’s current
affairs series Native Affairs also
returns (8.00pm).Jane (National Geographic, Sky
072, 7.30pm). This terrific por-
trait of anthropologist Jane
Goodall features early footage
of her with the chimpanzeesshe studied for so long.
It was shot by Goodall’s
husband, Hugo van Lawick,
in 1962, and only recently
discovered, and it reveals
their love story as well as her
love of the chimps. Director
Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays
in the Picture) is a genius at
this sort of montage storytell-
ing, and incredibly, he edited
his movie together before
interviewing Goodall, now
in her eighties. Just to add to
the excellence, the score is by
Philip Glass.Trauma (TVNZ 1, 8.30pm).
Another knife-edge drama
from Doctor Foster writer Mike
Bartlett, who shifts perspec-
tive between his two leads,
John Simm and Adrian Lester,
in this psychological thriller.
With such good actors, we
must prepare to have our
emotions toyed with, asSimm’s grieving
father targets the
surgeon (Lester) who lost his
son on the operating table.
Is it just a case of a father
needing someone to blame,
or is there something else
going on?MONDAY MARCH 12
Julius Caesar with Mary Beard
(Choice TV, 8.30pm). Julius
Caesar was a “master of the
comb-over”, quips Mary
Beard in this one-off exami-
nation of the most famous
Roman of them all, his legacy
and influence. It appears
that, apart from the military
conquests, he was a PR genius
who knew how to get the
populace on his side with
such terms as “the metro-
politan elite” and sound
bites such as “veni vidi vici”.
Modern leaders, from dicta-
tors to elected politicians,ment
mothers and babies that illus-
trate how we treat girl and boy
babies differently. Also, even
if parents are aware of placing
the same expectations on girls
and boys, they’re not the only
ones in their children’s lives.
“We’ve got parents, grand-
parents, friends, aunties,
uncles – many of those people
like to fuel those gender
stereotypes,” says University of
Auckland psychologist Annette
Henderson. “Then you’ve got
toys that children interact
with and the media and lots of
other social pressures.”
One person who knows
something about having an
untypical female or male
brain is intersex activist
and counsellor Mani Bruce
Mitchell, who was raised as a
girl but didn’t feel particularly
male or female. “I realised I
had learnt the performance of
being female,” says Mitchell.
“I didn’t really work out who I
was until my forties.”
There is an area where there
are striking differences in male
and female brains, and that’s
neurological disorders. Men
are more likely to suffer from
Parkinson’s, women from
Alzheimer’s. There are clear
differences between boys and
girls with autism, and ADHD
is three times more common
in boys. lJane, Sunday.The Best of the Week
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