New Zealand Listener – August 24, 2019

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THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT

The Best of the Week

SUNDAY AUGUST 25

The Sunday Feature (RNZ

National, 4.06pm). Tuia 250

commemorations, marking

the first meetings between

Māori and Europeans,

will include a

flotilla sailing

to 14 loca-

tions around

Aotearoa

from October

to Decem-

ber. On dry

land, Awkward

Conversations with

Alex Perrottet is a new

series recorded at Gisborne’s

Smash Palace bar – not far,

we assume, from Cook’s first

landing place in 1769. Today,

Perrottet talks to Wayne Ngata

and Mai Chen.

MONDAY AUGUST 26

Music Alive (RNZ Concert,

8.00pm). Daniel Barenboim

and the West-Eastern Divan

Orchestra are joined by the

legendary Argentinian pianist

Martha Argerich for this

lively and sensation-filled

Prom at the Royal Albert Hall.

Argerich performs Tchai-

kovsky’s intense Piano

Concerto No 1 in

between Schu-

bert’s Symphony

No 8, Unfinished,

and Witold

Lutosławski’s Con-

certo for Orchestra,

the work that estab-

lished him as a major

composer in 1950s Poland.

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28

Music Alive (RNZ Concert,

7. 3 0 p m). Aucklanders are
   currently recovering from
   their symphonic exertions;
   now it’s time for Wellingto-
   nians to enjoy the NZSO’s
   Beethoven Festival, in which
   music director Edo De Waart
   conducts all nine Beethoven
   symphonies over the course
   of four nights at the Michael
   Fowler Centre. RNZ Concert
   is broadcasting them live,
   starting with “Heroic” –
   Symphonies 1, 2 and the
   popular No 3, Eroica. Tomor-
   row night’s “Destiny” (Music
   Alive, 7.30pm) features Nos 4
   and 5; on Friday, “Pastoral”
   (Music Alive, 7.30pm) will be
   Nos 6 and 7. The final con-
   cert, Joy, is on August 31.

by FIONA RAE

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PIPPED AT THE POST

Why is RNZ National eight

seconds ahead of interna-

tional time? Switch on the

hourly BBC News (Sky 089)

and just before each hour,

a small clock in the corner

ticks away the seconds. It

winds down to “00.00” eight

seconds after RNZ National

has already broadcast its time-

signal “pips”.

I first noticed this discrep-

ancy when I felt I should

follow our news as well as the

world news, and now I can’t

stop checking it.

The world is divided into 24

time zones; surely the hours all

coincide precisely, and I’m sure

the BBC (home of Greenwich

Mean Time) is accurate.

Ted Cornell

(Waikanae)

Talkback responds: RNZ

National tells us that, in fact, it

is the BBC pips that arrive late,

as they originate outside New

Zealand and suffer from “propa-

gation delay” – that is, the time

it takes to process, upload and

then deliver audio over digital

networks. If you watch or listen

to Radio New Zealand via Sky

TV or Freeview, there will also

be a slight delay between the

radio and TV due to this digital

latency.

POOR RESULT

In support of Jennifer Bev-

eridge (Talkback, July 27), I,

too, miss the Young Farmer of

the Year event.

This is about New Zealand-

ers achieving. No matter

what the ratings, it still

deserves to be shown. It is

only an annual event and is

good viewing for families.

Please, just for once, let

financial consideration take

second place.

Norma Powell

(Christchurch)

Talkback responds: It is a

shame. The best we could find

is this report on the NZ Herald

website with accompany-

ing video and also an audio

interview with the winner,

James Robertson: tinyurl.com/

NZLYoungFarmer.

TRAGEDY OF MOKO

Thank you to the produc-

ers of Sunday for presenting

the case in favour of Oranga

Tamariki (TVNZ 1, August

11). Those social workers

we saw, and others whom

we didn’t see, have all my

sympathy.

The tragedy of little Moko

Rangitoheriri, who died four

years ago, is an often-repeated

story. He didn’t have a

chance at anything we would

call a life from the time he

was conceived. Some will be

outraged at my saying that,

but I would ask those same

people, where were they for

Moko for the three years of

his short life?

The anger of protesters

directed at Oranga Tamariki

for the “taking” of chil-

dren from their whānau is

misplaced. Let those people

“poke their noses in” where

they know of other endan-

gered children. That would be

a responsible thing to do.

Selwyn Boorman

(Waikanae)

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PODCAST OF THE WEEK

Quite Fishy

If you love QI, then you’ll love No Such Thing As a Fish, the

podcast in which the QI elves discuss their favourite facts of

the week. It’s so popular, they even tour with a live show and

will be in the US in November. Funny and interesting.

nosuchthingasafish.com