Simon Morris is on leave for the next few weeks so Dan Slevin is filling in. This week Dan reviews 25 April – New Zealand’s Gallipoli story told through first-person testament and 21st-century animation techniques – and Meryl Streep as the legendary “worst singer in the world” Florence Foster Jenkins. He also chats to Dan Shanan, co-director of the Documentary Edge Film Festival.
7:30 PM.Dan Slevin (filling in for Simon Morris) reviews 25 April - an animated version of New Zealand's Gallipoli story - and Meryl Streep portraying the "worst singer in the world", Florence Foster Jenkins… Read more Video, Audio
7:31 PM.Dan Slevin reviews Leanne Pooley's animated version of the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of 1915. Audio
7:32 PM.Dan Slevin interviews co-director of the DocEdge film festival, Dan Shanan about the 2016 event in Wellington and Auckland. Audio
7:33 PM.Dan Slevin reviews Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant in Stephen Frears' new film about "the worst singer in the world". Audio
9:08 AM.NZ On Air has announced a major change to the way it funds local content. From next July, it will move to a single public media fund, covering many types of content for different audiences. This will… Read more Audio
9:30 AM.An expert in marine sanctuaries is warning huge marine protected areas like the one planned by New Zealand's government around the Kermadec Islands could actually be undermining conservation efforts… Read more Audio
9:42 AM.Charlotte Glennie discusses the international response to North Korea's 5th nuclear test, and Hong Kong's angry youth - what has happened to the umbrella movement protestors? Audio
10:10 AM.Contrary to what is assumed, its the brain not the body which decides when there has been enough physical exertion. Writer Amit Katwala has published a book on the neuroscience of sport and how the… Read more Audio
11:30 AM.Brendan Telfer on latest Warriors snare of Kieran Foran and how the Black Caps are faring in their test against India. Audio
NZ On Air has announced big changes to the way it funds local content. From next July, it will move to a single public media fund, covering many types of content, for different audiences. This will replace the multiple funds and strategies that currently exist. Kathryn Ryan talks to Chief Executive Jane Wrightson about what this will mean for viewers and listeners.
An expert in marine sanctuaries is warning huge marine protected areas like the one planned by New Zealand's government around the Kermadec Islands could actually be undermining conservation efforts. There has been huge uptick in efforts to seal off parts of ocean to fishing and mineral extraction recently, but Dr Peter Jones, an expert in marine protected areas at University College London, says they are being focused on remote parts of the ocean where very little fishing and drilling actually happens.
Charlotte Glennie discusses the international response to North Korea's 5th nuclear test, and Hong Kong's angry youth - what has happened to the umbrella movement protestors?
Contrary to what is assumed, its the brain not the body which decides when there has been enough physical exertion. Writer Amit Katwala has published a book on the neuroscience of sport and how the brain can be trained to improve sporting prowess and endurance. As well as a sports journalist he has a masters in experimental psychology from Oxford University. He talks with Kathryn Ryan about his book, The Athletic Brain.
Grant Smithies sheds a tear over the modern rocksteady ballads of New York's Frightnrs, takes a musical guided tour of inner-city Christchurch with local punk upstarts The Transistors, and falls in love all over again with a reissued singles compilation by the mighty New Order.
Brendan Telfer on latest Warriors snare of Kieran Foran and how the Black Caps are faring in their test against India.
Te Radar and Elisabeth Easther's take on Shannon streakers, peanut butter strategies and a potential fashion solution to all those stray cats.
Duwayne Toetu Pailegut was beaten and partly paralysed in June 2007, but it was another eight days before the seven-year-old died. He was found unconscious at his home in Stoke on 2 July.
Johnny Pukerua Joachim, 37, was sentenced on Wednesday at the High Court in Nelson. He previously pleaded guilty on 2 September.
Justice Dobson said Joachim severely beat the boy with his fists and a cricket stump after finding he had left his jersey at school.
The court was told the boy was left partly paralysed by the initial attack and died with 75 external injuries.
Joachim refused to allow medical assistance and tried to shock the boy back to consciousness with cold showers and applying pressure to his chest to make him vomit.
Mary Joachim, 28, has been charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life for her son. She will appear at a depositions hearing in November.
Nayland School says the boy's absence raised no suspicions at the time. Principal Janice Gulbransen says the school had not been worried as it believed the family was holidaying in Auckland.
Formula One's drivers have declared their support for the 'rebel' teams and backed their threats of creating a breakaway series if they cannot resolve the sport's current crisis.
After a meeting with the teams at the Turkish grand prix, drivers' spokesman Italian veteran Jarno Trulli said that if there was no settlement before this Friday, the drivers were ready for a split in the sport.
Trulli said the drivers in general were upset at the scale of the crisis and the way they've been ignored regarding major changes proposed by the FIA for next year's championship.