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16 | From the mouths of children
Peter Ellis will forever be associated with
one of the country’s most troubling child
sexual abuse cases. But his experience has
at least helped to bring changes to the way
children’s evidence is gathered and used in
court. by Donna Chisholm
24 | Melting moments
New Zealand’s mountain glaciers are
vanishing. They have shrunk by nearly a
third since the 1970s and could be gone
by the end of the century unless we move
quickly towards zero emissions. And, as
they retreat, we are losing more than ice.
by Veronika Meduna
30 | The powerless Pākehā
The mostly forgotten story of Europeans
kept as slaves by Māori between the
1790s and 1880s challenges the theme of
“colonisation and exploitation that is central
to postcolonial writing”. by Sally Blundell
THIS LIFE
34 | Health The earlier onset of
menstruation has far-reaching health
implications, but data is lacking. by Ruth Nichol
36 | Nutrition Ignore the storage guidelines
for bottled vege products at your peril.
by Jennifer Bowden
38 | Food Flavoured varieties of honey offer
endless possibilities in the kitchen.
by Lauraine Jacobs
40 | Wine A classy trio of wines honours an
industry pioneer. by Michael Cooper
42 | Psychology The reasons for the
ongoing spate of gun-related atrocities in the
US are obscure. by Marc Wilson
44 | Sport An A to Z of the ninth Rugby
World Cup, which gets under way in Japan on
September 20. by Paul Thomas
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46 | Off the chain Pulitzer Prize winner
Colson Whitehead explains why his novels
about historic American racism aren’t
written out of anger, his rising literary
stardom and the influence of Sonic Youth.
by Russell Baillie
48-53 | Books Elizabeth Knox moves
between real and fantasy worlds in her epic
novel The Absolute Book; a biographical
novel by Carolina Setterwall; political satire
by Jarett Kobek; poetry by John Allison;
a round-up of NZ non-fiction and an
exploration of carbon by Robert Hazen
54 | Music Country star Tami Neilson is
about to embark on a nationwide tour with
her brother, Jay
54 | Classical From Al Fraser, Sam Leamy
and Neil Johnstone
56 | Film Girls of the Sun, High Life, Mystify:
Michael Hutchence

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Boris in no man’s land
M
oderate MPs using their legal voting rights
in Parliament to save their country from a
possible recession should be the sign of a
democracy in good health. However, in the
UK, where the recession – if it happened
– would be a by-product of implementing
the people’s will in a referendum, it is now
regarded by many as holding the country to
ransom.
The UK’s chronic impasse over its plans – or lack of them – to
leave the European Union has intensified, and not even an elec-
tion will necessarily pave a way forward.
A majority of MPs have
refused to let Prime Minister
Boris Johnson achieve Brexit
without first negotiating a deal
to ensure the transition has an
orderly framework. Johnson is at
war with the caucus he has led
for less than two months.
Twenty-one Conservative MPs
have effectively been expelled
and more are resigning, all
characterised as traitors for join-
ing the Opposition to prevent
either a Brexit crash-out or a
snap election to try to resolve
the impasse.
Further legal manoeuvres are possible, Johnson may be banking
but it is unlikely an election can precede on the Dunkirk spirit,
the Brexit deadline of October 31, meaning
Johnson must now secure a deal or seek
with Britons stirring to
another extension from the EU. the challenge of feeling
He says Parliament is thwarting the will under attack.
of the people, who three years ago voted to
leave the EU. MPs’ refusal to pass any exit
deal so far put before them has created a suspicion in the elector-
ate that they might even kill off Brexit.
The MPs argue that in marshalling a bloc to prevent a no-deal
exit, they are protecting Britons from the sharp and lingering
recession that most experts predict would be the result of crash-
ing out of the EU without a deal.
Johnson declares he’d “rather be dead in a ditch” than delay
and gives every sign of actually preferring to crash out. He rejects
doomsday no-deal trajectories such as the Treasury’s Operation
Yellowhammer report, which plans for mass food shortages and
deaths through lack of drugs. Johnson says such planning is
merely fearmongering and, like his predecessor, has refused to
release the full report.
However, the Irish Republic, on the front line of Brexit because
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of uncertainty about how a Northern Ireland border would work,
is openly expecting comparable upheaval.
Still, brute realism may be on Johnson’s side for now. The EU
shows no sign of improving the exit offers made so far. Johnson
understandably fears the present Parliament might reject future
deals indefinitely. A fresh election is inevitable, but not possible
until late November at the earliest.
ohnson may be banking, meanwhile, on the Dunkirk spirit,
J with Britons stirring to the challenge of feeling under attack
from hostile foreigners. His Plan B entails lining up trade
deals with non-EU countries, including the US and South Korea.
Trade being a two-way street,
some EU countries would suffer
as badly or worse than the UK
if mutual trade were left to
atrophy. Johnson believes he
has grounds to gamble that any
recessionary effects of a no deal
would be transitory.
Parliament, having repeat-
edly strong-armed him, might
strengthen his electoral appeal
as an underdog battling the
elites.
But an election would be a
roulette wheel. The Conservative
and Labour parties’ votes have
collapsed, and it is possible the new Brexit
Party, which would leave the EU immedi-
ately, or the moderate Liberal Democrats,
which would halt Brexit altogether, could
lead the next government, causing further
division.
Labour’s pledge of a second referendum
would solve little. It rightly argues that
voters were misled before the first vote, including being wrongly
told Brexit would free the UK from EU and European Court of
Justice rules and allow restriction or reversal of EU migration.
However, after three years of being pelted with fact checking,
a majority still want out. Polling suggests a second referendum
would pass, and by a similar slender percentage majority to the
original 52-48 vote.
Like many other countries, New Zealand can only look on in
bewilderment as the saga drags on. And on.
The ditch in which Johnson has offered to die is already well
stocked with the corpses of those who have failed to find a safe
way to lead the UK out of the EU. The vagaries of the first-past-
the-post voting system ensure the ditch can always accommodate
ALAMY
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Explaining high
blood pressure
“Calling out the silent killer”
(September 14) stated that “the
primary cause of hypertension
is unknown in 95% of cases”.
However, research into the
blood-pressure-lowering effect
of low carbohydrate diets by
the UK’s Dr David Unwin
and colleagues, who have put
type 2 diabetes into long-term
remission in 40 cases within
one practice, provides an
insight into this “essential
hypertension”.
Hypertension is a common From left, Pamela Stirling and Diana Wichtel, and pictured with Listener staff Ryan Holder,
feature of both the metabolic Lauren Buckeridge and Shane Kelly.
syndrome discovered by US
endocrinologist Gerald Reaven
and its sequel, type 2 diabetes.
Excessive insulin levels promote
Magazine reaps awards
I
the reabsorption of sodium in t was a big night for the Listener, its editor the course of 80 years.”
the kidneys, causing an increase Pamela Stirling and columnist Diana Stirling, who was given a standing ova-
in fluid volume. Without carbo- Wichtel at the Magazine Media Awards tion at the Magazine Publishers Association
hydrate in the diet, the reduced on September 5. The Listener, which is in its event in Auckland, was named best editor
insulin response results in this
80th year, was jointly judged best current in the current affairs, business and trade
affairs and business magazine. category and received the overall editor-
sodium and fluid being lost.
Stirling says it was a thrill and honour of-the-year award. The judges called her a
That this effect is not solely
to accept the award on behalf of the “courageous editor who puts her readers’
dependent on weight loss was
magazine’s staff and contributors. “This is a interests first” in an increasingly challeng-
seen in the case of a patient of magazine regarded with genuine respect ing magazine=publishing environment.
Unwin’s with a BMI of 22.1, and affection. And that’s thanks to all those Senior writer Diana Wichtel won the
whose blood pressure fell passionate, dedicated and talented people best-columnist award for her TV Review
from 142/94 on medication to who have worked on the magazine over columns (page 71).
132/75 without it, an improve-
ment that has lasted three
years, after the prescription of a sugar and carbs”, may point The story about high blood medical science data, includ-
low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet. to the cause, as well as the pressure acknowledges that ing magnesium, isometric
Vikram Singh, whose success treatment, of hypertension. drugs do not always work, or hand grip training, hibiscus
story is told in the magazine, It is likely that many, perhaps have side effects that reduce tea, L-arginine, Transcendental
which included his “giving up most, of the 95% of apparently patient compliance. No Meditation, beet juice, garlic,
inexplicable cases of hyperten- mention was made of other vitamin D and ginger.
sion could be explained, and treatments that also work only For patients who are encour-
Letter of the week treated, if the fasting triglycer- sometimes but have fewer aged to take a pro-active
The letter ide-to-HDL ratio was examined associated side effects. and co-operative role in the
of the week
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Quips&
Quotes
“Wondering if the name
‘measles’ isn’t threatening
enough, like ‘Ebola’. Maybe
they should rename it ‘the
pink death’.” – documentary-
maker David Farrier
“Most clairvoyants you
meet are either depressed
or angry. It’s hard to find a
happy medium.” – tweet by
Dean Nimbly
“I like nonsense; it wakes up
the brain cells.” – Dr Seuss
“People think of education
as something they can
finish.” – Isaac Asimov
“He has the memory and
skin tone of a goldfish.” – US
comedian Jimmy Kimmel on
Donald Trump
“If cats looked like frogs,
we’d realise what nasty,
cruel little bastards they are.
Style – that’s what people
remember.” – Terry Pratchett
“Trump had to be corrected
by the National Weather
Service. I know we’re used
to it by now, but it still
amazes me how often the
Government has to tell you
not to pay attention to the
President.” – the Daily Show’s
Trevor Noah on Trump’s hurricane
claims
“Becoming a solo singer is
like going from an eau de
toilette to a perfume.” – Geri
Halliwell on leaving the Spice Girls
“Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as
the brain empties.” – French
writer Jules Renard
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“A friend is someone who
knows the song in your
heart and can sing it back
to you when you have
forgotten the words.” – US
broadcaster Bernard Meltzer
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management of their health,
informed discussion of these
and other alternatives may
result in better overall manage-
ment of hypertension.
Jim Brook
(Massey, Auckland)
A few years ago, a family
member was on the highest
possible dose of medication for
blood pressure that was “spiral-
ling out of control” until a
locum general practitioner
took a fresh look at his case.
She arranged a test and
subsequently an operation
Life in New Zealand
KiwiBuild is a leaver, not an
outcome, Woods said.
NZ Herald, 4/9/19
She understood the culprits
were teenagers, who had snuck
through the cat door while the
family were away in June.
Taranaki Daily News, 12/8/19
Correction: Fraudster Joanna
Harrison was employed by the
Ministry of Transport, not NZTA
as stated in a correction last
week.
Sunday Star-Times, 11/8/19
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to remove an adrenal gland.
Since then, his blood pres-
sure has been normal and no
medication needed. I think she
saved his life.
Anne Martin
(Helensville)
TROUBLES IN COUNCILLAND
The September 14 Editorial
rightly identifies areas where
local government, in which I
work, can be improved.
From what I see from the
inside, councillors are there
because they genuinely believe
they are contributing to
… like all sports, it might be time
for the game to move with the
times and go back to the future.
Independent Herald, 8/8/19
Her initial idea was to start a
choir focussing on the signing
side of things …
Akaroa Mail, 16/8/19
“In a world of unlimited
design possibilities, you no
longer have to put up with the
monstrosity that is the average
dog bowl,” says Scott.
Viva, 29/5/19
their community. I’ve seen a
number of immensely capable
people who don’t stand for
re-election because they’re
exhausted.
It’s not elected councillors’
fault that very few from a
variety of demographics offer
themselves for election. Blam-
ing those who do stand for
election for the flaws in local
government is akin to blam-
ing the police for the crime
rate, or pointing the finger at
dedicated journalists for the
troubles of the print media.
Robert Cant
(Nelson)
LETTER OF THE WEEK
MATTERS OF FAITH
Belief in the supernatural is
certainly ubiquitous (“Gods
& monsters”, September 7;
Letters, September 14). Our
brains have evolved to have
this propensity for believing
in things that aren’t there. Mis-
using religion in the interests
of Mammon is also rife, and
Karen Armstrong’s analysis of
religion’s uses and abuses rings
true.
It brings home the need to
put scriptures in context by
teaching the history of religion
in schools as part of social
science, and making explicit
the distinction from scientific
research. The curriculum
could be drawn from all types
of supernatural beliefs, from
fairies, ancestor worship,
animism and totemism, to the
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10 Quick
Questions
1. Which of these
continents has a large area
of land that is unclaimed
by any country?
❑ Australia
❑ North America
❑ Africa
❑ South America
2. Which franchise exited
the Australian market in
2003 after losing a legal
battle?
❑ Pizza Hut
❑ Starbucks
❑ Burger King
❑ Domino’s
3. In 1989, the former New
Zealand Department of
Health’s Toxic Substances
Board was first in the world
to propose what?
❑ Plain tobacco packaging
❑ Fuel quality regulation
❑ Phasing out CFCs
❑ Cannabis legalisation
11th Question
11 What is your
favourite way to eat
a Countdown Instore
Bakery Cookie?
❑ With a cup of tea
❑ Shared with friends
and family
❑ Two as an ice cream
sandwich
❑ An after dinner treat
multiple gods of Māori,
Greeks and Romans and
the later monotheistic gods
of Judaism, Christianity
and Islam.
At primary level, it could
be based on human values
legends, parables, fairy tales
and fables drawn from a
wide variety of sources. At
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4. Which TV show included
duo Statler and Waldorf?
❑ The Flintstones
❑ Fraggle Rock
❑ Sesame Street
❑ The Muppet Show
5. What is the origin of the
phrase “pipe dreams”?
❑ Bagpipe playing
❑ Oil prospecting
❑ Medieval plumbing
❑ Opium smoking
6. True or false? Chubby
Checker got his stage
name after doing a Fats
Domino impression.
❑ True
❑ False
7. Which fitness fad did
Suzanne Somers promote
on TV in the 1990s?
❑ Jazzercise
❑ Vibrating belt
❑ Thighmaster
❑ Aerobics
secondary level, we could
do worse than base it on
extracts from Lloyd Geer-
ing’s marvellous book From
the Big Bang to God.
Lee Pomeroy
(Kilbirnie, Wellington)
“Gods & monsters” omit-
ted mention of recent
secular belief systems
such as socialism and
capitalism and their equally
dangerous corruption by
fundamentalists.
I refer to the worship of
a modern abstract deity
called “the economy”. Like
books of the Bible, its scrip-
tures, by writers including
Adam Smith, Karl Marx,
John Maynard Keynes and
Milton Friedman, differ
widely among themselves.
Its modern shamans are
economists, the mass media
and business moguls who
SW E ET
TR E AT ?
8. In Martin Scorsese’s
controversial 1988 film The
Last Temptation of Christ,
who played Jesus?
❑ Willem Dafoe
❑ David Bowie
❑ Mel Gibson
❑ Harvey Keitel
9. In which body of water
did the 2010 Deepwater
Horizon oil spill occur?
❑ Caribbean Sea
❑ Gulf of Mexico
❑ Bering Sea
❑ Persian Gulf
10. Which of these would
you typically find in
ceviche, a dish originating
in Peru?
❑ Raw fish
❑ Fried bananas
❑ Guinea pig
❑ Steamed ham
Answers on page 62.
jealously guard idols such
as “business confidence”,
“growth” and “competi-
tion” from interference
in the interests of human
welfare.
The Bible’s writers
christened this idolatry
“Mammon” and had much
to say about it, including
bans on usury and coveting
thy neighbour’s property.
Today, voters and govern-
ments alike tremble before
Mammon and modify their
more humane policies so as
not to disturb it.
A growing ideology of
sustainability and inclusive-
ness is slowly taking hold.
But believers must be vigi- Countdown’s Own bakery cookies
lant to ensure it embraces
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compassion and is not in its
turn corrupted by dogma- Look for them in
tism and fundamentalism.
Karen Butterworth
the bakery section.
(Waikanae)
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BERNARD
LAGAN
IN SYDNEY
Advance, unfair Australia
Moves in Canberra
to further toughen
deportation laws
strain transtasman
relations.
I
t is early spring in Manuka, a leafy
corner of Canberra that echoes of
New Zealand. Cars glide down its
main thoroughfare, which was
to be named Wellington Ave after
the New Zealand capital when those
planning Australia’s capital in 1913
assumed New Zealand would join the
Australian federation.
The invitation within the Austral-
ian constitution remains for Aotearoa
to be Australia’s seventh state – his-
tory known by the Kiwis who are my
lunch companions but less familiar to
the unruffled public servants throng-
ing the restaurants. Many would
also be unlikely to know
the suburb is named after a
sinewy New Zealand shrub –
another vestige of Australia’s
misplaced confidence that
New Zealand would elect to
join.
In the 118 years since the
Australian federation was
formed, both countries have
nevertheless become inter-
twined. The 1200 nautical
miles of Tasman Sea that
helped sink Australia’s ambi-
tions for a seventh state have
been shrivelled by aircraft,
ANTHONY ELLISON
high-speed communications
and the mass migration of
New Zealanders. Australia is
home to 13% of Kiwis.
Yet, rarely have relations
10
between Canberra and Wellington been so strained.
In the nearly four months since the cock-a-hoop
Scott Morrison led Australia’s conservative parties
to a triumphant return to office, it has become
clear that there will be no easing of the policy that
is causing much aggravation to New Zealand: the
forced deportation of New Zealand-born offend-
ers who have been in Australia for most of their
lives. By contrast, New Zealand does not deport
non-citizens who have resided for 10 years or more
– believing a country of residence still has obliga-
tions to them.
Worse, Australia is now widening the net of those
who can be deported – a move that will, again,
have a disproportionate effect on the New Zealand-
born and result in ever more offenders being sent
back to what is effectively a foreign land. Under a
planned toughening of Australia’s character test,
non-citizens will risk deportation if their offence is
punishable by up to two-years’ jail – even if a court
imposes a more lenient sentence.
ame Annette King, New Zealand’s High Com-
D missioner to Canberra, took the unusual step
last month of appearing before an Australian
parliamentary committee to personally put her
“According to the specs, the new hardware
upgrade lets you transmit and receive.”
The refusal to
address the
core of New
Zealand’s
concerns leaves
open an ugly
conclusion.
nation’s strong objections to the
deportation of long-term resident
Kiwis. It was the feisty veteran Labor
senator Kim Carr, Australia’s former
minister for science and research,
who eventually asked the provocative
question: how do you respond to the
allegation that this is a proposition to
improve public safety by getting rid
of New Zealanders?
King might have been tempted to
mention that she has a Kiwi-educated
stepson in Australia – a brain surgeon
who happens to be in charge of
neurosurgical training in Western
Australia. Diplomatically, she said she
hoped the policy wasn’t designed to
especially target New Zealanders.
Which begs the question: why
don’t Morrison – the architect of the
deportations policy – and its enforcer,
Minister for Home Affairs Peter
Dutton, recognise that New Zealand
makes a sound argument regarding
the deportation policy?
Their refusal to address the core
of New Zealand’s concerns
leaves open an ugly conclu-
sion – that Australia’s long
and deep animosity towards
Pacific Island migrants may
be behind the policy. Of the
hundreds deported to New
Zealand from January 2015 to
April 2018, at least 60% were
Maori or Pacific Islanders.
In those 12 decades since
New Zealand rejected Aus-
tralia’s federation overtures
– partly on the grounds of
how Australia treated non-
whites – some things appear
to have changed little. l
New Zealander Bernard Lagan is
the Australian correspondent for
the Times, London.
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 LIFE
BILL
RALSTON
Process of abuse
The Labour Party’s
handling of a sexual
abuse complaint
is a bad look for
its leadership.
W
hat on Earth has gone
wrong in New Zealand
politics? A 19-year-old
woman details to the
media how a Labour Party staffer,
employed by the Parliamentary
Service in the Labour leader’s Office,
sexually violated her, and when
she took her complaint to the party
hierarchy, she says her allegations
were ignored.
The Labour Party line is that its
internal inquiry into the man was
about allegations he had bullied
and harassed as many
as a dozen of his fellow
workers, it was not about
claims of sexual assault,
and the young woman
should take her com-
plaint of sexual assault to
the police.
The party then allows
the man to continue
working in Parliament
and, it is said by Jacinda
Ardern, assures the Prime
Minister that there were
no allegations of a sexual
nature against him. The
party seems to believe it
can say this because it
refused to acknowledge
STEVE BOLTON
those sexual complaints,
which were not for-
mally included in its
investigation.
12
In politics,
a cover-up
causes a worse
reaction than
the original
offence.
Wrong. This is an ostrich-like burying of its head
in the sand. It should have offered the woman help
the party that there were none.
A queen’s counsel (QC) is now
and support so that she felt strong and confident investigating what went on and will
enough to lodge a police complaint. Instead, it
tried to sweep the matter under the carpet.
report directly to Ardern in a month
or so. Labour’s attempts, so far, to
The Parliamentary Service is not much better in shut the issue down have simply
its response, saying it had received no complaint of
sexual assault about him despite the fact that the
fuelled speculation and resulted in
more allegations airing in the media.
situation is now public knowledge. The agency has The several weeks to come before the
a duty of care in the health and safety of its workers QC reports back are also unlikely to
and the fact someone has alleged sexual assault by quieten the matter and the possibil-
one of its staff surely means other women in the ity remains that more women will
parliamentary precinct are potentially at risk from surface to either expand on their bul-
him should the complaint be true. lying and harassment claims or make
Meanwhile, Wellington police are investigating worse allegations.
two separate complaints of indecent assault from
parliamentary workers in another case and, also, a here is an old rule in politics
man has pleaded guilty to assault after complaints
of sexual assault at a Labour Party youth camp.
The latest allegations from the young woman
T that it is the cover-up that causes
the worst reaction rather than
the original offence. From what we
appear to have left Ardern nonplussed. She already know, it seems the Labour
claims she found out that there were com- Party did try to cover up allegations
plaints of a sexual nature only when the news of a sexual nature against the man by
broke in the media. She had been assured by simply ignoring them.
Worse, if the statement
from Ardern is correct,
it completely misled
the Prime Minister
when it told her there
was nothing of a sexual
nature in the complaints
it received. She is left
looking flummoxed and
bewildered in the media,
which is never a good
look for a political leader.
Yes, the young woman
should have laid a police
complaint, but it’s easy to
understand her embar-
rassment and fear that
the process could let her
down. What is impossi-
“It’s a completely revolutionary design. ble to understand is that
We think it’ll plough through money the Labour Party ignored
faster than anything we’ve ever seen.” her and left her in such
distress. l
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 POLITICS
JANE
CLIFTON
Fawlty powers
Rushing through new freshwater policies would be a big mistake.
D
avid Parker is known to say quite
rude things about, and even to,
the farm sector. The Environ-
ment Minister has now become
to farmers what Basil Fawlty is to
German tourists.
He knows he has to put up with the damned rural
lot, with their piddling cows and leaching irrigation,
because of their contribution to GDP. But deep
down, he seems to wish that they’d all just naff off.
He has now given vent to this antipathy in
the draft national freshwater policy standard,
which would indeed drive a lot of them out of
business. Let’s pause to concede that some of them
thoroughly deserve to be. But this regime would go
much further than smiting the grossly negligent
and the foolishly overborrowed.
With timing reminiscent of Basil closing the
hotel on bank holiday weekends, Parker has given
the agriculture sector six weeks of spring – the peak
lambing, calving, budding and cropping time – to
come up with a response for “consultation”.
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Politically, this is going to end about as well as the
time Manuel kept a pet “hamster” in his room.
Although no one argues that New Zealand’s
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degraded freshwater standards are
even faintly acceptable, fixing this at a
pace that results in the gutting of rural
communities and export earnings
would be a rather hollow victory.
Coming just weeks after the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change stressed the importance of
optimising land use for increased
food production, this policy will
need careful calibration if it’s not to
have the net effect of New Zealand
producing less tucker.
To uninterested townies, farmers
are always whingeing about
something, and this might play as just
more catastrophising about having to
make do with last year’s quad bike for
another season. The politics are neatly
pre-quarantined in that the rural
sector is so strongly National-voting
that the Government might calculate
it has little to lose.
But it has New Zealand First’s
support to lose, and that guarantees a
massive dust-up unless considerable
concessions can be negotiated.
NZ First depends on a
subsistence share of the rural vote
to survive. The water policy, along
with the Zero Carbon legislation’s
emissions targets for farms, gives
it an ideal platform with which
to try to replenish that dwindling
support.
Whether by a furious and
genuine walkout or a stagey
Gwyneth Paltrow-style conscious
uncoupling, these issues cannot
help but split the Beehive and
may send NZ First into the Noes
Rude boy: David Parker.
lobby with National – possibly never
to return.
This will, of course, look a lot like
pure political opportunism in which
Winston Peters, having blithely
signed off on the drafts of both
policies, abruptly and cynically swaps
his high horse for a cavalry charger.
But these issues have a seriousness
beyond immediate polling. If they
have too severe an effect on our
Parker has given the
sector six weeks of
spring – the peak
lambing, calving and
cropping time – to come
up with a response.
export earnings, the economic price
could be crushing.
Even discounting for the hyperbole
of lobbying, there looks set to be
a decimation of farm profitability
in some districts, resulting in mass
conversion to forestry as the only way
to make the land pay at all. This is
not a pathway towards optimal land
use or necessarily even environmental
benefit beyond temporary carbon
sequestration.
BUMBOOTING IMPULSES
No one should argue farmers are due
a bit of mollycoddling – quite the
contrary. Given that our dairy jug-
gernaut, Fonterra, which enjoys its
very own mollycoddling legislation,
has delayed its annual report because
financial authorities are still bee-
tling all over its books to determine
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precisely how terrifying its write-downs should be,
Parker’s bum-booting impulses are quite defensi-
ble. Our political and farming leaders need to do
an urgent business-case reassessment of the entire
sector.
It is overleveraged and over-intensified, and the
policy’s effective ban on further intensification is
hard even for sector leaders to quarrel with. But
even the experts are still disputing the biological
measurements proposed and the time scales.
It’s not just the local economic and rural and
social effects that need watching, but those of the
planet. As Parliamentary Commissioner for the
Environment Simon Upton has warned, it’s pretty
hollow politics if New Zealand passes environmen-
tal measures that leave its own domestic statistics
looking all shiny and skite-worthy, while the net
effect on the planet, particularly for climate change,
is worse as a result.
Environmental activists are understandably impa-
tient with our farm sector’s special pleading that
it produces food far more sustainably than other
countries, but it remains a fact. It’s the dreaded
“carbon leakage” phenomenon. Were we to appreci-
ably downsize our output, those world markets
would be taken by other countries that produce
food considerably less sustainably than we do. We
get poorer and the planet cops more dangerous
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emissions than if we had kept that
market share.
You’d think that calculation would
be central to the framing of all such
policies in this day and age. But it’s
easier, safer politics to demonise
farmers and growers for their carbon
footprint than, say, social-media users
or smartphone owners, who aren’t a
lot flasher on the green scale.
It’s easier, safer politics
to demonise farmers
for their carbon
footprint rather than
smartphone owners.
HEROICALLY MODEST ESTIMATES
A further problem is the freshwater
plan’s reliance on local councils,
which have yet to get to grips with
the existing freshwater standards
imposed two years ago, let alone this
slew of immensely more exacting
ones. This comes even as the Govern-
ment has announced plans to impose
a governance super-structure over
councils, because it can’t trust them
with water management.
All this will be further complicated
by Māori ownership and governance
issues yet to be determined. As now
framed, the primary determination of
water quality will be vested in iwi and
hinge on concepts such as waiora,
not just nitrogen levels and fauna
habitat.
The Government has, after what
officials call “very limited modelling”,
issued a heroically modest estimate
of the policy’s cost, saying it would
knock 1-3% off farmers’ incomes.
What might be more instructive
is if the Government could calculate
how many lawyers’ billable hours the
policy will generate. It will certainly
take more than six weeks before this
row is nitrate-free water under the
bridge. Judges could very well end up
deciding on more of our water policy
than anyone else – in honour of
CHRIS SLANE
which, it’s irresistible to picture Parker
in the scene where Basil furiously
thrashes his car with a stick. l
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CHILD TESTIMONY

FROM THE
MOUTHS OF
CHILDREN
Peter Ellis will forever be associated with one of the country’s
most troubling child sexual abuse cases. But his experience
has at least helped to bring changes to the way children’s
evidence is gathered and used in court. by DONNA CHISHOLM

W
hen author Lynley asked him for some biographical details to
Hood interviewed flesh out his character. Ellis raised one eye-
Peter Ellis in jail brow and asked archly, “How graphical do
while researching you want it to be?”
her book A City Despite spending seven years in prison
Possessed, on the in the 1990s, Ellis’ spirit was undaunted,
Christchurch Civic Hood says. It pointed to a character with
Crèche case, she more steel than many imagined, a trait
“Public disquiet over
Ellis’ convictions
isn’t going away.
The ripples spread
too wide.”
further illustrated after his release in
2000 by his ceaseless efforts to clear
his name. His supporters hope that
despite Ellis’ death on September
4 from bladder cancer, aged 61, a
final appeal to the Supreme Court
in November will finally see him
Peter Ellis’ death from cancer has not
brought an end to efforts to clear his
name.
exonerated of the child sex abuse charges
on which he was convicted in 1993.
Now, as obituaries are written rather than
his biography – however “graphical” that
might be – Hood and others are reflecting
on the impact of his case and how it will
be viewed in New Zealand’s judicial history.
What change has it brought about? What
is the legacy of Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis?
Hood’s book concluded Ellis was the
innocent victim of a city in the grip of mass
hysteria over satanic child sexual abuse – a
city that needed to find a scapegoat. “Hun-
dreds of high-profile criminal cases have
gone from notoriety to obscurity in the 26
years since the Christchurch Civic Crèche
case hit the headlines,” Hood told the Lis-
tener after his death, “but public disquiet
over Peter Ellis’ convictions isn’t going away.
The ripples spread too wide.” These included
an exodus of male teachers from the profes-
sion. According to Ministry of Education
figures, currently less than 5% of preschool
teachers, and less than 12% of primary
school teachers, are men.
Nigel Hampton QC, Ellis’ former lawyer,
believes that if a Criminal Cases Review
Commission is established, the Ellis case

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 CHILD TESTIMONY

will have been instrumental in its creation.
“Our criminal appellate system is too con-
strained by statute and convention to even
have before it, let alone try to reason with
and decide upon, the wider background
issues and context – including the epide-
miology of the satanic ritual abuse moral
panic – that played such a significant part
in the Ellis case.”
For law professor Mark
Henaghan, formerly of
the University of Otago
but now at the Univer-
sity of Auckland, the Ellis
case was a watershed of
“how best to obtain evi-
dence from children and
how not to do it”.
At the University of
Otago, associate profes-
sor of psychology Rachel Lynley Hood
Zajac works closely
with Harlene Hayne, the university’s vice-
chancellor, whose research team’s forensic
analysis of current thinking on children’s
evidence in such cases is pivotal to the
appeal. Hayne will not speak about the 1000
hours of work since her involvement began
in 2004, but Zajac says the criminal justice
system failed Ellis repeatedly.
“Although I’d like to think we’re finally
on track to correct this, any correction now
comes too late. It’s our responsibility to
make sure we learn from this case and keep
on learning. It will always be a reminder
that when interviewing a child – or indeed
any witness – good intentions don’t cut it.
We need to be doing everything possible
to elicit memory evidence in a way that
preserves accuracy, and we need to ensure
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practice; we need to connect what we know
with what we do. We all owe that to Peter.”
QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS
The flaws in the way the children’s evi-
dence of abuse was gathered and presented
in court included contamination by par-
ents and “expert” interviewers who used
leading questions, sug-
gestions and rewards to
elicit disclosures in mul-
tiple interviews. Zajac
says the risks of repeated
leading questions, and
ascribing behavioural
issues as symptoms of
abuse, were known even
then. “I don’t think we
can say we didn’t know
at the time. We certainly
didn’t know as much,
but we did know.”
Zajac has done several studies on the cross-
examination of children, a practice that, she
says, contravenes everything recommended
for child interviews. “You’re allowed to lead Forensic analysis: Harlene Hayne, above, and
Rachel Zajac.
“Years of research
now demonstrates were confusing and ambiguous, children
were really reluctant to ask for clarification.
that conventional We saw quite a bit of evidence of misun-
cross-examination of derstandings where children would answer
vulnerable people is a question that hadn’t actually been asked.
shooting fish in a barrel.” And when leading questions were asked,
children were highly likely to say ‘Yes,’
rather than ‘No, you’ve got that wrong.’”
the witness – in fact, you’re encouraged to Three-quarters of the children made at
lead the witness. The questions are often least one significant change to their earlier
very complex, very confusing to the child, testimony. “If a child had said in an evi-
and they are quite confrontational because, dential interview that the colour of the car

that memory evidence is presented and
evaluated appropriately in the courtroom.
To do that, we need to connect science with
by definition, cross-examination is trying to
discredit them.”
Despite this, she says, courts must retain
the ability to cross-examine. “We
need to be able to test children’s evi-
dence, especially in these cases where
it’s all you’ve got. The vast majority of
these hinge on the word of the child
versus the adult. I don’t really have
a solution for it, but I do know that
the questioning style used during
cross-examination is detrimental to
children’s accuracy.”
She obtained transcripts of court-
room cross-examinations and found
the children’s responses were “really
concerning. Even when the questions
Ellis’ former lawyer Nigel Hampton QC.
was red, when the lawyer said, ‘Oh, perhaps
you’re mistaken, perhaps the car was blue,’
they started saying, ‘Okay, the car was blue.’
Some children retracted altogether and said,
‘Okay, you’re right, it didn’t happen.’ But of
course, we know absolutely nothing about
accuracy in those situations. It could be that
it’s helping children to become more accu-
rate – lots of advocates of cross-examination
would say it clears up misunderstandings,
but we thought, given the questioning style,
it’s equally possible the children were start-
ing off correct and ending up incorrect.”
To test this thesis, Zajac’s team recruited
large groups of children – originally five- and
six-year-olds but later including older chil-
dren up to adolescents – and staged a novel
event about which they were interviewed on
video later. In one study, children were taken

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on a visit to a police station where they had
their mugshots taken and went into a jail
cell. “But there were also things they didn’t
get to do that we asked them about later.”
When interviewed immediately after-
wards, the children were highly accurate
in their recollections. They were then rein-
terviewed eight months later – the sort of
delay that occurs in court. “We showed the
children their original video, and then inter-
viewed them using a style consistent with
what we see in court. We were trying to talk
the child out of their earlier responses. So,
if they said they had gone into the jail cell,
we tried to get them to say that they didn’t.
We had a number of standard reasons for
disbelief that we had seen in the transcripts
and they ranged from, ‘I think you’re mis-
taken about that,’ to, ‘You’re making that
up,’ or, ‘Someone just told you to say that,’
or, ‘If your teacher said you did get to do
that, she’d be right, though, wouldn’t she?’
And the children would often just go along
with those things – they were just as likely
to change a correct answer as they were to
correct a mistake.”
So, why would children do this? Zajac
says researchers have suggested many rea-
sons, including that the delay made them
forget what they did or didn’t do. But she
says her team replicated the research and
reinterviewed the children two days after
the event and “we still saw the same thing”.
About a third of the children changed their
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“evidence” about all four things they were
questioned about, and only about 15%
remained true to all their original responses.
For most, she says, “their accuracy plum-
meted to the point where they were
basically operating at chance, even those
who’d started off at 100%”.
Which, of course, raises the question:
why couldn’t the lawyers in the Ellis case
cross-examine the children into recanting
their evidence? But, at trial, the defence
tactics focused on eliciting details of the
contamination by parents and “expert”
interviewers rather than encouraging the
children to admit they could be mistaken.
Given the number and extent of interviews
they’d already been subjected to at such a
young age, it was highly likely they were
convinced the abuse had, in fact, happened.
Zajac says she doesn’t like people to refer
to children’s evidence as “unreliable”. The
onus is on the adults to get it right. “We
know children have special vulnerabilities
and it is up to us to interview them in a
way that those aren’t played out. When you
have a child who is not quite sure what is
The potential remains
for “moral panics”, witch-
hunts, and contamination
of evidence by parents or
unskilled interviewers.
expected and wants to please an adult, and
an adult with very good intentions but a
strong belief that something has happened
to this child, then, yes, you have a recipe
for disaster.”
It’s difficult to counsel parents against
sustained questioning of a child they fear
might have been abused, she says.
“You think of course those parents
would have questioned those chil-
dren within an inch of their lives,
it’s a well-intentioned thing. But
if the child mentions something,
just say, ‘Tell me everything you can
remember,’ thank them for telling
you, then take it to the profession-
als.” She says most of the child
interviews she sees these days as
an expert witness are “really well
conducted”.
Zajac is an associate investiga-
tor under Hayne on new research
Law professor Mark Henaghan.
looking at how jurors interpret the evi-
dence of both children and adults in cases
of sexual assault, especially when they are
historical, and what warnings or instruc-
tions might be useful.
WHERE THERE’S SMOKE …
People who believe Ellis was guilty point
to the consistency of the children’s stories
about the extreme and bizarre nature of
the abuse. Ellis was accused of sodomising
children, forcing them to eat his faeces, uri-
nating on them, suspending them in cages,
putting them in ovens or taking them on
terrifying trips of abuse through tunnels,
ceilings and trapdoors. “I’ve always had
the theory that these are the worst things
that children can come up with and when a
child is interviewed repeatedly with a strong
suggestion that something bad happened
here, when they finally go, ‘I’m going to
give this person what they are asking for,’
they do tend to come up with remarkably
similar things across cases, with the tun-
nels and cages and sacrifices and things like
that. And when one child reports tunnels,
interviewers ask other children about the
tunnels and things go downhill from there.”
People, including jurors, might have a
“where there’s smoke, there’s fire” approach
to implausible allegations, Zajac believes.
“They can say, ‘Well, of course that didn’t
happen, but something must have hap-
pened for the child to be saying that.’”
Although the Ellis case will always be
held up as pivotal to the later overhaul
of approaches to child witness testimony
here, there is evidence that, internation-
ally, change was coming anyway – just not
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quickly enough for Ellis.
In 1993, the year after he was arrested,
two of the world’s foremost experts in the
 CHILD TESTIMONY

International effort:
child testimony
researchers, clockwise
from above, Deirdre
Brown, Michael Lamb,
Charles Brainerd and
Margaret-Ellen Pipe.

Building blocks of reliability

A Wellington researcher is at the forefront of efforts to improve
the questioning of children and identify false memories.

D
eirdre Brown, a senior lecturer
in psychology at Victoria
University of Wellington, was
a first-year student when the
Peter Ellis case blew up. “It
highlighted how important it was that
we understood what children bring
to the table, what interviewers bring
to the table and how that combina-
tion can produce good information
or not-good information,” she says.
“And the stakes are really high.”
Brown began to look in depth at chil-
dren’s memories of stressful events during
her honours degree, under supervisor
Margaret-Ellen Pipe, a pioneer of chil-
ROBERT CROSS
at City University of New York.
After a Marsden Fund grant in
2014, Brown, in collaboration with
co-researchers Michael Lamb of Cam-
bridge University and Charles Brainerd
“In memory tasks, older
children were more
likely to make mistakes
than younger ones.”
of Cornell University, asked whether
children’s memories would be different if
they’d personally experienced an event
Until then, the research that courts relied
on to show they should not discount the
memories of young children involved
memory tasks – using lists of words, for
example. In those tests, older children
were more likely to make mistakes than
younger ones.
Brown set up a health examina-
tion for children aged five to 13 that
included checking their ears, vision,
glands, throat and temperature, but
deliberately left out one key element –
having their heart and lungs checked
with a stethoscope. The researchers
wanted to find out whether the children,
when asked a couple of days later to

dren’s testimony research in New Zealand and whether those recollections were recount what had happened during the
and now a professor of psychology more or less accurate depending on age. check, would say that they’d had the

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stethoscope test when they hadn’t,
and whether their memories were
more accurate the older they got.
In general, says Brown, the
children didn’t make mistakes very
often. Of the 346 children studied,
only 45 (13%) falsely and spontane-
ously responded that they’d had
their heart and lungs checked.
But when asked specifically
whether they had been checked with
a stethoscope, 46% agreed that they
had. And it was the younger children
who were more likely to agree – the
opposite of the word-test findings.
She acknowledges the limitation that
plagues this research – an innocent
health check is not sexual abuse
– but says children would be even
less likely to (spontaneously) falsely
report something more significant.
Brown has since received a further
$840,000 from the Marsden Fund to
examine children’s false memories
of events they had experienced and
the best ways to question children in
criminal and welfare investigations.
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field, Stephen Ceci of Cornell Uni-
versity, Ithaca, New York State, and
Maggie Bruck of McGill University,
Montreal, reviewed the suggestibility
of child witnesses after a raft of sex-
abuse allegations at day-care centres,
the first of which happened at the
McMartin Preschool in California in
1983, resulting in six years of trials but
no convictions. In 1988, New Jersey
day-care teacher Kelly Michaels was
sentenced to 47 years’ jail on 115
counts of sexual abuse in a similar
case. Parents wearing “Believe the
Children” buttons had packed the
courtroom to hear the evidence of
children who claimed Michaels made
them eat boiled babies, put swords into
their rectums and played the piano naked.
Michaels served five years in prison before
she was exonerated in 1994.
Despite those “Believe the Children”
buttons, Victoria University senior lec-
turer Deirdre Brown says we can’t always
do that. “There are multiple reasons why a
child might make a false report, including
pressure from others, wanting to comply
with what they think the interviewer wants,
developing a false memory – which feels real,
and is not necessarily an intentional decep-
“Our criminal
appellate system is too
constrained to decide
upon background
issues and context.”
tion – being questioned inappropriately and
repeatedly, concern for consequences and
so forth. We should also not dismiss the
capacity of children. We know they can
provide useful descriptions of their experi-
ences when interviewed well. So, should we
believe the children? It depends.”
ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
Despite the lessons learnt in the Ellis case,
the potential remains for “moral panics”,
witch-hunts, and contamination of chil-
dren’s evidence by parents or well-meaning
but unskilled interviewers, lawyers say. For
example, staff at Oranga Tamariki (the
Ministry for Children) question children
before formal evidential interviews, but
exactly what is asked, and how, is often not
recorded. However, researchers’ concerns
about the friction between court processes
Exonerated: New Jersey teacher Kelly Michaels.
and the accuracy of child testimony are
being taken seriously in legal circles, and
there are efforts to make practical changes.
Whangārei lawyer and academic Emily
Henderson, whose research has focused on
trial reform, says cross-examination of vul-
nerable and child witnesses “is pretty much
the perfect storm”, because it is so easy to get
children to contradict themselves or to look
foolish, contradictory and unsure. “We’re
now sitting on 30-plus years of research that
demonstrates over and over again in all the
comparable jurisdictions that conventional
cross-examination of vulnerable people is
shooting fish in a barrel.”
She says as well as lawyers being fairly lais-
sez-faire about whether the witness meant
to retract or not, adapting questioning to
the language levels of children or vulner-
able adult witnesses is much harder than
lawyers generally realise. “Much of what has
been found is the result of simple linguistic
incompetence on the lawyer’s part rather
than deliberate manipulation.”
Henderson, who completed a PhD at
Cambridge University in 2000, later looked
at changes in the UK that had improved
the experience of those witnesses. From
about 2010, “judges suddenly started
taking control of their courtrooms, first by
writing appeal court judgments that made
cross-examiners comply with what the
research was saying … and stopping some
of the more obvious and egregious forms of
cross-examination.”
When she returned, she and Whangārei
judge Duncan Harvey launched the
Whangārei Child Witness Project, in 2014,
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which cut waiting times at court before chil-
dren gave evidence and asked lawyers to
rephrase leading or complicated questions.
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 CHILD TESTIMONY
An epidemic of the bizarre
Allegations of unusual mass sexual abuse against children
peaked in the US between 1981 and 1995 – then stopped.
S
upport for efforts to clear Peter
Ellis’ name came from many
quarters. One unlikely figure
who put in many hours of
unpaid research is Auckland
consultant cardiologist Mark Webster.
Webster combed newspaper databases
from OECD countries to chart the his-
tory of cases similar to that of Ellis, in
which there was no physical evidence
of abuse, more than one person was
accused and, when unusual or bizarre
aspects were described, there was no
physical evidence to support them.
ADRIAN MALLOCH
Using the criteria of sexual abuse
against children aged between two
22
and 10, occurring in a crèche, childcare,
preschool, kindy, Sunday school or foster
home and involving more than one
In the Ellis case, the guilty
verdicts involved seven
children, and five of their
parents had worked in
the sexual abuse field.
victim, Webster found 36 cases. In the
US, these cases occurred between 1981
and 1995, then stopped. In the rest of the
world, they spanned from 1986 to 2010.
Striking
similarities:
cardiologist
Mark Webster.
“The pattern shows some similarity to
an infectious disease epidemic, starting
in the US and then spreading to the rest
of the world. The outbreak was almost
over in the US by the time Peter Ellis
was charged.”
Webster says after reading A City
Possessed in 2001, when it was first pub-
lished, he’d thought an inquiry would
be launched that would “sort it”. “But
nothing happened.” He has sent his
findings to Ellis’ lawyers.
The early and high-profile cases in
the US were “strikingly similar” to Ellis’,
says Webster, with many children of
similar age allegedly abused and bizarre
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 “After the initial shock, lawyers embraced it
A RIPPLE EFFECT? – they could see why these things were being
15 done and were happy to go with it and
didn’t think it was unfair to defendants.”
US Judges started looking for “tag” questions,
Non-US where lawyers made a statement and then
added a tag such as “didn’t he?”, “didn’t
10 you?”, “wasn’t it?” or, “So, daddy didn’t do
No of cases

it, did he?” Also targeted were multi-part

questions. “So, when you got out of the car
and you saw the red car coming towards
you and the three men got out of it, did you
5 notice the gun?”
“The poor old witness might answer, ‘No,
I saw the gun later,’ but what they’ve been

“We need to connect

0
81-85 86-90 91-95 96-00 01-05 06-10 11-15 science with practice; we
Year need to connect what we
Accusations against Peter Ellis in 1992 came as a spike in similar cases in the US was
know with what we do.
declining but allegations in other OECD countries were rising. We all owe that to Peter.”

allegations. “It seemed to start from Christchurch police during their taken to agree to is three men, a red car, that
nothing, and then [the cases] just disap- investigation. In one email, Christ- they got out of the car first … all of that.”
peared. And you’d have to think, why church police urged their colleagues in Pilot sexual-violence courts in Whangārei
have they suddenly disappeared?” Wellington to “think big”. “I thought and Auckland that used the approach will
In New Zealand, another case of alleged it was bizarre. I think they clearly had now become permanent.
sexual abuse at a preschool – albeit with- formed a view that they were on to
out the bizarre allegations of the Ellis case something and away they went.” LIBERAL HOMOPHOBIA?
– flew largely under the public At the trial, he says, one of Hampton believes his former client’s flam-
radar about the same time. the jurors had been involved boyance and homosexuality played “a
In 1994, a year after Ellis was in “the sex abuse industry”. considerable part” in the case. “Despite,
jailed, Wellington Hospital “We ran out of objections on the surface, the liberalness of the par-
crèche worker Geoffrey David so ended up with someone ents saying we would love our children to
Scott was convicted on eight I didn’t really want.” In the be exposed to something different, within
of 20 charges and jailed for Ellis case, the guilty verdicts them there was still, I think, considerable
seven years. As with Ellis, involved seven children, underlying conservatism about such things
the allegations were made in and five of their parents had as gayness and it didn’t take much to trigger
1991 and 1992. And, as in worked in the sexual abuse that when the suggestion arose. I’m play-
Ellis’ case, Scott’s lawyer didn’t field. ing pseudo-psychologist here when I’m not
believe he did it. Pat Grace, In both the Ellis and the qualified, but that’s my take on it.”
who is now a Family Court Scott trials, the Crown’s star Ellis’ current lawyer, Rob Harrison,
judge, told the Listener it has witness was psychiatrist declined to comment on the case itself, but
always stuck in his mind that, Karen Zelas. says he spent time with Ellis days before
with one child witness in par- Karen Zelas, top, and In another sex abuse case, he died at the Nurse Maude Hospice in
ticular, the allegations came Pat Grace. the Court of Appeal, in a 2003 Christchurch. He says Ellis spoke of the
out only after several separate judgment, found Zelas to support of locals where he lived in Leith-
interviews. “The first time, the child said have “gratuitously” exceeded the scope of field. “Here he is facing imminent death and
nothing happened. Went into therapy permissible expert opinion and could have what he’s talking about is how grateful he
and was re-interviewed. Nothing had hap- contributed to a miscarriage of justice. is to the community that took him in, in
pened. Put into therapy again. Nothing The Listener asked Zelas, who has North Canterbury. I think that tells you a
had happened. More therapy. Then inter- now retired and writes poetry, to lot about him.”
viewed the fourth time and, ‘Oh, yes, he comment on her role in the Ellis case. Harrison has applied to the Supreme
did A, B and C to me. That would never She declined. “I have always had a Court for the appeal to still be heard, despite
get off the ground today, I believe.” policy of not speaking publicly about Ellis’ death, after the court earlier indicated
Grace says Wellington police contacted cases I have been involved in.” it would be open to doing so. The hearing is
scheduled to start on November 11. l

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GLACIAL RETREAT

Melting
moments
New Zealand’s mountain glaciers are vanishing.
They have shrunk by nearly a third since the
1970s and could be gone by the end of the century
unless we move quickly towards zero emissions.
And, as they retreat, we are losing more than ice.
by VERONIKA MEDUNA

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 In retreat: the
tourism magnet
of Fox Glacier is
increasingly out
of reach.

F
lying over the Southern Alps’ icy mountain
tops in March last year, Trevor Chinn, widely
regarded as the godfather of New Zealand glaci-
ology, was busy taking pictures of every glacier
below. It was the worst melt he’d seen in the
40 years since he started monitoring the snow
line – the thin boundary between glacial ice
and snow – at the end of each summer. “There
are rocks sticking out everywhere – the meltback is phe-
nomenal,” he said at the end of the annual flyover.
That flight was to be his last bird’s-eye view of New Zea-
land’s glaciers. Chinn died in December 2018, aged 81, a
few days after suffering a stroke while looking up the latest
research at his home at Lake Hāwea.
The summer of 2018 was New Zealand’s hottest on
record. A marine heatwave in the Tasman Sea, with sea
temperatures 6-7°C above average in places, pushed unu-
sually warm air up the mountains. More than half of the
51 mountain glaciers monitored during each snow-line
survey lost all the snow that had fallen during the preced-
ing winter, plus some from previous years.
Glaciers are the compressed snowfall of centuries past.
They are dynamic, always changing as they accumulate
snow in winter and lose some of it to melt in summer. But
as the world warms, this annual balance is tipping in favour
of melting – and the result is a net loss of ice.
In the four decades since the first survey, New Zealand’s
glaciers have lost a third of their ice. The snow line has
moved up by an average of 3.7m each year. Some have
retreated up valleys they once filled; others have recoiled
into basins or are breaking up into smaller blocks. Some
have disappeared. Over the coming years and decades,
those that remain stand to lose another 50-60% of ice.
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 GLACIAL RETREAT

In March this year, after New Zealand’s

third-hottest summer on record and three
months after Chinn’s death, a team of gla-
ciologists flew the survey again. The results
are still being analysed, says PhD student
Lauren Vargo, and they may not be as bad
as last year. “But it is still probably one of the
years with the least amount of snow, in the
top two or three years, since records began
in 1977.” Vargo is part of a new generation
of glaciologists who continue to track the
shifting snow lines and perimeters of glaciers
at each summer’s end, taking hundreds of
images to build a three-dimensional model
of New Zealand’s alpine icescape. One part
of her PhD, at Victoria University of Wel-
lington, is to develop methods to quickly
and accurately assess the loss of ice. Another
is to determine how much of it can be attrib-
uted to climate change.
The summers of 2018 and 2011 stand

out as “extreme events” – by now a familiar
phrase to describe occurrences that should
be rare but are becoming more frequent in
a warming world. “Our simulations show
that the extreme mass loss measured at
Brewster Glacier in 2018 could only have
occurred with modern human influence,”
Vargo says. The ice loss seen at Rolleston
Glacier in 2011 was at least 10 times more
likely because of climate change. “Some of
the things that we take pictures of, that were
definitely glaciers when Trevor started the
survey, you’re unsure of now. There’s sort
of a minimum size for a glacier and a lot of
these are dropping below that. If you were
describing them now, you wouldn’t bother
DAVE ALLEN, NIWA; GETTY IMAGES
If we keep going as we are,
“we expect the majority
of ice will be gone by the
end of the century.”
lot more of the landscape around the perim-
eter of the glaciers”. He worries that as the
edges of glaciers thin, even years with good
snowfall won’t undo the damage because
the snow has nothing cold to nucleate on.
“The blanket is falling onto a different mate-
rial. I was noticing, around the fringes, some
pretty severely damaged glaciers, especially
small ones and the ones that terminate into
including New Zealand’s famous tourist
magnets on the West Coast, Fox and Franz
Josef, and Tasman Glacier at Aoraki/Mt
Cook, which are now all retreating fast.
“Glaciers of various sizes constitute some
of that original catalogue,” says Lorrey. “And
we may have lost upwards of 750 of them.
That’s not an inconsequential amount of
ice, but that’s what we’re dealing with here.”
THE HUMAN FACTOR
As with anything affected by climate change,
the future of New Zealand’s glaciers will
depend on how quickly and effectively we
act to start curbing emissions in the next few
years. Andrew Mackintosh, a glaciologist

naming them.”
Drew Lorrey is a climate scientist at the
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric
Research (Niwa), which runs the snow-line
surveys. During this year’s flight, he was
taking thermal images and “soaking in a
very small pro-glacial lakes.” He wondered:
“How fast is this taking off from us?”
In the 1970s, Chinn described 3155 gla-
ciers in the original survey. Realising that
it would be impossible to keep an eye on
all of them, he identified 51 index glaciers,
who recently moved to Monash University
in Melbourne but has spent years studying
New Zealand’s rivers of ice, says in a world
that doesn’t warm more than 2°C above pre-
industrial conditions, New Zealand will still
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 The 2018 summer snow line
survey team, from left, Huw
Morgan, Brian Anderson, Lauren
Vargo, Drew Lorrey, pilot Andy
Woods and the late Trevor Chinn.
Below, from left, a glacier in North
Cascades National Park, US, in the
1960s; the same glacier in 2016;
data-gathering above Tasman
Glacier; and below Charity Glacier.
If we keep going as we are, “we expect the
majority of the ice will be gone by the end
of the century, with just a few small glaciers
occupying the highest peaks”.
Mackintosh was part of a team study-
ing the South Island’s West Coast glaciers
during the 1990s and early 2000s, when,
for a while, they bucked global trends and
advanced. “They were bulging at the front
… and then that changed dramatically,” he
says. “One type of a negative mass balance
year is that you have a reasonable amount
of snow still sitting on the upper part of
a glacier but the area of ice melt is much
larger than the area of snow. What we’ve
seen recently is that everything is gone – and
that’s a really bad sign for a glacier.”
Whether the rate of glacial wasting will
continue to accelerate remains to be seen,
but, says Mackintosh, “in the last decade,
there have been many more negative years
and we’re on a steep trend of losing ice”.
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ECONOMIC THREAT
Alpine ice is vanishing across the world, and
the rate of mass loss during the early 21st
century is unprecedented. The most obvious
consequence is sea-level rise. Between 1961
and 2016, non-polar mountain glaciers lost
more than 9000 billion tonnes of ice and
their melt lifted the oceans by 27mm. But
in New Zealand and elsewhere, we are losing
more than ice.
The road to Fox Glacier is now closed
indefinitely. Engineering reports found no
practical way of rebuilding it after floods
destroyed it in February. A month later, tor-
rential rain and floods ripped open an old
Westland District Council dump site, wash-
ing hundreds of tonnes of rubbish down
riverbeds and along the coast. Then the
Waiho Bridge, south of Franz Josef, folded in
on itself after a one-in-20-year storm bloated
the river.
The bridge was rebuilt and the rubbish
cleaned up, but the risks remain. The acting
chairman of the West Coast Tai Poutini Con-
servation Board, Keith Morfett, told RNZ’s
Nine to Noon that as the Fox Glacier retreats,
the walls of its canyon become unstable.
“Mill Creek area is essentially a mountain of
loose rock that’s been destabilised by retreat-
ing ice. So, in an intense storm event, that
slip has the potential to become a river of
rock … and nothing will stand in its way.”
The Government announced a $3.9 mil-
lion package, funded by the international
visitor tourism and conservation levy, to
develop cycle and walkways to glacier view-
ing points and Lake Gault so that “tourism
continues to benefit communities”. About
one in 10 jobs in the Westland district
depends on visitors. The quarter of a mil-
lion people who come to the area each year
contribute about 20% of the region’s GDP.
From left: West Coast Tai Poutini Conservation
Board acting chairman Keith Morfett, University
of Canterbury researcher Heather Purdie and
glaciologist Andrew Mackintosh.
Less than 15 years ago, it was relatively
straightforward to walk to the Fox termi-
nus and up on to the glacier, says Heather
Purdie, who was a guide then but has since
turned her love of the mountains into a
research career at the University of Canter-
bury. Once the glaciers began their retreat,
The Mill Creek area “has
the potential to become a
river of rock and nothing
will stand in its way”.
the risk of rockfall increased and made the
area unsafe for walkers. Franz Josef lost
walking access in 2012, and Fox followed
in 2014. Guiding companies switched to
relying on helicopters to ferry visitors to
higher elevations.
Purdie says receding ice and exposed
moraine walls are making mountain access
more challenging for recreational climbers
as well. In some places, the melt can outpace
efforts to monitor the changing landscape.
Rolleston Glacier, on Mt Philistine in
Arthur’s Pass, is one of two New Zealand
glaciers (together with Brewster) with a com-
prehensive programme to track their mass
balance beyond the images collected during
the annual aerial surveys. Purdie is using
stakes and snow pits to track how much
snow falls and melts again. “We dig the
snow pit at the same spot every year to make
the data comparable, but in the past two
summers, we didn’t have any snow to dig.”
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 GLACIAL RETREAT
Clockwise from left: visitors
now go by helicopter to
Fox Glacier; Swiss-based
researcher Mike Styllas; the
rock wren; the cave wētā.
“The Richardson valley and glacier exhibit
exactly the characteristics that we’re look-
ing for,” Styllas told me. “The glacier has
been monitored for a long time, so we know
how much it has retreated, and the valley
“We may have lost
upwards of 750 [of
our glaciers].”
LOSS OF HABITAT itself has smaller alpine glaciers that tend
Snow and ice are more than physical aspects to vanish faster.”
of the landscape; they provide habitat for Styllas, a Greek mountaineer who spent
plants and animals that are highly adapted 15 years climbing and guiding in some of
to the cold, many of them unique to New the world’s highest mountains, draws inspi-
Zealand. Earlier this year, a research team ration for his research from Mt Olympus
from the Swiss Federal Institute of Tech- and the changes its degrading glacial ice has
nology visited the Southern Alps to study wrought on the landscape from summit to
microbial ecosystems – the unseen worlds sea. Few people have studied the micro-
that could be disappearing with the ice biomes of alpine glaciers, Styllas says, but
before we even understand them. Expedi- these microscopic habitats seed conditions
tion leader Mike Styllas chose New Zealand for the rest of the alpine environment.
as the first stop on a three-year itinerary that In New Zealand, the alpine band between
will take in 15 countries and 200 glaciers the tree and snow lines covers 11% of the
because of the decades of observations gath- country. It is home to endangered species
ered since the 1970s. such as the rock wren (one of two surviv-
When I joined Styllas’ team during a field ing species of New Zealand wren) and the
trip to Richardson Glacier, near Aoraki/Mt superbly adapted alpine cave wētā, which
Cook, I could see the retreat path the debris- can survive being frozen. The animals and
covered tongue of ice has carved into the plants that survive in this harsh habitat have
landscape. It left a smaller tributary, once evolved from ancestors in warmer parts of
connected to the ice flow, stranded above a the country, but are now genetically distant
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rocky ridge. The Charity Glacier now sends enough to be considered unique popula-
a gushing melt stream down the rocks. tions. What’s more, 90% are endemic.
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These frost-loving communities are
a research focus for Trevor Chinn’s son
Warren, a conservation biologist at the
Department of Conservation.
“With climate change, we have a land-
scape problem of running out of real estate.
We don’t know if they’re going to move up,
sideways, stay put and adapt or go locally
extinct as a result of either conditions not
being favourable or because they are being
gobbled up by a new guild of predators they
are naive to.”
Until recently, biologists thought that
native alpine species were relatively safe
because cold winters kept warm-blooded
mammals at bay. But stoats are known
to roam beyond the treeline and Warren
Chinn once found a dead mouse on the
2174m summit of Mt Armstrong, in Mt
Aspiring National Park.
As it gets warmer, he says, alpine species
seem to be moving up to stay within their
comfort zone, but “things that are lower and
more adapted to warmer temperatures have
moved a greater vertical distance than those
that are adapted to colder temperatures”.
The alpine environment has expanded
and contracted in the past, and Chinn
says it will not disappear entirely. “But
the difference is the arrival of mammalian
warm-blooded predators that can now sur-
vive the winter.”
PEAK WATER
As more ice turns to water, glacial runoff
flushes alpine catchments. Niwa’s Lorrey
likes to think of glaciers as water towers –
huge storage tanks that could take the edge
off the extreme winter droughts that are
predicted to happen more often, and for
longer, in a warming world.
The extent to which melting ice might
ease future droughts is one of several
questions scientists are tackling as part
of a collaboration within the Deep South
National Science Challenge. With the help
of sophisticated models, they simulate
future changes to spring snow melt and
summer flows as glaciers are lost.
Worldwide, glacial retreat has triggered
concerns about future water availability.
Glaciated drainage basins cover about a
quarter of land (not including glaciers in
Greenland and Antarctica) and millions
of people rely on them for drinking water,
crop irrigation and hydropower. As glaciers
recede, they initially release more water,
until that runoff reaches a maximum –
often referred to as “peak water”. Beyond
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Niwa hydrologist Daniel Collins.
this point, water supply from glaciers begins
to dwindle. The European Alps are thought
to have gone past this point already, and
in mountainous areas of central Asia and
South America, this scenario looms as a
future water supply threat.
But in New Zealand, glaciers don’t con-
tribute much meltwater to rivers, says Niwa
hydrologist Daniel Collins. Snow and rain
are much more significant factors, with an
average of 550cu km of precipitation fall-
ing on the country every year, compared
with 40cu km of water still stored in alpine
ice. With rising temperatures, precipitation
“You can’t make a glacier
lie. They are harbingers
of what is happening
and what is to come.”
is expected to increase and more of it will
come down as rain rather than snow, swell-
ing river flows particularly in winter.
Higher winter precipitation is one of
the strongest signals from climate models,
says Collins, and it could be good news for
hydropower schemes in the South Island,
with “increased [water] supply during
months of highest demand”.
It’s a different story for irrigation, with
projections for decreasing river flows during
summer. But there, too, changes to precipi-
tation are a bigger factor than glacial melt,
Collins says.
“Glaciers are great and they have many
values, but servicing water resources as they
are currently used in New Zealand is not
one of them.”
For Lorrey, however, glaciers are the most
visual indicators of a changing climate. “You
can’t make a glacier lie. We know what those
glaciers are responding to – they are har-
bingers of what is happening and what is
to come.” l
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As scarce
as Ivory
Trevor Chinn grew up at the foot of
Mt Adams, near Whataroa on the
West Coast, always watching the
mountains and how water worked its
way through them. He never really
stopped. His son, Warren, remembers
many childhood camping trips during
which his father would introduce
him to the powerful forces of nature
– including a trip to the Ivory Gla-
cier when father and son stood in a
screaming storm at night to watch the
wind beat a waterfall upwards.
The Ivory is part of the Chinn family
story. When New Zealand was asked
to take part in the international hydro-
logical decade, from 1965-1975, Trevor
Chinn identified the then unnamed
cirque (bowl-shaped) glacier as a
perfect site to study its dynamics. He
named it Ivory, in a riff on the nearby
Mt Tusk, and set about measuring
snow and rain fall and gauging the
Trevor Chinn at
Ivory Glacier in
April 2017, left, and
at the same place
in August 1976.
Warren Chinn
on Mt Malcolm,
Westland.
Below, a young
Trevor Chinn.
amount of water coming out of its
only outlet. It taught him that the
snow line is a good indicator of a gla-
cier’s changing size and ice volume.
In one of his last interviews, he
described glaciers as the most accu-
rate and reliable climate instrument:
“The volume of ice in a glacier is a
measure of everything that the climate
has done. It’s averaging the climate,
not just the temperature, but every
single climate parameter that’s going
on.”
Today, the Ivory Glacier has almost
been replaced by a lake. Warren Chinn
gives it five to eight years before a
snow patch is all that remains.
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SLAVERY IN NEW ZEALAND
THE
POWERLESS
PĀKEHĀ
The mostly forgotten story of Europeans
kept as slaves by Māori between the
1790s and 1880s challenges the theme
of “colonisation and exploitation that is
central to postcolonial writing”. by SALLY BLUNDELL
T
hey were nearly home,
well within sight of land,
when a southerly gale
drove the barque Harriet,
carrying Elizabeth Guard,
her husband, Jacky, and two
young children on to the
Taranaki coast. Remarkably,
everyone on board made it to shore. Their
luck, however, was about to run out.
In 1834, the shipwrecked survivors of the
Harriet were attacked by a group of Ngāti
Ruanui and other Taranaki Māori. A number
of crew members were killed, including
Guard’s brother. Guard herself, her family
and other crew members were taken captive.
After two weeks, Jacky and several other
men were released on the understanding
they would return with a cask of gunpowder
as ransom for the rest of the party.
Four months later, the man-o’-war Alli-
gator and the schooner Isabella launched
a rescue expedition. Confronted by the
sheer scale of British firepower, the tribe
released eight sailors. Several days later,
Guard and her baby daughter were given
up in exchange for the rangatira
Oaoiti, who had been captured
and brutally treated on board
the Alligator.
The capture and eventual
release of Guard and her chil-
dren attracted huge attention.
In lurid detail, the Sydney Herald
described Guard as being stripped
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naked and dragged into a hut.
Her husband claimed she had
been taken as a “slave wife”,
even though other accounts
suggest that, after the initial
affray, she was treated well and
protected by Oaoiti, who took
Elizabeth as his wife or lover.
Unfortunately, Guard’s version
of events is absent, her story
reliant on reports by others,
including one suggesting she
later gave birth to twins fathered
by Oaoiti.
The rescue itself was criticised for its Utu: Louis John Steele’s 1889 painting
The Blowing Up of the Boyd; inset, a shadow
excessive use of force against Māori. portrait of Elizabeth Guard, left, and a
Guard’s story featured in Tauranga news cutting of Caroline Perrett, who
historian Trevor Bentley’s 2004 book, was recognised after being kidnapped
as a child; below, Trevor Bentley.
Captured by Maori, a follow-on from his
1999 study of male captives, Pakeha Maori.
It is retold again in his new book, Pakeha In his new book, he walks readers through
Slaves, Maori Masters, the mostly forgotten the short but little-known history of Pākehā
story, he writes, of the Europeans who lived taken prisoner or enslaved by Māori. In some
and sometimes died as slaves in tribal New cases, this was done as an act of revenge
Zealand between the 1790s and 1880s. for serious breaches of Māori tikanga. In
“I’ve always had this fascination with 1874, eight-year-old Caroline Perrett was
people who had crossed cultures,” kidnapped by Māori in Taranaki after her
he says. “One of my ancestors was father dug up Māori graves and a local Māori
a Portuguese sailor, a shipwreck child had also been kidnapped by Europeans
survivor who washed up at my (Perrett was recognised some 50 years later
ancestral village in Samoa in the while working alongside her adopted hapū).
1700s, so I have had this long-term Utu similarly motivated the attack on
interest in people who formed new the London-bound Boyd by Ngāti Pou and
identities and became part of these Ngāti Uru in 1809. A leading rangatira,
new cultures.” accused of stealing pewter spoons, had been
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flogged and robbed before being sent back
naked to his people at Whangaroa. In the
ensuing attack, 60 passengers and crew were
killed and nine survivors enslaved.
But most Europeans taken captive by
Māori were runaway seamen – a motley
crew of stowaways, castaways, mutineers
and escaped convicts from Australia – or
shipwrecked mariners. Some of these would
have been killed. Others would have been
put though the “terrifying rituals”, writes
Bentley, of whakataurekareka/enslavement
such as being stripped, beaten, forcibly tat-
tooed or marched over long distances – rites
of passage, says Bentley, in which captives
passed from the status of herehere/prisoners
to that of taurekareka/slaves.
DIFFERENT TREATMENT
From here, the treatment of those taken cap-
tive varied, often depending on their status
and usefulness to their captors. Some, par-
ticularly those considered of lowly status
or who showed little respect for Māori
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The mistreatment of
enslaved castaways
diminished as rangatira
realised they could be
exchanged for muskets,
axes or hard cash.
rangatira or tohunga, were treated harshly,
many living under the constant threat of
death at the apparent whim of their mas-
ters. Others gradually assimilated into
their communities, their identity restored,
even their personal names reinstated. “If
you could contribute in some way as an
artisan, a fighting man, someone with agri-
cultural knowledge or technical skills, you
very quickly acquired status. So, if you had
ambition and wanted to improve your con-
ditions, it seems you had the opportunity to
do so, but if you were a humble person, you
were treated as a slave for life.”
The mistreatment of enslaved castaways
diminished as rangatira realised they could
be exchanged for muskets (this was the time
of the Musket Wars), gunpowder, axes or
hard cash. When the American schooner
Cossack was wrecked near Hokianga in
1823, local Māori provided Captain Dix and
his crew with good food and housing before
they were escorted through neighbouring
rohe and sold to Anglican missionaries and
ships’ captains.
Some captives were imprisoned only
briefly. Others became bound to iwi through
marriage, many gaining respect as inter-
preters, warriors, trade negotiators or even
“Pākehā rangatira”, often enjoying a life far
better than the harsh treatment on board
ships.
Jack Marmon, who lived with a Te Hikutu
hapū on the Kerikeri River between 1817
and 1820, described living quietly with his
wives, fishing, hunting, boatbuilding “and
when all things failed had my pipe to fall
back upon”.
ALAMY
These captives fall into Bentley’s category
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SLAVERY IN NEW ZEALAND
of “chattel slaves” – they were the personal
property of their captors, placed within a
hierarchy similar to that used for Māori
slaves or war captives. (As Hazel Petrie wrote
in her 2015 book Outcasts of the Gods?, the
loose labelling of Māori war captives as
“slaves” conflated two quite different insti-
tutions “and led to those captives being
perceived in much the same way as African
slaves in the Americas rather than as the
prisoners in intertribal warfare that they
almost always were”.)
Others, writes Bentley, were tributary
vassals or demi-slaves – the missionaries,
shore-based whalers, sealers, sawyers,
flax traders and entrepreneurs who were
welcomed into Māori communities and,
as long as they obeyed Māori law and paid
regular tribute, allowed to live on Māori land
and use the resources, whether it be timber,
whales, seals or people’s souls. “They were
given access to resources and protection
and got on very well with Maori – as long
as they contributed. If not, then they were
plundered.”
THE CONTINUUM OF SLAVERY
So, were they slaves? Bentley agrees slavery/
taurekareka is a slippery term, “But the act
of stripping somebody indicates you are
enslaved. [For chattel slaves], your identity
has been removed, your ship or whaling
station has been plundered or your boat
confiscated and you are going to be worked
hard and, in the case of war captives, put
through rituals of whakataurekareka,
which could be quite brutal physically and
psychologically.”
But whether they lived as chattel slaves
within Māori communities or semi-indepen-
dently as tributary vassals on tribal lands,
he writes, is immaterial. “In New Zealand
before the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and
in Maori-dominated regions thereafter, they
were subject to the control of local rangatira.
Dependent upon Maori for protection in
return for service or tribute, they all had a
place on the Māori continuum of slavery.”
Bishop Selwyn, for example, was one of
about 14 missionaries “enslaved” when he
was detained and imprisoned in 1861 by
Māori in retribution for the killing of family
members and the destruction of homes and
crops by British and colonial troops. “Some
were stripped and [their possessions] plun-
dered while mission stations were burnt but
they don’t mention this in their journals or
they skim over it very lightly.”
The record is skewed in other ways. For
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Māori anger: Bishop Selwyn was “enslaved”
in 1861, according to Bentley.
this book, Bentley researched published
histories by hapū and iwi historians and
writings by Māori scholars, but the most
frequently referenced sources are the
journals, letters and logs of ships’ captains,
the captivity narratives by returned “slaves”
and media accounts of the day. Many of
these veered towards the sensational. Tales
of helpless white women in the hands of
“savages” were in high demand in the 19th
century as British and American readers
Tales of helpless white
women in the hands
of “savages” were
in high demand in
the 19th century.
seized on the often-salacious accounts of
captivity and rescue. Once newspapers got
going in Australia and New Zealand, says
Bentley, “they retold these stories over and
over again”.
Ramping up the drama was useful.
Exaggerated tales of torture served the
purposes of British and colonial officials,
their military forces and land-hungry
settlers. Church missions were often forced
to rely on explicit accounts of so-called
barbarity to ensure ongoing funding. For
those who had been enslaved, especially
those forcibly tattooed, recounting their
experiences provided a livelihood otherwise
denied them. As Bentley says, it was difficult
to live with tā moko in Victorian society.
“They were considered white savages, who
had slipped down the scale of civilisation.”
Bentley’s book does not hold back on the
sort of details written to terrify or titillate
a 19th-century reading public. In telling
Guard’s story, he quotes extracts from the
1834 journal of Alligator crew member
Lieutenant Clarke, including accounts of
Māori licking the blood from her wounds
and attempting “to made an incision in her
neck with a piece of hoop iron in order to
drink her blood”.
Many of the reprinted images seem to
be aimed at whipping up horror; even the
red sticker on the cover, warning of content
“that may offend some readers”, can be read
as an attempt to ratchet up the shock factor.
Bentley says this was done in the wake of
the Christchurch mosque shootings, “when
everyone was obsessed with hate speech and
offending each other”.
CRITICISM IS GOOD
The purpose of Bentley’s book, however,
is not to entertain or to shock. Rather, he
says, it is to provide a counter-narrative
“that challenges the entrenched myth of
Europeans as sole oppressors and exploiters
in 19th-century New Zealand while remind-
ing us that slavery is a human problem, not
a race problem”. In revealing the extent of
white slavery in New Zealand, and exposing
a period when Māori had power and Pākehā
were powerless, Bentley sets out to cast light
on a part of our history that does not fit into
“the general theme of European conquest,
colonisation and exploitation that is central
to postcolonial writing”.
In doing so, he says, Pakeha Slaves, Maori
Masters follows overseas publications such as
White Slaves, African Masters, an anthology
of Barbary captivity narratives edited by
Paul Baepler, and Christian Slaves, Muslim
Masters by American historian Robert Davis.
But Davis’ comments that “white slavery
had been minimised or ignored because
academics preferred to treat Europeans as
evil colonialists rather than as victims”
have proved controversial. In this book, the
lack of macrons, unfortunate references to
“Pakeha roastees” and “Maori gourmands”,
even his mention of “Negroes” – in the
context of the times, he hastens to explain
– may well prove equally contentious.
So, might there be some fightback, par-
ticularly from Māori academics? Bentley,
who is working on an anthology of 20 first-
hand accounts by 16 men and four women
captured by Māori, says there could well be
– after all, he says, it took 14 attempts to find
a publisher for this book.
“But I’m looking forward to that. Criticism
is good. That is how we move forward.” l
PAKEHA SLAVES, MAORI MASTERS: The Forgotten
Story of New Zealand’s White Slaves, by Trevor
Bentley (New Holland, $39.99)
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ThisLife HEALTH
by Ruth Nichol

Precocious
puberty
The earlier onset
of menstruation has
far-reaching health
implications, but
data is lacking.

F
or most girls, getting their first period
is a significant event. Known as the
menarche, the first period occurs about
two years after a girl shows the first
visible sign of puberty – early breast
development.
Starting to menstruate doesn’t mean
she is fertile. She won’t begin ovulating for up
to two years after her first period and she may
not start having regular periods until she’s in her the ages of seven and 13. However, in the field, believes the continuing
twenties. as humans settled, disease and poor fall is largely related to the obesity
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In most cases, she’ll keep menstruating until she’s nutrition delayed puberty so that by
50 or 51. But although the average age of meno- the late 18th century, the average girl
pause has stayed the same for several millennia, didn’t get her first period until she
the age at which menstruation was about 17.
begins has historically been Better nutrition and healthcare
more variable. Accord- meant that by the middle of the 20th
ing to research by Sir century, that age had dropped to
Peter Gluckman, the about 13, and it’s generally accepted
former Chief Sci- that the average age of menarche has
ence Adviser to the been slowly falling since then.
Prime Minister, “It was quite dramatic for a long
during palaeo- time but now it’s more of a slow
lithic times girls creep,” says Andrew Shelling, a
started menstru- professor in the University of Auck-
ating between land department of obstetrics and
gynaecology.
Sarah Donovan Shelling, like many people working
epidemic. That’s because the start
of puberty in girls is closely linked
“The age of girls on the
cusp of earliest normal
range is being pushed
down by obesity.”
to their weight – or, more likely, the
percentage of body fat they have.
“It’s all about survival. You have to be
big enough to be able to maintain a
pregnancy and breastfeed.”
For most girls, the main effect of
the slow fall in the average age of

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Why vegetables Flavoured honeys
bottled in oil add to creative
are best kept possibilities in
in the fridge the kitchen
36 38
menarche is that they will get their first period
a few months younger than their mothers did.
However, what worries Wayne Cutfield, professor
of paediatric endocrinology at the university, is the
growing number of girls experiencing precocious
puberty – breast or pubic hair development before
the age of eight.
“The age of girls who are on the cusp of the earli-
est normal range is being pushed down by obesity,”
he says. “For the general population, there’s this
gentle change over decades, but there’s a lot more
precocious puberty, which is tagged to obesity.”
He says he’s now treating more girls for preco-
cious puberty, usually with drugs to temporarily
stop the maturation process. This is done both for
social reasons and also to help the girls reach a
normal adult height: the younger a girl is when she
starts puberty, the younger she is when she stops
growing.
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Starting periods young doesn’t just
affect a girl’s eventual height. It also
increases her risk of developing breast
cancer and cardiovascular disease,
possibly because of a longer lifetime
exposure to reproductive hormones.
The risk of breast cancer increases by
5% for every year below the average
age a girl gets her first period.
owever, we have little data
H about when New Zealand
girls get their first period, and
whether that is changing. University
of Otago public health researcher
Sarah Donovan believes we need to
start collecting better information
about the age of menarche and also
about related matters, such as period
pain, which is the main reason girls
and women miss school or work.
She and a colleague recently ana-
lysed figures from the 2014-15 New
Zealand Health Survey, which – for
the first and, at this stage, only time –
asked women participants aged 25-34
how old they were when they had
their first period. The results suggest
the average age of menarche in New
Zealand is 13.2 years.
Of more concern to Donovan is the
finding that, every year, almost 2000
girls start menstruating while they are
still at primary school. We have no
idea how well those girls are prepared
for their first period, or how well
schools are equipped to cope with
their needs, she says. Nor do we have
any reliable information about ethnic
differences in the age of menarche.
“We need to regularly start collect-
ing national-level data
so we can see if the
trends are track-
ing down, and
make inter-
country
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20% and too much by 34%. For
people with a genetic predisposi-
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just the right amount – six to nine
hours a night – reduced their risk
of having a heart attack by 18%.
URINE TEST FOR CANCER?
Could a simple urine test eventu-
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That’s the hope of a team of
engineers at Imperial College
London, and MIT in the US,
who have developed a tool that
changes the colour of mouse
urine when colon cancer is pre-
sent. In a study involving 28 mice,
the test accurately detected
which urine samples were from
mice with colon tumours and
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A high-fat, low-carb diet may
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that people with mild cogni-
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 THIS LIFE
NUTRITION
by Jennifer Bowden

Don’t mess
with the bot
Ignore the storage
guidelines for bottled vege
products at your peril.

Question:
Why do dried tomatoes and olives bottled in oil have to
be refrigerated and used within days of opening when
we don’t keep opened bottles of oil in the fridge?

Answer:

R
efrigeration helps prevent the produc-
tion in bottled vegetables of a toxin
that is 100,000 times more lethal than
Sarin, the so-called weapon of mass
destruction. How can a harmless-
seeming jar of tomatoes or olives in oil
potentially contain such a powerful
poison?
The answer is through the presence of Clostrid-
ium botulinum, a bacterium that can produce the
neurotoxin botulinum that causes the potentially produced, there were several out- mushrooms occurred in the UK.
fatal illness botulism. breaks of botulism. In the US in 1985, The involvement of mushrooms is
Botulinum inhibits a neurotransmitter in the 37 people got the illness after eating not unexpected, because Clostridium
nervous system, leading to paralysis. It starts in the a garlic-in-oil preparation made in a botulinum is commonly found in
muscles of the face and spreads towards the limbs. restaurant. soil and water, which means produce
In severe cases, botulism paralyses the muscles Home-bottled garlic in oil was that comes in close contact with the
required for breathing, resulting in respiratory linked to other cases of botulism in ground is at risk. But that doesn’t
failure and death. California, Florida and Denmark. And mean the fresh mushrooms you buy at
Given its severity, any suspected case of botu- between 1994 and 1998, more than the greengrocer are hazardous, because
lism is treated as a medical emergency and food 100 cases of the illness in Italy were botulinum is produced only under
manufacturers are rigorous in their traced to home-prepared vegeta- certain environmental conditions.
efforts to prevent Clostridium bles stored in oil or water.
botulinum from poisoning In 1998, a case of botu- he No 1 requirement is an
their products.
In the 1970s and
1980s, before food-
lism type A (from the
most lethal botulinum
toxin) was linked
T oxygen-free environment,
exactly the condition of olives
or sun-dried tomatoes immersed in
safety scientists to home-prepared oil. Why, then, store them that way?
fully under- mushrooms cov- Because the oil prevents oxidation,
stood how ered in oil, and which can lead to discolouration of
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and in what two further some foods.

conditions cases implicat- Clostridium botulinum also likes
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manufacturers use acidity regulators
such as citric acid, or add vinegar, to
keep the pH below 4.6.
In the case of tomatoes, their pH is
normally just below 4.6 and decreases
further once they’re dried and the
natural-acid components are concen-
trated. So, in their sun-dried state,
they have a reduced susceptibility to
botulinum production.
However, a low pH doesn’t stop
other microbial contamination, such
as from yeast. Once a jar is opened
and oxygen is present, yeast can grow,
although that doesn’t pose a health
danger. And as any baker of bread will
tell you, yeast doesn’t like cool temper-
atures such as those in a refrigerator.
Clostridium botulinum is also
averse to low temperatures. The
bacterium thrives in temperate condi-
tions, which is why we’re instructed
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The core group of
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bottlenose dolphins
remaining in the
Bay of Islands, 66%
fewer than in 1999.
TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE A HERBIVORE
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin and US
Department of Agriculture have found bees
to be omnivores, not herbivores, as previously
thought. Assessing 14 bee species in six bee
families, they found bees eat a great deal of
microbes when collecting pollen and nectar
to feed their young. Animals brushing against
plants spread pollen along with their microbes,
which the bees ingest.
RAYS OF SUNSHINE
Manta rays form friendships with other rays
that can last for weeks or months at a time,
say Australian and Indonesian researchers,
who tracked 500 groups of reef manta rays
off the north-west coast of Indonesia for five
Botulism can years. Females were more likely to form lasting
paralyse the associations – with other females – than male
rays, who tended to avoid other males. Friends
muscles required would group together in gathering spots, clean-
for breathing, ing stations and feeding grounds, then go off
resulting in individually before re-forming in groups later.
respiratory failure
and death. OLDHANDS AT DESPOLIATION
Humans heavily modified the Earth’s surface
much earlier than previously believed, an
international study involving 250 archaeologists
has found. Hunter-gatherers and farmers began
to transform the planet well before 3000 years
to store opened jars of vegetables in ago. Burning of forests, cultivation of land and
the fridge. The lower the temperature, intensive agriculture were already common
the less likely it is that botulinum practice in 1000BC. The findings are expected
will produce its harmful toxin. to help scientists to forecast climate change.
But even at 8°C, Clostridium
botulinum can produce toxins HOW COLLIES LEARNT TO HERD
within 10 days or fewer. For that Scientists have identified how
reason, the label canine brain structure differs
on bottled- between breeds and corre-
vegetable sponds to specific traits each
products
breed is known for. The Har-
vard University researchers
often
found the neural informa-
states that
tion to confirm that herding
they must
really is in the brain structure
be eaten of collies, for example, but that
within a systematic shaping by humans
certain time of over generations caused the neural
opening. l pathways to evolve so. Dogs aren’t
born knowing how to herd, but
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THIS LIFE
FOOD
by Lauraine Jacobs

Hey, honey
Flavoured varieties of the bee-
derived product offer endless
possibilities in the kitchen.
W
hen one of my favourite
orchardists sold her property
on Omaha Flats, north of Auck-
land, where I would regularly
buy fruit at the gate, I was
concerned. But, soon, a sign
went up saying Beetopia, and
fresh honey appeared on sale at the roadside. When
I met Beetopia’s owner, Grass Esposito, I discovered
she is passionate about bees and honey and, as well
as the apiary, she has opened a classroom training
facility.
The fruit-tree-covered property has been turned
over to honey production, with Esposito’s income
supplemented by quirkily named Bee and Bee
bed-and-breakfast visitor accommodation, sales of
beekeeper supplies and introductory beekeeping
classes.
Honey is a rising star among products on the
New Zealand food scene. The claimed therapeutic
benefits of mānuka honey have attracted world-
wide attention and it commands premium prices.
Supermarkets sell a wide range of mānuka honeys
that are distinguished by such characteristics as
purity, live enzyme and pollen counts, chemical
composition and pH levels. Prices can be up to
$150 for 250g.
Margaret Fulton’s
The source of pollen distinguishes honey’s fla- honey nut loaf;
vour and colour. I grew up enjoying clover honey, left, Moroccan
but today you can buy varieties flavoured by flow- honey and mint
syrup cake.
ers from such plants as rātā, pōhutukawa (I love
this honey’s pale-straw colour and saltiness), blue
borage, beechwood and wild thyme (very aromatic FOR THE MINT SYRUP: by placing the water, sugar and mint

if you can find one from Central Otago). They each
have a distinct taste and intensity of flavour.
Flavoured honeys, including with lemon, are
also hitting the shelves. In October, Nectavia, a
new brand from Red Beach-based F&J, introduced
to me by Esposito, will launch a range of honeys
flavoured with extracts of rose, cacao, matcha
(powdered green-tea leaves), ginger and mango.
There are endless possibilities for these unique and
delicious honeys to be used in the kitchen.
The two baking recipes this week include honey.
The Moroccan honey cake is a recipe from Taste:
Baking with Flavour, which I co-authored with Dean
Brettschneider. The honey nut loaf is a variation
on a Margaret Fulton recipe. Fulton, a much-loved
Scottish-born Australian cook, died in July leaving a
wonderful legacy of good, practical recipes.
MOROCCAN HONEY AND MINT SYRUP CAKE
FOR THE CAKE:
160g butter, softened
310g sugar
1½ tsp dried or fresh chopped mint
6 eggs
230g dessicated coconut
210g self-raising flour
200ml water
180g sugar
1½ cups freshly chopped mint
FOR THE TOPPING:
75g butter
180g fragrant honey
180g flaked almonds
Preheat the oven to 150°C. Lightly
butter a 20cm round cake tin and place
a circle of baking paper in the base.
Beat the butter, sugar and mint
together until pale and fluffy. Beat
the eggs, coconut and flour and add
the mixture a tablespoon at a time to
the butter and sugar mixture, beating
between each spoonful to prevent
curdling, until all the ingredients are
incorporated.
Pour the cake mixture into the
tin and bake for one hour or until a
skewer inserted into the centre comes
out clean. Remove from the oven and
allow the cake to cool in the tin for
15 minutes.
Meanwhile, prepare the mint syrup
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in a saucepan. Stir over the heat so
the sugar dissolves before the syrup
reaches a boil. Boil for a minute or
two, then remove from the heat and
allow to cool.
Turn the oven up to 170°C and
prick about 60 holes in the cake with
a skewer. Pour the mint syrup over
the cake, which should still be in the
tin, and allow it to soak in.
Place the butter, honey and
flaked almonds for the topping in a
saucepan and melt together without
boiling. Spread over the cake while
still hot. Return the cake to the oven
and bake the topping until it is a light
amber colour (about 25 minutes,
watching carefully).
Remove the cake and allow to cool
in the tin for 10 minutes.
To serve, carefully remove the cake
from the tin and dust the top with
icing sugar if you wish. Accompany
with a dollop of greek yogurt.
Serves 6-8.
Beverage match: mint tea.

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THIS LIFE
Cooking with honey
■ Honey is a good substitute for white sugar
as a sweetener in baking, or for adding to
dressings, sauces and savoury cooking.
■ Generally, cooks will find that the quantity
of honey needed in recipes in place of
sugar will be about one quarter less. For
example, if half a cup of sugar is called for,
use one third of a cup, and replace 2 cups
of sugar with 1½ cups of honey. Make up
the volume difference by adding a little
■
more of whatever liquid is needed.
Honey burns more quickly than sugar, so
lower the oven temperature by 20°C-30°C
when baking.
■ Honey is hygroscopic, absorbing water
from the air, and produces deliciously
moist baking.
MARGARET FULTON’S HONEY NUT LOAF
60g butter, softened
1 cup floral honey
2 eggs
2 cups flour
Pinch of salt
2 tsp baking powder
½ cup milk
1 cup chopped fresh walnuts
1 cup sultanas
Grease a small loaf tin with butter. Preheat the
oven to 160°C.
Beat the butter and honey together until
light. Add the eggs one at a time and beat in
well.
Sift the flour, salt and baking powder together
and fold into the mixture, alternately with large
spoons of the milk, walnuts and sultanas.
Spoon into the prepared tin and bake in a
moderate oven for 50 minutes. Test by inserting
a metal skewer into the middle of the loaf, and
when it comes out clean, the loaf is cooked.
Allow to cool before slicing and spreading
with butter to serve.
Makes 1 loaf.
Beverage match: freshly brewed coffee
or tea. l
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WINE
by Michael Cooper
Legacy in
a bottle
A classy trio honours
an industry pioneer.
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eeling rich? Pernod Ricard NZ
has just released three wines
under its super-premium
Church Road Tom label – a
chardonnay at $150 and two reds at
$220 each.
The Tom selection is named for
winemaker Tom McDonald, a driv-
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Zealand’s first prestige red, McWil-
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Church Road Tom Cabernet Sauvignon/
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This commanding wine is one of
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Syrah is the latest addition to the
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WINE OF THE WEEK
Grove Mill Wairau Valley
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PSYCHOLOGY
by Marc Wilson
Packing in
the pews
The reasons for the
ongoing spate of gun-
related atrocities in
the US are obscure.
W
e want to know why things happen –
bad things in particular.
In social-cognition research – the
branch of social psychology interested in
how we think about social life and how social life
affects our thinking – we talk about “attributions”
for events. Attributions are the things we assign as
the causes of things that happen. When I was an
undergraduate psychology student, I read that by
the end of the 1980s, there had been thousands
of research articles and chapters and books on the
subject of attribution.
We really want to know the causes of how we
think about causes, it seems.
I’ve been thinking about this for a couple of
reasons. The first is the ongoing spate of gun-
related atrocities in the US and the discussions
about why they happen and how to prevent
them. Although most American voters think that
universal background checks are a good idea, the
White House and Republican-controlled Senate
have been somewhat less convinced.
Among other things, we’ve heard that mass
shootings are the result of too many violent video
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games, not enough prayer, too much science
taught in schools and mental illness. These are all
interesting attributions.
I think we probably don’t need
to spend too much time on the
issue of video games or teaching
science (which I suspect is code
for “evolution”) for the
simple reason that many
other developed
countries
not only do
this and
sometimes
more than
the US, but they don’t experience
US-level mass shootings.
Prayer is a trickier one. White
evangelical Protestants in the US are
less likely to endorse stricter gun laws
than Catholics, African-American
Protestants and the irreligious. A
“In the US, it is easier
to get a gun than
it is to get mental-
health care.”
2018 Colorado Mesa University
study found that nearly a third of
evangelicals supported the carrying of
concealed firearms in churches and
more emphasis on God and morality
in schools and society. (I think the
“more prayer” and “less science” folks
may be the same people.)
What about mental illness? This
appears to be the attribution that
President Donald Trump favours.
The same argument about video
games and science applies here –
mental illness doesn’t happen only
in the US. It is also unlikely to be
the main cause of mass shootings,
because the planning, organisation
and composure required to carry
one out are difficult to achieve if
you’re clinically anxious, depressed
or psychotic.
he other reason I’m thinking
T about attribution is the immi-
nent retirement of Victoria
University of Wellington profes-
sor John McClure, who taught me
everything I know about attribu-
tion. For instance, conjunctions of
attributions – in which we attribute
something to multiple smaller causes
– are more likely to be involved in an
extreme event. But it is also the case
that extreme events lend themselves
to single extreme attributions as well.
Big events need big causes, or lots of
smaller ones.
Mental illness is also an example
of an attribution that is dispositional
or internal to the actor. We have a
tendency to attribute to dispositions
rather than situations. And we do
this even more when we’re trying
to understand something bad. This
makes sense as a kind of defensive
way of thinking – by pointing the
finger at one person, we can kid
ourselves that something bad won’t
necessarily happen again.
At the same time, this discussion
has highlighted a paradox – as the
National Alliance on Mental Illness
notes: “In the US, it is easier to get a
gun than it is to get mental-health
care.” Mental illness is not the smok-
ing gun in explaining mass killings,
and it’s just plain wrong that people
can’t get help when they need it. l
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SPORT
by Paul Thomas
Code
black
An A to Z of the ninth
Rugby World Cup, which
gets under way in Japan
on September 20.
A
is for the ALL BLACKS, who, for the
first time since 2003, don’t go into
the Rugby World Cup as the top-
ranked team in the world – not that
it counted for much in 2007. If they
do win a third consecutive tourna-
ment, it will be a truly stupendous
achievement: getting to the top is one thing; stay-
ing there is another, harder thing altogether.
B is for the BREAKDOWN, the referees’ domain,
the area of the game where they can really put
their stamp on proceedings (see C and R). To put it
another way: it’s a lottery.
C is for yellow and red CARDS, which will more
than likely influence a few outcomes and ignite a
few controversies.
D is for DRAW. As tennis fans are well aware, the
luck of the draw is a thing.
E is for ENGLAND. At their best, they’re as good
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as anyone. Other teams will be hoping they wilt
under a combination of an Indian summer (not
guaranteed) and coach Eddie Jones’ flamethrower
Radar malfunctions:
All Black Beauden
Barrett lines up a
kick at goal.
intensity (absolutely guaranteed).
F is for FRANCE. Often portrayed
as the great enigmas, les Bleus have
actually been quite consistent at
Rugby World Cups in the sense of
almost invariably producing a perfor-
mance no one, themselves included,
saw coming.
G is for Welsh coach Warren
GATLAND, who will step down after
the tournament, having taken Wales
through three cup cycles. Where to
next for this driven, ambitious coach?
Hamilton, actually. Next year, he’ll be
coaching the Chiefs.
H is for Steve HANSEN, who has long
since emerged from the shadow of
his predecessor, Sir Graham Henry,
and will present an irresistible case for
being the greatest rugby coach of all
time should the All Blacks achieve the
three-peat.
Eddie Jones, far left, and Handré Pollard.
I is for IRELAND, who don’t have an
impressive Rugby World Cup record
and looked in disarray a few weeks
ago. But they go into the tournament
as the top-ranked team. It will be
interesting to see how they cope with
the added expectation that comes
with that.
J is for JAPAN. There have been con-
cerns that Japan could run out of beer
during the tournament. You’d think
that eventuality would reflect as badly
on the tournament’s global sponsor,
Dutch brewing giant Heineken, as the
hosts.
K is for KICKING. The likes of Owen
Farrell (England) and Handré Pol-
lard (South Africa) kick goals with
machine-like consistency. The All
Blacks don’t have anyone of that
calibre, but the introduction to the
starting line-up of Richie Mo‘unga
has alleviated the unease generated
by Beauden Barrett’s occasional
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The Rugby World
Cup is a zero-sum
game on steroids.
– and costly – radar malfunctions.
L is for LUCK, the most obvious
manifestation of which is injuries, or
the avoidance thereof. Coaches will
express “total confidence” in all 31 of
their squad members but, to para-
phrase George Orwell’s famous line in
Animal Farm, “All squad members are
equal, but some are more equal than
others.”
M is for MAULS, of which there will
be far too many for the liking of those
who believe they’re incompatible
with the ethos of the game and the
rest of the law book.
N is for NAMIBIA, the lowest-ranked
team at the tournament. Minnows
they may be but, in 2015, the Namib-
ians dragged the All Blacks most
of the way down to their level. An
excruciating spectacle ensued.
O is for OFFSIDE. Hansen reck-
ons it’s just a matter of time before
someone comes up with a counter to
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the rush defence. If that’s to happen
at this tournament, the match
officials will have to police – as
opposed to pay lip service to – the
offside line.
P is for PACIFIC players, who
will feature prominently but not
necessarily in the colours of Fiji,
Samoa or Tonga. Australia, England,
France, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand
and the USA will all field players of
Pacific origin or who are playing for
their country of adoption.
Q is for QUARTER-FINALS, the start
of what former Manchester United
manager Sir Alex Ferguson called
“squeaky-bum time”.
R is for REFEREES, some of whom
strive to be the invisible man,
whereas others seem to want to
be the most important person on
show. The faceless men who’ll
make the refereeing appoint-
ments for the knockout games
could be as influential as any player or coach.
S is for the SPRINGBOKS, whose confrontation
with the All Blacks next weekend will be titanic and
have a big bearing on how the tournament plays
out.
T is for TEMPO. The All Blacks pride themselves on
their ability to play at a higher tempo, or at a high
tempo for longer, than their opponents. Recent evi-
dence suggests the gap has closed but the All Blacks
will be hoping that their personnel, game plan and
the likely conditions will enable them to reopen it.
U is for UPSETS. There won’t be many genuine
upsets, and they won’t necessarily have a bearing
on the way the tournament unfolds, but rugby
romantics will be hoping there’s a boilover or two.
Just not at the expense of their teams.
V is for the VEXATION many Kiwis, particularly
of a certain age, are feeling now that watching the
Rugby World Cup isn’t the simple matter it used to
be.
W is for WALES. After two losses to Ireland, Wales
have dropped from first to fifth in the world rank-
ings. Although it probably suits them to have that
target off their backs, it won’t have lowered expec-
tations in the rugby-mad nation.
X is for X-FACTOR, a term used by lazy and/or inar-
ticulate pundits attempting to explain why some
players are better than others.
Y is for YOKOHAMA, where the All Blacks meet the
Springboks. The pitch at the International Stadium
is being relaid at an alarmingly late stage in pro-
ceedings. Let’s hope it’s all right on the night.
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Z is for ZERO-SUM GAME. The Rugby World Cup
is a zero-sum game on steroids: 20 countries are
taking part; 19 of them will walk away as losers. l
Pacific powered:
Fiji-born England
international Joe
Cokanasiga.
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Books&Culture
Off the chain
Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead explains why his novels about
historic American racism aren’t written out of anger, his rising literary
stardom and the influence of Sonic Youth. by RUSSELL BAILLIE
O
n a page towards the end
of Colson Whitehead’s
novel The Nickel Boys, one
of his main two teenage
African-American charac-
ters is berating the other.
Turner the street-smart
eternal pessimist is scolding Elwood, his
earnest, ever-hopeful, bookish friend who
has hatched a plan to escape the Nickel
Academy, the segregated reform school in
1960s Florida, which is their living hell.
Elwood has kept a written record of
food deliveries to the academy, which are
being onsold to local businesses by the
bosses of the state institution for personal
profit. Turner isn’t pleased: “What do you
think they are going to do? Put you on the
cover of Time magazine?”
“I did it to stop it,” Elwood replies.
Whitehead laughs down the line from
London when the Listener reminds him
of the passage. After all, when The Nickel
Boys came out, Time did put the creator of
Turner and Elwood on its cover. “Ameri-
ca’s storyteller” was the headline.
He doesn’t remember writing that piece
of dialogue. “I guess that just slipped
my mind. It’s a strange turn of events,
definitely.” It made it interesting there for
a while on the streets of hometown New
York. “For two weeks, I would walk by a
newsstand and see my face between ‘Biki-
nis for summer’ and ‘Incarceration camps’
… And there was me in the middle.”
Where history has brought us: Colson
Whitehead, left; the July 8, 2019, Time magazine
cover, above.
SEPTEMBER 21 2019 LISTENER
He laughs again that he was warned
he might be bumped from the cover if
news events dictated. “Like, if Trump gets
impeached … So, what do I wish for – for
Trump to get impeached or for me to be
on the cover?”
Whitehead is talking
from London during
an author tour that will
eventually bring him
to next year’s Auckland
Writers Festival. That
day’s event was special, he
says, because among the
attendees was Thurston
Moore, late of New York
noise-rock band Sonic
Youth. Whitehead has
a custom of playing
the group’s 1988 classic
double album Daydream
Nation – as well as Prince’s
Purple Rain – while writing the final pages
of his books.
“You know, I received so much from his
art as a teenage fan and for him to read
The Nickel Boys and come out was very
moving for me. All four [band members]
were so instructive in how to be an artist
and how to be an artist in New York. How
to be dissonant when you have to and
how to keep it quiet when you have to.”
n recent years, the noise around
I Whitehead has increased markedly
– to the point Time made him, after
James Baldwin, Alex Haley and Toni
Morrison, only the fourth black writer
to grace the cover. He became a literary
star with previous novel The Underground
Railroad, a tale of American slavery that
employed magical realism, riffing on the
idea that the railroad of the title was real,
rather than a network to help escaped
slaves travel north to
freedom. Long-listed for
the Booker Prize, it won
him the Pulitzer Prize
for fiction as well as the
endorsement of both
Oprah and Obama. It’s
being made into a TV
series by Barry Jenkins,
the director of the Oscar-
winning Moonlight and If
Beale Street Could Talk, an
adaptation of a Baldwin
novel. The response to
The Underground Railroad
came as a surprise.
“When I was writing it, I didn’t think that
the book would have the kind of impact
that it had. I was just trying not to screw
it up, page by page, which is generally my
method – I have a good idea, then I hope I
don’t mess it up.”
But, once he handed in the manuscript,
it was apparent the book might resonate.
“All these people who’d worked with me
for years were having this very strong
response that I hadn’t seen before. It was
apparent that it was really hitting people
in a new and deep way, and so the Pulitzer
was like a sort of culmination of months
and months and months of people sort of
reacting to the book in this very deep and
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heartfelt way. It was very gratifying, but
also, when you’re writing it, you have no
idea if people understand what you’re
trying to do.”
The Nickel Boys is his seventh novel,
and after The Underground Railroad, his
second to confront America’s history of
racism head-on. The 49-year-old New
York-born Harvard graduate, who wrote
for The Village Voice as he established
himself as a novelist, has also written two
non-fiction books, a 2003 collection of
essays about the Big Apple, The Colossus
of New York, and The Noble Hustle: Poker,
Beef Jerky & Death, based on a magazine
assignment to play in the World Series
of Poker in Las Vegas. His earlier novels
included zombie story Zone One – reflect-
ing his youthful fandom of horror stories
and movies and Stephen King – and Sag
Harbor, a semi-autobiographical take on
“So, what do I wish
for – for Trump to get
impeached or for me to
be on the [Time] cover?”
middle-class black teenagers coming of
age in the mid-80s in the Long Island
town where Whitehead spent vacations
as a kid.
later it would have stuck with me.”
By the time he was researching and
writing it, Trump had been elected. “The
story was compelling enough without
him, but he was definitely the trigger
to start writing it in 2017 as opposed to
later. When he came into office, you do
A fantastic
question your assumptions about Ameri-
can progress and question how far we’ve
come in the past 30 years.”
reawakening
His fictional Nickel Academy retains
the name of Dozier’s “White House”, the
building where staff meted out violence
to students, dragged from their bunks in
the middle of the night. “That meta-
phorical resonance I can’t outdo.”
The Nickel Boys begins with Elwood, a
studious kid, who, inspired by Dr Martin
Luther King Jr, is seemingly destined
for greater things until he accepts a lift
in a stolen car, gets arrested and sent to
Nickel. There, he befriends Turner as he
tries to figure his way out of the place.
But there is no magic train to rescue
them. Their story is a lean, propulsive, Elizabeth Knox pens
harrowing, thrilling 200-plus pages. It’s
a magical invitation
one of his shortest books. “I am enjoy-
ing compression and concision and the
elegance of a very compact structure.”
back to a childlike
Half of it was written in hotel rooms imaginative state.
and planes as he travelled promoting The
Underground Railroad. The final weeks of
its creation took a toll, he says. Especially by CHARLOTTE GRIMSHAW
as he had absorbed the stories of many of

The Nickel Boys is based on the infa-
mous Arthur G Dozier School for Boys, a
Florida reform school that finally closed
in 2011 after more than a century of
subjecting its student-inmates to vio-
lence, torture, sexual abuse and murder.
Archaeological studies have found evi-
dence of nearly 100 bodies buried on the
grounds, some remains showing shotgun
pellets and signs of blunt-force trauma,
malnutrition and disease.
hitehead first heard about Dozier
those who were at Dozier, some of whom
he had met before and after it was pub-
lished. One lived a few blocks away in
Manhattan. “He said he liked the book.
So far, the former students have said they
liked it. Perhaps they are being polite,
but if the book captures even a fragment
of what they went through, I think it’s
successful in that way.”
Now, although he’s still talking about
The Nickel Boys, Whitehead’s working
on novel No 8. He’s still in the 1960s,
but it’s a crime novel set in Harlem and,
O
nce upon a time, I was a child.
My father was an android, my
mother was a witch, my brother
was a goblin and my blue-eyed
sister was a golden princess.
These things I knew, just as I believed
the bungalow at the top of our street
contained a warlock, and that our house
when empty was so terrifying I couldn’t
enter it. The golden princess and I played
continuous games of pretend, and at
school my imaginative make-believe
with friends was so intense and inventive

W and its history as he was working

on The Underground Railroad in
the northern summer of 2014, just as
the police shooting of Michael Brown Jr
in Ferguson, Missouri, and the police-
chokehold death of Eric Garner on
Staten Island rocked the US. “It was a
very rough summer. In the middle of all
that outrage came this news report about
a school in Florida … and the next day,
the story was gone. I can’t say if I’d come
across it six months before or six months
unlike its two predecessors, it gives him
a chance to inject some humour. But
that doesn’t mean America’s storyteller is
getting less angry about America. Actu-
ally, he doesn’t think The Underground
Railroad and The Nickel Boys are built on
anger.
“Really, they’re just a clear-eyed assess-
ment of where we are in terms of race
and where history has brought us.” l
THE NICKEL BOYS, by Colson Whitehead
(Hachette, $34.99)
that we would come inside glazed, still
absorbed in some Narnian-style dream. I
loved fantasy stories, with their thrilling
sense that life was a facade hiding
mysterious, frightening, wild elements.
Just before adolescence, to my little
sister’s bitter dismay, a new tone entered
our games. It crept up gradually, causing
the princess to howl in protest and beat me
with her tiny fists. I had begun to introduce
a treacherous hint of tongue-in-cheek.
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keen sense of the ridiculous. She would
detect my satirical ambivalence and laugh.
Then she would storm off. Everything was
ruined, because I’d got too old.
The fantasy retreated but the facade
remained, and the question became one
of psychology. What really lies beneath?
The smiling acquaintance in his black
coat and hat is no longer the warlock you
might once have imagined, but still, what
is it about him that’s uncanny? An odd
quality marks him out. Perhaps his mask
has slipped, and behind the small talk is a
glimpse of something dark: fraudulence,
manipulativeness, aggression.
In the course of inventing, which I
went on doing by writing fiction, the
question became one of authenticity. How
do people behave in given situations?
What are the ironies and dramas in
relationships? What is crime, betrayal,
generosity, love? If children are naturally
narcissistic (and some rare adults never
lose that quality), the path to artistic truth
seemed to be to try to understand the
human mind, to develop empathy.
lizabeth Knox’s The Absolute Book is
E
an epic 650-page novel that moves
between real and fantasy worlds.
Its likeable human protagonist, Taryn
Cornick, encounters demons, fairy people
and talking birds. In one early scene,
ordinary characters in a contemporary
French town are transported into a
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Moving between real and
fantasy worlds: Elizabeth Knox.
parallel universe. Suddenly, it’s night in an
alien landscape, someone is wounded and
action is required. These mortals don’t
do what psychological plausibility would
require; they don’t collapse into a terrified
fetal position and assume they’ve gone
insane. Instead, they react as if – like the
author – they’ve done all this before. They
barely discuss, let alone question, what’s
The Absolute Book’s
power is in the skill
and pace of Knox’s
storytelling, the sharp
dialogue and luminous
evocation of place.
happened. They find a path, seek help;
they deal with the situation as best they
can. Despite experiencing extraordinary
violence and shocks throughout, Taryn is
remarkably unaffected by fear.
Paradoxically, in order to enter into
this scenario, a suspension of adult
imagination is required. If you take
that critical sense offline, there can be
a return to some flattened, prelapsarian
state of innocence where you lose your
hard-earned understanding and start
pinning your magical thinking to people
in the way you did as a child, with only a
rudimentary sense of human complexity.
In fantasy, the creator retains agency,
projecting an inner-generated “reality”
onto the world instead of interpreting
it. So, the acquaintance in his black coat
and hat can become a warlock again,
disguised as human, hiding in plain sight.
It’s these differences in aesthetic
sensibility that complicate a critical
response. How best to do the book justice
on its own terms? Perhaps a connoisseur
of fantasy would be the only appropriate
commentator, I thought. I’m glad I
proceeded though. I can record that I
enjoyed The Absolute Book outrageously.
Was it because I’m an incurable realist
that I enjoyed it so much? Forces came
together; I slipped into another world.
I didn’t collapse into a fetal position
protesting about plausibility; I didn’t
refuse to go on because, to a grown-up,
none of this made sense. I followed the
plot all the way from west to east, and I
went on thinking about its effect when I
was finished. The story pinned itself to me
as though I were some figure on whom
the author had fixed her gaze, ignoring
my human qualities and designating me
one of her Taken people.
The Absolute Book’s power is in the skill
and pace of Knox’s storytelling, the perfect
spinning of the intricate plot, the sharp
dialogue and luminous evocation of place.
Knox’s landscapes are vivid and beautiful,
both the earthly and the otherworldly.
I was carried along without objection,
and the great pleasure for me, along
with the simple one of wanting to know
what would happen next, was the feeling
that my realist mind had been flattened
out – that I had, temporarily, due to the
intensity and momentum of the narrative,
made some kind of mental shift, lost the
compulsion to search for psychological
depth (always a source of disquiet) and
gone back to an earlier imaginative
state, one that pulsed with mysterious
possibility.
While I read the novel, the man in his
black coat and hat was a warlock, shape-
shifter, demon. It was
strangely refreshing;
it was rejuvenating. I
was transported out
of my sensibility, back
to a foreign country –
the past. l
EBONY LAMB
THE ABSOLUTE BOOK, by
Elizabeth Knox (Victoria
University Press, $35)
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BOOKS&CULTURE
A tale of
sorrow
The grief is palpable
in a Swedish writer’s
novel inspired by the
death of her partner.
by BRIGID FEEHAN
C
arolina Setterwall’s debut, Let’s
Hope for the Best, is categorised as
an autobiographical novel: fiction,
but based closely on the life of its
author. Setterwall writes about “Carolina”
and her partner, Aksel, and baby, Ivan.
For both Carolina and the author, tragedy
struck when 34-year-old Aksel died sud-
denly and unexpectedly in the night
while Carolina slept in the next room
with their baby.
The first half of the book covers
similar territory to Joan Didion’s
memoir, The Year of Magical
Thinking, forensically detail-
ing the grief that follows the
sudden and unexpected death
of a partner. Although Swed-
ish music-industry publicist
Setterwall is not a writer of
the same calibre as Didion
(who is?), her book is well
written enough to be gen-
uinely moving – mainly
because of its brutal
honesty. Two months
after Aksel’s death, Caro-
lina sees an ambulance
with its doors open out-
side a shopping centre:
“My stomach flipped
and then the almost
comforting thought:
now someone else’s life is
changing other than mine.
I’m not the only one this
happens to.”
More than a year later,
Carolina Setterwall
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when everyone else is getting on with
their lives, Carolina lies in bed at night
feeling isolated and alone with Ivan: “I’m
both ashamed and fascinated by how all
my gratitude and humility evaporates in
the darkness, and I am transformed into
an angry and bitter person, jealous and
envious, someone no one would ever
want anything to do with if they knew.”
Her grief is sensual – sorting out Aksel’s
clothes for the funeral home, she is over-
whelmed by his scent. But it’s also mixed
with guilt and clear-eyed analysis. The
history of the relationship is described
in chapters that alternate with those on
the aftermath of Aksel’s death, and it’s
clear that the relationship was increas-
ingly troubled: “I think about how bad we
were at making each other happy, how
bad I was at making you happy, how you
probably would have got fed up sooner
or later and left me.” Carolina feels brief
comfort in these thoughts, but, “They’re
“I am transformed into an
angry and bitter person,
jealous and envious,
someone no one would
ever want anything to do
with if they knew.”
soon replaced by other thoughts where
no peace can be found.”
The book is written in the second
person, all addressed at Aksel – even
the second half in which Carolina
embarks on a new relationship
almost two years after his
death. The new relation-
ship, which supplies
the book’s cliffhanger
ending, is fraught in
ways that make Caro-
lina miss the niggles
she had in her relation-
ship with Aksel. The
unnamed new partner
seems intense and con-
trolling, while laid-back
Aksel was neither.
Lest it all sound unre-
mittingly grim, there are
moments of dry humour
and lots of intriguing insight
into family life, especially
Carolina’s in-laws; I’d have liked
more of them. Despite this, the
book will
probably still
move you to
tears. l
LET’S HOPE
FOR THE BEST,
by Carolina
Setterwall
(Bloomsbury,
$33)
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Going to blazes
A ferocious satire on
modern American
politics fires up at just
about everybody.
by NICHOLAS REID
W
hen I read the first 20 pages
of Only Americans Burn in
Hell, I laughed so hard that I
had to stop reading, because
I was in a public place and
people were giving me funny looks. When
I read the next hundred
pages, I thought, “This is
pretty funny.” But by the
time I was into the second
half of the novel, it was,
“Okay, could we please
stop now?”
Written in short one-
sentence paragraphs (à la
Kurt Vonnegut), Turkish-
American satirist Jarett
Kobek’s novel has the
same effect as a stand-up
comedian who fills a two-
hour gig by bashing you
over the head with the
same jokes. But, they’re
pretty good jokes – to
begin with. Kobek sees the
Kobek is shouting his left as gullible,
rage at about all that’s hypocritical and
wrong with the US: part of what
Donald Trump, xenopho- he repeatedly
bia, white nationalism, the
war machine, the endless
calls “the
excuses for destroying celebrity branch
Middle Eastern countries of American
in the name of democracy. governance”.
But if you think you
can settle into a comfort-
able satire about all the things you hate
anyway, you’re in for a horrible shock.
Only Americans Burn in Hell is as damn-
ing of the American left as the right – the
liberals as much as the conservatives
– because Kobek sees the left as gul-
lible, hypocritical and part of what he
repeatedly calls “the celebrity branch
of American governance”. He describes
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Steve Jobs as “a psychopath who enslaved
Chinese children and made them build
electronic devices, which allowed Ameri-
can liberals to write treatises on human
rights”.
Worse, says Kobek, the left often sweat
the small stuff while ignoring the big pic-
ture. Who really cares how many women
are chief executives if the companies they
head are exploitative capitalist enterprises?
And surely only an idiot would suggest
that having women as the main charac-
ters in inane superhero movies (Wonder
Woman et al) is a powerful political state-
ment. Aren’t fantasy games and movies
the current drug of choice to avoid reality?
To prove his contempt for the genre,
Kobek builds his plot out of fantasy, with
all its “bullshit magic”. Two Amazon-
like women come from “Fairy Land” to
critique and wreak havoc
upon modern America.
But we’re not fooled, as
Kobek repeatedly forgets
his plot device to deliver
first-person rants.
Already pelted in his
earlier book, I Hate the
Internet, one of his favour-
ite targets is the media,
especially social media,
which has apparently
debased public discourse
on the left and right,
turning it into a pointless
shouting and slogan-
trading match. The media
has become a machine
for wrecking liberal
democracy. Meanwhile,
the literati overvalue
their effect: “Still hoping
books will save you?” asks
Kobek. “Stop pretending.
Everyone else has.”
Are there any grounds
for hope in this raucous,
wide-swinging satire? Not
really, but then satirists
aren’t required to provide
answers, are they? From Juvenal to Swift
to now, kicking wildly in all directions is
part of the satirist’s trade.
Sure, you’ll laugh. Sure, you’ll gasp at
the horror of it all. But, in the end, you’ll
feel a little punch drunk as he repeatedly
pounds his point home. l
ONLY AMERICANS BURN IN HELL, by Jarett
Kobek (Profile Books, $32.99)
A wistful
homecoming
A lyrical and learned
collection of well-
crafted poems.
by NICHOLAS REID
New Zealand poet who has
A returned home after a long stay
in Australia, John Allison reflects
on some of the essentials of life in his
fifth collection, A Place to Return To.
Landscape and nature are prominent, of
course, but also age, loss of friends and
death itself.
Much of this book is elegiac, as in
his very best poem, Elegy Eutrapelos, in
which the Greek word in the title refers
to being both serious and light-hearted
as death approaches. This exemplary
poem runs in strict and traditional stanza
form. But Allison is also adept at free
verse, “found” poems (pieces from the
writing of da Vinci and Gerard Manley
Hopkins) and the odd prose poem.
If death looms, it is not Allison’s
sole concern. Nearing 70, he does give
some poetic anecdotes from childhood
in pieces such as The Way Down and A
Question Raised by Archaeology. But he is
most often concerned with reading the
human into the landscape. In Native
Country, the land itself becomes the
body of a lover. The landscape poems
you elsewhere and backing into silence
turn into elegies.
Some readers may be daunted by
Allison’s frequent referencing of high
culture – everybody from Rainer Maria
Rilke to Cézanne, Blake, Valéry, Pound
and Plotinus. It’s not too baffling,
though. In context, all such refer-
ences have a clear
purpose.
This is a very
satisfying collec-
tion for both its
lyricism and its
intellectual heft. l
A PLACE TO RETURN
TO, by John Allison
(Cold Hub Press, $30)
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NZ NONFICTION

Give ‘em
a taste
of kiwi
A deep burrow
into our national
bird, plus studies
of shearing and a
nutrition pioneer.
by CHRISTOPHER MOORE

A
t first glance, the kiwi is the most
unlikely choice for a national
symbol – a flightless, myopic, noc-
turnal bird that eats worms and
beetles and comes in a range of beiges. But
consider again. Our national bird is both
endearing and enduring, endlessly opti-
mistic in the face of all odds (natural and
man-made), fierce (when required) and
liberated from gender stereotyping (the
males incubate the eggs). What’s not to
admire? Matt Elliott’s new book, The Kiwi:
Endangered New Zealand Icon (Imagination
Press, $39.99), resembles the bird itself: idi-
osyncratic and engaging. Well illustrated,
it traverses the kiwi’s story from its natural
history and current habitats to the fight
to save them. On the way, Elliott includes
a plethora of detail, including the great
cross-breeding hoax of 1909, when a Mr
Tapp claimed to have crossed a hen with
a kiwi, and 19th-century colonial culinary
titbits when the kiwi was reputed to make
excellent stews and soups. But don’t try
that at home.
hese are places with rules, etiquettes
As you doled out bottles
of lukewarm, slightly
yellowish milk, fellow
students regarded it
with either suspicion or
disgust.
who have made a New Zealand tradition
into a vital component of 21st-century
farming. A hundred years ago, shearing
was a somewhat ad-hoc affair. Today, it’s
highly professional, organised and skilled.
Entwistle Low’s words, together with the
equally vivid photographs taken by her
husband, Mark Low, convey both the
hard, physical slog of shearing and the
enduring mystique of something quintes-
sentially Kiwi. It explores the many faces
of shearing, from the contractors, wool
Endangered: kiwi
reputedly stew very nicely.
a sign that you were destined for greater
things in the student hierarchy. It was,
nevertheless, a somewhat thankless task
as you doled out bottles of lukewarm,
slightly yellowish milk to fellow students
who regarded it with either suspicion or
disgust. Presiding invisibly over the daily
routine was the woman who launched the
milk-in-schools scheme in 1936, Dr Muriel
Bell, New Zealand’s first state nutritionist
and a pioneering medical researcher. In
her new biography, The Unconventional
Career of Dr Muriel Bell (Otago University
Press, $35), Diana Brown charts the life and
work of a remarkable but largely neglected
New Zealander. Her crisply written, well-
researched portrait shows the human
face of a woman devoted to science and
improving the health of New Zealanders;
a dedicated scientist but an individual
with deep humanitarian instincts. l

T and memberships every bit as exclu-

sive as a traditional London club. But
that’s where the similarities end and the
shearing shed begins. If a rural elite has
ever existed in New Zealand, it has been
occupied by the shearers and the teams
working alongside them. Ruth Entwistle
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handlers, pressers and
classers, to the youngsters
rushing to fill the catching
pen at the cry of “sheepo”.
A splendid read for both
townies and rural dwellers.

Low’s book The Shearers: New Zealand hen I went to

Legends (Penguin Random House, $45.00) is a
handsome tribute to the men and women W school, the role of
milk monitor was

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 Writer in
Carbon Residence 2020
framed Victoria University of Wellington is New Zealand’s
globally ranked capital city university, located
Why number six on the in the vibrant cultural centre of the country. We
periodic table has it in have a proud tradition of fostering international
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fascinating facts. of national and international significance. Thinking
about a future in a culture where innovation and
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diversity are highly valued? Think Victoria.

T
hink ancient carbon and diamonds might come to mind,
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burnt. Unless you’re a geologist, you’re probably less likely
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to imagine limestone or dolomite, the largest repositories We invite applications for the Victoria University of
of carbon in Earth’s crust, or the millions of carbon-containing Wellington/Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence
organic compounds. Robert Hazen’s Symphony in C: Carbon and
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is clear that he has participated in most of the experiments and cultural life of the University.
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despite an extravagant use of adjectives. In the air chapters, NZ$50,000.
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downplays that message in a way that only geologists who take a
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Hazen writes with generosity, sharing
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SYMPHONY IN C: Carbon and the Evolution of

(Almost) Everything, by Robert Hazen (Harper
Reference 2976
Collins, $39.99)

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MUSIC
by James Belfield

shimmering, super-stylish dress. Who’d which had yielded a couple of top-40

Double be bold enough to look past all that

to wonder if anyone else was behind
her music?
singles. And Jay wanted in on the action.
He recalls the stress of constantly being
on the road and his dad being angry with

Neilson But there’s always been someone

else alongside Tami when it comes to
songwriting. And regardless of what it
said inside that winner’s envelope, that
Expat country star person is Jay Neilson.
Tami’s kid brother (he’s 41, which
Tami Neilson’s puts him a year or so behind Tami) still
Canada-based brother lives in the Neilsons’ native Canada, in
Oakville, southwest of Toronto. Despite
is joining her on a the distance between them in recent
New Zealand tour. decades, Jay reckons he and Tami have
amassed a fairly incredible songbook of
about 700 tracks.
It started in the 90s, when the Neilson
himself that he had to accept playing
eight gigs for $450 to make ends meet.
Songwriting was an easy escape.
“We were always on really early on the
showboat and so we’d get back home in
the early afternoon with nothing to do,”
he says. “So, we just wrote songs. Lots of
songs. A couple a day. They came pretty
easy at that age.”
After the family band went their
separate ways, Tami and Jay carried
on writing songs and performing. Jay
became indie popster Johnny Confidence
but would join up with Tami for “an

N
o matter what Lorde says, it’s
Jay Neilson, not Josh Neilson,
right? Right.
When the pop superstar was
handing over the 2014 Silver
Scroll to Tami Neilson for the stunningly
sassy, brazenly bluesy Walk (Back to
Your Arms), few really paid attention to
the name of the song’s other co-writer
– after all, Tami was up there on stage
in her trademark up-do and another
family band – dad Ron, mum Betty and
kids Tami, Jay and Todd – became the
first Canadian group to get a regular gig
on the General Jackson Showboat in
Opryland, a Nashville country-music
theme park and the self-styled “home of
American music”.
The family had been touring for years
in their 34ft motorhome and had just
released a self-titled album of original
material, penned by Tami and Ron,
acoustic folk-pop duo thing” and knock
out acoustic versions of Outkast songs in
hipster coffee shops.
hen Tami left for New Zealand
W to marry her Kiwi-policeman
boyfriend in 2007, the
collaboration continued with the pair
swapping lyrics or tune ideas across the
Pacific. And when she decided to take the
joyous Americana of her 2008 album, Red

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Keeping it in the family: Jay and Tami Neilson.
Dirt Angel, on a tour of small theatres,
record shops and bars, it was only
natural that Jay would come over and
accompany her.
Since those hardscrabble days of
touting her CDs outside gigs, Tami’s
career has soared – four best-album and
three best-female-artist gongs at the NZ
Country Music Awards, three top-10
albums in the past five years and a voice
and live show that are, beyond doubt,
New Zealand’s most powerful and have
made real waves overseas.
But during that decade of success,
Jay hasn’t been
back to New
Zealand.
Sure, he’s
collaborated on
all the albums.
Sure, he used
his social-media
nous to get Tami
her first 1000
followers on
Instagram. And
sure, they’ve
played together
in gigs in North
“When I talk to people
America and,
after gigs, I tell everyone
more recently, about Tami and her voice,
Europe. But in the because when I get to be
country that has on stage with her, I’m the
really taken Tami same as them – I’m a fan.”
Neilson’s music to
heart, her co-writer
is unknown.
Well, that’s about to change. In
February this year, Jay arrived for
11 days to track Tami’s seventh solo
album, Chickaboom! (due out early
next year), alongside Jol Mulholland
and Delaney Davidson, and the pair
are about to embark on a countrywide
tour throughout October. The album,
Jay says, sees Tami returning to the
harmonies that were the cornerstone of
the family band, and so he’s thrilled to
have been part of the recording process
as well as the writing.
“I find myself really lucky because
not only does creating new music make
the most festive moments I can have,
but being in a team with Tami makes a
world of difference. I really, really love
being part of something so good with
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someone so talented – and to work with
someone like Tami at this time of my
life is something I really cherish.
“When I talk to people after gigs, I
tell everyone about Tami and her voice,
because when I get to be on stage with
her, I’m the same as them – I’m a fan,
I’m listening to every note she’s singing
wondering what she’s going to do,
whether she’s going to nail a note in a
song that’s never been there before.”
S
ome of those onstage moments
on this tour will also have a real
poignancy to them – One Thought
of You, for example, is Jay’s favourite
song off Tami’s last
album, Sassafrass!,
which Tami put
words to but was
originally written
by Ron, who died
nearly five years
ago.
“The first
time I heard it,
I literally had
a breakdown,”
Jay says. “And
stories about Dad,
I’ve never really
talked about on
stage before, but
there’s been some
time to heal your
emotions and let
your hopes inflate
again, so it will
be nice to share a
point of view that
I don’t normally talk about.”
Jay says he’s not used to sharing the
limelight with his sister, but it will at
least give him the opportunity to ensure
Kiwis finally get his name right.
“A lot of people assume it’s Joshua in
New Zealand because that’s what came
out of Lorde’s mouth, but that’s not
what I go by. So, this is my opportunity
to say, ‘Hey, my name is Jay’.” l
Tami and Jay Neilson will play Dunedin’s
Mayfair Theatre on October 17; Wellington’s
Meow on October 18; Christchurch’s The
Piano on October 19; Auckland’s Tuning
Fork on October 20; Nelson Arts Festival on
October 21; The Leigh Sawmill on October
26 and the Tauranga Arts Festival on
October 28.
CLASSICAL
by Elizabeth Kerr
Ocean emotion
Māori instruments
elevate a lament for
the submarine world.
hy do whales sing? Their
W low-pitched “songs” and
accompanying clicks and whistles
signal communication, echolocation
and mating rituals. Humans are drawn
to these huge mammals, but we are also
their greatest threat. The atmospheric
music on the recently released Panthalassa
makes no overt statement about whale
endangerment, but the album is pervaded
by a contemplative aura of lament.
The imaginative practice of musician
Al Fraser is based on taonga pūoro and
as a maker, composer and performer,
he’s one of several Māori and Pākehā
artists working on the contemporary
revival of Māori traditional instruments.
Here, he collaborates with guitarist Sam
Leamy and sonic artist Neil Johnstone
in a set of a dozen short pieces evoking
the profound soundscapes of the ancient
Panthalassic Ocean and incorporating
haunting whale songs sourced from
National Institute of Water and
Atmospheric Research recordings.
Panthalassa begins with Paleozoic
Dawn, sounds rising gradually from the
void into an amorphous musical texture
punctuated by Fraser’s beautiful pahū
pounamu, a greenstone gong. The voices
of the whales emerge in subsequent
tracks, a strident trumpet-like pūkāea
joining them to bring drama to Glacial
Imprints. The music is without a metrical
beat, its structure built from changes in
texture, timbre and dynamics.
In Hinatore, Ariana Tikao sings, in te reo,
poetry by Johnstone that offers descriptors
for the whole collection – “swirling
chaos”, “moving through darkness”, “a
cloud of swarming points of luminosity”.
The final title, Mesozoic Extinction, suggests
a cataclysmic event such as the meteorite
of prehistory, but this evocative music
sinks gently into its deep submarine
world, sounds fading to silence. l
PANTHALASSA, Al Fraser, Sam Leamy and Neil
Johnstone (Rattle)
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BOOKS&CULTURE

FILM
by James Robins

Heaven’s gatekeepers
to work cleaning their rifles. All of them
A drama about GIRLS OF THE SUN
directed by Eva Husson are survivors, rescued from IS captivity.
Kurdish women They are about to navigate a tunnel deep

A
cold, bleak morning, somewhere
fighting Islamic in Iraqi Kurdistan, on the front
State is stirring lines of the struggle against the
Islamic State (IS). A troop of
and urgent. women emerge slowly from sleep and set
into enemy territory – into the maw. To
rouse themselves, they chorus a song of
defiance: “Women! Life! Liberty!”
It’s one of many stirring moments
in Eva Husson’s scintillating and finely

attends to his duties without complaint:

Voyage of the shovelling a small garden, reporting to the
computer that keeps the lights on, talking

damned numbly to his infant daughter.

We’re quick to glean the register of lone-
liness, primed as we are by a cinematic
A one-way mission on lineage of austere endurances in outer
space (Tarkovsky’s Solaris, Kubrick’s 2001).
a convict spaceship In flashback, we learn that there was once
heads towards an a crew, all convicted criminals who traded
a prison cell for a one-way spaceship – a
artistic black hole. death row by other means. Thus there is
horror, too, that other prime subgenre of
the intergalactic odyssey. But the haunting
HIGH LIFE aspect is not how they went. Rather, it’s
directed by Claire Denis what was done to them and what they did
to each other while still alive.

T
ake the last exit somewhere past
Pluto, deep into the expanse, and
you’ll find a ship endlessly accel-
erating towards blank horizons. It
resembles a beige, oversized cargo
container. Aboard, there’s only Monte
(Robert Pattinson), a monk-like man who
There is Dr Dibs (Juliette Binoche) and
her prurient experiments. There is a room
that bristles and gleams with implements
of self-pleasure. Above all, there are the
secretions: High Life is slick with human
goo – blood, breastmilk, semen, snot.
Some have claimed that the film is rich

56 LISTENER SEPTEMBER 21 2019

Art imitates life: right, Women’s protection unit Where Husson could have easily been
commander Bahar (Golshifteh Farahani). merciless in her depictions of violence,
she chooses tactfully to imply rather than
observed, Palme d’Or-nominated war film show, to linger on trauma and aftermath
Girls of the Sun – an assertion of hope in a instead. Combat is as it should be: quick,
despairing situation. tense, horrible. Composer Morgan Kibby
Since the sudden insurgency of IS, or seems to have borrowed her powerful
Daesh, in the summer of 2014, Kurdish score from the horror-film genre (which,
women have formed the backbone of in many ways, this fits into), all discord-
the counter-attack, ant glissandos and
especially in Syria thudding pulses.
as members of the Alongside Bahar is
YPJ, the Women’s We explore Bahar’s Emmanuelle Ber-
Protection Units. imprisonment, her cot’s Mathilde, an
Their courage comes defilement and her embedded journalist
with a certain glee:
Islamic State fight-
ers believe that if
fraught escape with a
pregnant comrade.
fashioned, almost as a
tribute, after the late
conflict reporter Marie
they are killed by a Colvin, replete with
woman, they will not dashing eyepatch.
go to heaven, but be She comes across as a
robbed of their treasured martyrdom. cynic, “hooked on lost causes”, but leaves
Girls of the Sun is a composite of many reaffirmed by what she’s seen, even amid
stories and experiences – a fictional tale the bleakness.
in a very real conflict. To narrow its The director’s admirable restraint
focus, we centre on Bahar (Golshifteh sometimes drops, as with the finale,
Farahani), reluctant commander of the which bends to the treacly traditions of
unit, a former lawyer whose husband was Hollywood, and a closing voiceover only
executed and son abducted by Daesh. reaffirms what we’ve already seen. Nev-
Interlaced with the hard-edged action ertheless, Girls of the Sun is an impressive
of the offensive, we explore her impris- work, full of urgency and indignation.
onment, her defilement and her fraught
escape with a pregnant comrade. IN CINEMAS NOW
in meditations on the human experi-
ence, or that it probes the nature of
perversity and taboo. Perhaps, at best,
there is a commentary on human
disposability. But between bouts of gore
and frenzies of abuse, one wonders if
there really is anything worth salvaging.
French director Claire Denis (Beau
Travail, Let the Sunshine In), working
for the first time in English, cannot be
bothered with something so bourgeois
as tension. The film is one immense
longueur. At most, she can conjure a
sense of languid dread – but this comes
principally from not knowing what the
hell is going on.
Obliqueness is the enemy of emo-
tion, and there’s little to latch on to bar
Monte’s relationship with his daughter.
Monk-like Beyond that is only the slow glide of
Monte (Robert
Pattinson): its elliptical narrative, an interminable
a commentary voyage towards nothingness, with
on human much ickiness along the way.
disposability.
IN CINEMAS NOW
SEPTEMBER 21 2019 LISTENER
SHORT TAKE
MYSTIFY: MICHAEL HUTCHENCE
directed by Richard Lowenstein
ut I just want to be an artist!” Such
‘B is the perennial, anguished cry of
the celebrity who, having reached
an apogee of success, suddenly realises
that fame can be empty, illusory and full
of cruel pressures.
In Mystify, a stirring, intimate portrait
of charismatic INXS frontman Michael
Hutchence, you get the impression that
he really was an artist waylaid: a smoul-
dering arena-bound rock god “shaking his
arse” for the cameras who just wanted to
live a meditative life reading Camus and
Wilde and Hesse and listening to Motown
records.
Surprisingly, film-maker Richard
Lowenstein (a friend of Hutchence,
who cast him in his 1986 movie Dogs in
Space and who made many INXS videos)
doesn’t give much time to the tunes, only
noting tours and albums as markers in the
singer’s life. Instead, it falls mostly to his
ex-girlfriends to narrate: Michele Bennett,
Kylie Minogue and Helena Christensen,
among others, each of them devastatingly
articulate, lyrically describing the pressures
and tolls, the expectation to conform to a
constructed image.
It is Christensen who hints at a foun-
dational reason for the singer’s suicide
in 1997: an assault in Denmark years
earlier that left him brain-damaged, his
sense of smell gone, only exacerbating
his feelings of lost self. From then on,
towards the end, the otherwise shy and
reticent Hutchence – who deliberately
didn’t wear contact lenses onstage for fear
of seeing the crowd – became depressive
and distraught. Mystify is at its best when
illuminating these dark, hidden corners of
his life.
IN CINEMAS NOW
Films are rated out of 5:
(abysmal) to (amazing)
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DIVERSIONS
QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker CROSSWORD by David Tossman
Puzzle No 1538 Puzzle No 1147
Clues across Clues down        
1. What is soliciting for money 1. Who composed The Pearl
by playing music in public? Fishers? (5) 
(7) 2. What country borders
 
4. What is an examination Italy, Austria, Hungary and
of records or financial Croatia? (8)
accounts to check their 3. Which of Disney’s Seven
accuracy? (5) Dwarfs has the biggest nose?  
7. What lens allows a camera (6)
to change smoothly from 4. What is the capital of
a long shot to a close-up or Ethiopia? (5,5)
vice versa? (4) 5. What is the monetary unit   
8. Which part of the small of Vietnam? (4)
intestine leads to the 6. What squirrel-sized South
jejunum? (8) American monkey related
  
10. From which of to the marmoset has
Shakespeare’s plays did moustache-like hair tufts? (7)
Aldous Huxley take the title 9. What is the stock of works
of his Brave New World? that a singer, musician or    
(3,7) company is able to perform?
12. What small harpsichord (10)
with the strings set 11. Who is in charge of a
obliquely to the keyboard gaming table? (8)  
was popular in the 18th 12. In 1964, what was the first
century? (6) instalment of a British
13. In medieval folklore, who is television series following a  
the husband of Titania? (6) group of people, now with
15. Which is the only French nine episodes spanning 56
city on the River Rhine? (10) years of their lives? (5,2) Clues across 25. Award for large vehicle (5)
18. Built by Robert Fulton and 14. What is a space entirely 1. Betrothed, having 26. Apes dancing around you
tested in 1800, the first devoid of matter? (6) abandoned Georgia for once: they got the money (6)
practical submarine was 16. Which 1990 film, a romantic California, now in jail (7) 27. Attempted to see days out
named what? (8) fantasy thriller film starring 5. I hear natural talents (7)
19. What is a grain storage Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore fashioned trousers in 1972
tower? (4) and Whoopi Goldberg was (6) Clues down
20. Which French company the highest-grossing film of 10. Notice one English leader up 1. Some pieces Max Ernst’s
invented the cinema that year? (5) first for farewell in Brussels made turned up in the finals
newsreel? (5) 17. In baseball, what is to tap (5) (5)
21. From what tower are the ball lightly without 11. A huge jolt results in a perm? 2. Conscious of the lower jaw:
Muslims called to prayer? (7) swinging the bat? (4) (5,4) it’s made of porcelain (9)
12. Hold firm stomach, don’t eat 3. Tough friend keen, being
1 2 3 4 5 6 (5,4) out of sorts, to have surgery
13. Suddenly apprehend a (2,5,3,5)
doorstopper (5) 4. TNT said to explode? Not
14. Copy cat or ape or bird (6) even close (7)
7 8 15. Like a belt with a buckle seen 6. Show fondness for
around church (7) household pets in the way
9 17. Rural slave comes back with they argue so frequently
bird to wash up (7) (4,4,3,4)
10 19. Design by alien for a body in 7. Perform again and show a
space (6) response (5)
11 20. An expression of regret for a 8. Was furious having article
deficiency (5) eaten by germ (7)
12 13 22. Bad actors working in radio 9. School head frequently has
show (9) to tone things down (6)
14 24. Crawler cooked decent pie 16. Henry and I hear cry about
(9) the way power is distributed
(9)
15 16
17. Cat disturbed in state of
Solution No 1146 panic gets top coverage (4,3)
17 M S S I 18. Arrested censor gets up on
S T A L L A DH E R E N T S bottom (6)
18 19 T I A G A O K E 19. Trainee peer got drunk (7)
RU N OV E R COCK P I T
A R E K K O T 21. Nettle? Yes and no in any
WH O L EME A L E X T O L surroundings (5)
A S E T E 23. Shop-soiled: tried to change
20 21 AUD I T OR DR I F T E R (5)
S A E N E
S CR UB L I F EGU ARD
U U L A O T O For explanations of previous
Solution 1537 Across: 6 Holden, 7 Walrus, 10 Neptune, 11 Goofy, 12 Eyes, A P P O I N T R E S HOO T
13 Ngaio, 16 Mocha, 17 Iowa, 20/21 Ricky Gervais, 22 Soffit, 23 Marlin. G E S I U L W E
cryptic crosswords, see David
Down: 1 Thunderbirds, 2 Flipper, 3 Femur, 4 Gauguin, 5 Arrow, 8 Skye Boat E AR T HWO RM OV E R S Tossman’s blog at www.noted.
Song, 9 Hedgehogs, 14 Kosygin, 15 Coracle, 18 Sci-fi, 19 Cream. T N T L co.nz/distractions/quiz

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 BRIDGE by David Bird
NORTH
♠ 8642
could guard the spades, declarer crossed to
the ace of trumps and ruffed a spade in his
Wordsworth
♥ A2 hand. This removed East’s jack of spades,
♦ A53 which would otherwise have acted as a guard by Gabe Atkinson
♣ 9632 in the suit. Declarer then ran his remaining The challenge was to write an acrostic
WEST EAST trumps. At Trick 11, West had to find a discard
poem in which the first letters of each
♠ A K 10 9 5 ♠ J73 from K-J of diamonds and the 10 of spades.
line spell out one of the following words:
♥ 93 ♥4 Whatever he threw, declarer would have
his 10th trick. If the jack of diamonds was DISPUTE, ROMANCE, SWINDLE or
♦ KJ94 ♦ 10 7 6 2
thrown, for example, declarer would discard OPERATION.
♣AK ♣J8754
dummy’s last spade and make two diamond David Wort, Bay of Plenty: On the
SOUTH tricks with the ace and queen. Did you see white gurney/Prepped for the journey/
♠Q how the contract should have been defeated? Empty inside/Ready to ride./A gown that’s
♥ K Q J 10 8 7 6 5 If West had foreseen that declarer needed to designed/To expose my behind/(It’s even
♦ Q8 remove East’s spade guard, he would not have worse worn in reverse)./Opiates in, count
♣ Q 10 assisted in this process by playing a second down from 10/Now is the hour, touch
North-South game, dealer West round of spades. Had West switched to trump wood, Amen.
at Trick 4, the contract would have gone Anne Martin, Helensville: Remember
West North East South down. Declarer would have had only one our last meeting/On the bridge at Avignon,/
1S Pass Pass 3H available entry (the trump ace) to ruff a spade
Pass 4H All pass
Moonlight silvering the river?/And you
himself. The diamond ace needed to be intact
for the later squeeze.
called me your mignon/Not, as I misheard,
North placed his partner with good values for “champignon”. /”Cheek!” I screeched, and
a vulnerable 3H bid, albeit in the protective BIDDING QUIZ took my leave./Embarrassed now, I quietly
seat. He raised to 4H and West led the king of WEST West North East South grieve.
clubs, followed by the ace of clubs. Hoping for
♠ AK72 — — 1H Dble Venetia King, Wellington: Defiance./
the best, West continued with the king and
♥ Q3 Rdble 1S 2H Pass Intransigence./Silence./Parental despair./
ace of spades. How would you have played
♦ 854 Unending? No./Teenage antagonism
the contract from this point? Declarer ruffed
♣ AQ82 fades./Eventually disappears.
the second round of spades and saw that he
might be able to squeeze West in spades and What will you say now on the West cards? Poppy Sinclair, Karori: Stupid crime./
diamonds. Since this play would fail if East (Answer on page 62.) Waste of your time, hacking/Into my
bank account./Nothing to find but/
Debts and payments behind./Loser, the
TAKE 5 BARDEN’S balance reads/Empty.
by Simon Shuker CHESS PROBLEMS Gaye Ellis, Dunedin: On a table I lie,
while/Physicians scrub up, as if to/Exemplify
good clinical practice for the/Registrar, who
looks far too young, unlike the/Anaesthetist
with decades of experience./Theatre nurses
mutter about items on the/Instrument tray.
They check my/Obs – all normal/Night
night, see you soon.
But this week’s prize goes to Dick
Worley of Te Aroha: Romans roamed
on Romney Marsh,/Or took the road to
Canterbury./Maybe they found the weather
harsh/After the warmth of Italy./Now, we
two wander, side by side,/Crossing the
roads where Romans ride;/Elderly, close,
each other’s guide.
For the next competition, send us
a limerick about one of the following
kinds of people: a dodgy builder,
John Emms v Chris Ward, British a travelling carnival worker or an
championship, Coventry, 2015 orchestral musician. Entries, for the
The two grandmasters are both popular chess prize below, close at noon on Thursday,
authors, coaches and commentators, and September 26.
they used to be flatmates. So, an amicable
draw was predicted, but Ward slipped into a Submissions: wordsworth@listener.co.nz
passive endgame and Emms took advantage.
or Wordsworth, NZ Listener, Private Bag
Here a shared point still looks likely, until
Emms (White, to 92512, Wellesley St, Auckland 1141.
move) spotted a Please include your address. Entries
winning plan. Can you may be edited for sense or space
do as well? reasons.
(Answer on page 62.)

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DIVERSIONS
Fill the grid so that every column, every row
and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.
715 MEDIUM 526
LAST WEEK’S
SOLUTION
689
1 Place a number from 1 to 9
in each empty box.
2. The sum of each vertical or
horizontal block equals the
number at the top or on
the left of that block.
3. Numbers may be used only
once in each block.
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
62
HARD
LAST WEEK’S
SOLUTION
BRIDGE BIDDING QUIZ SOLUTION
By bidding 2H in front of you, not giving you
a chance to double North’s 1S, partner has
told you of a minimum shapely hand. You
should not therefore have any visions of a
possible slam. Expecting partner to hold six
hearts, you should raise to 4H.
Awards: 4H – 10, 3NT – 6, 2S – 5.
CHESS SOLUTION
1 g5! f5 (if fxg5 2 hxg5 White is effectively a
pawn up and his king will soon invade via
the queen’s flank) 2 exf5 gxf5 3 h5! Kxd5
4 g6! hxg6 5 h6! and queens.
10 QUICK QUESTIONS ANSWERS
1. Africa. An unclaimed area called
Bir Tawil lies on the border
between Sudan and Egypt.
2. Burger King.
3. Plain tobacco packaging.
4. They are the hecklers from the
balcony on The Muppet Show.
5. Opium smoking.
6. True.
7. Thighmaster.
8. Willem Dafoe.
9. Gulf of Mexico.
10. Raw fish.
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LOGIC PUZZLE HUNTING TALES CLUELESS
Four hunters are comparing their trophies and tales at the
hunting club. Each had hunted a different animal and fired a
CROSSWORD
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a different number
different number of rifle shots: from 1 to 26. Use your knowledge of English to solve the
1. Harry required one more shot than did the deer hunter. crossword. Some clue letters are given.
2. Neither Pete nor the boar hunter used two or three shots.
3. The fox hunter was either Fred or Sam.
4. The deer hunter used one more shot than Sam did.
Using these clues and the grid below, can you work out which
hunter hunted which animal and how many shots each took?

NAME ANIMAL

Rabbit
Harry

Boar

Deer
Pete
Fred

Sam

Fox
One
SHOTS TAKEN

Two

Three

Four

Boar
ANIMAL

Deer

Fox

Rabbit

NAME ANIMAL SHOTS TAKEN

You may Fred
write your
answers in
Harry
Pete
ABCDEFGHIJKLM
this grid: Sam NOPQRSTUVWXYZ
SCATTERWORD PERMUTATE
Your aim is to create words of TEMPERATE
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HUNT S
four letters or more using the Your aim is to change
given letters once only but always the top word one
including the middle letter. Do letter at a time, each
not use proper names or plural/ time rearranging the
verb forms that add only “s”. letters to create a new
word. Perform one
See if you can find the nine-letter such permutation for
word using up all the letters. each blank line below
until you arrive at
the last word. There
17 GOOD is usually more than

B LOOD
one correct solution.
20 VERY GOOD
See how many you
24+ EXCELLENT can find in 15 mins.

Last week’s solutions. Logic Puzzle: Eric sold a watercolour painting for $300, Lois sold a pastel artwork for $350, Olga sold an oil painting
for $200 and Robert sold an acrylic painting for $250. Scatterword: STIPULATE, situate, pulsate, stipule, putties, salute, setula, astute,
statue, tulipa, pileus, pause, taupe, pilau, talus, sputa, sutta, suite, pulse, upset, tulip, tula, taut, lieu, pule, lute, spue, suet, suit, plus,
lust, putt. 32 words. Permutate: PAINT, PRINT, SPRIT/STRIP, SPURT/TURPS, BURST, BRUSH Clueless crossword:

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TV • TV REVIEW • RADIO • TV & RADIO LISTINGS

That’sEntertainm

D
ocumentarians tend
to move from one
story to the next –
but sometimes they
find a story so rich,
they’re compelled to stay
with it, to tell more. House of
Champions (Three, Wednesday,
8.30pm) is the work of two
film-makers who took the
latter path.
Kirsty Griffin and Viv Ker-
nick made their first funded
documentary, the 2014 Load-
ing Docs short Wayne, about
Wayne Richardson, a resident
of the Amy Street supported
living community in Thames,
wrestling with a matter of the
heart.
That was followed by the
multiple award-winning
eight-part 2016 web series Amy
Street, which introduced a cast
of residents from the Sup-
ported Life Style Hauraki Trust,
a community-based assisted
living programme for adults
with intellectual disabilities
in the Coromandel town of
Thames.
Several of the residents
return for House of Champions,
which follows Amy Street
House of Champions, flatmates Jonathan Read,
NZ On Screen.
Celeste Osterman and Carla
van Deventer as they prepare

There’s joy to be had

for and compete in the 2017
Special Olympics’ National
Summer Games in Wellington.
The event attracted more than
House of Champions’ success is in how it 3000 people – athletes with
intellectual disabilities, their
avoids making a fuss about anything. by RUSSELL BROWN coaches and team managers.

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ment
It needs noting right
here that this is not, as it’s
sometimes called in the
disability world, “inspiration
porn”. All three of the trio
have their own lives to live,
their own interests (the
ladies, as they did in the web
series, keenly follow local TV
drama, while Jonathan has
more of a head for politics)
and their own joys. The road
to the games is dotted with
encounters with un-athletic
food, drinks they’re not
supposed to be having, a party
and relationship qualms.
Music fans will recognise
the touch of James Milne,
aka Lawrence Arabia, on
the soundtrack. Several of
his best-known songs are
used and the key tune, The
Beautiful Young Crew, is shorn
of its original hipster cynicism
and reborn as something new
and affirming.
But the real success of the
documentary might just be
the way it resists making too
much of a fuss about anything.
There are significant highs and
lows at the games themselves
– and before that, a strange
encounter with a Member of
Parliament in which the politi-
cian doesn’t come off too well
– but it’s all taken in stride. Life
goes on, as it does for all of us.
And on good days, there’s joy
to be had.
Amy Street is available online
at NZ On Screen: tinyurl.com/
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Television
The Best of the Week
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21
American Horror Story: 1984
(SoHo2, Sky 210, 8.30pm). Get
ready for the biggest pastiche
of them all. It was perhaps
inevitable that Ryan Murphy
and Brad Falchuk, who have
scared us with haunted
houses, asylums and hotels,
as well as witches, cults and
the apocalypse, should go
back to the 80s and good old-
fashioned slasher films such
as Halloween, Friday the 13th
and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
There’s a summer camp,
teens, awesomely bad clothes
and very big hair – also an
asylum escapee called “Mr
Jingles”. AHS fans, this will
be the first season that Evan
Peters will not appear, and
the brilliant Sarah Paulson is
unlikely to be seen as she is
busy with another Murphy
production, Ratched, the
origin story of Nurse Ratched
The Clinton Affair, Sunday.
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Good for
a
augh
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PA NERS
from One Flew PENZS2,IWOednesday of which we
Over the Cuckoo’s TVN feel the Beaver
Nest.
9.30pm would approve.
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 22 The Clinton Affair (Prime,
The Kick (TVNZ 1, 8.30pm). 9.30pm). Funny how, when
It’s official: The Kick is measured against the current
destined to be played every White House leadership, Bill
four years in honour of the Clinton looks like a model
Rugby World Cup (it last of probity; how quickly we
screened on telly in
2015). David de Lautour
(young Ted West on
Westside) plays Stephen
Donald, aka Beaver,
who was whitebaiting
on the Waikato when
he was called back as an
emergency fourth-choice
fly-half to play the
French in the final. The
Kick is “quite watchable”,
according to our
reviewer, Diana Wichtel,
an understatement
The Kick, Sunday.
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forget that Clinton became
only the second US presi-
dent to be impeached. This
documentary series, produced
by Alex Gibney, is a messy
examination of the events
leading up to the Senate trial
in January 1999, although it
carries an emotional heft in
the inclusion of Paula Jones,
the Arkansas state employee
who sued Clinton for sexual
harassment – the lawsuit that
led to the impeachment – and
Monica Lewinsky, who was
vilified at the time. It’s taken
the sexual assault of thousands
Documentaries
Making New Zealand (Prime,
Sunday, 8.30pm) is back for a
third season, which begins
with an intriguing look at
our biggest export industry,
tourism. Whereas the series
originally focused on great
public construction works, the
story of the tourism industry
is as much about culture and
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of women and a whole #metoo
movement for Clinton to be
recognised as a predator who
should never have been dal-
lying with 22-year-old intern
Lewinsky and to understand
how the world automatically
believed powerful men and dis-
missed women. “There was no
one coming to her defence,”
says director Blair Foster. “It
was astonishing to me how
alone she was and how thrown
to the wolves she was.”
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 23
71st Emmy Awards (Vibe, Sky
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technology.
“We’ve looked at some of
the technological changes
that influenced tourism in
New Zealand,” says series pro-
ducer Laurie Clarke. “People
being able to fly here had a
massive impact on tourism.
Then you had innovations
like the jet boat, which really
006, noon). It will surely be
Game of Thrones the whole
way at the Emmys in Los
Angeles: the fantasy show has
32 nominations, the most for
any programme in a single
season. (It beat NYPD Blue’s
1994 record by six.) Eighteen
of those are Creative Arts
nominations, which will be
awarded on September 15 and
16; the show’s 14 Primetime
nominations include drama
series; lead actor and actress
(Kit Harrington and Emilia
Clarke); supporting actor
and actress (Peter Dinklage,
Making New
Zealand, Sunday.
Prodigal Son, Tuesday.
Gwendoline Christie, Lena
Headey, Sophie Turner and
Maisie Williams); directing
and writing. Other shows
up for awards include Better
Call Saul, Killing Eve, Russian
Doll, Fleabag, Chernobyl, Fosse/
Verdon, Bodyguard and Veep. For
the fourth time in its history,
the ceremony will not have
a host, which makes it less
controversial for the Emmys,
but more boring for us. Sky’s
E! channel (014) begins its red
carpet countdown at 8.30am,
with live red-carpet coverage
from 10.00am.
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Suits: Jessica Pearson, Tuesday.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24
Prodigal Son (TVNZ OnDe-
mand). That cheeky scamp
Michael Sheen, fresh from
playing an angel in Good
Omens, looks like he’s having
a lot of fun in this new series
from one of the creators of
action-comedy Chuck: Sheen
is an incarcerated serial killer
whose son (Tom Payne) is a
criminal psychologist with
an inside track on the mind
of a killer. Showrunners Chris
Fedak and Sam Sklaver have
said they were influenced
by House, which “was about
diagnosing sickness, while
Prodigal Son is about diagnos-
ing psychology”, and that it is
a Sherlock-Freud hybrid. TVNZ
is streaming the show within
was the start of adventure
tourism.”
But it’s not all change. The
places tourists flock to now –
Rotorua, Milford Sound – were
destinations 150 years ago.
And one developing goal of
today’s tourism industry – for
Māori to have a stake in tourist
business on their ancestral
lands – was actually the way it
was in the beginning.
Lisa Taouma’s award-
winning feature documentary
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a day of its US premiere; it is
doing the same thing with
season three of The Resident
(from Wednesday), season 16
of Grey’s Anatomy (from Friday)
and season three of Young
Sheldon (also from Friday).
Suits: Jessica Pearson (SoHo2,
Sky 210, 9.30pm). The title
says Suits, but Jessica Pearson
(Gina Torres) is in a different
city with a different job that
is little to do with the law
and everything to do with
politics. Pearson is in Chicago,
her home town, where she’s
attempting to fight corruption
from within as the mayor’s
“fixer”. She’s not on the best
of terms with either her boss
(Morgan Spector) or the City’s
Marks of Mana (Māori TV,
Sunday, 7.30pm) gets its televi-
sion premiere this week. The
film, originally produced for
the Coconet TV online hub,
looks at both the origins and
modern-day practice of tatau
(tattooing) among the women
of the Pacific and highlights a
striking historical fact: across
most of the Pacific, tatau was
an art form both for and by
women before it was taken up
by men.
Online by RUSSELL BROWN
Catch of the Week
FUNNIER AS: The New
Zealand comedy his-
tory Funny As might
have had its TV run, but
it ain’t done yet. NZ On
Screen has been stead-
ily publishing extended
versions of interviews
conducted for the series.
Freed of the demands of
episodic documentary, Roseanne Liang
the interviews emerge
as personal stories. Ginette McDonald spins a
sprawling family yarn from a single question
about discovering New Zealand comedy, Rose-
anne Liang confesses that her first comic crush
was R2D2 in Star Wars, and James Griffin – well,
he was always going to be a child of Python,
wasn’t he? nzonscreen.com/interviews/funny-as
ON THE PROMENADE: The BBC Proms have
come and gone for another year – the festival’s
150th – but the highlights are on YouTube for
those of us without access to UK TV. Of particu-
lar note this year: the extraordinary multimedia
performance of Public Service Broadcasting
(there are clips of Gagarin and Go!), African
legend Angélique Kidjo coming down from the
stage to sing amid a dancing sea of silver-haired
groovers and the performance of the young
black British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who
played at Harry and Meghan’s wedding. tinyurl.
com/NZL2019Proms
SVOD HIGHLIGHT: What’s
good in subscription video
on demand. Since its
Japanese launch in 2015,
Netflix has delivered a
string of local productions
in a range of genres, but
The Naked Director looks
like the one that might
cross over to a global
audience. It’s a partly
fictionalised biography of 1980s Japanese
porn pioneer Toru Muranishi, delivered in the
knockabout style of Japanese TV comedy. Not
for the faint of heart, but never a dull moment.
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Sport by RUSSELL BROWN

The week’s best live action

RUGBY
The World Cup waiting
ends for the All Blacks at
8.45pm on Saturday (Spark
Sport and then one hour
delayed on TVNZ 1) – and
although meeting the
Springboks first up may
seem onerous, it actually
sets up a near-perfect pool
curve for the defending
champions. God Friended Me,
Wednesday.
Well, according to the
The Webb Ellis Cup.
chaps at the 1014 Rugby
Show, anyway. They’ve Attorney (Bethany Joy Lenz), Drug Wars: Cocaine (TVNZ
made the jump from Sky to Spark for the Rugby World who helped strip Jessica of Duke, 8.30pm). Britain’s
Cup and have already delivered a feast of high-nerd analy- her law licence. It’s a darker Cocaine Epidemic was its more
sis to the Spark Sport website and YouTube. Their view is series than Suits, literally and apposite title in the UK – a
that playing their hardest match first gives the All Blacks a figuratively, but it does give look at how the drug once
smooth run to the quarter-finals. Torres the leading-role status used only by rich bankers in
Spark Sport subscribers get quite the rugby banquet on she deserves. the City of London became
Saturday, with intriguing matchups in Australia v Fiji as widespread as cigarettes.
(4.15pm) and France v Argentina (6.45pm) leading up the WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25 This three-part series begins
main event. The big game on Sunday is a European derby God Friended Me (TVNZ 2, with a cocaine “wholesaler”
between Scotland and Ireland, while Fiji have to turn 8.30pm). After Touched By an in a Midlands family home
around and play their second pool match on Wednesday, Angel, Joan of Arcadia and Angel mixing 9kg of cocaine with
against Uruguay (Spark Sport, 4.45pm). from Hell, US network CBS goes glucose before it is sold; two
Sky may not have the games, but it’s still going to have the in for another God-adjacent university students who
chat, with The Breakdown (Sky Sport 1, Tuesday, 8.30pm) series in which atheist pod- ordered cocaine over the
and the less reverential Kick-Off (Sky Sport 1, Thursday, caster Miles (Brandon Micheal internet; and partiers from the
9.15pm) discussing the RWC and the week’s happenings in Hall) gets a Facebook friend 1980s who are still snorting
the Mitre 10 and Farah Palmer cups. request from “God” and is well into middle age. The
sent on various quests to help subsequent episodes look
people. Is it an online hoax, or at the unlikely dealers who
is God really on social media? are shifting the stuff, and
More to the point, who is her/ the widespread problems of
his internet provider? As the addiction.
coincidences pile up,
Miles is forced to re-
evaluate, especially in
US Women’s his relationship with
NBA action.
his father (Scandal’s
Joe Morton), who is
OTHER SPORT a pastor. It’s Joan of
If you love sport, but want to get away from the rugby, the Arcadia with a “Sili-
US Women’s NBA playoffs (ESPN 2, Sky 061, Wednesday, con Valley tune-up”,
2.00pm) and rugby league’s second NRL semi-final and said USA Today, that
first preliminary final are on this week (Sky Sport 4, Satur- is “sweet, surpris-
day, 8.30pm and Friday, 8.45pm). The two NRL preliminary ingly watchable”.
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finals decide who’ll play the Grand Final on October 6 and

the WNBA is at the semi-final stage. Drug Wars: Cocaine,
Wednesday.

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TV Films
A Guide to the Week’s Viewing
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21
James and the Giant Peach (TVNZ
2, 7.00pm). When Roald Dahl’s
children’s book was made for
the screen by Henry Selick (The
Night Before Christmas) and Tim
Burton (Alice in Wonderland),
critics praised the stop-motion
animation and its “eerie qual-
ity halfway between reality
and invention”. Now that this
year’s Lion King has almost
eliminated the distinction, all
that remains is the story – and
Dahl’s slightly twisted tale of
SEPTEMBER 21 2019 LISTENER
by RYAN HOLDER
an orphaned boy and his clan
of friendly bugs is a good one.
(1996)
White Boy Rick (Movies Pre-
miere, Sky 030, 8.00pm). In
the backstreets of Reagan-era
Detroit, a kid by the name
of Richard Wershe Jr (played
by newcomer Richie Merritt)
falls in with the wrong crowd.
At age 14, he becomes an FBI
informant. At 17, his services
are no longer required and
he’s arrested in possession of
several kilograms of cocaine
and sentenced to life in
prison. The story of “White
Boy Rick”, as he was known
by the press, was preordained
for Hollywood. Which also
means it was destined for
oversimplification. Issues
of race, corruption and the
outrageous “650 Lifer law” are
touched upon, but put to the
side in favour of a family tale.
Strong performances by Mat-
thew McConaughey, as Rick’s
ne’er-do-well father, and Bel
The Shawshank
Redemption, Saturday.
Powley, his drug-addled sister,
make it worth the watch.
(2018)
The Shawshank Redemption
(TVNZ 2, 8.35pm). Everyone’s
favourite movie about a
wrongly convicted banker
(Tim Robbins) and his prison
mentor (Morgan Freeman).
Even a certain crawl through
a river of excrement sounds
okay when described in
Freeman’s mellifluous tones.
(1994)
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The Lobster, Sunday.
The Hurt Locker
Sunday.
The Bicycle Thief (Māori TV,
8.40pm). Director Vittorio
De Sica’s classic film, consid-
ered a foundation of Italian
neorealism, tells the story
of an impoverished father
(Lamberto Maggiorani, not a
professional actor at the time)
and his search for a stolen
bicycle. The bicycle is crucial
for his hard-won new job, but
in the ruin of post-war Italy, it
represents much more. (1948)
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 22
In the Line of Fire (Movies
Classics, Sky 034, 8.00pm). This
film is all the proof you should
need that John Malkovich
plays the best villains. After
the assassination of John
F Kennedy, presidential
bodyguard Frank Horrigan
(Clint Eastwood) is wracked
with guilt. He begins to receive
phone calls from a mysterious
70
person Best
(Malkovich),
H E B I CY CLE
who taunts
T reaper in a series
Horrigan with
his failure and Māori TV,0pm
threatens to kill the
new president. At this
point, the film could descend
into a boilerplate thriller, but
director Wolfgang Petersen
(Das Boot) keeps you guessing.
(1993)
The Lobster (Māori TV, 8.30pm).
The Lobster is pretty straight-
forward: either you find a
soulmate in 45 days or you
turn into an animal of your
choice. In this world of
enforced coupledom, Colin
Farrell plays David, who is
at great risk of turning into a
lobster. “A lobster is an excel-
lent choice.” Greek film-maker
Yorgos Lanthimos has previ-
ously plumbed the depths of
society’s relationship problem,
(Dogtooth and Alps were both
dark and terrifying), but not
as wittily as this. Also starring
Rachel Weisz, Léa Seydoux,
Ben Whishaw, John C Reilly,
Olivia Colman and Ariane
Labed. (2015)
The Hurt Locker (Choice TV,
8.30pm). The Jeremy Renner
app may be dead, but the
actor lives on, not least in
Kathryn Bigelow’s multi-
Oscar-winning film about
a bomb-disposal team in
Baghdad. Renner stars as
talented Sergeant First Class
William James, whose reckless
behaviour begins to fray the
nerves of his comrades. It’s the
best so far from Bigelow and
writer Mark Boal, whose work
includes Zero Dark Thirty and
Detroit. (2008)
Final Destination 5 (TVNZ 2,
10.25pm). Not one to watch
on a plane, on a bus, or, for
that matter, in a spa. After
evading death in the
opening scenes, the
cla s sic
main characters
are hunted down
by the grim
THIEF S aturda y,
of gruesome and
inventive ways.
8 .4 Although there’s
enough humour and
suspense to keep you on your
toes, it’s not enough to justify
five versions of the same film.
(2011)
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 23
I Am Legend (Prime, 8.30pm).
Thanks to a genetically
re-engineered measles virus
(uh-oh) that spawns vampire-
like mutants, I Am Legend sees
Will Smith and his German
shepherd live out the last days
of humankind in a desolate
Manhattan, searching for a
cure. Should’ve got vaccinated.
(2007)
Mavis! (Māori TV, 8.30pm). In
spite of the exclamation mark,
Mavis! is a tender documentary
about musician and civil-rights
activist Mavis Staples, who rose
to prominence in her family
group the Staples Singers,
who had such hits as I’ll Take
You There and Respect Yourself.
(2015)
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26
The Good Shepherd (Movies
Greats, Sky 033, 8.00pm). It is
said that the best spies are the
ordinary ones. The ones so
plain as to leave no impression
on those they visit. If that’s
the case, The Good Shepherd
might just be the best spy
movie ever made. It didn’t
have to be this way. The film
is directed by Robert De Niro
and stars Matt Damon. Writer
Eric Roth has some serious
chops, too, as co-writer of
Munich and The Insider. And
the history of the CIA and
its forerunner, the OSS, are
eminently fascinating. Just not
in this. (2006)
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27
The Motorcycle Diaries (Rialto,
Sky 039, 8.30pm). Walter Salles’
The Motorcycle Diaries would be
a rather humdrum travel story,
with idyllic scenery and an
obligatory spiritual awakening,
were it not for its central
figure, or, rather, the symbol
its main character would
become. The year is 1952 and
Ernesto “Che” Guevara (Gael
García Bernal) sets off on a
rundown motorcycle with
his friend, Alberto Granado
(Rodrigo de la Serna), for
an adventure through Latin
America. Their visits to the
ruins of Machu Picchu, a leper
colony in Peru and various
sites of local suffering are well
presented, and show the seeds
of revolution in germination.
A romantic vision of an
already-romanticised figure.
(2004)
Films are rated out of 5:
(abysmal) to (amazing).
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TV REVIEW
DIANA
WICHTEL
Seeking further enlightenment
Yes, he inhales, but
broadcaster’s look
at marijuana leaves
viewers craving
more.
G
reater love hath no Newshub
newshound than to get
comprehensively off his
face for our enlighten-
ment. And – we’re talking the
irrepressible Paddy Gower here
– for our entertainment. Even
the promo for Three’s aptly
named Patrick Gower: On Weed,
with Gower happily wreathed
in marijuana smoke, made you
smile like you’d just inhaled a
possibly soon-to-be-legal high.
Gower’s two-part docu-
mentary has been long in the
making. “Nobody in New
Zealand knows more about
weed than I do,” he asserted a
little wildly on Stuff in the lead-
up to On Weed’s screening. “If
you love weed, you love weed
… When you get close to Kiwis
who love weed, you find that
they really love their weed,” he
declared, with the unarguable author-
ity of one who had possibly spent too
long hanging out with people who
love weed.
The first episode presented a case
in point: a grower called Gandalf,
somewhere on the East Coast. “Oh
my word, that is a lovely smell,” Gan-
dalf raved. “God, I love growing this
stuff.” There’s a clip of Prime Minister
and DJ Jacinda Ardern answering the
“Did you inhale?” question. “I used
to be a Mormon, then I wasn’t,” she
SEPTEMBER 21 2019 LISTENER
beamed. “So I leave that to people’s imagination.”
Gower was ever at pains to maintain some jour-
nalistic distance. “Yeah, I don’t really want to …,”
he says evasively, when discussing, with his dad,
Gordon, whether he’d experienced the drug. Nev-
ertheless, here things got personal. The first episode
looks at the medicinal use of marijuana. Since a law
change last December, doctors can prescribe medic-
inal cannabis and people with a terminal illness
can use cannabis for medicinal purposes. Gower’s
mother, Joan, died of lung cancer. He wonders
Immersive experience:
Patrick Gower’s interest
in the medical uses of
marijuana is personal.
whether cannabis might have eased her suffer-
ing. “You’re helpless,” said Gower’s dad. “When
the real pain set in there was f--- all you could
do.” The two men wept and it would have taken
a hardened hack not to shed a tear with them.
This is what places Gower, for all his fondness for
high-rev hyperbole, among our most naturally
gifted broadcasters. Like Paul Holmes, Marcus Lush,
John Campbell, Hilary Barry and even, god help us,
Paul Henry, he puts it all out there. His feeling that
he’d failed his mother by not pursuing the option
of marijuana, then illegal, argued eloquently for
last year’s change of law. In Los Angeles, Spartacus
For all his
fondness
for high-rev
hyperbole,
Gower is among
our most
naturally gifted
broadcasters.
actress Erin Cummings, a breast
cancer survivor and medical mari-
juana user, told Gower, “You didn’t
let your mum down. The Govern-
ment let your mum down.”
n the second episode, our intrepid
I reporter will try some medical
marijuana for stress, on medical
advice, as he is at pains to empha-
sise when the doctor in question
advises him to take another hit:
“Medically, you would like me
to take one more?” Not to give
too much away, he gets stoned.
“Do I like the effects? Yes, I
do! … Woah, is that a hawk?”
This episode looks at the more
fraught end of the debate – the
legalisation of recreational use.
In a referendum to be held at
next year’s general election, New
Zealanders will vote on whether
we should legalise personal
use. In places in North America
where recreational use is legal,
it’s certainly all on. See Gower
experience ganja yoga and a
very genteel cannabis tea party
in California, a “bud crawl” in
Vancouver …
On Weed trawls through the
evidence when it comes to
potential harm, particularly
for young people. Did I feel more
informed by the end? Yes. Anyone
not on board with the medical
marijuana law change might think
again after this. But that’s the easy
part. There could have been more on
how a recreational, regulated market
might look in this country. Maybe
there could have been a part three.
There’s plenty of time, and good
reason, for a follow-up. l
PATRICK GOWER: ON WEED, Three,
Wednesday, September 11, 8.30pm.
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The Best of the Week Your comments on TV and radio

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21 fine performance by British SPLIT SCREEN MUMBLE, MUMBLE

Music Alive (RNZ Concert,
7.00pm). And just like that,
it’s all over. Prom 75, The Last
Night of the Proms, is quite
the mix: orchestral dances,
musical comedy, operatic
tragedy and world premieres
will feature with, naturally,
traditional flag-waving favour-
ites Rule, Britannia! Land of
Hope and Glory, Jerusalem, God
Save the Queen and
Auld Lang Syne.
on cert’s
American mezzo- RNZ C ant winds
r
soprano Jamie Best vib
Barton will be
usic Alive
participating in M tinee
this most Brit-
ish of musical
Ma Saturda y,
events, and the
3.00pm
BBC Symphony
Orchestra and Chorus
are conducted by Finn Sakari
Oramo.
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 22
Opera on Sunday (RNZ Concert,
6.00pm). It’s not all over! We
go back 20 Proms to No 55:
Handel’s Jephtha, which has
not been performed at the
Proms for more than 20 years.
Period-performance specialist
Richard Egarr conducts the
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
and SCO Chorus and although
the Guardian critic lamented
cuts to the score, Egarr
“admirably balanced intensity
with reflection”. There was a
Jeanine De Bique, Opera on Sunday.
PODCAST OF THE WEEK
Classic Connection
Clemency Burton-Hill, who co-presents Carnegie Hall Live
with her WQXR colleague Jeff Spurgeon, is bringing clas-
MARCO BORGGREVE
tenor Allan Clayton in the
title role and Trinidadian
soprano Jeanine De Bique as
Iphis, Jephtha’s daughter, was
“exquisite”.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25
Music Alive (RNZ Concert,
8.00pm). The extraordinary
Mitsuko Uchida “directs” the
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
in tonight’s Carnegie
Hall Live recording.
She has entered
into a five-year
project with
the orchestra to
play and tour
all of Mozart’s
piano concertos
and the 70-year-old
pianist performs Nos 19
and 20. The orchestra also per-
forms Three Pieces from the
Lyric Suite by Berg and Mozart’s
Piano Sonata No 10.
I enjoy watching Newshub
Nation (Three, Saturday,
9.30am), but find it discourte-
ous to the critics, while they
are speaking, to run viewers’
comments on the screen. It is
impossible to listen and read
two different things at the
same time and I want to give
my undivided attention to
the critics. Why not run the
comments by themselves or
have them read out?
Edwina Duff
(Parnell, Auckland)
DOUBLE TIME
Regarding Helen Thompson’s
letter about female actors
(Talkback, August 31) – I
wasn’t sure what she meant,
but the lady in question is
great in both ads.
Raewyn Bryant
(Dunedin)
SPEAKING ORDER TO POWER
The most colourful British
politician in Westminster
is [outgoing] Speaker of the
House of Commons John
Bercow, who controls the
Brexit storm. He barks out,
“Order, order!” to shush the
MPs and he knows all of the
630 MPs by name and, at
times, by pedigree.
Bercow’s reaction to Prime
Minister Boris Johnson’s
move to “prorogue” Par-
liament epitomises his
approach. If you watch BBC
World News as this British
constitutional crisis plays out,
you won’t be disappointed.
Brian Collins
(Lower Hutt)
Might I suggest to Mike
Walmsley (Talkback, Septem-
ber 14) that the explanation
for the difference in clarity
of speech between older TV
programmes and films and
modern productions has little
to do with technology.
The fact is actors used to
have great diction. Today,
with very few exceptions,
they mumble.
Chris Mowatt
(Tawa)
CART BEFORE THE HORSE
TVNZ’s 1 News needs to get
some balance into its report-
ing. In September 8’s 6pm
bulletin, a new Government
initiative on mental health
was headlined with National
Party comments that not
enough money was being
provided before viewers got
to hear what the Govern-
ment was doing. Surely we
should hear what the plan is
before we hear the criticism?
Neil Anderson
(Algies Bay, Auckland)
WAY TO GO
I agree with Lyn van
Gemerden (Talkback, Septem-
ber 14) about the demeaning,
demoralising dialogue in
New Zealand Seniors’ TV ads
for funeral insurance.
I’d rather go for a long
swim and be eaten by a shark
than be patronised by such
condescending claptrap into
any arrangement with that
company.
Clare Dudley
(Coromandel)

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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 Te Karere (R)
6.30 Country Calendar (G, R,
C, AD) A Wellington man
fishes in Cook Strait all year
round.
7.00 ■ Keeping Up with the
Kaimanawas (G, R, HD,
C, AD)
7.30 Infomercials
9.00 Whanau Living (G, R, HD)
9.30 Tagata Pasifika
10.00 Tipping Point (G, R)
11.10 Class of Mum and Dad (PGR,
R, C, AD)
12.10 ■ Call the Midwife (PGR, R,
C, AD) The team prepare
for Sister Monica Joan’s
birthday, and the closing of
a nearby maternity home
brings an influx of expectant
mothers. s7ep8
1.25 Coast vs Country (G, C)
Katrina and Nigel are keen to
relocate to Cornwall after 27
years in London.
2.25 ■ Gino’s Italian Coastal
Escape (G, R, C) Gino travels
to the home of water buffalo
mozzarella, takes a trip to
the ancient ruins in Paestum,
and makes fusilli by hand.
3.00 Rugby World Cup 2019
Replay (C) Replay of
yesterday’s opening match
of the 2019 Rugby World
Cup as the hosts Japan take
on Russia from the Tokyo
Stadium in Tokyo.
5.00 The Chase (G, C) Bradley
Walsh hosts a UK quiz show.
6.00 1 News (C)
7.00 Extreme Cake Makers (G, C)
UK series. Michelle creates a
glowing Jellyfish cake for the
Tide of Lights Festival, and
Nastassja has a floral surprise
for a birthday party.
7.30 MasterChef Australia (G, C,
another episode screens on
Wednesday) Secrets Week
closes with the losing team
facing a blindfolded taste
test in which the first five
to guess incorrectly have a
60-minute open pantry cook
(includes Lotto at 8.00pm).
8.45 The Story of Rugby (AO,
C, AD) A Professional
Game: Rugby exploded
in popularity after Rupert
Murdoch invested half a
billion dollars and turned
it professional and the first
truly global superstar was
our very own Jonah Lomu.
9.45 Rugby World Cup 2019
Delayed (C) Delayed
coverage of the All Blacks’
opening Pool B match
against South Africa from
Yokohama in Japan.
1.20am Blindspot (AO, C) An active
bomber forces the team to
delve into a case from their
past. s4ep14
2.15 Coronation Street Catch-Up
(PGR, R, C, AD)
4.20 – 6.00 Infomercials
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6.00 The Wot Wots (G, R, C)
6.20 The Wiggles, Emma! (G,
C, AD)
6.30 PJ Masks (G, R, C)
6.55 The Insectibles (G, R, C, AD)
7.05 Be Cool Scooby Doo! (G, C)
7.25 Super Dinosaur (G, C)
7.50 Transformers Cyberverse
(G, C)
8.15 Star Wars Rebels (G, C)
8.40 Justice League Action (G, C)
9.10 Dragon Ball Super (G, C)
9.35 The Simpsons (PGR, R, C)
10.00 Fresh (G) Today, Know Your
Roots, a fun game show that
requires the knowledge of
the Pacific and the skills of
the ancestors.
10.30 Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night
Takeaway (G)
11.55 ■ Splitting Up Together
(G, C)
12.55 American Housewife (PGR)
s3ep9
1.20 Car Crash TV (G)
1.55 Renters (PGR, R, HD, C)
2.25 Celebrity Treasure Island
Omnibus (PGR, R, C, AD)
5.30 The Big Bang Theory (G, R,
C) A brilliant but reclusive
scientist invites Sheldon
to his cabin in the middle
of nowhere, and Leonard,
Howard and Raj go along for
the trip. s11ep20
6.30 Young Sheldon (G, R, C)
Mary clashes with Sheldon’s
drama teacher over plans for
a Halloween fundraiser for
the church, and Georgie falls
for a rebellious teenage girl
whom Sheldon is tutoring.
s2ep6
7.00 ■ James and the Giant
Peach (1996, G, R, C, AD)
Aided by a group of large
insects, an orphan embarks
on a journey to New York
City inside a giant peach.
Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley,
Miriam Margolyes. TV Fims,
page 69
8.35 ■ The Shawshank
Redemption (1994, AO, R, C,
AD) In the 1940s, a banker
convicted of the murder of
his wife and her lover must
learn to get by in the brutal
confines of a maximum-
security prison. Tim Robbins,
Morgan Freeman, Bob
Gunton. TV Fims, page 69
11.25 ■ Jupiter Ascending (2015,
AO, R, C, AD) An ordinary
young woman who works as
a housekeeper is attacked
by aliens and discovers that
she is the heir to a dynasty.
Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum,
Eddie Redmayne.
1.55am ■ Homefront (2013, AO, R)
A former DEA agent comes
up against a meth dealer.
Jason Statham, James
Franco, Kate Bosworth.
3.35 The Bachelor (AO, R, C)
5.05 Fresh (G, R)
5.30 – 6.00 ■ Masterstroke (R)
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21
THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 Charles Stanley
6.30 The Project (R, HD)
7.25 Infomercials
9.30 Newshub Nation (HD)
Simon Shepherd and Emma
Jolliff present current affairs.
10.30 Slice of Paradise (G, R, HD,
C) s1ep1
11.30 Face Off (PGR, R, HD)
s10ep11
12.25 Married at First Sight NZ
Marathon (PGR, R, HD, C)
s3ep4-6
4.00 ■ Megamind (2010, G, R, HD,
C) A super-intelligent alien
villain has nothing to do after
he destroys his nemesis.
Voices of Will Ferrell, Brad
Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill.
6.00 Newshub Live (HD)
7.00 America’s Got Talent (G, HD,
C) Seven acts advance to the
semi-final round and Grace
VanderWaal, the season 11
winner, performs. s14ep12-13
9.30 ■ You, Me and Dupree
(2006, AO, R, C) A newly-
married couple allow
their best man, an eternal
bachelor, to stay after he
loses his job. Kate Hudson,
Matt Dillon, Owen Wilson.
11.35 ■ Mistress America (2015,
AO, R, HD, C) A lonely
college freshman is pulled
into the wacky schemes
of her future stepsister in
an attempt to cure her
negativity. Lola Kirke, Greta
Gerwig, Heather Lind,
Matthew Shear.
1.30am Infomercials
5.00 Hillsong (G)
5.30 – 6.00 Charles Stanley
BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Infomercials
10.00 Sweet Home Oklahoma
(PGR, R)
10.30 Million Dollar Listing Los
Angeles (G, R)
12.30 Masters of Flip (G, R)
2.35 Catfish (G, R)
4.30 The People’s Court (G, R)
6.30 Hollywood Medium with
Tyler Henry (G, R) Mischa
Barton connects with
relatives she has never met.
7.30 Botched (PGR, R) A man
wants his ears back, and a
woman has had 17 surgeries
to look like the perfect pixie.
s3ep8
8.30 Keeping Up with the
Kardashians (AO) Kourtney
is furious when Kim leaks
personal information about
her to the family.
9.30 Southern Charm (AO)
Ashley resurfaces asking for
a second second-chance.
10.35 Cults & Extreme Belief
(AO, R)
11.30 Catfish (G, R)
12.20am Infomercials
5.00 – 6.00 Masters of Flip (G, R)
TVNZ 2: James and the Giant
Peach, 7.00pm
PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Children’s Programmes
(G, R)
10.00 RAW (PGR, R)
11.00 SmackDown (PGR, R)
Noon The Crowd Goes Wild
(PGR, R)
1.00 Celebrity Antiques Road
Trip (G, R)
2.00 Pawn Stars (G, R)
2.30 National Top 4 Co-Ed
Rugby Final (G)
4.30 Hot Bench (G, R)
5.00 TradeZone Addicted to
Fishing (G, C)
5.30 Prime News
6.00 Antiques Roadshow (G, C)
In Belfast, finds include Lord
Haw-Haw’s walking stick.
7.00 Mighty Machines (PGR, C)
7.30 Mayday Air Disaster: The
Accident Files (PGR, C)
An airliner blown out of
Ukrainian airspace.
8.30 Silent Witness (AO, C) Jack
works alongside an old
friend from Northern Ireland.
10.40 The Halcyon (AO, R, C) War
draws closer.
11.45 – 12.45am SAS: Who Dares
Wins (AO, R, C)
MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
6.30 Te Ao: Māori News (R)
7.00 Children’s Programmes (G, R)
10.00 Hip Hop International NZ
Nationals (G, R)
10.30 Celebrity Playlist (G, R)
11.00 School of Hard Knocks
(PGR)
11.30 School of Training (G, R)
Noon Waka Ama Sprints (R)
1.00 Haati Grassroots Rugby (R)
2.00 College Basketball Nats (R)
3.00 The Pits TV
4.00 Marae (G, R)
4.30 He Kakano (G, R)
5.00 Fresh (G)
5.30 Nga Pari (G, R)
6.30 Te Ao: Māori News
7.00 ■ The Reef 2: High Tide
(2012, G) Pi the fish finds
that being the only hero can
take its toll. Voice of Audrey
Wasilewski.
8.40 ■ The Bicycle Thief (1948,
PGR, R) A working-class
man’s bicycle is stolen, so he
and his son set out to find it.
Lamberto Maggiorani.
TV Fims, page 69
10.10 Te Ao: Māori News (R)
10.40 – 11.10 Whare Puoro (G, R)
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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21
SKY PREMIERE SKY 030
7.30 The First Purge (2018, 16)
Y’lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis
9.10 Sharon 1.2.3 (2018, M) Matt
Bush, Gina Rodriguez
10.30 Widows (2018, 16) Viola
Davis, Michelle Rodriguez
12.40 The Commuter (2018, M)
Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga
2.25 Close Up: Christoph Waltz
(PG) Documentary.
2.55 Love & Debt (2018, M) Tom
Cavanagh, Bellamy Young
4.30 An Interview with God
(2018, PG) David Strathairn
6.05 Ant-Man and the Wasp
(2018, PG) Scott Lang works
with Hank and Hope to
rescue Janet Van Dyne. Paul
Rudd, Evangeline Lilly
8.00 White Boy Rick (2018, 16)
Based the story of a young
street hustler who becomes
an undercover FBI informant.
Richie Merritt, Matthew
McConaughey TV Films,
page 69
9.55 Solo: A Star Wars Story
(2018, M) Alden Ehrenreich
12.10am Kodachrome (2017, M)
1.55 Love & Debt (2018, M) 3.30 An
Interview with God (2018, PG) 5.05
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018, M)
MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031
7.05 Arthur Newman (2012, M)
Colin Firth, Emily Blunt
8.40 Christopher Robin (2018, G)
Ewan McGregor
10.20 Robin Hood (2018, M) Taron
Egerton, Jamie Foxx
12.15 An Actor Prepares (2017, M)
Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston
1.50 They’re Inside (2019, 18) Karli
Hall, Amanda Kathleen Ward
3.15 The Merger (2018, M)
Damian Callinan
4.55 Lake Placid: Legacy (2018,
16) Katherine Barrell
6.25 Please Stand By (2017, M)
A young autistic woman
escapes from her caregiver
in an attempt to submit her
manuscript to a Star Trek
writing competition. Dakota
Fanning, Toni Collette
8.00 I, Tonya (2017, 16) Based on
the story of controversial
American figure skater Tonya
Harding. Margot Robbie,
Allison Janney
10.00 Creed II (2018, M) Michael B.
Jordan, Sylvester Stallone
12.10am Elvis Goes There: Paul
Feig (2019, M) 1.00 Please Stand
By (2017, M) 2.35 I, Tonya (2017, 16)
4.35 The Merger (2018, M)
MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039
7.10 Mannequin (1987, PG)
Andrew McCarthy
8.40 Buffalo Bill and the Indians
(1976, PG) Paul Newman
10.45 The Silence of the Lambs
(1991, 16) Anthony Hopkins
12.40 The Client (1994, M) Susan
Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones
2.40 Outrageous Fortune (1987,
M) Shelley Long
4.20 Harry Brown (2009, 18)
Michael Caine
6.00 The Peacemaker (1997, M)
A US Army colonel and a
civilian work together to
track down stolen nuclear
weapons before they’re
used by terrorists. George
Clooney, Nicole Kidman
8.00 Shampoo (1975, 16) A sexy
male hairdresser does a
lot more than hair. Warren
Beatty, Julie Christie
9.50 Force 10 from Navarone
(1978, M) Harrison Ford,
Robert Shaw
11.45 Child’s Play (1988, 16) Chris
Sarandon, Catherine Hicks
1.10am The Client (1994, M) 3.10
Outrageous Fortune (1987, M) 4.50
Nothing but Trailers (M) 5.20 Harry
Brown (2009, 18)
7.10 Generation Wealth (2018,
16) US documentary.
8.55 Vera Drake (2004, M) Imelda
Staunton
11.00 Custody (2017, M) Lea
Drucker, Denis Menochet
12.35 No Shame (2018, 16) Kieran
Charnock
12.50 The Virtues Marathon (16)
s1ep1-4
4.35 Angie (2018, 16) NZ doco.
6.30 Amelie (2001, M) A shy
waitress working at a cafe
makes a surprising discovery
and sees her life drastically
changed for the better.
Audrey Tautou
8.30 Stray (2018, M) In a cold
and remote landscape, two
strangers struggle to repair
their broken pasts. Kieran
Charnock
10.15 Whitney (2018, M) US
documentary looking at
at the life and career of
singer and actress Whitney
Houston, featuring never-
before-seen footage.
12.15am Swinging Safari (2018,
M) 1.50 The Gospel According to
Andre (2017, M) 3.25 The Virtues
Marathon (16) s1ep1-4

GENERAL s3ep2 9.50 Berlin Station (16) s1ep7 10.40 Temple

ThreeLife FREEVIEW 11 SKY 029
6.00 Infomercials 11.30 Married at First Sight USA
(R, HD) 1.30 Best Houses Australia (R, HD) 2.00
Family Feud Australia (R) 2.30 Good Chef Bad
Chef (R, HD) 3.00 Married at First Sight USA (R,
HD) 5.00 Fit to Fat to Fit (R, HD) 6.00 Everyday
Gourmet with Justine Schofield (HD) 6.30 Bondi
Rescue (R, HD) 7.00 Piha Rescue (R) (PGR) 7.30
Celebrity MasterChef UK (HD) 9.15 Better Homes
and Gardens (HD) 10.30 Everyday Gourmet with
Justine Schofield (R, HD) 11.00 Bondi Rescue (R,
HD) 11.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 12.00am –
6.00 Infomercials
Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024
6.00 Can I Catch It? 6.30 Restoration Man 7.30 Love
Nature: Earthflight 8.30 The Great Interior Design
Challenge 9.30 Mysteries at the Museum 10.30
James Martin’s American Adventure 11.30 American
Pickers 12.30 Restoration Man 1.30 Escape to the
Chateau: DIY 2.30 Big Dreams, Small Spaces 3.30
Love Nature: My Family & the Galapagos 4.30
French Food Safari 5.00 Food Safari: Water 5.30
Best Cake Wins 6.00 Cesar Millan’s Dog Nation 7.00
Storage Wars: New York 7.30 American Pickers 8.30
Antiques Roadshow 9.30 Chris Tarrant: Extreme
Railway Journeys 10.30 Ozzy and Jack’s World
Detour (PGR) 11.30 Breaking the Magician’s Code:
Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed (AO)
12.30am Best Cake Wins 1.00 French Food Safari
1.30 Food Safari: Water 2.00 A Cook Abroad 3.00
Love Nature: My Family & the Galapagos 4.00 Ozzy
and Jack’s World Detour (PGR) 5.00 Chris Tarrant:
Extreme Railway Journeys
TVNZ Duke FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023
7.00 DUKEbox Music 1.50 Formula E Street Racers
2.15 Top Gear 5.10 Car SOS 6.00 Dog Squad NZ (C)
6.30 Highway Cops NZ (C, HD) 7.00 Family Guy
(PGR, C) 7.30 The Simpsons (C) 8.30 Bear Grylls’
Running Wild (G) Bear takes Don Cheadle on a
rigorous journey to the White Mountains of New
England. 9.30 ■ Ghosts of Mars (2001, AO, C) A
Movies Extra: I, Tonya, 8.00pm
cop and her notorious criminal prisoner must work
together when a long-dormant evil is unleashed on
Mars. Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Jason Statham,
Pam Grier. 11.25 – 12.20am Live at the Apollo (AO)
UKTV SKY 007
6.45 QI Marathon (M) 8.20 Would I Lie to You?
Marathon (PG) 9.55 The Bill Marathon (M) 1.50
Casualty (PG) 3.40 Holby City (M) 4.45 A Touch
of Frost (M) s7ep2 6.05 QI (M) Jo Brand, Howard
Goodall and Jeremy Hardy. 6.40 The Good Karma
Hospital (PG) s3ep1 7.35 Casualty (M) Rash’s new-
found confidence is tested by a prisoner, who also
leads Gem into danger, and Bea goes up against
confident Eddie for a coveted training course.
s32ep28 8.30 Midsomer Murders (M) While painting
in Midsomer Florey, Barnaby’s wife, Joyce, finds a
dead body on the village green. s6ep3 10.25 8 Out
of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) Jimmy Carr hosts
as Sean Lock and Roisin Conaty take on guest
captain Alan Carr and Joe Lycett. s11ep8 11.20 Who
Do You Think You Are? USA Marathon (PG) s7ep9-
13 2.55 Midsomer Murders (M) s6ep3 4.40 QI (M)
5.10 – 6.00 The Graham Norton Show (PG) s19ep4
SoHo SKY 010
6.20 Succession (16) s2ep6 7.20 Mayans M.C. (16)
s2ep3 8.20 Snowfall (18) s3ep2 9.00 Fargo (16)
(16) s1ep1 11.30 Jett Marathon (16) s1ep1-8 7.30 Jett
(16) Season 1 finale. Jett orchestrates a risky plan
to be free of Bestic for good. s1ep9 8.30 Kiri (16)
Series premiere. Social worker Miriam authorises
an unsupervised visit between a young girl and her
birth family, but things take a dark turn when she
goes missing. s1ep1 9.30 Years and Years (16) A
new Britain takes shape with Viv Rook as its Prime
Minster, as Rosie finds her estate fenced off by a
privatised police force, Muriel is forced to reveal
problems of her own. s1ep5 10.30 Bates Motel
(16) Norman attempts to piece together Mother’s
movements. s5ep5 11.15 ■ Like. Share. Follow (2017,
16) A rising YouTube star experiences first-hand
the dangers of the digital age when he meets an
obsessive superfan. Keiynan Lonsdale. 12.45am Last
Week Tonight with John Oliver (M) s6ep23 1.15 Kiri
(16) s1ep1 2.05 Hap and Leonard: Mucho Mojo (16)
s2ep3 2.50 – 6.35 Into the Badlands Marathon (18)
Living SKY 017
6.00 George Clarke’s Old House, New Home (PG)
6.50 Selling Houses Australia (PG) 7.40 Love It or
List It UK (PG) 8.30 Salvage Hunters (PG) 9.20 Long
Lost Family UK (PG) 10.15 Escape to the Country
(PG) 12.10 Escape to the Chateau (PG) 1.00 Holmes
+ Holmes (PG) 1.50 Escape to the Country Marathon
(PG) 6.30 Location Location Location (PG) 7.30
Great British Railway Journeys (PG) Michael Portillo
visits the New Forest seeking out venomous adders
and also uncovers a secret library in Wimborne.
8.00 Great British Railway Journeys (PG) Michael
uncovers the oil fields hidden underneath England’s
quiet seaside resorts and discovers the crucial role
Weymouth played in the D-day landings. 8.30
Escape to the Continent (G) Malta: A family want to
leave Buckinghamshire for a complete life change
in the Mediterranean. 9.30 George Clarke’s Old
House, New Home (PG) Stratford-upon-Avon &
Hastings: George makes a Victorian terrace fit for a
21st-century single dad. 10.30 Salvage Hunters (PG)
11.30 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away (G) 12.25am
Location Location Location (PG) 1.20 Great British
Railway Journeys (PG) 2.20 Escape to the Country
(PG) 4.10 Escape to the Continent (G) 5.10 – 6.00 A
Place in the Sun: Home or Away (G)

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SPORT
Sky Sport 1 SKY 051
6.00 Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Hawke’s Bay v
Taranaki, highlights 6.40 Premiership Rugby Cup,
Harlequins v Bristol Bears, live 9.00 Getting Grilled
with Marshy 9.30 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Hawke’s Bay
v Taranaki 10.00 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Canterbury v
Manawatu 10.30 Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Hawke’s
Bay v Taranaki, replay 12.30 Rugby, Farah Palmer
Cup, Waikato v Bay of Plenty, live 2.30 Rugby, Mitre
10 Cup, Waikato v Tasman, live 4.45 Rugby, Mitre
10 Cup, Southland v Counties Manukau, live 7.00
Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, North Harbour v Otago, live
9.30 Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Waikato v Bay of
Plenty, replay 11.25 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Waikato v
Tasman, replay 1.25am Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup,
Waikato v Bay of Plenty 1.55 Premiership Rugby
Cup, Exeter Chiefs v Bath, live 4.00 Rugby, Mitre 10
Cup, North Harbour v Otago, replay
Sky Sport 2 SKY 052
6.00 Cricket, CPL, Jamaica v St Kitts 7.00
Cricket, India v South Africa, 1st T20 7.30 County
Championship, day 4 8.00 Cricket, Vitality Blast,
highlights 10.00 CPL Magazine Show 10.30 Cricket,
CPL, Jamaica v St Kitts 11.30 Cricket, CPL, St Lucia
v Barbados, live 3.30 Cricket, India v South Africa,
2nd T20 4.00 Cricket, CPL Magazine Show 4.30
Cricket, CPL, St Lucia v Barbados, replay 8.00
Cricket, India v South Africa, 2nd T20, highlights
8.30 Cricket, CPL, St Lucia v Barbados, highlights
9.25 Cricket, Vitality Blast, highlights 9.58 Cricket,
Vitality Blast, live 1.30am Cricket, Vitality Blast,
live 5.00 Cricket, India v South Africa 1st T20 5.43
Cricket, Vitality Blast, live
DOCUMENTARIES
Sky Arts SKY 020
6.00 I, Douglas Fairbanks 7.00 The Archibald 8.00
City Time Traveller 8.30 The Book Club 9.00 Sacred
Spaces: Civilisation 10.00 Sounds of New York
10.30 Tim Marlow On 11.00 Portrait Artist of the
Year 11.45 Master of Photography 12.30 Keepers
of the Magic 2.00 I, Douglas Fairbanks 3.00 The
Archibald 4.00 Put Some Colour in Your Life 4.30
■ The Secret Versailles of Marie-Antoinette (2018,
G) Based on Marie Antoinette’s greatness as a
master of fashion and style. Roxanne Bennett,
Zina Esepciuc 6.00 The Great Pottery Throwdown
7.00 MSO: Kate Miller-Heidke and the Melbourne
Symphony Orchestra (G) 8.30 The Private Life of
the Royal Academy (G) Documentary about one
of Britain’s most enduring cultural institutions.
9.45 ■ Pet Shop Boys: Inner Sanctum (2019, G) A
laser-drenched ride through Pet Shop Boys’ past
and present in London’s Royal Opera House. 11.30
Wonders of Men: The Duomo In Florence, Italy
12.00am Put Some Colour in Your Life 12.30 ■ The
Secret Versailles of Marie-Antoinette (2018, G) 2.00
The Great Pottery Throwdown 3.00 MSO: Kate
Miller-Heidke and the MSO 4.30 The Private Life of
the Royal Academy (G) 5.45 ■ Pet Shop Boys: Inner
Sanctum (2019, G)
Discovery SKY 070
6.35 How It’s Made (PG) 7.05 How Do They Do It?
(PG) 7.30 Aussie Lobster Men (PG) 8.20 Aussie
Gold Hunters Marathon (PG) 12.30 Expedition
Unknown (PG) 1.20 Legends of the Lost with
Megan Fox (PG) 2.10 Diesel Brothers (PG) 3.00
Aussie Lobster Men (PG) 3.50 UFOs: The Lost
Evidence Marathon (PG) 6.35 BattleBots (PG) 7.30
NASA’s Unexplained Files (PG) 8.30 UFOs: The Lost
Evidence (PG) 9.25 Deadliest Catch (PG) 10.15 The
Day I Ran China (PG) 11.05 BattleBots (PG) 11.55
How It’s Made (PG) 12.20am How Do They Do It?
(PG) 12.45 Expedition Unknown (PG) 1.35 Car Crash
TV (PG) 2.25 People Magazine Investigates (PG)
3.15 Murder Chose Me (M) 4.05 American Monster
(M) 4.55 Murder Calls (M) 5.45 Killer Instinct with
Chris Hansen (M)
SEPTEMBER 21 2019 LISTENER
Sky Sport 1: Premiership Rugby Cup, live,
6.40am
Sky Sport 3 SKY 053
6.00 Sail GP 7.30 UEFA Champions League, replay
9.30 Cricket, India v South Africa 1st T20, highlights
10.00 Cricket, India v South Africa, 2nd T20,
highlights 10.30 Getting Grilled with Marshy 11.00
Mitre 10 Cup, Hawke’s Bay v Taranaki, highlights
11.30 Mainfreight Rugby 12.30 Sail GP 2.00 Rugby,
NRC, Fiji v Sydney, live 4.00 Premiership Rugby
Cup, Harlequins v Bristol Bears, replay 6.00
Mainfreight Rugby 7.00 Getting Grilled with Marshy
7.30 Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Waikato v Bay of
Plenty, replay 9.30 Aussie Rules, AFL PF, replay
12.30am Cycling, La Vuelta, stage 21, highlights
1.00 Cycling, Primus Classic, live 2.30 Mitre 10 Cup,
Southland v Counties Manukau, replay 4.30 Mitre
10 Cup, Waikato v Tasman, highlights 5.00 Mitre 10
Cup, Southland v Counties Manukau, highlights 5.30
Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Northland v Otago, highlights
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 Yukon Gold (M) 8.30 Bushfire Wars (PG) 9.30
Drain the Oceans (PG) 11.30 Comet Encounter
(PG) 12.30 Mega Factories 2.30 Air Crash
Investigation (PG) 4.30 Inside Incredible Machines
(PG) 6.30 Quest for King Solomon’s Treasure
(PG) 7.30 Buried Secrets of WWII (PG) 8.30 Nazi
Megastructures (PG) 9.30 Drain the Oceans (PG)
10.30 Apocalypse: The Battle of Verdun (16) 11.30
Inside the American Mob (M) 12.30am Quest for
King Solomon’s Treasure (PG) 1.30 Buried Secrets
of WWII (PG) 2.30 Nazi Megastructures (PG) 3.30
Drain the Oceans (PG) 4.30 Apocalypse: The Battle
of Verdun (16) 5.30 Inside the American Mob (M)
History SKY 073
6.30 WWII: The Price of Empire (PG) 7.30 History
Uncovered (PG) 8.30 Time Team (PG) 9.30 Time
Team 10.30 Ottomans v Christians: Battle for
Europe (PG) 11.30 Animal Mummies: Egypt’s Dark
Secret (PG) 12.30 Treasures of Ancient Egypt
(PG) 1.30 Ancient Worlds (PG) 2.30 WWII: The
Price of Empire (PG) 3.30 History Uncovered
(PG) 4.30 Egypt’s Unexplained Files (PG) 5.30
The World from Above 6.30 Trading History (PG)
7.30 World’s Greatest Ships (PG) 8.30 My Lai (16)
10.30 Oliver Stone: Untold History of the US (M)
11.30 Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads (16)
12.30am The Curse of Civil War Gold (PG) 1.30
Atomic Age Declassified (PG) 2.30 Secret Cities
3.15 Buried: Knights Templar – Holy Grail (PG) 4.00
World’s Greatest Ships (PG) 4.45 My Lai (16)
BBC Earth SKY 074
6.35 24 Hours in A&E (M) 8.15 David
Attenborough’s Life Marathon (M) 12.35 Life Below
Zero Marathon (M) 2.50 Earth’s Natural Wonders
Marathon (PG) 5.30 David Attenborough’s Trials
of Life (PG) 6.25 Trust Me I’m a Doctor (PG) The
doctors investigate whether olive oil is really good
for us, beards are unhygienic and meat is really bad
for us. 7.25 Spy in the Wild (PG) 8.30 Wild New
Zealand (PG) 9.25 Blue Planet II (PG) 11.30 Earth’s
Natural Wonders Marathon (PG) 2.05am Life Below
Zero Marathon (M) 5.05 Spy in the Wild (PG)
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21
RADIO
RNZ National
FREEVIEW 50 SKY 421 iHeartRADIO
6.08 Storytime
7.10 Country Life
8.10 Saturday Morning with Kim Hill
12.12 Music 101 with Charlotte Ryan Music,
industry news and documentaries from New
Zealand and the world
5.00 The World at Five
5.10 Focus on Politics
5.30 Tagata o te Moana (RNZI)
6.06 Womad Taranaki 2019 Highlights from
World Music Festival in New Plymouth
7.06 Saturday Night with Phil O’Brien
12.04am All Night Programme Including 3.05
Shot, by Sarah Quigley (9 of 12, RNZ)
Website: rnz.co.nz
RNZ Concert
FREEVIEW 51 SKY 422 iHeartRADIO
News & Weather 6.00am, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00,
noon, 3.00pm, 6.00, 11.00
6.00 Classic Morning
9.00 Weekend Brunch
Noon The RNZ Concert Chart with Rick
Young
1.00 From the Top Selections from Settling
the Score
2.00 Worlds of Music with Trevor Reekie
Trans-global, fusion and folk roots music
3.00 Music Alive Matinée With Clarissa Dunn.
Imani Winds: Tradition and the Innovative
– Coleman: Red Clay and Mississippi Delta;
Rimsky-Korsakov arr Russell: Selections
from Scheherazade; Piazzolla arr Scott:
Contrabajissimo; Natalie Hunt: Shapshots;
D’Rivera: A Farewell Mambo; Shaheen arr
Scott: Dance Mediterranea; Spiritual: Go Tell It
on the Mountain, Imani Winds (recorded in the
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington)
5.00 Inside Out with Nick Tipping Jazz
favourites, standards and new releases
7.00 Music Alive With Clarissa Dunn. Prom
75: Last Night of the Proms – Falla: The Three-
Cornered Hat, Suite No 2; Opera selections
for mezzo-soprano by Bizet, Saint-Saens, and
Verdi; Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld,
Overture; Arlen: Over the Rainbow (The
Wizard of Oz); Traditional Last Night of the
Proms favourites, including Land of Hope
and Glory; Rule, Britannia!, and Fantasia on
British Sea songs, Jamie Barton (mezzo),
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC
Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo (recorded
in the Royal Albert Hall, London, by the BBC)
9.30 Sound Lounge A weekly forum for
contemporary music
12.00am Music Through the Night
Website: rnz.co.nz/concert
Newstalk ZB
6.00 Nigel Yalden 9.00 Jack Tame Noon Martin
Devlin 3.00 Tim Roxborogh & Tim Wilson 6.00
Bruce Russell 12.00am Jim Snedden
Website: newstalkzb.co.nz
Magic Talk
6.00 Rural Exchange 8.00
Home & Garden 11.00 Mike
Puru 3.00 Hayden Rickard
6.00 Newshub 7.00 Magic
Music 12.00am Magic
Music
Website: magic.co.nz
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TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 Blue Planet (G, R, C, AD)
6.50 ■ The Aussie Property
Flippers (G, R)
7.45 Tagata Pasifika
8.10 Praise Be (G, R, HD)
8.45 The Big Ward (G, R, HD, C,
AD)
9.10 20/20 (R, C)
10.00 Marae
10.30 Waka Huia (G) Teacher
Beverly Manahi, from Te
Kura Kaupapa Maori o Hoani
Waititi.
11.00 Attitude (G, C, AD) The
Fergusons, a family of five
who communicate using
NZSL, go on the trip of
a lifetime to the World
Federation of the Deaf
Congress in Paris.
11.30 Fair Go (R, C)
11.55 Sunday (R, C)
12.55 Coast vs Country (G, C)
Tony and Sheila love Norfolk
and after years of visiting
are finally planning to move
there.
1.55 The Story of Rugby (AO,
R, C, AD) A Professional
Game: Rugby exploded
in popularity after Rupert
Murdoch turned it
professional and the first
truly global superstar was
our very own Jonah Lomu.
2.55 Rugby World Cup 2019
Replay (C) A replay of last
night’s encounter between
the All Blacks and South
Africa in their Pool B match
from Yokohama in Japan.
4.55 ■ The Family Chase (G, C)
A family pit their knowledge
against one of the UK’s finest
quiz masters.
6.00 1 News (C)
7.00 Country Calendar (G, C, AD)
A young family who bought
a share of a Coromandel
farm from a semi-retired
couple and established a
quarter-acre organic market
garden where they grow
enough salad greens to
make a living.
7.30 Sunday (C) Miriama Kamo
presents current affairs.
8.30 The Kick (AO, R, HD, C, AD)
Based on the story of All
Black Stephen Donald and
the penalty kick that saved
the 2011 World Cup.
10.35 Deep State (AO, R, C, AD)
Max is reunited with his
family, but danger is not
far behind, and in Tehran,
Leyla meets a US envoy who
provides her with more clues
related to the orders her unit
were given. s1ep6
11.40 Secrets and Lies (AO, R,
C) Patrick’s secret sins and
major transgressions come
home to roost. s2ep7
12.30am Attitude (G, R, C, AD)
1.00 ■ Coronation Street Catch-
Up (PGR, R, C, AD)
3.00 – 6.00 Infomercials
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6.00 Paw Patrol (G, C)
6.25 Thomas & Friends (G, R,
C, AD)
6.35 Puppy Dog Pals (G, R, C)
7.00 Alvinnn!!! And the
Chipmunks (G, R, C)
7.10 Chuggington: Little Trainees
(G, R, C)
7.15 Kitty Is Not a Cat (G, C)
7.35 Andi Mack (G, C) s2ep23
8.00 What Now? Gunge, foam,
games and fun.
10.00 Shortland Street Omnibus
(PGR, R, HD, C, AD)
Noon The Bachelor (PGR, C) Only
three women remain and
Arie whisks them all away to
Peru.
1.40 The Real O’Neals (PGR, C)
Kenny comes up with a plan
to tell his parents that he and
Brett are a couple. s2ep10&11
2.35 Home and Away Omnibus
(G, R, C) Mackenzie and
Bella are starting to form a
cohesive family unit, much to
Colby’s delight.
5.00 Friends (G, R, C) Monica
experiences the “ick”
factor when dating a much
younger guy, and Phoebe
fills in for Chandler’s
secretary and discovers that
nobody likes him. s1ep22&23
6.00 The 100k Drop (G, C) Davina
McCall hosts a game show
where pairs of players must
prevent £100,000 from
dropping out of the game
by answering questions
correctly.
7.00 Celebrity Treasure Island
(PGR, C, AD, another
episode screens tomorrow)
With only five remaining
celebrities, the person who
holds all the clues holds all of
the power, but the game will
be turned on its head when
someone is given a huge leg
up in finding the treasure.
8.00 ■ Jumanji: Welcome to the
Jungle (2017, PGR, C, AD)
Four people are sucked into
a magical video game that
takes them into a jungle and
have to finish it to escape.
Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart,
Jack Black, Alex Wolff, Karen
Gillan, Rhys Darby.
10.25 ■ Final Destination 5
(2011, AO, R, C, AD) The
survivors of a suspension-
bridge collapse begin to die
anyway. Emma Bell, Nicholas
D’Agosto, Miles Fisher.
TV Fims, page 69
12.10am Stitchers (AO, R) A young
woman found is dead in her
wealthy boyfriend’s pool.
s3ep2
2.25 ■ Suburgatory (PGR, R)
s1ep4
2.50 Infomercials
3.25 Quantico (AO, R, C) s3ep5
4.15 ■ Masterstroke (R)
4.45 Love Connection (G, R, C)
5.30 – 6.00 Infomercials
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 Life TV (G)
6.30 Brian Houston (G)
7.00 Charles Stanley (G)
8.00 Life TV (R, G)
8.30 Turning Point (G)
9.00 Andy and Ben Eat the
World (PGR, R, HD) s1ep1
9.30 The Hui (HD, C) With
Mihingarangi Forbes.
10.00 Newshub Nation (R, HD, C)
Simon Shepherd and Emma
Jolliff present current affairs.
11.05 Tasty Conversations (G,
R, HD)
11.10 Caught on Dashcam (G,
R, HD, C)
11.55 Entertainment Tonight
Weekend (PGR, HD)
1.00 Motorsport (HD) Titans RX 7.
2.00 Motorsport (HD) DTM 9.
3.00 Motorsport (HD) MotoGP.
4.00 Motorsport (HD) Monster
Jam.
5.00 Ocean Bounty (PGR, HD, C)
s3ep2
6.00 Newshub Live (HD)
7.00 Married at First Sight
NZ (PGR, HD, C, another
episode screens tomorrow)
The newlyweds face their
first dinner party. s3ep7
8.30 ■ Neighbors 2: Sorority
Rising (2016, AO, R, HD, C)
When an unruly sorority
moves in next door, a couple
turn to their former enemy
for help. Seth Rogan, Rose
Byrne, Zac Efron.
10.25 Chicago PD (AO, HD, C) Two
murder suspects shelter in a
church. s4ep12
11.20 Hawaii Five-0 (AO, R, HD, C)
s7ep4
12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials
BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Masters of Flip Marathon
(G, R)
9.20 Catfish (G, R)
10.50 Botched (PGR, R)
11.40 Love It or List It: Vancouver
(G, R)
12.30 Million Dollar Listing Los
Angeles (G, R)
3.15 The People’s Court (G, R)
5.10 Dance Moms (G, R)
6.00 Love It or List It: Vancouver
(G)
7.00 ■ Shout (1991, PGR, R) A
visionary music teacher
introduces his wayward
students in 1950s Texas to
the liberating beat of rock’n’
roll. John Travolta, Gwyneth
Paltrow, Heather Graham.
9.00 ■ Blue Eyed Butcher (2012,
AO, R) Based on the 2003
murder of Jeff Wright in
Houston. Sara Paxton, Lisa
Edelstein.
10.55 Streetmate (PGR, R) Scarlett
Moffatt tries to find a muse
for James, a musician from
Cardiff.
11.25 Don’t Be Tardy (AO)
12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials
Bravo: Blue Eyed Butcher, 9.00pm
PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Religious Programme (G)
7.00 Nella the Princess Knight
(G, R)
7.30 Religious Programme (G)
10.30 Sport Box (G)
Noon Ready for Take Off (G, R, C)
1.00 Mainfreight Rugby (G)
2.00 Mad About You (PGR, R)
2.30 National Secondary School
Rugby League Final (G)
4.30 Rugby Nation (G)
5.30 Prime News
6.00 The Great Escapers (G)
7.00 Storage Wars (PGR)
7.30 Inside the Red Arrows
(PGR, C)
8.30 ■ Making New Zealand
(G, C) How New Zealand
became a tourism mecca.
9.30 ■ The Clinton Affair (AO,
C) US series about the lead-
up to President Clinton’s
impeachment.
10.30 60 Minutes (PGR) Ben
Ferencz, the last living
prosecutor from the
Nuremberg trials.
11.30 – 12.45am American Crime
Story: The Assassination of
Gianni Versace (AO, C)
MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
6.30 Te Ao: Māori News (R)
7.00 Children’s Programmes (G, R)
9.00 Marae Kai Masters (G, R)
10.00 Sidewalk Karaoke (G, R)
10.30 Tangaroa with Pio (G, R)
11.00 Game of Bros (PGR, R)
11.30 Off the Grid with Pio (G, R)
Noon Shear Bro (PGR, R)
12.30 IVF World Sprints (R)
1.00 2019 Junior Nats (R)
2.00 ■ The Reef 2: High Tide
(2012, G, R)
3.30 GRID (G, R)
4.00 The Puna (G, R)
4.30 Waka Man (G, R)
5.00 Tagata Pasifika
5.30 Nga Tangata Taumata Rau
(G, R)
6.30 Te Ao: Māori News
7.00 Te Ao with Moana (R)
7.30 Marks of Mana (PGR)
Documentary about the
female practice of tattooing.
8.30 ■ The Lobster (2015, AO)
Single people must find a
romantic partner in 45 days.
Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz.
TV Fims, page 69
10.30 Te Ao: Māori News (R)
11.00 – 11.30 Whare Puoro (G, R)
LISTENER SEPTEMBER 21 2019

SKY PREMIERE SKY 030
7.15 Nothing but Trailers (M)
7.45 Ant-Man and the Wasp
(2018, PG) Paul Rudd
9.40 White Boy Rick (2018, 16)
Richie Merritt
11.30 Kodachrome (2017, M) Jason
Sudeikis, Ed Harris
1.15 Solo: A Star Wars Story
(2018, M) Alden Ehrenreich
3.30 Secret Summer (2015, PG)
Lindsey Shaw, Derek Theler
4.55 My Blind Brother (2016, 16)
Adam Scott, Jenny Slate
6.20 The Miracle Season (2018,
PG) After the death of a
school’s star volleyball player,
his team band together in
the hope of winning the
state championship. Helen
Hunt, Erin Moriarty
8.00 Aquaman (2018, M) Arthur
Curry is caught between
a surface world and the
underwater Atlanteans.
Jason Momoa, Amber Heard
10.25 American Hangman (2019,
16) Donald Sutherland
12.05am The Miseducation of
Cameron Post (2018, M) 1.35 Secret
Summer (2015, PG) 3.00 My Blind
Brother (2016, 16) 4.25 The Miracle
Season (2018, PG)
MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031
6.15 Lake Placid: Legacy (2018,
16) Katherine Barrell
7.45 Creed II (2018, M) Michael B
Jordan, Sylvester Stallone
9.55 Elvis Goes There: Paul Feig
(2019, M) Documentary.
10.45 Please Stand By (2017, M)
Dakota Fanning, Toni Collette
12.20 I, Tonya (2017, 16) Margot
Robbie, Allison Janney
2.20 Father Figures (2017, M)
Owen Wilson, Ed Helms
4.10 Black Panther (2018, M)
Chadwick Boseman
6.20 Yardie (2018, 16) While
growing up in Jamaica, a
boy witnesses his brother’s
murder before being taking
in by a don, but years later,
the past catches up with
him. Aml Ameen
8.00 Go with Me (2015, 16) A
vengeful woman recruits two
men to help her track down
a former cop who attacked
her. Anthony Hopkins
9.35 Holmes & Watson (2018, 16)
Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly
11.05 #roxy (2018, PG) Jake Short
12.50am Father Figures (2017, M)
2.40 Yardie (2018, 16) 4.20 Go with
Me (2015, 16) 5.50 #roxy (2018, PG)
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 22
MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039
7.00 The Peacemaker (1997, M)
George Clooney
9.00 Shampoo (1975, 16) Warren
Beatty, Julie Christie
10.50 Nothing but Trailers (M)
11.05 Force 10 from Navarone
(1978, M) Harrison Ford
1.05 Child’s Play (1988, 16) Chris
Sarandon, Catherine Hicks
2.30 Indecent Proposal (1993, M)
Robert Redford, Demi Moore
4.25 Night and the City (1992, M)
Robert De Niro
6.10 The Deep End of the Ocean
(1999, M) A mother’s perfect
family life is shattered when
her son is kidnapped and
returns nine years later.
Michelle Pfeiffer, Whoopi
Goldberg
8.00 In the Line of Fire (1993, M)
Clint Eastwood TV Films,
page 69
10.05 Existenz (1999, M) Jude Law
11.40 When a Man Loves a
Woman (1994, PG) Meg
Ryan, Andy Garcia
1.45am Nothing but Trailers (M)
2.00 Night and the City (1992, M)
3.45 Indecent Proposal (1993, M)
5.40 The Deep End of the Ocean
(1999, M)
7.10 Amelie (2001, M)
9.15 Stray (2018, M)
11.00 Whitney (2018, M) US doco.
1.00 Sail Away (2018, G)
1.15 Stranger (2018, PG)
1.25 Run Rabbit (2018, M)
1.50 Delivery (2018, M) Aaron
McGregor
2.10 Twenty One Points (2018, M)
Josh Thomson
2.25 Cleaver (2017, 16) Kieran
Charnock
2.45 Charmer (2018, M) Robyn
Malcolm
3.00 My Friend Michael Jones
(2018, 16) Villa Junior Lemanu
3.20 See You Up There (2017, M)
Nahuel Perez Biscayart
5.15 Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018,
M) UK documentary.
6.55 Ghost Stories (2017, M)
Andy Nyman
8.30 Iona (2015, 16) Ruth Negga,
Ben Gallagher
10.00 Postcards from the 48%
(2018, PG) UK documentary.
11.55 Down by Love (2016, 16)
Adele Exarchopoulos
1.45am The Indian Wrecking Crew
(2018, PG) 3.10 Cardinal (16) s1ep1
3.55 Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018, M)
5.35 See You Up There (2017, M)

GENERAL SoHo SKY 010

ThreeLife FREEVIEW 11 SKY 029
6.00 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield
Omnibus Marathon (R, HD) 9.30 Good Chef Bad
Chef (R, HD) 10.00 Everyday Gourmet with Justine
Schofield (R, HD) 10.25 Celebrity MasterChef UK
(R, HD) Noon Better Homes and Gardens (R, HD)
1.30 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield (R,
HD) 2.00 Bondi Rescue (R, HD) 2.25 Good Chef
Bad Chef (R, HD) 2.55 Celebrity MasterChef UK (R,
HD) 4.40 Better Homes and Gardens (R, HD) 6.00
Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield (HD) 6.30
Bondi Rescue (R, HD) 7.00 Piha Rescue (R) (PGR)
7.30 From Cubs to Kings (HD) 8.30 Wild Uganda
(HD) 9.30 Vet on the Hill (R, HD) 10.30 Everyday
Gourmet with Justine Schofield (HD) 11.00 Bondi
Rescue (R, HD) 11.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD)
12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials
Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024
6.00 Storage Wars: New York 6.30 Through the
Bible with Les Feldick 7.00 Leading the Way 7.30
Love Nature: My Family & the Galapagos 8.30
American Pickers 9.30 Get Out Alive 11.30 Antiques
Roadshow 12.30 Food Safari: Water 1.00 Best Cake
Wins 1.30 Get Out Alive 2.30 Where the Wild Men
Are with Ben Fogle 3.30 Love Nature: Seasonal
Wonderland 4.30 Gordon Ramsay Ultimate Home
Cooking 5.30 Kai Safari 6.00 Freedom Riders 6.30
The Home Show 7.30 American Pickers 8.30 ■ The
Hurt Locker (2008, AO) The newest member of
a bomb squad in Iraq irks his teammates with his
recklessness. Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie. TV
Films, page 69 11.00 Get Out Alive 1.00 American
Pickers 2.00 Heston’s Great British Food 3.00 Love
Nature: Seasonal Wonderland 4.00 Gordon Ramsay
Ultimate Home Cooking 5.00 The Home Show
TVNZ Duke FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023
7.00 DUKEbox Music 3.05 Top Gear 5.05 Car SOS
6.00 Dog Squad NZ (C) 6.30 Highway Cops NZ (C,
HD) 7.00 Family Guy (PGR, C) 7.30 The Simpsons
(C) 8.30 Best of Top Gear (G) Jeremy Clarkson
races back from Italy in a Veyron – against James
Sky Premiere: Aquaman, 8.00pm
and Richard flying themselves in a little plane. 9.45
NZ Hunter Adventures (PGR) Father and son Greg
and Willie Duley continue their massive journey to
hunt and pack-raft down the Landsborough River.
11.00 – 1.25am Live PD Uncut (PGR)
UKTV SKY 007
6.00 The Graham Norton Show (PG) 6.50 Holby
City (M) 7.50 EastEnders Marathon (PG) 10.00
Heartbeat (PG) 10.50 Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
(M) 11.35 The Graham Norton Show (M) 12.25 Top
Gear (PG) s17ep3 1.20 Midsomer Murders (M) s6ep3
3.10 Peaky Blinders (M) s5ep5 4.15 Doc Martin (M)
s2ep7 5.10 Heartbeat (PG) s16ep1 6.05 Would I Lie
to You? (PG) s5ep3 6.40 8 Out of 10 Cats Does
Countdown (M) Sean Lock and Roisin Conaty take
on Alan Carr and Joe Lycett. s11ep8 7.35 Casualty
(PG) Tragedy strikes on the day of Robyn and Glen’s
wedding s32ep29 8.30 Who Do You Think You Are?
(PG) Shirley Ballas. 9.35 A Touch of Frost (M) Much
to his chagrin, Frost is teamed up with DS Reid,
and they find themselves working an unpleasant
murder. s8ep1 11.00 Peaky Blinders (16) As Tommy
reveals his intentions for Mosley, someone close to
the Shelbys is targeted. s5ep5 12.05am Casualty (M)
s32ep28-29 1.45 Father Brown (M) s2ep4 2.30 Who
Do You Think You Are? (PG) 3.30 A Touch of Frost
(M) s8ep1 4.45 All Round to Mrs Brown’s (M) s1ep5
5.35 – 6.30 Top Gear (PG) s17ep3
6.35 Into the Badlands Marathon (18) 8.50 ■ Like.
Share. Follow (2017, 16) 10.20 Kiri (16) s1ep1 11.10
Years and Years (16) s1ep5 12.10 Bates Motel (16)
s5ep5 12.55 ■ Like. Share. Follow (2017, 16) 2.25
Kiri (16) s1ep1 3.15 Years and Years (16) s1ep5 4.15
Bates Motel (16) s5ep5 5.00 ■ Like. Share. Follow
(2017, 16) 6.30 The Woman in White (M) s1ep5 7.30
The Deuce (18) US drama about the porn industry’s
beginnings in New York City. s3ep2 8.30 Temple (16)
UK drama about a successful surgeon who starts
an underground clinic in an abandoned labyrinth
of tunnels. s1ep2 9.30 Escape at Dannemora (18)
Season finale. Matt and Sweat run for their lives as
the tension between them is pushed to the extreme,
and Tilly does her best to evade the authorities.
s1ep8 10.25 Mayans M.C. (16) After learning who
killed his mother, EZ will have to balance his thirst
for revenge against the M.C.’s ties to SAMCRO.
s2ep3 11.25 Snowfall (18) s3ep2 12.05am The
Woman in White (M) s1ep5 1.05 Real Time with Bill
Maher (M) s17ep28 2.20 The Deuce (18) s3ep2 3.20
Temple (16) s1ep2 4.10 Escape at Dannemora (18)
s1ep8 5.05 – 6.05 Mayans M.C. (16) s2ep3
Living SKY 017
6.00 Salvage Hunters (PG) 6.50 Location Location
Location (PG) 7.50 Better Homes and Gardens
(G) 9.00 Garden Rescue (PG) 9.50 Great Ormond
Street (PG) 10.55 Salvage Hunters (PG) 11.50
Escape to the Continent (G) 12.55 Location Location
Location (PG) 1.50 Great British Railway Journeys
(PG) 2.50 Long Lost Family UK Marathon (G)
6.40 Escape to the Chateau (PG) 7.35 Escape to
the Country (PG) West Yorkshire. 8.30 Joanna
& Jennifer: Absolutely Champers (PG) Jennifer
Saunders and Joanna Lumley investigate the home
of champagne. 9.30 Long Lost Family UK (PG) A
woman searches for the older brother who was a
family secret for decades, and a former England
rugby player is desperate to find his mother and his
sister. 10.25 Selling Houses Australia (PG) Mulgrave,
Vic. 11.20 Great Ormond Street (PG) 12.25am
Long Lost Family UK (G) 2.15 Joanna & Jennifer:
Absolutely Champers (PG) 3.15 Long Lost Family
UK (PG) 4.10 Selling Houses Australia (PG) 5.05 –
6.00 The Undateables (M)

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SPORT
Sky Sport 1 SKY 051
6.00 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Waikato v Tasman,
highlights 6.30 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Southland v
Counties Manukau, highlights 7.00 Rugby, Mitre
10 Cup, Northland v Otago, highlights 7.30 Rugby,
NRC, Fiji v Sydney, replay 9.30 Premiership Rugby
Cup, Harlequins v Bristol Bears, replay 11.30 Rugby,
Farah Palmer Cup, Auckland v Wellington, live 1.30
Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Waikato v Bay of Plenty,
highlights 2.00 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Auckland v
Wellington, live 4.15 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Northland
v Bay of Plenty, live 6.30 Rugby, Farah Palmer
Cup, Auckland v Wellington, replay 8.30 Rugby
Nation 9.30 Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Northland
v North Harbour, replay 11.30 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup,
Auckland v Wellington, replay 1.30am Rugby, Mitre
10 Cup, Northland v Bay of Plenty, replay 3.30
Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Waikato v Bay of Plenty,
highlights 4.00 Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Auckland
v Wellington, highlights 4.30 Rugby, Farah Palmer
Cup, Northland v North Harbour, highlights 5.00
Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Auckland v Wellington,
highlights 5.30 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Northland v
Bay of Plenty, highlights
Sky Sport 2 SKY 052
9.15 Cricket, CPL Magazine Show 10.00 Cricket,
Vitality Blast, highlights 11.30 Cricket, Caribbean
Premier League, St Lucia v Trinidad, from Darren
Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet, live 3.30 Cricket,
Caribbean Premier League, Jamaica v St Kitts,
highlights 4.20 Cricket, Vitality Blast, highlights
4.50 Cricket, Caribbean Premier League, St Lucia v
Trinidad, replay 8.20 Cricket, Vitality Blast, highlights
DOCUMENTARIES
Sky Arts SKY 020
7.30 Wonders of Men 8.00 Salome: Salzburg
Festival 2018 10.00 The Great Pottery Throwdown
11.00 MSO: Kate Miller-Heidke and the MSO 12.30
The Private Life of the Royal Academy (G) 1.45
■ Pet Shop Boys: Inner Sanctum (2019, G) 3.30
Wonders of Men 4.00 Finding Your Roots 6.00
Put Some Colour in Your Life 6.30 Video Killed the
Radio Star: Spice Girls 7.00 ■ Isle of Wight Festival
2018 (2018, G) The 50th anniversary show with
headliners Depeche Mode, the Killers, Kasabian
and Liam Gallagher and additional performances
by Van Morrison, the Script, Blossoms and James
Bay. 8.30 Manfred Mann’s Earth Band Plays Baloise
Session 9.50 Later with Jools Holland (G) Live
performances by Björk, the Breeders, Les Amazones
D’Afrique, Deva Mahal and Hailey Tuck. 10.55 Later
with Jools Holland (G) Live performances by Robert
Plant, St Vincent, Nick Mulvey, Kelela, John Moreland
and Beck. 12.00am Finding Your Roots 2.00 Put
Some Colour in Your Life 2.30 Video Killed the
Radio Star 3.00 ■ Isle of Wight Festival 2018 (2018,
G) 4.30 Manfred Mann’s Earth Band Plays Baloise
Session 5.50 Later with Jools Holland
Discovery SKY 070
6.35 How It’s Made (PG) 7.05 How Do They Do It?
(PG) 7.30 Weather Top Tens (PG) 8.20 UFOs: The
Lost Evidence (PG) 9.10 BattleBots (PG) 10.00
Expedition Unknown (PG) 10.50 Gold Rush: White
Water (PG) 11.40 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 12.30
Aussie Lobster Men (PG) 1.20 Deadliest Catch (PG)
2.10 Outback Opal Hunters Marathon (PG) 7.30
Blowing Up History (PG) 8.30 Valley of the Kings:
The Final Secrets (PG) 10.15 NASA’s Unexplained
Files (PG) 11.05 Expedition Unknown (PG) 11.55
How It’s Made (PG) 12.20am How Do They Do It?
(PG) 12.45 Naked and Afraid (M) 1.35 Car Crash TV
(PG) 2.25 Naked and Afraid Marathon (M)
GETTY IMAGES
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 Seconds from Disaster (PG) 7.30 Seconds
from Disaster (M) 8.30 Witness: Disaster in Japan
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Sky Sport 1: Rugby, Auckland v Wellington,
live, 11.30am
9.50 Cricket, India v South Africa, 2nd T20, replay
1.20am Cricket, India v South Africa, 3rd T20, from
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, live 5.00
Cricket, Caribbean Premier League, St Lucia v
Trinidad, highlights
Sky Sport 3 SKY 053
6.00 Sail GP, replay 7.30 Cycling, Primus Classic,
replay 9.00 Premiership Rugby Cup, Exeter Chiefs
v Bath, replay 11.00 Cricket, Vitality Blast, replay
2.30 Cricket, Vitality Blast, replay 6.00 Cricket,
Vitality Blast, replay 9.30 Cricket, Caribbean
Premier League, St Lucia v Trinidad, highlights
10.30 Mountain biking, UCI MTB World Champs,
highlights 12.30am Motorsport, FIM Endurance
World Championship, 24H Bol d’Or, live 3.30am
Premiership Rugby Cup, Harlequins v Bristol Bears,
replay 5.30 Getting Grilled with Marshy
(PG) 9.30 Air Crash Investigation Marathon (PG)
12.30 North Korea: Michael Palin’s Journey (PG)
1.30 Apocalypse: The Second World War (16) 2.30
Buried Secrets of WWII (PG) 3.30 Bushfire Wars
(PG) 4.30 Outback Wrangler Marathon (PG) 6.30
Notre Dame: Race Against the Inferno (M) 7.30
Before the Flood (PG) 9.05 Activate: The Global
Citizen Movement (PG) 10.05 Witness: Disaster
in Japan (PG) 11.00 Danger Decoded (M) 11.30
Brave New World (PG) 12.30am Notre Dame: Race
Against the Inferno (M) 1.30 Before the Flood (PG)
3.30 Activate: The Global Citizen Movement (PG)
4.30 Witness: Disaster in Japan (PG) 5.30 Brave
New World (PG)
History SKY 073
6.30 Oliver Stone: Untold History of the US (M) 7.30
Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads (16) 8.30
Time Team (PG) 9.30 World’s Greatest Ships (PG)
10.30 My Lai (16) 12.30 Oliver Stone: Untold History
of the US (M) 1.30 Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death
Squads (16) 2.30 Tutankhamun: A Murder Mystery
(PG) 3.30 Cleopatra (M) 4.30 Joanna Lumley’s
Nile 5.30 Americans Underground: Secret City of
WWI (M) 6.30 Abandoned Engineering (PG) 7.30
Nefertiti: The Lonely Queen (PG) 8.30 Manhunt:
Hunt for Bin Laden (M) 10.30 Secret Cities (PG)
11.30 Hitler’s Lost Battles (M) 12.30am Battlefield
(PG) 2.30 Clydebuilt (PG) 3.15 The Battle Of
Midway (PG) 4.00 Nefertiti: The Lonely Queen (PG)
4.45 Manhunt: Hunt for Bin Laden (M)
BBC Earth SKY 074
6.05 Wild New Zealand (PG) 6.55 Planet II (PG)
7.55 David Attenborough’s Blue Planet Marathon
(PG) 11.20 David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II
(PG) 12.20 Tribes, Animals & Me Marathon (PG)
4.55 Spy in the Wild (PG) 6.00 Life Below
Zero (M) 6.50 The Dog Rescuers with Alan
Davies (PG) 7.40 Atlantic: A Year in the
Wild (PG) 8.30 Wild New Zealand (PG) New
Arrivals. 9.25 David Attenborough’s Blue Planet
II (PG) 11.35 Tribes, Animals & Me Marathon (PG)
4.10am The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG)
5.00 Wild New Zealand (PG) 5.50 Atlantic: A Year
in the Wild (PG)
RADIO
RNZ National
FREEVIEW 50 SKY 421 iHeartRADIO
6.08 Storytime
7.10 Sunday Morning with Jim Mora Including
7.35 The House 8.10 Insight 9.06 Mediawatch
12.12 Two Cents Worth Business podcast,
with Bernard Hickey, Nikki Mandow, Jenee
Tibshraeny and Gyles Beckford
12.30 Standing Room Only with Lynn
Freeman Including 1.10 At the Movies 2.05
The Laugh Track
3.04 The 3 O’Clock Drama
4.06 The Sunday Feature
5.00 The World at Five
5.10 Heart and Soul
5.40 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi
6.06 Te Ahi Kaa
6.45 Voices
7.04 The TED Radio Hour
8.06 Sunday Night with Grant Walker
10.00 The 10 O’Clock Report
10.10 Mediawatch New Zealand’s news media
10.45 The House
11.04 The Retro Cocktail Hour
12.04am All Night Programme Including 3.05
Shot, by Sarah Quigley (10 of 12, RNZ)
Website: rnz.co.nz
RNZ Concert
FREEVIEW 51 SKY 422 iHeartRADIO
News & Weather 6.00am, 8.00, 9.00, noon,
3.00pm, 6.00, 11.00
6.00 Sanctuary Music for the spirit and soul
7.30 Hymns on Sunday With Robyn Jaquiery
8.00 Grace Notes
9.00 Weekend Brunch
Noon Pick and Mix With Eva Radich
1.05 In the Spotlight Artists and musical
matters
2.00 The Musical Omnivore With David
Morriss including Vintage Years
5.00 New Horizons with William Dart A guide
to rock, pop, country, folk and beyond
5.30 The Silver Screen
6.00 Opera on Sunday Prom 55: Handel’s
Jephtha: Allan Clayton (Jephtha), Jeanine
De Bique (Iphis), Hilary Summers (Storge),
Tim Mead (Hamor), Cody Quattlebaum
(Zebul), Rowan Pierce (Angel), Scottish
Chamber Orchestra Chorus, Scottish Chamber
Orchestra/Richard Egarr (recorded in the
Royal Albert Hall, London, by the BBC)
9.00 Made in New Zealand
11.00 New Music Dreams Ryan Smith presents
ambient and drone music
12.00am Music Through the Night
Website: rnz.co.nz/concert
Newstalk ZB
6.00 Peter Wolfkamp 8.00 Jim Kayes 9.00
Francesca Rudkin Noon Martin Devlin 3.00 Tim
Roxborogh & Tim Wilson 6.00 Frank Ritchie and Jax
van Buuren 7.30 John Cowan 8.00 Tim Beveridge
11.00 The Nutters Club 1.00am Bruce
Russell 5.00 Kate Hawkesby
Website: newstalkzb.co.nz
Magic Talk
6.00 Rural Exchange
8.00 Home & Garden
11.00 Mike Puru 3.00
Hayden Rickard 6.00
Newshub 7.00 Magic
Music 11.00 Tony Amos
5.00am Magic Music
Website: magic.co.nz
Sky Arts: Later with Jools
Holland, 9.50pm
SOUTH CANTERBURY DAY AND MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK
TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 Breakfast With Hayley Holt
and John Campbell.
9.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
(C)
10.00 Tipping Point (G, R)
11.00 The Chase (G, R, C)
Noon 1 News (C)
12.30 Emmerdale (PGR, C) Billy
realises that Marlon and
Jessie know about what
happened in the park, Priya
has been busy organising the
sustainability awards, and
Jacob and Maya are enjoying
being alone.
1.00 ■ Coronation Street Catch-
Up (PGR, R, C) Tina and
Sally are worried about Tim’s
health, Ken tells Claudia how
he feels about her, and Rick
has Gary in his clutches.
1.30 Coronation Street 2019
(PGR, R, C) Wayne and
Imran have some questions
for Carla, but will she stick to
her story?
2.00 Coast vs Country (G, R,
C) Les and Andrea have
six children between them
and dream of escaping the
mayhem in a quiet holiday
home in Northumberland.
3.00 Tipping Point (G)
4.00 Te Karere A Māori
perspective to the day’s
news and current affairs.
4.30 Come Dine with Me Daytime
(G, C)
5.00 The Chase (G, C) Bradley
Walsh hosts a UK quiz show.
6.00 1 News (C)
7.00 Seven Sharp (C) Hilary
Barry and Jeremy Wells
present current affairs and
entertainment.
7.30 Fair Go (C) Pippa Wetzell
and Hadyn Jones present
consumer affairs and
investigations.
8.00 Border Patrol (G, C) A
Nigerian national kicks-
off with Border agencies,
Customs deal with a fishy
parcel from Africa, and
Immigration talk to a tricky
DJ trying to work without a
visa.
8.30 Wild Bill (AO, C, AD) After
a body is found, suspicion
falls on members of the
immigrant workforce, but Bill
soon sees that this case is
about much more than race.
s1ep5
9.30 Q+A (C) Political interviews
and commentary.
10.35 1 News Tonight (C)
11.05 Proven Innocent (AO, C)
The team try to exonerate
a transwoman who was
wrongfully convicted of
murdering her friend and
fellow activist. s1ep8
12.00am The Brave (AO, R, C)
s1ep8
12.50 Te Karere (R)
1.15 Infomercials
5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R)
■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM
SEPTEMBER 21 2019 LISTENER
TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
6.00 Infomercials
6.30 MyaGo (G, R, C)
6.40 PJ Masks (G, C)
7.00 The Tom and Jerry Show
(G, C)
7.25 Beyblade Burst Turbo (G, C)
7.50 Bunnicula (G, C)
8.15 Mickey and the Roadster
Racers (G, R, C)
8.35 The Lion Guard (G, R, C)
9.00 Infomercials
10.00 The Middle (G, R, C) s8ep22
10.30 Neighbours (G, R, C)
11.00 Celebrity Treasure Island
(PGR, R, C, AD)
Noon Mom (PGR, R, C) s1ep10
12.30 2 Broke Girls (PGR, R, C)
s1ep10
1.00 Judge Rinder (G, R)
2.00 ■ Will & Grace (PGR, R, C)
2.30 Home and Away (G, R, C)
3.00 Shortland Street (PGR, R,
HD, C, AD)
3.30 Mech-X4! (G, R, C)
4.00 Fanimals (G, C)
4.30 Friends (G, R, C) s9ep4
5.00 The Simpsons (G, R, C)
s14ep18
5.30 Home and Away (G, C) Bella
finds the courage to testify
for Irene.
6.00 The Big Bang Theory (G, R,
C) s11ep22
6.30 Neighbours (G, C) The
universe sends Paul yet
another message.
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR, HD,
C, AD) Harper jumps the
gun, Leanne falls back into
old ways, and Angel is hurt
by a home truth.
7.30 Celebrity Treasure Island
(PGR, C, AD, another
episode screens tomorrow)
A double elimination sends
two of the celebs packing,
while the remaining three
scramble for the clues ahead
of tomorrow’s grand final.
8.35 The Seven Year Switch
Australia (PGR, C, another
episode screens tomorrow)
The men’s switch partners
and real partners meet.
9.40 The Single Wives (AO, C) A
weekend getaway gives the
couples a chance to know
each other intimately.
10.45 Two and a Half Men (PGR, R,
C) s1ep14
11.15 Cougar Town (PGR, R, C)
s4ep6
11.40 Lethal Weapon (AO, C)
s3ep12
12.30am Devious Maids (AO, R, C)
s4ep6
1.15 Shortland Street (PGR, R,
HD, C, AD)
1.40 Infomercials
2.45 Army Wives (AO, R, C)
s4ep6
3.30 I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out
of Here Australia (AO, R, C)
4.40 America’s Funniest Home
Videos (G, R, C)
5.05 Neighbours (G, R, C)
5.30 – 6.00 ■ Tomorrow’s World
(R)
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 23
THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 The AM Show (HD) With
Duncan Garner, Amanda
Gillies and Mark Richardson.
9.00 The Cafe (G, HD)
10.00 Infomercials
11.30 Entertainment Tonight (G,
R, HD)
Noon Millionaire Hot Seat (G,
R, HD)
1.00 Dr Phil (AO, HD)
2.00 Married at First Sight NZ
(PGR, R, HD, C) s3ep7
3.30 Open Homes (G, R, HD)
4.00 Entertainment Tonight
(G, HD)
4.30 Newshub Live (HD)
5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, HD)
6.00 Newshub Live (HD)
7.00 The Project (HD) With Jesse
Mulligan, Kanoa Lloyd and
Jeremy Corbett.
7.30 Married at First Sight NZ
(PGR, HD, another episode
screens tomorrow) Tempers
flare when the experts ask
the hard questions. s3ep8
8.30 The Gulf (AO, HD, C) The
death of Hoani Casey sparks
tension on the island, and
Jess’s amnesia lifts to reveal
a shocking truth. s1ep6
9.30 SVU: Special Victims Unit
(AO, HD, C) Benson and
the team help an exchange
student from Italy after she
is assaulted by a cab driver.
s20ep21
10.25 Newshub Late
10.55 The Hui (R, HD, C) With
Mihingarangi Forbes.
11.30 Newshub Nation (R, HD, C)
Simon Shepherd and Emma
Jolliff present current affairs.
12.40am – 6.00 Infomercials
BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Infomercials
10.00 Million Dollar Listing Los
Angeles (G, R)
11.00 Snapped (PGR, R)
Noon I Killed My BFF (PGR, R)
1.00 Millionaire Matchmaker
(AO, R)
2.00 Masters of Flip (G, R)
3.05 The People’s Court (G, R)
4.05 Million Dollar Listing Los
Angeles (G, R)
5.35 Catfish (G, R)
6.30 Hollywood Medium with
Tyler Henry (G, R) Lil’ Kim is
reunited with her soulmate,
the Notorious BIG.
7.30 Snapped (AO, R)
8.30 Cults & Extreme Belief
(AO) Amy Bril recounts her
childhood growing up in the
Children of God.
9.30 Buried in the Backyard
(AO) Investigators in York,
Pennsylvania, enter a dark
world of buried secrets after
a couple make a stunning
discovery in their backyard.
10.30 Snapped (PGR, R)
11.30 I Killed My BFF (PGR, R)
12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials
Māori TV: Mavis!, 8.30pm
PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Children’s Programmes
(G, R)
7.00 Sky Sport News
8.00 Children’s Programmes
(G, R)
9.00 Million Dollar Minute (G)
9.30 Hot Bench (G, R)
10.00 The Doctors (PGR)
11.00 Antiques Roadshow (G, R)
Noon Sky Sport News
12.30 Robot Wars (PGR, R)
1.30 Just Shoot Me (PGR, C)
2.00 The Late Show with Stephen
Colbert (PGR, R)
3.00 Judge Judy (PGR)
3.30 Jeopardy (G)
4.00 The Chase Australia (G, C)
5.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
(G, R, C)
5.30 Prime News
6.00 Inside the PGA Tour (G)
6.30 Pawn Stars (G, R)
7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild
7.30 American Pickers (G)
8.30 ■ I Am Legend (2007, AO,
C) TV Fims, page 69
10.35 UCI Mountain Bike World
Championships Highlights
11.40 – 12.40am The Late Show
with Stephen Colbert (PGR)
MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
6.30 Children’s Programmes (G, R)
9.00 Te Ao: Māori News (R)
9.30 R & R (G, R)
10.00 Tangaroa with Pio (G, R)
10.30 Sidewalk Karaoke (G, R)
11.00 ■ Nga Tangata Taumata Rau
(G, R)
Noon School of Training (G, R)
12.30 Funny Whare: Gamesnight
(PGR, R)
1.00 Moving Out (G, R)
1.30 Finding Aroha (PGR, R)
2.00 Opaki (G, R)
2.30 Nga Pari (G, R)
3.00 Kids’ Programmes (G)
6.00 Nga Pari (G, R)
6.30 Te Ao: Māori News
7.00 Whanau Living (G, R)
7.30 Sachie’s Kitchen (G, R)
Japanese cooking.
8.00 The Negotiators (G) Chris
McKenzie, Ngati Raukawa.
8.30 ■ Mavis! (2015, AO)
Documentry about the
Staple Singers’ Mavis Staples.
TV Fims, page 69
10.00 Marae (G)
10.30 Te Ao: Māori News (R)
11.00 – 11.30 Te Matatini ki te Ao
2019 (G, R)
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SKY PREMIERE SKY 030
6.05 American Hangman (2019,
16) Donald Sutherland
7.45 Aquaman (2018, M) Jason
Momoa, Temuera Morrison
10.05 The Miseducation of
Cameron Post (2018, M)
Chloe Grace Moretz
11.35 My Blind Brother (2016, 16)
Adam Scott, Jenny Slate
1.00 The Miracle Season (2018,
PG) Helen Hunt
2.40 American Hangman (2019,
16) Donald Sutherland
4.20 Truth or Dare (2018, 16) Lucy
Hale, Tyler Posey
6.00 Occupation (2018, M)
Survivors of an attack form
an army to fight back. Dan
Ewing, Temuera Morrison
8.00 Molly’s Game (2018, 16)
Based on the story of an
Olympic-class skier who
directed an elite high-
stakes poker game. Jessica
Chastain, Idris Elba
10.20 This Teacher (2018, 16,
subtitles) Hafsia Herzi
11.55 Wish You Were Dead (2017,
16) Emily Rose, Brian Krause
1.25am Truth or Dare (2018, 16) 3.05
Occupation (2018, M) 5.05 Molly’s
Game (2018, 16)
MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031
7.35 Black Panther (2018, M)
Chadwick Boseman
9.45 Holmes & Watson (2018, 16)
Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly
11.15 Father Figures (2017, M)
Owen Wilson, Ed Helms
1.05 Yardie (2018, 16) Aml
Ameen, Stephen Graham
2.45 Go with Me (2015, 16)
Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles
4.15 All the Money in the World
(2017, 16) Michelle Williams
6.25 Terminal (2018, 16)The lives
of three assassins intertwine
at the hands of a mysterious
mastermind. Margot Robbie
8.00 Artik (2019, 18) A comic-
book obsessed serial killer
preys on his victims while
teaching his son how to
follow in his footsteps. Chase
Williamson, Jerry G. Angelo
10.05 Eighth Grade (2018, M) A
13-year-old struggles to push
through the final week of her
disastrous eighth grade year.
Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton
10.55 The Exception (2016, 16)
Christopher Plummer
12.20am All the Money in the World
(2017, 16) 2.50 Terminal (2018, 16)
4.25 Eighth Grade (2018, M)
MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039
7.25 In the Line of Fire (1993, M)
Clint Eastwood
9.30 Existenz (1999, M) Jude Law
11.05 When a Man Loves a
Woman (1994, PG) Meg
Ryan, Andy Garcia
1.10 Night and the City (1992, M)
Robert De Niro
2.55 William Shatner Presents:
The Captains (2015, M) Doco.
4.30 The Saint (1997, M) Val Kilmer
6.25 Wild Bill (1995, M) A famed
lawman and gunslinger of
the Old West is haunted by
his past and his reputation,
with an enraged Jack McCall
on a vengeful trail behind
him. Jeff Bridges, Ellen
Barkin
8.00 The Color of Money (1986,
PG) A hustler who isn’t what
he used to be has the next
best thing: a kid who is. Paul
Newman, Tom Cruise
10.00 Glory (1989, M) Denzel
Washingto
12.00am Love Potion #9 (1992, PG)
1.35 William Shatner Presents: The
Captains (2015, M) 3.10 Nothing
but Trailers (M) 3.40 The Color of
Money (1986, PG) 5.40 The Saint
(1997, M)
7.30 Postcards from the 48%
(2018, PG) UK documentary.
9.20 Ghost Stories (2017, M)
Andy Nyman
10.55 The Indian Wrecking Crew
(2018, PG) US documentary.
12.20 Iona (2015, 16) Ruth Negga
1.50 The Heart of Nuba (2016, M)
US documentary.
3.15 Orchestra Class (2017, M)
Kad Merad
4.55 Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
(2017, PG) Japanese-US
documentary.
6.35 La Porta Rossa (M) After
Vanessa recovers a book
that Filip had taken from
the dead pusher, he can no
longer lie to her. s2ep2
8.30 Trapped (2018, M) A woman
who discovers she is the
beneficiary of a million
euros is left facing a moral
dilemma. Odile Vuillemin,
Nicolas Briançon
10.15 The Writer with No Hands
(2017, M) UK documentary.
11.30 Bad Banks (M) s1ep1
12.25am Lauda: The Untold Story
(2014, PG) 2.00 Cardinal (16) s1ep2
2.45 Orchestra Class (2017, M) 4.25
La Porta Rossa (M) s2ep2

GENERAL
ThreeLife FREEVIEW 11 SKY 029
6.00 Infomercials 9.00 Everyday Gourmet with
Justine Schofield (R, HD) 9.30 Bondi Rescue (R,
HD) 10.00 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 10.30 From
Cubs to Kings (R, HD) 11.30 Wild Uganda (R, HD)
12.30 Vet on the Hill (R, HD) 1.30 Everyday Gourmet
with Justine Schofield (R, HD) 2.00 Bondi Rescue
(R, HD) 2.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 3.00
From Cubs to Kings (R, HD) 4.00 Wild Uganda (R,
HD) 5.00 Vet on the Hill (R, HD) 6.00 Best Houses
Australia (R, HD) 6.30 Family Feud Australia (R)
7.00 Family Feud (R, HD) 7.30 MasterChef UK: The
Professionals (HD) 8.40 The Taste USA (HD) 9.35
Boys Weekend (HD) 10.05 The Chocolate Queen
(R, HD) 10.35 Best Houses Australia (R, HD) 11.00
Family Feud Australia (R) 11.30 Good Chef Bad Chef
(R, HD) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials
Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024
6.00 Tiny House Hunting 6.30 Gordon Ramsay
Ultimate Home Cooking 7.30 Jelly Jamm 8.00
Love Nature: Seasonal Wonderland 9.00 Wild
Ireland 9.30 Big House, Little House 11.30 Heston’s
Great British Food 12.30 The Great Interior Design
Challenge 1.30 The Home Show 2.30 Big House,
Little House 3.30 Love Nature: Hope for Wildlife
4.30 River Cottage Spring 5.30 Mysteries at the
Museum 6.30 American Pickers 7.30 Secrets of
Royal Travel 8.30 Joanna Lumley’s Japan 9.30
Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle 10.30 City Beneath
the Waves: Pavlopetri 11.30 Mysteries at the Museum
12.30am Brent Owens: Extreme, Authentic &
Unwrapped 1.00 River Cottage Spring 2.00 Heston’s
Great British Food 3.00 Love Nature: Hope for
Wildlife 4.00 Joanna Lumley’s Japan 5.00 Mysteries
at the Museum
TVNZ Duke FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023
1.30pm Top Gear 2.30 Ice Road Truckers (C) 3.20
Two and a Half Men (PGR, C) 3.45 The Fresh Prince
of Bel Air (C) 4.10 American Pickers 5.00 The Fresh
Prince of Bel Air (C) 5.25 Top Gear 6.30 The Big
Bang Theory (C) 7.00 Two and a Half Men (PGR, C)
SoHo: Game of Thrones, 5.30pm
7.30 The Simpsons (PGR, C) 8.30 Family Guy (PGR,
C) Quagmire’s most treasured body part gets cut
off in a freak accident. s17ep19 9.30 South Park (AO)
Chef returns to South Park. s10ep1 10.30 American
Dad (AO) 11.20 – 12.10am Futurama
UKTV SKY 007
6.30 8 Out of 10 Cats (M) 7.05 New Tricks (M) 8.00
The Bill (M) 8.50 Foyle’s War (M) 10.35 New Tricks
(M) 11.30 Grantchester (M) 12.20 Midsomer Murders
(M) s14ep6 1.55 The Bill (M) s25ep37 2.50 Top Gear
(PG) s16ep5 3.50 The Force: North East (M) s1ep13
4.40 The Graham Norton Show (M) s19ep7 5.35
Who Do You Think You Are? USA (PG) Jean Smart.
s7ep14 6.20 QI (M) Jeremy Clarkson, Sandi Toksvig
and Danny Baker. s13ep13 6.55 EastEnders (PG)
7.30 QI (M) Jo Brand, Rich Hall and Fred MacAulay.
s2ep8 8.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) Gregg Wallace,
Nigel Havers, Charlie Brooker and Nina Wadia. s5ep4
8.35 Doc Martin (M) Erotomania: A man arrives to
try to trace a missing woman, but encounters the
curtness of the Doc. s2ep8 9.30 Peaky Blinders (16)
Tommy puts his plan for Oswald Mosley into action,
but has he underestimated his opponent? s5ep6
10.35 Lewis (M) A local vicar complains about a
disturbance of the peace. s3ep4 12.15am Midsomer
Murders (M) s14ep6 1.50 QI (M) s13ep13 2.20 QI (M)
s2ep8 2.50 Would I Lie to You? (PG) s5ep4 3.25
EastEnders (PG) 4.00 Who Do You Think You Are?
USA (PG) s7ep14 4.40 Doc Martin (M) s2ep8 5.35 –
6.40 Peaky Blinders (16) s5ep6
SoHo SKY 010
6.05 Snowfall (18) s3ep2 6.45 The Woman in White
(M) s1ep5 7.45 The Deuce (18) s3ep2 8.45 The
Leftovers (16) s1ep6 9.40 Berlin Station (16) s2ep5
10.30 Billions (16) s2ep5 11.25 A Million Little Things
(M) s1ep11 12.10 Temple (16) s1ep2 1.00 Succession
(16) s2ep7 2.10 Escape at Dannemora (18) s1ep8
3.05 Mayans M.C. (16) s2ep3 4.05 Snowfall (18)
s3ep2 4.45 Halt and Catch Fire (M) s4ep3 5.30
Game of Thrones (18) s7ep1 6.30 The Young Pope
(16) s1ep6 7.30 C.B. Strike (16) s1ep5 8.30 Years
and Years (16) Season finale. As Viv Rook’s regime
tightens its grip, the entire Lyons family are forced
to take action. s1ep6 9.30 Succession (16) US drama
series about a media mogul and his family. s2ep7
10.30 Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra
Bland (16) Documentary. 12.10am The Looming
Tower (16) s1ep3 1.00 The Young Pope (16) s1ep6
1.55 C.B. Strike (16) s1ep5 2.55 Years and Years (16)
s1ep final 3.55 Succession (16) s2ep7 5.05 – 6.45 Say
Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (16)
Living SKY 017
6.00 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 6.50
Homes Under the Hammer (PG) 7.50 Selling Houses
Australia (G) 8.45 Long Lost Family USA (G) 9.35
Selling Houses Australia (PG) 10.25 Escape to the
Chateau (PG) 11.20 Escape to the Country (PG)
12.15 Location Location Location (PG) 1.05 Homes
Under the Hammer (PG) 2.10 Long Lost Family UK
(PG) 3.00 Long Lost Family USA (G) 3.50 A Place
in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 4.40 Joanna & Jennifer:
Absolutely Champers (PG) 5.35 Selling Houses
Australia (G) 6.30 Location Location Location (PG)
7.30 Escape to the Country (PG) North Wales. 8.30
Love It or List It UK (G) Surrey. 9.25 Selling Houses
Australia (PG) 10.25 The World’s Most Extraordinary
Homes (PG) 11.35 Selling Houses Australia (G)
12.30am Location Location Location (PG) 1.25
Escape to the Country (PG) 2.20 Love It or List It
UK (G) 3.15 Selling Houses Australia (PG) 4.10 The
World’s Most Extraordinary Homes (PG) 5.10 – 6.00
Gogglebox UK (PG)

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SPORT
Sky Sport 1 SKY 051
6.00 Premiership Rugby Cup, Exeter Chiefs v Bath,
replay 8.00 Mitre 10 Cup, Southland v Counties
Manukau, replay 10.00 Mitre 10 Cup, Hawke’s Bay v
Taranaki, replay Noon Rugby Nation 1.00 Mitre 10
Cup, Canterbury v Manawatu, highlights 1.30 Rugby,
Mitre 10 Cup, Hawke’s Bay v Taranaki, highlights
2.00 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Waikato v Tasman,
highlights 2.30 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Southland v
Counties Manukau, highlights 3.00 Rugby, Mitre
10 Cup, Northland v Otago, highlights 3.30 Rugby,
Mitre 10 Cup, Auckland v Wellington, highlights 4.00
Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Northland v Bay of Plenty,
highlights 4.30 Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Hawke’s
Bay v Taranaki, highlights 5.00 Rugby, Farah Palmer
Cup, Waikato v Bay of Plenty, highlights 5.30
Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Auckland v Wellington,
highlights 6.00 Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Northland
v North Harbour, highlights 6.30 Rugby, Mitre 10
Cup, Southland v Counties Manukau, highlights
7.00 Rugby Nation 8.00 Premiership Rugby Cup
Highlights 9.00 French Top 14 highlights 9.30
Premiership Rugby Cup, Harlequins v Bristol Bears,
replay 11.00 Premiership Rugby Cup, Exeter Chiefs v
Bath, replay 1.00am Rugby Nation 2.00 Premiership
Rugby Cup Highlights 3.00 Rugby, NRC, Fiji v
Sydney, replay 5.00 Rugby Nation
Sky Sport 2 SKY 052
6.00 Cricket, India v South Africa, 3rd T20, replay
9.30 Cricket, Caribbean Premier League, Barbados
v Guyana, live 1.30 Cricket, CPL Magazine Show
2.05 Cricket, India v South Africa, 3rd T20,
highlights 2.35 Cricket, Vitality Blast, highlights 4.05
DOCUMENTARIES
Sky Arts SKY 020
6.55 Later with Jools Holland 8.00 Finding Your
Roots 10.00 Put Some Colour in Your Life 10.30
Video Killed the Radio Star 11.00 ■ Isle of Wight
Festival 2018 (2018, G) 12.30 Manfred Mann’s Earth
Band Plays Baloise Session 1.50 Later with Jools
Holland 4.00 Baroque Treasures: Ospedale to
Concordia 5.15 Warumuk in the Dark Night 6.00
The Great Pottery Throwdown 7.00 Art: 21 8.00
Put Some Colour in Your Life 8.30 An Evening with
Montserrat Caballe 9.30 Maestro 10.30 Auction
11.00 Fourteen Days 12.00am Baroque Treasures:
Ospedale to Concordia 1.15 Warumuk in the Dark
Night 2.00 The Great Pottery Throwdown 3.00
Art: 21 4.00 Put Some Colour in Your Life 4.30 An
Evening with Montserrat Caballe 5.30 Maestro
Discovery SKY 070
6.35 Gold Rush: White Water (PG) 7.30 Wheels That
Fail (PG) 8.20 Valley of the Kings: The Final Secrets
(PG) 10.00 How It’s Made (PG) 10.25 How Do They
Do It? (PG) 10.50 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) 11.40
Evil Lives Here (M) 12.30 Murder Comes to Town
(M) 1.20 People Magazine Investigates (PG) 2.10
Wheels That Fail (PG) 3.00 Alaska: The Last Frontier
(PG) 3.50 Gold Rush (PG) 4.45 Fast N’ Loud (PG)
5.40 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) 6.35 American
Chopper (M) 7.30 Diesel Brothers (PG) 9.25 Towies
(PG) 10.15 Car Crash Global Caught on Camera (PG)
11.05 Naked and Afraid (M) 11.55 How It’s Made (PG)
12.20am How Do They Do It? (PG) 12.45 Wheels
That Fail (PG) 1.35 Gold Rush (PG) 2.25 Bering Sea
Gold (PG) 3.15 Alaska: The Last Frontier (PG) 4.05
Insane Pools: Off the Deep End (PG) 4.55 Naked
and Afraid (M) 5.45 Gold Rush (PG)
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 MARS (M) 7.30 One Strange Rock (PG) 8.30
Drain the Oceans (PG) 9.30 Scrapyard Supercar
(PG) 10.30 Buried Secrets of WWII (PG) 11.30 The
Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great (PG) 12.30 Air
Crash Investigation (PG) 1.30 Hitler Youth (PG)
2.30 Drain the Oceans (PG) 3.30 Drain the Sunken
SEPTEMBER 21 2019 LISTENER
BBC Earth: Wild NZ, 5.50pm
Cricket, India v South Africa, 3rd T20, replay 7.35
Cricket, Vitality Blast, highlights 8.05 Cricket, India
v South Africa, 3rd T20, highlights 8.35 Cricket,
Caribbean Premier League, Barbados v Guyana,
highlights 9.28 Cricket, County Championship, day
1, live 11.35 Cricket, India v South Africa, 2nd T20,
highlights 12.05am Cricket, County Championship,
day 1, live 5.00 Cricket, Caribbean Premier League,
Barbados v Guyana, highlights
Sky Sport 3 SKY 053
6.00 Sail GP, replay 8.00 Cycling, UCI Road World
Champs, Mixed TTT, replay 11.00 Cricket, India v
South Africa, 3rd T20, highlights 11.30 Athletics,
IAAF World Championship Archive 3.00 Sail GP,
highlights 4.00 Cricket, CPL Magazine Show 4.35
Cricket, Caribbean Premier League, Barbados
v Guyana, replay 8.30 Sail GP, highlights 9.30
Athletics, IAAF World Championship Archive
Pirate City (PG) 4.30 Challenger Disaster: The Final
Mission (PG) 5.30 Mega Factories 6.30 Air Crash
Investigation (PG) 7.30 Buried Secrets of WWII
(PG) 8.30 Activate: The Global Citizen Movement
(PG) 9.30 Inside Incredible Machines (PG) 10.30 No
Man Left Behind (M) 11.30 The Border (M) 12.30am
Air Crash Investigation (PG) 1.30 Buried Secrets of
WWII (PG) 2.30 The Global Citizen Movement (PG)
3.30 Inside Incredible Machines (PG) 4.30 No Man
Left Behind (M) 5.30 The Border (M)
History SKY 073
6.30 Secret Cities (PG) 7.30 Hitler’s Lost Battles
(M) 8.30 Time Team (PG) 9.30 Nefertiti: The Lonely
Queen (PG) 10.30 Manhunt: Hunt for Bin Laden
(M) 12.30 Secret Cities (PG) 1.30 Battlefield (PG)
3.30 Fighters of World War II (PG) 4.30 The Battle
Of Midway (PG) 5.30 China’s Forbidden City (M)
6.30 150 Years of the Weekly Times (PG) 7.00
Britain’s Best Canals (PG) 7.30 Nefertiti: The Lonely
Queen (PG) 8.30 Egyptian Tomb Hunting with
Tony Robinson (PG) 9.30 Portillo’s Hidden History
of Britain (PG) 10.30 WWI: The First Modern War
(M) 11.30 The Real Story of Face of an Angel (M)
12.30am Battlefield (PG) 2.30 Carriers at War
(PG) 3.15 Snipers (PG) 4.00 Nefertiti: The Lonely
Queen (PG) 4.45 Egyptian Tomb Hunting (PG) 5.30
Portillo’s Hidden History of Britain (PG)
BBC Earth SKY 074
6.40 Life (PG) 7.30 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 8.20
Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 9.05 Wild New
Zealand (PG) 10.00 Trust Me I’m a Doctor (PG)
10.55 Atlantic: A Year in the Wild (PG) 11.40 24
Hours in A&E (M) 12.30 Blue Planet II (PG) 1.30 Eat,
Fast and Live Longer (PG) 2.25 Polar Bear Family &
Me (PG) 3.20 Life (PG) 4.10 The Dog Rescuers (PG)
5.00 Life Below Zero (M) 5.50 Wild NZ (PG) 6.45
Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 7.35 24 Hours in A&E
(M) 8.30 Fishing Impossible (PG) 9.25 Bear Grylls’
Survival School (PG) 10.15 Blue Planet II (PG) 11.20
Life Below Zero (M) 12.05am The Dog Rescuers
(PG) 12.50 Wild NZ (PG) 1.45 Fishing Impossible
(PG) 2.35 Bear Grylls’ Survival School (PG) 3.25 24
Hours in A&E (M) 4.15 Blue Planet II (PG) 5.15 Life
Below Zero (M)
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 23
RADIO
RNZ National
FREEVIEW 50 SKY 421 iHeartRADIO
5.00 First Up with Indira Stewart New
Zealand’s early morning wake-up call
6.00 Morning Report Including 6.20 and 6.50
Business News 6.26 Rural News 6.48 and 7.45
NZ Newspapers
9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan
Including 10.45 The Reading
Noon Midday Report Including 12.16 Business
News 12.26 Sport 12.34 Rural News 12.43
Worldwatch
1.06 Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
4.06 The Panel with Wallace Chapman
Discussion, featuring a range of panellists
5.00 Checkpoint
6.30 Trending Now
7.06 Nights with Bryan Crump
8.15 Dateline Pacific
8.30 Windows on the World
9.30 Insight National and international current
affairs
10.00 News at Ten
10.15 Lately with Karyn Hay
11.06 Nashville Babylon Wairarapa’s Mark
Rogers presents alt.country, Americana and
blues (Arrow FM)
12.04am All Night Programme Including 3.05
Shot, by Sarah Quigley (11 of 12, RNZ)
Website: rnz.co.nz
RNZ Concert
FREEVIEW 51 SKY 422 iHeartRADIO
News & Weather 6.00am, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00,
noon, 3.00pm, 5.00, 6.00, 11.00
6.00 Daybreak With Cynthia Morahan
9.00 The Works With Nick Tipping
Noon Upbeat Music and the arts, with David
Morriss
2.00 Inside Out with Nick Tipping Jazz
favourites, standards and new releases
3.00 Classical Connection Rick Young
presents afternoon music
7.00 Exploring Music With Bill McGlaughlin
(WFMT)
8.00 Music Alive With Clarissa Dunn. NZSO:
The Planets – Anna Clyne: Abstractions: II, II,
IV; Berlioz: La Mort de Cleopatre; Holst: The
Planets Suite, Susan Graham (mezzo), Voices
New Zealand Chamber Choir, New Zealand
Symphony Orchestra/Edo de Waart (recorded
in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington)
10.00 Day’s End RNZ Concert’s musical
nightcap
12.00am Music Through the Night
Website: rnz.co.nz/concert
Newstalk ZB
6.00 Mike Hosking 9.00 Kerre McIvor Noon Andrew
Dickens 4.00 Heather du Plessis-Allan 7.00 D’Arcy
Waldegrave 8.00 Marcus Lush 12.00am Bruce
Russell 5.00 Kate Hawkesby
Website: newstalkzb.co.nz
Magic Talk
6.00 The AM Show 9.00 Peter
Williams Noon Sean Plunket
3.00 Ryan Bridge 6.00
Newshub 7.00 Leah
Panapa 11.00 Tony Amos
5.00am Magic Music
Website: magic.co.nz
History: Egyptian Tomb
Hunting with Tony
Robinson, 8.30pm
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TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 Breakfast With Hayley Holt
and John Campbell.
9.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
(C)
10.00 Tipping Point (G, R) Ben
Shephard hosts a UK quiz
show.
11.00 The Chase (G, R, C) Bradley
Walsh hosts a UK quiz show.
Noon 1 News (C)
12.30 Emmerdale (PGR, C) DS
Sanders and DC Meaden
return to Wishing Well
Cottage, Vanessa isn’t happy
to witness Charity flirting
with Mike, and Chas quips
that she wouldn’t trust Kim
or Graham as far as she
could throw them.
1.00 Coronation Street 2019
(PGR, R, C, AD) Tim
struggles with his new diet,
Chesney makes a horrifying
discovery at home, and
Carla breaks down at Rana’s
memorial service.
2.00 Coast vs Country (G, R, C)
Clare wants to buy a holiday
home in North Wales.
3.00 Tipping Point (G) Ben
Shephard hosts a UK quiz
show.
4.00 Te Karere A Māori
perspective to the day’s
news and current affairs.
4.30 Come Dine with Me Daytime
(G, C)
5.00 The Chase (G, C) Bradley
Walsh hosts a UK quiz show.
6.00 1 News (C)
7.00 Seven Sharp (C) Hilary
Barry and Jeremy Wells
present current affairs and
entertainment.
7.30 Paramedics (PGR, C)
Australian observational
series. Mark and Carina treat
a man with a life-threatening
condition, where the only
way to save him is to stop
his heart.
8.30 ■ Impossible Builds (G, C,
AD) In Surrey, a man wants
to construct a building
to house his classic car
collection, with the flexibility
of converting it into a large,
sustainable family home in
the future.
9.30 Rugby World Cup 2019
Highlights (C) James
Gemmell presents highlights
of the opening eight
matches in this year’s Rugby
World Cup in Japan as all
the favourites play their
opening round matches.
11.00 1 News Tonight (C)
11.25 Sunday (R, C) Miriama Kamo
presents current affairs.
12.25am What Next? (PGR, R,
C, AD) Jehan Casinader
investigates advances in
medicine that could make
living longer a reality.
1.20 Te Karere (R)
1.45 Infomercials
5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R)
■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM
82
TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
6.00 Infomercials
6.30 MyaGo (G, R, C)
6.40 PJ Masks (G, C)
7.00 The Tom and Jerry Show
(G, C)
7.25 Beyblade Burst Turbo (G, C)
7.50 Bunnicula (G, C)
8.15 Mickey and the Roadster
Racers (G, R, C)
8.35 The Lion Guard (G, R, C)
9.00 Infomercials
10.00 The Middle (G, R, C) s8ep23
10.30 Neighbours (G, R, C)
11.00 Celebrity Treasure Island
(PGR, R, C, AD)
Noon The Seven Year Switch
Australia (PGR, R, C)
1.00 Judge Rinder (PGR, R)
2.00 Will & Grace (PGR, R, C)
2.30 Home and Away (G, R, C)
3.00 Shortland Street (PGR, R,
HD, C, AD)
3.35 Mech-X4! (PGR, R, C)
4.00 Fanimals (G, C)
4.30 Friends (G, R, C) s9ep5
5.00 The Simpsons (G, R, C)
s14ep19
5.30 Home and Away (G, C)
Bella finds the confidence to
speak her truth in court to
Tommy.
6.00 The Big Bang Theory (G, R,
C) s11ep23
6.30 Neighbours (G, C) Paul and
Terese make a momentous
decision, and Yashvi
confronts Shane.
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR, HD,
C, AD) Shereez plays hard to
get, Angel has a mother of
a problem, and Leanne flirts
with her past.
7.30 ■ Celebrity Treasure Island
(PGR, C, AD) In the grand
final, someone will walk
away with $100,000 for their
charity.
8.35 The Seven Year Switch
Australia (PGR, C) The
couples prepare to head
home to be reunited with
their real partners.
9.35 First Time Call Girl (AO,
C) UK documentary about
the clandestine world of
escorting.
10.35 The Resident (AO, C)
Devon grows concerned
when a mother’s complaints
go unaddressed after her
delivery. s2ep20
11.30 How to Get Away with
Murder (AO, C) Annalise and
the team try to help Gabriel.
s5ep12
12.20am The Walking Dead (AO,
R, C)
1.15 Shortland Street (PGR, R,
HD, C, AD)
1.40 Infomercials
2.45 Army Wives (PGR, R, C)
s4ep7
3.30 I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out
of Here Australia (PGR, R, C)
4.25 The Crystal Maze (G, R, C)
5.05 Neighbours (G, R, C)
5.30 – 6.00 ■ Tomorrow’s World
(R)
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 The AM Show (HD) With
Duncan Garner, Amanda
Gillies and Mark Richardson.
9.00 The Cafe (G, HD)
10.00 Infomercials
11.30 Entertainment Tonight (G,
R, HD)
Noon Millionaire Hot Seat (G,
R, HD)
1.00 Dr Phil (AO, HD)
2.00 Married at First Sight NZ
(PGR, R, HD, C) s3ep8
3.00 Vet on the Hill (G, R, HD)
s3ep3
4.00 Entertainment Tonight
(G, HD)
4.30 Newshub Live (HD)
5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, HD)
6.00 Newshub Live (HD)
7.00 The Project (HD) With Jesse
Mulligan, Kanoa Lloyd and
Jeremy Corbett.
7.30 Married at First Sight NZ
(PGR, HD) Anna decides
to come clean with Jordan
about her sex tape. s3ep9
8.30 9-1-1 (AO, HD, C) As
Chimney fights for his life,
the team desperately try
to find out where Doug is
holding Maddie. s2ep13
9.25 NCIS: LA (AO, HD, C)
Callen and the NCIS team
assist when Anna Kolcheck
escapes from prison with her
cellmate. s10ep21
10.25 Newshub Late
10.55 Chicago Med (AO, R, HD, C)
After a shooting occurs at a
block party, Chicago Med is
overrun and Manning realises
her son may have been at
the scene. s3ep18
11.55 – 6.00am Infomercials
BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Infomercials
10.00 Million Dollar Listing Los
Angeles (G, R)
11.30 Snapped (PGR, R)
12.30 I Killed My BFF (PGR, R)
1.30 Millionaire Matchmaker
(PGR, R)
2.30 Masters of Flip (G, R)
3.30 The People’s Court (G)
4.30 Million Dollar Listing Los
Angeles (G, R)
5.35 Catfish (G, R)
6.30 Hollywood Medium with
Tyler Henry (G, R) Jim
Parsons is connected to his
departed grandmothers.
7.35 Snapped (AO, R) A
businessman’s death leads to
his nearest and dearest.
8.35 The Bachelor Australia
(PGR)
9.50 License to Kill (AO) When
a beloved grandfather
vanishes, activity in his
financial records leads
detectives on a chase from
California to Mexico.
10.45 Snapped (PGR, R)
11.40 I Killed My BFF (PGR, R)
12.30am – 6.00 Infomercials
Three: NCIS: LA, 9.25pm
PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Children’s Programmes
(G, R)
7.00 Sky Sport News
8.00 Children’s Programmes
(G, R)
9.00 Million Dollar Minute (G)
9.30 Hot Bench (G, R)
10.00 The Doctors (PGR)
11.00 Antiques Roadshow (G, R)
Noon Sky Sport News
12.30 Robot Wars (PGR, R)
1.30 Just Shoot Me (PGR, C)
2.00 The Late Show (PGR, R)
3.00 Judge Judy (PGR)
3.30 Jeopardy (G)
4.00 The Chase Australia (G, C)
5.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
(G, R, C)
5.30 Prime News
6.00 Road Racing Series
Highlights Southern 100.
7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild
7.30 MasterChef Junior USA
(G, C)
8.30 Poldark (AO, C)
9.40 SEAL Team (PGR)
10.35 Ultimate Bowls
Championship Highlights
11.35 – 12.35am The Late Show
with Stephen Colbert (PGR)
MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
6.30 Children’s Programmes (G, R)
9.00 Te Ao: Māori News (R)
9.30 R & R (G, R)
10.00 Tangaroa with Pio (G, R)
10.30 Sidewalk Karaoke (G, R)
11.00 Introducing Parliament (G, R)
Noon School of Training (G, R)
12.30 Funny Whare: Gamesnight
(PGR, R)
1.00 Moving Out (G, R)
1.30 Finding Aroha (PGR, R)
2.00 Opaki (G, R)
2.30 Nga Pari (G, R)
3.00 Kids’ Programmes (G)
6.00 Nga Pari (G, R)
6.30 Te Ao: Māori News
7.00 Whanau Living (G, R)
7.30 Kitchen Kura (G, R)
8.00 Te Ao with Moana
8.30 ■ Piri’s World Cup Tiki Tour
(PGR) Piri Weepu looks at
what rugby means to people
around the world.
9.00 Hunt with Me (AO) Chasing
trout with Thane Young.
9.30 Hunting Aotearoa (AO)
10.00 Whawhai (R) Sport.
10.30 Te Ao: Māori News (R)
11.00 – 11.30 Te Matatini ki te Ao
2019 (G, R)
LISTENER SEPTEMBER 21 2019

SKY PREMIERE SKY 030
7.25 This Teacher (2018, 16)
Hafsia Herzi, Lucy Walters
9.00 Truth or Dare (2018, 16) Lucy
Hale, Tyler Posey
10.40 Occupation (2018, M) Dan
Ewing, Temuera Morrison
12.40 Molly’s Game (2018, 16)
Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba
3.00 This Teacher (2018, 16)
Hafsia Herzi, Lucy Walters
4.35 The Bromley Boys (2018,
PG) Alan Davies
6.20 The Hurricane Heist (2018,
M) Thieves hatch a scheme
against the US Treasury
as a dangerous hurricane
approaches. Toby Kebbell
8.00 BlacKkKlansman (2018, 16)
Based on the story of the
first African-American officer
in the Colorado Springs
Police Department. John
David Washington
10.15 Loving Pablo (2018, 16)
Based on the love affair
between a journalist and
drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Javier Bardem
12.15am Book of Monsters (2018,
18) 1.40 The Bromley Boys (2018,
PG) 3.25 BlacKkKlansman (2018, 16)
5.40 Loving Pablo (2018, 16)
MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031
6.00 The Exception (2016, 16)
Christopher Plummer
7.45 Nothing but Trailers (M)
8.00 Artik (2019, 18) Chase
Williamson, Jerry G Angelo
9.20 All the Money in the World
(2017, 16) Michelle Williams
11.30 Terminal (2018, 16) Margot
Robbie, Simon Pegg
1.05 Eighth Grade (2018, M) Elsie
Fisher, Josh Hamilton
2.40 The Exception (2016, 16)
Christopher Plummer
4.30 Zone of the Dead (2009, 18)
Ken Foree, Kristina Klebe
6.15 Mad to Be Normal (2017,
16) Based on the story of
psychiatrist RD Laing, who
caused public outrage for
his controversial experiments
on the mentally disturbed.
David Tennant
8.00 Forever My Girl (2018, PG)
Alex Roe, Jessica Rothe
9.50 Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2009,
M) Voice of Atsuko Tanaka
11.15 The Children Act (2018, M)
Emma Thompson
1.00am Zone of the Dead (2009,
18) 2.40 Mad to Be Normal (2017,
16) 4.25 Nothing but Trailers (M)
4.55 Forever My Girl (2018, PG)
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24
MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039
7.35 Wild Bill (1995, M) Jeff
Bridges, Ellen Barkin
9.10 Glory (1989, M) Denzel
Washington
11.10 Love Potion #9 (1992, PG)
Sandra Bullock
12.45 The Color of Money (1986,
PG) Paul Newman
2.45 Something Wild (1986, 16)
Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels
4.35 Messenger of Death (1988,
M) Charles Bronson
6.05 Road House (1989, M) A
bouncer falls in love with a
beautiful doctor and runs
up against the local kingpin.
Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch
8.00 Down and Out in Beverly
Hills (1986, PG) A rich but
troubled family find their
lives altered by the arrival of
a vagrant who tries to drown
himself in their swimming
pool. Nick Nolte, Bette Midler
9.45 Goodfellas (1990, 16) Henry
Hill has always wanted to be
a gangster, and now he’s well
on his way. Robert De Niro,
Ray Liotta
12.10am Posse (1993, M) 2.00
Something Wild (1986, 16) 3.50
Goodfellas (1990, 16)
6.20 Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
(2017, PG) Japanese-US
documentary.
8.00 Trapped (2018, M) Odile
Vuillemin
9.45 The Writer with No Hands
(2017, M) UK documentary.
11.00 Bad Banks (M) s1ep1
11.55 Lauda: The Untold Story
(2014, PG) Austrian doco.
1.30 La Porta Rossa (M) s2ep2
3.25 Big in Japan (2018, M)
Australian documentary.
5.05 Back to Burgundy (2017, M)
Pio Marmaï
6.55 Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking
Barbie (2018, PG) US doco
about the creation of the
Barbie doll and the effect it
has had on culture.
8.30 La Porta Rossa (M)
Vanessa feels even more
misunderstood after her
court confession. s2ep3
10.30 McQueen (2018, M) UK doco
about fashion designer Lee
Alexander McQueen.
12.20am Woodshock (2017, 16)
2.00 Bad Banks (M) s1ep2 2.55 We
All Need Love (2016, 16) 3.05 Big
in Japan (2018, M) 4.45 Back to
Burgundy (2017, M)

GENERAL 2.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) s5ep5 2.35 Who

ThreeLife FREEVIEW 11 SKY 029
6.00 Infomercials 9.00 Best Houses Australia (R,
HD) 9.30 Family Feud Australia (R) 10.00 Good
Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 10.25 MasterChef UK: The
Professionals (R, HD) 11.35 The Taste USA (R, HD)
12.30 Boys Weekend (R, HD) 1.00 The Chocolate
Queen (R, HD) 1.30 Best Houses Australia (R,
HD) 2.00 Family Feud Australia (R) 2.30 Good
Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 2.55 MasterChef UK: The
Professionals (R, HD) 4.05 The Taste USA (R, HD)
5.00 Boys Weekend (R, HD) 5.30 The Chocolate
Queen (R, HD) 6.00 Best Houses Australia (R, HD)
6.30 Family Feud Australia (R) 7.00 Family Feud (R,
HD) 7.30 Duck Dynasty (PGR, HD) 8.00 Adrenaline
(R, HD) 8.30 Ultimate Vehicles (HD) 9.30 Getaway
(HD) 10.00 Drive Thru Australia (R, HD) 10.30 Best
Houses Australia (R, HD) 11.00 Family Feud Australia
(R) 11.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 12.00am –
6.00 Infomercials
Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024
6.00 Tiny House Hunting 6.30 River Cottage
Spring 7.30 Jelly Jamm 8.00 Love Nature: Hope for
Wildlife 9.00 A Taste of South Africa 9.30 Hoard
Hunters 11.30 Heston’s Great British Food 12.30
The Great Interior Design Challenge 1.30 Secrets
of the Bermuda Triangle 2.30 Joanna Lumley’s
Japan 3.30 Love Nature: Hope for Wildlife 4.30
Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 5.00 Destination Flavour
Singapore 5.30 Mysteries at the Museum 6.30
American Pickers 7.30 George Clarke’s Old House
New Home 8.30 Buying & Selling with the Property
Brothers 9.30 Building the Dream 10.30 American
Pickers 11.30 Mysteries at the Museum 12.30am
Dream Gardens 1.00 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 1.30
Destination Flavour Singapore 2.00 Heston’s Great
British Food 3.00 Love Nature: Hope for Wildlife
4.00 Buying & Selling with the Property Brothers
5.00 Mysteries at the Museum
TVNZ Duke FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023
1.35pm Top Gear 2.35 Ice Road Truckers (C) 3.25
Two and a Half Men (PGR, C) 3.50 The Fresh
TVNZ Duke: The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, 3.50pm
Prince of Bel Air (C) 4.15 American Pickers 5.05
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (C) 5.30 Top Gear 6.35
The Big Bang Theory (C) 7.00 Two and a Half Men
(PGR, C) 7.30 The Simpsons (C) 8.30 ■ The Patriot
(2000, AO, C) A man is forced to join the American
Revolution when the British threaten to take his farm
away. Mel Gibson. 11.30 Taskmaster (AO) 12.20am –
1.10 Hypothetical (PGR)
UKTV SKY 007
6.40 EastEnders (PG) 7.10 New Tricks (M) 8.05 The
Bill (M) 8.55 Foyle’s War (M) 10.35 New Tricks (M)
11.30 The Coroner (PG) 12.20 Midsomer Murders (M)
s14ep7 1.55 The Bill (M) s25ep38 2.50 Top Gear (PG)
s16ep6 3.50 The Force: North East (M) s1ep14 4.40
The Graham Norton Show (M) s19ep8 5.30 Who Do
You Think You Are? USA (PG) Mandy Moore. s7ep15
6.20 QI (M) Richard Osman, Lucy Porter and Phill
Jupitus. s13ep14 6.55 EastEnders (PG) 7.30 QI (M)
Rich Hall, Josie Lawrence and John Sessions. s2ep9
8.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) Greg Davies, Konnie
Hug, Phil Tufnell and Marcus Brigstocke. s5ep5
8.35 Heartbeat (PG) A convicted rapist’s return to
Aidensfield sparks anger, and Rob is surprised when
an old flame arrives. s16ep2 9.30 Father Brown (M)
The disappearance of an old friend leads to a quest
to find the Lannington Rosary. s2ep5 10.20 Death
in Paradise (PG) s6ep1 11.25 Midsomer Murders (M)
s14ep7 1.00am QI (M) s13ep14 1.30 QI (M) s2ep9
Do You Think You Are? USA (PG) s7ep15 3.20
Heartbeat (PG) s16ep2 4.10 Father Brown (M) s2ep5
4.55 Death in Paradise (PG) s6ep1 5.55 – 6.45 The
Graham Norton Show (M) s19ep8
SoHo SKY 010
6.45 The Looming Tower (16) s1ep3 7.35 The Young
Pope (16) s1ep6 8.30 C.B. Strike (16) s1ep5 9.30 The
Leftovers (16) s1ep7 10.30 Billions (16) s2ep6 11.30 A
Million Little Things (M) s1ep12 12.15 Years and Years
(16) s1ep final 1.15 Succession (16) s2ep7 2.15 Say Her
Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (16) 3.55
The Looming Tower (16) s1ep3 4.45 Halt and Catch
Fire (M) s4ep4 5.30 Game of Thrones (18) s7ep2
6.30 Temple (16) s1ep2 7.30 Outcast (18) Kyle faces
the mysteries behind his powers. s2ep8 8.30 Ordeal
by Innocence (16) The devastating events that led
up to Rachel’s murder are revealed. s1ep3 9.30 The
Deuce (18) US drama series about the porn industry
in New York City. s3ep3 10.30 Save Me (16) s1ep5
11.20 Line of Duty (16) s4ep6 12.20am Temple
(16) s1ep2 1.10 Outcast (18) s2ep8 1.55 Ordeal by
Innocence (16) s1ep3 2.55 Real Time with Bill Maher
(M) s17ep28 3.55 Room 104 (16) s2ep11 4.20 The
Deuce (18) s3ep3 5.20 – 6.10 Save Me (16) s1ep5
Living SKY 017
6.00 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 6.50
Homes Under the Hammer (PG) 7.50 Selling Houses
Australia (G) 8.45 Long Lost Family USA (G) 9.35
The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes (PG) 10.35
Love It or List It UK (G) 11.30 Escape to the Country
(PG) 12.25 Location Location Location (PG) 1.15
Homes Under the Hammer (PG) 2.20 Selling Houses
Australia (PG) 3.15 Long Lost Family USA (G) 4.05
A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 4.55 Love It
or List It UK (G) 5.45 Selling Houses Australia (G)
6.40 Location Location Location (G) 7.30 Escape
to the Chateau (PG) 8.30 Salvage Hunters (PG)
9.25 Holmes + Holmes (PG) 10.25 Escape to the
Country (PG) 11.25 Selling Houses Australia (G)
12.25am Location Location Location (G) 1.25 Escape
to the Chateau (PG) 2.20 Salvage Hunters (PG) 3.15
Holmes + Holmes (PG) 4.10 Escape to the Country
(PG) 5.05 – 6.00 Gogglebox UK (PG)

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SPORT
Sky Sport 1 SKY 051
6.00 Premiership Rugby Cup Highlights 7.00
Premiership Rugby Cup, Harlequins v Bristol
Bears, replay 9.00 Premiership Rugby Cup, Exeter
Chiefs v Bath, replay 11.00 Rugby Nation Noon
Mitre 10 Cup, Canterbury v Manawatu 12.30 Mitre
10 Cup, Hawke’s Bay v Taranaki 1.00 Mitre 10
Cup, Waikato v Tasman 1.30 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup,
Southland v Counties Manukau 2.00 Rugby, Mitre
10 Cup, Northland v Otago 2.30 Rugby, Mitre 10
Cup, Auckland v Wellington 3.00 Rugby, Mitre 10
Cup, Northland v Bay of Plenty 3.30 Rugby, Farah
Palmer Cup, Hawke’s Bay v Taranaki 4.00 Rugby,
Farah Palmer Cup, Waikato v Bay of Plenty 4.30
Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Auckland v Wellington
5.00 Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Northland v North
Harbour 5.30 Rugby Nation 6.30 Game of the
Weekend 8.30 Rugby, Breakdown, live 9.30 Rugby,
Mitre 10 Cup, Canterbury v Manawatu 10.00 Rugby,
Mitre 10 Cup, Hawke’s Bay v Taranaki 10.30 Rugby,
Mitre 10 Cup, Waikato v Tasman 11.00 Rugby, Mitre
10 Cup, Southland v Counties Manukau 11.30 Rugby,
Mitre 10 Cup, Northland v Otago 12.00am Rugby,
Mitre 10 Cup, Auckland v Wellington 12.30 Rugby,
Mitre 10 Cup, Northland v Bay of Plenty 1.00 Rugby,
Breakdown 2.00 Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Hawke’s
Bay v Taranaki, replay 4.00 Rugby, Farah Palmer
Cup, Waikato v Bay of Plenty, replay
Sky Sport 2 SKY 052
6.00 Cricket, Vitality Blast, highlights 7.30 Cricket,
India v South Africa, 3rd T20 8.00 Cricket,
CPL, Barbados v Guyana 9.00 Cricket, County
Championship, day 1 9.30 CPL, Barbados v Jamaica,
DOCUMENTARIES
Sky Arts SKY 020
6.30 Auction 7.00 14 Days 8.00 Baroque Treasures:
Ospedale to Concordia 9.15 Warumuk in the Dark
Night 10.00 The Great Pottery Throwdown 11.00
Art: 21 Noon Put Some Colour in Your Life 12.30 An
Evening with Montserrat Caballe 1.30 Maestro 2.30
Auction 3.00 14 Days 4.00 My Dear Art 5.45 Stars
of the Silver Screen: Rod Steiger 6.30 Brilliant Ideas
7.00 Put Some Colour in Your Life 7.30 Oceans
Apart: Art and the Pacific 8.30 Fake or Fortune
9.30 Looking for Rembrandt 10.30 Still Tomorrow
12.00am My Dear Art 1.45 Stars of the Silver Screen
2.30 Brilliant Ideas 3.00 Put Some Colour in Your
Life 3.30 Oceans Apart: Art and the Pacific 4.30
Fake or Fortune 5.30 Looking for Rembrandt
Discovery SKY 070
6.35 Fast N’ Loud (PG) 7.30 Wheels That Fail (PG)
8.20 Diesel Brothers (PG) 9.10 Towies (PG) 10.00
How It’s Made (PG) 10.25 How Do They Do It? (PG)
10.50 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) 11.40 Evil Lives
Here (M) 12.30 Murder Comes to Town (M) 1.20
Murder Chose Me (M) 2.10 Wheels That Fail (PG)
3.00 Alaska: The Last Frontier (PG) 3.50 Gold Rush
(PG) 4.45 Fast N’ Loud (PG) 5.40 Aussie Gold
Hunters (PG) 6.35 Aussie Lobster Men (PG) 7.30
BattleBots (PG) 8.30 Expedition Unknown (PG)
9.25 Legends of the Lost with Megan Fox (PG)
10.15 Naked and Afraid (M) 11.55 How It’s Made
(PG) 12.20am How Do They Do It? (PG) 12.45
Wheels That Fail (PG) 1.35 Gold Rush (PG) 2.25
Bering Sea Gold (PG) 3.15 Alaska: The Last Frontier
(PG) 4.05 Insane Pools: Off the Deep End (PG) 4.55
Naked and Afraid (M) 5.45 Gold Rush (PG)
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 MARS (M) 7.30 One Strange Rock (PG) 8.30
Drain the Oceans (PG) 9.30 Scrapyard Supercar
GETTY IMAGES
(PG) 10.30 9/11: The Plane That Hit the Pentagon
(PG) 11.30 Challenger Disaster: The Final Mission
(PG) 12.30 Air Crash Investigation (PG) 1.30 Hitler
Youth (PG) 2.30 Down to the Earth’s Core (PG)
3.30 How to Build a Volcano 4.30 Million Dollar
84
National Geographic: Challenger Disaster: The
Final Mission, 11.30am
live 1.30 Cricket, India v South Africa, 3rd T20 2.00
Cricket, County Championship, day 1 2.30 Cricket,
Vitality Blast 3.00 Cricket, CPL Magazine Show
3.30 Cricket, CPL, Barbados v Jamaica, live 7.00
Cricket, India v South Africa, 3rd T20 7.30 CPL
Magazine Show 8.00 CPL, Barbados v Jamaica 8.55
County Championship, day 1 9.28 Cricket, County
Championship, day 2, live 11.35 Cricket, Vitality Blast
12.05am Cricket, County Championship, day 2, live
5.00 Cricket, CPL, Jamaica v St Kitts
Sky Sport 3 SKY 053
6.00 Sail GP 7.00 Athletics, IAAF World
Championship Archive 9.30 The Back Page,
live 10.30 Athletics, IAAF World Championship
Archive 1.30 Cycling, UCI Road World Champs,
Women’s Elite TT, live 4.15 Athletics, IAAF World
Championship Archive
Moon Rock Heist (PG) 5.30 Mega Factories 6.30 Air
Crash Investigation (PG) 7.30 Buried Truth of the
Maya (PG) 8.30 The Last Secrets of the Nasca (PG)
9.30 Inside Incredible Machines (PG) 10.30 No Man
Left Behind (M) 11.30 Seconds from Disaster (PG)
12.30am Air Crash Investigation (PG) 1.30 Buried
Truth of the Maya (PG) 2.30 The Last Secrets of the
Nasca (PG) 3.30 Inside Incredible Machines (PG)
4.30 No Man Left Behind (M) 5.30 Seconds from
Disaster (PG)
History SKY 073
6.30 WWI: The First Modern War (M) 7.30 The
Real Story of Face of an Angel (M) 8.30 Time Team
10.30 150 Years of the Weekly Times (PG) 11.00
Britain’s Best Canals (PG) 11.30 Egyptian Tomb
Hunting with Tony Robinson (PG) 12.30 Portillo’s
Hidden History of Britain (PG) 1.30 Battlefield (PG)
3.30 Focke Wulf 190 (PG) 4.30 Snipers (PG) 5.30
Egypt (PG) 6.30 Cromwell: God’s Executioner (PG)
7.30 WWII: The Price of Empire (PG) 8.30 True Evil:
Making of a Nazi (PG) 9.30 Remember Pearl Harbor
(PG) 11.30 Oliver Stone: Untold History of the US
(M) 12.30am Battlefield (PG) 2.30 Carriers at War
(PG) 3.15 Europe’s Secret Armies (PG) 4.00 WWII:
The Price of Empire (PG) 4.45 True Evil: Making of
a Nazi (PG) 5.30 Americans Underground: Secret
City of WWI (M)
BBC Earth SKY 074
6.00 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 6.45 Life (PG) 7.35
The Dog Rescuers (PG) 8.20 Where the Wild Men
Are (M) 9.05 Wild NZ (PG) 10.00 Bear Grylls’
Survival School (PG) 10.50 Fishing Impossible (PG)
11.45 24 Hours in A&E (M) 12.35 Blue Planet II (PG)
1.35 Hair Care Secrets (PG) 2.30 Polar Bear Family
& Me (PG) 3.25 Life (PG) 4.15 The Dog Rescuers
(PG) 5.00 Life Below Zero (M) 5.50 Wild NZ (PG)
6.45 Where the Wild Men Are (M) 7.35 24 Hours
in A&E (M) 9.25 Bear Grylls’ Survival School (PG)
9.50 Blue Planet II (PG) 10.55 Life Below Zero (M)
11.40 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 12.25am Wild New
Zealand (PG) 1.20 24 Hours in A&E (M) 2.10 Bear
Grylls’ Survival School (PG) 2.35 24 Hours in A&E
(M) 3.25 Blue Planet II (PG) 4.25 Eat, Fast and Live
Longer (PG) 5.20 Hair Care Secrets (PG)
RADIO
RNZ National
FREEVIEW 50 SKY 421 iHeartRADIO
5.00 First Up with Indira Stewart
6.00 Morning Report Including 6.20 and 6.50
Business News 6.26 Rural News 6.48 and 7.45
NZ Newspapers
9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan
Including 10.45 The Reading
Noon Midday Report Including 12.16 Business
News 12.26 Sport 12.34 Rural News 12.43
Worldwatch
1.06 Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
4.06 The Panel with Wallace Chapman
5.00 Checkpoint
6.30 Trending Now
6.55 The House
7.06 Nights with Bryan Crump
7.35 Song Crush
8.15 Dateline Pacific
8.30 Windows on the World
9.06 The Tuesday Feature
10.00 News at Ten
10.15 Lately with Karyn Hay
11.06 Worlds of Music With Trevor Reekie
12.04am All Night Programme Including 3.05
Shot, by Sarah Quigley (12 of 12, RNZ)
Website: rnz.co.nz
RNZ Concert
FREEVIEW 51 SKY 422 iHeartRADIO
News & Weather 6.00am, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00,
noon, 3.00pm, 5.00, 6.00, 11.00
6.00 Daybreak With Cynthia Morahan
9.00 The Works With Nick Tipping
Noon Upbeat Music and the arts, with David
Morriss
2.00 In the Spotlight Artists and musical
matters
3.00 Classical Connection With Rick Young
7.00 Exploring Music With Bill McGlaughlin
(WFMT)
8.00 Music Alive With Clarissa Dunn. NZSQ:
Heartland Classics – Haydn: String Quartet
in D Op 71/2; Gareth Farr: Te Tai-O-Rehua;
Schubert: String Quartet No 12 in C minor,
Quartettsatz; Dvořák: String Quartet No 12 in F
Op 96, American, New Zealand String Quartet
(recorded in the Hunter Council Chamber,
Wellington)
10.00 Day’s End
12.00am Music Through the Night
Website: rnz.co.nz/concert
Newstalk ZB
6.00 Mike Hosking 9.00 Kerre McIvor Noon Simon
Barnett & Phil Gifford 4.00 Heather du Plessis-Allan
7.00 D’Arcy Waldegrave 8.00 Marcus Lush 12.00am
Jim Snedden 5.00 Kate Hawkesby
Website: newstalkzb.co.nz
Magic Talk
6.00 The AM Show 9.00 Peter Williams Noon Sean
Plunket 3.00 Ryan Bridge 6.00 Newshub 7.00 Leah
Panapa 11.00 Tony Amos 5.00am Magic Music
Website: magic.co.nz
Parliament
On AM radio: Auckland 882 Bay
of Plenty 657 Waikato 1494
Napier 909 Wellington 657
Christchurch 963 Dunedin
900 Southland 1314
On television: Freeview 31
Sky 086 Vodafone 86
Website: parliament.nz
Sky Arts: Stars of the Silver
Screen: Rod Steiger,
5.45pm

TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 Breakfast With Hayley Holt
and John Campbell.
9.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
(C)
10.00 Tipping Point (G, R)
11.00 The Chase (G, R, C)
Noon 1 News (C)
12.30 Emmerdale (PGR, C) Kim
isn’t happy to see Noah, Cain
and Moira wonder what Kim
is hiding, and Amy wonders
how she’ll break the news to
Kyle that she’s his mum.
1.00 Coronation Street 2019
(PGR, R, C, AD) Chesney
is appalled at Gemma and
Brian, Summer isn’t the only
one who wants to help Billy
and Paul get together, and
Roy is disgusted by Carla’s
actions.
2.00 Coast vs Country (G, R, C)
David wants to live by the
beach while Shirley loves the
countryside.
3.00 Tipping Point (G) Ben
Shephard hosts a UK quiz
show.
4.00 Te Karere A Māori
perspective to the day’s
news and current affairs.
4.30 Come Dine with Me Daytime
(G, C)
5.00 The Chase (G, C) Bradley
Walsh hosts a UK quiz show.
6.00 1 News (C)
7.00 Seven Sharp (C) Hilary
Barry and Jeremy Wells
present current affairs and
entertainment.
7.30 MasterChef Australia (G,
C, another episode screens
tomorrow) Contestants pair
up in Queensland to create
dishes using the state’s
finest ingredients and the
bottom two teams will find
themselves in tomorrow’s
Pressure Test.
9.05 The Force (G, R, C) A
dangerous drug raid
uncovers a deadly weapon
and officers think there could
be more, and police rush to
an out-of-control bush fire
raging close to a stranded
bus full of passengers.
9.35 Coronation Street 2019
(PGR, C, AD) Maria is
disappointed to receive a
text from Ali cancelling their
date, Gemma and Bernie
return home still bickering
over the pregnancy scam,
and Kate meets with family
and friends for her leaving
party.
10.35 1 News Tonight (C)
11.05 Criminal Minds (AO, R, C,
AD) The team suspect that
two murderers are operating
at the same time when
victims killed in different
ways are found in the same
city. s12ep17&18
12.50am Te Karere (R)
1.15 Infomercials
5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R)
■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM
SEPTEMBER 21 2019 LISTENER
TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
6.00 Infomercials
6.30 MyaGo (G, R, C)
6.40 PJ Masks (G, C)
7.00 The Tom and Jerry Show
(G, C)
7.25 Beyblade Burst Turbo (G, C)
7.50 Bunnicula (G, C)
8.15 Mickey and the Roadster
Racers (G, R, C)
8.35 The Lion Guard (G, R, C)
9.00 Infomercials
10.00 The Middle (G, R, C) s9ep1
10.30 Neighbours (G, R, C)
11.00 ■ Celebrity Treasure Island
(R, C, AD)
Noon The Seven Year Switch
Australia (PGR, R, C)
1.00 Judge Rinder (G, R)
2.00 Will & Grace (PGR, R, C)
s8ep2
2.30 Home and Away (G, R, C)
3.00 Shortland Street (PGR, R,
HD, C, AD)
3.30 Mech-X4! (G, R, C)
4.00 Fanimals (G, C)
4.30 Friends (G, R, C) s9ep6
5.00 The Simpsons (G, R, C)
s14ep20
5.30 Home and Away (G, C)
Teresa causes trouble for
Irene.
6.00 The Big Bang Theory (G, R,
C) s11ep24
6.30 Neighbours (G, C) Yashvi
unravels Shane’s secret, and
will Elly’s decision hurt Bea?
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR, HD,
C, AD) Drew orders Shereez
to sort out her love life, Kylie
dusts off her halo, and Damo
cuts his losses.
7.30 Have You Been Paying
Attention? (PGR, C) Hayley
Sproull hosts a current affairs
comedy panel show.
8.30 ■ God Friended Me (G,
C, AD) US drama series.
Outspoken atheist Miles
Finer finds his life turned
upside down when he
receives a friend request
from God on social media.
9.30 Party Pensioners: Sex,
Drugs & Bingo (AO, C)
UK documentary about
outrageous seniors who
are willing to give anything
naughty and sexy a go.
10.30 Wellington Paranormal
(PGR, R, C, AD) A freaked-
out pizza delivery guy claims
he was attacked by a big
dog wearing jeans. s1ep4
11.00 Cougar Town (PGR, R, C)
s4ep7
11.25 This Is Us (PGR, R, C) s3ep1
12.15am Private Practice (AO, R, C)
s4ep9
1.05 Shortland Street (PGR, R,
HD, C, AD)
1.30 Infomercials
2.30 Army Wives (PGR, R, C)
s4ep8
3.15 I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out
of Here Australia (PGR, R, C)
4.15 The Crystal Maze (G, R, C)
5.05 Neighbours (G, R, C)
5.30 – 6.00 Infomercials
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25
THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 The AM Show (HD) With
Duncan Garner, Amanda
Gillies and Mark Richardson.
9.00 The Cafe (G, HD) With Mike
Puru and Mel Homer.
10.00 Infomercials
11.30 Entertainment Tonight (G,
R, HD)
Noon Millionaire Hot Seat (G,
R, HD)
1.00 Dr Phil (AO, HD)
2.00 Married at First Sight NZ
(PGR, R, HD, C) s3ep9
3.00 Vet on the Hill (G, R, HD)
s3ep4
4.00 Entertainment Tonight
(G, HD)
4.30 Newshub Live (HD)
5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, HD)
6.00 Newshub Live (HD)
7.00 The Project (HD) With Jesse
Mulligan, Kanoa Lloyd and
Jeremy Corbett.
7.30 Grand Designs NZ (PGR,
HD, C) Chris Moller meets
musicians Justine Cormack
and Marc Taddei, who want
to adapt an American design
to Central Otago. s4ep3
8.30 House of Champions (PGR,
HD, C) Local documentary
about three flatmates in a
small town who are striving
for Special Olympics glory.
9.35 Hawaii Five-0 (AO, HD, C)
Trapped in quarantine by an
explosive device, McGarrett
must operate to save
Danny’s life. s1ep10
10.35 Newshub Late
11.05 9-1-1 (AO, R, HD, C) There
are unusual events on
Halloween. s2ep7
12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials
BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Infomercials
10.00 Sweet Home Oklahoma
(PGR, R)
10.30 Million Dollar Listing Los
Angeles (G, R)
11.30 Snapped (PGR, R)
12.30 I Killed My BFF (PGR, R)
1.30 Millionaire Matchmaker
(PGR, R)
2.30 Masters of Flip (G, R)
3.30 The People’s Court (G)
4.30 Million Dollar Listing NY
(G, R)
5.30 Catfish (G, R)
6.30 Hollywood Medium with
Tyler Henry (G, R) Tyler has
messages for Giuliana Rancic
and her husband.
7.35 The Real Housewives of
Dallas (PGR) D’Andra blows
off a big business meeting
with Travis because of a “hair
emergency”.
8.35 Bachelor Australia (PGR)
10.10 Escaping Polygamy (AO)
Warren Jeffs’ daughter,
Rachel, reaches out.
11.10 Snapped (PGR, R)
12.05am I Killed My BFF (AO, R)
12.50 – 6.00 Infomercials
Three: The AM Show, 6.00am
PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Children’s Programmes
(G, R)
7.00 Sky Sport News
8.00 Children’s Programmes
(G, R)
9.00 Million Dollar Minute (G)
9.30 Hot Bench (G, R)
10.00 The Doctors (PGR)
11.00 Antiques Roadshow (G, R)
Noon Sky Sport News
12.30 Robot Wars (PGR, R)
1.30 Just Shoot Me (PGR, C)
2.00 The Late Show (PGR, R)
3.00 Judge Judy (PGR)
3.30 Jeopardy (G)
4.00 The Chase Australia (G, C)
5.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
(G, R, C)
5.30 Prime News
6.00 The Breakdown (G)
7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild
7.30 Traffic Cops (PGR, C)
8.30 Ambulance (AO, C) A
trauma team are called in.
9.45 Bad Tenants, Rogue
Landlords (AO)
10.40 IAAF Diamond League
Highlights
11.45 – 12.45am The Late Show
with Stephen Colbert (PGR)
MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
6.30 Children’s Programmes (G, R)
9.00 Te Ao: Māori News (R)
9.30 R & R (G, R)
10.00 Tangaroa with Pio (G, R)
10.30 Sidewalk Karaoke (G, R)
11.00 Tupaia’s Endeavour (G, R)
Noon School of Training (G, R)
12.30 Funny Whare: Gamesnight
(PGR, R)
1.00 Moving Out (G, R)
1.30 Finding Aroha (PGR, R)
2.00 Opaki (G, R)
2.30 Nga Pari (G, R)
3.00 Kids’ Programmes (G)
6.00 Nga Pari (G, R)
6.30 Te Ao: Māori News
7.00 Whanau Living (G, R)
7.30 Marae Kai Masters Special
(G, R)
8.00 ■ Haka at Home (G)
Showcasing some of the
best kapa haka from around
Aotearoa, performed on
marae.
9.00 Ahikaroa (AO, R)
10.00 #whiuatepatai (AO, R)
Sexuality.
10.30 Te Ao: Māori News (R)
11.00 – 11.30 Te Matatini ki te Ao
2019 (G, R)
85
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SKY PREMIERE SKY 030
7.40 People Interview: Emily
Blunt (G)
8.10 The Bromley Boys (2018,
PG) Alan Davies
9.55 The Hurricane Heist (2018,
M) Toby Kebbell
11.35 BlacKkKlansman (2018, 16)
John David Washington
1.50 Loving Pablo (2018, 16)
Javier Bardem
3.50 People Interview: Emily
Blunt (2018, G)
4.20 Insidious: The Last Key
(2018, M) Lin Shaye
6.00 The Shape of Water (2017,
16) At a top secret research
facility, a lonely janitor forms
a unique relationship with
an amphibious creature
being held in captivity. Sally
Hawkins, Michael Shannon
8.00 Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018,
16) A British boarding school
turns into a battleground for
survival. Simon Pegg
9.50 I, Tonya (2017, 16) Margot
Robbie, Allison Janney
11.50 Leave No Trace (2018, PG)
Thomasin McKenzie
1.40am The Shape of Water (2017,
16) 3.40 Slaughterhouse Rulez
(2018, 16) 5.25 I, Tonya (2017, 16)
MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031
6.45 The Children Act (2018, M)
Emma Thompson
8.30 Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2009,
M) Voice of Atsuko Tanaka
9.55 Zone of the Dead (2009, 18)
Ken Foree, Kristina Klebe
11.35 Mad to Be Normal (2017, 16)
David Tennant
1.20 Forever My Girl (2018, PG)
Alex Roe, Jessica Rothe
3.10 The Children Act (2018, M)
Emma Thompson
4.55 An Interview with God
(2018, PG) David Strathairn
6.30 Slut in a Good Way (2018,
16, subtitles) Three teenage
girls experience their first
taste of sexual freedom.
Marguerite Bouchard
8.00 Darkest Hour (2017, PG) A
newly-appointed Winston
Churchill faces a defining
moment in history. Gary
Oldman
10.10 The Bachelors (2017, M) A
widower and his son move
to a big city. JK Simmons
11.50 Widows (2018, 16) Viola
Davis, Michelle Rodriguez
1.55am Redcon-1 (2018, 18) 3.50
Slut in a Good Way (2018, 16) 5.20
Widows (2018, 16)
MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039
6.15 Messenger of Death (1988,
M) Charles Bronson
7.45 Nothing but Trailers (M)
8.00 Down and Out in Beverly
Hills (1986, PG) Nick Nolte
9.45 Posse (1993, M) Stephen
Baldwin, Mario Van Peebles
11.35 Goodfellas (1990, 16) Robert
De Niro, Ray Liotta
2.00 A Bronx Tale (1993, M)
Robert De Niro
4.00 Fried Green Tomatoes (1991,
PG) Kathy Bates
6.10 Splash (1984, PG) After a
mermaid shows up, it’s love
at first sight, but there’s
something fishy going on.
Daryl Hannah, Tom Hanks
8.00 Doc (1971, M) Based on the
story of the Wyatt Earp and
Doc Holliday showdown at
the OK Corral. Stacy Keach,
Faye Dunaway
9.35 The Woman in Red (1984,
M) Gene Wilder
11.00 Once Upon a Time in
America (1984, 16) Robert
De Niro, James Woods
2.45am A Bronx Tale (1993, M) 4.45
Hollywood Singing and Dancing
(2009, PG) 5.40 Fried Green
Tomatoes (1991, PG)
6.35 Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking
Barbie (2018, PG) US doco.
8.10 La Porta Rossa (M) s2ep3
10.10 McQueen (2018, M) UK doco.
Noon Bad Banks (M) Paula Beer.
s1ep2
12.55 Woodshock (2017, 16)
Kirsten Dunst
2.35 Francofonia (2015, M)
French documentary.
4.05 The Exes (2017, M) Jean-Paul
Rouve
5.30 Chicken People (2016, PG)
US documentary.
6.55 Care (2018, M) A single mum
finds herself also caring for
her mother after she suffers
a stroke. Sheridan Smith,
Alison Steadman
8.30 Pick of the Litter (2018, G)
US documentary following
guide dogs for the blind over
two years.
9.50 Lost in Paris (2016, M) Fiona
Gordon
11.15 B.B. King: On the Road
(2018, M) UK documentary.
1.05am Bad Banks (M) s1ep3 2.00
Francofonia (2015, M) 3.30 Cardinal
(16) s1ep4 4.15 The Exes (2017, M)
5.40 Globalising Aotearoa (2015,
PG)

GENERAL
ThreeLife FREEVIEW 11 SKY 029
6.00 Infomercials 9.00 Best Houses Australia (R,
HD) 9.30 Family Feud Australia (R) 10.00 Good
Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 10.30 Duck Dynasty (PGR,
R, HD) 11.00 Adrenaline (R, HD) 11.30 Ultimate
Vehicles (R, HD) 12.30 Getaway (R, HD) 1.00 Drive
Thru Australia (R, HD) 1.30 Best Houses Australia (R,
HD) 2.00 Family Feud Australia (R) 2.30 Good Chef
Bad Chef (R, HD) 3.00 Duck Dynasty (PGR, R, HD)
3.30 Adrenaline (R, HD) 4.00 Ultimate Vehicles (R,
HD) 5.00 Getaway (R, HD) 5.30 Drive Thru Australia
(R, HD) 6.00 Best Houses Australia (R, HD) 6.30
Family Feud Australia (R) 7.00 Family Feud (R, HD)
7.30 Celebrity Home Raiders (PGR, HD) 8.00 The
Ultimate Rush (R, HD) 8.30 Shark Wranglers (HD)
9.30 Garage Dreams (R, HD) 10.00 The Gadget
Show (R, HD) 10.30 Best Houses Australia (R, HD)
11.00 Family Feud Australia (R) 11.30 Good Chef
Bad Chef (R, HD) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials
Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024
6.00 Tiny House Hunting 6.30 Jamie’s 30 Minute
Meals 7.00 Destination Flavour Singapore 7.30
Jelly Jamm 8.00 Hope for Wildlife 9.00 A Taste
of South Africa 9.30 Rivers with Jeremy Paxman
11.30 Heston’s Great British Food 12.30 The Great
Interior Design Challenge 1.30 George Clarke’s Old
House New Home 2.30 Buying & Selling with the
Property Brothers 3.30 South Pacific 4.30 Hemsley
& Hemsley: Healthy and Delicious 5.00 Nigella Bites
5.30 Mysteries at the Museum 6.30 Bangers & Cash
7.30 American Pickers 8.30 Walking the Americas
(PGR) 9.30 Fishy Business 10.00 Alone (PGR) 11.00
Hemsley & Hemsley: Healthy and Delicious 11.30
Mysteries at the Museum 12.30am Dream Gardens
1.00 Fishy Business 1.30 Nigella Bites 2.00 Heston’s
Great British Food 3.00 Love Nature: South Pacific
4.00 Bangers & Cash 5.00 Mysteries at the Museum
TVNZ Duke FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023
1.40pm Top Gear 2.40 Ice Road Truckers (C) 3.30
Two and a Half Men (PGR, C) 3.55 The Fresh Prince
of Bel Air (C) 4.20 American Pickers 5.10 The Fresh
Sky Premiere: The Shape of Water, 6.00pm
Prince of Bel Air (C) 5.35 Top Gear 6.35 The Big
Bang Theory (C) 7.00 Two and a Half Men (PGR,
C) 7.30 The Simpsons (C) 8.30 Drug Wars: Cocaine
(AO) UK series about cocaine users and suppliers.
9.30 World’s Toughest Prisons (PGR) Columbia’s
Carcel Distrital Bogota. 10.35 Have You Been Paying
Attention? (C) 11.30 – 12.25am Mega Transports
UKTV SKY 007
6.45 EastEnders (PG) 7.15 New Tricks (M) 8.10 The
Bill (M) 9.00 Foyle’s War (M) 10.35 New Tricks (M)
11.30 The Coroner (PG) 12.20 Midsomer Murders
(M) s14ep8 1.55 The Bill (M) s25ep39 2.50 Top
Gear (PG) s16ep7 3.50 The Force: North East (M)
s1ep15 4.40 The Graham Norton Show (M) s19ep9
5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? USA (PG) Josh
Duhamel. s7ep16 6.20 QI (M) Suggs, Claudia
O’Doherty and Jimmy Carr. s13ep15 6.55 EastEnders
(PG) 7.30 QI (M) Clive Anderson, Phil Kay and John
Sessions. s2ep10 8.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG)
Frank Skinner, Bill Oddie, Jon Richardson and Sarah
Millican. s5ep6 8.35 The Good Karma Hospital (PG)
A medical train providing surgeries carries a surprise
for Gabriel. s3ep2 9.30 Holby City (M) Jac launches
the stent, but it appears someone has stolen their
patent. s18ep37 10.35 Keeping Up Appearances
(PG) s2ep3 11.10 Midsomer Murders (M) s14ep8
12.45am QI (M) 1.45 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 2.20
EastEnders (PG) 2.50 Who Do You Think You Are?
USA (PG) 3.35 The Good Karma Hospital (PG) 4.20
Holby City (M) 5.20 Keeping Up Appearances (PG)
5.55 – 6.45 The Graham Norton Show (M)
SoHo SKY 010
6.10 Line of Duty (16) s4ep final 7.10 Temple (16)
s1ep2 8.00 Outcast (18) s2ep8 8.45 The Leftovers
(16) s1ep8 9.40 Berlin Station (16) s2ep6 10.30
Billions (16) s2ep7 11.25 A Million Little Things (M)
s1ep13 12.05 Ordeal by Innocence (16) s1ep3 1.05
Real Time with Bill Maher (M) s17ep28 2.05 The
Deuce (18) s3ep3 3.05 Save Me (16) s1ep5 3.55
Line of Duty (16) s4ep6 4.55 Halt and Catch Fire
(M) s4ep5 5.40 Game of Thrones (18) s7ep3 6.45
Strike Back (18) s5ep6 7.35 Snowfall (18) s3ep2
8.30 Britannia (18) Cait and her father return to
the remains of their old home. s1ep7 9.30 Mayans
M.C. (16) s2ep4 10.30 Succession (16) s2ep7 11.30
Knightfall (16) s2ep6 12.15am It’s a Hard Truth, Ain’t
It (M) US documentary. 1.30 Strike Back (18) s5ep6
2.20 Snowfall (18) s3ep2 3.00 Britannia (18) s1ep7
3.50 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (M) s5ep14
4.20 Mayans M.C. (16) s2ep4 5.20 – 6.20 Succession
(16) s2ep7
Living SKY 017
6.00 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 6.50
Homes Under the Hammer (PG) 7.50 Selling Houses
Australia (G) 8.45 Long Lost Family USA (G) 9.35
Escape to the Country (PG) 10.30 Salvage Hunters
(PG) 11.20 Escape to the Chateau (PG) 12.10
Location Location Location (G) 1.00 Homes Under
the Hammer (PG) 2.05 Holmes + Holmes (PG) 3.00
Long Lost Family USA (G) 3.50 A Place in the Sun:
Winter Sun (PG) 4.40 Salvage Hunters (PG) 5.30
Selling Houses Australia (G) 6.30 Location Location
Location (G) 7.30 Selling Houses Australia (PG)
8.30 George Clarke’s Old House, New Home (PG)
George designs a new kitchen in a Welsh home.
9.25 Location Location Location (PG) 10.25 Love It
or List It Australia (PG) 11.25 Selling Houses Australia
(G) 12.25am Location Location Location (G) 1.20
Selling Houses Australia (PG) 2.20 George Clarke’s
Old House, New Home (PG) 3.15 Location Location
Location (PG) 4.10 Love It or List It Australia (PG)
5.05 – 6.00 Gogglebox UK (PG)

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SPORT
Sky Sport 1 SKY 051
6.00 Game of the Weekend 8.00 Rugby,
Breakdown 9.00 Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Hawke’s
Bay v Taranaki, highlights 9.30 Rugby, Farah Palmer
Cup, Waikato v Bay of Plenty, highlights 10.00
Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Auckland v Wellington,
highlights 10.30 Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup,
Northland v North Harbour, highlights 11.00 Rugby,
Mitre 10 Cup, Waikato v Tasman, replay 1.00 Rugby,
Mitre 10 Cup, Southland v Counties Manukau, replay
3.00 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, North Harbour v Otago,
replay 5.00 Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, Northland v
North Harbour, highlights 5.30 Rugby, Farah Palmer
Cup, Auckland v Wellington, replay 7.30 Rugby,
Farah Palmer Cup, highlights 8.00 Getting Grilled
with Marshy 8.30 Wednesday Wind Back 10.30
Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, highlights 11.00 Rugby,
Breakdown 12.00am Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup,
Northland v North Harbour, replay 2.00 Getting
Grilled with Marshy 2.30 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup,
Canterbury v Manawatu, highlights 3.00 Rugby,
Mitre 10 Cup, Hawke’s Bay v Taranaki, highlights
3.30 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Waikato v Tasman,
highlights 4.00 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Southland v
Counties Manukau, highlights 4.30 Rugby, Mitre
10 Cup, Northland v Otago, highlights 5.00 Rugby,
Mitre 10 Cup, Auckland v Wellington, highlights 5.30
Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Northland v Bay of Plenty
Sky Sport 2 SKY 052
6.00 Cricket, India v South Africa, 2nd T20
6.30 Cricket, India v South Africa, 3rd T20 7.00
Cricket, CPL, St Lucia v Trinidad 8.00 Cricket,
CPL, Barbados v Jamaica 9.00 Cricket, County
DOCUMENTARIES
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25
RADIO
RNZ National
FREEVIEW 50 SKY 421 iHeartRADIO
5.00 First Up with Indira Stewart
6.00 Morning Report Including 6.20 and 6.50
Business News 6.26 Rural News 6.48 and 7.45
NZ Newspapers
9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan
Including 10.45 The Reading
Noon Midday Report Including 12.16 Business
News 12.26 Sport 12.34 Rural News 12.43
Worldwatch
1.06 Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
4.06 The Panel with Wallace Chapman
BBC Earth: 24 Hours in A&E, 7.35pm
5.00 Checkpoint
Championship, day 2 9.30 Cricket, CPL, St Lucia v 6.30 Trending Now
St Kitts, live 1.30 Cricket, CPL, Barbados v Jamaica 6.55 The House
2.30 Cricket, County Championship, day 2 3.00 7.06 Nights with Bryan Crump
Cricket, India v South Africa, 3rd T20 3.30 Cricket, 7.35 At the Movies
CPL, St Lucia v St Kitts, replay 7.00 Cricket, CPL, 8.15 Dateline Pacific
Barbados v Jamaica 8.00 Cricket, CPL, St Lucia 8.30 Windows on the World
v St Kitts 8.55 Cricket, County Championship,
9.06 The Drama Hour Plumb, by Maurice
day 2 9.28 Cricket, County Championship, day 3,
Gee, read by Barry Empson: A picture of
live 11.35 Cricket, Vitality Blast 12.05am Cricket,
County Championship, day 3, live 5.00 Cricket, CPL,
New Zealand life a century ago as a man
Barbados v Jamaica battles with a large family and an over-large
conscience (15 of 15, RNZ)
10.00 News at Ten
Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 10.15 Lately with Karyn Hay
6.00 Cycling, UCI Road World Champs, Women’s 11.06 Inside Out with Nick Tipping Classic
Elite TT, replay 8.30 Athletics, IAAF World recordings and modern masterpieces from the
Championship Archive 9.30 Cycling, UCI Road
world of jazz
World Champs, Women’s Elite TT, replay Noon
Cycling, UCI Road W Champs, Men’s Elite TT, live
12.04am All Night Programme Including 3.05
3.15 Athletics, IAAF World Championship Archive Landmarks, by Julia Brannigan, read by Susan
Curnow
Undercover History (PG) 5.30 Mega Factories 6.30
Air Crash Investigation (PG) 7.30 Top Ten Natural
Website: rnz.co.nz

Sky Arts SKY 020
6.30 Still Tomorrow 8.00 My Dear Art 9.45 Stars
of the Silver Screen 10.30 Brilliant Ideas 11.00 Put
Some Colour in Your Life 11.30 Oceans Apart:
Art and the Pacific 12.30 Fake or Fortune 1.30
Looking for Rembrandt 2.30 Still Tomorrow 4.00
Odeonsplatz Concert Munchner Philharmoniker
5.30 Odeonsplatz Concert: Gergiev & Florez 7.30
Sinfonia Grange Au Lac D’Evian 2018 8.50 Salzburg
2018: Tchaikovsky & Debussy (G) Tchaikovsky:
Polonaise from Eugene Onegin; Violin Concerto in D
major op 35; Debussy: La Mer; Skriabin: Le Poeme
de l’extase op 54. 10.35 Verbier 2017: George Li
Recital 12.00am Odeonsplatz Concert Munchner
Philharmoniker 1.30 Odeonsplatz Concert: Gergiev
& Florez 3.30 Sinfonia Grange Au Lac D’Evian 2018
4.50 Salzburg 2018: Tchaikovsky & Debussy
Discovery SKY 070
6.35 Fast N’ Loud (PG) 7.30 Wheels That Fail (PG)
8.20 BattleBots (PG) 9.10 Expedition Unknown
(PG) 10.00 How It’s Made (PG) 10.25 How Do They
Do It? (PG) 10.50 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) 11.40
Evil Lives Here (M) 12.30 Murder Comes to Town
(M) 1.20 American Monster (M) 2.10 Wheels That
Fail (PG) 3.00 Alaska: The Last Frontier (PG) 3.50
Gold Rush (PG) 4.45 Fast N’ Loud (PG) 5.40 Aussie
Gold Hunters (PG) 6.35 Deadliest Catch (PG) 8.30
Aussie Lobster Men (PG) 9.25 Abalone Wars (M)
11.05 Naked and Afraid (M) 11.55 How It’s Made
(PG) 12.20am How Do They Do It? (PG) 12.45
Wheels That Fail (PG) 1.35 Gold Rush (PG) 2.25
Bering Sea Gold (PG) 3.15 Alaska: The Last Frontier
(PG) 4.05 Insane Pools: Off the Deep End (PG) 4.55
Naked and Afraid (M) 5.45 Gold Rush (PG)
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 MARS (M) 7.30 One Strange Rock (PG) 8.30
Drain the Oceans (PG) 9.30 Scrapyard Supercar
Disasters (PG) 9.30 Drain the Oceans (PG) 10.30
No Man Left Behind (M) 11.30 China: Innovation
Nation (PG) 12.30am Air Crash Investigation (PG)
1.30 Top Ten Natural Disasters (PG) 3.30 Drain the
Oceans (PG) 4.30 No Man Left Behind (M) 5.30
China: Innovation Nation (PG)
History SKY 073
6.30 Secrets of World War II (PG) 7.30 Oliver Stone:
Untold History of the US (M) 8.30 Time Team 10.30
Cromwell: God’s Executioner (PG) 11.30 WWII: The
Price of Empire (PG) 12.30 True Evil: Making of a
Nazi (PG) 1.30 Battlefield (PG) 3.30 The Panzer
(PG) 4.30 Europe’s Secret Armies (PG) 5.30 The
Unseen Time Team Specials (PG) 6.30 Ancient
Worlds (PG) 7.30 Egypt’s Unexplained Files (PG)
8.30 The Trump Dynasty (PG) 9.30 Watergate
(PG) 10.30 41 (PG) 12.30am Battlefield (PG) 2.30
Carriers at War (PG) 3.15 Europe’s Secret Armies
(PG) 4.00 Egypt’s Unexplained Files (PG) 4.45 The
Trump Dynasty (PG) 5.30 Watergate (PG)
BBC Earth SKY 074
6.15 David Attenborough’s Trials of Life (PG) 7.05
David Attenborough’s Life (PG) 7.55 The Dog
Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 8.45 Where the
Wild Men Are (M) 9.30 Wild New Zealand (PG)
10.20 Bear Grylls’ Survival School (PG) 10.50 24
Hours in A&E (M) 12.30 Blue Planet II (PG) 1.30
How to Stay Young (PG) 2.30 Polar Bear Family
& Me (PG) 3.25 David Attenborough’s Life (PG)
4.15 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 5.00
Life Below Zero (M) 5.50 Wild New Zealand (PG)
6.45 Where the Wild Men Are (M) 7.35 24 Hours in
A&E (M) 8.30 Allergies: Modern Life and Me (PG)
Allergies are on the rise but only in the western
world. 9.30 Trust Me I’m a Doctor (PG) 10.30
David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II (PG) 11.35
Life Below Zero (M) 12.20am The Dog Rescuers
with Alan Davies (PG) 1.05 Wild New Zealand
RNZ Concert
FREEVIEW 51 SKY 422 iHeartRADIO
News & Weather 6.00am, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00,
noon, 3.00pm, 5.00, 6.00, 11.00
6.00 Daybreak With Cynthia Morahan
9.00 The Works With Nick Tipping
Noon Upbeat With David Morriss
2.00 Pick and Mix With Eva Radich
3.00 Classical Connection With Rick Young
7.00 Exploring Music With Bill McGlaughlin
(WFMT)
8.00 Music Alive With Clarissa Dunn. Carnegie
Hall Live: Mitsuko Uchida and the Mahler
Chamber Orchestra – Mozart: Piano Concerto
No 19 in F K459; Berg: Lyric Suite, three
pieces; Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 in D
minor K466; Mozart: Piano Sonata No 10 in C
K330 (2), Mitsuko Uchida (piano/dir), Mahler
Chamber Orchestra (WQXR)
10.00 Day’s End
12.00am Music Through the Night
Website: rnz.co.nz/concert
Newstalk ZB
6.00 Mike Hosking 9.00 Kerre McIvor Noon Simon
Barnett & Phil Gifford 4.00 Heather du Plessis-Allan
7.00 D’Arcy Waldegrave 8.00 Marcus Lush 12.00am
Jim Snedden 5.00 Kate Hawkesby
Website: newstalkzb.co.nz
Magic Talk
6.00 The AM Show 9.00
Peter Williams Noon
Sean Plunket 3.00 Ryan
Bridge 6.00 Newshub
7.00 Leah Panapa 11.00
Tony Amos 5.00am
Magic Music
Website: magic.co.nz
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(PG) 10.30 Build Your Own Dam Bomb (PG) 12.30 (PG) 1.55 Allergies: Modern Life and Me (PG)
Air Crash Investigation (PG) 1.30 Surrender (M) 2.50 Trust Me I’m a Doctor (PG) 3.45 24 Hours Sky Arts: Looking
2.30 Quest for King Solomon’s Treasure (PG) 3.30 in A&E (M) 4.35 David Attenborough’s Blue for Rembrandt,
Activate: The Global Citizen Movement (PG) 4.30 Planet II (PG) 5.35 How to Stay Young (PG) 1.30pm

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TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 Breakfast With Hayley Holt
and John Campbell.
9.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
(C)
10.00 Tipping Point (G, R)
11.00 The Chase (G, R, C)
Noon 1 News (C)
12.30 Emmerdale (PGR, C) Cain
has spent the night in his car,
leaving Moira frantic with
worry, Dan and Kerry argue
about Amelia seeing Daz,
and Paddy works on the
surgery’s financial forecast.
1.00 Coronation Street 2019
(PGR, R, C, AD) It’s a step
too far for Imran when Carla
approaches Yasmeen about
a temporary premises, Rita
has some strong words of
advice for Gemma, and Roy
continues his research on the
Egyptian ring.
2.00 Coast vs Country (G, R, C)
Godelieve dreams of living
in West Sussex, but she also
wants to help her daughter
with a deposit for a first
home in London.
3.00 Tipping Point (G)
4.00 Te Karere
4.30 Come Dine with Me Daytime
(G, C)
5.00 The Chase (G, C)
6.00 1 News (C)
7.00 Seven Sharp (C) Hilary Barry
and Jeremy Wells present
current affairs.
7.30 MasterChef Australia (PGR,
C, another episode screens
tomorrow) Contestants must
recreate one of Shannon
Kellam’s signature dishes,
but without a recipe, and the
contestant whose dish is the
least like Shannon’s will be
going home.
8.45 ■ The Posh Frock Shop (G,
C, AD) Essex girl Kelly is
hoping that Ian will save the
day, a former prima ballerina
needs a dress to impress on
the dance floor, and Ian and
Jens clash over the store’s
floral arrangement.
9.15 ■ Driving Test (G, C) 16-year-
old twins Xavier and Quinn
are double trouble when
they go to get their licence,
and netballer Sophie is
hoping to score a goal in her
first-ever driving test.
9.45 Coronation Street 2019
(PGR, C, AD) Toyah spots
Ali looking pale and fragile
in the cafe, Bernie is gutted
when Kel gives her the
brush-off, and Billy quizzes
Gemma about Paul’s feud
with Kel.
10.45 1 News Tonight (C)
11.15 World’s Worst Flights (PGR,
R, C)
12.15am Rich House, Poor House
(AO, R, C, AD)
1.15 Te Karere (R)
1.40 Infomercials
5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R)
■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM
88
WORLD CONTRACEPTION DAY
TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
6.00 Infomercials
6.30 MyaGo (G, R, C)
6.40 PJ Masks (G, C)
7.00 The Tom and Jerry Show
(G, C)
7.25 Beyblade Burst Turbo (G, C)
7.50 Bunnicula (G, C)
8.15 Mickey and the Roadster
Racers (G, R, C)
8.35 The Lion Guard (G, R, C)
9.00 Infomercials
10.05 The Middle (G, R, C) s9ep2
10.35 Neighbours (G, R, C)
11.05 Army Wives (PGR, R, C)
s1ep11
Noon Mom (PGR, R, C) s1ep11
12.30 2 Broke Girls (PGR, R, C)
s1ep11
1.00 Judge Rinder (G, R)
2.00 Will & Grace (PGR, R, C)
s8ep3
2.30 Home and Away (G, R, C)
3.00 Shortland Street (PGR, R,
HD, C, AD)
3.30 Mech-X4! (G, R, C)
4.00 Fanimals (G, C)
4.30 Friends (G, R, C) s9ep7
5.00 The Simpsons (G, R, C)
s14ep21
5.30 Home and Away (G, C)
Maggie is relieved when Ben
is ready to talk.
6.00 The Big Bang Theory (G, R,
C) s12ep1
6.30 Neighbours (G, C) Yashvi
learns the truth about
Mackenzie.
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR, HD,
C, AD) Damo makes a stand,
Kylie scrambles for a win,
and Zara puts her trust in
Simon.
7.30 Police Ten 7 (PGR, C)
In Queenstown, a driver
crashes into a tree on a
cliff, and police intercept an
extremely drunk driver in
South Auckland.
8.00 Highway Patrol (PGR, C)
Two officers come across a
cat behind the wheel of a car
on a Melbourne freeway.
8.30 Travel Guides Australia (AO,
R, C) This week’s destination
is Queenstown, New
Zealand. s1ep3
9.30 Have You Been Paying
Attention? (PGR, R, C)
10.30 Two and a Half Men (PGR, R,
C) s1ep15
11.00 Police Ten 7 (PGR, R, C)
11.25 Who Killed Lucy the
Poodle? (AO, C)
11.50 iZombie (AO, C) s5ep8
12.35am Private Practice (AO, R, C)
s4ep10
1.25 Shortland Street (PGR, R,
HD, C, AD)
1.50 Infomercials
2.50 ■ Regular Show (G, R)
3.00 Army Wives (PGR, R, C)
s4ep9
3.50 I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out
of Here Australia (AO, R, C)
5.05 Neighbours (G, R, C)
5.30 – 6.00 ■ Tomorrow’s World
(R)
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 The AM Show (HD) With
Duncan Garner, Amanda
Gillies and Mark Richardson.
9.00 The Cafe (G, HD)
10.00 Infomercials
11.35 Entertainment Tonight (G,
R, HD)
12.05 Millionaire Hot Seat (G,
R, HD)
1.05 Dr Phil (AO, HD)
2.05 ■ Mom & Dad Undergrads
(2014, G, R, HD) A
workaholic mother discovers
her husband has enrolled
at their kids’ university and
decides to do the same.
Kristy Swanson, Scott
Grimes.
4.00 Entertainment Tonight
(G, HD)
4.30 Newshub Live (HD)
5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, HD)
6.00 Newshub Live (HD)
7.00 The Project (HD) With Jesse
Mulligan, Kanoa Lloyd and
Jeremy Corbett.
7.30 ■ The Karate Kid (2010,
PGR, R, HD, C) When he
moves to China with his
mother, a 12-year-old turns to
a martial arts master for help
against the school bullies.
Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan,
Taraji P Henson, Zhenwei
Wang.
10.10 Newshub Late
10.40 NCIS (AO, R, HD, C) Delilah
is hospitalised due to the
stress of her upcoming
wedding, and the team
investigates the death of
an apparently healthy petty
officer. s14ep23
11.40 – 6.00am Infomercials
BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Infomercials
10.00 Sweet Home Oklahoma
(PGR, R)
10.30 Million Dollar Listing NY
(G, R)
11.30 Snapped (PGR, R)
12.30 I Killed My BFF (AO, R)
1.30 Millionaire Matchmaker
(PGR, R)
2.30 Masters of Flip (G, R)
3.30 The People’s Court (G)
4.30 Dance Moms (G, R)
5.30 Catfish (G, R)
6.25 Hollywood Medium with
Tyler Henry (G, R) Tyler
revisits a prediction with
Taye Diggs.
7.30 Dance Moms (G) GiaNina
and Sarah go head-to-head
for their shot at dancing a
solo at nationals.
8.30 Below Deck: Mediterranean
Ben’s first dinner doesn’t
wow the guests.
9.30 The Real Housewives of
Orange County (AO)
10.30 Snapped (PGR, R)
11.30 The Disappearance of Maura
Murray (PGR, R)
12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials
Three: The Karate Kid, 7.30pm
PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Children’s Programmes
(G, R)
7.00 Sky Sport News
8.00 Children’s Programmes
(G, R)
9.00 Million Dollar Minute (G)
9.30 Hot Bench (G, R)
10.00 The Doctors (PGR)
11.00 Antiques Roadshow (G, R)
Noon Sky Sport News
12.30 Robot Wars (PGR, R)
1.30 Just Shoot Me (PGR, C)
2.00 The Late Show (PGR, R)
3.00 Judge Judy (PGR)
3.30 Jeopardy (G)
4.00 The Chase Australia (G, C)
5.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
(G, R, C)
5.30 Prime News
6.00 Farah Palmer Cup Highlights
6.30 SkySpeed (G)
7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild
7.30 Outback Truckers (PGR, C)
8.30 Bull (PGR, C) Bull helps
Taylor’s brother-in-law.
9.30 Madam Secretary (PGR, C)
10.30 1st XV Rugby Revision (G)
11.00 Kick-Off (G)
11.30 – 12.30am The Late Show
with Stephen Colbert (PGR)
MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
6.30 Children’s Programmes (G, R)
9.00 Te Ao: Māori News (R)
9.30 R & R (G, R)
10.00 Tangaroa with Pio (G, R)
10.30 Sidewalk Karaoke (G, R)
11.00 Tupaia’s Endeavour (G, R)
Noon ■ School of Training (G, R)
12.30 Funny Whare: Gamesnight
(PGR, R)
1.00 Moving Out (G, R)
1.30 Finding Aroha (PGR, R)
2.00 Opaki (G, R)
2.30 Nga Pari (G, R)
3.00 Kids’ Programmes (G, R)
6.00 Nga Pari (G, R)
6.30 Te Ao: Māori News
7.00 Whanau Living (G, R)
7.30 Easy Eats (G, R)
8.00 Funny Whare (PGR, R)
8.30 Sidewalk Karaoke (G, R)
9.00 Rere te Whiu (AO) Tane &
Tame explore the effects of
1080.
9.30 The Ring Inz (AO) Turuz
are overjoyed with the new
order of leadership.
10.00 The Hui: Kaupeka Wha
10.30 Te Ao: Māori News (R)
11.00 – 11.30 Te Matatini ki te Ao
2019 (G, R)
LISTENER SEPTEMBER 21 2019

SKY PREMIERE SKY 030
7.20 Leave No Trace (2018, PG)
Thomasin McKenzie
9.10 The Shape of Water (2017,
16) Sally Hawkins
11.10 Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018,
16) Simon Pegg
12.55 I, Tonya (2017, 16) Margot
Robbie, Allison Janney
2.55 Leave No Trace (2018, PG)
Thomasin McKenzie
4.45 Blockers (2018, 16) Leslie
Mann, John Cena
6.25 An Actor Prepares (2017, M)
A hard-drinking actor races
across the country to make
it in time for his daughter’s
wedding. Jeremy Irons
8.00 Aquaman (2018, M) A
man finds himself caught
between a surface world
that ravages the sea and
the underwater Atlanteans.
Jason Momoa, Amber Heard
10.25 Please Stand By (2017, M)
An autistic woman tries to
submit her manuscript to a
writing competition. Dakota
Fanning, Toni Collette
12.00am The Merger (2018, M) 1.40
Blockers (2018, 16) 3.20 An Actor
Prepares (2017, M) 4.55 Please
Stand By (2017, M)
MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031
7.30 An Interview with God
(2018, PG) David Strathairn
9.05 Darkest Hour (2017, PG)
Gary Oldman
11.10 The Bachelors (2017, M) JK
Simmons, Julie Delpy
12.50 Slut in a Good Way (2018,
16) Marguerite Bouchard
2.20 Widows (2018, 16) Viola
Davis, Michelle Rodriguez
4.30 Three Billboards Outside
Ebbing, Missouri (2017, 16)
Frances McDormand
6.25 Don’t Knock Twice (2016,
M) A mother hoping to bond
with her troubled daughter
becomes entangled in the
urban legend of a demonic
witch. Katee Sackhoff
8.00 A Man in a Hurry (2018, M,
subtitles) A businessman
who suffers a stroke finds
himself having to start again.
Fabrice Luchini, Leila Bekhti
9.45 Solo: A Star Wars Story
(2018, M) Alden Ehrenreich
12.00am The Old Man and the Gun
(2018, M) 1.35 Three Billboards
Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017,
16) 3.30 Solo: A Star Wars Story
(2018, M) 5.45 Don’t Knock Twice
(2016, M)
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26
MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039
7.50 Splash (1984, PG) Daryl
Hannah, Tom Hanks
9.40 The Woman in Red (1984,
M) Gene Wilder
11.05 Once Upon a Time in
America (1984, 16) Robert
De Niro, James Woods
2.50 Copycat (1995, 18) Sigourney
Weaver, Holly Hunter
4.50 Undercover Blues (1993, PG)
Dennis Quaid
6.20 The Quiet American (2002,
M) In Saigon, an older
British reporter and a young
US doctor try to win the
affections of an attractive
Vietnamese woman. Michael
Caine, Brendan Fraser
8.00 Rules of Engagement
(2000, 16) A war hero is put
on trial by his country for a
rescue mission gone terribly
wrong, with only his doubtful
friend and fellow marine
to represent him. Samuel L
Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones
10.05 The Silence of the Lambs
(1991, 16) Anthony Hopkins
12.00am Outrageous Fortune (1987,
M) 1.40 Copycat (1995, 18) 3.40
The Quiet American (2002, M) 5.20
Undercover Blues (1993, PG)
6.00 Chicken People (2016, PG)
US documentary.
7.25 Care (2018, M)
9.00 Pick of the Litter (2018, G)
US documentary.
10.25 Lost in Paris (2016, M)
11.50 B.B. King: On the Road
(2018, M) UK documentary.
1.40 Bad Banks (M) s1ep3
2.35 Living the Change: Inspiring
Stories for a Sustainable
Future (2018, PG) Australian
documentary.
4.00 Mr. Stein Goes Online (2017,
M) Pierre Richard
5.40 Woodstock: Three Days
That Defined a Generation
(2019, M) US documentary.
7.00 Iona (2015, 16) Ruth Negga
8.30 Hawke: The Larrakin and the
Leader (2019, M) Australian
documentary.
10.25 Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002,
PG) Everlyn Sampi
12.00am Act & Punishment: The
Pussy Riot Trials (2015, 16) 1.35
Bad Banks (M) s1ep4 2.30 Living
the Change: Inspiring Stories for a
Sustainable Future (2018, PG) 4.00
Mr. Stein Goes Online (2017, M)
5.40 Woodstock: Three Days That
Defined a Generation (2019, M)

GENERAL
ThreeLife FREEVIEW 11 SKY 029
6.00 Infomercials 9.00 Best Houses Australia (R,
HD) 9.30 Family Feud Australia (R) 10.00 Good
Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 10.30 Celebrity Home
Raiders (PGR, R, HD) 11.00 The Ultimate Rush (R,
HD) 11.30 Shark Wranglers (R, HD) 12.30 Garage
Dreams (R, HD) 1.00 The Gadget Show (R, HD) 1.30
Best Houses Australia (R, HD) 2.00 Family Feud
Australia (R) 2.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD)
3.00 Celebrity Home Raiders (PGR, R, HD) 3.30 The
Ultimate Rush (R, HD) 4.00 Shark Wranglers (R,
HD) 5.00 Garage Dreams (R, HD) 5.30 The Gadget
Show (R, HD) 6.00 Best Houses Australia (R, HD)
6.30 Family Feud Australia (R) 7.00 Family Feud
(R, HD) 7.30 Restoration Man (R, HD) 8.30 Hideous
Houses (HD) 9.30 Flipping Vegas (R, HD) 10.30
Best Houses Australia (R, HD) 11.00 Family Feud
Australia (R) 11.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD)
12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials
Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024
6.00 Tiny House Hunting 6.30 Fishy Business 7.00
Hemsley & Hemsley 7.30 Jelly Jamm 8.00 South
Pacific 9.00 A Taste of South Africa 9.30 Paul
Hollywood’s City Bakes 11.30 Heston’s Great British
Food 12.30 The Great Interior Design Challenge
1.30 Bangers & Cash 2.30 Walking the Americas
(PGR) 3.30 Animal Super Senses 4.30 Ainsley Eats
the Streets 5.30 Mysteries at the Museum 6.30
American Pickers 7.30 Jade Fever 8.30 Discovering
… Bee Gees (PGR) 9.30 Haunting Australia (AO)
10.30 American Pickers 11.30 Mysteries at the
Museum 12.30am Dream Gardens 1.00 Ainsley Eats
the Streets 2.00 Heston’s Great British Food 3.00
Animal Super Senses 4.00 Haunting Australia (AO)
5.00 Mysteries at the Museum
TVNZ Duke FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023
1.40pm Top Gear 2.40 Ice Road Truckers (C) 3.30
Two and a Half Men (PGR, C) 3.50 The Fresh Prince
of Bel Air (C) 4.15 American Pickers 5.05 The Fresh
Prince of Bel Air (C) 5.30 Top Gear 6.35 The Big
Bang Theory (C) 7.00 Two and a Half Men (C)
Movies Classics: The Quiet American, 6.20pm
7.30 The Simpsons (C) 8.30 Taskmaster (AO) Jo
Brand and David Baddiel take time out to enjoy
a sandwich. s9ep2 9.30 Hypothetical (AO) With
Sara Pascoe, Guz Khan and David O’Doherty. 10.30
Modern Life Is Goodish (PGR) 11.25 Bear Grylls’
Running Wild 12.15am The Front Row 12.30 – 12.45
TVNZ Football Club
UKTV SKY 007
6.45 EastEnders (PG) 7.15 New Tricks (M) 8.10 The
Bill (M) 9.00 Foyle’s War (M) 10.35 New Tricks (M)
11.30 The Coroner (PG) 12.15 Midsomer Murders
(M) s15ep1 1.50 The Bill (M) s25ep40 2.45 Top Gear
(PG) s17ep1 3.50 The Force: North East (M) s1ep16
4.40 The Graham Norton Show (M) s19ep10 5.30
Who Do You Think You Are? USA (PG) Regina King.
s7ep17 6.20 QI (PG) Jo Brand, Colin Lane and David
Mitchell. s13ep16 6.55 EastEnders (PG) 7.30 QI (M)
Mark Gatiss, Sean Lock and Linda Smith. s2ep11
8.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) Mackenzie Crook,
Chris Packham, Victoria Coren and Rhod Gilbert.
s5ep7 8.35 The Graham Norton Show (M) Patrick
Stewart, Ricky Gervais, Regina King, Chiwetel Ejiofor
and Jack Savoretti. s24ep18 9.30 Alan Davies: As
Yet Untitled (M) Free Pussy: With Patrick Kielty, Joe
Lycett, Katherine Ryan and Annie Siddons. s5ep3
10.20 Father Brown (M) s2ep5 11.10 Midsomer
Murders (M) s15ep1 12.45am QI (PG) 1.50 Would I
Lie to You? (PG) 2.25 EastEnders (PG) 2.55 Who
Do You Think You Are? USA (PG) 3.35 The Graham
Norton Show (M) 4.25 Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
(M) 5.10 – 6.10 Holby City (M)
SoHo SKY 010
6.20 Knightfall (16) s2ep6 7.05 It’s a Hard Truth, Ain’t
It (M) 8.20 Strike Back (18) s5ep6 9.10 Snowfall (18)
s3ep2 9.50 The Leftovers (16) s1ep9 10.50 Berlin
Station (16) s2ep7 11.35 Billions (16) s2ep8 12.35 A
Million Little Things (M) s1ep14 1.20 Britannia (18)
s1ep7 2.10 Mayans M.C. (16) s2ep4 3.10 Succession
(16) s2ep7 4.10 Knightfall (16) s2ep6 4.55 Halt
and Catch Fire (M) s4ep6 5.45 Game of Thrones
(18) s7ep4 6.35 Versailles (16) s3ep3 7.30 Years
and Years (16) Season finale. As Viv Rook’s regime
tightens its grip, the entire Lyons family are forced
to take action. s1ep6 8.30 The Zen Diaries of Garry
Shandling (M) US documentary that examines the
legacy of comedian Garry Shandling. 10.50 The
Deuce (18) s3ep3 11.50 I Am the Night (16) s1ep3
12.45am Versailles (16) s3ep3 1.45 Years and Years
(16) s1ep6 2.45 The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
(M) 5.05 – 6.05 The Deuce (18) s3ep3
Living SKY 017
6.00 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 6.50
Homes Under the Hammer (PG) 7.50 Selling Houses
Australia (G) 8.45 Long Lost Family USA (G) 9.35
Love It or List It Australia (PG) 10.25 George Clarke’s
Old House, New Home (PG) 11.15 Selling Houses
Australia (PG) 12.10 Location Location Location (G)
1.00 Homes Under the Hammer (PG) 2.05 Location
Location Location (PG) 3.00 Long Lost Family USA
(G) 3.50 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 4.40
George Clarke’s Old House, New Home (PG) 5.35
Selling Houses Australia (G) 6.30 Location Location
Location (G) 7.30 Love It or List It Australia (PG)
Preston, Vic. 8.30 Escape to the Country (PG) West
Yorkshire. 9.30 Great British Railway Journeys (PG)
10.00 Great British Railway Journeys (PG) 10.30
Escape to the Chateau (PG) 11.30 Selling Houses
Australia (G) North Rocks. 12.30am Location
Location Location (G) 1.25 Love It or List It Australia
(PG) 2.20 Escape to the Country (PG) 3.10 Great
British Railway Journeys (PG) 4.10 Escape to the
Chateau (PG) 5.05 – 6.00 Gogglebox UK (PG)

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SPORT
Sky Sport 1 SKY 051
6.00 Wind Back 8.00 Farah Palmer Cup, highlights
8.30 Getting Grilled with Marshy 9.00 Breakdown
10.00 Mitre 10 Cup, Auckland v Wellington, replay
Noon Mitre 10 Cup, Northland v Bay of Plenty,
replay 2.00 Farah Palmer Cup, highlights 2.30
Getting Grilled with Marshy 3.00 Breakdown 4.00
Mitre 10 Cup, Northland v Otago, highlights 4.30
Mitre 10 Cup, Auckland v Wellington, highlights
5.00 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Northland v Bay of
Plenty, highlights 5.30 Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup,
highlights 6.00 Getting Grilled with Marshy 6.30
Mainfreight Rugby 7.30 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup,
Taranaki v Southland, live 9.15 Kick-Off, live 10.00
Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, highlights 10.30 Getting
Grilled with Marshy 11.00 Mainfreight Rugby
12.00am Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup, Taranaki v Southland,
replay 2.00 Kick-Off 2.30 Rugby, Farah Palmer
Cup, highlights 3.00 Getting Grilled with Marshy
3.30 Mainfreight Rugby 4.30 Rugby, Mitre 10 Cup,
Taranaki v Southland, highlights 5.00 Kick-Off 5.30
Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, highlights
Sky Sport 2 SKY 052
6.00 Cricket, CPL, St Lucia v St Kitts, highlights 7.00
Cricket, Vitality Blast, highlights 7.30 Cricket, India v
South Africa, 1st T20, highlights 8.00 Cricket, India
v South Africa, 2nd T20, highlights 8.30 Cricket,
India v South Africa, 3rd T20, highlights 9.00
Cricket, County Championship, day 3, highlights
9.30 Cricket, CPL, St Lucia v Guyana, live 1.30
Cricket, India v South Africa 1st T20, highlights 2.00
Cricket, India v South Africa, 2nd T20, highlights
2.30 Cricket, India v South Africa, 3rd T20,
DOCUMENTARIES
Sky Arts SKY 020
6.35 Verbier 2017: George Li Recital 8.00
Odeonsplatz Concert Munchner Philharmoniker
9.30 Odeonsplatz Concert: Gergiev & Florez 11.30
Sinfonia Grange Au Lac D’Evian 2018 12.50 Salzburg
2018: Tchaikovsky & Debussy 2.35 Verbier 2017:
George Li Recital 4.00 Man in the Camo Jacket 5.15
The Wanderers 5.30 Sons of Vienna 6.00 Hokusai:
Old Man Crazy to Paint 7.00 The Sense of Beauty
8.00 ■ Lost in France (2016, G) 9.40 Gregory
Porter: One Night Only 11.10 Stars of the Silver
Screen 12.00am Man in the Camo Jacket 1.15 The
Wanderers 1.30 Sons of Vienna 2.00 Hokusai: Old
Man Crazy to Paint 3.00 The Sense of Beauty 4.00
■ Lost in France (2016, G) 5.40 Gregory Porter: One
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8.20 Deadliest Catch (PG) 9.10 Aussie Lobster
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They Do It? (PG) 10.50 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG)
11.40 Evil Lives Here (M) 12.30 Murder Comes to
Town (M) 1.20 Murder Calls (M) 2.10 Wheels That
Fail (PG) 3.00 Alaska: The Last Frontier (PG) 3.50
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11.55 How It’s Made (PG) 12.20am How Do They Do
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Last Frontier (PG) 4.05 Insane Pools: Off the Deep
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highlights 7.30 Cricket, CPL Magazine Show 8.00
Cricket, CPL, St Lucia v Guyana, highlights 8.55
Cricket, County Championship, day 3, highlights
9.28 Cricket, County Championship, day 4, live 11.35
Cricket, Vitality Blast, highlights 12.05am Cricket,
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7.30 Courtside 8.00 Athletics, IAAF World
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4.30 Secrets of the Space Shuttle (PG) 5.30 Mega
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Buried Secrets of WWII (PG) 9.30 Drain the Oceans
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Animal Mummies: Egypt’s Dark Secret (PG) 11.30
Hijacked (M) 12.30am Battlefield (PG) 2.30 Carriers
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4.00 Abandoned Engineering (PG) 4.45 Treasures
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5.00 First Up with Indira Stewart
6.00 Morning Report Including 6.20 and 6.50
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Noon Midday Report Including 12.16 Business
News 12.26 Sport 12.34 Rural News 12.43
Worldwatch
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4.06 The Panel with Wallace Chapman
5.00 Checkpoint
6.30 Trending Now
6.55 The House Insights from Parliament
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7.30 New Horizons With William Dart
8.15 Dateline Pacific
8.30 Windows on the World
9.06 Our Changing World Highlights from the
world of science and the environment, with
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10.00 News at Ten
10.15 Lately with Karyn Hay
11.06 The Music 101 Pocket Edition
12.04am All Night Programme Including 3.05
Ruth Dallas Stories: 1 The Black Horse, read by
Toby Leach
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RNZ Concert
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6.00 Daybreak With Cynthia Morahan
9.00 The Works With Nick Tipping
Noon Upbeat Music and the arts, with David
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2.00 Worlds of Music with Trevor Reekie
Trans-global, fusion and folk roots music
3.00 Classical Connection Rick Young
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7.00 Exploring Music With Bill McGlaughlin
(WFMT)
8.00 Music Alive With Clarissa Dunn. APO:
New Directions – Debussy: Prelude a l’apres-
midi d’un faune; Glass: Violin Concerto No 1;
Kreisler: Recitative & Scherzo-caprice Op 6;
Schoenberg: Theme and Variations; Debussy:
La Mer, Robert McDuffie (violin), Auckland
Philharmonia Orchestra/Andre de Ridder
(recorded in the Auckland Town Hall)
10.00 Day’s End RNZ Concert’s musical
nightcap
12.00am Music Through the Night
Website: rnz.co.nz/concert
Newstalk ZB
6.00 Mike Hosking 9.00 Kerre McIvor Noon Simon
Barnett & Phil Gifford 4.00 Heather du Plessis-Allan
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Bruce Russell 5.00 Kate Hawkesby
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National
Geographic:
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6.00 Breakfast With Hayley Holt
and John Campbell.
9.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
(C)
10.00 Tipping Point (G, R) Ben
Shephard hosts a UK quiz
show.
11.00 The Chase (G, R, C) Bradley
Walsh hosts a UK quiz show.
Noon 1 News (C)
12.30 Emmerdale (PGR, C) Kim
admits she’s blackmailing
Cain, Amy is nervous about
telling Kyle that she’s his
birth mother, so Kerry offers
to be there to support her.
1.00 Coronation Street 2019
(PGR, R, C, AD) Sinead gets
emotional as she prepares
to go into hospital overnight,
Peter accuses Kate of
sending Carla the message
from Rana’s account, and
Gemma admits that she
loves Chesney.
2.00 Coast vs Country (G, R, C)
Ian and Ann want to settle in
Sunderland.
3.00 Tipping Point (G) Ben
Shephard hosts a UK quiz
show.
4.00 Te Karere A Māori
perspective to the day’s
news and current affairs.
4.30 Come Dine with Me Daytime
(G, C)
5.00 The Chase (G, C) Bradley
Walsh hosts a UK quiz show.
6.00 1 News (C)
7.00 Seven Sharp (C) Hilary
Barry and Jeremy Wells
present current affairs and
entertainment.
7.30 MasterChef Australia (G, C)
Contestants must prepare a
sweet or savoury dish with
one of Queensland’s finest
ingredients, ginger, and the
winner will cook off against
chef Ben Williamson for an
immunity pin.
8.40 ■ Gordon, Gino and Fred’s
Road Trip (AO, R, C, AD)
The trio head to Scotland
as Gordon prepares to cook
a feast for the chief of Clan
Ramsay.
9.45 Coronation Street 2019
(PGR, C, AD) Sinead angrily
accuses Daniel of wanting
her to die sooner because
he can’t cope, Paul drowns
his sorrows at the Rovers,
and Toyah finds Ali feeling
overwhelmed in the street.
10.45 1 News Tonight (C)
11.15 ■ 800 Words (PGR, R, C)
Local drama series about
an Australian columnist who
moves to small-town New
Zealand. George and Shay
grow further apart, Shay
gives Katie a serve after the
fallout with Joe Cettino, and
Poppy cuts a chunk out of
Lindsay. s3ep15&16
1.10am Te Karere (R)
1.35 – 6.00 Infomercials
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7.25 Beyblade Burst Turbo (G, C)
7.50 Bunnicula (G, C)
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8.35 The Lion Guard (G, R, C)
9.00 Infomercials
10.00 The Middle (G, R, C) s9ep3
10.30 Neighbours (G, R, C)
11.00 Army Wives (PGR, R, C)
s1ep12
Noon Mom (AO, R, C) s1ep12
12.30 2 Broke Girls (PGR, R, C)
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1.00 Judge Rinder (G, R)
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2.30 Home and Away (G, R, C)
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HD, C, AD)
3.35 Mech-X4! (G, R, C)
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4.30 Friends (G, R, C) s9ep8
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5.30 Home and Away (G, C)
6.00 The Big Bang Theory (G, R,
C) s12ep2
6.30 Neighbours (G, C) Paul and
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7.00 Shortland Street (PGR, HD,
C, AD) Angel struggles with
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and Chris lives with his lie.
7.30 Dumb Daredevils Make You
LOL (PGR, R, C) Videos of
ridiculous risk-takers from all
over the world.
8.35 ■ 8 Out of 10 Cats Does
Countdown (AO, C) Jimmy
Carr hosts a UK game
show with captains Jon
Richardson and Sean Lock,
who are joined by Vic
Reeves, Aisling Bea and
David O’Doherty.
9.40 Michael McIntyre’s Big Show
(G, R) Musical performances
from Jessie J and
Stereophonics, and football
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over his phone in Send to All.
10.55 Two and a Half Men (PGR, R,
C) s1ep16
11.25 Cougar Town (PGR, R, C)
s4ep8
11.50 ■ The Mick (AO, C) Mickey
and Alba catch Ben lying
and attempt to teach him a
lesson. s2ep19
12.40am Happy Endings (AO, R, C)
s3ep19
1.00 Scrubs (PGR, R, C) s8ep16
1.20 Shortland Street (PGR, R,
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1.50 Infomercials
2.55 The Russell Howard Hour
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3.45 I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out
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9.00 The Cafe (G, HD)
10.00 Infomercials
11.35 Entertainment Tonight (G,
R, HD)
12.05 Millionaire Hot Seat (G,
R, HD)
1.05 Dr Phil (AO, HD)
2.05 ■ Casa Vita (2016, G, R,
HD, C) When an injury
jeopardises his dream of
becoming a baseball player,
a man finds happiness
with a woman who works
in his favourite restaurant.
Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Lindsey
Morgan.
4.00 Entertainment Tonight
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4.30 Newshub Live (HD)
5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, HD)
6.00 Newshub Live (HD)
7.00 The Project (HD) With Jesse
Mulligan, Kanoa Lloyd and
Jeremy Corbett.
8.00 The Best of the Graham
Norton Show (PGR, R, HD,
C) Highlights of the show’s
23rd season.
9.00 7 Days (AO, HD) Jeremy
Corbett hosts a topical
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9.45 New Zealand Today (AO,
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10.15 Newshub Late
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Fails from the web.
11.15 Entertainment Tonight
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12.30 The Disappearance of Maura
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1.30 Millionaire Matchmaker
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2.30 Masters of Flip (G, R)
3.30 The People’s Court (G)
4.30 Million Dollar Listing NY
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5.30 Catfish (G, R)
6.25 Hollywood Medium with
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Fox reveals her psychic skill.
7.30 Million Dollar Listing NY
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8.30 ■ The Break-Up (2006,
AO, R) An art dealer calls it
quits with her boyfriend, but
neither is willing to move
out of their condo. Jennifer
Aniston, Vince Vaughan.
10.50 Snapped (PGR, R)
11.45 The Disappearance of Maura
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12.40am – 6.00 Infomercials
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11.00 Antiques Roadshow (G, R)
Noon Sky Sport News
12.30 Robot Wars (PGR, R)
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2.00 The Late Show with Stephen
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3.00 Judge Judy (PGR)
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7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild
7.30 Mitre 10 Cup Tasman v
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Park, live
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10.30 SmackDown (PGR)
11.30 – 12.30am The Late Show
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6.30 Children’s Programmes (G, R)
9.00 Te Ao: Māori News (R)
9.30 R & R (G, R)
10.00 Tangaroa with Pio (G, R)
10.30 Sidewalk Karaoke (G, R)
11.00 ■ Tupaia’s Endeavour (G, R)
Noon Waka Ama Sprints (R)
12.30 Funny Whare: Gamesnight
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1.00 Moving Out (G, R)
1.30 Finding Aroha (PGR, R)
2.00 Opaki (G, R)
2.30 Nga Pari (G, R)
3.00 Kids’ Programmes (G)
6.00 Nga Pari (G, R)
6.30 Te Ao: Māori News
7.00 Whanau Living (G, R)
7.30 Toa Hunter Gatherer
(PGR, R)
8.00 Family Rules (PGR, R)
8.30 ■ Legends of the Fall (1994,
AO) In the early 1900s in the
remote Montana wilderness,
three brothers and their
father encounter betrayal,
history, love, nature and war.
Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins.
10.50 Te Ao: Māori News (R)
11.20 – 11.50 Te Matatini ki te Ao
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SKY PREMIERE SKY 030
6.30 The Merger (2018, M)
Damian Callinan
8.10 Blockers (2018, 16) Leslie
Mann, John Cena
9.50 Aquaman (2018, M) Jason
Momoa, Amber Heard
12.10 Please Stand By (2017, M)
Dakota Fanning, Toni Collette
1.45 The Merger (2018, M)
Damian Callinan
3.25 Eighth Grade (2018, M) Elsie
Fisher, Josh Hamilton
5.00 The Miseducation of
Cameron Post (2018, M)
Chloe Grace Moretz
6.30 Holmes & Watson (2018,
16) A humorous take on Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic
mysteries. Will Ferrell
8.00 Den of Thieves (2018, 16) An
elite group of rogue police
officers face off against a
notorious bank robbery
crew. Gerard Butler
10.20 Permanent (2017, M) Patricia
Arquette, Rainn Wilson
11.55 Lake Placid: Legacy (2018,
16) Katherine Barrell
1.25am Eighth Grade (2018, M) 3.00
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
(2018, M) 4.30 Holmes & Watson
(2018, 16)
MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031
7.20 A Man in a Hurry (2018, M)
Fabrice Luchini, Leila Bekhti
9.00 The Old Man and the Gun
(2018, M) Robert Redford
10.35 Three Billboards Outside
Ebbing, Missouri (2017, 16)
Frances McDormand
12.30 Solo: A Star Wars Story
(2018, M) Alden Ehrenreich
2.45 The Bachelor Next Door
(2017, 16) Michael Welch
4.10 Collide (2016, M) Nicholas
Hoult, Felicity Jones
5.50 Creed II (2018, M) Michael B
Jordan, Sylvester Stallone
8.00 The Leisure Seeker (2018, M)
A married couple travel in an
old RV from Boston to the
Ernest Hemingway Home in
Key West. Helen Mirren
9.55 The Miracle Season (2018,
PG) After the death of the
school’s star volleyball player,
his team band together in
the hopes of winning the
state championship. Helen
Hunt, Erin Moriarty
11.35 Screamers (2016, 16) Tom
Malloy, Chris Bannow
1.00am The Bachelor Next Door
(2017, 16) 2.25 Creed II (2018, M)
4.35 Screamers (2016, 16)
MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039
6.50 Rules of Engagement
(2000, 16) Samuel L Jackson
8.55 The Silence of the Lambs
(1991, 16) Anthony Hopkins
10.50 Outrageous Fortune (1987,
M) Shelley Long
12.30 The Quiet American (2002,
M) Michael Caine
2.10 Mrs. Winterbourne (1996, M)
Shirley MacLaine
3.55 The Peacemaker (1997, M)
George Clooney
5.55 In the Line of Fire (1993, M)
Clint Eastwood
8.00 The Hand That Rocks
the Cradle (1992, M)
A demented, revenge-
seeking nanny moves in
on an unsuspecting family.
Rebecca De Mornay,
9.50 Mystic Pizza (1988, PG)
Three girls coming of age in
a Connecticut pizza parlour.
Julia Roberts
11.35 Indecent Proposal (1993,
M) A man offers a couple a
million dollars to sleep with
the wife. Robert Redford
1.30am Phantoms (1998, 16) 3.05
Nothing but Trailers (M) 3.20 Mrs.
Winterbourne (1996, M) 5.05 The
Peacemaker (1997, M)
7.05 Iona (2015, 16) Ruth Negga
8.35 Bad Banks (M) s1ep4
9.30 Hawke: The Larrakin and the
Leader (2019, M) Australian
documentary.
11.25 Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002,
PG) Everlyn Sampi
1.00 Act & Punishment: The
Pussy Riot Trials (2015, 16)
Russian documentary.
2.35 Him (M) Complete UK
miniseries.
5.20 The Boy Downstairs (2017,
M) Zosia Mamet
6.50 Studio 54 (2018, M) US
documentary about the New
York nightclub.
8.30 The Motorcycle Diaries
(2004, M) Che Guevara and
Alberto Granado set out
to discover the real Latin
America. Gael Garcia Bernal
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10.35 Stray (2018, M) In a remote
landscape, two strangers
struggle to repair their
broken pasts. Kieran
Charnock
12.20am The Devil’s Doorway (2018,
M) 1.35 Bad Banks (M) s1ep5 2.30
The Boy Downstairs (2017, M) 4.00
Him (M) Complete UK miniseries.

GENERAL Cats Does Countdown (M) 4.50 Traffic Cops (M)

ThreeLife FREEVIEW 11 SKY 029
6.00 Infomercials 9.00 Best Houses Australia (R,
HD) 9.30 Family Feud Australia (R) 10.00 Good
Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 10.30 Restoration Man (R,
HD) 11.30 Hideous Houses (R, HD) 12.30 Flipping
Vegas (R, HD) 1.30 Best Houses Australia (R, HD)
2.00 Family Feud Australia (R) 2.30 Good Chef
Bad Chef (R, HD) 3.00 Restoration Man (R, HD)
4.00 Hideous Houses (R, HD) 5.00 Flipping Vegas
(R, HD) 6.00 Best Houses Australia (R, HD) 6.30
Family Feud Australia (R) 7.00 Family Feud (R, HD)
7.30 Married at First Sight USA (PGR, R, HD) 8.45
Arranged (R, HD) 9.40 Seven Year Switch USA
(PGR, R, HD) 10.35 Best Houses Australia (R, HD)
11.00 Family Feud Australia (R) 11.30 Good Chef
Bad Chef (R, HD) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials
Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024
6.00 Tiny House Hunting 6.30 Ainsley Eats the
Streets 7.30 Jelly Jamm 8.00 Love Nature: Animal
Super Senses 9.00 A Taste of South Africa 9.30
Where It Comes From 11.30 Heston’s Great British
Food 12.30 The Great Interior Design Challenge
1.30 Discovering … Bee Gees (PGR) 2.30 Jade Fever
3.30 Love Nature: Earthflight 4.30 James Martin’s
American Adventure 5.30 Mysteries at the Museum
6.30 American Pickers 7.30 Restoration Man 8.30
Escape to the Chateau: DIY 9.30 Big Dreams, Small
Spaces 10.30 American Pickers 11.30 Mysteries at
the Museum 12.30am Dream Gardens 1.00 James
Martin’s American Adventure 2.00 Heston’s Great
British Food 3.00 Love Nature: Earthflight 4.00
Escape to the Chateau: DIY 5.00 Mysteries at the
Museum
TVNZ Duke FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023
1.40pm Top Gear 2.40 Ice Road Truckers (C) 3.30
Two and a Half Men (C) 3.55 The Fresh Prince of
Bel Air (C) 4.20 American Pickers 5.10 The Fresh
Prince of Bel Air (C) 5.35 Top Gear 6.40 The Big
Bang Theory (C) 7.05 Two and a Half Men (PGR, C)
7.30 The Simpsons (C) 8.30 ■ Ghostbusters (1984,
PGR, C, AD) Three unemployed parapsychology
Rialto: The Motorcycle Diaries, 8.30pm
professors set up a ghost removal service. Bill
Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver. 10.30 Have
You Been Paying Attention? (C) 11.25 – 12.25am
Late Night DUKEbox
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6.10 The Graham Norton Show (M) 6.55 EastEnders
(PG) 7.25 New Tricks (M) 8.20 The Bill (M) 9.10
Foyle’s War (M) 10.45 New Tricks (M) 11.40 The
Coroner (PG) s1ep4 12.25 Midsomer Murders (M)
s15ep2 2.00 The Bill (M) s25ep41 2.50 Top Gear
(PG) s17ep2 3.50 The Force: North East (M) s1ep17
4.40 The Graham Norton Show (M) s19ep11 5.35
Who Do You Think You Are? USA (M) Matthew
Morrison. s7ep18 6.20 Insert Name Here (M) s1ep4
6.55 8 Out of 10 Cats (M) s20ep9 7.30 All Round
to Mrs Brown’s (M) Mrs Brown and the family are
joined by Michael Ball, Sunetra Sarker and Yvette
Fielding, with music from the Vamps. s1ep6 8.25 Top
Gear (PG) The guys attach a series of caravans to
a specially modified car, and Jeremy compares the
Nissan GT-R to the Jaguar. s17ep4 9.30 8 Out of 10
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 THE GOOD LIFE

GREG
DIXON Expect Hudson
& Halls meets
Masterton’s
Dorothy Parker
in the company
of a full bottle of
cream sherry.
Careful what you wish for
Spurred by the the gummint slush fund with a proven track record
of financing any old rubbish.
he agrees to do it; he gets pretty busy
come lambing season.
enthusiasm of a The exciting and frankly ground-breaking high- Travel show My Weekly Outing will
reader, Good Life light of Lush TV’s launch season will be Lawn &
Order. Yes, New Zealand will finally have the celeb-
be a must-watch. In the first episode,
there will be an exciting outing into
is heading for rity lawn-mowing show that we kings and queens Masterton in the 4WD. Perhaps less

the goggle box. of the clippings have so long dreamt about. Think
Top Gear with ride-ons.
I am anticipating the first season will be a bit
ropey production-wise – it will be shot using a
excitingly, all the other outings in the
subsequent episodes will also be to
Masterton, though viewers will have
the additional thrill of not knowing

H
ere is the news: I am launch-
ing a new rural television
service. It will be
called Lush TV. It
will be the greatest thing
in history, and it will be
coming to you as soon as
I can come up with the
readies to make it happen.
I’d like to claim this
momentous idea for my
own. But full credit must
go to Dean Donoghue of
Pāpāmoa Beach who, in a
recent letter to the editor
of this esteemed organ,
said that our adventures
here at Lush Places had
“gripped the nation for
some time now and I can’t
wait for the TV series”.
Well, Dean, if I may call you Dean,
your dreams and mine (though per-
haps not Michele’s, she hates having
her photo taken) are about to come
true, and then some. To wit: why
bother with a TV show, when we can
have our very own TV channel?
Admittedly, as a long-time-if-now-
retired TV critic, I find this is a dicey
sort of thing to attempt, especially
GREG DIXON, CLEANPNG.COM
GoPro gaffer-taped to my ride-on – but it’s going to if My Weekly Outing will take them
offer at least two hours of hot mowing action each to the tip, the library, to Mitre 10 to
stare at power tools or to
the petrol station to fill
my jerry cans to fuel up
the ride-on for the next
exciting episode of Lawn
& Order.
he only thing
T missing from this
cornucopia of
televisual temptation is a
prestige drama, so, with
the public’s thirst for
adaptations of depressing
books still far from sated,
I’m planning an HBO-style
remake of Animal Farm.
This will see the Evil
The fresh face of Lush TV: Xanthe the wonder sheep. Chickens rising up and
rebelling against the incompetent
episode. Excitingly, it will be interactive TV: viewers management of Lush Places, only
will be able to live-text me to tell me when I’ve for their coup d’état to crumble after
missed a bit. management throws an old prawn
Food will be another exciting programming tail into their run, and one of the
strand on Lush TV, with Michele’s cooking show, Evil Chickens, probably Little Linda,
Country Colander. Eschewing that fancy nonsense snatches it, and then runs off while
served in the big city, each episode will see Michele being chased by the others. Advance
doing something with last night’s leftovers. Excit- word is calling it the comic dystopian
ingly, it will always be happy hour in Michele’s nightmare of the year.

with no cash and this face. But hand-
some is as handsome does, as Forrest
Gump’s mother would say. And I
think my ideas for our programme
line-up are likely to shake loose loads
of money from New Zealand On Air,
kitchen. Expect Hudson & Halls meets Masterton’s
Dorothy Parker in the company of a full bottle of
cream sherry.
Miles the sheep farmer’s philosophy show, I’ve
Been Thinking (But Also Drenching), will be another
first for New Zealand television. Well, it will be if
I’m hoping Lush TV will be all that
Dean hoped for, though it’s already
causing controversy; Michele says it
sounds like a porno channel. I reckon
it will be much more exciting than
that. l

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