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ISSN 2381-9553: Vol 272, No. 4151. January 11-17, 2020

BRANCHING OUT Do you have a special tree story to share? Readers are invited to send memorable stories, including historical accounts, to: listener@ bauermedia.co.nz.

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12 | The spirit of the land Trees are not only life-supporting but also vital to our emotional wellbeing, reducing stress and boosting brain function. Yet they are under siege. A special feature by Sally Blundell, with contributions by 16 well-known New Zealanders, who share their special connection with trees.

30 | Keeping spirits up Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma, appearing at the NZ Festival in February, draws both tragedy and divine inspiration from his strife-torn country. by Diana Wichtel 34 | Fin to fin Sydney chef Josh Niland has taken seafood into uncharted waters – from dry-aged fillets to fish bacon and fish-eye chips. His new

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40 | Health Lightening the mood with a joke can be a useful therapeutic tool in medicine. by Ruth Nichol 42 | Nutrition Cleanliness, careful cooking and chilling will keep campylobacter at bay this summer. by Jennifer Bowden 44 | Food Sashimi and ceviche-style dishes are an easy alternative to cooking your summer catch. by Lauraine Jacobs 46 | Wine An exceptional growing season in Hawke’s Bay has winemakers salivating. by Michael Cooper 47 | Psychology Exchanging gifts is partly about survival of the species,

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but it can be a strain. by Marc Wilson 48 | Sport Sport would be much less diverting if the players and their hangers-on clammed up. by Paul Thomas

BOOKS & CULTURE 50 | Anaweka waka and beyond An encyclopaedic and wonderfully illustrated overview of craft making in Aotearoa. by Sally Blundell 52-55 | Books Personal essays by Rose Lu; a novel of family and connection by Becky Manawatu; an account of some of science’s greatest achievements; and a selection of journalism, short stories and miscellanea by the late Peter Temple 56 | Film Little Women, The Gentlemen, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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The madding crowd

Tourism magnets: Rome, left, and, below, Hot Water Beach.

Austria, which has the misfortune to have been dubbed the most beautiful village in the world, has a population of 800 but must cope with more than 1 million selﬁe-stick-wielding tourists a year. In Dubrovnik’s old town, which has Unesco World Heritage status, the 1500 residents compete for space with 1.3 million foreigners. Venice’s population has halved in a generation, largely because locals can no longer afford to live there. And, in Thailand, once-exquisite beaches are choked with garbage and waste from bars and restaurants that is discharged untreated into the sea.

Visitor numbers have grown to 3.9 million. By 2025, they’re expected to pass the ﬁve million mark, and the strain is showing.

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lthough partly protected by its isolation, New Zealand is not immune to these trends, as Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton highlighted in a pre-Christmas report. Visitor numbers have grown from 500,000 in the 1980s to 3.9 million today. By 2025, they’re expected to pass the ﬁve million mark, and the strain is starting to show. Queenstown, Lake Tekapo’s Church of the Good Shepherd, Milford Sound, the Huka Falls, Franz Josef, Cathedral Cove, Hot Water Beach and the Tongariro Alpine Crossing have all been cited as hot spots where visitor numbers have stretched infrastructure to the limit, and in some cases (notably, the Alpine Crossing) raised safety concerns. Other sites to have attracted adverse comment include Waitangi and the Mermaid Pools at Matapouri Bay (Northland), both of which featured on a world map of overtourism compiled last year by British company Responsible Travel, which promotes sustainable tourism. Tellingly, rubbish and pollution at the latter site led to access being forbidden last summer under a rāhui imposed by the pools’ Māori guardians. Today’s tourists are not always grateful guests, and sometimes even less so when they don’t have to pay, as New Zealand’s experience with freedom campers attests. Industry propaganda sometimes gives the impression that tourism is a painless form of economic growth, but overseas experience tells us that rampant tourism is neither benign nor sustainable. And, as the tragedy at Whakaari/White Island reminded us, the desire to provide overseas visitors with the wow factor can carry risks far beyond mere overcrowding and environmental damage. The lessons are there if we wish to heed them. l

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new word recently entered the English lexicon: overtourism. It describes a situation where the number of visitors to a tourist destination reaches the point where local inhabitants, and even tourists themselves, are negatively affected. A less polite term is people pollution. From Stavanger, Norway, to Queenstown, New Zealand, local authorities are embracing the economic benefits of mass tourism while simultaneously wrestling with the infrastructural demands it creates and striving to mitigate the environmental and societal costs. The statistics tell the story. Worldwide, an estimated 25 million people travelled internationally in the 1950s. Now, the figure is 1.5 billion and rising. The global tourism boom has been brought about by the growth of the middle class, the availability of cheap flights and the proliferation of ever-larger cruise ships that sometimes penetrate the very hearts of environmentally vulnerable cities – witness Venice – and tower intimidatingly over the historic buildings that their passengers have come to admire. Popular culture has come into play, too, notably the demand for travel to destinations made desirable by their use as locations for movies and television series. Our own Hobbiton, near Matamata, attracts an extraordinary 600,000 visitors a year, but the impact is gentle compared with less benign examples overseas. The picturesque old town in the Croatian city of Dubrovnik has been swamped by a wave of mass tourism driven by Game of Thrones, and a once-pristine island in Thailand is being ravaged by hordes of tourists jostling to take selfies at a spot made famous by the otherwise forgotten 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun. These Instagram tourists often display minimal interest in the history or culture of the places they visit. They are inclined to favour McDonald’s over ethnic food and often show scant concern for local norms of behaviour and dress. For younger tourists especially, it’s selfies by day and partying by night. Once pictures have been taken and posted on social media as proof they’ve been there, the locale becomes almost irrelevant. The effects of mass tourism on local communities can be devastating, transforming them into virtual theme parks. Hallstatt,

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If the Government can help councils and other public agencies to offer to subsidise employee e-bike purchases by $300-$1200, why can’t it do the same for the rest of us with electric cars? Average Kiwis might then be able to afford a modern EV for zero-emission, guilt-free driving. The Government could also push on with a battery exchange programme to mitigate people’s fears of buying used EVs with worn-out batteries. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Greens co-leader James Shaw could make these things happen at the stroke of a pen. Rob Buchanan (Kerikeri)

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There is an obvious alternative use for the electricity consumed by the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter and that is for the production of hydrogen to fuel motor vehicles. The primary difﬁculty is likely to be in the timing. The Government is pushing for the replacement of hydrocarbon-powered light vehicles by electric-powered ones. Battery manufacture and disposal make electric cars only marginally better than the vehicles we currently use. Shipping of used batteries overseas for disposal will further reduce any beneﬁt. Hydrogen has the advantage that it can be used in larger vehicles such as trucks and buses. The battery capacity required for such vehicles would seem to preclude

electric power as a viable alternative fuel for them. And provided hydrogen is produced using renewable energy, it is absolutely clean. Hydrogen’s major problem is cost. But Japan is interested in hydrogen as an alternative fuel and Australia is producing a trial shipment of hydrogen for Japan with the intention of establishing a long-term supply of the gas produced by solar power. The Japanese Government has said that it expects the price of hydrogen to be reduced by 90% by 2050. If it is correct, hydrogen will be the world’s future fuel. We have an opportunity to phase out Rio Tinto’s aluminium smelting and to use the electricity to produce hydrogen. The Government should be ﬁnancing the construction of the ﬁrst hydrogen plant. Robert Browning (Kaikohe)

CHOO ON THIS Jane Clifton (Politics, December 14) writes that there are probably no proﬁtable railways in the world. How about the many railroad companies in the US and Canada, such as Wisconsin Central Railway, which led the consortium that acquired New Zealand Rail (later Tranz Rail) in 1993? Of course, commuter rail projects such as Auckland’s City Rail Link are horribly expensive, and passenger commuter services generally require subsidies. But there are new freight lines to coal or iron-ore mines, such as the

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to smoke marijuana. It wants people to drive less to help global warming, but pushes through plans to lower the cost of petrol. It wants businesses to expand, but puts up barriers for overseas workers. It rails against racism, but lets NZ First’s Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones insult Indians without rebuke. And it promises the most open government ever, but lets Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi worm out of claims of looking after his mates.

Effective action on climate change requires both systemic and individual change (Letters, December 21). Change by individuals alone isn’t enough. How can I recycle plastic, for example, if there is no infrastructure in place for that? As for the driver of the fossilfuel industry’s actions, look no further than money. Eight of the world’s 10 wealthiest corporations depend for their wealth, either wholly or in part, on the continued exploitation of fossil fuels. Money corrupts; fossil-fuel money corrupts absolutely. Digby Scorgie (Kaiapoi)

WEAR, DON’T WASH I was shocked by Tatiana Schlossberg’s tip (“‘There’s no ﬁnish line’”, December 21) to wash jeans only once every ﬁve wears. I had no idea people washed them that often. Am I a slattern, an ecowarrior-heroine or a normal non-American person? Lesley Cavanagh (Snells Beach) LETTER OF THE WEEK

THE LIST GOES ON The inconsistencies of this coalition Government continue to pile up. It raises the tax on tobacco to stop people smoking, but holds a referendum on whether to allow people

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HISTORY LESSONS As a species, we are slow learners. New Zealand’s experience of Britain joining the EEC 50 years ago should warn us not to have too many of our trading eggs in one basket. Regardless of whether it’s the UK, China, the US or any other country, we should not be totally reliant on the goodwill of one of them. What would happen to our tourism industry if, for example, concerns over climate change became so frightening that countries began to impose a penalty tax on any air travellers or cruise-ship voyagers? Or the Chinese Government told its citizens not to tour here because our Government’s criticism of its human-rights abuses? Is our Government

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FINALISTS Marin: “We’re debating a name change to New Finland.” – Trish Bishop,

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Marin: “Beat this, Jacinda.”

Marin: “Ugh, I just realised we’re going to have to meet Trump one day. Let’s pretend we don’t speak English.”

– Rex McGregor, Auckland

Caption: “Ardern cloning a success.”

– Lizzie Robertshaw, Havelock North

Caption: “The Finnish Line.” – Lizzie Robertshaw, Havelock North

Marin: “Finnish? This is just the beginning!” – Alan Belcher, Christchurch Marin: “We agreed on less pale, male and stale.” – Simon King, Wellington

– Robbie Blair, Warkworth

already too timid to make such criticisms? Once, we were not afraid to challenge the US over its nuclear ships or the rugby union over South Africa’s policy of apartheid. We should also be wary of having too much of our arable land in foreign nationals’ hands. If there was a food shortage in their home country, they might choose to send food overseas regardless of New Zealand’s needs. Remember what happened to the Irish in the famine of the mid-19th century? A million people starved and another million emigrated because the English who owned the productive land were more interested in exporting the abundant corn crop to Europe instead of feeding the locals. Do our politicians consider any of these examples from history? History has a bad habit of repeating. Kathleen Kenrick (Roslyn, Dunedin)

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QUIZWORD FAN As a Listener reader, I enjoy the wide range of articles, columnists and cartoons. But my greatest pleasure comes from the puzzles, especially Quizword. The weekly challenge covering such a wide range of topics – some recondite, some of stupefying trivia, such as the duties of sandboys and their disposition – is a delight. Graham Pomfret-Brown (Stoke, Nelson)

DRUG PUSHING I’m disappointed consumerrights champion Sue Chetwin (Letters, November 30) wants us to forgo our right to “receive … information and opinions of any kind in any form” as granted under the Bill of Rights Act. Maybe there’s a need to review direct-toconsumer drug advertising (DTCA) as it relates to accuracy and safety, but an outright ban goes too far. Pharmac has a high degree of independence from

politicians. That’s as it should be. Nevertheless, because it decides who gets what, where and when, a DTCA ban would limit the public’s knowledge of treatment options, thus restricting their ability to question these decisions, or decisions of the Government on overall drug funding. A ban would also conﬂict with the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights, which has led to an improved and safer doctor/ patient relationship. As to individual treatment decisions, it ensures we receive effective communication, can make informed choices and give informed consent. I’m

sure Chetwin would agree this code complements consumers’ rights generally. In giving effect to it, doctors anticipate their advice may compete with, for example, Dr Google, DTCA, or even Listener articles. However, if there are indeed doctors yielding to patient pressure to prescribe inappropriately, rather than lose income, then maybe the Medical Council’s professional standards team should investigate. Richard Featherstone (Woodridge, Wellington)

DIFFERENT STRINGS I appreciated Paul Thomas’ piece casting Donald Trump as

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Quips& Quotes “I cannot stand people who disagree with me on the issue of Roe v Wade … which I believe is about the proper way to cross a lake.” – Stephen Colbert quoted in the New York Times “Men also experience a ‘change of life’. Because some cope by buying a Porsche, women often refer to this as the Menoporsche.” – Bill Ralston “Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.” – Roman poet Ovid “In the morning, only aristocrats and degenerates drink.” – Moldovan saying “Beauty attracts the eye, but personality captures the heart.” – Unknown “Sometimes I wish we could go back to living in precedented times.” – Telegraph cartoonist Matt Pritchett sums up the mood of 2019 “If we think of anger as compost, we think of it as energy that can be recycled in the direction of our good. It is an empowering force.” – author Bell Hooks “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?” – George Eliot [Wellington Mayor Andy]Foster told Morning Report he had “no idea” why the donations had been split between the different companies. “To be fair, it’s not the first time Sir Peter [Jackson] has unnecessarily split something into three.” – seen on Twitter Te tiro atu tō kanohi ki tairāwhiti ana tērā whiti te rā kite ataata ka hinga ki muri kia koe – Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. – Māori proverb

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1. Who painted A Bigger Splash, an iconic 1967 pop artwork depicting a splash in a swimming pool? ❑ Jeff Koons ❑ Roy Lichtenstein ❑ David Hockney ❑ Andy Warhol 2. Complete this famous opening from a novel: “The past is a foreign country; …” ❑ And not one you’d want to visit ❑ Remote and inhospitable ❑ They do things differently there ❑ A place that exists in the mind 3. Which of these early-20thcentury events happened first? ❑ RMS Titanic sinks ❑ First “talkie” feature film screens ❑ October Revolution ❑ Ford Model T released

Scrooge (“A Christmas carol”, December 21), but I wonder if he has not chosen the wrong archetype. Given Trump’s endless ﬁddling and the literal and metaphorical burning of the US, I think a more ﬁtting comparison would be the narcissistic Emperor Nero. Chris Else (Andersons Bay, Dunedin)

LAY OFF SMOKERS I take my hat off to David Seymour for his commonsense approach to smokers

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by GABE ATKINSON 4. True or false? Some people are immune to brain freeze (ice-cream headaches)? ❑ True ❑ False 5. “Betwixt” and “between” mean the same. True or false? ❑ True ❑ False 6. Which of these novels is not set in London? ❑ The House of Mirth ❑ About a Boy ❑ Bridget Jones’s Diary ❑ House of Cards 7. Which of these is misspelt? ❑ Hierachy ❑ Pronunciation ❑ Cemetery ❑ Embarrassment

and tobacco products. On Prime News (December 17), he said smoking is one of the freedoms we enjoy and that it boils down to personal choice and should be left as that. My choice, and that of others, is to smoke, so why the constant harping and price hikes that further disadvantage the disadvantaged and seem to satisfy those who interfere in our freedoms while more important issues that do harm others receive scant attention in comparison? Do some of the more fortunate really understand what life is like when it seems all you have going for you is the relief and pleasure of a smoke? I think not. Paul Baber (Whanganui)

WHAT THE …? Thank goodness I took no notice of Sarah Watt’s review of The Good Liar (Books & Culture, December 14). It is an excellent, thoroughly

8. Which movie was the ﬁrst to feature the character Dr Hannibal Lecter? ❑ Red Dragon ❑ The Silence of the Lambs ❑ Hannibal Rising ❑ Manhunter 9. Which of these musicians was the leader of a band called The Mothers of Invention? ❑ David Bowie ❑ Jeﬀ Beck ❑ Frank Zappa ❑ Joan Baez 10. The daiquiri and mojito are cocktails that originated in which country? ❑ Mexico ❑ Brazil Answers on ❑ Cuba page 60. ❑ Spain

enjoyable movie. No sex, no violence, a great story and great acting. Her comment that “reliance on Sir Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren to inveigle viewers out of their pension money for a mediocre cinema outing” was miserable. Megan Jenkins (Meadowbank, Auckland)

We invested our “pension” to see The Good Liar, which was outstanding and gave us an excellent return on our money. We recommended it to several friends who told us it was one of the best ﬁlms they’ve seen and a masterpiece of deception. Paul and Joan Davies (Christchurch)

Letter of the week The letter of the week winner receives a copy of Donna Hay’s new collection of quick, familyfriendly recipes in which vegetables take centre stage.

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BERNARD LAGAN IN SYDNEY

The burning country Slow to act on climate change, it seems Australia’s luck has run out.

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“Since you asked, yes I am ‘woke’.”

cluster under the trees. Many animals have been sold for slaughter because the paddocks are dust bowls. The national sheep ﬂock, we learn this week, is headed to its lowest level since 1904.

ustralia’s biggest inland rivers have dwindled into cesspools. The Government has sent people to pull the remaining fish out and move them to what healthier waters remain. Trucks rumble across roads far north and west of Sydney carting water to the growing numbers of small towns where reticulation systems have run dry. The first restrictions on water use hit Sydney in mid-December. They’re mild enough for now but, we are warned, time limits on showers will be next. One rogue bastard drought did it all, say the harder men in our Government, rejecting the need for tougher action to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Others says climate change is behind the drought, dust, flames, smoke and ash. No decent rain is forecast until at least May. A hundred bush fires were raging across New South Wales in the run-in to Christmas. Australia has had its hottest days on record. Smoke shrouds Sydney again and the Government declared a seven-day state of emergency. It’s going to be a fretful summer. l New Zealander Bernard Lagan is the Australian correspondent for the Times, London.

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he Sydney restaurateur, hot and weary, grumbled his frustration. The white cloths over his troublingly empty outside tables were smeared with falling ash. He’d replace them and a couple of hours later he’d have to do it again. Finally, he gave up and substituted ash-coloured paper for the cloth. The smell of burning eucalypts from the scores of bush ﬁres to the west, north and south of Sydney carried sweetly on the breeze, the smoke yet to invade the city. We hoped it wouldn’t. Two days later, the city awoke to a smell so acrid it seemed the ﬁres were in the streets. The smoke had slunk in overnight and, by dawn, hung low and thick. Street lights switched on at mid-morning were a feeble yellow smudge in the haze. The birds vanished. Even a short walk brought watery eyes and the clammy feeling of something foreign building in the throat. It seemed a mistake to linger outside as broadcasters passed on warnings for the even mildly vulnerable to stay indoors. For days, perhaps. Suddenly, the emerald city’s acres of shady parks, soft sands and the bluest of bays looked and felt like a pollution-choked Asian metropolis. Jakarta, perhaps,

or Delhi. Silvery bodies drifted through the haze, faces masked or wrapped with a scarf. By afternoon, weather apps were mistaking ever denser smoke for clouds and cruelly forecasting rain when there was nothing to break our long drought. Office workers tumbled confused into streets when fire alarms were tricked by the smoke. The harbour’s buzzing ferries halted, fearing collisions. Even the great bridge that spans the harbour and the soaring Sydney Opera House roof were ghosts in the haze. A 15-year-old daughter picked up from school said she felt flattened by the smoke and fearful of the fires building into mega-blazes to the northwest She knows the climate is coming for her. We should have taken more notice when, a year ago, a thin film of red, dried-out topsoil carried hundreds of miles from the deep inland began to coat cars and houses in Sydney. It blows in almost daily now, on mean winds that rob farmers of their crumbling earth – their most valuable possession in a drought that has taken everything else. Over in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, the few farm animals left on the stretching plains

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Let the holidaymaker beware Urging tourists to ask adventure companies if they are registered just doesn’t make sense.

ALEX SCOTT

f all the advice that people get given before they go on holiday – where to ﬁnd the biggest ice creams, the best pies and the most deserted beaches, for example – the least useful would surely be Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Iain Lees-Galloway’s suggestion that, before booking or using their services, holidaymakers should ask adventure-tourism companies whether they are registered. I mean, really? Lees-Galloway said that being registered was a strong indication that those operators take health and safety seriously. That may be true, or it may not, but, applying the same logic, the kind of tourists who ask if a company is registered may not be the ones who jump off bridges for recreation. Aside from that, many clients of adventure-tourism companies are overseas tourists who cannot reasonably be expected to have any knowledge of New Zealand’s health and safety legislation. We have regulators

to check whether operators are registered or licensed, don’t we? Do we? If I buy my big ice cream, it is not my responsibility to ask whether the dairy is registered for GST and has a food-safety certificate, if it even needs one. Unless you work in the “Ministry of Bureaucratic Regulations", you would have no idea who is supposed to be registered, licensed or certificated for which activities, let alone checking up, when, as a tourist, English might not be your first language. Lees-Galloway’s suggestion is well meaning but, in the wake of the Whakaari/White Island tragedy, the idea that regulatory compliance or noncompliance played any part in what happened is akin to asking bereft homeowners after an earthquake whether they had paid their rates. Unlicensed operators may face penalties for not having proper authority, but it was a volcanic eruption that killed people. It might comfort us to think that in 2020, we can regulate our way out of being victims of the Earth’s forces. The evidence says otherwise.

t was Robert Frost who wrote in his poem The Death of the Hired Man, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” And, it seems, they also have to take in your surfboard, mag wheels, cacti, favourite pink plastic cake stand, boxes of winter clothes, class

“I swear, go off your food for a day and it’s all treats, all the time.”

My husband has always been clear that, with a few exceptions, he likes animals only when they have been roasted.

photos, half-burnt scented candles, books, furniture and the remains of your last pantry when you were in your vegan phase. When I return home from holiday, I will discover which of my kids has moved in and who has moved out. My husband and I have three kids and two spare bedrooms, so the kids have developed a spreadsheet of occupancy for 2020. Their stuff has preceded them and I suspect does not feature in the “moving out” column of the spreadsheet but rather is now a permanent ﬁxture of our basement. One day, Pompeii like, archaeologists will ﬁnd a treasure trove of middle-income family life in the early 2000s and be amazed, as am I, by the detritus. My late friend Tom Bridgman used to say that the world was full of middle-aged people with pets they had not themselves chosen. Rather, they had inherited the animals from their kids, who had found to their surprise that it is harder to rent a place when you own a dog. My husband has always been clear that, with a few exceptions, he likes animals only when they have been roasted. Consequently, we have no pets and I don’t need to keep checking the oven. Because, home is the place where, even when the kids come home, you don’t have to take their dog. l

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BILL RALSTON

Beware the media darling of 2020 Watch out for Peters reaping the rewards of backing NZ media mergers.

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competition grounds, but Peters supports NZME’s proposal that the merger be reconsidered with a Government “Kiwishare” to keep newsroom operations separate and ensure provincial papers continue to be published. The provinces are where NZ First mines a lot of its votes. With TVNZ unable to provide a dividend and looking for a Government subsidy, and the noncommercial RNZ perpetually standing with its hand out looking for more cash, Peters startled Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi by offering support for his attempts to ﬁgure out a way to keep public broadcasting going through a merger.

There are, of course, other sources of news, for example, TV3, or whatever it’s called these days. Oh, no, that’s right, Three’s owner is desperately trying to sell it and warns it will close the loss-making TV network if it can’t ﬁnd a buyer. There are private radio stations that run news, but half of those are owned by NZME, which urgently needs the StuffMe merger, and the other half are owned by the moribund company that runs Three. There are other small online here can be no doubt that four of the biggest news operations such as Newsroom, mainstream-media outlets in the country but their audience is tiny compared are now deeply indebted to the NZ First to the big four. There is also the leader. Their long-term survival depends on his Otago Daily Times and Bauer, which acquiescence to their planned pairings. How owns, among other magazines, many of their editors will now enthusiastically the Listener, but they may become endorse their journalists doing negative stories, almost lone independent-media no matter how deserved, about NZ First? Instead, voices now that the mainstreamI would expect this election year there will be a lot media outlets appear beholden to more news that “accentuates the positive” about the goodwill of Peters and NZ First. Peters and his party. He has neatly executed a The timing works brilliantly for stranglehold on the mainstream media. Peters. The Commerce Commission works slowly, and any decision from it on a revised StuffMe bid will take months. A merger of TVNZ and RNZ will also take many months as the Government works out its structure and ﬁnancing. All of which means smooth waters in the news for NZ First as it sails off towards polling day. It might help if the National Party had a clear policy on both mergers, but, so far, you seen the glasses I had on when I came in?” I’ve seen nothing to indicate that it does. l

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ne of life’s small pleasures at this time of year, as I sit in the summer sun in my deckchair, is speculating on who will be the biggest winners and losers in the year ahead. Unfortunately, not a lot of contemplation is required for 2020. The biggest winner will be Winston Peters and the biggest loser will be the country’s mainstream media. In a superb piece of political strategy, Peters has declared himself generally in favour of some form of “StuffMe” merger, bringing together the rival publishers Stuff and NZME into a single news organisation, and he is also supportive of moves to merge the publicly owned broadcasters RNZ and TVNZ. The reason for these strange media marriages is that all four are ﬁnancially hard-pressed. Peters may have a love/ hate relationship with journalists, disparaging them at almost every opportunity while soaking up the publicity that they generate for him, but, by appearing to come to the aid of the media, he has rendered himself virtually bulletproof in an election year. The Commerce Commission has “Have previously vetoed a StuffMe merger on

By appearing to come to their aid, Peters has neatly executed a stranglehold on mainstream media.

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THE SPIRIT OF THE LAND Jurassic giant: The kauri is a living link with our distant past, its fossil record stretching back to the dinosaurs. Its ancestors evolved about 135 million years ago, when New Zealand and Australia were still part of Gondwanaland.

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t is an enchanted elven forest, says Australian bush expert Mark Graham, largely unchanged over tens of millions of years. “So, we are back to the dawn of the evolution of flowering plants and songbirds, back to the time of the dinosaurs.” An ecologist with the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales, Graham owns a private conservation reserve on the Dorrigo Plateau, part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a Unesco World Heritage Site. These rainforests covering 3665 sq km of NSW and Queensland are some of the oldest on the planet, one of the few remnants of the supercontinent of Gondwana that broke up about 180 million years ago. “The songbirds in this part of the world are some of our most ancient,” Graham says. “Listening to the dawn chorus in this forest is like having a window back in time.” Now, instead of songbirds, he hears the roar of fire just 500m from his home. “I have never heard anything like it. It is like Mother Nature is so angry she is growling with the deepest, most guttural tones.” These rainforests are not meant to burn; they have been wet for tens of millions of years. But burning they are. More than a quarter of a million hectares have been scorched by flames and Graham expects thousands more hectares to burn as Australia experiences record-breaking temperatures. The damage is a global tragedy. Although birds can fly elsewhere, there are few refuges for the ancient fauna species that live deep in wet leaf litter. “Frogs,

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Lord of the forest: Tāne Mahuta, left and inset, is more than 50m tall.

Trees are not only lifesupporting but also vital to our emotional wellbeing, reducing stress and boosting brain function. Yet they are under siege.

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ancient lizards and snakes have no capacity to survive fire, they just get cooked. Some plant species have the capacity to regrow, but some of the really delicate species that require permanent moisture, such as the ferns, will probably die out.” This is not part of an age-old cyclic pattern of wildfires. This is drought, wind, high temperatures. Climate change? “Absolutely. These fires are off the charts, there is no historical reference point, we are in uncharted territory in terms of the extent of country that has burnt, the severity of the fire, the range of ecosystems affected, the altitudinal range of the fire, the number of houses lost.” Across New South Wales, out of a total of 1.9 million ha of national park land, more than three million hectares have succumbed to fire since July, including 20% of the Blue Mountains. Eight people have been killed. As early as November, smoke from bushfires clogged the air over Sydney, setting off smoke alarms, cancelling sports events, delaying ferry services and flights in and out of the city and triggering health warnings.

ustralia is just one of a rash of red spots on the Global Forest Watch ﬁres map. From Lebanon to California, from

Top-selling artist Tim Wilson’s Haast, one of many images of trees in pristine New Zealand landscapes that have gained him international recognition. Wilson believes people respond to the “emotional impact” of light filtered through trees.

France to Siberia – one of the coldest places on Earth – fires have been destroying forests. Data from the satellitedriven Sentinel-3 World Fire Atlas recorded 79,000 fires in August 2019, compared with just over 16,000 fires during the same period last year. Of these, almost half were in Asia, about 28% in South America, 16% in Africa,

Trees are Earth’s lifesupport system, hosting 80% of biodiversity and standing at the frontline in reducing climate change. and the rest in North America, Europe and Oceania. Eight hundred football ﬁelds of forest are lost every hour, and devastating ﬁres are raging around the world, says former EU environment commissioner Karmenu Vella. He says forests are our life-support system, hosting 80% of the Earth’s biodiversity and standing at the frontline in reducing climate change. “But today, as never before, they are under severe threat. ”

Although most wildﬁres are caused inadvertently, deforestation for agriculture in countries such as Brazil and Indonesia is contributing to soaring greenhouse gas emissions. And although planting trees is hailed as a counter to global warming, researchers say rising carbon dioxide will promote faster tree growth – which may mean a shorter tree life, reducing the amount of time carbon is locked away. The longest-lived trees are those with the slowest growth rates.

low-growing kauri belongs to one of the oldest living conifer families, Araucariaceae, which has a fossil record stretching back to the dinosaurs. Kauri ancestors seem to have evolved in the Australia-New Zealand region about 135 million years ago, when the two countries were still close together as part of Gondwana. Although most of New Zealand’s land mass was under water during the Oligocene period, about 23 million years ago, kauri provides the greatest evidence for at least an archipelago of islands remaining. Molecular gene sequencing shows that kauri became genetically distinct from its closest Australian relatives well before the Oligocene

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drowning. It is a living link with New Zealand’s most distant past. When humans ﬁrst arrived in New Zealand, forests covered about 80% of the country. By the end of the past century, this had been whittled down to just over a quarter, concentrated in mountainous and hilly areas on the conservation estate or in remnant patches held on public reserves or covenanted on private land. Even within these remaining areas, pests – stoats, rats,

Forests calm our shattered nerves. Time in the bush reduces anxiety and boosts cognitive function. feral goats, deer and possums – and diseases such as kauri dieback and myrtle rust are all taking their toll. Wilding pines are changing our landscapes and out-competing native forests.

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purify the water and air, absorb carbon and cool the environment through a process of water evaporation (or evapotranspiration). They provide jobs and food and are habitat for 80% of the world’s land-based species, including African forest elephants and rhinos. They also calm our shattered nerves. The ancient Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku or “forest bathing” is recommended in selfhelp manuals and science journals as new research suggests spending time in forests reduces stress and boosts mood, creativity, mental health, immune and cognitive function. Time in forests reduces depression and anxiety and improves physical wellbeing – the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne now offers forest therapy for $36 a pop. In Washington DC, journalist Florence Williams, a fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature and author of The Nature Fix, has been promoting the importance of time spent in wild places, even the local city park. “Humans have an innate association with these landscapes,” she says from her home close to one of DC’s many city parks. “Even subconsciously, our brains and perceptual systems understand landscapes and feel comfortable in them. City planners need to

recognise this as a priority for the health of our communities and our people. We know [anxiety and other mental health problems]

Eight hundred football ﬁelds of forest are lost every hour, and devastating ﬁres are raging around the world. are worse in cities and we know access to nature can calm our nervous systems and those parts of the brain that get overactive in the city.”

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s the pressure on the world’s forests mounts up so, too, do arguments for their survival. Forests play a critical role in mitigating climate change. They

Let the sunshine in: studies show time in forests combats depression and lowers blood pressure.

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Flowering pōhutukawa symbolise the New Zealand summer. Te Waha O Rerekohu, left, at Te Araroa, is thought to be the oldest living pōhutukawa, at about 600 years old. For her book, she travelled to South Korea, Japan, Scotland and Finland, looking at the range of programmes, new and old, aimed at meeting our apparently deep-seated need for a dose of intense nature. Most of them take little effort. You walk into the forest – no cell phone, no playlist, no traffic. You listen to the birds, watch the movement of light on the leaves, feel the coolness of the air, pause and breathe – deeply. Back at home, Williams trawled through a wealth of medical data. Increasingly, she says, scientists are quantifying nature’s effects not only on mood and well-being, “but also on our ability to think, to remember things, to plan, create, daydream and focus”. Studies show time spent in forests reduces concentrations of the stress hormone cortisol, lowers the pulse rate and blood pressure, lessens levels of hostility and depression and, for children in particular, improves fitness and self-confidence. It does this on a number of sensory levels, says Williams. Aerosols in evergreen forests have been found to act as mild sedatives and stimulate respiration, the sounds of water and birdsong improve

mood and alertness, and the colours and patterns of natural treed landscapes – as any Romantic poet would attest – are calming to the eye. Even videos of nature have been found to relieve stress and mental health and behavioural issues in prison inmates. There were times when she was sceptical, says Williams, so it was a revelation “to realise how our surroundings can help pre-

Forest cover in New Zealand has been whittled down from more than 80% to less than a quarter. vent physical and mental problems”. She recommends a goal of ﬁve hours a month in nature (about two 30-40 minute periods a week) to counteract what she describes as an “epidemic” of dislocation from the outdoors – an epidemic that is damaging to

our health and to that of the environment. “If we recognise we need these ecosystems for our own health, it is yet another argument in support of conservation, because we are more inclined to protect something if we see more value in it. It is after we establish a true bond with these places and an understanding of how connected we are that we can really start to care about them.”

ver the past decade a rash of new books has been hammering home the importance of trees. In The Man Who Planted Trees, journalist Jim Robbins, of the New York Times, tells the true story of a man on a mission to reforest the world by cloning the oldest, largest and most resilient trees. US scientist Daniel Chamovitz demonstrates how plants respond to touch, sound, smell, sight and even memory in What A Plant Knows. Richard Powers’ mythic The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize

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for ﬁction, has trees as revered ancestors – slow, interconnected, resourceful. In 2016, German forester Peter Wohlleben put scientists into a spin with his hugely popular The Hidden Life of Trees, in which he argues that, to better protect our forests, we need to acknowledge that trees have vibrant inner lives not so different from our own. They thrive in families, he says. They form social networks, care for each other and send out signals about drought, disease or encroaching herbivores. Such comments are supported by recent research into the way trees communicate with each other, above and below ground. Scientists have found trees do “share” water and nutrients through microscopic networks of fungal ﬁla-

Scientists have found trees do “share” water and nutrients through microscopic networks of fungal ﬁlaments – the “wood-wide web”. ments (Wohlleben calls it the “wood-wide web”). It is a symbiotic relationship. The fungi feed on the sugar that trees photosynthesise from sunlight; the trees absorb the nitrogen, phosphorus and other mineral nutrients taken up from the soil by fungi. Research at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, into the chemical, hormonal and slow-pulsing electrical signals emitted by trees, reported in the Smithsonian last year, has identiﬁed a voltage-based signalling system “that appears strikingly similar to animal nervous systems”. The Hidden Life of Trees sold more than 800,000 copies in Germany and topped bestseller lists in 11 other countries. But Wohlleben’s anthropomorphic language infuriated others. He talks of “mother trees”

1. Rata trees in flower near Fox Glacier. 2. Dense bush flanks the Waimakariri Gorge. 3. A road carved through the forest.

2 feeding their saplings with liquid sugar, of trees forming “friendships” and nourishing sick individuals. Much like a herd of elephants, he writes, trees “look after their own, and they help their sick and weak back up onto their feet”. In 2017, two German scientists launched an online petition to challenge these claims. The petition, titled in English “Even in the forest, we want facts instead of fairy tales”, said the book promotes “a very unrealistic understanding of forest ecology”. In the long term, they said, “the environment in general and forests in particular will not be helped by the sort of unenlightened thinking promoted by the hidden reality of this book.” But if the semantics are questionable, Wohlleben’s motivation is not. If we recognise trees’ “emotional lives and needs”, he writes, “we will stop seeing forests as timber factories, and understand how forests can serve as oases of respite and recovery.” The current “anthropogenic ecological crisis” also lies behind Plants as Persons, by botanist Matthew Hall, now associate director of research services at Victoria University of Wellington. In the book, he calls for a more harmonious

3 relationship between humans and nature to avoid the “banal, unthinking scorchedearth policy” that we have inﬂicted on our plants and our planet. Acknowledging plants as sentient beings, he argues, is a start. “Of course, we still have to use plants for food, shelter, medicine and clothing, but our ﬁrst step is to recognise that we are taking a life. A key feature of many indigenous cultures is that the harm done to individual plants is not ignored or

The Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne now oﬀers forest therapy for $36 a pop. backgrounded.” In his new book, The Imagination of Plants, he plumbs the world’s religions and mythic traditions to expose the many examples of a deep-seated respect for, and kinship with, plants. It includes stories of gods creating plants and humans (Māori trace their whakapapa back to Ranginui and Papatūānuku, from whom the forests then humans were created); of ﬁrst humans fashioned from wood (elm in Nordic countries, broom in Wales, ash in early Greece); of tree worship (including the many trees associated with Buddha); of metamorphosis

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THE VALUE OF TREES from plant into human form; of trees that speak or weep. A new wave of contemporary tree-loving paganism – Hall applauds Prince Charles’ habit of wishing every tree he plants the very best – suggests a reawakening “of some kind of existential need to reconnect with these habitats that we are losing”. As with Wohlleben’s loving, nurturing, grieving trees, calls to recognise plant sentience and reconsider the “moral standing”

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Recognition of forested land in Te Urewera as holding the same rights as a legal person is a change in the value we place on forests. of plants are an easy target for derision. But as ﬁres continue to burn and trees continue to be felled, a growing recognition of our reliance on forests, and the cultural traditions that encourage protection of forests, are already prompting a wave of tree-planting and forest-restoration activities. Even the recognition of the forested land of Te Urewera as holding the same “rights, powers, duties, and liabilities of a legal person” under the Te Urewera Act of 2014 – can be seen as a change in the value we place on our forests. Williams is not so sure: “I don’t think you need that spiritual connection to appreciate and value landscapes and feel comfortable in them. I don’t want nature to seem precious and inaccessible. It can be the shrub in the backyard, it can be the sunset. But it is also about attentiveness. I try to encourage some practical ideas for how to open your senses and be present and mindful in the outdoors.” That is where research shows you get the beneﬁts, by paying attention – and seeing the wood for the trees. l

THE FOREST Like a lot of people who live in rural parts of New Zealand, I grew up next to a small forest. It was at the end of our neighbour’s farm. It didn’t have a name, it was just a small patch of trees that my sister and I called The Forest. I would spend hours playing in the small creek and amongst the bush. That tiny patch of trees and undergrowth and the small bit of water kept me entertained through endless school holidays. As I grew older and went back home, I realised just how small it actually was: that sensation we all have of discovering something that seemed enormous as a child appears modest as an adult. The forest was more than

a playground, it also found me my first job. My sister and I found a bunch of pamphlets dumped down there one day. And then another lot. And then another. In a quest to find out what was going on, my mum made a few phone calls – one of the locals was dumping their leaflet round and next thing we knew, we had a new job. That small forest doesn’t exist any more. It’s been felled to make way for houses as my old home town grows. It reminds me, though, that our forests, our trees, provide us with so many things. Protection against erosion, mitigation in the face of climate change, a habitat, or, sometimes, just a simple child’s playground. Jacinda Ardern is the Prime Minister of New Zealand

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HAGEN HOPKINS

Jacinda Ardern

Many New Zealanders have a special tree, a patch of native bush, a forest. Here are some of their stories.

Simon Bridges THE WAITĀKERES ON MY DOORSTEP

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From top: Wanaka’s crooked willow, one of the country’s most photographed trees; beech trees in Arthur’s Pass; a sunlit pine at Riverhead, Auckland.

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For me, the Waitākere Ranges was a case of love at ﬁrst sight. I grew up on the West Auckland beaches, with the Waitākeres on my doorstep. They were the jewel in the Auckland regional park network. With more than 200km of tracks exploring beautiful kauri forests and majestic waterfalls, the 17,000ha Waitākeres had something for everyone – whether it be a short walk or a multi-day tramp. Not to mention their role as the collection point for Auckland’s water supply. Like many families, ours spent what felt like weeks exploring the ranges. It was where we bonded, where we enjoyed each

other’s company and where we interacted with nature. I don’t spend nearly enough time there today, and actually I miss it. When you return to New Zealand from overseas, and you see the Waitākeres, you know you’re home – a welcome sight. Sadly, many of the tracks are now closed to prevent the spread of kauri dieback, which is devastating one of our most iconic tree species. I want my children to live in a pristine New Zealand, where they can take their children to swim at Piha or tramp in the Waitākeres. I want my grandchildren, and yours, to know that our generation has done all it can to protect the environment. The Waitākeres are under threat; we must do everything we can to protect them. Simon Bridges is the leader of the National Party

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Dick Frizzell WALKING THROUGH TREES I have a special memory of walking through trees … getting lost, getting found, being entranced. I must have been about 14. I was staying with an “uncle” and “aunty” in a shack – possums on the roof, possums in the roof – at Waimarama, in Hawke’s Bay. I have no idea why I was there … summer fun for Richard or something … and I remember being very alone in this dark hut, hunkered down in the middle of a large stand of stormravaged poplar trees. One day, a young girl magically manifested at the edge of our yard, grandly announced that her name was Margot, and challenged me to follow her back into this mad tangle of grey and silver trunks. Which I did, without a thought – and I’ll never forget it: the silver light overhead, the heady scent of poplar pollen, the sense of being totally enveloped by a complete world. And there’s lithe young Margot leaping ahead of me, into and over healthy and rotting undergrowth. It was like following Audrey Hepburn into the Florida Everglades. Fast forward 50 years and Jude and I were living at Waimarama while we built our Haumoana house, and we found ourselves threatening to lie down in front of a huge machine about to fell a pretty copse of these very same poplars. The local busybody said the trees posed a constant threat to his wife, who had to walk through this hail of falling limbs every time she went to clean the public toilets by the beach. Of course, this bombastic fool had talked the regional council into giving him a substantial contract to take out this danger to life and limb, and he declared we “Auckland hippies” weren’t going to stand in his way. We didn’t win, but the scent given off by the mangled stumps did remind me, suddenly, of Margot. Dick Frizzell is a celebrated artist

Dick Frizzell’s Shadows on a Hill (2018). Inset: Tōtaras (2018).

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Tina Makereti

Sir Stephen Tindall

TŌTARANUI /QUEEN CHARLOTTE SOUND

TĀNE MAHUTA

We lived all over the North Island, and we moved around a lot. I spent many hours atop a mattress in the back of a station wagon, or lying on the backseat of a Hillman Hunter, breathing second-hand smoke, the windows down. Outside, I saw treeless hills, sheep and cattle and fence posts. What trees I saw were lined up along fencelines, macrocarpa or pine or some English relative of these. In my memories, the landscape of my childhood is a physical wasteland, as well as a cultural one. I don’t know how much of this is true; I only know that this is what I remember. I had no heart for it. Sometimes we lived on farms and I walked the hills looking for adventure. The ground seemed parched, denuded of trees. It was all stubby grass until torrential rain turned everything to mud. I don’t remember ever seeing a pūkeko or a kererū. Even tūī were rare. We had a black-and-white cat. I was 17 the first time I went to the South Island. Coming into the Sounds on the ferry, I was astonished. This is where they’d been keeping the trees! All of them, it seemed. I understood something, then, about our country and what we’d done to it. It wasn’t until that moment that I realised what exactly had been missing. It would be many years before I learnt how significant my ancestors had been in this area, and how this was the home of my bones long before I understood it to be mine. But Tōtaranui sang to me, on that first trip, and it still holds me in awe each time I am there. The cultural wasteland is long since gone now that I know how to go home.

The most significant experience for me was seeing Tāne Mahuta in the Waipoua Forest for the first time. I was about 18 on that first visit, and then a few years later I saw this mighty kauri at night. It was quite eerie being in the forest in the dark, and seeing this enormous tree silhouetted against the forest was an amazing spiritual experience. Since that first visit with Tāne, native trees have stuck with me and have been a part of my life in one way or another. The first house my wife and I bought together was in Glenfield, right on a native reserve. We had kahikatea, rimu and kauri growing all around us that our kids would play in, and even a 110-year-old massive kānuka that grew up through the deck with a canopy that covered our house. We started The Tindall Foundation in 1994 and Tāne Mahuta was still with me as the visual symbol of the foundation and a part of our vision for what we could give back to New Zealand. I truly can’t imagine a New Zealand without our kauri trees; they’re part of who we are. Along with the protection of native trees, I became interested in how we could help Kiwis to simply plant more. It’s something most people can do – plant a native tree in your backyard, gift a native tree to celebrate something, or get involved with a community tree-planting day. As part of that thinking, we asked Project Crimson to start Trees That Count and became founding partners with a charity whose sole focus is on helping to plant millions more native trees for our future. It’s amazing to watch this idea take flight and see New Zealanders support and show how much they love native trees, too. Our native trees are part of our DNA and I think they bring the best out of us as people.

Tina Makereti is a novelist, essayist and short story writer

Stephen Tindall is patron of Trees That Count

GEOFF CHAPPLE

A Patricia Howitt illustration from Taketakerau: The Millennium Tree.

Geoff Chapple

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TAKETAKERAU: PERHAPS OUR OLDEST TREE

I was nine when we shifted from Henderson to our new Waitākere house. The house embodied a revolutionary 1950s-vernacular credo: to be in the forest and of the forest; to be open-plan, with polished rātā ﬂoors and exposed rimu beams; to feature, on each interior wall, the differing grain of native wood – kauri, mātai, red beech. My bedroom was lined with pale kahikatea. Outside, cave wetas hung upside down under the water-tank lid, and the house’s low gables extended at that same rear side within the drip line of the māhoe. On the three sunnier sides, the wide verandahs were sometimes level with the tree-fern canopy. I was living inside Group Architects’ bold new manifesto and didn’t know it, but absorbed the bush knowledge and competence anyway. The angle of the rātā behind the house was so oblique against the hill, even my two dogs could climb to where the epiphytes made a comfortable rest. Then, hour upon hour, we crossed a Waitākere wilderness. I collected wood ear fungus to sell to the Chinese, or stumbled into adventure, one hand anchored on the harakeke, the other holding my dog’s tail as he fought a possum on the edge of a vertical volcanic plug. Or we ran for our lives through the trees after disturbing a virulent German wasp nest. Once, after my dog came home bleeding from shotgun pellets in its hindquarters, my sister and I and another mate stood on an exposed section of track, heaping insults on the suspected gunman as he toddled round his house below. Then we vanished back into the bush. As an adult, every time I re-enter that pungent smell of growth and decay, it’s a return to the same soft, green light of childhood. The boundary-less bush, alive and cognisant, reaching deep into itself. Geoff Chapple is the founder of Te Araroa, the New Zealand-long tramping trail

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In the beginning, dense rainforest smothered the slopes; a lush, verdant tapestry, a green velvet cloak. Trees, shrubs and ferns, along with birds and insects, all lived in balance or died from what nature threw at them – storms, droughts, volcanoes – or became victims in the natural order of things. Then humans arrived. The vast tapestry was slashed; the protective cloak removed. Man, and accompanying mammals, made their mark in Aotearoa. But within this slash and burn, kill and devour, some forest remnants remained. One such example of natural bush is in the Eastern Bay of Plenty. The pūriri Taketakerau One hundred years ago, a small reserve, the is estimated Hukutaia Domain near Opotiki, was preserved to to be 2000, protect an enormous, ancient pūriri; tapu because perhaps even 2500, years old. it once had been a burial tree for the bones of distinguished Māori. Standing at centre-stage, Taketakerau is estimated to be 2000, perhaps even 2500, years old. It is a commanding sight. For nearly 45 years, I have known and stood in awe of this ancient, living icon and imagined it as a seedling. And wonder, why does this tree still live? How has it survived storms, droughts, volcanoes? Why has it not become a victim of the natural order of things? Further north in kauri forests, Tāne Mahuta is estimated to be within the same age range. But Tāne Mahuta is not alone. Several other brothers in that forest are of similar age. Yet, I know of no other pūriri tree that is as ancient, gnarled and groaning with history as Taketakerau. One day, Taketakerau, too, will succumb, and only then, once it has been analysed, will we learn its true history; what secrets it still holds and the stories it can tell. Come see it while you can. Marnie Anstis is the author of Taketakerau: The Millennium Tree

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Clive Fugill A BUSHMAN’S SON For me, it will have to be the tōtara. I don’t do any of the bigger carving now because my hands are not as good as they used to be, but I do a lot of smaller works, such as paddles and waka huia (feather boxes), and I use mostly tōtara. We have kauri, but tōtara is better to carve. It is soft and durable; it has an oily texture, which helps when you are cutting through it with a chisel, and it polishes well. I learnt about timber very early. My dad was a bushman – he’d been practically brought up in the forest. He would bring native timber home for ﬁrewood and I would sit in the woodshed with a pocket knife and start carving. When I was about 11, my parents gave me a set of carving chisels and some books. There was a spare section close to where we lived and I would walk through on my way home from school and pick up old fence posts lying there, tōtara ones. I’d cut the ends off with a handsaw, then cut them into rough blocks

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THE LOVELOCK OAK Every school lays claim to its famous ex-students, and the golden boy of Timaru Boys’ High School is Jack Lovelock. Dux, head boy, athletics and boxing champion while a pupil from 1924 to 1928; later Rhodes Scholar, physician and international athletics star. Sadly, he died at 39, falling under a New York subway train in mysterious circumstances. He is best known for winning the 1500m at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, New Zealand’s ﬁrst Olympic athletics gold medal. The school’s memorial library holds the world’s largest collection of Lovelock memorabilia, but it is the Lovelock Oak that is the living tribute. It was presented by Dr Theodor

using Dad’s old axe head and strip the timber and start carving. I used to make souvenirs for Paradise Valley Springs – it was good pocket money. At high school, I wasn’t very academic, but I was always good at art – if there were any art prizes around, I would usually get them. In 1967, I was in the ﬁrst intake of carvers at the Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. I was 18. I learnt very quickly it wasn’t just about carving – you needed to know about the culture. I took te reo at school and I was passionate about Māori history and then archaeology. My father was supportive, being an old bushman. When he ﬁnished in forestry, he went into other jobs, but we’d take him out to the bush every now and again – he got a bit homesick for the forest. Before he passed away, I used to sit down with him and talk about the different trees. He had a lot of knowledge – I recorded some of it. Those old bushmen – after they came out of the forest, they always had this huge affection for it. Master carver Clive Fugill is Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Rangiwewehi

The Lovelock Oak; inset, Jack Lovelock with the seedling at the 1936 Olympics.

Lewald, president of the Reich’s Olympics organising committee, and now, more than 80 years later, it is in splendid new summer leaf. A girth of 3.4m and a high, ramifying trunk; a well-tended tree on its own lawn. This involuntary immigrant, a seedling from northern Germany, has prospered and is now the progenitor of hundreds of trees planted from acorns taken home by students, especially boarders. Oaks can live for hundreds of years and this one looks to be thriving. An augury perhaps, to signify the well-being of the school as well as being a reminder of a signiﬁcant New Zealander. Lovelock’s name has similarly only grown in stature and in 2002 an impressive statue of him at full pace was added in the grounds not far from the oak. Owen Marshall is an award-winning novelist and short story writer

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Philip Simpson POUAKANI, THE LARGEST TŌTARA TREE OF ALL The central North Island volcanic soil isn’t very good for pasture because it lacks some trace elements, but it is great for podocarps, which have fungi in their roots to help out. The greatest podocarp forest in the world grew there, established after the Taupō eruption about 1800 years ago. Pureora and Minginui are the remnants, possibly the nuclei of a potential “Tōtara National Park”. The area not only has the greatest expanse of mature tōtara forest left standing, but also the largest tōtara tree of all – Pouakani. Pouakani is estimated to be at least 1000 years old, with a trunk 3.9m in diameter. Several features of tōtara enable trees such as Pouakani to survive for hundreds of years. The most important is the resin in the wood and bark, which is strongly antifungal and antibacterial, so when an old tōtara gets damaged in a storm, the open wounds heal without infection. Another important factor in longevity is the ability of the tree to regrow the canopy from branches. Currently Pouakani has several of these “reiterations” arising from the storm-shattered remains of the former trunk. They are fed by new wood below them creating a ﬂuted trunk, a feature of old trees. The anchor roots of an old tree can snake across the ground far beyond the edge of the canopy above. They continually form feeding roots from the underside so the soil is saturated with roots and other trees are discouraged. As Pouakani has aged, it has built up a thick bark, a coat of light, strong, waterproof, warm and disease-resistant armour that protects the vital living cylinder of growing tissue beneath. It also protects the tree from kākā, which otherwise could rip the bark off to expose the resinous food beneath. And it protects the tree from drought, which is always a potential threat in the freedraining volcanic (or elsewhere, alluvial) soil.

Eliza McCartney MY SPACESHIP

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For all these reasons, Pouakani is a sacred shrine to New Zealand’s greatest tree, the tōtara. When I stand beneath it, I marvel that this creature has stood in this one place for 1000 years, with moa and eagle, huge storms and long droughts, enduring, healing its wounds, spreading its seeds, a reﬂection of ancient Gondwana. I listen with reverence to the wind in the branches, an endless tale of acceptance and identity. Philip Simpson is an ecologist and writer

below me. Other times I wanted nothing more than the pure excitement of climbing through a tree with others, playing all sorts of games, and embarking on imaginary adventures. I’ve never forgotten the fun we had in our native trees, and how lucky we were to have them in our backyard. My love and appreciation for our native flora has only grown, to the point where studying environmental science at university now feels like a hobby. Native trees bring so much joy, whether it’s from the resident birds, the bright flowers or maybe just the laughter of children exploring them. Even though I’m too big to fit into my spaceship now, I’ll always have the memories of happiness my tītoki gave me. Olympic athlete Eliza McCartney is a Trees That Count ambassador

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In the house I grew up in we had a wonderful backyard with many native trees. As siblings do, we decided we would each have our own tree; one brother chose the karaka, the other the tōtara, and I chose the tītoki. I knew this tree inside out, the shape of each branch, each lump and bump, nook and cranny. And even better, I knew that it was secretly a spaceship. There was the perfect arrangement of branches to create a seat with a steering wheel and pedals; everything needed to ﬂy a spaceship. Anybody who knew me as a child knows how much I loved to climb trees. The jungle gym that a strong mature tree provides was the best playground I ever found. Some days all I wanted was to be alone and climb as high as possible till the whole world was

The tōtara Pouakani is estimated to be at least 1000 years old, with a trunk 3.9m in diameter.

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Cliff Curtis

bloodline, where his family name of Toi is renowned. Toi Te Huatahi. Toi Kai Rakau. MY BRO’S FAMILY TREE We would stay in Ōpononi with his grandmother, who was of So, my bro’s first-born was a boy named Te Rangihau, followed another time and made of pure love, so she could ask us about by a girl named Wairingiringi, then another boy named Maaka, our adventures. Then, after we ate and his kuia shared a few and his fourth, also a boy, Tumanako. My bro’s name is Gordon adventures of her own, we would continue our journey on foot, Toi. These days, he’s an acclaimed trekking inland from the homestead multi-discipline artist and founder of near the ocean. House of Natives. Following a stream bordered with I was 21 when I met Gordon as an fruit trees and flush with watercress actor on the set of The Piano, my first and tuna (eel), we would ascend the feature film. We worked on many valley deep into the pristine native others: Desperate Remedies, Rapanui and forest, Te Wao Nui O Tane. There, we Kahu and Maia to name a few. Besides had tūi as guides through nikau groves as piwakawaka flitted among the lush movies, we had many adventures under-canopy of mamaku ferns. We together. During holidays we trained arrived at a particular kauri tree where in Mau Rakau (Maori weaponry) with kererū perched as guardians. Mita Mohi, alongside his son, Pat Mohi, There, we would bury each whenua on Mokoia Island for at least a decade, (placenta) inside the whenua (land) at and that work also took us into schools the base of this kauri. My bro would and prisons. We even travelled through offer what karakia he had. Once, Europe once to find mokomokai (preaccompanied by a storm complete served tattooed Māori heads) being sold as “artefacts” in Paris. with rolling thunder and lightning, Over the years, I witnessed Gordon we gave our best haka in dedication carve wharenui and fashion hei tiki out to the atua. This ancient ritual conof stone, and adorn entire whānau with nects life with life through the tree’s tā moko. We have seen each other’s roots holding deep unto Papatūānuku relationships fail and flourish and sup(Earth Mother) with limbs pushing Gordon Toy with Cliff Curtis. Top: Toy’s ported one another through births and upward towards Ranginui (Sky Father). children, from left, deaths of our most loved ones. When We did this to connect his children Maaka, Wairingiringi I say we’re bros, it runs deep – deep to his ancestors through this tree that (holding Tumanako) and Te Rangihau. enough to challenge the notion of stood there long ago and will remain blood being thicker than water. As well that may be, for many future generations. This family tree. but water has a purity to it. Ka Tū Te Kauri, Ka Tū tonu Te Whānau Ora hoki. (Ngahere is forest, as opposed to a single tree.) Of all the adventures we had there is a ritual he shared with me after each of his children were born. We would travel north Actor and producer Cliff Curtis is currently filming the four sequels to from his home in Mangere Bridge, taking with us the whenua Avatar (placenta) of each child to the whenua (land) of his Ngāpuhi

Craig Potton

CRAIG POTTON; GORDON TOI

BEHIND THE DUNES Behind the sand dunes where the bach sat with its lawns, gardens and trees, was a ﬂat, hollow area protected from the summer’s sea winds by the dunes and high pines. It was a place of quiet heat, dry, where plants crackled in the noonday sun: a “rift valley” with a serene air, quite separate from the surrounding world. Rabbit bones sat in bleached piles besides fresh droppings while clumps of marram grass and scrawny plants stood forth as outposts in the dry sea of sand and rock reefs. My brother and I would often cross this wilderness to further pine forests with our ever present dog. Once, when one of those inordinately long summer days was simmering down to evening, I walked out alone across my desert.

Pushing through some unfamiliar trees, suddenly I found myself in a seldom-visited neck of land beside another clearing. As I stood quietly, I began to feel myself drawn toward a particular tree – a tree very different from the surrounding pines with its fuller, softer leaves and drooping branches. I seemed gently invited into its presence, and somehow found myself sitting beneath its looping arms in a particular spot. It was as if the tree and I Craig Potton and, inset, with brother were breathing quietly together. Richard at the I was overwhelmingly happy. family bach. Time and time again throughout that holiday I would return alone to my tree and sit under it. Craig Potton is a photographer and publisher

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Rei Hamon’s Nga Ariki.

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Joanna Orwin

THE DEADLIEST OF ALL

KAURI, KING OF KINGS

Robert Vennell is an ecologist and the author of The Meaning of Trees: The history and use of New Zealand’s native trees

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Grey light, softened by misty rain. No one else around. No wind, no sound, not even a bird calling. With an hour to spare, I had taken a detour on a gravel road off the main highway. Someone had said Trounson Kauri Park was worth a visit. The car park, grassy picnic area and the kiosk, with its information about a guided night walk to see kiwi, were ordinary. The start of the walk was also ordinary – scruffy secondary growth overhanging the path, mud underfoot, the slimy planks of a rickety bridge over a rivulet. It was chilly, and moisture was already seeping through the soles of my shoes. I fell prey to a growing sense of disgruntlement. And then, ahead of me, looming out of the mist, my first ever glimpse of a kauri grove, mature trees in their prime. Five of them, all the same size, massive columns spaced 3-4m apart. Each kauri stood alone, nothing growing around its base. Four to five hundred years old, these stately trees were unbranched until they reached the vaulted roof of the forest at least 10 metres above me, their foliage obscured by the eddying mist. Uncluttered by fern, lichen or liane, each imposing trunk was scrolled and scalloped in rich browns and subtle greys, each with its own distinctive pattern that brought a chiefly tattoo to mind. Overawed, discomfort forgotten, I walked slowly on, passing through more groves of similar-sized kauri, every tree a dignified and individual presence. Kauri, separator of earth from sky, bringer of light and life to the world, the magnificent tree that features in the creation myth told by northern Māori. Although 17 years have now passed by, my first surreal encounter with kauri, king of kings, te rākau rangatira, remains a vivid memory.

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One of the trees I ﬁnd most fascinating is tutu, Coriaria arborea, New Zealand’s deadliest native plant. Its seductive purple fruit are sweet and delicious, and dangle like clusters of grapes along walking tracks and waterways. Although the fruit is edible, every other part of the plant, including the tiny black seeds inside the fruit, contains a potent neurotoxin. Even a small amount will send someone into a foaming neuromuscular spasm; a secret early Europeans were unfortunate to discover. People have died after making tutu beer and tutu pies and failThe tutu and ing to remove the seeds. Beekeepers need to its fruit must watch out for the plant be treated with as well – if bees collect caution. honeydew from the plant, it can poison an entire batch of honey. The plant also affects animals – huge numbers of sheep and cattle have died after eating it. The very ﬁrst sheep released into New Zealand by Captain Cook, in Queen Charlotte Sound in 1773, survived only a few days before being poisoned by tutu. The plant has even claimed the lives of circus elephants allowed outside to graze on tutu leaves. And yet, despite the danger, tutu has been an important food resource. Māori carefully extracted a sweet juice from tutu berries, which was consumed in massive quantities or mixed with seaweed to make jelly. European missionaries were fond of the juice as well, and distilled it into a delicious red wine. Tutu also had an important role to play in rongoā – traditional Māori healing. The leaves and shoots were made into lotions to treat cuts, bruises and sores, and it is still used today as an ointment for treating sprains and broken bones.

Ecologist Joanna Orwin is an award-winning author of books for children and adults, including Kauri: Witness to a Nation’s History

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Amazing trees 1. All by myself New Zealand is home to the world’s loneliest tree. The Sitka spruce, a northern hemisphere native, stands in stunted isolation in a windbattered cove on subantarctic Campbell Island, more than 273km from the nearest trees, on the Auckland Islands. It was planted about 1900 by then-governor Lord Ranfurly. 1

2. Climate threat Wide, squat, with a frantic Seussian crown, the baobab tree is part and portly parcel of the sub-Saharan Africa landscape. The trunks are often hollow and have been used as homes, shops, meeting places and, in South Africa’s Limpopo Province, a cocktail bar. But in the past dozen years, four of the 13 largest, and probably oldest, trees have died and more are ailing – the result, researchers suggest, of climate change-fuelled drought. 3. Altogether now Japan’s cherry blossom season, known as hanami, is short, spectacular and weirdly in sync. The ﬂowers of Somei-yoshino, considered the most beautiful of cherry blossoms, all bloom at the same time. Why? Flowering cherries are infertile – they do not fruit. The use of cloning has resulted in Somei-yoshino trees being genetically identical, allowing their blossoms to bloom and fall at once. 4. Dip and stretch A group of 400 pine trees planted outside Nowe Czarnowo, Poland, in about 1930, is considered one of the world’s most mysterious forests. Known as the Crooked Forest, the trees are bent at 90° just above their base. From the point after the bend, the trunks rise upwards into the shape of the letter “c”. One theory is that the pines were damaged by passing tanks during World War II, which bent the young trees groundwards.

6. Old and stunted A pair of short, gnarly Great Basin bristlecone pines in California’s White Mountains are considered the oldest trees in the world. At about 5000 years, they are as old as Troy, bronze tools and wheeled vehicles.

NĪKAU VALLEY Down the road from the Paraparaumu shops, there’s a kind of cathedral. Not the sort of cathedral you see in European cities. It isn’t made of stone and stained glass; it’s made of trees. It’s a remnant stand of ancient nīkau palms, wedged into a patch of bush beside the old highway. We go there for runs and walks, and pop in for a quick green break from stress. At the carpark, there’s a sign explaining this patch of bush. We call it Nīkau Valley, but officially it’s named after the farmer and politician who donated it. In the photo, he’s standing with a shepherd’s crook, looking over cleared paddocks. It’s the sort of picture that sparks lots of questions about the history of such places, and how they came to be in the hands of settlers, or locked up in conservation covenants like this. But it’s also a great photo of his two farm dogs, exhausted at his feet. Going in, you never quite get away from the noise of dogs barking and the grumbling traffic. There’s a bit of litter here and there, and some tagging carved into the trunks. But there’s also a strange magic. In one place, the nīkau palms have out-competed other trees. Nīkau have an odd effect when they stand together like this. Their trunks are completely bare, so your eye is drawn up towards the spreading canopy of palms. Kererū sit fatly in random places, their vast tummies full of fruit. Fallen fronds from years before cover the forest floor, suppressing undergrowth. This creates a hushed and filtered light. Standing there in the almost quiet, you feel as if you’ve stepped into some columned church. Certainly, it’s as close to going to church as I ever get, pausing on my run through this pillared place, looking up. l Lawrence Patchett is a novelist and short story writer

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5. Biggest and tallest With an estimated volume of nearly 1500 cu m, General Sherman, in Sequoia National Park, California, is the largest single-stem tree in the world. Standing 83m, it dwarfs New Zealand’s best-known forest giant, Tane Mahuta (51.5m). But the honour of the world’s tallest tree belongs to Hyperion, a Californian coast redwood, at 115.85m.

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CHIGOZIE OBIOMA

KEEPING SPIRITS UP Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma, appearing at the NZ Festival in February, draws both tragedy and divine inspiration from his strife-torn country. by DIANA WICHTEL

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ragedy does not occur because something has been broken,” says Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma, on the phone from Nebraska. “A thing is tragic if it cannot be mended again.” Readers of his stunning novels will know that he is a master of that which cannot be mended. The Fishermen, shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize when Obioma was just 28, and An Orchestra of Minorities, which pulled off the same trick

thing.” It made him think about why his work is so … tragic. “I think it’s just because of the source of these stories. I’m looking at Nigerian society in these two books and the only vision I can see is a tragic one.” There is a political subtext to the stories, referencing slavery, colonisation, corruption, paradise lost. There is also the irrepressible vitality and

wife was looking at it, like, my goodness. So can you say that accident was tragic? No, it wasn’t.” As an example from the other end of the spectrum: his country. “I feel like the system, the Nigerian society, has been broken for a long time and there is no hope of any kind that it will be mended. This is a tragic thing.” The Fishermen, set in Obioma’s birthplace, Akure, is the story of four brothers. Freed from their father’s stern gaze when he is transferred to another city for work, they bunk off studying to ﬁsh at a place considered cursed. They encounter the local mad seer, who issues a prophecy: one of the brothers will be killed by one of the others. mordant humour of a The story has been born storyteller. A concalled “Cain and Abelversation with Obioma esque”. It’s also about has its share of both. how human beings, An ikenga (sacred figure), used by the Igbo people for prayer. To illustrate his point and the systems they Right, Chigozie Obioma. about tragedy, he cites live under, can take a his car. “I rammed it disastrous turn. stupidly into some brick the other day, is new book, An Orchestra of Minoriand I took it to the mechanic. And the ties, is the intricately constructed guy gave it back to me so new that it was story of a chicken farmer, Chinonso, better than it used to be. No, seriously. My

“The worst thing you can be is an idealogue. How can somebody talk with you – you already know everything.” in 2019, have been described as mythic, dark and tragic. They will break your heart. “I don’t read reviews, but someone wrote one that he sent to me, which was weird. I have a lot of respect for the guy. I had to read it,” says Obioma. “He said that the best way to look at my work is that they’re tragedies, but what makes it odd is that people no longer write tragedies. If you look at American literature today, you don’t see modern tragedies. It’s a rare

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CHIGOZIE OBIOMA who, after the early death of his mother, finds comfort first in a gosling he rears and then in tending his flock of chickens. The title comes from the helpless racket they make when one is taken by a hawk. “Chinonso tries to shield the birds from the larger forces of society – the hawks and the kites,” says Obioma, “and he sees himself as identifying most with those creatures.” The Fishermen is narrated by nine-yearold Benjamin. In an audacious move, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrated by Chinonso’s chi, his 700-year-old guardian spirit, which frets over how much to intervene in its host’s life. Chinonso rescues a woman, Ndali, from suicide with a unique sacrifice. They fall in love. He calls her “mommy”. “You are

person accused stands in the centre of the council, swears before the gods and says, ‘I’m going to say the truth.’ The stories they told under that kind of duress have a ﬁdelity to the truth. You believe that you are standing before an entity that can see when you lie.” But there’s also the human need to make your case, to explain yourself, to soften the truth. “So, they just try to dance around it. There’s a circumlocutory way which they arrive at the point. It’s a roundabout storytelling that was very fascinating to me because of the things they include along the way, the history they bring up. So the chi, having lived for these many centuries, would be able to be a chronicler of history and make of this story something completely different.”

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The story has been called “Cain and Abel-esque”. It’s also about how humans, and the systems they live under, can take a disastrous turn. a shepherd of birds, and you love your ﬂock,” Ndali tells Chinonso. “You care for them the way Jesus cares for his sheep, with so much love.” But she’s a trainee pharmacist from a wealthy family unimpressed with her chicken farmer. What could go wrong? The story is mythic, drawing on the cosmology of the Igbo people Obioma is descended from. Chinonso’s story is intercut with visits to the domain of the divine, where his chi tries desperately to intercede on his host’s behalf with the gods, to temper their judgment of him in the face of Chinonso’s obsessive love and the extremes it will drive him to. The chi is also arguing for its own continued existence, after a not-so-stellar job done during its sojourn with Chinonso. And, perhaps, the chi is appealing to the judgment of us, the readers, too. “Yes. One of the things that inspired me to tell the story that way was that this is the way people used to tell stories in the past. I witnessed one of those sessions myself when I was a little child.” Those who still followed the traditions of the ancestors didn’t believe in Western courts. Disputes went to local courts. “There is a chief priest and the

he chi is the ultimate omniscient narrator, largely reliable but with its own axe to grind. Some of the book’s humour comes from its efforts to help in the face of its host’s pratfalls. When Chinonso goes to Ndali’s home for a grand party, her brother puts him to work directing cars. There’s a visceral sense of Chinonso’s humiliation, his suffering set to the music of the party entertainment, a famous singer “making unintelligible sounds akin to those made by termites crawling on dead wood and the crowd was braying like senseless lambs”. We know very early on that Chinonso will do something terrible, something unlikely to be mended. A pivotal disaster – a reader will groan aloud – befalls Chinonso as he tries to better himself in the eyes of Ndali’s family. He sells up everything, including his beloved chickens, to go to university in Cyprus, where he ﬁnds all is not what it seemed and his life spirals out of control. Obioma also attended university in Cyprus. Chinonso’s disaster is based on the experience of a person he knew there who was scammed. “Like every other person who was deceived, he came to

Cyprus and then he discovered he’d been cheated. Almost everyone else I knew survived,” says Obioma. His friend did not. “Just him. So why? It’s something that has always tugged at me: to what extent are we actually in control of our lives? In modern times, science and technology have been able to create this sense that we are in control of almost everything, but it’s not always true.” In the fatalistic words of the chi: “The ill luck that has befallen a man has long been waiting for him – in the middle of some road, on a highway, or on some ﬁeld of battle, biding its time.” So, is the Igbo cosmology that animates the book a fascinating world view for its writer or a spiritual base? Both, he says. “My mother is someone who grew up in the religion and her dad used to be a priest when he was younger, and he was persecuted a lot by the Christians.” Obioma doesn’t practise the religion, but the philosophy behind it has huge force. There’s the Igbo idea of the chi being a reincarnating spirit in every individual. “And, therefore, the idea that every individual has divinity in them … It was the main reason why the Igbo were the only society in all of Africa that did not have a kind of monarchical system. It never existed in pre-colonial times.” Elders represented their people at village councils. “When the British came to Igboland, they had a hard time colonising that part of Africa. Where is the palace? So they kind of had to impose arbitrary kings on them.” Not everything in the Igbo philosophy is good, he says. “That’s one thing I like about the chi. It doesn’t idealise. It is biased to the world-view of the Igbo people but it also kind of rebukes the socalled great father.” There is a wonderful Igbo proverb Obioma cites: “Let the kite hawk perch, and let the eagle also have a perch. Whichever begrudges the other the right to perch, may he break a wing.” The meaning: “You are punished when you try to deny the other their humanity.” Obioma’s own Cyprus education had a happier trajectory. He teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “Plot should be a function of character, rather than the other way around – that dictum is what I tell my students all the time,” he says. “But I want to be challenged. I would joyfully thank you if you can convince me otherwise.” He ﬁnds he is not often joyfully

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challenged. “I can come into anywhere, a school in New York or in Nebraska, and pick 20 professors at random and, without knowing any of them, I can say, ‘This is what you think about this, this is what you think about that. You are very predictable’. “I think the worst thing that a human being can be is an ideologue. I think because I was a voracious reader, I was always in the debating team. I was very

interested in dialectics. So, it is very difﬁcult for me to be close-minded about anything – I don’t know how to. Once you come to a point where you have made up your mind about anything, how can somebody talk with you? You already know everything.”

ot everyone has been happy about Obioma’s portrayal of his country in his ﬁction. “During the Booker Prize ceremony in 2015, the Nigerian consulate member was invited. He was saying, ‘We love your work but your depiction of Nigeria is bad.’” Obioma’s reply? “I am somebody who is writing about society as I see it. I’m not making anything up. Is

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when you fall in love as a teenager – you know that sensation? You almost agonise because you want to meet that girl who lives in the neighbourhood as soon as possible. So, that’s what I’m feeling right now. Only [Chimamanda Ngozi] Adichie, I think, has written a reasonable novel about the war, so let me do one.” It sounds far from stories of fishermen and a chicken farmer but, for Obioma, it’s all of a piece. “In my two books, my biggest project has been to try to document, in a way, what I think has gone wrong with my people. So, if you look at Nigeria, if today we want to have 24-hour uninterrupted electricity all across the country – right now we don’t have, it might surprise you – we can do it. It is very possible. The resources are there.” In An Orchestra of Minorities, the chi is able to reflect on history, culture, the chaos of a post-colonial world. There is much that is good, Obioma says. “Western education and all of those things. But something has been lost.” So he is offering not just social critique, not just tragedy, but also some tools for the work ahead. “That is my hope, honestly.” Political: Obioma Perhaps, like the chi, he is says his books also making his own case to are an attempt to document what the gods, those of the literary has gone wrong world. with Nigeria. “That’s what makes these books appealing to all these conversation, that he was a little put out different [Booker Prize] judges,” he says. when I called. “In fact, I should have been “There is something that I’m trying to do annoyed with you because you interthat is beyond just telling stories. It’s at rupted,” he says genially. He’s working on the very heart of the project. a new novel. Be warned. “These guys who “I’m hoping that, [with] true documentare saying, ‘He’s writing a dark novel’, well ing of some of the history, some of the wait till you see this one. It’s about the culture, some of the beliefs that the chi Biafra war.” sometimes reflects upon, people might More than a million people died in the discover a better version of themselves.” l two-and-a-half-year war from July 1967 to Chigozie Obioma is in conversation with January 1970 between the government of Brannavan Gnanalingam at the New Zealand Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra. Festival of the Arts in Wellington on February “So, it’s the war novel where I’m down 23. www.festival.nz/ in the trenches with these guys who are fighting.” It’s also a joyful book, he insists. He’s AN ORCHESTRA OF MINORITIES, by Chigozie Obioma (Hachette NZ, $34.99) having the time of his life. “It’s like there any exaggeration here? Is there any untruth here? If you find one I will correct it. Am I saying what is true? If that is the case then there’s nothing I can do about it. “If you make Nigeria as good as New Zealand, of course I will start writing – what do they call these novels – sun, beach …? Beach reads,” he says, laughing. Don’t expect any beach reads any time soon. He admits, near the end of our

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FIN TO FIN Sydney chef Josh Niland has taken seafood into uncharted waters – from dry-aged fillets to fish bacon and fish-eye chips. His new book aims to help us buy, store and cook kaimoana better and use the whole fish, scale to tail. by JANE NICHOLLS

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hen he was barely a teenager, recovering from childhood cancer, Josh Niland started cooking dinner for his parents and sister. Nothing fancy, he says, but he loved how “a couple of hours of peeling and chopping and looking after something on the stove translated into everybody having a great time … It wasn’t like I was going, ‘I want to be a chef.’” By the age of 15, he’d convinced his parents to let him leave school for an apprenticeship, and another 15 years on, what chef Niland is doing with fish is up there with what Spain’s Ferran Adrià did for foam at El Bulli in the 1990s. At Saint Peter, his restaurant in Sydney’s Paddington, Niland serves up fish-eye chips, dry-aged Murray cod, sea urchin crumpets and tuna steaks frenched to look like a crown roast. A few doors up at his Fish Butchery store, there’s fresh fish and fish charcuterie for sale, alongside such takeaways as garfish sandwiches and charcoal-grilled tuna burgers with swordfish bacon. His fish fetish is about using every last morsel, down to the eyes and innards. He has written a book on the subject, The Whole Fish Cookbook, and says the “entire way of thinking about how we process fish needs to be overhauled, with far more consideration given to the elements of a fish that would traditionally be considered ‘waste’”. He points out that sausages, terrine and bread and butter pudding all came from a desire to use offcuts of one sort or another. “To be able to work with the whole fish and put dishes together that feature both

offal and fillet on the plate is thrilling for me, as less gets thrown away. But it’s also exciting for customers as they are able to see the luxury that lies within these ingredients.” After the book came out in September, Niland took his fish knives to the UK and the US, being feted by the likes of Jamie Oliver, offal king Fergus Henderson and New York “philosopher chef” Dan Barber and demonstrating fish butchery at Fortnum & Mason. Back home, he’s “hugely respected in our industry”, says Australian chef and author Christine Manfield. “He’s one of the most exciting talents and very much a chef for our times.”

“To put dishes together that feature both offal and fillet on the plate is thrilling for me, as less gets thrown away.” FEAR OF FISH Fish is a low-fat, high-quality protein, filled with omega-3 fatty acids and vitamins and nutrients that can lower blood pressure and help reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke. And the fishing industry is gradually improving its woeful record of harvesting sustainably. The American Heart Association recommends eating fish at least twice a week as part of a healthy diet. But many consumers remain shy of fish – not just because of the comparatively high price of the “fresh” fillets sold in supermarkets and fish shops. Most consumers lack knowledge of fish or an understanding of fish cookery, says Niland, and his book sets out to address

the “variables” – such as storage and preparation – that put most people off. “Buying and cooking only fish fillets is not only creatively limiting but also neglects the majority of the fish.” He says that’s a shame from both an ethical and sustainability point of view. “Using the whole fish shows a great amount of respect for what is a globally depleting commodity.” Niland acknowledges not everyone has the time, equipment or skills to scale, gut and fillet fish and cook it well. But bad experiences may have less to do with the quality of the fish and more to do with storage, preparation and the cooking method or temperature. His book gives home cooks and experienced chefs pointers on becoming confident with more species and parts of fish, and includes step-by-step instructions on preparation and filleting to make the most of “all the opportunities a fish presents”. Gutting, for instance, is only necessary if you are going to store the fish or if you want to use the offal – which he recommends. “When you get a piece of fish that’s been correctly handled, it blows your mind because it’s so simple. It’s Spanish mackerel sitting next to some mushrooms, and as a restaurant customer, when it arrives you might say, ‘I can do that, this isn’t that flash!’ And then they eat it, and it’s like, ‘How does this taste so good? How is the skin so crispy?” Niland, aged 31, met wife Julie, now 29, at a cooking competition when they were both apprentices, and says her input has been instrumental in Saint Peter’s success. “Julie was the one who looked at the layout and said we could get 34 seats in here when

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Since Josh and Julie Niland (below left) opened Saint Peter in 2016, the awardwinning Paddington restaurant has gained a name for dry-aged fish, left and below.

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Filleting tips For the first cut, place the fish with the belly facing you and the head to the left (or the right if you are left-handed). 1. Pull the pectoral fin outwards and make a cut behind these fins to separate them from the fillet, then cut around behind the head until you hit bone. By doing this you are effectively separating the fish collars from the fillet. 2. Turn the fish so the belly is facing away from you (head on the right, tail left) then, starting from the cut at the top of the head, cut along the backbone from the head to the tail, cutting smoothly along the length of the fillet.

3. Angling your knife towards the bones, keep running it along where the flesh meets the bones to open out the fillet until you feel your knife reach the raised spine in the middle. Using your knife, stay as close to the spine as possible and go over the bone. 4. Place the knife flat against the backbone and push the point through to the other side of the fillet. With the knife protruding out the other side and pressing against the spine, cut all the way to the tail to separate the tail section. 5. Turn the fish so the belly faces you and lift the tail section to expose the ribs. 6. Snip through the ribs with kitchen scissors up to the first cut. 7. You can now remove the first fillet. 8. Flip the fish so the belly faces away from you and the head points left. Hang the head off the edge of the board so the fish lies flat (this way you’ll be able to cut evenly and preserve more flesh). Repeat the first cut, then cut along the back through the rib bones and, guiding the knife by pressing it against the ribs, cut towards the pin bones.

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9. Turn the knife the other way and, using the bones as a guide, cut up and against the ribs, gently peeling away and slicing as you go. 10. Cut the second fillet away from the frame using scissors and wipe clean with a paper towel. Note: The fish used to demonstrate the filleting process is a Murray cod, aged seven days.

the architect had said, no, we could only get 22 – that’s obviously a big business boost.” After they married, their extended European honeymoon included working at Heston Blumenthal’s UK restaurant The Fat Duck, renowned for innovative British cuisine.

CHILDHOOD CANCER But Niland’s love affair with cooking had

begun when he was much younger. “I was eight when I got sick. I had my right kidney taken out for a Wilms’ tumour; chemo followed, and radiotherapy and all that stuff. I found myself at home a bit more, so I would watch daytime TV.” Along with watching Days of Our Lives, he became hooked on food shows. Soon, he was adding items on to the family shopping list and cooking dinners. By the time he had recovered from his

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Niland says poaching, such as for this Native Australian Fish Curry, is a forgiving and flexible cooking method.

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restaurant Fish Face. After only a few weeks, Niland was made head chef. Over three years, “I had the privilege of cooking just about every species of ﬁsh in Australia – it all came through the doors at Fish Face, and Steve told me a method of cookery for every single one of those ﬁsh.”

“You can use more savoury, complex ingredients with wellhandled fish, especially aged fish. The longer you push out some of these oilier, dense fish, the more savoury they become. “ Niland’s focus began to narrow on the potential for the whole fish, and he and Julie were dreaming of their own restaurant. When they took the plunge in 2016, they called it Saint Peter, a nod to the patron saint of fishermen and St Pierre, the alternative name for john dory. Its plates carry the single black spot of that fish. From Saint Peter’s tiny kitchen, Niland and his team quickly attracted attention.

After a New York Times review in January 2018, getting a reservation was like ﬁnding a pearl in an oyster. “I’ve worked with a lot of chefs who can push on, and many who are creative, but never someone who could do both to the standards he holds,” says Alanna Sapwell, who became head chef for Niland at Saint Peter and is now head chef at a Brisbane riverside restaurant. “He looked 14, but he is still to this day one of the most thoughtful, mature people I know.” In 2019, he was awarded Gourmet Traveller magazine’s chef of the year and named a ﬁnalist in the Ethical Thinking category of the inaugural World Restaurant Awards.

FISH AS MEAT Fish-eye chips, which look something like a prawn cracker, and john dory liver pâté on toast got the headlines, but the backbone of Saint Peter’s success has been the personally procured and expertly handled fish, as well as the inventiveness of Niland’s dishes. “I look at fish more as meat,” he says. “If you think of it only as fish, then you’re very limited to what you can put with it, or how you can cook it. Whereas if you

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illness, the cooking bug had bitten deep. “I’d try using flatbread for toasted sandwiches, oyster sauce instead of tomato sauce, and I’d get mum to buy really silly, expensive, exotic mushrooms.” By the end of Year 10, he’d already worked in local cafes and had his parents’ blessing to do an apprenticeship. He started at The Brewery in Newcastle, where a charity lunch for children’s cancer opened a door for him. Peter Doyle, chef at upscale Sydney restaurant est., was there to cook at the fundraiser and apprentice chef Niland was the opening speaker. Doyle still recalls meeting him. “I was very impressed with the way he projected his life journey in front of such a large crowd at the age of 16,” says Doyle, who retired from est. in 2018. When Niland moved to Sydney, he worked his way up in a number of high-end restaurants, including Doyle’s. All the while, Niland’s fish fascination was growing. “Big kitchens are set up with stations where people do their thing. I was always watching the fish section. It seemed like the most intelligent, the most creative, the most accurate, the guy with the sharpest knives. It was just this allure.” Doyle introduced his young chef to Stephen Hodges, who had 34-seat Darlinghurst

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Heads and tails More than 52,000kg of ﬁsh parts have been diverted from the waste bin in a project that helps marae, churches and others.

espect for fish and the marine environment in general prompted spear fisherman Sam Woolford to give up his marketing job to help ensure future generations – including his two young ocean-loving daughters – will have a similar opportunity to appreciate locallysourced seafood. He is now programme lead for LegaSea, a not-for-profit organisation established by the New Zealand Sport Fishing Council in 2012 to promote better fishing practices and reduce the pressure on the marine environment. One of the most obvious challenges was to reduce waste in the recreational fishing sector. In multicultural Auckland, this problem was all too apparent – and contradictory. On the one hand, the mainly Pākehā fishing community at the Outboard Boating Club on Tāmaki Drive had closed its filleting station because they could not deal with the volume of heads and frames being left behind. On the other, local communities who valued these “unwanted” leftovers were struggling to source them. “We were really frustrated by waste in general but the one that really did our heads in was all the fish heads that were being dumped,” says Woolford. “In most Māori, Pacific and Indonesian cultures, the fish head is the most revered part of the fish. In Māori culture, the biggest and best fish head was saved for the chief – it was kai rangatira, chiefly food. We realised if we could marry these groups together and create relationships, we could do more with the fish that are landed. And, if we get more people eating more of the fish, we will take fewer fish from the ocean.” The catalyst was a media report on the 80,000 kūmara

grown at the Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae in Māngere to feed the local community. “We thought that was amazing and wanted to do something to help.” Now, through the Kai Ika project, the boating club offers a professional fish-filleting service at $2.50 a fish. The heads and frames are given to the marae, where they are distributed to local families, churches, soup kitchens and other marae in the area. Leftover gills, guts and offal are dug back into the garden as nutrient-rich fertiliser for the kūmara. It is, says Woolford, a perfect example of “complete utilisation” of the fish. “If you think of the recession and two world wars, you don’t have to look that far back in history to realise complete utilisation isn’t a new concept. When I was younger, we used to go out and catch crayfish. I would always take one to my grandmother and she would make stock out of the shells. But we live in a time when people think it is acceptable to be wasteful. That’s a bit obnoxious when there are so many people out there who don’t have enough food.” It has been a runaway success. The boating club’s upgraded filleting facility now processes 500-1000kg of heads and frames a week. More than 52,000kg of fish parts have been redirected from the waste bin since the project was launched and marae members are now involved in the processing side. This summer, Kai Ika will open at the Mana Cruising Club in Wellington, using a container supplied by Royal Wolf at nominal rent. Most importantly, perhaps, the project offers a new model of respect – for the fish and the environment. “Because, if we continue to abuse it, we will find ourselves with fisheries collapsing,” Woolford says, “and we won’t be able to share kaimoana with future generations.”

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“In Māori culture, the best ﬁsh head was saved for the chief – it was kai rangatira.”

can make something look like meat, or if you can think that maybe the flavour is a little bit similar to lamb, then there’s a base repertoire. “You can use more savoury, complex ingredients with well-handled fish, especially aged fish. The longer you push out some of these oilier, dense fish, the more savoury they become. Fish have glutamates and with time, good handling and temperature control, the glutamates become active inside the fish. When you eat it, it tastes really savoury and you don’t know why it’s so yummy. It’s like parmesan cheese and tomato sauce and all these things that we really love.” In April 2018, the couple opened Fish Butchery. “People were telling us the restaurant is so great but they can’t cook fish

“I was always watching the fish section. It seemed like the most intelligent, the most creative, the most accurate, the guy with the sharpest knives.” like that at home, and that’s because they can’t easily buy fish that’s been handled so carefully, bought from a fisherman whose name we know,” says Julie Niland. “So, we started thinking about how we could sell it.” Staff are primed to offer advice on how to cook fish. “If we’ve got coral trout and someone says, ‘Can I get four pieces?’, we’ll pull the whole fish out and say, ‘Instead of four little blocks, how about you take a block that feeds four, cook it as one piece in the oven, for X amount of time at X temperature, and then, when it comes out, chop it into four.’ We want to make sure that the $40 you’re investing in this slab of coral trout is going to be justified and you have a great experience. If it’s dry and horrible, then that’s a problem for me, even if it’s not my fault.” Niland has visited New Zealand, where he tried Bluff oysters, “which were extraordinary – I loved them. People like Leigh Fisheries [bought last July by Foodstuffs] and Gravity Fishing, they’re really forwardthinking fishermen, and although I can’t speak intimately about how people cook and eat fish domestically over there, you’re spoilt for diversity and should be eating fish every night of the week.” l THE WHOLE FISH COOKBOOK, by Josh Niland (Hardie Grant Publishing, $60)

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Respect: Tom Hishon learnt early in life that kaimoana is not to be wasted. Below: wood roasted mackerel with cavolo nero, black garlic and cured pork cheek.

Parts of the stomach can also be diverted from the waste bins. Garum, a fermented fish sauce, is made by introducing bacteria and salt to the gut and leaving them to ferment for six months. The result, says Hishon, has an intense umami flavour. Scales, bones, even the fish skin – puffed up and made into wafers – can all add interest and flavour to a menu. As Australian chef Josh Niland says, it is not too different from the waste-not approach traditionally used in cooking meat – think sheep brains, pig trotters, pork crackling, tripe, kidneys – but applied here to kaimoana. “Sometimes, people think it is too foreign, or too gory or smelly,” says Hishon, “but it is exactly the same with nose-to-

Scales, bones, even the ﬁsh skin can all add interest and ﬂavour to the menu.

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For Auckland chef Tom Hishon, all parts of the ﬁsh are up for grabs.

Southland childhood fishing for flounder and foraging for scallops, pāua and mussels taught Auckland chef Tom Hishon that kaimoana was not to be wasted. “We ate everything – there wasn’t any part that was not used – so I have just applied that same philosophy to my cooking.” That philosophy was not part of his chef training but it is a fundamental principle behind Auckland’s Orphans Kitchen, where Hishon, aged 33, is executive chef. For a fish dish, he prefers to begin with a whole fish to ensure quality and to give more room “to play with different techniques and use different parts of the fish”. Many different parts. The head, for

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example, makes up about a third of the body weight of a fish. “That is a huge part that can potentially be wasted, but it makes the most amazing viscous and marrow-rich sauce. If you take snapper or kingfish, a lot of collagen and flavour comes from the head.” Once the fish has been filleted, “we might scrape the bones and use offcuts for tartare or sushimi. If the season is right, we might get a few kilos of roe, salt it down and turn it into bottarga (salted fish roe) – whipped with sour cream it can be served with root vegetable crisps as a canapé or on sourdough toast for breakfast.”

tail cooking with pig, or even some vegetables. And it is so easy to jump online and find a use for something. You might have an abundance of scallops – a lot of people save the meat and throw the skirt and roe away but you can do some amazing things with the roe. I use it as a replacement for eggs to make a rich scalloproe mayonnaise, which I add to fish burgers.” A bit of research and a smidgeon of creativity make for tastier fish dishes and less waste and make for greater appreciation of the fish itself. At the end of a busy night at the bistro, Hishon’s favourite dish is a whole flounder roasted in a pan with butter, preserved lime, some curry leaves and sourdough bread to mop up the butter. “That is a really nostalgic dish for me. And with a whole fish, it is kind of respecting the ingredient.” l

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by Ruth Nichol

Laughing matter Lightening the mood with a joke can be a useful therapeutic tool in medicine.

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hen Shelley van der Krogt was training to be a nurse in the late 1990s, her lecturers told her not to joke with patients. “It was seen as inappropriate and unprofessional.” But, once she graduated, it didn’t take her long to realise that humour is a useful tool that can help patients feel more comfortable and make it easier for them to cope with difﬁcult and sometimes humiliating situations. During her 16 years of clinical practice, she changed nursing specialities a lot, but one thing that didn’t change was her use of humour. “It’s a very valuable skill that helps nurses connect with people.” It was good for her, too, helping her to manage emotional and stressful situations and gain a sense of perspective. Now that she is a nursing lecturer – she teaches at Massey University’s school of nursing in Wellington Shelley van der Krogt

– she actively encourages her students to use humour. “It’s not about being a comedian, or going in and telling a knock-knock joke. It’s about making a genuine connection. Sometimes just sharing a laugh with someone, or sharing a smile with them, is enough.” Although humour can help build rapport between nurse and patient, it can also fall ﬂat. Van der Krogt, who has just graduated with a master’s degree in health care from Victoria University of Wellington, says she’s seen situations where the use of

humour has created an awkward silence and fractured the nursepatient relationship. During her degree, she found that other researchers have looked at the value of humour in nursing practice, but few have looked at how nurses know when they can safely use humour and when they should skip the funny business. To help ﬁll that gap, she interviewed nine nurses working on surgical wards about how – and, more importantly, when – they use humour. She chose surgical nurses both

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because there is little research on the use of humour on surgical wards and because having surgery can make patients feel particularly vulnerable. “In that situation, humour is a way to change their perspective. It can help reframe things so they don’t feel so threatened and frightened.”

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HEALTH BRIEFS LOSING YOUR APPETITE Swedish scientists have come up with a possible explanation for why people who have gastric bypass surgery start producing more appetite-suppressing hormones within days of their operation. In a study in Gut, they say the hormone levels may rise because bariatric surgery disconnects the part of the digestive system responsible for producing enzymes that inhibit their production.

LONELYBOOMER MYTH Baby boomers are no lonelier than similar-aged adults of previous generations – despite talk of a loneliness epidemic among older people. Two studies in Psychology and Ageing comparing data from US adults born in diﬀerent periods in the 20th century found no diﬀerence in how lonely they felt as they aged. However, the research also found that loneliness increases after the age of 75.

WE FEEL YOUR PAIN If eating ice cream gives you a headache, you’re not alone. German researchers have found that half of people experience a so-called ice cream headache after eating cold things. And although the pain is only moderate and lasts less than 30 seconds, half of those aﬀected say they get additional symptoms such as seeing ﬂashing lights, tearing up or developing a runny nose.

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he type of humour her interviewees used was very gentle. Telling a patient that they look like Marge Simpson after they have taken all their clothes off and put on a skimpy surgical gown and a silly hat won’t have them rolling is the aisles. Nor will quips about wearing Victoria’s Secret underwear. But it can put people at ease. “It’s a way of helping patients feel less

dehumanised in this outﬁt that we force them to wear.” As one of the nurses she interviewed observed: “I think using humour relaxes patients; you can see heart rates going down, blood pressures going down. You can use it as a distraction quite a lot.” As to when to use humour, van der Krogt found it’s all about being able to “read the room” and recognising when a patient is up for a bit of a laugh – and when they’re not. “If their body is turned towards you, and they’re chatting and joking themselves, that’s usually a good sign that humour will be well received. But if they’re visibly upset or turning away, humour is probably best avoided.” On the other hand, most of her interviewees were also happy to test the waters and throw in a tentative ﬁrst joke to see how it went down. If it met with a negative response, they just apologised and moved on. “A quick apology works wonders. Just say, ‘I’m sorry, I misjudged that’, and you can quickly re-establish the underlying therapeutic relationship.” You may assume there are some situations in which humour is taboo, such as when someone has accidentally urinated or defecated in their bed. But that is not the case. Van der Krogt says such throwaway lines as “Don’t worry – I don’t do the washing” or “Better out than in” can often help ease the situation. And for some patients, a little bit of gentle humour may even be acceptable after they have been told their condition is terminal. “You wouldn’t joke with some people about it, but others respond in a different way and may even make a small joke themselves.” l

THIS LIFE NUTRITION

by Jennifer Bowden

From c to shining c Cleanliness, careful cooking and chilling will keep campylobacter at bay this summer.

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he holiday season is a great time to share celebratory meals with family and friends. Although such occasions can be joyous, they can present a greater risk of food poisoning, especially for young children, pregnant women, the elderly and those with compromised immune systems. Campylobacter remains the most commonly notiﬁed, potentially food-borne disease in New Zealand. It’s a nasty illness of variable severity, with typical symptoms including abdominal pain, fever and diarrhoea. In 2018, there were 142 cases of the illness reported per 100,000 people, of which nearly 65% resulted from food-borne transmission. That’s signiﬁcantly higher than the next most common cause of food poisoning, cryptosporidiosis, with 33 cases per 100,000 people reported in 2018. About three-quarters of campylobacter cases are

caused by poultry. That’s not surprising, as up to 90% of fresh chicken sold in New Zealand is contaminated with the bacteria, according to a 2018 study by the University of Otago, Wellington. The good news is that simple food-safety precautions, such as washing your hands and utensils with hot water and detergent after chicken preparation, can achieve a 50% reduction in contamination. Campylobacter cases routinely peak in December and January. In 2018, there were 918 notiﬁcations in December, as compared with 395 in April. Of those cases, the highest rates were among children aged one to four. The highest rates of hospitalisation were

for people aged 70 years and over (46 admissions per 100,000 people). To avoid nasty food-borne illnesses this summer, use the three Cs:

CLEAN Clean your hands before and after handling raw meat. Wash chopping boards, dishes and all utensils in hot, soapy water and then dry them properly. It is better to let them air dry than use a tea towel.

COOK Cook meat thoroughly, especially chicken and mince, until the juices run clear. To ensure you kill all bacteria, use a meat thermometer. When tested in the thickest part, poultry is safe to eat when it reaches 75°C. Reheat meat until it is hot, rather than warm, to kill any bacteria. Campylobacter is sensitive to heat

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SCIENCE AND NATURE BRIEFS

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The number of animal species that have been recorded as engaging in same-sex sexual behaviour.

SHRINKING BIRDS Rising temperatures are making birds smaller, probably to adapt to climate change. Measurements of more than 70,000 birds from 52 species recorded over 40 years show they have lost an average of 2.6% in body mass, and 2.4% in leg length. They may be shrinking to stay cool in warmer temperatures or as resources and habitats become limited, or it’s possible their growth has been stunted by the heat, researchers say. Similarly, alpine goats and salamanders have been recorded as shrinking.

SHRINKING BRAINS Eight researchers based in Antarctica for 14 months have experienced a decrease in brain size. Social isolation, long periods of darkness, the extreme cold and monotonous landscape are thought to have contributed to an average 7% reduction in brain size observed in MRI scans. Animal studies have shown isolation harms the hippocampus in the brain, the area responsible for memory and navigation.

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and is destroyed within minutes at high temperatures.

CHILL Chill meat to avoid the so-called temperature “danger zone” – foodpoisoning bacteria grow rapidly between 5°C and 60°C. Unfortunately, we can’t just put a large roast chicken or turkey straight into the fridge as it is likely to raise the temperature of the other food inside. Let large roasts cool for 30 minutes on the bench before chilling. Separate them into portions as this will speed

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up the cooling process, then cover and store in a refrigerator set at between 2°C and 5°C. Never leave roast meat at room temperature for more than two hours. And, if the room is warm, you should refrigerate sooner rather than later as bacteria multiply more quickly. It typically takes up to four hours for food-poisoning bacteria to grow to dangerous levels. If the total time between 5°C and 60°C is: Less than two hours – the meat can be used immediately or refrigerated for later use. Between two hours and four hours – the meat must be used immediately or thrown out. More than four hours – don’t eat the meat, throw it out. l Email your nutrition questions to nutrition@listener.co.nz

SURFING BEES Scientists at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have observed bees “surﬁng” when stuck in water. Honey bees create waves by beating their wings in a downward curving motion and they then glide in front of the ﬁrst rib of water to reach safety. But their hydrofoiling is exhausting and they can only sustain it for 10 minutes.

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Up to 90% of fresh chicken sold in New Zealand is contaminated with campylobacter.

The genes responsible for human facial development may be indicators to how humans domesticated themselves. Scientists theorise that humans became domesticated by selecting tame, friendly and co-operative mates, leaving the aggressive humans out. This led to a change in facial structure, with smaller, ﬂatter and less prominent features than their Neanderthal predecessors.

THIS LIFE FOOD

by Lauraine Jacobs

Raw recruit Sashimi and ceviche-style dishes are an easy alternative to cooking your summer catch.

SASHIMI-STYLE FISH WITH SOY AND TOMATOES 250g fresh fish fillets (snapper, tarakihi, tuna, kingfish, kahawai or gurnard) 4 tbsp soy sauce 4 tbsp citrus olive oil 2 tsp sesame oil juice of 1 lemon handful of cherry tomatoes

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Sashimi-style fish with soy and tomatoes. Left, ceviche-style fish with avocado and fennel.

1 tsp sea salt flakes freshly ground black pepper 3 tbsp microgreens (or finely chopped herbs) Chill the fish fillets, then cut thin slices with a sharp knife. Lay the slices almost overlapping on a large, chilled serving plate. Mix the soy sauce, olive oil, sesame oil and lemon juice together. Using a pastry brush, generously coat the sliced fish with the dressing. Cut the tomatoes in half and arrange them around the plate. Sprinkle salt and pepper over the fish and the tomatoes, then garnish with a light scattering of microgreens. For best results, serve at once. Or, if preparing ahead, cover the plate tightly with plastic wrap and

refrigerate for up to 2 hours. Eat directly from the plate with chopsticks. Serves 4-6. Wine match: riesling.

CEVICHE-STYLE FISH WITH AVOCADO AND FENNEL 250g firm, fresh fish fillets (john dory, hāpuku, crayfish,trevally, kahawai, gurnard) 2 tsp sea salt flakes, plus extra to garnish 200ml verjuice (a light aromatic condiment made from unripe grapes) 1 small fennel bulb 1 small avocado 2 tbsp preserved pink ginger (available in the Asian section of grocery stores) fennel flowers freshly ground black pepper

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ike many cooks, I’ve always bought the freshest fish I could but, over the past two years, I have noticed a trend among leading chefs to age their fish. The first cook to bring this to my attention was Makoto Tokuyama, chef/owner of the muchlauded Cocoro, a Japanese restaurant in Ponsonby, Auckland. Makoto-san is a master of fish preparation and cookery, buying whole fish and ageing it from a few days to a fortnight for sashimi and special dishes. Last year, on a trip to the Gold Coast, I ate at The Fish House at Burleigh Heads, which has a purposebuilt refrigerated ageing room for whole fish that is visible from the dining room. A waiter brought two whole red snapper to the table to show the difference the ageing process makes. One was freshly delivered and destined for ageing, while the other was similar sized and had been aged for seven or more days. The aged fish had firmed considerably yet still smelt fresh, and the waiter said the flavour would be much richer than the fresh snapper. My mother would agree with this, as she has always been adamant that fresh fish is flavourless. One of my cookbooks of the year was The Whole Fish Cookbook, by Josh Niland, who takes a comprehensive look at this modern approach to fish preparation. The Australian chef and owner of restaurant Saint Peter and retail shop Fish Butchery in Paddington, Sydney, is an advocate of ageing and also using every part of the fish, including offal, bones and scales. I will be rereading the book over the summer and expect fish cookery at the bach to venture in new directions, resulting in exciting and unpredictable meals, including following his method of ageing some of the catch. And the key tips from Niland? Never wash fish with tap water when filleting or preparing it – he says it destroys the texture – and look for fish that are shiny, have bright eyes and do not have a strong smell. This week’s recipes are for serving fresh fish without cooking. Chill the fish so it is cold before working with it. Turn the fillets over a couple of times to determine the firmness and the most suitable way to slice it. The uppermost side, where the skin has been removed, is probably better and I find the best place to start slicing is at the thicker end of the fillet. Taking a very sharp knife, slice through on a slight angle, without sawing back and forth, to get clean slices.

THIS LIFE WINE

Coastal life It’s the fantasy of most New Zealanders to own their own home and live a rich but simple life cultivating the surrounding patch of dirt. Ex-Londoner Deborah Hide-Bayne realised that dream and documented the building of her family’s home on the Coromandel Peninsula in selfpublished book Coastal: Living the Coastal Life, Cooking for the Coastal Table ($40, coromandelflavour.co.nz). It’s filled with photos, tips and clever insights from the lengthy process of building her award-winning home and planting her garden. This resourceful woman has developed a range of skills along the way, including upholstery, keeping hens, making compost and creating skin products, which are all detailed in the book. But the sections that intrigue me most are about food. She shares recipes inspired by the coast and the garden, separating them by season. The instructions for hotand cold-smoking fish may be the best I have read. In homage to the bounty of the coast, there are fine recipes for the likes of snapper fishcakes, steamed cockles and tempura oysters with chilli and seaweed flakes. Hide-Bayne’s apricot, lavender and walnut cake will appeal to anyone wanting to use the lovely aromatic apricots that are in season.

Cut the fish into strips about 2cm x 4cm. Toss in a serving bowl with the salt and cover with verjuice. Leave to marinate for 60 minutes. Finely slice the fennel with a sharp knife or mandolin. Peel the avocado and cut into small chunks. Shape the ginger into curls with your fingers. To serve, add the fennel, avocado and ginger to the serving bowl, turning it gently so they are distributed throughout the dish and absorbs some of the verjuice. Sprinkle some fennel flower heads over the dish to garnish. To finish, scatter over a little extra sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper. Serve with crusty bread as a starter or snack with drinks. Serves 4-6. Wine match: gewürztraminer. l

by Michael Cooper

Legend in their own vine An exceptional growing season in Hawke’s Bay has winemakers salivating.

he 2019 harvest is expected to yield wines that are worth celebrating, especially those from Hawke’s Bay. After one of the country’s hottest, driest summers, autumn was wet in Marlborough, but the dryness persisted in Hawke’s Bay, which reported an exceptional vintage. Winemaker Gordon Russell, who joined Esk Valley 30 years ago, believes 2019 is “going to be a legend. All varieties are superb.” Julian Grounds, winemaker at Craggy Range, even praised the 2019 vintage as “sublime”. The region’s top wines from 2019 – made mostly from chardonnay, merlot, cabernet sauvignon and syrah – are yet to be unveiled, but here are some 2019 pinot gris and rosés to get us started. Esk Valley Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2019

Showing strong personality, this invitingly scented wine was grown inland, at Maraekākaho, and partly barrel-fermented. Full-bodied (13.5% alc/vol), it has strong, vibrant, pear-like ﬂavours, hints of lychees and spices, a distinct touch of complexity, balanced acidity and a dryish, lingering ﬁnish. Already delicious, it is great value at $20. Falconhead Hawke’s Bay Rosé 2019

Mills Reef Reserve Hawke’s Bay Rosé 2019

Made from merlot, this bright-pink wine is lively, with good body (13% alc/vol) and strong, fresh-watermelon and spice ﬂavours. A dry and lingering rosé. $25 Oyster Bay Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2019

Modelled on dry Italian pinot grigio rather than the richer, sweeter pinot gris of Alsace, this is a fragrant, medium to full-bodied (12.5% alc/ vol) wine with pear-like aromas, fresh stonefruit, pear and spice flavours and a smooth finish. $20 Sileni Cellar Selection Hawke’s Bay Cabernet Franc Rosé 2019 Pale pink, fresh and lively, this wine is unfolding well, with strong peach, strawberry and spice flavours, a hint of apricot, gentle tannins and a finely balanced, basically dry finish. (13% alc/vol). $20 Stables Ngatarawa Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2019 From Mission Estate, this sharply priced wine is enjoyable young. Mouthfilling (13.5% alc/vol), it is fresh and slightly creamy, with dryish, peachy, strongly spicy flavours and satisfying depth. $13 l

WINE OF THE WEEK Hãhã Hawke’s Bay Pinot Gris 2019

Enjoyable young, this wine was mostly handled in tanks, but 25% was barrel-fermented. Pale pink, it is mouthﬁlling (13%), with generous peach, watermelon and spice ﬂavours. Fresh and dryish, it is good value at $17.

Bargain-priced, this fragrant wine is mouthfilling (13% alc/vol) and smooth with fresh peach, pear and spice flavours, showing very good vigour and depth, it has an off-dry finish. $18

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PSYCHOLOGY by Marc Wilson

Goodness, it’s over Exchanging gifts is partly about survival of the species, but it can be a strain.

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The warm fuzzies are not only the reward but also the reinforcer for future niceness. Sadly, nothing is ever truly selﬂess.

Some of us find giftgiving particularly torturous, which could be to do with empathy, or theory of mind. A much less theorised about or studied side of gift-giving is the how and why of choosing particular gifts for particular people. Granny gives all the grandkids a tenner for two reasons: it’s hard to keep up with what young folk are into these days and money is flexible in its application; and the costs associated with gift identification and procurement outweigh the benefits. Kids are well trained to smile and say “thanks” regardless of whether they wanted $10 or the on-special $9 NERF N-Strike toy gun.

ndeed, the cost of gift-giving mounts up. Sure, there’s the monetary outlay, or the time cost (seven to 30 days, apparently) to brew that kombucha. But there’s also a psychological cost. Who doesn’t agonise over ﬁnding just the right gift? This is part of why long-time partners give each other practical, domestically oriented gifts – it’s hard to come up with the perfect surprise year after year. I’m speculating, because I don’t think anyone’s ever studied this, but some of us ﬁnd gift-giving particularly torturous, and I wonder if it has something to do with empathy or theory of mind. Theory of mind is our understanding of what is happening in other people’s heads. If you’re the sort of person who thinks (and worries) a lot about what others are thinking – “Gee, thanks, yet another novelty mug” – then Christmas is a nerveracking occasion. The good news, if this is you, is that Christmas comes but once a year. For now, you can go back to counting your tenners and socks. Thanks, Granny. l

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ow did Santa treat you? Ten dollars and a generic Christmas card from an elderly relative? Home-made kombucha or sauerkraut from the hipster adult nieces or nephews? Gardening or kitchen tools from the spouse? Socks or T-shirts from the girlfriend’s parents? The stereotypes – and they’re accurate, to an extent – go on. According to hardcore evolutionists, we bestow gifts because of “reciprocal altruism” – you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours, even if it’s an IOU for a future back-scratch. Indeed, the altruism experts have taken all of the fun out of being nice by pointing out that there really isn’t such a thing as a truly altruistic act – we always get something out of kindness to others. But what about anonymous donation, you might ask? We’ll come back to that. In theory, your family are the people you should be able to count on regardless of whether you give them a gift, but it’s interesting that they’re typically the recipients of the best prezzies and have the highest expectations. In this case, it’s a subtly different adaptive argument: goodies for close relatives don’t just help the receiver, but they also ensure the family is more likely to survive or attract favour from others because of all the resources it boasts. The reality is we always get something out of giving. It might be argued that, at the deepest and least-conscious level, even an anonymous donation is helping the species survive. That’s really playing the long game, and sounds pretty weak to boot. But here’s a question: has making an anonymous donation ever left you grumpy? The odds are good that, just as you smile inwardly when your child gets the deck of cards they’ve been obsessing over for months, you feel a glow after your act of generosity.

THIS LIFE SPORT by Paul Thomas

Shop talk Sport would be much less diverting if the players and their hangers-on clammed up.

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ay what you like about sport, it sets tongues wagging. Before consigning the 2019 sporting year to the archives, herewith a review of the pronouncements – apposite, unintentionally revealing and unaccountable – that captured moments and caught our attention.

“I didn’t change his life. I didn’t hit a shot.” American professional golfer David Berganio Jr, who withdrew from the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit after an airline misdirected his clubs. “I’m 50,” he said later. “I know some kid behind me was wanting to get in and I didn’t want to take up a spot.” That kid turned out to be 353rd ranked Nate Lashley, aged 36, who’d failed to qualify for the tournament, a not-unusual outcome for someone whose lack of success persuaded him, at one stage, to give up the game and sell real estate. When Lashley was at college, his parents and girlfriend were killed in a plane crash. They were on their way back to Nebraska in a single-engine Cessna piloted by Lashley’s father after watching Nate play in a university tournament in Oregon. Lashley won the Rocket Mortgage Classic by six shots, the golﬁng equivalent of the length of the straight.

Clockwise from above, Tiger Woods, Megan Rapinoe (front), Owen Farrell eyeing the haka, BJ Watling. “The ball has to go through the umpire’s ring-piece before they can start the game again. I used to have one when I were umpiring. I had no idea what they were for.” English cricket commentator David “Bumble” Lloyd gets lost in translation while on the subject of the device used by umpires to ascertain whether the ball has gone out of shape. “Lester Piggott, Britain’s greatest jockey, remains unknighted more than 30 years after being imprisoned From far left, Tayla Harris, Deontay Wilder, Sir Geoffrey Boycott.

for tax fraud. And Boycott may also have stayed shaken and un-sirred but for a single admirer, handily placed.” The Guardian’s Matthew Engel reﬂecting on outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to bestow a knighthood on her hero, former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott. Boycott was already the most polarising ﬁgure in English cricket when, in 1998, he was convicted in a French court of assaulting his lover. “I just think I’m a very limited player.” Black Cap BJ Watling, who has an irresistible claim to being the best wicketkeeper-batsman playing test cricket today. “If New Zealand are the team that do great things that barely get noticed in the wider cricket world, BJ Watling is the New Zealand of New Zealand.”

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Former Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi who retired, aged 43, in 2018. He has four daughters. “If the choice is either to prevent the All Black tryline being breached or preventing your sweet, wonderful 90-year-old grandmother being torn to pieces by a pack of wild dogs, I feel the term ‘our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of dear Ellie at this time’ would be trotted out.” Former Irish lock-turned-columnist Neil Francis suggests the All Blacks’ will to win has skewed their priorities. “It wasn’t just a subtle smirk; it was arrogant and theatrical. It was the smirk of a villain walking free from a courthouse. It would have inspired bloodshed in a congregation of Quakers and I wanted to bop him on the nose.” Stuff columnist Rosemary McLeod is apoplectic that England captain Owen Farrell had the temerity to observe the All Blacks’ haka with a quizzical half-smile. “If you want to spend some time outside, I’ll give you a rugby education.” Then-All Blacks coach Steve Hansen to a journalist who’d asked whether the team had failed to turn up with the right mentality for their Rugby World Cup semi-ﬁnal against England. A few weeks later, Hansen conceded that, after thrashing Ireland in the quarter-ﬁnals, “subconsciously, I think all of us may have just relaxed a little bit and let go of that two per cent of desperation that we had”.

ESPN-Cricinfo writer Andrew Fidel Fernando.

“Subconsciously, I think all of us may have just relaxed a little bit and let go of that two per cent of desperation that we had.”

“We are having problems playing this right now, please try again later.” The message displayed on screen during Spark’s gremlin-plagued live-streaming of the All BlacksSpringboks Rugby World Cup pool match.

talk all we want but they’re not listening and they’re probably smiling that we’re talking about it.” Women’s Aussie Rules star Tayla Harris after a broadcaster-tweeted photo of her in action brought the creeps and trolls out in force.

“His life is on the line – and I do mean his life. I’m still trying to get me a body on my record.” WBC heavyweight boxing champion Deontay Wilder repulsively pushes the trash-talk envelope ahead of his bout with Dominic Breazeale. Recent US research shows that, since 1890, more than 1500 boxers have died from injuries received in the ring.

“The comments I saw were sexual abuse … It was repulsive and made me uncomfortable. As soon as I’m uncomfortable with that, that’s what I would call sexual abuse on social media. Something needs to happen. We can

“They have my permission to play all the indoor games they want, but my daughters are not going to be competing in public sporting activities. The feminists can say what they want; as a conservative Pakistani father, I’ve made my decision.”

And the Sporting Quote of the Year is: “I’m not going to the f---ing White House.” Megan Rapinoe, co-captain of women’s soccer world champions USA, when asked if she was excited at the prospect of an invitation from President Donald Trump. l

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“I drive from Florida to California all the time and it’s flat to me. I do not go up and down at a 360º angle and all that stuff about gravity.” NBA hall-of-famer Shaquille O’Neal comes out as a ﬂat-earther.

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“This is the minute that millions around the world have waited for. Waited for years.” An American golf commentator as Tiger Woods prepared to tap in the putt that won him the 2019 Masters, his ﬁrst victory in a major tournament since 2008. In the intervening years, Woods had fallen spectacularly from grace after being exposed as a serial adulterer, undergone four back operations and dropped to as low as 1199th in the world golf rankings.

BOOKS • FILM

Books&Culture

Anaweka waka and beyond An encyclopaedic and wonderfully illustrated overview of craft making in Aotearoa and the Paciﬁc. by SALLY BLUNDELL

n 2011, picnickers on the banks of the Anaweka River in Tasman district discovered a 6m length of cut wood. It was the hull of a waka, carved out of mataī between 1226 and 1280AD. This was remarkable enough – it is now considered one of the country’s earliest archaeological finds – but further linking the hull to our early ocean-faring history was the shape of a sea turtle, carved in raised relief at the shaped end of the hull. Sea turtles are rarely seen in Māori carving, we are told in Crafting Aotearoa, but they are frequent motifs across the Pacific where turtles were traditionally regarded as “sacred guides for the first voyagers to venture to Hawai’i”. Who carved it, when, why and with what is not known, but this small handmade motif encapsulates a story of spiritual belief, migration, discovery and, for lack of a better word, craft. According to the authors of this encyclopaedic overview of object-making in New Zealand and the Pacific, craft is a tricky word, a “Pākehā term” referring to mostly functional objects made by hand and using a set of techniques “such as throwing a pot on a wheel or blowing glass”. But the history of the handmade object is also cultural – often involving protected knowledge passed down through generations – and political, privileging some cultural activities over others in order to maintain, we are told, “the hierarchies between coloniser and colonised” (and

presumably those of gender and ethnicity). How could you write a book in Aotearoa, the authors ask, “that didn’t pay proper attention to the history of toi Māori, the oldest and most distinct type of hand making in this country?” It is a bristling riposte to an unidentiﬁed antagonist, but to set the record straight the editors and authors – art historian and curator Damian Skinner, former Te Papa curator Kolokesa U Māhina-Tuai and Dowse Art Museum director Karl Chitham – have compiled an exhaustive and intriguing history of the evolving traditions of craft, craft art and object art in Aotearoa and the wider “Moana Oceania”.

t’s a busy book. It has seven main essays, nearly 70 shorter articles (printed in an eye-perplexing red), hefty captions, footnoted translations (many repeated) and a wide-ranging selection of photographs. The breadth is extensive, covering Samoan pe’a (traditional male tattoo), Crown Lynn Māori-motif dinnerware, Fred and Myrtle Flutey’s pāua shell-hung house in Bluff (recreated in Canterbury Museum), “Kia Ora” ashtrays made in Czechoslovakia, typefaces created by Samoan graphic designer Joseph Churchward, the Blunt umbrella designed by Greig Brebner, the critical and diplomatic success of Te Māori and the handmade hearts proliferating in Christchurch after the 2011 earthquake. In a determinedly catholic approach

to the business of the handmade, the authors riﬂe through kitchen cupboards, international exhibitions, museums, studio workshops and galleries to extract examples of the overlooked (sisi kakala – the vibrant Tongan waistbands), the resourceful (a candlestick made from No 8 wire), the spiritual (a cruciﬁx made from a bullet), the bored (a lighter made

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5 7 1. A sculpture of the god A’a made on the island of Rurutu . 2. Hei tiki by sculptor Rangi Kipa. 3. Crown Lynn dinnerware designed for Air New Zealand. 4. Pātītī made by blacksmith Robert Pinkney and whakairo rākau expert Michael Matchitt. 5. Tangaroa, made by Ani O’Neill from brown corduroy. 6. A novelty barometer by craftsman Andrew Moran. 7. Celtic and Māori cutlery by jeweller James Fleck. 8. A teddy made by a WWII soldier.

8 from shrapnel) and the instructive (stitchery skills taught to young Māori girls by missionary wives as a marker of “civilisation” and a way in to biblical instruction). In amassing this body of art, crafts and artefacts, knowledge and practices, the book examines the attitudes – as determined by the coloniser, missionary,

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ethnographer, curator and salesperson – that deemed some objects rare collectibles, some ethnographic curios, some souvenir tat, some ﬁne works of art and some decorated implements for the home. But despite these seemingly rigid boundaries, the inﬂuence of cultural encounters is persistent and persistently changing.

arly European settlers started incorporating New Zealand and Māori motifs in their architecture and art from the 1880s. According to ethnologist Augustus Hamilton, this new “national characteristic” would serve as a “memorial to the race who created and developed it”. In carving out a distinctly New Zealand identity, government ofﬁcials promoted

BOOKS&CULTURE representations of “Maoriland” at international events – feeding into a kind of “settler nationalism”, we are told, that relegated indigenous peoples to the past. At the same time, however, interactions between different cultures brought a sharing of knowledge. Māori understanding of local plants was integral to missionary printers and bookbinders, who used pages of tapa and ink from local plantain. Chinese gold miners introduced new forms of carpentry and carving to New Zealand. In Northland, Dalmatian kauri gum diggers carved the resin. In the late 19th century, craftspeople in Britain, ﬂeeing the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution, brought with them the skills and values of the artisan-driven Arts and Craft Movement. By the middle of the 20th century, new educational theories promoted craft making as part of a well-rounded

A recent wave of craft activism has introduced us to retro chic, slow fashion, zero-waste initiatives and the revival of older craft traditions. education for children and therapy for wounded soldiers. As a growing souvenir trade found a ready market for cheap, generic “exotica” – the coconut-shell spoons, shell necklaces, pāua coasters – an inﬂux of post-World War II immigrants from Europe brought to New Zealand Bauhaus-inspired ﬁne craft and object art. This was supported by the emergence of new exhibition outlets such as the Helen Hitchings Gallery (1949), New Vision Gallery (founded in 1957) and Objectspace (2004). Architects such as The Group, artists such as Colin McCahon and Louise Henderson, poet ARD Fairburn and potters Len Castle, Helen Mason and Barry Brickell deconstructed the assumed boundaries between art and artefact, gallery and private home. Over a few decades, we are told, “The domestic environment became the crucible for modernist experimentation.” At the same time, toi Māori was moving from museum artefact to individual art creation, ignoring those art-minded ethnographers, wrote Auckland Museum

director Gilbert Archey in 1962, “who urge us to endeavour always to see primitive sculpture against its village or jungle background”. Modern artists such as Cliff Whiting and Paratene Matchitt were incorporating traditional whakairo rākau, kōwhaiwhai and tukutuku in their work. New work by non-Māori artists, such as Ann Robinson’s cast-glass kava bowls and David Trubridge’s waka-like furniture, drew on the changing face of Aotearoa. A series of modern pātitī, or axes, with iron heads forged by Pākehā blacksmith Robert Pinkney and carved wooden handles by Māori whakairo rākau expert Michael Matchitt, were evidence, the writers say, “of exchange and willing adaptation rather than domination and coercion”.

t each twitch of history, the handcrafted, hand-painted or handmade was there – in the back-to-nature self-sufficiency of hippiedom, the aggressive anti-materialism of punk the charge of feminism, anti-Springbok tour rallies, nuclear-free New Zealand marches, Māori self-determination protests and new expressions of Pacific identity as seen in the ever-evolving, multidisciplinary Pacific Sisters. A more recent wave of craft activism has introduced us to retro chic, slow fashion, zero-waste initiatives and the revival of older craft traditions: parsiinspired garments by Mumbai-born Areez Katki; crocheted clothing by Lou & Ash; the seemingly forgotten art of Māori aute, a tradition of beaten and decorated barkcloth still associated with the Pacific and resurrected here in a beautifully textured cover image by Ngāpuhi and Te Rarawa artist Nikau Hindin, who learnt the art form in Hawai’i. Crafting Aotearoa charts it all, providing an important overview of all things cut and carved, stitched and sewn, hammered and hewn to build a uniquely New Zealand story of cultural change. l CRAFTING AOTEAROA: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania, written and edited by Damian Skinner, Karl Chitham, Kolokesa U MāhinaTuai (Te Papa Press, $85)

To a very different island A migrant’s essay collection reveals a talent for narrative drive, and Kiwis’ casual racism. by BRIGID FEEHAN

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was born on one island and I’ve come to live on a different one.” So says Rose Lu in this riveting book of personal essays. Lu was born on Chongming Island near Shanghai. In 1995, her university-educated parents left China, arriving in Auckland with three suitcases, ﬁve-year-old Lu and US$6000 in cash. They’d never spoken a word of English and knew no one. Lu’s family moved around for eight years looking for a way to make a living, ending up in Whanganui running a dairy. For Lu, high school was an unwelcoming place. There were few Asian kids and the school was “ruled by arrogance and machismo”.

Bluntly, a debut that grips A young protagonist’s silent watchfulness infuses this harrowing story of family and connection. by MAGGIE TRAPP

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had a strange feeling, like when you’re in a deep bath and you pull the plug but don’t get out, just sit there getting heavier and heavier until the last bit of water twists loud down

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Someone started a joke that her family ate cats. In the end, Whanganui felt to Lu “like a toilet stop that had gone on for too long”. Lu studied mechatronics at university and is now a software developer. In 2018, she gained a master’s in creative writing.

From the quality of the writing in this book, it’s a career swerve we can hope she continues with. The book’s nine essays each tell a separate story in captivating detail. Topics range from grocery shopping with her grandparents at the preferred “poorperson” shop (Pak’nSave) to reminiscing about lovers such as James, who “had a penchant for brown jerseys and a habit of turning up late”. Woven through each essay is Lu’s experience of being a migrant from China, of looking different, and of being subjected to the crude prejudices of Pākehā New Zealanders. Even well-meaning ones: the grandmother of one boyfriend whose church friends “made certain to tell me about their hardworking Asian gardener or the one Asian family that lived down the street”. An aunt of the same boyfriend suggests he “show Rose how we eat corn in New Zealand”.

C Rose Lu: from Chongming Island to Whanganui.

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violence and tragedy he’s lived with in order to begin anew on the North Island. As he describes this leave-taking, he tells us: “The ferry had a map of the world on the wall in one of the passenger lounges. On the map, the water between the North Island and South Island of New Zealand looked like such a thin line, like you might be able to throw a stone from one to the other. Skimmed, it would reach on its third, maybe fourth, bounce.” But cutting and running to the North Island and leaving his brother behind does not create the clean break Taukiri was hoping for. His family’s past is more present than he had understood. Auē is a braided narrative that includes chapters narrated by young and sensitive Ārama, chapters narrated by a lost Taukiri, and chapters told in the third person about Jade and Toko, young lovers caught up in a network of gang violence and retribution.

anawatu’s prose is blunt and gripping, revealing the awful and the beautiful in equal measure. Violence inhabits the characters in this book: “The sound of the sea nearby promised green. She was used to angrier colours, dirtier ones. Blood-red and bruise-black stains. Sounds that promised stains upon the stains.” And: “They laughed until they cried. They laughed until the tears became real tears. They cried over their own powerlessness, as they slowly, and seemingly by choice, propelled themselves towards the House.” This is a story about family and connection, a story about the ways that our pasts can trap us, yet keep us aﬂoat. l AUĒ, by Becky Manawatu (Mākaro Press, $35)

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the drain.” And so we come to know Ārama, or Ari as his older brother, Taukiri, calls him. Ārama, who is eight and a half, notices and feels everything. He doesn’t say much, but his quiet articulacy and sharp powers of observation leap from the page. Auē, the riveting debut novel from Westport writer Becky Manawatu, opens with Taukiri leaving his brother in an abusive Kaikōura home and driving away seemingly without a second thought. Ārama watches his brother peel off in his truck, leaving him to navigate the mineﬁeld that is his new home. Taukiri, with thoughts of recent tragedy on his mind, takes the guitar his father gave him and ﬂees north where he will busk in Wellington and begin to disentangle all that has happened to his family. As Taukiri departs the South Island, he imagines he’s shedding the weight of

ulling racism – whether casual, unconscious or gross – just keeps getting more urgent. For any number of different

reasons, everyone would gain something from reading about Lu’s experiences. Along with this, Lu is a hugely talented storyteller. Take “Alphabet Game”, about the intensity of a certain type of adolescent female friendship: “Every night [Kimberley] demanded I stay up texting her until she was ready to sleep, often until three or four in the morning.” Menacing dependence; an obsession with Sid and Nancy. Did Kimberley’s American friend, Aiden, really commit suicide? Was he even real? It’s like a short thriller. It’s like adolescence. Lu’s talent for narrative drive is highlighted again in “Five-Five”, about a gruelling hike in Nepal that becomes very dangerous indeed. (Not that Lu, who has done Outward Bound, ever panics.) And then there’s Lu’s empathy. She gives the people in her life the respect of really seeing them, of trying to ﬁgure out what life is like for them. “The Tiger Cub”, about her brother’s dogged and mainly silent battle with depression while in his ﬁrst year at university, is unsentimental but as tender and moving as anything I’ve read. l All Who Live On Islands, by Rose Lu (Victoria University Press, $30)

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Original thinking Science’s greatest hits, from Thales of Miletus to Sir Ernest Rutherford. by GILBERT WONG

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he term scientist was coined only in 1834. Before then, science and research still happened, but the activity came under many different names back into the depths of prehistory. The Ishango bone, a 20,000-year-old baboon leg bone found near the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, has a series of notches that serve as tally marks carved into it. The even older Lebombo bone, from 40,000 years ago, has similar notches though there is dispute about what they might be. In any

case, early homo sapiens were busily gathering data to solve a problem, an activity that today sees an estimated four million peer-reviewed articles published each year in biological sciences alone. Scientifica Historia is a kind of bucket list of the 150 most important science works, chosen by science writer Brian Clegg. To qualify, the works need both impact and ambition and to convey a sense of wonder and beauty. De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), written by Titus Lucretius Carus in the first century BC, took on everything from the nature of space and matter to disease and agriculture in a 7400-line poem. The Library of Alexandria, founded in about 200BC, aimed to collect the totality of the world’s wisdom on what some estimate to be up to 400,000 scrolls. Clegg tells us that one of the first to make the shift from a mythological explanation of the world to something like a scientific view might have been Thales of Miletus, who was writing in roughly 600BC. We can never know what has been lost from the ancient world. When Archimedes came up with a way to calculate the number of grains of sand it would take to fill the universe, in his work The Sand

Reckoner in 300BC, he referred to the work of Aristarchus of Samos, who theorised a solar system with the Sun at the centre well before Copernicus. Science is also about imagination, and what we imagine is limited by our worldview. If there is a theme in this catalogue, it is how the questions science asks stretch boundaries. The ancient Greeks’ largest named number was myriad, or 10,000, so the largest number in their world was myriad myriads or 100 million, a limitation Archimedes had to

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Pillars to the Temple A collection of lauded writer Peter Temple’s ﬁction and journalism is a ﬁtting tribute. by PETER CALDER

Bi Shēng, inventor of the first movable type technology. Left: an image of the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Below left: Sir Ernest Rutherford

hurdle for his grain of sand problem. The Chinese invented movable type well before Gutenberg, with a printed book produced in 1193, but the technology did not initially take off in China, partly because of the difﬁculty of reproducing the thousands of characters in the Chinese language. The more succinct Roman alphabet enabled Western Europe to make faster and greater leaps in science from the Middle Ages. Sir Ernest Rutherford earns a reference for his supposed remark, “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” As a particle physicist, Rutherford was surely talking about the fundamental structure of nature, but for the rest of us the natural world as rendered by Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Hooke’s renditions of what he saw through his microscope and John James Audubon’s Birds of America will be more engaging than diagrams of black holes in Stephen Hawking’s rarely read bestseller A Brief History of Time. Clegg is an assured guide on a journey through 40,000 years of space and time. l SCIENTIFICA HISTORICA, by Brian Clegg, (Quarto, $45)

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n 1982, seeking escape from the miseries of school teaching, I enrolled in a journalism course at an obscure Australian university. The writing teacher was a newly arrived South African with a dust-dry wit and a gruff indifference to the self-esteem of his students that would, these days, earn him a personal grievance case. His name was Peter Temple and the protocols of journalism require the disclosure that this review seeks to repay the considerable debt I owe him. Having excused me the 101 class (I knew grammar and how apostrophes work), he taught me, one on one, how to write. The early classes consisted mainly of his putting his head in his hands and moaning, “No, no, no”, but something must have sunk in, because I won a national student news-writing competition (and its thenhandsome $200 prize) at the year’s end. Temple soon left teaching to establish the short-lived, left-wing social-issues magazine Australian Society, and we lost touch. He then became famous as a crime writer, with ﬁve of his nine novels, including three of the four featuring his lawyer-turned-troubleshooter Jack Irish, winning a Ned Kelly Award, Australia’s crime-writing Oscar. The same year he withdrew himself from contention – 2010

– to give younger talents a chance, he won the country’s top literary award, the Miles Franklin. Picking up his latest, a collection of journalism, short stories and miscellanea, I was saddened to see he had died, last year, after what the obits call “a short illness”, typically a coy shorthand for the horror of sudden, aggressive cancer. He left behind the unfinished manuscript of a fifth Jack Irish novel. That substantial fragment, High Art, occupies almost half of Red Hand, but there is much more beside. In an entertaining foreword, publisher Michael Heyward gives an unvarnished portrait – largely by quoting his tart emails – of a man he accurately calls “a charismatic curmudgeon”, and his selection provides a comprehensive overview of Temple’s versatility as a writer. His spirited defence of books may not be slam-dunk persuasive, but it’s deliciously lyrical; a wry piece about the Melbourne Cup, a portrait of AFL club fever and a piece about the “fair go” show how deeply he came to know and love his adopted country. There is a funny, faux-scholarly piece about how badly Australian dictionaries deal with Australian English and a glossary of Australian slang that has a touch of Samuel Johnson and Ambrose Bierce. In the latter cases, we can see how Temple brought both an outsider’s clear-sightedness and an enthusiastic immigrant’s love to his observations. His dialogue, in the crime novels and in the short fiction here, shows a masterly control of the clipped, laconic, often verbless sentences, which he credits to reading playwrights, but must also be attributable to a great ear. It all adds up to a fitting memorial to –and, for me, a treasured memento of – a man who will be missed from the Australian literary landscape. l THE RED HAND: Stories, Reflections and the Last Appearance of Jack Irish, by Peter Temple (Text, $38)

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Women’s work is never done

FILM by Sarah Watt

The literary classic is adapted for a new generation with wit, charm and power. LITTLE WOMEN directed by Greta Gerwig

O Clockwise from top right, Laura Dern, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen and Saoirse Ronan in Little Women.

Drugs, guns and gobby geezers A star-studded but derivative return to the London underworld. THE GENTLEMEN directed by Guy Ritchie

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here was a time when you would feel excited about a new Guy Ritchie movie. Best known for his astonishing 1998 breakout feature Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, the writer-director went on to be crowned king of Britpop cinema and marry the

Queen of Pop, Madonna. As can happen to bright young things, Ritchie’s difficult second (third, fourth …) films were less well received, until he found his footing again when Hollywood reinvigorated Sherlock Holmes yet again, by hiring him to direct Robert Downey Jr, and then gave Ritchie another chance at a reboot with 2015’s highly enjoyable The Man from U.N.C.L.E. He then squandered that goodwill with pointless Arthurian retread King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and a forgettable live-action version of Disney’s Aladdin. Now Ritchie is back in London town and the greasy world of drug dealing with The Gentlemen. The cast includes an ageing Hugh Grant (overacting but having a blast), Crazy Rich Asians’ Henry Golding (trying too hard to break typecasting) and Matthew McConaughey, who adds an awkward transatlantic flavour with a dodgy accent and an unconvincing

ne may be forgiven for thinking, “Surely we don’t need another Little Women movie”, after Gillian Armstrong’s 1994 version, which starred an Oscar-nominated Winona Ryder. It may be the book every girl of a certain age read in her childhood, but it’s also pretty old-fashioned – a pleasant slice of history, but hardly relevant to today’s young women. Leave it to Greta Gerwig to deliver an outstanding update for a 21st-century audience, which is enormous fun, tenderly moving and unconditionally recommendable.

backstory about being a brilliant expatriate drug lord who attended Oxford. The convoluted story of who’s trying to rip off who is spelt out by the most unreliable of narrators – Grant’s sleazy private investigator, Fletcher, whose camp overtures to fixer Raymond (Charlie Hunnam) bring out the film-maker’s less-than-PC attitudes. Along the way, we are subjected to flashbacks and flashforwards but few flashes of brilliance. Instead, there are endless shots of a tweed-suited McConaughey drinking tea and banging on about “gentrification”. The only bright moments involve a tracksuited Colin Farrell as a surprisingly principled boxing coach and watching Downton’s Lady Mary, Michelle Dockery, reverting to her native Essex accent after years spent playing it posh. The problem is, Ritchie seems to have lost sight of what he was good at and is now trying to be other people. The film’s

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Utterly faithful to Louisa May Alcott’s book and the time period in which it was originally set, Gerwig’s Little Women somehow manages to bring a fresh new rendering of the prescient feminist tale. It is a tribute to the writer-director (Oscarnominated for last year’s Lady Bird) that, with brilliant casting and an irrepressible joie de vivre, she is set to introduce a new generation of cellphone-glued, overanxious and media-obsessed youth to the four March daughters and their equally compelling dramas. Irish actress Saoirse Ronan returns as Gerwig’s leading lady, playing Jo, the strong-willed writer who is supporting her impoverished family as their father ﬁghts in the US Civil War. Ronan is ably supported by the sensational Florence Pugh (an up-and-coming star from Midsommar and Lady Macbeth) and fellow Brit Emma Watson from Harry Potter. Even the fourth sister (Eliza Scanlen) is Australian, leaving Laura Dern as the token American, playing Marmee. All the “foreign” women have impeccable American accents. Their romantic travails revolve around the wonderfully foppish Timothée Chalamet (who also starred in Lady Bird). With this calibre of cast, it feels

quite unnecessary to add Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper to the mix. In a cute case of a book-within-a-book, Jo is writing her first novel, loosely based on her own life and family. She rejects traditional notions of love, balking when her publisher states: “If the main character’s a girl, make sure she’s married by the end. Or dead. Either way.” Jo pushes away the charms of Chalamet’s Laurie, but romantic complications ensue – the sort of situations that might feel a bit twee in this day and age, but Gerwig manages to draw us in entirely. The story jumps back and forth between Jo’s contemporary efforts to forge an independent life in New York and memories of the March family’s happy but struggling childhood. The leaps are handled well, accompanied by a glorious soundtrack, exquisite costumes and beautiful production design. Every scene is so filled with the sisters’ infectious energy that the action dances along. A lovely rendition as well as an emotional roller coaster, this timeless story of love, family and strong-willed women is truly a film for today’s audiences of all ages and sexes.

Leave it to Greta Gerwig to deliver an outstanding update for a 21st-century audience.

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Michelle Dockery and Matthew McConaughey in The Gentlemen.

opening credits evoke James Bond, and the script’s incessant in-jokes and ﬁlmschool lessons feel simply Tarantino 101. Among the many bits Ritchie has nicked from better movies, Grant attempts to do a Ben Kingsley from the incomparable British gangster ﬂick Sexy Beast. Most egregiously, the lingo is all

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homophobic slurs, “Chinaman”-type racism and incessant use of the c-word. Ritchie’s screenplay laughs in the face of the “show, don’t tell” maxim and when a character asks, “Why are you wasting our time?”, you wonder the same thing.

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SHORT TAKES STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER directed by JJ Abrams

tar Wars might have started as a swashbuckling space adventure with a sideline in interstellar hocus-pocus, but it won the devotion of a religion. Aptly enough, The Rise of Skywalker – or Star Wars: Episode IX – feels like something of a biblical epic as it ends the third and final trilogy after 2015’s The Force Awakens and 2017’s The Last Jedi. It comes with a vision of hell ruled by a satanic figure, desert tribes, raging seas and multiple resurrections of dead or dying characters. True, the Jedi guardian-angel thing is long established, but as the opening scroll warns on this one: “The dead speak.” They certainly do. In the case of Carrie Fisher’s Leia, they do that from beyond the grave while looking slightly annoyed at being forced to work overtime. If her rendering is visually shaky, it’s a minor glitch in what is largely an enjoyable high-action Star Wars movie complete with multiple character curtain calls. It’s one that, like Abrams’ episode VII The Force Awakens, doesn’t do much that is surprising – the inevitable major character paternity revelation is a bit so-what – and its interplanetary treasure hunt of a plot could have done with fewer planets. It’s a little long on the hocus-pocus, too, especially during an extended climax that comes with shades of Harry Potter and Romeo & Juliet. But, mostly, it wraps things up quite neatly while rewarding your affection for the series, especially in a final shot that brings us back to where it all started quite beautifully.

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(amazing)

DIVERSIONS QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker

CROSSWORD by David Tossman

Puzzle No 1553

Puzzle No 1162 23. What might a ďŹ&#x201A;ight that departs late at night and arrives early the next morning be called? (3-3)

Clues across 6. In 1984, which Philip was favoured for the position of Poet Laureate, but declined? (6) 7. What name is shared by an Italian painter and a European space probe launched in 1985? (6) 10. The novels Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville and Patricia Highsmithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Talented Mr Ripley were inspired by which play? (7) 11. What is a rhythmical throbbing of the arteries? (5) 12. Lake Victoria and Lake Tana feed what river? (4) 13. In which city in Jordan is the residence of the king? (5) 16. How many spaces are there on a standard Monopoly game board? (5) 17. Who is John Thomsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character in televisionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cold Feet? (4) 20. In Buddhism, what is one who has gained insight into the true nature of existence and has achieved nirvana? (5) 21/22. Edith Head had 35 nominations and won eight Academy Awards in which category? (7,6) 1

Clues down 1. The plant Clematis vitalba is better known as what? (3,4,5) 2. The Un-Dead was a working title for which 1897 novel? (7) 3. What is a female fox? (5) 4. What is broadcasting time devoted to a particular song or performer? (7) 5. The cheeses mozzarella, gorgonzola and ricotta were created where? (5) 8. Which 2001 ďŹ lm is a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack ďŹ lm of the same name? (6,6) 9. What is the usual American word for a drawing pin? (9) 14. What identiďŹ cation does a soldier wear around his neck? (3,4) 15. What is the technical term for earwax? (7) 18. Which board game did Ray Charles, Charlie Chaplin and Charles Boyer enjoy playing? (5) 19. In 1929, which brand of car was third in US sales, behind Ford and Chevrolet? (5)

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Clues across 5. A lady when in Rome and on transfer (5) 6. Old speedometer reading in plate prepared for a small publication (8) 9. A whimsical impulse about damage (7) 10. Regroup or unite for the usual round of activities (7) 11. Tell the customs ofďŹ cer that you have dutiable goods cleared in error (7) 12. Elementary schoolbooks showing the ďŹ rst dabs of paint on the wall (7) 13. Being bossy, stir singers up about six (11) 18. Human beings go crazy about new family (7) 20. A veteran, Donald, dementedly takes heroin (3,4) 22. Get an extension to the sentence (7) 24. Wax lyrical with tunes he composed (7) 25. It is fantastic: succeeded by doctor, nothing to you and me (8)

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Solution 1552 Across: 1/4 Meryl Streep, 9 Liberia, 10 Mario, 11 Nato, 12 Umberto, 13 Kim, 14 Lena, 16 Lima, 18 DEL, 20/21 Taiaroa Head, 24Â Bragg, 25 Satsuma, 26 Scheme, 27 Bread. Down: 1 Malone, 2 Rabat, 3 Lark, 5 Time ball, 6 Eardrum, 7/8 Procol Harum, 13 Kauri gum, 15Â Epitaph, 17 Stubbs, 18 Daisy, 19 Edward, 22 Ă&#x2030;tude, 23 Stub.

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Clues down 1. What the auditor does as bugs keep quiet (8) 2. Paint a different coat on the old copper (6) 3. Ruler writes sound correspondence in uprising (4) 4. Tell about location for building, say (6) 5. Interpret a style of design popular in the 30s from Parisian (6) 6. Favoured being quietly brought up (9) 7. I undo knot in greeting the escape artist (7) 8. Some lovers enjoy a bit of poetry (5) 12. Inmates iron (press) to appear reformed (9) 14. Directed to be sharp (7) 15. A bachelor from the university can be forced to eat a drug (8) 16. Divert a rodent lacking love (5) 17. Commercial, that is us, for good buys you might say (6) 19. Contract to make nuclear missile (6) 21. Function, thanks to genetic engineering, in second childhood (6) 23. It will hit the ground running with a head start and almost 12 inches coming up (4) For explanations of previous cryptic crosswords, see David Tossmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blog at www.noted. co.nz/distractions/quiz

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BRIDGE by David Bird two of diamonds, an obvious singleton? Suppose you win the lead, in one hand or the other, and play a trump. East will win and give his partner a diamond ruff. You will lose three trump tricks and the ace of clubs, going one down. Greenwood found a novel “extra chance” play. Instead of playing a trump, he cashed the ace and king of spades. When the spade queen fell from West on the second round, he continued with the jack of spades and discarded his club loser. West ruffed with a small trump, yes, but declarer had saved a trick with his clever play. He eventually lost just three trump tricks and made the game. As you see, West would have done better to cash the ace of clubs before switching to his singleton diamond.

NORTH ♠ KJ962 ♥ J82 ♦ J853 ♣K WEST ♠ Q4 ♥ 76 ♦ 2 ♣ A Q 10 8 7 6 4 2

EAST ♠ 10 8 7 3 ♥ AK9 ♦ 10 7 6 ♣J93

SOUTH ♠ A5 ♥ Q 10 5 4 3 ♦ AKQ94 ♣5 Love all, dealer West West 4C All Pass

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The deal comes from the Northern Ireland national trials. David Greenwood, formerly an England international, sat South. Let’s look at it as a bidding problem ﬁrst. What would you bid when West’s pre-emptive opening runs round to you in the South seat? Greenwood chose a practical 4H. How would you play this contract when West leads the

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BIDDING QUIZ

WEST West North East South ♠ A 10 8 6 5 2 — — 3S Dble ♥ 6 ? ♦ 764 ♣ 10 9 3 Only the opponents are vulnerable. What will you say now on the West cards? (Answer on page 60.)

BARDEN’S CHESS PROBLEMS

Bobby Fischer v Charles Bedford, simultaneous display, US, 1964 One of the technical specialities of the legendary Fischer was his ability to mount an attack based on developing his king’s bishop at c4 or b3, and this puzzle is a classic example. What was White’s winning move? (Answer on page 60.)

Wordsworth by Lauren Buckeridge This week’s challenge was to compose a limerick that includes one of the following words: cavorting, ramshackle, scabbard, clandestine, or debaucherous. Ian Penrose, Coromandel: There once was a young man cavorting/In a manner that wasn’t quite sporting/His sexual habits/Remind one of rabbits/Then a shot rang out in the morning. Jo Bowler, Auckland: A fisherman, sporty and spry/Decided a new cast to try/ But his gear was ramshackle/He ensnared in his tackle/and suspended himself from his fly. Kaye Bennetts, Whangaparāoa: An erstwhile debaucherous prince/whose interview failed to convince/Was abruptly retired/ (In other words, fired)/for making his family wince. Rex McGregor, Auckland: This ramshackle old habitation/Is a wretched disgrace to the nation/But a Grey Lynn address/Is enough to impress/Location, location, location. Michael Ferns, Invercargill: I went into bat feeling sporting/I’ll get all those fieldsmen cavorting/But I ran out of luck/ Went out for a duck/and left the fast bowler chortling. John Mills, Gebbies Valley: The bullfighter’s scabbard and sword/Defends him from not being gored/The sword became stuck/’Twas jolly bad luck/As he, not the bull, ended cored. But Invercargill’s Lesley Treweek wins with: A daring young man from Belize/ was cavorting upon high trapeze/His intentions were right/Execution, not quite/ and sadly there’ll be no reprise. For the next contest, pick a wellknown riddle, but give it a new answer. For example, “What goes up but never comes down?” Stress (real answer: age). Entries, for the prize below, close at noon on Thursday, January 16, 2020. Submissions: wordsworth@listener.co.nz or Wordsworth, NZ Listener, Private Bag 92512, Wellesley St, Auckland 1141. Please include your address. Entries may be edited for sense or space reasons.

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It’s dirty work, but Listener columnist Michael Cooper heroically sampled thousands of New Zealand wines in the writing of his 2020 buyer’s guide.

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DIVERSIONS Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

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730

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704 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 once in each block.

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LOGIC PUZZLE

BREAKFAST TIME

Four card players each drew a different card to decide who should play ﬁrst. They each drew a differently numbered card from a different suit: 1. Paul drew either a club or diamond. 2. Anne’s card had two more pips than Paul’s. 3. Marie drew an ace. 4. Regarding Reuben and Marie, one drew a spade and one drew a club. 5. Paul’s card had fewer pips than the spade that was drawn.

CLUELESS CROSSWORD

Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a different number from 1 to 26. Use your knowledge of English to solve the crossword. Some clue letters are given.

Using these clues and the grid below, can you work out which player drew which card?

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Your aim is to change the top word one letter at a time, each time rearranging the letters to create a new word. Perform one such permutation for each blank line below until you arrive at the last word. There is usually more than one correct solution. See how many you can ﬁnd in 15 mins.

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Your aim is to create words of four letters or more using the given letters once, but always including the middle letter. Do not use proper names or plural/verb forms that add only “s”. See if you can ﬁnd the nine-letter word using all the letters.

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India on Film, Monday. Below, actor Rahul Bose.

Spotlight on India Restored ﬁlm shot between 1899 and 1947 turns out to be a remarkable guide to India’s colourful history. by RUSSELL BROWN

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n 2017, as part of the UKIndia Year of the Culture, the British Film Institute presented restored and digitised footage from a precious collection of 300 reels of ﬁlm captured in India between 1899 and 1947, the year of Indian independence. The restored clips, still available on the BFI website, are intriguing, but mysterious.

Most are silent, so can’t explain themselves – and apart from brief notes on their provenance, there’s no real historical context for them. Where do these ﬁlms ﬁt in? What do they mean? That missing context arrives in India on Film (History, Sky 073, Monday, 8.30pm), a two-part documentary presented by Bollywood

actor Rahul Bose, with commentary from both Indian and British historians and writers. As historian William Dalrymple points out, moving images illuminate a scene in a very different way to still photographs: 100 years on, we may be far more excited by what’s happening at the edge of the frame, rather than where the camera is being

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ment pointed. Who’s behind the camera is also important. The first episode, “Jewel of the Empire”, features footage shot almost exclusively by early British cinematographers. We see people approaching a static camera in an ordinary, teeming street in a way they would only do if they didn’t know what a camera was. But the images the British were more interested in were those showing the pomp of the durbar, the prince’s court – these were distributed around the globe in newsreels, evidence of the grandeur of the Empire itself. The fact that they were trophy images just encouraged more pageantry. The second episode, “Hope and Change”, covering India’s path to independence, opens on a reel shot by an Indian film-maker. It doesn’t show ordinary life, but an existence to which most Indians had no access – a garden party staged by members of the Raj and attended by the Indian elite. These were aspirational images, watched by Indians in their own cinemas – and some of the vignettes of social figures in them meant quite different things to audiences then than what we take them for now. Such is the power of the moving image that by looking closely at the images themselves, India on Film, with its clever editing and lively commentary, emerges as a remarkably accessible guide to India’s social and political history in the first half of the 20th century. l

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Jack Irish, Saturday.

Television

by FIONA RAE

The Best of the Week SATURDAY JANUARY 11

Jack Irish (Choice TV, 9.30pm). Season two of the really rather good Aussie series – like all good crime noir, it explores social issues and the abuse of power. In season one, there was a massacre in a Philippines village and the murder of an Australian woman investigating it; in season two, it’s shonky international learning institutions. It’s been a terriﬁc role for Guy Pearce, who spent 20 years in the US before returning home to play the part. “The beauty for me is that I am playing an Australian,” he told Stuff. “So, all of that vernacular, all of the ums and ahs and pauses come completely naturally to me, as opposed to playing King Edward VIII [in The King’s Speech], who is of another time and of another place.” In addition, Danielle

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Deep Water, Monday.

out who is left standing after last year’s cliffhanger dramas. In addition, the return of some familiar faces is promised for 2020, including an angry widow looking for vengeance. They’re the best kind, in our opinion. The Outsider (SoHo, Sky 010, 3.00pm and 8.30pm). The HBO era has been very good for Stephen King and here’s another adaptation of one of his novels, one that has links to the successful series Mr Mercedes. Two executive producers

on Mercedes are involved and they have enlisted acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Richard Price (The Night Of, The Deuce and The Wire). They also have a great cast. Ben Mendelsohn, Jason Bateman, Mare Winningham, Paddy Considine and Julianne Nicholson appear in the story of a man arrested for a heinous crime, but who apparently was in two places at once. Shades of Twin Peaks, perhaps, as Detective Ralph Anderson (Mendelsohn) investigates with private investigator Holly Gibney (who also

Documentaries Two of the more recent additions to TVNZ OnDemand, via its partnership with the documentary website iwonder, show very diﬀerent faces of the US. Winter at Westbeth follows three long-time residents of New York’s Westbeth Artists Housing – a 95-year-old

appears in Mr Mercedes, but is here played by Cynthia Erivo). Bateman, who won a directing Emmy last year for Ozark, is also a producer and directs the ﬁrst two episodes. Deep Water (TVNZ 1, 8.30pm). A sort-of Big Little Lies in the Lake District. Based on the novels by Paula Daly, the six-part series focuses on three school mums whose various secrets and lies get them into … well. Anna Friel dresses down as the owner of a dog-kennel business and is the one really

in hot water when the teenage daughter of wealthy mum Kate (Rosalind Eleazar) goes missing on her watch. Meanwhile, cash-strapped physiotherapist Roz (Sinead Keenan) considers an indecent proposal. Soapy and implausible, but terriﬁcally watchable. TUESDAY JANUARY 14

Inside the Ritz Hotel London (TVNZ 1, 8.40pm). Great promotion for one of the world’s most prestigious hotels, although this four-part series begs the question, if it’s really

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video artist, a 75-year-old contemporary dancer and an 82-year-old poet – over the course of a year. They are old enough and have seen enough that their art itself is their unﬁnished business. Australian director Rohan Spong’s ﬁlm had a brief cinematic run here in 2017, and at that time

Winter at Westbeth, TVNZ OnDemand.

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Online

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Catch of the Week

Almost Famous: The Other Fab Four Nefertiti: The Lonely Queen, Wednesday.

that fabulous, why does it need the publicity? WEDNESDAY JANUARY 15

culturally out of context. The Parthenon Marbles are just one example – the title refers to the famous bust of Nefertiti that is part of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin’s collection. It was discovered in 1912 by a German archaeological team and has been in dispute since 1924 when it went on display. The documentary also investigates looted antiquities; it’s bad enough that signiﬁcant historical items are being lost, but children used by criminal gangs involved in this trade have died searching for items.

The New Pope (SoHo, Sky 010, 8.30pm). Paolo Sorrentino is known as an auteur of great

he spoke about the aﬃrmation he got from watching his three subjects and the way “that making their art had given them a reason to get up in the morning and to work through the joy and tragedies of their lives”. Then there’s Alt-Right: Age of Rage, which depicts the US’s ascendant white supremacist groups as they wriggle like pale worms in the daylight – and the people

dedicated to opposing and calling out their ideas. According to most reviewers, Adam Bhala Lough’s documentary struggles for a clear structure and purpose, but it captures such events as the infamous Unite the Right rally with a ground-level reality that television news doesn’t achieve. This isn’t a ﬁlm likely to make you feel optimistic about the world. tinyurl.com/ NZLIW

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SVOD HIGHLIGHT: What’s good in subscription video on demand. The gleefully transgressive British comedy-drama Sex Education is returning to Netﬂix. Season two launches on Friday.

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Nefertiti: The Lonely Queen (History, Sky 073, 8.30pm). Not, as the title suggests, about the Egyptian queen who, with husband Akhenaten, brieﬂy revolutionised religious thought, but actually a discussion about ownership of ancient artefacts and the looting of antiquities. With the return of Māori remains, New Zealand knows something of this, and the ﬁlm points out that museums around the world are full of precious items taken from their homeland, often without permission. In addition, their display may be

GIRLS IN THE BAND: It’s only 16 minutes long, but Almost Famous: The Other Fab Four may just be the best music documentary of 2019. It’s the story of The Liverbirds, contemporaries of the Beatles and Britain’s first all-female rock band, told by surviving members Mary McGlory and Sylvia Saunders. It’s a great yarn – they rolled joints for Jimi Hendrix, toured with the Stones, made themselves at home in the clubs of Hamburg – but what really makes it work is the sheer fondness of the pair’s telling. In that sense, it almost feels out of place in film-maker Ben Proudfoot’s Almost Famous series for the New York Times about notable also-rans. They don’t see themselves as failures, however, but as Scouse girls who had a brilliant adventure. In truth, there’s not a great deal of rancour in other episodes in Proudfoot’s series, either. Kim Hill, who left the Black-Eyed Peas before they became global superstars, explains that her beef was with the industry, not the band, and Ed Dwight Jr clearly transcended the command decision that denied him the chance to be the first black man in space. These are simply great stories. tinyurl.com/NZLProudfoot

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Sport

by RUSSELL BROWN

The week’s best live action TENNIS As the ASB Classic women’s competition reaches ﬁnals days (Sky Sport 3, Saturday, 2.30pm and Sunday 4.30pm), the men’s tournament starts on Monday (Sky Sport 3, 11.30am). As with the women’s, the men’s line-up features a few veterans – including the colourful 32-year-old Fabio Fognini, currently in the form of his career – and a crop of young guns, including top seed and 2019 US Open ﬁnalist Daniil Medvedev.

The X Factor UK: Celebrity, Friday.

Fabio Fognini

CRICKET Is it sport? Or entertainment? And how did the build-up to a celebrity cricket match somehow lead to Sir Graham Henry going on the radio and commenting about the new All Blacks coaching set-up? At any rate, the T20 Black Clash, which pits a team of current and former rugby stars against a side of cricketing veterans, is very popular with the public – last year’s inaugural match drew a TV audience of more than a million. This year’s match (TVNZ 1, Friday, 4.00pm) is in Napier, and Team Cricket coach Stephen Fleming has promised that his side, beaten by the rugby players last year, will “play a bit harder, stack our side a little bit more and just make sure we get on the right side of it”. In domestic cricket on both sides of the Tasman, it’s wall-to-wall T20, with Australia’s Big Bash and our own Dream11 Super Smash on every day this week. The Super Smash reaches elimination ﬁnal stage at the end of the week, with the women’s on Thursday (Sky Sport 2, 4.00pm) and the men’s on Friday (Sky Sport 2, 4.00pm).

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Black Bash: Richie McCaw and Kieran Read at last year’s match.

visual style and The Young Pope had that in spades, even if at times it seemed like a TV series you had to be Italian to understand. Sorrentino’s interrogation of faith, grief, desire, corruption and the church continues in The New Pope. Jude Law’s Pope Pius XIII is in a coma and John Malkovich’s English aristocrat John Brannox is the new guy – except that there is the tantalising prospect that Lenny is going to wake up and there will be two popes. “This creates a disruption,” Sorrentino told Variety. “For one billion Catholics, this reawakening can be thought of as a resurrection, which, within the ﬁctional

story that we are telling, can lead to new and unpredictable consequences.” FRIDAY JANUARY 17

Murdoch Mysteries (Vibe, Sky 006, 7.30pm). Toronto 1907, and women are rallying for the vote. It will be another 11 years before there is universal suffrage in Canada. Shocking. Meanwhile, Murdoch Mysteries is in its 13th season and about to clock up 200 episodes; not bad for a series set at the turn of the 20th century. Lead actor Yannick Bisson directs an episode this season, his sixth, which stars acclaimed Canadian actor Colm Feore. The X Factor UK: Celebrity (TVNZ 1, 8.30pm). With Britain’s Got Talent: The Champions wrapping up on Saturday (TVNZ 1, 7.30pm), Simon Cowell’s next ratings grab is a celebrity version of the UK singing competition. The line-up includes journalist Martin Bashir, a group of rugby players calling themselves Try Star, former talkshow host Ricki Lake, actor and former footballer Vinnie Jones, ex-Coronation Street actress Victoria Ekanoye and Kevin McHale, formerly of Glee.

The New Pope, Thursday.

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TV Films

by RYAN HOLDER

A Guide to the Week’s Viewing SATURDAY JANUARY 11

Happy Feet Two (Three, 7.00pm). You need only so many singing and dancing penguins in your life – and an ensemble voice cast isn’t going to change that. The sequel has about as much existential angst as the original animation, but its narrative pace is glacial. And although listening to Brad Pitt and Matt Damon discuss the downsides to life as krill is a good laugh, it’s one of the many distracting subplots that

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take away from what made the ﬁrst an Oscar winner. (2011)

Ex Machina (Māori TV, 8.30pm). In his directorial debut, novelist-turned-film-maker Alex Garland takes the idea of the Turing test, which is supposed to prove that a machine with artificial intelligence can think like a human, and turns it into something unsettling, brilliant and original. After winning an office competition to spend

the week with his genius boss (Óscar Isaac) at his secluded mansion (the stunning Juvet Landscape Hotel in Norway), a young programmer (Domhnall Gleeson) is pressured into testing Ava (Alicia Vikander), a beguilingly attractive humanoid. (2014) The Lincoln Lawyer (Prime, 8.30pm). Where the McConaissance began. After a series of

Ex Machina, Saturday.

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The Lincoln Lawyer, Saturday.

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Postcards from the Edge, Saturday.

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appearances in shallow ﬁlms such as Ghost of Girlfriends Past, Matthew McConaughey surprised his critics with a gritty performance as a lowlife lawyer who takes on a rich kid (Ryan Phillippe) who claims to have been framed. He knows that something is awry. The narrative stays true to the Michael Connelly crime novel on which it’s based and, all the better, director Brad Furman (Runner Runner) gives it a neonoir aesthetic. (2011) Postcards from the Edge (Movies Classics, Sky 034, 8.30pm). In a ﬁlm based on Carrie Fisher’s semi-autobiographical novel, director Mike Nichols (Charlie Wilson’s War) undercuts good drama with mediocre comedy. Young actress and recovering drug addict Suzanne (Meryl Streep) is forced by her studio to live with a “responsible” adult, namely

Talladega Nights) her more-famous makes the most mother, Doris of the chemistry (Shirley x goddess e s n o t n a w between the two MacLaine), to actors, culminatenable her to ing in a crudely get back into y, a id r F , V T hilarious ﬁlm that is the business. Māori m p 0 .3 8 as deep as it sounds. An interesting (2008) story about substance abuse in Hollywood melts MONDAY JANUARY 13 into a comedy of manners The Look of Silence (Māori between a competitive mother TV, 8.30pm). In a devastatand a reliant daughter. (1990) ing documentary about the Indonesian mass-killings SUNDAY JANUARY 12 of the mid-1960s, director Step Brothers (Prime, 8.30pm). Joshua Oppenheimer follows “I’m not gunna call him his subject, an optician, as Dad.” “You’re 39 years old, I he examines the eyes of his wouldn’t expect you to call brother’s murderers. He gently him Dad.” When the parents prods and coaxes his patients of Brennan Huff (Will Ferrell) for an explanation, an answer and Dale Doback (John C or perhaps remorse. But none Reilly) fall in love and marry, is forthcoming. The Look of two new stepbrothers, who are Silence completes the circle just man-babies, are forced to begun by The Act of Killing, in live together. Writer and direcwhich Oppenheimer sometor Adam McKay (Anchorman, how convinced the butchers

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to re-enact their crimes in gaudy skits. Many of them didn’t understand why they were considered evil – the dead were mostly communists, weren’t they? Isn’t this what the West wanted? – but others are more clued up, and some are still in power. Mid90s (Movies Extra, Sky 031, 8.30pm). Jonah Hill’s escape from the pigeonhole of comedy was one of the more welcome surprises of the past decade. And now with his feature directorial debut, Hill makes another knight’s move. Mid90s is a nostalgia-drenched coming-of-age story about 13-year-old Stevie (newcomer Sunny Suljic) from a broken home who ﬁnds a new family in a crew of young and reckless skateboarders. Their escapades, some of which are legal, further antagonise his bully brother, Ian (Lucas

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Mid90s, Monday.

Devil in a Blue Dress, Thursday.

Boy, Wednesday.

Hedges), and single mother (Katherine Waterston). (2018)

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Boy (TVNZ 2, 8.40pm). Having seen Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit celebrated around the

world, it’s a bit of a trip to look back at the ﬁlm that launched Taika Waititi’s career. If you somehow haven’t seen it, Boy is a coming-of-age comedy about an 11-yearold boy (James Rolleston) in small-town New Zealand who idolises two people: Michael Jackson and his absent father (Waititi). His dad is busy – “doing some pretty important stuff” – and when he returns from prison, he’s not all he’s cracked up to be. It’s charming and funny. (2010) THURSDAY JANUARY 16

Minority Report (Three, 8.30pm). Like Ex Machina, Minority Report proves a ﬁlm can have action and

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Devil in a Blue Dress (Movies Classics, Sky 034, 8.30pm). The clue is in the names: Easy Rawlins, Dewitt Albright, Daphne Monet. Yes, we are deep in the world of noir here. Denzel Washington is Easy, a new private investigator who bites off more than he can chew when he takes on the disappearance of a white woman (Jennifer Beals) who used to date the man running

for mayor (Terry Kinney). (1995) Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible (Rialto, Sky 039, 8.30pm). A century after he turned a urinal upside down and signed it, Marcel Duchamp is still inspiring artists and critics with his unconventional approach. Art of the Possible is an enthusiast’s look at the history of the French-American artist and the extent to which his work and philosophy changed the direction of modern art. (2019) FRIDAY JANUARY 17

Bridget Jones’s Diary (Māori TV, 8.30pm). “Bridget Jones, wanton sex goddess, with a very bad man between her thighs … Mum, hi.” Still brilliant. (2001) Films are rated out of 5: (abysmal) to

(amazing).

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Minority Report, Thursday.

brains. The brains in this case can see into the future. They’re called PreCogs and are used by the PreCrime police department to arrest murderers before they’ve murdered. The controversial project is turned on its head when the name of PreCrime chief John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is thrown up and he must prove his future innocence. Tight and clever direction by Steven Spielberg. (2002)

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Radio

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The Best of the Week Episodes play daily this week: Brazil, Indonesia, India and Angola follow.

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Opera on Sunday (RNZ Concert, 6.00pm). The Queen of Spades, Tchaikovsky’s dark, complex WEDNESDAY JANUARY 15 work, was given lavish treatMusic Alive (RNZ Concert, ment by the Metropolitan 8.00pm). At the 2019 Opera, with elaborate Schumannfest in Bonn, costumes and sets it was all about the appropriate to its s ’ t r e c n women, with a cel18th-century RNZ Co oad safari ebration of Clara setting. The star R est Silk b Schumann to of the show, coincide with the however, was bicentenary of sensational day, n o M her birth. In this young Norwem p 0 8.0 concert, Germangian soprano Greek pianist Danae Lise Davidsen, Dörken, lieder singer who made her Met Arttu Kataja and piano accomdebut as Lisa, the lover of panist Pauliina Tukiainen gambling addict Hermann perform works by Schumann (Yusif Eyvazov). She made “a and her husband, Robert, as radiant debut”, said the New well as Brahms’ O death, how York Times, with a voice that is bitter you are. Clara Schumann “creamy in texture, but with a was ahead of her time, says silvery shimmer that gives it a Dörken, and “her composipenetrating spine”. tions are often technically very MONDAY JANUARY 13 demanding because she wrote The Cold War Legacy (RNZ them for herself”. National, 12.30pm). A five-part BBC series that ponders the effects of the Cold War and its ongoing ramifications for a younger generation. It begins in Czechoslovakia, where Chris Bowlby meets Czechs who are fighting their own political battles and also encountering growing Chinese and Russian influence.

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Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, Opera on Sunday.

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Sometimes, it’s better when famous people talk to other famous people, and now comedian/TV presenter Sue Perkins has followed in David Tennant’s podsteps with An hour or so with … in which she has a jolly nice chat with the likes of Armando Iannucci and Mary Berry. tinyurl.com/NZLPerkins

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Your comments on TV and radio NATIONAL OBSESSION Why is Morning Report (RNZ National) so obsessed with the weather? Before the 6.30am news, there’s an update on the predicted temperatures for the main centres, then a more comprehensive forecast for the whole country immediately after the sports round-up. Most of us can predict what the day’s weather is going to be by pulling back the curtains in the morning. Alan Petrie (Te Anau)

Thank you, Bill Keown (Talkback, December 21), for straight talking about the new TVNZ 1 weather forecast. It’s the basic information as before, but lost in the maze of wrappings. I’m sure the computer guys and meteorologists had a ball creating it, but they seem to have forgotten the people who just want to know if they should put off the picnic or take a raincoat. To my relief, I found a website – metservice.com – which has just that. Bea Hamer (Ngaio, Wellington)

AHNNOYING What is it that – aaahhh – makes people who – aaahhh – are being interviewed on radio – aaahhh – try to talk so much faster than – aaahhh – they can think? Or so it seems. Even the Prime Minister does it, and one would have thought she

was eloquent enough. Surely, a quick brieﬁng on microphone technique before the interview and problems such as this, or speech that is hard to hear, could be minimised. That hesitation issue has been steadily increasing over the years, and I am ﬁnding it as off-putting as radio advertising. Peter Nelson (Blenheim)

TASMANIAN DEVILRY Perhaps Sir David Attenborough was hoping the voluptuous but extravagantly inappropriate soundtrack would take attention away from the commentary in his documentary on Tasmania (TVNZ 1, December 15). The script told us less about the wildlife than I learnt in the ﬁve Melbourne primary schools I attended and announced emphatically that on a journey due east, the ﬁrst landfall would be South America. I’ve tried various maps and projections, but New Zealand seems to be in the way. The Voice of Authority then told us the nearest relative of the Tasmanian southern beech is in South America. A poorly researched script can perhaps be excused – after all, there’s no need to be too precise with the distant ex-colonies – but surely Attenborough would have noticed the rubbish he was reading? John Elmsly (Swanson, Auckland)

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6.00 Country Calendar (G, R, HD, C) 7.00 ■ Start Me Up (C) Martin is determined to resurrect a WWII jeep and Mod goes for a ride on a military personnel carrier. 7.30 Infomercials 9.00 Whanau Living (G, R, HD) 9.30 Tagata Pasifika 10.00 Pacific Island Food Revolution (HD, C) In Samoa, three new teams face a difficult challenge. 11.00 John & Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen (G, HD) 11.55 A Place to Call Home (PGR, R, HD, C, AD) s5ep6 1.00 ■ Kath & Kim (PGR, R, HD, C) Kel lets fame go to his head when he receives a Retailer of the Year award. s4ep2 1.30 ■ Coast vs Country (G, R, HD, C) Jane and Jim are looking in Devon with a budget of £400,000. 2.30 Design Junkies (G, R, HD, C, AD) Local design challenge series. 3.30 Fantasy Homes by the Sea (G, HD, C) Kathy and Steve, who run a B&B in Malvern, want to move to the East Sussex Coast. 4.30 Embarrassing Pets (G, HD, C) Alfred the basset hound mounts his owners’ legs when they walk past him. 5.00 The Chase (G, HD, C) With Bradley Walsh. 6.00 1 News (C) 7.00 Country Calendar (G, R, HD, C, AD) A Rangitikei family run a training school for shepherds, where 16 young people learn practical skills and get involved in the local community. 7.30 ■ Britain’s Got Talent: The Champions (G, HD, C) Ant and Dec present a UK talent quest. It’s the grand final and one act will be crowned the ultimate champion (includes Lotto at 8.00pm). 9.30 ■ Trust Me (AO, HD, C, AD) Season two of the UK anthology drama series. Jamie McCain is recovering from a spinal injury that has left him paralyzed, but he becomes suspicious when patients on his ward start dying unexpectedly. s2ep1 11.50 ■ All Round to Mrs Brown’s (AO, R, HD, C, AD) Agnes and family are joined by QI’s unofficial co-host Alan Davies, pop power couple Marvin and Rochelle Humes, and Wayne Bridge gives a football masterclass despite Dermot and Buster’s best efforts. 1.55am Coronation Street Catchup 2019 (R, C, AD) 3.55 – 6.00 Infomercials

6.00 Takaro Tribe (G, R, HD, C, AD) 6.10 Custard’s World (G, R, HD, C, AD) 6.25 The Wiggles, Emma! (G, HD, C, AD) 6.35 PJ Masks (G, R, HD, C) 7.00 The Insectibles (G, R, HD, C, AD) 7.10 Thunderbirds Are Go! (G, R, HD, C, AD) 7.30 Super Dinosaur (G, HD, C) 7.55 ■ Pokémon: Sun & Moon – Ultra Legends (G, R, HD, C) 8.20 Ninjago (G, HD, C) 8.40 Justice League Action (G, HD, C) 9.05 Regular Show (G, HD, C) 9.15 ■ Dragon Ball Super (G, HD, C) 9.45 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C) 10.40 Mike & Molly (PGR, R, HD, C) 11.05 Suburgatory (PGR, R, HD, C) 11.35 Doctor Who (R, C, AD) 12.55 Australian Survivor (PGR, R, HD, C) 4.35 House Rules (G, HD, C) 6.05 The 100k Drop (G, HD, C) Davina McCall hosts a UK game show in which pairs of players start with £100,000 and must prevent it from dropping out of the game by avoiding the wrong answers. 7.00 Spartan: New Zealand v Australia (G, HD, C) Teams from Australia and New Zealand take on the world’s toughest obstacle course. 8.30 ■ Hall Pass (2011, AO, R, HD, C, AD) Two husbands who are having difficulty in their marriages are given hall passes by their wives, meaning that for one week, they can do whatever they want. Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Christina Applegate, Jenna Fischer. 10.35 ■ Lethal Weapon (1987, AO, R, HD, C, AD) A pair of mismatched LAPD detectives investigate the murder of a friend’s daughter. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Tom Atkins, Darlene Love. 12.35am ■ Sex and the City 2 (2010, AO, R, HD, C, AD) When Samantha gets a PR job in Abu Dhabi, she takes her friends along, but trouble awaits when Carrie meets her former lover Aidan and Samantha is arrested for public indecency. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon. 3.05 ■ Sex Tape (2014, AO, R, HD, C, AD) A couple attempt to retrieve intimate footage they have synced to iPads they gave as gifts. Jason Segel, Cameron Diaz. 4.40 Home Improvement (G, R, C) 5.30 – 6.00 Religious Programming (R)

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Charles Stanley Infomercials Malaysia Kitchen (G, R, HD) Miguel’s Tropical Kitchen (G, R, HD) 10.30 Survivor: Heroes v Healers v Hustlers (G, R, HD) 11.30 Face Off: All Stars (PGR, R, HD) 12.30 The Good Sh*t (PGR, R, HD, C) s1ep2 1.30 All Aussie Adventures (PGR, R, HD, C) 2.00 Fresh Off the Boat (PGR, R, HD) 2.55 The Goldbergs (PGR, HD, C) 3.25 Celebrity Name Game (PGR, R, HD) 3.50 A Life Among Monkeys (G, R, HD) 4.55 Grand Designs UK (G, R, HD) Identical twins build nearly identical houses next to each other in Sheffield. 6.00 Newshub Live (HD) 7.00 ■ Happy Feet Two (2011, G, HD, C) Voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Alecia Moore. TV Films, page 69 9.05 ■ Deep Blue Sea (1999, AO, R, HD, C) On an island research facility, an experiment with DNAaltered sharks goes awry. Saffron Burrows, Samuel L Jackson, LL Cool J. 11.00 ■ Seduced (2016, AO, R, HD, C) A widow goes on a date, but the guy becomes manipulative. Elisabeth Rohm, Jon Prescott. 12.50am Infomercials 5.00 Hillsong TV (G, HD) 5.30 – 6.00 Charles Stanley

6.00 Kids’ Programmes (G, R) 10.00 SmackDown (PGR, R) 10.55 ASB Classic Tennis (G, C) Highlights of day 5. 12.05 Hot Bench (G, R) 12.30 Cricket Dream11 Super Smash, Otago Sparks v Central Hinds, live from the University of Otago Oval. 4.00 Cricket Dream11 Super Smash, Otago Volts v Central Stags, live from the University of Otago Oval. 7.30 ■ The Sixties (PGR, R, C) Documentary series about the key US events of the 60s. Tonight, the Warren Report. 8.30 ■ The Lincoln Lawyer (2011, AO, R, C) A defence attorney has a crisis of conscience. Matthew McConaughey. TV Films, page 69 11.00 Hyundai A-League (G) Wellington Phoenix v Western Sydney Wanderers, highlights. 11.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PGR, R) 12.00am – 1.00 The Selection (AO, R, C)

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6.00 Infomercials (G, R) 10.00 Mom’s a Medium (G, R) 10.30 Million Dollar Listing NY (G, R) 11.30 Dance Moms (G, R) 12.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver (G, R) 2.30 Dress to Impress (G, R) 4.30 The People’s Court (G, R) 7.30 Botched (PGR, R) Dr Dubrow helps a woman with boobs gone bad. 8.30 Vanderpump Rules (AO) 9.30 The Real Housewives of New Jersey (AO) The Giudice Family struggles as Joe is transferred to ICE. 10.30 Murder and Justice: The Case of Martha Moxley (AO, R) New theories about the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley. 11.30 Dress to Impress (G, R) In Cardiff, a bricklayer, support worker and a plasterer all hope to win a date with a modern-day Marilyn Monroe. 12.20am Infomercials 5.00 – 6.00 Love It or List It: Vancouver (G, R)

Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Swagger (G, R) Celebrity Playlist (G, R) School of Training (G, R) City Slickers Rodeo (G, R) IVF World Sprints (R) Haati Grassroots Rugby (R) Poitukohu Kura Tuarua (R) The Pits TV (R) Tangaroa with Pio (G, R) Ka Tū Ka Kōrero (G, R) My Country Song (G, R) Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau (G, R) 6.30 Te Ao: Māori News 7.00 ■ Beethoven’s 2nd (1993, G) Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt. 8.30 ■ Ex Machina (2014, AO, R) A programmer is selected to participate in an experiment in synthetic intelligence. Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander. TV Films, page 69 10.30 Ngā Pari Kārangaranga o te Motu (G, R) Putauaki – He Maunga Kore. 11.00 Te Ao: Māori News (R) 11.30 – 12.00am You Can’t Ask That (AO, R)

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Glass (2019, M) James McAvoy, Bruce Willis 9.19 Elvis Goes There: Ryan Coogler (2019, M) Documentary. 10.14 Five Feet Apart (2019, M) Haley Lu Richardson 12.09 211 (2018, 16) Nicolas Cage, Sophie Skelton 1.35 Glass (2019, M) James McAvoy, Bruce Willis 3.40 McKellen (2018, M) Documentary. 5.10 Drunk Parents (2019, M) Alec Baldwin, Salma Hayek 6.45 Final Score (2018, 16) Dave Bautista, Pierce Brosnan 8.30 Support the Girls (2018, M) The manager of a sports bar has her faith tested over the course of one trying day. Regina Hall. 10.05 Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018, PG) A WWII soldier falls in love with a woman who mends his heart. Samuel Hunt 11.45 I Feel Pretty (2018, M) Amy Schumer, Michelle Williams 1.35am The Dark Tapes (2018, 16) 3.11 McKellen (2018, M) 4.40 Drunk Parents (2019, M)

Nothing but Trailers (M) Top End Wedding (2019, M) Miranda Tapsell, Gwilym Lee 9.07 John Ford: The Man Who Invented America (2018, M) Documentary. 10.02 The Row (2018, 16) Lala Kent, Randy Couture 11.36 The Golem (2019, 16) Hani Furstenberg, Ishai Golan 1.10 King of Thieves (2018, M) Michael Caine 2.55 John Ford: The Man Who Invented America (2018, M) Documentary. 3.50 #roxy (2018, PG) Jake Short 5.35 Elvis Goes There: Guillermo Del Toro (2019, M) Documentary. 6.30 Crazy Rich Asians (2018, M) Constance Wu 8.30 Skyscraper (2018, PG) Dwayne Johnson 10.15 The Hustle (2019, M) Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson. 11.50 Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans (2015, M) Doco. 1.40am The Nanny Betrayal (2018, M) 3.05 #roxy (2018, PG) 4.50 Elvis Goes There: Guillermo Del Toro (2019, M) 5.45 Crazy Rich Asians (2018, M)

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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986, PG) Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck 9.13 The Graduate (1967, M) Dustin Hoffman 10.58 Saturday Night Fever (1977, 16) John Travolta 12.53 Rollerball (1975, 18) James Caan, John Houseman 2.55 Wild Bill (1995, M) Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin 4.30 A Time to Kill (1996, M) Matthew McConaughey 6.55 Just a Little Harmless Sex (1999, M) Robert Mailhouse, Alison Eastwood 8.30 Postcards from the Edge (1990, PG) A substanceaddicted actress is forced to move back in with her mother. Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine. TV Films, page 69 10.10 Child’s Play (1988, 16) A mother gives her son a doll for his birthday, only to discover it is possessed by a serial killer. Chris Sarandon 11.35 Posse (1993, M) Stephen Baldwin, Mario Van Peebles 1.25am Wild Bill (1995, M) 3.00 A Time to Kill (1996, M) 5.26 Just a Little Harmless Sex (1999, M)

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6.00 Infomercials 11.30 Love for Sail (PGR, R, HD) 12.30 Arranged USA (R, HD) 1.30 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 2.00 Family Feud Australia (R) 2.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 3.00 A Question of Love (R, HD) 4.00 Arranged USA (R, HD) 5.00 Fit to Fat to Fit (R, HD) 6.00 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield (R, HD) 6.30 Classical Destinations (HD) 7.00 Piha Rescue (PGR, R, HD) 7.30 Better Homes and Gardens (HD) 9.00 B.O.R.N. To Style (R, HD) 10.00 Best Gardens Australia (R, HD) 10.30 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield (R, HD) 11.00 Classical Destinations (HD) 11.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials

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6.00 Gardeners’ World 6.30 Monty Don’s French Gardens 7.30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 8.30 Dream Gardens 9.00 The Water Brothers 9.30 Carver Kings 10.30 James Martin’s American Adventure 11.30 American Pickers 12.30 Building the Dream 1.30 Escape to the Chateau: DIY 2.30 American Idol 4.30 Food Safari Fire 5.00 Food Safari Earth 5.30 Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled 6.30 Mysteries at the Museum 7.30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces (G) In New Zealand, George visits a hobbit-esque underground house. 8.30 Antiques Roadshow 9.30 Jack Irish (AO) A parcel returned to sender leads Jack into a new mystery to unravel. 10.30 Discovering (G) Al Pacino. 11.30 Mysteries at the Museum 12.30am Gardeners’ World 1.00 Antiques Roadshow 2.00 Hasselhoff vs the Berlin Wall 3.00 Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled 4.00 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 5.00 – 6.00 Mysteries at the Museum

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7.00 DUKEbox Music 2.00 Formula E Street Racers (HD) 2.30 Top Gear (HD) 5.20 Ice Road Truckers (HD, C) 6.10 Dog Squad NZ (HD, C) 6.40 Motorway Patrol NZ (HD, C) 7.10 Family Guy (PGR, HD) 7.35 The Simpsons (HD, C) 8.30 Spiky Gold Hunters NZ (AO, HD) Newcomer Storm is along for the ride

6.45 Emma (2017, 16) Valeria Golino, Adriano Giannini 8.40 On Chesil Beach (2017, M) Saoirse Ronan 10.30 Indian Horse (2017, M) Sladen Peltier 12.10 A Happening of Monumental Proportions (2017, M) Allison Janney 1.30 40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie (2017, M) US documentary. 3.10 The Workshop (2017, M) Marina Fois 5.00 Backtrack Boys (2018, M) Australian documentary. 6.45 Serenity (2019, 16) Matthew McConaughey 8.30 Mega Time Squad (2018, M) A crook finds a timetravelling device that helps with a heist. Jonny Brugh 9.50 Ghost Stories (2017, M) A professor is given a file about apparitions. Andy Nyman 11.25 120 BPM (2017, 16) Arnaud Valois 1.45am Call Me Bruna (18) s2ep6 2.30 40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie (2017, M) 4.10 Mega Time Squad (2018, M) 5.30 The Workshop (2017, M)

Rialto: Serenity, 6.45pm with the sea urchin fishermen, and a seven-gill shark forces Dwyane to make an executive decision. 9.25 ■ Fear Dot Com (2002, AO, HD, C) A New York detective and a public health official investigate mysterious deaths that occur 48 hours after victims log on to a website called feardotcom. Stephen Dorff, Natasha McElhone. 11.20 – 12.10am Live at the Apollo (AO, HD, C) Dara O’Briain entertains and introduces Lenny Henry, Mike Wilmot and Tommy Tiernan.

UKTV SKY 007 6.20 QI Marathon (M) 7.55 Would I Lie to You? Marathon (M) 9.30 The Bill Marathon (M) 1.30 Casualty (PG) 2.25 Casualty (M) 3.20 Holby City (M) 4.25 A Touch of Frost (M) 6.05 QI (M) 6.40 Father Brown (M) s3ep9 7.35 Casualty (PG) Tensions run high when Bill is admitted to the ED, and Charlie might find out about Duffy’s affair. s33ep16 8.30 Midsomer Murders (M) A tour of a relish factory ends in tragedy when one of the visitors is crushed against towers of relish bottles. s8ep7 10.15 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) Russell Howard, Roisin Conaty, Phil Wang, Nick Helm. 11.05 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) News presenter Sophie Raworth discovers ancestors who risked everything in search of religious freedom. 12.05am Who Do You Think You Are? Marathon (PG) 4.05 Midsomer Murders (M) s8ep7 5.40 – 6.10 QI (M)

6.45 Room 104 (16) s2ep4 7.10 I Love You, Now Die: s1ep2 (16) s1ep2 8.30 Condor (16) s1ep9 9.20 Guerrilla (16) s1ep3 10.10 Ray Donovan (18) s7ep8 11.10 The Tunnel (16) s3ep6 12.05 Room 104 (16) s2ep4 12.30 Dublin Murders Marathon (16) s1ep1-7 7.30 Dublin Murders (16) Season finale. As arrests are made in both operations, Rob and Cassie are forced into a tense face-to-face reunion. s1ep8 8.30 Hard Sun (16) A murderer makes an unlikely confession to a priest about how he wants to challenge God into revealing his true self. s1ep3 9.30 Into the Badlands (18) Sunny and Nix seek information that could destroy Pilgrim, the Widow and Bajie team up with the Master, and MK leads Pilgrim to a source of great power. s3ep11 10.15 Shameless (18) Frank goes back in time to uncover his connection to Faye. s10ep9 11.15 American Gods (18) s1ep7 12.05am Drew Michael (16) 12.55 Hard Sun (16) s1ep3 2.05 A Million Little Things Marathon (M) s1ep1-6

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6.00 Restoration Man (PG) 6.55 Salvage Hunters (PG) 7.50 Love It or List It UK (G) 8.40 Grand Designs House of the Year (PG) 9.35 Long Lost Family UK (PG) 10.25 Escape to the Country (PG) 11.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 1.05 Nate and Jeremiah by Design (PG) 2.05 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (G) 2.55 Selling Houses Australia Marathon (PG) 6.35 Location Location Location (PG) 7.30 Great American Railroad Journeys (PG) Michael Portillo begins on the Ocean line to explore Canada’s maritime provinces. 8.35 Vintage Roads Great and Small (PG) Christopher Timothy and Peter Davison set out on a road trip from Inverness to the Isle of Skye along some Britain’s vintage roads in a 1936-designed Morgan. 9.35 Restoration Man (PG) A young couple with no restoration experience and a baby on the way carve out their first family home inside a decommissioned 1930s pumping station. 10.30 Salvage Hunters (PG) 11.25 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (G) 12.15am Location Location Location (PG) 1.10 Great American Railroad Journeys (PG) 2.15 Selling Houses Australia (PG) 4.05 Vintage Roads Great and Small (PG) 5.05 – 6.00 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (G)

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6.00 Rugby, Guinness Pro14, Ulster v Munster, replay from Kingspan Stadium, Belfast 8.00 World Rugby Women’s Sevens, day 1, highlights 9.30 World Rugby Women’s Sevens, day 2, highlights 11.00 World Rugby Sevens, day 1, highlights from Dubai 12.30 World Rugby Sevens, day 2, highlights 2.00 World Rugby Sevens, day 3, highlights 3.30 World Rugby Sevens, day 1, highlights from Cape Town 5.00 World Rugby Sevens, day 2, highlights 6.30 Oceania Rugby Women’s Championship, Australia A v Black Ferns Development, replay from Suva 8.00 Redbull Ignite 7s, highlights from Trusts Arena 9.30 Red Bull Ignite 7s 10.30 World Rugby Women’s Sevens, day 1, highlights 12.00am World Rugby Women’s Sevens, day 2, highlights 1.30 Rugby, Gallagher Premiership, Gloucester v Bath, replay 3.30 Rugby, Gallagher Premiership, Leicester v Bristol, replay 5.30 Rugby, Gallagher Premiership, Saracens v Worcester, replay

Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 6.00 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, highlights 7.00 India v Sri Lanka, 3rd T20, replay 10.30 Big Bash League, highlights 11.00 Dream11 Super Smash, highlights 11.30 India v Sri Lanka, 3rd T20, highlights 12.30 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, Otago Sparks v Central Hinds, from University of Otago Oval, live 4.00 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, Otago Volts v Central Stags, from University of Otago Oval, live 8.05 Cricket, Big Bash League, Sydney Thunder v Hobart Hurricanes, live 11.05 Cricket, Big Bash League, Perth Scorchers v Brisbane Heat, live 2.30am Big Bash League, highlights 3.00 Dream11

DOCUMENTARIES Sky Arts SKY 020 6.30 Finding Your Roots 7.30 Put Some Colour in Your Life 8.00 Handmade in the Pacific 8.50 The Wanderers 9.00 The Great Fortune 10.00 Auction 11.00 Legends of Opera 11.45 The Directors 12.30 Making Child Prodigies 1.00 Urban Myths: Paul McCartney 1.30 Fake or Fortune 2.30 Finding Your Roots 3.30 Put Some Colour in Your Life 4.00 Europakonzert 2018: Bayreuth 5.30 Landscape Artist of the Year (G) Presented by Joan Bakewell and Frank Skinner. 7.00 The Art of Museums 8.00 Critical Thinkers (G) Art critic and essayist Jonathan Crary. 8.30 The Art of Architecture (G) V&A Dundee. 9.15 Annie Goodchild Plays Baloise Session 10.05 Ira May Plays Baloise Session 10.45 I, Douglas Fairbanks 11.45 The Wanderers 12.00am Europakonzert 2018: Bayreuth 1.30 Landscape Artist of the Year 3.00 The Art of Museums 4.00 Critical Thinkers 4.30 The Art of Architecture 5.15 Annie Goodchild Plays Baloise Session

Discovery SKY 070 6.35 How It’s Made (PG) 7.05 How Do They Do It? (PG) 7.30 Gold Rush (PG) 8.20 Outback Opal Hunters Marathon (PG) 12.30 Expedition Unknown (PG) 1.20 Alaska: The Last Frontier (PG) 2.10 Raising Wild (PG) 3.00 Finding Escobar’s Millions (PG) 3.50 Weather Gone Viral Marathon (PG) 6.35 BattleBots (PG) 7.30 World’s Deadliest Weather Caught on Camera (PG) 8.30 Secret Space Escapes (PG) 9.25 Gold Rush (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 Global Caught on Camera (PG) 2.25 Weather Top Tens Marathon (PG)

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Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 6.30 Tennis, ATP Cup, match of the day 8.00 Tennis, Brisbane International, match of the day 9.30 Brisbane International, highlights 10.30 Tennis, Women’s ASB Classic, match of the day Noon Women’s ASB Classic, match of the night 1.30, Women’s ASB Classic, highlights 2.30 Tennis, Women’s ASB Classic, day 6, from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland, live 9.30 Tennis, Brisbane International, match of the day 11.00 Women’s ASB Classic, match of the day 12.30am Brisbane International, highlights 1.30 Women’s ASB Classic, highlights 2.30 Brisbane International, match of the day 4.00 Women’s ASB Classic, match of the day 5.30 Brisbane International, highlights Wrangler (PG) 5.30 Running Wild with Bear Grylls (PG) 6.30 Drain the Oceans (PG) 7.30 Rescued (M) 8.30 Inside World War II (16) 9.30 Dictators Rulebook (M) 10.30 Lockdown: Behind Bars (16) 11.30 Hard Time: Locked Up (M) 12.30am Drain the Oceans (PG) 1.30 Rescued (M) 2.30 Inside World War II (16) 3.30 Dictators Rulebook (M) 4.30 Lockdown: Behind Bars (16) 5.30 Hard Time: Locked Up (M)

History SKY 073 7.30 Mysteries at the Castle (M) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Myth Hunters (PG) 10.30 The Cars That Made Us (PG) 11.30 Aerial Britain 12.30 The Roosevelts (PG) 1.30 Frontiersmen: The Men Who Built America (M) 3.30 Mysteries at the Castle (M) 4.30 Coast Australia (PG) 5.30 The World from Above (PG) 6.30 The 2000s (PG) 7.30 River Hunters (PG) Rick Edwards and Beau Ouimette battle the forceful River Tees. 8.30 Families That Changed the World (PG) 9.30 Secrets of Britain’s Great Cathedrals (PG) London. 10.30 History Erased (PG) India has shaped the world we know today in countless ways. 11.30 The Universe (PG) 12.30am In Search of Aliens (PG) 1.30 Time Team 2.30 Declassified: Stories of American Spies (PG) 3.15 Ancient Aliens (PG) 4.00 River Hunters (PG) 4.45 Families That Changed the World (PG) 5.30 Secrets of Britain’s Great Cathedrals (PG)

BBC Earth SKY 074 6.05 David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II Marathon (PG) 11.05 Wild Kingdom Marathon (PG) 3.05 The Planets (PG) 3.55 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 4.45 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 5.35 David Attenborough’s Planet Earth (PG) Jungles cover roughly 3% of the planet, contain 50% of the world’s species and are the most productive habitats on Earth. 6.30 Dangerous Earth (PG) Helen Czerski examines two of the coldest natural phenomena on Earth: icebergs and avalanches. 7.30 Supercharged Otters (PG) 8.30 Spy in the Wild (PG) 9.35 Life Below Zero: The Thaw (M) 10.25 The Planets (PG) 11.25 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 12.15am The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 1.00 Wild Kingdom Marathon (PG) 5.00 Supercharged Otters (PG)

6.08 Storytime 7.10 The Best of Country Life 8.10 The Weekend with Lynn Freeman 12.12 Summer Music 101 4.06 A History of Music and Technology Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason explores the history of instruments and studio innovations. Drum Machines and Samplers (6 of 9, BBC) 5.00 The World at Five 5.10 White Silence New World Order: When the Mahon Report landed in 1981, the country was ready for its first big conspiracy. (5 of 6, RNZ) 6.06 Womad Taranaki 2019 Highlights from World Music Festival in New Plymouth 7.06 Saturday Night with Paul Brennan 12.04am All Night Programme Including 3.05 Victoria in Māoriland, by Margaret Blay, read by Miranda Harcourt (15 of 20, RNZ)

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6.00 Classic Morning 9.00 Weekend Brunch Noon Summer Afternoons Including 1.00 Afternoon Concert 2.00 Worlds of Music with Trevor Reekie Trans-global, fusion and folk roots music 3.00 Music Alive Matinée Wallace National Piano Competition 2019 Final, programme 2 – Liszt: Apres une lecture du Dante; Rachmaninov: Moment Musical Op 16/3; Chopin: Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise in E flat Op 22; Schumann: Piano Sonata No 2 in G minor Op 22; Chopin: Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52; Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 3 in A minor Op 28, Frank Chen, Tony Yan Tong Chen (piano) (recorded in the Raye Freedman Centre, Auckland) 5.00 Inside Out with Nick Tipping A journey through the jazz spectrum 7.00 Music Alive Including 8.00 NZSO National Youth Orchestra 2017: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra – Celeste Oram: Young People’s Guide to the Orchestra (premiere); MacMillan: Veni, Veni, Emmanuel; Reuben Jelleyman: Vespro (premiere); Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Colin Currie (percussion), NZSO National Youth Orchestra/ James Macmillan (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall, Auckland) 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 Malcolm Jordan 9.00 Francesca Rudkin Noon Nigel Yalden 6.00 Bruce Russell 12.00am Jim Snedden Website: newstalkzb.co.nz

Magic Talk 6.00 Hayden Rickard 10.00 Roman Travers 6.00 Newshub 7.00 Magic Music 12.00am Magic Music Website: magic.co.nz

Sky Arts: Landscape Artist of the Year, 5.30pm

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6.30 Ultimate Airport Dubai (PG) 8.30 Wicked Tuna: North vs South (M) 9.30 Inside Incredible Machines (PG) 10.30 Superstructures: Engineering Marvels (PG) 11.30 Rescued (M) 12.30 Air Crash Investigation (PG) 2.30 Nazi Megastructures (PG) 3.30 WW2 Hell Under the Sea (M) 4.30 Outback

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SUNDAY JANUARY 12

TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001

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6.00 ■ Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest Airport (R, C, AD) 6.45 ■ Tiny House Nation (G, R, HD) 7.30 Tagata Pasifika 8.00 Praise Be (G, R, HD) 8.30 Yours Faithfully (R) 9.15 How Not to Get Cancer (G, R, HD, C, AD) 10.00 Waka Man (G, R, HD, C) 10.30 Waka Huia Summer Series (G, HD) Jim Schuster was carefully nurtured by his elders to ensure the continuation of traditional artforms. 11.00 Secret Scotland (G, R, HD, C) Susan Calman searches Loch Ness Monster and rides in a home-made submarine. 11.55 The Job Interview (G, R, HD, C, AD) 12.55 Ugly House to Lovely House (G, R, HD, C, AD) 1.50 Outback Truckers (PGR, R, HD, C) 2.50 Building the Ultimate (G, HD, C) Montreal’s New Champlain Bridge. 3.50 ■ Magical Land of Oz (G, R, HD, C, AD) Barry Humphries narrates a series about Australia’s unique wildlife. Today, snow-covered peaks to ancient rainforests and savannahs. 4.55 The Family Chase (G, HD, C) 6.00 1 News (C) 7.00 The Casketeers (PGR, HD, C, AD) Francis plans his biggest surprise yet for Kaiora on their wedding anniversary. 7.30 Seven Worlds, One Planet (HD, C, AD) Sir David Attenborough presents spectacular wildlife stories from the planet’s seven continents. In Asia, rarely seen animals roam the hottest deserts and highest mountains. 8.40 World on Fire (AO, HD, C, AD) UK drama series about people living through WWII. Harry returns home to Manchester, Kasia makes plans to flee Warsaw with her mother, and in Berlin, Nancy is frustrated by increasing censorship. s1ep2 9.50 Motorbike Cops (AO, R, HD, C) Series following motorbike cops in and around Sydney. 10.25 Pure (AO, HD, C) Marnie hits another dead end when she goes to a sex addicts’ meeting. s1ep2 11.10 Catch-22 (AO, R, HD, C) On a surreal trip, Yossarian begins to realise the magnitude and influence of Milo’s business empire. s1ep4 12.05am Vanity Fair (PGR, R, HD, C, AD) s1ep2 1.00 Coronation Street Catchup 2019 (PGR, R, HD, C, AD) 3.00 – 6.00 Infomercials

6.00 Paw Patrol (G, R, HD, C) 6.20 Thomas & Friends (G, R, HD, C, AD) 6.30 Puppy Dog Pals (G, R, HD, C) 6.55 Alvinnn!!! And the Chipmunks (G, R, HD, C) 7.05 Masha and the Bear (G, R, HD, C) 7.15 Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (G, HD, C) 7.35 Elena of Avalor (G, HD, C) 8.00 ■ Disney’s Tarzan & Jane (2002, G, R, HD, C) Voices of Michael T Weiss, Olivia d’Abo. 9.15 Walk the Prank (G, R, HD, C) 10.00 Regular Show (G, R, HD) 10.10 ■ The Goonies (1985, PGR, R, HD, C, AD) A band of kids attempt to save their homes from foreclosure. Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Martha Plimpton. 12.05 ■ The Horse Whisperer (1998, PGR, R, HD, C) A trainer with a gift for understanding horses is hired to help an injured teenager and her horse back to health. Robert Redford, Scarlett Johansson. 3.15 Kevin Can Wait (G, HD, C) 3.45 Toddlers Make You LOL (G, HD, C) 4.45 House Rules (HD, C) Tim and Mat see their renovated 1950s weatherboard cottage for the first time. 6.05 The 100k Drop (G, HD, C) Davina McCall hosts a UK game show in which pairs of players start with £100,000 and must prevent it from dropping out of the game by avoiding the wrong answers. 7.00 ■ Cinderella (2015, G, R, HD, C, AD) A young woman who is mistreated by her stepmother and two unpleasant stepsisters receives a magical visitation. Lily James, Cate Blanchett Richard Madden, Helena Bonham Carter. 9.00 ■ The Age of Adaline (PGR, HD, C, AD) A young woman stops ageing after an accident at the age of 29 and ends up on the run from the FBI for the rest of her life. Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford, Kathy Baker. 11.10 ■ A Nightmare on Elm St 2 (1985, AO, R, HD, C) A teenager has recurring nightmares about Freddy Krueger after moving into Nancy Thompson’s former home. Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Englund. 12.45am Famous in Love (PGR, R, HD, C) s2ep3 1.30 Claws (AO, R, HD, C) s2ep3 3.10 Infomercials 3.45 Religious Programming (R) 4.15 Home Improvement (G, R, C) 5.30 – 6.00 Infomercials

Life TV (G) Brian Houston (G) Charles Stanley (G) Life TV (R, G) Turning Point (R, G) R & R with Eru & K’Lee (R, HD) 9.30 Getaway (G, R, HD) 10.00 Sara’s Australia Unveiled (G, R, HD) 10.30 Sandcastles (G, R, HD) 11.00 Tasty Conversations (G, R, HD) 11.05 Big Angry Fish (G, R, HD, C) Noon Ocean Bounty (G, R, HD, C) 1.00 Muscle Garage (HD) 1.30 Motorsport (HD) Formula E: Street Racers. 2.00 Motorsport (HD) World Speedway 2019. 3.00 Motorsport (HD) Whanganui Street Race. 4.00 Motorsport (HD) Monster Jam. 4.55 Gone Fishin’ (G, HD) 5.25 Fish of the Day (G, HD, C) Golden Bay. s4ep5 6.00 Newshub Live (HD) 7.00 The Block Australia (PGR, HD, another episode screens tomorrow) The teams race to finish their courtyards. s15ep37 8.30 ■ Fast Five (2011, AO, R, HD, C) Dom Toretto partners with former cop Brian O’Conner for a heist in Rio de Janeiro. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson. 10.55 Blue Bloods (AO, HD, C) s7ep5 11.50 Hawaii Five-0 (AO, R, HD, C) s7ep13 12.40am – 6.00 Infomercials

■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM

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Prime: Step Brothers, 8.30pm

PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 6.00 Religious Programming (G) 7.00 Nella the Princess Knight (G, R, C) 7.30 Religious Programming (G) 10.30 Sport Box (G) Noon 100 Day Bach (G, R, C) 12.30 Hot Bench (G, R) 1.00 Heroes and Survivors (PGR, R, C) 1.55 Mad About You (PGR, R) 2.20 ASB Classic Tennis (G, C) Highlights of day 6. 3.30 Antiques Road Trip (G, R) 4.30 The Great Australian Bake Off (G, R, C) 5.30 Prime News 6.00 The Great Escapers (G) 7.00 Storage Wars (PGR, C) 7.30 Pilgrimage: The Road to Rome (PGR, C) The celebrities find that the simple life is important. 8.30 ■ Step Brothers (2008, AO, R, C) Will Ferrell, John C Reilly. TV Films, page 69 10.30 SmackDown (PGR) 11.30 – 12.30am 60 Minutes (PGR) A Philippine journalist reporting on President Duterte.

BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012

MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019

6.00 Love It or List It: Vancouver (G, R) 9.10 Dress to Impress (G, R) 10.50 Botched (PGR, R) 11.40 Love It or List It: Vancouver (G, R) 12.30 Dance Moms (G, R) 3.10 The People’s Court (G, R) 5.05 Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry (G, R) s1ep1 6.00 Love It or List It: Vancouver (G, R) A dated house on a shaky foundation increases in value after a property boom. 7.00 ■ Shout (1991, PGR, R) A music teacher introduces his students to rock’n’roll in 1950s Texas. John Travolta, Gwyneth Paltrow. 9.15 ■ America’s Sweethearts (2001, AO, R) A publicist deals with the public split of his movie’s co-stars while keeping reporters at bay. Julia Roberts, John Cusack. 11.30 Pregnant in Heels (AO) Rosie and Daron find out the sex of their baby. 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials

6.30 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 11.00 11.30 Noon 12.30 1.00 2.00

Kids’ Programmes Waka Ama Sprints (R) Globe (G, R) Swagger (G, R) Cam’s Kai (G, R) ■ Ride or Die (PGR, R) ■ Waka Man (G, R) Toa o Aotearoa (PGR, R) IVF World Sprints (R) 2019 Bunnings Nationals (R) ■ Beethoven’s 2nd (1993, G, R) Charles Grodin. 3.30 Marae Kai Masters (G, R) 4.10 Off the Grid with Pio (G, R) 5.00 Ipukarea (R) 5.30 Ngā Pari Kārangaranga o te Motu (G, R) 6.00 Waka Huia (G) 6.30 Te Ao: Māori News 7.00 Off the Grid with Pio (G, R) 7.30 Target Zero (G, R) Documentary about Mike King’s challenge to reduce our suicide statistics. 8.30 ■ A Serious Man (2009, AO) Michael Stuhlbarg. 10.20 Te Ao: Māori News (R) 10.50 – 11.20 Ngā Pari Kārangaranga o te Motu (G, R) Tuohu Kau.

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SUNDAY JANUARY 12

SKY PREMIERE SKY 030

MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031

MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039

Final Score (2018, 16) Dave Bautista, Pierce Brosnan 7.55 Close Up: Christoph Waltz (PG) Documentary. 8.25 Support the Girls (2018, M) Regina Hall 10.00 Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018, PG) Samuel Hunt 11.40 I Feel Pretty (2018, M) Amy Schumer, Michelle Williams 1.30 Final Score (2018, 16) Dave Bautista, Pierce Brosnan 3.15 Supercon (2018, 16) Maggie Grace, Clancy Brown 5.00 Ocean’s 8 (2018, M) Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett 6.50 Little Pink House (2017, M) Catherine Keener 8.30 Alita: Battle Angel (2019, M) A cyborg is rescued by a doctor who protects her from her past. Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz 10.35 The Quiet One (Bill Wyman) (2019, M) A documentary on the life and career of Rolling Stones member Bill Wyman. 12.15am Pet Sematary (2019) (2019, 16) 1.55 Close Up: Christoph Waltz (PG) 2.25 Supercon (2018, 16) 4.10 Ocean’s 8 (2018, M)

Skyscraper (2018, PG) Dwayne Johnsonl 9.29 The Hustle (2019, M) Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson 11.04 Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (2015, M) Documentary. 12.55 The Nanny Betrayal (2018, M) Michelle Borth 2.20 Nothing but Trailers (M) 2.35 Elvis Goes There: Guillermo Del Toro (2019, M) Documentary. 3.30 The House of Tomorrow (2018, 16) Ellen Burstyn 4.55 Jellyfish (2018, 16) Liv Hill, Sinead Matthews 6.35 The Meg (2018, M) A team plan to take down a 75-footlong shark. Jason Statham, Li Bingbing 8.30 The Old Man and the Gun (2018, M) A 70-year-old prison escapee confounds authorities. Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek 10.05 Deadpool 2 (2018, 16) Ryan Reynolds, Julian Dennison 12.05am Stella’s Last Weekend (2018, 16) 1.45 They’re Inside (2019, 18) 3.09 The House of Tomorrow (2018, 16) 4.32 Jellyfish (2018, 16)

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Postcards from the Edge (1990, PG) Meryl Streep 8.41 Child’s Play (1988, 16) Chris Sarandon, Catherine Hicks 10.06 Posse (1993, M) Stephen Baldwin, Mario Van Peebles 11.56 Just a Little Harmless Sex (1999, M) Robert Mailhouse 1.31 Postcards from the Edge (1990, PG) Meryl Streep 3.15 The Magnificent Seven Ride (1972, PG) Lee Van Cleef 4.55 Basic Instinct (1992, 18) Michael Douglas 7.00 Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987, PG) A businessman struggles to get home for Thanksgiving. Steve Martin 8.30 The Blue Lagoon (1980, M) Two children marooned on an island learn about life by themselves. Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins 10.15 The Quiet American (2002, M) Michael Caine 11.55 Stir of Echoes (1999, 16) Kevin Bacon 1.35am The Magnificent Seven Ride (1972, PG) 3.15 Basic Instinct (1992, 18) 5.20 Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987, PG)

GENERAL

SoHo SKY 010

ThreeLife FREEVIEW 11 SKY 029

6.00 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield Marathon (HD) 9.40 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 10.10 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield (R, HD) 10.40 Better Homes and Gardens (R, HD) Noon B.O.R.N. To Style (R, HD) 1.00 Best Gardens Australia (R, HD) 1.30 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield (R, HD) 2.00 Classical Destinations (R, HD) 2.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 3.00 Better Homes and Gardens (R, HD) 4.30 B.O.R.N. To Style (R, HD) 5.30 Best Gardens Australia (R, HD) 6.00 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield (R, HD) 6.30 Classical Destinations (HD) 7.00 Piha Rescue (PGR, R, HD) 7.30 Nature’s Greatest Talents (R, HD) 8.30 Endangered (R, HD) 9.30 Vet on the Hill (R, HD) 10.30 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield (R, HD) 11.00 Classical Destinations (HD) 11.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials

Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024

6.00 Gardeners’ World 6.30 Through the Bible with Les Feldick 7.00 Leading the Way 7.30 Food Safari Fire 8.00 Food Safari Earth 8.30 Hasselhoff vs The Berlin Wall 9.30 Mysteries at the Museum 10.30 Better Homes and Gardens 12.00 Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start 12.30 Antiques Roadshow 1.30 Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled 2.30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 3.30 Bondi Vet 4.30 Rick Stein Tastes the Blues 5.30 Toy Hunter 6.00 Storage Wars: New York 6.30 Jamie and Jimmy’s Food Fight Club 7.30 Outback Vet 8.30 ■ The Mercy (2017, AO) Amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst attempts a solo circumnavigation of the globe. Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz. 11.00 Bondi Vet 12.00am Jamie and Jimmy’s Food Fight Club 1.00 Rick Stein Tastes the Blues 2.00 Reindeer, Family and Me 3.00 Outback Vet 4.00 Better Homes and Gardens 5.30 – 6.00 Storage Wars: New York

TVNZ Duke FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023

7.00 DUKEbox Music 3.00 Formula E Street Racers (HD) 3.25 Top Gear (HD, C) 5.20 Ice Road Truckers

JANUARY 11 2020 LISTENER

Backtrack Boys (2018, M) Australian documentary. 9.05 Serenity (2019, 16) Matthew McConaughey 10.50 Ghost Stories (2017, M) Andy Nyman 12.25 Mega Time Squad (2018, M) Jonny Brugh 1.45 The Virtues Marathon (16) s1ep1-4 5.25 The Gospel According to Andre (2017, M) US documentary. 6.55 Galveston (2018, 16) Ben Foster, Elle Fanning 8.30 Stag (M) UK comedy-drama series. Ian reluctantly tags along on his future brotherin-law’s stag weekend deer-stalking in the Scottish Highlands. s1ep1 9.25 Obey Giant (2017, M) A US documentary about street artist Shepard Fairey. 10.55 The Neon Demon (2016, 18) A model who moves to L.A. is devoured by women want what she has. Elle Fanning 12.50am Call Me Bruna (18) s2ep7 1.40 The Gospel According to Andre (2017, M) 3.10 Stag (M) s1ep1 4.05 The Neon Demon (2016, 18) 7.20

Sky Premiere: Alita: Battle Angel, 8.30pm (HD, C) 6.10 Dog Squad NZ (C, HD, AD) 6.40 Motorway Patrol NZ (HD, C) 7.10 Family Guy (PGR, HD) 7.35 The Simpsons (PGR, HD, C) 8.30 Best of Top Gear (HD, C) The guys take a Rolls Royce Ghost, a Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG and Bentley Mulsanne to Albania to see which would be best for the local mafia. 9.35 NZ Hunter Adventures (PGR, HD) 10.30 – 12.55am Live PD Uncut (PGR, HD)

UKTV SKY 007 6.10 The Graham Norton Show (16) 6.55 Holby City (M) 7.55 EastEnders Marathon (PG) 10.25 Heartbeat (PG) 11.15 The Jonathan Ross Show (PG) 12.05 The Graham Norton Show (PG) 12.55 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 1.40 Midsomer Murders (M) 3.25 Next of Kin (M) 4.15 Doc Martin (M) 5.10 Heartbeat (PG) 6.05 Would I Lie to You? (M) 6.40 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 7.35 Casualty (PG) Iain gets beaten up, and Marty chooses his career over friendship with Jade. s33ep17 8.30 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) Ricky Tomlinson traces his roots and discovers that he comes from generations of carters. 9.35 Inspector George Gently (M) Gently’s wife has been killed in a hit and run and he suspects a nemesis. s1ep1 11.15 Next of Kin (M) s1ep2 12.00am Casualty (PG) 1.40 Hold the Sunset (PG) 2.10 Father Brown (M) 2.55 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) 3.55 Inspector George Gently (M) 5.30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M)

6.35 A Million Little Things Marathon (M) s1ep7-9 8.50 Drew Michael (16) 9.40 Hard Sun (16) s1ep3 10.40 Into the Badlands (18) s3ep11 11.25 Shameless (18) s10ep9 12.25 American Gods (18) s1ep7 1.15 Drew Michael (16) 2.05 Hard Sun (16) s1ep3 3.05 Into the Badlands (18) s3ep11 3.50 Shameless (18) s10ep9 4.50 American Gods (18) s1ep7 5.40 Drew Michael (16) 6.30 Versailles (16) s3ep3 7.30 Britannia (18) s2ep9 8.30 Years and Years (16) Politician Vivienne Rook causes a scandal on live TV, and the Lyons family unite as Rosie gives birth to a son. s1ep1 9.30 Strike Back (18) Season finale. Section 20 faces the ultimate dilemma as it tries to prevent Pavel and his team of Russian turncoats from initiating Armageddon. s6ep10 10.20 ■ Share (2019, 16) A teenager discovers a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember and must figure how to navigate the fallout. Rhianne Barreto. 11.45 The Looming Tower (16) s1ep2 12.35am Room 104 (16) s2ep6 1.00 Versailles (16) s3ep3 2.00 Britannia (18) s2ep9 2.45 Years and Years (16) s1ep1 3.45 Strike Back (18) s6ep10 4.35 – 6.00 Share (16)

Living SKY 017

6.00 Grand Designs House of the Year (PG) 6.55 Location Location Location (PG) 7.55 Restoration Man (PG) 8.55 Escape to the Continent (PG) 10.00 The Yorkshire Vet (PG) 10.50 Salvage Hunters (PG) 11.45 Great American Railroad Journeys (PG) 12.50 Location Location Location (PG) 1.40 Restoration Man (PG) 2.30 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away Marathon (G) 6.10 Grand Designs House of the Year (PG) 7.05 Great British Railway Journeys (G) Michael Portillo’s journey from the Irish Sea to the North Sea continues by tram from Manchester. 7.35 Escape to the Country (PG) 8.30 Vintage Roads Great and Small (PG) Cardiff to Snowdonia: Peter and Chris travel through from Cardiff to Snowdonia. 9.30 Long Lost Family: What Happened Next UK (G) 10.25 George Clarke’s Shed of the Year (PG) George introduces the nominees in the Pub Sheds category. 11.25 The Yorkshire Vet (PG) 12.15am A Place in the Sun: Home or Away (G) 2.15 Vintage Roads Great and Small (PG) 3.15 Long Lost Family: What Happened Next UK (G) 4.10 George Clarke’s Shed of the Year (PG) 5.05 – 6.00 The Undateables (M)

SUNDAY JANUARY 12

SPORT

RADIO

Sky Sport 1 SKY 051

RNZ National

7.30 European Game of the Week 8.00 Rugby, French Top 14, highlights 8.30 Rugby, Guinness Pro14, highlights 9.30 Rugby, Gallagher Premiership, highlights 10.30 Women’s Rugby Super Series, Canada v Black Ferns 12.30 Women’s Rugby Super Series, USA v Black Ferns, replay 2.30 Women’s Rugby Super Series, Black Ferns v England, replay 4.30 Rugby, Australia v Black Ferns, replay 6.30 Rugby, Black Ferns v Australia replay 8.30 Rugby, Bledisloe Cup, All Blacks v Australia, replay 10.30 Rugby Championship, Pumas v All Blacks, replay 12.30am Rugby, All Blacks v Tonga, replay 2.30 Rugby, NZ Barbarian Legends v Pacifc Island Legends, replay 4.00 Rugby, Guinness Pro14 5.00 Rugby, Gallagher Premiership

Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 6.00 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, highlights 7.00 Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights 8.30 Cricket, Australia v Black, Caps 3rd test wrap 10.30 Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights 11.00 Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights 11.30 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, highlights Noon Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, highlights 12.30 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, Wellington Blaze v Auckland Hearts, from the Basin Reserve, live 4.00 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, Wellington Firebirds v Auckland Aces, from the Basin Reserve, live 8.00 Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights 8.30 Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights 9.05 Cricket, Big Bash League, Melbourne Stars v Sydney Sixers, live 12.30am Dream11 Super Smash, highlights 1.30 India v Sri Lanak, 3rd T20, highlights 2.30 Dream11 Super Smash, replay

DOCUMENTARIES Sky Arts SKY 020 6.05 Ira May Plays Baloise Session 6.45 I, Douglas Fairbanks 7.45 The Wanderers 8.00 Carmen 10.30 Landscape Artist of the Year Noon The Art of Museums 1.00 Critical Thinkers 1.30 The Art of Architecture 2.15 Annie Goodchild Plays Baloise Session 3.05 Ira May Plays Baloise Session 3.45 The Wanderers 4.00 Put Some Colour in Your Life 5.00 David Hockney: Time Reclaimed 6.00 Off Camera: Mike Colter. 7.00 Urban Myths: Princess Diana & Freddie Mercury 7.25 Walking on Cars Plays Baloise Session 8.30 Blur/Oasis: The Britpop Years 9.30 Marius Bear Plays Baloise Session 10.15 ■ Bunch of Kunst (2017, PG) Documentary about UK punk duo Sleaford Mods. 12.00am Put Some Colour in Your Life 1.00 David Hockney: Time Reclaimed 2.00 Off Camera 3.00 Urban Myths: Princess Diana & Freddie Mercury 3.25 Walking on Cars Plays Baloise Session 4.30 Blur/Oasis: The Britpop Years 5.30 Marius Bear Plays Baloise Session

Discovery SKY 070

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6.35 How It’s Made (PG) 7.05 How Do They Do It? (PG) 7.30 Secret Space Escapes (PG) 8.20 World’s Deadliest Weather Caught on Camera (PG) 9.10 BattleBots (PG) 10.00 Expedition Unknown (PG) 10.50 Raising Wild (PG) 11.40 Alaska: The Last Frontier (PG) 12.30 Alaskan Bush People (PG) 1.20 Gold Rush (PG) 2.10 Sydney Harbour Patrol (PG) 3.50 Robson Green’s Australian Adventure Marathon (PG) 7.30 Weather Gone Viral (PG) 8.30 World’s Deadliest Weather Caught on Camera (PG) 9.25 Masters of Disaster (PG) 10.15 Incredible Engineering Blunders: Fixed (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 XL (M) 1.35 Car Crash Global Caught on Camera (PG) 2.25 Naked and Afraid Marathon (M)

National Geographic SKY 072 6.30 Banged Up Abroad (16) 8.30 Science of Stupid Marathon (M) 10.30 Running Wild with Bear Grylls (PG) 11.30 Witness (M) 12.30 Inside: 21st Century

FREEVIEW 50 SKY 421 iHeartRADIO

Sky Sport 2: Wellington Firebirds v Auckland Aces, 4.00pm

Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 6.30 Tennis, Women’s ASB Classic, highlights from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland 7.30 Tennis, ATP Cup, semi-final match of the day 9.00 Women’s ASB Classic, match of the day 10.30 Women’s ASB Classic, highlights 11.30 Brisbane International, match of the day 1.00 Brisbane International, highlights 2.00 Women’s ASB Classic, match of the day 3.30 Tennis, Women’s ASB Classic, highlights 4.30 Tennis, Women’s ASB Classic, day 7, from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland, live 9.30 Netball, Constellation Cup, Australia v Silver Ferns, replay 11.30 Tennis, Women’s ASB Classic, match of the day 1.00am Tennis, Women’s ASB Classic, highlights 2.00 Tennis, Brisbane International, match of the day 3.30 Tennis, Adelaide International, match of the day 5.00 Tennis, Women’s ASB Classic, highlights Warship (PG) 2.30 Megastructures 3.30 Drain the Oceans (PG) 5.30 Air Crash Investigation (M) 6.30 Rescued (M) 7.30 Running Wild with Bear Grylls (PG) 8.30 In Their Own Words (M) 9.30 Drain the Oceans (PG) 10.30 Nazi Megastructures: America’s War (PG) 11.30 Lost Treasures of the Maya (PG) 12.30am Rescued (M) 1.30 Running Wild with Bear Grylls (PG) 2.30 In Their Own Words (M) 3.30 Drain the Oceans (PG) 4.30 Nazi Megastructures: America’s War (PG) 5.30 Lost Treasures of the Maya (PG)

History SKY 073 6.30 History Erased (PG) 7.30 The Universe (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 River Hunters (PG) 10.30 Families That Changed the World (PG) 11.30 Secrets of Britain’s Great Cathedrals (PG) 12.30 History Erased (PG) 1.30 The Universe (PG) 2.30 Confronting ISIS (16) 4.30 The World from Above (PG) 5.00 The Lost World of Joseph Banks (PG) 5.30 World’s Greatest Palaces (PG) 6.30 Abandoned Engineering (PG) 7.30 Coast New Zealand (PG) 8.30 The Last Days of Anne Boleyn (PG) 9.30 How Mad Was King George? (PG) 10.30 Who Killed the Princes in the Tower? (M) 11.30 Rise and Fall: Turning Points of WW2 (PG) 12.30am Paris or the Bush: The Story of the Cods (PG) 1.30 Nazi Hunters (PG) 2.30 Secret War (PG) 3.15 Air Warriors (PG) 4.00 Coast New Zealand (PG) 4.45 The Last Days of Anne Boleyn (PG) 5.30 How Mad Was King George? (PG)

BBC Earth SKY 074 6.00 Spy in the Wild (PG) 7.00 The Dog Rescuers (M) 7.45 Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild (PG) 9.35 Attenborough at 90 (PG) 10.35 Attenborough & the Giant Egg (PG) 11.30 Attenborough & the Giant Dinosaur (PG) 12.30 Neanderthals (PG) 1.20 Neanderthals (M) 2.15 Rituals Marathon (PG) 4.50 Supercharged Otters (PG) 5.50 Life Below Zero (M) 6.40 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (M) 7.30 Building to the Sky (PG) 8.30 Back to the Land (PG) 9.35 Neanderthals (PG) 10.35 Neanderthals (M) 11.35 Rituals Marathon (PG) 2.10am Building to the Sky (PG) 3.00 Back to the Land (PG) 4.00 From Ice to Fire (PG) 5.00 Wild Kingdom (PG)

6.08 Storytime 7.30 Insight 8.10 The Weekend with Lynn Freeman Noon The World at Noon 1.10 Pick and Mix With Eva Radich 2.05 Smart Talk 3.04 The 3 O’Clock Drama 4.06 A History of Music and Technology Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason explores the history of instruments and studio innovations. The Recording Studio: From Acoustic to Electric (7 of 9, BBC) 5.00 The World at Five 5.10 Heart and Soul 7.04 The TED Radio Hour 8.06 Sunday Night with Grant Walker 10.00 The 10 O’Clock Report 10.10 World Book Club American writer Donna Leon discusses her celebrated novel Death at La Fenice (BBC) 11.04 The Retro Cocktail Hour 12.04am All Night Programme Including 3.05 Victoria in Māoriland, by Margaret Blay, read by Miranda Harcourt (16 of 20, RNZ)

Website: rnz.co.nz

RNZ Concert FREEVIEW 51 SKY 422 iHeartRADIO

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 1.00 In the Spotlight 2.00 The Musical Omnivore With David Morriss, including Vintage Years 5.00 New Horizons with William Dart 5.30 The Silver Screen 6.00 Opera on Sunday Metropolitan Opera Season: Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades – Lise Davidsen (Lisa), Elena Maximova (Pauline), Larissa Diadkova (The Countess), Yusif Eyvazov, (Hermann), Igor Golovatenko (Prince Yeletsky), Alexey Markov (Count Tomsky), Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko (recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, by Met Opera) 9.00 Made in New Zealand 11.00 New Music Dreams Ryan Smith explores ambient and drone music 12.00am Music Through the Night

Website: rnz.co.nz/concert

Newstalk ZB 6.00 Peter Wolfkamp 8.00 Matt Buck 9.00 Tim Beveridge Noon Nigel Yalden 3.00 Miles Davis 6.00 Bruce Russell 12.00am Jim Snedden Website: newstalkzb.co.nz

Magic Talk 6.00 Richard Green Noon Roman Travers 6.00 Newshub 7.00 Magic Music 12.00am Tony Amos 5.00am Rural Today Website: magic.co.nz

History: How Mad Was King George?, 9.30pm

MONDAY JANUARY 13

TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001

TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002

THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003

6.00 Alphabetical (G, R, HD) 6.55 Sun, Sea and Brides to Be (G, R, HD) 8.00 Flipping Profit! (G, R, HD, C) 9.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (C) 10.00 Tipping Point (G, R, HD) 11.00 The Celebrity Chase (G, R, HD, C) Jimmy Carr, Sam Nixon, Mark Rhodes and Ann Widdecombe. Noon Emmerdale (HD, C) David makes matters worse, there’s a shocking discovery at Hotten Academy, Zak hopes to find the perfect place to scatter the ashes, and can Robert find it in him to support Victoria? 1.00 Coronation Street 2019 (G, R, HD, C, AD) Fiz comes up with some ideas to bolster trade at the furniture shop, and Debbie senses that Sophie is not enjoying her new course and urges her to follow her heart. 2.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (R, C) 3.00 Tipping Point Lucky Stars (G, HD) Ben Shephard hosts a celebrity version of the UK quiz show. 4.00 Te Karere 4.30 Border Patrol (G, R, HD, C) A barista arriving from Hong Kong is sniffed out by a Customs drug dog. 4.55 The Chase (G, HD, C) With Bradley Walsh. 6.00 1 News (C) 7.00 Extreme Cake Makers (G, HD, C) A towering masterpiece featuring thousands of LED-lit crystals, a bouncy-castle cake with 10 gravity defying sugar paste children, and a doubledecker bus cake. 7.30 The Celebrity Chase (C) Bradley Walsh hosts a celebrity version of the UK quiz show. 8.30 ■ Deep Water (AO, HD, C, AD) UK drama series about three women in the Lake District. A chance encounter at a dinner party turns overworked mother Lisa’s world upside down. s1ep1 10.35 The Family Law (G, HD) Australian comedy series. A birthday gift idea for Andrew is misconstrued. s1ep4 11.05 Take Two (AO, R, HD, C, AD) Detective Rollins receives a frantic phone call from her younger brother asking for help. s1ep11 12.00am Major Crimes (AO, R, C) Major Crimes searches for answers in Philip Stroh’s past, and Rusty becomes frustrated with his forced proximity to Gus. s6ep11 12.50 Te Karere (R) 1.15 Infomercials 5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R)

6.30 Darwin & Newts (G, R, HD, C) 6.40 Paw Patrol (G, R, HD, C) 7.05 My Little Pony (G, HD, C) 7.30 Teen Titans Go! (G, HD, C) 7.50 The Tom and Jerry Show (G, R,) 8.15 Ducktales (G, R) 8.50 ■ Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (G, R, HD) 9.00 Doctor Who (G, C, AD) 9.50 Infomercials 10.55 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C) 11.25 Mike & Molly (PGR, R, HD, C) 11.55 Mom (PGR, R, HD, C) 12.25 2 Broke Girls (PGR, R, HD, C) 12.55 Little Big Shots (G, HD, C) 1.55 ■ Batkid Begins (2015, G, HD, C) Documentary featuring Miles Scott, a young cancer patient who wished to be Batman’s sidekick. 3.35 Powerpuff Girls (G, R, HD, C) 3.45 Bunk’d (G, R, HD, C) 4.35 House Rules (G, HD, C) On the Sunshine Coast, Shayn and Carly hand over the keys to their tiny double brick home. 6.00 Neighbours (G, HD, C) Robert Robinson returns, Amy and Kyle are on the rocks, and Yashvi battles her feelings. 7.00 ■ Shortland Street (PGR, HD, C, AD) A special hourlong episode after the tragic events that rocked the hospital at the end of last year. 8.00 Australian Survivor (AO, HD, C, another episode screens tomorrow) Loyalties fly out the window and old alliances are broken as each Survivor tries desperately to keep their place in the tribe. 9.10 ■ What Happens in Vegas (2008, PGR, HD, C) A couple who marry after a wild night in Las Vegas are told by a judge that they must coexist for six months before he will grant them a divorce. Ashton Kutcher, Cameron Diaz, Rob Corddry, Lake Bell. 11.00 Mom (AO, R, HD, C) Christy and her fellow AA members try to help when Bonnie loses her job and apartment and hits rock bottom. s1ep9 11.30 Grey’s Anatomy (AO, R, HD, C) Catherine is in LA getting the new foundation ready and summons Meredith and Koracick to visit for a confidential consult, and a pregnant nurse collapses at the hospital. s15ep7 1.05am Shortland Street (PGR, R, HD, C, AD) 2.00 Infomercials 3.00 Lucifer (AO, R, HD, C, AD) 3.45 Love Island Australia (AO, R, HD, C) 4.45 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C) 5.30 – 6.00 Infomercials

6.00 Infomercials 7.00 Married at First Sight USA (G, R, HD) 8.00 The Biggest Loser Australia (G, R, HD) 9.00 House Rules (PGR, R, HD, C) 10.05 Infomercials 11.30 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, R, HD) 12.30 Face the Truth (PGR, HD) 1.00 Dr Phil (PGR, HD) 2.00 American Ninja Warrior (G, R, HD) 4.00 Find Me a Dream Home Australia (G, HD) 4.30 Newshub Live (HD) 5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, HD) 6.00 Newshub Live (HD) 7.00 Bondi Rescue (G, R, HD, C) An American tourist receives CPR from the lifeguards, paramedics and the Jewish Medical Response team. s13ep1 7.30 The Block Australia (PGR, HD, C, another episode screens tomorrow) Its studio week, and a collective meeting is called. s15ep38 8.35 ■ Ride Along (2014, AO, R, HD, C) A high school security guard tries to prove himself worthy of marrying a decorated detective’s sister. Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter. 10.35 Newshub Late 11.05 Wanted (AO, HD, C) Chelsea appeals to an old friend for refuge, Lola decides to visit her mother, and Susan finds a way to reunite with her daughter. s3ep5 12.05am – 6.00 Infomercials

■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM JANUARY 11 2020 LISTENER

TVNZ 2: Batkid Begins, 1.55pm

PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Sky Sport News Live Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (G, R) 10.00 The Doctors (PGR, R) 11.00 Antiques Roadshow (G, R, C) Noon Sky Sport News Live 12.30 Elementary (PGR, R, C) 1.30 Frasier (G, R) 2.00 The Late Show (PGR, R) 2.55 Wheel of Fortune (G) 3.25 Jeopardy (G) 3.55 Hot Bench (G, R) 4.20 ASB Classic Tennis (G, C) Highlights of day 7. 5.30 Prime News 6.00 Pawn Stars (G, R) 7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild 7.30 American Pickers (G) 8.30 ■ Constantine (2005, AO, C) A demon hunter and a detective investigate the suicide of her twin sister. Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz. 11.00 Ballers (AO) Spencer encounters resistance to his Vegas expansion initiative. 12.10am – 1.10 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (PGR) 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00

BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012

MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019

Infomercials (G, R) Mom’s a Medium (G, R) Dance Moms (G, R) Love It or List It: Vancouver (G, R) 12.30 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (PGR, R) 1.30 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AO, R) 2.30 Four Weddings Australia (G, R) s1ep3 3.30 The People’s Court (G) 4.30 Dance Moms (G, R) 5.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver (G, R) 6.30 Dress to Impress (G, R) 7.30 Snapped (PGR, R) 8.30 Uncovered: The Cult of Yahweh Ben Yahweh (AO) A self-proclaimed Son of God comes to Miami promising salvation, but reports of beatings, extortion, arson and murder follow. 10.30 Snapped (AO) Detectives use technology to pinpoint a cunning killer. 11.30 Snapped: She Made Me Do It (AO, R) s2ep6 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials

Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Sachie’s Kitchen (G, R) Ōpaki (G, R) Waiata (G, R) Fitness in the Whare (G, R) Huia Rau (G, R) IVF World Sprints (R) What’s up with the Tumoanas (PGR, R) 1.00 Ngā Pari Kārangaranga o te Motu (G, R) 1.30 Ōpaki (G, R) 2.00 Toku Reo (G, R) 3.00 Kids’ Programmes (G, R) 6.30 Te Ao: Māori News 7.00 Whānau Living (G, R) With Stacey Morrison. 7.30 Island Feast with Peter Kuruvita (G) 8.00 Matangireia (G, R) Sandra Lee. 8.30 ■ The Look of Silence (2014, AO, R) Documentary about the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66 in which an ordinary man confronts some of those responsible. TV Films, page 69 10.30 #whiuatepatai (PGR, R) 11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao: Māori News (R)

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6.30 9.00 9.30 10.00 10.30 11.00 Noon 12.30

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MONDAY JANUARY 13

SKY PREMIERE SKY 030

MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031

MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039

6.00 Alita: Battle Angel (2019, M) Rosa Salazar 8.00 Pet Sematary (2019, 16) Jason Clarke, John Lithgow 9.40 Little Pink House (2017, M) Catherine Keener 11.20 The Quiet One (Bill Wyman) (2019, M) Documentary. 12.55 Alita: Battle Angel (2019, M) Rosa Salazar 2.55 Pet Sematary (2019) (2019, 16) Jason Clarke 4.35 Elvis Goes There: Sofia Coppola (2019, M) Documentary. 5.25 The Prodigy (2019, 16) Taylor Schilling, Peter Mooney 6.55 Please Stand By (2017, M) Dakota Fanning, Toni Collette 8.30 Gringo (2018, 16) A mild businessman battles between being a law-abiding citizen and a criminal in Mexico. David Oyelowo 10.25 Isle of Dogs (2018, PG) Voice of Bryan Cranston 12.05am Swimming with Men (2018, M) 1.40 Game of Love (2016, M) 3.10 Elvis Goes There: Sofia Coppola (2019, M) 4.00 The Prodigy (2019, 16) 5.30 Please Stand By (2017, M)

The Meg (2018, M) Jason Statham, Cliff Curtis 8.01 The Old Man and the Gun (2018, M) Robert Redford 9.32 Deadpool 2 (2018, 16) Ryan Reynolds, Julian Dennison 11.27 Stella’s Last Weekend (2018, 16) Nat Wolff, Alex Wolff 1.05 They’re Inside (2019, 18) Karli Hall, Amanda Kathleen Ward 2.27 The House of Tomorrow (2018, 16) Ellen Burstyn 3.52 Born Guilty (2018, 16) Jay Devore, Rosanna Arquette 5.35 Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum (2017, PG) Doco. 6.30 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018, M) Lily James 8.30 Mid90s (2018, 16) Sunny Suljic TV Films, page 69 10.00 Boundaries (2018, M) A woman drives her estranged father across the country. Christopher Plummer 11.45 A Family Submerged (2018, M) Mercedes Morani 1.15am Wraith (2017, M) 2.55 Born Guilty (2018, 16) 4.35 Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum (2017, PG) 5.30 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018, M)

6.50 The Blue Lagoon (1980, M) Brooke Shields 8.35 The Quiet American (2002, M) Michael Caine 10.15 Stir of Echoes (1999, 16) Kevin Bacon 11.55 The Magnificent Seven Ride (1972, PG) Lee Van Cleef 1.35 Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987, PG) Steve Martin, John Candy 3.05 The Blue Lagoon (1980, M) Brooke Shields 4.50 Doc (1971, M) Stacy Keach 6.25 The Cider House Rules (1999, M) Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron 8.30 Halloween II (1981, 18) Michael Myers is back on a murderous rampage. Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence 10.00 Witness (1985, M) An Amish woman and her son get caught up in the murder of an undercover agent. Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis 11.50 Milius (2013, M) A documentary on director John Milius. 1.35am Doc (1971, M) 3.10 The Cider House Rules (1999, M) 5.12 Witness (1985, M)

6.11

GENERAL

SoHo SKY 010

ThreeLife FREEVIEW 11 SKY 029

6.00 Infomercials 9.00 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield (R, HD) 9.30 Classical Destinations (R, HD) 10.00 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 10.30 Nature’s Greatest Talents (R, HD) 11.30 Endangered (R, HD) 12.30 Vet on the Hill (R, HD) 1.30 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield (R, HD) 2.00 Classical Destinations (R, HD) 2.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 3.00 Nature’s Greatest Talents (R, HD) 4.00 Endangered (R, HD) 5.00 Vet on the Hill (R, HD) 6.00 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 6.30 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 7.00 Family Feud (R, HD) 7.30 Restaurant Revolution (PGR, R, HD) 8.35 Intolerant Cooks (R, HD) 9.05 Good Spirits (PGR, R, HD) 9.30 Scraps (R, HD) 10.00 Miguel’s Tropical Kitchen (R, HD) 10.30 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 11.00 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 11.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials

Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024

6.00 Gardeners’ World 6.30 Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start 7.00 Rick Stein Tastes the Blues 8.00 Bondi Vet 9.00 Baby Animals 9.30 American Pickers: Best Of 10.30 Meet the Humans 11.30 James Martin’s French Adventure 12.30 Jamie and Jimmy’s Food Fight Club 1.30 Toy Hunter 2.00 Storage Wars: New York 2.30 Outback Vet 3.30 Animal Park 4.30 River Cottage Summer’s Here 5.30 Mysteries at the Museum 6.30 Salvage Hunters 7.30 Treasures Decoded 8.30 Scots in China 9.30 Britain’s Most Historic Towns 10.30 Our Guy in Russia 11.30 Mysteries at the Museum 12.30am Peter Ackroyd’s Thames 1.00 River Cottage Summer’s Here 2.00 Alone (PGR) 3.00 Animal Park 4.00 Scots in China 5.00 – 6.00 Mysteries at the Museum

TVNZ Duke FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023

1.40pm Top Gear (HD, C) 2.40 MythBusters (HD) 3.35 Two and a Half Men (PGR, HD, C) 4.00 The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (C) 4.25 The Middle (HD, C) 5.15 Home Improvement (HD, C) 5.40 Top Gear (HD, C) 6.40 The Big Bang Theory (HD, C) 7.05 Two and a Half Men (PGR, HD, C) 7.35 The Simpsons (HD, C)

6.00 Galveston (2018, 16) Ben Foster, Elle Fanning 7.35 Obey Giant (2017, M) US documentary. 9.05 The Virtues Marathon (16) s1ep1-4 12.50 The Gospel According to Andre (2017, M) US documentary. 2.25 Stag (M) s1ep1 3.20 The Teach (16) s1ep1&2 5.10 Yellow Is Forbidden (2018, G) NZ documentary. 6.45 My Days of Mercy (2017, 16) Ellen Page 8.30 Love Me Not (2017, 18) A couple hire a young migrant to be their surrogate mother. Eleni Roussinou, Christos Loulis, Célestine Aposporis 10.15 Inspector Rojas: In Cold Blood (18) Rojas leaves the hospital after being beaten. s1ep6 11.05 Angie (2018, 16) A New Zealand documentary about the Centrepoint abuse case. 1.00am Call Me Bruna (18) s2ep8 1.50 Love Me Not (2017, 18) 3.35 Inspector Rojas: In Cold Blood (18) s1ep6 4.25 My Days of Mercy (2017, 16)

Sky Premiere: Gringo, 8.30pm 8.30 Family Guy (G) Same day as the US. s19ep11 9.00 Family Guy (PGR, HD) Peter makes the most of another power outage at home by retelling The Empire Strikes Back. 9.55 South Park (AO, HD) Randy wakes up to find the Internet is gone. s12ep6 10.55 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (AO, HD, C) 11.50 – 12.45am Live at the Apollo (AO, HD)

UKTV SKY 007 6.20 The Vicar of Dibley (PG) 6.50 Hold the Sunset (PG) 7.20 Father Brown (PG) 8.05 The Bill (M) 8.50 Midsomer Murders (M) 10.25 Father Brown (PG) 11.10 The Coroner (PG) 11.55 A Touch of Frost (M) 1.40 The Bill (M) 2.30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 3.25 Traffic Cops (PG) 4.20 The Graham Norton Show (16) 5.15 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) Emma Willis. 6.20 QI (M) 6.55 EastEnders (PG) 7.30 QI (M) 8.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) Kerry Howard, Rev Richard Coles, Clive Myrie. 8.35 Doc Martin (M) Bert takes a shine to a new employee at the restaurant, but her culinary preferences leave something to be desired. s4ep6 9.30 Next of Kin (M) Recovering from her injuries, Mona is livid at the counter terrorism police, and investigates Danny herself. s1ep3 10.20 Lewis (M) s8ep1 11.55 A Touch of Frost (M) s10ep2 1.35am QI (M) 2.35 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 3.10 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) 4.10 Doc Martin (M) 5.00 Next of Kin (M) 5.45 – 6.15 QI (M)

6.00 The Looming Tower (16) s1ep2 6.50 Versailles (16) s3ep3 7.50 Britannia (18) s2ep9 8.35 The Leftovers (16) s2ep2 9.35 The Knick (16) s1ep4 10.30 Strike Back (18) s6ep7 11.20 Twin Peaks (16) s1ep3 12.20 Years and Years (16) s1ep1 1.20 Strike Back (18) s6ep10 2.10 The Looming Tower (16) s1ep2 3.00 The Outsider (16) s1ep1&2 5.00 Room 104 (16) s2ep6 5.25 Game of Thrones (18) s7ep3 6.30 The ABC Murders (16) s1ep1 7.30 The Loudest Voice (M) Roger uses his network to drive the Bush agenda. s1ep2 8.30 The Outsider (16) Season premiere. A detective arrests a family man for the brutal murder of an 11-year-old boy, but there is video evidence he was in another city. s1ep1&2 10.30 Ray Donovan (18) s7ep9 11.30 The Name of the Rose (16) Season finale. With the debate over, Gui condemns Remigio and the girl to be burnt at the stake. s1ep8 12.30am Shameless (18) s10ep9 1.30 The ABC Murders (16) s1ep1 2.30 The Loudest Voice (M) s1ep2 3.20 Room 104 (16) s2ep10 3.50 The Outsider (16) s1ep1&2 5.50 – 6.50 Ray Donovan (18) s7ep9

Living SKY 017

6.00 Selling Houses Australia (PG) 6.55 Escape to the Country (PG) 7.50 Restoration Man: Best Builds (PG) 8.40 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (G) 9.40 George Clarke’s Shed of the Year (PG) 10.35 Vintage Roads Great and Small (PG) 11.35 Escape to the Country (PG) 12.25 Location Location Location Australia (G) 1.20 Long Lost Family: What Happened Next UK (G) 2.15 Escape to the Country (PG) 3.05 Restoration Man: Best Builds (PG) 3.55 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (PG) 4.55 Vintage Roads Great and Small (PG) 5.45 Selling Houses Australia (G) 6.40 Location Location Location Australia (G) 7.35 Salvage Hunters (PG) 8.30 Love It or List It UK (G) Kirstie and Phil meet James and Graham who can’t agree what to do about their 17th-century cottage in Surrey. 9.30 Selling Houses Australia (G) 10.25 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (G) 11.20 Selling Houses Australia (G) 12.20am Location Location Location Australia (G) 1.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 2.15 Love It or List It UK (G) 3.10 Selling Houses Australia (G) 4.10 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (G) 5.05 – 6.00 Vintage Roads Great and Small (PG)

LISTENER JANUARY 11 2020

MONDAY JANUARY 13

SPORT

RADIO

Sky Sport 1 SKY 051

RNZ National

6.00 World Rugby Women’s Sevens, day 1, replay from Infinity Park, Glendale, Colorado 1.30 Rugby, Guinness Pro14, Cardiff Blues v Scarlets, replay from Cardiff Arms Park 3.30 Rugby, Guinness Pro14, Ulster v Munster, replay from Kingspan Stadium, Belfast 5.30 Rugby, Guinness Pro14, Benetton v Glasgow Warriors, replay 7.30 Super Rugby 2019, Chiefs v Blues, replay from FMG Stadium, Hamilton 9.40 Rugby, Guinness Pro14, Dragons v Ospreys, replay from Rodney Parade, Newport 11.35 Rugby, Guinness Pro14, Zebre v Cheetahs, replay from Stadio Sergio Lanfranchi, Parma 1.30am European Game of the Week 2.00 Rugby, French Top 14, highlights 2.30 Rugby, Guinness Pro14, highlights 3.30 Rugby, Gallagher Premiership, highlights 4.30 Red Bull Ignite 7s 5.30 European Game of the Week

Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 6.00 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, highlights 7.00 Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights 8.30 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, highlights 9.30 Cricket, Big Bash League, replay 1.00 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, highlights 1.30 Cricket, Australia v Black Caps, 2nd test wrap from the Melbourne Cricket Ground 3.30 Cricket, Australia v Black Caps, 3rd test wrap from the Sydney Cricket Ground 5.30 Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights 6.00 Cricket, Black Caps v India 2019, 1st T20, highlights 6.30 Cricket, Black Caps v India 2019, 2nd T20, highlights 7.00 Cricket, Black Caps v India 2019, 3rd T20, highlights 7.30 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, highlights 8.30 Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights 9.05 Big Bash League, Hobart Hurricanes v Perth Scorchers, from

DOCUMENTARIES Sky Arts SKY 020 6.15 ■ Bunch of Kunst (2017, PG) 8.00 Put Some Colour in Your Life 9.00 David Hockney: Time Reclaimed 10.00 Off Camera 11.00 Urban Myths: Princess Diana & Freddie Mercury 11.25 Walking on Cars Plays Baloise Session 12.30 Blur/Oasis: The Britpop Years 1.30 Marius Bear Plays Baloise Session 2.15 ■ Bunch of Kunst (2017, PG) 4.00 My Dear Art 5.45 Terres Barcelo 7.00 Shakespeare Uncovered (G) Simon Russell Beale explores The Winter’s Tale. 8.00 The Private Life of the Royal Academy 9.20 The Pity of the War: Poets at the Front 10.10 The Kitty Kelley Files 10.55 Later with Jools Holland 12.00am My Dear Art 1.45 Terres Barcelo 3.00 Shakespeare Uncovered 4.00 The Private Life of the Royal Academy 5.20 The Pity of the War: Poets at the Front

Discovery SKY 070 6.35 Gold Rush (PG) 7.30 Car Crash Global (PG) 8.20 World’s Deadliest Weather (PG) 9.10 Masters of Disaster (PG) 10.00 How It’s Made (PG) 10.25 How Do They Do It? (PG) 10.50 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 11.40 Weather Top Tens (PG) 12.30 Blood Relatives (M) 1.20 Evil Lives Here (M) 2.10 Car Crash Global (PG) 3.00 Homestead Rescue (PG) 3.50 Deadliest Catch (PG) 4.45 Fast N’ Loud (PG) 5.40 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 6.35 The World’s Deadliest Weather (PG) 7.30 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 8.30 Wheeler Dealers (PG) 9.25 Kindig Customs (PG) 10.15 Car Crash TV (PG) 11.05 Naked and Afraid (M) 11.55 How It’s Made (PG) 12.20am How Do They Do It? (PG) 12.45 Car Crash Global (PG) 1.35 Deadliest Catch (PG) 2.25 Bering Sea Gold (PG) 3.15 Homestead Rescue (PG) 4.05 Insane Pools: Off the Deep End (PG) 4.55 Naked and Afraid (M) 5.45 Deadliest Catch (PG)

6.30 Brain Games (PG) 7.30 The Big Picture with Kal Penn (PG) 8.30 Drain the Oceans (PG) 9.30 Witness (PG) 10.30 Rescued (M) 11.30 Inside the Mega Twister (PG) 12.30 Wicked Tuna (M) 1.30 Running

JANUARY 11 2020 LISTENER

Sky Sport 3: NZ Breakers v Brisbane, 6.00am Bellerive Oval, Hobart, live 12.30am Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights 1.30 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, replay 5.00 Cricket, India v Sri Lanka, 3rd T20, highlights

Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 6.00 Basketball, NBL, NZ Breakers v Brisbane, highlights 6.30 Tennis, ASB Classic, day 7, replay 11.30 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, day 1, from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland, live 6.00 Second Serve 7.00 Men’s ASB Classic, day 1, from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland, live 11.00 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, match of the day 12.30am Second Serve 1.00 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, match of the night 2.30 Men’s ASB Classic, highlights 3.30 Tennis, Adelaide International, match of the day, from Memorial Drive Tennis Centre 5.00 Tennis, Adelaide International, match of the night, from Memorial Drive Tennis Centre Wild with Bear Grylls (PG) 2.30 Seconds from Disaster Marathon (M) 6.30 Air Crash Investigation (PG) 7.30 Wicked Tuna: North vs South (M) 8.30 Drain the Oceans (PG) 9.30 Air Crash Investigation (M) 10.30 Bondi Rescue (PG) 11.30 Airport Security: Peru (M) 12.30am Air Crash Investigation (PG) 1.30 Wicked Tuna: North vs South (M) 2.30 Drain the Oceans (PG) 3.30 Air Crash Investigation (M) 4.30 Bondi Rescue (PG) 5.30 Airport Security: Peru (M)

History SKY 073 6.30 Who Killed the Princes in the Tower? (M) 7.30 Rise and Fall: Turning Points of WW2 (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Coast New Zealand (PG) 10.30 The Last Days of Anne Boleyn (PG) 11.30 How Mad Was King George? (PG) 12.30 Who Killed the Princes in the Tower? (M) 1.30 Despot Housewives (PG) 2.30 Nazi Hunters (PG) 3.30 Secret War (PG) 4.30 Air Warriors (PG) 5.30 Prohibition (M) 6.30 End of Empire: Rise & Fall of Dynasties (PG) 7.30 Coast Australia (PG) 8.30 India on Film (PG) 9.30 Young Elizabeth: A Princess Story (PG) 10.30 Empire Games (M) 11.30 The Story of Egypt (PG) 12.30am Nazi Secret Files (PG) 1.30 Nazi Hunters (PG) 2.30 Secret War (PG) 3.15 Air Warriors (PG) 4.00 Coast Australia (PG) 4.45 India on Film (PG) 5.30 Young Elizabeth: A Princess Story (PG)

6.00 Breakfast with Paul Brennan 7.00 Summer Report with Logan Church and Leigh-Marama McLachlan 9.06 Summer Times with Emile Donovan Noon The World at Noon 12.10 Worldwatch 12.30 The Cold War Legacy Czechoslovakia: What do new generations of Czechs feel about the future as well as the communist past? (1 of 5, BBC) 1.00 Afternoons with Karyn Hay 4.00 The Panel with Wallace Chapman 5.00 The 5 O’clock Report with Kim Savage 6.06 Trending Now 7.06 Summer Science 7.30 Soul Music (BBC) 8.06 Windows on the World 8.30 Summer Live 9.06 Convoys to Cairo 9.30 Insight 10.00 The World at Ten 10.15 The Aotearoa History Show (10 of 14, RNZ) 10.35 The Detail 11.06 Nashville Babylon (Arrow FM) 12.04am All Night Programme Including 3.05 Victoria in Māoriland, by Margaret Blay, read by Miranda Harcourt (17 of 20, RNZ)

Website: rnz.co.nz

RNZ Concert FREEVIEW 51 SKY 422 iHeartRADIO

6.00 Summer Classics Noon Summer Afternoons Including 1.00 Afternoon Concert 6.00 Summer Evenings 8.00 Music Alive Auckland Arts Festival: Silkroad Ensemble – Pato, Wu: Fanfare for Gaita and Suona; Trad Vietnamese arr Ziporyn: Uot Mi; Trad Galician arr Pato: Muineras de Ourense e Pontesampaio; Ravel: Kaddisch, from Two Hebrew Melodies; Wu, Das: Vairocana; Pato: Lamento; Perez: Tanguillo; Trad Galician arr Perez: Joropo-FestejoMuinera de Chantada; Das: Tarang; Zorn arr Shanahan: Zavebe, from Book of Angels; Wu: Improvisation on a Chinese Thought; Zorn arr Pato: Khabiel, from Book of Angels, Silkroad Ensemble – Nora Fischer (vocal), Mario Gotoh (viola), Cristina Pato (gaita, piano), Wu Tong (vocal, sheng, bawu, suona), Jeffrey Beecher (bass), Sandeep Das (tabla), Mark Suter, Shane Shanahan (percussion) (recorded in the Great Hall, Auckland) 10.00 Day’s End 12.00am Music Through the Night

Website: rnz.co.nz/concert

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Newstalk ZB

6.00 David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II (PG) 7.00 Life Below Zero (M) 7.45 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 8.30 Wild Mexico (PG) 9.30 Sugar vs Fat (PG) 10.25 How to Stay Young (PG) 11.25 24 Hours in A&E (M) 12.15 Big Birds (PG) 1.10 From Ice to Fire (PG) 2.10 Rituals (PG) 3.05 David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II (PG) 4.05 Wild Mexico (PG) 5.05 Life Below Zero (M) 5.55 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 6.45 The Dog Rescuers (M) 7.35 24 Hours in A&E (M) 8.30 Life Below Zero: The Thaw (M) 9.25 Where the Wild Men Are (M) 10.15 David Attenborough’s Big Birds (PG) 11.15 Wild Mexico (PG) 12.15am Life Below Zero (M) 1.00 The Dog Rescuers (M) 1.45 Life Below Zero: The Thaw (M) 2.30 Where the Wild Men Are (M) 3.15 24 Hours in A&E (M) 4.05 Big Birds (PG) 5.00 From Ice to Fire (PG)

6.00 Tim Dower 9.00 Andrew Dickens Noon Francesca Rudkin 4.00 Tim Roxborogh 8.00 Tim Beveridge 12.00am Bruce Russell Website: newstalkzb.co.nz

Magic Talk 6.00 Brendan Telfer 9.00 Peter Williams Noon Sean Plunket 3.00 Leah Panapa 6.00 Newshub 7.00 Roman Travers 11.00 Tony Amos 5.00am Magic Music Website: magic.co.nz

Sky Arts: Blur/Oasis: The Britpop Years, 12.30pm

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6.00 Alphabetical (G, R, HD) 6.55 Sun, Sea and Brides to Be (G, R, HD) 8.00 Flipping Profit! (G, R, HD, C) 9.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (C) 10.00 Tipping Point (G, R, HD) With Ben Shephard. 11.00 The Celebrity Chase (G, R, HD, C) Nicky Campbell, Edwina Currie, Graham Bell and Hal Cruttenden. Noon Emmerdale (HD, C) Zak struggles to let go of the past while Diane and Victoria look to the future, and speculation mounts about the remains discovered. 1.00 Coronation Street 2019 (G, R, HD, C, AD) Michelle attempts to stop Robert in his tracks, Maria is on cloud nine, and has Ali hit rock bottom? 2.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (R, C) 3.00 Tipping Point Lucky Stars (HD) Ben Shephard hosts a celebrity version of the UK quiz show. 4.00 Te Karere A Māori perspective to the day’s news and current affairs. 4.30 ■ Border Patrol (G, R, HD, C) A self-declared marijuana farmer runs into trouble at the border, and a boxedup lion requires extensive checks at the International mail centre. 5.00 The Chase (G, HD, C) With Bradley Walsh. 6.00 1 News (C) 7.00 Extreme Cake Makers (G, HD, C) A running-man birthday cake, a four-tiered gothic wedding cake featuring 250 fondant feathers, and an oak tree cake finished with edible woodland creatures. 7.30 Magical Land of Oz (G, HD, C, AD) Barry Humphries narrates a series about Australia’s unique wildlife. Tonight, Australia’s three surrounding oceans offer unique environments for voyagers of all types. 8.40 ■ Inside the Ritz Hotel London (G, HD, C, AD) Behind the scenes of one of the most iconic hotels in the world. 9.40 ■ Leaving Neverland (AO, R, HD, C, AD) Documentary featuring Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who allege they were sexually abused as children by Michael Jackson. 11.40 That’s a Bit Racist (PGR, R, HD, C, AD) Harvard University test results show we aren’t the land of the “fair go” that we thought. s1ep2 12.40am Te Karere (R) 1.05 Infomercials 5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R)

6.30 Darwin & Newts (G, R, HD, C) 6.40 Paw Patrol (G, R, HD, C) 7.05 My Little Pony (HD, C) 7.30 ■ Teen Titans Go! (G, HD, C) 7.50 The Tom and Jerry Show (G, R, HD, C) 8.15 Ducktales (G, R, HD, C) 8.35 Sofia the First (G, R, HD, C) 9.00 Regular Show (G, R, HD) 9.10 Infomercials 10.15 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C) 11.05 Australian Survivor (PGR, R, HD, C) 12.05 Mom (PGR, R, HD, C) 12.30 2 Broke Girls (PGR, R, HD, C) 1.00 Little Big Shots (G, HD, C) 1.55 American Housewife (G, R, HD, C) 2.25 Shortland Street (PGR, R, HD, C, AD) 3.30 Bluey (G, R, HD, C) 3.35 Powerpuff Girls (G, R, HD, C) 3.45 Bunk’d (G, R, HD, C) 4.35 House Rules (C) The teams battle the clock in the early reveal challenge. 6.00 Neighbours (G, HD, C) Christmas terror visits Ramsay Street, Finn makes a dangerous delivery, and David clings to life. 7.00 Shortland Street (PGR, HD, C, AD) 7.30 Australian Survivor (PGR, HD, C, another episode screens tomorrow) With no-one safe from elimination, the contestants are desperate to get their hands on the immunity necklace. 8.35 ■ Live Free or Die Hard (2007, AO, HD, C, AD) John McClane attempts to stop cyber-terrorists who hack into government and commercial computers across the United States. Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant, Cliff Curtis, Mary Elizabeth Winstead. 11.05 Mom (PGR, R, HD, C) Christy has trouble accepting the fact that Bonnie is now living in her house, and Baxter sets up his camper in the driveway. s1ep10 11.30 Station 19 (PGR, R, HD, C) Sullivan gives each team member a skill to master, Ryan has to deal with his past, and Sullivan, Andy and Maya are called to take care of a fire in an abandoned building. s2ep4 12.20am The Resident (AO, R, HD, C) s1ep2 1.10 Shortland Street (PGR, R, HD, C, AD) 1.35 Infomercials 2.40 Lucifer (AO, R, HD, C, AD) 3.25 Love Island Australia (AO, R, HD, C) 4.20 America’s Funniest Home Videos (G, R, HD) 4.40 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C) 5.30 – 6.00 Infomercials

6.00 Infomercials 7.00 The Biggest Loser Australia (G, R, HD) 9.00 House Rules (PGR, R, HD, C) 10.00 Infomercials 11.30 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, R, HD) 12.30 Face the Truth (PGR, HD) 1.00 Dr Phil (PGR, HD) 2.00 American Ninja Warrior (G, R, HD) 4.00 Find Me a Dream Home Australia (G, HD) 4.30 Newshub Live (HD) 5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, HD) 6.00 Newshub Live (HD) 7.00 Bondi Rescue (G, R, HD, C) The lifeguards pursue a beachgoer who wielded a knife. s13ep2 7.30 The Block Australia (PGR, HD, C, another episode screens tomorrow) The fallout from the body corporate is massive. s15ep39 8.40 Lost & Found (G, R, HD, C) A truck driver wants to find his father and a maintenance officer wants to make contact with his mother. s1ep6 9.40 Deadly Dates (PGR, R, HD, C) Sharon Siermans, a 29-year-old mum from Ballarat, was looking for love when she began chatting online to Jason Godfrey. s1ep2 10.35 Newshub Late 11.05 The Blacklist (AO, HD, C) The Task Force continue to search for Red. s7ep2 12.05am – 6.00 Infomercials

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PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Sky Sport News Live Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (G, R) 10.00 The Doctors (PGR, R) 11.00 Antiques Roadshow (G, R, C) Noon Sky Sport News Live 12.30 Elementary (PGR, R, C) 1.30 Frasier (G, R) 2.00 The Late Show (PGR, R) 2.55 Wheel of Fortune (G) 3.25 Jeopardy (G) 3.55 Hot Bench (G, R) 4.20 ASB Classic Tennis (G, C) Highlights of day 1. 5.30 Prime News 6.00 Pawn Stars (G, R) 7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild 7.30 ■ The Story of the Royals (PGR, C) Documentary exploring the history of the British monarchy. 9.30 The Radical Story of Patty Hearst (AO, C) Soon after being captured by the FBI, the SLA goes up in flames. 10.30 Ballers (AO) 11.40 – 12.40am The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (PGR) 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00

BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012

MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019

Infomercials (G, R) Mom’s a Medium (G, R) Dance Moms (G, R) Love It or List It: Vancouver (G, R) 12.30 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (PGR, R) 1.30 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AO, R) 2.30 Four Weddings Australia (G, R) s1ep4 3.30 The People’s Court (G) 4.30 Dance Moms (G, R) 5.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver (G, R) 6.30 Dress to Impress (G, R) 7.30 Snapped (PGR, R) An investigation into the murder of a Vegas college student exposes a love triangle. 8.30 Body Fixers (PGR, R) A woman needs help to fix her shredded ear lobe. 9.30 Botched (AO) Dubrow helps an eating disorder survivor downsize her breasts. 10.30 Snapped (AO) 11.30 Snapped: She Made Me Do It (PGR, R) s2ep7 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials

Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Sachie’s Kitchen (G, R) Ōpaki (G, R) Waiata (G, R) Fitness in the Whare (G, R) Huia Rau (G, R) IVF World Sprints (R) What’s up with the Tumoanas (PGR, R) 1.00 Ngā Pari Kārangaranga o te Motu (G, R) 1.30 Ōpaki (G, R) 2.00 Toku Reo (G, R) 3.00 Kids’ Programmes (G, R) 6.30 Te Ao: Māori News 7.00 Whānau Living (G, R) 7.30 Moosemeat & Marmalade (PGR, R) With Art Napoleon and Dan Hayes. 8.00 Shear Bro (G, R) Series following the Paewai-Mullins whānau during the main shear season. 8.30 Piri’s Tiki Tour (G, R) Piri Weepu meets divers, farmers and hunters. 9.30 Hunting Aotearoa (AO, R) 10.30 Whawhai (R) Sportfighting show. 11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao: Māori News (R)

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MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031

MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039

Swimming with Men (2018, M) Rob Brydon, Jim Carter 8.40 Game of Love (2016, M) Heather Locklear 10.10 Gringo (2018, 16) David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron Noon Isle of Dogs (2018, PG) Voice of Bryan Cranston 1.40 Swimming with Men (2018, M) Rob Brydon, Jim Carter 3.15 Game of Love (2016, M) Heather Locklear 4.42 The Children Act (2018, M) Emma Thompson 6.25 Mortal Engines (2018, M) Hugo Weaving, Hera Hilmar 8.30 Puzzle (2018, M) A wife and mother finds her passion in puzzling and works towards a major tournament. Kelly Macdonald, David Denman 10.15 Unsane (2018, 16) A young woman unwillingly committed to a mental institution is confronted by her greatest fear. Claire Foy 11.55 Breath (2018, M) Teenage boys bond with an older surfer. Simon Baker 1.50am A Dangerous Date (2018, M) 3.10 The Children Act (2018, M) 4.53 Puzzle (2018, M)

Mid90s (2018, 16) Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterson 8.55 Boundaries (2018, M) Christopher Plummer 10.37 A Family Submerged (2018, M) Mercedes Moran 12.06 Wraith (2017, M) Jackson Hurst, Ali Hillis 1.43 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018, M) Lily James 3.42 Mid90s (2018, 16) Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterson 5.05 Hotel Mumbai (2019, 16) Dev Patel, Armie Hammer. 7.05 Entanglement (2017, M) Thomas Middleditch 8.30 Gangster No. 1: The Freddie Foreman Story (2018, 16) A documentary on the crimes of Freddie Foreman. 10.10 Lake Placid: Legacy (2018, 16) Explorers search for an area removed from maps. Katherine Barrell, Tim Rozon 11.45 Mile 22 (2018, 16) Mark Wahlberg, Iko Uwais 1.20am Breaking & Exiting (2018, 18) 2.40 Hotel Mumbai (2019, 16) 4.41 Nothing but Trailers (M) 5.11 Gangster No. 1: The Freddie Foreman Story (2018, 16)

Halloween II (1981, 18) Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence 8.32 Milius (2013, M) Documentary. 10.17 The Cider House Rules (1999, M) Tobey Maguire 12.20 Witness (1985, M) Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis 2.10 Murder on the Orient Express (1974, PG) Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman 4.15 Death on the Nile (1978, M) Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow 6.35 Boys on the Side (1995, M) Three women share a car trip across the country, each with memories to forget. Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore 8.30 The Client (1994, M) A boy witnesses the suicide of a mafia lawyer and is used to take down a mob. Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones 10.30 L.A. Story (1991, PG) A weatherman rediscovers life with the help of a reporter. Steve Martin 12.03am Blue Velvet (1986, 18) 2.00 Murder on the Orient Express (1974, PG) 4.05 Death on the Nile (1978, M)

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ThreeLife FREEVIEW 11 SKY 029

6.00 Infomercials 9.00 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 9.30 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 10.00 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 10.30 Restaurant Revolution (PGR, R, HD) 11.35 Intolerant Cooks (R, HD) 12.05 Good Spirits (PGR, R, HD) 12.30 Scraps (R, HD) 1.00 Miguel’s Tropical Kitchen (R, HD) 1.30 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 2.00 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 2.30 Good Spirits (PGR, R, HD) 2.55 Restaurant Revolution (PGR, R, HD) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 4.30 Intolerant Cooks (R, HD) 5.00 Scraps (R, HD) 5.30 Miguel’s Tropical Kitchen (R, HD) 6.00 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 6.30 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 7.00 Family Feud (R, HD) 7.30 Duck Dynasty (PGR, HD) 8.00 Ride N Seek (R, HD) 8.30 Wild Coasts with Craig Potton (R, HD) 9.30 Getaway (R, HD) 10.00 Xscape (HD) 10.30 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 11.00 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 11.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials

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6.00 Gardeners’ World 6.30 Baby Animals 7.00 River Cottage Summer’s Here 8.00 Animal Park 9.00 Baby Animals 9.30 American Pickers: Best Of 10.30 Meet the Humans 11.30 James Martin’s French Adventure 12.30 Treasures Decoded 1.30 Britain’s Most Historic Towns 2.30 Scots in China 3.30 Wildlife Icons 4.30 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 5.00 Rachel Khoo: My Swedish Kitchen 5.30 Mysteries at the Museum 6.30 American Pickers 7.30 Location Location Location 8.30 My Dream Home 9.30 Designing Paradise 10.00 My Floating Home 10.30 American Pickers 11.30 Mysteries at the Museum 12.30am Baby Animals 1.00 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 1.30 Rachel Khoo: My Swedish Kitchen 2.00 Alone (PGR) 3.00 Wildlife Icons 4.00 Designing Paradise 4.30 My Floating Home 5.00 – 6.00 Mysteries at the Museum

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1.45pm Top Gear (HD, C) 2.40 MythBusters (HD) 3.35 Two and a Half Men (PGR, HD, C) 4.00 The

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My Brother Mitchell (2017, PG) Sadelle Fe’ao 6.30 The Teach (16) s1ep1&2 8.20 Yellow Is Forbidden (2018, G) NZ documentary. 9.55 My Days of Mercy (2017, 16) Ellen Page 11.40 Angie (2018, 16) NZ documentary. 1.35 My Brother Mitchell (2017, PG) Sadelle Fe’ao 1.50 The Teach Marathon (16) s1ep1-4 5.20 The Female Brain (2017, M) Sofia Vergara 7.00 The Image Book (2018, M) Jean-Luc Godard 8.30 Inspector Rojas: In Cold Blood (18) s1ep7 9.15 Under the Wire (2018, 16) A UK documentary about war correspondent Marie Colvin and photographer Paul Conroy. 10.55 On Body and Soul (2017, 18) Co-workers dream the same dream. Alexandra Borbely, Géza Morcsányi 12.50am Border (2018, 16) 2.40 Inspector Rojas: In Cold Blood (18) s1ep7 3.25 On Body and Soul (2017, 18) 5.20 The Teach (16) s1ep3 6.10

Movies Extra: Entanglement, 7.05pm Fresh Prince of Bel Air (C) 4.25 The Middle (HD, C) 5.15 Home Improvement (HD, C) 5.40 Top Gear (HD, C) 6.40 The Big Bang Theory (HD, C) 7.05 Two and a Half Men (PGR, HD, C) 7.30 The Simpsons (HD, C) 8.30 ■ Cobra (1986, AO, C) A streetwise city detective is out to catch a serial killer terrorising his city. Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielson. 10.05 – 12.00am ■ Hudson Hawk (1991, AO, HD, C) A cat burglar is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a world domination plot. Bruce Willis.

UKTV SKY 007 6.15 QI (M) 6.45 EastEnders (PG) 7.20 Father Brown (PG) 8.05 The Bill (M) 8.55 Midsomer Murders (M) 10.30 Father Brown (PG) 11.15 The Coroner (PG) Noon A Touch of Frost (M) 1.40 The Bill (M) 2.30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 3.25 Traffic Cops (M) 4.20 The Graham Norton Show (M) 5.15 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) Lulu. 6.20 QI (M) 6.55 EastEnders (PG) 7.30 QI (M) 8.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 8.35 Heartbeat (PG) Lord Ashfordly’s new estate manager raises hackles with rent hikes. s16ep17 9.30 Hold the Sunset (PG) s2ep2 10.05 Father Brown (M) s3ep10 11.00 A Touch of Frost (M) s10ep3 12.40am QI (M) 1.40 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 2.15 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) 3.15 Heartbeat (PG) 4.05 Hold the Sunset (PG) 4.35 Father Brown (M) 5.20 – 6.10 The Graham Norton Show (16)

6.50 The Name of the Rose (16) s1ep8 7.50 Shameless (18) s10ep9 8.50 The ABC Murders (16) s1ep1 9.50 The Loudest Voice (M) s1ep2 10.40 Twin Peaks (16) s1ep4 11.40 The Outsider (16) s1ep1&2 1.40 Ray Donovan (18) s7ep9 2.40 The Name of the Rose (16) s1ep8 3.40 Shameless (18) s10ep9 4.40 Billions (18) s4ep11 5.40 Game of Thrones (18) s7ep4 6.30 The City and the City (16) s1ep1 7.30 s4ep8 8.30 A Million Little Things (M) Rome helps PJ through a personal crisis, Gary and Maggie’s relationship takes a turn. s2ep9 9.30 Britannia (18) Season finale. Druid brothers Veran and Harka finally face each other in a challenge where only one of them can survive. s2ep10 10.15 Fortitude (16) Michael finds himself caught up in Elsa’s deadly plans of survival. s3ep2 11.05 Outcast (18) Season finale. s2ep10 12.00am It’s a Hard Truth, Ain’t It (M) 1.15 The City and the City (16) s1ep1 2.15 Halt and Catch Fire (M) s4ep8 3.10 A Million Little Things (M) s2ep9 3.55 Britannia (18) s2ep final 4.50 Fortitude (16) s3ep2 5.40 Outcast (18) s2ep10

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6.00 Selling Houses Australia (G) 6.55 Escape to the Country (PG) 7.50 Restoration Man: Best Builds (PG) 8.40 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (PG) 10.30 Love It or List It UK (G) 11.25 Salvage Hunters (PG) 12.20 Location Location Location Australia (G) 1.15 Selling Houses Australia (G) 2.10 Escape to the Country (PG) 3.00 Restoration Man (PG) 3.50 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (PG) 4.50 Love It or List It UK (G) 5.45 Selling Houses Australia (G) 6.40 Location Location Location Australia (G) 7.35 Salvage Hunters (PG) 8.30 Grand Designs House of the Year (PG) Kevin looks at five more homes in the running for the House of the Year. 9.25 The World’s Most Extraordinary Houses (G) Piers Taylor and Caroline Quentin explore extraordinary homes built in mountain locations around the world. 10.25 The Great British Sewing Bee (PG) 11.25 Selling Houses Australia (G) 12.20am Location Location Location Australia (G) 1.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 2.10 Grand Designs House of the Year (PG) 3.05 The World’s Most Extraordinary Houses (G) 4.05 The Great British Sewing Bee (PG) 5.05 – 6.00 Love It or List It UK (G)

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6.00 Super Rugby 2019, Chiefs v Blues, replay from FMG Stadium, Hamilton 8.10 World Rugby Women’s Sevens, day 2, replay from Infinity Park, Glendale, Colorado 2.30 Rugby, French Top 14, replay 4.30 Rugby, French Top 14, replay 6.30 Red Bull Ignite 7s 7.30 Super Rugby 2016, Sunwolves v Jaguares, replay from Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium, Tokyo 9.30 Rugby, French Top 14, replay 11.30 Rugby, French Top 14, replay 1.30am Rugby, French Top 14, replay 3.30 Rugby, French Top 14, replay 5.30 Rugby, French Top 14, highlights

Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 6.00 Cricket, Black Caps v India 2019, 1st T20, highlights from Wellington Regional Stadium 6.30 Cricket, Black Caps v India 2019, 2nd T20, highlights from Eden Park, Auckland 7.00 Cricket, Black Caps v India 2019, 3rd T20, highlights from Seddon Park, Hamilton 7.30 Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights 8.00 Cricket, India v Sri Lanka, 3rd T20, highlights from Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune 9.00 Cricket, Big Bash League, replay 12.30 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, Canterbury Magicians v Otago Sparks, from Hagley Oval, Christchurch, live 4.00 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, Canterbury Kings v Otago Volts, from Hagley Oval, Christchurch, live 7.50 Big Bash League, highlights 8.20 Cricket, Black Caps v India 2019, 2nd T20, highlights from Eden Park, Auckland 8.50 Cricket, Black Caps v India 2019, 3rd T20, highlights from Seddon Park, Hamilton 9.20 Cricket, India v Australia, 1st ODI, from Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, live

DOCUMENTARIES Sky Arts SKY 020 6.10 The Kitty Kelley Files 6.55 Later with Jools Holland 8.00 My Dear Art 9.45 Terres Barcelo 11.00 Shakespeare Uncovered Noon The Private Life of the Royal Academy 1.20 The Pity of the War: Poets at the Front 2.10 The Kitty Kelley Files 2.55 Later with Jools Holland 4.00 ■ Jaco: A Film About Jaco Pastorius (2015, G) 6.00 Danielle De Niese: Birth of an Opera 7.00 Landscape Artist of the Year 8.30 Master of Photography 9.15 Institute of Art and Ideas 10.05 Hidden Italy 11.05 This Is Art 12.00am ■ Jaco: A Film About Jaco Pastorius (2015, G) 2.00 Danielle De Niese: Birth of an Opera 3.00 Landscape Artist of the Year 4.30 Master of Photography 5.15 Institute of Art and Ideas

Discovery SKY 070 6.35 Fast N’ Loud (PG) 7.30 Car Crash Global (PG) 8.20 Wheeler Dealers (PG) 9.10 Kindig Customs (PG) 10.00 How It’s Made (PG) 10.25 How Do They Do It? (PG) 10.50 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 11.40 The World’s Deadliest Weather (PG) 12.30 Blood Relatives (M) 1.20 Web of Lies (PG) 2.10 Car Crash Global (PG) 3.00 Homestead Rescue (PG) 3.50 Deadliest Catch (PG) 4.45 Fast N’ Loud (PG) 5.40 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 6.35 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught on Camera (PG) 7.30 BattleBots (PG) 8.30 Expedition Unknown (PG) 9.25 What on Earth? (PG) 10.15 Naked and Afraid XL (M) 11.05 Naked and Afraid (M) 11.55 How It’s Made (PG) 12.20am How Do They Do It? (PG) 12.45 Car Crash Global (PG) 1.35 Deadliest Catch (PG) 2.25 Bering Sea Gold (PG) 3.15 Homestead Rescue (PG) 4.05 Insane Pools: Off the Deep End (PG) 4.55 Naked and Afraid (M) 5.45 Deadliest Catch (PG)

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National Geographic SKY 072 6.30 Brain Games (PG) 7.30 The Big Picture with Kal Penn (PG) 8.30 Drain the Oceans (PG) 9.30 Buried Secrets of WWII (PG) 10.30 Nazi Megastructures (PG) 12.30 Wicked Tuna (M) 1.30 Science of Stupid Marathon (M) 3.30 Evacuate Earth (M) 4.30 Inside the American Mob (M) 6.30

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Sky Arts: Jaco: A Film About Jaco Pastorius, 4.00pm

Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 6.30 Tennis, Adelaide International, highlights from Memorial Drive Tennis Centre 7.30 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, match of the day from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland 9.00 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, match of the night from ASB Tennis Arena, Acukland 10.30 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, highlights 11.30 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, day 2, from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland, live 6.00 Second Serve 7.00 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, day 2, from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland, live 11.00 Men’s ASB Classic, match of the day from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland 12.30am Second Serve 1.00 Men’s ASB Classic, match of the night 2.30 Men’s ASB Classic, highlights 3.30 Tennis, Adelaide International, match of the day 5.00 Second Serve 5.30 Tennis, Adelaide International, match of the night, from Memorial Drive Tennis Centre, Adelaide Air Crash Investigation (PG) 7.30 9/11: Control the Skies (M) 8.30 The Movies (M) 9.30 Running Wild with Bear Grylls (PG) 10.30 Bondi Rescue (PG) 11.30 Rescued (M) 12.30am Air Crash Investigation (PG) 1.30 9/11: Control the Skies (M) 2.30 The Movies (M) 3.30 Running Wild with Bear Grylls (PG) 4.30 Bondi Rescue (PG) 5.30 Rescued (M)

History SKY 073 6.30 The Private Lives of the Tudor (M) 7.30 The Story of Egypt (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Myth Hunters (PG) 10.30 End of Empire: Rise & Fall of Dynasties (PG) 11.30 Coast Australia (PG) 12.30 India on Film (PG) 1.30 Despot Housewives (16) 2.30 Nazi Hunters (PG) 3.30 Secret War (PG) 4.30 Air Warriors (PG) 5.30 Prohibition (M) 6.30 Lawless: The Real Bushrangers (M) 7.30 Rise and Fall: Turning Points of WW2 (PG) 8.30 World’s Greatest Palaces (PG) 9.30 Hunting Down the Nazis (PG) 10.30 Unidentified (PG) 11.30 Churchill (PG) 12.30am Les Darcy: The Maitland Wonder 1.30 Nazi Hunters (PG) 2.30 Secret War (M) 3.15 Air Warriors (PG) 4.00 Rise and Fall: Turning Points of WW2 (PG) 4.45 World’s Greatest Palaces (PG) 5.30 Hunting Down the Nazis (PG)

BBC Earth SKY 074 6.00 Back to the Land (PG) 7.00 David Attenborough’s Life in the Undergrowth (PG) 7.50 Life Below Zero (M) 8.35 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 9.20 Life Below Zero: The Thaw (M) 10.05 Wild Mexico (PG) 11.05 Where the Wild Men Are (M) 11.50 24 Hours in A&E (M) 12.40 Zoo Quest (PG) 1.35 Meet the Humans (PG) 2.25 Bear Grylls’ Survival School (PG) 3.15 David Attenborough’s Life in the Undergrowth (PG) 4.05 Wild Mexico (PG) 5.05 Life Below Zero (M) 5.55 Where the Wild Men Are (M) 6.45 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 7.35 24 Hours in A&E (M) 9.30 Louis Theroux: Heroin Town (16) Louis visits Huntington, West Virginia. 10.40 Zoo Quest (PG) 11.35 Wild Mexico (PG) 12.35am Life Below Zero (M) 1.20 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 2.05 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 2.55 Louis Theroux: Heroin Town (16) 3.55 24 Hours in A&E (M) 4.45 Zoo Quest (PG) 5.40 From Ice to Fire (PG)

6.00 Breakfast with Paul Brennan 7.00 Summer Report with Logan Church and Leigh-Marama McLachlan 9.06 Summer Times with Emile Donovan Noon The World at Noon A round-up of today’s news and sport 12.10 Worldwatch Radio New Zealand news followed by correspondents around the world 12.30 The Cold War Legacy Brazil: President Bolsonaro claims he is saving his country from communism, but is Brazil reliving the Cold War? (2 of 5, BBC) 1.00 Afternoons with Karyn Hay 4.00 The Panel with Wallace Chapman An hour of discussion with a range of panellists and expert phone guests 5.00 The 5 O’clock Report with Kim Savage 6.06 Trending Now 7.06 Science in Action A BBC digest of the week’s science news highlights (BBC) 7.30 Song Crush 8.06 Windows on the World 8.30 Summer Live Selections from live performances by NZ Musicians 9.06 Convoys to Cairo 10.00 The World at Ten A round-up of today’s news and sport 10.15 The Aotearoa History Show (11 of 14, RNZ) 10.35 The Detail 11.06 Worlds of Music With Trevor Reekie 12.04am All Night Programme Including 3.05 Victoria in Māoriland, by Margaret Blay, read by Miranda Harcourt (18 of 20, RNZ)

Website: rnz.co.nz

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6.00 Summer Classics Noon Summer Afternoons Including 1.00 Afternoon Concert 6.00 Summer Evenings 8.00 Music Alive CMNZ: Cornerstones – Viktoria Mullova Trio – Schubert: Piano Trio No 2 in E flat D929; Fisher, Salina: Mono No Aware; Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor, Viktoria Mullova Trio – Viktoria Mullova (violin), Matthew Barley (cello), Stephen De Pledge (piano) (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 Tim Dower 9.00 Andrew Dickens Noon Francesca Rudkin 4.00 Tim Roxborogh 8.00 Tim Beveridge 12.00am Jim Snedden Website: newstalkzb.co.nz

Magic Talk 6.00 Brendan Telfer 9.00 Peter Williams Noon Sean Plunket 3.00 Leah Panapa 6.00 Newshub 7.00 Roman Travers 11.00 Tony Amos 5.00am Magic Music Website: magic.co.nz

National Geographic: The Big Picture with Kal Penn, 7.30am

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6.00 Alphabetical (G, R, HD) 6.55 Sun, Sea and Brides to Be (G, R, HD) 8.00 Flipping Profit! (G, R, HD, C) 9.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (C) 10.00 Tipping Point (G, R, HD) 11.00 The Celebrity Chase (G, R, HD, C) Josie Long, Chris Packham, Rachel Johnson and Giles Coren. Noon Emmerdale (HD, C) Amidst confusion, David confronts Jacob, Lydia’s past is revealed, and Robert won’t let up. 1.00 Coronation Street 2019 (G, R, HD, C, AD) Daniel and Sinead receive news from the oncologist, and there’s some camaraderie at the prison for David. 2.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (R, C) 3.00 ■ Tipping Point Lucky Stars (G, HD) 4.00 Te Karere 4.30 Border Patrol (G, R, HD, C) A Brazilian man claims he’s only here for 12 days, but is carrying a remarkable amount of possessions. 5.00 The Chase (G, HD, C) With Bradley Walsh. 6.00 1 News (C) 7.00 Extreme Cake Makers (HD, C) Today, a 90cm-long cake that is part-dragon and partboat, an intricately decorated timepiece cake, and a 60cm-wide vanilla cake that gives the illusion of floating tiers. 7.30 ■ Shop Well for Less (G, HD, C) Alex Jones and Steph McGovern present a UK series that helps families bust their bad shopping habits. Tonight, a family plagued by setbacks is seeking to own a home again (includes Lotto at 8.20pm). 8.45 Living with the Boss (PGR, HD, C, AD) Local series in which bosses have the chance to get to know their employees. Allstar Cheersport boss Kimberley swaps her high-heels for gumboots. 9.45 Coronation Street 2020 (PGR, C, AD) David comes to a heavy realisation, Tracy is at her wits’ end, and has Amy got the wrong end of the stick? 10.45 The Family Law (PGR, HD) Benjamin tries to cheer his mother up. s1ep5 11.15 Code Black (AO, R, HD, C, AD) While rescuing an injured firefighter, Rox is hit by a drunk driver. s3ep11 12.10am Queen Sugar (PGR, HD, C) s3ep11 1.00 Te Karere (R) 1.25 Infomercials 5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R)

6.30 Darwin & Newts (G, R, HD, C) 6.40 Paw Patrol (G, R, HD, C) 7.05 My Little Pony (G, HD, C) 7.25 Star vs the Forces of Evil (G, R, HD, C) 7.50 The Tom and Jerry Show (G, R, HD, C) 8.15 Ducktales (G, R, HD, C) 8.35 Sofia the First (G, R, HD, C) 9.00 ■ Regular Show (G, R, HD) 9.10 Religious Programming (R) 9.40 Infomercials 10.15 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C) 11.05 Australian Survivor (PGR, R, HD, C) 12.05 Mom (PGR, R, HD, C) 12.30 2 Broke Girls (PGR, R, HD, C) 1.00 Little Big Shots (G, HD, C) 1.55 American Housewife (G, R, HD, C) 2.55 Shortland Street (PGR, R, HD, C, AD) 3.25 Bluey (G, R, HD, C) 3.35 Powerpuff Girls (G, R, HD, C) 3.45 Bunk’d (G, R, HD, C) 4.35 House Rules (G, HD, C) It’s the judgement day reveal. 6.00 Neighbours (G, HD, C) Elly gives Finn some hard truths, Chloe takes a stand, and Amy has a huge decision to make. 7.00 Shortland Street (PGR, HD, C, AD) 7.30 Australian Survivor (PGR, HD, C) With the end in sight, tensions are at an all-time high. 8.40 ■ Boy (2010, AO, R, HD, C, AD) In 1984, a boy living on a farm with his grandmother is delighted when his feckless father turn up. James Rolleston, Taika Waititi, Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu, Rachel House, Moerangi Tihore. TV Films, page 69 10.20 Two and a Half Men (PGR, R, HD, C) Charlie is thrilled that he’s dating a wild, sexually uninhibited woman until Alan points out that she’s a Satan worshiper. s3ep6 10.50 Mom (PGR, R, HD, C) Christy has trouble accepting how much easier life is with Bonnie in the house, and Baxter sets up camp in the driveway. s1ep11 11.20 ■ Wentworth (AO, R, HD, C) Vera and Ferguson must deal with the fallout from Bea’s death, and Franky’s life of freedom is jeopardised by an obsessive Mike Pennisi. 12.15am Don’t Tell the Doctor (AO, R, HD, C) 1.05 Shortland Street (PGR, R, HD, C, AD) 1.30 Infomercials 2.35 Lucifer (AO, R, HD, C, AD) 3.25 Love Island Australia (AO, R, HD, C) 4.20 America’s Funniest Home Videos (G, R, HD) 4.40 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C) 5.30 – 6.00 Infomercials

6.00 Infomercials 7.00 The Biggest Loser Australia (G, R, HD) 9.00 House Rules (PGR, R, HD, C) 10.10 Infomercials 11.35 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, R, HD) 12.30 Face the Truth (PGR, HD) 1.00 Dr Phil (PGR, HD) 2.00 American Ninja Warrior (G, R, HD) 4.00 Find Me a Dream Home Australia (G, HD) 4.30 Newshub Live (HD) 5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, HD) 6.00 Newshub Live (HD) 7.00 Bondi Rescue (G, R, HD, C) When monster waves lash Bondi, new team members Boo and trainee Lachie must tackle the dangerous conditions to complete a mass rescue. s13ep3 7.30 The Block Australia (PGR, HD) Scotty reveals the most devastating news he has ever had to deliver to a team. s15ep40 8.40 ■ Paul (2011, AO, R, HD, C) Two sci-fi geeks on a pilgrimage to America’s UFO heartland meet a real alien. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Sigourney Weaver, Jason Bateman. 10.40 Newshub Late 11.10 SVU: Special Victims Unit (AO, R, HD, C) An investigation hits a nerve with Benson when a suspect claims his genetics causes him to commit his crimes. s18ep13 12.10am – 6.00 Infomercials

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Prime: Ballers, 10.40pm

PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Sky Sport News Live Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (G, R) 10.00 The Doctors (PGR, R) 11.00 Antiques Roadshow (G, R, C) Noon Sky Sport News Live 12.30 Elementary (PGR, R, C) 1.30 Frasier (G, R) 2.00 The Late Show (PGR, R) 2.55 Wheel of Fortune (G) 3.25 Jeopardy (G) 3.55 Hot Bench (G, R) 4.20 ASB Classic Tennis (G, C) Highlights of day 2. 5.30 Prime News 6.00 Pawn Stars (G, R) 7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild 7.30 Traffic Cops (PGR, C) 8.30 Best of Top Gear (PGR, R) Matt takes Chris on a hunt for Bigfoot. 9.40 Ross Kemp: Extreme World (AO, R, C) In Mozambique, Ross investigates elephant poaching. 10.40 Ballers (AO) 11.55 – 12.55am The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (PGR) 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00

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Infomercials (G, R) Mom’s a Medium (G, R) Dance Moms (G, R) Love It or List It: Vancouver (G, R) 12.30 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (PGR, R) 1.30 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AO, R) 2.30 Four Weddings Australia (G, R, C) s1ep5 3.30 The People’s Court (G) 4.30 Dance Moms (G, R) 5.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver (G, R) 6.30 Dress to Impress (G, R) 7.30 The Real Housewives of Dallas 8.30 Paramedics: Life on the Line (PGR) James and Kin triage patients after a truck hits a bus. 9.30 Emma Willis: Delivering Babies (AO) It’s Emma’s final week to become a qualified MCA. 10.30 Snapped (AO) 11.30 Snapped: She Made Me Do It (PGR, R) s2ep8 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials

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Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Sachie’s Kitchen (G, R) Ōpaki (G, R) Waiata (G, R) Fitness in the Whare (G, R) Huia Rau (G, R) Hamu & Tofiga (PGR, R) What’s up with the Tumoanas (PGR, R) 1.00 Ngā Pari Kārangaranga o te Motu (G, R) 1.30 Ōpaki (G, R) 2.00 Toku Reo (G, R) 3.00 Kids’ Programmes (G, R) 6.30 Te Ao: Māori News 7.00 R & R (G, R) 7.30 Cam’s Kai (G, R) Cameron Petley hosts a cooking show. 8.00 Shear Bro (G, R) Series following the Paewai-Mullins whānau. 8.30 ■ Aotearoa (G, R) An aerial tour of New Zealand. 9.00 ■ Ahikāroa (AO) Maru is torn, Smooch is worn, but they have to pull together to help Haki. 10.00 Rere te Whiu (AO, R) 10.30 #whiuatepatai (AO, R) 11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao: Māori News (R)

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MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039

Unsane (2018, 16) Claire Foye, Joshua Leonard 8.08 Mortal Engines (2018, M) Hugo Weaving, Hera Hilmar 10.13 Breath (2018, M) Simon Baker, Samson Coulter 12.08 The Children Act (2018, M) Emma Thompson 1.51 Puzzle (2018, M) Kelly Macdonald, David Denman 3.35 Unsane (2018, 16) Claire Foye, Joshua Leonard 5.15 McKellen (2018, M) Documentary. 6.45 Wildlife (2018, M)Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan 8.30 Doe (2018, M) A man wakes up with a strange ability and no memory of his past, and races against time to discover his identity. Timothy Davis, Tatyana Ali. 10.10 Bad Times at the El Royale (2018, 16) Seven strangers, each with a secret, meet at a rundown hotel with a dark past. Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth 12.30am Bob Fosse: It’s Showtime (2018, M) 1.35 This Teacher (2018, 16) 3.10 The Dark Tapes (2018, 16) 4.50 Doe (2018, M)

6.43 Entanglement (2017, M) Thomas Middleditch 8.06 Lake Placid: Legacy (2018, 16) Katherine Barrell 9.38 Mile 22 (2018, 16) Mark Wahlberg, Iko Uwais 11.12 Breaking & Exiting (2018, 18) Milo Gibson, Jordan Hinson 12.32 Hotel Mumbai (2019, 16) Dev Patel, Armie Hammer 2.32 Gangster No. 1: The Freddie Foreman Story (2018, 16) Documentary. 4.05 #roxy (2018, PG) Jake Short 5.50 Burying Yasmeen (2019, M) Jason Lott, Mike Langer 7.05 211 (2018, 16) Nicolas Cage, Sophie Skelton 8.30 Juliet, Naked (2018, M) A woman begins communicating with the musician with whom her boyfriend is obsessed. Chris O’Dowd, Rose Byrne 10.10 The Sun Is Also a Star (2019, M) Yara Shahidi, Charles Melton 11.47 Tyson (2007, 16) Documentary. 1.14am Luster (2009, 18) 2.37 #roxy (2018, PG) 4.19 Burying Yasmeen (2019, M) 5.31 211 (2018, 16)

Boys on the Side (1995, M) Whoopi Goldberg 8.15 The Client (1994, M) Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones 10.13 L.A. Story (1991, PG) Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant 11.46 Murder on the Orient Express (1974, PG) Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman 1.51 Death on the Nile (1978, M) Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow 4.10 William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge (2015, M) Documentary. 5.10 A Hard Day’s Night (1964, PG) John Lennon 6.35 The Untouchables (1987, M) Robert De Niro 8.30 Something Wild (1986, 16) A woman kidnaps a businessman and takes him on an adventure. Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels 10.20 Runaway Jury (2003, M) Dustin Hoffman 12.24am The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982, M) 2.07 William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge (2015, M) 3.06 A Hard Day’s Night (1964, PG) 4.31 Nothing but Trailers (M) 4.46 The Untouchables (1987, M)

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6.00 Infomercials 9.00 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 9.30 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 10.00 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 10.30 Duck Dynasty (PGR, R, HD) 11.00 Ride N Seek (R, HD) 11.30 Wild Coasts with Craig Potton (R, HD) 12.30 Getaway (R, HD) 1.00 Xscape (R, HD) 1.30 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 2.00 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 2.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 3.00 Duck Dynasty (PGR, R, HD) 3.30 Ride N Seek (R, HD) 4.00 Wild Coasts with Craig Potton (R, HD) 5.00 Getaway (R, HD) 5.30 Xscape (R, HD) 6.00 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 6.30 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 7.00 Family Feud (R, HD) 7.30 Celebrity House Hunting (R, HD) 8.00 The Ultimate Rush (R, HD) 8.30 Engineering Giants (R, HD) 9.35 Secret Meat Business (R, HD) 10.05 The Gadget Show (R, HD) 10.35 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 11.00 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 11.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials

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6.00 Gardeners’ World 6.30 Baby Animals 7.00 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 7.30 Rachel Khoo: My Swedish Kitchen 8.00 Wildlife Icons 9.00 Baby Animals 9.30 American Pickers: Best Of 10.30 Meet the Humans 11.30 James Martin’s French Adventure 12.30 American Pickers 1.30 Designing Paradise 2.00 My Floating Home 2.30 My Dream Home 3.30 Tribes, Animals and Me 4.30 Gordon Ramsay Ultimate Home Cooking 5.00 Simply Nigella 5.30 Mysteries at the Museum 6.30 Jade Fever 7.30 Guy Martin: The World’s Fastest Tractor 9.00 Mega Yachts 10.00 Special Forces – Ultimate Hell Week (PGR) 11.00 Bear Grylls Mission Survive (PGR) 12.00am Mysteries at the Museum 1.00 Mega Yachts 2.00 Alone (PGR) 3.00 Tribes, Animals and Me 4.00 Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week (PGR) 5.00 – 6.00 Mysteries at the Museum

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1.15pm Formula E Street Racers (HD) 1.45 Top Gear (HD, C) 2.40 MythBusters (HD) 3.35 Two and a

The Teach (16) s1ep4 Border (2018, 16) Eva Melander 8.55 The Female Brain (2017, M) Sofia Vergara 10.35 The Image Book (2018, M) 12.05 Under the Wire (2018, 16) UK documentary. 1.45 Border (2018, 16) Eva Melander 3.35 The Teach (16) s1ep5&6 5.20 Dark River (2017, 16) Ruth Wilson 6.50 The Price of Everything (2018, M) US documentary. 8.30 Mega Time Squad (2018, M) A crook finds a timetravelling device that helps with a heist. Jonny Brugh 9.50 Aga (2018, PG) A couple live in a yurt on the snowcovered fields of the North like the traditions of their ancestors. Mikhail Aprosimov 11.30 Let the Sunshine In (2017, M) A divorced Parisian painter searches for another shot at love. Juliette Binoche 1.05am Old Money (M) s1ep1&2 2.50 Dark River (2017, 16) 4.20 Mega Time Squad (2018, M) 5.40 The Teach (16) s1ep5 6.15 7.05

Movies Extra: Juliet, Naked, 8.30pm Half Men (PGR, HD, C) 4.00 The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (C) 4.25 The Middle (PGR, HD, C) 5.15 Home Improvement (HD, C) 5.40 Top Gear (HD, C) 6.40 The Big Bang Theory (HD, C) 7.05 Two and a Half Men (PGR, HD, C) 7.35 The Simpsons (HD, C) 8.30 Bear Grylls: The Island (G, HD) 9.30 Mega Air (G, HD) 10.30 Car SOS (HD) 11.25 – 12.20am Concorde (HD)

UKTV SKY 007 6.10 QI (M) 6.40 EastEnders (PG) 7.15 Father Brown (PG) 8.00 The Bill (M) 8.45 Midsomer Murders (M) 10.20 Call the Midwife (M) 11.15 The Coroner (PG) Noon A Touch of Frost (M) 1.40 The Bill (M) 2.30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (16) 3.25 Traffic Cops (M) 4.20 The Graham Norton Show (M) 5.15 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) Fearne Cotton. 6.20 QI (M) 6.55 EastEnders (PG) 7.30 QI (M) Stephen Fry, Liza Tarbuck, Phill Jupitus, Sean Lock, Alan Davies. 8.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 8.35 The Coroner (PG) When the town’s new mayor is found dead in a hotel room, Jane’s quest for the truth puts her own life in danger. s1ep3 9.30 Holby City (M) s19ep1 10.35 The Vicar of Dibley (PG) s1ep3 11.10 A Touch of Frost (M) s11ep1 12.55am QI (M) 1.55 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 2.30 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) 3.30 The Coroner (PG) 4.15 Holby City (M) 5.15 The Vicar of Dibley (PG) 5.45 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (16)

6.35 It’s a Hard Truth, Ain’t It (M) 7.50 The City and the City (16) s1ep1 8.50 Halt and Catch Fire (M) s4ep8 9.45 The Leftovers (16) s2ep3 10.45 The Knick (16) s1ep5 11.35 Strike Back (18) s6ep8 12.25 Twin Peaks (16) s1ep5 1.25 A Million Little Things (M) s2ep9 2.10 Britannia (18) s2ep8 2.55 Fortitude (16) s3ep2 3.45 Outcast (18) s2ep8 4.40 Billions (18) s4ep12 5.40 Game of Thrones (18) s7ep5 6.40 Save Me (16) s1ep2 7.30 Ray Donovan (18) s7ep9 8.30 Shameless (18) Faye’s betrayal lands Frank in front of a judge, and Mickey’s antics drive Ian to online dating. s10ep10 9.30 Westworld (18) Dolores decides to recruit the Confederados to her cause, and William gets a message from Ford that he must complete the game on his own. s2ep2 10.30 The Outsider (16) s1ep1&2 12.30am Absentia (16) Emily and Cal’s investigation into the Fentanyl Killer points them towards dangerous suspects. s2ep4 1.10 Quincy Jones: Burning the Light (M) 2.20 In the Shadow of the Towers (M) 2.55 Save Me (16) s1ep2 4.00 Ray Donovan (18) s7ep9 5.10 – 6.20 Shameless (18) s10ep10

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6.00 Selling Houses Australia (G) 6.55 Escape to the Country (PG) 7.50 Restoration Man (PG) 8.40 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (PG) 9.35 The Great British Sewing Bee (PG) 10.35 Grand Designs House of the Year (PG) 11.25 Salvage Hunters (PG) 12.15 Location Location Location Australia (G) 1.10 The World’s Most Extraordinary Houses (G) 2.10 Escape to the Country (PG) 3.05 Restoration Man (PG) 3.55 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (PG) 4.50 Grand Designs House of the Year (PG) 5.45 Selling Houses Australia (G) 6.40 Location Location Location Australia (G) 7.35 Salvage Hunters (PG) Drew tries to satisfy a customer with a taste for mid-century chic. 8.30 Restoration Man (PG) Andrew and Michele create a 6-storey house out of an 26m Art Deco water tower. 9.25 Location Location Location (PG) 10.25 Love It or List It UK (G) 11.20 Selling Houses Australia (G) 12.20am Location Location Location Australia (G) 1.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 2.10 Restoration Man (PG) 3.05 Location Location Location (PG) 4.05 Love It or List It UK (G) 5.05 – 6.00 Salvage Hunters (PG)

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6.00 Super Rugby 2016, Sunwolves v Jaguares, replay from Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium, Tokyo 8.00 World Rugby Sevens, day 1, replay from The Sevens Stadium, Dubai 2.00 Rugby, Gallagher Premiership, Sale Sharks v Harlequins, replay from Salford City Stadium, Salford 4.00 Rugby, Gallagher Premiership, Gloucester v Bath, replay from Kingsholm Stadium, Gloucester 6.00 Rugby, Gallagher Premiership, highlights 7.00 Rugby, French Top 14, highlights 7.30 Super Rugby 2017, Crusaders v Highlanders, replay from AMI Stadium, Christchurch 9.30 Getting Grilled with Marshy: Justin Marshall is joined by Brendon McCullum 10.00 Rugby, Gallagher Premiership, Leicester v Bristol, replay from Welford Road, Bristol 12.00am Rugby, Gallagher Premiership, Saracens v Worcester, replay from Allianz Park, London 2.00 Rugby, Gallagher Premiership, London Irish v Exeter Chiefs, replay 4.00 Rugby, Gallagher Premiership, Wasps v Northampton Saints, replay

Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 6.00 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, highlights 7.00 Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights 8.00 Big Bash League, replay 11.30 Cricket, India v Australia, 1st ODI, replay from Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai 7.30 Big Bash League, highlights 8.05 Big Bash League, Sydney Thunder v Melbourne Renegades, from Manuka Oval, Canberra, live 11.05 Big Bash League, Perth Scorchers v Melbourne Stars, from Optus Stadium, Perth, live 2.30am Cricket, India v Australia, 1st ODI, highlights from Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai 3.30 Dream11 Super Smash,

DOCUMENTARIES Sky Arts SKY 020 6.05 Hidden Italy 7.05 This Is Art 8.00 Jaco: A Film About Jaco Pastorius 10.00 Danielle De Niese: Birth of an Opera 11.00 Landscape Artist of the Year 12.30 Master of Photography 1.15 Institute of Art and Ideas 2.05 Hidden Italy 3.05 This Is Art 4.00 Shell Shock: A Requiem of War 5.40 Verbier 2018: The Creation 7.30 Verbier 2018: Valery Gergiev Conducts 8.30 Bruckner No 9: Valery Gergiev 9.30 The Berlin Concert: Mutter & Lang Lang 11.15 Kids on the Silk Road 11.45 The Wanderers 12.00am Shell Shock: A Requiem of War 1.40 Verbier 2018: The Creation 3.30 Verbier 2018: Valery Gergiev Conducts 4.30 Bruckner No 9: Valery Gergiev 5.30 The Berlin Concert: Mutter & Lang Lang

Discovery SKY 070 6.35 Fast N’ Loud (PG) 7.30 Car Crash Global (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 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 11.40 The World’s Deadliest Weather (PG) 12.30 Blood Relatives (M) 1.20 People Magazine Investigates (M) 2.10 Car Crash Global (PG) 3.00 Homestead Rescue (PG) 3.50 Deadliest Catch (PG) 4.45 Fast N’ Loud (PG) 5.40 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 6.35 The World’s Deadliest Weather (PG) 7.30 Alaska: The Last Frontier (PG) 8.30 Alaskan Bush People (PG) 9.25 Raising Wild (PG) 10.15 Moonshiners (M) 11.05 Naked and Afraid (M) 11.55 How It’s Made (PG) 12.20am How Do They Do It? (PG) 12.45 Car Crash Global (PG) 1.35 Deadliest Catch (PG) 2.25 Bering Sea Gold (PG) 3.15 Homestead Rescue (PG) 4.05 Insane Pools: Off the Deep End (PG) 4.55 Naked and Afraid (M) 5.45 Deadliest Catch (PG)

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BBC Earth: Louis Theroux: Heroin Town, 10.00am highlights 4.30 Big Bash League, highlights 5.30 Cricket, Black Caps v India 2019, 3rd T20, highlights

Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 7.00 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, match of the day from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland 8.30 Second Serve 9.00 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, match of the night 10.30 Men’s ASB Classic, highlights 11.30 Men’s ASB Classic, day 3, from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland, live 6.00 Second Serve 7.00 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, day 3, from ASB Tennis Centre, Auckland, live 11.00 Men’s ASB Classic, match of the day from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland 12.30am Second Serve 1.00 Men’s ASB Classic, match of the night 2.30 Men’s ASB Classic, highlights 3.30 Tennis, Adelaide International, match of the day 5.00 Tennis, Adelaide International, match of the night, from Memorial Drive Tennis Centre Remixed: The 90s Greatest (PG) 5.30 The Movies (M) 6.30 Air Crash Investigation (PG) 7.30 Drain the Oceans (PG) 8.30 Outback Wrangler (PG) 9.30 Bushfire Wars (PG) 10.30 Bondi Rescue (PG) 11.30 Celebration Nation (PG) 12.30am Air Crash Investigation (PG) 1.30 Drain the Oceans (PG) 2.30 Outback Wrangler (PG) 3.30 Bushfire Wars (PG) 4.30 Bondi Rescue (PG) 5.30 Celebration Nation (PG)

History SKY 073 6.30 Unidentified (PG) 7.30 Churchill (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Myth Hunters (PG) 10.30 Lawless: The Real Bushrangers (M) 11.30 Rise and Fall: Turning Points of WW2 (PG) 12.30 World’s Greatest Palaces (PG) 1.30 Despot Housewives (M) 2.30 Nazi Hunters (PG) 3.30 Secret War (M) 4.30 Air Warriors (PG) 5.30 Prohibition (M) 6.30 The Cars That Made Us (PG) 7.30 Families That Changed the World (PG) 8.30 Nefertiti: The Lonely Queen (PG) 9.30 Volatile Earth (PG) 10.30 Drinks, Crime and Prohibition (M) 11.30 Secrets of World War II (PG) 12.30am Great Australians with Alan Jones (PG) 1.30 Nazi Hunters (PG) 2.30 Secret War (PG) 3.15 Air Warriors (PG) 4.00 Families That Changed the World (PG) 4.45 Nefertiti: The Lonely Queen (PG) 5.30 Volatile Earth (PG)

BBC Earth SKY 074 6.40 David Attenborough’s Life in the Undergrowth (PG) 7.30 Life Below Zero (M) 8.15 Where the Wild Men Are (M) 9.00 Wild Japan (PG) 10.00 Louis Theroux: Heroin Town (16) 11.00 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 11.50 24 Hours in A&E (M) 12.40 Zoo Quest (PG) 1.30 Meet the Humans (PG) 2.20 Bear Grylls’ Survival School (PG) 3.15 David Attenborough’s Life in the Undergrowth (PG) 4.05 Wild Japan (PG) 5.05 Life Below Zero (M) 5.55 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 6.45 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 7.35 24 Hours in A&E (M) 8.30 Tribes, Animals & Me (PG) 9.30 Sugar vs Fat (PG) 10.35 Zoo Quest (PG) 11.30 Wild Japan (PG) 12.30am Life Below Zero (M) 1.15 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 2.00 Tribes, Animals & Me (PG) 2.55 Sugar vs Fat (PG) 3.55 24 Hours in A&E (M) 4.45 Zoo Quest (PG) 5.35 Louis Theroux: Heroin Town (16)

6.00 Breakfast with Anna Thomas 7.00 Summer Report with Logan Church and Leigh-Marama McLachlan 9.06 Summer Times with Emile Donovan Noon The World at Noon 12.10 Worldwatch 12.30 The Cold War Legacy Indonesia: In 1965, at least half a million people died in military-led killings of suspected communist sympathisers in Indonesia (3 of 5, BBC) 1.00 Afternoons with Karyn Hay 4.00 The Panel with Wallace Chapman 5.00 The 5 O’clock Report with Kim Savage 6.06 Trending Now 7.06 Summer Science Highlights from the world of science and the environment with Our Changing World’s Alison Ballance 8.06 Windows on the World 8.30 Summer Live 9.06 Convoys to Cairo 10.00 The World at Ten 10.15 The Aotearoa History Show (12 of 14, RNZ) 10.35 The Detail 11.06 Inside Out with Nick Tipping Classic recordings and modern masterpieces from the world of jazz 12.04am All Night Programme Including 3.05 Victoria in Māoriland, by Margaret Blay, read by Miranda Harcourt (19 of 20, RNZ)

Website: rnz.co.nz

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6.00 Summer Classics Noon Summer Afternoons Including 1.00 Afternoon Concert 6.00 Summer Evenings 8.00 Music Alive Deutsche Welle Festival: Schumannfest – Schumann, Clara: Six Songs Op 13; Schumann: Six Poems by Nikolaus Lenau and Requiem Op 90; Schumann, Clara: Six Songs from Jucunde Op 23, selections; Brahms: O Death, how bitter you are, from Four Serious Songs Op 121; Schumann, Clara: Nocturne in F Op 6/2; Schumann: Waldszenen Op 82; Mendelssohn: Fantasia in F# minor Op 28, Sonate ecossaise, Arttu Kataja (baritone), Paulina Tukiainen (piano), Danae Dorken (piano) (recorded in the Mozart Hall, Schwetzingen, by Deutsche Welle) 10.00 Day’s End 12.00am Music Through the Night

Website: rnz.co.nz/concert

Newstalk ZB 6.00 Tim Dower 9.00 Andrew Dickens Noon Francesca Rudkin 4.00 Tim Roxborogh 8.00 Tim Beveridge 12.00am Jim Snedden Website: newstalkzb.co.nz

Magic Talk 6.00 Brendan Telfer 9.00 Peter Williams Noon Sean Plunket 3.00 Leah Panapa 6.00 Newshub 7.00 Roman Travers 11.00 Tony Amos 5.00am Magic Music Website: magic.co.nz

Sky Arts: Danielle De Niese: Birth of an Opera, 10.00am

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6.30 Bondi Rescue (PG) 7.30 Brain Games (PG) 8.30 Drain the Oceans (PG) 9.30 Wicked Tuna: North vs South (M) 10.30 Inside North Korea’s Dynasty (M) 11.30 Egypt from Above (PG) 12.30 Wicked Tuna (M) 1.30 Inside Incredible Machines (PG) 2.30 Nazi Megastructures (M) 4.30 Decades

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6.00 Alphabetical (G, R, HD) 6.55 Sun, Sea and Brides to Be (G, R, HD) 8.00 Flipping Profit! (G, R, HD, C) 9.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (C) 10.00 Tipping Point (G, R, HD) 11.00 The Celebrity Chase (G, R, HD, C) Rachel Riley, Clive Tyldesley, Charley Boorman and Kirsty Gallacher. Noon Emmerdale (HD, C) Lydia can’t forgive herself for the past, Leyla has a bleak outlook, and Victoria and Diane clash with Wendy. 1.00 Coronation Street 2019 (G, R, HD, C, AD) Reality sets in for Sinead, and Max hits boiling point. 2.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (R, C) 3.00 Tipping Point (HD) 4.00 Te Karere 4.30 Border Patrol (G, R, HD, C) A convicted heroine smuggler objects to being checked at the border. 5.00 The Chase (HD, C) Bradley Walsh hosts a UK quiz show. 6.00 1 News (C) 7.00 Extreme Cake Makers (G, HD, C) A hot-air balloon cake with a suspended basket, a Hawaiian-themed tropical bar, and a wedding cake set against a dramatic hand-painted Portmeirion fondant backdrop. 7.30 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? UK (HD, C) Jeremy Clarkson presents a UK quiz show in which contestants have the opportunity to answer 15 questions in the hope of winning £1,000,000. 8.30 Extraordinary Places to Eat (PGR, HD, C, AD) UK series in which leading chefs and restaurateurs take maitre d’ Fred Sirieix to the places they genuinely love to eat. Tonight, chef Tom Kerridge takes Fred to Edinburgh. 9.45 Coronation Street 2020 (C, AD) Could there be good news for David? Gemma makes a U-turn, and an interview with the social worker could spell disaster for Fiz and Tyrone. 10.45 ■ The Family Law (PGR, HD) Benjamin instigates a performance to cheer up Jenny. s1ep6 11.20 Heathrow Britain’s Busiest Airport (G, R, HD, C, AD) 11.50 10k Holiday Home (G, R, HD, C) UK series following the growing number of Brits creating their own holiday homes abroad. 12.20am ■ Bad Habits: Holy Orders (PGR, R, HD, C) 1.15 Te Karere (R) 1.40 Infomercials 5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R)

6.30 Darwin & Newts (G, R, HD, C) 6.40 Paw Patrol (G, R, HD, C) 7.05 My Little Pony (G, HD, C) 7.25 Star vs The Forces of Evil (G, R, C) 7.50 The Tom and Jerry Show (G, R, HD, C) 8.15 Ducktales (G, R, HD, C) 8.35 Sofia the First (G, R, HD, C) 9.00 Infomercials 10.05 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C) 11.00 Australian Survivor (PGR, R, HD, C) 12.05 Mom (PGR, R, HD, C) 12.30 2 Broke Girls (PGR, R, HD, C) 1.00 Little Big Shots (G, HD, C) 2.00 American Housewife (G, R, HD, C) 3.00 Shortland Street (PGR, R, HD, C, AD) 3.30 Bluey (G, R, HD, C) 3.35 Powerpuff Girls (G, R, HD, C) 3.45 Bunk’d (G, R, HD, C) 4.35 House Rules (HD, C) Shayn and Carly don’t pull any punches when they rate their renovated family home. 6.00 Neighbours (G, HD, C) A beloved face from the past returns, and Ned and Yashvi face the music. 7.00 Shortland Street (PGR, HD, C, AD) 7.30 Ten 7 Summer (PGR, HD, C) Some of the biggest cases and best moments from the past year of Police Ten 7. 8.00 Booze Patrol (PGR, HD, C) Australian series following police units carrying out random breath testing. 8.35 ■ Pain & Gain (2013, AO, R, HD, C) Based on the story of a gang of Miami bodybuilders who were involved in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme. Dwayne Johnson, Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Mackie, Tony Shalhoub, Ed Harris, Rebel Wilson. 11.00 Mom (AO, R, HD, C) Christy gets stuck in the middle when Bonnie and Chef Rudy start dating. s1ep12 11.30 This Is Us (PGR, R, HD, C) Kevin keeps a secret from Zoe, Randall gets unexpected news about Deja, and the Big Three graduate from High School. s3ep14 12.20am Private Practice (AO, R, HD, C) Sam finds his estranged sister in jail and brings her to Sheldon for help. 1.05 Shortland Street (PGR, R, HD, C, AD) 1.30 Infomercials 2.35 Lucifer (AO, R, HD, C, AD) 3.20 Love Island Australia (AO, R, HD, C) 4.20 America’s Funniest Home Videos (G, R, HD) 4.40 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C) 5.30 – 6.00 Infomercials

6.00 Infomercials 7.00 The Biggest Loser Australia (G, R, HD) 9.00 House Rules (PGR, R, HD, C) 10.05 Infomercials 11.30 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, R, HD) 12.30 Face the Truth (PGR, HD) 1.00 Dr Phil (PGR, HD) 2.00 American Ninja Warrior (G, R, HD) 4.00 Find Me a Dream Home Australia (G, HD) 4.30 Newshub Live (HD) 5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, HD) 6.00 Newshub Live (HD) 7.00 Bondi Rescue (G, R, HD, C) During the summer holidays, a whole family of inexperienced swimmers find themselves in trouble. s13ep4 7.30 Zumbo’s Just Desserts (PGR, HD, C) Adriano Zumbo and Rachel Khoo present an Australian cooking series. The dessert makers must create an icecream sundae that pushes the boundaries s2ep3 8.30 ■ Minority Report (2002, AO, R, HD, C) A detective must uncover the truth before he becomes a victim of the system he helped create. Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Samantha Morton. TV Films, page 69 11.15 Newshub Late 11.35 NCIS: LA (AO, R, HD, C) When a retirement home resident goes missing, the team uncovers a scam. s8ep16 12.35am – 6.00 Infomercials

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PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Sky Sport News Live Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (G, R) 10.00 The Doctors (PGR, R) 11.00 Antiques Roadshow (G, R, C) Noon Sky Sport News Live 12.30 Elementary (PGR, R, C) 1.30 Frasier (G, R) 2.00 The Late Show (PGR, R) 2.55 Wheel of Fortune (G) 3.25 Jeopardy (G) 3.55 Hot Bench (G, R) 4.20 ASB Classic Tennis (G, C) Highlights of day 3. 5.30 Prime News 6.00 Pawn Stars (G, R) 6.30 Courtside (G) 7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild 7.30 SpeedWorks Motorsport (G) Racing at Pukekohe, and last year’s classic NZGP. 9.30 ■ Extreme Salvage Squad (AO, C) All the machines brought in for a difficult beach rescue get stuck. 10.30 Ballers (AO) 11.45 – 12.45am The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (PGR) 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00

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Infomercials (G, R) Mom’s a Medium (G, R) Dance Moms (G, R) Love It or List It: Vancouver (G, R) 12.30 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (PGR, R) 1.30 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AO, R) 2.30 Four Weddings Australia (G, R) 3.30 The People’s Court (G) 4.30 Dance Moms (G, R) 5.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver (G, R) 6.30 Dress to Impress (G, R) 7.30 Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry (G, R) Snooki makes a connection with her beloved late uncle. s1ep2 8.30 Below Deck (AO) 9.30 The Real Housewives of Cheshire (PGR) Dawn welcomes a VIP lodger, but may have taken on too much. 10.30 Snapped (AO) 11.30 Snapped: Killer Couples (AO, R) s1ep1 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials

Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Sachie’s Kitchen (G, R) Ōpaki (G, R) Waiata (G, R) Fitness in the Whare (G, R) Huia Rau (G, R) Hamu & Tofiga (PGR, R) It’s in the Bag (G, R) Ngā Pari Kārangaranga o te Motu (G, R) 1.30 Ōpaki (G, R) 2.00 Toku Reo (G, R) 3.00 Kids’ Programmes (G) 6.30 Te Ao: Māori News 7.00 Tangaroa with Pio (G, R) 7.30 Whānau Bake Off (G, R) Kahurangi Maxwell presents a kai competition. 8.00 Funny Whare (PGR, R) 8.30 Sidewalk Karaoke (G, R) 9.00 Haka Life (AO, R) Series following Ngā Tūmanako to the Tāmaki regionals. 9.30 Tongue Tied (AO) Sitcom. 10.00 Nanakia (PGR, R) Chey Milne, Kimo Houltham and Tiare Tawera head out on a road trip. 10.30 Jimi’s World (AO, R) 11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao: Māori News (R)

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MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039

6.30 McKellen (2018, M) Documentary. 8.00 Bad Times at the El Royale (2018, 16) Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth 10.20 Wildlife (2018, M) Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan 12.05 Bob Fosse: It’s Showtime (2018, M) Documentary. 1.10 Nothing but Trailers (M) 1.40 Doe (2018, M) Timothy Davis, Tatyana Ali 3.16 Bad Times at the El Royale (2018, 16) Jeff Bridges 5.35 The New Romantic (2018, M) Jessica Barden, Hayley Law 6.55 An Interview with God (2018, PG) David Strathairn, Brenton Thwaites 8.30 Alita: Battle Angel (2019, M) A cyborg is rescued by a doctor who protects her from her past. Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz 10.35 The Festival (2019, 16) Joe Thomas, Jemaine Clement 12.15am A Swingers Weekend (2017, 16) 1.50 The Row (2018, 16) 3.25 Close Up: Christoph Waltz (PG) 3.55 The New Romantic (2018, M) 5.15 An Interview with God (2018, PG)

Juliet, Naked (2018, M) Chris O’Dowd, Rose Byrne 8.30 The Sun Is Also a Star (2019, M) Yara Shahidi 10.07 Tyson (2007, 16) Doco. 11.35 Luster (2009, 18) Andrew Howard, Matthew Rhys 12.58 Burying Yasmeen (2019, M) Jason Lott, Mike Langer 2.09 Tyson (2007, 16) Documentary. 3.37 Luster (2009, 18) Andrew Howard, Matthew Rhys 5.00 Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018, PG) Samuel Hunt 6.40 Nobody’s Fool (2018, 16) Tiffany Haddish 8.30 Kusama: Infinity (2018, M) A documentary on female artist Yayoi Kusama. 9.50 State Like Sleep (2018, 16) After her husband’s death, a woman receives a disturbing call. Katherine Waterson 11.35 Breaking In (2018, 16) Gabrielle Union, Billy Burke 1.05am Diagnosis Delicious (2016, PG) 2.35 Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018, PG) 4.11 Nobody’s Fool (2018, 16) 5.58 Kusama: Infinity (2018, M)

Something Wild (1986, 16) Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels 8.31 Runaway Jury (2003, M) Dustin Hoffman 10.35 The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982, M) Edward James Olmos 12.18 The Untouchables (1987, M) Robert De Niro 2.15 The Outsiders (1983, M) Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze 4.10 A Time to Kill (1996, M) Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L Jackson 6.35 Saturday Night Fever (1977, 16) John Travolta 8.30 Devil in a Blue Dress (1995, M) A private detective is hired to track down a woman with a dangerous secret. Denzel Washington. TV Films, page 69 10.09 Cadillac Man (1990, PG) A salesman must sell 12 cars in two days or lose his job. Robin Williams, Tim Robbins 11.43 Blow Out (1981, 16) A man records a shocking car crash. John Travolta, Nancy Allen 1.28am The Outsiders (1983, M) 3.19 A Time to Kill (1996, M) 5.43 Saturday Night Fever (1977, 16)

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6.00 Infomercials 9.00 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 9.30 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 10.00 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 10.30 Celebrity House Hunting (R, HD) 10.55 The Ultimate Rush (R, HD) 11.25 Engineering Giants (R, HD) 12.35 Secret Meat Business (R, HD) 1.05 The Gadget Show (R, HD) 1.35 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 2.00 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 2.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) s6ep58 2.55 Celebrity House Hunting (R, HD) 3.20 The Ultimate Rush (R, HD) 3.50 Engineering Giants (R, HD) 5.00 Secret Meat Business (R, HD) 5.30 The Gadget Show (R, HD) 6.00 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 6.30 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 7.00 Family Feud (R, HD) 7.30 Dream Home Ideas (R, HD) 8.00 Before and After (HD) 8.30 Unlivable (R, HD) 9.30 Flipping Vegas (R, HD) 10.30 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 11.00 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 11.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials

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6.00 Gardeners’ World 6.30 Jade Fever 7.00 Gordon Ramsay Ultimate Home Cooking 7.30 Simply Nigella 8.00 Tribes, Animals and Me 9.00 Great Australian Cookbook 9.30 American Pickers: Best Of 10.30 Meet the Humans 11.30 James Martin’s French Adventure 12.30 Jade Fever 1.00 Mega Yachts 2.00 Guy Martin: The World’s Fastest Tractor 3.30 Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild 4.30 Hairy Bikers Northern Exposure 5.30 Mysteries at the Museum 6.30 American Pickers 7.30 Yukon Gold (PGR) 8.30 Discovering Lennon (AO) 9.30 Ozzy and Jack’s World Detour (PGR) 10.30 Live Well for Longer (PGR) 11.30 American Pickers 12.30am Mysteries at the Museum 1.30 Hairy Bikers Northern Exposure 2.30 Alone (PGR) 3.30 Discovering Lennon (AO) 4.30 Great Australian Cookbook 5.00 – 6.00 Mysteries at the Museum

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1.40pm Top Gear (HD, C) 2.40 MythBusters (HD) 3.35 Two and a Half Men (PGR, HD, C) 3.55 The

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The Teach (16) s1ep6 The Price of Everything (2018, M) US documentary. 9.10 Aga (2018, PG) Mikhail Aprosimov 10.50 Let the Sunshine In (2017, M) Juliette Binoche 12.25 Dark River (2017, 16) Ruth Wilson 1.55 Mega Time Squad (2018, M) Jonny Brugh 3.15 The Teach (16) s1ep7&8 5.10 She Shears (2018, PG) NZ documentary. 6.30 At Eternity’s Gate (2018, M) Willem Dafoe 8.20 Meet Munch Jr. (2019, G) A NZ documentary about an autistic teen bringing his cartoon character to life. 8.30 Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible (2019, M) US documentary about artist Marcel Duchamp’s revolutionary ideas. TV Films, page 69 10.05 Stag (M) s1ep1 11.00 Racer and the Jailbird (2017, 16) Matthias Schoenaerts 1.10am Old Money (M) s1ep3&4 3.05 She Shears (2018, PG) 4.25 The Teach (16) s1ep7&8 6.35 7.30

Movies Classics: Saturday Night Fever, 6.35pm Fresh Prince of Bel Air (C) 4.25 The Middle (HD, C) 5.10 Home Improvement (HD, C) 5.35 Top Gear (HD, C) 6.35 The Big Bang Theory (HD, C) 7.05 Two and a Half Men (PGR, HD, C) 7.30 The Simpsons (HD, C) 8.30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (AO, HD) 9.30 Paul Chowdhry: PC’s World (AO, HD) Paul Chowdhry presents stand-up. 10.30 Live at the Apollo (PGR, HD, C) 11.20 Best Foods Comedy Gala (PGR, HD, C) 12.15am – 12.30 TVNZ Football Club

UKTV SKY 007 6.35 EastEnders (PG) 7.05 The Graham Norton Show (M) 7.55 The Bill (M) 8.45 Midsomer Murders (M) 10.20 Call the Midwife (M) 11.15 The Coroner (PG) 12.05 A Touch of Frost (M) 1.40 The Bill (M) 2.30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 3.25 Traffic Cops (M) 4.20 The Graham Norton Show (M) 5.15 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) Noel Clarke. 6.20 QI (M) 6.55 EastEnders (PG) 7.30 QI (M) 8.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 8.35 The Graham Norton Show (M) Anne Hathaway, Taylor Swift, Chris Hemsowrth and Tom Hanks. s25ep13 9.30 The Jonathan Ross Show (PG) s15ep13 10.25 Hold the Sunset (PG) Phil disappears. s2ep2 10.55 Father Brown (M) s3ep10 11.45 A Touch of Frost (M) s11ep2 1.20am QI (M) 2.20 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 2.55 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) 3.55 The Graham Norton Show (M) 4.45 The Jonathan Ross Show (PG) 5.35 – 6.35 Holby City (M)

6.20 Westworld (18) s2ep2 7.20 The Outsider (16) s1ep1&2 9.20 Absentia (16) s2ep4 10.00 Save Me (16) s1ep2 10.50 Ray Donovan (18) s7ep9 11.50 Shameless (18) s10ep10 12.50 Westworld (18) s2ep2 1.50 The Outsider (16) s1ep1&2 3.50 Absentia (16) s2ep4 4.30 Jett (16) s1ep1 5.35 Game of Thrones (18) s7ep6 6.45 Fargo (16) s3ep9 7.35 Mystery Road (16) s1ep2 8.30 The New Pope (16) Season premiere. With Pius XIII in a coma, the charming English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne with the name John Paul III. s1ep1 9.30 Get Shorty (16) A muscle guy for a Nevada crime ring travels to Los Angeles to collect on a debt from an aspiring screenwriter. s1ep1 10.35 Britannia (18) Season finale. Druid brothers Veran and Harka finally face each other in a challenge where only one of them can survive. s2ep10 11.20 Bates Motel (16) s5ep3 12.05am Traffic Stop (M) 12.40 Fargo (16) s3ep9 1.30 Mystery Road (16) s1ep2 2.30 The New Pope (16) s1ep1 3.30 Get Shorty (16) s1ep1 4.35 Britannia (18) s2ep10 5.20 – 6.05 Bates Motel (16) s5ep3

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6.00 Selling Houses Australia (G) 6.55 Escape to the Country (PG) 7.50 Restoration Man (PG) 8.40 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (PG) 9.40 Love It or List It UK (G) 10.30 Restoration Man (PG) 11.25 Salvage Hunters (PG) 12.20 Location Location Location Australia (G) 1.15 Location Location Location (PG) 2.10 Escape to the Country (PG) 3.05 Restoration Man (PG) 3.55 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (PG) 4.50 Restoration Man (PG) 5.45 Selling Houses Australia (G) 6.40 Location Location Location (G) 7.35 Salvage Hunters (PG) 8.30 Escape to the Country (PG) 9.25 Great American Railroad Journeys (G) Michael Portillo continues from Minnesota to the home of the Blues in Memphis, Tennessee. 10.35 Grand Designs House of the Year (PG) Kevin looks at five more homes in the running. 11.25 Selling Houses Australia (G) 12.20am Location Location Location (G) 1.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 2.10 Escape to the Country (PG) 3.05 Great American Railroad Journeys (G) 4.10 Grand Designs House of the Year (PG) 5.00 – 6.00 The World’s Most Extraordinary Houses (G)

THURSDAY JANUARY 16

SPORT

RADIO

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RNZ National

6.00 Super Rugby 2017, Crusaders v Highlanders, replay from AMI Stadium, Christchurch 8.00 World Rugby Sevens, day 2, replay from The Sevens Stadium, Dubai 7.30 Super Rugby 2019, Chiefs v Crusaders, replay from ANZ National Stadium, Suva 9.30 Super Rugby 2019, Chiefs v Blues, replay from FMG Stadium, Hamilton 11.40 Super Rugby 2016, Sunwolves v Jaguares, replay from Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium, Tokyo 1.40am Super Rugby 2017, Crusaders v Highlanders, replay from AMI Stadium, Christchurch 4.00 Rugby, Guinness Pro14, Ulster v Munster, replay from Kingspan Stadium, Belfast

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Sky Sport 1: Crusaders v Highlanders, 6.00am

6.00 Cricket, India v Australia, 1st ODI, highlights from Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai 7.00 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, replay 10.30 Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights 11.30 Cricket, India v Australia, 1st ODI, highlights from Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai 12.30 Cricket, Big Bash League, replay 4.00 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, women’s elimination final, live 8.00 Cricket, India v Australia, 1st ODI, highlights from Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai 9.05 Cricket, Big Bash League, Sydney Sixers v Hobart Hurricanes, from Sydney Cricket Ground, live 12.30am Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, highlights 1.00 Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights 2.00 Cricket, India v Australia, 1st ODI, highlights from Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai 3.00 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, highlights of the local T20 competition 3.30 Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights 5.30 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, highlights

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DOCUMENTARIES

10.30 The 2000’s Greatest Tragedies (M) 11.30 Outback Wrangler (PG) 12.30 Wicked Tuna (M) 1.30 Only in Oz (PG) 2.30 Do or Die (PG) 3.30 Air Crash Investigation Marathon (PG) 8.30 Rescued (M) 9.30 Outback Wrangler (PG) 10.30 Bondi Rescue (PG) 11.30 Banged Up Abroad (16) 12.30am Science of Stupid (M) 1.00 Celebration Nation (PG) 2.00 Brain Games (PG) 2.30 Rescued (M) 3.30 Outback Wrangler (PG) 4.30 Bondi Rescue (PG) 5.30 Banged Up Abroad (16)

Sky Arts SKY 020 7.15 Kids on the Silk Road 7.45 The Wanderers 8.00 Shell Shock: A Requiem of War 9.40 Verbier 2018: The Creation 11.30 Verbier 2018: Valery Gergiev Conducts 12.30 Bruckner No 9: Valery Gergiev 1.30 The Berlin Concert: Mutter & Lang Lang 3.15 Kids on the Silk Road 3.45 The Wanderers 4.00 Nile Rodgers: How to Make It in the Music Business 5.00 Dyad 1929 5.30 Tim Marlow On (G) Degas and the Ballet. 6.00 Brilliant Ideas 7.00 Private View: The Art of Collecting 7.45 Comedy Legends: Marx Brothers. 8.30 1968: Photographic Acts (PG) 9.30 This Is Art 10.30 Off Camera: Rachel Bloom. 11.30 Poetry in America 12.00am Nile Rodgers: How to Make It in the Music Business 1.00 Dyad 1929 1.30 Tim Marlow On 2.00 Brilliant Ideas 3.00 Private View: The Art of Collecting 3.45 Comedy Legends 4.30 1968: Photographic Acts (PG) 5.30 This Is Art

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6.35 Fast N’ Loud (PG) 7.30 Car Crash Global (PG) 8.20 Alaska: The Last Frontier (PG) 9.10 Alaskan Bush People (PG) 10.00 How It’s Made (PG) 10.25 How Do They Do It? (PG) 10.50 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 11.40 The World’s Deadliest Weather (PG) 12.30 Blood Relatives (M) 1.20 The Coroner: I Speak for the Dead (M) 2.10 Car Crash Global (PG) 3.00 Homestead Rescue (PG) 3.50 Deadliest Catch (PG) 4.45 Fast N’ Loud (PG) 5.40 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 6.35 The World’s Deadliest Weather (PG) 7.30 Gold Rush (PG) 8.30 Finding Escobar’s Millions (PG) 9.25 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 10.15 Alaskan Bush People (PG) 11.05 Naked and Afraid (M) 11.55 How It’s Made (PG) 12.20am How Do They Do It? (PG) 12.45 Car Crash Global (PG) 1.35 Deadliest Catch (PG) 2.25 Bering Sea Gold (PG) 3.15 Homestead Rescue (PG) 4.05 Insane Pools: Off the Deep End (PG) 4.55 Naked and Afraid (M) 5.45 Deadliest Catch (PG)

National Geographic SKY 072 6.30 Bondi Rescue (PG) 7.30 Brain Games (PG) 8.30 Drain the Oceans (PG) 9.30 The Movies (M)

6.30 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, match of the day from ASB Tennis Centre, Auckland 8.00 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, match of the night from ASB Tennis Centre, Auckland 9.30 Tennis, Adelaide International, highlights 10.30 Men’s ASB Classic, highlights 11.30 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, day 4, from ASB Tennis Centre, Auckland, live 6.00 Second Serve 7.00 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, day 4, from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland, live 11.00 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, match of the day 12.30am Second Serve 1.00 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, match of the night from ASB Tennis Centre, Auckland 2.30 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, highlights from ASB Tennis Centre, Auckland 3.30 Tennis, Adelaide International, match of the day, from Memorial Drive Tennis Centre 5.00 Tennis, Adelaide International, match of the night, from Memorial Drive Tennis Centre

History SKY 073 6.30 Drinks, Crime and Prohibition (M) 7.30 Secrets of World War II (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Myth Hunters (PG) 10.30 The Cars That Made Us (PG) 11.30 Families That Changed the World (PG) 12.30 Nefertiti: The Lonely Queen (PG) 1.30 Despot Housewives (M) 2.30 Nazi Hunters (PG) 3.30 Secret War (PG) 4.30 Air Warriors (PG) 5.30 Prohibition (M) 6.30 Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways (PG) 7.30 Abandoned Engineering (PG) 8.30 Ancient Aliens (PG) 9.30 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 10.30 The Day Hitler Died (M) 11.30 The Men Who Built America (M) 12.30am Great Australians with Alan Jones (PG) 1.30 Nazi Hunters (PG) 2.30 Secret War (PG) 3.15 Air Warriors (PG) 4.00 Abandoned Engineering (PG) 4.45 Ancient Aliens (PG) 5.30 Mysteries at the Museum (PG)

BBC Earth SKY 074 6.35 Life in the Undergrowth (PG) 7.25 Life Below Zero (M) 8.10 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 8.55 Wild Japan (PG) 9.55 Sugar vs Fat (PG) 10.55 Tribes, Animals & Me (PG) 11.50 24 Hours in A&E (M) 12.40 David Attenborough’s Life Story (PG) 1.35 Meet the Humans (PG) 2.25 Bear Grylls’ Survival School (PG) 3.15 Life in the Undergrowth (PG) 4.05 Wild Japan (PG) 5.05 Life Below Zero (M) 5.55 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 6.45 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 7.35 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 8.30 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 9.20 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 10.20 Life Story (PG) 11.15 Wild Japan (PG) 12.15am Life Below Zero (M) 1.00 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 2.35 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 4.15 Life Story (PG) 5.10 Life Below Zero (M) 5.55 How to Stay Young (PG)

6.00 Breakfast with Anna Thomas 7.00 Summer Report with Logan Church and Leigh-Marama McLachlan 9.06 Summer Times with Emile Donovan Noon The World at Noon A round-up of today’s news and sport 12.10 Worldwatch Radio New Zealand news followed by correspondents around the world 12.30 The Cold War Legacy India: India didn’t pick a side in the Cold War, so how is it navigating international relations today? (4 of 5, BBC) 1.00 Afternoons with Karyn Hay 4.00 The Panel with Wallace Chapman 5.00 The 5 O’clock Report with Kim Savage 6.06 Trending Now 7.06 CrowdScience Answering listeners science questions about life, Earth and the universe (BBC) 7.30 New Horizons With William Dart 8.06 Windows on the World 8.30 Summer Live Selections from live performances by NZ Musicians 9.06 Convoys to Cairo 10.00 The World at Ten A round-up of today’s news and sport 10.15 The Aotearoa History Show (13 of 14, RNZ) 10.35 The Detail 11.06 The Music 101 Pocket Edition 12.04am All Night Programme Including 3.05 Victoria in Māoriland, by Margaret Blay, read by Miranda Harcourt (20 of 20, RNZ)

Website: rnz.co.nz

RNZ Concert FREEVIEW 51 SKY 422 iHeartRADIO

6.00 Summer Classics Noon Summer Afternoons Including 1.00 Afternoon Concert 6.00 Summer Evenings 8.00 Music Alive APO: Hanslip plays Mozart – Haydn: Symphony No 21 in A; Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A K219, Turkish; Leclair: Sonata for 2 violins in E minor, Gavotte; Brahms: Symphony No 2 in D Op 73, Chloe Hanslip (violin), Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra/Giordano Bellincampi (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall) 10.00 Day’s End 12.00am Music Through the Night

Website: rnz.co.nz/concert

Newstalk ZB 6.00 Tim Dower 9.00 Andrew Dickens Noon Francesca Rudkin 4.00 Tim Roxborogh 8.00 Tim Beveridge 12.00am Bruce Russell Website: newstalkzb.co.nz

Magic Talk 6.00 Brendan Telfer 9.00 Peter Williams Noon Sean Plunket 3.00 Leah Panapa 6.00 Newshub 7.00 Roman Travers 11.00 Tony Amos 5.00am Magic Music Website: magic.co.nz

Sky Arts: Off Camera: Rachel Bloom, 10.30pm

FRIDAY JANUARY 17

TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001

TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002

THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003

6.00 ■ Alphabetical (G, R, HD) 6.55 ■ Sun, Sea and Brides to Be (G, R, HD) 8.00 ■ Flipping Profit! (G, R, HD, C) 9.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (C) 10.00 Tipping Point (G, R, HD) 11.00 The Celebrity Chase (G, R, HD, C) Alex Horne, Eddie Hall, Dani Harmer and Chemmy Alcott. Noon Emmerdale (HD, C) Robert can’t bear the thought of losing Victoria and Diane, David is nervous about his results, and Nate drops a bombshell. 1.00 Coronation Street 2019 (PGR, R, HD, C, AD) The “incident” at County’s ground has ramifications for Gemma, and Alya accuses Yasmeen and Geoff of stabbing her in the back. 2.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (R, C) 3.00 Border Patrol (PGR, R, HD, C) A Canadian woman attempts to smuggle a live cat across the border, and a Dutchman is caught with a serious quantity of cocaine. 3.30 Te Karere A Māori perspective to the day’s news and current affairs. 4.00 T20 Black Clash (C) Live coverage of the T20 match between rugby and cricket sporting stars at McLean Park, Napier. Stephen Fleming’s team includes Daniel Vettori, Nathan Astle, Chris Harris and Nathan McCullum, while Graham Henry’s team features Richie McCaw, Israel Dagg and Ofisa Tonu’u. 6.00 1 News (C) 6.30 T20 Black Clash (C) Live coverage of the T20 match between rugby and cricket sporting stars at McLean Park, Napier. 8.30 ■ The X Factor UK: Celebrity (G, HD, C) Dermot O’Leary presents a celebrity edition of the UK talent quest, with judges Simon Cowell, Nicole Scherzinger and Louis Walsh. 10.00 Coronation Street 2020 (PGR, C, AD) Amy is distraught, Fiz and Tyrone are gobsmacked by Jade, and will David get the right outcome he needs? 11.00 Bad Mothers (AO, R, HD, C, AD) Maddie fights to keep her son. s1ep4 11.55 American Crime (AO, R, HD) Luis arrives at the Hesby farm and learns the truth about his son’s tragic end, and Jeanette and JD attend a workers’ rally. s3ep3 1.40am Te Karere (R) 2.05 – 6.00 Infomercials

6.30 Darwin & Newts (G, R, HD, C) 6.40 ■ Paw Patrol (G, R, HD, C) 7.05 My Little Pony (HD, C) 7.25 Star vs the Forces of Evil (G, R, HD, C) 7.50 The Tom and Jerry Show (G, R, HD, C) 8.15 Ducktales (G, R, HD, C) 8.35 Sofia the First (G, R, HD, C) 9.00 Religious Programming (R) 10.05 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C) 10.55 Mike & Molly (PGR, R, HD, C) 11.20 Army Wives (PGR, R, HD, C) 12.10 Mom (PGR, R, HD, C) 12.35 2 Broke Girls (PGR, R, HD, C) 1.05 Little Big Shots (HD, C) 2.00 American Housewife (G, R, HD, C) 3.00 Shortland Street (PGR, R, HD, C, AD) 3.30 Bluey (G, R, HD, C) 3.40 Powerpuff Girls (G, R, HD, C) 3.50 Bunk’d (G, R, HD, C) US series about three siblings attending a summer camp. When a strange fog rolls in, campers develop altered personalities and it’s up to the camp counsellors to save the day. 4.40 House Rules (HD, C) Katie and Alex hand over the keys to their rustic 1880s cottage in the NSW Southern Tablelands. 6.00 Neighbours (G, HD, C) Kyle is confronted about his behaviour, and Elly struggles with being a new mum. 7.00 Shortland Street (PGR, HD, C, AD) 7.30 Doctor Who (R, C, AD) Season 12 of the UK sci-fi series. 8.35 ■ Jack Reacher (2012, AO, R, HD, C, AD) Jack Reacher is asked to help a former army sniper who has been accused of killing five people. Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog, David Oyelowo, Robert Duvall. 10.55 Mom (PGR, R, HD, C) Christy hurts her ankle, but pride stops her from asking for help from Bonnie. s1ep13 11.25 A.P. Bio (HD, C) Jack’s war with his neighbour reaches a turning point when it threatens to ruin a date with Lynette, and when the school photographer ups his rate, Durbin takes school pictures into his own hands. 12.10am ■ Talkin’ Bout Your Generation (PGR, R, HD, C) 1.05 Shortland Street (PGR, R, HD, C, AD) 1.30 Infomercials 2.35 Love Island Australia (AO, R, HD, C) 4.25 America’s Funniest Home Videos (G, R, HD) 4.50 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C) 5.35 – 6.00 Walk the Prank (G, R, HD)

6.00 Infomercials 7.00 The Biggest Loser Australia (G, R, HD) 8.25 House Rules (G, R, HD, C) 9.35 Infomercials 11.30 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, R, HD) 12.30 Face the Truth (PGR, HD) 1.00 Dr Phil (PGR, HD) 2.00 American Ninja Warrior (G, R, HD) 4.00 Find Me a Dream Home Australia (G, HD) 4.30 Newshub Live (HD) 5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, HD) 6.00 Newshub Live (HD) 7.00 ■ Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015, PGR, R, HD, C) After escaping the Maze, Thomas and his fellow Gladers search for clues about the mysterious and powerful organisation known as WCKD. Dylan O’Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Kaya Scodelario, Giancarlo Esposito. 9.30 The Graham Norton Show (PGR, R, HD, C) Graham’s guests are Sir Patrick Stewart, Ricky Gervais, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jack Savoretti. s24ep18 10.35 Newshub Late 11.05 American Dad (AO, HD) Hayley feels left behind after Jeff becomes a star dog racing coach, Steve tries to stop Roger after he joins a mysterious order of birds’ egg thieves, and Francine buys a new Italian sauce for the family. 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials

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TVNZ 2: Jack Reacher, 8.35pm

PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Sky Sport News Live Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (G, R) 10.00 The Doctors (PGR, R) 11.00 Antiques Roadshow (G, R, C) Noon Sky Sport News Live 12.30 Elementary (PGR, R, C) 1.30 Frasier (G, R) 2.00 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (PGR, R) 2.55 Wheel of Fortune (G) 3.25 Jeopardy (G) 3.55 Hot Bench (G) 4.20 ASB Classic Tennis (G, C) Highlights of day 4. 5.30 Prime News 6.00 Pawn Stars (G, R) 7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild 7.30 NBL Basketball NZ Breakers v Sydney Kings, live from TSB Stadium, New Plymouth. 9.30 RAW (PGR) 10.30 New Amsterdam (PGR) Despite struggling with his treatment, Max continues working. 11.30 – 12.30am The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (PGR) 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00

BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012

MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019

Infomercials (G, R) Mom’s a Medium (G, R) Dance Moms (G, R) Love It or List It: Vancouver (G, R) 12.30 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (PGR, R) 1.30 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AO, R) 2.30 Four Weddings Australia (G, R) 3.30 The People’s Court (G) 4.30 Dance Moms (G, R) 5.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver (G, R) 6.30 Dress to Impress (G, R) 7.30 Catfish (G, R) Anthony is an Iraq War veteran who bonded online with caring Marq, who is hiding. s2ep2 8.30 ■ The Lost Wife of Robert Durst (2017, AO, R) Based on the marriage between Kathie McCormack and Robert Durst. Katharine McPhee, Daniel Gillies. 10.30 Snapped (AO) 11.30 Snapped: Killer Couples (AO, R) s1ep2 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials

Kids’ Programmes (G, R) Sachie’s Kitchen (G, R) Ōpaki (G, R) Waiata (G, R) Fitness in the Whare (G, R) Huia Rau (G, R) Hamu & Tofiga (PGR, R) It’s in the Bag (G, R) Ngā Pari Kārangaranga o te Motu (G, R) 1.30 Ōpaki (G, R) 2.00 Toku Reo (G, R) 3.00 Kids’ Programmes (G) 6.30 Te Ao: Māori News 7.00 Tangaroa with Pio (G, R) 7.30 ■ Kai Safari (G) Sonia and Pio gather kai for Coco’s Cantina in Auckland. 8.00 Game of Bros (PGR, R) 8.30 ■ Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001, AO, R) A woman starts a diary chronicling her attempts to turn her life around. Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant. TV Films, page 69 10.30 Ngā Pari Kārangaranga o te Motu (G, R) Ngā Whetu o te Kohu. 11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao: Māori News (R)

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MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031

MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039

6.50 Alita: Battle Angel (2019, M) Rosa Salazar 8.50 The Festival (2019, 16) Joe Thomas, Jemaine Clement 10.25 A Swingers Weekend (2017, 16) Randal Edwards Noon An Interview with God (2018, PG) David Strathairn 1.35 Alita: Battle Angel (2019, M) Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz 3.35 The Festival (2019, 16) Joe Thomas, Jemaine Clement 5.15 The Quiet One (2019, M) Documentary. 6.55 The Hustle (2019, M) Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson 8.30 Time Freak (2018, M) A young genius travels back in time to change the past. Asa Butterfield, Sophie Turner 10.15 Support the Girls (2018, M) The manager of a sports bar has her faith in herself, staff and customers tested over the course of one trying day. Regina Hall. 11.50 Little Pink House (2017, M) Catherine Keener 1.30am Slay Belles (2018, 16) 2.50 The Quiet One (2019, M) 4.25 The Hustle (2019, M)

Breaking In (2018, 16) Gabrielle Union, Billy Burke 8.38 State Like Sleep (2018, 16) Katherine Waterson 10.20 Diagnosis Delicious (2016, PG) Maya Stojan 11.47 Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018, PG) Samuel Hunt 1.23 Nobody’s Fool (2018, 16) Tiffany Haddish 3.10 Breaking In (2018, 16) Gabrielle Union, Billy Burke 4.35 1 (2013, M) Documentary. 6.30 Deadpool 2 (2018, 16) Ryan Reynolds, Julian Dennison 8.30 The Wife (2018, M) As a woman sees her husband receive a Nobel Prize, she starts to question her own choices. Glenn Close 10.15 Tag (2018, M) Based on the story about five childhood friends who play an annual game of tag. Ed Helms 11.55 Occupation (2018, M) Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison 1.55am The Nanny Betrayal (2018, M) 3.20 People Interview: Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga (G) 3.45 1 (2013, M) 5.35 Deadpool 2 (2018, 16)

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995, M) Denzel Washington 9.16 Cadillac Man (1990, PG) Robin Williams, Tim Robbins 10.51 Blow Out (1981, 16) John Travolta, Nancy Allen 12.36 A Time to Kill (1996, M) Matthew McConaughey 3.00 Midnight Cowboy (1969, 18) Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight 4.50 Once Upon a Time in America (1984, 16) Robert De Niro, James Woods 8.30 Staying Alive (1983, PG) Tony Manero strives to make it as a dancer on the Broadway stage. John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes 10.05 Mannequin (1987, PG) A young artist creates a mannequin that comes to life when he is around. Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall 11.33 Milius (2013, M) A documentary about controversial film director John Milius. 1.18am Midnight Cowboy (1969, 18) 3.08 Hollywood Singing and Dancing (2009, PG) 4.03 Once Upon a Time in America (1984, 16)

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ThreeLife FREEVIEW 11 SKY 029

6.00 Infomercials 9.00 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 9.30 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 10.00 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 10.30 Dream Home Ideas (R, HD) 11.00 Before and After (R, HD) 11.30 Unlivable (R, HD) 12.30 Flipping Vegas (R, HD) 1.30 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 2.00 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 2.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 3.00 Dream Home Ideas (R, HD) 3.30 Before and After (R, HD) 4.00 Unlivable (R, HD) 5.00 Flipping Vegas (R, HD) 6.00 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 6.30 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 7.00 Family Feud (R, HD) 7.30 A Question of Love (R, HD) 8.30 Arranged USA (R, HD) 9.30 Love for Sail (PGR, HD) 10.30 Waterfront House Hunting (R, HD) 11.00 Family Feud Australia (R, HD) 11.30 Good Chef Bad Chef (R, HD) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials

Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024

6.00 Gardeners’ World 6.30 Jade Fever 7.00 Hairy Bikers Northern Exposure 8.00 Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild 9.00 Great Australian Cookbook 9.30 Tiny House Nation 10.30 Meet the Humans 11.30 James Martin’s French Adventure 12.30 American Pickers 1.30 Live Well for Longer (PGR) 2.30 Yukon Gold (PGR) 3.30 Baby Animals 4.00 The Water Brothers 4.30 James Martin’s American Adventure 5.30 Mysteries at the Museum 6.30 American Pickers 7.30 Building the Dream 8.30 Escape to the Chateau: DIY 9.30 Dream Gardens 10.00 Carver Kings 11.00 American Pickers 12.00am Mysteries at the Museum 1.00 James Martin’s French Adventure 2.00 Alone (PGR) 3.00 Baby Animals 3.30 The Water Brothers 4.00 Escape to the Chateau: DIY 5.00 – 6.00 Mysteries at the Museum

TVNZ Duke FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023

1.40pm Top Gear (HD, C) 2.40 MythBusters (HD) 3.35 Two and a Half Men (PGR, HD, C) 4.00 The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (C) 4.25 The Middle (HD, C) 5.10 Home Improvement (HD, C) 5.35 Top Gear (HD, C) 6.35 The Big Bang Theory (HD, C) 7.05 Two and a Half Men (PGR, HD, C) 7.30 The Simpsons

6.20 Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible (2019, M) US documentary. 7.50 At Eternity’s Gate (2018, M) Willem Dafoe 9.40 Stag (M) s1ep1 10.35 She Shears (2018, PG) NZ documentary. 11.55 Racer and the Jailbird (2017, 16) Matthias Schoenaerts 2.05 Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible (2019, M) US documentary. 3.40 The Teach (16) s1ep9&10 5.35 Charley Pride: I’m Just Me (2019, M) Canadian documentary. 6.55 Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002, PG) Everlyn Sampi 8.30 Lean on Pete (2017, M) A teenager befriends a fading racehorse. Charlie Plummer, Amy Seimetz 10.30 Submission (2017, M) A professor takes an interest in a student. Stanley Tucci, Addison Timlin 12.15am Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018, M) 1.55 Old Money (M) s1ep5&6 3.45 Charley Pride: I’m Just Me (2019, M) 5.05 Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002, PG)

Sky Premiere: Time Freak, 8.30pm (HD, C) 8.30 ■ Coming to America (1988, AO, HD) An African prince avoids an arranged marriage and heads to America to find love. Eddie Murphy. 10.35 – 12.25am ■ Grumpy Old Men (1993, PGR, C, AD) Best friends turned foes live in the same neighbourhood and both end up liking a woman who moves into the house across the street. Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau

UKTV SKY 007 6.35 EastEnders (PG) 7.10 The Graham Norton Show (PG) 8.00 The Bill (M) 8.50 Midsomer Murders (M) 10.25 Call the Midwife (M) 11.20 The Coroner (PG) 12.05 A Touch of Frost (M) 1.40 The Bill (M) 2.30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 3.25 Traffic Cops (M) 4.20 The Graham Norton Show (M) 5.15 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) Lisa Hammond. 6.20 Insert Name Here (PG) s2ep3 6.55 EastEnders (PG) 7.30 QI (M) A Christmas special with David Tennant, Bill Bailey and Lee Mack. 8.00 Would I Lie to You? (M) 8.30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 9.25 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 10.20 The Force: North East (M) s1ep9 11.10 A Touch of Frost (M) s12ep1 12.50am Would I Lie To You? (M) 1.25 QI (M) 1.55 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) 2.55 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 3.40 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 4.30 The Force: North East (M) 5.20 Hold the Sunset (PG) 5.50 – 6.20 QI (M)

6.05 Traffic Stop (M) 6.35 Fargo (16) s3ep9 7.25 Mystery Road (16) s1ep2 8.20 The Leftovers (16) s2ep4 9.15 The Knick (16) s1ep6 10.10 Strike Back (18) s6ep9 11.00 Twin Peaks (16) s1ep6 Noon The New Pope (16) s1ep1 1.00 Get Shorty (16) s1ep1 2.05 Britannia (18) s2ep10 2.50 Bates Motel (16) s5ep3 3.35 Traffic Stop (M) 4.10 Jett (16) s1ep2 5.10 Game of Thrones (18) s7ep7 6.30 The Outsider (16) s1ep1&2 8.30 Condor (16) Season finale. Joe finds his morality being put to the ultimate test as he attempts to stop the plague from being released. s1ep10 9.20 Guerrilla (16) Infighting and personal vendettas threaten to destroy the gang, with the police hot on their heels. s1ep4 10.10 Ray Donovan (18) s7ep9 11.10 Strange Angel (16) Series premiere. Jack Parsons works as a janitor at a chemical factory by day, but builds rockets to the moon by night. s1ep1 12.05am Trust (16) s1ep1 1.10 The Outsider (16) s1ep1&2 3.10 Condor (16) s1ep10 4.00 Guerrilla (16) s1ep4 4.50 Ray Donovan (18) s7ep9 5.50 – 6.45 Strange Angel (16) s1ep1

Living SKY 017

6.00 Selling Houses Australia (G) 6.55 Escape to the Country (PG) 7.50 Restoration Man (PG) 8.40 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun (PG) 9.40 Grand Designs House of the Year (PG) 10.30 Escape to the Country (PG) 11.25 Salvage Hunters (PG) 12.20 Location Location Location (G) 1.15 Great American Railroad Journeys (G) 2.15 Escape to the Country (PG) 3.05 Restoration Man (PG) 3.55 Homes Under the Hammer (PG) 4.55 Escape to the Country (PG) 5.45 Selling Houses Australia (G) 6.40 Location Location Location (G) 7.35 Salvage Hunters (PG) Drew mixes with aristocracy at a Cornwall estate and finds an amazing collection of classic cars. 8.30 Long Lost Family UK (PG) 9.25 Long Lost Family (G) Newly-reunited sisters uncover another secret held by their mother. 10.20 The World’s Most Extraordinary Houses (G) Piers and Caroline explore extraordinary homes in mountain locations around the world. 11.25 Selling Houses Australia (G) 12.20am Location Location Location (G) 1.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 2.15 Long Lost Family UK (PG) 3.10 Long Lost Family (G) 4.05 The World’s Most Extraordinary Houses (G) 5.05 – 6.00 Escape to the Country (PG)

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SPORT

RADIO

Sky Sport 1 SKY 051

RNZ National

6.00 Super Rugby 2019, Chiefs v Crusaders, replay from ANZ National Stadium, Suva 8.00 World Rugby Sevens, day 3, replay from The Sevens Stadium, Dubai 5.30 Super Rugby 2019, Chiefs v Crusaders, replay from ANZ National Stadium, Suva 7.30 Super Rugby 2016, Sunwolves v Jaguares, replay from Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium, Tokyo 9.30 World Rugby Sevens, day 1, highlights from The Sevens Stadium, Dubai 11.00 World Rugby Sevens, day 2, highlights from The Sevens Stadium, Dubai 12.30am World Rugby Sevens, day 3, highlights from The Sevens Stadium, Dubai 2.00 World Rugby Sevens, day 1, highlights from Cape Town Stadium 3.30 World Rugby Sevens, day 2, highlights from Cape Town Stadium 5.00 World Rugby Sevens, day 3, highlights from Cape Town Stadium

Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 6.00 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, replay 9.30 Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights 10.00 Cricket, India v Australia, 1st ODI, highlights from Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai 11.00 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, highlights of the local T20 competition 11.30 Cricket, Big Bash League, highlights of the Australian T20 competition Noon Cricket, Big Bash League, replay 3.30 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, highlights 4.00 Cricket, Dream11 Super Smash, elimination final, live 7.50 Big Bash League, highlights 8.20 Cricket, India v Australia, 1st ODI, highlights from Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai 9.20 Cricket, India v Australia, 2nd ODI, from Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot, live

DOCUMENTARIES Sky Arts SKY 020 6.30 Off Camera 7.30 Poetry in America 8.00 Nile Rodgers: How to Make It in the Music Business 9.00 Dyad 1929 9.30 Tim Marlow On 10.00 Brilliant Ideas 11.00 Private View: The Art of Collecting 11.45 Comedy Legends 12.30 1968: Photographic Acts (PG) 1.30 This Is Art 2.30 Off Camera 3.30 Poetry in America 4.00 Handmade in the Pacific 4.50 The Wanderers 5.00 Draw Me Saint-Exupery 6.00 Auction 7.00 Legends of Opera: Jose Carreras. 7.45 The Directors: John Ford. 8.30 Making Child Prodigies 9.00 Hofesh Shechter’s Clowns 9.30 Betty Davis: They Say I’m Different 10.30 Finding Your Roots 11.30 Put Some Colour in Your Life 12.00am Handmade in the Pacific 12.50 The Wanderers 1.00 Draw Me Saint-Exupery 2.00 Auction 3.00 Legends of Opera 3.45 The Directors 4.30 Making Child Prodigies 5.00 Hofesh Shechter’s Clowns 5.30 Betty Davis: They Say I’m Different

GETTY IMAGES

Discovery SKY 070 6.35 Fast N’ Loud (PG) 7.30 Car Crash Global (PG) 8.20 Gold Rush (PG) 9.10 Finding Escobar’s Millions (PG) 10.00 How It’s Made (PG) 10.25 How Do They Do It? (PG) 10.50 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 11.40 The World’s Deadliest Weather (PG) 12.30 Blood Relatives (M) 1.20 The 1980s (M) 2.10 Car Crash Global (PG) 3.00 Homestead Rescue (PG) 3.50 Deadliest Catch (PG) 4.45 Gold Rush (PG) 5.40 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 6.35 The World’s Deadliest Weather (PG) 7.30 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 8.30 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) 9.25 Aussie Salvage Squad (PG) 10.15 Expedition Unknown (PG) 11.05 Naked and Afraid (M) 11.55 How It’s Made (PG) 12.20am How Do They Do It? (PG) 12.45 Car Crash Global (PG) 1.35 Deadliest Catch (PG) 2.25 Bering Sea Gold (PG) 3.15 Homestead Rescue (PG) 4.05 Insane Pools (PG) 4.55 Naked and Afraid (M) 5.45 Deadliest Catch (PG)

National Geographic SKY 072 6.30 Bondi Rescue (PG) 7.30 Brain Games (PG) 8.30 Drain the Oceans (PG) 9.30 Mine Kings

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FREEVIEW 50 SKY 421 iHeartRADIO

Sky Arts: Betty Davis: They Say I’m Different, 9.30pm

Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 6.30 Tennis, Adelaide International, highlights from Memorial Drive Tennis Centre 7.30 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, match of the day from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland 9.00 Second Serve 9.30 Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, match of the night from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland 11.00 Men’s ASB Classic, highlights Noon Tennis, Adelaide International, highlights 1.00 Second Serve 1.30 Men’s ASB Classic, highlights 2.30 Men’s, ASB Classic Mens, day 5, from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland, live 9.30 Snooker, Masters, replay 12.30am Tennis, Men’s ASB Classic, match of the day from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland 2.00 Men’s ASB Classic, highlights from ASB Tennis Arena, Auckland 3.00 Tennis, Adelaide International, match of the day 4.30 Tennis, Adelaide International, match of the night, from Memorial Drive Tennis Centre (M) 10.30 Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted (M) 11.30 Running Wild with Bear Grylls (PG) 12.30 Wicked Tuna (M) 1.30 Outback Wrangler (PG) 2.30 Rescued (M) 3.30 Mission to the Sun (PG) 4.30 Apollo: Back to the Moon (PG) 6.30 The World According to Jeff Goldblum (PG) 7.00 Decades Remixed: The 80s Greatest (PG) 7.30 The Movies (M) 8.30 Air Crash Investigation (M) 9.30 Wicked Tuna (M) 10.30 Taboo USA (M) 12.30am Do or Die (PG) 1.00 Decades Remixed: The 80s Greatest (PG) 1.30 The Movies (M) 2.30 Air Crash Investigation (M) 3.30 Wicked Tuna (M) 4.30 Taboo USA (M)

History SKY 073 6.30 The Day Hitler Died (M) 7.30 The Men Who Built America (M) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Myth Hunters (PG) 10.30 Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways (PG) 11.30 Abandoned Engineering (PG) 12.30 Ancient Aliens (PG) 1.30 Despot Housewives (16) 2.30 Nazi Hunters (PG) 3.30 Secret War (PG) 4.30 Air Warriors (PG) 5.30 Prohibition (M) 6.30 The Cars That Made Us (PG) 7.30 India on Film (PG) 8.30 The Roosevelts (PG) 9.30 Frontiersmen: The Men Who Built America (M) 11.30 Mysteries at the Castle (M) 12.30am Deadly Intelligence (PG) 1.30 Time Team 2.30 Haunted History (M) 3.15 Declassified (PG) 4.00 India on Film (PG) 4.45 The Roosevelts (PG) 5.30 Frontiersmen (M)

6.00 Breakfast with Anna Thomas 7.00 Summer Report with Logan Church and Leigh-Marama McLachlan 9.06 Summer Times with Emile Donovan Noon The World at Noon 12.10 Worldwatch 12.30 The Cold War Legacy Angola: What will it take for Angola to be truly free of the legacy of Africa’s Cold War? (5 of 5, BBC) 1.00 Afternoons with Karyn Hay 4.00 The Panel with Wallace Chapman An hour of discussion with a range of panellists and expert phone guests 5.00 The 5 O’clock Report with Kim Savage 6.06 Trending Now 7.06 Summer Science Highlights from the world of science and the environment with Our Changing World’s Alison Ballance 7.30 Soul Music Personal reactions to pieces of music with a powerful emotional impact (BBC) 8.06 Windows on the World 8.30 Friday Night Live 9.06 The Best of Country Life Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand 10.00 The World at Ten A round-up of today’s news and sport 10.15 The Aotearoa History Show (14 of 14, RNZ) 10.35 The Detail 11.06 The Mixtape Musical guests compile a C60 and discuss their selections 12.04am All Night Programme Including 3.05 The Black Dodo, by Vivienne Plumb

Website: rnz.co.nz

RNZ Concert FREEVIEW 51 SKY 422 iHeartRADIO

6.00 Summer Classics Noon Summer Afternoons Including 1.00 Afternoon Concert 6.00 Summer Evenings 8.00 Music Alive Wellington Jazz Festival 2018: Anita Schwabe – Wellington jazz pianist Anita Schwabe and her quartet impress with swinging sounds from her 2018 album, Eat Your Greens. Anita Schwabe (piano), Roger Manins (saxophone), Cameron McArthur (bass), Ron Samson (drums) (recorded in the St Peter’s, Wellington) 10.00 Day’s End 12.00am Music Through the Night

Website: rnz.co.nz/concert

Newstalk ZB 6.00 Tim Dower 9.00 Andrew Dickens Noon Francesca Rudkin 4.00 Tim Roxborogh 8.00 Tim Beveridge 12.00am Bruce Russell Website: newstalkzb.co.nz

BBC Earth SKY 074

Magic Talk

6.55 Life in the Undergrowth (PG) 7.45 Life Below Zero (M) 8.30 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 9.15 Wild Japan (PG) 10.15 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 11.05 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 11.50 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 12.40 Life Story (PG) 1.30 Meet the Humans (M) 2.20 Bear Grylls’ Survival School (PG) 3.10 Life in the Undergrowth (PG) 4.00 Wild Japan (PG) 5.00 Life Below Zero (M) 5.50 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 6.40 24 Hours in A&E (M) 7.35 Michael Mosley vs the Superbugs (PG) 8.40 The Truth About Meat (PG) 9.40 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 10.30 Life Story (PG) 11.25 Wild Japan (PG) 12.25am Life Below Zero (M) 1.10 Michael Mosley vs the Superbugs (PG) 2.10 The Truth About Meat (PG) 3.05 24 Hours in A&E (M) 3.55 Life Story (PG) 4.45 Back to the Land (PG) 5.45 Blue Planet II (PG)

6.00 Brendan Telfer 9.00 Peter Williams Noon Sean Plunket 3.00 Leah Panapa 6.00 Newshub 7.00 Roman Travers 12.00am Magic Music Website: magic.co.nz

National Geographic: The World According to Jeff Goldblum, 6.30pm

THE GOOD LIFE

MICHELE HEWITSON I say to my sweet peas: “Slow down! What’s the rush?” But rush they do.

A country embrace The ﬂowers may be ﬂagging, but the lambs have work to do as milking sheep.

and white variety whose name and provenance I have forgotten is blooming prettily and fragrantly outside the kitchen window. There are disappointments: the martagon lilies failed to do a damned thing. There are squabbles: the lady’s mantle does not much care for the echium blue bedder and has crowded it out (some fool may have planted them too close together). Gardens, for me, are as much, if not more

GREG DIXON

s I write this, I am looking out the window at the toppled ruins of my delphiniums. I am mad about delphiniums and, in common with Prince Charles, believe “one must have battalions of them”. I raise my delphiniums from seed and am extremely boastful about doing so. Pride cometh before a fall, and each summer I, and my delphiniums, fall. It is the rain that does for them, and also the fact that I, unlike Prince Charles, do not have squads of gardeners to properly stake my battalions of delphiniums, and I am too lazy to do it myself. In the country, one has a complicated relationship with rain. We need it and crave it – sheep eat grass, and rain makes grass grow – but it plays havoc with my garden. The rain always comes just as the roses are at their glorious best, and turns them shabby and brown. Nonetheless, it’s necessary for my poor, gasping plants. A year in the garden mimics a year of a life. There are triumphs: the almost-black Asiatic lilies are nearly 1.8m tall this year; another pink

Taller than ever: an almost-black Asiatic lily

so, about the anticipation as the achievement, or lack thereof. Looking forward is the fun bit. Which is also just like life. And in the country, the pace of life is slower – except in the garden. I say to my sweet peas: “Slow down! What’s the rush?” But rush they do; they want to set seed for the next year and I plant so many I can’t keep up with the deadheading that would delay this rush to what I see as death and they see as procreation. There is an obvious lesson here: don’t plant so many bloody sweet peas. It is a lesson I

appear incapable of learning.

s the pace of life slower here at Lush Places? Yes and no. It seems it was just the other day that two tiny day-old orphan lambs arrived on our doorstep and said: “Mama!” And just the other day that our lambs had somehow grown into enormous sheep and had their own lambs that emerged and said: “Mama!” Our lambs, Elizabeth Jane and Xanthe, will always be our lambs, and they will always come, galloping and calling, when we see them. But they have left home. They are living at Miles the sheep farmer’s place and their lambs have been weaned. They went to work for the ﬁrst time the day I wrote this: they began their lives as milking sheep. Xanthe, the super-model sheep with a temperament to match, would not have much relished the idea. There is sadness about this, but it is what we, with such great care, raised them for. And they are just up the road. Nowhere is very far from here in the country, which is comforting, and what I have come to think deﬁnes a proper sense of community. I once liked the idea of the anonymity that goes along with living in a big city; there is no anonymity in the country, but it feels embracing, not claustrophobic. It is nice to be embraced, especially by great big sheep that will always be our lambs. l

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