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COVER STORY
12 | Only human
New Zealand is one of the fattest nations on
Earth and a Cambridge University geneticist
says we should recognise that not all calories
are created equal. So what should we be
eating? by Eleanor de Jong
22 | Chance & tragedy
The fates of the Hillary family and Nepal have
been entwined since the conquest of Everest.
Despite Covid and an ill-fated trek six years
ago, Peter Hillary is determined to go back.
30 | The things that unite us
Accidental TV star Richard Osman turned to
crime and kindness for his debut novel, with
record-breaking results. by Craig Sisterson
LIFE
34 | Health A Dunedin-based charity
is dedicated to improving detection and
treatment of ovarian cancer. by Nicky Pellegrino
36 | Nutrition Pulses are increasingly
being recognised as beneficial in preventing
cardiovascular disease, but what are they?
by Jennifer Bowden
38 | Food In the depths of winter, it’s hard to
beat nourishing, healthy soups. Easy recipes
by Dru Melton and Jamie Taerbaum offer
tasty meal inspiration.
40 | Wine The first 2020 vintage from
Gibbston’s loftiest vineyard should boost the
sub-region’s reputation. by Michael Cooper
41 | Technology Printer makers aren’t
abandoning their lucrative business model
any time soon, but HP, for one, is offering
some concessions. by Peter Griffin
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42 | Psychology Reaction times do
get slower with age, so choose your
opponent carefully. by Marc Wilson
44 | Sport The mercurial All Blacks
are not helping coach Ian Foster’s case
for reappointment. by Paul Thomas
BOOKS
46 | Lyric king Fifty years after the death
of Jim Morrison, The Doors’ charismatic and
enigmatic frontman, his sister, Anne Morrison
Chewning, has pulled together his collected
writings. She spoke to Mark Broatch.
49-55 | Books Emma Neale’s Books of My
Life; Deborah Levy’s meditation on modern
womanhood; novels by Oana Aristide and
Katherine Brabon; a debut short-story
collection by Paige Clark; an autograpgh
hunter’s memoir; and an exploration of
Silicon Valley censorship

COMMENTARY DIVERSIONS 64 | Film Reviews Sarah Watt

3 | Editorial 56-59
5 | Diversions & Puzzles 66 | TV highlights Russell Baillie
4 | Letters Plus Caption Competition, 5 | Wordsworth Jessica Malcolm
57 69 | Guide to the Olympic Games
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Quips & Quotes and 10 Quick Questions 71-91 | TV programmes
7 | Bulletin Cathrin Schaer in Berlin ENTERTAINMENT 92-93 | Radio programmes
8 | Life Bill Ralston 60 | Film Russell Baillie
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EDITORIAL
Farm friends
H
ere’s a question to put the farmers’ pro-
tests into perspective: who would we
rather have tell the world about New
Zealand produce – Jeremy Clarkson or
our own Government?
Clarkson, the British television
petrolhead-turned-sheep farmer,
has launched a tirade against foreign
animal welfare standards, including New Zealand’s, in a bid to
turn British public opinion against our
pending free-trade deal with the UK.
Love him or loathe him, he’s a globally
influential figure, whose recent hit
reality show has recast him as an animal-
doting farmer.
Britain’s RSPCA welcomed the trade
negotiations, stressing New Zealand
alone among the UK’s potential free-
trade partners has animal welfare
standards as good as, and in some cases
better than, Britain’s.
But did our Government speak up in
our farmers’ defence on animal welfare?
Did it point out that this country is also
head-and-shoulders the most sustainable
producer of dairy and meat – even count-
ing air miles after export to the northern
hemisphere? Not a word.
Nor has it ever thanked agriculture
for agreeing to arguably disproportion- Telling porkies:
Jeremy Clarkson.
ate methane-reduction goals because of
the lack of progress on – mostly urban-
generated – carbon emissions.
It’s this sense of abandonment and blame A sense of abandon-
that sent farmers with placards to more than
50 towns and cities last week as much as the
ment and blame
undeniable burden of new restrictions and as much as new
compliance obligations they face. regulations led
The Government has been damagingly
remiss in declining to champion the global farmers to protest.
competitiveness of this country’s meat and
dairy sector. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
has had unprece-dented global attention, not least for climate
advocacy, yet rarely, if ever, has she talked overseas of this econo-
my’s most outstanding sustainability story. As we approach new
trade negotiations with the European Union, the United States
and Britain, that environmental prowess has never been more
relevant. Yet, how can we sell our produce to other countries’
populations if even our own citizens are under the misapprehen-
sion we wilfully produce evil emissions?
Farmers have taken real action to clean up their act and, save
for the inevitable ratbags, are co-operating enthusiastically with
governmental and academic efforts to reduce emissions and
pollution. It’s telling that National – the farmers’ preferred party
JULY 31 2021 LISTENER
– has reportedly clashed with farm-sector leaders because its
agriculture spokesperson, David Bennett, believes they are being
too co-operative with the Government.
U rban New Zealanders should be encouraged to take pride
in the progress a majority of the farm sector is making.
Townies are not subject to a fraction of the individual
accountability required from farmers for landfill, emissions
and water use. Like any Kiwi, a farmer responds better to being
encouraged and supported than shamed.
Farmers have voluntarily, at their own
expense, put nearly 5000 native-bush
blocks under covenant, yet the Govern-
ment is proposing to prohibit farming on
many thousands more hectares of their
land without compensation under its
Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) policy.
Voluntary farmer groups are already
taking responsibility for local waterways
and emissions under the industry-led
plan He Waka Eke Noa.
The Government, partly in response
to Māori landowners, is now rethinking
its SNAs, and doing the same with the
river-nutrients restrictions, having lis-
tened to both sectoral and science-based
objections. But comments such a–s those
of Greens co-leader James Shaw, that
“a group of Pākehā farmers” are being
unreasonable, have left an impression of
bad faith and hostility.
Farmers are increasingly accepting
that climate change itself dwarfs all policy-
wrought inconvenience in being a threat to
their livelihood. Higher temperatures, floods
and storms can destroy everything they’ve
worked to build.
Those who say this country should just
“pivot” to growing plant foods make two
wrong assumptions: that globally competitive
productivity is achievable in plant foods, given
our climate and terrain, and that massed plant
crops are necessarily more sustainable than meat and dairy. There
are, by world standards, only boutique pockets of land here where
high-protein plants such as nuts and legumes are viable. New
Zealand is an efficient producer of many fruit and vegetable crops,
but with them come other quandaries: irrigation, pest control, fer-
tiliser, monoculture’s risk to biodiversity, and climate variability.
It’s impressive that farm-protest leaders apologised for the
few marchers who toted derogatory placards. They understand,
perhaps better than townies, that we are all in this together, both
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economically and in terms of saving the planet. We need to rise
above the cheap politics of blame. And that includes Jeremy “I’ll-
never-buy-an-electric-car” Clarkson. l
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LETTERS
In defence
of science
A recent report from a
Government NCEA working
group on proposed changes
to the Māori school curricu-
lum aims “to ensure parity
for mātauranga Māori with
the other bodies of know-
ledge credentialed by NCEA
(particularly Western/Pākehā
epistemologies)”. It includes
the following description as
part of a new course: “It pro-
motes discussion and analysis
of the ways in which science
has been used to support the
dominance of Eurocentric
views (among which, its use
as a rationale for colonisation
of Māori and the suppres-
sion of Māori knowledge);
and the notion that science is
a Western European inven-
tion and itself evidence of
European dominance over
Māori and other indigenous
peoples.”
This perpetuates disturbing
misunderstandings of science
emerging at all levels of educa-
tion and in science funding.
These encourage mistrust
of science. Science is univer-
sal, not especially Western
European. It has origins in
ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia,
ancient Greece and later India,
with significant contributions
in mathematics, astronomy
and physics from mediaeval
Islam, before developing in
Europe and later the US, with
a strong presence across Asia.
Science itself does not
colonise. It has been used
to aid colonisation, as have
literature and art. However,
science also provides immense
good, as well as greatly
enhanced understanding of
the world. Science is helping
us battle worldwide crises
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such as Covid, global warming,
carbon pollution, biodiver-
sity loss and environmental
degradation. Such science is
informed by the united efforts
of many nations and cultures.
We increasingly depend on
science, perhaps for our very
survival. The future of our
world, and our species, cannot
afford mistrust of science.
Indigenous knowledge is
critical for the preservation
and perpetuation of culture
and local practices, and plays
key roles in management and
policy. However, in the discov-
ery of empirical, universal
truths, it falls far short of what
we can define as science itself.
To accept it as the equivalent
of science is to patronise and
fail indigenous populations;
better to ensure that everyone
participates in the world’s sci-
entific enterprises. Indigenous
knowledge may indeed help
advance scientific knowledge
in some ways, but it is not
science.
Kendall Clements
Professor, School of Biological
Sciences, University of Auckland
Garth Cooper, FRSNZ
Professor, School of Biological
Sciences, University of Auckland
Michael Corballis, FRSNZ
Emeritus Professor, School
of Psychology, University of
Auckland
Douglas Elliffe
Professor, School of Psychology,
University of Auckland
Robert Nola, FRSNZ
Emeritus Professor, Department
of Philosophy, University of
Auckland
Elizabeth Rata
Professor, Critical Studies
in Education, University of
Auckland
John Werry
Emeritus Professor, Depart-
ment of Psychological Medicine,
University of Auckland
GP SHORTAGES
One way the Government
could immediately address the
GP shortage (“Burnout”, July
24) is to work with the Medical
Council of New Zealand to
fast-track foreign-doctor reg-
istration, which is apparently
outrageously difficult and
takes a ridiculously long time.
C Johnstone
(Auckland)
I know of three overseas-
trained doctors who are
working in other jobs. When I
asked one (a rest-home carer)
why he had not gone through
the processes required to
register here, he said he had to
earn a living for his family and
could not afford the fees and
loss of paid working time.
Surely we could set up a
scheme whereby we retrained
and assessed these doctors
while paying them a salary?
We could then bond them to
work as GPs (or as hospital
doctors) for a set term. Any
who failed the assessment
would obviously be a cost to
the system, but that would
be offset by the benefits from
those who succeeded.
I am also interested in
the example set by the Fred
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Hollows Foundation. In this
country, cataract operations
are done by doctors with full
medical training, but is it
necessary to understand the
anatomy of limbs, for exam-
ple, to operate on a cataract?
Maybe we should be training
highly specialised technicians
to do a lot of the jobs that doc-
tors now do, releasing doctors
to diagnose and treat patients
whose needs are less clear.
Carol Dossor
(Napier)
A good GP is a wonderful
resource, but the decline in
number and availability is now
long-standing and unlikely to
change even if another medi-
cal school were to be created.
Nurse practitioners are
experienced registered nurses
with an additional master’s
degree who are legally able to
deliver exactly the same diag-
nostic, prescribing, referral
and management of present-
ing conditions as a GP. This
country has well over 500,
some of whom have been in
their position for 20 years.
Importantly, nurses are the
only profession who remain
well distributed throughout
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WINNING CAPTION
Kevin Boyce, Raumati Beach
FINALISTS
Prince William: “Harry’s
just applied for American
citizenship!” – Ricky Feutz,
Tauranga
Caption: “Prince William,
his wife Kate, Duchess
of Cambridge, and their
elder son, Prince George,
celebrate the opening of
the 2021 English Dental
Association Conference.”
– Steve Horne, Raglan
The development of nurse
practitioners receives shoe-
string investment compared
with that in medical training.
With focused attention and
investment, it would be rapidly
possible to make a significant
difference to people struggling
to find appropriate care.
Professor Jenny Carryer, RN
Massey University
BUFFETED SPECTATOR
I was at the 1961 All Blacks v
France game at Athletic Park
and enjoyed David Hill’s arti-
cle on the match (“The cyclone
test”, July 24). However, as a
severely buffeted spectator
sitting on the top deck of the
Millard Stand, at the southern
end, I can assure him the top
deck was not closed.
Mike Jarman
(Auckland)
STEWART ISLAND POWER
Many people will be surprised
JULY 31 2021 LISTENER
By George!
It’s William
and Kate.
Prince George: “Aunty
Meghan isn’t coming over!”
– L Snikta, Nelson
George: “Dad! How can
you play in the Euros if
you left the EU? William:
Great-Grandma played her
heritage card!” – Alan Belcher,
Christchurch
Caption: “Relishing the sour
Kraut.” – Tony Clemow, Kamo
that, despite the huge amount
of hydro power produced by
the bottom half of the South
Island, our third island is not
connected to the national
electricity grid. Stewart Island
still relies on diesel generators
for electricity, at up to three
times the cost of what most of
us pay. A small hydro scheme
for the island has been consid-
ered, but apparently is just not
feasible.
A cable under Foveaux
Strait, linking Stewart Island
to the national grid, should
be the next major infrastruc-
ture project funded by the
Government.
Southland, home to the
biggest hydro power station,
Manapouri, provides up to
15% of our total export earn-
ings, with a mere 2.5% of total
population. In comparison,
Auckland produces 6-8% of
those export earnings. This
is all about fairness. So, let’s
Caption
Political candidate Caitlyn Jenner speaking at a meeting
competition
of the Republican Party of Orange County. THIS WEEK’S PICTURE
Duchess of Cambridge: bald block.” – Judy Stevenson,
“You’re a bit Windsor and a Oamaru
bit Saxe-Coburg. You can’t
lose even if Germany wins.” George: “Thank goodness
– Paul Kelly, Palmerston North I won’t have to wait till I’m
63 for England to win!”
William: “Just like Boris’ – Simone Stansfield, Wellington
‘Freedom Day’, let’s
celebrate winning before Caption: “Loud clapping
the end of the game!” – Rod could be heard when
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Galloway, Mosgiel Harry’s flight departed for
Los Angeles.” – Alan Petrie,
Caption: “A chip off the Te Anau
connect Stewart Islanders to achieve at least 75% herd
to what most of us take for immunity against the virus.
granted. At the same time, many
Paul Hayward sectors of our economy are
(Oamaru) struggling, with permanent
loss of business and the tragic
COVID VACCINATIONS destruction of many liveli-
Bill Ralston (Life, July 24) hoods. Those in permanent
is correct about our Covid state employment, however,
vaccination rate. As of July know little of this.
20, official figures show only Instead of constant Govern-
628,259 people have been fully ment assurances and excuses,
vaccinated – one of the lowest the latest being that the rollout
rates in the OECD membership is “gathering momentum”,
of 38 developed countries. what we require is an urgent
New Zealand has had closed mass vaccination so we can
borders for 16 months as open our borders, with life
it awaits mass vaccination then returning to some sense
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rivalry the rugby world has known, New Zealand against South
Africa. The rivalry carries a storyline like no other.
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LETTERS
Quips&
Quotes
“In football, everything
is complicated by the
presence of the opposite
team.” – Jean-Paul Sartre,
quoted in the Times
“People change and
forget to tell each other.”
– Lillian Hellman, quoted in the
Week
“Future statues would be
preferably androgynous
and could have
replaceable heads.
That way, if the person
commemorated should
fall out of fashion, the
head could simply be
screwed off and replaced
by another.” – Alexander
McCall Smith
“I am not overfond of
animals. I am merely
astounded by them.”
– David Attenborough
“What matters now
is not goodness but
the appearance of
goodness. We are no
longer human beings.
We are now angels
jostling to out-angel one
another.” – Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie, quoted in the
Guardian
“We have a hooligan
class of politicians – and
a national football team
composed of gentlemen.”
– Matthew D’Ancona quoted in
the Week
“You know you’ve
reached middle age when
you’re cautioned to slow
down by your doctor,
instead of by the police.”
– Joan Rivers, quoted in the
Guardian
“He manu aute, e taea te
whakahoro.” A kite that is
slackened off flies away.
– Māori proverb
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10 Quick
Questions
1. Which TV character would
often make an appearance by
falling from the sky as a choir
sang “Ecce homo qui est faba”?
❑ Geraldine Granger (The Vicar
of Dibley)
❑ Father Ted Crilly (Father Ted)
❑ Mr Bean (Mr Bean)
❑ Basil Fawlty (Fawlty Towers)
2. Which of these animals is a
ruminant?
❑ Rabbit
❑ Horse
❑ Antelope
❑ Elephant
3. Which animal was given the
name “Beelzebub’s pup” by
early Western explorers who
encountered it?
❑ Tasmanian devil
❑ Skunk
❑ Wolverine
❑ Honey badger
of normality.
If this doesn’t happen, we
risk a tragic and widespread
outbreak of the virus, with
the gravest of consequences.
Why are most New Zealanders
seemingly quietly accepting
this situation?
Dr Hylton Le Grice
(Auckland)
ERRANT CYCLISTS
J Chris Horne’s suggestion
(Letters, July 17) that cyclists
behave badly on cycle/walk-
ways because central and local
government agencies fail to
apprehend offenders is prob-
ably correct.
The problem is that cyclists
are anonymous. They can, and
do, commit whatever infringe-
ments they like, then ride
off into the sunset safe in the
knowledge that they cannot be
identified.
Chris Mowatt
(Wellington)
UNAFFORDABLE EVS
The problem is not those
by GABE ATKINSON
4. Which of these is not a movie
about the game of golf?
❑ The Legend of Bagger Vance
❑ Bobby Jones: Stroke of
Genius
❑ Any Given Sunday
❑ Tin Cup
5. Which novel includes the
notable line: “Who controls the
past controls the future: who
controls the present controls
the past”?
❑ The Time Machine
❑ The Hunger Games
❑ Dune
❑ Nineteen Eighty-Four
6. Which of these terms
describes a society that is ruled
by a wealthy elite?
❑ Plutocracy
❑ Theocracy
❑ Autocracy
❑ Junta
drivers who can afford the
SUVs and flash four-wheel-
drives. They can be persuaded
by carrot or stick to get an
electric vehicle (EV).
The main problem is that
80% of drivers buy their
cars from the under-$20,000
market. Of these, 40% are
under $5000. These people
will not be able to afford an
EV, regardless of any Govern-
ment incentive.
Any change in direction has
to be done in a way that those
already struggling are not
worse off.
Trevor Sennitt
(Christchurch)
DONATIONS
Laurie Wesley’s letter (July 10)
alerted me to the “new” corpo-
rate IHC. I had naively believed
my donations were helping
individuals with physical and/
or intellectual disabilities. I
now learn my donation may
be supporting the head office
of a property-management
company.
7. Which of these is a small
object that creates a streak
of light as it enters Earth’s
atmosphere?
❑ Meteor
❑ Meteoroid
❑ Asteroid
❑ Meteorite
8. What does it mean to “let out
a Bronx cheer”?
❑ Boo loudly
❑ Blow a raspberry
❑ Make a hissing sound
❑ Belch during conversation
9. Which of these TV shows
began screening first?
❑ The Muppet Show
❑ Sesame Street
10. True or false? Some people
use nuclear-powered cardiac
pacemakers.
❑ True Answers on
page 58.
❑ False
Recently, I offered $100 cash
to two young folk “collecting”
for IHC outside a supermar-
ket. They said they “no longer
accepted cash or cheques, but
if you come this way, you can
fill in a form to enable you to
make your donations”.
Ron Jones
(Auckland)
OVERPOPULATION
The worldwide problem is
that “we” are the pollution
(Letters, July 10). More than
seven billion and counting.
Every child born is potentially
70-80 more years of pollution.
It’s illogical that New Zealand
is still encouraging women to
have children as though we are
somehow not connected to the
rest of the world.
Until population numbers
are addressed, we are simply
rearranging the deckchairs. It
has already been said that infi-
nite growth in a finite world is
not possible.
Rob Gall
(Nelson)
BULLETIN FROM BERLIN
CATHRIN
SCHAER
A biblical flood
C
ould this be the
summer that Ger-
mans really start
to be scared about
climate change?
Torrential rain in mid-July
caused flash floods in western
Germany, Belgium and the
Netherlands. Vehicles were
swept away, roads and bridges
destroyed and, at press time,
nearly 200 people had been
killed. In one particularly hor-
rible incident, 12 residents at
a facility for the disabled, who
were sleeping on lower floors,
drowned as waters rose inside
their lodgings in just minutes.
In the small town of Schuld,
50 houses collapsed. A
neighbourhood in Erftstadt,
south-west of Cologne, was
under water in 10 minutes, a
local politician told journalists.
“There was hardly any time to
warn anybody,” he said.
It was more like a one-
in-a-millennium than a
one-in-100-year event, a
German meteorologist said,
predicting there would
be more to come. German
Chancellor Angela Merkel
described the devastation as
“terrifying”.
A generally moderate land,
where people avoid spicy
foods, debate earnestly and
dress sensibly, was suddenly
on the frontlines of the cli-
mate crisis. Germans haven’t
had to deal with a natural dis-
aster of this magnitude for
decades. Was it possible that
this rich nation of entitled
engineers wouldn’t be able to
cope with the climate crisis
after all?
“No one is safe: Extreme
weather batters the wealthy
world,” the New York Times
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announced, tying North
American wildfires to flooding
in Europe.
Strange, you would think
we knew that by now. But
somehow we’ve been avoiding
thinking about it too much.
Islands in the Pacific might be
going under and whole coun-
tries in the Middle East drying
up, but until this month, the
climate crisis has been more of
a distant disaster.
There’s even a name for
this attitude: it’s called the
“construal-level of psycho-
logical distance”. That basically
means, if it’s happening over
there, then we’re not actually
too bothered. The same theory
applies to time – if it’s hap-
pening in 50 years, we’re fine
with it.
“Psychological distance”
is just one of the factors that
“And have you met the Wilding-Pines? I don’t
think they were properly introduced.”
make it so hard to deal with
climate change. The others
include the complexity of
the problem, the fact that it
calls for collective action,
and the issue of accountabil-
ity: that is, who’s to blame.
We, the privileged, must be willing to
give up our privileges. But are we?
I t often feels as if Germany
is doing quite a lot in this
area. For one thing, the
neighbours will yell at you if
you don’t recycle properly.
For another, the country is
allegedly standing behind the
European Union’s ambitious
new proposal to make itself the
first climate-neutral continent.
Named “Fit for 55” (not to be
confused with a gym for the
middle-aged), the EU’s plan,
announced this month, aims to
cut greenhouse-gas emissions
by 55% by 2030 compared with
1990 levels.
It has already been called
“nothing short of an industrial
revolution” that turns “the
2020s into a transformative
decade for climate action”.
However, it is likely to take
a while. The plan needs to be
negotiated with all member
states and will doubtless be
watered down – after all, it
involves such things as an auto
industry-endangering ban
on new petrol and diesel cars
from 2035.
So, what do we do until
then? Because already it’s
clear that separating your
tins from your rotting
vegetables and browsing
VW’s electric-car ads may
not be quite enough. We, the
privileged, must be willing
to give up our privileges.
But are we?
It’s pretty hard to tell. I’ve
just written this, but I’m
still thinking about where
a budget airline could fly
me for €30 for a summer
holiday. And the climate
crisis may have come closer
this month, but those flash
floods were still a couple of
hundred kilometres away
from Berlin. l
ANTHONY ELLISON
Cathrin Schaer is Middle
East editor for German
public broadcaster dw.com
and lives in Berlin.
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 LIFE
BILL
RALSTON
Up in smoke
H
arry Tam,
a man
described as
a “lifetime
honorary
member” of the Mongrel Mob,
when defending a govern-
ment grant of $2.75 million
towards a methamphetamine
rehabilitation programme
that his company runs, said,
“Jacinda seems to trust me,
why wouldn’t you?”
Well, Harry, let me list the
reasons I don’t share the Prime
Minister’s trust in you.
Your drugs programme
run at Tapairu Marae, near
Waipawa, involves Sonny
Smith, the Mongrel Mob leader
of the Notorious chapter. The
Notorious is described by
police as the leading distribu-
tor of meth in Hawke’s Bay.
Police Association president
Chris Cahill quotes an anony-
mous officer as likening it to
“the most successful money-
laundering scheme he’d heard
[of]”. As Cahill says, “Police
take $2 million of dirty
money – as they recently
did from the Notorious
chapter of the Mongrel
Mob in Operation Dusk
in Hawke’s Bay – and the
Government returns $2.75
million in clean money to
people so closely linked to
the same gang.”
There has been an explo-
sion in Mob membership
here in Hawke’s Bay. A
multitude of chapters have
set up, a little like corner
dairies, each operating its
own lucrative businesses
ANDY TRISTRAM
selling, among other
things, methamphetamine.
This chain of chapters
has a simple method of
8 LISTENER JULY 31 2021
operation. New gang members
are recruited, given a car or
motorcycle, effectively made
a franchisee in the meth busi-
ness, then sent out to sell.
Until recently, three of
them lived in a motor camp a
kilometre away from me. They
would ride daily past my place,
patched up, on Harley-David-
sons, off for a day’s marketing
of their product. The police
eventually drove them out of
the camp, to the relief of the
neighbourhood, but no doubt
they are continuing their sales
operations elsewhere, along
with the many other Mob
chapters in the Bay.
Tam’s Hard2Reach opera-
tion was granted the $2.75
million funding to run for
three years a course for up to
120 gang members and family
participants a year in an eight-
week live-in programme, with
another eight weeks follow-
up. Among other activities,
the participants appear to be
“May I recommend today’s special – Swill!”
working in a garden on Smith’s
property.
T
here is a simpler and
cheaper method of
combating the meth-
amphetamine plague. Tam and
Smith could simply have the
Notorious and other chapters
cease selling meth. But then,
It is hard not to see it all as a clear
example of what bureaucrats call
“reciprocity” or, in less opaque
language, mutual backscratching.
of course, they would not
receive the $2.75 million from
the Proceeds of Crime fund
given to them and signed off
by Ardern, Finance Minister
Grant Robertson and Justice
Minister Andrew Little.
National acidly points out
that Tam’s company website
states that gang members
must vote for the Labour
Party – “there’s only one
option” – and he campaigned
in “gang pads” around the
country for Labour at the last
election. It is hard not to see it
all as a clear example of what
bureaucrats call “reciprocity”
or, in less opaque language,
mutual backscratching.
National has complained to
the Auditor-General, request-
ing an investigation of the
government grant and another
instance where the Chief
Human Rights Commissioner
gave a $200 “koha” to the Wai-
kato chapter of the Mongrel
Mob. The chances of it getting
that investigation are slim.
Ardern points to
oversight of the grant’s
spending and the pro-
gramme’s performance by
the Ministry of Health and
other government depart-
ments. It is hard not to see
that as a smokescreen.
The inescapable point
remains, why should
Mongrel Mob members
receive $2.75 million of
public money to eliminate
a problem the Mongrel
Mob helped create?
As Cahill says, a
gang-run addiction
service is “really akin to
a pharmacy infecting its
customers with a cold,
and then selling them
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JANE
CLIFTON
Covid roulette
As Britain and Japan spin the pandemic wheel, this country
has the drawbridge raised, but frustration is building.
S
omeone has
decided to
amalgamate two
daredevil reality
TV shows, Jackass
and MythBusters,
and mount a couple of inter-
national productions, best
known to us as Freedom Day
in Britain and the Olympic
Games in Japan.
These are basically real-
time experiments on live
humans, who, to be fair, know
what the risks are in advance
of the experiments they’re
about to be involved in.
It’s unfortunate that most
of the participants are not
exactly voluntary. Millions
of Japanese and Britons are
decidedly unkeen and have
done everything possible to
block these extravaganzas.
A bit selfish, really, because
from what happens to them,
the rest of the world will find
out some useful information
about pandemic spread. For
instance, that if you send
groups of people from all
over the world on aeroplanes
to one common venue, some
vaccinated, some partially
vaccinated and some carry-
ing the virus, you create the
perfect arena for coronavirus
to stage its own variant
Olympics. What? We
ANTHONY ELLISON
already knew that? Never
mind.
In Britain’s case, we
Self-isolating: Boris Johnson.
10
will see what happens when
a country with a population
only about 60% fully
vaccinated and a statistically
significant anti-vax quotient
trusts its citizens to go about
their business without taking
pandemic precautions unless
they feel like it, while Covid
Australia is shutting down like
an advent calendar in reverse.
Fiji is in desperate straits.
numbers are on the rise.
Okay, we already know how
that will work out, too.
But we saw how self-
restrained British folk can be
during the recent European
Championship football final.
Be fair: one can’t catch Covid
by sticking a firework up one’s
bare backside and lighting it
for the international cameras
like that guy in Leicester
Square. Nor can one catch it
by joyfully waving one’s willy
at the world atop a car, like
the chap filmed outside the
Wembley PC World store. Even
those early adopting jackasses
who went about Britain lick-
ing public door handles and
supermarket shelves were to
discover that it’s quite rare to
get the bot from hand contact.
So, there’s nothing to worry
about. Is there?
It’s beginning to feel as
though this country, among
many others, will be in partial
sequestration for longer
than the most pessimistic
experts have been predicting.
Australia is shutting down like
an advent calendar in reverse.
Fiji is in desperate straits.
And if anyone thought that
full vaccination was the final
word on the subject, there’s
Britain’s health secretary, who
was
w double-jabbed but came
down
d with Covid nonethe-
less, forcing himself and
Prime Minister Boris
Johnson
J – who nearly
died of Covid last year
– into isolation right on
Freedom Day.
The great benison that
“at least children don’t get it”
didn’t last, either. Children
have
h now fallen ill and died
of coronavirus.
The next person here who
nags in the media about the
urgency of “a road map for the
future” is apt to find themselves
wearing an AA guide à la the
British football/fireworks fan.
DEFIANCE BREWING
As Prime Minister Jacinda
Ardern noted after chairing a
virtual Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation meeting last
week, the opening of borders
will be complicated by the
different vaccines used by
different countries. Con-
tinual assessment will need
to be made of their relative
effectiveness, alongside each
country’s vaccine statistics.
Some critics say New Zealand
is being unnecessarily risk-
averse. Tell that to people in
France, Italy and Denmark,
among others, who are increas-
ingly having to produce proof
of vaccination to get much past
their front doors. Even technol-
ogy company Apple has decided
to delay its back-to-the-office
edict worldwide, because Covid
numbers are on a tear and even
it knows it’s not immune.
Seeing people die avoidably
in terrifying numbers tends to
focus minds, which is why Brit-
ain’s experiment, while widely
deplored, will be a milestone
sociopolitical exercise, even
though it’s unlikely to produce
any surprises on the epidemio-
logical front.
As at press time, the Olym-
pics were going ahead, mainly
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because its controllers think
TV royalties and sponsorship
deals trump pandemics.
Britain’s open-up decision
is almost entirely political.
Civil disobedience has been
simmering since the first lock-
down, and it had begun to look
as though not even the new
surge in cases could prevent
widespread defiance. That
“most people” are vaccinated
has made it hard to keep the lid
on people’s frustration. The
experts insist it’s not yet safe,
but the pandemic’s history of
necessarily changing epide-
miological assessments give
refusniks a useful, if dumb,
excuse. If even the experts
can’t agree, why shouldn’t one
lager up and fly barefaced to
Barbados singing all the way?
Every administration in
the world has faced that ten-
sion: let us out versus keep
us safe. For the sake of civil
cohesion, New Zealand seems
JULY 31 2021 LISTENER
fortunate in having an endur-
ingly comfortable majority
resolutely opposed to anything
even faintly experimental.
The violence of some peo-
ple’s opposition to the travel
bubble with Australia took the
Government by surprise, but
it has now done its attitudi-
nal homework. Just because
New Zealanders have been
increasingly slack about mask
wearing and contact tracing,
that doesn’t mean they’re not
worried. Just because they’re
impatient – where’s my jab,
when can I go to Bali? – doesn’t
mean they’re brewing up defi-
ance to restrictions.
Still, they are brewing
up defiance. Starting with
growing frustration at the
inequitable and confusing
vaccine delivery and the down-
right cruel quarantine lottery.
It’s hard to think of a modern
government that has faced as
many socially divisive issues at
once – some of its own making
– while remaining popular:
housing shortages, gang
shootings, unhappy farmers,
mutinous local councils, vault-
ing electricity prices, new
car taxes, He Puapua Māori
governance, labour shortages,
New Zealanders are reacquainting
themselves with an old foe, inflation.
building-product scarcity, mis-
treated immigrant hopefuls,
hate-speech controversy and
wage-growth pressure.
ANCIENT SPECTRE
New Zealanders are also
reacquainting themselves
with an old foe, inflation. The
consumers price index had
come to seem like analogue
TV and landline phones – a
lumpen old thing boomers
used to be familiar with. Last
week, it turned up fresh and
fierce, with all the communica-
bility of a new Covid variant,
at 3.3%.
How timely for the Govern-
ment, then, that world focus
is shifting to the British and
Olympic Covid roulette. The
politics of “at least that’s not
happening to us” can be pretty
powerful. Already we have
the poster gal: unruly tourist,
English Covid sceptic and
race baiter Katie Hopkins just
got deported from Australia
for mocking and flouting
managed-isolation rules in a
manner so puerile even the
Wembley willy waver and
CHRIS SLANE
Mr Rocket-Bottom will have
winced. In a pandemic, even
Jackass has standards. l
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 SCIENCE OF WEIGHT LOSS

ONLY
HUMAN
New Zealand is one of the fattest nations on Earth and a Cambridge
University geneticist says we should recognise not all calories are
created equal. So what should we be eating? by ELEANOR DE JONG

O
besity expert Dr Giles weigh-in, he celebrated by grabbing a says, speaking to the Listener from his home
Yeo cycles to and from packet of cheese and onion crisps at the in Cambridge. “It was really depressing.”
work each day, runs train station. That night, he ordered his If even a world-leading obesity expert
five kilometres on usual king prawn jalfrezi, naan bread and can’t keep the weight off, what hope is there
Saturdays and goes egg pilau rice at his local curry house, fol- for the rest of us? “Diets only work if you
long-distance cycling lowed by a steak for Saturday-night dinner, are actually on the diet,” says Yeo. “When
on Sundays, purpose- roast pork, crackling and goose-fat pota- I stopped being vegan, the calorific den-
fully searching out hills to push himself. toes for Sunday dinner and a multitude of sity of the food I was eating had changed
But even
ven then, the University of Cambridge creamy desserts and
geneticist
icist hasn’t avoided the creep of “mid- wines.
dle-age
ge spread”.
In addition to his 20 years as an obesity
Within five
days of quitting
Within five days of
researcher
rcher in Britain, Yeo is also a pre- veganism, Yeo quitting veganism, Yeo
senter r on the BBC’s popular show Trust had regained had regained 50% of his
Me, I’mm a Doctor and BBC Horizon, where 50% of his pre-
his investigations
vestigations are critically acclaimed. vious weight
previous weight loss.
In 2018, aware of his gradual weight loss. “That was “That was a shock.”
gain, Yeo agreed to adopt a vegan diet a shock,” he
for a month and have it
documented
mented by the show. so drastically that the weigh
weight was simply
Despite te veganism having flooding back – it’s really, re
really difficult.”
a thoroughly
roughly unsexy rep-
utation
on at the time, the THE YUM FACTOR
evidence
nce behind it being A few years ago, Yeo too took a test that
effective
ive for weight loss found white rice gave him a blood-
is strong.
ong. sugar spike shortly after eating
After
er a month of the knowledge
it. Yet th
tofu, pulses and hasn’t deterred
d him
greens,
ns, the effec- from pairing
pa it with
tiveness
ess of the rendang curries and
regimeme seemed chicken stir-fries. “I
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indisputable
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brow rice!” he
when Yeo lost 4kg laughs.
and lowered his It is a good example
e of the
cholesterol
sterol by 12%. psychological find nding that even
Returning
ning from his Debunking calorie- with access to expert
exper knowledge
counting myths: Dr
Giles Yeo.
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SCIENCE OF WEIGHT LOSS
on how to stay healthy and lose weight,
humans still have cravings, favourite foods
and indulgences they struggle to resist.
Here, our biology betrays our best inten-
tions by making it biologically hard to say no
to plentiful, calorie-rich foods, and then hold-
ing on vice-like to the extra weight we put on.
Following his vegan experiment – and
five-day weight gain – Yeo became a “flexi-
tarian”, meaning he eats vegan lunches every
day of the working week, and at least two
vegan dinners a week. The pints and crack-
ling have stayed, as have the curries, naan
bread, alcohol and occasional pudding. By
no interpretation is it a diet of deprivation.
Yeo’s love of food is reminiscent of TV chef
Nigella Lawson, and large chunks of his latest
book, Why Calories Don’t Count, are devoted
to joyfully detailing his favourite recipes and
indulgences. Many readers are now begging
him to publish a cookbook.
His Twitter feed is filled with food esca-
pades, such as when he recently took a detour
from a London conference to Chinatown to
pick up some Peking duck, or a selfie of him
red-faced at a backyard barbecue, captioned,
“Yeeha! Scorcher of a weekend evening, so
piece of cow on the barbie, cold beer and
we’re good to go!”
Yeo’s attitude is both personality driven
and deeply intentional. In countless stud-
Surprisingly, many
of the diets on offer
today – Atkins and
ketogenic diets, for
example – do work, but
for one simple reason.
ies, food has been shown to light up the
dopamine-rich, pleasure-seeking regions
of the brain, sending saliva rushing to the
mouth in the anticipation of the joyous job
of mastication.
Food can also be an expression of, and con-
nection to, culture – it is one of the reasons
Yeo still prefers his white rice – a comfort at
the end of a hard day, a bonding or mating
ritual, an expression of love or sustenance
to power through arduous challenges. Yeo
points out that UK long-distance runner Sir
Mo Farah eats nearly 4000 calories a day
when in training
In a culture that is increasingly telling
people the food they love is “clean” or “dirty”,
or that they should face moral condemnation
when they eat too much of it, Yeo is fighting
14
back against ”food shaming” by using science
to prove that eating is deeply human – and so,
too, is struggling to stop.
FULLER FOR LONGER
Surprisingly, many of the diets on offer
today – Atkins and ketogenic diets, for
example – do work, but for the simple
reason that the diets are all mainly plant-
Beef is higher in calories
when it’s minced than
it is as a steak that has
been cooked quickly.
based and high in fibre and protein.
The evidence for the effectiveness of
the low-carb, high-protein diet goes back
to 1863, when William Banting ditched
bread, beer and potatoes and wrote a book-
let, Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the
Public, detailing his weight-loss success.
The Atkins diet of the 1970s built on
Banting’s weight-loss discovery, as have
the majority of successful diets since,
simply under different names, with differ-
ent celebrities attached and often bizarre
variations in “rules”.
In simple terms, calorie for calorie,
meals high in protein make people feel
fuller and satiated for longer, meaning
they are less likely to reach for a second
helping or a sugary snack when cravings
hit.
As a macronutrient, protein is far more
complex than carbohydrates or fat, Yeo
writes in Why Calories Don’t Count, offer-
ing a “challenge” for the body to break
down. “Unlike fat or carbohydrate, which
are composed entirely of differing pro-
portions and configurations of carbon,
hydrogen and oxygen, protein contains (in
addition to carbon, hydrogen and oxygen)
a significant amount of nitrogen,” he says.
“Although the human body can store
carbon, hydrogen and oxygen or pretty
much oxidise it completely, any nitrogen
that is not used (as part of protein) has to
be excreted.”
What this means is that while carbohy-
drates and fats can easily be stored as fat
if not burnt off, the amino acids of protein
cannot. Therein lies their powerful weight-
loss potential. An increase in proteins is
also often coupled with a reduction in car-
bohydrate consumption.
This is why all calories are not created
equal – some are simply more nutritious
and valuable to your body, and weight-loss,
than others.
Although a few tablespoons of prawns
and a few slices of rye bread have the same
number of calories – about 120-150 – the
high-density protein of the prawns does
not carry the weight-gain potential of the
bread and will contribute to you feeling
less hungry and eating less at your next
meal. Win-win. “Put simply, a calorie of
protein makes you feel fuller than a calorie
of fat or carbs,” says Yeo.
“There is actually plenty of evidence to
support the effectiveness of diets ‘high’
in protein for weight loss – at least in the
short term. The issue is there is no general
consensus as to what constitutes a ‘high’
protein diet.”
The World Health Organisation (WHO)
recommends protein should contribute
10-15% of your daily intake, which largely
reflects the current status quo, with both
the UK and US populations consuming 16%.
Using these guidelines, that equates to
about 64g of protein a day for women and
88g a day for men.
Although that may sound small, the ref-
erence is to pure protein. A 100g rib-eye
steak contains about 19g of protein and 211
calories. “That would mean that chewing
your way through a full 300g rib-eye would
“It is important to note,
for all you vegetarians
and vegans out there, it
is the amount of protein
rather than their
source that is crucial.”
still only get you 57g of protein,” Yeo writes.
The leanest and most expensive beef
cuts reward the eater with higher quanti-
ties of protein, with 100g of raw beef fillet
containing 23g of protein and 5.5g of fat,
which is 141 calories. This is why the qual-
ity of your food also counts – it rewards in
greater nutritional density.
Although there is more protein per
gram of fillet compared with rib-eye, fillet
steaks are typically served in 200g por-
tions, which would be 46g of protein. This
is two-thirds of the daily requirement for
women and not difficult to increase if they
are pursuing weight loss.
Foods with 20% or more protein are clas-
sified as “protein-enriched” and include
lean white meat such as chicken and fish.
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Other protein options include eggs, nuts,
dried lentils and tofu.
“My point is that 88g is actually quite a
bit of protein, equivalent to a 450g rib-eye,
14.5 eggs or nearly a kilogram of lentils,”
Yeo writes.
“And it is important to note, for all you
vegetarians and vegans out there, it is the
amount of protein rather than their source
that is crucial to satiety, which means that a
range of protein sources can contribute to
satiety, including dairy, meat, poultry, cere-
als, fish, peas, pulses and legumes.”
A diet containing 10-15% protein is
advised by the WHO to maintain weight
– not lose it – so a diet aiming for a higher
intake may be advised if weight loss is the
goal.
Because there is no definition of what a
high-protein diet is, Yeo does not commit
to a protein “target”, but does say that most
research papers that assess its effective-
ness tend to include all diets that have more
than 16% of the calories from protein.
The evidence for protein’s effectiveness
is, at this point, robust.
“In a review paper that summarised
the main findings of 14 studies compar-
ing ‘high’ protein with at least one other
macronutrient, 11 found that high protein
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significantly increased subjective ratings
of satiety,” Yeo writes, meaning your diet
shouldn’t leave you feeling hungry.
When it comes to red meat, Yeo suggests
using whole cuts such as steak, which can
be cooked quickly, rather than mince, as the
further away food is from its natural state,
the more calorific it becomes. Mincing meat
then cooking it alters the collagen protein
it contains, making it easier to chew and
digest. The same applies to slow-cooked
The study found a 40%
reduction in cancer
risk when low-intake
populations doubled
their fibre intake.
stews and casseroles; if they are heated
through three or four times, it increases
the caloric availability each time, he says.
FEAST ON FIBRE
As with protein, fibre slows down digestion
in the gut, making it work harder and burn
more calories to extract it. “Dietary fibre is
actually a plant-derived carbohydrate; it is
the part of plant-based food that humans
cannot digest,” writes Yeo.
The wonders of fibre were discovered by
British surgeon Denis Burkitt in the 1960s,
while undertaking field work in Uganda.
He found the fibre-rich diet of the local
people – low in red meat and animal fat, but
high in fibre-rich foods such as colourful
fruits and vegetables, leafy greens, tubers,
beans, nuts and whole grains – resulted in
a relative absence of modern Western dis-
eases such as colon cancer, type 2 diabetes
and heart disease.
Back then, as now, Britons consume
about 18g of fibre a day, far below the 50g
Burkitt recommended as part of a high-
fibre diet.
“We now know, from multiple epi-
demiological studies, that significantly
increasing the fibre content of our diet
either decreases the risk of, and in some
cases protects against, a number of dif-
ferent non-communicable diseases,” Yeo
writes.
One such study, based on data from the
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European Prospective Investigation into
Cancer and Nutrition (Epic) study, involved
519,978 participants from 10 European
countries. It found a 40% reduction in
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 SCIENCE OF WEIGHT LOSS
Hunger games
Humans have been primed to pack on more fat than any other ape,
says US evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer, and trying to
exercise it away without changing our eating habits is doomed to fail.
H
umans burn about 2000-
3000 calories a day, no
matter how much exercise
they do. Herman Pontzer,
an associate professor of
evolutionary anthropology at Duke Uni-
versity, North Carolina, published these
findings in his recent book, Burn, after
delving into the lives of hunter-gatherer
tribes in East Africa and exploring why
they don’t burn more calories than seden-
tary office workers in New York.
Over a decade, Pontzer and colleagues
cancer risk when low-intake populations
doubled their fibre intake. “Crucially,” writes
Yeo, “more is better in this case, with fibre
intakes higher than 35g a day appearing to be
even more effective at reducing disease risk.”
A recent review of 58 clinical fibre trials,
encompassing 4635 people, found a 15-30%
decrease in cardiovascular-related stroke,
type 2 diabetes and colon-cancer deaths,
as well as a decrease in the incidence of all
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these diseases, when comparing the highest-
fibre consumers with the lowest.
The case for adding more fibre to your
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discovered that exercise doesn’t increase our
metabolism. The majority of calories are burnt
in the process of keeping us alive – in breathing
and digestion, for example – while only a small
percentage is expended on exercise.
“Our metabolic engines were not crafted by
millions of years of evolution to guarantee a
beach-ready bikini body,” Pontzer
says. “Rather, our metabolism
has been primed to pack on
more fat than any other ape.
What’s more, our metabo- Eat less, move more: Giles Yeo
and, right, Herman Pontzer.
lism responds to changes in
FOOD DOUBLE STANDARD
One reason the raw diet With the innovation of meat-free, ultra-
works is that a stick processed foods, such as the Beyond and
Impossible plant-based burgers, the sim-
of celery clocks in at plicity of labelling all such processes “bad”
only five calories when is becoming more complicated, Yeo says.
“What will surprise many is that the
raw, but rises to 30 grains that we eat every day, from which
calories after cooking. humans get the majority of their calories,
are also processed.” Yeo cites such stand-
diet – as much as three times more than ard foodstuffs as rice and wheat, but also
you’re likely to be currently eating – is yogurt, which was first eaten in 5000 BCE
sound, Yeo says. in Mesopotamia.
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exercise and diet in ways that thwart our
efforts to shed pounds.”
Dr Giles Yeo and Pontzer agree that
pursuing exercise as a weight-loss strat-
egy without cutting down on your daily
calorie intake is doomed to fail, as humans
have evolved to hold on to fat stores for
future famines and energy-intensive
reproduction. Both scientists are at pains
to stress the overall health gains
of exercise – for the mind, dis-
ease prevention and fitness – but
agree that the only way to shed
pounds is to decrease your food
intake and improve the quality.
The World Health Organisa-
tion recommends between 150
to 300 minutes of moderate
exercise, such as brisk walking,
a week, or 75 to 150 minutes of
vigorous activity, such as run-
ning, swimming or active team
sports. Two sessions of strength
training such as pilates, yoga, tai
chi or weightlifting are recom-
mended as well.
Gardening, doing the
washing, cleaning and other common
household chores all contribute to your
weekly exercise total, Pontzer says, clock-
ing in as “moderate” activity. “Just about
everything is on the menu.”
THE EXPERTS WEIGH IN
“Maintaining the same weight without
really trying seems an impossible dream
to most of us, but it’s far more common
than you think,” Pontzer writes in Burn.
“At least, it used to be. Hadza men and
women, for example, are incredibly weight
stable across the life span: body weights
and BMI [body-mass index] hardly change
from early adulthood to old age.”
This is good news, and as Pontzer
continues, our bodies – even in “the
industrialised zoos we live in today”
“So, although the term ‘processed food’,
as used today, is associated with a whole
host of negative connotations, the pro-
cesses of cooking, food preservation and
separation were critical to our ability as a
species to survive and to thrive.”
Cooked food, for complex reasons, also
increases the calorie count of what we eat.
For most of human history, food has been
scarce and energy-intensive to gather,
meaning the more calories the better.
But in the modern world, where food
appears to grow in supermarkets, we’re
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– remain skilled at matching energy
expenditure to intake.
Weight gain and the obesity tend to
build up over time. A daily muffin habit
cannot be sustained without consequences,
Pontzer says, meaning any successful diet
needs to be adopted in the long-term to
keep it off.
Yeo says all successful diets incorporate
Active lifestyle: despite trekking long
distances, the Hadza burn no more calories
each day than adults in the West.
high levels of plant-based foods, as well
as much higher levels of protein and
fibre than are currently consumed in the
West. However, many are restrictive and
difficult to commit to long-term. But even
adopting a flexitarian approach, such as
eating vegan like Yeo for half the week,
can cut your meat intake by 40-50% – a
meaningful drop that helps to maintain
weight and is better for the planet. In fact,
a 2020 University of Oxford study, pub-
lished in the journal Science, concluded
that switching to a vegan diet is the “single
biggest way” to reduce your environmen-
tal impact on the planet.
now demanding the opposite. This is one
reason the raw diet works – a stick of celery
clocks in at only five calories when raw, but
rises to 30 after cooking.
Although processing food is ancient,
ultra-processed food, which Yeo describes
as “foods that have been processed beyond
what is ordinary or proper” – think oat milk,
cheap chicken nuggets, packet soups, soft
drinks and mass-produced packaged breads
and buns – takes it many steps further.
“In recent years, the term ‘ultra-pro-
cessed’ has become synonymous with
“Our genetic make-up means all of us
behave differently around food,” writes
Yeo in Why Calories Don’t Count. “Some
of us, for instance, are slightly more
hungry all the time and so eat more than
others. Some of us might eat in response
to stress, whereas others will stop eating
as a result of the exact same stress. People
who are overweight are neither bad nor
lazy; rather, they are fighting their
biology.”
“Our metabolic
engines were
not crafted by
millions of years
of evolution to
guarantee a beach-
ready bikini body.”
Yeo – and others – say that
because of these inherent dif-
ferences in biology, there is no
“one-size-fits all” weight-loss cure.
However, any “diet that results in someone
eating less is a diet that works”.
Pontzer agrees: “There’s no singular,
natural human diet. Hunter-gatherers
such as the Hadza eat a diverse mix of plant
and animal foods that vary day to day,
month to month and year to year. There’s
even more dietary diversity when we look
across populations. Humans are built to
thrive on a wide variety of diets – just
about everything is on the menu.”
The takeaway? Any diet that is plant-
based and high in fibre and protein will be
good for you. Even one or two days a week.
And what to avoid? “We need to be
really careful about how we incorporate
ultra-processed foods into our daily diets,
because they are calorie bombs that drive
us to overconsume.” Pontzer says.
unhealthy fast-food options, high in sugar,
fat and salt, that are blamed for the obeso-
genic environment we find ourselves in
today,” he writes.
“Ultra-processed food is the opposite of
‘clean’, the antithesis of ‘real’. Yet ultra-pro-
cessed plant-based milks are unashamedly
marketed as healthy. What makes one
ultra-processed food item different from
another? What makes some suited to be
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others remain respectable, eminently Ins-
tagrammable even?”
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Often, the difference comes down to good
or bad PR, Yeo says. “The milk we get from
the supermarket is pasteurised, so milk is
actually a processed food.
“Most of the plant-based milk options, with
the exception of coconut milk, because of all
the machinations that are required to con-
vert quinoa or oat extract into a facsimile of
milk (how exactly do you milk a quinoa?) are
actually classed as ultra-processed.”
Adding to the complexity is that although
some ultra-processed foods are at the fore-
front of modern health experiments – the
Impossible burger, for example – the vast
majority remain astoundingly unhealthy,
especially when they make up the bulk of a
person’s diet.
“Diets that include a lot of ultra-processed
foods are intrinsically nutritionally unbal-
anced and intrinsically harmful to health,”
says Carlos Monteiro, a professor of nutri-
tion and public health at the University of São
A child walking home
from school in South
Auckland is five-times
more likely to encounter
a KFC than a child in
wealthy suburbs.
Paulo in Brazil, who is credited with invent-
ing the term “ultra-processed”.
In the UK, 65% of calories eaten by pri-
mary- and secondary-school children come
from ultra-processed food or drinks. In most
Western countries, ultra-processed foods
account for 50% of the calories in a standard
diet, with the three highest consumers in
Europe, led by the Netherlands.
New Zealand is not far behind as the sev-
enth-highest consumers of ultra-processed
foods in the world.
This is really concerning, says Yeo,
because each percentage point increase in
the availability of ultra-processed calories
in an average household is associated with
an increase of 0.25% in obesity prevalence
within that country.
Rates in the developing world are also
rapidly catching up with the West, with the
added problem that ultra-processed eating is
often a status symbol for the newly emerging
middle class.
The chemical, man-made processes that
ultra-processed foods undergo to reach their
consumer-friendly form are routinely so
extreme they strip the food of any flavour.
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Huge quantities of additives such as salt, fat
and sugar become necessary to make the
food palatable, let alone delicious.
“Ultra-processed foods are typically
higher in salt, sugar and fat, and lower in
fibre, which is what makes that lovely ‘pro-
tein of chicken origin’ nugget oh so moreish,
and also oh so very calorically available,”
writes Yeo.
“It is easy to eat and even easier to extract
the calories. Compare that with eating a piece
of chicken breast, even if it has been battered
and fried, where you can control the amount
of seasoning and fat that goes in.”
Studies are also finding that ultra-pro-
cessed foods encourage your body to eat
more, as much as 500 calories in one sitting.
It is thought the lack of protein in these foods
make the body go into overdrive in an effort
to secure this vital resource.
Even when matched calorie for calorie
– as in a 2010 cheese-sandwich experiment
by Sadie Barr and Jonathan Wright from
Pomona College, California – wholefoods
come out on top. Subject participants ate
two sandwiches, both of 600 calories, but one
was classified as a “wholefood sandwich” of
wholegrain bread and real cheddar cheese,
while the other used ultra-processed cheese
and white bread.
“Even though the sandwiches contained
exactly the same number of calories, the
body has to spend nearly twice the number
of calories to metabolise the wholefood
sandwich compared with the processed
sandwich,” wrote Yeo of the study. “Put
another way, eating the processed
sandwich means you absorb 10% more cal-
ories than if you had eaten the wholefood
sandwich.”
Studies have found humans biologically
struggle to resist foods stuffed with fat and
carbs. A 2018 Yale University study sug-
gested this might be a result of our first
food – breast milk – being loaded with
them, resulting in our brains associating
the two with growth, comfort and pleas-
ure. However, apart from breast milk, fat
and carbs rarely occur together in high
quantities in nature – macaroni cheese
is a human construction. Ultra-processed
foods can hijack your efforts to stay slim in
a multitude of ways. “There does appear to
be a biologically plausible mechanism to
explain why our response, as humans, is to
overeat in this contemporary environment
rich in ultra-processed foods that are high
in fat and carbs,” Yeo writes.
At this point, simply dropping ultra-
processed foods from the diet is near
impossible for most people, Yeo says.
Instead, he advocates for pragmatism.
“It really annoys me when experts tell
people, ‘Just replace that chocolate bar with
a banana,’” Yeo says. “It’s stupid, because
sometimes you need a chocolate bar, and
other times you need a banana. What I
want is a better kind of chocolate bar loaded
with nuts. And there is no way they need to
be in petrol stations and at supermarket
checkouts – that’s pure manipulation. If
you want a chocolate bar, you should have
to walk to the chocolate aisle to get it.”
HUNGRY GENES
Yeo is ethnically Chinese, meaning he is at a
greater risk of developing diabetes, among
other weight-related diseases. “The inter-
esting thing is that your fat cells and my
fat cells can expand to different amounts,”
says Yeo. “So, East Asian people, me, South
Asian people, Indians, Pakistanis, don’t
have to gain much weight before they get
“Eating a processed
sandwich means you
absorb 10% more
calories than if you
had eaten a wholefood
sandwich.”
metabolic disease – they just don’t. My risk
factor, as ethnically Chinese, is 23 or 24 in
terms of body-mass index (BMI), while for
Europeans, it is more like 25, 26 or 27.”
When people consume too many calories
and don’t burn them off – the universal expla-
nation for weight gain – the extra weight is
stored in the body’s fat cells, which expand or
decrease “like balloons” depending on how
much fat you’re storing.
When fat cells reach their capacity,
any additional fat then begins to form on
organs such as the liver, increasing the risk
for obesity-related “modern” illnesses.
Frustratingly, looking in the mirror or
even at a set of scales won’t tell you this. A
skinny person of Indian origin with a small
beer belly may be at greater risk of develop-
ing diabetes than a large Māori person who
looks heavier but is actually healthier. This
makes it difficult for the “average Joe” to
know when they are getting into dangerous
territory with their weight.
“I think the answer will come down to
genetic and other types of tests, but we’re
not there yet; maybe in 10 to 15 years’ time,”
says Yeo. “I think the easiest way at the
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 A MENU OF DIETS
Obesity expert Dr Giles Yeo gives his summary of the
benefits and drawbacks of recent dieting trends.
1. KETOGENIC DIET: A
high-fat,
moderate-
protein,
very-low
carbo-
hydrate
diet, at the
“extreme
end” of carbohy-
drate-restricting diets on
offer. Ketogenic diets have
been around in a clinical
setting since 1921, when
they were used to treat
children with epilepsy. Yeo
says most people cannot
manage the recommended
80% daily fat intake, which
he calls “an extreme level
of fat unpalatable to many”.
2. PALEOLITHIC DIET:
“There was
no single
paleo-
lithic diet,
because
there
were
no single
paleolithic people,” Yeo
writes. “The reality is we
are not eating what our
ancestors did, because we
can’t. Those foods simply
no longer exist. Almost
everything that we eat
today is a product of many
generations of domes-
tication.” Yeo labels the
backstory of paleo “quite
nonsensical”, and trying to
adopt it today “fantastical”.
Yeo says the diet does work
as a weight-loss strategy
“for some” but largely
because it follows basic
rules: it’s high in lean
meat and seafood, as well
as fruit and non-starchy
vegetables, and it avoids
cereals and grains and
starchy root vegetables. It’s
a low-carbohydrate diet, by
another name.
3.CARNIVORE DIET: An
extreme diet
that is
effective
in the
short-
term for
weight
loss, but not
healthy in the
medium or long-term. No
one has conducted studies
into the long-term safety
of the carnivore diet, Yeo
says, and labels “this par-
ticular fad diet a bad idea”.
4. ALKALINE LIVING: It
works in the
short-term
for weight
loss, “in
spite of its
nonsensi-
cal nature,
barely able to
stand up to casual
scrutiny”, Yeo says. Why?
“As it turns out, because
meat and most other
animal-based products
are labelled as ‘acidic’, an
alkaline diet is pretty much
plant-based by another
name.”
5.SIRTFOOD DIET: One
of the selling
points of
this diet,
devel-
oped
by two
British
nutrition-
ists, is that singer
Adele credits it for her
2020 weight loss, and it
allows chocolate and wine,
“which I must admit, is
undoubtedly appealing”,
Yeo says. “Most of the rec-
ommended ‘sirt foods’ are
plant-based, coupled with
calorie restriction, making
it a weight-loss strategy for
some, wrapped up in some
‘sciency’ explanation to
make it more compelling.”
6.RAW DIET: “Eating raw
food – a salad,
basically
– means
you
will be
absorb-
ing fewer
calories,
which is why a
raw-food diet is so effective
for weight loss,” says Yeo.
7. MEDITERRANEAN DIET:
Studies have shown as
much as a 30%
reduction in
cardio-
vascular
disease
– the most
common
cause of death
in the world – for those fol-
lowing this diet, compared
with those on a low-fat diet.
It gets a solid tick from Yeo
for its health and weight-
loss benefits.
8.VEGETARIAN/VEGAN
DIETS: Plant-based and
high in fibre
and protein
– another
tick from
Yeo –
these diets
are easily
incorporated
into a flexitarian menu for
the long-term. Yeo recom-
mends avoiding specialist
“vegan products”, many
of which are expensive
and lack fibre and protein
and are at the mercy of
intensive marketing drives.
Researching specialist
vegan meals, rather than
trying to recreate meat
meals with vegan products,
is also recommended. Yeo
does not like vegan cheese
or replacement meat prod-
ucts such as quorn.

moment is to look at your parents, should In addition to ethnic weight differences, other, and even a slight mutation or abnor-
they be alive. But even if they’re not alive, individual feeding behaviours are governed mality can lead to imperfect communication
what did they die of? What shape were they by more than 1000 different genes, dictating between the belly and brain – and, possibly,
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in, what diseases did they have? They are a such things as how hungry you feel, how help explain your lifelong struggle to say no
picture of the future you, to some degree. much food you want to eat, when you feel to banana bread slathered with butter. “At
So that is still far more predictive than full and how happy that food makes you feel. this point you have to ask, is how much we
simply your body weight.” These complex genes all speak to each eat really a choice?” Yeo says.

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 SCIENCE OF WEIGHT LOSS
WHY ARE WE SO FAT?
According to the WHO, 1.9 billion adults
18 years and older are now classified as
overweight, with more than 650 million
of them obese.
In New Zealand, one in three adults
are classified as obese, making us one
of the fattest nations on Earth, while for
children the figure is about one in 10. Chil-
dren living in the most socio-economically
deprived areas of the country are 2.7 times
more likely to be obese as children living
in the least-deprived areas, while the rate
for adults is 1.8 times.
Obesity is not evenly distributed in this
country. According to the 2019/2020 New
Zealand Health Survey, the prevalence of
obesity among adults differed by ethnic-
ity, with 63.4% of Pacific, 47.9% of Māori,
“Body weight is
not a choice. Most
policymakers still think
obesity is a result of
personal choice and
bad habits, when in
large part it isn’t.”
29.3% of European/Other and 15.9% of
Asian adults obese.
This is important, because Māori and
Pacific people are also more likely to live
in deprived suburbs and regions. Local
and international research has repeat-
edly found that the prevalence of highly
calorific food outlets such as takeaways
and drive-throughs is five times greater
in low socio-economic regions.
In real terms, this means that a child
walking home from school in South Auck-
land is five times more likely to encounter
a KFC than a child in wealthy suburbs such
as Ponsonby or Remuera. Predictably, chil-
dren, as with adults, have great difficulty
saying no to treats placed right in front of
them, particularly ultra-processed treats
high in fat, salt and sugar.
Adding to this geographic and income
disadvantage, studies have found that
highly calorific, ultra-processed food is
about a third cheaper in supermarkets.
Combined with gene inheritance, which
determines 40-70% of your body weight
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– the fluctuation in those numbers is
influenced by the environment you live
in – what size you end up often has very
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little to do with your best intentions of
being bikini-ready by Christmas.
“Body weight is not a choice,” Yeo says
emphatically. “Most policymakers still
think obesity is a result of personal choice
and bad habits, when in large part, for bio-
logical and non-biological reasons, it isn’t.
“We need to try and help people make
the healthier decision by fixing the built
environment around them. If we don’t
fix the environment, if we don’t make the
healthy choice the easier, more conveni-
ent, cheaper choice, then we’re not going
to fix the problem.”
As with many in the middle-class
Western world, Yeo and his wife spent
lockdown nurturing a sourdough starter
and cooking slow, thoughtful meals. But
for millions in the UK – and New Zealand
– the pandemic has highlighted disturb-
ing rates of food insecurity, with at least
10% of families unsure how they’re going
to provide their next meal. Early evidence
suggests these numbers have as much as
doubled since the pandemic hit in early
2020.
In terms of weight loss, Yeo points out
that the rules are fairly straightforward:
more plant-based foods, protein and fibre,
and less sugar, fat and carbs. But there’s a
catch: “You need to give people realistic
and pragmatic solutions, rather than say,
‘Please have more carrots and hummus.’
It’s fine advice if you have hummus in
the fridge, but not everybody is going
to have hummus and carrot sticks in the
fridge – ever – and I think that’s part of
the problem.”
It is why the moralising judgments
over “clean” and “dirty” food angers Yeo
so much. When you’re time poor, cash
poor and have never had any education
on nutritious eating, there’s no such thing
as good and bad food, there’s just food.
The cheaper it is and the more calories it
contains for immediate fuel, the better.
“Human beings are designed to eat food
efficiently, and very easily store it as fat,”
Yeo says. “But it takes a long time to burn
off, because that’s how we have evolved to
survive. It will take you 60 seconds to eat a
Mars bar, which is 240 calories, but always
half an hour to burn it off.”
This simple example highlights why it is
so easy to gain weight – even over a single
weekend – and so extremely difficult to
lose it again. Fat is potential energy and
the body is biologically resistant to parting
with its fuel. From an evolutionary stand-
point, starvation, pregnancy or war could
always be around the next corner.
Yeo understands that, for myriad rea-
sons, picking up a frozen pizza at the
supermarket is going to be a more appeal-
ing choice for many people than buying the
ingredients for, say, an organic vegetarian
frittata with a rocket and pomegranate-
seed salad.
“If you require a frozen pizza because
you’re in a rush, or you like frozen pizza,
or that’s what the kids want to eat – there
can be a million valid reasons why you
want it. What I want to change is: can you
pick a better frozen pizza, something with
more protein and fibre?” Yeo says.
“I am not saying that frozen pizza is ever
going to be better for you than other types
of food, but if you need a frozen pizza, can
we give people the tools to pick a better
frozen pizza? And I think if we do that,
we’re being more pragmatic and realistic
about people’s lives.”
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TRICKING THE BRAIN
There are few government-led interven-
tions that have been successful in lowering
obesity rates, but Yeo, whose lab is funded
by the UK government, has – somewhat
reluctantly – shown his support for the tax
on sugary drinks. He says that in response
to the tax, many companies lowered the
amount of sugar in their beverages so they
would not face financial penalties.
In multiple studies since, consumers
were found to barely notice the difference
in taste. This is positive news.
On a personal level, Yeo has found his
flexitarian diet to be sustainable in the
long run. A change in home insurance
also inspired him to track his fitness, as his
insurance company offered an annual £200
“It will take you 60
seconds to eat a Mars
bar, but always half
an hour to burn it off.
This highlights why
it is so easy to gain
weight – even over a
single weekend.”
rebate if he stayed physically active.
“Humans are like magpies, we like shiny
new things, so anything – be it technology,
publicity, whatever – that nudges you every
so often into making healthy decisions can
be effective.”
But the most important way to make a dif-
ference to obesity rates is to tackle the eating
habits of kids, especially those in high-risk
areas of the country. This should become a
passion for any government serious about
obesity, Yeo says, particularly one like New
Zealand, whose well-being goals and pov-
erty-reduction aspirations he praises.
Although many middle-class schools
now have market gardens and healthy-food
initiatives, these same policies are often
absent in lower-income schools and homes
– the very places most in need of intensive
healthy-eating support.
For some, weight-management medica-
tions may become more mainstream in the
future, with five now approved by the US
Food and Drug Administration. Hormone
therapy to “weaponise” gut hormones is also
being trialled in the UK, Yeo writes, and the
initial findings are promising.
Beginning more than a decade ago,
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scientists at Hammersmith Hospital in
London, led by professors Tricia Tan and
Sir Steve Bloom, have been conducting
trials infusing patients with the hormones
GLP-1, oxyntomodulin and peptide YY
individually.
Each hormone on its own could modestly
reduce food intake, Yeo writes, and over the
years the team has systematically tried dif-
ferent doses and combinations. They are
Giles Yeo: “Is how
much we eat really
a choice?”
now at the stage of trialling an infusion of
all three hormones in a single mixture.
“While the treatment is still in the testing
phase, it appears that this hormone infusion
can indeed mimic gastric bypass, at least
partially, and make the brain think it is full
Weight-management
medications may
become more
mainstream. Hormone
therapy to “weaponise”
gut hormones is
already being trialled.
so patients actually eat less, about 30% less
in a single meal,” says Yeo.
The biggest hurdle for hormone therapy
is to make the infusions longer lasting. They
currently need to be injected before each
meal, but once a week would be ideal. The
“holy grail” involves delivering the concoc-
tion in pill form.
“But because of the pesky acidic caul-
dron that is the stomach, that is a long way
off yet,” Yeo writes. “Nevertheless, these
results are very exciting indeed and repre-
sent really significant progress in obesity
therapeutics.”
However, if Yeo could wave a magic wand
and change one thing about the modern
food environment, it would be far simpler
than this. “What I would do overnight, if I
could, is subsidise healthy foods, fruits and
vegetables. We need to make the healthier
choice the cheaper, more convenient choice.
So, if you’re trying to feed yourself, the
healthier decision is cheaper. That would
be more equitable for all.”
Tellingly, at the end of Why Calories Don’t
Count, Yeo includes some of his own recipes,
including for meals that would make tradi-
tional diet followers baulk: crispy-skin duck
pancakes, Chinese black beef brisket and
beef short-rib rendang.
The recipes are decadent, impressive,
and “good for entertaining”. They are also
based around wholefoods, high in protein
and fibre and packed with flavour.
And this is why calories don’t count, at
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LURE OF THE HIMALAYAS

CHANCE &
TRAGEDY The fates of the Hillary family and
Nepal have been entwined since the
conquest of Everest. Despite Covid and
an ill-fated trek six years ago, Peter
Hillary is determined to go back.
O
n the steep ridge-
line above the little
village of Kunde, we
paused at the three
memorial chortens
at 4100 metres, built
by the villagers for
my father, mother and little sister, and
it occurred to me for the first time that
I was up in the Himalayas with a group
of people who had all known them. That
had never happened before. And as we
gazed out towards the bulk of Mt Everest
and down at the little hospital my parents
had built in the village, this connection
with the past and my “precious ones” felt
particularly special.
Back in 1975, the Hillary family were
living in Nepal to help my father, Ed,
build his biggest hospital at the impor-
tant village of Phaphlu, five days’ trek
south of Kunde. My mother, Louise, 43,
and younger sister, Belinda, 16, boarded
a small plane to fly into the mountains
to join Dad at the building site. But the
New Zealand pilot, who was notorious
for his disregard for the safety regimes of
aviation, pushed the throttle to maximum
power and lifted the plane into the air
above Kathmandu before realising the
control guards were still attached to the
ailerons. He lost control of the aircraft
and it dived into a paddy field north of the
runway near the great stupa of Boudhan-
ath. No one survived, and the Hillarys
lost half of our family, our hearts forever
broken and our lives forever changed.g
Chance events change everything and
take the trajectory of life in new, unantici-
pated directions.
But here I was in the company of old
friends; we trekked on. Group photographs
were arranged – as much for a rest along
the trail as for a photographic record – and
they were always punctuated with “Where’s
Hamish?” as our camera-shy colleague
was rounded up, grinning happily for a
round of high-altitude digital vainglory.
A few days short of Everest Base Camp
in Nepal, we diverted up a side valley to a
lake I had described to my fellow trekkers
as turquoise blue, and found it was frozen
The aircraft dived
into a paddy field.
No one survived,
and the Hillarys lost
half of our family.
solid with an icy-white surface. So the cry
went out that Hillary’s itinerary was rid-
dled with inaccuracies – and these related
to the daily trek times, too. “So, how far is
today’s trek, Peter?”
Of course, all my estimates were lam-
pooned for outrageous optimism. “We
will double that,” they would say, and then
enquire how much climbing was involved to
reach the next village. “Today, there is a net
altitude gain of zero,” I often replied. “Yeah,
right.
g Once we have completed p an 800m
descent and two 400m ascents after lunch!”
We all mastered the road rules of “give
way to yaks”, and the synchronised cross-
ing procedures for suspension bridges
above Himalayan cataracts – you don’t
want to meet a yak in the middle of a 100m
suspension footbridge. We all adopted
our own versions of the “Himalayan plod”
– a pace that allows your heart and lungs
to operate within a range suitable for your
age and fitness and the lofty altitudes.
T his all happened six years ago,
when I organised to trek through
the Himalayas with a group of
my old collegians, past the schools and
hospitals my father had built and up the
valley to base camp, at 5360m. The great
form of the world’s highest mountain was
our beacon and occupied the northern
horizon, while the stories of actually
climbing the mountain were frequent
topics around hot cups of tea in the trek-
king lodges. And, of course, the greatest
story of them all was the first ascent by
my father and Tenzing Norgay on the 1953
British Expedition, where they ascended
to where no one had gone before.
The truth is that in our own small ways,
we are all going where none had gone
before.
I have climbed Everest a couple of times,
and made five attempts on different routes
on the mountain among my more than 50
expeditions to mountains around the world.
I work with the foundations my father
helped establish to run education, health
and environmental programmes in the
Himalayas around the foot of Mt Everest.
And, like my father in 1953, I found that
the sting in the tail of an Everest climb
comes when you least expect it:

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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing just below the summit. It’s a verti-
Norgay on Mt Everest in cal step in the ridge, now called
1953. Right, Louise and Ed
Hillary with children, from the Hillary Step, that guards
left, Belinda, Peter and Sarah.
Opposite: Mt Ama Dablam in
the eastern Himalayas.

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 LURE OF THE HIMALAYAS
Before and after:
Greg Kay, above,
crosses a glacial
stream. Right, the
rescue operation
at Everest Base
Camp after the access to the top.
earthquake. Below,
Kay with son Ben And that is
and granddaughter the hallmark of
Madison. any adventure
or undertak-
ing: often, the biggest challenges come
when you least expect them. And so it
was for the 12 of us – 60-year-old men
who had decided to go to Everest Base
Camp in Nepal, where there are no roads
and few of the amenities of our affluent
Western lives – on a reunion trek. This
was a chance to rekindle friendships and
share in an adventure amid the awesome
grandeur and delve behind our ageing
physiognomies for the teenage cohort of
many years before. And, incredibly, the
men I trekked with retained the person-
alities of the boys I had known long ago:
PETER HILLARY
wisdom and experience layered on the
character and idealism of their youth.
For two weeks, we trekked from my
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There was silence. Then
we heard the roar of
avalanches pouring off
the mountains above
and around us like a
hundred freight trains.
father’s airstrip at Lukla into the ‘high
Himal”, as Dad always referred to it with a
smile, staying with people I have known
all my life.
Being a bunch of old school friends –
even with receding hairlines and bulging
waistlines – there was plenty of high
jinks. On Phil Barron’s birthday, there was
a cake and speeches and the singing of the
old school song, O floreat semper. When
y Guy y Haddleton and I stayed at my “Sherpa
aunt’s” house, he performed a skit,
filmed by Russell Tills, in which Guy
remonstrated to camera that he had
paid for a single-room upgrade and
here was his ensuite: a hole in the
floor of an outhouse with leaf litter
for a flush and a wooden pole to help
ageing knees to regain their vertical
composure.
We laughed a lot. And we
encouraged each other on along
the narrow footpaths as we headed up
valley at a methodical ascent rate to assist
acclimatisation.
I t was Anzac Day, and after our dawn
service at the hamlet of Lobuche
(4900m) to honour the war dead, we
trudged up the valley in lightly falling
snow. We arrived at Gorak Shep, just 3km
south of base camp, and stopped at one of
its five tea shops to quaff hot drinks and
eat some food. It was just before midday,
and our usual banter was continuing
when all hell broke loose. The dry-stone
building started shaking violently from
side to side, and while some dived beneath
tables, I knew that stone buildings were
best vacated. I roared, “Everyone outside!”
This was a huge earthquake – as we
learnt later, it was 7.9 on the Richter scale
– and it felt as if the whole Himalayas were
being shaken and in danger of coming
apart. When we rushed outside and stood
together in stunned silence as gently
THE OLD COLLEGIANS
Hamish Brown, Russell Tills, Guy
Haddleton, John Reyburn, Philip
Barron, Simon Hanley, Iain Patterson,
Peter Hillary, Richard Agnew, Peter
Revell, Greg Kay, Michael Caughey.
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falling snow landed upon us, the violent
shaking stopped. There was silence. Then, More than 10,000
in the distance, we heard the roar of ava-
lanches pouring off the mountains above
people had been killed,
and around us like a hundred freight millions of homes
trains. Looking to the north, to where base
camp was and the great Khumbu Glacier,
damaged. People lived
I could see the sharp form of the lateral outside beneath large
moraine. Suddenly, a great boiling cloud blue tarpaulins.
of avalanche blast came over the moraine
and straight towards us across the valley,
at what I estimated was 100 knots. I knew well for the climbers up at base camp.
what to do, so I called to the old collegians, What we lived through next was five
“Get back in the building!” To which some- days of hell. At base camp, a huge block
one mumbled, “First, you tell us of ice had released
to get out, and now you tell us to Upbeat: John Reyburn from 800m higher
get inside!” I was sure that this and Greg Kay with trekkers up and, on hitting
at Dingboche after the
catastrophic event did not bode quake. Right, Hillary’s and the glacier, exploded
Jamling Tenzing’s groups
at Tengboche.
into an enormous aerosol avalanche that
produced a blast of air and ice particles so
severe that it devastated the lower portion
of the camp. Twenty-one people died, 100
were injured and the camp was largely
destroyed. It was the same avalanche blast
that had come down the glacier and hit us
at Gorak Shep.
So, within a couple of hours’ trek of our
goal of Everest base camp, I turned the old
collegians around and, in the gloom of low
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cloud and lightly falling snow, we trudged
past destroyed villages and trekkers’
lodges. Now, we were on a mission to get
down the valley, 12 old school chums knit-
ted into a cohesive group by two weeks of
trekking and an earthquake. Eventually,
some communications were repaired and
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we were able to call home and our agent in
Kathmandu. And the news was bad. More
than 10,000 people had been killed, mil-
lions of homes damaged. With the ongoing
aftershocks, people in Kathmandu were
too afraid to sleep indoors and they lived
outside beneath large blue tarpaulins on
the streets and fields.
Compared with this news, the next two
evenings for us were upbeat affairs. How
fortunate were we? There were rousing
speeches while sitting around yak-dung
fires in damaged accommodations and a
heightened sense of “the good life”, despite
the quake, the destruction and the loss of
life.
That first night at the village of Dingbo-
che, Greg Kay eloquently summarised our
experiences with positivity and a touch-
ing nod to the camaraderie of the dozen. It
was a special moment. This had been a big
undertaking for him, and he was probably
the one who found the relentless ascents
the hardest. But it was a journey he had
looked forward to with such enthusiasm.
He and I joked about running for Mayor
of Auckland: Hillary and Kay, a ticket for
fresh thinking, we enthused as we hiked
the trails. After all, his father, Colin, had
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been Mayor of Auckland, and my father
had considered politics at one time.
At Tengboche Monastery, we spent the
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night in the restaurant of a badly damaged
hotel and, as luck would have it, we were
there with my old friend, Jamling Tenzing
(Tenzing Norgay’s son), who was guid-
ing a group of young Indian women to
Everest Base Camp. Like everyone else, he
We awoke to find Greg
couldn’t be roused.
He must have died an
hour or two before.
It was a terrible and
personal blow for us all.
was reviewing what he would do after the
earthquake.
As he had done once before, Greg came up
to me and asked, “Have I shown you a photo
of my little granddaughter?”, proffering a
picture of a beautiful little girl, Madison. It
was a touching gesture in the midst of the
mayhem in which we now lived.
T hat evening, we all shared a
marvellously lighthearted time
together – the Tenzing party of
young Indians and the Hillary party of old
collegians – inspired by the uncertainty
of our situation and the sheer wonder of
being happy and contented when happi-
ness and contentment had vanished for so
many around us.
Then, at 6am on April 27, we awoke
to find Greg couldn’t be roused. He lay
motionless in his sleeping bag while three
of our group attempted to resuscitate him.
But it was to no avail. It seemed he must
have died from a heart attack or stroke an
hour or two before. We were all stunned,
speechless, heartbroken.
The loss of Greg compounded on
the horror of the devastation of the
earthquake and left us in a state of dis-
combobulated sorrow. It was a terrible
and personal blow for us all. His absence
haunted us as we did what we had to do
to transport him to Lukla, contact his
family and arrange for his cremation. As
darkness approached, a helicopter landed
in the meadow in front of the ruined mon-
astery and shuttled Greg’s body down to
Lukla with his close friend, John Reyburn,
and Michael Caughey.
The next day, the rest of us trekked
down to the village of Monzo, deep in
the Dudh Kosi valley, passing groves
of flowering rhododendrons, and we
descended the infamous Namche Hill
with a lifting sense of purpose. Then,
to my horror as we looked down on
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 From far left: the Everest
range; George, Lily and
Alexander Hillary; Peter
Hillary, right, with his lead earthquake, we were living
sherpa, Pasang Temba, left, fully. None of us will ever
and Jamling Tenzing. Inset, forget it. We who returned are
Alexander and George Hillary changed men. And we still con-
on Lobuche Peak in 2019.
gregate as the old collegians.

to the slippery mud and rock tracks of

the Dudh Kosi River, I saw some of our
bags floating in the river itself. We later
learnt that our porter, Narayan Katwal,
was also in the water. Nepalese porters
can’t swim – we had lost another.
While our sirdar (Sherpa leader),
Pasang Temba, filed a police report on the
accident, we all had an early and subdued
night. It felt like our world was coming
asunder.
We never did find out how Narayan had
fallen into the river, but then, the Hima-
layas seemed to be falling down around
us – there were many huge boulders that
had come down the mountainsides and
across the tracks where we walked, so our
journey seemed suitably chaotic and our
prospects ill-defined.
Lukla village and up the hillside to a ridge
above the little town. A Buddhist monk
led us up the track, with a silk khata scarf
symbolically drawing Greg up the path to
the next life and to an airy cremation site
with views (once the rain stopped) to the
north -- to the Himalayas -- and west, to the
setting sun. Beneath a parade of umbrel-
las, we, the old collegians, said farewell to
Greg as the smoke lifted into the clearing
Himalayan sky.
We returned home to the deep sadness
of Greg’s family and his grieving friends.
Why did he go on this journey? The truth
is, he wanted to; he was excited to go. This
was a whole new challenge and Greg liked
challenges. And none of us would have
agreed to trek to Everest Base Camp -- or
None of us would
have gone if we’d
known there would
be a 7.9 earthquake
and that five days of
hell would follow.
anywhere else, for that matter -- if we’d
L ife is riddled with uncertainty.
Although this may seem gratuitous
when people have lost their lives,
the truth is, they would want us to make
the most of our lives, especially when they
cannot.
We live in times of earthquakes, forest
fires, a Covid-19 pandemic, detestable
human conflicts and cruelty and the
creeping spectre of a changing climate
that has the potential to make everything
that has gone before look relatively minor.
Who knows what the world will be like as
the Covid-19 restrictions are eased? The
much-discussed “normalcy” may be five
or more years away, if that is even possible.
Yet in all of this, we must seek out the joy
in life and living. We need to be proactive
and make changes for the common good.
On May 18 this year, in the midst of
the pandemic’s second wave in Nepal, I
received an email from our accountant,
Baween Tandukar, in Kathmandu. He
described how his mother died of Covid-
19, then his 34-year-old cousin, a father
with young children, then his wife’s aunt.
This was a family being ravaged by the
virus and tossed into despair. I wept as I
read his message. It is true that “chance
events change everything and take the
trajectory of life in new unanticipated
directions”.
In the end, it’s how you deal with it that

O n the fifth day of our trials, we
trekked to Lukla airstrip in light
rain. After lunch, we went to the
earthquake-damaged heliport building
to retrieve Greg’s body. He lay, white-
shrouded, within the three remaining
known there would be a 7.9 earthquake
while we were there and that five days
of hell would follow. But, of course, you
never know what lies ahead with most
things in life. And perhaps that is just as
well, because we would end up living in a
matters. And that is why we are going
back to Mt Everest. Next year, a third
generation of Hillarys, George, Alexander
and Lily, will head to the mountain, with
their father in support, to sample the
exhilaration of the summit and the legacy
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walls of the heliport office with two other
bodies tied in red and blue tarpaulins –
one labelled “unknown” – that had been
brought from Everest Base Camp.
We carried him outside, past an injured
Sherpa climber in a stretcher and beneath
the rotating blades of a helicopter, on
state of foreboding and fear.
On our trek together, we lived so richly.
Through the smoke of the yak-dung fires,
the energised conversations, the anticipa-
tion of what lay ahead at base camp, or
even as we planned our evacuation from
the mountains and getting home after the
of what it was like to be first.
Greg Kay’s family, fellow trekkers and
friends are financially assisting the family
of the late Narayan Katwal. The Kay family
is also funding the university education of
Pasang Temba’s son, Dawa.

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 LURE OF THE HIMALAYAS

Mountain to climb
Earthquake damage and Covid-19 threaten Nepal’s progress. by GEOFF CUMMING

W
hen Covid struck & Johnson vaccine; China is supplying 2.4
in 2020, forcing million doses of its Sinopharm vaccine,
the cancellation though there are storage issues. So far,
of the Himalayan 6.6 million vaccine doses have reached
climbing season, it Nepal, well short of what’s needed. The
was a devastating blow for Nepal’s tourism Government has faced criticism for lift-
industry, costing millions in lost revenue. ing lockdowns too early, for repeating
Mountaineering and trekking are the only mistakes and for failing to provide infra-
income sources in northeastern Nepal’s structure such as ventilators and oxygen.
Khumbu region, in the shadow of Mt Doctors worry about a third wave.
Everest, where the Sir Edmund Hillary-

founded Himalayan Trust is working to
reduce poverty and “transform lives”.
The lockdown lasted until the
pandemic’s first wave had passed, too
late for the climbing season that stretches
from April until early June. This year,
authorities eased rules to lure back
foreign adventurers and issued nearly
400 permits – enough for 1500 climbers
and support crew to be on the mountain.
Sherpas “felt a great sense of relief to
get some employment opportunity”,
Alexander Hillary, the trust’s New Zealand
operations manager, posted on the trust
website. Nepal’s Government, meanwhile,
anticipated millions in expedition
royalties.
Then came Covid’s second wave, mostly
from neighbouring India, where the more-
transmissible Delta variant exploded in
April and May. Initially, lodges and hotels
HIMALAYAN TRUST; GETTY IMAGES; PETER HILLARY
flooded home as lockdowns
resumed. By early May,
Nepal had the highest rate of
infection among countries
neighbouring India.
The Covid death toll
has passed 9600.
H
uge swathes of the country have
no doctors at all. Maternal deaths
have soared as pregnant women
avoid going to hospitals to give birth, fear-
ing Covid infection. Between March 2020
and June 2021, 258 women died during
pregnancy or childbirth, compared with
51 recorded maternal deaths in the year to
March 2020.
Kunde Hospital’s None of the country’s
Dr Kami Temba midwives are currently practis-
with a patient. ing. Agencies fear a return to
Top, schooling is pre-2000 maternal death rates,
suspended. Below,
a porter carries after two decades of effort had
100kg of timber up seen maternal mortality fall
a hillside; Everest’s from more than 500 deaths per
north face.
100,000 live births to 186.
Schools are closed and educa-
tion is being provided by online lessons
for those who can receive them.
“There is a real risk of a generation of

on the main trekking route, then Everest
Base Camp, became infected. It quickly
spread to local communities.
Many climbers were evacuated with
Covid-19 and returned home before push-
ing for the summit. At the trust-funded
Kunde Hospital, infected locals from
throughout Khumbu came for testing.
Everest trekkers were, of course, far
from the only sources and spreaders of the
coronavirus. Nepalese working in India
By mid-July, the nation of 28.6 million
had nearly 26,000 active cases, with about
1600 new cases daily. Since the pandemic
began, more than 670,000 Nepalese have
been infected, and the death toll has passed
9600. Under-reporting of cases means the
figures may be higher.
About 72% of the population are yet to
be vaccinated. Rural Nepalese have little
access to medical care.
Vaccinations began in
January after India supplied
one million doses of Astra-
Zeneca. But it cancelled a
further million-dose ship-
ment as the crisis deepened
at home. It has since assured
Nepal of future supplies.
The US has provided 1.53
million doses of the Johnson
young Nepalese missing out on an educa-
tion and becoming only semi-literate,”
says trust chairperson Peter Hillary,
“which makes us even more determined to
maintain our education programmes and
support remote learning.
“Our accountant, our educational direc-
tor, our doctor at Kunde Hospital, Kami
Temba, and his wife, Da Doma, have all
been affected with the virus and deaths in
their families. These are just the people we
work with.
“The earthquake of 2015 destroyed and
damaged millions of homes and buildings
and caused damage that will take decades
to rebuild. The pandemic has further
affected the communities of the region and
challenged the operations of the trust and
its programmes.” l
To donate to the Himalayan Trust, visit
himalayantrust.org

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LIFE AFTER THE TAMPA
CLIMATE CHANGE NOW
WHAT DOES BEING PĀKEHĀ MEAN?
THE BIG IDEAS OF 2021
WORD Christchurch Festival 2021 presents in-depth conversations with some of our nation’s
leading thinkers including Abbas Nazari, Helen Clark, Te Maire Tau, Sue Kedgley,
Kera Sherwood-O’Regan , Brannavan Gnanalingam, Nicky Hager, Claudia Orange and Alison Jones.
 RICHARD OSMAN
THE THINGS
THAT UNITE US Accidental TV star Richard Osman turned to crime
and kindness for his debut novel, with record-
breaking results. by CRAIG SISTERSON illustration by WEEF
E
very Thursday, at the
Coopers Chase luxury
retirement village, a
converted convent sitting
among rural landscapes
and market towns south
of London, four “not friends” meet in
the jigsaw room. Sandwiched “between
Art History and Conversational French”,
their booking for “Japanese Opera: A
Discussion” attracts no interest from
their fellow residents.
Which is just how Elizabeth, Ibrahim,
Ron and Joyce like it. Because none of
them are there to discuss the soprano
skills of Tamaki Miura or the modern
artistic direction of Kazushi Ono.
They’re there to discuss murder.
For Elizabeth, Ibrahim, Ron and
Joyce are the Thursday Murder Club
– four retirees brought together by
proximity and a shared interest in
mysteries and justice. Four elderly
amateur sleuths from vastly different
backgrounds whose crime-solving shifts
from theory to practice when a con-
tractor tied to their village’s greedy
owner is bludgeoned to death.
They’re an unlikely quartet of
heroes, but their (mis)adventures
in The Thursday Murder Club have
enchanted readers, critics and
book-awards judges worldwide.
Not to mention shattering British
book-sales records in the midst of
a pandemic.
“It’s sort of lovely for me
that at least I’ve
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Richard Osman:
new star on the
British literary
scene.
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produced something that people seem
to be enjoying and taking some solace
in, and it’s giving them a few hours’
break from what’s going on,” says author
Richard Osman. “That’s quite nice in a
way, and I think it probably gives you
even more of a connection with readers
if you’re by their side in difficult times.
I think they appreciate it.”
Described as an
“antidote to Brexit”,
The Thursday Murder
Club struck a huge
chord with readers in
Britain and beyond.
In May, Osman was named Author of
the Year at the online ceremony for the
2021 British Book Awards. Undoubtedly,
it was a strange year for anyone publish-
ing a first novel. For Osman, who turned
50 last November, it was an
extraordinary one.
His warm-hearted and
wwitty whodunnit leapt to
tthe top of the British best-
sseller lists, then hovered
tthere for months. Think of
oour local response to Becky
MManawatu’s award-win-
ning Auē, but scaled up.
The Thursday Murder
Club didn’t just dominate
C psychiatrist; Ron, the firebrand trade
the UK charts,
th
it lapped
tthe field at
times.
t It
cracked
the rarefied air of one million hardcovers
sold in less than six months. It set a record
for consecutive weeks atop the UK fiction
charts and even broke the long-standing
cookbook/memoir/kids’ fiction strangle-
hold on the overall Christmas No 1 spot.
Described as an “antidote to Brexit”
and a “rallying cry for togetherness” by
Penguin editor Katy Loftus, The Thursday
Murder Club struck a huge chord with
readers in Britain and beyond.
“I think one of the things about the
world at the moment is we’re constantly
being divided, and we’re constantly being
told that we’re siloed and everyone is at
the extremes,” says Osman, a quiz host for
popular BBC shows who worked on his
debut mystery in secret for two years.
“You just think, ‘That’s not the world
I see all day every day,’” he continues.
“Through the book, I’ve got four incredibly
different people, who probably vote dif-
ferently, who probably would have voted
differently on Brexit – all that stuff. But
they have a common goal. And that’s what
the book is about: the things that unite us
rather than the things that divide us.”
The Thursday Murder Club is a modern
take on the classic British murder-mys-
tery style that made household names
of Agatha Christie and our own Ngaio
Marsh. Except, rather than a singular
detective such as Hercule Poirot, Miss
Marple or Roderick Alleyn, perhaps
with only a sidekick, there are four
sleuths: Elizabeth, the ex-civil servant
of the secret kind; Ibrahim, the retired
unionist; and Joyce, the former nurse
whose daughter runs a hedge fund.
“I wanted four, because, you know,
that’s The Beatles, isn’t it?” says Osman.
“And I wanted two men and two women
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 RICHARD OSMAN
because that’s Abba.
From left, Pointless
Four sides, four corners co-hosts Alexander
of a square.” Armstrong and
Osman says he Richard Osman. Right,
Osman with, from left,
enjoyed the way his four Gary Delaney, Rose
main characters, who Matafeo, Rav Wilding
inveigle themselves into and Valerie Singleton
the police investiga- on Richard Osman’s
House of Games.
tion of the contractor’s
murder, come at every
problem from a different angle.
“They immediately felt like a gang,” he
says. “Every time I’d start a scene, I knew
all four of them would approach it differ-
ently. When you start writing a book, it’s
just so hard, isn’t it? You think, ‘Oh God,
how am I ever going to finish this?’ And
then you think, ‘Oh, these four – I can
throw anything at them and they’re going
to carry me through the book.’”
A lthough Osman has been a
fan of mysteries since he was
young, reading came tougher
for him than most. He’s a renowned
figure in the UK, thanks to his nightly
television appearances on hit shows
such as Richard Osman’s House of Games
and Pointless – and a conspicuous one,
too, with his thick-framed glasses and
towering height – at 200cm or 6’ 7”, he’s
taller than most English rugby locks.
The glasses are to alleviate the symp-
toms of nystagmus, a condition that
affects eye movement and reduces vision.
“I’m very visually impaired, so reading
wasn’t something that came naturally,”
he says. “When I was little, I read all
the Famous Five books and loved them.
Through my teens, I sort of zoned out of
reading, and then I got back into it in my
twenties. Funnily enough, crime was one
of the things that really got me back into
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being a voracious reader. It was always my
first port of call, I think.”
Osman loves the way crime novels
provide some structure while also open-
ing up “a huge world of possibilities”
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When Steven Spielberg
bought the screen
rights for the book,
Osman said he would
love for his mother to
have a cameo role.
for authors to explore all sorts of lives
and issues. Readers willingly go along
for the mystery, and authors can do
what they choose on the journey.
“That’s the beauty of crime fiction.
You tell stories that people wouldn’t
otherwise read,” says Osman. “I wanted
to write about the world as I see it,
within the context of a crime novel.”
Osman’s mystery tendencies may be
down to his mother, a teacher who raised
him and his brother, Mat (who later
became the bass player for British band
Suede), alone after their father walked out.
“My mum read Ngaio Marsh and Dorothy
L Sayers and had loads of Agatha Christies.
I remember, as a kid, just looking at the
ffront covers and there’d be, like, a spar-
kling
k cyanide or a glass of champagne.
It
I was always very glamorous.”
Talking to Osman, it’s clear
his
h mother, Brenda, has been a
huge
h influence throughout his
life. He dedicated The Thurs-
day Murder Club to her. When it
was announced last year that Steven
Crime-writing royalty: Ngaio Marsh,
far left, and Agatha Christie.
Spielberg had bought the screen rights
for the book, Osman said he was unlikely
to appear on screen given his distinc-
tive appearance, but would love for his
mother to have a cameo role. After all, she
inspired one of the quartet, as well as the
underlying theme of his book.
“You know, ours wasn’t a particularly
arty household,” says Osman with a
chuckle, when I note both he and his
brother have gone on to extremely suc-
cessful careers in arts and entertainment.
“There were never music and paints and
crafts going in our house. But my whole
family – I’m guessing it’s the same for
many New Zealand families from the mid-
20th century – went from working class to
my generation being middle class. But you
know, I grew up in that low-income envi-
ronment. I grew up in an environment with
very strong working-class role models.”
Osman says that, to him, The Thurs-
day Murder Club is all about a lesson
imprinted on him as he matured – about
the importance of being kind but strong.
“That’s the thing I gained from my back-
ground, that I’ve gained from my mum
and from my grandparents.”
Kindness and empathy are incredibly
important to Osman. “I believe kindness
is the way that we make the world a better
place, but you also can’t be a pushover,”
he says. “There’s a lot of alpha empaths in
The Thursday Murder Club, people who
really, really want the world to be a better
place, but do not mess with them! And I
think if my family has a defining charac-
teristic, it’s very, very kind, but takes no
nonsense from anyone.”
Those traits are echoed in the character
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Osman is a fixture on
British TV screens,
a genial giant known
for his quick wit
and kindness.
of Joyce in book: a nurse who never had
the income of her fellow sleuths and
perhaps undervalues her own abilities,
but dedicated her life to helping others
while raising a child who went on to big
financial success.
“Joyce is clearly incredibly competent
and sharp,” says Osman. “Had she been
born into a different family in a different
world at a different time, she would have
gone on to do something extraordinary
in the world. But actually, what she did
was what my mum did – have an amazing
career looking after people and making
the world a better place. But she still has
that potential to, you know, go and solve a
murder, essentially.”
O sman grew up with his
mother and brother in
West Sussex, going to
high school about a 30-minute
drive north of Brighton before
gaining a place at the University
of Cambridge, where he studied
politics and sociology and met
Steven Spielberg: his production
company has bought the
rights to Osman’s first book.
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Alexander Armstrong, who went on to
become his co-host on Pointless.
Osman’s grandfather, a policeman
who was one of 11 children, was a huge
believer in the power of education, and
Osman took him to his Cambridge gradu-
ation, feeling it was his grandfather’s
achievement as much as his own. Later,
Osman went on to work as a successful
TV producer on a variety of unscripted
shows such as Deal or No Deal, 8 Out of 10
Cats, and Total Wipeout.
His move in front of the camera, as
his 40th birthday loomed, was acciden-
tal. Osman stood in as co-host to his old
Cambridge pal Armstrong while pitching
the idea of Pointless (a show in which
contestants battle to come up with the
most obscure answers), then ended up in
the role for real.
A decade later, he’s a fixture on British
TV screens, a genial giant known for his
quick wit and kindness. Funny without
snark, even when contestants provide
plenty of ammo.
That gentle humour is on show
throughout The Thursday Murder Club,
which
w provides plenty of chuck-
les, even if Osman says he took
care
c not to write any jokes
into it.
“I know people are laugh-
ing at the book, and that’s
lovely, and it’s a joy to be able
to do that, but I really set out
tto not write a funny book,” he
ssays. “Comic crime novels
are hard. I love Carl
Hiaasen,
H I love
Christopher
C Osman (Penguin, $24) is out now in paperback.
Brookmyre, but there can be a discon-
nect if you’re taken out of a book by the
comedy. So, my rule was ‘no jokes’. There’s
not a single one-liner in that book. Noth-
ing was in there because it was funny.
The humour seems to be coming from the
characters and the way they interact with
each other, the way the world sees them
and they see themselves.”
Chuckling, Osman says he was actually
trying to write as gritty a book as pos-
sible. He’s a fan of such authors as Dennis
Lehane, Mark Billingham and Val McDer-
mid, who write gritty, dark urban tales.
“That’s me writing gritty, and the charac-
ters kept interjecting the humour,” he says.
“They stopped it becoming endlessly grim
and bleak, but I didn’t set out with ‘Okay,
I’m going to write a joke now.’ It’s just that
when I’m writing a serious scene, I just
“When I’m writing a
serious scene, I just
know one of the four of
the characters is going
to say something that
will make me laugh.”
know one of the four characters is going to
say something that will make me laugh. So
it just goes in there.”
In September, the Thursday Murder
Club will return for another adventure
in The Man Who Died Twice, a sequel
entwined with stolen diamonds and a
violent mobster.
Osman, who is keen to visit New
Zealand once the pandemic has passed,
admits he’s glad he wrote the bulk of his
second novel during lockdown, before
his debut was released. Otherwise, the
stunning success may have turned his
head and had him trying to predict what it
was so many readers loved about his first
novel, rather than just writing the best
story he could.
Instead, he could just enjoy being in the
company of the characters who survived
the first book. As for the future, he’s
looking forward to writing many more
instalments. “I am so not done with them,
and they’re not done with me, either. In
their voices, I find a way to say what I
think about the world. And, you know, I
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want to keep doing that.” l
THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB, by Richard
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 LIFE
HEALTH
by Nicky Pellegrino
Sure signs
A Dunedin-based charity is
dedicated to improving detection
and treatment of ovarian cancer.
I
n May, a giant billboard in London’s Pic-
cadilly Circus and another on New York’s
Times Square were devoted to ovarian
cancer. “An ad you can’t miss for a cancer
you do”, they read. Those billboards, along
with more than 150 others that were donated across
the UK and New York, were the work of a small
Dunedin-based charity that is doing big things to
help change the fate of women with a disease that is
often diagnosed too late and is the fifth-most-com-
mon cause of female cancer death in New Zealand.
This year alone, Cure Our Ovarian Cancer has
run an education campaign targeted at GP prac-
tices to drive earlier diagnosis. It has
delivered a petition to Parliament
calling for more research fund-
GUY FREDERICK; MARK THOMAS
ing, treatments, ultrasounds
for detection and asking for
ovarian cancer education to be
incorporated into the cervical
Jane Ludemann: working for better
understanding of ovarian cancer.
34
The disease is often
diagnosed too late
and is the fifth-most-
common cause of
female cancer death
in New Zealand.
cancer screening programme. And
the charity, which already funds a
researcher at the University of Otago,
recently advertised another $25,000
research grant.
The inspirational woman behind
Cure Our Ovarian Cancer, Jane
Ludemann, found out she had the
disease in 2017, at the age of 32. She
had been having symptoms for a
long time before that – changes in
bowel motions, fatigue, reduced
appetite, aches, spasms in her thigh
– but was told she was too young to
have cancer and made to feel like a
hypochondriac.
One of the problems with ovarian-
cancer diagnosis is there are a
number of potential symptoms that
can easily be attributed to other
things, such as irritable bowel syn-
drome. Last year, Cure Our Ovarian
Cancer conducted a survey that found
90% of women couldn’t name a single
symptom before their diagnosis and
the majority had to visit their doctor
three or more times about their symp-
toms before being offered testing.
People might have one symptom
or many (see panel). If symptoms last
for two weeks or longer, particularly
if they are unusual, frequent and/
or getting worse, women should see
their GP. Diagnosis involves a blood
test and a transvaginal ultrasound.
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 Health message:
the World
Ovarian Cancer
Day billboard
in London’s
Piccadilly Circus.
OVARIAN CANCER
SYMPTOMS
Increase in tummy size/
bloating.
Abdominal and/or pelvic
and/or back pain.
Needing to urinate more
often or urgently.
Bowel habit changes.
Eating less and feeling fuller.
Fatigue.
Indigestion.
Painful intercourse.
Abnormal vaginal bleeding.
Unexplained weight change.
T he ovarian cancer Ludemann
has is called “low-grade
serious”. It is a type that
particularly affects younger women
and, initially, the charity she quit her
career as an optometrist to run was
focused solely on that. But Cure Our
Ovarian Cancer has now expanded
to cover all the 30-plus types of this
cancer and has a global reach.
“New Zealand didn’t have an
ovarian cancer charity when I was
diagnosed,” says Ludemann, who
told her story to Clare de Lore in the
Listener in 2019. “There was a general
gynaecological cancer charity, but no
one was focusing specifically on this.”
Better understanding is an
important part of what the
organisation is working towards.
September is Gynaecological
Awareness Month, so New Zealand-
ers will be seeing some of those
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billboards, and fundraising events
will take place around the country.
Larger amounts of money are needed
to pay for medical research, which,
says Ludemann, has been lacking until
now. According to Te Aho o Te Kahu, the Cancer
Control Agency, between 2006 and 2019, ovarian
received the lowest amount of any cancer funded
by the Health Research Council. Others, such
as prostate and breast cancer, which have had
more support, have seen survival rates improve.
“Although my scans are
looking good, it’s really
likely that my cancer
will come back.”
As well as raising funds, the Ludemann family
have donated a lot of their own money to the
cause. There are regular Zoom conferences
from the kitchen table with experts worldwide.
“We’re trying to drive progress more quickly
and get researchers to collaborate and come up
with ideas. A lot of it is working out what sorts
of existing treatments out there could be repur-
posed to benefit people.”
This is personal, of course. “The hope is to
fast-track things so they can find better treat-
ments when I need them,” Ludemann says.
After two surgeries, she now takes an
aromatase inhibitor, Letrozole, and the hormone-
therapy drug Zoladex. Both are relatively old
drugs, which suppress the activity of hormones
in the body and slow the growth of cancers.
Ludemann describes herself as being in a
grey zone at the moment. “Although my scans
are looking good, it’s really likely that my cancer
will come back.” Running a charity focused on
ovarian cancer means she is immersed in it day
after day. “I’m constantly dealing with people I
get to know very well who are dying.”
It takes an emotional toll, but she is deter-
mined to continue. “We’ve achieved a lot, but
it has been slower and more difficult than I
ever imagined it would be when I started,” she
says. “It has taken four and a half years to get
to this point and that’s a long time for someone
with ovarian cancer. But I’m certain that more
research, better treatments and an effective
screening test will make a big
difference. So it’s really impor-
tant that we get this charity to
a point that it will be able to
operate without me, because
I don’t know how long I’ll be
here to keep it going.” l
HEALTH BRIEFS
FIT TO BUST
Athletes are two and half times
more likely than non-athletes to
develop irregular heart rhythms
(atrial fibrillation), suggests research
published in the British Journal of
Sports Medicine. Previous studies
have shown that physical activ-
ity can improve cardiovascular
health, but the new research
suggests there is a threshold
beyond which exercise is linked
to heart issues. Younger athletes,
aged 55 and under, had a much
higher risk of atrial fibrillation
than older athletes. And those in
sports such as rugby and netball
had a higher risk than athletes
taking part in endurance sports
such as orienteering or rowing.
REDUCING THE RISK
Prioritising vulnerable but less
mobile groups for Covid-19 vaccina-
tion could create a higher risk of
vaccine-evading variants emerg-
ing, according to international
modelling by the University of
Cambridge. The researchers found
that prioritising less vulnerable but
more mobile population groups
could reduce overall cases of Covid-
19, therefore reducing the risk of
vaccine-resistant strains emerging.
BRAILLE BENEFIT
Learning Braille alters specific
regions of the brain, say research-
ers from the Polish Academy of
Sciences. The team used MRI
to measure the changes in the
brain’s white matter – the system
of neural connections that join all
four lobes of the brain – of sighted
adults as they learnt Braille over
eight months. They found that the
white matter in regions related to
touch strengthened over the full
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course of the training, but vision-
related white matter started to
change only at the halfway point.
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 LIFE
NUTRITION
by Jennifer Bowden
Bean there,
eaten that
Pulses are increasingly being recognised
as beneficial in preventing cardiovascular
disease, but what are they?
Question:
What is the difference between legumes and pulses?
And is one a healthier alternative to meat than the other?
Answer:
T recommended 30g
he terms legumes, pulses and beans
are used interchangeably, but they
actually refer to different sets of
foods. And, interestingly, research
suggests one group may be more
beneficial for heart health than the others.
Legumes are the pods or fruits of plants that
belong to the botanical families of Leguminosae or
Fabaceae. Thus, legumes include soybeans, pea-
nuts, green/dry beans and peas, chickpeas, lentils,
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broad beans, alfalfa, clover and lupin. However,
according to the Food and Agriculture Organisa-
tion of the United Nations, the subset of legumes
36
classified as pulses are those legume
crops that are harvested for dry
grain, including lentils, chickpeas,
dry beans and peas.
However, green crops that are
harvested for food, such as green
beans and peas, and those used for
oil extraction, such as soybean and
peanuts, or agricultural sowing
purposes (clover and alfalfa), are
not pulses. Thus, while all pulses are
legumes, not all legumes fall into the
subcategory of pulses.
Pulses were a primary source of
protein and energy for most agri-
cultural civilisations dating back
8000-10,000 years. In the past century,
pulses and many other legumes have
Including pulses
in most meals
will help meet the
of dietary fibre a day.
been relegated to an occasional side-
dish, rather than their traditional role
as a centrepiece of main meals. This
unfortunate decline in pulse con-
sumption, a symptom of “progress”
and prosperity, is associated with a
rise in chronic disease rates, says a
2019 study in the journal Nutrients.
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IDEAS:
AS:
Add canned baked beans,
chickpeas or red kidney
beans to a store-bought or
home-made soup, casserole
or pasta sauce.
Add canned four-bean
mix or chickpeas to salads
or pasta.
Substitute baked beans and
diced vegetables for meat in
a shepherd’s pie; or combine
beans with meat to make
the meal more nutritious
and able to stretch further.
Use red kidney beans in a
Mexican-style chilli; serve
with rice, baked potatoes,
nachos, tacos or burritos.
Replace meat in recipes
with beans or tofu.
Add your favourite sauce or
marinade to tofu to imbue
some flavour; dry-fry in a
non-stick pan and add to
stir-fried vegetables or a
salad.
Make bean burgers: blend
kidney beans with onion,
spices, sauces and bread-
crumbs in a food processor,
form into patties, then cook
and serve in a wholegrain
bun with leafy greens.
Toss falafels – made from
chickpeas and/or beans
– with salad into a pita
pocket.
Use puréed beans as a dip
or spread. Hummus is a
chickpea-based dip.
L egumes remain an underap-
preciated food group by most
Westerners, with the exception
of vegetarians, who embrace these
nutritious nuggets as a prime protein
source. Legumes are not only an
inexpensive source of protein, but also
contain significant quantities of dietary
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fibre, B vitamins and minerals such
as iron, magnesium and potassium,
a
as well as a range of polyphenols.
a
Their nutrition profile, including
T
tthat helpful fibre, also makes them a
llow glycaemic-index food that slowly
iincreases blood-glucose levels, in contrast to
the processed foods in many Western diets.
Pulses are increasingly being recognised as
beneficial in preventing and managing cardio-
vascular disease. The World Cancer Research
Fund also recommends including pulses in
most meals to help meet its recommended 30g
of dietary fibre a day; high-fibre diets reduce
the risk of certain cancers, such as colorectal
cancer. Legumes are also a favoured food for
the beneficial bacteria in our gut and their fibre
helps maintain bowel regularity.
New Zealanders generally
do not eat enough
dietary fibre, with men
consuming just 22.1g
a day and women 17.5g.
In terms of health effects for pulses versus
other legumes, a recent systematic review and
meta-analysis found people who ate more pulses
had a lower risk of cardiovascular disease,
coronary heart disease and hypertension.
However, the addition of non-pulse legumes to
the diet was not associated with any changes in
heart-disease risk. Although this was a review of
observational studies and thus is not definitive,
it suggests that pulses are responsible for more
of the positive heart-health effects than the
other legumes.
New Zealanders do not tend to eat enough die-
tary fibre, with men consuming just 22.1g a day
and women 17.5g, well below the recommended
intake of 30g and 25g respectively. Adding more
pulses and other legumes to your diet is a great
way to boost fibre intake and health. For exam-
ple, one cup of baked beans contains 16g of fibre,
which is a substantial boost.
Although some legumes need
soaking before cooking,
others such as lentils, split
peas and black-eyed peas
do not. And canned pulses
such as chickpeas, beans
and lentils can simply
be rinsed under running
water to remove excess salt
before adding to meals. l
Email your nutrition questions
to listenerlife@aremedia.co.nz
NUTRITION BITES
QUANTITY AND FREQUENCY
No single food must be totally
avoided if you want to improve
cardiovascular-disease risk, says
a new study published in Car-
diovascular Research. Rather, it is a
matter of managing the quantity
and frequency of consumption of
different foods. Overall, there is still
consistent evidence that low intake
of salt and foods of animal origin
and increased intake of plant-
based foods will reduce the risk of
atherosclerosis (the buildup of fats,
cholesterol and other substances
in and on artery walls). Red meat
should be limited to two 100g
servings a week and processed
meat eaten only occasionally.
FLAVOURSOME TOMS
Tastier tomatoes could be on the
menu, thanks to scientists who
have developed a way to rapidly
analyse tomato samples from 157
varieties to identify their carot-
enoid and chlorophyll content.
Researchers have discovered the
coloured pigments in tomatoes
also affect their flavour. They hope
to identify growing conditions that
promote production of benefi-
cial pigments, resulting in more
flavoursome tomatoes.
MORE VEGES, PLEASE
Increasing the serving size of vege-
tables on children’s plates may lead
to increased consumption, says a
new study by Pennsylvania State
University. Researchers doubled
the quantities of corn and broc-
ccoli served from
6
60g to 120g
a
and found
tthe chil-
dren, aged
b
between
three
and five
years, ate
68% more
of the veges
– or an extra
21g. They also
found that season-
i the veges with
ing
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butter and salt
d not increase
did
consumption.
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FOOD

Souper!
In the depths of winter, it’s hard to beat
HEARTY FRESH VEGETABLE SOUP
2 tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion, diced
2 medium carrots, sliced
2 stalks celery, diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 tbsp tomato paste
nourishing, healthy soups. These easy ½ tsp dried oregano
recipes offer tasty meal inspiration. ½ tsp salt
¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper
½ tsp chopped parsley, plus more for
garnishing

S
oups are the perfect meal for a cold Heat the oil in a large stockpot over 1 litre vegetable stock
day. This hearty chicken dish is made medium heat, then sauté the onion, 2 tomatoes, peeled and chopped
with whole milk and finished with celery and carrot until translucent – 2 medium red-skinned potatoes,
spinach and parmesan tortellini. You about 8 minutes. Add the flour, garlic, diced
can give it a stew-like texture by adding salt, thyme and pepper, then cook 1 zucchini, quartered and sliced
two tablespoons of flour instead of just one. for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. 1 cup green beans, cut into 2.5cm
Add the stock and milk, then bring lengths
ROASTED CHICKEN FLORENTINE to a boil. Add the spinach, chicken kernels cut from 1 ear of sweetcorn
2 tbsp olive oil and tortellini, then cook until done
1 medium onion, diced – about 10 minutes. Taste and adjust Heat the oil in a large stockpot over
2 stalks celery, diced the seasonings with salt and pepper if medium heat, then sauté the onion,
1 carrot, diced necessary. Garnish with fresh parsley carrot and celery until fragrant
1 tbsp flour and serve with toasted garlic bread. – about 5 minutes. Add the garlic,
2 garlic cloves, minced Serves 4. tomato paste, oregano, salt, pepper
½ tsp salt and parsley to the pot, then cook for 2
½ tsp fresh thyme THE FOLLOWING RECIPE highlights minutes, stirring constantly. Add the
¼ tsp black pepper the freshest vegetables in a simple yet stock and tomatoes, then bring to a
1 litre chicken stock flavourful broth. A tip to aid peeling simmer. Once the soup is simmering,
1 cup whole milk the tomatoes is to cut a cross on the add the potatoes, zucchini and beans.
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2 cups fresh spinach, washed and trimmed bottom with a sharp knife, then dunk Cook, covered, for 20 minutes or until
500g roasted chicken meat, cubed them into boiling water for a minute. the potatoes are tender. Remove from
500g spinach and parmesan tortellini Remove and dunk in cold water. The the heat and stir in the corn kernels.
fresh parsley for garnish skin should peel off easily. Taste, then adjust the seasonings with

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 From far left,
roasted chicken
florentine, hearty
fresh vegetable
soup, Vietnamese
phở with beef, and
cream of potato
and leek soup.

extra salt and pepper if necessary.
Garnish with fresh parsley and serve
with crusty sourdough rolls.
Serves 4‐6.
PHỞ CAN BE made with all manner
of meat cuts, but for this recipe, very
thin slices of beef sirloin are usually
used. The boiling broth is poured
over the meat and noodles once they
are in the serving bowls and on their
way to the dining table. Although
the recipe is time-consuming, all the
steps are easy and the ingredients
are readily available, except the
culantro, which can be substituted
with coriander.
VIETNAMESE PHỞ WITH BEEF
500g beef knucklebones, with marrow
7.5cm cinnamon stick
4 star anise
2 tbsp brown sugar
4 whole cloves
1 lime, sliced
½ tsp salt
2 large onions, halved
500g banh pho noodles or rice
vermicelli
fresh basil leaves, lime wedges, bean
sprouts, sliced jalapeño pepper and
culantro or coriander leaves for
garnishes
Place the bones in a large pot, then
cover with water. Add the cinna-
mon stick, star anise, brown sugar,
cloves, lime and salt to the water.
Bring to a boil, then simmer for 90
minutes, skimming off any fat that
rises to the top.
Meanwhile, char the onion and
ginger pieces by holding them (using
tongs) over an open flame of your
stove or using a kitchen blowtorch.
They don’t have to be evenly charred
on all sides, just slightly charred
and semi-cooked. Add the onion and
ginger to the bones, then skim off any
fat or scum that rises to the top. Char-
ring adds more flavour and this step
should not be skipped.
Once the bones are cooked, strain
the broth into another pot set on
noodles into large, deep bowls. Top with several
slices of raw sirloin, then cover with several ladles
of boiling broth. Garnish with spring onion and
serve with the other garnishes on side plates.
Serves 8.
THIS IS A classic flavour combination inspired by
the cold French soup vichyssoise.
CREAM OF POTATO AND LEEK SOUP
4 tbsp butter
1 leek, chopped, including the green part
1 stalk celery, chopped
1 carrot, shredded
2 garlic cloves, minced
¼ cup all-purpose flour
2 cups chicken stock
3 potatoes, cut into small cubes
2 cups milk
1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
¼ tsp fresh thyme
¼ tsp fresh rosemary
dash of hot sauce (eg, Tabasco)
dash of worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper to taste
In a large stockpot, melt the butter, then sweat
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7.5cm piece of ginger, halved
2 tbsp fish sauce
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp chilli paste
2 litres water
1kg beef sirloin tip, sliced as thinly as
possible against the grain
1 bunch spring onions, sliced
medium-high heat. Add the fish
sauce, soy sauce and chilli paste to
the strained broth, then bring to a boil.
Put the water in another large
stockpot, then cover and heat to a
simmer. Cook the noodles according
to the package directions. Drain well.
To assemble the phở, ladle the
the leek, celery, carrot and garlic over medium
heat until just softened. Add the flour, then stir
constantly for 2-3 minutes. Slowly add the stock to
the pot, stirring as you go. Add the potatoes, milk,
parsley, thyme, rosemary, hot sauce, worcestershire
sauce and salt and pepper. Simmer for 20-30 min-
utes, stirring frequently, until the potatoes are soft.
Serves 6.

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 LIFE
WINE
by Michael Cooper
Sky red
The first 2020
vintage from
Gibbston’s loftiest
vineyard should
boost the sub-
region’s reputation.
Maryland crab chowder
A
THIS US EAST COAST classic comes together carpet of green runs
quickly and is lighter than most chowders. along north-facing
Served with crusty sourdough bread and terraces above the
a cold beer, it makes a perfect dinner. tumbling Kawarau
River, between Queenstown and
MARYLAND CRAB CHOWDER Cromwell. At Gibbston, the high-
2 tbsp canola oil est and coolest of Central Otago’s
2 shallots, diced wine sub-regions, a rising stream
2 stalks celery, diced of red wine has flowed since the
2 garlic cloves, minced mid-1980s: floral, frequently
½ tsp salt slightly herbal pinot noirs, at their
¼ tsp white pepper finest showing impressive deli-
¼ tsp paprika cacy and length of flavour, with a
¼ tsp red chilli flakes seductive, silky texture.
450ml fish stock At 420-490m above sea level,
450ml whole milk High Garden is Gibbston’s loftiest
2 medium potatoes, peeled and diced vineyard. The first 2020 vin-
500g crab meat tage of High Garden Vineyard
1 cup corn kernels, fresh or frozen Gibbston Pinot Noir ($95), soon to
½ cup peas, fresh or frozen be released, should boost the sub-
1 tbsp cornflour mixed with 1 tbsp cold milk region’s reputation, with its lovely
salt and pepper to taste perfume and gracefulness.
High Garden’s owner, Robin
Heat the oil in a large stockpot over medium Tedder, the third Baron Tedder
heat, then sauté the shallots and celery until of Glenguin, divides his time
fragrant – about 5 minutes. Add the garlic, salt, between Sydney, the Hunter
pepper, paprika and chilli flakes, then cook for 2 Valley and Gibbston. Raised in
minutes, stirring constantly. Add the stock and Scotland, he lived in New Zealand
milk, then bring to a simmer. Add the potatoes for a couple of years in the 1970s,
and cook for 15 minutes or until tender. Add the but has since spent most of his life
crab, corn and peas, then cook until warmed in Australia, where he is a major
through – about 5 minutes. Stir in the cornflour shareholder in ASX-listed prop-
paste and cook for 5 minutes. Adjust the season- erty fund manager Blackwall Ltd.
ings with salt and Tedder’s interest in wine was
pepper if necessary. aroused in Germany, “drinking
Serves 4. goblets of Mosel-Saar-Ruwer”.
Recipes extracted In 1993, he and his wife, Rita,
from THE ULTIMATE founded Glenguin Estate in the
SOUP COOKBOOK: Hunter Valley, now specialising
Sensational soups in shiraz and sémillon. Four years
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for healthy living, later, he passed the Master of
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(Quarto, $27.99). fashioning a world-class pinot
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The Gibbston high-
way bridge over the
Kawarau Gorge.
noir – Tedder says he invested in
Central Otago, rather than Tasma-
nia, because of his New Zealand
background. “We’ve been visiting
the region for 15 years. And when I
tasted Grant Taylor’s range of Valli
pinot noirs [grown at Bannock-
burn, Bendigo, Lowburn, Gibbston
and North Otago’s Waitaki Valley],
the Gibbston wine was a revelation.”
The grapes from High Garden
Vineyard, planted in 2001-02,
were previously not reserved for a
single-vineyard red. Since acquir-
ing the site in 2020, Tedder has
reduced the vines’ grape yields to
four tonnes a hectare, “similar to
the Burgundy grand cru Romanée
Conti”. In autumn, the vineyard’s
extreme elevation gives the ripen-
ing grapes “an hour and a half more
sunshine per day than down on the
valley floor”.
The High Garden red will defi-
nitely be sold in Australia. Tedder
says there are two main markets
for New Zealand wine there:
“‘Cheap and cheerful’ Marlborough
sauvignon blanc, but also ‘high-end’
wines from other regions, includ-
ing chardonnay and syrah, but
mostly pinot noir.” l
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TECHNOLOGY
by Peter Griffin
allowing 50 pages of printing.
Your printer is connected to the
internet so lets HP know your page
usage and ink toner levels. It will
automatically order ink cartridges,
which are then couriered to you.
I found this remarkably intuitive.
Less than halfway through the first

Toner
month, the new cartridges had
arrived. Every so often, HP will send
out a prepaid bag so you can post
back empty cartridges, which is a

trials
good move to encourage recycling.

It’s a convenient
Printer makers system that avoids
aren’t abandoning the bill shock of
buying several
their lucrative cartridges at once.
business model any
time soon, but HP, If you have a quiet printing
month, you can roll over unused
for one, is offering pages for up to three months, a bit
some concessions. like mobile phone plans that let
you roll over unused data. It’s a
convenient system that avoids the
hassle of needing to head out to

P
rinter ink. It’s up there with razor
blades as one of the most annoyingly
expensive everyday consumable
products.
I recently found myself in Kilbirnie,
near Wellington Airport, knocking on the door
of someone who was advertising genuine HP ink
cartridges at cheap prices. This followed my storm-
ing out of Warehouse Stationery, unwilling to pay
in excess of $350 to replace my depleted printer
cartridges – more than the printer itself cost.
The knocked-down prices were real, but the
supplier needed to order in stock from Auckland.
I had an urgent print job to do, so slunk back to the
stationery store for an inky fleecing.
Why is printer ink more expensive than
gold and vintage champagne?
It comes down to the printer
makers adopting the razor-
and-blades business model that
safety-razor baron King Camp
Gillette became famous for
more than 100 years ago.
The likes of HP, Canon
and Epson sell you a printer
below what it costs to make
it, then charge inflated prices
for ink. Some printers have
printers require you to replace a
depleted cyan or magenta cartridge
even if you just want to print in
black and white. It’s infuriating.
What’s the answer? There are
hacks to trick printers into accepting
generic cartridges, but using them
can void your warranty, and the qual-
ity of genuine ink is usually better.
The printer makers aren’t abandon-
ing their lucrative business model
any time soon, but they are offering
some concessions. HP, for instance,
has its Instant Ink service available
on a wide range of its printers.
I
which
wh
recently tried it for the
entry-level HP Envy
Pro 6420 inkjet printer,
is suitable for light
printing
pr jobs. Instant Ink
is a subscription service.
You
Y pay a monthly fee
ranging
ra from $1.99, which
allows
a you to print 15
pages,
p up to $49.99, which
lets
l you print 700 pages.
I opted for the $5.99 plan,
buy cartridges and the bill shock of
buying several cartridges at once.
But is it actually any cheaper over-
all? Yes, claims HP, up to 50% cheaper,
but mainly on the high-end 700-page-
per-month plan. That would see you
pay $600 a year in subscription fees,
but you would be able to print 8400
pages, more than if you picked up
genuine cartridges from a store. So,
you really need to be running a small
business or working on a novel or
PhD thesis to save money.
The $5.99 plan seems right for
me and I like not having to worry
about running out of ink. I’m trying
to print less these days, using an
iPad and digital pen to read and edit
documents. But with more people
working from home, home print-
ers are spitting out more pages. A
subscription service may make sense.
Another approach is printers
with bulk ink tanks, which Epson,
Brother and HP are all now sell-
ing. The printer itself typically
costs a lot more, but the genuine
ink refills work out much cheaper
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sensors that can detect cheaper than traditional cartridges. That’s

generic printer cartridges Safety-razor baron King the way to go if you baulk at the
and reject them. Many colour Gillette’s famous blades. idea of paying a monthly fee. l

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 LIFE
PSYCHOLOGY
by Marc Wilson

Video
nasty
Reaction times do get slower
with age, so choose your
opponent carefully.

I 
n computer game terms, “FPS” means at I’m rubbish. In one hilarious attempt
least two things. “Frames per second” indi- to bond, the boy “allowed” me to play My attempt at
cates how many frames you see in a second.
Faster is often better. “First-person shooter”,
with him and three of his mates, but
it turned into a farce – I would “die”
bonding turned
on the other hand, describes games pretty much immediately
p into a farce. I would
in which you shoot baddies from a first- and my teammates would
a “die” pretty much
person perspective. Though this style embark on revenge
of game dates back to the 1970s, most (“They killed Burgundy’s
immediately.
sources identify Doom (1993) as the dad!”).
d
most influential of the genre. The reason for my worn and the signals aren’t getting
Our 17-year-old is very good at badness is that I’m slow
b through quite so fast, right?
FPS, and particularly Tom Clancy’s cos I’m old(er). I don’t have Actually, this is only a minuscule
Rainbow Six Siege. When I have a half lightning-like reflexes any piece of the age-related decline in
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hour to myself, I also dabble. Except, more. That makes sense, reaction time.
really – the insulation on the
r There are numerous online
Benchmark setter: Sir Francis Galton. wiring is getting a little
w reaction-time tests. The simplest

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involve pressing a key, or the mouse
button, as soon as something changes
(a stop sign appears, or a box goes
from green to red).
I had a bit of fun doing a few, trying
each five times. I was surprised that
my simple reaction time was both
better than average and, apparently,
for my age. Yet, I’m being embar-
rassed by “squeakers” – “a child on an
online chat who has not yet reached
puberty”– who shouldn’t be playing
Rainbow Six Siege because it’s rated
R16 in New Zealand.
In a target-based reaction test –
where you click your cursor on a
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target that pops up at random around the screen
– I’m notably slower, although better than
maybe 40% of the population.
D avid Woods, of the neurophysiology
laboratory at Northern California Vet-
erans Affairs, and colleagues used tasks
such as these, modified and corrected, to see if
we’re slower (or faster) now than we were in the
19th century. Why 19th? That’s when Charles
Darwin’s half-cousin, Sir Francis Galton,
reported reaction times faster than 190 millisec-
onds in young subjects. More recent research,
Woods says, suggests we’re not just slower now,
but that there’s also huge variation in measured
reaction times.
An 80-year-old is, on
average, 34 milliseconds
slower than an 18-year-
old. But they’re more
careful to get it right.
Part of the challenge is how you pre-
sent the task. Contemporary reaction-time
measurement tools are very accurate but
computer-mediated. In the press-when-you-see-
stop task, there’s a latency between the signal
to present the stop sign and it appearing on the
monitor of as much as 50 milliseconds. 60Hz
TVs, released in 2020, can add 34-124 millisec-
onds to your reaction time on an HDTV.
So, Woods corrected for this lag, and found
that we’re almost exactly as fast as our Victorian
counterparts. But although men and women are
pretty much identical, and education is unre-
lated to reaction time, we do get slower as we age
– about half a millisecond a year. An 80-year-old
is, on average, 34 milliseconds slower than an
18-year-old.
What we lose on the swing, we gain on the
roundabout, though – younger people make
more errors (what’s called a speed-accuracy
trade-off ). Basically, older folk see the stimulus
as fast as anyone, but they show slower “motor
output”, and part of that is because they’re more
careful to get it right.
If you want to beat the young
’uns at R6, you’re starting at
a disadvantage. Evidence-
based advice is to practise
lots, stay hydrated, exercise
regularly, warm up your
hands – and buy a faster
computer with a higher
refresh rate. Remember
the other FPS? Maximise
those frames per second. l
SCIENCE &
NATURE BRIEFS
AMAZON REVERSAL
The carbon-buffering potential
of the Amazon rainforest is being
threatened by climate change
and deforestation, with some
regions now emitting more carbon
than they absorb. A Brazilian-led
international study, published in
Nature, suggests human-induced
climate change and deforestation
have stimulated a reduction in the
rainforest’s capacity for absorbing
carbon and altered the balance of
carbon gases. The south-eastern
Amazon has transformed from a
carbon sink to a carbon contributor.
DEATH BY EXTREMES
More than five million extra deaths
a year can be attributed to hotter
and colder temperature extremes
caused by climate change, an inter-
national study led by Melbourne’s
Monash University has found. Hot
and cold temperatures were identi-
fied as contributing to 9.43% of
total global deaths between 2000
and 2019, or 74 additional deaths
for every 100,000 people, with most
deaths linked to cold exposure.
However, deaths linked to extreme
cold decreased slightly while deaths
linked to heatwaves increased. The
highest excess death rates were in
Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan
Africa. The research data should
lead to better understanding of the
effects of non-optimal tempera-
tures under climate change.
CAPTIVITY THREAT
Kiwi living in captivity have less-
diverse gut microbiomes, made up
of different microbes, than those
of their wild counterparts, says a
joint Stanford University, California,
Massey University and Manaaki
Whenua-Landcare Research study.
a
Faecal samples of captive and
non-captive kiwi revealed
t
that an artificial diet, human
i
interaction and sterile
huts and living quarters
w
were key factors in the
simplification of microbes
in the guts of captive kiwi.
The lack of diversity, and
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the variation in the microbes
present, could leave them
more vulnerable to disease.
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 LIFE
SPORT
by Paul Thomas
Work ons
The mercurial All Blacks are not helping
coach Ian Foster’s case for reappointment.
A
lthough pandemic-related
precautions and logistical
nightmares are the new
normal in most parts of
the rugby world, it’s business as usual
in this country.
Unmasked spectators congregate
to watch international fixtures and
be pummelled with very loud music
at every break in play. The All Blacks
blow hot and cold. And swathes of the
media and public remain staunchly
resistant to the official view that Ian
Foster is the coach to lead the All
Blacks back to the summit.
There’s a chicken-and-egg com-
ponent to anti-Foster sentiment:
media sceptics insist the public lacks
confidence in him, but that’s hardly
surprising given what the public
sees and hears from the media. One
underwhelming performance and
“All the doubts … have come flooding
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back”. That, in turn, obliges the media
to remake the case for Foster’s rival,
Crusaders coach Scott Robertson.
44
Jury’s out: Ian
Foster has yet to
win over some fans
and media critics.
Foster, it seems, can’t take a trick:
the day after Robertson re-signed
with New Zealand Rugby (NZR), the
All Blacks put on a sub-par display.
Robertson’s effortless upper hand
in the battle for hearts and minds
may have prompted two of Foster’s
predecessors to speak out. John
Hart, All Blacks coach from 1996 to
1999, warned the “undue pressure”
on Foster would be detrimental to
the team, adding that “the spectre
of Scott Robertson in the back-
ground isn’t helping”.
Foster’s former boss,
Sir Steve Hansen, called it
“stupid” that Foster hasn’t
yet been appointed through
to the 2023 Rugby World Cup
(he’s contracted until the end
of this year). Hansen
also challenged
the widespread
Heir apparent:
Scott Robertson.
assumption, which Robertson has, artfully
or otherwise, encouraged, that Foster will
be, at most, a one World Cup-cycle coach.
Referring to Robertson’s deal with NZR,
Hansen said, “As long as they haven’t prom-
ised him that he’s going to get the job in
2024, because if they have and [Foster] goes
and wins the World Cup, then they’re going
to have a wee problem on their hands.”
Anything less than retaining
the Bledisloe and winning
the Rugby Championship
will trigger strident demands
for a contested process.
G iving Foster job security would
theoretically ease the pressure, but
the reality for all coaches is that signed
contracts and fulsome expressions of support
mean very little if results aren’t forthcoming.
Foster must now be seen to earn a contract
extension. So he must soldier on, knowing, first,
that anything less than retaining the Bledisloe
Cup and winning the Rugby Championship
will trigger strident demands for a contested
process, and second, he would enter that
process having already lost the PR contest.
Meanwhile, in South Africa, the Springboks
and British and Irish Lions are defying the
pandemic that has penetrated both camps, the
worst civil disorder since the end of apartheid
and common sense to press ahead with their
three-test series, albeit in empty stadiums. As
with the staging of the Tokyo Olympics, it’s an
indication that sport is prepared to go so far
but no further to accommodate the virus.
Across the Tasman, the Wallabies and French
teams stayed just far enough ahead of the out-
breaks to complete an extraordinarily tight series,
won by the home side. However, with France host-
ing the next World Cup, the big takeaway was the
competitiveness of what was closer to being their
C team than their A team.
And in yet another example of Australia’s
“heads we win, tails you lose” attitude
tto Kiwi immigrants, former Wallaby
Quade Cooper has been denied Austral-
ian citizenship despite playing 70 tests
in green and gold.
Given the callous mindset articulated
by former Home Affairs Minister Peter
b
Dutton – “taking out the trash” –
D
Cooper could count himself
lucky he hasn’t been
deported back to where
he spent his formative
h
years: Tokoroa. l
y
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LYRIC KING
Fifty years after the death of Jim Morrison, The Doors’ charismatic
and enigmatic frontman, his sister, Anne Morrison Chewning, has
pulled together his collected writings. She spoke to Mark Broatch.
I
n recent days, social-media feeds
saw a burst of images of people
lounging around Jim Morrison’s
grave in Paris’ Cimetière du Père
Lachaise. Someone had attached
a handmade sign to his grave:
THANKS FOR YOUR WORDS.
The occasion was the 50th anniversary
of the death of Morrison, lead singer of
The Doors and the original leather-pants-
wearing, hell-raising Lizard King, but it
could have been any day. It’s a pilgrimage
done by thousands every year, includ-
ing me, decades ago during one baking
Parisian summer. The cemetery is also
home to Oscar Wilde, Édith Piaf, Molière,
Chopin, Proust and Bizet, although most
head for Morrison’s littered, graffitied
last resting place.
“My daughter sent me the same
pictures,” says Morrison’s sister, Anne
Morrison Chewning, on the phone from
her home in California. “It’s really wonder-
ful that people do remember. It’s one of the
most popular walking tours in Paris, from
what I understand, Père Lachaise.”
We’re speaking because Chewning, a
sharp and thoughtful 74-year-old who
was a schoolteacher “for years and years”,
was deeply involved in putting together a
book of her brother’s collected writings in
accordance with a plan he included in his
notebooks. In the book’s nearly 600 pages
are all his published and unpublished writ-
ings, including probably his last poetry
reading on his 27th birthday; excerpts from
notebooks kept during his 1970 Miami trial
for indecency; and the Paris notebook, pos-
sibly his final journal. All his song lyrics,
as well as family and performance photos,
and the shooting script and stills from his
never-released film, HWY: An American
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Pastoral, about a murderous hitchhiker.
The idea was to finally pull all Morri-
son’s work together in one place. “Things
46
had been published before, some of his
writing, and of course his lyrics,” Chewn-
ing says. Morrison wrote the words to
many of the band’s most famous tunes,
including LA Woman – “Well, I just got
into town about an hour ago ...” – Break
on Through – “You know the day destroys
the night / Night divides the day” – People
Are Strange, Hello I Love You, Roadhouse
Blues, and the oedipal The End – “The killer
awoke before dawn / He put his boots on
/ He took a face from the/ancient gallery /
And he walked on down the hall.”
“But what I wanted to do,” says Chewn-
ing, “was put it altogether so the reader
and the fans and critics could see him
as more than just one thing, as a whole
person, not just the rock star we’re used to
seeing. He was much more than a lyricist;
he wrote a screenplay, he wrote poetry, he
wrote prose poems.”
F
rom a young age, Morrison read
novels and poetry from the likes
of William Blake, Baudelaire and
Kerouac, but also books on religion,
psychology and philosophy, including the
Marquis de Sade. His poetry and lyrics
are replete with dark, cryptic, stream-
of-consciousness imagery, rife with
references to ancient cultures, reptiles,
deserts, canyons, highways. Occasion-
ally, there’s black, sometimes juvenile
humour.
“I think he was the most well-read person
I’ve ever met for the age he was,” Chewning
says. “When we took him to Florida to go
to school, we stopped at Thomas Wolfe’s
house [a once-groundbreaking US novelist
who also died young] because he’d read
him. When he graduated, he wanted the
complete works of Nietzsche – I don’t think
he ever got them. My mother didn’t like
to have books around because we moved
every year or two, so we didn’t keep a lot
of things at our house, especially books,
because they weigh so much.
“He left books at my grandma’s house,
where he stayed that first year he went to
college. I stayed the next few years when
I went to college and found a lot of them.
They were Jean Genet, Arthur Rimbaud
and Camus, which no other 19-year-olds
were reading, I don’t think.”
What was he like as a person? He was
great, she says, fun to be around. “He was
always writing, always had a pen and a
journal with him.” Chewning is four years
younger, so never saw him in concert. “I’ve
seen it on videos. He was amazing on stage,
too, most of the time.”
The Doors producer Paul Rothchild,
who died in 1995, had a less sanguine view.
“When he was sober, he was Jekyll, the
most erudite, balanced, friendly kind of
guy. When he would start to drink, he’d be
okay at first, then, suddenly, he would turn
into a maniac. Turn into Hyde.”
One close observer says he viewed
Morrison as poet and rock god, but also a
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Jekyll and Hyde: Jim
Morrison in rock-god
form. Opposite, in
Frankfurt in 1968.
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Clockwise from left:

detached observer – the notes in the book more than who he was. He Morrison and Pamela naval forces during the
on his court case are journalistic. “Yes,” wanted people to think. Courson in 1969; from left, Gulf of Tonkin Incident of
says Chewning. “I think he was trying to That’s what he said about his Jim, Anne, Clara, George August 1964, a precursor
and Andy Morrison in
take the experience that way and remem- poetry as well. He says real to the US involvement in
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ber it and think about it and write about it.”
What was he trying to do with his music?
He wrote that he used the language of
violence and eroticism to break through
people’s barriers. “He said he wanted
people to respond. It seems to me he didn’t
want to be up there performing and them
just watching. He wanted them to have to
react to what he was doing.
“One time, he told me that he was just
so little on the stage that he had to be
poetry doesn’t say anything, Morrison’s unreleased film, the Vietnam War. Because
it just ticks off possibilities, HWY: An American Pastoral. of their father’s job, the
Below, a page from one of
opens doors, and you can Morrison’s journals. family moved around often.
walk through any one that Jim was born in Florida,
suits you. He even said about Anne in New Mexico, and
his poetry when he looked back at it that Andrew, who is a year younger than Anne,
sometimes he saw it in a different way. I in California. Their father was reportedly
don’t think he ever wanted to teach anyone. a disciplinarian and at one point his elder
I think he wanted to open up people.” Per- son cut off all contact with the family.
forming, he thought, was real action, a kind Chewning first heard her brother
of social protest. “I think sometimes, yes. singing in 1967, when she was about 20,
And sometimes just to create chaos and get without realising it was him. “I was in
a reaction.” London and he’d only graduated from
In the band doco Feast of Friends, Mor- college a year or so ago. I really didn’t
rison is asked: what do you hope to achieve know what he was up to. My dad was
with your work? He says, “I hope it leaves stationed at Grosvenor Square in London
them puzzled.” Some of his writing is a bit in the navy two years previously, and
enigmatic? “Yes. I always worry some- then I stayed. I worked and I got married
one’s going to ask me to explain it,” says and had a baby in London. My brother
Chewning. “Of course, some of it I love got a call from a friend who said, ‘I just
but … I think he expects you to ponder saw an album cover and it looks just like
over it and to wonder about it. When your brother and his name is Morrison,
people get this book, I say, don’t just sit what do you think?’ So Andy promptly
down and read it. That’s just too hard. went down to the music store and bought
You just want to pick it up and look at the album, and then my mum sent it to
different parts and try to figure it out me with no note, nothing, just the album
yourself.” cover. And it was amazing.”
Was it obvious from an early age that

J
ames Douglas Morrison was
born on December 8, 1943, to
Clara (née Clarke) and George
Stephen Morrison, who would go
on to be a rear admiral in the US
Navy. He was commander of the US
he was one out of the box? “No,” Chewn-
ing says. “I always knew he was really
smart. I always thought he would just be
a poet. Back in the day, we had beatniks
in San Francisco, and I assumed that was
the direction he was going to go. Which

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worried me, because I didn’t think any of
them made enough money to live on. But
he never cared about money. I don’t think
he ever had a job, except in the music
business. I like one of the lines in his
journal – ‘thanks to all the girls who fed
me’ – because even after college, I think he
slept on rooftops and people’s couches and
everyone helped him a little bit.”
B
y the time of the Miami trial,
Morrison may have been ready to
give up the The Doors. The group
– he met keyboardist Ray Manzarek at
UCLA film school, and guitarist Robby
Krieger and drummer John Densmore
shortly after – released five albums in six
years. Chewning has said elsewhere that
her brother regarded his 1970 trial as a
turning point. (He was convicted but was
reportedly appealing the verdict when
he died. A member of the band said it
was a “mass hallucination”.) “The joy of
performing has ended,” Morrison wrote.
“Joy of films is pleasure of writing.” He was
interested in film, he said in an interview,
“because, to me, it’s the closest approxima-
tion in art that we have to the actual flow
of consciousness”.
“I don’t know how
long he would have
kept singing. I think
he was coming to the
end. But they change
their mind, right?”
After the trial and the recording of
LA Woman, Morrison joined girlfriend
Pamela Courson in Paris, in March 1971.
He died there four months later, on July
3, aged 27. Courson said she found him in
the morning in the bathtub. The official
cause of death was listed as heart failure,
although no autopsy was performed. Sev-
eral alleged eyewitnesses said his death
was the result of a, presumably accidental,
heroin overdose. Courson inherited his
estate but died of a heroin overdose three
years later. After legal proceedings, the
two families eventually agreed to divide
the earnings from the estate.
Morrison has doubtless influenced
generations of frontmen, including Iggy
Pop and the likes of Eddie Vedder, Bono
and Michael Hutchence. Is anyone like
him today? Chewning doesn’t keep up
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Books of My Life
with rock music. “Part of it with Jim was
that he was lucky, because you go to a
smaller concert or a club and there are
wonderful people performing who never
Emma
reached the fame that Jim did. I am sure
there are people out there who are doing
Neale
just as much.”
If he had lived, he would be 78 this year. The novelist and poet’s first collection
What would he have been doing in the of short stories and flash fiction, THE
past 50 years? “I only assume he’d be doing PINK JUMPSUIT (Quentin Wilson), is
more,” says Chewning. “More of everything. released on August 1.
More of the writing and in the movie vein.
A
I don’t know how long he would have kept book I pored
singing. I think he was coming to the end. over, read
But they change their mind, right?” and reread
The Collected Works quotes a contem- as a child, yet never
porary interview with Morrison: “I’m not finished, was THE
denying that I’ve had a good time these last ILLUSTRATED
three or four years and met a lot of interest- TREASURY OF
ing people and seen a lot of things in a short CHILDREN’S LITERA-
space of time that I probably wouldn’t have TURE. It is plump, with everything
run into in 20 years of living. So I can’t say from nursery rhymes to fairy tales,
that I regret it, [but] if I had to do it over Aesop’s fables, tales of Brer Rabbit,
again, I think I would have gone more for the extracts from classic novels and poetry
quiet, undemonstrative little artist plodding by Shelley, Whitman, Wordsworth, de
away in his own garden.” la Mare and Robert Browning. It seems
Given his full-throated performances, it’s to have magical, shifting, bottomless-
doubtful his distinctive voice – “a scream pot qualities, because every time I pick
or a sick croon. Nothing in between”, he it up, even now, there are items in the
lamented – would have held out forever, or contents I’ve never noticed before. It
even his liver or heart if he had persisted subliminally taught me about twists
with his enthusiasm for drink and drugs. and surprises in plot, and also about
In her introduction to the book, Chewning the binding fibres of music in poetry.
gives the impression that at one point she
thought her brother might still be alive. Wallace Stevens’
“We didn’t get any official word that he
died. We heard it on the radio. So there
COLLECTED POEMS
compresses lucent
were always rumours that he faked his imagery, a sonic crisp-
death and was living in Africa, things like ness and a questing,
that, and at some point I thought, ‘Well, I allegorical cast of mind
don’t know. Wouldn’t it be great?’” into sometimes eerie,
Did the family ever think about bring- riddling pieces that
ing his body back from Paris? “No, never. explore the nature of imagination and
His girlfriend bought the grave site at Père reality. Stevens helps readers to find
Lachaise and buried him there. It seems meaning in a mind-created world in
just perfect, actually. Where else would which the comforts of religion have
have been a better place than with those gone cold.
other artists and musicians and writers?” l
A novel I’m choosing
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JIM for the power it had
MORRISON: Poetry, journals, transcripts, to break open my
and lyrics, by teenage naivety, yet
Jim Morrison also speak to some of
(HarperCollins, $75). its loneliness, is RUBY,
For avid collectors, by Rosa Guy. It’s a
more expensive limited novel that addresses
editions signed by poverty, racism and lesbian desire,
CAROLINE DAVIES
family and band which were taboo topics in young-adult
members are available fiction when it first appeared. The main
from booksonline. character’s sensitivity is still vivid in
co.nz/jim-morrison my memory decades later. l
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 BOOKS

How to
live well
The beauty and
complexity of the day-
to-day are captured in
a stirring meditation on
modern womanhood.
by ELEANOR DE JONG

D
eborah Levy’s bitter-
sweet trilogy has
concluded in real
time as it began, with
the evergreen search
for a “freer life” after
the ongoing knock-
ing down of the old ways.
These slim, profound memoirs, or long
autobiographical essays, however you
choose to read them, are a subtle quest by
the British novelist, playwright and poet
on how to live today. How to grow, love,
eat, marry, write, bear children, grieve,
cook and, eventually, hopefully, forge
your own way.
In London, where her family settle after Deborah Levy:
leaving apartheid-era South Africa, Levy frequent and
discovers a precocious talent for writing revealing
introspection.
but, in a struggle familiar to many women,
she wrestles with keeping her internal life
and imagination kindled amid the chaos new ways to be a family. A strong and interviewer in 2018. “I thought it would
of a cooling marriage and two young eccentric cast of female friends emerge be exciting to see what they were about
daughters. This tension is at the heart of – and the affable “best male friend” – and what they reveal. It seemed to me that
the trilogy. bringing humour and levity to the fragile autobiographies are usually written in
In the first instalment, Things I Don’t new steps of independence in her post- retrospect, right at the end of one’s life:
Want to Know, Levy’s response to George separation decade. what would it be like to write one while
Orwell’s famous essay Why I Write, we Defending the book from simply being you were living it?”
join her as she searches for purpose in part of an endless stream of self-discov- Her exploration reveals a marrow-deep
her turbulent teenage years, before ery break-up memoirs – it is completely intellectual vibrancy, comforting, ritual-
settling into a marriage and family life not – Levy said: “It’s not about the guy, istic daily habits and slowly kindling joy
that begins to suffocate the spaces she it’s not about marriage: it’s about making as her new existence takes root. Restless
needs to be a writer. another life.” by nature, Levy is constantly seeking new
In The Cost of Living, my favourite of Levy says the trilogy was sparked by experiences, new homes and new ways
the trilogy, Levy leaves her husband for her growing into middle age, an often- to exist in the world. Her friends have
a grim London apartment block, with neglected period of women’s lives, and torrid love affairs and drama, and she
her daughters in tow. Here, her peren- wondering how to live a less-traditional, charts their turbulence with a journalist’s
nial quest for “home” emerges as a siren more-spontaneous way. “Those decades detachment, generally refraining from
heartbeat as she and her daughters build – the forties, fifties and sixties – were judgment but thoroughly enjoying the
ALAMY

a garden in the bathroom and a writing really undocumented years in terms spectacle and capturing their escapades
shed in a friend’s garden, and discover of female experience,” Levy told an with wry, generous humour.

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 By contrast, Levy’s life is much quieter.
She loves to cook, swim and, in London,
ride her electric bicycle around town.
These are the habits that allow her such
frequent and revealing introspection, and
lead her friends to accuse her of being
able to live “only alone”.
I
n Real Estate, the final instalment,
Levy trots from Mumbai to Paris to
Greece, as the growing success of her
novels sees her invited to an Indian writing
festival, a nine-month writing fellowship
in France and endless book launches. Here,
she is often accosted by male novelists
whom she views as frequently choosing
to demean her. She is equal parts amused
and dismayed by their Jurassic-era, often-
narrow lives and works.
With both daughters having left the
nest for university, Levy finds herself
living “alone-alone” for the first time in
decades, and imagines a house of her own
by the sea, with an egg-shaped fireplace, a
tropical climate and pomegranate trees in
the garden.
Levy’s frequent choice of solitude – so
conducive to productive writing – is often
read as a threat to those around her, whose
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own lives are punctuated by an emotional
instability and carelessness that she has
largely grown out of.
Yet Levy’s independence and occa-
sional eccentricity seem to be adored by
her daughters. They delight in joining
their mother on her various solitary
jaunts – sharing a beer in a fishermen’s
The joy of Levy is
in how skilfully she
weaves the often prosaic
domestic sphere with
the philosophical
and radical.
pub on the Greek island of Hydra or bed-
ding down in her sparse Paris flat – and
offer no harsh advice on the necessity for
her to find a mate.
The joy of Levy is in how skilfully she
weaves the often prosaic domestic sphere
familiar to all – a meditative account
of squeezing 12 oranges for breakfast
fills a whole page – with the inquisitive,
philosophical and radical thinking that
has defined her intellectual life. The
form is reminiscent of Karl Ove Knaus-
gård’s autobiographical six-volume My
Struggle series, but far warmer in tone
and endearingly less self-assured and
self-mythologising.
But like the Norwegian writer, Levy
seamlessly transitions between pondering
how to heat her frigid writing shed, to the
work of Marguerite Duras, the paintings
of Picasso and whether the green Paris
shoes she’s bought are too “character” for
a woman her age. It’s this high and low
blend that rings so true of most people’s
existence, neither grand nor tragic, but
touched by both.
In her perennial search for an ever-
after home and an ever-after life, Levy
astutely captures the
beauty and complex-
ity of the day-to-day,
the good enough and
the power of constant,
restless living. l
REAL ESTATE,
by Deborah Levy
(Penguin, $26)
 BOOKS

Road’s
end
An exciting, readable
trip through climate-
change, AI and
post-pandemic ethics.
by DANYL MCLAUCHLAN

B
ack in the late 1970s, Stephen
King invented a new genre:
the post-apocalyptic road
trip. He wanted to write an
epic quest, an American
version of Lord of the Rings. He’d been
listening to a lot of Springsteen songs
about small towns and the open road,
and obsessing over a news story about
an army chemical-weapons accident that There had been post-apocalypse novels Publicist’s dream: Oana Aristide.
nearly wiped out a US city, as well as a before – Day of the Triffids, War of the
phrase he heard from a preacher on a Worlds, On the Beach – but this one sold a pandemic, though it can be climate
Christian radio station: “Once in every so well, even by King’s wildly lucrative change or zombies – wipes out civilisa-
generation the plague will fall among standards, that it became the archetype tion and a handful of survivors adventure
them.” for the many post-apocalyptic road through the ruins.
He combined these into The Stand. trips that followed it. A disaster – often In Oana Aristide’s Under the Blue, the

Chasing
The London lad began, aged 10, after of them, though there’s evil wrestler Big
he discovered a neighbour’s visitor was Daddy, aka Shirley Crabtree. He sources
Ronnie Barker, “an old man seated in a most via the internet, trade contacts, a

great
chair … solemn and impatient”. Three convention in a pink hotel with a water-
decades later, he has made a career out of fall in the lobby. One collector of Nazi
it. Triumphs include “a van Gogh letter,
a Churchill love note, a Karl Marx, a
The triumphs and Rasputin”. Oh, and he helped buy an HMS
Victory logbook in Nelson’s handwriting
Andrusier likes to hold
tribulations of a for half a million pounds. the Fuhrer’s bestseller
world-leading Via 20 unchallenging chapters, he takes in one hand and a
us through the triumphs and tribulations
copy of Freud’s signed
autograph addict. of his addiction. Each section comes with
the name and signature of his target, prov- works in the other.
ing that fame doesn’t always equate with
by DAVID HILL legibility. Who would have guessed that
“Coop Eloof” is actually Clint Eastwood? memorabilia lives in a house surrounded
NIKOS KARANIKOLAS; CURTIS BROWN

W
hat drives your average Steve Reich adds a couple of bars from
autograph obsessive? Clapping Music to his inscription. Seven-
(Yes, oxymoron there.) foot tall James Bond villain “Jaws” charges
Status by association? £20 for a photo of him preparing to crush
Thrill of the chase? Anecdotes to bore Andrusier’s head. Ray Charles writes his
friends? Or, as Adam Andrusier puts it, “a name in uncertain block letters and you
special connection … something amazing suddenly remember his blindness.
set in motion”? The author doesn’t actually meet many
by a moat.
Yes, Marilyn Monroe is there, courtesy
of Ray from the Postcard Fair. She hasn’t
signed in red, which is encouraging, since
red often means a fake. Forgers, plus
secretaries signing for celebs, are among
an autograph hunter’s banes. Hitler also
features – between Elvis and Monica

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survivors of a pandemic travel across a
depopulated, climate-changed Europe
during a heatwave. This is Aristide’s
first novel, and her author biography is
a publicist’s dream: “Oana was born in
Transylvania, to parents of Romanian,
Greek and Yemeni background. After the
The book was written
before Covid: Aristide
wanted it to be topical,
but not this topical.
fall of communism, the family emigrated
to Sweden. Oana has worked in the City of
London as a macroeconomist, and as an
adviser to the Romanian prime minister,
but since 2018 she has lived on a Greek
island, converting a heritage villa into a
hotel.”
H
er book is not as original as her
life, but it’s still exciting, expertly
written and pleasingly readable.
There’s a subplot involving the creation
of an artificial intelligence: a sentient
algorithm that decides traditional human
ethical systems are incoherent. It lands
on a rational, utilitarian philosophy
inspired by the Australian philosopher
Peter Singer (whose blurb appears on the
Moniker magnet:
Adam Andrusier.
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cover of the book). Like many contem-
porary novelists, Aristide is eager to
lecture her readers about politics, and
the device of the AI allows her to sermon-
ise on climate change, cruelty to animals
and existential risk without poisoning
BEST NZ
the plot with authorial sanctimony. In
a postscript, she discloses that the book
was written before Covid: she wanted it
to be topical, but not this topical.
BOOKS
Why do so many of us like to read
about the end of the world? Literary
critic Frank Kermode thought it was a
way to impose structure on the idea of
FOR
eternity. We dislike the idea that our
lives occupy such a brief and meaning-
less window of time, so we give them
significance by imagining we live at the
YOUNG
end of things.
King admitted he found the apocalypse
“cheerful, in a horrible sort of way”. Per-
READERS
haps the real horror story is that it never
comes; that the world, with all its cruelty
and incoherence, just keeps going.
Maybe it’s terrify-
2021
ing to think that the
world might end, but
even more unthink-
able to think that it
won’t. l
UNDER THE BLUE, by
Oana Aristide (Serpent’s
Finalists in
Tail, $32.99)
Lewinsky – with two bizarre ideograms
on a copy of Mein Kampf. Andrusier likes bookstores
now
to hold the Fuhrer’s best-seller in one
hand and a copy of Freud’s signed works
in the other. This could be the time to men-
tion that our author is a nice Jewish boy.
Nice he is. He has a life outside his
obsession, with his partner and jazz piano.
Zadie Smith has dedicated a novel to him.
His potentially featherweight narrative
finds gravitas in his relationship with
father Adrian, through resentment, sepa-
ration, sickness and reconciliation.
“World is crazier and more of it than
we think,” noted Irish poet Louis Mac-
Neice, not referring to
autographs. Andrusier
might like to quote that
beside his own signa-
ture. l
TWO HITLERS AND
A MARILYN, by Adam
Andrusier (Hachette,
$37.99)
BOOKS

Inner Paige Clark:

an offbeat
and strikingly
contemporary

worlds
collection.

Paige Clark’s dark

humour shines
through in her debut
short-story collection.
by KIRAN DASS

A
subtle and thought-
ful handling of race,
culture, identity and
otherness are features
of Melbourne-based
Chinese-American-Australian author
Paige Clark’s debut short-story collection. mothers, as well as illness, death and Kübler-Ross” and “Gwendolyn Wakes”
And although I’m not convinced that all grief. are harder to engage with than the sto-
18 of the stories in She Is Haunted needed With a cast of characters who are ries that follow. In the eerie “Times I’ve
to be included, more than half of them are obsessed, moribund, lonely and desper- Wanted to be You”, a woman is so struck
gleaming gems. ate, one thing that unifies them is that with grief after the death of her husband
In these offbeat and strikingly contem- they are all searching for connectivity that she strives to become him so she can
porary stories, Clark examines strained and understanding. avoid grieving. She stops wearing her red
family dynamics, with daughters feeling She Is Haunted begins, I think, with silk kimono and leather skirt in favour of
the pinch of high expectations from two of its weaker stories. “Elisabeth his pilled green jersey.

Own gaol The novel is framed and linked by the

voice of an Australian woman visiting
Japan in search of achiragawa. She “com-
piles” accounts of four interconnected
An atmospheric but lives, the book’s principal characters.
The first is Mai Takeda, a young
overly complex tale of woman who has recently married a man
striving for corporate success, and she
four interconnected is expected to conform. She encounters
Japanese women. the mother of a memorable childhood
friend, Hikaru, and when she visits, dis-
covers that he is “down the hallway,
by ANNA ROGERS in his room”.
Originally hired as a “rental sister”,
Both the young women’s stories are
strong, but the most powerful and affect-
ing is the third account, that of Hikaru’s
mother, Hiromi Satō, who is struggling
to cope with her silent son and ageing, ill
mother. When Hikaru finally gets his say,
the result is disappointing. There is a lack
of emotional authenticity, a sense that
this is just the result of careful research
about hikikomori.
Brabon can certainly write. Mai’s
apartment complex is built “for a
thousand bodies but no individual soul”;
a tunnel is a “stone half-moon mouth

T
hey call it “hikikomori” –
when young people sever their
lives from the world, locking
themselves in their bedrooms
at home, perhaps for years, not com-
municating even with their families.
Another Japanese word, “achiragawa”,
marks the opening pages of Katherine Bra-
bon’s second novel. It means “over there”
or “the other side”, a “place of dreams,
death and possibility”. Rich sources for fic-
tion, surely. Is that the case in The Shut Ins?
paid to write to Hikaru in an attempt to
lure him from his refuge, Mai becomes
increasingly absorbed in his world and
increasingly aware of how constrained
and obliterating her relationship is.
The next story is that of Sadako, an
escort in Tokyo’s red-light district who
spends time with Mai’s husband, always
called only “J”, acting out for him the role
of a more satisfactory replacement wife.
She longs for a different life, and that pos-
sibility arrives.
gaping, choking on the road running
through”; time has a “quiet violence” as
it carves up the three years of Hikaru’s
imprisonment.
The author also evokes the stringency
of Japanese society, the primacy of order
and the shame of disorder. The breathless
humidity is palpable, the urban settings
oppressive. Brabon’s prose is composed,
cool, clear, sometimes even hypnotic,
but the lack of pitch changes can also be
oddly distancing.

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 “Safety Triangle” is a moody and
devastating story about earthquakes and
violence. When a child hears doors slam-
ming and sharp voices coming from the
kitchen, she knows it must be an earth-
quake because of the rubble. “What other
explanation for the glass that cut my foot
on my way to the fridge?”
In that bombastic power ballad Woman
in Love, Barbra Streisand warns that she
will do anything to get the object of her
desire. “What do I do?” she asks, hopelessly,
over and over. In Clark’s wacky, sad and
hilarious story named after the song, the
character nicknamed “Babs” asks the same
question. She gets “half of nothing” when
separating from her husband. But what she
really wants is their dog, Minnie, a long-
haired, toothless chihuahua the “colour,
shape and size of a sweet potato with two
chocolate chip eyes”. She decides to get the
dog cloned. But first she must kidnap it.
Food features prominently in these
stories: buffets with beef and broccoli in
sweet, sticky sauce; cakes and lots of pizza.
When the characters in “In a Room of Chi-
nese Women” go to a Sichuan restaurant,
they see someone has spray-painted the
words “stop eating dogs” on the facade. It’s
a confronting sting of racism. “I told you
we shouldn’t have had those hot dogs for
lunch,” one of the friends says to defuse
the shock.
Katherine Brabon:
offers a curious
reading experience.
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In “Private Eating” a Chinese woman
recalls her European ex-boyfriend who,
when out for dinner with her family, orders
only a bowl of rice and some jasmine tea,
which he moans “tastes like grass”. When
she later goes on a date with a staunchly
vegetarian anaesthetist, she lies and tells
him she is also a vegetarian. As with many
of the characters in She Is Haunted, she’s
seeking acceptance. He tells her, without
a hint of self-awareness, that she is “well
made, like a car manufactured in Japan”.
In the beguiling title story, the all-seeing
narrator is dead and observing her family
and loved ones while attending her own
funeral. “Why My Hair Is So Long” pulses
with a heavy sadness shot through with
moments of dry humour. A mother, who
goes to the same hair clinic as Ringo Starr,
hacks off her daughter’s hair because her
own has started falling out as a result of
cancer treatment.
Clark is good at getting into the inner
worlds of her strange
and desperate char-
acters, and her dark
sense of humour shines
through the stronger
stories. l
SHE IS HAUNTED,
by Paige Clark (Allen &
Unwin, $33)
Odd, too, is the author’s frequent need
to explain, as if she, or her narrator, does
not quite trust the reader to understand:
“The story of Hiromi Satō runs parallel to
the accounts of Mai Takeda and Sadako.”
Strange little intrusions of fact wrench
the reader away from a fuller emotional
involvement in the writing. And the
younger characters’ solipsism can occa-
sionally be wearying.
The Shut Ins offers a curious reading
experience. The atmosphere lingers, as
do some of the personalities, but the novel
fails to cohere and so feels unresolved and,
finally, unsatisfying. The problem lies
largely with the unnecessarily fussy struc-
ture. A concentrated
treatment of a fascinat-
ing theme would have
landed a more effective
emotional and cultural
punch. l
THE SHUT INS,
by Katherine Brabon
(Allen & Unwin, $32.99)
Digital
rights
Free speech in
the age of Silicon
Valley censorship.
by JENNY NICHOLLS
I
f anyone can be described as a “social
media intellectual”, it is American
author Jillian York. Her book SILI-
CON VALUES: The future of free speech
under surveillance capitalism (Verso,
$42.99) is the result of more than a decade
of discreet coffees with Silicon Valley
insiders, many of whom she has chosen
not to name. Her work with an interna-
tional digital-rights group focuses on
censorship and informs a chapter on hate
speech and social media, which is a timely
read for New Zealanders.
Frustratingly, though, York seldom
comes to definite conclusions, although
she describes epic levels of mismanage-
ment within Facebook where content
moderation, she says, is “inherently
broken”. She spent years living in Morocco
and experienced the slow unfolding of the
“Arab Spring” in the
early 2010s. In oppres-
sive countries such
as Egypt and Tunisia,
Facebook and Twitter
played a central role in
the uprisings, although
the social-media giants
were too inept to sup-
port free speech in a
coherent way.
“Move fast and break things” is a now
notorious Facebook motto, reinforced by
the firm’s shouty internal office posters.
But “moving fast” is exactly what Facebook
tragically failed to do in Myanmar, as
violent anti-Rohingya propaganda built
on Facebook in the years before 2017. It
culminated, York writes, in what a United
Nations official described as “a textbook
example of ethnic cleansing”.
Silicon Values is a stylish and well-writ-
ten book, although York is reluctant to let
MARCIN WOJCIK
the Rohingya’s experience inform univer-
sal hate-speech rules. Her Wikipedia job
description as a “free-expression activist”
might be a clue here. l
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DIVERSIONS
QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker
Puzzle No 1608
Clues across
1. What is the most common
duck in New Zealand? (7)
4. What is a person who escorts
people to their seats? (5)
7. In 2002, who successfully
sued a Chinese company
who made “Coko bricks”? (4)
8. Under a banner “Free soup,
coffee & doughnuts for the
unemployed”, who financed
a soup kitchen in Chicago in
1930? (2,6)
10. Who beat Jimmy Connors to
win at Wimbledon in 1975?
(6,4)
12. Which opera character
worked in a cigarette
factory? (6)
13. What is a statement of an
obvious truth? (6)
15. Which fictional character
lives in the Skull Cave? (3,7)
18. Margaret Thatcher
acknowledged and embraced
what nickname in a 1976
speech? (4,4)
19. What food dish consists of a
soft flatbread rolled around a
filling? (4)
20. Which lake between
Queenstown and Arrow-
town is known for its
mirror-like reflections of the
surrounding mountains and
countryside? (5)
21. The French word for fox
was derived from which
character in medieval stories,
Solution 1607 Across: 1 Wonder Woman, 8 Nanjing/Nanking, 9 Rowel,
10 Keys, 11 Anatomy, 12 Sam, 13 True, 15 Nike, 17 Ore, 19/20 Desmond
Tutu, 23 Sushi, 24 Jericho, 25 Alan Bennett. Down: 1 Wānaka, 2 Nancy,
3 Eric, 4 Wigram, 5 Marianne, 6 New York, 7 Boleyn, 12 Semolina,
14 Ross Sea, 16 Edison, 17 Oddjob, 18 Dugout, 21 Uncle, 22 Iron.
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replacing the old French
word “goupil”? (7)
Clues down
1. The islands of Gozo and
Comino are part of what
country? (5)
2. What surgical tie stops
bleeding? (8)
3. Criminal couple Bonnie and
Clyde are buried in which
city? (6)
4. Who plays Mia Wallace in
Quentin Tarantino’s 1994
film Pulp Fiction? (3,7)
5. Robin Williams stars as
a grown-up Peter Pan in
which 1991 film? (4)
6. With symbol Re, the name
of which chemical element
is derived from the Latin
name for the Rhine? (7)
9. What was Alexander the
Great’s horse named? (10)
11. What climbing shrub of the
pea family with hanging
clusters of fragrant flowers
is popular for pergolas,
verandas? (8)
12. “Durdatha whye!” means
“Good day to you!” in
which Celtic language? (7)
14. What name is given to the
wire frame on a dartboard? (6)
16. In 1952, a Swedish journalist
coined what term for a two-
wheeler with pedals and a
motor? (5)
17. What is a young kangaroo? (4)
CROSSWORD by David Tossman
Puzzle No 1240
Clues across
5. Time to regret being loyal (4)
7. Do brave composition about
serpent being honest (5,5)
9. Set out to contain the sound
of a hiccup with a sense of
rightness (6)
10. I, leaving the entire world
and everything, died
inexperienced (8)
11. The place for the dog’s
breakfast (4)
12. The point of being leader (9)
15. A bit of an egotist but he
gave us a lift (4)
16. A playwright ad-libs
entertainingly in certain
parts (5)
17. The directors collectively
don’t finish off the animal
(4)
18. Pal dodged swimming, or
dodged swimming lessons
anyway by the look of it
(3,6)
20. Apply for a loan – just a
small amount and not in
writing (4)
Solution No 1239
21. What the model says to be
dignified (8)
24. Cut back with relations and
polish off the meal (4,2)
25. Monotonous, jaggy,
unfinished flute composition
(10)
26. Ogle, seeing what dancers
might do coming back (4)
Clues down
1. Information one deploys for
brainboxes (8)
2. Soya curd found in part of
university (4)
3. Firm bottom? That’s vulgar
(6)
4. Totara perhaps found in the
middle of the thoroughfare
(4)
6. Shrunk from being attended
to by the shrink again? (9)
7. The slaying of two fools by
one country (13)
8. Strange tale includes new
leader with five endurance
sport competitors concerned
with ecological matters (13)
13. Loosened and replanted a
seed (5)
14. Raw deal in new deal? Set a
limit on it (4,1,4)
17. Cool crib built for one of the
Greens (8)
19. Enjoy the music as it was put
on record in the press (6)
22. A lot of people are allowed
to gather around the capital
of Norway (4)
23. Fruit turned up on time to
be present (4)
LISTENER JULY 31 2021
 BRIDGE by David Bird
NORTH
♠ K Q J 10 9 7
diamond finesse would give you the slam.
Is there a better line? Yes! When West holds
Wordsworth
th
♥ A7 four clubs, you can throw him in on the by Jessica Malcolm
♦ 752 fourth round of clubs. You win the heart lead
♣ AQ and play the king of trumps, East discarding.
WEST EAST Readers were asked to create
You continue with the ace and queen of kennings by combining two words
♠ 653 ♠ —
clubs, cross to the eight of trumps and play
♥ 963 ♥ K Q J 10 5 4 as a translation or metaphor for
♦ K 10 6 ♦ J984 the king of clubs, throwing dummy’s heart
something else.
♣ 10 8 7 3 ♣J95 loser. You then ruff your remaining heart
in dummy and return to the ace of trumps, Win Lunt of Whakatāne: Doctor –
SOUTH script writer. Fisherman – net flinger.
drawing West’s last trump. Finally, you lead
♠ A842 Ann Robinson, Christchurch:
♥ 82 a fourth round of clubs. When West plays
♦ AQ3 the ten of clubs, you discard a diamond from Dentist – drill sergeant. Prime Minister –
♣K642 dummy. West must now lead a diamond into cabinet maker.
your ace-queen or give you a ruff-and-discard. Geraldine’s Robyn Gillies: Cow fart
Love all, dealer South If East had held four clubs, you would – dairy air. Cyclist – eco-warrior. Tramper
have to ruff the fourth club and rely on the – scenery seeker.
West North East South
diamond finesse. John Mills, Gebbies Valley: Plastic
— — — 1NT
Pass 2H 3H 3S BIDDING QUIZ surgeon – face saver. Secondhand car
Pass 6S All Pass yard – bomb disposal.
WEST West North East South
Kaye Bennetts, Whangaparāoa:
North begins with a transfer bid and leaps ♠ A Q 10 9 2 — 1D 2C Pass
to 6S when South volunteers spade support Quizzer – answer dancer. Wool crafter –
♥ 85 ?
at the three-level. How would you play the knit-wit. Milk – moo juice.
slam when West leads the six of hearts? If ♦ J932
Hamilton’s Yvonne Moosberger:
you look at the potential losers in the long- ♣ K5
Vaccinator – virus sniper. Vegetarian –
trump (North) hand, you see one heart loser
and two diamond losers. The heart can be What will you say now on the West cards? salad spinner. Electric vehicle – battery
thrown on the king of clubs and a successful (Answer on page 58.) case.
Ann Love, Nelson: Floor – crumb
TAKE 5 BARDEN’S repository. Tea – gossip lubricator.
by Simon Shuker CHESS PROBLEMS Lyttelton’s Bill Heffernan: Low-rise
(development) – pita bread. Slow-rise
(development) – Kiwi-build.
Doug Embling, Pukekohe:
Vaccination centre – prick parlour. Dental
hygienist – gum digger.
Paul Kelly, Palmerston North:
Conspiracy theorist – banana
straightener. Ventriloquist – word
muncher. Cat – sun sleeper. Jogger –
pavement plodder.
But the winner is Helensville’s
Anne Martin: Tall person – cloud
clobberer. Teacher – class act. Rugby
scrum – man tangle. Rugby tackle –
wind boofer. Hairdresser – lock smith.
Vegetarian – cow preserver.
Next, send us a brief obituary for
Adhiban Baskaran v Nijat Abasov, India v a fictional character of your choice.
Azerbaijan, Baku Olympiad, 2016 Entries, for the prize below, close at
Play went 1 Rh3 Rh7 2 Rh1 Rh6 3 Rh2 Rh7.
The grandmasters seem to have been just midday on Thursday, August 5.
making random rook moves to gain time
on the clock, but there was actually a subtle Submissions: listenerwordsworth@
reason for this sequence. Can you explain? aremedia.co.nz. Please include your
(Answer on page 58.) name and address and
No 2131 in the subject line.
Entries may be edited.

WIN THIS
Jamie Wall’s examination
of two cultures brought
together by rugby, torn
apart by racism, then
brought back together to
forge a new era of rivalry.

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DIVERSIONS
Fill the grid so that every column, every row
and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.
785 MEDIUM 596
LAST WEEK’S
SOLUTION
759
1 Place a number from 1 to 9
in each empty box.
2. The sum of each vertical or
horizontal block equals the
number at the top or on the
left of that block.
3. Numbers may be used only
once in each block.
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
58
HARD
LAST WEEK’S
SOLUTION
BRIDGE BIDDING QUIZ SOLUTION
East has overcalled at the two-level, so it’s
possible you have a game your way. You
should respond 2S. This is constructive but
non-forcing. If partner has spade support,
he will raise you to an appropriate level. If
instead he passes or rebids his clubs, you will
be in a sensible spot.
Awards: 2S – 10, 3C – 6, Pass – 5.
CHESS SOLUTION
White needs to have his own rook away from h3
(where Rxh3 would give check) at the same time
that the black rook is away from h6 (where hxg6
can be met by Rxg6). Mission accomplished,
White won by 4 hxg6! Rxh2 5 g7.
10 QUICK QUESTIONS ANSWERS
1. Mr Bean. Ecce homo qui est faba means
“behold the man who is a bean”.
2. Antelope.
3. Tasmanian devils, due in part to
the shrieking sounds they make.
4. Any Given Sunday is about
American football.
5. Nineteen Eighty-Four.
6. Plutocracy.
7. Meteor.
8. Blow a raspberry.
9. Sesame Street began screening in 1969,
and The Muppet Show premiered in 1976.
10. True. Plutonium-powered pacemakers
were produced from the 1970s to the
1980s, and are still used by a few people.
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LOGIC PUZZLE FLYING HIGH CLUELESS
At an airshow, various vintage aircraft are displaying different
manoeuvres at different times in the programme: CROSSWORD
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a different number
1. The Tiger Moth is performing loops.
from 1 to 26. Use your knowledge of English to solve the
2. The loops are being performed 15 minutes before the barrel rolls.
crossword. Some clue letters are given.
3. Regarding the loops and the barrel rolls, one occurs at 2pm and the
other is performed by the Sopwith Camel.
4. The Avro Avian performs later than the craft performing the Cuban
eight.
Using these clues and the grid below, can you work out which aircraft
performed which stunts and at what time in the programme?

AIRCRAFT STUNT

head Stall
Hammer-
Sopwith

Cuban
Camel
Active

Barrel
Arrow

Loops
Avian

Moth

Eight
Tiger

Rolls
Avro

2.00

2.15
TIME

2.30

2.45

Barrel
Rolls
Cuban
STUNT

Eight
Hammerhead
Stall

Loops

AIRCRAFT STUNT TIME

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

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24+ EXCELLENT can find in 15 mins.

Last week’s solutions. Logic Puzzle: Terry quoted $2000 in Howick, Troy quoted $3000 in Ponsonby, Andrea quoted $4000 in Newmarket and Meg
quoted $5000 in Parnell. Scatterword: POLITICAL, optical, topical, politic, local, copal, octal, patio, allot, atoll, optic, topic, pilot, coal, cola, capo,
coat, taco, iota, opal, alto, atop, coil, loci, otic, clop, clot, colt, toil, topi, poll, toll, plot. 33 words. Permutate: PLANT, LEANT, ALONE, ENROL/
LONER, OWNER, BOWER Clueless crossword:

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 ENTERTAINMENT
Life at a crossroads
Better known for her Miss Fisher TV detective role,
Australian actress Essie Davis stars in the locally made
The Justice of Bunny King, a film of modest means but
with heart, character and hidden depths. by RUSSELL BAILLIE
E
ssie Davis’
acting
career has
taken her
places. The
National
Theatre
in London. The Broadway
stage. To Croatia for Game of
Thrones. To Morocco for Miss
Fisher & the Crypt of Tears,
last year’s feature spin-off of
her hit Australian television
series Miss Fisher’s Murder
Mysteries, in which she played
Phryne Fisher, the glamorous,
black-bobbed private detec-
tive who solves crime in 1920s
Melbourne.
Now, the Tasmanian-born
and -based actress has finally
added New Zealand to the
list of places she has worked.
She has always wanted to do
something here, she tells the
Listener from Toronto, where
she’s filming.
But unlike most screen-star
imports, Davis wasn’t here to
pretend she was somewhere
else on a big-budget produc-
tion. She was here for The
Justice of Bunny King, a local
film of modest means but
with heart, character and
hidden depths.
The film – the
debut feature of
director Gaysorn
Thavat – also took
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Davis places. Major
locations included
a traffic-jammed
60
intersection in industrial
Wiri, an array of welfare-
agency reception areas, a
suburban cul-de-sac and a
road trip to Thames.
We first meet Davis’ forty-
something Bunny working
as a windscreen washer – a
squeegee bandit – at that
intersection just as her life is
at a crossroads. She’s trying
to raise money so she can stop
sleeping on a couch at her sis-
ter’s house and get a home for
her children, who have been
placed in foster care.
Complications arise,
involving her niece Tonyah
(Thomasin McKenzie), her
sister’s partner Bevan (Erroll
Shand) and his V8 Commo-
dore, as Bunny takes it upon
herself to protect the teenager
while also trying to keep a
birthday-party promise to her
own young daughter.
T
he film is a mix of
social-realist drama
– one set pointedly
against New Zealand’s hous-
ing crisis – and entertaining
thrill ride. It is largely driven
by Bunny and her anger, her
Miss Fisher’s
fanbase will
find it hard
to recognise
their idol, with
her op-shop
wardrobe.
sense of humour, her kindness
and her ability to get away
with stuff. The role required
someone special, says Thavat.
“What I needed for Bunny
was an actress who was a
complete chameleon, who
could transform herself and
just disappear into this role
and inhabit it in a 3D kind of
way, and that is what Essie did
so beautifully.”
It’s not the first time Davis
has played a desperate
mother. Her gripping
Essie Davis: starring role as a
desperate squeegee bandit.
performance in 2014 Austral-
ian horror film The Babadook
helped propel it to interna-
tional cult-hit status. She was
Ned Kelly’s mum in last year’s
True History of the Kelly Gang,
the adaptation of Peter Carey’s
novel by director Justin
Kurzel, who is her husband.
She was also the mother of
the terminally ill teenager in
Babyteeth, the most acclaimed
Australian film of 2020.
Bunny King is another Davis
performance in which she dis-
plays fierce maternal instinct
and an ability to bury herself
in the character. Miss Fisher’s
international fanbase will find
it hard to recognise their idol,
with her sunburnt face, greasy
hair, op-shop wardrobe and
Kiwi vowels.
“The thing I love most is
completely immersing myself
in a character and being able to
look in the mirror and see that
character, not see myself, or yet
another version of the same
character in a different set of
clothes,” says Davis. “It’s really
important to me that I can look
in the mirror and see them and
not anyone else. So, it’s quite a
complicated process of finding
a character for me, because
it’s from the inside out, but it’s
also from the outside in.”
She loved Bunny as soon as
she first read the script.
“She’s kind of glorious and
she’s amusing and funny
and down to earth, but she’s
LISTENER JULY 31 2021
Clockwise from top left, Essie
Davis and Thomasin McKenzie;
Erroll Shand with Toni Potter,
who plays Bunny’s sister Grace;
Davis with fellow squeegee
bandits; Davis hustling for
cleaning jobs; McKenzie.
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practical and kind,
and I just think she’s
a nugget of gold. She’s
such a good person. I
loved her so much.”
Long before Davis
brought Bunny
to vibrant life, the
character had been
a work in progress
for her creators over
a number of years.
Director-writer
Gregory King, best
known for his local
dysfunctional-family
dramas A Song of
Good and Christmas,
had also written
Thavat’s 2009 first
short film, Brave Donkey. He
suggested a feature-length
story to her. Thavat thought
the story was too complicated
for a debut feature, but she
liked a character, a middle-
aged woman working as a
squeegee bandit.
“Visually and emotionally, I
just fell in love with this char-
acter, the idea of this woman
at an intersection, who had all
this joy and love and warmth
and determination to survive
and overcome this situation,
and that’s what really stayed
with me,” says Thavat.
She and King created a
story outline before he shifted
overseas. In came Sophie
Henderson, writer of her
own character-driven feature
Fantail as well as the 2020 Rose
Matafeo comedy Baby Done, to
write the screenplay.
“She brought a lighter touch
to the script, because there are
heavy themes in some places,
but she was able to create this
beautiful balance, so that even
though you may feel the strug-
gle is overwhelming for Bunny
at times, we never lost her
sense of joy, her warmth and
our belief in her. As an audi-
ence, we were always walking
alongside her, which was a
really important thing for me.
I never wanted the audience
to pity Bunny – and I’m sure
people will – I wanted them
62
to understand her more than
pity her.”
The script found its way to
producer Emma Slade, to the
New Zealand Film Commis-
sion for funding and to actors’
agents on both sides of the
Tasman.
Davis arrived in New Zea-
land a month before filming
started in September 2019 to
“‘Look, they’re not victims. They’re
really brave and courageous
and amazing. They’re the
quintessential Kiwi battlers.’”
research the territory and
find her Kiwi accent. “It’s hard
for an Australian, because
although there are so many
similarities, it’s easy to do a
bad version,” says Davis.
M
cKenzie, who had
appeared with
Davis in True His-
tory of the Kelly Gang, signed
on after Slade sent her the
script. She fitted Bunny King
in between shooting Edgar
Wright’s Last Night in Soho in
Britain and M Night Shyama-
lan’s Old in the Dominican
Republic.
Casting a prominent
Australian actress and the
internationally in-demand
Gaysorn Thavat: “It’s a
provocative film.”
McKenzie is a coup and it’s
already getting noticed. When
the film premiered at New
York’s Tribeca Film Festival
last month, the star-studded
jury for the Nora Ephron
Award aimed at female writers abuse her film’s star vehicle
and directors announced a
special jury mention for the
performances of Davis and
McKenzie.
The film is also showing at
the forthcoming Melbourne
and Sydney film festivals,
where Davis’ name is sure to
win it attention. Here, though,
where she’s not as recognis-
able, her presence gives the
film a curious freshness.
Thavat says, “I wanted audi-
ences here not to look at the
film and go, ‘Oh, that’s so and
so’. I wanted them to go, ‘Oh,
that’s like the lady down the
street, or that reminds me of
my mum or my best friend’s
mum.’ I wanted them to be able
to connect without that kind of
preconception.”
If Bunny King seems a
remarkably assured feature
for a first-time director, there’s
a good reason for
that. Thavat has
been in the screen-
storytelling business
for some time. She
began her career in
the late 1990s in vari-
ous camera-assistant
and focus-puller
roles. Being close
to where the actors
acted and directors
directed, she says,
was great training
for when she shifted
to directing commer-
cials and then, more
recently, episodes of
The Gulf and Fresh
Eggs.
Her ad portfolio includes
everything from domestic
violence awareness-raisers
for the Families Commission
to 60th-anniversary nostalgia-
fests for Holden. Given the
gets, and that it’s owned by
the dodgy Bevan, it’s perhaps
a good thing that particular
automotive client is no longer
a going concern.
“We did a test screening
early on during the edit pro-
cess and one of the questions
was, ‘Who was your favourite
character?’ Most of them were
like, ‘It’s Bunny’, but then there
was one answer that said, ‘The
car’,” she says, with a laugh.
Directing movies was
always Thavat’s ambition.
She’s proud that her first fea-
ture is entertaining while also
having something to say.
“It’s a provocative film, I
think, for New Zealand, and it
forces us to look at ourselves
in a way that maybe we don’t
like to look at ourselves some-
times. What I really wanted
to do was reframe the narra-
tive around women such as
Bunny to say, ‘Look, they’re not
victims. They’re really brave
and courageous and amazing.
They’re the quintessential
Kiwi battlers.’” l
The Justice of Bunny King
opens in cinemas on July 29.
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MUSIC
by Graham Reid
Vote of
thanks
A live, late-
career Miles
Davis album
proves the jazz
legend wasn’t
coasting in his
final years.
T
he mercurial
directions in
trumpeter Miles
Davis’ career
frequently con-
founded jazz writers.
In the mid-70s, one announc-
ed Davis’ output after the
mid-60s was of little interest,
thereby dismissing the innova-
tive In a Silent Way (1969) and
the game-changing Bitches
Brew (1970). Another wrote
of In A Silent Way: “It was like
finding a raised lavatory seat
in a nunnery.”
Certainly, Davis’ recorded
output in the decade before his
death in 1991 disappointed jazz
and rock critics alike, many of
whom had previously hailed
him.
The 1982 live album We
Want Miles, with guitarist
Mike Stern, was too bom-
bastic even for rock writers;
the street funk of Star People
(1983), Decoy (1984) and You’re
Under Arrest (1985) had their
moments, but too few, and
although the electro-jazz
funk of 1986’s Tutu signalled
another career resurrection,
little after warranted much
attention.
Siesta (1987) was interesting,
but as with Tutu, was indebted
to arranger Marcus Miller.
JULY 31 2021 LISTENER
Just months before his more different.
death, Davis, who insisted he Merci Miles! opens with
never looked back, appeared Hannibal, where Davis teases
at the Montreux Jazz Festival filigrees of melodies as the
with band leader Quincy Jones band picks up pace and
to perform material from breadth behind him before
Miles Ahead (1957), Porgy and Davis gets a hauntingly poin-
Bess (1959) and Sketches of tillistic coda.
Spain (1960), all albums with Then there’s a lean, moody
Davis’ late arranger Gil Evans. and ultimately exciting
There have been numerous 18-minute Human Nature
In Davis’ band
were the players
who performed
at his Auckland
concert in 1988.
posthumous Davis albums, but (written by Toto’s Steve
those believing he was weak Porcaro with John Bettis for
and coasting near the end – a Michael Jackson’s Thriller),
valid charge levelled against which takes off from Davis’
the Montreux album, Miles spiderweb weave around the
& Quincy: Live at Montreux tune into sax’n’funk chaos in
– might reconsider their the final third.
position with the latest from
I
the vaults: Merci Miles! Live at n the band, which never
Vienne. overcrowds Davis but
It was recorded with his elec- confidently occupies its
tric band at a festival in France own space, were the play-
a week before Montreux. And ers who performed at his St
the two concerts couldn’t be James Theatre, Auckland,
Spellbinding: Miles Davis.
concert in 1988: saxophonist
Kenny Garrett, bassist Foley,
drummer Ricky Wellman. As
he did then, Davis steps back
for them and funk is often
the default position – as on
Wrinkle.
Two pieces on Merci Miles!
penned by Prince, Penetra-
tion and Jailbait, are more
ideas and vamps than fully
realised tunes. But the album
is a better representation than
Live at Montreux of where
Davis was at this point in
his life and career. It’s also a
reminder of that exceptional
Auckland concert.
Merci Miles! – alongside
1996’s Live Around the
World – is a valuable, enjoy-
able memento of a man who
confounded critics and recali-
brated the direction of jazz
many times.
His playing here, especially
on the fragile extended treat-
ments of Cyndi Lauper’s Time
After Time and Human Nature,
is spellbinding. l
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Merci Miles! Live at Vienne, is
available now.
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FILM
Sarah Watt

Hard to
swallow
A promising GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE
directed by Navot Papushado
neon-lit diner on a rainy
night, as teenager Sam meets
path to becoming a gun/
knife/hammer-for-hire for
revenge thriller with her unreliable assassin shady men-only crime organi-

T
his diverting mother for a milkshake. After sation “The Firm”.
descends into but derivative uttering, “I’ve got to make a Fast-forward 15 years:
cliché and female-led
revenge flick
quick phone call,” Mom disap-
pears into the night and Sam
reluctantly caught up in
the kidnapping of eight-
imitation. opens in a sets off on the same career year-old Emily, Sam’s own

Kinder deserved rendering on the big

screen. Beautifully adapted,
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
status come the unfamiliar
trappings of poverty and fear
for the future.

surprise is a straightforward story

that focuses on nine-year-
old Anna’s experience of
Although any viewer
will feel the implicit threat
hanging over every scene,
upheaval and adaptability Kerr’s story centres on Anna’s
A film about a under the shadow of war, as typically childlike preoccu-
opposed to a brutal histori- pations: fitting in at a school
Jewish family cal depiction of a period that
fleeing the Nazis has been explored in cinema
many times before. Link’s film
is hopeful rather Little Riva Krymalowski
doesn’t need
than horrific. does a lovely job as Anna, who
is living a happy, comfortably scenes of jack-
middle-class life in Berlin
with her big brother, Max,
booted soldiers or
WHEN HITLER STOLE their intellectual father and terrified families
PINK RABBIT musical mother. But with separated at
directed by Caroline Link Hitler coming to power in
1933, the loving Jewish family
gunpoint.

F
ifty years after Judith
Kerr’s bestselling
children’s book
was first published,
her semi-autobiographical
tale of a young girl escaping
Hitler’s Germany finally gets a
face upheaval. Notorious
for his politically outspoken
journalism, Anna’s father is
advised to flee Germany and
the family soon join him in
exile in neutral Switzerland.
Along with their new refugee
with conservative rules,
tasting strange new foods and
the fear that each time her
parents depart to arrange the
family’s next safe haven, they
won’t return.

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Gun for hire: Lena Headey as Scarlet in
Gunpowder Milkshake.
abandonment issues compel her to save
the child’s life and escape her employer’s
(Paul Giamatti) clutches. Inevitably, much
shooting/knifing/hammering ensues.
The best thing about Gunpowder Milk-
shake is, potentially, its strong female
cast of tough broads, and its platform for
It’s a bundle of cinematic
clichés wrapped in a
wordy and meaningless
script, which doesn’t
give its wonder women
anything proper to say.
former action heroines such as Angela
Bassett and Michelle Yeoh, here playing
retired hitwomen running a lending
library of weaponry. Secreting guns in
the pages of classic women’s literature is
a cute conceit (“I need weapons”. “Look
under Self-Help”) and the beautifully
styled book repository is a standout set-
ting for the film’s best sequence, in which
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to create his own genre out of mimick-
ing the cinema he adores, here, with an
Ennio Morricone-esque score, editing
tricks à la Edgar Wright and some clas-
sic Hitchcockian shots, writer-director
Navot Papushado seems simply to be tick-
ing off a long list of cool stuff he has seen
before. What he’s missing is that critical
spark of originality and the faintest clue
about how to maintain an interesting
pace when every second shot is in slow
motion.
With a lot of style, not much substance
and way too much slo mo, Gunpowder
Milkshake works better as a drinking
game of “spot the influences” than a movie
worthy of its women.
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ENTERTAINMENT
TELEVISION
The Best of the Week
SUNDAY AUGUST 1
DRAMA: SMOTHER (TVNZ
OnDemand, full season). Irish
actress Dervla Kirwan has
appeared in many British
crime dramas and thrillers
over the years. With Smother,
she has made one in her home-
land, the six episodes being set
in a small town on the rugged
Atlantic coast of County Clare.
Kirwan plays Val Ahern,
the matriarch of a well-to-do
family, whose husband Denis
(Stuart Graham) is found dead
at the bottom of a cliff the
morning after a party to cele-
brate her 50th birthday. As we
see in the preamble to the first
episode, Denis’ death was no
accident. And it’s complicated
by the fact that at the previous
night’s party, he had made the
shock announcement that he
and Val were separating and
she was shifting in with her
new man.
In the ensuing six-episode
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whodunnit, Val delves into
Denis’ relationships with his
children, stepchildren and
siblings, discovering how
his manipulative behaviour
affected those around him.
That includes her three adult
daughters, Jenny (Niamh
Walsh), Anna (Gemma-Leah
Devereux) and Grace (Seána
Kerslake). The series has had
decent reviews at home, and
Kirwan won an Irish Film and
Television Award for lead
actress in a drama for the role
earlier this month.
MONDAY AUGUST 2
DOCUMENTARY: THE LAST
CRUISE (Neon). In case you’ve
wondered what it was like
to be aboard a cruise ship
during a Covid-19 outbreak,
this HBO production delivers
a view from the other side of
the porthole. The 40-minute
doco shows the experiences
of passengers, crew and
the ship’s doctor aboard the
Diamond Princess, the ship
that embarked on a Southeast
Asia cruise in late January
2020 before being quaran-
tined at the Port of Yokohama
for a month with more than
700 cases, 14 of whom later
died. The film is largely told
through the phone footage of
US passengers and the ship’s
multinational crew, the latter
still having to tend to those
confined to their spacious
cabins and sundecks.
REALITY: THE UNDATEABLES
(TVNZ 2, 8.35pm). It’s the
11th series of this British
reality-telly institution, which
fashions feel-good entertain-
ment out of the romantic
travails of young adults with
disabilities and learning
difficulties. The first of the
five-episode season features
26-year-old Nicholas, an ama-
teur football commentator;
28-year-old Sam, a keen horse
rider and Robbie Williams
superfan; and 22-year-old
Shantae, a shopaholic who
dreams of meeting a religious
family man. Future episodes
Smother,
Sunday.
will be checking up on the
relationship status of people
who have starred in previous
seasons.
TRAVEL: BOSWELL & JOHN-
SON’S SCOTTISH ROAD TRIP
(Sky Arts, 8.20pm). In which
comedian Frank Skinner and
best-selling Scottish crime
writer Denise Mina recreate
the 1773 trip around Scot-
land made by English writer
Samuel Johnson and his biog-
rapher, James Boswell. Both
writers delivered very differ-
ent accounts in Johnson’s A
Journey to the Western Islands
of Scotland and Boswell’s The
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
For Skinner, the series is a
chance to step into the buckled
shoes and powdered wig of
his literary hero – he became
president of the Samuel John-
son Society in 2010. It’s Mina’s
job to represent her country-
man Boswell. The first episode
of three has them leaving
Edinburgh and heading up
the east coast for Macbeth
country. Further instalments
take them to Loch Ness and
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the Isles of Mull and Iona.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4
DOCUMENTARY: OBAMA: IN
PURSUIT OF A MORE PERFECT
UNION (Neon; SoHo, Monday,
August 9, 9.30pm). Former US
president Barack Obama
has thrown his lot in with
Netflix, so he’s not inter-
viewed in this series about
his journey to the White
House and his legacy.
But the three episodes
promise plenty of archival
interviews and speeches,
including the 2008 one
about the race that inspired
the doco’s title and helped
him win the Democratic
Party nomination. There’s
also an array of political fig-
ures, including Jelani Cobb,
David Remnick, Cornel
West, Sherrilyn Ifill, Al Sharp-
ton and Jesse Jackson, helping
trace the pivotal moments of
his rise and his presidency.
THURSDAY AUGUST 5
DOCUMENTARY: COCAINE
COWBOYS: THE KINGS OF
MIAMI (Netflix). Director
Billy Corben has certainly
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documented the violent
history of the Florida drugs
trade. This six-part saga fol-
lows earlier features Cocaine
Cowboys and Cocaine Cowboys
2 as well as the pot-focused
Square Grouper: The Godfathers
Mr Corman, Friday.
of Ganja. The new series looks
at how high-school friends
Augusto “Willy” Falcon
and Salvador “Sal” Magluta
became speedboat champions
and drug kingpins during the
Miami Vice era of the 1980s,
when it’s estimated they smug-
gled about $2 billion worth
of cocaine into Florida. The
pair were acquitted at their
1996 trial, having bought off
witnesses and jury members.
Tried a second time, Magluta
received a 195-year prison sen-
tence; Falcon took a plea deal
in 2003 and was sentenced to
20 years behind bars.
FOOD: COOKING WITH
PARIS (Netflix). Paris Hilton
made a YouTube video of
her attempting to make
lasagne in early 2020 and
it went viral. That was
enough for the heiress-
socialite-reality TV star
to score her own show on
Netflix in which she learns
how to cook by getting
lessons from other famous
people in six episodes.
“She’s not a trained chef
and she’s not trying to be,”
says the publicity, just in case it
needed to be said.
FRIDAY AUGUST 6
COMEDY: MR CORMAN (Apple
TV+, new episodes weekly).
When the pandemic shut
down the Hollywood produc-
tion of his new dramedy last
year, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Boswell & Johnson’s
Scottish Road Trip,
Monday.
shifted the production and his
family to Wellington. While he
was here, the star of 3rd Rock
from the Sun and (500) Days of
Summer spent time saying nice
things about New Zealand to
US talk shows. Now comes the
chance to see if the upheaval
was worth it. Created, directed
and starring Gordon-Levitt
as the title character, Mr
Corman is about a Los Angeles
fifth-grade teacher and frus-
trated musician who is facing
increasing anxiety, loneliness,
self-loathing and relationship
problems. Sometimes, those
feelings manifest themselves
with surreal moments or
musical numbers. The show,
its lead character and his
thoughts are mostly based on
him. “This show in large part is
about myself, or some version
of myself,” he told Entertain-
ment Weekly. “I find that a lot
of my favourite art happens
when artists are taking a really
deep and honest dive into
themselves. And that’s what
I’ve endeavoured to do here.”
The series co-stars Debra
Winger, Hugo Weaving and
Juno Temple. l
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TV Films
The big movies on TV this week
SATURDAY JULY 31
COOL RUNNINGS (TVNZ 2,
7.00pm). Without a doubt, one
of the great Olympics movies
that set off an avalanche of
comedies about the winter
games. It also did for bobsled-
ding what Chariots of Fire did
for jogging on the beach. (1993)
JUNGLE SHUFFLE (Māori TV,
7.30pm). Cheap and cheesy
animated flick about raccoon-
like coatis fighting invading
humans in the Mexican rain-
forest. (2014)
LATE NIGHT (Three, 8.25pm).
Mindy Kaling wrote and stars
as Molly, a supposed “diversity
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hire” writer on an ailing US
talk show hosted by Emma
Thompson. It’s a comedy about
creating comedy and – care of
its leads – a very likeable one.
(2019)
PETERLOO (Rialto, 8.30pm).
Mike Leigh’s ambitious,
austere, uncompromising
and epic drama about the 1819
Peterloo Massacre in Man-
chester – when the British
Government ordered soldiers
to attack pro-democracy
protesters – is both exhaustive
and exhausting. (2018)
WILD WILD WEST (TVNZ 2,
8.50pm). In the Venn diagram
overlap of worst movies from
Late Night,
Saturday.
television shows and worst
films starring Will Smith,
there sits this spectacular
stinker. (1999)
SUNDAY AUGUST 1
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND
WHERE TO FIND THEM (TVNZ 2,
8.20pm). Fun if densely plotted
fantasy from JK Rowling. In a
new world of wizards in Pro-
hibition-era New York, beast
conservationist Newt Scama-
nder (Eddie Redmayne) finds
himself in trouble as some-
thing dark and evil threatens
the city. (2016)
THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD
(Three, 8.30pm). Brainless
and formulaic buddy-action
comedy that is slightly
reprieved by the double act
of Ryan Reynolds as personal
protection guy and Samuel L
Jackson as an assassin who’s a
star witness in a war-crimes
trial and possibly not requir-
ing anyone to keep him safe.
(2017)
FATMAN (Sky Movies Premiere,
8.30pm). Gimmicky Christmas-
themed action comedy with
Mel Gibson as an unjolly Santa
Claus having to fight off a
killer hired by a disgruntled
12-year-old. (2020)
FRIDAY AUGUST 6
JURASSIC PARK III (Three,
7.30pm). After sitting out the
What We Did on Our
Holiday, Friday.
first sequel, Sam Neill’s Dr
Alan Grant returned for this
patchy Steven Spielberg-free
instalment. Still, it had its
moments, such as the one
involving the dwindling
human survivors discovering
the rope bridge they’re on is
in an aviary of blood-thirsty
Pteranodons. (2001)
WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLI-
DAY (Māori TV, 8.30pm). David
Tennant and Rosamund Pike
as Doug and Abi McLeod try to
keep their separation a secret
while on a family excursion
to Scotland with their three
children to celebrate the 75th
birthday of Doug’s father,
played nicely by Billy Con-
nolly. (2014)
ARCHIVE (Sky Movies Pre-
miere, 8.30pm; Neon, August
7). Intriguing if unoriginal
British artificial-intelligence
thriller about a robotics engi-
neer working on an android
version of his deceased wife.
(2020)
LUCKY GRANDMA (Rialto,
8.30pm). Hilariously knocka-
bout crime-caper comedy
about a grouchy New York Chi-
nese granny whose big casino
win attracts the attention of
the Chinatown mafia. (2020)
Films are rated out of 5:
(abysmal) to (amazing)
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Olympics
A guide to the second week of the
Tokyo Olympics and when NZ
athletes will be in competition.
SATURDAY JULY 31
RUGBY: The Black Ferns could
be headed to a gold-medal
match (Sky Sport 5, 9.00pm)
after earlier semifinals
(2.00pm).
TRIATHLON: The NZ team of
Nicole van der Kaay, Ainsley
Thorpe, Tayler Reid and
Hayden Wilde in the mixed
relay event (SS6,10.30am).
EQUESTRIAN: The eventing
team of Tim Price, Jonelle Price
and Jesse Campbell in the third
session of the two-day dressage
competition (Sky Sport pop-up
1, 11.30am). Sessions one and
two are on Friday, July 30 (Sky
Sport Pop-Up 3, 11.30am; SS9,
8.30pm).
GYMNASTICS: Dylan Schmidt
on the trampoline (SS9,
4.00pm).
HOCKEY: Women’s Pool B
game, NZ vs China (SS8,
12.30pm).
WEIGHTLIFTING: Cameron
McTaggart in the men’s 81kg
division (SS9, 2.50pm).
SUNDAY AUGUST 1
ATHLETICS: If they’ve quali-
fied, Valerie Adams and
Maddison-Lee Wesche in the
women’s shot-put finals (SS4,
1.35pm). Qualification stage
for hammer throwers Julia
TV SPORT
NETBALL: In the ANZ Pre-
miership elimination final,
the Mainland Tactix play
Southern Steel (Sky Sport 1,
Sunday, 4.00pm). Northern
Mystics await the winner in
next weekend’s grand final.
RUGBY: Farah Palmer Cup
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Ratcliffe and Lauren Bruce
(12.10pm).
GYMNASTICS: Misha Koudi-
nov in the floor exercise (SS8,
8.00pm) and pommel horse
(9.30pm).
SAILING: Possible medal race
for Laser sailor Sam Meech
(SS6, 7.30pm).
EQUESTRIAN: The eventing
team of Tim Price, Jonelle
Price and Jesse Campbell in the
cross-country (SS6, 10.45am).
WEIGHTLIFTING: Megan Signal
in the women’s 76kg division
(SS5, 10.50pm).
MONDAY AUGUST 2
CANOE (sprint): Lisa Car-
rington in the heats of her
favoured event, the single
200m, and possible quar-
terfinals (SS5, 2.45pm and
12.30pm) with semi-finals and
finals on Tuesday (SS5, from
9.30am). She will also be in
the K2 500m heat with Caitlin
Regal today (SS5, 2.00pm), as is
the other NZ women’s double
of Alicia Hoskin and Teneale
Hatton (with quarterfinals
3.45pm; semi-finals, Tuesday,
1.23pm; finals, Tuesday 3.40pm).
EQUESTRIAN: The eventing
team of Tim Price, Jonelle
Price and Jesse Campbell in the
event jumping qualifier (SS7,
round 3: Taranaki v Tasman
(SS1, Saturday, 12.00pm);
Hawke’s Bay v North Harbour
(SS2, Saturday, 12.00pm); Bay
of Plenty v Waikato (SS2,
Saturday, 2.00pm); Northland
v Manawatū (SS1, Saturday,
7.00pm); Counties Manukau v
Otago (SS1, Sunday, 12.00pm);
Canterbury v Wellington (SS1,
Sunday 2.00pm). Later in the
week, the men’s NPC begins
8.00pm) before the final (SS7,
11.45pm).
CYCLING (track): Women’s
team pursuit qualifying (SS6,
6.54pm) and men’s team pur-
suit qualifying (SS6, 8.02pm).
GYMNASTICS: Misha Koudinov
in the men’s vault final (SS9,
9.30pm).
SAILING: Possible 49er FX
skiff medal races for Molly
Meech and Alex Maloney
(SSPU1,5.30pm) and for Peter
Burling and Blair Tuke
(SSPU1,6.30pm).
WEIGHTLIFTING: Kanah
Andrews-Nahu in the women’s
87kg (SS8, 6.50pm) and Laurel
Hubbard in the women’s +87kg
(SS6, 10.50pm).
TUESDAY AUGUST 3
ATHLETICS: Shot-putters
Jacko Gill and Tom Walsh in
their qualifying rounds (SS4,
11.40pm) with finals on Thurs-
day (SS4, 2.05pm). Nick Willis
and Samuel Tanner in the
1500m heats (SS4, 12.05pm).
with Manawatū v Counties
Manukau (SS1, Friday 7.00pm),
after Manawatū women play
Hawke’s Bay (SS1, 5.00pm).
In Johannesburg, the Brit-
ish and Irish Lions meet South
Africa in the second of three
tests (SS1, Sunday, 3.50am).
LEAGUE: Game of the round
is Melbourne Storm v Penrith
Panthers in a rerun of last
Canoeists Alicia
Hoskin and Teneale
Hatton in the women’s
double, Monday.
CYCLING (track): Women’s team
pursuit heats (SS5, 6.30pm),
men’s team pursuit heats
(7.22pm) and men’s team sprint
qualifying (6.58pm).
GYMNASTICS: Misha Koudinov
in the men’s parallel bars final
(SS6, 8.00pm) and horizontal
bars final (9.30pm).
EQUESTRIAN: Bruce Goodin,
Daniel Meech and Sharn
Woodley in the individual
jumping qualifiers (SS5,
10.00pm) before the final
(Wednesday, 10.00pm).
SAILING: Possible medal races
for Nacra 17 foiling multihull
duo Micah Wilkinson and
Erica Dawson (SS6, 6.30pm)
and for Josh Junior in the Finn
(SS6, 5.30pm).
DIVING: Anton Down-Jenkins
in the springboard event (SS8,
1.00pm).
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4
GOLF: Lydia Ko tees off in the
first of the four rounds (SS7,
10.30am, daily).
year’s NRL grand final – and
potentially a prelude to
this season’s (SS2, Saturday,
9.35pm). On Friday, three
plays four when the Eels meet
the Rabbitohs (SS2, 9.55pm).
MOTORSPORT: F1 road
rage resumes at Budapest’s
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Hungaroring with the
Hungarian Grand Prix (Spark
Sport, Monday, 1.00am).
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David Liti in the +109kg
men’s weightlifting,
Wednesday, 10.50pm.
CANOE (sprint): Lisa Car-
rington and Caitlin Regal
in heats for the single 500m
(SS5, 1.19pm) with quarter-
finals later in the afternoon
and semi-finals and finals on
Thursday. The 1000m men’s
double duo of Max Brown
and Kurtis Imrie in heats
(SS5, 1.54pm).
CYCLING (track): Ethan
Mitchell and Sam Webster
in the qualifying stages and
heats of the men’s sprint and
Ellesse Andrews in the heats
of the women’s keirin (SS5,
6.30pm).
SAILING: Possible medal race
for 470 sailors Paul Snow-
Hansen and Dan Willcox
(SS6, 5.30pm).
WEIGHTLIFTING: David
Liti in the +109kg men (SS9,
10.50pm).
THURSDAY AUGUST 5
KARATE: Andrea Anacan
competing in the elimination
rounds (SSPU1, 1.00pm).
CYCLING (track): Aaron Gate,
Campbell Stewart, Corbin
Strong in the men’s omnium
(SS5, 6.30pm).
HOCKEY: The men’s gold-
medal match (SS9, 12.00am).
FRIDAY AUGUST 6
ATHLETICS: Quentin Rew in
the men’s 50km race walk
(SS4, 8.30am).
CANOE (sprint): Lisa Car-
rington, Caitlin Regal, Alicia
Hoskin and Teneale Hatton
team up for the K4 500m
heats (SS5, 1.15pm) with semi-
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finals and finals on Saturday
(3.00pm).
EQUESTRIAN: Bruce Goodin,
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Daniel Meech and Sharn
Woodley in the jumping
team qualifiers (SS9, 10.00pm)
before the final (Saturday,
10.00pm).
CYCLING (track): Ellesse
Andrews and Kirstie James
in the women’s sprint quali-
fiers and heats (SS5, 6.30pm);
Rushlee Buchanan and Jessie
Hodges in the women’s madi-
son final (8.10pm).
HOCKEY: The women’s gold-
medal match (SS9, 12.00am).
FOOTBALL: The women’s gold-
medal match (SS4, 2.00pm).
SATURDAY AUGUST 7
ATHLETICS: Camille Buscomb
in the women’s 10,000m final
(SS4, 10.45pm).
CYCLING (track): Sam
Dakin and Sam Webster
in the heats of the men’s
keirin (SS5, 6.48pm). Aaron
Gate, Campbell Stewart
and Corbin Strong in
the men’s madison final
(7.51pm).
FOOTBALL: The men’s gold-
medal match (SS5, 11.30pm).
SUNDAY AUGUST 8
ATHLETICS: Malcolm Hicks
and Zane Robertson in
the men’s marathon (SS4,
10.00am).
CYCLING (track): Holly
Edmondston in the women’s
omnium (SS4, 1.00pm).
As well as Sky Sport, TVNZ1
will be carrying live games
coverage focused on Kiwi
competitors throughout the
day. See last week’s edition
for a guide to the first week’s
events.
Talkback
IN PRAISE OF NURSERY RHYMES
In the enthusiasm to incorpo-
rate more te reo into our daily
lives, let us not forget the beau-
ties and history of the English
language. A recent television
interviewee decried English
nursery rhymes. Yes, many
were forged in dangerous times,
but they are beloved of many
children and carry Pākehā
history and learning with
them as do Māori whakataukī
(proverbs).
Norma McCallum
(Waikanae)
‘SCHITT’S CREEK’ A GEM
As someone who has an
ordinary TV set-up (no Sky,
Netflix, Acorn, Apple TV+, Vibe
or OnDemand), I appreciate
TVNZ 1 screening Schitt’s Creek,
one of the most satisfying com-
edies ever. The highlight of my
meagre viewing week, the series
is full of effortless comedy and
timing. It’s no wonder this Cana-
dian gem scooped nine Emmys.
Barbara Byers
(Christchurch)
Schitt’s Creek returns after the
Olympic Games coverage ends.
NEWER EPISODES, PLEASE
As much as we love The Chase
(TVNZ 1), we don’t need to see
the pre-Covid episodes again.
Cherrilyn Lowery
(Kerikeri)
REGULAR LISTENERS
Brian Peak (Talkback, July 10) is
puzzled by RNZ Concert’s “clas-
sical music and beyond” slogan.
I am more intrigued by its
“musical fibre” claim. Fibre? Is
that like prunes with the sound
of music, a radio relaxative, so to
speak? Still, it’s a sound way to
keep regular listeners, I guess.
Dean Donoghue
(Pāpāmoa Beach)
RNZ Concert is slowly disap-
pearing. Music is fitted in
between lots of self-promotion.
One recent news bulletin at 6am
was down to two items.
RB Manger
(Church Bay)
I also find RNZ Concert’s fre-
quent and irritating reminders
beyond endurance. Is it continu-
ing the dumbing down we have
endured for so long to prepare
us for commercialisation? Any
remaining listeners will then
accept as normal the wittering
on of previously professional
presenters and the frequent
interruption of programmes by
commercials.
Thank you, RNZ Concert, for
the many years of satisfying
listening that I enjoyed until
recently. I now give up.
Marianne Kiddle
(Wellington)
TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE
TVNZ 1 has just finished a repeat
of series one of The Great British
Sewing Bee. I was disappointed
to see it is not continuing with
series 2 of this wonderful
programme in the same time
slot. Will TVNZ be screening the
next six series?
Ruth Lewis
(Rotorua)
TVNZ replies: More will screen
later in the year.
ANOTHER WORTHY SUCCESSOR
Rather than anointing Julian
Wilcox as Kim Hill’s succes-
sor when she retires from her
Saturday Morning programme
(Talkback, July 3), I suggest Jim
Mora, who never interrupts
and is the most empathetic and
knowledgeable broadcaster,
even on RNZ National.
Brian Collins
(Lower Hutt)
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TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 Te Karere (R) A Māori
perspective on the day’s
news and current affairs.
6.30 Country Calendar (G, R,
HD, C, AD) Wairoa farmer
Sheena Martin played
with the farm pups at two
and owned a dog at six.
Nowadays, she has about
20 working dogs and goes
away dog-trialling most
weekends.
7.00 Fishing and Adventure (G,
R, HD, C) The crew heads to
the very top of Aotearoa for
a three-day adventure where
the challenge is to land big
trevally, snapper and kingfish.
7.30 Infomercials
8.30 Religious Programming
9.00 Roads Less Travelled (G, HD,
C) An Australian road trip
series about hidden gems
that only locals know about.
9.30 Tagata Pasifika (HD) Stories
and information from the
Pacific Island community.
10.00 Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
(HD, C) Toni Street presents
day 8 coverage of the 2020
Summer Olympics in Tokyo,
with insight from Olympian
Sarah Cowley Ross and
reporters Kimberlee Downs,
Chris Chang, Guy Heveldt
and Rapaera Tawhai on
the ground in Tokyo. New
Zealand athletes will be
searching for Olympic glory
in more than 20 sports.
Today, Mixed Triathlon,
final from Odaiba Marine
Park, Women’s Black Sticks
v China from Oi Hockey
Stadium, Trampoline
qualifications featuring Dylan
Schmidt from the Olympic
Gymnastics Centre, and
the Black Ferns in action at
Tokyo Stadium.
6.00 1 News (HD, C)
7.00 Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
(HD, C) Scotty Stevenson
presents coverage of the
evening session of day 8,
with insight from Olympian
Sarah Cowley Ross and
reporters Kimberlee Downs,
Chris Chang, Guy Heveldt
and Rapaera Tawhai on
the ground in Tokyo. New
Zealand athletes will be
searching for Olympic glory
in more than 20 sports.
Tonight, Swimming, finals
from the Olympic Aquatics
Centre, the Black Ferns in
action at Tokyo Stadium,
and Athletics from Olympic
Stadium.
2.00 Coronation Street (PG, R,
HD, C, AD) A blast from the
past offers Carla respite from
Peter’s woes, Tracy shows an
interest in buying Number 8,
and Dev seeks Nina’s advice
on how to help Asha.
3.35 – 6.00 Infomercials
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TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
6.00 The Adventures of
Paddington (G, HD, C)
6.10 The Most Magnificent Thing
(G, C)
6.30 Esme and Roy (G, HD,
C, AD)
6.55 Love Monster (G, R, HD, C)
7.05 Scooby Doo! Guess Who (G,
HD, C)
7.25 Beyblade Burst Surge (G,
HD, C)
7.50 Dragon Ball Super (PG, R,
HD, C)
8.15 Adventure Time (PG, HD, C)
8.40 Pokémon Journeys: The
Series (G, HD, C)
9.00 Monkie Kid (G, HD, C, AD)
9.10 Power Rangers Ninja Steel
(G, R, HD, C)
9.35 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C)
s14ep22
10.00 Fresh (PG) The Young Gifted
& Brown Person of the
Week is Christchurch-based
musician Leighton Fairlie,
and Mangere and Marcellin
colleges face off in How
Fresh Are You?
10.30 ■ The Amazing Race
Australia (PG, R, HD, C)
11.50 The Middle (G, R, HD, C)
s1ep5
12.45 Dress to Impress (G, R, HD,
C, AD)
1.40 How to Look Good Naked
(PG, R, HD, C, AD)
2.35 Little Big Shots UK (G, R,
HD, C)
3.35 The Voice Kids UK (G,
HD, C)
5.05 Junior Bake Off (G, HD, C)
s5ep2
6.00 The Cube (G, HD, C)
Phillip Schofield presents
a UK game show in which
contestants undergo physical
and mental challenges in a
giant clear cube.
7.00 ■ Cool Runnings (1993, G,
R, HD, C, AD) Based on the
story of the first Jamaican
bobsled team trying to make
it to the Winter Olympics.
John Candy, Leon Robinson.
TV Films, page 69
8.50 ■ Wild Wild West (1999,
M, R, HD, C, AD) Two
government agents are sent
to stop a diabolical genius
who is plotting to assassinate
the President. Will Smith,
Kevin Kline, Salma Hayak.
TV Films, page 69
11.00 ■ Blade Runner 2049
(2017, 16, R, HD, C, AD) A
blade runner discovers a
secret that leads him to
Rick Deckard, who has
been missing for 30 years.
Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling.
1.50am ■ Wedding Crashers (2005,
16, R, HD, C, AD) Vince
Vaughn, Owen Wilson.
3.50 2 Overnight
5.05 Fresh (PG, R)
5.30 – 6.00 Religious
Programming
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
SATURDAY JULY 31
THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 Charles Stanley
6.30 Infomercials
9.30 Newshub Nation (HD) With
Simon Shepherd.
10.30 Darren Robertson’s
Charcoal Kitchen (G, R, HD)
s1ep8
11.00 Taste of Australia with
Hayden Quinn (G, R, HD, C)
s1ep9
11.30 Tiny House World (G, R, HD,
C) s1ep1
Noon ■ Tiny House Hunting (PG,
R, HD, C) s4ep1 Infinity and beyond:
12.30 Doctors Without Borders: FOR ALL MANKIND
Dedicated to Life (PG, R,
HD, C) s1ep1 DRAMA: In episode one, the
1.35 Lego Masters Australia (G, R, Russians land on the Moon
HD, C) s2ep4 first; in the second, the Rus-
3.25 Rescue My Renovation (G,
HD, C) s1ep8
sians – good Lord – send a
3.55 Restoration Man (PG, R, woman up, inspiring girls
HD, C) and women everywhere. In
5.00 Ocean Bounty (G, HD, C) this clever alternative history
s4ep9
series created by Ronald D
6.00 Newshub Live (HD)
7.00 Holey Moley Australia: Moore, the space race never
Junior Edition (PG, HD, C) ends and soon, both astro-
Junior mini-golfers, ranging
nauts and cosmonauts are
from 8 to 10, battle it out
living on the Moon amid
across three rounds. s1ep14
8.25 ■ Late Night (2019, M, HD, escalating tensions. There
C) A late-night TV host are lots of cookies here for
whose show is in decline
US history nerds, real figures
attempts a revamp by hiring
a female writer. Emma from history and spliced-in
Thompson, Mindy Kaling. historical footage, although
TV Films, page 69
as Mars is on the cards for the
10.30 ■ Kindred Spirits (2019, 16,
HD, C) Caitlin Stasey. third season, perhaps Moore
12.30am Infomercials is eventually going to link up
5.00 Brian Houston @ Hillsong
with his other magnum opus,
(G, R)
Battlestar Galactica.
5.30 – 6.00 Charles Stanley
APPLE TV+
PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Kids’ Programmes (G, R)
10.00 SmackDown (PG, R)
11.00 NRL Try Time (G)
Noon NRL Premiership (G)
Brisbane Broncos v North
Queensland Cowboys.
2.00 Farah Palmer Cup (G) Bay of
Plenty v Waikato, live.
4.00 Judge Judy (PG)
5.00 Mighty Machines (PG, R, C)
5.30 Prime News
6.00 Weather Gone Viral (PG, Swing and a miss: HOLEY
R, C)
7.00 Storage Wars (PG, R, C)
MOLEY AUSTRALIA:
7.30 The Day We Walked on JUNIOR EDITION
the Moon (PG, R, C) US GAME SHOW: Well, here’s
documentary marking 50
years since the first moon another way for parents to
landing. disappoint their offspring, as
8.30 The Brokenwood Mysteries they will be the ones taking
(M, R, C) At the funeral of a on the obstacles while the
beloved local poet the coffin
falls open to reveal the body
youngsters make the putts.
of a woman. One nine-year-old says he
10.30 The Radical Story of Patty wants to be a professional
Hearst (16, R, C) Soon after golfer, another claims to have
being captured by the FBI,
the SLA goes up in flames.
been playing golf for eight
11.25 NXT (PG) years. Huh?
12.25am – 3.25 Infomercials (G) THREE, 7.00pm
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MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
6.30 Kids’ Programmes (G)
9.30 Kōrero Mai (G, R)
Noon Whānau Living (G, R)
1.00 Marae DIY (G, R)
2.00 Tangaroa with Pio (G)
3.00 Funny Whare: Gamesnight
(G, R)
4.00 Soul Sessions (G)
4.30 Fresh (G)
5.00 The Hui (G)
5.30 Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau:
Aotearoa (G, R)
6.30 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe:
Tamararo (G, R) Coverage of
Tamararo performances at Te
Poho ō Rāwiri, Gisborne.
7.30 ■ Jungle Shuffle (2014,
G) A mischievous coatis is
exiled from the empire of
the Mexican rainforest for
breaking a statue ordered
by the king. Voices of Drake
Bell, Jessica DiCiccio.
TV Films, page 69
8.40 ■ Moon (2009, M, R)
Astronaut Sam Bell’s three-
year shift at a lunar mine
is finally coming to an end,
but his health starts to
deteriorate. Sam Rockwell,
Dominique McElligot.
10.20 Holding Court with Steven
Adams (G, R) Steven Adams
engages with Kiwi kids at
basketball camps in three
major cities.
10.50 Funny Whare: Gamesnight
(G, R) Stacey Morrison hosts
a bilingual game show.
11.20 – 11.50 Hunt with Me (R)
SKY PREMIERE SKY 030
7.42 Ford v Ferrari (2019, M) Matt
Damon, Christian Bale
10.10 Love Sarah (2020, M)
Shannon Tarbet, Celia Imrie
11.45 We Summon the Darkness
(2019, 16) Alexandra
Daddario, Keean Johnson
1.13 Emma (2020) (2020, PG)
Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Nighy
3.14 A Beautiful Day in the
Neighborhood (2019, PG)
Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys
4.59 Babyteeth (2019, 16) Eliza
Scanlen, Toby Wallace
6.54 Unlocked (2017, 16) Noomi
Rapace, Orlando Bloom
8.30 Midway (2019, M) Based on
the Battle of Midway in the
Pacific during World War II.
Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson,
Luke Evans, Aaron Eckhart,
Mandy Moore
10.50 Waves (2019, 16) An
African-American family led
by a well-intentioned but
domineering father navigate
love and forgiveness in the
aftermath of a loss. Kelvin
Harrison Jr, Lucas Hedges,
Taylor Russell
1.10am Baby Done (2020, M) 2.40
Babyteeth (2019, 16) 4.35 Unlocked
(2017, 16)
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Miner key: MOON
A smart, concise debut from David Bow-
ie’s kid, Duncan Jones, that references a
number of sci-fi classics, including 2001:
A Space Odyssey. Sam Rockwell holds the
picture together as a lone Moon worker;
the appropriately named Kevin Spacey is
the voice of Hal, er, Gerty, the computer.
MĀORI TV, 8.40pm
BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Infomercials
10.00 Judge Jerry (G, R)
10.25 Hollywood Medium with
Tyler Henry (PG, R)
12.25 50 Ways to Kill Your Mum
(PG, R)
2.15 ■ Dumb and Dumber To
(2014, PG, R, C) Jim Carrey.
4.35 Celebrity Ghost Stories
(PG, R)
5.30 Undercover Boss (PG, R)
6.30 Million Dollar Listing NY
(PG)
7.30 Keeping Up with the
Kardashians (PG) Kourtney
tries to break out of her
comfort zone by being more
affectionate.
8.30 Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours
to Hell and Back (16, C)
9.30 The Real Housewives of
New Jersey (M) Teresa and
Joe prepare for their father’s
memorial.
10.30 Exhumed (16, R)
11.25 Snapped (M, R)
12.15am Infomercials 5.00 – 6.00
Love It or List It (G, R)
MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031
6.34 Book Club (2018, M) Diane
Keaton, Jane Fonda
8.15 Rock the Kasbah (2015, M)
Bill Murray, Kate Hudson
9.58 Pixels (2015, PG) Adam
Sandler, Kevin James
11.40 Bend It Like Beckham
(2002, PG) Parminder Nagra,
Keira Knightley
1.29 Van Wilder: Party Liaison
(2002, 16) Ryan Reynolds
2.59 Chef (2014, M) Jon Favreau
4.50 Miss Congeniality (2000, M)
Sandra Bullock
6.36 Miss Congeniality 2: Armed
and Fabulous (2005, M)
Sandra Bullock
8.30 The Adventures of Priscilla
Queen of the Desert (1994,
M) Two drag queens and a
transsexual travel aboard a
pink bus named Priscilla to
a cabaret gig in the middle
of the desert. Hugo Weaving
Terence Stamp
10.15 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
(2000, M) George Clooney
12.00am Land of the Lost (2009,
M) 1.45 Bridget Jones: The Edge
of Reason (2004, M) 3.35 Miss
Congeniality (2000, M) 5.25
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and
Fabulous (2005, M)
CHOICE TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024 TVNZ DUKE FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023
6.00 Hugh’s Three Good Things
6.30 Inside the Vets (G)
7.30 Project Grizzly (G)
8.30 Mysteries at the Museum
(PG)
9.30 Escape to the Chateau: DIY
10.30 Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico
(G)
11.30 Salvage Hunters Best Buys
(G)
12.30 Grand Designs (G)
1.30 George Clarke’s Old House
New Home (G)
2.30 Forged in Fire (PG)
3.30 Meet the Orangutans (G)
4.00 Kai Safari (G)
4.30 Choccywoccydoodah
Starstruck (G)
5.30 Antiques Roadshow (G)
MediaCityUK, Manchester.
6.30 American Pickers (G)
7.30 Jade Fever (PG)
8.30 Lost & Found (PG)
9.30 Alone: The Arctic (PG)
10.30 Choccywoccydoodah
Starstruck (G)
11.30 Meet the Orangutans (G)
12.00am Programmes continue
MOVIES VINTAGE SKY 035
7.55 Dr. Strangelove (1964, PG)
Peter Sellers
9.30 Woman Times Seven (1967,
M) Shirley MacLaine
11.15 Fort Apache, the Bronx
(1981, 16) Paul Newman
1.15 McLintock! (1963, PG) John
Wayne, Maureen O’Hara
3.20 Dr. Strangelove (1964, PG)
Peter Sellers
4.55 The Turning Point (1952, PG)
William Holden
6.15 Fanny (1961, G) Leslie Caron,
Horst Buchholz
8.30 Union Station (1950,
PG) A passenger on a
train becomes involved
in the search for a gang
of kidnappers. William
Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry
Fitzgerald
9.55 The Manchurian Candidate
(1962, PG) A Korean war
veteran whose platoon was
captured by the Soviets
becomes suspicious that
his fellow officer has been
brainwashed. Frank Sinatra,
Laurence Harvey
12.00am The Turning Point (1952,
PG) 1.20 Fanny (1961, G) 3.35 A
Night at the Movies (2012, PG) 4.35
Union Station (1950, PG)
7.00 DUKEbox Music
2.50 Extreme E: Electric Odyssey
3.20 Disasters Engineered (PG, R,
HD, C) s1ep5
4.10 Chasing Monsters (G, R, HD,
C) s4ep6
5.00 Impossible Engineering (G,
HD, C, AD) s3ep11
6.00 Best of Police Ten 7 2021
(PG, R, HD, C)
6.30 Motorway Patrol (G, R,
HD, C)
7.00 Family Guy (PG, R, C)
s3ep18
7.30 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C)
s26ep21
8.30 ■ The Final Destination
(2009, 16, HD, C, AD) After
a premonition saves the lives
of a student and his friends,
Death sets out to collect.
Bobby Campo.
10.05 8 Out of 10 Cats Does
Countdown (M, R, HD, C)
s7ep4
11.05 Patriot Brains (16, R, HD, C)
12.05am – 1.00 Late Night
DUKEbox Music
RIALTO SKY 039
6.55 Lennon’s Last Weekend
(2020, M) UK documentary.
8.05 Woman at War (2018, M)
Halldóra Geirharosdóttir
9.50 King Rocker (2020, 16) UK
documentary.
11.25 Shirley (2020, M) Elisabeth
Moss
1.15 Bethany Hamilton:
Unstoppable (2018, M) US
documentary.
2.55 Mogul Mowgli (2020, 16) Riz
Ahmed
4.30 Once Were Brothers:
Robbie Robertson and the
Band (2019, M) Canadian
documentary.
6.10 Secrets and Lies (1996, M)
Brenda Blethyn
8.30 Rialto Selection: Peterloo
(2018, M) Based on the story
of the 1819 British forces’
attack on a pro-democracy
rally in Manchester. Rory
Kinnear, Maxine Peake
TV Films, page 69
11.00 A Vigilante (2018, 16) Olivia
Wilde
12.30am Port Authority (2019, M)
2.10 Stuffed (2019, M) 3.40 Mogul
Mowgli (2020, 16) 5.15 Once Were
Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the
Band (2019, M)
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SKY CHANNELS
Vibe SKY 006
6.05 Private Eyes (M) s3ep8 7.05 The Good Wife
(M) s1ep4 7.55 Judging Amy Marathon (M) 12.05
Downton Abbey (M) s1ep4 1.05 Hatton Garden (16)
s1ep4 2.00 Judge Judy Marathon (PG) 4.30 Private
Eyes (M) s3ep8 5.30 Born Different (M) s1ep9 6.00
Born Different (M) s1ep10 6.30 Elementary (M)
s7ep10 7.30 ■ Torvill & Dean (2018, PG) The story
of how iceskating duo Jayne Torvill and Christopher
Dean found each other and formed their highly
successful and enduring partnership. Poppy Lee
Friar, Will Tudor. 9.15 Highland Midwives (M) In
Dornoch, first-time parents Karen and Stuart face
a real problem: neither of them drive and midwife
Hayley is concerned about the reliability of public
transport if the baby comes at night. s2ep6 10.15
Medium Marathon (M) 2.20am Programmes
continue
UKTV SKY 007
6.50 QI Marathon (M) 8.25 Would I Lie to You?
Marathon (PG) 10.00 The Bill Marathon (M) 2.10
Casualty (PG) s35ep21 3.00 Staged (M) s1ep5&6
3.50 Holby City (M) s20ep15 4.55 A Touch of Frost
(M) s2ep2 6.50 Staged (M) s2ep7 7.15 Staged (M)
The guys prepare to leave their homes, and Michael
thinks he can get to New York. s2ep8 7.40 Casualty
(PG) s35ep22 8.30 Midsomer Murders (M) When
a man falls from a roof, Barnaby and Scott must
determine whether it was murder or suicide. s8ep6
10.20 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 11.15
Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) Paralympian
Jonnie Peacock. 12.15am Programmes continue
SoHo SKY 010
6.15 Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (18) s1ep2 7.10
Fear the Walking Dead (18) s6ep16 8.00 The Great
(M) s1ep10 8.50 Last Week Tonight with John
Oliver (M) s8ep18 9.20 In Treatment (M) s4ep10
10.00 Domina (16) s1ep4 10.55 Penny Dreadful:
City of Angels (18) s1ep2 11.50 Fear the Walking
Dead (18) s6ep16 12.40 The Great (M) s1ep10 1.40
Pose Marathon (16) s3ep1-6 7.00 Pose (16) After
discovering an HIV clinical trial is denying access to
people of colour, Blanca joins Act Up in an effort
to get Pray Tell medication. s3ep7 8.30 Westworld
(18) Bernard returns to Westworld and programmes
Ashley to protect him, and Serac forces Maeve to
go after Dolores. s3ep2 9.30 Yellowstone (16) John
sits down at the negotiating table with former
friends and foes. s3ep10 10.20 Eden (16) s1ep7 11.10
The Rook (16) s1ep5 12.00am Programmes continue
Living SKY 017
6.15 Grand Designs Australia (PG) 7.05 Salvage
Hunters Marathon (PG) 12.05 Heavenly Gardens
(PG) 1.05 Long Lost Family: Born Without a Trace
(PG) 2.00 My Mortgage Free Home (PG) 4.00
Salvage Hunters: The Restorers (PG) 4.50 Salvage
Hunters Marathon (PG) 7.30 Portillo’s Greatest
Railway Journeys (PG) Michael reflects on 180 years
of royal fascination with the railways, recalling King
George V and Queen Mary’s Royal Train Tour in
1913. 8.30 Gardening Australia (PG) Jerry meets a
champion hibiscus grower, Costa starts his backyard
pool to pond conversion, and Jane explains how to
propagate indoor plants. 9.40 Love Your Garden
(PG) 10.30 The Weekend Workshop (PG) 11.25 My
Mortgage Free Home (PG) 1.20am Programmes
continue
Investigation Discovery SKY 018
6.05 Scorned: Crimes of Passion (M) 7.45 Dead of
Winter (M) 8.35 The Wonderland Murders (M) 9.25
Nightmare Next Door (M) 10.20 Disappeared (M)
11.15 Evil Lives Here (M) 12.10 A Crime to Remember
Marathon (M) 3.50 Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein? (M)
6.35 Jeffrey Dahmer: Mind of a Monster (M) 8.30
The Happy Face Killer Mind of a Monster (M) 10.30
JULY 31 2021 LISTENER
Joe Exotic: Tigers, Lies and Cover-Up Marathon (M)
1.05am Programmes continue
Sky Arts SKY 020
6.30 Deep Purple: Live with Orchestra 8.05
Speakeasy: Nick Mason & David Fricke 9.05
Speakeasy: Jack Johnson & G Love 10.00
Speakeasy: Nick Lowe & Jim Nelson 11.00 Grayson
Perry’s Big American Road Trip (PG) 11.45 Portrait
Artist of the Year 12.30 The Big Book Club 1.30
Grayson’s Art Club 2.30 Deep Purple: Live with
Orchestra 4.05 Welcome to Ouzville 5.00 The
Artist’s Workshop 5.30 Critical Thinkers 6.00 Other
Voices 7.00 Off Camera 8.00 To the Moon 9.15 The
Liberators (G) Documentary about a German art
detective who tracked down medieval treasures
seized by the Nazis. 10.30 ■ John Fogerty: 50 Year
Trip (2019, G) John Fogerty performs at Red Rocks
in a concert celebrating 50 years since he played at
Woodstock. 12.00am Programmes continue
Discovery SKY 070
6.05 How It’s Made (PG) 6.55 Aussie Gold Hunters
(PG) 7.45 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 9.25 Aussie
Salvage Squad Marathon (PG) 12.10 Bering Sea
Gold (PG) 1.05 Deadliest Catch (PG) 2.00 Deadliest
Catch: Bloodline (PG) 2.55 Aussie Gold Hunters
(PG) 3.50 UFO Witness Marathon (PG) 6.35 Gold
Rush (PG) 7.30 House Hunters Down Under: Where
Are They Now? (PG) 8.00 House Hunters Down
Under (PG) 8.30 Demolition Down Under (PG) 9.30
Aussie Mega Mechanics (PG) 10.30 Homestead
Rescue (PG) 11.25 UFO Witness (PG) 12.15am
Programmes continue
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 Alaska: The Next Generation (M) 8.30 Science
of Stupid (PG) 9.30 Ultimate Airport Dubai (PG)
11.30 Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted (PG) 12.30
America’s Deadliest Sharks (PG) 1.30 World’s
Deadliest Shark (PG) 2.30 The Sharks of Hawaii
(PG) 3.30 Mega Factories 4.30 Megastructures 5.30
WW2 Hell Under the Sea (PG) 7.30 The Two Million
Year Old Boy 8.30 Atlantis Rising: Secrets Decoded
(PG) 9.30 Wicked Tuna (PG) 10.30 Wicked Tuna
S10 Best ofs (PG) 11.30 Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted
(PG) 12.30am Programmes continue
History SKY 073
6.30 Oliver Stone: Untold History of the US (M) 7.30
Greatest Cities of the World 8.30 Time Team 9.30
World’s Greatest Palaces (PG) 10.30 Time Team
(PG) 11.30 The Civil War by Ken Burns 12.30 Oliver
Stone: Untold History of the US (M) 2.30 Greatest
Cities of the World 3.30 Truk Lagoon: Japan’s Pearl
Harbour (PG) 4.30 The Roosevelts (PG) 5.30 The
Flu That Killed 50 Million (M) 6.30 River Hunters
(PG) 7.30 The Blitz: Britain on Fire (PG) Actress
Mary Lawson’s decision to stay above ground had
tragic consequences. 8.30 The Assassination of
Abraham Lincoln (PG) 10.30 Tutankhamun: Life,
Death and Legacy (PG) 11.30 World’s Greatest
Ships (PG) 12.30am Programmes continue
BBC Earth SKY 074
6.00 Life Below Zero Marathon (M) 8.35 24 Hours
in A&E (PG) 10.15 Frozen Planet: The Making of
(PG) 10.25 Earth from Space (PG) 11.20 Brian
Cox: Life of a Universe (PG) 12.15 Wild Thailand
(PG) 1.15 Wild West (PG) 2.20 Frozen Planet: The
Making of (PG) 2.30 Animal Impossible (PG) 3.25
Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (PG) 3.50 Judi
Dench’s Wild Borneo Adventure (PG) 4.40 Walking
the Himalayas (PG) Levison Wood sets out to walk
the length of the world’s highest mountain range.
5.35 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG)
6.25 The Blue Planet (PG) 7.20 TBA 7.30 Animal
Impossible (PG) Tim Warwood and Adam Gendle
investigate the story that piranhas can strip a
person to the bone in seconds. 8.30 Gorilla Family
& Me (PG) 9.30 Life Below Zero (PG) 10.20 Meet
the Humans (M) 11.20 Walking the Himalayas (PG)
12.10am Programmes continue
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10.55am
SKY SPORT
Sky Sport 1 SKY 051
6.00 British Superbikes, Thruxton, 1st race, live
9.00 NRL Premiership, Wests Tigers v NZ Warriors,
replay 11.00 Farah Palmer Cup, Otago v Auckland,
highlights 11.15 Farah Palmer Cup, Waikato v
Canterbury, highlights 11.30 Farah Palmer Cup,
Hawke’s Bay v Northland, highlights 11.45 Farah
Palmer Cup, North Harbour v Tasman, highlights
Noon Farah Palmer Cup, Taranaki v Tasman, live
2.00 1st XV Revision 2.30 1st XV Rugby, Hastings
Boys’ High v Tauranga Boys’, live 4.30 1st XV Rugby,
St Pat’s Silverstream v St Pat’s Town, highlights 5.00
Super Netball, NSW Giants v West Coast Fever, live
7.00 Farah Palmer Cup, Northland v Manawatu, live
9.00 1st XV Rugby, Hastings Boys’ High v Tauranga
Boys’, highlights 9.30 Farah Palmer Cup, Taranaki v
Tasman, highlights 10.00 Golf, European Tour, ISPS
Handa World Invitational, round 2, highlights 10.30
Golf, LPGA, ISPS Handa World Invitational, round
2, highlights 11.00 Golf, LPGA, ISPS Handa World
Invitational, round 3, live 3.30am British & Irish
Lions, highlights 3.50 Rugby, South Africa v British
& Irish Lions, 2nd test, from Cape Town Stadium,
live
Sky Sport 2 SKY 052
6.00 Sky Sport GrassRoots 7.00 Rugby, Currie Cup,
Golden Lions v Pumas, replay 9.00 Golf, European
Tour, ISPS Handa World Invitational, round 2, replay
11.00 Golf, LPGA, ISPS Handa World Invitational,
round 2, highlights 11.30 Golf, European Tour, ISPS
Handa World Invitational, round 2, highlights Noon
Farah Palmer Cup, live 2.00 Farah Palmer Cup, Bay
of Plenty v Waikato, live 4.00 NRL Premiership,
highlights 4.30 NRL Premiership, St George
Illawarra Dragons v South Sydney Rabbitohs,
live 6.50 NRL Premiership, Newcastle Knights
v Canberra Raiders, live 9.35 NRL Premiership,
Melbourne Storm v Penrith Panthers, from AAMI
Park, Melbourne, live 12.30am Currie Cup, Sharks
v Griquas, live 2.45 Cricket, West Indies v Pakistan,
3rd T20, from Guyana National Stadium, live
Sky Sport 3 SKY 053
6.30 Tokyo Olympics, day 7, Rowing, single sculls
finals, eights finals, from Sea Forest Waterway,
highlights 7.00 Men’s Golf, round 2, highlights from
Kasumigaseki Country Club 7.30 Women’s Rugby
Sevens, placing 9-12, quarter-finals, highlights from
Tokyo Stadium 9.00 Tokyo 2020, day 7, highlights
10.00 Tokyo Gold, Triathlon, Teams, live 2.00am
Women’s Rugby Sevens, placing 7-8, placing 5-6,
bronze medal match, gold medal match, and victory
ceremony, highlights from Tokyo Stadium 3.30 BMX,
Women’s Freestyle Seeding Run, Men’s Freestyle
Seeding Run, from Ariake Urban Sports Park
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Chimp champ: RESCUED
CHIMPANZEES OF THE
CONGO WITH JANE
GOODALL
DOCUMENTARY: Jane
Goodall established the
Tchimpounga Chimpanzee
Rehabilitation Centre in the
Republic of Congo 1991, and
this five-part series spans its
work for the past 30 years and
follows the establishment of
three new islands that will
house around 100 chimps.
The animals are orphaned by
the illegal bushmeat and pet
trade – poachers will leave
baby animals or sell them as
pets. “We’re trying to save
a species, but a species is
made up of individuals,” says
Goodall. “So right from the
very beginning, to me, the
individual has been the centre
part of the message.”
NEON
Game on: BLACK GOLD
COLLECTION: For a spot of
Olympics nostalgia, NZ On
Screen has put together some
magnificent archive material,
including the story of Peter
Snell, the 1984 rowing eights,
and a National Film Unit story
about the New Zealand team
as they prepare to leave for
the 1948 London Olympics
by ship.
NZ ON SCREEN
■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM
74
TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 Attitude (G, R, HD, C, AD)
As their Outward Bound
adventure continues, a group
of people living with physical
disabilities tackle their fear
of heights and a challenging
waka journey.
6.25 Cowboy Builders (G, R, HD)
Dominic Littlewood and
Melinda Messenger present
a UK series about cowboy
builders.
7.15 Tagata Pasifika (R, HD)
Stories and information from
the Pacific Island community.
7.40 Praise Be (G, R, HD)
Chris Nichol presents a
programme of hymns
and worship songs from
throughout New Zealand.
8.10 The Living Room (G, HD, C)
Australian lifestyle series.
9.00 Q+A with Jack Tame (HD,
C) Political interviews and
discussions.
10.00 Marae (HD) Issues and
information from te ao Māori.
10.30 Waka Huia (G, HD)
Documentary series
featuring the unique stories
and histories of Māori.
11.00 The Age of Nature (PG,
R, HD, C) US series about
humanity’s relationship
with nature and wildlife
and how scientists and
conservationists study ways
to restore the planet.
Noon Olympic Games Tokyo
2020 (HD, C) Toni Street
presents day 9 coverage of
the 2020 Summer Olympics
in Tokyo, with insight from
Olympian Sarah Cowley Ross
and reporters Kimberlee
Downs, Chris Chang, Guy
Heveldt and Rapaera Tawhai
on the ground in Tokyo.
New Zealand athletes will
be searching for Olympic
glory in more than 20
sports. Today, Equestrian
Eventing Cross Country from
Sea Forest Cross-Country
Course, Women’s Shot
Put final featuring Valerie
Adams, and Swimming finals
from the Olympic Aquatics
Centre.
6.00 1 News (HD, C)
7.00 Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
(HD, C) Scotty Stevenson
presents coverage of the
evening session of day 9,
with insight from Olympian
Sarah Cowley Ross and
reporters Kimberlee Downs,
Chris Chang, Guy Heveldt
and Rapaera Tawhai on the
ground in Tokyo. Tonight,
Women’s Weightlifting, 76kg,
featuring Megan Signal,
Sailing featuring Sam Meech,
Artistic Gymnastics from the
Olympic Gymnastics Centre,
and Athletics finals from
Olympic Stadium.
2.10 – 6.00 Infomercials
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
6.00 Paw Patrol (G, R, HD, C)
6.20 Blaze and the Monster
Machines (G, HD, C)
6.45 Masha and the Bear (G,
R, HD)
6.55 Powerpuff Girls (G, R, HD, C)
7.05 Lego City Adventures (G,
HD, C)
7.30 ■ Moomin Valley (G, HD, C)
7.55 Jandal Burn (G, HD, C)
8.00 What Now? (G) Local kids’
show featuring challenges,
interviews, reviews and
gunge.
10.00 Shortland Street Omnibus
(PG, R, HD, C, AD)
12.10 Australian Spartan (G, R, HD,
C) s1ep2
1.35 A.P. Bio (G, HD, C) s3ep2
2.05 Home and Away Omnibus
(PG, R, HD, C)
4.25 B Positive (PG, HD) Drew
downloads a tracking app
to follow Gina when he
becomes concerned about
her reckless behaviour. s1ep5
5.10 Travel Guides Australia
in NZ (G, R, HD, C, AD)
The guides must enjoy
Queenstown’s scenery in
motorhomes.
6.05 Sarah Beeny’s Renovate
Don’t Relocate (PG, HD) UK
property expert Sarah Beeny
sets out to help homeowners
optimise their space and
transform their houses into
functional hassle-free homes.
7.00 MasterChef Australia (G, HD,
C, another episode screens
tomorrow) The contestants
must decide how much
of their 90-minute cook
time they use in round one,
because they will only have
the remainder of that time to
cook in round two. s13ep40
8.20 ■ Fantastic Beasts and
Where to Find Them (2016,
PG, R, HD, C, AD) In 1926,
Newt Scamander arrives in
in New York during a global
excursion documenting
magical creatures, but his
stopover goes horribly
wrong when a niffler escapes
from his suitcase and he is
arrested for breaking magical
law. Eddie Redmayne,
Katherine Waterston, Dan
Fogler, Samantha Morton.
TV Films, page 69
10.50 ■ Cellular (2004, 16, R,
HD, C, AD) A man receives
an emergency call on his
cellphone from a woman
who claims to have been
kidnapped. Chris Evans, Kim
Basinger.
12.35am First Dates New Zealand
(PG, R, HD, C)
1.25 RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (16,
HD, C) s2ep8
2.40 MasterChef Australia (G, R,
HD, C) s13ep40
4.00 Infomercials
4.30 Religious Programming
5.00 – 6.00 Infomercials
THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 Life TV (G)
6.30 Brian Houston (G)
7.00 Charles Stanley (G)
8.00 Life TV (R, G)
8.30 Turning Point (G)
9.00 Classical Destinations (G, R,
HD) s1ep12
9.30 The Hui (R, HD, C) With
Mihingarangi Forbes.
10.00 Newshub Nation (R, HD, C)
With Simon Shepherd.
11.05 Mega Zoo (G, R, HD, C)
s1ep8
Noon The Titan Games (PG, R, HD,
C) s2ep2
1.00 CRC Motorsport
1.01 Muscle Garage (PG, HD)
s8ep10
1.30 Mobil 1: The Grid (HD)
2.00 Pure ETCR (HD)
3.00 V8 Supercars Super2 (HD)
4.00 DTM (HD)
5.00 ■ The ITM Fishing Show
Classics (PG, HD, C) s2ep11
6.00 Newshub Live (HD)
7.00 The Block NZ (PG, HD, C,
another episode screens
tomorrow) Teams are doing
everything they can to finish
their family rooms. s9ep28
8.30 ■ The Hitman’s Bodyguard
(2017, 16, R, HD, C) A
bodyguard is called on to
protect his mortal enemy,
a hitman. Ryan Reynolds,
Samuel L Jackson, Salma
Hayek. TV Films, page 69
10.30 Head High (M, R, HD, C)
As both teams compete in
the 1A semi-finals, Mana has
some devastating news for
Renee. s1ep5
11.30 Body Bizarre (M, HD) s4ep2
12.25am – 6.00 Infomercials
PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Religious Programming (G)
10.00 LPGA Highlights (G) Evian
Championship.
11.00 NXT (PG, R)
Noon Outback Truckers (PG, C)
1.05 Pawn Stars (PG, R)
2.00 Heroes and Survivors (PG,
R, C)
3.00 Hot Bench (G, R)
3.30 Sky Grass Roots Rugby (G)
4.30 Rugby Nation (G)
5.00 Fish of the Day (G, R, C)
5.30 Prime News
6.00 Antiques Roadshow (G, R,
C) A 300-year-old Māori hei-
tiki is brought in.
7.00 Storage Wars (PG, R, C)
7.30 ■ Beneath New Zealand:
Creation and Destruction
(PG, R, C) As Auckland is
built over an active volcanic
field, how does a city of just
under two million people
prepare for volcanic activity?
8.30 ANZ Premiership (G)
Elimination final, 2nd v 3rd.
10.05 Surveillance Oz (PG, C)
10.35 SmackDown (PG)
11.35 QI (PG)
12.10am – 3.10 Infomercials (G)
LISTENER JULY 31 2021
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MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 Spaced out: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS

OF THE THIRD KIND
6.30 Kids’ Programmes (G) Astronomer J Allen Hynek, who was
8.30 Whānau Living (G, R)
a consultant on the US Air Force’s
9.00 Oranga Ngākau (G, R)
10.00 Soul Sessions (G, R)
Project Blue Book, was brought in for
10.30 Toi Te Ora: Our Way of Life Steven Spielberg’s film; Hynek also
(G, R) created the Close Encounters scale
11.00 Te Ao Tapatahi and makes a cameo near the end.
11.30 Te Ao with Moana (R) MOVIES CLASSICS, 10.15pm
12.00 Moon Tide Fishing (G, R)

12.30 Wehi Nā Upload (PG, R)
1.00 Uka (G, R)
1.35 Tāringa Huruhuru (PG)
1.50 ■ Jungle Shuffle (2014, G, R)
Voice of Drake Bell.
3.30 Pio Terei Tonight (G, R)
4.30 Tagata Pasifika 2021
5.00 Te Ao Toa
6.00 Waka Huia (G, R)
6.30 Te Ao Mārama
7.00 Lucky Dip (G, R) Luke Bird
and Marcia Hopa hosts a
family game show.
7.30 Ake, Ake, Ake! (M, R)
Documentary series about
the occupation of Ihumātao.
8.30 Ngā Tohu Matariki o
Te Tau 2021 An awards
event that recognises and
celebrates Māori who make a
difference.
10.10 Beyond Matariki (G,
R) Professor Rangi
Matamua visits indigenous
communities across the
world in a search for
traditional astronomical
knowledge.
10.40 Uka (G, R)
11.10 – 11.40 Ngā Pari Kārangaranga
o te Motu (G, R)
BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Love It or List It (G, R)
9.10 Clean House (PG, R)
10.50 Keeping Up with the
Kardashians (PG, R)
11.40 Body Fixers (PG, R)
12.30 Celebrity Ghost Stories
(PG, R)
2.10 Million Dollar Listing NY
(PG, R)
3.10 Shark Tank (PG, R)
6.00 Love It or List It (G)
7.00 ■ Drop Dead Fred (1991,
PG, R) A young woman’s
childhood imaginary friend
returns to cheer her up.
Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall,
Marsha Mason, Carrie Fisher,
Tim Matheson.
9.10 ■ The Change-Up (2011,
16, R, C) Two best friends,
one a family man and the
other a bachelor, wake up in
each other’s bodies. Jason
Bateman, Ryan Reynolds,
Olivia Wilde, Leslie Mann,
Alan Arkin.
11.25 Shahs of Sunset (M, R)
12.15am – 6.00 Infomercials
CHOICE TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024 TVNZ DUKE FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023
6.00 Hugh’s Three Good Things
6.30 Through the Bible
7.00 Leading the Way
7.30 Key of David
8.00 Rachel Allen (G)
8.30 Equator from the Air (G)
9.30 River Cottage: Three Go
Mad (G)
10.30 American Pickers (G)
11.30 Secrets of the Bermuda
Triangle (G)
12.30 Meet the Orangutans (G)
1.00 Kai Safari (G)
1.30 Antiques Roadshow (G)
2.30 Jade Fever (PG)
3.30 Nature’s Strangest Mysteries
Solved (G)
4.30 Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate
Cookery Course (G)
5.30 Antiques Roadshow (G)
6.30 American Pickers (G)
7.30 Outback Opal Hunters (PG)
8.30 The 1980s: The Deadliest
Decade (M)
9.30 Murder in the Heartland (M)
10.30 American Pickers (G)
11.30 Outback Opal Hunters (PG)
12.30am Programmes continue
7.00 DUKEbox Music
3.20 Disasters Engineered (G, R,
HD, C) s1ep6
4.10 Chasing Monsters (PG, R,
HD, C)
5.00 Impossible Engineering (G,
HD, C, AD) s3ep12
6.00 Best of Police Ten 7 2021
(PG, R, HD, C)
6.30 Motorway Patrol (G, R,
HD, C)
7.00 Family Guy (PG, R, HD, C)
s3ep9
7.30 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C,
AD) s27ep1
8.30 Russell Howard: Wonderbox
(16, HD) Russell Howard
performs a stand-up show in
his home town of Bristol.
10.10 Taskmaster NZ (16, R, C, AD)
Paul Williams has a problem
with Swiss balls. s2ep4
11.10 Jonathan Ross’ Comedy
Club (16, HD, C) A showcase
of new and established UK
comedy talent.
11.40 – 12.05am Supercar
Customiser (G, R, HD)

SKY PREMIERE SKY 030
7.29 The Good Liar (2019, 16) Ian
McKellen, Helen Mirren
9.19 Dark Waters (2019, M) Mark
Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway
11.24 Miss Fisher & the Crypt of
Tears (2020, M) Essie Davis
1.04 Ride Like a Girl (2019, PG)
Teresa Palmer, Sam Neill
2.40 Jumanji: The Next Level
(2019, PG) Dwayne Johnson
4.40 Bel Canto (2018, 16) Julianne
Moore, Ken Watanabe
6.20 Papillon (2017, 16) Charlie
Hunnam, Rami Malek, roland
Moller
8.30 Fatman (2020, 16) A spoiled
rich kid sends an assassin
after Chris Cringle when
he receives a lump of coal
at Christmas. Mel Gibson,
Walton Goggins, Marianne
Jean-Baptiste TV Films,
page 69
10.15 The Operative (2019, 16)
A former Mossad agent is
sent to Tehran to recover an
agent who disappeared after
an assignment. Diane Kruger,
Martin Freeman, Cas Anvar
12.10am Savage (2019, 16) 1.50 The
Fanatic (2019, 18) 3.19 Miss Fisher &
the Crypt of Tears (2020, M) 4.59
Dark Waters (2019, M)
MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031
7.20 The Life and Death of Peter
Sellers (2004, M) Geoffrey
Rush, Charlize Theron
9.20 Brimming with Love (2017,
PG) Kelsey Asbille
10.50 The Love Punch (2013,
M) Pierce Brosnan, Emma
Thompson
12.25 The Guardian (2020) (2020,
M) Andy Garcia, Dafne Keen
2.10 7 Days in Hell (2015, 16)
Andy Samberg
2.55 The Longest Yard (2005)
(2005, M) Adam Sandler
4.50 Bowfinger (1999, PG) Steve
Martin, Eddie Murphy
6.25 Bandits (2001, M) Billy Bob
Thornton, Bruce Willis
8.30 Step Brothers (2008,
16) Two men become
stepbrothers when their
parents marry, but their
competitiveness threatens
to tear the family apart. Will
Ferrell, John C Reilly
10.05 Sex and the City (2008, 16)
Sarah Jessica Parker
12.30am Made (2001, 16) 2.05 So I
Married an Axe Murderer (1993, PG)
3.40 The Life and Death of Peter
Sellers (2004, M) 5.40 The Love
Punch (2013, M)
MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039
7.10 The Harder They Come
(1972, M) Jimmy Cliff,
8.55 Serpico (1973, 16) Al Pacino,
Tony Roberts
11.05 Ragtime (1981, PG) James
Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern
1.35 Backdraft (1991, PG) Kurt
Russell, William Baldwin
3.50 The Last Outlaw (1993, 16)
Mickey Rourke
5.25 Existenz (1999, M) Jennifer
Jason Leigh, Jude Law
7.00 China Girl (1987, 18) Richard
Panebianco, Sari Chang
8.30 The Graduate (1967, M) A
college graduate having an
affair with the wife of his
father’s business partner
begins to fall in love with her
daughter. Anne Bancroft,
Dustin Hoffman, Katharine
Ross
10.15 Close Encounters of the
Third Kind (1977, PG) An
electrical lineman searches
for explanations after
an encounter with an
otherworldly spacecraft.
Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr
12.30am Nil by Mouth (1997, 18)
2.35 The Last Outlaw (1993, 16)
4.10 Existenz (1999, M) 5.45 The
Graduate (1967, M)
6.55 Port Authority (2019, M)
Fionn Whitehead
8.35 Stuffed (2019, M) Canadian
documentary.
10.05 A Vigilante (2018, 16) Olivia
Wilde
11.35 Non-Fiction (2018, M)
Juliette Binoche
1.20 Capital in the Twenty-
First Century (2019, M) NZ
documentary.
3.00 Vita & Virginia (2018, M)
Gemma Arterton
4.50 Liverpool FC: The End of
the Storm (2020, PG) UK
documentary.
6.35 I Am Woman (2019,
M) Based on the life of
Australian singer Helen
Reddy. Tilda Cobham-Hervey
8.30 Rialto British: Rialto (2019,
16) While grieving the death
of his father, a middle-aged
married man has an intimate
encounter with a younger
man. Tom Vaughan-Lawlor,
Tom Glynn-Carney
10.00 Charlatan (2020, M) Ivan
Trojan
12.05am On the Record (2020, 16)
1.40 Untogether (2018, 16) 3.20
Women Make Film (16) s1ep4 4.25
Non-Fiction (2018, M)

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SKY CHANNELS
Vibe SKY 006
6.20 Born Different (M) s1ep9&10 7.20 Elementary
(M) s7ep10 8.05 Judge Judy Omnibus (PG) 9.45
Medium Omnibus (M) 1.55 Highland Midwives (M)
s2ep6 2.50 ■ Torvill & Dean (2018, PG) 4.30 The
Bletchley Circle: San Francisco (M) s1ep6 5.30
Indian Dream Hotel on Tour (M) s3ep2 6.30 Kids
Say the Darndest Things (PG) s1ep10 7.30 Cruising
with Jane McDonald (PG) Jane sets off on her first
river cruise aboard the SS Maria Theresa. s1ep3 8.30
Ambulance (16) Ian and Nikki attend to a teenager
who has been violently assaulted, and Graham takes
a call from two children whose grandmother has
fallen ill. s5ep3 9.30 Murder, Mystery and My Family:
Case Closed (M) Jeremy and Sasha revisit a case
of rural murder and moonlighting in Ireland in 1894
where the convicted man’s relatives are hoping
for an official pardon. s1ep5 10.30 How to Lose
Weight Well (PG) The Japanese Diet, and a headset
that allegedly regulates appetite and cravings.
s4ep5 11.30 Indian Dream Hotel on Tour (M) s3ep2
12.35am Programmes continue
UKTV SKY 007
6.45 QI (M) 7.15 Holby City (M) s20ep15 8.15
EastEnders Marathon (PG) 10.00 Heartbeat (PG)
s18ep1 10.50 The Graham Norton Show (M) s28ep3
11.40 Hypothetical (M) s2ep8 12.25 8 Out of 10
Cats Does Countdown (M) 1.15 Midsomer Murders
(M) s8ep6 3.00 Small Axe (M) s1ep5 4.10 Death
in Paradise (PG) s6ep4 5.15 Heartbeat (PG) s18ep1
6.10 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 6.45 8 Out of 10 Cats
Does Countdown (M) 7.40 Staged (M) Michael and
David discover that someone they respect is not a
fan of their work and are dismayed to learn who will
be carrying on without them. s2ep1&2 8.30 Who
Do You Think You Are? (PG) Boy George expects
to find sadness in his family tree, but discovers they
were part of Irish history. 9.35 A Touch of Frost (M)
A drug overdose is revealed to be murder. s2ep3
11.30 Small Axe: Education (M) s1ep5 12.35am
Programmes continue
SoHo SKY 010
6.05 Mayans M.C. Marathon (16) s1ep3-10 2.10
Yellowstone (16) s3ep10 3.00 Eden (16) s1ep7 3.50
Westworld (18) s3ep2 4.50 The Rook (16) s1ep5
5.40 Yellowstone (16) s3ep10 6.30 Cinema Toast
(16) s1ep1 7.00 Flatbush Misdemeanors (16) Kevin
accidentally spills a local drug dealer’s promethazine
while on a routine food delivery. s1ep1 7.30 Devs
(16) Forest and Katie wait for the completion of
the Devs project. s1ep7 8.30 Baptiste (16) Things
escalate when the police receive a hostage video,
and Emma takes drastic action for her family. s2ep2
9.30 Big Little Lies (16) Mary Louise tries to get
closer to Jane, Madeline is forced to confront her
issues in therapy, and Celeste remains conflicted
by her memories of Perry. s2ep3 10.30 Real Time
with Bill Maher (M) s19ep21 11.30 Mr Inbetween (16)
s3ep6 12.00am Programmes continue
Living SKY 017
6.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 7.05 Location Location
Location (PG) 7.55 Love Your Garden (PG) 8.45
Gardening Australia (PG) 9.55 The Weekend
Workshop (PG) 10.45 Salvage Hunters (PG) 11.40
Portillo’s Greatest Railway Journeys (PG) 12.40
Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics (PG) 1.05 30
Minute Meals (PG) 1.30 Girl Meets Farm (PG) 2.00
Escape to the Country (PG) 4.00 Salvage Hunters:
The Restorers (PG) 4.50 Salvage Hunters Marathon
(PG) 7.30 Escape to the Chateau (PG) 8.30 Salvage
Hunters: Design Classics (PG) Drew Pritchard
explores items that transformed design in the 20th
century. Tonight, the Anglepoise lamp, a stylish
chair, and a London underground sign. 9.00 Shed
and Buried (PG) 9.25 Long Lost Family (PG) 10.20
Escape to the Country (PG) 12.10am Programmes
continue
76
Investigation Discovery SKY 018
6.05 The Perfect Murder (M) 6.55 Forbidden: Dying
for Love (M) 7.45 Deadline: Crime with Tamron
Hall (M) 8.35 In Pursuit with John Walsh (M) 9.25
Nightmare Next Door (M) 10.20 Disappeared (M)
11.15 Evil Lives Here (M) 12.10 Signs of a Psychopath
(M) 1.05 Reasonable Doubt (M) 2.00 The Murder
Tapes (M) 2.55 Evil Kin Marathon (M) 6.35 The
Happy Face Killer Mind of a Monster (M) 8.30 Dead
of Winter (M) 9.30 The Wonderland Murders (M)
10.30 Evil Lives Here (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next
Door (M) 12.15am Programmes continue
Sky Arts SKY 020
6.30 John Fogerty: 50 Year Trip 8.00 Lucrezia
Borgia 10.30 Critical Thinkers 11.00 Off Camera
Noon To the Moon 1.15 The Liberators 2.30 John
Fogerty: 50 Year Trip 4.00 Moment Musical
4.55 Gaming in Symphony 6.05 Looking for
Rembrandt 7.05 Critical Thinkers 7.30 Park Life (G)
Documentary following the characters who live
and work in the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales
National Parks. 9.00 ■ Eric Clapton: Planes, Trains
and Eric (2014, G) 10.30 Rock Legends: Coldplay
11.15 Rock Legends: Prince 12.00am Programmes
continue
Discovery SKY 070
6.05 How Do They Do It? (PG) 6.55 UFO Witness
(PG) 7.45 Bering Sea Gold (PG) 8.35 Deadliest
Catch (PG) 9.25 Deadliest Catch: Bloodline
(PG) 10.20 Expedition Unknown: Hunt for
Extraterrestrials (PG) 11.15 Gold Rush: White Water
(PG) 12.10 Gold Rush (PG) 1.05 Aussie Gold Hunters
(PG) 2.00 Naked and Afraid: Alone Marathon (M)
9.30 Blowing Up History (PG) 10.30 Gold Rush:
White Water (PG) 11.25 Expedition Unknown: Hunt
for Extraterrestrials (PG) 12.15am Programmes
continue
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 Car SOS (PG) 8.30 Drain the Oceans (PG)
10.30 Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted (PG) 12.30 Saxon
Gold: Finding the Hoard (PG) 1.30 Secrets of the
Lost Gold 2.30 Air Crash Investigation: Special
Report (M) 4.30 Ultimate Supercar (PG) 5.30
Food Factory USA (PG) 6.30 Wicked Tuna (PG)
7.30 Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted (PG) 8.30 Mega
Factories 9.30 Great Barrier Reef: A Living Treasure
(PG) 10.30 Bigger Than T. Rex (PG) 11.30 Jurassic
C.S.I. (PG) 12.30am Programmes continue
History SKY 073
7.30 Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy (PG)
8.30 Time Team 9.30 The Blitz: Britain on Fire (PG)
10.30 The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (PG)
12.30 Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy (PG)
1.30 World’s Greatest Ships (PG) 2.30 Grant (16)
4.30 Tokyo Phoenix, the Rise of Modern Japan (M)
5.30 The Six Queens of Henry VIII (M) 6.30 World’s
Greatest Ships (PG) 7.30 How the Victorians Built
Britain (PG) 8.30 Secrets of the Railways (PG)
9.30 The Real War of Thrones (M) 10.30 History of
Warfare (PG) 11.30 Titans of the 20th Century (M)
12.30am Programmes continue
BBC Earth SKY 074
6.00 Life Below Zero (PG) 6.45 Trust Me, I’m a
Doctor (PG) 7.45 Louis Theroux: The Night in
Question (M) 8.50 Trust Me, I’m a Doctor (PG) 9.45
Seven Worlds, One Planet Marathon (PG) 12.25
The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 2.00 24
Hours in A&E (M) 2.50 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 3.40
Wonders of Life (PG) 4.45 Shark (PG) 5.40 Shark
Diaries (PG) 5.50 Animal Impossible (PG) 6.50 Life
Below Zero (PG) 7.40 The Dog Rescuers with Alan
Davies (M) 8.30 Spy in the Wild (PG) 9.35 Wonders
of Life (PG) Brian Cox reveals carbon’s unique
role in life on Earth and possibly elsewhere. 10.40
Trust Me, I’m a Doctor (PG) 11.40 Seven Worlds,
One Planet Marathon (PG) 2.25am Programmes
continue
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SKY SPORT
Sky Sport 1 SKY 051
6.00 British Superbikes, Thruxton, 2nd race, live
9.00 Motorsport, W Series, Budapest, highlights
9.40 CIK-FIA Karting European Championship,
Spain, highlights 10.10 1st XV Revision 10.40 SailGP,
Britain, review 11.15 Rugby, Currie Cup, Golden
Lions v Pumas, highlights 11.45 Farah Palmer Cup,
Taranaki v Tasman, highlights Noon Farah Palmer
Cup, Counties Manukau v Otago, from Navigation
Homes Stadium, Pukekohe, live 2.00 Farah Palmer
Cup, Canterbury v Wellington, from Rugby Park,
Christchurch, live 4.00 ANZ Premiership, elimination
final, live 6.00 Netball Zone, live 6.30 Bellator 263
9.00 Rugby Nation Sundays 9.30 Fox Sports News
10.30 Golf, LPGA, ISPS Handa World Invitational,
round 3, highlights 11.00 LPGA, ISPS Handa World
Invitational, round 4, live 3.30am Super Netball,
replay 5.00 Sky Sport GrassRoots
Sky Sport 2 SKY 052
7.00 1st XV Rugby, Hastings Boys’ High v Tauranga
Boys’, highlights 7.30 The Fan 8.00 SailGP, Britain,
review 8.30 Rugby, Currie Cup, Golden Lions v
Pumas, replay 10.30 Golf, European Tour, ISPS
Handa World Invitational, round 2, highlights 11.00
Golf, LPGA, ISPS Handa World Invitational, round
3, highlights 11.30 Super Netball, Collingwood
Magpies v Sydney Swifts, live 1.30 Rugby League,
NSW Cup, Blacktown Sea Eagles v Mounties,
from HE Laybutt Field, Sydney, live 3.30 NRL
Premiership, Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs v
Gold Coast Titans, live 6.00 NRL Premiership,
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks v Manly Warringah Sea
Eagles, live 8.00 Sunday Night with Matty Johns,
live 9.00 Big League Wrap, live 10.00 Rugby
League, Queensland Cup, Redcliffe Dolphins v
Mackay Cutters, replay from Moreton Daily Stadium,
Brisbane 12.00am Sky Sport GrassRoots 1.00
Rugby, South Africa v British & Irish Lions, 2nd test,
highlights 1.45 Cricket, West Indies v Pakistan, 3rd
T20, highlights 2.45 West Indies v Pakistan, 4th T20,
from Guyana National Stadium, live
Sky Sport 3 SKY 053
6.05 Tokyo Olympics, Men’s Golf, round 3, highlights
6.35 Women’s Rugby Sevens, placing 7-8, placing
5-6, bronze medal match, gold medal match,
victory ceremony, highlights from Tokyo Stadium
8.05, Sailing, day 8, Men’s Finn 07-08, Men’s 49er
10-12, Women’s 49er FX 10-12, Mixed Multihull Nacra
17 Foiling 07-09, Men’s and Women’s RS:X final,
highlights from Enoshima Yacht Harbour 9.00
Tokyo Olympics, day 8, highlights 10.00 Tokyo Gold,
Men’s Golf, round 4, live 1.30am Athletics, Women’s
Shot Put, final, from Olympic Stadium 3.05 Tokyo
2020 Moments 3.35 Men’s Hockey, quarter-final
2, from Oi Hockey Stadium 5.20 Men’s Hockey,
quarter-final 3, from Oi Hockey Stadium
LISTENER JULY 31 2021

TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 Breakfast (HD, C) John
Campbell and Jenny-May
Clarkson present news, sport,
information and weather.
9.00 Winning Combination (G,
HD, C, AD) Omid Djalili
presents a UK game show
in which nine contestants
are assigned a number from
1-9 and compete with each
other in general knowledge
rounds.
10.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C)
Bradley Walsh hosts a UK
quiz show.
11.00 The Extreme Cake Makers
(G, R, HD, C) UK series
featuring the bakers of
extraordinary cakes. Today,
a 2ft-square beach scene
complete with jelly sea,
crispy marshmallow rocks
and dozens of hand-carved
bathers enjoying the seaside.
11.30 Te Karere (C) A Māori
perspective on the day’s
news and current affairs.
Noon 1 News (HD, C)
12.30 Olympic Games Tokyo
2020 (HD, C) Toni Street
presents day 10 coverage of
the 2020 Summer Olympics
in Tokyo, with insight from
Olympian Sarah Cowley Ross
and reporters Kimberlee
Downs, Chris Chang, Guy
Heveldt and Rapaera Tawhai
on the ground in Tokyo.
New Zealand athletes will
be searching for Olympic
glory in more than 20
sports. Today, Canoe Sprint
K1 200m featuring Lisa
Carrington, and Women’s
Sailing, 49er FX medal race
featuring Alex Maloney and
Molly Meech.
6.00 1 News (HD, C)
7.00 Seven Sharp (HD, C) Hilary
Barry and Jeremy Wells
present current affairs and
entertainment.
7.30 Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
(HD, C) Scotty Stevenson
presents coverage of the
evening session of day 10,
with insight from Olympian
Sarah Cowley Ross and
reporters Kimberlee Downs,
Chris Chang, Guy Heveldt
and Rapaera Tawhai on the
ground in Tokyo. Tonight,
Women’s Weightlifting
+87kg at the Tokyo
International Forum featuring
Laurel Hubbard, Sailing, 49er
medal race from Enoshima
Yacht Harbor featuring
Peter Burling and Blair
Tuke, and the Equestrian
Eventing comes to an end
at Sea Forest Cross-Country
Course.
2.00 Q+A with Jack Tame (R,
HD, C) Political interviews
and discussions.
3.10 Infomercials
5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R)
■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM
JULY 31 2021 LISTENER
TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
6.00 Les Mills Born to Move (G,
HD, C)
6.25 Ricky Zoom (G, R, HD, C)
6.35 Clifford the Big Red Dog (G,
HD, C)
7.00 The Dog and Pony Show (G,
R, HD, C)
7.25 Alvinnn!!! And the
Chipmunks (G, R, HD, C)
7.50 Miraculous: Tales of
Ladybug and Cat Noir (G, R,
HD, C)
8.15 Darwin and Newts (G, HD,
C, AD)
8.25 Thomas & Friends (G, R, HD,
C, AD)
8.35 Rainbow Rangers (G, HD, C)
8.55 Kiri and Lou (G, R, HD)
9.00 Infomercials
10.00 Les Mills BodyCombat (G,
HD, C)
10.30 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C)
11.00 All Rise (M, HD, C) s2ep12
11.50 The Royals (PG, HD, C)
s2ep3
12.50 Emmerdale (PG, HD, C, AD)
1.45 Murphy Brown (PG, R, HD)
2.40 Home and Away (PG, R, C)
3.05 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD,
C, AD)
3.40 Holly Hobbie (G, R, HD, C)
4.05 Brain Busters (G, C)
4.30 Friends (G, R, HD, C) s7ep7
5.00 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C,
AD) s18ep4
5.30 Young Sheldon (G, R, HD, C)
s1ep2
6.00 Neighbours (G, HD, C) Susan
uncovers Melanie’s secret.
6.30 Home and Away (PG, C)
Roo faces the music.
7.00 Shortland Street (PG, HD,
C, AD) Drew lowers his
expectations, Rico loses
his fire, and Samira reaches
breaking point.
7.30 MasterChef Australia (G, HD,
C, another episode screens
tomorrow) Contestants must
create a three-course home
delivery menu. s13ep41
8.35 ■ The Undateables (G, HD,
C, AD) UK dating show.
26-year-old budding sports
commentator Nicholas
is struggling to find love,
Robbie Williams superfan
Sam is looking for his own
“angel”, and Shantae wants a
religious family guy. s11ep1
9.35 Renters (PG, R, HD, C) One
of Pru’s rentals has been
torched.
10.35 Kura (16, C, AD) s2ep2
10.45 Two and a Half Men (PG, R,
HD, C) s2ep1
12.35am Wu-Tang Clan: An
American Saga (16, HD, C)
s1ep7
1.25 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD,
C, AD)
1.50 Infomercials
2.50 MasterChef Australia (G, R,
HD, C) s13ep41
3.40 2 Overnight
4.15 The Middle (G, R, HD, C)
4.35 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C)
5.00 – 6.00 Infomercials
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
MONDAY AUGUST 2
THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 The AM Show (HD) With
Duncan Garner, Amanda
Gillies and Mark Richardson.
9.00 Infomercials
10.30 The Vet Life (PG, HD) s2ep6
11.30 Newshub Live (HD)
Noon House Hunters Renovation
(G, HD) s10ep3
1.05 ■ The Wrong Nanny (2017,
M, HD, C) A woman with
an ostensibly perfect life
is unaware that the nanny
she hires is the daughter
she gave up for adoption. Dance stamina:
Lindsay Hartley, Freya FOSSE/VERDON
Tingley, Brody Hutzler.
3.00 Match Game (PG, HD, C) BIOPIC: Some of the best
s2ep11 darn acting you’re liable to
4.00 House Crashers (G, HD) see in an era where there’s
s13ep2
4.30 Newshub Live (HD)
an awful lot of it about. No
5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, HD) wonder Michelle Williams
6.00 Newshub Live (HD) won an Emmy and a Golden
7.00 The Project (HD) With Laura Globe: she is luminescent
Tupou, Jesse Mulligan and
Jeremy Corbett. as actress and dancer Gwen
7.30 The Block NZ (PG, HD, C, Verdon, who collaborated
another episode screens with, inspired, advised and
tomorrow) The teams tackle
endured one of Broadway’s
one of the most complicated
spaces yet. s9ep29 most influential choreog-
8.30 ■ 9-1-1 (M, HD, C) A sniper raphers, Bob Fosse (Sam
starts targeting the LAFD. Rockwell). Although Verdon
s4ep14
9.25 9-1-1: Lone Star (M, HD, C)
was an acclaimed performer
Owen helps Tommy through and won four Tonys, the eight-
a personal emergency. part series brings her out of
s2ep13 the shadow of her husband’s
10.20 Newshub Late
10.50 The Hui (HD) With legacy, which has loomed
Mihingarangi Forbes. long after his early death in
11.25 Newshub Nation (R, HD, C) 1987.
With Simon Shepherd.
SOHO, 10.15pm
12.25am – 6.00 Infomercials
PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Kids’ Programmes (G, R)
9.00 A Place in the Sun (G, R)
10.00 A Place in the Sun: Winter
Sun (G, R)
11.00 Hot Bench (PG, R)
11.30 Married with Children
(PG, R)
12.30 Tommy (M, R, C)
1.30 Just Shoot Me (PG, R, C)
2.00 The Late Show with Stephen
Colbert (PG, R)
3.00 Wheel of Fortune (G)
3.30 Jeopardy (G)
4.00 American Pickers (PG, R)
Baked: COOKED WITH
5.00 Tagata Pasifika (G) CANNABIS
5.30 Prime News COOKING: Similar to Vice’s
6.00 Storage Wars (PG)
7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild
Bong Appétit – chefs compete
7.30 American Pickers (PG) to make delicious weed-
8.30 ■ Ambushed (2013, 16, C) infused dishes for a panel of,
A DEA agent battles killers it must be said, very happy
and dirty cops to save his
partner from a drug-dealing
judges. There is an unbe-
criminal mastermind. Dolph lievable number of weed
Lundgren, Vinnie Jones. products, from cannabis
10.35 The Late Show with Stephen sugars to CBD-infused chilli
Colbert (PG)
oil. If we had legalised, this
11.35 The Crowd Goes Wild
(PG, R) could have been us.
12.05am – 3.05 Infomercials (G) NETFLIX
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MONDAY AUGUST 2
MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
6.30 Kids’ Programmes (G)
8.00 Kōrero Mai (G, R)
9.00 Oranga Ngākau (G)
10.00 Iwi Anthems (G, R)
10.30 Whānau Living (G, R)
11.00 Tangaroa with Pio (G)
11.30 Takiura (G, R)
Noon Te Ao Tapatahi
12.30 Ka Pai Living (PG, R)
1.00 It’s in the Bag (G, R)
1.30 Ngā Pari Kārangaranga o te
Motu (G, R)
2.00 Tōku Reo (G, R)
3.00 Kids’ Programmes (G)
6.30 Te Ao Mārama
7.00 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe:
Tamararo (G, R) Coverage
of Tamararo kapa haka
performances at Te Poho ō
Rāwiri, Gisborne.
7.30 Matangireia (G) A series of
conversations examining the
political legacies of Māori
politicians. Tonight, Hone
Harawira.
8.00 Te Ao with Moana Moana
Maniapoto presents current
affairs.
8.30 Ake, Ake, Ake! (M)
Documentary series about
the occupation of Ihumātao.
9.30 Boy Nomad (G, R)
Documentary following nine-
year-old Janibek, who lives in
Mongolia’s Altai Mountains,
as his father takes him on the
toughest journey, the winter
migration.
10.00 Marae
11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao Mārama (R)
SKY PREMIERE SKY 030
7.04 Best Friends Forever (2021,
M) Leah Merritt, Harlan Drum
8.38 The Operative (2019, 16)
Diane Kruger
10.33 A Beautiful Day in the
Neighborhood (2019, PG)
Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys
12.23 We Summon the Darkness
(2019, 16) Alexandra
Daddario, Keean Johnson
1.57 Knives Out (2019, M) Daniel
Craig, Chris Evans
4.10 Little Women (2019, G)
Saoirse Ronan
6.25 Bad Boys for Life (2020, 16)
Will Smith, Martin Lawrence
8.30 Hooking Up (2020)
(2020, 16) A freshly-
fired sex columnist and a
recently-diagnosed cancer
patient embark on a road
trip. Brittany Snow, Sam
Richardson
10.20 The Doorman (2020, 16)
A former soldier faces
armed thieves searching for
priceless art in her building.
Ruby Rose, Jean Reno
11.55 Hard Kill (2020, 16) Jesse
Metcalfe, Bruce Willis
1.35am The Good Liar (2019, 16)
3.25 Hunt for the Truth (2016, M)
4.58 Hooking Up (2020, 16)
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Howler: AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF
IN LONDON
Appropriately, special effects legend
Rick Baker won the first Academy Award
in the newly created category of Best
Makeup and Hairstyling. It was his first of
seven; his last one, perhaps also appro-
priately, was for 2010’s The Wolfman.
MOVIES CLASSICS, 6.50pm
BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Infomercials
10.00 Celebrity Ghost Stories
(PG, R)
10.55 Snapped (M, R)
11.55 Buried in the Backyard
(M, R)
12.55 The Real Housewives of
New York City (M, R) s2ep2
1.55 Million Dollar Listing NY
(PG, R) s5ep12
3.25 Keeping Up with the
Kardashians (PG, R) s12ep17
4.25 Love It or List It (G, R)
5.30 Shark Tank (PG)
6.30 Botched by Nature (PG, R)
s1ep1
7.30 Snapped (M) A South
Carolina father is found dead.
8.30 An Unexpected Killer (16) A
mother with a bright future
in showbusiness is gunned
down.
9.30 Exhumed (16) The unsolved
murder of Marilyn McIntyre.
10.30 Snapped (M, R)
11.25 Buried in the Backyard
(M, R)
12.15am – 6.00 Infomercials
MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031
7.15 Death Becomes Her (1992,
PG) Meryl Streep
9.00 Intolerable Cruelty (2003,
M) George Clooney,
Catherine Zeta-Jones
10.40 The Frighteners (1996, M)
Michael J Fox, John Astin
12.30 The Cherokee Kid (1996, M)
Sinbad, James Coburn
2.05 Mechanics of Love (2017,
PG) Shenae Grimes-Beech
3.30 Death at a Funeral (2010)
(2010, M) Chris Rock
5.05 About a Boy (2002, M)
Hugh Grant, Toni Collette
6.45 The Break-Up (2006, M)
After breaking up, a couple
continue to live together as
hostile roommates. Jennifer
Aniston, Vince Vaughn
8.30 Valley Girl (1983, 16) A
sweet-natured girl from the
Valley falls for a boy from
the wrong side of the tracks.
Deborah Foreman, Nicolas
Cage
10.10 Let’s Be Cops (2014, M) Jake
Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr
11.55 Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001,
M) Renee Zellweger
1.30am Roxanne (1987, PG) 3.13
Are We Officially Dating? (2014, 16)
4.44 Let’s Be Cops (2014, M)
CHOICE TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024 TVNZ DUKE FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023
6.00 Flipping Bangers (G)
7.00 Equator from the Air (G)
8.00 Nature’s Mysteries (G)
9.00 James Martin’s Great British
Adventure (G)
10.00 Jade Fever (PG)
10.30 Outback Opal Hunters (PG)
11.30 American Pickers (G)
12.30 Nature’s Mysteries (G)
1.30 Antiques Roadshow (G)
2.30 Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate
Cookery Course (G)
3.30 Meet the Penguins (G)
4.30 James Martin’s Islands to
Highlands (G)
5.30 Mysteries at the Museum
(PG)
6.30 The Yorkshire Auction
House (G)
7.30 Russia with Simon Reeve
8.30 Lost Treasures of Egypt (G)
9.30 The Nile: 5000 Years of
History (G)
10.30 The Yorkshire Auction
House (G)
11.30 Mysteries at the Museum
(PG)
12.30am Programmes continue
MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039
7.30 The Tuskegee Airmen (1995,
M) Laurence Fishburne
9.15 Always Outnumbered (1998,
M) Laurence Fishburne
11.00 Dementia 13 (1963, M) Luana
Anders, William Campbell
12.10 The Graduate (1967, M) Anne
Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman
1.55 Invasion of the Body
Snatchers (1956, M) Kevin
McCarthy, Dana Wynter
3.15 The Sailor Who Fell from
Grace with the Sea (1976, 18)
Kris Kristofferson
5.00 Being John Malkovich (1999,
M) John Cusack
6.50 An American Werewolf
in London (1981, 16) Two
American backpackers are
attacked by a werewolf while
travelling in Britain. David
Naughton, Griffin Dunne,
Jenny Agutter
8.30 It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad
World (1963, G) A group
of people race to score a
stash of stolen loot. Spencer
Tracey, Milton Berle
11.00 The Man Who Fell to Earth
(1976, 18) David Bowie
1.15am Warpath (1951, PG) 2.47 The
Tuskegee Airmen (1995, M) 4.30
Always Outnumbered (1998, M)
2.05pm Two and a Half Men (PG,
R, HD, C) s10ep18
2.30 Hunting Aotearoa (PG, HD)
2.55 River Monsters (PG, HD, C)
3.50 The Chase Australia (G,
HD, C)
4.40 ABC World News (PG)
5.05 My Country Kitchen (G, HD)
5.35 Impossible Engineering (G,
R, HD, C, AD)
6.35 The Big Bang Theory (G, R,
HD, C) s11ep1
7.00 Two and a Half Men (PG, R,
HD, C) s10ep19
7.30 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C,
AD) s27ep3
8.30 Family Guy (M, R, C, AD)
10.30 Rick & Morty (M, HD) After
a series of exhausting
adventures, Rick and Morty
decide they need a relaxing
day at a spa. s3ep6
11.00 Robot Chicken (M, HD)
11.25 ■ YOLO: Crystal Fantasy (M,
HD) Animated series about
two Australian party girls.
11.50 – 12.05am The Eric Andre
Show (16)
6.10 Vita & Virginia (2018, M)
Gemma Arterton
8.00 Liverpool FC: The End of
the Storm (2020, PG) UK
documentary.
9.45 I Am Woman (2019, M) Tilda
Cobham-Hervey
11.40 Rialto (2019, 16) Tom
Vaughan-Lawlor
1.10 In My Blood It Runs (2019,
PG) Australian documentary.
2.35 Hava, Maryam, Ayesha
(2019, M) Arezoo Ariapoor
4.05 People You May Know
(2020, M) UK documentary.
5.40 The Humorist (2019, 16)
Aleksey Agranovich
7.25 Oceans Apart: Greed,
Betrayal and Pacific Rugby
(2020, M) UK documentary.
8.30 Rialto World: The Ground
Beneath My Feet (2019,
16) Valerie Pachner, Pia
Hierzegger
10.15 The Hunt for a Killer (18)
s1ep5
11.00 Hail Satan? (2019, M) US
documentary.
12.35am Girls Lost (2015, 16) 2.25
Brassic (16) s1ep1 3.10 Women Make
Film (16) s1ep5 4.15 People You
May Know (2020, M) 5.50 Hava,
Maryam, Ayesha (2019, M)
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SKY CHANNELS
Vibe SKY 006
6.00 Judging Amy (M) s4ep23 6.50 Judge Judy
(PG) 7.15 Medium (M) s2ep20 8.05 Cold Case (M)
8.55 Parenthood (M) s2ep10 9.45 The Good Wife
(M) s1ep5 10.35 Judge Judy (PG) 11.25 Murder,
Mystery and My Family: Case Closed (M) s1ep5
12.15 How to Lose Weight Well (PG) s4ep5 1.05
The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco (M) s1ep6 2.00
Medium (M) s2ep20 2.50 Cold Case (M) 3.40
Parenthood (M) s2ep10 4.30 Judge Judy (PG) 5.30
Judging Amy (M) s4ep23 6.30 The Good Wife (M)
s1ep5 7.30 Our Girl (16) s2ep5 8.30 Unforgotten (M)
Cassie and Sunny’s four suspects all deny knowing
the victim. s4ep2 10.15 Parenthood (M) s2ep10 11.05
Judge Judy (PG) 11.35 Our Girl (16) s2ep5 12.45am
Programmes continue
UKTV SKY 007
6.40 The Jonathan Ross Show (M) s15ep8 7.30
The Bill (M) 8.20 A Touch of Frost (M) s6ep4 10.10
Call the Midwife (PG) s4ep5 11.10 Doc Martin (M)
s2ep6 Noon Midsomer Murders (M) s16ep3 1.35 The
Bill (M) 2.25 New Tricks (M) s4ep7 3.25 8 Out of
10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 4.20 The Jonathan
Ross Show (M) s15ep9 5.15 Who Do You Think You
Are? (PG) 6.20 QI (M) 6.55 EastEnders (PG) 7.25
QI (M) With Janet Street Porter, Sandi Toksvig and
Johnny Vegas. 8.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) With
Jo Brand, Simon Day, Kiri Pritchard-McClean and
Henning Wehn. 8.30 Death in Paradise (PG) s6ep5
9.35 Guilt (M) Two very different Scottish brothers
kill an old man while driving home. s1ep1 10.40
Traces (M) Emma’s digging ruffles a few feathers.
s1ep3 11.30 Midsomer Murders (M) s16ep3 1.05am
Programmes continue
SoHo SKY 010
6.05 Cinema Toast (16) s1ep1 6.35 Flatbush
Misdemeanors (16) s1ep1 7.05 Devs (16) s1ep7
7.55 Baptiste (16) s2ep2 8.55 Big Little Lies (16)
s2ep3 9.40 Real Time with Bill Maher (M) s19ep21
10.40 Mr Inbetween (16) s3ep6 11.10 Dave (16)
s2ep7 11.40 Cinema Toast (16) s1ep1 12.10 Flatbush
Misdemeanors (16) s1ep1 1.00 Baptiste (16) s2ep2
2.00 Real Time with Bill Maher (M) s19ep21 3.00
Mr Inbetween (16) s3ep6 3.30 Dave (16) s2ep7
4.15 Animals (16) s3ep8 4.45 New Amsterdam (M)
s1ep18 5.30 The Deuce (18) s2ep3 6.30 Ballers (16)
s5ep6 7.00 Black Monday (16) s3ep8 7.30 Last
Week Tonight with John Oliver (M) s8ep19 8.00 In
Treatment (M) Brooke learns that Laila’s desire to
escape dates back to her earliest memories. s4ep11
8.30 The White Lotus (16) After Shane shoots down
her latest career plans, Rachel is further blindsided
by an unexpected arrival. s1ep4 9.30 Eden (16)
Scout steps into Hedwig’s mind to uncover the
truth. s1ep8 10.15 Fosse/Verdon (M) s1ep1 11.05
Shameless (18) s9ep1 12.00am Programmes
continue
Living SKY 017
6.15 Escape to the Country (PG) 7.10 30 Minute
Meals (PG) 7.40 The Pioneer Woman (PG) 8.10
House Hunters (PG) 9.00 Escape to the Country
(PG) 10.00 Long Lost Family UK 11.00 Salvage
Hunters (PG) 11.55 Location Location Location
(PG) 12.55 Long Lost Family (PG) 1.50 Escape to
the Country (PG) 2.45 House Hunters (PG) 3.45
30 Minute Meals (PG) 4.10 Classic Mary Berry (PG)
4.45 Long Lost Family UK 5.40 Selling Houses
Australia 6.35 Location Location Location (PG) 7.30
Salvage Hunters (PG) 8.25 Grand Designs Australia
(PG) 9.20 Selling Houses Australia (PG) 10.15 The
World’s Most Extraordinary Homes (PG) 11.20
House Hunters (PG) 12.10am Programmes continue
GETTY IMAGES
Investigation Discovery SKY 018
6.05 Forbidden: Dying for Love (M) 6.55 Signs
of a Psychopath (M) 7.45 Reasonable Doubt (M)
8.35 Hometown Homicide (M) 9.25 Nightmare
JULY 31 2021 LISTENER
Next Door (M) 10.20 Disappeared (M) 11.15 Evil
Lives Here (M) 12.10 The Perfect Murder (M) 1.05
Scorned: Crimes of Passion (M) 2.00 Forbidden:
Dying for Love (M) 2.55 I’d Kill for You (M) 3.50 The
Happy Face Killer Mind of a Monster (M) 5.40 Evil
Kin (M) 6.35 The Perfect Murder (M) 7.30 People
Magazine Investigates (M) 8.30 American Monster
(M) 9.30 Evil Lives Here (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next
Door (M) 12.15am Programmes continue
Sky Arts SKY 020
6.30 Rock Legends: Coldplay 7.15 Rock Legends:
Prince 8.00 Moment Musical 8.55 Gaming in
Symphony 10.05 Looking for Rembrandt 11.05
Critical Thinkers 11.30 Park Life 1.00 Eric Clapton:
Planes, Trains and Eric 2.30 Rock Legends: Coldplay
3.15 Rock Legends: Prince 4.00 ■ The Death of
Antonio Sanchez Lomas (2019, PG) 5.30 ■ The
Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018, G) 7.00 Scenes from
a Ferry by Alexander Ekman 2017 7.30 Put Some
Colour in Your Life 8.20 Boswell and Johnson’s
Scottish Journey 9.15 Cold War and Cinema 10.00
The Disordered Eye 11.00 Renzo Piano: Architect of
Light 12.00am Programmes continue
Discovery SKY 070
6.05 How Do They Do It? (PG) 6.30 How It’s
Made (PG) 6.55 Gold Rush Marathon (PG) 9.25
Gold Rush: White Water (PG) 10.20 Aussie Gold
Hunters (PG) 11.15 Naked and Afraid: Alone (M)
12.10 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 1.05 NASA’s
Unexplained Files (PG) 2.00 Aussie Salvage Squad
(PG) 2.55 Homestead Rescue (PG) 3.50 Gold Rush:
Parker’s Trail Marathon (PG) 7.30 Aussie Mega
Mechanics (PG) 9.30 Airplane Repo (PG) 10.30
Bering Sea Gold (PG) 11.25 Naked and Afraid (M)
12.15am Programmes continue
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 Airport Security: Peru (M) 7.30 Sharks
vs Dolphins: Blood Battle (PG) 8.30 Air Crash
Investigation: Special Report (PG) 9.30 Air Crash
Investigation (PG) 10.30 Shark Attack Files (M)
11.30 Wicked Tuna (PG) 12.30 Decades Remixed:
The 80s Greatest (PG) 1.30 Invasion Earth (PG)
3.30 Seconds from Disaster (PG) 5.30 Drain the
Oceans (PG) 6.30 Airport Security: Peru (M) 7.30
Outback Wrangler (PG) 8.30 Wicked Tuna (PG)
9.30 Wicked Tuna S10 Best ofs (PG) 10.30 When
Sharks Attack (PG) 11.30 Australia: Life on the Edge
12.30am Programmes continue
History SKY 073
6.30 The Real War of Thrones (M) 7.30 History
of Warfare (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 How the
Victorians Built Britain (PG) 10.30 Secrets of the
Railways (PG) 11.30 The Real War of Thrones (M)
12.30 History of Warfare (PG) 1.30 WWII: Total
War (16) 2.30 Tanks 3.30 Line of Fire (PG) 4.30
Secrets of War (M) 5.30 Secrets of Britain’s Great
Cathedrals (PG) 6.30 Time Team (PG) 7.30 Ancient
Engineering (PG) 8.30 River Hunters (PG) 9.30
David Starkey’s Magna Carta (PG) 10.30 Myth
Hunters (PG) 11.30 Broken Arrows: The Bombs of
the Cold War (PG) 12.30am Programmes continue
BBC Earth SKY 074
6.00 Frozen Planet (PG) 6.50 Frozen Planet: The
Making of (PG) 7.00 Life Below Zero (M) 7.50
Where the Wild Men Are: Revisited (PG) 8.40
Wonders of the Universe (PG) 9.40 Trust Me, I’m
a Doctor (PG) 10.40 The Dog Rescuers with Alan
Davies (PG) 11.25 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 12.15
Dynasties (PG) 1.10 Wonders of the Universe (PG)
2.10 Frozen Planet (PG) 3.05 Animal Impossible
(PG) 4.00 Trust Me, I’m a Doctor (PG) 5.05 Life
Below Zero (M) 5.55 Where the Wild Men Are:
Revisited (PG) 6.50 The Dog Rescuers with Alan
Davies (PG) 7.40 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 8.30 Life
Below Zero (PG) 9.25 Where the Wild Men Are:
Revisited (PG) 10.20 Dynasties (PG) 11.15 Dynasties:
The Making of (PG) 11.25 Animal Impossible (PG)
12.20am Programmes continue
MONDAY AUGUST 2
Sky Sport 1: Lille v Paris Saint-Germain
Saint-Germain,
6.55am
SKY SPORT
Sky Sport 1 SKY 051
6.00 Super Netball, highlights 6.30 ANZ
Premiership, elimination final, highlights 6.55
Football, Trophée des Champions, Lille v Paris Saint-
Germain, live 9.10 Farah Palmer Cup, highlights
9.30 South Africa v British & Irish Lions, 2nd test,
replay 11.30 Farah Palmer Cup, highlights Noon 1st
XV Rugby, Hastings Boys’ High v Tauranga Boys’,
highlights 12.30 British & Irish Lions, highlights 12.45
Football, CONCACAF Gold Cup, final, from Nevada,
live 3.00 Rugby Nation Sundays 3.30 British &
Irish Lions, highlights 4.00 Farah Palmer Cup,
replay 6.00 Bellator 263, replay 8.00 Rugby Nation
Sundays 8.30 The Breakdown 9.30 Rugby, Lions
Tour 2009, South Africa v Lions, replay 11.45 Farah
Palmer Cup, replay 1.40am 1st XV Rugby, Hastings
Boys’ High v Tauranga Boys’ 3.10 Farah Palmer Cup,
Taranaki v Tasman, replay 5.05 Cricket, West Indies
v Pakistan, 4th T20, highlights
Sky Sport 2 SKY 052
7.00 Golf, US Senior Women’s Open, from
Connecticut, live 9.00 Netball Zone, replay 9.30
Super Netball, replay 11.00 Sunday Night with
Matty Johns Noon Golf, LPGA, ISPS Handa World
Invitational, round 4 12.30 Golf, European Tour,
ISPS Handa World Invitational, round 4 1.00 NRL
Premiership, Sydney Roosters v Parramatta Eels
1.30 NRL Premiership, Brisbane Broncos v North
Queensland Cowboys 2.00 NRL Premiership,
St George Illawarra Dragons v South Sydney
Rabbitohs 2.30 NRL Premiership, Newcastle
Knights v Canberra Raiders 3.00 NRL Premiership,
Melbourne Storm v Penrith Panthers 3.30 NRL
Premiership, Canterbury Bulldogs v Gold Coast
Titans 4.00 NRL Premiership, Cronulla Sharks v
Manly Sea Eagles 4.30 NRL Premiership, Wests
Tigers v NZ Warriors, replay 6.30 Sunday Night with
Matty Johns 7.30 Big League Wrap 8.30 NRL 360,
live 9.30 Fox Sports News, live 10.30 AFL on the
Couch, live 11.30 Cricket, West Indies v Pakistan, 4th
T20, replay 3.00am ANZ Premiership, eliminator
final, replay 4.30 Super Netball, replay
Sky Sport 3 SKY 053
7.05 Tokyo Olympics, Athletics, Women’s Shot Put,
final 8.40 Men’s Golf, round 4 9.40, Sailing, day 9,
Mixed Multihull Nacra 17 Foiling 10-12, Men’s Finn
09-10, Men’s and Women’s 470 07-08, Men’s Laser
final, Women’s Laser Radial final, highlights 10.30
Tokyo 2020, day 9, highlights 11.30 Tokyo Gold,
Athletics, live 2.00am Track Cycling, Women’s
Team qualifying, Women’s Team Sprint and finals,
Women’s Team Pursuit qualifying, highlights
2.30 Women’s Weightlifting, 87kg Group A, 87kg
victory ceremony 4.55 Men’s Shooting, 50m Rifle 3
Positions, finals, from Asaka Shooting Range
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TUESDAY AUGUST 3
Orbital: VICE VERSA:
BETWEEN MUSK AND
MARS
DOCUMENTARY: What’s with
these billionaires and their
rockets? Richard Branson’s
been to the edge of the
atmosphere, Jeff Bezos spent
10 minutes out there, and
Elon Musk has taken over a
whole town in Texas for his
SpaceX project, where he
launches rockets, houses
employees and plans to build
a simulated Mars village. The
sleepy retirement town of
Boca Chica has been turned
into a war zone, according to
one resident; others say he is
destroying a wildlife corridor.
This doco meets the people
who have refused to leave
and the tactics SpaceX has
been employing to get them
to sell up.
NEON
One world: ZULU SUMMER
DOCUMENTARY: Described
as a “real-life Coming to
America” by Indiewire, this
feelgood doco follows the
stranger-than-fiction story of
a Zulu prince who contacted
a radio host in Butte, Mon-
tana, to ask if he could visit.
Once it was established as not
a hoax, the town welcomed
the prince and his delegation
with open arms.
TVNZ ONDEMAND
■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM
80
TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 Breakfast (HD, C) John
Campbell and Jenny-May
Clarkson present news, sport,
information and weather.
9.00 Winning Combination
(HD, C, AD) Omid Djalili
presents a UK game show
in which nine contestants
are assigned a number from
1-9 and compete with each
other in general knowledge
rounds.
10.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C)
Bradley Walsh hosts a UK
quiz show.
11.00 The Extreme Cake Makers
(G, R, HD, C) UK series
featuring the bakers of
extraordinary cakes. Today,
they may have the passion,
but can extreme cake
makers deliver to the highest
standards expected of them?
11.30 Te Karere (C) A Māori
perspective on the day’s
news and current affairs.
Noon 1 News (HD, C)
12.30 Olympic Games Tokyo
2020 (HD, C) Toni Street
presents day 11 coverage of
the 2020 Summer Olympics
in Tokyo, with insight from
Olympian Sarah Cowley Ross
and reporters Kimberlee
Downs, Chris Chang, Guy
Heveldt and Rapaera Tawhai
on the ground in Tokyo.
New Zealand athletes will
be searching for Olympic
glory in more than 20
sports. Today, Canoe Sprint
K1 200m from Sea Forest
Waterway featuring Lisa
Carrington, Athletics, Men’s
1500m heats from Olympic
Stadium featuring Nick Willis
and Sam Tanner, and Sailing
from Enoshima Yacht Harbor,
featuring Josh Junior.
6.00 1 News (HD, C)
7.00 Seven Sharp (HD, C) Hilary
Barry and Jeremy Wells
present current affairs and
entertainment.
7.30 Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
(HD, C) Scotty Stevenson
presents coverage of the
evening session of day 11,
with insight from Olympian
Sarah Cowley Ross and
reporters Kimberlee Downs,
Chris Chang, Guy Heveldt
and Rapaera Tawhai on
the ground in Tokyo. New
Zealand athletes will be
searching for Olympic glory
in more than 20 sports.
Tonight, Kiwis in action on
the Cycling track, Athletics,
Hammer final featuring Julia
Ratcliffe and Lauren Bruce,
and Artistic Gymnastics
final from the Olympic
Gymnastics Centre.
2.15 Infomercials
5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R) A Māori
perspective on the day’s
news and current affairs.
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
6.00 Les Mills Born to Move (G,
HD, C)
6.25 Ricky Zoom (G, R, HD, C)
6.35 Clifford the Big Red Dog (G,
HD, C)
7.00 The Dog and Pony Show (G,
R, HD, C)
7.25 Alvinnn!!! And the
Chipmunks (G, R, HD, C)
7.50 Miraculous: Tales of
Ladybug and Cat Noir (G, R,
HD, C)
8.15 Darwin and Newts (G, HD,
C, AD)
8.25 Thomas & Friends (G, R, HD,
C, AD)
8.35 Rainbow Rangers (G, HD, C)
8.55 Kiri and Lou (G, R, HD)
9.00 Infomercials
10.00 Les Mills BodyBalance (G,
HD, C)
10.30 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C)
11.00 All Rise (M, HD, C) s2ep13
11.50 The Royals (PG, HD, C) s2ep4
12.50 Emmerdale (PG, HD, C, AD)
1.45 Murphy Brown (PG, R, HD)
2.35 Home and Away (PG, R, C)
3.05 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD,
C, AD)
3.40 Holly Hobbie (G, R, HD, C)
4.05 Brain Busters (G, C)
4.30 Friends (G, R, HD, C) s7ep8
5.00 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C,
AD) s18ep15
5.30 Young Sheldon (PG, R, HD,
C) s1ep3
6.00 Neighbours (PG, HD, C)
Polyamory is considered on
Ramsay Street.
6.30 Home and Away (PG,
C) Justin returns to the
interview room.
7.00 Shortland Street (PG, HD, C,
AD) Jack rages against an
injustice, Chris is caught in a
compromising position, and
Leanne pushes herself to the
limit.
7.30 MasterChef Australia (PG,
HD, C, another episode
screens tomorrow)
Contestants must create
Khanh Nguyen’s pork
wellington with lattice
crackling and flavours of
banh mi. s13ep42
8.35 ■ Amazing Grace (M, C, AD)
Grace and Kirk struggle on
the day of Eadie’s adoption.
s1ep8
9.35 Grey’s Anatomy (M, HD,
C) Koracick begins to go
stir crazy, and Maggie gets
a glimpse into Winston’s
background. s17ep4
10.30 2 Broke Girls (M, R, HD, C)
s2ep18
12.20am All Rise (M, R, HD, C)
s2ep12
1.05 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD,
C, AD)
1.30 Infomercials
2.30 MasterChef Australia (PG, R,
HD, C) s13ep42
3.25 2 Overnight
4.15 The Middle (G, R, HD, C)
4.35 Neighbours (PG, R, HD, C)
5.00 – 6.00 Infomercials
THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 The AM Show (HD) With
Duncan Garner, Amanda
Gillies and Mark Richardson.
9.00 Infomercials
10.30 The Vet Life (PG, HD) s2ep7
11.30 Newshub Live (HD)
Noon House Hunters Renovation
(G, HD) s10ep4
1.00 ■ A Mother’s Crime (2017, M,
HD, C) A widow who adopts
her niece is targeted by her
sister when she gets out of
prison. April Bowlby, Jenny
Gabrielle, Brytnee Ratledge.
3.00 Match Game (PG, HD, C)
s2ep12
3.55 House Crashers (G, HD)
s13ep3
4.30 Newshub Live (HD)
5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, HD)
6.00 Newshub Live (HD)
7.00 The Project (HD) With Laura
Tupou, Jesse Mulligan and
Jeremy Corbett.
7.30 The Block NZ (PG, HD, C,
another episode screens
tomorrow) Budget woes
push one team to the edge.
s9ep30
8.30 Emergency (M, HD, C)
Dr Miriam Yassa helps an
off-road motorbiker who
collided with a roo. s2ep5
9.25 NCIS: Los Angeles (M, HD,
C) Callen and the team must
rescue Anna before she is
forcibly returned to Russia.
s12ep14
10.20 Newshub Late
10.50 Westside (16, R, HD, C) A
sexy blast from Rita’s prison
past arrives with dangerous
intentions. s3ep3
11.55 – 6.00am Infomercials
PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Kids’ Programmes (G, R)
9.00 A Place in the Sun (G, R)
10.00 A Place in the Sun: Winter
Sun (G, R)
11.00 Hot Bench (PG, R)
11.30 Married with Children
(PG, R)
12.30 Tommy (M, R, C)
1.30 Just Shoot Me (PG, R, C)
2.00 The Late Show with Stephen
Colbert (PG, R)
3.00 Wheel of Fortune (G)
3.30 Jeopardy (G)
4.00 American Pickers (PG, R)
5.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
(PG, R, C)
5.30 Prime News
6.00 Storage Wars (PG)
7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild
7.30 Making New Zealand (PG, R,
C) Farming ingenuity.
8.30 ■ North America with
Simon Reeve (PG, R, C)
Central America.
9.35 ■ Extreme Love Stories (16,
R, C)
10.35 The Breakdown (G)
11.45 The Late Show with Stephen
Colbert (PG)
12.45am – 3.45 Infomercials (G)
LISTENER JULY 31 2021
 TUESDAY AUGUST 3

MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 Carrying on: AMANDA

The movies are littered with guys who
6.30 Kids’ Programmes (G) must step up after they are dumped
8.00 Kōrero Mai (G, R)
with a kid, but this French drama is
9.00 Life of Kai (G, R)
9.30 Ōpaki (G)
more profound than those light-
10.00 Iwi Anthems (G, R) weights: seven-year-old Amanda’s
10.30 Whānau Living (G, R) mother is killed in a terrorist attack
11.00 Tangaroa with Pio (G) and her 24-year-old brother must take
11.30 My Māori Midwife (G, R) responsibility. RIALTO, 3.20pm
11.45 Te Awe (G, R)

Noon Te Ao Tapatahi
12.30 Ka Pai Living (PG)
1.00 It’s in the Bag (G, R)
1.30 Ngā Pari Kārangaranga o te
Motu (G, R)
2.00 Tōku Reo (G, R)
3.00 Kids’ Programmes (G)
6.30 Te Ao Mārama
7.00 Senior Kapa Haka Regionals
(G, R)
7.30 Toi Te Ora: Our Way of Life
(G) Building a pallet bar,
raising tamariki, gardening
tips and cooking from
garden to table.
8.00 Moon Tide Fishing (G) The
Māwharu phase is known as
a good day for fishing.
8.30 Animal Armory (G)
Wildlife series about animal
defences.
9.30 Wild Kai Legends (PG)
Tamati Rimene-Sproat meets
hunters around Aotearoa.
10.00 Hunting with Tūī (M, R) Tūī
and her daughter Stevie
go hunting in rugged Te
Urewera country.
10.30 2021 Waka Ama
Championships
11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao Mārama (R)
BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Infomercials
10.00 Judge Jerry (G, R)
10.30 Botched by Nature (PG, R)
11.25 Snapped (M, R)
12.20 Buried in the Backyard
(M, R)
1.20 The Real Housewives of
New York City (M, R) s2ep3
2.20 Million Dollar Listing NY
(PG, R) s6ep1
3.30 Keeping Up with the
Kardashians (PG, R) s12ep18
4.30 Love It or List It (G, R)
5.30 Shark Tank (PG)
6.30 Botched by Nature (PG, R)
s1ep2
7.30 Rich Kids Go Skint (M)
Series in which young adults
forgo their wealthy lifestyles.
8.30 The Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills (M) Sutton and
Crystal connect with Erika.
9.30 Killer Couples (M) An
Oklahoma father is murdered.
10.30 Snapped (M, R)
11.25 Buried in the Backyard
(M, R)
12.15am – 6.00 Infomercials
CHOICE TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024 TVNZ DUKE FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023
6.00 Flipping Bangers (G)
7.00 Islands to Highlands (G)
8.00 Meet the Penguins (G)
9.00 Great British Adventure (G)
10.00 Jade Fever (PG)
10.30 Mysteries at the Museum
(PG)
11.30 The Yorkshire Auction
House (G)
12.30 The Nile (G)
1.30 Lost Treasures of Egypt (G)
2.30 Russia with Simon Reeve
3.30 Hope for Wildlife (G)
4.30 Jamie’s Quick and Easy (G)
5.00 Gino’s Italian Escape (G)
5.30 Mysteries at the Museum
(PG)
6.30 Forged in Fire: Beat the
Judges (PG)
7.30 George Clarke’s Amazing
Spaces (G)
8.30 The House that 100K Built
9.30 Money for Nothing (G)
10.30 Forged in Fire: Beat the
Judges (PG)
11.30 Mysteries at the Museum
(PG)
12.30am Programmes continue
2.10pm Two and a Half Men (PG, R,
HD, C) s10ep19
2.35 Hunting Aotearoa (M, HD)
3.00 River Monsters (PG, HD, C)
3.55 The Chase Australia (G,
HD, C)
4.45 ABC World News (PG)
5.10 My Country Kitchen
(PG, HD)
5.35 Impossible Engineering (G,
R, HD, C, AD)
6.35 The Big Bang Theory (G, R,
HD, C) s11ep2
7.05 Two and a Half Men (PG, R,
HD, C) s10ep20
7.30 The Simpsons (G, R, HD,
C, AD) Lisa befriends a
super-rich new kid at school.
s27ep6
8.30 ■ Abduction (2011, 16, HD, C,
AD) A young man sets out
to uncover the truth about
his life after finding his baby
photo on a missing persons
website. Taylor Lautner, Lily
Collins.
10.25 – 12.00am ■ Live PD: PD
Cam (M, HD)

SKY PREMIERE SKY 030
6.41 Escape from Pretoria (2020,
M) Daniel Radcliffe
8.25 Psycho Wedding Planner
(2017, M) Heather Morris
10.00 The Night Clerk (2020, 16)
Tye Sheridan
11.30 Bloodshot (2020, M) Vin
Diesel, Eiza Gonzalez
1.20 Force of Nature (2020, 16)
Mel Gibson, Emile Hirsch
3.00 I Still Believe (2020, PG)
KJ Apa, Britt Robertson
4.55 The Invisible Man (2020)
(2020, 16) Elisabeth Moss
7.00 Jungleland (2020, 16) To
pay off a debt, two brothers
travel to a no-holds-barred
boxing match. Charlie
Hunnam, Jack O’Connell,
Jessica Barden
8.30 Bellbird (2019, M) A rural
community rallies around
a recently widowed farmer
to help him cope with his
grief. Marshall Napier, Cohen
Holloway, Annie Whittle,
Rachel House
10.10 Midway (2019, M) Ed Skrein,
Patrick Wilson
12.25am The Postcard Killings
(2019, 16) 2.10 Papillon (2019, 16)
4.20 The Grudge (2020, 16) 5.55
The Courier (2019, 16)
MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031
6.25 Van Wilder: Party Liaison
(2002, 16) Ryan Reynolds
7.55 Greed (2020, 16) Steve
Coogan, Isla Fisher
9.36 The Legend of Baron To’a
(2019, 16) Uli Latukefu
11.20 Let’s Be Cops (2014, M) Jake
Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr
1.05 Chance of a Lifetime (1998,
PG) John Ritter, Katey Sagal
2.35 A Moving Romance (2017,
PG) Ambyr Childers
4.00 Yes, God, Yes (2019, 16)
Natalia Dyer, Timothy Simons
5.15 Land of the Lost (2009, M)
Will Ferrell, Danny McBride
6.55 David Brent: Life on the
Road (2016, M) Ricky
Gervais, Mandeep Dhillon
8.30 Three Amigos! (1986, PG)
Three Hollywood western
stars go to Mexico for a
publicity appearance, but
find they’ve been summoned
to save a village. Chevy
Chase, Steve Martin
10.15 Chef (2014, M) Jon Favreau,
Sofia Vergara
12.10am Bridget Jones: The Edge of
Reason (2004, M) 1.55 David Brent:
Life on the Road (2016, M) 3.30
Bend It Like Beckham (2002, PG)
5.20 Chef (2014, M)
MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039
6.15 Earthly Possessions (1999,
M) Susan Sarandon
7.59 The Gathering Storm (2002,
M) Albert Finney
9.32 Rio Grande (1950, G) John
Wayne, Maureen O’Hara
11.15 The Carpetbaggers (1964,
M) George Peppard
1.40 Perfect Friday (1970, M)
Ursula Andress
3.15 The Three Musketeers (1973,
G) Oliver Reed
5.00 Awakenings (1990, PG)
Robert De Niro
7.00 Stand by Me (1986, M)
Four youngsters set out to
find the body of a missing
boy. River Phoenix, Corey
Feldman, Wil Wheaton, Jerry
O’Connell
8.30 Crossroads (1986, PG) A
wannabe blues guitarist
seeks a long-lost song by
legendary musician Robert
Johnson. Ralph Macchio, Joe
Seneca, Jami Gertz, John
Hancock
10.10 All That Jazz (1979, M) Roy
Scheider, Jessica Lange
12.10am The Dead Zone (1983, PG)
1.55 Earthly Possessions (1999, M)
3.40 The Gathering Storm (2002,
M) 5.15 Rio Grande (1950, G)
7.15 Oceans Apart: Greed,
Betrayal and Pacific Rugby
(2020, M) UK documentary.
8.20 The Humorist (2019, 16)
Aleksey Agranovich
10.05 Hail Satan? (2019, M) US
documentary.
11.40 The Ground Beneath My
Feet (2019, 16) Valerie
Pachner
1.30 Hillary: Ocean to Sky (2019,
PG) NZ documentary.
3.20 Amanda (2018, 16) Vincent
Lacoste
5.10 Pond Life (2018, M) Siobhan
Finneran
6.50 Strokes of Genius (2018, G)
US documentary.
8.30 The Hunt for a Killer (18)
Pelle decides to tear apart
the cabin where Ulf Olsson
lived when Helen went
missing. s1ep6
9.20 Being Frank: The Chris
Sievey Story (2018, M) UK
documentary.
11.05 Acid (2018, 18) Aleksandr
Kuznetsov
12.45am Made in Boise (2019,
M) 2.05 Brassic (16) s1ep2 2.50
Women Make Film (16) s1ep6 3.55
Acid (2018, 18) 5.35 Strokes of
Genius (2018, G)

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TUESDAY AUGUST 3
SKY CHANNELS
Vibe SKY 006
6.00 Judging Amy (M) s4ep24 6.50 Judge Judy
(PG) 7.15 Medium (M) s2ep21 8.05 Cold Case (M)
8.50 Parenthood (M) s2ep11 9.40 The Good Wife
(M) s1ep6 10.25 Judge Judy (PG) 11.15 Unforgotten
(M) s4ep2 12.55 Our Girl (16) s2ep5 2.00 Medium
(M) s2ep21 2.50 Cold Case (M) 3.40 Parenthood
(M) s2ep11 4.30 Judge Judy (PG) 5.30 Judging
Amy (M) s4ep24 6.30 The Good Wife (M) s1ep6
7.30 Frankie Drake Mysteries (M) A man claiming to
be Frankie’s half-brother shows up at the agency.
s3ep4 8.30 Vera (M) Vera investigates a 30-year-old
case when the remains of a teenage girl are found
in the woods. s5ep2 10.15 Parenthood (M) s2ep11
11.10 Judge Judy (PG) 11.40 Frankie Drake Mysteries
(M) s3ep4 12.40am Programmes continue
UKTV SKY 007
6.45 EastEnders (PG) 7.10 The Jonathan Ross Show
(M) s15ep9 8.00 The Bill (M) 8.50 A Touch of Frost
(M) s7ep1 10.10 Call the Midwife (PG) s4ep6 11.10
Doc Martin (M) s2ep7 Noon Midsomer Murders (M)
s16ep4 1.35 The Bill (M) 2.25 New Tricks (M) s4ep8
3.25 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 4.20
The Jonathan Ross Show (M) s15ep10 5.15 Who
Do You Think You Are? (PG) 6.20 QI (PG) 6.55
EastEnders (PG) 7.25 QI (M) 8.00 Would I Lie to
You? (PG) 8.35 Heartbeat (PG) An old villain returns
to Aidensfield and has a score to settle with the
Ashfordly police. s18ep2 9.30 Call the Midwife (PG)
As Poplar prepares for Christmas, the nuns leave for
the Mother House to vote in a new mother superior
and to help care for a group of Chinese orphans.
11.10 Doc Martin (PG) s6ep5 12.00am Programmes
continue
SoHo SKY 010
6.05 Black Monday (16) s3ep8 6.35 Last Week
Tonight with John Oliver (M) s8ep19 7.10 High
Maintenance (16) s2ep1 7.40 In Treatment (M)
s4ep11 8.10 The White Lotus (16) s1ep4 9.10 Eden
(16) s1ep8 9.55 Shameless (18) s9ep1 10.50 Black
Monday (16) s3ep8 11.20 Last Week Tonight with
John Oliver (M) s8ep19 11.55 In Treatment (M)
s4ep11 12.25 The White Lotus (16) s1ep4 1.25 Eden
(16) s1ep8 2.10 Fosse/Verdon (M) s1ep1 3.00 Share
(16) 4.25 Animals (16) s3ep9 4.50 New Amsterdam
(M) s1ep19 5.35 The Deuce (18) s2ep4 6.35 Jett
(16) s1ep8 7.30 Warrior (18) Ah Sahm retreats into
the Chinese working class. s1ep10 8.30 Intergalactic
(M) Ash and Verona stage a daring rescue, and Tula
plays poker in a bid to win her way to the Promised
Land. s1ep7 9.30 I Know This Much Is True (16) After
Thomas Birdsey has a violent public breakdown,
Dominick Birdsey steps up to defend his twin. s1ep1
10.30 Watchmen (18) s1ep6 11.30 We’re Here (M)
s1ep1 12.30am Programmes continue
Living SKY 017
6.15 Escape to the Country (PG) 7.10 30 Minute
Meals (PG) 7.35 Classic Mary Berry (PG) 8.10 House
Hunters (PG) 9.00 The World’s Most Extraordinary
Homes (PG) 10.05 Grand Designs Australia (PG)
11.00 Salvage Hunters (PG) 11.55 Location Location
Location (PG) 12.55 Selling Houses Australia (PG)
1.50 Escape to the Country (PG) 2.45 House
Hunters (PG) 3.45 30 Minute Meals (PG) 4.10
Classic Mary Berry (PG) 4.45 Grand Designs
Australia (PG) 5.40 Selling Houses Australia 6.35
Location Location Location (PG) 7.30 Salvage
Hunters (PG) 9.25 Restoration Man: Best Builds
(PG) 10.25 Grand Designs New Zealand (PG) 11.25
House Hunters (PG) 12.15am Programmes continue
Investigation Discovery SKY 018
6.05 The Perfect Murder (M) 6.55 People Magazine
Investigates (M) 7.45 Deadline: Crime with Tamron
Hall (M) 8.35 In Pursuit with John Walsh (M) 9.25
Nightmare Next Door (M) 10.20 Disappeared (M)
11.15 Evil Lives Here (M) 12.10 The Perfect Murder
82
(M) 1.05 Scorned: Crimes of Passion (M) 2.00
Forbidden: Dying for Love (M) 2.55 I’d Kill for You
(M) 3.50 American Monster (M) 4.45 Evil Lives
Here (M) 5.40 Evil Kin (M) 6.35 The Perfect Murder
(M) 7.30 People Magazine Investigates (M) 9.30
The Happy Face Killer Mind of a Monster (M) 11.25
Nightmare Next Door (M) 12.15am Programmes
continue
Sky Arts SKY 020
6.00 The Disordered Eye 7.00 Renzo Piano:
Architect of Light 8.00 ■ The Death of Antonio
Sanchez Lomas (2019, PG) 9.30 ■ The Ghost
of Peter Sellers (2018, G) 11.00 Scenes from a
Ferry by Alexander Ekman 2017 11.30 Put Some
Colour in Your Life 12.20 Boswell and Johnson’s
Scottish Journey 1.15 Cold War and Cinema 2.00
The Disordered Eye 3.00 Renzo Piano: Architect
of Light 4.00 Comedy Legends 5.30 Up to the
Sky 6.00 Artist to Icon 7.30 The Art Detectives
8.30 Art of Architecture Specials 10.00 ■ The
Sea of Itami Jun (2019, G) Documentary about a
Korean architect who was raised in Japan. 12.00am
Programmes continue
Discovery SKY 070
6.05 How Do They Do It? (PG) 6.30 How It’s
Made (PG) 6.55 Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail Marathon
(PG) 9.25 Fast N’ Loud (PG) 10.20 Aussie Mega
Mechanics (PG) 11.15 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG)
12.10 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 1.05 Naked and
Afraid (M) 2.00 Aussie Salvage Squad (PG) 2.55
Homestead Rescue (PG) 3.50 Gold Rush: Dave
Turin’s Lost Mine Marathon (PG) 8.30 UFO Witness
(PG) 9.30 Vampires: Mysteries at the Museum (PG)
10.30 Alien Highway (PG) 11.25 Naked and Afraid
(M) 12.15am Programmes continue
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 Airport Security: Peru (M) 7.30 Outback
Wrangler (PG) 8.30 Wicked Tuna (PG) 9.30
Wicked Tuna S10 Best ofs (PG) 10.30 When Sharks
Attack (PG) 11.30 Australia: Life on the Edge 12.30
Decades Remixed: The 80s Greatest (PG) 1.30
Megastructures 2.30 Food Factory Marathon (PG)
4.30 Wicked Tuna S10 Best ofs (PG) 5.30 Wicked
Tuna (PG) 6.30 Airport Security: Peru & Brazil (M)
7.30 Hitler’s Secret Attack on America (PG) 8.30
Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted (PG) 9.30 Titanic: 20
Years Later with James Cameron (PG) 10.30 When
Sharks Attack (PG) 11.30 Seconds from Disaster (M)
12.30am Programmes continue
History SKY 073
6.30 David Starkey’s Magna Carta (PG) 7.30 Myth
Hunters (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Secrets of
Britain’s Great Cathedrals (PG) 10.30 Time Team
(PG) 11.30 Ancient Engineering (PG) 12.30 River
Hunters (PG) 1.30 Living in the Shadow of World
War Two (PG) 2.30 Zeppelin (PG) 3.30 Line of Fire
(PG) 4.30 Secrets of War (M) 5.30 The Nineties (M)
6.30 Time Team (PG) 7.30 How the Victorians Built
Britain (PG) 8.30 Chivalry and Betrayal (PG) 9.30
Europe’s Last Warrior Kings (M) 10.30 The Battle
of Little Bighorn (PG) 11.30 The Australian SAS: The
Untold History (M) 12.30am Programmes continue
BBC Earth SKY 074
6.00 Frozen Planet (PG) 6.50 Frozen Planet: The
Making of (PG) 7.00 Life Below Zero (M) 7.50
Where the Wild Men Are: Revisited (PG) 8.40
Wonders of the Universe (PG) 9.40 Trust Me, I’m
a Doctor (PG) 10.40 The Dog Rescuers with Alan
Davies (PG) 11.25 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 12.15
Dynasties (PG) 1.10 Wonders of the Universe (PG)
2.10 Frozen Planet (PG) 3.05 Animal Impossible
(PG) 4.00 Trust Me, I’m a Doctor (PG) 5.00 Life
Below Zero (M) 5.50 Where the Wild Men Are:
Revisited (PG) 6.45 The Dog Rescuers with Alan
Davies (PG) 7.35 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 8.30
Walking the Himalayas (M) 9.25 Louis Theroux:
Selling Sex (M) 10.30 Dynasties (PG) 11.25 Animal
Impossible (PG) 12.20am Programmes continue
BBC Earth:Walking
Earth: Walking the Himalayas
Himalayas, 8
8.30pm
30pm
SKY SPORT
Sky Sport 1 SKY 051
6.00 Super League, Leeds Rhinos v Warrington
Wolves, highlights 6.30 Super League, Hull v St
Helens, from MKM Stadium, Hull, live 9.00 British
& Irish Lions, highlights 9.15 Currie Cup, Golden
Lions v Pumas, replay 11.15 Farah Palmer Cup,
Taranaki v Tasman, highlights 11.45 Farah Palmer
Cup, highlights 2.15 British & Irish Lions, highlights
2.30 Football, Trophée des Champions, Lille v Paris
Saint-Germain, replay 5.00 Football, CONCACAF
Gold Cup, final, replay 7.30 Farah Palmer Cup,
Taranaki v Tasman, highlights from TET Stadium &
Events Centre, New Plymouth 8.00 Farah Palmer
Cup, highlights 8.30 Aotearoa Rugby Pod 9.00
The Breakdown 10.00 Rugby Heaven 11.00 Farah
Palmer Cup, replay 1.00am Farah Palmer Cup,
replay 3.00 NRL Premiership, Cronulla Sharks v
Manly Sea Eagles, replay 5.00 Super League, Hull
v St Helens, highlights 5.30 Super League, Leeds
Rhinos v Warrington Wolves, highlights
Sky Sport 2 SKY 052
6.00 Tennis, ATP 500, Citi Open, day 1, from Rock
Creek Park Tennis Center, Washington DC, live 1.00
NRL Premiership, highlights 1.30 Super League,
Hull v St Helens, highlights 3.30 Super League,
Leeds Rhinos v Warrington Wolves, highlights
5.30 Sunday Night with Matty Johns 6.30 Big
League Wrap 7.30 NRL 360 8.30 NRL 360: Yvonne
Sampson and Paul Kent discuss the latest from the
NRL Premiership, live 9.30 NRL Try Time 10.30
Super League, Hull v St Helens, highlights 11.00
Super League, Leeds Rhinos v Warrington Wolves,
highlights 11.30 Tennis, ATP 500, Citi Open, day 1,
highlights 12.30am The Back Page 1.30 British &
Irish Lions, highlights 1.45 West Indies v Pakistan,
4th T20, highlights 2.45 Cricket, West Indies v
Pakistan, 5th T20, from Guyana National Stadium,
live
Sky Sport 3 SKY 053
6.30 Tokyo Olympics, Track Cycling, Women’s
Team qualifying, Women’s Team Sprint and finals,
Women’s Team Pursuit qualifying, highlights from
Izu Velodrome 7.00 Tokyo 2020, day 10, highlights
8.00 Women’s Sailing, day 10, 49er FX final, from
Enoshima Yacht Harbour 9.00 Men’s Sailing, day
10, 49er final, from Enoshima Yacht Harbour 10.00
Track Cycling, Women’s Team qualifying, Women’s
Team Sprint and finals, Women’s Team Pursuit
qualifying, highlights from Izu Velodrome 10.30
Tokyo 2020, day 10, highlights 11.30 Tokyo Gold,
Athletics, from Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, live 1.30am
Canoe Sprint, Men’s K1, C2 semi-finals, Women’s
K1, K2 semi-finals, from Sea Forest Waterway 3.10
Canoe Sprint, Men’s K1, C2 finals, Women’s K1,
K2 finals, from Sea Forest Waterway 5.15 Men’s
Basketball
LISTENER JULY 31 2021

TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 Breakfast (HD, C) John
Campbell, Jenny-May
Clarkson and the Breakfast
team present news, sport,
information and weather.
9.00 Winning Combination (G,
HD, C, AD) Omid Djalili
presents a UK game show
in which nine contestants
are assigned a number from
1-9 and compete with each
other in general knowledge
rounds.
10.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C)
Bradley Walsh hosts a UK
quiz show.
11.00 The Extreme Cake Makers
(G, R, HD, C) UK series
featuring the bakers of
extraordinary cakes. Today,
Jamie and Joe are tackling
their most challenging
commission yet, a realistic
model of the island of
Santorini.
11.30 Te Karere (C) A Māori
perspective on the day’s
news and current affairs.
Noon 1 News (HD, C)
12.30 Olympic Games Tokyo
2020 (HD, C) Toni Street
presents day 12 coverage of
the 2020 Summer Olympics
in Tokyo, with insight from
Olympian Sarah Cowley Ross
and reporters Kimberlee
Downs, Chris Chang, Guy
Heveldt and Rapaera Tawhai
on the ground in Tokyo.
New Zealand athletes will
be searching for Olympic
glory in more than 20 sports.
Today, Women’s Canoe
Sprint, K1 500m featuring
Lisa Carrington and Caitlin
Regan, Men’s Canoe Sprint,
K2 500m featuring Max
Brown and Kurtis Imrie, and
Women’s Skateboarding.
6.00 1 News (HD, C)
7.00 Seven Sharp (HD, C) Hilary
Barry and Jeremy Wells
present current affairs and
entertainment.
7.30 Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
(HD, C) Scotty Stevenson
presents coverage of the
evening session of day 12,
with insight from Olympian
Sarah Cowley Ross and
reporters Kimberlee Downs,
Chris Chang, Guy Heveldt
and Rapaera Tawhai on
the ground in Tokyo. New
Zealand athletes will be
searching for Olympic glory
in more than 20 sports.
Tonight, Kiwis in action
on the Cycling track at
the Izu Velodrome, Men’s
Weightlifting, +109kg
featuring David Liti, and
Athletics, including Men’s
800m and 200m finals.
2.10 Infomercials
5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R) A Māori
perspective on the day’s
news and current affairs.
■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM
JULY 31 2021 LISTENER
TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
6.00 Les Mills Born to Move (G,
HD, C)
6.25 Ricky Zoom (G, R, HD, C)
6.35 Clifford the Big Red Dog (G,
HD, C)
7.00 The Dog and Pony Show (G,
R, HD, C)
7.25 Alvinnn!!! And the
Chipmunks (G, R, HD, C)
7.50 Miraculous: Tales of
Ladybug and Cat Noir (G, R,
HD, C)
8.15 Darwin and Newts (G, HD,
C, AD)
8.25 Thomas & Friends (G, R, HD,
C, AD)
8.35 Rainbow Rangers (G, HD, C)
8.55 Kiri and Lou (G, R, HD)
9.00 Infomercials
9.30 Religious Programming
10.00 Les Mills BodyAttack (G, HD,
C, AD)
10.30 Neighbours (PG, R, HD, C)
11.00 All Rise (PG, HD, C) s2ep14
11.50 The Royals (PG, HD, C) s2ep5
12.50 Emmerdale (PG, HD, C, AD)
1.45 Murphy Brown (G, R, HD)
2.40 Home and Away (PG, R, C)
3.05 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD,
C, AD)
3.40 Holly Hobbie (PG, R, HD, C)
4.05 Brain Busters (G, C)
4.30 Friends (G, R, HD, C) s7ep9
5.00 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C,
AD) s18ep16
5.30 Young Sheldon (G, R, HD, C)
s1ep4
6.00 Neighbours (PG, HD, C)
Melanie’s past comes back to
bite.
6.30 Home and Away (PG, C)
Nikau goes through a hard
time after the breakup.
7.00 Shortland Street (PG, HD, C,
AD) Leanne struggles with
matters of the heart, Esther
spills all her secrets, and
Chris is caught between two
challengers.
7.30 MasterChef Australia (PG,
HD, C, another episode
screens tomorrow) Before
the cook starts, contestants
can barter for ingredients
from each other. s13ep43
8.30 All New Taskmaster NZ (16,
C, AD) Jeremy Wells sets
bizarre tasks for a group of
comedians. s2ep5
9.35 Coronation Street (PG, C,
AD)
10.35 8 Out of 10 Cats Does
Countdown (M, R, HD, C)
Jimmy Carr presents a UK
comedy panel show. s9ep8
11.35 Best Foods Comedy Gala
(16, R, HD, C)
12.50am Wentworth (16, R, HD, C)
s8ep9
1.45 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD,
C, AD)
2.10 Infomercials
3.10 MasterChef Australia (PG, R,
HD, C) s13ep43
4.00 2 Overnight
4.15 The Middle (G, R, HD, C)
4.35 Neighbours (PG, R, HD, C)
5.00 – 6.00 Infomercials
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4
THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 The AM Show (HD) With
Duncan Garner, Amanda
Gillies and Mark Richardson.
9.00 Infomercials
10.30 The Vet Life (PG, HD) s2ep8
11.30 Newshub Live (HD)
Noon House Hunters Renovation
(G, HD) s10ep5
1.00 ■ The Midwife’s Deception
(2018, M, HD, C) A pregnant
woman begins to suspect
that her midwife may have
ulterior motives. Penelope
Mitchell, Katie Savoy.
Cartooning around:
3.00 Match Game (PG, HD, C) TIG NOTARO: DRAWN
s2ep13
4.00 House Crashers (G, HD)
COMEDY: It sounds like the
s13ep4 perfect pandemic perfor-
4.30 Newshub Live (HD) mance idea: an animated
5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, HD) stand-up special. However,
6.00 Newshub Live (HD)
7.00 The Project (HD) With Laura unless the laughter is canned,
Tupou, Jesse Mulligan and there is also an animated audi-
Jeremy Corbett. ence for Notaro’s charming
7.30 The Block NZ (PG, HD, C) observational comedy. There
With such a large space to
complete, there is the very are different animated styles
real threat that some teams illustrating her stories, which
will not finish. s9ep31 makes a change from watch-
8.30 L.A.’s Finest (M, HD, C) After
a stunning discovery, Syd
ing someone walk around
and McKenna wonder who a stage with a microphone
they can trust. s1ep11 for an hour. “Stand-up can
9.25 Hawaii Five-0 (M, HD, C) be a very solitary art form, so
When Grover’s niece goes
missing from the police combining it with a collabora-
academy, it is discovered tive years-long creative effort
that her boyfriend is a was a joyful experience. I’m so
member of the Yakuza. proud of this special and can’t
s10ep15
10.25 Newshub Late wait for everyone to be fully
10.55 Designated Survivor (M, HD, vaccinated watching with
C) s2ep21 their Nana,” Notaro told The
11.55 – 6.00am Infomercials
Wrap.
PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 SOHO, 8.30pm
6.00 Kids’ Programmes (G, R)
9.00 A Place in the Sun (G, R)
10.00 A Place in the Sun: Winter
Sun (G, R)
11.00 Hot Bench (PG, R)
11.30 Married with Children
(PG, R)
12.30 1st XV Rugby Palmerston
North Boys’ v Napier Boys’,
live.
2.30 Just Shoot Me (PG, R, C)
2.00 The Late Show with Stephen
Colbert (PG, R) Blowing up: WHITE
3.00 Wheel of Fortune (G)
3.30 Jeopardy (G) FAMOUS
4.00 American Pickers (PG, R) COMEDY: Saturday Night
5.00 3rd Rock from the Sun (PG,
Live comedian Jay Pharoah
R, C)
5.30 Prime News is a proxy Jamie Foxx in this
6.00 Storage Wars (PG) comedy series about an
7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild African American comedian
7.30 Traffic Cops (PG, C)
who is trying to maintain his
8.30 ■ Ambulance (16, R, C)
9.45 Nightmare Tenants, Slum credibility as he starts cross-
Landlords (M, C) ing over into being “white
10.45 The Late Show with Stephen famous”. The sitcom is based
Colbert (PG) on Foxx’s career, and he also
11.45 The Crowd Goes Wild
(PG, R) appears.
12.15am – 3.15 Infomercials (G) NEON
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MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
6.30 Kids’ Programmes (G)
8.00 Kōrero Mai (G, R)
9.00 Toi Te Ora: Our Way of Life
(G)
9.30 Ōpaki (G, R)
10.00 Iwi Anthems (G, R)
10.30 Whānau Living (G, R)
11.00 Tangaroa with Pio (G)
11.30 Ki Tua (G, R)
Noon Te Ao Tapatahi
12.30 Animal Armory (G, R)
1.30 Ngā Pari Kārangaranga o te
Motu (G, R)
2.00 Tōku Reo (G, R)
3.00 Kids’ Programmes (G)
6.30 Te Ao Mārama
7.00 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe: Te
Arawa (G)
7.30 Merchants of the Wild (G, R)
8.00 Find Me a Māori Bride
(PG, R)
8.30 The Adventures of Suzy
Boon (PG) Suzy decides to
re-enter the online dating
world.
8.40 Colonial Combat (M, R)
Harold is worried about
Tuwhare taking a big cut of
his profits.
8.50 Tāringa Huruhuru (PG,
R) Comedy series with
kaumātua Wī and Wā.
9.00 Uka (G) A showcase of Uka
card players.
9.30 Mura o te Ahi (PG) Debate
series
10.00 Ki Tua (G, R)
10.30 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe: Te
Arawa (G, R)
11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao Mārama (R)
SKY PREMIERE SKY 030
7.31 Jungleland (2020, 16)
Charlie Hunnam
9.01 Midway (2019, M) Ed Skrein,
Patrick Wilson
11.17 The Good Liar (2019, 16) Ian
McKellen, Helen Mirren
1.07 Savage (2019, 16) Jake Ryan,
John Tui
2.47 The Broken Hearts Gallery
(2020, M) Geraldine
Viswanathan
4.36 The Crime Boss (2019, 16)
Liam Hemsworth
6.15 Waves (2019, 16) Kelvin
Harrison Jr, Lucas Hedges
8.30 Ford v Ferrari (2019, M)
Based on the rivalry between
Ford and Ferrari and the
battle to win 24 Hours of Le
Mans in 1966. Matt Damon,
Christian Bale, Catriona Balfe,
Jon Bernthal
11.03 Luce (2019, 16) A couple
are forced to reckon with
their idealised image of their
son after a teacher makes
troubling allegations against
him. Naomi Watts, Octavia
Spencer, Kelvin Harrison Jr
12.53am Dark Waters (2019,
M) 2.56 A Beautiful Day in the
Neighborhood (2019, PG) 4.42 The
Fanatic (2019, 18)
84
Sit up: GOOD POSTURE
Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer’s Doll
& Em is something of an unheralded
gem and Wells puts all her experience
as an actor and writer into this charming
directorial debut, shot in 10 days in New
York. Grace Van Patten plays an aimless
millennial who moves in with a reclusive
author (Mortimer). RIALTO, 3.25pm
BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Infomercials
10.00 Judge Jerry (G, R)
10.30 Botched by Nature (PG, R)
11.25 Snapped (M, R)
12.25 Buried in the Backyard (M, R)
1.20 The Real Housewives of
New York City (M, R) s2ep4
2.20 Million Dollar Listing NY
(PG, R) s6ep2
3.25 Keeping Up with the
Kardashians (PG, R) s12ep19
4.25 Love It or List It (G, R)
5.30 Shark Tank (PG)
6.30 Botched by Nature (PG, R)
s1ep3
7.30 Undercover Boss (PG)
8.30 24 Hours in Emergency (M)
Natasha has damaged her
leg while trampolining at her
son’s birthday party.
9.30 Embarrassing Bodies (M,
C) A 37-year-old has been
suffering with a rare penis
problem for 10 years.
10.30 Snapped (M, R)
11.25 Buried in the Backyard
(M, R)
12.15am – 6.00 Infomercials
MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031
7.15 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
(2010, M) Michael Cera
9.05 BFF Bride (2019, PG)
Jocelyn Hudon, Ryan Paevey
10.35 The Longest Yard (2005)
(2005, M) Adam Sandler
12.30 Bowfinger (1999, PG) Steve
Martin, Eddie Murphy
2.10 Fixed (2019, M) Andy
Comeau
3.45 For Love or Money (2019,
16) Robert Kazinsky
5.20 Dinner with Friends (2020,
16) Malin Ackerman
6.55 Burn After Reading (2008,
16) Brad Pitt
8.30 Bull Durham (1988, M) A
minor league baseball team
has a rare asset – a poetry-
loving groupie who has an
affair with one player per
season. Kevin Costner, Susan
Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Trey
Wilson
10.20 The Pink Panther (2006)
(2006, PG) Steve Martin,
Beyonce Knowles
11.55 Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016,
M) Renee Zellweger,
1.55am Made of Honor (2008, M)
3.35 Brimming with Love (2017,
PG) 5.05 The Pink Panther (2006)
(2006, PG)
CHOICE TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024 TVNZ DUKE FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023
6.00 Flipping Bangers (G)
7.00 Jamie’s Quick and Easy (G)
7.30 Gino’s Italian Escape (G)
8.00 Hope for Wildlife (G)
9.00 James Martin’s Great British
Adventure (G)
10.00 Jade Fever (PG)
10.30 Mysteries at the Museum
(PG)
11.30 Forged in Fire (PG)
12.30 Amazing Spaces (G)
1.30 Money for Nothing (G)
2.30 The House that 100K Built
3.30 Hope for Wildlife (G)
4.30 Giada Entertains (G)
5.00 Giada at Home (G)
5.30 Mysteries at the Museum
(PG)
6.30 Ice Cold Gold (PG)
7.30 Forged in Fire (PG)
8.25 Wild Weather with Richard
Hammond (PG)
9.30 Guy Martin: The World’s
Fastest Tractor (G)
10.55 Ice Cold Gold (PG)
11.55 Mysteries at the Museum
(PG)
12.40am Programmes continue
MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039
7.00 Ragtime (1981, PG) James
Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern
9.35 Brothers in Arms (2018, M)
Documentary.
11.05 Distant Drums (1951, G) Gary
Cooper, Mari Aldon
12.50 Birdman of Alcatraz (1962,
PG) Burt Lancaster
3.15 The Four Musketeers (1974,
PG) Oliver Reed
5.00 Tucker: The Man and His
Dream (1988, PG) Jeff
Bridges, Joan Allen
6.50 Benny & Joon (1993, PG)
A fragile young woman
finds love with an eccentric
stranger, much to the
displeasure of her protective
brother. Johnny Depp, Mary
Stuart Masterson
8.30 First Blood (1982, 16) When
a former Green Beret
is arrested, his wartime
nightmares return, causing
him to flee to a mountain
hideaway. Sylvester Stallone,
Richard Crenna
10.05 Wolf (1994, M) Jack
Nicolson, Michelle Pfeiffer
12.10am California Split (1974, 16)
2.00 Brothers in Arms (2018, M)
3.30 Distant Drums (1951, G) 5.15
The Four Musketeers (1974, PG)
2.10pm Two and a Half Men (PG, R,
HD, C) s10ep20
2.30 Hunting Aotearoa (PG, HD)
3.00 River Monsters (PG, HD, C)
3.55 The Chase Australia (G,
HD, C)
4.45 ABC World News (PG)
5.10 My Country Kitchen (PG, HD)
5.35 Impossible Engineering (G,
R, HD, C, AD)
6.35 The Big Bang Theory (G, R,
HD, C) s11ep3
7.00 Two and a Half Men (PG, R,
HD, C) s10ep21
7.30 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C,
AD) s27ep8
8.30 Disasters Engineered (G, HD,
C) Explosions at a chemical
factory in China and at the
Evangelos Florakis naval
base in Cyprus. s1ep9
9.30 Fast Justice (M, HD, C, AD)
Series following police in
Suffolk.
10.30 The Island with Bear Grylls
(16, R, HD, C) s6ep4
11.30 – 1.05 ■ The 100 (PG, R, HD,
C) s6ep1
7.15 Amanda (2018, 16) Vincent
Lacoste
9.05 Being Frank: The Chris
Sievey Story (2018, M) UK
documentary.
10.50 Pond Life (2018, M) Siobhan
Finneran
12.30 Wrinkles the Clown (2019,
M) US documentary.
1.50 I See You (2019, 16) Helen
Hunt
3.25 Good Posture (2019, M)
Grace Van Patten
5.00 Martin Margiela: In His Own
Words (2019, M) German
documentary.
6.35 In Fabric (2018, 16) Marianne
Jean-Baptiste
8.30 The Mystery of DB Cooper
(2020, M) US documentary
about an unsolved heist
that has taunted the FBI for
decades.
10.00 The Captain (2017, 16)
A young German soldier
impersonates a Nazi officer.
Max Hubacher
12.05am It Must Schwing: The Blue
Note Story (2018, 16) 2.00 Brassic
(16) s1ep3 2.45 Women Make Film
(16) s1ep7 3.50 Wrinkles the Clown
(2019, M) 5.10 Good Posture (2019,
M)
LISTENER JULY 31 2021

SKY CHANNELS
Vibe SKY 006
6.00 Judging Amy (M) s5ep1 6.50 Judge Judy
(PG) 7.15 Medium (M) s2ep22 8.05 Cold Case
(M) 8.50 Parenthood (M) s2ep12 9.40 The Good
Wife (M) s1ep7 10.30 Judge Judy (PG) 11.25 Vera
(M) s5ep2 1.10 Frankie Drake Mysteries (M) s3ep4
2.00 Medium (M) s2ep22 2.50 Cold Case (M) 3.40
Parenthood (M) s2ep12 4.30 Judge Judy (PG) 5.30
Judging Amy (M) s5ep1 6.30 The Good Wife (M)
s1ep7 7.30 Jamestown (16) A boat arrives from
England with news for Temperance and important
instructions for Yeardley. s1ep8 8.30 Outlander (18)
Claire tries to discover the source of an epidemic
aboard a disease-stricken ship before hundreds of
sailors die. s3ep10 9.40 Harlots (16) The women
galvanise into taking action against Fallon, leaving
Lucy in a difficult position. s2ep8 10.40 Parenthood
(M) s2ep12 11.30 Judge Judy (PG) 12.00am
Programmes continue
UKTV SKY 007
6.45 EastEnders (PG) 7.10 The Jonathan Ross Show
(M) s15ep10 8.00 The Bill (M) 8.50 A Touch of Frost
(M) s7ep2 10.10 Call the Midwife (PG) s4ep7 11.10
Doc Martin (M) s2ep8 Noon Midsomer Murders
(M) s16ep5 1.35 The Bill (M) 2.25 New Tricks (M)
s6ep1 3.25 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M)
4.20 The Jonathan Ross Show (PG) s15ep11 5.15
Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) 6.20 QI (M) 6.55
EastEnders (PG) 7.25 QI (M) With Victoria Wood,
Richard Osman and Jason Manford. 8.00 Would I
Lie to You? (PG) Previously unseen material. 8.35
Father Brown (M) A hill climb track ends with one
of the drivers killed. s2ep10 9.30 Holby City (M)
Desperate to impress Frieda, Nicky helps with the
tricky diagnosis of her first patient. s20ep16 10.35
Hold the Sunset (PG) s1ep1 11.10 Midsomer Murders
(M) s16ep5 12.45am Programmes continue
SoHo SKY 010
6.05 Jett (16) s1ep8 7.00 Warrior (18) s1ep final
7.55 Intergalactic (M) s1ep7 8.40 I Know This
Much Is True (16) s1ep1 9.40 Watchmen (18) s1ep6
10.40 We’re Here (M) s1ep1 11.40 Jett (16) s1ep8
12.35 Warrior (18) s1ep10 1.30 Intergalactic (M)
s1ep7 2.15 I Know This Much Is True (16) s1ep1 3.15
Watchmen (18) s1ep6 4.15 Animals (16) s3ep10 4.45
New Amsterdam (M) s1ep20 5.30 The Deuce (18)
s2ep5 6.30 Baptiste (16) s2ep2 7.30 Save Me Too
(16) A high-profile trial brings fresh hope in Nelly’s
quest to find Jody. s2ep2 8.30 Tig Notaro: Drawn
(M) Tig Notaro stars in HBO’s first fully animated
stand-up special. 9.30 Domina (16) Gaius’ sudden
illness provokes a political crisis and reveals the true
weakness of Livia’s position. s1ep5 10.20 Industry
(16) s1ep5 11.10 Eden (16) s1ep8 11.55 Baptiste (16)
s2ep2 12.55am Programmes continue
Living SKY 017
6.15 Escape to the Country (PG) 7.10 30 Minute
Meals (PG) 7.35 Classic Mary Berry (PG) 8.10 House
Hunters (PG) 9.00 Grand Designs New Zealand
(PG) 10.00 Salvage Hunters (PG) 11.55 Location
Location Location (PG) 12.50 Restoration Man: Best
Builds (PG) 1.50 Escape to the Country (PG) 2.45
House Hunters (PG) 3.45 30 Minute Meals (PG)
4.10 Classic Mary Berry (PG) 4.45 Salvage Hunters
(PG) 5.40 Selling Houses Australia 6.35 Location
Location Location (PG) 7.30 Salvage Hunters
(PG) 8.30 Love Your Garden (PG) 9.30 Location
Location Location (PG) 10.25 Grand Designs House
of the Year (PG) 11.25 House Hunters (PG) 12.15am
Programmes continue
Investigation Discovery SKY 018
6.05 The Perfect Murder (M) 6.55 Deadline:
Crime with Tamron Hall (M) 7.45 People Magazine
Investigates (M) 8.35 The Murder Tapes (M) 9.25
Nightmare Next Door (M) 10.20 Disappeared (M)
11.15 Evil Lives Here (M) 12.10 The Perfect Murder
JULY 31 2021 LISTENER
(M) 1.05 Scorned: Crimes of Passion (M) 2.00
Forbidden: Dying for Love (M) 2.55 I’d Kill for You
(M) 3.50 People Magazine Investigates (M) 4.45
Reasonable Doubt (M) 5.40 Evil Kin (M) 6.35
The Perfect Murder (M) 7.30 People Magazine
Investigates (M) 8.30 Deadline: Crime with Tamron
Hall (M) 9.30 In Pursuit with John Walsh (M) 10.30
Evil Lives Here (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next Door (M)
12.15am Programmes continue
Sky Arts SKY 020
6.00 ■ The Sea of Itami Jun (2019, G) 8.00 Comedy
Legends 9.30 Up to the Sky 10.00 Artist to Icon
11.30 The Art Detectives 12.30 Art of Architecture
Specials 2.00 ■ The Sea of Itami Jun (2019, G)
4.00 Verbier Festival 2019: Gabor Takács-Nagy
Conducts Mozart and Brahms 5.25 Orchestre de
la Suisse Romande Performs Dvorak and Strauss
6.55 Beethoven: The Five Cello Sonatas 9.00
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: Andris Nelsons
Conducts Beethoven and Skryabin 10.25 Great Film
Composers 12.00am Programmes continue
Discovery SKY 070
6.05 How Do They Do It? (PG) 6.30 How It’s
Made (PG) 6.55 Gold Rush: Dave Turin’s Lost Mine
Marathon (PG) 9.25 Fast N’ Loud (PG) 10.20 UFO
Witness (PG) 11.15 Vampires: Mysteries at the
Museum (PG) 12.10 Mysteries at the Museum (PG)
1.05 Naked and Afraid (M) 2.00 Aussie Salvage
Squad (PG) 2.55 Homestead Rescue (PG) 3.50
Bering Sea Gold Marathon (PG) 7.30 Deadliest
Catch (PG) 8.30 Deadliest Catch: Bloodline (PG)
9.30 Bering Sea Gold (PG) 10.30 Moonshiners (M)
11.25 Naked and Afraid (M) 12.15am Programmes
continue
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 Airport Security: Peru & Brazil (M) 7.30 Hitler’s
Secret Attack on America (PG) 8.30 Gordon
Ramsay: Uncharted (PG) 9.30 Titanic: 20 Years
Later with James Cameron (PG) 10.30 When
Sharks Attack (PG) 11.30 Seconds from Disaster
(M) 12.30 Decades Remixed: The 80s Greatest
(PG) 1.30 Banged Up Abroad Best ofs (M) 2.30
Ultimate Airport Dubai (PG) 4.30 Gordon Ramsay:
Uncharted (PG) 6.30 Airport Security: Peru & Brazil
(M) 7.30 Mega Factories 8.30 Food Factory USA
(PG) 9.30 Food Factory (PG) 10.30 When Sharks
Attack (PG) 11.30 Monkeying Around (PG) 12.30am
Programmes continue
History SKY 073
6.30 Europe’s Last Warrior Kings (M) 7.30 The
Battle of Little Bighorn (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30
The Nineties (M) 10.30 Time Team (PG) 11.30 How
the Victorians Built Britain (PG) 12.30 Chivalry and
Betrayal (PG) 1.30 Living in the Shadow of World
War Two (PG) 2.30 Bombers of World War II (PG)
4.30 Secrets of War (M) 5.30 Britain’s Greatest
Bridges (PG) 6.30 Time Team (PG) 7.30 America
in Colour (PG) 8.30 Abandoned Engineering
(PG) 9.30 End of Empire: Rise & Fall of Dynasties
(PG) 10.30 The Hitler Chronicles (PG) 11.30 WWII:
Witness to War (PG) 12.30am Programmes
continue
BBC Earth SKY 074
6.00 Frozen Planet (PG) 6.50 Africa: The Future:
The Making of (PG) 7.00 Life Below Zero (M) 7.50
Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 8.40 Wonders of
the Universe (PG) 9.40 Trust Me, I’m a Doctor (PG)
10.40 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG)
11.25 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 12.15 Dynasties (PG)
1.10 Wonders of the Universe (PG) 2.10 Frozen
Planet (PG) 3.05 Animal Impossible (PG) 4.00
Trust Me, I’m a Doctor (PG) 5.00 Life Below Zero
(M) 5.50 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 Blue Planet (PG) 9.25 Seven
Worlds, One Planet (PG) 10.25 Dynasties (PG)
11.20 Dynasties: The Making of (PG) 11.30 Animal
Impossible (PG) 12.25am Programmes continue
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4
History:
Hi t End
E d off Empire:
E i Ri Rise & F
Fall
ll off
Dynasties, 9.30pm
SKY SPORT
Sky Sport 1 SKY 051
6.00 Rugby, Farah Palmer Cup, highlights 6.45
Farah Palmer Cup, Taranaki v Tasman, highlights
from TET Stadium & Events Centre, New Plymouth
7.30 Rugby Heaven 8.30 Aotearoa Rugby Pod 9.00
British & Irish Lions, highlights 9.30 The Back Page
10.30 Farah Palmer Cup, highlights 10.45 1st XV
Rugby, Hastings Boys’ High v Tauranga Boys’, replay
12.30 1st XV Rugby, Palmerston North Boys’ High v
Napier Boys’ High, live 2.30 Super League, Hull v St
Helens, highlights 3.00 Super League, Leeds Rhinos
v Warrington Wolves, highlights 3.30 British & Irish
Lions, highlights 4.00 Rugby Heaven 5.00 Aotearoa
Rugby Pod 5.30 1st XV Revision 6.00 1st XV Rugby,
Palmerston North Boys’ High v Napier Boys’ High,
replay 7.45 Farah Palmer Cup, highlights 8.00 1st XV
Revision 8.30 Rugby Heaven 9.30 Aotearoa Rugby
Pod 10.00 Cricket, West Indies v Pakistan, 5th T20,
highlights from Guyana National Stadium 11.00 1st
XV, Palmerston North Boys’ High v Napier Boys’
High, highlights 11.30 Currie Cup, Sharks v Griquas,
replay 1.30am Rugby, Currie Cup, Western Province
v Blue Bulls, replay 3.30 Rugby Heaven 4.30 The
Breakdown 5.30 Aotearoa Rugby Pod
Sky Sport 2 SKY 052
7.00 NRL 360 8.00 NRL Try Time 9.00 Fox Sports
News 10.00 Cricket, West Indies v Pakistan, 5th T20,
replay from Guyana National Stadium 1.30 British
Superbikes, highlights 3.00 Super Netball, round
13, highlights 4.00 ANZ Premiership, elimination
final, highlights 4.30 Cricket, West Indies v Pakistan,
5th T20, highlights 5.30 The Back Page 6.30 NRL
360 7.30 NRL Try Time 8.30 NRL 360, live 9.30
Face-2-Face with Matty Johns 10.00 Tennis, ATP
500, Citi Open, day 2, match of the day from Rock
Creek Park Tennis Center, Washington DC 11.30 ATP
500, Citi Open, day 2, highlights 12.30am Cricket,
West Indies v Pakistan, 5th T20, highlights 1.30 AFL
on the Couch 2.30 NRL Try Time 3.30 Tennis, ATP
500, Citi Open, day 2, highlights 4.30 ATP 500, Citi
Open, day 2, match of the day
Sky Sport 3 SKY 053
7.30 Tokyo Olympics, Track Cycling, Men’s Team
Sprint qualifing, Men’s Team Pursuit, Women’s Team
Pursuit finals, Men’s Team Sprint finals, highlights
from Izu Velodrome 8.00 Sailing, day 11, Mixed
Multihull Nacra 17 Foiling final, from Enoshima Yacht
Harbour 9.00 Tokyo 2020, day 11, highlights 10.00
Tokyo Gold, Women’s Golf, round 1, live 1.30am
Sailing, day 12, Men’s 470 final, from Enoshima
Yacht Harbour 2.30 Canoe Sprint, Men’s K1, K2
heats, Women’s C1, K1 heats, from the Sea Forest
Waterway 4.30 Canoe Sprint, Men’s K1, K2 quarter-
finals, Women’s C1, K1 quarter-finals, from Sea
Forest Waterway
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THURSDAY AUGUST 5
Queerspace: THE LEGEND
OF THE UNDERGROUND
DOCUMENTARY: Directors
Giselle Bailey and Nneka
Onuorah are hopeful in this
documentary about Nigerian
youth challenging the hor-
rific anti-LGBTQ laws in their
country, which is remarkable
in itself. Some “noncomform-
ists”, as they are described for
safety reasons, have left the
country that passed a law pro-
hibiting same-sex marriage
and locks up its queer citizens.
One such is Michael, who lives
in New York, but who returns
to Nigeria to support a young
drag queen who is among
dozens detained by police.
He is part of a new generation
who use underground radio
and social media in their fight
to be free.
NEON
Rainbow world: PRIDE
DOCUMENTARY: While
we’re talking about equal
rights, here’s a six-part series
that illustrates how far the
US has come. Each episode
spans a decade, starting with
the 1950s, which were dark
times, except, as the title
suggests,”People Had Parties”.
DISNEY+
■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM
86
TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 Breakfast (HD, C) John
Campbell, Jenny-May
Clarkson and the Breakfast
team present news, sport,
information and weather.
9.00 Winning Combination (G,
HD, C, AD) Omid Djalili
presents a UK game show
in which nine contestants
are assigned a number from
1-9 and compete with each
other in general knowledge
rounds.
10.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C)
Bradley Walsh hosts a UK
quiz show.
11.00 Extreme Cake Makers (G,
R, HD) UK series featuring
the bakers of extraordinary
cakes. Today, cake makers
Christine and Phil seek royal
approval.
11.30 Te Karere (C) A Māori
perspective on the day’s
news and current affairs.
Noon 1 News (HD, C)
12.30 Olympic Games Tokyo
2020 (HD, C) Toni Street
presents day 13 coverage of
the 2020 Summer Olympics
in Tokyo, with insight from
Olympian Sarah Cowley Ross
and reporters Kimberlee
Downs, Chris Chang, Guy
Heveldt and Rapaera Tawhai
on the ground in Tokyo.
New Zealand athletes will
be searching for Olympic
glory in more than 20
sports. Today, Canoe Sprint
featuring Lisa Carrington
and Caitlin Regan, Athletics,
Men’s Shot Put final from
Olympic Stadium featuring
Tom Walsh, Karate from
Nippon Budokan featuring
Andrea Anacan, and Men’s
Skateboarding from Ariake
Urban Sports Park.
6.00 1 News (HD, C)
7.00 Seven Sharp (HD, C) Hilary
Barry and Jeremy Wells
present current affairs and
entertainment.
7.30 Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
(HD, C) Scotty Stevenson
presents coverage of the
evening session of day 13,
with insight from Olympian
Sarah Cowley Ross and
reporters Kimberlee Downs,
Chris Chang, Guy Heveldt
and Rapaera Tawhai on
the ground in Tokyo. New
Zealand athletes will be
searching for Olympic glory
in more than 20 sports.
Tonight, Kiwis in action on
the Cycling track at the Izu
Velodrome, Athletics, Men’s
1500m semi-finals from
Olympic Stadium, and Men’s
Hockey gold medal match
from Oi Hockey Stadium.
2.15 Infomercials
5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R) A Māori
perspective on the day’s
news and current affairs.
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
6.00 Les Mills Born to Move (G,
HD, C)
6.25 Ricky Zoom (G, R, HD, C)
6.35 Clifford the Big Red Dog (G,
HD, C)
7.00 The Dog and Pony Show (G,
R, HD, C)
7.25 Alvinnn!!! And the
Chipmunks (G, R, HD, C)
7.50 Miraculous: Tales of
Ladybug and Cat Noir (G, R,
HD, C)
8.15 Darwin and Newts (G, HD,
C, AD)
8.25 Thomas & Friends (G, R, HD,
C, AD)
8.35 Moon & Me (G, R, HD, C)
8.55 Kiri and Lou (G, R, HD)
9.00 Infomercials
9.30 Religious Programming
10.00 Les Mills Core (G, HD, C)
10.30 Neighbours (PG, R, HD, C)
11.00 All Rise (PG, HD, C) s2ep15
11.50 The Royals (PG, HD, C) s2ep6
12.45 Emmerdale (PG, HD, C, AD)
1.40 Murphy Brown (PG, R, HD)
2.35 Home and Away (PG, R, C)
3.00 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD,
C, AD)
3.35 Bluey (G, R, HD)
3.40 Holly Hobbie (G, R, HD, C)
4.05 Brain Busters (G, C)
4.35 Friends (G, R, HD, C)
5.00 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C,
AD) s18ep17
5.30 Young Sheldon (PG, R, HD,
C) s1ep5
6.00 Neighbours (G, HD, C)
Amy makes a life-changing
decision, and Melanie’s
actions cause a rift.
6.30 Home and Away (PG, C)
Ryder and Chloe are at
opposites, and can Roo help
Kieran?
7.00 Shortland Street (PG, HD,
C, AD) Chris’ lie catches up
with him, Prince’s jealousy
is sparked, and Louis’s car
costs him deeply.
7.30 MasterChef Australia (G, HD,
C) The top four cooks from
yesterday’s mystery box
challenge battle it out for
immunity and a guaranteed
spot in the top 10. s13ep44
8.35 Police Ten 7 (PG, C) Rob
Lemoto presents a series
featuring Kiwi ne’er-do-wells.
9.10 A Current Affair (PG, C)
Susie Nordqvist presents
current affairs.
9.40 Coronation Street (PG, C,
AD)
10.40 Kings Cross ER (M, HD, C,
AD) Australian docu-series.
11.10 Police Ten 7 (PG, R, C)
11.40 Batwoman (M, HD, C, AD)
s1ep8
1.15am Shortland Street (PG, R, HD,
C, AD)
1.40 Infomercials
2.40 MasterChef Australia (G, R,
HD, C) s13ep44
3.35 2 Overnight
4.15 The Middle (G, R, HD, C)
4.35 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C)
5.00 – 6.00 Infomercials
THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 The AM Show (HD) With
Duncan Garner, Amanda
Gillies and Mark Richardson.
9.00 Infomercials
10.30 The Vet Life (PG, HD) s2ep9
11.30 Newshub Live (HD)
Noon House Hunters Renovation
(G, HD) s10ep6
1.00 ■ The Legend of Alice Flagg
(2016, M, HD, C) On her
honeymoon, a woman learns
that a girl who died of a
broken heart haunts the B&B
where she and her husband
are staying. Catherine Hicks,
Cameron Richardson.
3.00 Match Game (PG, HD, C)
4.00 House Crashers (G, HD)
s13ep5
4.30 Newshub Live (HD)
5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, HD)
6.00 Newshub Live (HD)
7.00 The Project (HD) With Laura
Tupou, Jesse Mulligan and
Jeremy Corbett.
7.30 Lego Masters USA (PG, HD,
C) Will Arnett hosts a Lego
building competition series.
s2ep8
8.30 ■ Crocodile Dundee II
(1988, PG, R, HD, C) Just as
Mick Dundee is starting to
adjust to life in New York
City, he and his girlfriend
are targeted by a gang of
ruthless drug dealers. Paul
Hogan, Linda Kozlowski.
10.35 Newshub Late
11.05 SVU: Special Victims Unit
(16, R, HD, C) A member of
a women’s empowerment
group is found murdered.
s20ep5
12.05am – 6.00 Infomercials
PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Kids’ Programmes (G, R)
9.00 A Place in the Sun (G, R)
10.00 A Place in the Sun: Winter
Sun (G, R)
11.00 Hot Bench (PG, R)
11.30 Married with Children (PG, R)
12.30 Tommy (M, R, C)
1.30 Just Shoot Me (PG, R, C)
3.00 Wheel of Fortune (G)
3.30 Jeopardy (G)
4.00 American Pickers (PG, R)
5.00 3rd Rock from the Sun (PG,
R, C)
5.30 Prime News
6.00 1st XV Rugby Revision (G)
6.30 Storage Wars (PG)
7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild
7.30 ■ Inside the Red Arrows (M,
R, C) The Reds compete at
the Royal International Air
Tattoo.
8.30 ■ Prison (16, R, C)
9.45 ■ The 2000s (PG, R, C)
Barack Obama wins the
2008 presidential election.
10.45 The Late Show with Stephen
Colbert (PG)
11.45 The Crowd Goes Wild
(PG, R)
12.15am – 3.15 Infomercials (G)
LISTENER JULY 31 2021
 THURSDAY AUGUST 5

MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 Curses: MISS FISHER & THE

CRYPT OF TEARS
6.30 Kids’ Programmes (G) Such a fun romp and, as far as we
8.00 Kōrero Mai (G)
know, the final outing for the fabulous
9.00 Pacific Island Food
Revolution (G, R)
female detective. Essie Davis’ movie
10.00 Iwi Anthems (G, R) career continues apace; she is cur-
10.30 Whānau Living (G, R) rently appearing, with Thomasin
11.00 Tangaroa with Pio (G) McKenzie, in Kiwi film The Justice of
11.30 Merchants of the Wild (G, R) Bunny King. MOVIES PREMIERE, 1.30am
Noon Te Ao Tapatahi

12.30 Ka Pai Living (PG, R)
1.00 It’s in the Bag (G, R)
1.30 Ngā Pari Kārangaranga o te
Motu (G, R)
2.00 Tōku Reo (G, R)
3.00 Kids’ Programmes (G)
6.30 Te Ao Mārama
7.00 Senior Kapa Haka Regionals
(G, R)
7.30 Easy Eats (G, R) Hera Te
Kurapa recreates restaurant-
quality dishes at home.
8.00 Lucky Dip (G) Luke Bird and
Marcia Hopa host a family
game show.
8.30 The Koi Boys (G, R) The
boys’ manager drops a
bombshell.
9.00 Waiata Nation (G) A new
group of artists take on the
challenge to create their own
waiata.
9.30 Ahikāroa (M) The whānau
from Te Pā returns to excite
your world
10.00 Wehi Nā Upload (PG, R)
Guest presenters award
cash prizes to the most
entertaining online clips.
10.30 Mura o te Ahi (PG, R)
11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao Mārama
BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Infomercials
10.00 Judge Jerry (G, R)
10.30 Botched by Nature (PG, R)
11.25 Snapped (M, R)
12.25 Buried in the Backyard (M, R)
1.20 The Real Housewives of
New York City (M, R) s2ep5
2.20 Million Dollar Listing NY
(PG, R) s6ep3
3.25 Keeping Up with the
Kardashians (PG, R) s12ep20
4.25 Love It or List It (G, R)
5.30 Shark Tank (PG)
6.30 Botched by Nature (PG, R)
s1ep4
7.30 Tattoo Fixers (M) A woman’s
tattoos were an attempt to
impress her maths teacher.
8.30 Below Deck Sailing Yacht
(M) Andy Cohen interviews
the cast.
9.30 The Real Housewives of
New York City (M) Leah
McSweeney looks to convert
to Judaism.
10.30 Snapped (M, R)
11.25 Buried in the Backyard (M, R)
12.15am – 6.00 Infomercials
CHOICE TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024 TVNZ DUKE FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023
6.00 Flipping Bangers (G)
7.00 Giada Entertains (G)
7.30 Giada at Home (G)
8.00 Hope for Wildlife (G)
9.00 James Martin’s Great British
Adventure (G)
10.00 Jade Fever (PG)
10.30 Mysteries at the Museum
(PG)
11.30 Ice Cold Gold (PG)
12.30 Forged in Fire (PG)
1.25 Wild Weather with Richard
Hammond (PG)
2.30 Heritage Rescue: Ardmore
3.30 London Zoo: An
Extraordinary Year (G)
4.30 The Great Food Truck Race
(PG)
5.30 Mysteries at the Museum
(PG)
6.30 American Pickers (G)
7.30 Deadliest Catch (PG)
9.30 Where the Wild Men Are
with Ben Fogle (G)
10.30 American Pickers (G)
11.30 Mysteries at the Museum
(PG)
12.30am Programmes continue
2.10pm Two and a Half Men (PG, R,
HD, C) s10ep21
2.30 Hunting Aotearoa (PG, HD)
3.00 River Monsters (PG, HD, C)
3.55 The Chase Australia (G,
HD, C)
4.45 ABC World News (PG)
5.10 My Country Kitchen (G, HD)
5.35 Impossible Engineering (G,
HD, C, AD)
6.35 The Big Bang Theory (PG, R,
HD, C) s11ep4
7.00 Two and a Half Men (PG, R,
HD, C) s10ep22
7.30 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C,
AD) s27ep10
8.30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does
Countdown (M, R, HD, C)
With Jack Whitehall, Vic
Reeves and Joe Wilkinson.
s6ep6
9.30 8 Out of 10 Cats (M, R, HD,
C) Jimmy Carr hosts a UK
comedy panel show. s21ep10
10.30 Hypothetical (M, R, HD, C)
s2ep1
11.25 – 12.10am Angie Tribeca (PG,
R, HD, C) s4ep3

SKY PREMIERE SKY 030
6.09 Little Women (2019, G)
Saoirse Ronan
8.21 Ford v Ferrari (2019, M) Matt
Damon, Christian Bale
10.51 Luce (2019, 16) Naomi Watts,
Octavia Spencer
12.41 Sorority Sister Killer (2021,
M) Sarah Fisher
2.17 The Operative (2019, 16)
Diane Kruger
4.15 Tenet (2020, M) John David
Washington
6.45 How to Build a Girl (2020,
16) A Wolverhampton
teenager from a working-
class family travels to
London and reinvents herself
as an edgy music journalist.
Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen
8.30 Fatman (2020, 16) A spoiled
rich kid sends an assassin
after Chris Cringle when
he receives a lump of coal
at Christmas. Mel Gibson,
Walton Goggins
10.15 The Furies (2019, 18) Airlie
Dodds, Linda Ngo
11.40 Thank You for Your Service
(2017, 16) Miles Teller
1.30am Miss Fisher & the Crypt of
Tears (2020, M) 3.10 Capone (2020,
18) 4.55 We Summon the Darkness
(2019, 16)
MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031
6.40 Mr. Write (2016, PG)
Charlotte Sullivan
8.05 The Guardian (2020) (2020,
M) Andy Garcia, Dafne Keen
9.50 Sex and the City (2008, 16)
Sarah Jessica Parker
12.15 The Pink Panther (2006)
(2006, PG) Steve Martin,
Beyonce Knowles
1.50 Chef (2014, M) Jon Favreau,
Sofia Vergara
3.45 The Love Punch (2013, M)
Pierce Brosnan
5.20 Made (2001, 16) Vince
Vaughn, Jon Favreau
6.55 L.A. Story (1991, PG) Steve
Martin, Victoria Tennant,
Richard E Grant
8.30 Bird on a Wire (1990, PG)
Old flames are reunited
when a crook is released
from prison and goes after
the witness who put him
there. Mel Gibson, Goldie
Hawn, David Carradine, Bill
Duke
10.20 Rock the Kasbah (2015, M)
Bill Murray, Kate Hudson
12.05am Miss Congeniality (2000,
M) 1.55 Death at a Funeral (2010)
(2010, M) 3.25 The Cherokee Kid
(1996, M) 4.55 Mechanics of Love
(2017, PG)
MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039
7.00 And Justice for All (1979, M)
Al Pacino, Jack Warden
9.00 Hysterical Blindness (2002,
M) Uma Thurman
10.45 Dark Command (1940, PG)
Claire Trevor, John Wayne
12.20 The Story of G.I. Joe (1945,
PG) Robert Mitchum
2.10 A Night in Casablanca (1946,
G) Groucho Marx
3.35 Union Station (1950, PG)
William Holden, Nancy Olson
4.55 Steel Magnolias (1989, PG)
Sally Field, Dolly Parton
6.50 Reservoir Dogs (1992,
18) When a simple heist
goes wrong, the surviving
criminals begin to suspect
that one of them is an
informant. Harvey Keitel,
8.30 Halloween (1978) (1978, 16)
A psychotic murderer stalks
a teenager and her friends.
Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald
Pleasence
10.00 The Adventures of Priscilla,
Queen of the Desert (1994,
M) Hugo Weaving
11.45 St Elmo’s Fire (1985, M) Rob
Lowe, Demi Moore
1.35am Hysterical Blindness (2002,
M) 3.15 Dark Command (1940, PG)
4.50 Union Station (1950, PG)
6.45 Martin Margiela: In His Own
Words (2019, M) German
documentary.
8.20 In Fabric (2018, 16) Marianne
Jean-Baptiste
10.15 The Mystery of DB Cooper
(2020, M) US documentary.
11.45 The Captain (2017, 16) Max
Hubacher
1.50 Waterproof (2019, PG)
German/Jordanian
documentary.
3.20 Charter (2020, M) Ane Dahl
Torp
4.55 Maiden (2018, M) UK
documentary.
6.30 Portrait of a Lady on Fire
(2019, M) Adèle Haenel,
Noémie Merlant
8.30 Rialto Documentary: The
Air of the Time (2020, PG)
US documentary about the
impact and empowerment
of female fashion designers
over the past 100 years.
9.35 Helene (2020, PG) Laura
Birn
11.35 The Wind (2018, M) Caitlin
Gerard
1.05am Leftover Women (2019, M)
2.30 Brassic (16) s1ep4 3.15 Women
Make Film (16) s1ep8 4.20 Charter
(2020, M) 5.55 Maiden (2018, M)

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THURSDAY AUGUST 5
SKY CHANNELS
Vibe SKY 006
6.00 Judging Amy (M) s5ep2 6.50 Judge Judy
(PG) 7.15 Medium (M) 8.05 Cold Case (M) 8.50
Parenthood (M) s2ep13 9.35 The Good Wife (M)
s1ep8 10.20 Judge Judy (PG) 11.10 Outlander (18)
s3ep10 12.15 Harlots (16) s2ep8 1.05 Jamestown
(16) s1ep8 2.00 Medium (M) 2.50 Cold Case (M)
3.40 Parenthood (M) s2ep13 4.30 Judge Judy
(PG) 5.30 Judging Amy (M) s5ep2 6.30 The Good
Wife (M) s1ep8 7.30 Hospital (M) Glendon hopes
an unlicensed immunotherapy drug will treat his
aggressive brain tumour. s2ep2 8.40 Inside the
Children’s Hospital (M) A youngster has slipped on
an icy road, and baby Cameron hear’s his mum’s
voice for the first time. s2ep5&6 9.40 Death and
Nightingales (M) Beth puts her plan into action.
s1ep2 10.50 Parenthood (M) s2ep13 11.35 Judge
Judy (PG) 12.00am Programmes continue
UKTV SKY 007
6.45 EastEnders (PG) 7.10 The Jonathan Ross Show
(PG) s15ep11 8.00 The Bill (M) 8.50 A Touch of Frost
(M) s8ep1 10.10 Call the Midwife (PG) s4ep8 11.10
Doc Martin (M) s3ep1 Noon Midsomer Murders
(PG) s17ep1 1.35 The Bill (M) 2.25 New Tricks (M)
s6ep2 3.25 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M)
4.20 The Jonathan Ross Show (PG) s15ep12 5.15
Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) 6.20 QI (M) 6.55
EastEnders (PG) 7.25 QI (M) 8.00 Would I Lie to
You? (PG) 8.30 Dragons’ Den (PG) s17ep1 9.30 The
Graham Norton Show (M) With Bruce Springsteen,
Dame Kristen Scott Thomas, Mawaan Rizwan,
Stephen Mangan, Matthew McConaughey and Sam
Smith. s28ep4 10.25 Call the Midwife (PG) 12.05am
Programmes continue
SoHo SKY 010
6.10 Save Me Too (16) s2ep2 7.00 Tig Notaro: Drawn
(M) 8.00 Domina (16) s1ep5 8.50 Industry (16) s1ep5
9.40 Eden (16) s1ep8 10.25 Baptiste (16) s2ep2 11.25
Save Me Too (16) s2ep2 12.15 Tig Notaro: Drawn (M)
1.15 Domina (16) s1ep5 2.05 Industry (16) s1ep5 2.55
Eden (16) s1ep8 3.40 Last Week Tonight with John
Oliver (M) s8ep19 4.15 Camping (16) s1ep1 4.45 New
Amsterdam (M) s1ep21 5.30 The Deuce (18) s2ep6
6.30 The White Lotus (16) s1ep4 7.30 A Teacher (18)
s1ep2 8.00 Dave (16) s2ep8 8.30 Mr Inbetween (16)
s3ep7 9.00 Black Monday (16) s3ep9 9.30 Flatbush
Misdemeanors (16) s1ep2 10.00 Cinema Toast
(16) A youngster falls victim to America’s biggest
threat, reanimated Russian dog corpses that can
communicate with machinery and vehicles. s1ep2
10.30 Intergalactic (M) s1ep7 11.15 Yellowstone (16)
s3ep10 12.05am Programmes continue
Living SKY 017
6.15 Escape to the Country (PG) 7.10 30 Minute
Meals (PG) 7.35 Classic Mary Berry (PG) 8.10 House
Hunters (PG) 9.00 Grand Designs House of the Year
(PG) 10.00 Love Your Garden (PG) 11.00 Salvage
Hunters (PG) 11.55 Location Location Location
(PG) 1.50 Escape to the Country (PG) 2.45 House
Hunters (PG) 3.45 30 Minute Meals (PG) 4.15
Classic Mary Berry (PG) 4.50 Love Your Garden
(PG) 5.40 Selling Houses Australia 6.35 Location
Location Location (PG) 7.30 Salvage Hunters (PG)
8.30 Girl Meets Farm (PG) 9.00 Delicious Miss
Brown (PG) 9.30 The Pioneer Woman (PG) 10.00
Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics (PG) 10.30 Grand
Designs New Zealand (PG) 11.25 House Hunters
(PG) 12.15am Programmes continue
Investigation Discovery SKY 018
6.05 The Perfect Murder (M) 6.55 Chaos in
Court (M) 7.45 The Happy Face Killer Mind of a
Monster (M) 9.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 10.20
Disappeared (M) 11.15 Evil Lives Here (M) 12.10 The
Perfect Murder (M) 1.05 Scorned: Crimes of Passion
(M) 2.00 Forbidden: Dying for Love (M) 2.55 I’d Kill
for You (M) 3.50 Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall
88
(M) 4.45 In Pursuit with John Walsh (M) 5.40 Evil
Kin (M) 6.35 The Perfect Murder (M) 7.30 People
Magazine Investigates (M) 8.30 Chaos in Court
(M) 9.30 The Murder Tapes (M) 10.30 Evil Lives
Here (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 12.15am
Programmes continue
Sky Arts SKY 020
6.25 Great Film Composers 8.00 Verbier Festival
2019: Gabor Takács-Nagy Conducts Mozart and
Brahms 9.25 Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Performs Dvorak and Strauss 10.55 Beethoven:
The Five Cello Sonatas 1.00 Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra: Andris Nelsons Conducts Beethoven
and Skryabin 2.25 Great Film Composers 4.00
Raul Julia: The World’s a Stage 4.55 The Artist’s
Workshop 5.10 The Art of Craft 6.05 Finding Your
Roots 7.00 Landscape Artist of the Year Canada
7.45 Photos That Changed the World 8.30 Secrets
of the Museum 9.30 Rankin’s 2020 9.55 Finding
Your Roots 10.50 The Artist’s Workshop 11.05 Other
Voices 12.00am Programmes continue
Discovery SKY 070
6.05 How Do They Do It? (PG) 6.30 How It’s Made
(PG) 6.55 Bering Sea Gold Marathon (PG) 9.25
Fast N’ Loud (PG) 10.20 Deadliest Catch (PG) 11.15
Deadliest Catch: Bloodline (PG) 12.10 Mysteries at
the Museum (PG) 1.05 Naked and Afraid (M) 2.00
Aussie Salvage Squad (PG) 2.55 Homestead Rescue
(PG) 3.50 Aussie Gold Hunters Marathon (PG) 8.30
Gold Rush: White Water (PG) 9.30 Gold Rush: Dave
Turin’s Lost Mine (PG) 10.30 Bering Sea Gold (PG)
11.25 Naked and Afraid (M) 12.15am Programmes
continue
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 Airport Security: Peru & Brazil (M) 7.30 Mega
Factories 8.30 Food Factory USA (PG) 9.30 Food
Factory (PG) 10.30 When Sharks Attack (PG) 11.30
Monkeying Around (PG) 12.30 Decades Remixed:
The 80s Greatest (PG) 1.30 Gordon Ramsay:
Uncharted (PG) 2.30 Apollo: Missions to the Moon
(PG) 4.30 Air Crash Investigation: Special Report
(PG) 6.30 Airport Security: Peru & Brazil (M) 7.30
Lost Treasures of Egypt (PG) 8.30 Explorer (M)
9.30 The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great (PG)
10.30 Shark Beach with Chris Hemsworth (PG)
11.30 Banged Up Abroad (M) 12.30am Programmes
continue
History SKY 073
6.30 End of Empire: Rise & Fall of Dynasties (PG)
7.30 The Hitler Chronicles (PG) 8.30 Time Team
9.30 Britain’s Greatest Bridges (PG) 10.30 Time
Team (PG) 11.30 America in Colour (PG) 12.30
Abandoned Engineering (PG) 1.30 Living in the
Shadow of World War Two (PG) 2.30 Omaha
Beach Honor and Sacrifice (PG) 3.30 Hitler’s Most
Wanted (M) 4.30 Secrets of War (M) 5.30 Carriers
at War (PG) 6.30 Time Team (PG) 7.30 Abandoned
Engineering (PG) 8.30 World’s Greatest Ships
(PG) 9.30 Apollo’s Moon Shot (PG) 10.30 War on
Witches (PG) 11.30 The Machinery of War (PG)
12.30am Programmes continue
BBC Earth SKY 074
6.00 Dynasties (PG) 6.50 Dynasties: The Making of
(PG) 7.00 Life Below Zero (M) 7.50 Where the Wild
Men Are (PG) 8.40 Wonders of the Universe (PG)
9.40 Trust Me, I’m a Doctor (PG) 10.35 The Dog
Rescuers (PG) 11.20 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 12.10
Dynasties (PG) 1.05 Wonders of the Universe (PG)
2.05 Dynasties (PG) 3.00 Dynasties: The Making
of (PG) 3.10 Judi Dench’s Wild Borneo Adventure
(PG) 4.00 Trust Me, I’m a Doctor (PG) 5.00 Life
Below Zero (M) 5.50 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 (M) 9.20 Shark (PG) 10.15 Shark
Diaries (PG) 10.25 Dynasties (PG) 11.20 Dynasties:
The Making of (PG) 11.30 Judi Dench’s Wild Borneo
Adventure (PG) 12.25am Programmes continue
Vibe: The Good Wife, 6.30pm
SKY SPORT
Sky Sport 1 SKY 051
6.00 Tennis, ATP 500, Citi Open, day 3, from
Washington DC, live 1.00 Rugby Heaven 2.00
Aotearoa Rugby Pod 2.30 Farah Palmer Cup,
Taranaki v Tasman 3.00 Farah Palmer Cup, Hawke’s
Bay v North Harbour 3.30 Farah Palmer Cup,
Northland v Manuwatu 4.00 Farah Palmer Cup,
Bay of Plenty v Waikato 4.30 Farah Palmer Cup,
Counties Manukau v Otago 5.00 Farah Palmer
Cup, Canterbury v Wellington 5.15 1st XV Rugby,
Palmerston North Boy’s High v Napier Boy’s
High, replay 7.00 1st XV Revision 7.30 Sky Sport
GrassRoots 8.30 Inside the Lions Den: 2005 Tour of
New Zealand, All Blacks v Lions 11.00 Rugby, South
Africa v British & Irish Lions, 2nd test, highlights
11.30 1st XV Rugby, Palmerston North Boy’s High
v Napier Boy’s High, highlights 12.00am Cycling,
Tour de Savoie Mont-Blanc, stage 1, replay 2.00
Tour de Savoie Mont-Blanc, stage 2, live 4.00 Pure
Motorsport 4.30 Tennis, ATP 500, Citi Open, day 3,
match of the day
Sky Sport 2 SKY 052
6.00 League, NRL 360 7.00 Face-2-Face with
Matty Johns 7.30 NRL Premiership, Newcastle
Knights v Canberra Raiders, replay 9.30 NRL
Premiership, Wests Tigers v New Zealand Warriors,
replay 11.30 NRL Premiership, Melbourne Storm
v Penrith Panthers, replay 1.30 NRL Premiership,
Sydney Roosters v Parramatta Eels, replay 3.30
NRL Premiership, Brisbane Broncos v North
Queensland Cowboys, replay 5.30 NRL Try Time
6.30 NRL 360 7.30 Face-2-Face with Matty Johns
8.00 NRL Tonight, live 8.30 Warriors TV 9.00 NRL
Premiership, live 11.45 The Late Show with Matty
Johns, live 12.45am Warriors TV 1.15 NRL Tonight
1.45 Face-2-Face with Matty Johns 2.15 NRL
Premiership, highlights 3.00 The Late Show with
Matty Johns 4.00 Golf, WGC FedEx Championship,
St Jude Invitational, from TPC Southwind, Mempis,
live
Sky Sport 3 SKY 053
6.00 Tokyo Olympics, Tokyo 2020, day 12, highlights
7.00 Women’s Golf, round 1, highlights f 7.30 Track
Cycling, Women’s Keirin first rounds, Men’s Sprint
1/32 finals, Women’s Keirin Repechages, Men’s
Sprint 1/32 finals, Men’s Team Pursuit finals, Men’s
Sprint 1/16 Finals, highlights 8.00 Sailing, day 12,
Men’s 470 final 9.00 Tokyo 2020, day 12, highlights
10.00 Tokyo Gold, Women’s Golf, round 2, live
1.30am Tokyo 2020 Moments 2.10 Track Cycling,
Men’s Omnium Scratch, Men’s Sprint 1/8 quarter-
finals and finals, Women’s Keirin quarter-finals, semi-
finals and finals, highlights 2.40 Canoe Sprint, Men’s
K1, K2 semi-finals, Women’s C1, K1 semi-finals 3.55
Canoe Sprint, Men’s K1, K2 finals, Women’s C1, K1
finals, from Sea Forest Waterway
LISTENER JULY 31 2021

TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 Breakfast (HD, C) John
Campbell, Jenny-May
Clarkson and the Breakfast
team present news, sport,
information and weather.
9.00 Winning Combination (G,
HD, C, AD) Omid Djalili
presents a UK game show
in which nine contestants
are assigned a number from
1-9 and compete with each
other in general knowledge
rounds.
10.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C)
Bradley Walsh hosts a UK
quiz show.
11.00 Extreme Cake Makers (G,
R, HD) UK series featuring
the bakers of extraordinary
cakes. Today, Lancashire
cake maker Molly attempts
her largest sculpture to
date, a giant cow, Suzanne
crafts a succulent-themed
wedding cake, and Nastassja
assembles a hexagonal work
of edible art.
11.30 Te Karere (C) A Māori
perspective on the day’s
news and current affairs.
Noon 1 News (HD, C)
12.30 Olympic Games Tokyo
2020 (HD, C) Toni Street
presents day 14 coverage of
the 2020 Summer Olympics
in Tokyo, with insight from
Olympian Sarah Cowley Ross
and reporters Kimberlee
Downs, Chris Chang, Guy
Heveldt and Rapaera Tawhai
on the ground in Tokyo.
New Zealand athletes will
be searching for Olympic
glory in more than 20
sports. Today, Canoe Sprint,
Women’s K4 500m heats
featuring the New Zealand
team, Women’s Hockey,
bronze medal match, and
Women’s Beach Volleyball
gold medal match.
6.00 1 News (HD, C)
7.00 Seven Sharp (HD, C) Hilary
Barry and Jeremy Wells
present current affairs and
entertainment.
7.30 Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
(HD, C) Scotty Stevenson
presents coverage of the
evening session of day 14,
with insight from Olympian
Sarah Cowley Ross and
reporters Kimberlee Downs,
Chris Chang, Guy Heveldt
and Rapaera Tawhai on
the ground in Tokyo. New
Zealand athletes will be
searching for Olympic glory
in more than 20 sports.
Tonight, Kiwis in action on
the Cycling track at the
Izu Velodrome, Women’s
Football gold medal match,
Equestrian, Team Jumping
qualifier, and Women’s
Hockey, gold medal match
from Oi Hockey Stadium.
2.10 – 6.00 Infomercials
■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM
JULY 31 2021 LISTENER
TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
6.00 Les Mills Born to Move (G,
HD, C)
6.25 Ricky Zoom (G, R, HD, C)
6.35 Clifford the Big Red Dog (G,
HD, C)
7.00 The Dog and Pony Show (G,
R, HD, C)
7.25 Alvinnn!!! And the
Chipmunks (G, R, HD, C)
7.50 Miraculous: Tales of
Ladybug and Cat Noir (G, R,
HD, C)
8.15 Darwin and Newts (G, HD,
C, AD)
8.25 Thomas & Friends (G, R, HD,
C, AD)
8.35 Moon & Me (G, R, HD, C)
8.55 Kiri and Lou (G, R, HD)
9.00 Infomercials
9.30 Religious Programming
10.00 Les Mills BodyBalance (G,
HD, C)
10.30 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C)
11.00 All Rise (PG, HD, C) s2ep16
11.50 The Royals (PG, HD, C) s2ep7
12.45 Emmerdale (PG, C, AD)
1.40 Murphy Brown (PG, R, HD)
2.35 Home and Away (PG, R, C)
3.05 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD,
C, AD)
3.35 Bluey (G, R, HD, C)
3.40 Holly Hobbie (G, R, HD, C)
4.05 Brain Busters (G, C)
4.30 Friends (G, R, HD, C) s7ep11
5.00 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C,
AD) s18ep18
5.30 Young Sheldon (G, R, HD, C)
s1ep6
6.00 Neighbours (G, HD, C)
Toadie questions his
relationship.
6.30 Home and Away (PG, C)
Ziggy takes her frustration
out on Tane.
7.00 Shortland Street (PG, HD,
C, AD) Louis goes the extra
mile, Esther pays detective,
and Desi’s eyes are on the
prize.
7.30 All New Wipeout (G, HD, C)
John Cena and Nicole Byer
host a US series in which
thrillseekers take on an
extreme obstacle course.
8.30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does
Countdown (16, HD, C) With
Jimmy Carr. s11ep13
9.35 Coronation Street (PG, C,
AD) NB: Coronation Street
moves back to TVNZ 1 from
Tuesday.
10.35 Casual (16, HD, C) Valerie
and Alex’s mother shows up
unannounced. s1ep5
11.35 Bride and Prejudice: The
Forbidden Weddings (PG,
HD, C) s3ep3
12.50am Will & Grace (M, R, HD, C)
s11ep3
1.15 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD,
C, AD)
1.40 Infomercials
2.40 ■ Big Sky (2015, 16, R, HD, C,
AD) Bella Thorne.
4.15 2 Overnight
4.40 Neighbours (G, R, HD, C)
5.05 – 6.00 Brain Busters (G, R,
HD, C)
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
FRIDAY AUGUST 6
THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 The AM Show (HD) With
Duncan Garner, Amanda
Gillies and Mark Richardson.
9.00 Infomercials
10.30 The Vet Life (PG, HD)
s2ep10
11.30 Newshub Live (HD)
Noon House Hunters Renovation
(G, HD) s10ep7
1.00 ■ The Narcissist (2019, M,
HD, C) A single mother
begins to wonder if her
new boyfriend, a professor,
is telling the truth. Amber Cancel culture: THE DAY
Goldfarb, Daymon Runyan,
Alanna Bale. SPORTS STOOD STILL
3.00 Match Game (PG, HD, C) DOCUMENTARY: Antoine
s1ep4
Fuqua’s documentary could,
3.55 House Crashers (G, HD)
s13ep6 perhaps, have been two films,
4.30 Newshub Live (HD) or a series. He set out to make
5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat (G, HD) a doco about the effects of
6.00 Newshub Live (HD)
7.00 The Project (HD) With Laura
the pandemic on sport in the
Tupou, Jesse Mulligan and US, but then there is another
Jeremy Corbett. reason that sports stood still
7.30 ■ Jurassic Park III (2001, M, in 2020: Black Lives Matter.
R, HD, C) A divorced couple
convince Alan Grant to help It begins with the night of
them find their son, who is March 11, 2020, when an
missing on Isla Sorna. Sam NBA game between Utah
Neill, William H Macy, Tea
Jazz and Oklahoma City was
Leoni, Laura Dern. TV Films,
page 69 called off due to a player’s
9.20 Cocaine Trade Exposed: positive test. Many cancella-
The Invisibles (M, HD, C) tions followed. But after the
The most ingenious forms
of smuggling and the
murder of George Floyd and
investigations that caught the shooting of Jacob Blake,
them. s1ep3 Fuqua pivots to include the
10.15 Newshub Late unprecedented involvement
10.45 Love Island: Australia (M, R,
HD, C) s2ep20&21 of athletes in protests across
12.45am – 6.00 Infomercials the US.
SOHO, 8.30pm
PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Kids’ Programmes (G, R)
9.00 A Place in the Sun (G, R)
10.00 A Place in the Sun: Winter
Sun (G, R)
11.00 Hot Bench (PG, R)
11.30 Married with Children
(PG, R)
12.30 Tommy (M, R, C)
1.30 Parks and Recreation (M,
R, C)
2.00 The Late Show (PG, R)
3.00 Wheel of Fortune (G)
3.30 Jeopardy (G)
4.00 American Pickers (PG, R)
5.00 3rd Rock from the Sun (PG, High flyer: PAPER PLANES
R, C) FILM: Robert Connolly usu-
5.30 Prime News
6.00 Storage Wars (PG) ally concerns himself with
7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild injustice (Balibo) and crime
7.30 ■ Paper Planes (2014, G, C) (The Bank), but this family film
An Australian boy sets out to is a sweet diversion and won
compete in the World Paper
Plane Championships. Sam
Connolly an AACTA Award
Worthington, Ed Oxenbould. for his screenplay. Kiwi Julian
9.30 RAW (PG) Dennison plays the mate of
10.30 The Late Show with Stephen the wee chap (Ed Oxenbould)
Colbert (PG)
11.30 The Crowd Goes Wild
who goes all the way with his
(PG, R) paper planes.
12.00am – 3.00 Infomercials (G) PRIME, 7.30pm
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MĀORI TV FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
6.30 Kids’ Programmes (G)
8.00 Kōrero Mai (G, R)
9.00 Cam’s Kai (G, R)
9.30 Ōpaki (G, R)
10.00 Iwi Anthems (G, R)
10.30 Whānau Living (G, R)
11.00 Tangaroa with Pio (G)
11.30 Lucky Dip (G)
Noon Te Ao Tapatahi
12.30 The Ring Inz (G, R)
1.00 It’s in the Bag (G, R)
1.30 Ngā Pari Kārangaranga o te
Motu (G, R)
2.00 Tōku Reo (G, R)
3.00 Kids’ Programmes (G)
6.30 Te Ao Mārama
7.00 ASB Polyfest (G, R) Tonight,
Westlake Boys’ High School
7.30 Pacific Island Food
Revolution (G) Robert
Oliver presents a cooking
competition series. Tonight,
all three Fijian teams are
returning to compete in the
second round, but only one
can go to the finals.
8.30 ■ What We Did on Our
Holiday (2014, M) While on
holiday in Scotland, a couple
try to hide their separation.
David Tennant, Rosamund
Pike, Billy Connolly. TV Films,
page 69
10.20 Tāringa Huruhuru (PG, R)
Comedy with kaumātua
superduo Wī and Wā.
10.30 Hari with the Māori
Sidesteps (PG, R) Comedy
and waiata.
11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao Mārama (R)
SKY PREMIERE SKY 030
6.25 Tenet (2020, M) John David
Washington
8.50 Thank You for Your Service
(2017, 16) Miles Teller
10.40 The King of Staten Island
(2020, 16) Pete Davidson
12.55 Papillon (2019, 16) Charlie
Hunnam, Rami Malek
3.05 Babyteeth (2019, 16) Eliza
Scanlen, Toby Wallace
5.00 The Doorman (2020, 16)
Ruby Rose, Jean Reno
6.35 1917 (2019, 16) During World
War I, two British soldiers are
sent on a mission to deliver a
message to call off an attack.
George MacKay
8.30 Archive (2020, M) In 2038,
a man who working on a
human-equivalent AI has the
secret goal of reuniting with
his dead wife. Theo James,
Stacy Martin TV Films, page
69
10.23 Savage (2019, 16) A guy
grows from a boy into the
violent enforcer of a gang.
Jake Ryan, John Tui
12.03am Jumanji: The Next Level
(2019, PG) 2.03 The Night Clerk
(2020, 16) 3.33 Force of Nature
(2020, 16) 5.10 The Kindness of
Strangers (2020, M)
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Wild bunch: EXTREME PREJUDICE
A typically muscular, masculine actioner
from Walter Hill, who once said that
every movie he ever made was a west-
ern. Well, this neo-western is set on the
US-Mexico border, where a good guy
with a gun (Nick Nolte) battles a bad guy
with many guns (Powers Boothe).
MOVIES CLASSICS, 8.30pm
BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Infomercials
10.00 Judge Jerry (G, R)
10.30 Botched by Nature (PG, R)
11.25 Snapped (M, R)
12.25 Buried in the Backyard (M, R)
1.20 The Real Housewives of
New York City (G, R) s2ep6
2.20 Million Dollar Listing NY
(PG, R) s6ep4
3.25 Keeping Up with the
Kardashians (PG, R) s12ep21
4.30 Love It or List It (G, R)
5.30 Shark Tank (PG)
6.30 Botched by Nature (PG, R)
An ex-CIA disguise specialist
helps a musician born
without an ear. s1ep5
7.30 ■ Waterworld (1995, M,
R, C) On an Earth that is
almost entirely submerged,
the human race struggles
to survive on dilapidated
boats and makeshift floating
cities. Kevin Costner, Jeanne
Tripplehorn.
10.15 The Witnesses (M, R)
11.15 Snapped (M, R)
12.10am – 6.00 Infomercials
MOVIES EXTRA SKY 031
6.20 7 Days in Hell (2015, 16)
Andy Samberg
7.05 Miss Congeniality (2000, M)
Sandra Bullock
8.55 An Hour Behind (2017, PG)
Emily Rose, Barry Watson
10.25 Bend It Like Beckham
(2002, PG) Keira Knightley
12.15 Van Wilder: Party Liaison
(2002, 16) Ryan Reynolds
1.50 Greed (2020, 16) Steve
Coogan, Isla Fisher
3.35 Are We Officially Dating?
(2014, 16) Zac Efron
5.10 So I Married an Axe
Murderer (1993, PG) Mike
Myers, Nancy Travis
6.45 Pixels (2015, PG) Adam
Sandler, Kevin James
8.30 Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
(2019, 16) Jay and Silent Bob
try to stop Hollywood from
making a reboot of an old
movie based on them. Jason
Mewes, Kevin Smith
10.15 Step Brothers (2008, 16) Will
Ferrell, John C Reilly
11.50 The Break-Up (2006, M)
Jennifer Aniston
1.35am Miss Congeniality 2: Armed
and Fabulous (2005, M) 3.30 A
Moving Romance (2017, PG) 4.55
Land of the Lost (2009, M)
CHOICE TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 024 TVNZ DUKE FREEVIEW 13 SKY 023
6.00 Sarah Off the Grid (G)
7.00 The Great Food Truck Race
(PG)
8.00 London Zoo: An
Extraordinary Year (G)
9.00 James Martin’s Great British
Adventure (G)
10.00 Jade Fever (PG)
10.30 Mysteries at the Museum
(PG)
11.30 American Pickers (G)
12.30 Where the Wild Men Are
with Ben Fogle (G)
1.30 Deadliest Catch (PG)
3.30 Project Grizzly (G)
4.30 Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico
5.30 Mysteries at the Museum
(PG)
6.30 Salvage Hunters Best Buys
7.30 Grand Designs (G)
8.30 George Clarke’s Old House
New Home (G)
9.30 Escape to the Chateau: DIY
(G)
10.30 Salvage Hunters Best Buys
11.30 Mysteries at the Museum
(PG)
12.30am Programmes continue
MOVIES CLASSICS SKY 034 RIALTO SKY 039
6.10 The Dead Zone (1983, PG)
Christopher Walken
7.55 Close Encounters of the
Third Kind (1977, PG)
Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr
10.10 Cloak and Dagger (1946, G)
Gary Cooper, Robert Alda
Noon Ride Lonesome (1959, G)
Randolph Scott, James Best
1.15 The Man Who Fell to Earth
(1976, 18) David Bowie
3.35 Kings Go Forth (1958, PG)
Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis
5.25 Existenz (1999, M) Jennifer
Jason Leigh, Jude Law
7.00 Bill & Ted’s Excellent
Adventure (1989, PG) Keanu
Reeves, Alex Winter
8.30 Extreme Prejudice (1987,
16) Two former childhood
friends find themselves on
opposite sides of the law on
the US-Mexico border. Nick
Nolte, Powers Boothe
10.15 The House That Dripped
Blood (1971, M) Christopher
Lee, Peter Cushing
11.55 Awakenings (1990, PG)
Robert De Niro
1.55am Rock’n’Roll High School
(1979, M) 3.30 McLintock! (1963,
PG) 5.35 Being John Malkovich
(1999, M)
2.10pm Two and a Half Men (M, R,
HD, C) s10ep22
2.30 Hunting Aotearoa (G, HD)
3.00 River Monsters (PG, HD, C)
3.55 The Chase Australia (G, C)
4.45 ABC World News (PG)
5.10 My Country Kitchen (G, HD)
5.35 Impossible Engineering (G,
R, HD, C, AD)
6.35 The Big Bang Theory (G, R,
HD, C) s11ep5
7.00 Two and a Half Men (PG, R,
HD, C) s10ep23
7.30 The Simpsons (PG, R,
HD, C, AD) Apu’s nephew
makes big changes when he
takes over the Kwik-E-Mart.
s27ep12
8.30 ■ Beverly Hills Cop III (1994,
M, HD, C, AD) Detroit cop
Axel Foley returns to Beverly
Hills to stop a gang of
counterfeiters. Eddie Murphy,
Judge Reinhold, Hector
Elizondo.
10.25 South Park (16, R, HD) s11ep9
11.50 – 12.30am Late Night
DUKEbox Music
7.30 Portrait of a Lady on Fire
(2019, M) Adèle Haenel
9.30 The Air of the Time (2020,
PG) Documentary.
10.35 The Wind (2018, M) Caitlin
Gerard
12.05 Unraveling Athena: The
Champions of Women’s
Tennis (2019, PG) US
documentary.
1.45 At War (2018, 16) Vincent
Lindon
3.40 The Dakota Entrapment
Tapes (2020, M) US
documentary.
5.10 All Is True (2018, M) Kenneth
Branagh, Judi Dench
6.50 Busby (2019, PG) UK
documentary.
8.30 Lucky Grandma (2019, M) A
Chinese grandma goes all-in
at the casino. Tsai Chin
TV Films, page 69
10.00 Peterloo (2018, M) Based
on the story of the 1819
British forces’ attack on
a pro-democracy rally in
Manchester. Rory Kinnear,
Maxine Peake
12.30am Daniel Isn’t Real (2019, 16)
2.10 Brassic (16) s1ep5 2.55 Women
Make Film (16) s1ep9 4.00 At War
(2018, 16) 5.55 All Is True (2018, M)
LISTENER JULY 31 2021

SKY CHANNELS
Vibe SKY 006
6.00 Judging Amy (M) s5ep3 6.50 Judge Judy
(PG) 7.15 Medium (M) s3ep2 8.05 Cold Case (M)
8.50 Parenthood (M) s2ep14 9.35 The Good Wife
(M) s1ep9 10.20 Judge Judy (PG) 11.00 Hospital
(M) s2ep2 Noon Inside the Children’s Hospital (M)
s2ep5&6 1.00 Death and Nightingales (M) s1ep2
2.00 Medium (M) s3ep2 2.50 Cold Case (M) 3.40
Parenthood (M) s2ep14 4.30 Judge Judy (PG)
5.30 Judging Amy (M) s5ep3 6.30 The Good
Wife (M) s1ep9 7.30 Rizzoli & Isles (M) s6ep15 8.30
Downton Abbey (M) It’s the annual flower show
and Isobel and Violet are in conflict over blooms.
s1ep5 9.30 Blue Bloods (M) The Attorney General’s
office obtains new evidence against Danny in the
self-defence shooting of serial killer Thomas Wilder.
s7ep1 10.30 Parenthood (M) s2ep14 11.20 Judge
Judy (PG) 12.15am Programmes continue
UKTV SKY 007
6.05 New Tricks (M) s4ep8 6.55 EastEnders (PG)
7.20 The Jonathan Ross Show (PG) s15ep12 8.10
The Bill (M) 9.00 A Touch of Frost (M) s8ep2 10.20
Call the Midwife (PG) s5ep1 11.20 Doc Martin (M)
s3ep2 12.10 Midsomer Murders (M) s17ep2 1.45 The
Bill (M) 2.35 New Tricks (M) s6ep3 3.35 8 Out of 10
Cats Does Countdown (M) 4.30 The Jonathan Ross
Show (PG) s15ep13 5.25 Who Do You Think You
Are? USA (PG) 6.15 QI (M) 6.50 Mrs Brown’s Boys
(M) s1ep6 7.25 QI (M) With Sue Perkins, Reginald D
Hunter and Jimmy Carr. 8.00 Would I Lie to You?
(PG) With Josh Widdicombe, Gemma Cairney,
Raj Bisram and Sophie Hermann. 8.35 8 Out of 10
Cats Does Countdown (M) 10.25 Hypothetical (M)
s2ep7 11.15 Midsomer Murders (M) s17ep2 12.50am
Programmes continue
SoHo SKY 010
6.40 A Teacher (18) s1ep2 7.10 Dave (16) s2ep8
7.40 Mr Inbetween (16) s3ep7 8.10 Black Monday
(16) s3ep9 8.40 Flatbush Misdemeanors (16) s1ep2
9.10 Cinema Toast (16) s1ep2 9.40 Intergalactic
(M) s1ep7 10.25 Yellowstone (16) s3ep10 11.15 The
White Lotus (16) s1ep4 12.15 Dave (16) s2ep8 12.45
Mr Inbetween (16) s3ep7 1.10 Black Monday (16)
s3ep9 1.40 Flatbush Misdemeanors (16) s1ep2 2.10
Cinema Toast (16) s1ep2 2.40 Intergalactic (M)
s1ep7 3.25 Yellowstone (16) s3ep10 4.15 Camping
(16) s1ep2 4.45 New Amsterdam (M) s1ep final 5.30
The Deuce (18) s2ep7 6.30 Domina (16) s1ep5 7.30
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (18) s1ep3 8.30 ■
The Day Sports Stood Still (2021, M) Documentary
about the effect on the US sports world of the
2020 shutdown. 10.00 High Maintenance (16) s2ep3
10.30 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (M)
s8ep19 11.05 In Treatment (M) s4ep11 11.35 Knightfall
(16) s2ep3 12.20am Programmes continue
Living SKY 017
6.15 Escape to the Country (PG) 7.10 30 Minute
Meals (PG) 7.35 Classic Mary Berry (PG) 8.10 House
Hunters (PG) 9.00 Grand Designs New Zealand
(PG) 10.00 Girl Meets Farm (PG) 10.25 Delicious
Miss Brown (PG) 11.00 Salvage Hunters (PG) 11.55
Location Location Location (PG) 12.50 The Pioneer
Woman (PG) 1.20 Barefoot Contessa: Back to
Basics (PG) 1.50 Escape to the Country (PG) 2.45
House Hunters (PG) 3.40 30 Minute Meals (PG)
4.10 Classic Mary Berry (PG) 4.45 Girl Meets Farm
(PG) 5.10 Delicious Miss Brown (PG) 5.40 Selling
Houses Australia 6.35 Location Location Location
(PG) 7.30 Salvage Hunters (PG) 8.30 Long Lost
Family UK 10.30 Escape to the Country (PG) 11.25
House Hunters (PG) 12.15am Programmes continue
Investigation Discovery SKY 018
6.05 The Perfect Murder (M) 6.55 Reasonable
Doubt (M) 7.45 Hometown Homicide (M) 8.35
Chaos in Court (M) 9.25 Nightmare Next Door (M)
10.20 Disappeared (M) 11.15 Evil Lives Here (M)
JULY 31 2021 LISTENER
12.10 The Perfect Murder (M) 1.05 Scorned: Crimes
of Passion (M) 2.00 Forbidden: Dying for Love
(M) 2.55 I’d Kill for You (M) 3.50 Dead of Winter
(M) 4.45 The Wonderland Murders (M) 5.40 Evil
Kin (M) 6.35 The Perfect Murder (M) 7.30 People
Magazine Investigates (M) 8.30 Reasonable Doubt
(M) 9.30 Hometown Homicide (M) 10.30 Evil Lives
Here (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 12.15am
Programmes continue
Sky Arts SKY 020
6.50 The Artist’s Workshop 7.05 Other Voices 8.00
Raul Julia: The World’s a Stage 8.55 The Artist’s
Workshop 9.10 The Art of Craft 10.05 Finding Your
Roots 11.00 Landscape Artist of the Year Canada
11.45 Photos That Changed the World 12.30 Secrets
of the Museum 1.30 Rankin’s 2020 1.55 Finding
Your Roots 2.50 The Artist’s Workshop 3.05 Other
Voices 4.00 Speakeasy: Seal & Amy Thomson
5.00 Speakeasy: Joe Elliot & David Fricke 6.00
Speakeasy: Sting & Shaggy 7.00 Grayson Perry’s
Big American Road Trip (PG) 7.45 Portrait Artist of
the Year 8.30 The Big Book Club 9.30 Grayson’s
Art Club 10.30 Dire Straits: Alchemy Live 12.00am
Programmes continue
Discovery SKY 070
6.05 How Do They Do It? (PG) 6.30 How It’s Made
(PG) 6.55 Aussie Gold Hunters Marathon (PG) 9.25
Fast N’ Loud (PG) 10.20 Gold Rush: White Water
(PG) 11.15 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) 12.10 Mysteries
at the Museum (PG) 1.05 Naked and Afraid (M)
2.00 Aussie Salvage Squad (PG) 2.55 Homestead
Rescue (PG) 3.50 Gold Rush Marathon (PG) 7.55
Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 8.55 Gold Rush: Dave
Turin’s Lost Mine (PG) 9.55 Aussie Mega Mechanics
(PG) 10.55 UFO Witness (PG) 11.50 Naked and
Afraid XL (M) 12.40am Programmes continue
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 Airport Security: Peru & Brazil (M) 7.30 Lost
Treasures of Egypt (PG) 8.30 Explorer (M) 9.30
The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great (PG) 10.30
Shark Beach with Chris Hemsworth (PG) 11.30
Banged Up Abroad (M) 12.30 Decades Remixed:
The 80s Greatest (PG) 1.30 Buried Secrets of
WWII (PG) 3.30 Evacuate Earth (M) 4.30 Mega
Factories 6.30 Airport Security: Peru & Brazil (M)
7.30 Seconds from Disaster Best ofs (M) 8.30 Air
Crash Investigation: Special Report (PG) 9.30 Air
Crash Investigation (PG) 10.30 When Sharks Attack
(PG) 11.30 Wicked Tuna (PG) 12.30am Programmes
continue
History SKY 073
6.30 Apollo’s Moon Shot (PG) 7.30 War on
Witches (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Carriers at
War (PG) 10.30 Time Team (PG) 11.30 Abandoned
Engineering (PG) 12.30 World’s Greatest Ships (PG)
1.30 The Bomb (PG) 3.30 Hitler’s Most Wanted (M)
4.30 Secrets of War (M) 5.30 Hidden Britain by
Drone 6.30 Time Team (PG) 7.30 The Civil War by
Ken Burns 8.30 Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty (M) 9.30
Hiroshima: 75 Years Later (M) 11.30 Spies of War
(M) 12.30am Programmes continue
BBC Earth SKY 074
6.00 Dynasties (PG) 6.50 Dynasties: The Making of
(PG) 7.00 Life Below Zero (M) 7.50 Where the Wild
Men Are (PG) 8.35 Planet Earth II (PG) 9.40 Trust
Me, I’m a Doctor (PG) 10.35 The Dog Rescuers with
Alan Davies (PG) 11.20 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 12.05
The Hunt (PG) 1.00 The Hunt: The Making of (PG)
1.10 Planet Earth II (PG) 2.10 Dynasties (PG) 3.05
Dynasties: The Making of (PG) 3.15 Judi Dench’s
Wild Borneo Adventure (PG) 4.05 Trust Me, I’m a
Doctor (PG) 5.00 Life Below Zero (M) 5.50 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
Trust Me, I’m a Doctor (PG) 9.30 Meet the Humans
(M) 10.25 The Hunt (PG) 11.25 Judi Dench’s Wild
Borneo Adventure (PG) 12.20am Programmes
continue
FRIDAY AUGUST 6
Vibe: Blue
Vib Bl Bloods,
Bl d 9.30pm
9 30
SKY SPORT
Sky Sport 1 SKY 051
6.00 Tennis, ATP 500, Citi Open, day 4, from
Washington DC, live 1.00 Cycling, Tour de Savoie
Mont-Blanc, stage 2, replay 3.00 1st XV Rugby,
Palmerston North Boy’s High v Napier Boy’s High,
highlights 3.30 1st XV Revision 4.00 Sky Sport
GrassRoots 5.00 Farah Palmer Cup, Manawatu
v Hawke’s Bay, from Central Energy Trust Arena,
Palmerston North, live 7.00 Rugby, National
Provincial Championship, Manawatu v Counties
Manukau, from Central Energy Trust Arena,
Palmerston North, live 9.00 Motorsport, Can-Am
Loveday 400, highlights from South Australia
9.30 Pure Motorsport 10.00 The Darts Show
10.30 1st XV Rugby, Palmerston North Boy’s High
v Napier Boy’s High, highlights 11.00 Golf, World
Championship, highlights 11.30 Golf, European
Tour, round 4, highlights 12.00am Golf, European
Tour, live 5.00 Motorsport, Can-Am Loveday 400,
highlights from South Australia 5.30 The Darts
Show
Sky Sport 2 SKY 052
11.00 Warriors TV 11.30 NRL Premiership, Brisbane
Broncos v North Queensland Cowboys, replay 1.30
The Late Show with Matty Johns 2.30 The Back
Page: Tony Squires and a panel discuss the latest
sporting news 3.30 Golf, US Women’s Amateur,
highlights from Westchester Country Club, Rye,
New York 4.00 Golf, European Tour, round 4,
highlights 4.30 Golf, WGC FedEx Championship,
highlights from TPC Southwind, Memphis 5.00
NRL Premiership, highlights 5.30 The Late Show
with Matty Johns 6.30 Warriors TV: Adam Blair
and Goran Paladin present the latest news from the
NZ Warriors training camp in Australia 7.00 NRL
Premiership, Canberra Raiders v St Geoge Illawarra
Dragons, live 9.55 NRL Premiership, Rarramatta
Eels v South Sydney Rabbitohs, live 12.40am NRL
Premiership, highlights 1.30 Golf, WGC FedEx
Championship, highlights from TPC Southwind,
Memphis 2.00 Cycling, Tour de Savoie Mont-Blanc,
stage 3, live 4.00 Golf, WGC FedEx Championship,
St Jude Invitational, from TPC Southwind, Memphis,
live
Sky Sport 3 SKY 053
6.00 Tokyo Olympics, Women’s Golf, round 2,
highlights from Kasumigaseki Country Club 6.30
Track Cycling, Men’s Omnium Scratch, Men’s
Sprint 1/8 quarter-finals and finals, Women’s Keirin
quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals, highlights from
Izu Velodrome 7.00 Tokyo 2020, day 13, highlights
8.00 Tokyo Gold, Walk, Men’s 50km, from Odori
Park, Sapporo, live 2.30am Women’s Football 5.20
Men’s Football
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RADIO JULY 31AUGUST 6
RNZ Concert
FREEVIEW 51 SKY 422 iHeartRADIO
rnz.co.nz/concert
SATURDAY
News and Weather 6.00am, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00,
noon
6.00 Classic Morning 9.00 Weekend Brunch
Noon From the Top 1.00 Onstage 2.00 Worlds
of Music with Trevor Reekie 3.00 Afternoons
5.00 Inside Out with Nick Tipping 7.00 Evening
Classics 8.00 Music Alive Fazioli International
Piano Recital Series: Jun Bouterey-Ishido –
Mozart: Piano Sonata No 17 in B flat K570; Ravel:
Miroirs; Bartok: 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs,
Selection; Bach: Little Preludes in C, A minor,
and D, Jun Bouterey-Ishido (piano) (recorded in
the Auckland Museum Auditorium) 9.30 Sound
Lounge 12.00am Music Through the Night
SUNDAY
News and Weather 6.00am, 8.00, 9.00, noon
6.00 Sanctuary 7.30 Hymns on Sunday with
Robyn Jaquiery 8.00 Grace Notes 9.00
Weekend Brunch Noon Pick and Mix 1.00
Onstage 3.00 The Musical Omnivore with
David Morriss 5.00 New Horizons with William
Dart 6.00 Opera on Sunday Simon O’Neill in
Concert – Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte
Op 98; Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel,
excerpts; Ireland: Sea fever; Tosti: Non t’amo più;
Verdi: Come dal ciel precipita, from Macbeth;
Niun mi tema, from Otello; Puccini: Dovunque
al mondo, from Madama Butterfly; Strauss:
Zueignung Op 10/1; Donizetti: Una furtiva
lagrima, from L’elisir d’amore; Mendelssohn:
Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel!, from
RNZ National
FREEVIEW 50 SKY 421 iHeartRADIO
rnz.co.nz
SATURDAY
6.08 Storytime 7.08 Country Life 8.10 Saturday
Morning with Kim Hill 12.12 Music 101 with
Charlotte Ryan 5.00 The World at Five 5.10
Focus on Politics 5.30 Tagata o te Moana
6.06 Nashville Babylon Mark Rogers presents
Americana, alt country, folk, soul and blues 7.06
Saturday Night with Phil O’Brien Requests,
nostalgia and musical memories 12.04am All
Night Programme
SUNDAY
6.08 Storytime 7.10 Features Hour The Best of
RNZ’s podcasts 7.45 The House 8.06 Sunday
Morning with Jim Mora 12.12 Standing Room
Only with Lynn Freeman Including 1.10 At the
Movies 2.05 The Laugh Track 3.05 Classic
Drama 4.06 Smart Talk Author Witi Ihimaera
talks with Jacinta Ruru about Navigating the
Stars: Māori Creation Myths, in which he traces
the history of Māori (recorded at the 2021
Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival) 5.00 The
World at Five 5.10 Heart and Soul 5.35 Te Manu
Korihi Māori news and issues 6.06 Te Ahi Kaa
6.40 Voices 7.04 The TED Radio Hour (NPR)
8.06 The Sunday Night Retro Show with Phil
O’Brien An evening of music and memories
10.00 The 10 O’Clock Report 10.10 Mediawatch
10.45 The House 11.04 The Retro Cocktail Hour
(KPR) 12.04am All Night Programme
MONDAY
5.00 First Up with Nathan Rarere 6.00
Morning Report with Corin Dann and Susie
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Emma Pask,
Music Alive,
Friday, 8.00pm.
Elijah; Wagner: Das Rheingold, excerpts; Trad
arr Weatherley, Dennis: Danny Boy; Burns, Trad:
A Red, Red Rose; Bizet: Au fond du temple
saint; Rodgers: Some enchanted evening, from
South Pacific; D’Hardelot: Because; Brodszky:
Be My Love, Simon O’Neill (tenor), Iain Paterson
(bass baritone), Manase Latu (tenor), Samson
Setu (bass baritone), Terence Dennis (piano)
(recorded in the Auckland Concert Chamber)
9.00 Made in New Zealand 11.00 New Music
Dreams 12.00am Music Through the Night
Ferguson 9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan
Noon Midday Report with Mani Dunlop 1.06
Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 3.45 The Panel
with Wallace Chapman 5.00 Checkpoint with
Lisa Owen 6.30 Trending Now 7.06 Nights with
Bryan Crump 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 Lately
with Karyn Hay 11.04 Nashville Babylon 12.04am
All Night Programme
TUESDAY
5.00 First Up with Nathan Rarere 6.00
Morning Report with Corin Dann and Susie
Ferguson 9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan
Noon Midday Report with Mani Dunlop 1.06
Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 3.45 The Panel
with Wallace Chapman 5.00 Checkpoint with
Lisa Owen 6.30 Trending Now 7.06 Nights with
Bryan Crump 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 Lately
with Karyn Hay 11.04 Worlds of Music With
Trevor Reekie 12.04am All Night Programme
WEDNESDAY
5.00 First Up with Nathan Rarere 6.00
Morning Report with Corin Dann and Susie
Ferguson 9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn
Ryan Noon Midday Report with Mani Dunlop
1.06 Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 3.45 The
Panel with Wallace Chapman 5.00 Checkpoint
with Lisa Owen 6.30 Trending Now 7.06 Nights
with Bryan Crump 10.00 News at Ten 10.15
Lately with Karyn Hay 11.04 Inside Out Nick
Tipping presents classic recordings and modern
masterpieces from the world of jazz 12.04am All
Night Programme
THURSDAY
5.00 First Up with Nathan Rarere 6.00
Morning Report with Corin Dann and Susie
MONDAY
News and Weather 6.00am, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00,
noon, 5.00pm
6.00 Daybreak 9.00 The Works Noon Upbeat
1.00 Onstage 3.00 Classical Connection 7.00
Evening Classics 8.00 Music Alive Orchestra
Wellington: Fantastic Symphonies – Berlioz:
Symphonie fantastique; Lelio, or The Return to
Life, Andrew Laing (actor), Declan Cudd (tenor),
Daniel O’Connor (baritone), Orpheus Choir,
Orchestra Wellington/Marc Taddei (recorded in
the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington) 10.00
Day’s End 12.00am Music Through the Night
TUESDAY
News and Weather 6.00am, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00,
noon, 5.00pm
6.00 Daybreak 9.00 The Works Noon Upbeat
1.00 Onstage 3.00 Classical Connection 7.00
Evening Classics 8.00 Music Alive Beethoven
Live Around the World: Quatuor Ebène –
Beethoven: String Quartet in G Op 18/2; String
Quartet in F minor Op 95, Serioso; String
Quartet in E flat Op 74, Harp; Davis: Milestones,
Quatuor Ebène (recorded in the Michael Fowler
Centre, Wellington) 10.00 Day’s End 12.00am
Music Through the Night
WEDNESDAY
News and Weather 6.00am, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00,
noon, 5.00pm
6.00 Daybreak 9.00 The Works Noon Upbeat
1.00 Onstage 3.00 Classical Connection 7.00
Evening Classics 8.00 Music Alive Southbank
Series: Tasmin Little Says Farewell – Brahms:
Scherzo, from F-A-E Sonata in C minor;
C Schumann: Three Romances Op 22; L
Boulanger: Nocturne; Brahms: Violin Sonata
Ferguson 9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan
Noon Midday Report with Mani Dunlop 1.06
Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 3.45 The Panel
with Wallace Chapman 5.00 Checkpoint with
Lisa Owen 6.30 Trending Now 7.06 Nights with
Bryan Crump 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 Lately
with Karyn Hay 11.04 Music 101 Pocket Edition
12.04am All Night Programme
FRIDAY
5.00 First Up with Nathan Rarere 6.00
Morning Report with Corin Dann and Susie
Ferguson 9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan
Noon Midday Report with Mani Dunlop 1.06
Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 3.45 The Panel
with Wallace Chapman 5.00 Checkpoint with
Lisa Owen 6.30 Trending Now 7.06 Nights with
Bryan Crump 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 Lately
with Karyn Hay 11.04 The Mixtape 12.04am All
Night Programme
Marcus Lush,
Newstalk ZB,
weeknights,
8.00pm.
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Op 23; Violin Sonata Op 34; Trad: Danny Boy,
Tasmin Little (violin), Andrey Gugnin, Piers
Lane, John Lenehan, Martin Roscoe (pianists)
(recorded in the Royal Festival Hall, London)
10.00 Day’s End 12.00am Music Through the
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THURSDAY
Musical
News and Weather 6.00am, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00,
noon, 5.00pm
6.00 Daybreak 9.00 The Works Noon Upbeat
soulmates
1.00 Onstage 3.00 Classical Connection
7.00 Evening Classics 8.00 Music Alive APO:
Elgar’s Cello Concerto – Boulanger: d’un matin A French-themed
de printemps; Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor
Op 85; Sollima: Alone; Stravinsky: Petrushka, concert of wind
Umberto Clerici (cello), Auckland Philharmonia
Orchestra/Ludovic Morlot (recorded in the
Auckland Town Hall) 10.00 Day’s End 12.00am
instruments and
Music Through the Night piano by a talented
FRIDAY
News and Weather 6.00am, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00,
new chamber trio.
noon, 5.00pm
6.00 Daybreak 9.00 The Works Noon Upbeat

1.00 Onstage 3.00 Classical Connection 7.00
Evening Classics 8.00 Music Alive APO: James
Morrison: A Celebration of Louis & Ella – James
Morrison and vocalist Emma Pask channel
Ella and Satchmo in a concert of American
Songbook classics, James Morrison (trumpet),
Emma Pask (vocal), Auckland Philharmonia
Orchestra/Benjamin Northey (recorded in
the Aotea Centre, Auckland) 10.00 Day’s End
12.00am Music Through the Night
Newstalk ZB newstalkzb.co.nz
SATURDAY
6.00 All Sport Breakfast with D’Arcy Waldegrave
9.00 Jack Tame Noon Sportstalk 3.00 Tim Roxborogh
& Tim Beveridge 6.00 Bruce Russell 12.00am Jim
Snedden
SUNDAY
6.00 Peter Wolfkamp 9.00 Francesca Rudkin Noon
Sportstalk 3.00 Tim Roxborogh & Tim Beveridge 6.00
Frank Ritchie & Jax van Buuren 7.30 John Cowan
8.00 Miles Davis 11.00 The Nutters Club with Hamish
Coleman-Ross & Kyle MacDonald 1.00am Bruce Russell
5.00 Kate Hawkesby
MONDAY
6.00 Mike Hosking 9.00 Kerre McIvor Noon Andrew
Dickens 4.00 Heather du Plessis-Allan 7.00 Sportstalk
8.00 Marcus Lush 12.00am Bruce Russell 5.00 Kate
Hawkesby
TUESDAY
6.00 Mike Hosking 9.00 Kerre McIvor Noon Simon
Barnett & James Daniels 4.00 Heather du Plessis-Allan
7.00 Sportstalk with D’Arcy Waldegrave 8.00 Marcus
Lush 12.00am Tim Beveridge 5.00 Kate Hawkesby
WEDNESDAY
6.00 Mike Hosking 9.00 Kerre McIvor Noon Simon
Barnett & James Daniels 4.00 Heather du Plessis-Allan
7.00 Sportstalk with D’Arcy Waldegrave 8.00 Marcus
Lush 12.00am Tim Beveridge 5.00 Kate Hawkesby
THURSDAY
6.00 Mike Hosking 9.00 Kerre McIvor Noon Simon
Barnett & James Daniels 4.00 Heather du Plessis-Allan
7.00 Sportstalk with D’Arcy Waldegrave 8.00 Marcus
Lush 12.00am Bruce Russell 5.00 Kate Hawkesby
FRIDAY
6.00 Mike Hosking 9.00 Kerre McIvor Noon Simon
Barnett & James Daniels 4.00 Heather du Plessis-Allan
7.00 Sportstalk with D’Arcy Waldegrave 8.00 Marcus
Lush 12.00am Tim Beveridge
T
he essence of chamber music
is found in intimate artistic
relationships between the
musicians. The newly formed
trio of flautist Melanie Lançon, oboist
Bede Hanley and pianist Stephen De
Pledge have that kind of rapport and
Lançon describes the feeling as “magical
– when you have such a level of trust in
a group that you can be spontaneous on
stage and know the awareness between
you is so high the others will play off it.
That’s what we live for.”
Louisiana-born Lançon came to New
Zealand in 2017 on a temporary contract
as the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s
principal flute and later won the perma-
nent position. From her first rehearsal,
she knew she had come to “a special place”
and her affinity with Hanley, the principal
oboe, and other colleagues in the wind
section was immediate. “We were rehear-
sing Prokofiev’s Symphony No 5, with a
lot of wonderful flute and oboe writing,
and right off the bat, Bede and I thought,
‘Wow, it’s so easy to play together.’ We are
musical soulmates.”
Experienced chamber musician De
Pledge was invited to join the pair this
year and together they will set out in
August on a national 10-concert tour for
Chamber Music New Zealand (CMNZ).
The three musicians have curated Fantasy
and Romance, featuring music by Clara
and Robert Schumann, alongside Gabriel
Fauré and other composers with a French
flavour. “It’s a really fresh programme of
new repertoire,” says Lançon.
Tarantelle, a trio by Frenchman Phil-
lipe Gaubert, opens the recital. “Early
Melanie Lançon: “Audiences are in for a
real treat.”
20th-century French music was a golden
age for wind-instrument writing,” says
Lançon. She describes the Trio for Flute,
Oboe and Piano, by Englishwoman Made-
leine Dring, as another obvious choice. “It
also features flute and oboe beautifully,
and Poulenc’s influence [on Dring’s work]
links it to our French theme.”
“Early 20th-century
French music was a
golden age for wind-
instrument writing.”
Rivet, a CMNZ commission from
Wellington composer Glen Downie,
premieres on the tour. “He’s imitating
hammer dulcimer, harp and bagpipes
– the outer sections are fireworks, the
middle dreamy and nocturne-like,” says
Lançon. “And then Stephen woke up
in the middle of the night and thought,
‘What about arranging Robert Schu-
mann’s Abegg Variations for trio?’ It’s a
delightful, flashy spin on the piano work.
Audiences are in for a real treat.” l
Fantasy and Romance Melanie
Lançon (flute), Bede Hanley (oboe) and
Stephen De Pledge (piano), Chamber
Music New Zealand national tour,
August 1-27. The programme will be
recorded by RNZ Concert for future
broadcast.

JULY 31 2021 LISTENER 93

 THE GOOD LIFE

MICHELE
HEWITSON
Token gesture

L
ast Friday, on Masterton’s You just say, ‘Speak up, Fred or Jack.’ The farmers, or at least their dogs, are
Queen St, we met Bill and They all have one-syllable names.” howling mad at the Government over,
Token. Token is a foodle, As the march (can it be a march if it is among other things, a new levy on utes.
which, we learnt, is a made up of utes and tractors and dogs?) People who buy swanky electric cars will
breed of dog that is a cross passed by, I shouted “Speak up!” to no be rewarded with rebates. Farmers can’t
between a poodle and buy electric utes because
a fox terrier. It results there aren’t any to buy.
in a dog that looks
like Hairy Maclary.
Token was a present
to Bill from his ex-wife.
He had always had big
dogs; he preferred pit
A t Paper Plus, in
the Lotto queue,
somebody was
wondering aloud whether
the local MP, Kieran
bulls. Bill said that, when McAnulty, owner of the
presented with Token, most famous ute in the
“I didn’t know whether Wairarapa, would make
to laugh or cry or shoot an appearance. Somebody
myself!” Of course, he else doubted it. “He’s
adores him. I said, “Does Jacinda’s lapdog,” she said.
he sleep on the bed?” Bill I said, “I think she’s more
said, “On the bed? He of a cat person,” and got
sleeps under the covers!” the hell out of there.
Token is about as high The local MP and his
as your ankle, but he is ute did not make an
still, undeniably, a dog. appearance, and he took to
Dogs are not allowed Twitter to explain at length
on Masterton’s Queen why not. What he didn’t
St. There were coppers say was that he’d have
everywhere, but Token The “Howl of a been barking to turn up.
was in no danger of being Protest” comes When I was a city
taken into custody. to Queen St, person, I would have
Masterton.
He and Bill, and us, probably thought, if I’d
hundreds of other thought at all, that farm-
people and scores of tractors and utes ers were, after journalists, New Zealand’s
and dogs, were on Queen St. We were When I was a city biggest whingers. And here they were
all there for the “Howl of a Protest” again, whingeing their way up main
march. Specifically, I was there for
person, I would have streets up and down the country.
the finale: the great bark-up. Token thought that farmers I never knew any farmers. Now
was going to do his bit, said Bill. Token
barked on cue. Good boy, Token.
were, after journalists, most of the people I meet are farm-
ers. I have yet to meet a farmer who
I really wanted to know how you got New Zealand’s big- didn’t care for the land. It’s pretty basic:
a pack of hounds to howl on cue. I asked gest whingers. if you treat the land like crap, you’ll
a hardcore member of the local Jacinda get crap farming results in return.
“fan club”. The club was assembled on Of course, there are crap farmers, just
a corner. They call Jacinda Ardern “old dog in particular. A dog obliged. I think as there are crap people who live in cities
toothy”. “Was that hate speech?” one of it was a silky terrier. Its bark was louder and drive swanky electric cars. I could
the fan-club members wondered. than its height. say that I hate people who drive swanky
They looked at me a bit incredulously A joker wandered by, holding a electric cars. But that would be silly. I’ve
GREG DIXON

when I asked the question about how placard. It said, cryptically, at least to never met anyone who drives an electric
to make dogs bark on cue. “Easy,” said me: “Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot”. For- car. It’s easy to hate farmers when you
one of the geezers. “They’re farm dogs. tunately, Greg was there to interpret. have never met one. l

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