Radio New Zealand National broadcasts from Christchurch

The anniversary of the first Canterbury earthquake is on Sunday 4 September and this weekend Radio New Zealand National travels to Christchurch for a special broadcast.

On Saturday Morning Kim Hill's guests include the editor of The Press, Andrew Holden, and engineer and author David Haywood and Jen Hay, the director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour at the University of Canterbury, who live with their two children in Avonside, Christchurch.

This Way Up has stories about how communities are bouncing back after the big shakes and Simon Morton joins some shopping-starved customers on a coach trip to the Ballantynes Timaru store.

Music 101 catches up with some of the good folk who are making music amongst the rubble, including lovely Lyttelton alt-country duo Tiny Lies and pop-smith Lindon Puffin. The team also takes a ride in alt-radio station RDU's new HQ. Send your requests for your favourite Christchurch songs - they'll be squeezing a few of those in too: music101@radionz.co.nz.

On Sunday Morning Chris Laidlaw talks to mayor Bob Parker about responding to crisis; Peter Hyde, the blogger who coined the 'three cities' phrase following the quake - rescue city, shower city and refugee city; and Jane Bowron, whose popular newspaper columns give a personal, sometimes painful, and often humourous insight into life in the city as those who stay do the best they can to get on with their lives.

On The Arts on Sunday, Lynn Freeman will be talking to Christchurch artists and performers about the last year and what lies ahead, and features proud Cantabrian and TV presenter Jason Gunn in The Laugh Track; and a Spectrum special programme called Entertaining Shakeytown looks at the lives and livelihoods of some of those Cantabrians who now live in an altered landscape.

On Monday, Morning Report will also be in Christchurch - presenter Simon Mercep and producer Lisa Thompson will speak to guests about the cost of the quake - to the city, business, and the community.

 

(Source : Radio New Zealand)