Lately for Monday 17 May 2021
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Calling London - Rich Preston
10:30 PM.The BBC World Service Rich Preston - joins us to talk about the current picture of coronavirus around the world, efforts begin later this week to prepare for the next one, the US climate envoy, John… Read more Audio
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Migration shakeup targets agriculture and tourism
10:20 PM.The Government wants to move away from relying on low-skilled workers to attracting people here, with higher skills. Government Minister Stuart Nash has announced tonight, that the skilled migrant… Read more Audio
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Word - The speech traits of Key, Ardern
8:45 PM.We're looking at words on Monday night - all the crazy ways we use them and tonight, two Prime Ministers are under the lens.. The particular way the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern speaks and a thing… Read more Audio
Photo: RNZ
10:20 Migration shakeup targets agriculture and tourism
The Government wants to move away from relying on low-skilled workers to attracting people here, with higher skills. Government Minister Stuart Nash has announced tonight, that the skilled migrant category will be reviewed and both the tourism and agricultural industries must lift industry standards... and to encourage innovation and improvements. Peter Wilson is the principal economist for the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research.
Government minister Stuart Nash Photo: RNZ / Dom Thomas
10:30 Calling London - Rich Preston
The BBC World Service Rich Preston - joins us to talk about the current picture of coronavirus around the world, efforts begin later this week to prepare for the next one, the US climate envoy, John Kerry's visit to Europe and a meeting of what's known as The Arctic Council.
Photo: AFP
10:45 Word - The speech traits of Key, Ardern
We're looking at words on Monday night - all the crazy ways we use them and tonight, two Prime Ministers are under the lens.. The particular way the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern speaks and a thing former Prime Minister, Sir John Key does has many puzzling over. There's even a link with George Bernard Shaw...
Professor Paul Warren of Victoria University's School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies lectures psycholinguistics and experimental phonetics, including intonation. His recent book Uptalk: the phenomenon of rising intonation, explores the use of high rising terminal intonation across varieties of English and in other languages
Photo: Professor Paul Warren