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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 19 May 2013Today, 130 years ago the word 'eugenics' was coined by Charles Darwin's half cousin, explorer and anthropologist Francis Galton. Eugenics was seen as a valid science by many, even after the Nazis took… Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 12 May 2013On Counterpoint this week more on the ideological boundaries between mainstream political parties. Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 5 May 2013The film industry celebrates a number of centenaries this year. The name 'Hollywood' was formally adopted a hundred years ago. The Danish film 'Atlantis' was one of the first-ever feature movies… Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint - blurring left and right
Audio 28 Apr 2013After the fallout from the recent visit Danish politician Marie Krarup, Wayne looks at the blurring of lines between the traditional left and right sides of the political spectrum. Jesper Hansen, a… Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 21 Apr 2013North Korea's Day of the Sun, marked the anniversary of the state's founder Kim Il Sung. As tensions are racheted up on the Korean Peninsula, Wayne discusses the security concerns and some… Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 14 Apr 2013Wayne Brittenden has been Radio New Zealand's correspondent in several capital cities over the years. Each week he gives fresh insights into a wide variety of topics of national and international… Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 31 Mar 2013Today, artery-clogging trans-fats are known killers and make a massive contribution to heart disease, yet in New Zealand we often have no way of knowing which products contain them. Wayne looks at the… Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 24 Mar 2013The latest census is expected to show a further drop in attendance at mainstream church services. While the evangelical denominations generally fare much better, most of the traditional churches are… Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 17 Mar 2013Audio from a court-martial pre-trial hearing of Private Bradley Manning was leaked last Tuesday, and posted on the internet. Manning was heard explaining why he sent hundreds of thousands of… Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 10 Mar 2013While India is now seen as belonging to the middle economic bracket countries, new Oxford University research reveals what critics within India have known all along – that the last 20 years of… Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 3 Mar 2013When it comes to work, the political right has generally championed hard work, while the left calls for more jobs. The old dream of fewer work days, with increased mechanisation and technology, is… Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 24 Feb 2013Italians are going to the polls, with a colourful list of candidates that includes disgraced former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The 76-year-old billionaire and media tycoon is attempting a… Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 17 Feb 2013Can character be taught? The UK Parliamentary Committee on Social Mobility is certain that it can be. Its new report proposes that character-building should be part of every school's curriculum… Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 10 Feb 2013Today, Japan and China both lay claim to the supposedly oil-rich Sekaku Islands, and tensions are ratcheted up between the two Asian heavyweights. Wayne looks at the background to the dispute and its… Audio
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Counterpoint
Audio 3 Feb 2013The subject of this week's segment was shaped by The Enlightenment and has been described as the English Voltaire. Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 27 Jan 2013Opening in New Zealand this week is the controversial film Zero Dark Thirty the story of the tracking down of Osama Bin Laden. It's been criticised for its disturbing scenes of torture and for making… Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 23 Dec 2012The issue of gun control in the United States following the Sandy Hook school shootings. Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint - Christmas
Audio 16 Dec 2012The politics surrounding the origins of Christmas: Emperor Constantine and the Nicean Council, and a contemporary perspective from the Associate Priest from St Matthew's in the City, Clay Nelson. Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint - Anarchy
Audio 9 Dec 2012The notion of anarchy, socialist-libertarianism as opposed to chaos. Is there a place for it? Can it work? Audio
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Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
Audio 2 Dec 2012Wayne Brittenden has been Radio New Zealand's correspondent in several capital cities over the years. Each week he gives fresh insights into a wide variety of topics of national and international… Audio
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Counterpoint for 25 November 2012 - Iran
Audio 25 Nov 2012This week, Counterpoint looks at the gaps in public knowledge of Iran's history, and the political expediency with which that history may have been presented to the West. Audio
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Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint - Trans-Pacific Partnership
New Zealand is to host a new round of talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). The talks are between the US, New Zealand and nine other countries of the Asia-Pacific Rim. Wayne… Audio
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Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint
Magazines, newspaper supplements and the broadcast media are a bombardment of gardening information this month. Wayne takes an offbeat political look at what's growing, with the help of two guests… Audio
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Counterpoint for 4 November 2012
Audio 4 Nov 2012Wayne Brittenden explores the little known attempt at a fascist coup pre World War II in the United States. Professor of Journalism at the State University of New York, Karl Grossman, puts some flesh… Audio
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Counterpoint for 28 October 2012
Audio 28 Oct 2012Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint this week looks at George McGovern, the US Democratic Party's ultra-liberal presidential candidate. Audio