Books of My Life Poetry YRROS by Tim Upperton You had done a bad thing. You knew you had to apologise. I, who have done bad things always and had to apologise Tim for another and yet another, said, Upperton You must say sorry. The poet on Long ago, after another said, appreciating Karl You must say sorry, Ove Knausgård and the joys of rereading I said, No. old favourites. But I knew I had to. You knew you couldn’t say, No. You knew you had to say sorry, but you said it backwards. You bore your apology like a cross, defiantly. Said backwards it became a sound an ocean bird, an albatross, Books I’ve been reading concerns of his second novel, A Time might make, a lonely cry above I read and write poems, but I also read for Everything. Knausgård tries your the murmuring sea. a lot of novels. As a child, I loved books patience and he’s difficult, in the sense about islands. I devoured Robinson that any genuinely new art is difficult. I heard a word in your cry, above Crusoe, The Coral Island, My Family and But he’s also great. the murmuring sea, Other Animals, and Kiwi misanthrope Tom Neale’s An Island to Oneself. These I’m also inching my way through a word not said rightly, feature in the first poem of my new Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things a word I should know. collection, “My childhood”. Right now, Past. Proust resembles Knausgård in I’m immersed in Karl Ove Knausgård’s lots of ways and is obviously an influ- The wrong life cannot be lived rightly. The Morning Star, in which a new star ence. I’m reading the old Moncrieff I should know. translation, but I’d like to give the new “Knausgård tries translation a go. Lydia Davis translates There is time and time to apologise. your patience and volume one, and I like all things Lydia Still, ahead of you, the bad thing. he’s difficult. But Davis. he’s also great.” From A RIDERLESS HORSE (AUP) in the heavens presides over multiple Books I like to reread rooted in an older, pre-Christian tradition. lives and stories down here on Earth. I tend to reread my favourite novels: It was panned in the Guardian and I David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend, What I’m going to read next almost passed on it, although I’ve read Emma, Middlemarch, Women in Love. As for poetry, I’d love to see a new collection all of Knausgård’s previous books, But the novel I most often urge other by Ashleigh Young, and I’m going to get my apart from one he wrote about football. people to read, the one I always have hands on the new James Brown. A poem I The novel reminds me a bit of Lars von several copies of so I can give one away, wrote about my home town of Palmerston Trier’s Melancholia, with its apoca- is TF Powys’ Mr Weston’s Good Wine, North is indebted to James’ “I come from lyptic atmosphere. All of Knausgård’s published in 1927. A wine merchant, Palmerston North” – a tics are there – the minutiae of daily Mr Weston, and his assistant, Michael, title which is both declara- life, philosophical digressions, family pause one evening in a country village tion and confession, a bit tensions and marital discord – and in Dorset to sell their wares. like “I am an alcoholic”. the book harks back to the theological Time itself stops as the inhabitants of Tim Upperton’s latest poetry the village are visited and questioned, collection, A RIDERLESS and rewarded or punished as they HORSE, is released by deserve. Mr Weston is God, and Michael Auckland University Press is his archangel, but the religious allegory on August 11. is light and deft, and the novel seems AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 51
BOOKS Surround sound An entertaining exploration of how vibrations affect us and everything else in the universe. GETTY IMAGES by LINDA HERRICK world at the same time as the release of the something basic like, “What is infrared?” deepest ever images of the universe, taken Mainwaring can sort you out on that, EVERYBODY HERTZ, by Richard Mainwar- by the Nasa-led James Webb Space Telescope ing (Profile Books, $39.99) using infrared technology. and much more, in his opus on “the What a magnificent coincidence that English amazing world of frequency, from bad musician-composer-educator Richard Main- The images mark a “holy smoke” vibes to good vibrations”, the subtitle of waring’s book, Everybody Hertz, is out in the moment in the Webb’s voyage of discov- this outstanding physics-for-dummies ery, prompting so many questions, even book. Marshall by DAVID HILL many of his people. lore Those people are often vulnerable. RETURN TO HARIKOA BAY, by Owen A powerful Marshall (RHNZ Vintage, $37) They feel a few bits older than those collection from a I was re-reading an anthology the other from earlier story collections: “There’s master storyteller week. Big names: Salman Rushdie, nothing to look forward to.” They revisit that echoes long Elizabeth Jolley, Michael Ondaatje. And places and pasts – most memorably in the in the memory. Owen Marshall. Our man keeps coming title story, with its cool admission: “She up with the goods and, as this collection didn’t dislike him; just didn’t love him any of 33 new, mostly short(ish) stories shows, more.” he remains a consummate presenter of abundant details in a small space. One man regrets a friendship that almost became a love affair; another is Even in the few that essentially remain dispassionately told, years afterwards, travel anecdotes, you find the typical that he’d been a bully at school; a third Marshall protagonist – a male of a certain explains – you’ll gasp as you read this one age who is perceptive, reticent, dignified, – how he came to be missing a little finger. often solitary, objective but sympathetic. Yes, the adjectives pile up; that’s because The same protagonists can strike back, the author builds multiple facets into so subversively and satisfyingly: a retiring employee feeds a used serviette into the photocopier; a meek tourist reconfigures 52 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
Mainwaring is a frequent contributor to The practice of auto- Richard Mainwaring: a witty and self- BBC TV programmes such as The One Show, tuning vocals is deprecating teacher. which discusses a range of current affairs shameful, Mainwaring and culture, including – can you imagine it complains, calling Szechuan pepper, which induces a 50Hz here? – science. it “litter in which to tingling of the tongue (a key receptor in roll singers’ turds”. the human sensor system), with medical He’s a dream teacher: witty and self- treatments for neurological damage that deprecating, traversing a dazzling range vocals is shameful, Mainwaring complains, use vibration. That leads to examples of of anecdotes to draw the reader into a chal- calling it “litter in which to roll singers’ vibratory research (40-150Hz) in the field lenging narrative. turds”. of sexual dysfunction, and an eye-watering account of a scientist’s antics at a Las Vegas The starting point is that everything on By their very nature, many of his anec- conference in the 1980s. Earth (and in the universe) vibrates in a dotes are quite convoluted, such as how complex spectrum of waves and frequen- British intelligence fatally underestimated The “F” chapter includes an incident that cies, including ultrasound and infrared. the German invention of an accurate aural will delight grumpy old fogeys. A protec- The range of aural radiation is so vast that dot-dash system for guiding their bombers tive Welsh father, concerned his teenage scientists have wrestled it into a system of during World War II. Somehow he links daughter was being hassled by yobs at units known as “hertz”, or Hz. Humans can the shops, invented a high-pitched device only hear a range of 20 to 20,000Hz, and called the “Mosquito”, six octaves above that diminishes with age. A typical piano Kurt Cobain’s “hello”refrain in Nirvana’s scale, for instance, runs from about 27.5Hz hit song Smells Like Teen Spirit. The Mos- to 4186Hz. A cat’s purr rumbles along quito, audible only to a specific teenage between 25 and 50Hz. Rats’ whiskers each hearing band, became the front line of the have their own frequency. war against “antisocial” youth in Barry, south Wales. But how do we give any context to the hertz we can hear, let alone the sheer scale Mainwaring winds up with a sobering of frequencies beyond that tiny range? reflection on nuclear testing in the Pacific Mainwaring makes it simple by using in the 1950s, which produced cancer-caus- music to provide reference points. Using ing ionised radiation. his imaginary musical invention, he advises, “Come, sit on my Infinite Piano “Many would consider it folly to stool and fasten your seatbelt as we embark endeavour to write a pop-science book on an amazing ride … from the lowest ‘note’ with only scant scien- in the universe through to the astound- tific knowledge,” he ingly high frequencies that measure time writes at the end of his itself.” six-year endeavour. But he has done it, and it’s What an exhilarating ride it is, as something of a marvel Mainwaring moves through the “chapter” that he has been able to keys of A to G, including variations, pauses, impart so much knowl- dissonance – and the Auto-Tune vocal edge with so much standardising trickery behind Cher’s 1998 charm and lightness. l hit Believe. The practice of auto-tuning truth; a sex worker offers landscapes, which often moved languid and liquid around them”; “the small bones of her wrist, the smooth services in lieu of legal fees. appear or are implied here. muscle connecting neck and shoulder”. Never underestimate a But you also get Charles de Elsewhere, things pause for the author’s characteristic solemn apho- Marshall protagonist. Gaulle Airport; Heraklion; risms: “Sometimes, as you experience life, you have a strange awareness that its true There are moments that Romans-sur-Isère, with power will lie in introspection.” Writing courses tell you never, never to do this. slap you: a casual sexual its International Shoe Marshall does it all the time and nearly always insult in a cafe, a jolting Museum (another charac- gets away with it. rejection for a back-row teristic flick of sly humour); Walter de la Mare has a poem of bells that young man, a lockdown a Sydney private school; a reverberate louder in the mind long after they’re relationship that leads to Koru Lounge. still. The stories in this collection also leave lies, petty theft and aban- It’s not easy to overlook those echoes. l donment. Marshall can do Owen Marshall the style. You can quote violence so quietly, so pro- lines from these stories the saically almost, that you’re a paragraph way you quote lines of poetry: women further on before you comprehend what in office cubicles, “their heads questing has made your breath change. from cells like despairing battery hens”. It’s easy to overlook the range of set- The grave, sometimes stately prose tings. Marshall is our great chronicler moves like dignitaries in procession, then of South Island small towns and big blooms into lyricism: “The golden air AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 53
BOOKS Right thinking A new book attempts to define a purer, more coherent version of conservative political thinking. Is it successful, and how well does it apply to NZ’s traditions? byLIAMHEHIR GETTY IMAGES CONSERVATISM: A REDISCOVERY, by Religious and cultural traditionalists were more internally coherent. Yoram Hazony (Regnery, US$30) repelled by its aggressive iconoclasm and Purged of its more liberal elements, he Communism is infamous for its innumer- godlessness. The security-conscious were able varieties. Wikipedia lists 44 varieties, alarmed by Soviet pretensions to world argues, the conservative movement can from original flavour Marxism through to domination. Capitalists were not thrilled return to a purer form. Shrugging off the Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and Kaysone to bits at the promise of a world without baggage of the Enlightenment, the newer, Phomvihane Thought. It doesn’t end there, capitalists. older conservatism will be much more since even within those categories there nationalistic and tribal in nature. Hazony are gradations and factions with slightly So what happens when you take away calls this “Anglo-American” conservatism. different ways of looking at things. And, the designated bad guy? The internal disa- more often than not, they all hate and greements and differing priorities come What would this look like in practice? resent each other. to the fore. The glue that held together the Well, for starters, a more open relation- disparate elements of the coalition weak- ship between the state and Christianity Many of us like to laugh at the internal ens. The narcissism of small differences (with toleration, but not equal priority, fighting we so often see on the left. But reasserts itself. for religious minorities). The state would the fact is that all political ideologies and also take up and promote the conserva- dispositions suffer from this tendency. And, eventually, you get books like tive position on culture war questions Freud called it the narcissism of small Conservatism: A rediscovery. Written by (with exceptions for dissenters but no differences. the American-educated Israeli political pretence of neutrality). Big business theorist Yoram Hazony, this book paints would be forced to bend the knee and Conservative politics is no different a very specific picture of what American competition law ruthlessly enforced. in that regard. For decades the different conservatism is all about. It serves as a International organisations would be strands of conservative thought were held broad rejection of Reagan-era political abandoned and states would be justified in place by antagonism towards the USSR. alliances in favour of something much in intervening against one another only 54 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
Pure conservatism: Hazony’s vision rejects the conservatism such an indestructible Short cuts political alliances of the Reagan era. political force. It floats like oil on water. As long as there are people demanding Jarvis Cocker interrupts in a Rwanda-type situation. disruptive change there will be those his solo music career, The justification for this species of who counsel caution and wariness for which is still delivering unintended consequences. great albums, for 350 conservatism is given partly by way of pages of reminiscences political theory, partly by way of history New Zealand is not the United about his Sheffield youth lessons and, finally, with some personal States. While we share the same and the early days of his memoir thrown in. The trouble is that the language, as well as similar band, Pulp, which finally past is always open to a motivated read- religious and legal traditions, there are cracked it in the Britpop era after long ing. In my experience, this applies just as significant differences in our histories being indie also-rans. But GOOD POP, much to one’s personal history as one’s and institutions. New Zealand con- BAD POP (Jonathan Cape) is not only Pulp interpretation of the grand narrative of servativism has, accordingly, been quite non-fiction, it’s an aide-memoire memoir. world events. different from its American counterpart. Cocker uses various items – ancient bars of soap, jumble sale shirts, band parapher- One gets the sense that Hazony’s read- For example, Hazony rightly points out nalia – he’s crammed into an attic space ing of history is sometimes being fitted that a concern with national sovereignty as anecdote-triggers. It’s impressive how around the political theory rather than and independence has been an animating the book design encapsulates all that stuff the other way around. force in British and American history while evoking an op-shop mustiness. But and that this is therefore integral to the Cocker Marie Kondo-ing his loft makes for The non-prescriptive- nature of conservatism in that tradition. less-than-immediate rock autobiography. ness of conservative But New Zealand is not a country in It’s all a bit tidy. ideals is what makes which conservatives sought independ- conservatism such an ence. We dragged our feet on adopting Ottessa Moshfegh, author indestructible force.. full legal independence for more than of the much-praised a decade after it was offered to us by My Year of Rest and It would hardly be the first time that Britain. Relaxation, is back with has happened in a political book. A ten- LAPVONA (Jonathan dentious reading of the past in support of The late Rob Hosking, a former col- Cape). In a plagued medi- preconceived theory is the calling card of umnist for the National Business Review, eval village, a peasant boy, political ideologues everywhere. What understood this and had plans to attempt Marek, is torn in a power makes it ironic in this case, however, is some exploration of the New Zealand struggle between the natural world and that Hazony spends much of his book rail- conservative tradition. His very sad the spirit world. The world-building is ing against those who prioritise abstract death in 2019 meant that project never perfunctory, said Hari Kunzru in the NY theory over experience. came to fruition and nobody seems too Times, though “her voice, laconic, flip, willing to take up the mantle. Which is a with an edge of cruelty, is always enter- There is a frank acknowledgment shame because it would have been a very taining”. Little more than a sequence of that his agenda is very American in its good book. stomach-churning provocations, thought orientation. This is fitting for a book the New Statesman. A welcome promise of that, at least in theory, spurns the idea of In the absence of any popular how much more she has to offer American universal political principles. definition about what it means to be a literature today, said the Financial Times. conservative in New Zealand, it is hard to Compared with other political ideolo- see the movement resisting the pervasive Before the arrival of gies, conservatism is not really about American political culture that increas- humans about 800 years mobilising society in service of some par- ingly dominates our lives. In the same ago, about 10% of our ticular goal. Conservatives are, almost way that progressives in this country landscape was freshwater by definition, not utopian. They seek to glom on to American liberal causes, their wetlands, the result of defend the things that are good about an counterparts on the right often turn the most recent glacia- imperfect society from those who would to Fox News and Ben Shapiro for their tion. Now, in a nation of discard them in pursuit of an unattain- daily dose of outrage. Our investment 425,000km of rivers able perfection. in American political controversies is and streams and more than 50,000 lakes, increasingly out of proportion to their it’s about 1%. Worse, many of our lakes, Ironically, this core conservative remoteness to our own lives. rivers and estuaries are polluted, diverted concept doesn’t seem to fit that easily or chocka with introduced plants and with Hazony’s conception of a muscular Conservatism: A animals. LIFE IN THE SHALLOWS, by “conservative” democracy that seeks to rediscovery is written Karen Denyer and Monica Peters (MUP), use the power of the state to restore some from an explicitly explains the vital role wetlands play for Arcadian age. American perspec- birds, fish and insects, and their filtering, tive. That doesn’t aquifer filling and carbon-sink roles, and But the non-prescriptiveness of mean it’s irrelevant what’s being done to restore them. l conservative ideals is what makes for New Zealand audi- ences. For better or worse, it may become very relevant indeed. l AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 55
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QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker CROSSWORD by David Tossman Puzzle No 1660 Puzzle No 1292 Clues across president was a champion Clues across Clues down 7. What is a head harness wrestler, reportedly losing 1. Light conversation is quiet 2. Crook when help left in only one of more than 300 for guiding a horse? (6) matches? (7,7) as a Listener is torn (12) depression (4,3) 8. The caterpillars of which 3. Polysomnography is a 9. Put wife inside to gently boil 3. Together as one, carrying diagnostic study of what? moth are a pest in pastures (5) a fish (7) a gun? (3,2,3) and lawns? (6) 4. What word for “completely 10. Do make a bet with the 4. Australian, tossing out letters 10. An aim of what medieval drunk” arose in the late forerunner of chemistry 19th century? (7) widow (7) from Stalin, shows a certain was to convert base metals 5. What is the larger of the two 11. The mark of writers with mystique (4) into gold? (7) bones of the lower leg? (5) 5. They’re stuffed in the 11. Which Carl, an optical 6. A New Zealand West Coast guts (5) nursery so day bed rest instrument maker, founded region, township, beach, 12. A way to recruit a sleeper, it ordered (5,5) a workshop in 1846 that is river and mountain share 6. I won a convertible from still in business today? (5) what name? (5) is suggested, and spy on his a citizen of Des Moines (5) 12. What is a Scottish word for 9. Which play by Shakespeare organisation (8) 7. Cat turns up drinking gin old? (4) is set in ancient Britain, 14. Reward seen corrupting cocktail and joins the army 13. What is a building occupied its main character based an announcer (10) (5,2) by a community of monks on a Celtic king? (9) 15. “In a Nice Pickle”, a long 8. Accuse someone of crime or nuns? (5) 14. What river reaches the sea poem about a mighty hero evident in the price of 17. What is the world’s at Limerick? (7) (4) newspapers (5,7) narrowest country? (5) 15. What is a blank page in the 17. Hints given gratuitously (4) 9. Being the best means little 18. Sunsets on Mars are what front or back of a book? (7) 19. Romance is somehow in time to sister I hear (6,2,4) colour? (4) 16. In the videotape-format involving one in some 13. A frolic in a trippy state (10) 22. Tyre companies Goodrich, war of the 1970s and 80s, Pacific islands (10) 16. A psychiatrist perhaps is Goodyear and Firestone VHS beat which main 21. Sleep with lion in working nearly as crazy (8) all had their early competitor? (7) for an emperor (8) 18. Cosy, light, undemanding headquarters in which 19. A character with what first 23. Taking rest to be deceitful (5) music turns up with very Ohio city? (5) name has appeared on 25. A particle makes one turn light armaments (7) 23/24. In 1998, who published Shortland Street, Coronation funny (7) 20. Daughter left in embrace of How to Eat: The Pleasures Street, Cheers, EastEnders, 26. Lives with strange desires (7) piggish individual is a cheat and Principles of Good Food? Scrubs? (5) 27. Aircrew looks ill-prepared for (7) (7,6) 20. Which obsolete coin was someone in welfare (6,6) 22. Some emotionally rich sort 25. Special solid silver Fijian worth five shillings? (5) of poetry (5) one-dollar coins of 2015 21. What instrument used in Solution No 1291 24. Gloat having put rebel leader and 2016 feature what samba music consists of in female jersey (4) animal? (6) open bells on a U-shaped bar and is played with a stick? (5) Clues down 1/2. In his youth, which US Solution 1659 Across: 1/8 Whistle Down the Wind, 9 Gorge, 10 Last, 57 11 Van Dyke, 12 Eye, 13 Zhou, 15 Suva, 17 Cat, 19 Limpopo, 20 Rome, 23 Vault, 24 Malware, 25 Springfield. Down: 1 Wattle, 2 Ideas, 3 Tail, 4 Endive, 5 Organist, 6 Nureyev, 7 Sweden, 12 Eurostar, 14 Humbugs, 16/17 Olivia Colman, 18 Legend, 21 O’Hare, 22 Clef. AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER
DIVERSIONS Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. 837 MEDIUM 648 HARD LAST WEEK’S LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION SOLUTION 811 BRIDGE BIDDING QUIZ SOLUTION 1 Place a number from 1 to 9 N-S have at least an 8-card fit in hearts, in each empty box. because partner did not open 1H. In an effort to shut them out, you should bid 3D now. 2. The sum of each vertical or This cannot show 10 or 11 points or you horizontal block equals the would have doubled 1NT. In an international number at the top or on the trial, one West bid 2D, allowing North to bid left of that block. 2H on a weak shapely hand. The contracts of 3D and 3H were both successful, so the 3. Numbers may be used only immediate bid of 3D gained 5 IMPs. once in each block. Awards: 3D – 10, 2D – 5, 2C – 3. LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION CHESS SOLUTION 1 Rg5+! and if hxg5? 2 Rh7 mate, or 1...Kh4 2 Rxg6 h5 3 Rxf5 wins easily. 10 QUICK QUESTIONS ANSWERS 1. Rose Nylund. 2. Ship of Theseus. 3. The Addams Family. 4. Chilli pepper. 5. Roald Dahl. 6. Alph. 7. Belgium. 8. La La Land. 9. False. Grizzly bears are a subspecies of brown bears. 10. Fool’s gold. 58 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
LOGIC PUZZLE FIRST AID CLUELESS CROSSWORD Four professionals each take a different first-aid course at a different time: Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a different 1. Regarding Lois and the person who took the asthma course, number from 1 to 26. Use your knowledge of English neither took their course at 11am or 1pm. to solve the crossword. Some clue letters are given. 2. The trauma course was either done by Eric or started at 11am. 3. The course that started at 9am was either Eric’s or the asthma course. 4. The anaphylaxis course started four hours before the CPR course. 5. Olga’s course was scheduled earlier in the day than Robert’s. Using these clues and the grid below, can you work out which professional took which course and when? PROFESSIONAL COURSE TIME 9am Eric11am Lois1pm Olga3pm RobertAnaphylaxis AnaphylaxisAsthma Asthma CPRCPR TraumaTrauma COURSE PROFESSIONAL COURSE TIME You may Eric write your Lois ABCDEFGHIJKLM answers in Olga NOPQRSTUVWXYZ Robert this grid: SCATTERWORD PERMUTATE GETTY IMAGES. ALL PUZZLES COPYRIGHT CHRIS WALTERS. VISIT REUBENSPUZZLES.COM.AU TEMPERATE Your aim is to create words of four letters or more using Your aim is to change FI R S T the given letters once only the top word one HE L L O but always including the letter at a time, each middle letter. Do not use time rearranging the proper names or plural/verb letters to create a new forms which add only “s”. word. Perform one such permutation for See if you can find the nine-letter each blank line below word using up all the letters. until you arrive at the last word. There 8 GOOD is usually more than one correct solution. 12 VERY GOOD See how many you can find in 15 mins. 15+ EXCELLENT Last week’s solutions. Logic Puzzle: Ariel buys the $743 French Revolution set, Hans buys the $693 Civil War set, Maddy buys the $793 Star Wars set and Oswald buys the $843 Medieval set. Scatterword: UNDERTOOK, dunker, retook, nuked, drunk, token, trunk, duke, dunk, dook, kern, nuke, kero, trek, nook, knot, rook, koto, took, turk. 20 words. Permutate: CHESS, CHASE, LEACH, LANCE, CLANK, FLANK Clueless crossword: AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 59
ENTERTAINMENT One lady driver Why stage and screen veteran Greta Scacchi has gone walkabout in an Aussie crime series disguised as a camping holiday. byRUSSELLBAILLIE The women Greta Now, in Darby and Joan, she’s and seems to be sticking to the their own gentle personal Scacchi played on at it again, sort of. Queensland coast. demons. screen were once in the habit of turning This time, though, the She also gets quintessential It’s an eight-part series for up somewhere warm and 62-year-old is a widowed Aussie actor Bryan Brown, US Anglophile streamer Acorn causing a bit of bother with the English nurse on a perilous playing a laconic retired cop, TV, which aims at an older locals. She did that at the start adventure into outback Aus- Jack Darby, and his dog, Diesel, audience. Its gentle crime of her career, in 1983’s Heat tralia, to find why her husband as company. Hence Darby & dramas top up a whodunnit- and Dust, a Merchant Ivory died there when he was meant Joan. It’s a lightweight road- heavy catalogue licensed from film set in the British Raj. Then to be in Spain. Except, well, it’s trip drama, which is mostly British broadcasters. again in White Mischief, a 1987 not all that perilous, and it’s fuelled by the chemistry film set among the colonials in not really the outback, and her between the odd couple as they For Scacchi, it’s her first 1940s Kenya. character, Joan, is driving an solve mysteries everywhere contemporary television air-conditioned camper van they stop while dealing with show since she made her one- episode screen debut in the 60 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
it gave me a lot of confidence. They definitely had devised the whole thing around having Bryan in it, but he asked them to try me and I was thrilled to bits. Englishwoman Joan is meant to be a fish out of water, but Scacchi, of course, knows these “Each episode is a little crime that we come across and solve by the end.” 1981 first season of Bergerac. in a five-year relationship with Camper van crime waters pretty well, being an That was after the Italian-born Kiwi music icon Tim Finn, solvers: Greta Scacchi Australian citizen and having actor had returned to the UK after they met on the set of and Bryan Brown in spent a fair chunk of her to study acting, having lived Australian film The Coca-Cola Darby and Joan. professional life on stage and for a few years with her family Kid. When she asks what part screen there. in Perth, Australia. of New Zealand the Listener complicated love and family is calling from, she is quick life – she was, until recently, “I had that advantage, but After Heat and Dust, she to mention she has been to Sean Penn’s mother-in-law – in what was tricky was trying to was soon swept up into a film the Waikato, Mt Maunganui a 20 minute interview about avoid slipping into the local world that swerved between and Auckland’s west coast her breezy new show. speech because of the way British and Australian period beaches, all Finn family stamp- Bryan speaks, and everyone pieces, European cinema ing grounds. It’s tempting Anyway, she’s only in it else around me, and how easy and, eventually, raunchy to ask what she thought of because she used to be married it is for me to just become Hollywood thrillers like Te Awamutu or, indeed, the to Brown. Well, she was in the Australian again. Presumed Innocent. However, songs Finn wrote inspired 2019 movie Palm Beach, a film she famously turned down the by their break-up. But it feels which did an Aussie Big Chill “That was hard. A few times role played by Sharon Stone in a bit tawdry to delve into among a group of old friends I said, ‘No, that sounded too Basic Instinct. Scacchi’s much-traversed and gathering at the couple’s house Ocker,’ because it’s the vowels in northern Sydney. which really creep in. When The 1980s also saw Scacchi you relax, it’s very easy to After the film, it was Brown drop into it. Also, the writers who suggested to the new are Australian and so a lot show’s producers that Scacchi of the phrasing and a lot of could be the Joan to his Darby. the humour was Australian, which I sometimes had to pull “So it was very flattering and up to try and find an English interpretation.” M aking a series did feel different to making a film, says Scacchi. It was faster, looser and required a certain amount of flexibility when it came to scripts, which could be a work in progress until the day of filming. “It means that there’s room for you to pour yourself and a lot of spontaneity and ideas into the character. “Each episode is a little AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 61
ENTERTAINMENT It takes a village How Ron Howard’s drama about the 2018 Thailand cave rescue avoids being a typical Hollywood tale of heroism. by RUSSELL BAILLIE Causing a bit of bother: Scacchi in dreadful calculation going Thirteen Lives isn’t the boys out alive. Farrell plays 1987’s White Mischief. on in my head of whether it’s first screen version John Volanthen, Mortensen going to fit with the summer of the story about is Rick Stanton and Edgerton crime that we come across holidays. the Tham Luang is Adelaide anaesthetist Dr and solve by the end, which is cave rescue, in which 12 boys Richard “Harry” Harris. slightly implausible, but it’s “So now I just feel free and and their young football coach one of those formulas. I feel like a traveller again, were saved after more than two But Howard’s film also which is how I felt before I had weeks underground in 2018. frames that against the vast “But what is plausible and kids. I was a bit of a nomad and Thai and international effort what we really hold on to is a I’m back there again, feeling I There has already been behind the rescue. That sense of the two characters. don’t really have to worry.” the acclaimed 2021 National includes time with the boys’ Their journey hasn’t been Geographic documentary The waiting families, the Royal fully plumbed by the end of If she’s feeling nomadic and Rescue, as well as some quick- Thai Navy SEAL team, which the first series. They each back in the driver’s seat, she’s turnaround Thai-made docos suffered a fatality early in come with baggage, but the picked a good show. Although and dramatisations. There the rescue, and the efforts of two of them find a common she laughs that she wasn’t have been books and podcasts. local villagers to divert flood ground in their sense of always allowed to drive the Still to come is an untitled Net- waters away from the cave justice and their need for camper van between takes. the truth.” “I had a camera attached to me and “Honestly, talk about it was pitch black. I realised just Although Joan might not sexism. I didn’t mind, but how dangerous it was, even though be the most artistically chal- I learnt to drive from the we were in a studio-built cave.” lenging role of her career, example of my father, who was ALAMY to Scacchi it still represents Italian and could drive faster flix series reportedly retelling while accepting the resulting late-career freedom she didn’t backwards the wrong way the event from the boys’ point devastation of their crops. always have. down a one-way street than of view. anybody. I started to learn to That it’s not another white “I was at the peak of my drive before I had a licence, But Thirteen Lives is the saviour movie appealed to Hollywood career when I had when I was 16 and working inevitable Hollywood disaster Edgerton. my daughter and I thought I on a sheep station in Western flick treatment. It’s directed could just do a bit less and pick Australia. So I think I can do by veteran Ron Howard. “I was impressed. I’m really and choose and do one or two anything in a car. But on the After Apollo 13, it’s his second curious to know what percent- jobs a year. But it doesn’t work film sets, as soon as there’s real-life rescue movie with age of the movie is actually like that. You’ve really got to anything that could be danger- that unlucky number in the spoken in Thai, because it’s far keep feeding the machine, and ous, some very stocky, capable title. Like his Nasa film, it’s a more than I would have ever within a couple of years I was bloke comes along and says, rigorous drama about remark- imagined for an American being asked why I’d retired. ‘All right, Greta, I’ll do that,’ able teamwork in the face of film,” he tells the Listener. “And and I think, ‘Okay, I’ll have a seemingly hopeless odds. And it was the Thai government “I just had to let it go. I break.’ I let him think that he’s it’s a big team. Most prominent that essentially facilitated this couldn’t go away and leave the only one who knows how are stars Colin Farrell, Viggo incredible rescue, even though my kids that often. Now, my to drive.” l Mortensen and Joel Edger- the two guys that are labelled daughter is 30 and it’s in the ton playing the English and as the heroes were a couple of past five years, really, that I felt Darby and Joan is on Acorn Aussie cave divers who got the British divers, who came up when I get offered something, TV from August 8, with two with the plan, and Dr Harry, I can do it. When I’m read- episodes arriving weekly. ing a script, I don’t have this 62 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
who was obviously an integral real divers faced. “I was pretty Edgerton has played a few their experiences, which part of that plan. They couldn’t good for the most part, but I real-life characters before. But included getting diplomatic have done it on their own. did have a moment of panic he had some nerves about por- immunity from the Thai that gave me serious rever- traying Harris, who made the government in case anything “You could say that Rick ence for what these guys do. decision to inject the boys with went wrong with the sedation. Stanton was the kind of mad I was taking a stunt person, a mixture of Xanax, ketamine genius that came up with the who was playing one of the and atropine, so they could be “Playing Dr Harris made me idea of how to get the kids Thai boys, through a pinch hauled without panicking. a little nervous because he’s out. He happens to be a white point that was difficult to get such an impressive human British guy. But if Rick was on through on my own. I had a He and dive partner, vet being. In the documentary that mountain all by himself, camera attached to me and it Craig Challen, were named The Rescue, it just comes off none of those kids would have was pitch black. I realised just Australians of the Year in 2019. the screen what a decent and survived. It took the village how dangerous it was, even They produced a bestselling intelligent and special man he that was created in that little though we were in a studio- book, Against All Odds, about is. So I sort of felt a bit nervous community.” built cave. trying to step up to do that. I mean, I think I look enough GETTY IMAGES Due to the pandemic, the “I understood the way the like him. Or at least we all look film was shot mostly in Queens- brain can get in the way of the same length in the water.” land. The production built an whatever you’re doing, and the underwater set, replicating anxiety really started to hit. I Edgerton finally met Harris the often narrow, winding had to come up and talk about after filming at a Boxing Day caves from which the rescuers it. Of course, these elite cave barbecue in Adelaide. hauled each boy. Each journey divers are often in situations took up to three hours, with the where they can’t come up and “I showed him a picture of boys under sedation and using talk about it.” me as him and he goes, ‘Jeez, diving tanks to breathe and we’re a good-looking bloke.’” l requiring anaesthetic top-ups Cave rescuer: Dr Richard Harris. along the way. Above, from left, Colin Farrell, Thirteen Lives is available on Joel Edgerton and Viggo Amazon Prime from August Filming those scenes gave Mortensen in Thirteen Lives. 5. The Rescue is streaming Edgerton a hint of what the on Disney+. AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 63
ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC GRAHAM REID Light and shadows Jack White’s second album of the year is a meditative change of pace, while One Man Bannister brings an intimate touch to the dark themes of Emily Dickinson. ENTERING HEAVEN ALIVE, the Bees has a jaunty lope and The Weather – discovered Quiet companion: Jack White by Jack White Please God, Don’t Tell Anyone a cache of material to adapt completes a game of two halves. When considering Jack could be Planet Waves-era into song: the works of Emily White’s often demanding Dylan. Dickinson. The American delightful folk-pop treatment. album Fear of the Dawn in poet, who died in 1886, is the A Narrow Fellow in the Grass April, we noted it was the The final track, Taking Me perfect subject for these times has an Irish folk quality, and first instalment of a paired Back (Gently ), with country of physical and emotional Before I Got My Eye Put Out is release. Entering Heaven Alive fiddle by Fats Kaplin, is a separation. She rarely left her just plain quirky. completes what could be seen sprightly remake of the noisy family home in Massachusetts, as a double album. metal-edge opener on Fear of preferring to write letters Americana and airy folk the Dawn, thereby closing the and poems. More than 1800 (There’s a Certain Slant of But where Fear of the Dawn circle. poems in fact, although fewer Light), chamber pop (his origi- was a tumultuous and disrup- than a dozen were published nal Song for Emily), whimsical tive collection of heavy rock, Entering Heaven Alive is in her lifetime. Alone in her British pop (I Had Been Hungry hip-hop and dubby funk-rock, the most emotionally reveal- room, she considered nature, All the Years) and 60s folk-rock Entering Heaven Alive is a ing, sometimes playful and the human condition, death (The Wind Tapped Like a Tired much more muted affair from consistently quiet album in and the mystery of God in Man) are all represented as the newly married White. the catalogue of the former brief poems with idiosyncratic Bannister and his small group White Stripe, Raconteur and capitalisation. bring a light, intimate touch to Acoustic guitar, piano and Dead Weather man. Here, he Dickinson’s sometimes dark thoughtful meditations on completes a game of two very Poems rarely make for song material. l love, self-doubt and mortal- different halves. lyrics, but Bannister shapes ity arrive with echoes of Led Dickinson’s economic words Both albums are available Zeppelin’s Anglo-folk ballads THE SADDEST NOISE, by One into genre pieces across this digitally and on CD. Entering (without the Tolkien) filtering Man Bannister collection. It opens with the Heaven Alive is also available through on All Along the Way Perhaps it’ll take another six elegant instrumental Amherst on limited-edition vinyl. and Love is Selfish. months before we’re past the and closes with the 19th-cen- “lockdown album” phenom- tury “front parlour” mood of I’ve Got You Surrounded enon. But during that period, the instrumental Stand Alone. (With My Love) is a subtle and Matthew Bannister – known addictive slice of casual funk- here as One Man Bannister, The simple A Bird Came lite, with White’s buzzing but also a member of Sneaky Down the Walk (like a dark guitar and jazz piano from Feelings, Dribbling Darts and children’s poem) gets a Quincy McCrary. Queen of 64 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
Euro star The tireless Joanna Lumley heads off to explore the evolving characters of three Continental capitals. JOANNA LUMLEY’S GREAT encountered early in her brewing empire heiress and Joanna Lumley: packing her bags CITIES OF THE WORLD, career. “When I used to come fashion icon Daphne Guinness. for Paris, Rome and Berlin. TVNZ 1, 8.00pm, from Monday over to Paris in the 60s as a August 8. young model, I found the Paris- The following week it’s meeting somebody and hear- Joanna Lumley got her dame- ian spirit of nonchalance and off to Rome for a closing ing first-hand what it was like. hood at the beginning of this confidence intoxicating,” she hours pilgrimage visit to the Her story stayed with me.” year for services to drama, says in promotional material Sistine Chapel, a meeting with entertainment and charitable for the show. “I’d come over for 94-year-old Italian screen Lumley also walks the city causes. But given her dozen a photoshoot, stay a couple of siren Gina Lollobrigida and with photographer Harald travel series since her first days in a cheap hotel and just inevitable encounters with Hauswald, who put himself at 1997 Bhutan excursion In soak it all in. I love it here.” Vespas, pizzas, piazzas and risk as he documented life in the Kingdom of the Thunder paparazzi. Plus, there’s a visit East Berlin before the fall of Dragon, you might wonder the Berlin Wall. if they should have added “I’m pleased that in all three “the British outbound tourist programmes we met refugees, Lumley is happy that Great industry” to that list. because that’s something in the Cities isn’t all about monu- world today we’ve got to factor in.” ments, museums, nightlife and Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities quirky locals. She talks with of the World follows a dash Lumley and crew get back- to the ruins where Julius refugees and visits places that around UK areas of natural stage access to two notable Caesar got stabbed in the back, are working for them in all beauty, which was made Paris institutions – the Moulin some of which is now a sanctu- three capitals, including an art under pandemic conditions Rouge cabaret and Notre- ary for stray cats. gallery in Rome, a beekeeping and screened earlier this year Dame as it is being restored training scheme in Paris and a on TVNZ. The new show also from the devastating 2019 fire. In Berlin, the history lesson is community kitchen in Berlin. sticks fairly close to home She gets a tour with architect more recent – hearing the mem- with visits to just Paris, Rome Philippe Villeneuve, who leads ories of 99-year-old Holocaust “I’m pleased that in all three and Berlin – which might feel the project which has a com- survivor Margot Friedländer programmes we met refugees, a bit soft for a woman whose pletion deadline of the 2024 brought Lumley to tears. because I feel that’s something producers have previously Paris Olympics. in the world today we’ve got dragged her through Siberia, “Ever since reading The to factor in. We can’t just close along the Silk Road, to the Elsewhere, there’s a balloon Diary of Anne Frank when I our eyes and think, ‘Oh this Arctic Circle, up the Nile and to ride over the city, a spot of was a teenager, I’ve always would all be lovely if it were 80 India where she was born. high-end boutique shop- been terribly aware of the years ago.’ This is something ping and an encounter with Holocaust and its horrors. that’s happening now, and But over to Paris it is in But there’s something about we’ve got to remember that, the first episode, a city she and see how other cities are responding.” l AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 65
ENTERTAINMENT TV PREVIEW Glossed in translation The Brokenwood Mysteries’ international appeal has delivered some exotic linguistic twists for star Fern Sutherland. byRUSSELLBROWN THE BROKENWOOD MYS- self-funding since season six. herself dubbed into foreign expanded Brokenwood’s reach, TERIES, TVNZ 1, from Sunday The secret, believes SPP languages is “hilarious”. allowing it to be onsold to August 7, 8.30pm other Francophone territo- In Germany, they call it chief executive Kelly Martin, “I love it because I sort of ries. Showrunner Tim Balme Brokenwood – Mord in is “the low-key Kiwiness of hate the sound of my own tells the story of a friend who Neuseeland, or “Murder in it. I think it’s always known voice. So [in the French ver- visited Morocco where, on New Zealand”. In France, it is from the start what it was, and sion] it’s really nice when discovering he was from New simply Brokenwood, and about we haven’t messed with the Kristin sounds like this very Zealand, everyone immedi- three million people watch tried-and-true of it. It’s built sweet sort of French poppet ately wanted to talk about the every episode. In the US and little detective series from Canada, viewers have been “It just makes us sound way down under. watching the new season for more cultured and interesting more than a month. than we actually are.” One thing that has changed is that there’s more Broken- In its eighth season, The year after year, but it’s built and Mike sounds like this wood than ever. Last year, Brokenwood Mysteries, the into being great at what it was smoke-a-pack-a-day and the season was expanded to continuing story of the pic- set up to be.” drink-three-bottles-of-red- six feature-length episodes turesque New Zealand town wine kind of Frenchman. So from four. For all its global with the alarming homicide The centre of the show is he’s like very eugh-heugh and popularity, Brokenwood does rate, is very much made for the chemistry between Fern she’s like this lovely little mad- not have the budget of a big the world – and the world Sutherland and Neill Rea, emoiselle. There’s Spanish as studio show and the cast and clearly likes it. Indeed, the who respectively play detec- well, which is hilarious, and crew need to rattle through world’s interest is the reason tives Kristin Sims and Mike Italian. It just makes us sound their work. there is still a Brokenwood to Shepherd. Sutherland says the way more cultured and inter- watch. South Pacific Pictures growth of an international fan esting than we actually are.” A key element of the show has steadily scaled down its base is “both surprising and – and one of the things Suther- funding requests from NZ deeply flattering”, and seeing The French version further land likes most about making On Air since it was picked up it – is its outdoor scenes. But by the French broadcaster being at the mercy of the France 3 and it has been weather can be challenging. At one point, our call drops 66 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
From left, Cristina Ionda, Fern Sutherland, Neill Rea and Jarod Rawiri in The Brokenwood Mysteries. out. When we manage to Breakfast, Monday. reconnect, she explains that she has been out in the wind TELEVISION the show was both “entertain- and rain making season nine ing and disturbing”. (you heard it here first) “and so I thought I’ll just have a Our Picks of the Week MONDAY AUGUST 8 sauna afterwards, which made my ears very slippery, SUNDAY AUGUST 7 represent genuine histori- BREAKFAST so my earbuds fell out and I cal figures – most notably A silver anniversary hung up on you”. THE BROKENWOOD British Movement founder Screening: TVNZ 1, 6.00am MYSTERIES and explicit neo-Nazi Colin Streaming: TVNZ+ The expansion also means Homely homicide detectives Jordan, who is, in the word of On August 11, 1997, Breakfast even more guest roles to be Screening: TVNZ 1, 8.30pm the Boston Globe’s reviewer, introduced New Zealand cast – and a reliance on a Streaming: TVNZ+ “played with full-on creepi- viewers to morning news- strong local talent pool that The return of the ever-pleas- ness by Rory Kinnear”. The talk television – and it stuck. SPP has helped create over ant local whodunnit series. paper found Vivien’s facility Since the morning that the years. In the first of its six feature- for undercover spying a little Susan Wood and a pre-met- length episodes, there’s improbable but concluded that amorphosis Mike Hosking TV generally wants something amiss with the town first said hello as presenters, younger faces, but Broken- museum’s Egyptian mummy. there has been a parade of wood has been able to cast See story, opposite page. famous faces, along with grandees such as Elizabeth one or two we might prefer McRae and Ian Mune. It’s RIDLEY ROAD Ridley Road, Sunday. to forget. Over the course of also handy to be able to call Punching Nazis in the 1960s those 25 years, Breakfast has on the likes of Joel Tobeck Screening: Rialto, 8.30pm seen off competing shows and Simon Prast, who both A four-part BBC drama based and even had a dabble with appear in the first episode, – via Jo Bloom’s novel of the the weekends (RIP Saturday the former as a randy old same name – on the true story Breakfast, 2011-12). The team man and the latter in an of the 62 Group, a team of will be marking the quar- absolute scenery-chewing Jewish anti-fascists who set ter century this week with performance as an antiqui- about taking down neo-Nazis reels of the best Breakfast ties collector with a range in early 1960s London. The moments, along with some of peccadilloes. The nature story’s 22-year-old protago- memorable bloopers and of the show means the guest nist, Vivien Epstein (debutante blunders. There will be cast often get to really turn Agnes O’Casey), is Bloom’s special guests and, we’re it up. creation, but other characters promised, “epic” giveaways for viewers. “We just play straight down the line kind of detective-y acting, but the guest cast come in and they do have a bit of licence to just go for it,” Sutherland confirms. “And we just kind of stand there quite jealous at the acting that’s going on, because it looks really fun. “It is quite a hard balance to strike – you don’t want it to be completely farcical and hard to watch. But at the same time, I guess in this sort of climate that we’re in at the moment, where everything’s a bit grim, you do want to just watch some- thing that is enjoyable. You want the murder element of it, but you also just want to feel good about it.” l AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 67
ENTERTAINMENT Barons, Friday. JOANNA LUMLEY’S GREAT perfect. (When seagulls poop is back on duty for five stories Reader, more modern nostal- CITIES OF THE WORLD around a private clifftop pool from Groot’s childhood (he gia from Australia. Barons is Ms Lumley packs her bags in the Algarve, the answer is, doesn’t even have to learn set amid the emergent surfing Screening: TVNZ 1, 8.00pm of course, to employ a full-time any new lines!), along with culture of the early 1970s, with Streaming: TVNZ+ falconer.) Other exclusive Bradley Cooper as Rocket, the its counterculture freedoms The much-travelled British destinations include the genetically enhanced racoon. and perfect waves. The tension screen institution heads to Bahamian island where Bill Colourful family fun from the comes from the rivalry that Paris before other European Gates gets away from it all and Marvel Cinematic Universe. develops between surf buddies capitals. See story on page 65. the Mark Hotel in New York, Trotter (Sean Keenan) and where Meghan Markle had her THURSDAY AUGUST 11 Snapper (Ben O’Toole) as the THE WORLD’S MOST LUXURI- baby shower. Cherie Lunghi lifestyle becomes a business OUS HOLIDAYS (Who Do You Think You Are?) THE REHEARSAL – it’s inspired by the real-life Fabulous pads and perfect places regally presents. Practice makes perfect stories of the Rip Curl and Screening: TVNZ 1, 9.00pm Screening: SoHo, 8.00pm Quiksilver surf labels. Review- Streaming: TVNZ+ WEDNESDAY AUGUST 10 Streaming: Neon, from August 27 ers have praised the aesthetics Not so much an aspirational I AM GROOT The premise of The Rehearsal but found the story a bit messy. travel series – because hardly Branching out is that its host, the profession- anyone can genuinely aspire Streaming: Disney+ ally awkward Nathan Fielder, A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN to holiday in these places – but Groot, the humanoid tree who helps ready ordinary people Playing ball in America a chance to peek in on resorts, made his debut in Guardians of for daunting life events by Streaming: Amazon Prime Video hotels and houses where the the Galaxy, gets his own series running them through every An adaptation of Penny Mar- super-rich take a break, and of photorealistic animated possible outcome in care- shall’s much-loved 1992 film hear from the people whose shorts. Vin Diesel, who voiced fully crafted simulations. about the real-life All-Ameri- job it is to make the places Groot in the Guardians films, Like Fielder’s breakthrough can Girls Professional Baseball Comedy Central series Nathan League, created by Abbi Jacob- The World’s for You, it’s basically about son (Broad City). The series Most Luxurious social anxiety and strategies begins with the formation of Holidays, Monday. for dealing with it – this time the league in 1943 and widens within the frame of what has the story of the original film been described as both a real- to the generation of women ity show and a “docu-comedy”. players who followed. It stars It sounds very weird, but early Jacobson as Carson Shaw and reviews have been quite warm. Chanté Adams as Max, two players finding their way in a FRIDAY AUGUST 12 changing America. Look out for a cameo from one of the BARONS stars of the original film, Rosie Seventies surf thrills O’Donnell. l Streaming: TVNZ+ On the heels of The News 68 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
TV Films byRUSSELLBAILLIE The big movies on TV this week SATURDAY AUGUST 6 DAN IN REAL LIFE Prisoners of the RAMPAGE Agony uncle in love Ghostland, Saturday. Monster mash SING Three, 8.25pm TVNZ 2, 8.30pm Critter karaoke A thoughtful if only-in-the- outlandish oddball Sion Sono, Enjoyably silly big beastie TVNZ 2, 7.00pm movies kind of romcom, with this is a post-apocalyptic bashathon based on the 80s Enjoyable animated jukebox Steve Carrell as the widower samurai western in which arcade game. When geneti- musical led by a Matthew father-of-three parental-advice Nicolas Cage gets strapped cally altered giant animals McConaughey-voiced Koala columnist who meets cute into a leather jumpsuit with start demolishing Chicago, it named Buster Moon, who’s customer Juliette Binoche only bombs that will go off if he seems only Dwayne Johnson’s trying to keep his theatre to find she’s going out with his doesn’t rescue a warlord’s helicopter-flying primatolo- going by staging an Idol-like younger brother. Warning: “granddaughter” from a no-go gist – an old mate of George, singing contest. The contend- Pete Townshend’s 1980 solo hit zone. What could go wrong? the albino gorilla causing ers include Rosita the pig and movie staple Let My Love Other than Mad Max’s lawyers some of the mayhem – can stop (Reese Witherspoon), Ash the Open the Door is a pivotal plot getting in touch? Well, mainly them. (2018) anxious porcupine (Scarlett point. (2007) that it’s just not as much fun as Johansson), Johnny the gorilla all that sounds. (2021) NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (well-known Elton John FAME Power play impersonator Taron Egerton) Not lighting up the sky ALOHA Eden, 8.30pm and Mike the mouse whose Eden, 8.30pm Romcom bomb Kate Beckinsale and Vera Far- voice suggests he’s more Rat Director Alan Parker’s gritty TVNZ 2, 9.00pm miga go toe to toe in this solid Pack (Seth MacFarlane). (2016) original 1980 movie, about Director Cameron Crowe has political-journalism thriller, New York performing arts made many fine films (Jerry loosely based on the Plamegate ARCTIC JUSTICE school students dancing in the Maguire, Almost Famous), but scandal of the Bush-Cheney era, Icy waste streets, spawned a TV series this terrible romantic comedy, in which a CIA operative was Whakaata Māori, 7.00pm and quite a few more 80s teen- about Bradley Cooper’s outed by a newspaper column- Well, the voice cast is interest- age musicals. And, eventually, military contractor negotiat- ist and a reporter was jailed ing – Jeremy Renner as its this pointless PG remake. ing with native Hawaiians for contempt of court for not husky hero, John Cleese as (2009) about a satellite tracking revealing her sources. (2008) an evil walrus, Heidi Klum station while getting involved as a fox – but that’s where the PRISONERS OF THE with Emma Stone’s US Air inspiration on this polar- GHOSTLAND Force pilot, is a spectacular themed computer-animated Cage goes gonzo, again dud. (2015) creature feature stopped. Rialto, 8.30pm (2019) Directed by Japanese Dan in Real Life, SUNDAY AUGUST 7 SCREAM Saturday. Having yet another stab at it VENOM Sky Movies Premiere, 8.30pm; Toxic avenger Neon Three, 8.00pm Despite no number in the title, Middling Spider-Man spin-off this is the fifth in the irony- and anti-hero origin story heavy slasher-horror franchise with Tom Hardy in Jekyll and with gluttons-for-punishment Hyde mode as Eddie Brock, original stars Courteney Cox, an investigative journalist David Arquette and Neve who gets spliced with an alien Campbell returning to get symbiote, which rather affects spooked by a killer in that mask, his outlook on life and widens all over again. (2022) his appetite. (2018) AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 69
ENTERTAINMENT Talkback Bellbird, Sunday. THE LAST SON PREQUEL TO BORIS interesting detail resulted in Misfire informative coverage. BELLBIRD Sky Movies Premiere, 8.30pm; Although I cannot afford all “Most days now, I’m just sore.” Neon, August 12 these new streaming services, However, what stood out was Whakaata Māori, 8.40pm Moody, violent and forget- I am lucky to enjoy Sky TV and the respect the new event was A low-key, beautifully table western starring Sam some of the quality programmes given. It poignantly under- observed drama, from debut Worthington as a gunslinger we used to see. scored the emptiness of this feature director Hamish who, after a fortune teller year’s Easter coverage and the Bennett, about a father and tells him one of his children Just now, I am laughing my fact that there is no longer any son – played by Marshall will be the death of him, goes way through the Yes, Minister media interest in any aspect of Napier and Cohen Holloway around killing his offspring. series. Has anything really Christianity. – at loggerheads about the Among the supporting cast is changed in the 40-plus years future of the family farm musician Machine Gun Kelly since it was first made? From Yet, the Christian faith is in the aftermath of a family wielding, yep, a machine gun. what we hear and read through a foundation of our culture tragedy. Great performances (2021) the news media, it seems things and our civilisation. Why not from both blokes help tell a have stayed much the same. explore how it has shaped and touching story about how FRIDAY AUGUST 12 Although I doubt a prime min- influenced us? we don’t always grow up to ister like Boris Johnson would become our fathers’ sons. GREENLAND have been found believable. Is it for lack of journalists suf- (2019) Armageddon upgrade ficiently interested in the main Three, 7.30pm It is a pity we cannot rewatch religion in New Zealand, or is MONDAY AUGUST 8 A killer-comet film star- some of the previous quality Christianity too embarrassing PERSIAN LESSONS ring Gerard Butler, as a man dramatisations such as The and naff nowadays? If memory serves trying to get his family into a Pallisers or The Barchester Rialto, 8.30pm government bunker, might Chronicles, which are based on The myths that accompany Gripping concentration- suggest more computer- quality literature. Matariki are no less strange camp drama about Gilles, a created apocalypse-porn. But than the myths within Christi- young Belgian Jew who, after it’s a surprisingly gripping This cannot be said for the anity, but if we can explore one, claiming to his SS captors survival thriller. (2020) machine-gun and car-crash why not the other? he’s actually Persian, must American TV on offer. S Stewart then give lessons in Farsi, a LICORICE PIZZA David Speary (Christchurch) language he doesn’t know, to Tasty slice of life (Northcote, Auckland) the deputy commandant. So Sky Movies Premiere, 8.30pm It is good that Graeme Ferguson begins a desperate act of cre- Yet another Californian sub- TREASURE CHESTS found much that was laudable ating a fake language on the urbia shaggy-dog tale from about RNZ broadcasting on the fly and trying to remember it. director Paul Thomas Ander- I long ago gave up watching first Matariki holiday. (2020) son. But it’s one that has a free-to-air prime-time TV, with much sunnier disposition its endless and mindless diet of However, his opinion goes WEDNESDAY AUGUST 10 than the likes of his Boogie cooking and house-renovation to prove that what one listener RED Nights and Magnolia, with programmes. finds charming, another finds Ex-CIA OAPs go OTT its enjoyably rambling 1972 excruciating. Whakaata Māori, 8.30pm coming-of-age story about the But I have discovered TVNZ+ Jovial and amusing action friendship between teenage and ThreeNow. What a delight Rather than appreciating the comedy teaming Bruce Gary and twenty-something to see a series like Sherwood and “enthusiasm” and “passion” of Willis, Dame Helen Mirren, Alana. (2021) a film like Brexit: The Uncivil the co-presenters, I and others Morgan Freeman and John War. found their adolescent giggling Malkovich as former spies Films are rated out of 5: not only unprofessional but and assassins who find (abysmal) to Congratulations to the chan- irritating to the point of being themselves on a hit list. (2010). nels. Let us hope they keep it unable to listen to the rest of that up and I look forward to the programme. (amazing) Listener keeping us primed on the gems to watch out for. The only thing we found David Barber “infectious” was the compulsion (Waikanae) to switch off. Carol Brown MATARIKI COVERAGE (Aro Valley, Wellington) I absolutely concur with Graeme Please send comments, queries Ferguson (Talkback, July 16), or complaints about radio or who would like to see as much television to: listenerletters@ effort put into other holiday aremedia.co.nz with “Talkback” programmes as was given to in the subject line, or Talkback, Matariki this year. NZ Listener, PO Box 52122, Kingsland, Auckland 1352 It was an impressive inau- gural programme, as the 70 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
SATURDAY AUGUST 6 TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001 TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002 THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003 6.00 Te Karere (R) 6.00 Ready, Steady, Wiggle! (G, 6.00 Charles Stanley Film: SEARCHING 6.30 Country Calendar (G, R, HD, R, HD, C, AD) 6.30 Infomercials 9.30 Newshub Nation A thriller that makes the point C, AD) 6.10 Postman Pat (G, HD, C, AD) 10.30 Celebrity Family Feud (PG, that our online presence is 7.00 Fishing and Adventure (G, R, 6.25 Apollo’s Tall Tales (G, R, not the same as who we are R, C) s4ep2 in real life. Hardly a new idea, HD, C) HD, C) 11.30 Extreme Couponing (PG, C) but Aneesh Chaganty’s film, 7.30 Infomercials 6.40 PJ Masks (G, R, HD, C) which won three awards at 8.30 Religious Programming 7.00 Love Monster (G, R, HD, C) s2ep9 Sundance, is cleverly con- 9.00 Extreme Cake Makers (G, R, 7.10 Madagascar: A Little Wild Noon The Block NZ: Redemption trived to tell its story entirely through computer screens, HD, C) (G, HD, C) Marathon (PG, R, C) smartphones and cameras 9.30 Tagata Pasifika (HD) 7.30 SpongeBob SquarePants (G, 3.25 The Masked Singer NZ – “a classic thriller told in a 10.00 Paul Goes to Hollywood (G, very unconventional way,” R, HD, C) (PG, R, C) says Chaganty, who spent R, HD, C, AD) 7.55 Moomin Valley (G, HD, C) 5.00 Lego Masters USA (G, R, C) two years on the editing 11.00 Winning Combination (G, 8.15 The Croods: Family Tree (G, process. Incredibly, it was the s2ep9 first mainstream Hollywood R, HD, C, AD) Omid Djalili HD, C) 6.00 Newshub Live thriller headlined by an Asian- presents a UK game show. 8.40 Dragons: Riders of Berk (G, 7.00 Building the Kiwi Dream American actor (John Cho). Noon Under the Vines (PG, R, HD, However, on a budget of less C, AD) s1ep4 R, HD, C) (PG, C) The build is halted by than US$1m, the film made 1.05 Sarah Beeny’s Renovate 9.05 ■ Ninjago (G, R, HD, C) an ancient kauri tree beneath US$75m at the box office and Don’t Relocate (G, HD, C) 9.15 Hardball (G, R, HD, C) the ground, but even with a sequel is now in production. 2.00 The Great Kiwi Bake Off (G, 9.40 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C, costs ballooning, Matt and THREE, 10.25pm R, HD, C, AD) s3ep7 Kaylene aren’t ready to make 3.30 Clean It, Fix It (G, HD, C) AD) s11ep20 a compromise. Travel: FANTASTIC UK series in which a team 10.00 Fresh (PG, C) A look into the 7.30 Crikey! It’s the Irwins (PG, FRIENDS of cleaners and DIY experts C) Hunter the tiger is being help households reclaim their world of the Fijiana 7s team, sedated for his annual eye Disappointingly, James and space. dancers Kaea and Ruth check, and Bindi puts on a Oliver Phelps are not ginger, 4.30 Every Bite Takes You Home Pearce go head-to-head in birthday party for Minibus, like their Harry Potter charac- (G, C) Kylie Kwong explores Cooking with the Stars, and the zoo’s oldest wombat. ters Fred and George Weasley. the culture and food of Say It with Yo Chest returns. s1ep2 However, they do still like a bit refugees and migrants in 10.30 ■ The Walkers (G, R, C, AD) 8.25 ■ Dan in Real Life (2007, PG, of mischief and in this series Australia. s2ep6 C) On a family trip home, a they meet friends such as 5.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) 11.00 Have You Been Paying widower meets a woman, Maisie Williams and Haley Joel Bradley Walsh hosts a UK Attention? (PG, R, C) but then discovers she is his Osment for escapades in a quiz show. Noon ■ The Weakest Link: USA brother’s girlfriend. Steve variety of countries. 6.00 1 News (HD, C) (G, HD, C) Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane TVNZ 2, 3.55pm 7.00 Tipping Point Lucky Stars 1.00 The Courtship (PG, HD, C) Cook. TV Films, page 69 (G, HD, C) Ben Shephard s1ep6 10.25 ■ Searching (2018, M, R, hosts a celebrity version 1.55 The Good Witch (G, HD, C) C) A father tries to find his of the UK quiz show, with 2.55 Junior Bake Off (G, HD, C) missing 15-year-old daughter Robert Peston, Judi Love 3.55 ■ Fantastic Friends (G, HD, with the help of a police and Pete Wicks. s8ep7 C, AD) James and Oliver detective. John Cho, Debra 8.00 Lotto Phelps present a travel Messing, Michelle La. 8.05 Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest series. Today, the twins 12.20am Infomercials Airport (G, HD, C, AD) Joel, gatecrash Maisie Williams’ 5.00 Leading the Way the manager of the airport’s holiday on Saint Lucia. s1ep1 5.30 – 6.00 Charles Stanley testing centre, tries to make 5.00 Superman & Lois (PG, sure that everyone gets HD, C) PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 the right test for the right 6.00 The Cube (G, HD, C) Phillip country. s7ep6 Schofield presents a UK 6.00 2022 Commonwealth 8.35 Grand Designs UK (M, R, game show. Games Coverage of the HD, C, AD) In South Devon, 7.00 ■ Sing (2016, G, HD, C, AD) New Zealand team in Joe and Claire’s family house An impresario’s attempt Birmingham. will be a giant sculpture to save his theatre with 70m long and featuring 34 a singing competition 8.30 2022 Commonwealth enormous angled zinc shards becomes grander than Games Highlights (G, C) jutting out in all directions. he anticipates. Voices of Action from day 8. 9.35 Screw (16, HD, C, AD) As Matthew McConaughey, Leigh’s latest maverick Reese Witherspoon. 9.30 Kids’ Programmes (C) scheme unravels in front TV Films, page 69 10.30 RAW (PG) of Governor Ray, she finds 9.00 ■ Aloha (2015, M, R, HD, C, 11.30 Farah Palmer Cup Live herself even more isolated AD) A former US Air Force from the other officers. s1ep4 officer returns to Hawaii Counties Manukau v 10.35 Pact of Silence (M, HD, when he is hired to oversee Canterbury, live from C, AD) Max tries to grill the launch of a satellite. Pukekohe. Anna about Jack’s death, Bradley Cooper, Emma 1.30 The Ditch (G, R) putting more strain on their Stone. TV Films, page 69 2.00 National Provincial marriage. s1ep4 11.00 ■ Saw 3 (2006, 18, HD, C, Championship Live Counties 11.45 ■ Guilt (16, R, HD, C, AD) AD) Tobin Bell. Manukau v Otago, live from UK crime thriller. Tonight, it 1.00am The Great Kiwi Bake Off from Navigation Homes appears that Max’s fall from (G, R, C, AD) Stadium, Pukekohe. grace is complete, but he has 2.15 ■ Batman v Teen Mutant 4.00 2022 Commonwealth a secret motivation to reveal. Ninja Turtles (2019, PG, R, Games Highlights (G, R, C) s2ep1 HD, C) Voice of Troy Baker. Action from day 8. 2.00am Nashville (PG, HD, C) 3.45 B Positive (PG, R, HD, C) 5.00 The Loggers (PG, R, C) s5ep15 s1ep16 5.30 Prime News 3.30 Infomercials 4.05 God Shave the Queens (16, 6.00 American Pickers (PG, R) 5.30 – 6.00 Religious HD, C) 7.00 Storage Wars (PG, R, C) Programming 4.30 Fresh (PG, R, C) 7.30 – 6.00am 2022 5.00 Infomercials Commonwealth Games 5.30 – 6.00 Religious (C) Coverage of the New Programming Zealand team in Birmingham. ■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 71
SATURDAY AUGUST 6 WHAKAATA Film: SHADOWLANDS MĀORI FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 There are a thousand weepies in which 6.30 Kids’ Programmes someone gets cancer, but this “literate 9.30 Ōpaki (G, R) hankie sopper”, said the Washington 10.30 Ako (G, R) Post, is elevated by William Nicholson’s 11.00 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe (G, R) screenplay and superb performances Noon Haka at Home (G, R) from Anthony Hopkins and Debra 1.00 Whakataukī (G, R) Winger. 1.30 Karanga: The First Voice WHAKAATA MĀORI, 8.40pm (G, R) BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012 EDEN FREEVIEW 8 SKY 013 RUSH FREEVIEW 14 SKY 024 2.00 Whaikōrero (G, R) 2.30 Home, Land and Sea (G, R) 6.00 Infomercials 6.00 My Cat from Hell (PG, R) 6.00 Wheelers Dealers (PG, R) 3.00 Intrepid Journeys (PG, R) 10.00 Million Dollar Listing NY 7.00 The Pioneer Woman (G) 6.50 Overhaulin’ (PG, R) 4.00 Marae 7.30 Valerie’s Home Cooking (G) 8.25 Head Rush (G, R) 5.00 Moosemeat and Marmalade (PG, R) 8.05 Bobby Flay’s Barbecue 9.15 Tanked Marathon (PG, R) 11.55 Catfish (PG, R) 1.20 Inside West Coast Customs (G, R) 12.45 Southern Charm (PG, R) Addiction (G, R) 5.30 Waka Man (G, R) 9.05 Mysteries at the Museum (PG, R) 6.00 Piri’s Tiki Tour (PG, R) Piri s4ep5-6 2.10 Treehouse Masters (PG, R) 2.35 Tiny House Nation (PG, R) (PG, R) 2.55 Ed Stafford: First Man Out Weepu meets divers, farmers 3.30 Hoarders: Family Secrets 10.05 American Pickers (PG, R) and hunters. 11.00 Building the Dream (G) (PG, R) 6.30 He Aha to Say? (G, R) A (PG, R) s1ep3 12.05 Celebrity IOU (G, R) 3.45 Alaska: Battle on the Bay series of candid interviews 4.30 Ghost Hunters (PG, R) 1.05 Strictly Come Dancing with the people of Ngāti 5.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver (PG, R) Porou. (G, R) 4.40 Goblin Works Garage 7.00 ■ Arctic Justice (2019, (PG, R) 2.00 The Chase USA (PG, R) PG) An Arctic fox works 6.35 Catfish (PG, R) 3.00 Animal Cribs (PG) s2ep2 (PG, R) in a courier mailroom, but 7.30 Southern Charm (M) Austen 4.00 The Best Thing I Ever Ate 5.40 Overhaulin’ (PG) wants to be out doing the 6.35 Man vs Wild (PG, R) deliveries. Voices of Jeremy is hurt that Craig didn’t tell (G) 7.30 Treasure Quest: Snake Renner, Heidi Klum. him about hooking up with 5.00 Mysteries at the Museum TV Films, page 69 Naomiea. Island (PG) 8.40 ■ Shadowlands (1993, PG, R) 8.30 The Real Housewives of (PG) 8.25 Bering Sea Gold (M) The Based on the story of writer Miami (M) The ladies reunite 6.00 American Pickers (PG) and professor CS Lewis and to discuss what happened 7.00 My Lottery Dream Home (G) challenges of finding gold his relationship with spirited during and after the season. 7.30 Who Wants to Be a are wearing on the miners. US poet Joy Gresham. 9.40 Embarrassing Bodies (M, 9.15 Gem Hunt (PG) Ron LeBlanc Anthony Hopkins, Debra R, C) Millionaire? UK (G) searches for Imperial topaz Winger. 10.40 Exhumed: Killer Revealed 8.30 ■ Fame (2009, PG) Collins in Brazil. 11.00 – 11.30 Anika Moa Unleashed (16, R) 10.10 Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (M, R) 11.35 Snapped (M, R) Pennie, Debbie Allen, Charles (PG) 12.25am Infomercials 5.00 – 6.00 S Dutton. TV Films, page 69 11.05 Overhaulin’ (PG, R) Top Chef (PG, R) 10.55 Forged in Fire (PG) 11.55 Man vs Wild (PG, R) 11.50 Flea Market Flip (G) 12.40am Programmes continue 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials TVNZDUKE FREEVIEW6SKY023 SKY PREMIERE SKY030 MOVIESCLASSICSSKY034 RIALTO SKY 039 6.00 On Duke Today 7.22 Sorority Sister Killer (2021, 7.00 Guess Who’s Coming to 6.25 Daughter of Mine (2018, M) 7.00 DUKEbox Music M) Sarah Fisher Dinner (1967, PG) Spencer Valeria Golino 12.05 Extreme E: Electric Odyssey Tracy, Sidney Poitier 8.50 Music (2021, M) Kate 8.00 Only the Animals (2019, M) (G) Hudson, Maddie Ziegler 8.50 Unforgiven (1992, M) Clint Denis Menochet 12.35 Superstore (PG, R, HD, Eastwood, Gene Hackman 10.37 Superintelligence (2020, 9.55 The Secrets We Keep (2020, C, AD) PG) Melissa McCarthy 11.00 The Night of the Generals 16) Noomi Rapace 2.10 Secrets of the London (1967, PG) Omar Sharif, Peter 12.22 A Quiet Place Part II (2020, O’Toole 11.30 Oranges and Lemons (2020, Underground (G, R, HD, M) Emily Blunt G) Skyler Sylvester C, AD) 1.25 Groundhog Day (1993, PG) 3.00 River Monsters (PG, R, 2.00 Survive the Night (2019, 16) Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell 11.45 Jealous (2017, M) Karin HD, C) Bruce Willis ViardKarin Viard 3.55 Xploration: Awesome Planet 3.05 Malcolm X (1992, M) Denzel (G, R, HD) 3.30 Escape Room: Tournament Washington, Angela Bassett 1.30 My Darling Vivian (2020, M) 4.20 Impossible Engineering (G, of Champions (2021, M) US documentary. R, HD, C) Taylor Russell, Logan Miller 6.25 Cape Fear (1991, 16) A lawyer 5.15 The Big Bang Theory (G, R, and his family are terrorised 3.05 Young Ahmed (2019, PG) HD, C) 5.05 Don’t Breathe 2 (2021, 16) by an escaped criminal after Idir Ben Addi 6.00 MythBusters: There’s Your Stephen Lang evidence that may have Problem! (G, R, HD) acquitted him was withheld 4.30 Tupaia’s Endeavour (2020, 6.35 Ultimate Rides (G, HD) 6.43 The French Dispatch at his trial. Robert De Niro, M) Local documentary. 7.05 Family Guy (PG, R, C, AD) (2021, M) Journalists at Nick Nolte 7.30 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C) an American magazine in 6.35 Minari (2020, PG) A Korean s13ep7 France file their final stories. 8.30 Carrie (1976, 16) A bullied family moves to a tiny 8.30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Benicio Del Toro, Adrien high school misfit discovers Arkansas farm. Steven Yeun Countdown (M, R, HD, C) Brody, Frances McDormand she has supernatural powers. 9.30 ■ Underworld (2003, 16, R, Sissy Spacek, John Travolta 8.30 Rialto Selection: Prisoners HD, C, AD) A vampire at war 8.30 The King’s Man (2021, 16) of the Ghostland (2021, 16) with lycans falls in love with In the early 20th century, 10.10 Waterloo (1970, G) Based A criminal must break a a human who is turned into a British aristocrat forms a on events leading up to curse in order to rescue an a werewolf. Kate Beckinsale, spy network. Ralph Fiennes, and during the Battle of abducted girl. Nicolas Cage, Scott Speedman, Michael Harris Dickinson Waterloo in 1815. Rod Steiger, Sofia Boutella TV Films, Sheen, Bill Nighy. Christopher Plummer page 69 11.45 – 2.10am Alphas (M, HD) 10.45 The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021, 16) 12.20am Captain Apache (1971, 10.10 Settlers (2021, 16) Sofia Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga PG) 1.55 Pale Rider (1985, PG) 3.50 Boutella Robinson Crusoe (1954, G) 5.20 12.35am Lost & Found (2019, M) Halloween III: Season of the Witch 11.55 Rent-A-Pal (2020, 16) Wil 2.05 All My Life (2020, M) 3.35 (1982, 16) Wheaton Unpregnant (2020, M) 5.20 The French Dispatch (2021, M) 1.40am Kill Ben Lyk (2018, 16) 3.00 Jealous (2017, M) 4.45 My Darling Vivian (2020, M) 72 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
SATURDAY AUGUST 6 SKY CHANNELS Marathon (M) 8.30 The Perfect Murder (M) 9.30 Finding Andrea (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) Vibe SKY 006 12.15am Programmes continue 6.00 Private Eyes (M) s3ep12 7.00 Jamestown (16) Sky Arts SKY 020 SoHo:The Girl Before, 8.30pm s2ep1 7.55 Parenthood Omnibus (M) 12.05 Downton Abbey (M) 1.10 The Drowning (M) s1ep2 2.00 Judge 6.05 ■ Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016, G) 8.00 SKY SPORT Judy Omnibus (PG) 4.30 Private Eyes (M) s3ep12 ■ Half Way (2015, G) 9.30 Forte 10.30 Anthems: 5.30 Family Finders (M) s1ep13&14 6.30 The Sounds New Zealand’s Iconic Hits (M) 11.15 Stars of the Sky Sport 1 SKY 051 (M) Tom’s health is fast deteriorating, but he finds Silver Screen Noon 1968: Photographic Acts (PG) a friend in a passing bushman. s1ep4 7.30 ■ Bessie 12.55 ■ You Are the Days to Come (2021, G) 2.05 6.50 Football, Premier League, Crystal Palace v (2015, M) Based on the life of blues singer Bessie ■ Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016, G) 4.00 ■ Arsenal, live 9.00 NPC, Manawatu v Canterbury Smith, who became one of the most influential Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2006, G) 5.40 The 11.00 NRL, Manly Sea-Eagles v Parramatta Eels artists of the 20th century. Queen Latifah, Michael Artist’s Workshop 6.00 Devolution: A Devo Theory 11.30 Farah Palmer Cup, Counties Manukau v Kenneth Williams. 9.30 Harlots (16) The business 7.00 Parklife 8.30 The Museum and the Billionaire Canterbury, live 1.30 NPC, Manawatu v Canterbury could founder if Margaret and North can’t find a (G) Documentary about the Paris Museum 1.45 All Blacks v Ireland, game 3 2.00 Farah Palmer way to entice new clients. s1ep4 10.25 The Closer restoration, where French Billionaire Francois Cup, Auckland v Manawatu, live 4.00 Farah Palmer Omnibus (M) 2.20am Programmes continue Pinault showcases his art collection. 9.25 National Cup, Counties Manukau v Canterbury 4.30 Gallaher Gallery Singapore: Revealed 10.15 The Decisive Shield, final, live 6.30 NPC, Counties Manukau v BBC UKTV SKY 007 Moment 10.30 Isle of Wight Festival 2021 12.00am Otago 6.45 NPC, Manawatu v Canterbury 7.00 Programmes continue National Provincial Championship, Auckland v 6.00 The Jonathan Ross Show: Special Guests (M) North Harbour, from Eden Park, Auckland, live s1ep2 6.25 QI Marathon (M) 8.00 Would I Lie to Discovery SKY 070 9.00 PGA Champions Tour, Shaw Charity Classic, You? Marathon (PG) 9.40 The Bill Marathon (M) round 1, replay 11.00 ATP 500, Citi Open, day 5, 1.45 Casualty (PG) s36ep44 2.35 Holby City (M) 6.05 How It’s Made (PG) 6.30 How Do They Do match of the day 12.30am NRL, South Sydney s21ep15 3.40 Call the Midwife (PG) s7ep5 4.45 It? (PG) 6.55 Gold Rush: Dave Turin’s Lost Mine Rabbitohs v NZ Warriors, replay 2.30 Rugby A Touch of Frost (M) s1ep1 6.50 Father Brown (M) 7.45 Outback Opal Hunters Marathon (PG) Championship, South Africa v All Blacks, from (PG) s9ep5 7.40 Casualty (PG) David’s block of 12.10 Aussie Salvage Squad (PG) 1.05 Heavy Tow Mbombela Stadium, Nelspruit, live 5.00 National flats is devastated by an explosion. s36ep45 8.30 Truckers Down Under (M) 2.00 Gold Rush: White Provincial Championship: Manawatu v Canterbury; Midsomer Murders (M) In the village of Little Malton, Water (M) 2.55 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) 3.50 5.15 Waikato v Hawke’s Bay; 5.30 Auckland v North a wealthy landowner’s body goes missing on the Deadliest Catch Marathon (M) 6.35 Bering Sea Gold Harbour; 5.45 Counties Manukau v Otago night of his death. s18ep1 10.20 All Round to Mrs (M) 7.30 Building Off the Grid (PG) 8.30 Homestead Brown’s (M) With Jake Wood, Nicola Adams and Rescue (PG) 9.30 Moonshiners (M) 10.30 Blowing Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 Lorraine Kelly, and music from Westlife. s3ep5 11.15 Up History (PG) 11.25 NASA’s Unexplained Files Who Do You Think You Are? Australia (PG) Chris (PG) 12.15am Programmes continue 7.30 All Blacks v Ireland, game 3 7.45 NPC, Bath sets out to discover if a mysterious Spanish Manawatu v Canterbury 8.00 Sky GrassRoots governess actually existed in her Mum’s family. National Geographic SKY 072 Rugby 9.00 PFL, Play Off 1, live 1.00 NRL, 12.10am Programmes continue Melbourne Storm v Gold Coast Titans 1.30 NRL, 6.00 Food Factory (PG) 6.30 Drain the Oceans Manly Sea-Eagles v Parramatta Eels 2.00 Farah SoHo SKY 010 (PG) 8.30 Alaska: The Next Generation (PG) 9.30 Palmer Cup, Northland v Hawke’s Bay, live 4.00 Car SOS (PG) 11.30 Only in Oz Croc Wise (PG) Golf, Women’s British Open, round 2 4.30 National 6.50 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (M) 11.40 Top 10 Biggest Beasts Ever (PG) 1.30 When Provincial Championship, Waikato v Hawke’s s9ep18 7.25 I May Destroy You (18) s1ep6 7.55 The Sharks Attack (M) 2.30 Shark Attack Files (M) 3.30 Bay, live 6.30 AFL, live 9.30 AFL, live 12.30am Rising (16) s1ep3 8.40 Mrs. Fletcher (18) s1ep1 9.10 Air Crash Investigation: Special Report (M) 4.30 World Athletics U20 Championships, day 5 1.50 Fear the Walking Dead (18) s7ep13 9.55 Mare of Air Crash Investigation (M) 5.30 Buried Secrets Football, Premier League, Bournemouth v Aston Easttown (18) s1ep2 10.55 Last Week Tonight with of WWII (PG) 6.30 Lost Treasures of Egypt (PG) Villa, live 4.00 NPC, Waikato v Hawke’s Bay 4.15 John Oliver (M) s9ep18 11.30 Mayans M.C. Marathon 7.30 Food Factory Marathon (PG) 10.30 Drain NPC, Auckland v North Harbour 4.30 PGA Tour, (16) s2ep1-9 7.20 Mayans M.C. (16) The need the Oceans Best ofs (PG) 11.30 Dutch Caribbean Wyndham Championship, round 2 5.00 PGA Tour, for justice ignites tough decisions for the Reyes Coastguard (PG) 12.30am Programmes continue Wyndham Championship, round 3, live brothers and the MC. s2ep10 8.30 The Girl Before (16) After receiving some shocking news, Jane History SKY 073 dedicates herself to finally uncovering the truth about Emma’s story. s1ep3 9.30 Animal Kingdom 6.30 Europe’s Last Warrior Kings (M) 7.30 Secrets (16) J holds a family meeting, Pope refuses to sell of Britain (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Lost Treasures his vacant lot, and Deran embraces his clout. In of the Ancient World 10.30 Time Team 11.30 WWII: 1992, Smurf and Andrew meet with a lawyer, and Witness to War (PG) 12.30 American Dynasties: Julia struggles to be heard. s6ep2 10.30 Westworld The Kennedys (PG) 1.30 Europe’s Last Warrior (18) s4ep6 11.30 Irma Vep (16) s1ep4 12.30am Kings (M) 2.30 Secrets of Britain (PG) 3.30 Myth Programmes continue Hunters (PG) 4.30 Abandoned Engineering (PG) 5.30 Shipwreck Secrets (PG) 6.30 David Starkey’s Living SKY 017 Magna Carta (PG) 7.30 Great British History Hunters (PG) A unique collection of Roman Bronzes 6.15 Selling Houses Australia 7.05 Cake Wars (PG) make life-changing amounts of money at auction, 7.55 Buddy vs. Duff (PG) 8.45 Salvage Hunters mudlarks scour the Thames foreshore for treasures, Marathon (PG) 12.10 Grand Designs New Zealand and a 3000-year-old gold sun pendant discovered (PG) 1.05 Every Family Has a Secret (PG) 2.00 in Shropshire. 8.30 Shark Terror: USS Indianapolis Guy’s Grocery Games (PG) 2.55 Tournament of (PG) 9.30 Hiroshima: 75 Years Later (M) 11.30 Titans Champions (PG) 3.50 Mystery Diners (PG) 4.45 of the 20th Century (M) 12.30am Programmes Restaurant: Impossible (PG) 5.40 Shed and Buried continue Marathon (PG) 7.30 Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages (PG) In North West England and North BBC Earth SKY 074 Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 Wales, Penelope explores a Victorian garden and attends her first music festival. 8.30 The Great 6.00 Life Below Zero (PG) 6.45 Life Below Zero 6.00 PGA Tour, round 2, live 10.00 Sky GrassRoots British Dig (PG) Hugh Dennis is joined by an expert (M) 8.25 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 10.05 The Planets Rugby 11.00 Fox Sports News Noon The Grid 12.30 team of archaeologists to excavate back gardens (PG) 11.00 What Are We Feeding Our Kids? (PG) NPC, Manawatu v Canterbury 12.45 All Blacks v around Britain. 9.40 Garden Rescue (PG) 10.40 11.55 Judi Dench’s Wild Borneo Adventure (PG) 1.35 Ireland, game 3 1.00 DP World Tour, Cazoo Open, Escape to the Chateau (PG) 11.30 Guy’s Grocery Walking the Himalayas (PG) 2.25 The Bear Family & round 2 2.00 NRL, Melbourne Storm v Gold Coast Games (PG) 12.20am Programmes continue Me (PG) 3.25 Waterhole: Africa’s Animal Oasis (PG) Titans 2.30 NRL, Manly Sea-Eagles v Parramatta 4.25 Incredible Journeys with Simon Reeve 5.30 Eels, replay 4.30 NRL Premiership, South Sydney Investigation Discovery SKY 018 10 Puppies and Us (PG) 6.35 Animal Impossible Rabbitohs v NZ Warriors, live 6.55 NRL Premiership, (PG) 7.35 Walking the Himalayas (PG) Levison Canberra Raiders v Penrith Panthers, live 9.25 6.05 Obsession: Dark Desires (M) 7.45 Predator at Wood sets out to walk the length of the world’s NRL Premiership, Cronulla Sharks v St George Large (M) 8.35 Still a Mystery (M) 9.25 Nightmare highest mountain range. 8.30 The Bear Family & Illawarra Dragons, live 12.30am The Fan 1.00 NPC, Next Door (M) 10.20 Grave Secrets (M) 11.15 The Me (PG) 9.30 Life Below Zero (M) 10.25 Secrets Waikato v Hawke’s Bay 1.20 DP World Tour, Cazoo Perfect Murder (M) 12.10 Finding Andrea (M) 2.00 of Bones (PG) Ben Garrod uncovers the secrets Open, round 2 1.50 Premier League, Newcastle v American Detective with Lt. Joe Kenda (M) 2.55 of how vertebrates capture and devour their food. Nottingham Forest, live 4.15 IndyCar, Grand Prix of American Monster (M) 3.50 Your Worst Nightmare s1ep3 11.20 Incredible Journeys with Simon Reeve Nashville, Practice, live 5.15 West Indies v India, 4th 12.20am Programmes continue T20, live AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 73
SUNDAY AUGUST 7 TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001 TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002 THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003 Film: MEET THE WALLERS 6.00 Attitude (G, R, HD, C, AD) 6.00 Peppa Pig (G, R, HD, C) 6.00 Life TV 6.25 Paddington Station (PG, R, 6.10 Kangaroo Beach (G, R, HD, 6.30 Leading the Way Film projects rarely extend 7.00 Charles Stanley out 20 years and Australian HD, C) C) 8.00 Life TV director Jim Stevens didn’t 7.15 Tagata Pasifika (R, HD) 6.20 Bluey (G, HD, C) 8.30 Turning Point intend for his fly-on-the-wall 7.40 Praise Be (G, R, HD, C) 6.50 Care Bears: Unlock the 9.00 Extreme Couponing (PG, R, documentary to take that 8.10 ■ Susan Calman’s Grand long. In the end, however, Magic (G, R, HD, C) C) s2ep9 the span of Meet the Wallers is Day Out (G, R, HD, C, AD) 7.10 Trollstopia (G, R, HD, C) 9.25 The Hui (R, C) With what makes it special. Stevens 9.00 Q+A with Jack Tame (HD, 7.35 Ben 10 (G, R, HD) wanted to make a story about 7.45 Bunnicula (G, R, HD, C) Mihingarangi Forbes. an artist and his family and C) Political interviews and 8.05 Spongebob Squarepants (G, 9.55 Newshub Nation (C) With whether love can survive the discussions. vicissitudes of the art world. 10.00 Waka Huia (G) Māori stories R, HD, C) Simon Shepherd and Oriini He began rolling in the early and histories for all New 8.30 What Now? (G, C) Local Kaipara. 2000s, following Mark and Zealanders. 10.55 Nature’s Strangest Nicole Waller in the beachside 10.30 Marae (HD) kids’ show featuring, games, Mysteries: Solved (PG, R, C) town of Lennox Head as they 11.00 The Great British Sewing interviews, fun and gunge. s1ep12 begin a family and strug- Bee (G, R, HD, C, AD) s6ep2 9.30 Home and Away Omnibus 11.20 What Could Possibly Go gle with the feast-or-famine Noon Attitude (G, C, AD) Aidan’s (G, R, HD, C) Wrong? (PG, R, C) s1ep2 nature of Mark’s work. Stevens life changed forever when he 11.25 Shortland Street Omnibus Noon Incredible Engineering also captures the urbanisation was knocked out with a king- (PG, R, HD, C, AD) Blunders: Fixed (PG) s1ep5 of Lennox Head and is there hit punch, leaving him unable 1.55 United States of Al (PG, HD, 1.00 Muscle Garage (PG) s10ep10 when Mark is diagnosed with to walk, talk or even eat, but C, AD) s2ep12 1.30 Motorsport: Supercars a brain tumour. six years on, Aidan has made 2.20 B Positive (PG, HD, C) s2ep5 Championship Round 8, The DOCPLAY incredible progress. 2.50 Call Me Kat (PG, HD, C, AD) Bend. 12.30 Fair Go (R, C) Pippa Wetzell s2ep8 2.45 Motorsport: GT World Documentary: OUR and Hadyn Jones present 3.20 The Middle (G, R, HD, C) Challenge Europe Round 3, SIMPLE LIFE consumer affairs and s1ep8 24 Hours of Spa, Belgium. investigations. 3.50 Mr. Bean (G, R, HD, C, AD) 4.00 Suzuki Extreme 4x4 Fishing in the lochs of 1.00 Sunday (R, C) Miriama Kamo s1ep7 5.00 Bondi Lifeguard World Scotland or running a Stone presents current affairs. 4.20 ■ The Swan Princess: A Adventures (PG, R, C) s1ep10 Age settlement in the Welsh 2.00 Space Invaders (G, R, HD, C, Royal Wedding (2020, G, 5.30 Piri’s Tiki Tour (G, C) s5ep4 wilderness doesn’t sound that AD) HD, C, AD) Princess Odette 6.00 Newshub Live simple, downright difficult 3.00 Extraordinary Escapes (G, and Prince Derek are invited 7.00 The Masked Singer NZ in fact. But this new series HD, C, AD) In Cornwall, Sandi to Princess Mei and Chen’s (PG, C) follows families doing just Toksvig and Sue Johnston wedding. Voices of Nina 8.00 ■ Venom (2018, M, R, C) A that, as well as crofters on the visit a modernist beach Herzog, Yuri Lowenthal. reporter becomes merged Scilly Isles and goat farmers in house overlooking Praa 6.00 Wipeout (G, HD, C) John with a symbiotic alien. Tom Somerset. Sands, a fairy-tale cottage in Cena and Nicole Byer Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz LIVING, 7.30pm the woods, and a bespoke host a US series in which Ahmed. TV Films, page 69 shepherd’s hut on an alpaca thrillseekers compete on an 9.55 9-1-1 (M, R, C) s4ep4 farm. s2ep3 extreme obstacle course. 10.55 Death Row: Countdown to 4.00 Susan Calman’s Grand Week 7.00 MasterChef Australia: Fans Execution (M, R, C) by the Sea (G, HD, C, AD) & Favourites (PG, HD, C, 11.50 Infomercials In St Ives, Susan goes seal another episode screens 5.30am – 6.00 AM Early With spotting and reminisces with tomorrow) Contestants Bernadine Oliver-Kerby. Gyles Brandreth. s1ep3 attempt to create a dish that 5.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) will transport the judges and PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 Bradley Walsh hosts a UK guest chef Rick Stein to a quiz show. special place. 6.00 2022 Commonwealth 6.00 1 News (HD, C) 8.30 ■ Rampage (2018, 16, R, HD, Games Coverage of the 7.00 Country Calendar (G, HD, C, AD) When three different New Zealand team in C, AD) A young Taranaki animals become infected Birmingham. family farms sheep and beef with a dangerous pathogen, on steep country and makes a primatologist and a 9.00 2022 Commonwealth the most of the mānuka they geneticist team up to stop Games Highlights (G, C) once dismissed as scrub by them destroying Chicago. Action from day 9. developing a honey business. Dwayne Johnson, Naomie 7.30 Sunday (C) Miriama Kamo Harris. TV Films, page 69 10.00 NRL Premiership (G) South presents current affairs. 10.30 Four Weddings and a Sydney Rabbitohs v NZ 8.30 ■ The Brokenwood Funeral (M, HD, C) Ainsley Warriors. Mysteries (16, HD, C, AD) and Craig play matchmaker, Local crime-drama series. as do Gemma and Duffy. Noon Rugby Championship (G) Tonight, the transfer of s1ep8 South Africa v All Blacks, Brokenwood Museum’s 11.30 Death Row Doctors (M, HD, from Mbombela Stadium, Egyptian sarcophagus C) Series about America’s Nelspruit. reveals a less than ancient murderous medical mummy. s8ep1 professionals. 2.00 NRL Premiership (G) 10.35 Line of Duty (16, HD, C, AD) 12.20am License to Kill (M, HD, C) Cronulla Sharks v St George Lindsay fights for her life as s2ep2 Illawarra Dragons. troubling details emerge of a 1.10 In Ice Cold Blood (16, C) conspiracy involving corrupt s2ep5 4.00 2022 Commonwealth police officers. s2ep5 1.55 ■ Demons in the City of Games Highlights (G, R, C) 11.50 The Commons (M, HD, Angels (16, HD, C) Action from day 9. C, AD) As her pregnancy 2.45 B Positive (PG, R, HD, C) progresses, Eadie needs to s1ep17 5.00 Storage Wars (PG, R, C) make good on her offer to 3.50 2 Tunes 5.30 Prime News take Shay’s National Service 4.00 Infomercials 6.00 American Pickers (PG, R) days. s1ep3 4.30 Religious Programming 7.00 Storage Wars (PG, R) In 12.40am – 6.00 Infomercials (HD) (HD) 5.00 – 6.00 Infomercials Westminster, California, Barry sets an auction record. 7.30 – 6.00am 2022 Commonwealth Games (C) Coverage of the New Zealand team in Birmingham. ■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition 74 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
SUNDAY AUGUST 7 WHAKAATA Film: THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER MĀORI FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 Considered one of the greats, partly 6.30 Kids’ Programmes due to its influence on directors such 8.30 Whānau Bake-Off (G, R) as Fassbinder, Altman and Scorsese. 9.30 Easy Eats (G, R) However, it was Charles Laughton’s 10.00 Kai with Anne Thorp (G, R) only directorial effort, as his intention 10.30 Moon Tide Fishing (G, R) of restoring “the power of silent films 11.00 Te Ao Mārama to talkies” bombed at the time. 11.30 Te Ao with Moana (G, R) SKY MOVIES CLASSICS, 3.45pm Noon Te Ao Tapatahi 12.30 Tagata Pasifika BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012 EDEN FREEVIEW 8 SKY 013 RUSH FREEVIEW 14 SKY 024 1.00 5 Minutes of Fame (G, R) 2.00 ■ Arctic Justice (2019, PG, 6.00 Top Chef (PG, R) 6.00 Key of David 6.00 Tanked (PG, R) 9.30 Hollywood Medium with 6.30 Through the Bible 7.40 Goblin Works Garage R) Voice of Jeremy Renner. 7.00 Leading the Way 3.40 Someday Stories (PG, R) Tyler Henry (PG, R) 7.30 Animal Cribs (PG, R) s2ep2 (PG, R) 4.00 Waka Huia (G, R) 11.00 Love It or List It: Vancouver 8.20 Baked in Vermont (G) 8.30 Alaska: Battle on the Bay 4.30 The Hui (R) 8.50 The Best Thing I Ate (G, R) 5.00 Matangireia (G, R) (PG, R) 9.40 Museum Mysteries (PG, R) (PG, R) 5.30 Te Ao Toa 11.45 Hoarders: Family Secrets 10.25 American Pickers (PG, R) 9.20 Treehouse Masters (PG, R) 6.30 Artefact (G, R) Dame 11.10 Building the Dream (G) 10.10 Ed Stafford: First Man Out (PG, R) s1ep4 Noon Craft Wars (PG) Anne Salmond presents a 12.30 Catfish (PG, R) 1.00 Best in Food (G) (PG, R) documentary series about 1.30 Dog Rescuers (PG, R) 1.30 Who Wants to Be a 11.00 Inside West Coast Customs important artefacts. Today, 2.30 Rich Kids Go Skint (PG, R) kaitiaki need protecting and 3.30 Million Dollar Listing NY Millionaire? UK (G, R) (PG, R) Dame Anne meets those 2.30 My Lottery Dream Home 11.50 Overhaulin’ Marathon who guard the guardians. (PG, R) 7.30 Navajo Springtime (PG, R) 6.30 Tiny House Nation (PG) (G, R) (PG, R) Documentary about the 7.30 ■ The Guilt Trip (2012, M, R, 3.00 Dr. Jeff (PG) 1.30 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) Navajo, the largest Indian 4.00 Alex vs America (G) 5.40 Overhaulin’ (PG) nation in the United States. C) A failing inventor invites 5.00 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 6.40 Head Rush (G) 8.40 ■ Bellbird (2019, M) A rural his mother on a cross- 6.00 American Pickers (PG) 7.30 Turbo Pickers (PG) community rallies around country trip. Seth Rogen, 7.00 Billy Buys Brooklyn (PG) 8.25 Iron Resurrection (PG) A a recently widowed farmer Barbra Streisand. 7.30 Martin Clunes: Islands of to help him cope with his 9.30 ■ The Long Island Serial customer gives the team grief. Marshall Napier, Annie Killer: A Mother’s Hunt America (PG) freedom with a 1963 Cadillac. Whittle, Kahukura Retimana, for Justice (2021, M, R) 8.30 ■ Nothing But the Truth 9.20 Texas Metal (PG) The client Cohen Holloway. TV Films, Based on the story of a requests a last-minute page 69 mother’s search for the (2008, 16) Kate Beckinsale. engine swap on the year- 10.20 – 11.20 Tāringa (G, R) A truth about her daughter’s TV Films, page 69 long 1950 Ford F5 COE bilingual podcast. disappearance. Kim Delaney. 10.35 Forged in Fire (PG) build. 11.30 Embarrassing Bodies (M, 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G) 10.10 Last American Cowboy (M) R, C) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials 11.05 Overhaulin’ (PG, R) 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials 11.55 Head Rush (G, R) 12.40am Programmes continue TVNZDUKE FREEVIEW6SKY023 SKY PREMIERE SKY030 MOVIESCLASSICSSKY034 RIALTO SKY 039 6.00 On Duke Today 7.10 Moonshot (2022, M) Cole 6.55 Hamburger Hill (1987, M) 6.20 Minari (2020, PG) Steven 7.00 DUKEbox Music Sprouse, Zach Braff Don Cheadle Yeun, Will Patton 11.00 Glastonbury: 50 Years and 8.55 Alone (2020, 16) Jules 8.45 Othello (1951, G) Orson 8.15 Tupaia’s Endeavour (2020, Counting (PG, HD, C, AD) Willcox, Marc Menchaca Welles, Micheal MacLiammoir M) Local documentary. 12.40 Superstore (PG, R, HD, C, AD) 2.15 Motorway Patrol (PG, R, C) 10.35 The Little Things (2021, M) 10.15 Fun with Dick and Jane 10.20 Settlers (2021, 16) Sofia 3.05 River Monsters (PG, R, Denzel Washington (1977, PG) Jane Fonda Boutella HD, C) 12.40 Nobody (2021, 16) Bob 11.50 The Manchurian Candidate 12.05 Spinster (2019, M) Chelsea 4.00 Xploration: Awesome Planet Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen (1962, PG) Frank Sinatra Peretti (G, R, HD) 2.15 In the Heights (2021, PG) 1.55 The Long Goodbye (1973, M) 1.40 Belushi (2020, M) US 4.20 Impossible Engineering (G, Anthony Ramos Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden documentary. R, HD, C) 4.40 Blue Bayou (2020, M) Justin 3.45 The Night of the Hunter 3.25 How to Be a Good Wife 5.15 The Big Bang Theory (G, R, Chon, Alicia Vikander (1955, PG) Robert Mitchum (2020, M) Juliette Binoche HD, C) 6.35 No Sudden Move (2021, 16) 5.15 An American Werewolf 5.15 Katie (2018, M) Irish 6.00 MythBusters: There’s Your When a simple job goes in London (1981, 16) David documentary. awry, a group of criminals Naughton, Griffin Dunne Problem! (PG, R, HD) try to uncover what’s really 6.50 Queen Bees (2021, PG) A 6.30 Ultimate Rides (G, HD) going on. Don Cheadle, 6.50 Sex, Lies and Videotape woman reluctantly agrees 7.00 Family Guy (PG, R, HD, Benicio Del Toro (1989, M) A lawyer’s affair to move into a retirement with his sister-in-law is home. Ellen Burstyn C, AD) 8.30 Scream (2022, 16) Twenty- complicated by a visitor 7.30 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C) five years after the first with an usual fetish. James 8.30 Rialto British: Ridley Road murders, a new killer dons Spader, Andie MacDowell (M) In 1960s London, a s13ep9 the Ghostface mask to Jewish hairdresser discovers 8.30 Great Escapes with Morgan resurrect secrets from 8.30 Forever Young (1992, PG) an anti-fascist group working Woodsboro’s deadly past. A 1939 test pilot volunteers against the rising far-right Freeman (M, R, HD, C, AD) Neve Campbell, Courtney for a cryogenics experiment movement. s1ep1 The escape from Dannemora Cox TV Films, page 69 after the love of his life goes Prison in New York. s1ep2 into a coma. Mel Gibson, 9.30 The Girl on the Bridge 9.25 Top Gear America (M, HD) 10.30 Locked Down (2021, M) Jamie Lee Curtis. (2020, M) Local Dax, Rob and Jethro test Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel documentary. hotrods under $5000. Ejiofor 10.10 Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992, 10.05 Wheelburn (PG, HD) Rog M) Gary Oldman 11.00 Blush (2019, M) Wendi finally does a burnout after 12.30am The Fallout (2021, 16) 2.05 McLendon-Covey 10 years of trying. The Unholy (2021, M) 3.45 The 12.15am Halloween (1978, 16) 1.45 10.35 Raw Recruits (16, R, HD) Body (2018, 16) 5.10 Campus Caller T-Men (1947, PG) 3.15 Castle Keep 12.45am Beyond Driven (2020, M) 12.20am – 1.05 12 Monkeys (16, HD) (2017, M) (1969, M) 5.00 Cat Ballou (1965, 2.05 Spinster (2019, M) 3.40 How PG) to Be a Good Wife (2020, M) 5.30 Katie (2018, M) AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 75
SUNDAY AUGUST 7 SKY CHANNELS 2.00 Michelle Carter: Love, Texts & Death (M) 3.50 Ted Bundy: Mind of a Monster (M) 5.40 Las Vegas Vibe SKY 006 Law (M) 6.35 Finding Andrea (M) 8.30 Predator at Large (M) 9.30 Still a Mystery (M) 10.30 The Perfect 6.25 Family Finders (M) s1ep13&14 7.25 The Sounds Murder (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 12.15am (M) s1ep4 8.10 Judge Judy Omnibus (PG) 9.50 The Programmes continue Closer Omnibus (M) 1.40 Harlots (16) s1ep4 2.30 ■ Bessie (2015, M) Queen Latifah. 4.30 Why Are We Sky Arts SKY 020 BBC Earth:Waterhole: Africa’s Animal Fat? (G) s1ep1 5.30 Murder, Mystery and My Family: Oasis, 8,30pm Case Closed (M) s1ep1 6.30 Dream Home Rescue 6.15 The Decisive Moment 6.30 Isle of Wight (PG) s2ep1&2 7.30 The Cotswolds with Pam Ayres Festival 2021 8.00 Salzburg Festival 2021: Mozart’s SKY SPORT (PG) Starting in the Wiltshire town of Bradford- Don Giovanni 11.35 Parklife 1.05 The Artist’s on-Avon, Pam takes to the water on a narrowboat Workshop 1.25 National Gallery Singapore: Revealed Sky Sport 1 SKY 051 and along the way, uncovers the salacious secrets 2.15 The Decisive Moment 2.30 Isle of Wight of Painswick’s Rococo Gardens. s1ep2 8.30 Victoria Festival 2021 4.00 Gstaad Menuhin Festival: Hilary 6.00 Farah Palmer Cup, Northland v Hawke’s Bay (M) Concerned that the upcoming marriage Hahn Plays Bach 5.30 ■ Written on Water (2020, 6.30 Rugby Championship, Argentina v Australia, between the French King’s son and the Queen of G) A choreographer must face an unresolved live 9.00 Rugby Championship, South Africa v Spain could create a dangerous alliance, Victoria romantic encounter from her past as she creates a All Blacks 11.00 Farah Palmer Cup, Northland v sails to France to deter the wily monarch. s2ep5 new dance work. 6.50 The Artist’s Workshop 7.05 Hawke’s Bay 11.30 Farah Palmer Cup, Tasman v 9.30 Agatha Christie’s Marple (M) A quiet village is Other Voices 8.00 Michael Kiwanuka Plays Baloise North Harbour, live 1.30 Rugby Championship, plagued by a spate of apparently accidental deaths. Session 9.30 Sleaford Mods Live at 100 Club 10.30 South Africa v All Blacks 2.00 National Provincial s4ep2 11.15 Why Are We Fat? (G) S s1ep1 12.15am Rock Legends: Duran Duran 11.15 Rock Legends: Championship, Tasman v Southland, live 4.00 Programmes continue Kiss 12.00am Programmes continue Rugby Championship, Argentina v Australia 4.30 National Provincial Championship, Wellington BBC UKTV SKY 007 Discovery SKY 070 v Bay of Plenty, live 6.30 National Provincial Championship: Manawatu v Canterbury; 6.45 6.00 London Kills (PG) s2ep2&3 7.30 Fawlty 6.05 How It’s Made (PG) 6.30 How Do They Do Waikato v Hawke’s Bay; 7.00 Auckland v North Towers (PG) s2ep6 8.05 Holby City (M) s21ep15 It? (PG) 6.55 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 7.45 Harbour; 7.15 Tasman v Southland 7.30 The 9.05 EastEnders Marathon (PG) 11.05 The Jonathan Contact (PG) 8.35 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Breakdown 8.00 Rugby Nation 8.30 Rugby Ross Show (M) s17ep5 11.55 The Graham Norton Under (M) 9.25 Aussie Salvage Squad (PG) 10.20 Championship, South Africa v All Blacks 10.30 DP Show (M) s29ep4 12.50 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch (M) 11.15 Gold Rush: World Tour, Cazoo Open, round 3 11.00 Golf, PGA Countdown (M) 1.40 Midsomer Murders (M) s18ep1 White Water (M) 12.10 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) Tour, round 3 11.30 Women’s British Open, round 3 3.25 The Trial of Christine Keeler (M) s1ep1 4.30 1.05 Gold Rush: Dave Turin’s Lost Mine (M) 2.00 12.00am Women’s British Open, round 4, live Death in Paradise (PG) s10ep2 5.35 Heartbeat (PG) Outback Opal Hunters Marathon (PG) 7.30 Aussie s18ep6 6.30 Death in Paradise (PG) s9ep8 7.35 Doc Gold Hunters (PG) 8.30 Naked and Afraid (M) 9.30 Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 Martin (M) A local radio presenter is heard slurring Ed Stafford: First Man Out (PG) 10.30 Dual Survival her words during her broadcasts. s2ep4 8.30 (M) 11.25 Bering Sea Gold (M) 12.15am Programmes 6.00 PGA Tour, Wyndham Championship, round Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) Father-and-son continue 3, live 10.00 NRL Premiership: Canberra Raiders v double-act Jack and Michael Whitehall investigate Penrith Panthers; 10.30 Cronulla Sharks v St George their family tree. 9.35 Call the Midwife (M) s1ep1 National Geographic SKY 072 Illawarra Dragons; 11.00 South Sydney Rabbitohs 10.35 Call the Midwife (M) s1ep2 11.40 Casualty (PG) v NZ Warriors 11.30 Farah Palmer Cup, Taranaki s36ep45 12.30am Programmes continue 6.30 Superstructures: Engineering Marvels (PG) v Otago, from Gully Ground, New Plymouth, live 7.30 Air Crash Investigation: Special Report (PG) 1.30 PGA Tour, Wyndham Championship, round 3 SoHo SKY 010 9.30 Lost Treasures of Egypt (PG) 10.30 Wicked 2.00 National Provincial Championship, Taranaki Tuna (PG) 11.30 Dutch Caribbean Coastguard v Northland, live 4.00 Farah Palmer Cup, Tasman 6.40 Mayans M.C. Marathon (16) s2ep1-10 3.40 The (PG) 12.30 Alaska: The Next Generation (PG) 1.30 v North Harbour 4.30 NPC, Auckland v North Girl Before (16) s1ep3 4.40 Animal Kingdom (16) Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the East (M) 3.30 Harbour 4.45 NPC, Waikato v Hawke’s Bay 5.00 s6ep2 5.30 Irma Vep (16) s1ep4 6.30 Baptiste (16) Lost Treasures of Egypt (PG) 5.30 Food Factory Farah Palmer Cup, Taranaki v Otago 5.30 Sal’s NBL s2ep4 7.30 The Lazarus Project (16) George rushes (PG) 6.30 Air Crash Investigation: Special Report Women, Mid North v Central, live 7.30 Premier to finish the job before Lazarus can discover what (M) 7.30 Seconds from Disaster (M) 8.30 Finding League, Fulham v Liverpool, replay 9.30 Premier he’s doing. s1ep6 8.30 Devils (16) The pandemic the Lost Da Vinci 9.30 Drain the Oceans Best ofs League, Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton, replay presents Massimo with an opportunity to finally (PG) 10.30 Alaska: The Next Generation (PG) 11.30 11.30 Rugby Championship: South Africa v All get justice, but he’ll need help from some unlikely Aussie Snake Wranglers (PG) 12.30am Programmes Blacks; 12.00am Argentina v Australia 12.30 NPC, allies. s2ep8 9.30 The Midwich Cuckoos (16) The continue Wellington v Bay of Plenty 12.50 Premier League, children’s grip on the town tightens, and after Leicester City v Brentford, live 3.00 The Breakdown discovering they’re expecting, Zoe and Sam attempt History SKY 073 3.30 Rugby Championship: South Africa v All to escape together. s1ep5 10.30 Real Time with Bill Blacks 4.00 Argentina v Australia 4.30 PGA Tour, Maher (M) s20ep22 11.30 I Love That for You (M) 6.30 Hiroshima: 75 Years Later (M) 8.30 Time Team Wyndham Championship, round 3 5.00 PGA Tour, s1ep8 12.00am Programmes continue 9.30 Great British History Hunters (PG) 10.30 Shark Wyndham Championship, round 4, live Terror: USS Indianapolis (PG) 11.30 Hiroshima: 75 Living SKY 017 Years Later (M) 1.30 Titans of the 20th Century (M) Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 2.30 D-Day: The Untold Stories (M) 4.30 Walking 6.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 7.10 Love Your Garden Britain’s Roman Roads (PG) 5.30 Combat Ships 9.30 Canoe Sprint World Champs, day 1 11.30 (PG) 8.00 Garden Rescue (PG) 8.50 Grow Your (PG) 6.30 Abandoned Engineering (PG) 7.30 Ultimate Bowls 12.30 Sal’s NBL Women, Lower Own at Home with Alan (PG) 9.20 Martha Knows Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson (PG) South v Upper South, live 2.30 West Indies v Best (PG) 9.50 Inside the Factory (PG) 10.50 Tony sets off from London’s St Pancras station on India, 4th T20 3.00 NRL, Canterbury-Bankstown Salvage Hunters: The Restorers (PG) 11.45 Penelope a quest to explore southern Europe in a whole new Bulldogs v North Queensland Cowboys, live 5.55 Keith’s Hidden Villages (PG) 12.40 Rachael Ray’s way. 8.30 Dogfights (PG) 9.30 The Normans (PG) NRL Premiership, Wests Tigers v Newcastle Knights, Week in a Day (PG) 1.35 Girl Meets Farm (PG) 10.30 Secrets of World War II (PG) 11.30 Black Ops live 8.00 Sunday Night with Matty Johns, live 9.00 2.00 Cake Wars (PG) 2.55 Buddy vs. Duff (PG) (M) 12.30am Programmes continue NRL, Canberra Raiders v Penrith Panthers 11.00 3.50 Bakers vs. Fakers (PG) 4.45 Spring Baking NRL, Cronulla Sharks v St George Illawarra Dragons Championship (PG) 5.40 The Best House in Town BBC Earth SKY 074 1.00am Sunday Night with Matty Johns 2.15 West (PG) 6.35 Love It or List It UK (PG) 7.30 Our Simple Indies v India, 5th T20, live Life (PG) 8.30 Salvage Hunters: The Restorers 6.00 Life Below Zero (M) 6.50 The Age of Nature (PG) 9.30 Paramedics on Scene (PG) The Scottish (PG) s1ep2 7.45 Louis Theroux: By Reason of Ambulance Service serves a population of more Insanity (M) 8.50 Trust Me, I’m a Doctor (M) 9.45 than five million, and covers remote islands to busy Madagascar Marathon (PG) 12.30 Madagascar: The cities. 10.30 Cake Wars (PG) 11.20 Buddy vs. Duff Making of (PG) 12.40 The Dog Rescuers with Alan (PG) 12.10am Programmes continue Davies (PG) 2.15 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 3.55 The Planets (PG) 4.50 Blue Planet (PG) 5.50 Walking Investigation Discovery SKY 018 the Himalayas (PG) 6.45 Life Below Zero 7.40 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 8.30 6.05 I (Almost) Got Away with It (M) 7.45 Dead Waterhole: Africa’s Animal Oasis (PG) 9.35 Universe Reckoning (M) 8.35 American Detective with Lt. Joe (PG) Brian Cox begins his exploration of the cosmos Kenda (M) 9.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 10.20 with the great luminous bodies that bring light and Grave Secrets (M) 11.15 The Perfect Murder (M) warmth to the universe: the stars. 10.40 Trust Me, 12.10 Reasonable Doubt (M) 1.05 Body Cam (M) I’m a Doctor (M) 11.40 Madagascar Marathon (PG) 2.25am Programmes continue 76 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
MONDAY AUGUST 8 TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001 TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002 THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003 6.00 Breakfast (HD, C) Jenny- 6.00 Les Mills Born to Move (G, R, 6.00 AM With Ryan Bridge and Documentary: May Clarkson and Indira HD, C) Melissa Chan-Green. CLUSTERF**K: Stewart present news, sport, WOODSTOCK ‘99 information and weather. 6.25 Kiri and Lou (G, R, HD, 9.00 Infomercials C, AD) 10.30 Gold Rush (PG, R, C) s7ep19 There has been a podcast 9.00 Lingo (G, HD, C) 11.30 Newshub Live series and a documentary 10.00 Tipping Point (G, R, HD, C) 6.30 Code Fun (G, R, HD, C, AD) Noon Ready to Love (M, C) already about Woodstock ’99, 11.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) 6.45 Takaro Tribe (G, R, HD, 1.00 ■ Deadly Love Letter (2021, a music festival that was sup- Noon 1 News (HD, C) posed to emulate the 1969 12.30 Emmerdale (PG, HD, C, C, AD) M, R, C) Clare Grant, Rick original’s “3 Days of Peace & 6.55 Darwin & Newts (G, R, HD, Malambri, Michael Steger. Music”. This three-part Netflix AD) Kerry smells a rat and 3.00 Dude, You’re Screwed (PG, doco looks back on what confronts Al, and Sandra is C, AD) C) s2ep8 went wrong over the course shocked to think that Mandy 7.05 Robin Hood: Mischief in 4.00 Bath Crashers (G, C) s7ep12 of four days in Rome, Upstate is onto her. 4.30 Newshub Live New York, including the 1.30 Country Calendar (G, R, HD, Sherwood (G, C) 5.00 Gold Rush (PG, C) s7ep20 choice of the former Griffiss C, AD) A young Taranaki 7.30 The Adventures of Rocky 6.00 Newshub Live Air Force Base, which had family farms sheep and beef 7.00 The Project With Kanoa little shade cover and asphalt on steep country and makes and Bullwinkle (G, R, HD, C) Lloyd, Jesse Mulligan and surfaces that were unforgiv- the most of the mānuka they 7.50 Beyblade Burst Surge (G, R, Jeremy Corbett. ing during a heat wave. What once dismissed as scrub. 7.30 The Block NZ: Redemption started well descended into 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (G, HD, C) (PG, C, another episode violence, rioting, bonfires, HD, C) 8.15 Ricky Zoom (G, R, HD, C) screens tomorrow) The sexual assault and the death 3.00 Tipping Point (G, HD, C) 8.40 Sesame Street (G, R, HD, C) teams begin working on of one attendee. 4.00 Te Karere A Māori 9.05 Bluey (G, R, HD) their upstairs landings, but NETFLIX perspective on the day’s 9.15 Infomercials Mark calls them out for a news and current affairs. 9.40 Les Mills BodyBalance (G, R, challenge that puts the site Reality: SNACKMASTERS 4.30 Neighbours (G, HD, C) on hold. AUSTRALIA Karl and Susan encourage HD, C) 8.35 9-1-1 (M, C) A social media Mackenzie to clear the air 10.10 Home and Away (PG, R, influencer has an accident We understand Twisties, but with her dad, but she is not in a sauna, there’s an what the hell is an Angry interested. HD, C) emergency at a reality show Whopper or, for that matter, 5.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) 10.40 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD, wedding, and a tragedy a Choc Mint Drumstick? The 6.00 1 News (HD, C) occurs when a mother and Aussie iteration of the British 7.00 Seven Sharp (HD, C) Hilary C, AD) daughter go hiking. s5ep15 Bafta-nominated (how?) series Barry and Jeremy Wells 11.10 Charmed (PG, HD, C) 9.30 9-1-1: Lone Star (M, C) starts with Anna Polyviou present current affairs. Noon ■ The Dating List (2019, G, Owen has a breakthrough in and Mitch Orr recreating the 7.30 Fair Go (C) Pippa Wetzell therapy, and a clown has an aforementioned whopper and Hadyn Jones present HD, C) Natalie Dreyfuss. emergency at a young boy’s and thick-cut fries. consumer affairs. 1.45 The Drew Barrymore Show birthday party. s3ep15 TVNZ 2, 8.40pm 8.00 ■ Joanna Lumley’s Great 10.30 Newshub Late Cities of the World (G, HD, (PG, HD, C) 11.00 Head High (M, R, C) Local C, AD) Joanna Lumley seeks 2.35 Sabrina the Teenage Witch drama series. s1ep6 out eccentric aspects of 12.00am Infomercials some of the world’s most (G, HD, C) 5.30 – 6.00 AM Early With famous cities. Tonight, 3.30 The Feed (PG, HD, C) Bernadine Oliver-Kerby. Joanna views Paris from a 5.05 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C, hot air balloon, visits the PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 damaged Notre-Dame, and AD) s30ep11 meets Ibrahim, a refugee 5.30 Friends (G, R, HD, C) s9ep13 6.00 2022 Commonwealth turned inner-city beekeeper. 6.00 Ghosts (PG, HD, C, AD) Games Coverage of the 9.00 ■ The World’s Most New Zealand team in Luxurious Holidays (G, C, Sam and Jay invite nosy Birmingham. AD) UK series about luxury neighbours Henry and getaways. Tonight, a peak Margaret to dinner. s1ep4 9.00 2022 Commonwealth into the Mark Hotel and its 6.30 Home and Away (PG, HD, Games Highlights (G, C) £55,000-a-night penthouse C) Rose investigates Tex, Action from day 10. suite where Meghan Markle and Xander admits he has a held her baby shower, and a problem. 10.00 SmackDown (PG) visit to the £180,000-a-week 7.00 Shortland Street (PG, HD, 11.00 Big Love (M, C) Vila Azzurine in Portugal’s C, AD) Maeve’s ego puts 12.10 Royal Pains (M) Algarve. lives on the line, and TK’s fix 1.05 House (M, C) 10.05 Border Patrol (G, R, HD, C) backfires badly. 2.00 The Late Show with Stephen A Nigerian national kicks 7.30 MasterChef Australia: Fans & off with Border agencies, Favourites (G, HD, C, another Colbert (PG) Customs deal with a fishy episode screens tomorrow) 3.00 Wheel of Fortune (G) parcel from Africa, and In the mystery box challenge, 3.30 Jeopardy (G) Immigration talk to a tricky all ingredients inside must be 4.00 2022 Commonwealth DJ trying to work without a used. visa. 8.40 ■ Snackmasters Australia Games Highlights (G, R, C) 10.35 1 News (HD, C) (M, HD, C, AD) Scott Pickett Action from day 10. 11.05 Shortland Street (PG, R, and Poh Ling Yeow host an 5.00 Tagata Pasifika (G) C, AD) Australian series in which 5.30 Prime News 11.35 Keeping Australia Safe (PG, top chefs are challenged to 6.00 Rugby Nation (G) HD, C, AD) s1ep2 recreate popular snacks. 6.30 Storage Wars (PG, R, C) 12.45am Q+A with Jack Tame (R, 10.05 ■ Extreme Weddings (G, 7.00 Pawn Stars (PG, R) Rick and HD, C) HD, C) Crazy costumes, a Corey sound the alarm when 1.40 Te Karere (R) curry feast for hundreds, a US Navy foghorn comes 2.05 Infomercials and a surprise wedding ashore. 5.30 – 6.00 Te Karere (R) destination. s1ep8 7.30 – 6.00am 2022 11.05 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, Commonwealth Games HD, C) s7ep20 (C) Coverage of the New 12.00am 2 Broke Girls (PG, R, HD, Zealand team in Birmingham. C) s2ep23 12.25 ■ Batwoman (M, HD, C, AD) s3ep13 1.05 Emmerdale (PG, R, HD, C, AD) 1.55 Infomercials 2.50 ■ MasterChef Australia (G, R, HD, C) 4.40 Neighbours (PG, R, HD, C) 5.00 – 6.00 Infomercials ■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 77
MONDAY AUGUST 8 WHAKAATA Film: SUPERMAN MĀORI FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 Its production is now the stuff of legend: 6.30 Kids’ Programmes Mario Puzo was an original scriptwriter; 8.30 Oranga Ngākau (G) Paul Newman and Warren Beatty were 9.00 Easy Eats (G, R) offered the title role; Christopher Reeve 9.30 Whānau Living (G, R) gained 10kg before filming; Marlon 10.00 Hāngi Pit Masters (G, R) Brando wouldn’t learn lines. Neverthe- 10.30 Toi Te Ora (G, R) less, still the best Superman film ever. 11.00 Navajo Springtime (PG, R) SKY MOVIES CLASSICS, 12.25pm Noon Te Ao Tapatahi 12.30 Celebrity Playlist (G, R) BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012 EDEN FREEVIEW 8 SKY 013 RUSH FREEVIEW 14 SKY 024 1.05 Artefact (G, R) 2.00 Tōku Reo (G, R) 6.00 Infomercials 6.00 Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet 6.00 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) 2.35 Ako (G, R) 10.00 Hoarders: Family Secrets (PG, R) 6.50 Tanked (PG, R) 3.05 Kids’ Programmes 7.40 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 5.15 Haka Life (G, R) (PG, R) 7.00 The Pioneer Woman (G) 8.30 Turbo Pickers (PG, R) 5.30 Kids’ Programmes 11.00 Love It or List It: Vancouver 7.30 Valerie’s Home Cooking (G) 9.20 Iron Resurrection (PG, R) 6.00 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe: Te 8.00 Alex vs America (G, R) 10.10 Texas Metal (PG, R) (PG, R) 9.00 Museum Mysteries (PG, R) 11.00 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) Arawa (G, R) Te Hui Ahurei o 11.50 Killer Siblings (M, R) 10.00 American Pickers (PG, R) 11.50 Tanked (PG, R) Ngā Uri a Atuamatua, from 12.50 Tattoo Fixers (M, R) 10.55 Salvage Dawgs (G) 12.40 Treehouse Masters (PG, R) Rotorua. 1.45 Below Deck (M, R) 11.25 Flea Market Flip (G, R) 1.30 Homestead Rescue (PG, R) 6.30 Te Ao Mārama 2.40 Hoarders: Family Secrets Noon Location Location (G) 2.20 Building Alaska (G, R) 7.00 Marae Current affairs. 1.00 Daryl’s Restoration Overhall 3.10 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 7.30 Chatham Islanders (G, R) (PG, R) 4.00 Turbo Pickers (PG, R) Looking after the land and 3.35 Top Chef (PG) (G) 4.50 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) sea as well as each other is 4.30 Shark Tank (PG, R) 1.30 Billy Buys Brooklyn (PG, R) 5.45 Tanked (PG) an essential part of life for 5.30 Million Dollar Listing NY 2.00 Martin Clunes: Islands of 6.35 Wheeler Dealers (PG) the islanders. 7.30 Ed Stafford: Left for Dead 8.00 Te Ao with Moana (G) (PG, R) America (PG, R) Moana Maniapoto presents a 6.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver 3.00 My Cat from Hell (PG) (PG) Ed starts his journey in current affairs series. 4.00 Giada Entertains (G) a tidal mangrove system in 8.30 ■ My Name Is Gulpilil (2021, (PG) 4.30 Gino’s Italian Express (G) Madagascar. M) Documentary aboout the 7.30 Snapped (M) 5.00 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 8.25 Man vs Wild (PG) While in great Australian actor David 8.30 New York Homicide (16) A 6.00 American Pickers (PG) Canada, Bear is buried alive Gulpilil. 7.00 Bang on Budget (PG) in an avalanche. 10.30 Te Ngākau Tapatahi (G, R) mother’s 911 call leads to the 8.00 Newshub Live 9.20 Naked and Afraid (M) Series about Māori knights discovery of her daughter’s 8.30 Cabins in the Wild (PG) 10.15 Alaskan Bush People (PG) and dames. Tonight, Sir Ian body. 9.30 Ugly House to Lovely House 11.05 Tanked (PG, R) Taylor. 9.30 Exhumed: Killer Revealed 11.55 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao Mārama (R) (16) A teen is found dead in (PG) 12.40am Programmes continue her backyard. 10.30 Bang on Budget (PG, R) TVNZDUKE FREEVIEW 6 SKY 023 10.30 Killer Siblings (M, R) 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G) 11.30 Accident, Suicide or 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials 6.00 On Duke Today Murder? (M, R) Noon DUKEbox Music 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials MOVIESCLASSICSSKY034 RIALTO SKY 039 12.25 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, SKY PREMIERE SKY030 6.35 Anzio (1968, PG) Robert 7.00 Queen Bees (2021, PG) Ellen HD, C) Mitchum, Peter Falk Burstyn 12.50 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, 6.45 Summerland (2020, PG) Gemma Arterton, Gugu 8.30 Bite the Bullet (1975, PG) 8.40 The Girl on the Bridge R, HD, C) Mbatha-Raw Gene Hackman, Candice (2020, M) Local 1.10 Battlestar Galactica (M, R, Bergen documentary. 8.25 Misbehaviour (2020, M) HD, C) Keira Knightley 10.40 Buck and the Preacher 10.10 Spinster (2019, M) Chelsea 2.45 Hunting Aotearoa (PG, R, HD) (1972, M) Sidney Poitier, Peretti 3.10 Heavy Rescue 401 (PG, R, HD) 10.10 Charm City Kings (2020, 16) Harry Belafonte 4.05 The Chase Aus (G, HD, C) Jahi Di’Allo Winston 11.45 Red Light (16) s1ep1&2 4.55 ABC World News (PG) 12.25 Superman (1978, PG) 1.30 I Am Greta (2020, M) 5.15 Abandoned Engineering (G, 12.15 Songbird (2020, 16) KJ Apa, Christopher Reeve, Margot Sofia Carson Kidder Swedish documentary. R, HD, C) 3.10 A Woman’s Name (2018, M) 6.10 30 Rock (PG, R, HD, C) 1.40 Crisis (2020, 16) Gary 2.45 … and Justice for All (1979, 6.35 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, Oldman, Armie Hammer M) Al Pacino, Jack Warden Cristiana Capotondi, Adriana Asti HD, C) 3.40 Every Breath You Take 4.45 The Basketball Diaries (1995, 4.40 Annette (2021, 16) Marion 7.00 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, (2021, 16) Casey Affleck 16) Leonardo DiCaprio, Cotillard, Adam Driver Lorraine Bracco 7.00 Make Up (2019, 16) At a HD, C) s4ep13 5.25 Together Together (2021, M) holiday park in Cornwall, 7.30 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C) Ed Helms, Patti Harrison 6.25 The Key (1958, PG) During a young woman is drawn WWII, successive tugboat into obsession when she s13ep11 6.55 The War Below (2021, M) captains become involved suspects her boyfriend 8.30 Family Guy (PG, R, HD, C, Based on the story of miners with a lonely widow. William has cheated on her. Molly who dug a tunnel beneath Holden, Sophia Loren Windsor AD) s15ep20 no man’s land during WWI. 8.30 Rialto World: Persian 9.00 The Office (M, HD, C, AD) Tom Goodman-Hill 8.30 Drugstore Cowboy (1989, Lessons (2020, M) A Belgian 16) A group of junkies rob Jew feigns being Persian s2ep4 8.30 The Courier (2020, M) pharmacies to feed their to avoid being executed 9.35 ■ The Orville (M) Based on the story of a habits. Matt Dillon, Kelly in a concentration camp. 11.05 ■ Battlestar Galactica (16, businessman who was Lynch Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Lars recruited to carry secrets Eidinger TV Films, page 69 HD, C) out of Russia in the 1960s. 10.10 Boyz N the Hood (1991, M) 10.35 The Promise (M) s1ep2 11.55 Robot Chicken (M, HD) Benedict Cumberbatch Cuba Gooding Jr, Laurence 11.30 Instinto Marathon (18) 12.20am Aqua Teen Hunger Force Fishburne s1ep1-4 (PG, HD) 12.45 The Eric Andre 10.25 Falling for Figaro (2021, M) 5.25am A Woman’s Name (2018, M) Show (16, R, HD) 12.55 – 1.15 ABC Danielle Macdonald 12.00am The House That Dripped World News (PG, R) Blood (1971, M) 1.40 Sudden Impact 12.10am Let Them All Talk (2020, (1983, 16) 3.35 Dirty Harry (1971, 16) M) 2.00 12 Mighty Orphans (2021, 5.15 King Rat (1965, PG) M) 3.55 Words on Bathroom Walls (2020, M) 5.45 The Bad Twin (2016, M) 78 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
MONDAY AUGUST 8 SKY CHANNELS Lives Here (M) 10.30 The Perfect Murder (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 12.15am Programmes Vibe SKY 006 continue 6.00 Parenthood (M) s4ep13 6.50 Judge Judy (PG) Sky Arts SKY 020 Sky Arts: Essential Royal Ballet, 9.00pm 7.1f5 The Closer (M) s4ep6 8.05 The Mysteries of Laura (M) s1ep12 8.50 The Good Wife (M) s1ep9 6.30 Rock Legends: Duran Duran 7.15 Rock SKY SPORT 9.40 Covert Affairs (M) s1ep9 10.30 Judge Judy Legends: Kiss 8.00 Gstaad Menuhin Festival: Hilary (PG) 11.15 Agatha Christie’s Marple (M) s4ep2 1.00 Hahn Plays Bach 9.30 ■ Written on Water (2020, Sky Sport 1 SKY 051 Why Are We Fat? (G) s1ep1 2.00 The Closer (M) G) 10.50 The Artist’s Workshop 11.05 Other Voices s4ep6 2.50 The Mysteries of Laura (M) s1ep12 3.40 Noon Michael Kiwanuka Plays Baloise Session 1.30 7.00 Nascar, FireKeepers Casino 400, from The Good Wife (M) s1ep9 4.30 Judge Judy (PG) Sleaford Mods Live at 100 Club 2.30 Rock Legends: Michigan international Speedway, live 10.30 Premier 5.30 Parenthood (M) s4ep13 6.30 Covert Affairs Duran Duran 3.15 Rock Legends: Kiss 4.00 ■ La League, Manchester United v Brighton & Hove (M) s1ep9 7.30 The Supervet: Specials (PG) 8.30 Monnaie: Beyond the Stage (2020, G) Behind the Albion, replay 12.30 Premier League, West Ham Ambulance (16) s6ep8 9.30 Inside the Operating scenes at one of the world’s most prestigious opera United v Manchester City, replay 2.30 National Theatre (M) s1ep13 10.30 The Good Wife (M) s1ep9 houses. 5.30 The Directors: George Cukor 6.15 The Provincial Championship, Waikato v Hawke’s Bay, 11.20 Judge Judy (PG) 11.50 The Supervet: Specials Directors: Akira Kurosawa 7.05 The Great Pottery replay 4.30 National Provincial Championship, (PG) 12.50am Programmes continue Throw Down 8.00 Off Camera 9.00 Essential Royal Tasman v Southland, replay from Lansdowne Ballet (G) Looking back on 10 years at the Royal Park, Blenheim 6.30 Farah Palmer Cup, Counties BBC UKTV SKY 007 Ballet. 10.30 Put Some Colour in Your Life Marathon Manukau v Canterbury, replay from Navigation 12.00am Programmes continue Homes Stadium, Pukekohe 8.30 The Crowd Goes 6.00 Would I Lie to You? (M) 6.35 The Vicar of Wild 9.30 Fox Sports News 10.30 West Indies v Dibley (PG) s1ep1 7.05 QI (M) 7.35 Richard Osman’s Discovery SKY 070 India, 5th T20, highlights from Central Broward House of Games Night (PG) s1ep4 8.10 The Bill Park, Lauderhill, Florida 11.00 Golf, Women’s British (M) 9.00 A Touch of Frost (M) s8ep1 10.20 Father 6.05 How It’s Made (PG) 6.30 How Do They Do It? Open, round 4, highlights 11.30 Farah Palmer, Brown (M) s2ep1 11.10 Doc Martin (PG) s9ep6 Noon (PG) 6.55 Rise of the Machines (M) 7.45 Homestead Auckland v Manawatu, replay 1.30am Farah Palmer Midsomer Murders (PG) s20ep3 1.35 The Bill (M) Rescue (PG) 8.35 Gold Rush: White Water (M) 9.25 Cup, Northland v Hawke’s Bay, replay 3.30 Rugby 2.25 New Tricks (M) s3ep6 3.25 8 Out of 10 Cats Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) 10.20 Gold Rush: Dave Championship, Argentina v Australia, replay 5.30 Does Countdown (M) 4.20 The Jonathan Ross Turin’s Lost Mine (M) 11.15 Extreme Ice Machines Farah Palmer Cup, Auckland v Manawatu, highlights Show (M) s16ep5 5.15 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) 12.10 How Do They Do It? (PG) 12.35 How (PG) 6.20 QI (M) 6.55 EastEnders (PG) 7.25 QI It’s Made (PG) 1.05 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 (M) 8.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 8.35 Death in 2.00 Naked and Afraid (M) 2.55 Bering Sea Gold Paradise (PG) A lottery winner is found dead, but (M) 3.50 Gold Rush: White Water (M) 4.45 Alaska: 6.00 PGA Tour, Wyndham Championship, round her body has disappeared. s10ep3 9.40 The Trial of The Last Frontier (M) 5.40 Aussie Lobster Men (PG) 4, live 10.00 Premier League, Newcastle United Christine Keeler (M) s1ep2 10.45 Keeping Faith (M) 6.35 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) 7.30 Demolition v Nottingham Forest, replay from St James’ Park, s1ep2 11.50 Midsomer Murders (PG) s20ep3 1.25am Down Under (PG) 8.30 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Newcastle Noon Premier League, Leicester City Programmes continue Under (M) 9.30 Last Outpost (PG) 10.30 Railroad v Brentford, replay from King Power Stadium, Alaska (PG) 11.25 Naked and Afraid (M) 12.15am Leicester 2.00 Premier League, Bournemouth v SoHo SKY 010 Programmes continue Aston Villa, replay from Dean Court, Bournemouth 4.00 Premier League, Everton v Chelsea, replay 6.20 Baptiste (16) s2ep4 7.20 The Lazarus Project National Geographic SKY 072 from Goodison Park, London 6.00 Premier League, (16) s1ep6 8.05 Devils (16) s2ep8 9.00 The Midwich Manchester United v Brighton and Hove Albion, Cuckoos (16) s1ep5 9.45 Real Time with Bill Maher 6.00 Aussie Snake Wranglers (PG) 6.30 Drain the replay from Old Trafford, Manchester 8.00 ATP 500, (M) s20ep22 10.45 I Love That for You (M) s1ep8 Oceans Best ofs (PG) 7.30 When Sharks Attack Citi Open Review 9.00 West Indies v India, 5th T20, 11.15 Rap Sh!t (16) s1ep2 11.50 Baptiste (16) s2ep4 (M) 8.30 Shark Attack Files (M) 9.30 Air Crash replay from Central Broward Park, Lauderhill, Florida 12.50 Devils (16) s2ep8 1.45 The Midwich Cuckoos Investigation: Special Report (M) 10.30 Air Crash 1.00am ATP 500, Citi Open Review 2.00 ATP 500, (16) s1ep5 2.30 Real Time with Bill Maher (M) Investigation (M) 11.30 Food Factory (PG) 12.30 Citi Open, singles final, replay 4.00 ATP 1000, s20ep22 3.30 The Righteous Gemstones (16) s1ep5 Air Crash Investigation (M) 1.30 Megastructures National Bank Open, day 1, live 4.15 Work in Progress (16) s1ep7 4.45 Absentia 2.30 Colossal Machines (PG) 3.30 Superstructures: (16) s3ep6 5.35 Britannia (18) s2ep9 6.20 I Hate Engineering Marvels (PG) 4.30 Hitler’s Last Stand Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 Suzie (M) s1ep3 7.00 Black Monday (16) s2ep4 7.25 (PG) 6.30 When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs (PG) 7.30 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (M) s9ep19 Alaska: The Next Generation (PG) 8.30 No Man 6.30 West Indies v India, 5th T20, highlights 7.00 8.00 Made for Love (16) s2ep7 8.35 Westworld Left Behind (M) 10.30 Drain the Oceans Best ofs NRL Premiership, Cronulla Sharks v St George (18) s4ep7 9.35 City on a Hill (16) s3ep1 10.35 Gary (PG) 11.30 Inside Incredible Machines (PG) 12.30am Illawarra Dragons, highlights 7.30 NRL Premiership, Gulman: The Great Depresh (M) 11.50 The Outsider Programmes continue South Sydney Rabbitohs v NZ Warriors, replay 9.30 (16) s1ep10 12.45am Programmes continue Rugby Championship, South Africa v All Blacks, History SKY 073 highlights 10.00 Canoe Sprint World Champs, Living SKY 017 day 2 Noon Canoe Sprint World Champs, day 2, 6.30 The Normans (PG) 7.30 Secrets of World War 5km 5.00 West Indies v India, 5th T20, highlights 6.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 7.10 The Pioneer Woman II (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Around the World 5.30 PGA Tour, Wyndham Championship, round (PG) 7.35 Mexican Made Easy (PG) 8.05 House by Train with Tony Robinson (PG) 10.30 Dogfights 4, highlights 6.00 Women’s British Open, round 4, Hunters (PG) 9.00 Long Lost Family US (PG) 10.00 (PG) 11.30 The Normans (PG) 12.30 Secrets of highlights 6.30 PGA Champions Tour, Shaw Charity Every Family Has a Secret (PG) 11.00 A Place in the World War II (PG) 1.30 History’s Raiders (PG) 2.30 Classic, round 3, replay 8.30 NRL 360, live 9.30 Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 11.55 Love It or List It UK (PG) Scorched Earth (PG) 3.30 The Fury and the Flames Benji, live 10.00 NRL Premiership, Canterbury- 12.50 Location Location Location Australia (PG) (PG) 4.30 Europe’s Secret Armies (PG) 5.30 Lost Bankstown Bulldogs v North Queensland Cowboys, 1.50 Salvage Hunters (PG) 2.45 House Hunters (PG) Treasures of the Ancient World 6.30 Time Team replay 12.00am NRL Premiership, Wests Tigers v 3.45 The Pioneer Woman (PG) 4.15 Mexican Made 7.30 Great British History Hunters (PG) 8.30 Roman Newcastle Knights, replay 2.00 West Indies v India, Easy (PG) 4.45 Every Family Has a Secret (PG) Megastructures (PG) 9.30 Secrets of Highclere 3rd T20, replay 5.40 Location Location Location (PG) 6.35 Love It Castle (PG) 10.30 WWII & Cinema (M) 11.30 The or List It UK (PG) 7.30 A Place in the Sun: Winter Australian SAS: The Untold History (M) 12.30am Sun (PG) 8.30 Selling Houses Australia (PG) 9.30 Programmes continue The Great Hotel Escape (PG) 10.30 Grand Designs New Zealand (PG) 11.25 House Hunters (PG) BBC Earth SKY 074 12.15am Programmes continue 6.00 Primates (PG) 6.50 Life Below Zero (M) 7.40 Investigation Discovery SKY 018 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 8.30 Wonders of the Universe (PG) 9.30 The Placebo Experiment 6.05 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 6.55 American (PG) 10.35 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 11.20 24 Hours Monster (M) 7.45 American Detective with Lt. in A&E (M) 12.10 Seven Worlds, One Planet (PG) Joe Kenda (M) 8.35 Reasonable Doubt (M) 9.25 1.05 Wonders of the Universe (PG) 2.05 Primates Nightmare Next Door (M) 10.20 Grave Secrets (PG) 3.00 Cornwall with Simon Reeve (PG) 4.05 (M) 11.15 The Perfect Murder (M) 12.10 Your Worst The Placebo Experiment (PG) 5.05 Life Below Zero Nightmare (M) 1.05 Obsession: Dark Desires (M) 5.55 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 6.50 The Dog 2.00 I’d Kill for You (M) 2.55 Betrayed (M) 3.50 Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 7.40 24 Hours in Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil (M) 4.45 Your Worst A&E (PG) 8.30 Life Below Zero 9.25 Where the Nightmare (M) 5.40 Finding Andrea (M) 7.30 Evil Wild Men Are (PG) 10.20 Seven Worlds, One Planet Lives Here (M) 8.30 American Monster (M) 9.30 Evil (PG) 11.15 Cornwall with Simon Reeve (PG) 12.20am Programmes continue AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 79
TUESDAY AUGUST 9 TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002 THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003 TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001 Drama: THE GILDED AGE 6.00 Breakfast (HD, C) Jenny- 6.00 Les Mills Born to Move (G, R, 6.00 AM With Ryan Bridge and May Clarkson and Indira HD, C) Melissa Chan-Green. Julian Fellowes’ fascination Stewart present news, sport, with the upper crust contin- information and weather. 6.25 Kiri and Lou (G, R, HD, 9.00 Infomercials ues in this series set in the C, AD) 10.30 Gold Rush (PG, R, C) s7ep20 1880s US boom years. It’s old 9.00 Lingo (G, HD, C) Adil Ray 11.30 Newshub Live money versus the nouveau hosts a UK quiz show. 6.30 Code Fun (G, R, HD, C, AD) Noon Ready to Love (M, C) riche: Carrie Coon’s Bertha 6.40 Takaro Tribe (G, R, HD, 1.00 ■ Murder & Matrimony Russell is determined to break 10.00 Tipping Point (G, R, HD, C) into New York society, using Ben Shephard hosts a UK C, AD) (2021, M, C) Kristen Vaganos. her husband’s massive wealth quiz show. 6.50 Darwin & Newts (G, R, HD, 2.55 ■ Outrageous Acts of to build an opulent pile on Fifth Avenue and launch- 11.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) C, AD) Science (G, C) Series ing various schemes to get Bradley Walsh hosts a UK 7.05 Robin Hood: Mischief in explaining the scientific into the good graces of the quiz show. principles behind popular queen of “The Four Hundred”, Sherwood (G, C) Internet videos. Caroline Astor. Various snub- Noon 1 News (HD, C) 7.25 ■ The Adventures of Rocky 3.55 Bath Crashers (G, C) s7ep13 bings and humilations ensue. 12.30 Emmerdale (PG, HD, C, AD) 4.30 Newshub Live Other real figures include 1.00 Hollyoaks (PG, HD, C, AD) and Bullwinkle (G, R, HD, C) 5.00 Gold Rush (PG, C) s7ep21 Ward McAllister (Nathan 7.50 ■ Beyblade Burst Surge (G, 6.00 Newshub Live Lane) and Clara Barton, who Verity warns Misbah about 7.00 The Project With Kanoa founded the American Red Ali’s lawyer, and a letter R, HD, C) Lloyd, Jesse Mulligan and Cross. Bertha and hubby hidden in Leela’s bag reveals 8.15 Ricky Zoom (G, R, HD, C) Jeremy Corbett. George (Morgan Spector) are the shocking state of Ste’s 8.35 Sesame Street (G, R, HD, C) 7.30 The Block NZ: Redemption based on William K and Alva family finances. 9.05 Bluey (G, R, HD, C) (PG, C, another episode Vanderbilt. 1.30 Fair Go (R, C) Pippa Wetzell 9.10 Infomercials screens tomorrow) An PRIME, 8.30pm and Hadyn Jones present 9.40 Les Mills BodyCombat (G, R, opportunity to win an consumer affairs. advantage at a challenge Crime drama: MARE OF 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (G, HD, HD, C) pushes the teams harder. EASTTOWN C) UK series in which chefs 10.05 Home and Away (PG, R, 8.35 NCIS (M, C) Torres gets race the clock to create a call from Special Agent Nice to see so much prestige appetising recipes from HD, C) Jane Tennant to come to drama on free-to-air telly. Kate mystery ingredients. 10.35 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD, Hawai’i when she gets a lead Winslet is extraordinary as 3.00 Tipping Point (G, HD, C) Ben on a witness in a case they a detective in a small town, Shephard hosts a UK quiz C, AD) worked on together. s19ep17 and went on to win an Emmy show. 11.05 Charmed (M, HD, C) 9.35 NCIS: Los Angeles (M, C) and a Golden Globe. Writer 4.00 Te Karere A Māori Noon ■ A Love to Remember NCIS investigates the murder Brad Ingelsby (The Way Back) perspective on the day’s of a woman employed in explores the effects of crime, news and current affairs. (2021, G, HD, C) Rhiannon the Navy’s missile defence especially on the women of 4.30 Neighbours (PG, HD, C) Fish. programme. s13ep18 the town. Amy avoids Toadie and 1.45 The Drew Barrymore Show 10.30 Newshub Late PRIME, 10.05pm Melanie as they celebrate (PG, HD, C) 11.00 The Hui (C) With their engagement, and Zara’s 2.40 Sabrina the Teenage Witch Mihingarangi Forbes. heart breaks for her mother (G, HD, C) 11.35 Newshub Nation (C) and she suspects Harold is 3.30 The Feed (PG, HD, C) 12.40am Infomercials feeling the same. 5.00 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C, 5.30 – 6.00 AM Early With 5.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) AD) s30ep12 Bernadine Oliver-Kerby. Bradley Walsh hosts a UK 5.30 Friends (G, R, HD, C) s9ep14 quiz show. 6.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG, R, PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 6.00 1 News (HD, C) HD, C, AD) s6ep12 7.00 Seven Sharp (HD, C) Hilary 6.30 Home and Away (PG, C) 6.00 2022 Commonwealth Barry and Jeremy Wells John can’t stand his noisy Games present current affairs and neighbours, and Xander entertainment. seeks help. 7.30 2022 Commonwealth 7.30 Eat Well for Less NZ (G, C, 7.00 Shortland Street (PG, HD, C, Games Closing Ceremony AD) Michael Van de Elzen AD) Maeve cuts deep, Jack’s (G, C) and Ganesh Raj help Kiwi feelings take a turn, and TK families shop better. Tonight, fights for his life. 9.00 2022 Commonwealth Michael and Ganesh take 7.30 MasterChef Australia: Fans Games Highlights (G, C) the stress, and sugar, out of & Favourites (PG, HD, C, Action from day 11. family meals for two single another episode screens mums who have joined tomorrow) Contestants have 10.00 American Pickers (G, R) forces to raise their kids. been asked to write their 11.00 Big Love (M, C) s3ep7 own Pressure Test. 12.10 Royal Pains (M) 8.30 Unbreakable (G, HD, C, 8.40 NCIS: Hawai’i (16, HD, C, 1.05 House (M, C) AD) Local series following AD) Kai goes undercover as 2.00 The Late Show (PG) remarkable individuals as a chef to gather intel on a 3.00 2022 Commonwealth they pursue their life goals. criminal kingpin. s1ep16 Tonight, Jacqui faces her 9.35 SEAL Team (16, HD, C, Games Highlights (G, R, C) demons, and Barney just AD) Bravo try to prevent 4.00 2022 Commonwealth wants to boogie. s2ep2 a terrorist attack while 9.30 Coronation Street (PG, attempting to locate and Games Closing Ceremony C, AD) capture their enemy. s5ep5 Highlights (G, C) 10.30 1 News (HD, C) 10.30 CSI: Crime Scene 5.00 WhichCar (G, R, C) 11.00 Shortland Street (PG, R, Investigation (16, HD, C) 5.30 Prime News C, AD) s5ep7 6.00 Storage Wars (PG, R, C) 11.30 Sunday (R, C) Miriama Kamo 12.25am Chapelwaite (16, HD, C) 7.00 Pawn Stars (PG, R) presents current affairs. s1ep5 7.30 American Pickers (PG, R) 12.25am Royals Declassified (PG, R, 1.15 Emmerdale (PG, R, HD, 8.30 ■ The Gilded Age (16, C) C, AD) s1ep3 C, AD) 10.05 ■ Mare of Easttown (18, C) 1.15 Te Karere (R) 1.40 Infomercials 11.15 The Breakdown (G) 1.40 Infomercials 2.35 Police Code Zero (16, R, 11.45 Succession (16, C) 5.30 – 6.00 Te Karere (R) HD, C) 1.00 The Late Show with Stephen 3.20 Heroes (M, R, HD, C) s1ep23 Colbert (PG) 4.05 B Positive (PG, R, HD, C) 2.00am – 6.00 Infomercials s2ep2 4.25 2 Tunes 4.35 Neighbours (PG, R, HD, C) 5.00 – 6.00 Infomercials ■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition 80 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
TUESDAY AUGUST 9 WHAKAATA Series: MICHIF COUNTRY MĀORI FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 To paraphrase Six60, we should not 6.30 Kids’ Programmes neglect our roots, and this new series 8.00 Tribe (G, R) features a number of well-known 8.30 Oranga Ngākau (G, R) Canadians attempting to reconnect 9.30 Whānau Living (G, R) with their Métis heritage. They include 10.00 He Kākano (G, R) actor Michelle Thrush and comedian 10.30 Toi Te Ora (G, R) Ryan McMahon. 11.00 Chatham Islanders (G, R) WHAKAATA MĀORI, 10.00pm 11.35 Te Ngākau Tapatahi (G, R) Noon Te Ao Tapatahi BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012 EDEN FREEVIEW 8 SKY 013 RUSH FREEVIEW 14 SKY 024 12.30 ■ My Name Is Gulpilil (2021, 6.00 Infomercials 6.00 My Cat from Hell (PG, R) 6.00 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) M, R) Documentary. 10.00 Hoarders: Family Secrets 7.00 The Pioneer Woman (G) 6.50 Tanked (PG, R) 2.35 Ako (G, R) 7.30 Valerie’s Home Cooking (G) 7.40 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 3.05 Kids’ Programmes (PG, R) 8.00 Giada Entertains (G, R) 8.30 Ed Stafford: Left for Dead 5.15 Haka Life (G, R) 11.00 Love It or List It: Vancouver 8.30 Gino’s Italian Express (G, R) 5.30 Kids’ Programmes 9.00 Museum Mysteries (PG, R) (PG, R) 6.00 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe: Te (PG, R) 10.00 American Pickers (PG, R) 9.20 Man vs Wild (PG, R) 11.50 Killer Siblings (M, R) 11.00 Salvage Dawgs (G) 10.10 Naked and Afraid (M, R) Arawa (G, R) 12.50 Tattoo Fixers (M, R) 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G, R) 11.00 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) 6.30 Te Ao Mārama 1.45 Below Deck (M, R) Noon Ugly House to Lovely House 11.45 Tanked (PG, R) 7.00 Giants (G, R) The Filipino 2.40 Hoarders: Family Secrets 12.30 Inside West Coast Customs (PG, R) community. (PG, R) 1.00 Cabins in the Wild (PG, R) (PG, R) 7.30 David Rocco’s Dolce South 3.35 Top Chef (PG) 2.00 Bang on Budget (PG, R) 1.22 Kindig Customs (PG, R) 4.30 Shark Tank (PG, R) 3.00 My Cat from Hell (PG) 2.10 Street Outlaws: No Prep East Asia (G) Siem Reap and 5.30 Million Dollar Listing NY 4.00 Islands to Highlands (G) the temples of Angkor Wat. 5.00 Mysteries at the Museum Kings (M, R) 8.00 Moon Tide Fishing (PG) (PG, R) 3.00 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) Nore Martin and Flynn Jack 6.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver (PG) 3.50 Ed Stafford: Left for Dead fish for yellowtail kingfish at 6.00 American Pickers (PG) Cape Karikari. (PG) 7.00 Great Southern Truckers (PG) (PG, R) 8.30 Deadly Australians (G) 7.30 Rich Kids Go Skint (M) 8.00 Newshub Live 4.50 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) Nature series. 8.30 How to Save a Grand in 24 5.40 Tanked (PG) 9.30 Hunting Aotearoa (PG) Country girl Brooke has 6.35 Wheeler Dealers (PG) Pete is in the Manawatū- grown up on her parents’ Hours (G) 7.30 Alaska: Battle on the Bay Whanganui region. estate in Suffolk. 9.30 Escape to the Chateau: DIY 10.00 ■ Michif Country (G) 8.30 The Real Housewives of (PG) Series in which well-known Beverly Hills (M) (G) 8.25 Edge of Alaska (M) Canadians reconnect with 9.30 Below Deck Down Under 10.30 Great Southern Truckers 9.20 Deadliest Catch (M) their Michif roots. (M) 10.15 Alaskan Bush People (PG) 10.30 Piri’s Tiki Tour (PG, R) 10.30 Killer Siblings (16, R) (PG, R) 11.05 Tanked (PG, R) 11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao Mārama (R) 11.30 Accident, Suicide or 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G) 11.55 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) Murder? (M, R) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials 12.40am Programmes continue 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials TVNZDUKE FREEVIEW6SKY023 SKY PREMIERE SKY030 MOVIESCLASSICSSKY034 RIALTO SKY 039 6.00 On Duke Today 7.20 Six Minutes to Midnight 7.25 The Enforcer (1976, 16) Clint 6.55 Annette (2021, 16) Marion Noon DUKEbox Music (2021, M) Eddie Izzard Eastwood, Tyne Daly Cotillard, Adam Driver 12.25 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, 9.00 Blue Bayou (2020, M) Justin 9.00 The Alamo (1960, PG) John 9.10 Make Up (2019, 16) Molly HD, C) Chon, Alicia Vikander Wayne, Richard Widmark Windsor 12.50 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, 10.55 Dawn Raid (2020, M) Local 11.40 A Fish Called Wanda (1988, 10.40 Persian Lessons (2020, M) R, HD, C) documentary. M) John Cleese Nahuel Perez Biscayart 1.10 Battlestar Galactica (M, R, 12.35 Four Good Days (2019, M) 1.25 The Fan (1996, 16) Robert De 12.45 Red Light (16) s1ep3&4 HD, C) Mila Kunis, Glenn Close Niro, Wesley Snipes 2.25 Flannery (2019, M) US 2.45 Hunting Aotearoa (PG, R, HD) 3.10 Heavy Rescue 401 (G, R, HD) 2.15 The Conjuring 3: The Devil 3.20 Wyatt Earp (1994, M) Kevin documentary. 4.05 The Chase Aus (G, HD, C) Made Me Do It (2021, 16) Costner, Dennis Quaid 3.50 School’s Out (2018, 16) 4.55 ABC World News (PG) Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga 5.20 Abandoned Engineering 6.25 The Bodyguard (1992, Laurent Lafitte 4.10 West Side Story (2021) M) After a pop singer is 5.30 I Used to Go Here (2020, M) (PG, R, C) (2021, M) Ansel Elgort threatened, a former secret 6.10 30 Rock (PG, R, HD, C) service agent becomes her Jemaine Clement 6.35 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, 6.50 The Space Between (2021, bodyguard. Kevin Costner, 7.00 The Man Putin Couldn’t Kill M) When a record label Whitney Houston HD, C) wants to drop a burnt-out (2021, M) UK documentary. 7.00 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, musician, a young guy in 8.30 Tucker: The Man and His 8.30 The Promise (M) Sarah fights the mailroom volunteers Dream (1988, PG) Based on HD, C) s4ep14 to get the job done. Kelsey the story of maverick car to keep the investigation and 7.30 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C) Grammer, Jackson White designer Preston Tucker and collects the files of missing his attempt to build a “car girls. s1ep3 s13ep13 8.30 Moonshot (2022, M) Two of the future”. Jeff Bridges, 9.30 Golden Voices (2019, M) 8.30 ■ From Paris with Love very different college Joan Allen A Russian-Jewish couple students sneak onboard a immigrate to Israel and (2010, 16, HD, C) A space shuttle to Mars. Cole 10.20 Copycat (1995, 18) A reinvent themselves. Mariya diplomatic aide in Paris Sprouse, Zach Braff psychologist and a detective Belkina, Vladimir Friedman teams up with a CIA agent work together to catch 11.00 Undergods (2020, M) Two to stop an attack. Jonathan 10.20 Castle Falls (2021, 16) Dolph a serial killer. Sigourney corpse collectors journey Rhys Meyers, John Travolta. Lundgren, Scott Adkins Weaver, Holly Hunter through the desolate streets 10.15 ■ Battlestar Galactica: of a forgotten city. Johann The Plan (2009, M, HD, C) 11.50 The Nest (2020, 16) Jude 12.20am Young Winston (1972, G) Myers Edward James Olmos. Law, Carrie Coon 2.40 Natural Born Killers (1994, 18) 12.30am Brassic (16) s2ep1&2 11.50 ■ Caprica (16, HD) s1ep1 4.35 Comanche Station (1960, M) 2.00 The Promise (M) s1ep3 3.00 12.40am – 1.00 ABC World News 1.35am Voyagers (2020, 16) 3.20 5.50 Advise and Consent (1962, Flannery (2019, M) 4.30 School’s (PG, R) Penguin Bloom (2020, M) 4.55 PG) Out (2018, 16) Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021, 18) AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 81
TUESDAY AUGUST 9 SKY CHANNELS for You (M) 2.55 Betrayed (M) 3.50 Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil (M) 4.45 Your Worst Nightmare (M) Vibe SKY 006 5.40 American Monster (M) 6.35 Evil Lives Here (M) 8.30 NY Post Investigates (M) 9.30 Finding 6.00 Parenthood (M) s4ep14 6.50 Judge Judy (PG) Andrea (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 12.15am 7.15 The Closer (M) s4ep7 8.05 The Mysteries of Programmes continue Laura (M) s1ep13 8.50 The Good Wife (M) s1ep10 9.40 Covert Affairs (M) s1ep10 10.30 Judge Judy Sky Arts SKY 020 Sky Arts: Boswell & Johnson’s Scottish Road (PG) 11.15 Ambulance (16) s6ep8 12.15 Inside the Trip, 7.45pm Operating Theatre (M) s1ep13 1.05 The Supervet: 6.30 Put Some Colour in Your Life Marathon 8.00 Specials (PG) 2.00 The Closer (M) s4ep7 2.50 ■ La Monnaie: Beyond the Stage (2020, G) 9.30 SKY SPORT The Mysteries of Laura (M) s1ep13 3.40 The Good The Directors: George Cukor 10.15 The Directors: Wife (M) s1ep10 4.30 Judge Judy (PG) 5.30 Akira Kurosawa 11.05 The Great Pottery Throw Sky Sport 1 SKY 051 Parenthood (M) s4ep14 6.30 Covert Affairs (M) Down Noon Off Camera 1.00 Essential Royal Ballet s1ep10 7.30 Frankie Drake Mysteries (M) s4ep7 8.30 2.30 Put Some Colour in Your Life Marathon 4.00 6.00 Football, Premier League, Manchester United Vera (M) Vera investigates the murder of young ■ Impulso (2017, G) The creation of a modern v Brighton & Hove Albion, replay from Old Trafford, physiotherapist. s3ep1 10.15 The Good Wife (M) flamenco. 5.30 Put Some Colour in Your Life 6.00 Manchester 8.00 Premier League, Leicester City s1ep10 11.15 Judge Judy (PG) 11.45 Frankie Drake The Big Book Club 7.00 Photos That Changed the v Brentford, replay from King Power Stadium, Mysteries (M) s4ep7 12.45am Programmes continue World 7.45 Boswell & Johnson’s Scottish Road Trip Leicester 10.00 Premier League, West Ham United v 8.30 Landscape Artist of the Year 9.15 The Live Manchester City, replay from London Stadium Noon BBC UKTV SKY 007 Revival 10.00 Georgia O’Keeffe: Painter of the Far Premier League, Crystal Palace v Arsenal, replay Away 11.00 Off Camera 12.00am Programmes from Selhurst Park, London 2.00 Premier League, 6.00 Would I Lie to You? (M) 6.35 The Vicar of continue Leeds v Wolverhampton Wanderers, replay from Dibley (PG) s1ep2 7.05 QI (M) 7.40 EastEnders (PG) Elland Road, Leeds 4.00 Premier League, Newcastle 8.10 The Bill (M) 9.00 A Touch of Frost (M) s8ep2 Discovery SKY 070 United v Nottingham Forest, replay from St James’ 10.20 Father Brown (M) s2ep2 11.10 Doc Martin Park, Newcastle 6.00 Premier League, Everton (PG) s9ep7 Noon Midsomer Murders (PG) s20ep4 6.05 How It’s Made (PG) 6.30 How Do They Do It? v Chelsea, replay from Goodison Park, Liverpool 1.35 The Bill (M) 2.25 New Tricks (M) s3ep7 3.25 (PG) 6.55 Rise of the Machines (M) 7.45 Homestead 8.00 Sky Speed 8.30 Aotearoa Rugby Pod 9.00 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 4.20 The Rescue (PG) 8.35 Mighty Cruise Ships (PG) 9.25 Goodyear Gallaher Shield, final, highlights 9.30 Jonathan Ross Show (M) s16ep6 5.15 Who Do You Fast N’ Loud (M) 10.20 Heavy Tow Truckers Down The Back Page 10.30 Between Two Posts 11.30 Think You Are? (PG) 6.20 QI (M) 6.55 EastEnders Under (M) 11.15 Gold Rush: Dave Turin’s Lost Mine Farah Palmer Cup, Tasman v North Harbour, replay (PG) 7.25 QI (M) 8.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) (M) 12.10 How Do They Do It? (PG) 12.35 How It’s from Lansdowne Park, Blenheim 1.30am Rugby 8.35 Heartbeat (PG) A widow’s life is endangered Made (PG) 1.05 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) Championship, South Africa v All Blacks, replay by the dodgy business dealings of her late husband. 2.00 Naked and Afraid (M) 2.55 Bering Sea Gold from Mbombela Stadium, Nelspruit 3.30 National s18ep7 9.30 Father Brown (PG) Father Brown’s (M) 3.50 Gold Rush: White Water (M) 4.45 Alaska: Provincial Championship, Tasman v Southland, position is under threat when he clashes with an The Last Frontier (M) 5.40 Aussie Lobster Men highlights 3.45 National Provincial Championship, influential new parishioner. s9ep6 10.25 Doc Martin (PG) 6.35 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 7.30 Aussie Wellington v Bay of Plenty, highlights from Sky (M) s5ep6 11.20 Midsomer Murders (PG) s20ep4 Gold Hunters (PG) 8.30 Mysteries at the Museum Stadium, Wellington 4.00 Farah Palmer Cup, 12.55am Programmes continue (PG) 9.30 Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch (M) 10.30 Taranaki v Otago, replay Contact (PG) 11.25 Naked and Afraid (M) 12.15am SoHo SKY 010 Programmes continue Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 6.20 I Hate Suzie (M) s1ep3 7.00 Mystery Road (16) National Geographic SKY 072 6.00 ATP 1000, National Bank Open, day 1, live s2ep1 7.55 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (M) 2.30 National Provincial Championship, Counties s9ep19 8.30 Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh (M) 6.30 When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs (PG) 7.30 Alaska: Manukau v Otago, replay from Navigation Homes 9.45 Made for Love (16) s2ep7 10.20 Westworld (18) The Next Generation (PG) 8.30 No Man Left Behind Stadium, Pukekohe 4.30 National Provincial s4ep7 11.20 City on a Hill (16) s3ep1 12.20 Mystery (M) 10.30 Drain the Oceans Best ofs (PG) 11.30 Championship, Wellington v Bay of Plenty, replay Road (16) s2ep1 1.15 I Hate Suzie (M) s1ep3 1.55 Last Inside Incredible Machines (PG) 12.30 Air Crash from Sky Stadium, Wellington 6.30 The Breakdown Week Tonight with John Oliver (M) s9ep19 2.30 Investigation (M) 1.30 Megastructures 2.30 Alaska: 7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild 8.00 Premier League, Made for Love (16) s2ep7 3.05 The Outsider (16) The Next Generation (PG) 3.30 Original Sin (M) West Ham United v Manchester City, replay from s1ep final 4.00 The Righteous Gemstones (16) s1ep6 4.30 Mine Kings (M) 6.30 Explorer: The Deepest London Stadium 10.00 Premier League, Leicester 4.35 Work in Progress (16) s1ep8 5.05 Absentia (16) Cave (PG) 7.30 Shark Attack Files (M) 8.30 Dutch City v Brentford, replay from King Power Stadium, s3ep7 5.45 Britannia (18) s2ep10 6.30 Billions (18) Caribbean Coastguard (PG) 9.30 Wicked Tuna (PG) Leicester 12.00am NRL Try Time 1.00 Sky Speed s5ep8 7.30 The Undoing (18) s1ep3 8.30 Fear the 10.30 Buried Secrets of WWII (PG) 11.30 WW2 Hell 1.30 ATP 1000, National Bank Open, day 1, Walking Dead (18) As the battle for the tower heats Under the Sea (M) 12.30am Programmes continue highlights 2.30 ATP 1000, National Bank Open, day up, Alicia brings the fight to Strand’s front door. 1, match of the day 4.00 ATP 1000, National Bank s7ep14 9.30 Irma Vep (16) Rene faces backlash over History SKY 073 Open, day 2, live a scene’s sexual implications. s1ep5 10.25 Mind Over Murder (18) True crime docuseries. s1ep6 11.25 The 6.30 Secrets of Highclere Castle (PG) 7.30 WWII & Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 Nevers (16) s1ep4 12.20am Programmes continue Cinema (M) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Lost Treasures of the Ancient World 10.30 Time Team 11.30 6.00 Ultimate Bowls 7.00 Commonwealth Games, Living SKY 017 Great British History Hunters (PG) 12.30 Roman cricket, Australia v India, replay from Edgbaston Megastructures (PG) 1.30 History’s Raiders (PG) Stadium, Birmingham 10.30 Commonwealth 6.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 7.10 The Pioneer Woman 2.30 Scorched Earth (PG) 3.30 The Fury and the Games, cricket, New Zealand v South Africa, replay (PG) 7.35 Mexican Made Easy (PG) 8.05 House Flames (PG) 4.30 Europe’s Secret Armies (PG) from Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham 11.00 2015 Hunters (PG) 9.00 The Great Hotel Escape (PG) 5.30 Lost Treasures of the Ancient World 6.30 Time ICC Cricket World Cup, quarter-final 4, Black Caps 10.00 Selling Houses Australia (PG) 11.00 A Place Team 7.30 Besieged Fortresses, Legendary Battles v West Indies, replay from Wellington Regional in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 11.55 Love It or List It (PG) 8.30 Around the World by Train with Tony Stadium 9.00 Commonwealth Games, cricket, UK (PG) 12.50 Grand Designs New Zealand (PG) Robinson (PG) 9.30 Bombing War: From Guernica India v Pakistan, replay from Edgbaston Stadium, 1.50 Salvage Hunters (PG) 2.45 House Hunters to Hiroshima (M) 11.30 Secrets of the Railways (PG) Birmingham 12.30am Commonwealth Games, (PG) 3.45 The Pioneer Woman (PG) 4.15 Mexican 12.30am Programmes continue cricket, Barbados v Australia, replay 4.00 Ultimate Made Easy (PG) 4.45 Selling Houses Australia (PG) Bowls 5.00 World Athletics U20 Championships, 5.40 Location Location Location (PG) 6.35 Love It BBC Earth SKY 074 day 1, highlights or List It UK (PG) 7.30 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 8.30 Salvage Hunters (PG) 9.30 Salvage 6.00 Primates (PG) 6.55 Life Below Zero (M) 7.45 Hunters: The Restorers (PG) 10.30 Escape to the Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 8.35 Wonders of the Country (PG) 11.25 House Hunters (PG) 12.15am Universe (PG) 9.40 Feast to Save the Planet (PG) Programmes continue 10.35 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 11.25 24 Hours in A&E (M) 12.15 Seven Worlds, One Planet (PG) 1.10 Investigation Discovery SKY 018 Wonders of the Universe (PG) 2.10 Primates (PG) 3.10 The Age of Nature (PG) 4.05 Feast to Save the 6.05 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 6.55 Predator at Planet (PG) 5.05 Life Below Zero 5.55 Where the Large (M) 7.45 Dead Reckoning (M) 8.35 Deadline: Wild Men Are (PG) 6.50 The Dog Rescuers with Crime with Tamron Hall (M) 9.25 Nightmare Alan Davies (PG) 7.40 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 8.30 Next Door (M) 10.20 Grave Secrets (M) 11.15 The Penguins: Meet the Family (PG) 9.30 Louis Theroux: Perfect Murder (M) 12.10 Your Worst Nightmare By Reason of Insanity (M) 10.35 Seven Worlds, One (M) 1.05 Obsession: Dark Desires (M) 2.00 I’d Kill Planet (PG) 11.35 The Age of Nature (PG) 12.35am Programmes continue 82 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001 TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002 WEDNESDAY AUGUST 10 THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003 6.00 Breakfast (HD, C) Jenny-May 6.00 Les Mills Born to Move (G, R, 6.00 AM With Ryan Bridge and Reality: INDIAN Clarkson, Indira Stewart and HD, C) Melissa Chan-Green. MATCHMAKING the Breakfast team present news, sport, information and 6.25 Kiri and Lou (G, R, HD, C, AD) 9.00 Infomercials Creator Smriti Mundhra weather. 6.30 Code Fun (G, R, HD, C, AD) 10.30 Gold Rush (PG, R, C) s7ep21 says she just wanted “a big, 6.45 Takaro Tribe (G, R, HD, 11.30 Newshub Live mainstream dating show for 9.00 Lingo (G, HD, C) Adil Ray Noon Ready to Love (M, C) South Asian people”, but she hosts a UK quiz show. C, AD) 1.00 ■ Her Son’s Secret (2018, M, opened a can of worms with 6.55 Darwin & Newts (G, R, HD, her docuseries that follows 10.00 Tipping Point (G, R, HD, C) R, C) Olivia d’Abo, Sebastian Mumbai-based matchmaker Ben Shephard hosts a UK C, AD) Prandoni, Ryan Herzog. Sima Taparia as she travels quiz show. 7.05 Robin Hood: Mischief in 2.55 Outrageous Acts of Science back and forth from India to (G, C) the US arranging introduc- 11.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) Sherwood (G, HD, C) 3.55 Bath Crashers (G, C) s8ep1 tions. The problem, according Bradley Walsh hosts a UK 7.30 Monkie Kid: Hero Is Born (G, 4.30 Newshub Live to some critics, is that the quiz show. 5.00 Gold Rush (PG) show ignores the issue of R, HD, C, AD) 6.00 Newshub Live caste and exists entirely Noon 1 News (HD, C) 8.15 Ricky Zoom (G, R, HD, C) 7.00 The Project With Kanoa within an upper echelon. 12.30 Emmerdale (PG, C, AD) 8.40 Sesame Street (G, R, HD, C) Lloyd, Jesse Mulligan and However, the entertaining 1.00 Hollyoaks (PG, C, AD) A 9.05 Bluey (G, R, HD, C) Jeremy Corbett. Taparia is part psychologist, 9.10 Infomercials 7.30 The Block NZ: Redemption part negotiator as she tries to heart-breaking confession 9.40 Les Mills BodyAttack (G, R, (PG, C) The teams strike find matches for some very from Zain reveals the reality problems as they race to picky clients. From today, of his mental state, and HD, C) complete their studies or “Sima from Mumbai is back!” Sienna comes up with a new 10.10 Home and Away (PG, R, C) sitting rooms. for season two. elaborate scheme. 10.40 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD, 8.35 ■ Sort Your Life Out NZ (PG, NETFLIX 2.00 Coronation Street (PG, R, C) Kanoa Lloyd, Sean Brown C, AD) C, AD) and Natalie Jane help Kiwis Film: CLASS ACTION 3.00 Tipping Point (G, HD, C) Ben 11.10 Charmed (M, C) declutter. Tonight, the team PARK Shephard hosts a UK quiz Noon ■ Planning on Forever meets a dynamic 79-year-old show. who is drowning in decades A documentary that is hilari- 4.00 Te Karere A Māori (2022, G, HD, C) Alec Santos. worth of memories. s1ep8 ous and horrifying by turn: perspective on the day’s 1.45 The Drew Barrymore Show 9.30 This Time Next Year Action Park was in Vernon news and current affairs. Australia (PG, C) Karl Township, New Jersey, and 4.30 Neighbours (PG, HD, C) (PG, HD, C) Stefanovic hosts a series became infamous for its ter- Despite worrying Emma will 2.35 Sabrina the Teenage Witch featuring everyday Aussies rifically dangerous attractions. continue asking “favours” of tackling monumental Stockbroker Eugene Mulvihill her, Freya takes comfort that (G, C) personal goals over the opened it in 1978, envisioning her actions have kept David 3.30 The Feed (PG, HD, C) course of a year. s1ep8 it as a park with “no rules”. safe. 5.05 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C, 10.35 Newshub Late PRIME, 9.35pm 5.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) 11.05 NRL Try Time Lara Pitt Bradley Walsh hosts a UK AD) s30ep13 showcases the best tries quiz show. 5.30 Friends (G, R, HD, C) s9ep15 from the week’s NRL action. 6.00 1 News (HD, C) 6.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG, R, 12.10am Infomercials 7.00 Seven Sharp (HD, C) Hilary 5.30 – 6.00 AM Early With Barry and Jeremy Wells HD, C) s6ep13 Bernadine Oliver-Kerby. present current affairs and 6.30 Home and Away (PG, C) entertainment. PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 7.30 Give Us a Clue (PG, HD, C) Lyrik put down roots in Paula Bennett hosts a local Summer Bay, and Ziggy’s 6.00 Infomercials celebrity charades series, apprenticeship plans are 8.00 Kids’ Programmes (C) with team leaders Tom upstaged. 9.00 2022 Commonwealth Sainsbury and Hilary Barry. 7.00 Shortland Street (PG, HD, Tonight, Lily McManus, Ava C, AD) Desi faces her fears, Games Opening Ceremony Diakhaby and Stephanie Maeve accuses Nicole Highlights (G, R, C) Tauevihi are on Hilary’s of jealousy, and Jack is 10.05 2022 Commonwealth team, facing Clinton Randell, challenged to come out of Games Highlights (G, R, C) Brendon Green and Jeremy his shell. 11.00 Big Love (M, C) Elwood on Tom’s team 7.30 MasterChef Australia: Fans 12.10 Royal Pains (M) (includes Lotto at 8.20pm). & Favourites (PG, HD, C, 1.05 House (M, C) 8.30 ■ Location Location another episode screens 2.00 The Late Show (PG, R) Location (G, C) Kirstie tomorrow) The chefs must 3.00 Wheel of Fortune (G) Allsopp and Phil Spencer reimagine the humble fruit 3.30 Jeopardy (G) present a UK realty series. salad. 4.00 American Pickers (PG, R) Tonight, a catch-up with 8.40 Taskmaster NZ (16, C, AD) 4.55 The Hui (G, C) Emily and Dustin, who had Paul Williams jumps behind 5.30 Prime News six weeks to leave Emily’s the camera, Kura Forrester 6.00 Sky Speed (G) parental home, and did becomes a superhero, and 6.30 Storage Wars (PG, R, C) Sarah and Ian solve their the comedians’ superstitions 7.00 Pawn Stars (PG, R) size-versus-location dilemma are put to the test. s3ep6 7.30 Traffic Cops (PG, R, C) and settle in their beloved 9.40 Guessable (16, HD, C, AD) 8.30 ■ The Red Stag Timber Balham? Sara Pascoe and team Hunters Club (M, C) Sam 9.30 Coronation Street (PG, captains Alan Davies and and Anto venture into the C, AD) Darren Harriott welcome Canterbury high country. 10.30 1 News (HD, C) Susie Dent, Nick Helm, 9.35 ■ Class Action Park (2020, 11.00 Shortland Street (PG, R, Russell Kane and Desiree M, C) Documentary about a C, AD) Burch into the loft. s2ep8 dangerous 1980s New Jersey 11.30 Transplant (G, HD, C) 10.40 Girls5eva (M, R, HD, C, AD) water park. 12.25am Under the Dome (M, HD, s1ep3 11.30 The Late Show (PG) C) s2ep1 11.45 Have You Been Paying 12.30am – 6.00 Infomercials 1.10 Te Karere (R) Attention? (M, R, C) 1.35 Infomercials 12.40am Wentworth (16, R, HD, C) 5.30 – 6.00 Te Karere (R) 1.30 Emmerdale (PG, R, C, AD) 1.55 Infomercials 2.50 Police Code Zero (16, R, HD, C) 3.35 Heroes (M, R, HD, C) s2ep1 4.15 Bob Hearts Abishola (G, R, HD) s3ep1 4.35 Neighbours (PG, R, HD, C) 5.00 – 6.00 Infomercials ■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 83
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 10 WHAKAATA Film: FAIL SAFE MĀORI FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 A 2000 live broadcast play based on the 6.30 Kids’ Programmes same novel and starring George Clooney 8.30 Oranga Ngākau (G, R) and Richard Dreyfuss was deemed a 9.30 Whānau Living (G, R) failure because the Cold War was over; 10.00 David Rocco’s Dolce South now, with another Russian war under way, Sidney Lumet’s 1964 thriller is look- East Asia (G, R) ing prescient again. 10.30 Toi Te Ora (G, R) SKY MOVIES CLASSICS, 8.30pm 11.00 Piri’s Tiki Tour (PG, R) 11.30 Moon Tide Fishing (PG, R) BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012 EDEN FREEVIEW 8 SKY 013 RUSH FREEVIEW 14 SKY 024 Noon Te Ao Tapatahi 12.30 Deadly Australians (G, R) 6.00 Infomercials 6.00 My Cat from Hell (PG, R) 6.00 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) 1.30 Tōku Reo (G, R) 10.00 Hoarders: Family Secrets 7.00 The Pioneer Woman (G) 6.50 Tanked (PG, R) 2.35 Ako (G, R) 7.30 Valerie’s Home Cooking (G) 7.40 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 3.05 Kids’ Programmes (PG, R) 8.00 Islands to Highlands (G, R) 8.30 Alaska: Battle on the Bay 5.15 Haka Life (G, R) 11.00 Love It or List It: Vancouver 9.00 Museum Mysteries (PG, R) 5.30 Kids’ Programmes 10.00 American Pickers (PG, R) (PG, R) 6.00 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe: Te (PG, R) 11.00 Salvage Dawgs (G) 9.20 Edge of Alaska (M, R) 11.50 Million Dollar Listing NY 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G, R) 10.10 Deadliest Catch (M, R) Arawa (G, R) Te Hui Ahurei o Noon Escape to the Chateau: DIY 11.00 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) Ngā Uri a Atuamatua, from (PG, R) 11.50 Tanked (PG, R) Rotorua. 12.50 Tattoo Fixers (M, R) (G, R) 12.40 Mysteries of the Deep 6.30 Te Ao Mārama 1.45 Below Deck (M, R) 1.00 How to Save a Grand in 24 7.00 Waiata Nation II (G, R) 2.40 Hoarders: Family Secrets (PG, R) Rongomai Taiapa uses a pop Hours (G, R) 1.30 Expedition Unknown (PG, R) and soul song to spread a (PG, R) 2.00 Great Southern Truckers 2.20 NASA’s Unexplained Files message of unity. 3.35 Top Chef (PG) 7.30 The New Zealanders (G, 4.30 Shark Tank (PG, R) (PG, R) (PG, R) R) Documentary series 5.30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3.00 My Cat from Hell (PG) 3.10 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) featuring quirky locations 4.00 Giada in Italy (G) 4.00 Alaska: Battle on the Bay and characters throughout (PG, R) 5.00 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) Aotearoa. 6.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver 6.00 American Pickers (PG) (PG, R) 8.30 ■ Red (2010, M, R) When his 7.00 The Great Pottery Throw 4.50 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) peaceful life is threatened by (PG) 5.40 Tanked (PG) an assassin, a former black- 7.30 Dog Rescuers (PG) Down (PG) 6.35 Wheeler Dealers (PG) ops agent reassembles his 8.30 24 Hours in Emergency (M) 8.00 Newshub Live 7.30 Treehouse Masters (PG) old team. Bruce Willis, Helen 8.30 Where the Wild Men Are 8.25 Homestead Rescue (PG) Mirren, Morgan Freeman. 51-year-old Mark has had a TV Films, page 69 cycling accident. (PG) A bear encounter gets the 10.30 Sidewalk Karaoke (G, R) 9.30 911 Crisis Center (M) The 9.30 Idris Elba: No Limits (PG) Raneys predator-proofing. 11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao Mārama (R) team must piece together a 10.30 The Great Pottery Throw 9.20 Building Alaska (G) possible kidnapping. 10.15 Alaskan Bush People (PG) TVNZDUKE FREEVIEW 6 SKY 023 10.30 Killer Siblings (16, R) Down (PG, R) 11.10 Tanked (PG, R) 11.30 Accident, Suicide or 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G) 12.00am Programmes continue 6.00 On Duke Today Murder? (M, R) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials Noon DUKEbox Music 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials 12.40 Extreme E: Electric Odyssey MOVIESCLASSICSSKY034 RIALTO SKY 039 SKY PREMIERE SKY030 (G, R) 8.05 The Witches of Eastwick 6.15 I Used to Go Here (2020, M) 1.10 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, 6.30 The Mistletoe Secret (2019, (1987, M) Jack Nicholson, Gillian Jacobs PG) Kellie Pickler Susan Sarandon HD, C) 7.45 The Man Putin Couldn’t Kill 1.30 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, 7.55 Flesh and Blood (2018, 16) 10.00 A Night in Casablanca (1946, (2021, M) UK documentary. Diana Silvers G) Groucho Marx R, HD, C) 9.15 Golden Voices (2019, M) 1.55 Battlestar Galactica (M, R, 9.28 Lake Placid: Legacy (2018, 11.25 The Battle of Britain (1969, Mariya Belkina, Vladimir 16) Katherine Barrell PG) Laurence Olivier Friedman HD, C) 2.45 Hunting Aotearoa (PG, 11.01 The Call (2020, 16) Lin 1.35 Halloween 4: The Return 10.45 The Promise (M) s1ep3 Shaye, Tobin Bell of Michael Myers (1988, 16) 11.45 Red Light (16) s1ep5&6 R, HD) Donald Pleasence 1.25 No Distinguishing Features 3.10 Heavy Rescue 401 (G, 12.37 Georgetown (2021, 16) Christoph Waltz 3.00 Death Wish (1974, 16) (2020, M) Australian R, HD) Charles Bronson, Hope documentary. 4.05 The Chase Australia (G, C) 2.17 Survive the Night (2019, 16) Lange 2.50 Love Affair(s) (2020, M) 4.55 ABC World News (PG) Bruce Willis Camelia Jordana 5.15 Abandoned Engineering 4.30 Goodfellas (1990, 16) Robert 4.50 The Capote Tapes (2019, 16) 3.47 Halloween Kills (2021, 16) De Niro, Ray Liotta US documentary. (PG, R, C) Jamie Lee Curtis, Nick Castle 6.25 Incitement (2019, 16) Based 6.10 30 Rock (PG, R, HD, C) 6.50 The Princess Bride (1987, on the story of Yigal Amir 6.35 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, 5.30 Long Story Short (2021, M) PG) A farmboy-turned- in the year leading up to Rafe Spall, Zahra Newman pirate encounters numerous his assassination of Israeli HD, C) obstacles in his quest to be Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. 7.05 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, 7.03 Land (2021, M) A grieving reunited with his true love. Yehuda Nahari Halevi woman retreats to the wilds Robin Wright, Cary Elwes 8.30 The Accidental President HD, C) s4ep15 of the Rockies. Robin Wright, (2020, M) US documentary 7.30 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C) Demian Bichir 8.30 Fail Safe (1964, PG) A examining how Donald technical malfunction sends Trump won the 2016 US s13ep15 8.30 The Last Son (2021, 16) a group of US bombers Presidential election. 8.30 Police: Hour of Duty (M, HD) Prophesied to be killed by to destroy Moscow. Henry 10.20 Dear Comrades! (2020, 16) the hand of his offspring, an Fonda, Walter Matthau Yuliya Vysotskaya s1ep4 outlaw hunts down all his 12.25am We Are Conjola (2020, M) 9.30 Secret Nazi Bases (PG, children. Sam Worthington, 10.20 Night of the Creeps (1986, 2.15 Brassic (16) s2ep3&4 3.45 No Heather Graham TV Films, 16) Jason Lively Distinguishing Features (2020, M) HD, C) page 69 5.10 Love Affair(s) (2020, M) 10.30 Caprica (16, HD) s1ep2 11.55 The Dead Pool (1988, M) 11.15 Grimm (16, HD) 10.10 Nightmare Alley (2021) Clint Eastwood 12.50am – 1.10 ABC World News (2021, 16) Bradley Cooper (PG, R) 1.25am Alvarez Kelly (1966, PG) 12.40am The Dry (2020, 16) 2.35 3.15 McLintock! (1963, PG) 5.20 The Half Brothers (2020, M) 4.10 Out Blue Lagoon (1980, M) of Death (2021, 16) 5.45 I’m Just F*cking with You (2018, 16) 84 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 10 SKY CHANNELS American Detective with Lt. Joe Kenda (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 12.15am Programmes Vibe SKY 006 continue 6.00 Parenthood (M) s4ep15 6.50 Judge Judy Sky Arts SKY 020 Vibe: Julia, 8.30pm (PG) 7.15 The Closer (M) s4ep8 8.05 The Mysteries of Laura (M) s1ep14 8.55 The Good Wife (M) 6.00 Georgia O’Keeffe: Painter of the Far Away s1ep11 9.45 Covert Affairs (M) s1ep11 10.35 Judge 7.00 Off Camera 8.00 ■ Impulso (2017, G) 9.30 Put Judy (PG) 11.25 Vera (M) s3ep1 1.10 Frankie Drake Some Colour in Your Life 10.00 The Big Book Club Mysteries (M) s4ep7 2.00 The Closer (M) s4ep8 11.00 Photos That Changed the World 11.45 Boswell 2.50 The Mysteries of Laura (M) s1ep14 3.40 The and Johnson’s Scottish Road Trip 12.30 Landscape Good Wife (M) s1ep11 4.30 Judge Judy (PG) 5.30 Artist of the Year 1.15 The Live Revival 2.00 Georgia Parenthood (M) s4ep15 6.30 Covert Affairs (M) O’Keeffe: Painter of the Far Away 3.00 Off Camera s1ep11 7.30 Hitmen (M) s1ep5&6 8.30 Julia (M) 4.00 Jonas Kaufmann: Global Star in Private 5.15 In 1962, Julia Child boldly pitches the idea of a Mozart’s Own Violin 6.10 Christian Thielemann TV series for the home cook. s1ep1 9.30 Our Girl Conducts Bruckner’s No. 8 7.40 Semyon Bychkov (16) s1ep6 10.30 The Good Wife (M) s1ep11 11.20 Conducts the Münchner Philharmoniker 8.45 The Judge Judy (PG) 11.50 Hitmen (M) s1ep5 12.20am Odeonsplatz Concert: Lorenzo Viotti Conducts Programmes continue the Münchner Philharmoniker and Yuja Wang 10.10 Lucerne 2019: Riccardo Chailly Conducts the BBC UKTV SKY 007 Lucerne Festival Orchestra 12.00am Programmes continue 6.00 Would I Lie to You? (M) 6.35 The Vicar of Dibley (PG) s1ep3 7.05 QI (M) 7.40 EastEnders (PG) Discovery SKY 070 SKY SPORT 8.10 The Bill (M) 9.00 A Touch of Frost (M) s9ep1 10.20 Father Brown (M) s2ep3 11.10 Doc Martin 6.05 How It’s Made (PG) 6.30 How Do They Do It? Sky Sport 1 SKY 051 (PG) s9ep8 Noon Midsomer Murders (PG) s20ep5 (PG) 6.55 Rise of the Machines (M) 7.45 Homestead 1.35 The Bill (M) 2.25 New Tricks (M) s3ep8 3.25 Rescue (PG) 8.35 Mighty Cruise Ships (PG) 9.25 6.00 National Provincial Championship, Wellington 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (PG) 4.20 The Fast N’ Loud (PG) 10.20 Mysteries at the Museum v Bay of Plenty, replay 8.00 Between Two Posts Jonathan Ross Show (M) s16ep7 5.15 Who Do You (PG) 11.15 Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch (M) 12.10 9.00 National Provincial Championship, Counties Think You Are? (PG) 6.20 QI (PG) 6.55 EastEnders How Do They Do It? (PG) 12.35 How It’s Made (PG) Manukau v Otago, replay 11.00 National Provincial (PG) 7.25 QI (M) 8.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 8.35 1.05 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 2.00 Naked Championship, Taranaki v Northland, replay 1.00 Grantchester (PG) The leader of a student CND and Afraid (M) 2.55 Bering Sea Gold (M) 3.50 Farah Palmer Cup, Northland v Hawke’s Bay, replay group falls to her death. s6ep6 9.30 Holby City (M) Gold Rush: White Water (PG) 4.45 Alaska: The 3.00 Gallaher Shield, final, replay 5.00 Aotearoa A startling incident forces Zosia to reconsider her Last Frontier (M) 5.40 Aussie Lobster Men (PG) Rugby Pod 5.30 PFL, Play Off 1, highlights 6.20 future at Holby. s21ep16 10.35 Keeping Faith (M) 6.35 Dirty Jobs (PG) 7.30 Heavy Tow Truckers Between Two Posts 7.00 National Provincial s2ep4 11.40 Midsomer Murders (PG) s20ep5 1.15am Down Under (M) 8.30 Aussie Salvage Squad (PG) Championship, Manawatu v Auckland, from Central Programmes continue 9.30 Moonshiners (M) 10.30 Edge of Alaska (M) Energy Trust Arena, Palmerston North, live 9.00 11.25 Naked and Afraid (M) 12.15am Programmes PFL, Play Off 1, main card 11.00 Aotearoa Rugby SoHo SKY 010 continue Pod 11.30 National Provincial Championship, Manawatu v Auckland, replay 1.30am Rugby 6.45 The Undoing (18) s1ep3 7.40 Fear the Walking National Geographic SKY 072 Championship, Argentina v Australia, replay 3.30 Dead (18) s7ep14 8.25 Irma Vep (16) s1ep5 9.15 Mind National Provincial Championship, Manawatu v Over Murder (18) s1ep6 10.15 The Nevers (16) s1ep4 6.30 Explorer: The Deepest Cave (PG) 7.30 Shark Auckland, highlights 3.45 Rugby Championship, 11.10 Billions (18) s5ep8 12.10 The Undoing (18) Attack Files (M) 8.30 Dutch Caribbean Coastguard South Africa v All Blacks, highlights 4.00 Sal’s NBL s1ep3 1.05 Fear the Walking Dead (18) s7ep14 1.50 (PG) 9.30 Wicked Tuna (PG) 10.30 Buried Secrets Women, round 6 highlights 5.00 Sal’s NBL, round Irma Vep (16) s1ep5 2.40 Mind Over Murder (18) of WWII (PG) 11.30 WW2 Hell Under the Sea (M) 15 highlights s1ep6 3.40 Fear the Walking Dead (18) s7ep14 4.25 12.30 Air Crash Investigation (M) 1.30 Megaship The Righteous Gemstones (16) s1ep7 5.05 Absentia 2.30 Wicked Tuna (PG) 3.30 Dutch Caribbean Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 (16) s3ep8 5.45 Temple (16) s1ep1 6.30 Westworld Coastguard (PG) 4.30 Lost Treasures of Egypt (18) s4ep7 7.30 Devils (16) s2ep8 8.30 The Rising (PG) 5.30 The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great 6.00 ATP 1000, National Bank Open, day 2, live (16) s1ep4 9.30 The Lazarus Project (16) George (PG) 6.30 Dutch Caribbean Coastguard (PG) 2.30 The Back Page 3.30 Sal’s NBL, round 15 wakes up with everything he wished for. s1ep7 10.25 7.30 Seconds from Disaster (PG) 8.30 Air Crash highlights 4.30 Sky Speed 5.00 Benji 5.30 NRL Real Time with Bill Maher (M) s20ep22 11.25 Made Investigation: Special Report (M) 9.30 Facing … (M) Premiership, Canberra Raiders v Penrith Panthers, for Love (16) s2ep7 12.00am Programmes continue 10.30 Space Mysteries 11.30 Inside America’s Secret highlights 6.00 NRL Premiership, Cronulla Sharks Missions (PG) 12.30am Programmes continue v St George Illawarra Dragons, highlights 6.30 ATP Living SKY 017 1000, National Bank Open, day 2, match of the History SKY 073 day 8.00 Premier League Match of the Weekend 6.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 7.10 The Pioneer Woman 10.00 Farah Palmer Cup, Taranaki v Otago, replay (PG) 7.35 Mexican Made Easy (PG) 8.05 House 6.30 Bombing War: From Guernica to Hiroshima 12.00am The Ditch 12.30 Once a Warrior with Hunters (PG) 9.00 Salvage Hunters: The Restorers (M) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Lost Treasures of the Monty Betham 1.00 ATP Uncovered 1.30 The Ditch (PG) 10.00 Salvage Hunters (PG) 11.00 A Place in Ancient World 10.30 Time Team 11.30 Besieged 2.00 Sky Speed 2.30 ATP 1000, National Bank the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 11.55 Love It or List It UK Fortresses, Legendary Battles (PG) 12.30 Around Open, day 2, match of the day 4.00 ATP 1000, (PG) 12.50 Escape to the Country (PG) 1.50 Salvage the World by Train with Tony Robinson (PG) 1.30 National Bank Open, day 3, live Hunters (PG) 2.45 House Hunters (PG) 3.45 The History’s Raiders (PG) 2.30 Scorched Earth (PG) Pioneer Woman (PG) 4.15 Mexican Made Easy (PG) 3.30 The Fury and the Flames (PG) 4.30 Europe’s Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 4.45 Salvage Hunters (PG) 5.40 Location Location Secret Armies (PG) 5.30 Lost Treasures of the Location (PG) 6.35 Love It or List It UK (PG) 7.30 Ancient World 6.30 Time Team 7.30 The Abyss: 6.00 West Indies v India, 4th T20, highlights A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 8.30 Garden The Rise & Fall of the Nazis (M) 8.40 Abandoned 6.30 West Indies v India, 5th T20, highlights Rescue (PG) 9.30 Grow Your Own at Home with Engineering (PG) 9.40 The Assassination of 7.00 Commonwealth Games, cricket, England v Alan Titchmarsh (PG) 10.00 Martha Knows Best Abraham Lincoln (PG) 11.30 Myth Hunters (PG) South Africa, replay from Edgbaston Stadium, (PG) 10.25 The Royals on Tour (PG) 11.25 House 12.30am Programmes continue Birmingham 10.30 Commonwealth Games, cricket, Hunters (PG) 12.15am Programmes continue Sri Lanka v New Zealand, highlights 11.00 2015 ICC BBC Earth SKY 074 Cricket World Cup, quarter-final 4, Black Caps v Investigation Discovery SKY 018 West Indies, highlights from Wellington Regional 6.00 Tide (PG) 6.55 Life Below Zero (M) 7.45 Stadium Noon 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, Black 6.05 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 6.55 Dead Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 8.35 Wonders of the Caps v West Indies, replay from Old Trafford Reckoning (M) 7.45 The Murder Tapes (M) 8.35 Universe (PG) 9.35 The Wonderful World of Blood Cricket Ground, Manchester 9.00 Commonwealth Body Cam (M) 9.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 10.20 (PG) 10.35 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 11.25 24 Hours Games, cricket, South Africa v Sri Lanka, replay Grave Secrets (M) 11.15 The Perfect Murder (M) 12.10 in A&E (M) 12.15 Seven Worlds, One Planet (PG) 1.10 from Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham 12.30am Your Worst Nightmare (M) 1.05 Obsession: Dark Wonders of the Universe (PG) 2.15 Tide (PG) 3.10 Commonwealth Games, cricket, England v New Desires (M) 2.00 I’d Kill for You (M) 2.55 Betrayed The Age of Nature (PG) 4.05 The Wonderful World Zealand, replay from from Edgbaston Stadium, (M) 3.50 Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil (M) 4.45 of Blood (PG) 5.05 Life Below Zero 5.55 Where Birmingham 4.00 NRL Premiership, St George Your Worst Nightmare (M) 5.40 American Detective the Wild Men Are (M) 6.50 The Dog Rescuers (PG) Illawarra Dragons v North Queensland Cowboys, with Lt. Joe Kenda (M) 6.35 Reasonable Doubt (M) 7.40 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 8.30 Animal Impossible replay from Netstrata Jubilee Stadium, Sydney 7.30 Evil Lives Here (M) 8.30 Dead Reckoning (M) (PG) 9.30 Nature’s Great Events (PG) 10.25 Trials 9.30 Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall (M) 10.30 of Life (PG) 11.20 The Age of Nature (PG) 12.15am Programmes continue AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 85
THURSDAY AUGUST 11 TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002 THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003 TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001 Documentary: 25 6.00 Breakfast (HD, C) Jenny- 6.00 Les Mills Born to Move (G, R, 6.00 AM With Ryan Bridge and SIBLINGS & ME May Clarkson and Indira HD, C) Melissa Chan-Green. Stewart present news, sport, It sounds like a loophole in US information and weather. 6.25 Kiri and Lou (G, R, HD, C, AD) 9.00 Infomercials law that needs closing: there 6.30 Code Fun (G, R, HD, C, AD) 10.30 Gold Rush (PG, R, C) is no limit on the number of 9.00 Lingo (G, HD, C) Adil Ray 6.40 Takaro Tribe (G, R, HD, 11.30 Newshub Live babies that can be born to a hosts a UK quiz show. Noon Ready to Love (M, C) sperm donor, or at least that C, AD) 1.00 ■ Killer in Red (2019, M, R, was the case in California in 10.00 Tipping Point (G, R, HD, C) 6.50 Darwin & Newts (G, R, HD, 1999 when Oli’s two mums Ben Shephard hosts a UK C) Tammin Sursok. travelled there for an in-vitro quiz show. C, AD) 2.55 Outrageous Acts of Science procedure. This doco follows 7.05 Robin Hood: Mischief in Oli as he travels from London 11.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) (G, C) to meet the 25 American Bradley Walsh hosts a UK Sherwood (G, HD, C) 3.55 Bath Crashers (G, C) s8ep2 half-siblings also fathered by quiz show. 7.30 My Little Pony: Pony Life (G, 4.30 Newshub Live donor Daley, who was just as 5.00 Gold Rush (PG, C) surprised about his many chil- Noon 1 News (HD, C) R, HD, C) 6.00 Newshub Live dren. This is also a story about 12.30 Emmerdale (PG, C, AD) 7.50 Monkie Kid (G, R, HD, C, AD) 7.00 The Project With Kanoa how Oli, who is on the autism 1.00 Hollyoaks (PG, HD, C, AD) 8.10 Ricky Zoom (G, R, HD, C) spectrum, deals with his new 8.35 Sesame Street (G, R, HD, C) Lloyd, Jesse Mulligan and “family” (it doesn’t always go When Ali gets a front cover 9.00 Bluey (G, R, HD, C) Jeremy Corbett. well) and the connection he spot in the newspaper, 9.10 Infomercials 7.30 Tom Sainsbury’s Love forges with “sibling number Yazz takes matters into her 9.35 Les Mills Core (G, R, HD, C) Hour (M, C) Tom Sainsbury 15”, Spencer. own hands to highlight the 10.05 Home and Away (PG, R, C) interviews celebrity guests THREE, 9.30pm truth, and Serena lands a 10.35 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD, about all things love. place on Team GB for the Tonight, Art Green and Kura Reality: BLOWN AWAY Commonwealth Games. C, AD) Forrester. 2.00 Coronation Street (PG, R, 11.05 Charmed (PG, C) 8.30 New Zealand Today (M, C) It’s like a slightly more urgent C, AD) Noon ■ A Picture Perfect Guy reconnects with his old Great Pottery Throw Down. 3.00 Tipping Point (G, HD, C) Ben friend Pebbles Hooper to see That would be because Shephard hosts a UK quiz Wedding (2021, PG, HD, C) if he can get her uncancelled. contestants must work fast show. Emily Tennant. s3ep10 so that their hot, melty glass 4.00 Te Karere A Māori 1.45 The Drew Barrymore Show 9.00 Comedians Giving Lectures doesn’t cool and break. It perspective on the day’s (PG, HD, C) (16, C) Sara Pascoe hosts is the Year of Glass, and in news and current affairs. 2.40 Sabrina the Teenage Witch a UK series in which season three of the Canadian 4.30 Neighbours (PG, HD, C) (G, HD, C) comedians deliver a series, challenges include Byron is busted in the 3.30 The Feed (PG, HD, C) “lecture”. making a work inspired process of sussing out 5.00 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C, 9.30 25 Siblings & Me (M, C) UK by groundbreaking glass Danielle’s connection to AD) s30ep14 documentary about Oli, a inventions. Clive, and as Danielle warns 5.30 Friends (G, R, HD, C) s9ep16 young man with Asperger’s NETFLIX Clive that something’s going 6.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG, R, who discovers he has 25 on, Nicolette photographs HD, C, AD) s6ep14 siblings from the same the their incriminating 6.30 Home and Away (PG, C) American sperm donor. meetup. Theo may have signed up for 10.45 Newshub Late 5.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) life on tour, Cash struggles 11.15 NCIS (M, R, C) s18ep14 Bradley Walsh hosts a UK to accept his new reality, and 12.10am Infomercials quiz show. Roo’s first taste of freedom is 5.30 – 6.00 AM Early With 6.00 1 News (HD, C) unexpected. Bernadine Oliver-Kerby. 7.00 Seven Sharp (HD, C) Hilary 7.00 Shortland Street (PG, HD, Barry and Jeremy Wells C, AD) Ester and Marty PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 present current affairs and hide their fun, Jack turns up entertainment. the heat at the IV, and Desi 6.00 Infomercials 7.30 Dream Kitchens and teaches Joy the ropes. 8.00 Kids’ Programmes (C) Bathrooms (G, HD, C, AD) 7.30 MasterChef Australia: Fans 9.00 2022 Commonwealth UK series in which Mark & Favourites (G, HD, C) The Millar helps transform cooks with the four top Games Highlights (G, R, C) kitchens and bathrooms. dishes have won immunity 11.00 Big Love (M, C) Tonight, a maximalist-style and the battle is on for the 12.10 Royal Pains (M) bathroom in Lancashire, and final immunity pin. 1.05 House (M, C) a one-of-a-kind kitchen in 8.40 Ten 7: Aotearoa (PG, C) 2.00 The Late Show with Stephen Worcestershire. s2ep4 Local series about crime 8.30 Rich House Poor House in Aotearoa and the Colbert (PG, R) (G, C, AD) UK series in communities and people 3.00 Wheel of Fortune (G) which families swap homes affected by it. 3.30 Jeopardy (G) and lifestyles. Tonight, the 9.10 Highway Patrol (PG, C, 4.00 American Pickers (PG, R) Gordons live in a council AD) Series following the 5.00 Rural Delivery (G, C) house and are on universal police officers who monitor 5.30 Prime News credit after Solly lost his Australia’s busy highways. 6.00 Storage Wars (PG, R, C) job working in a children’s 9.35 Filthy House S.O.S (G, HD, 7.00 Pawn Stars (PG, R) care home, meaning that C, AD) UK series in which 7.30 ■ Million Pound (PG, C) stay-at-home wife Chelsey is cleaning duo Jon and struggling. s8ep3 Brennan tackle some of UK series about luxury 9.25 Coronation Street (PG, Britain’s filthiest and most motorhomes. C, AD) cluttered homes. 8.30 FBI: Most Wanted (M, C) 10.25 1 News (HD, C) 10.35 Ten 7: Aotearoa (PG, R, C) The team chase an unlikely 10.55 Shortland Street (PG, R, 11.05 CSI: Crime Scene serial killer. C, AD) Investigation (16, HD, C) 9.30 Bull (M, C) The surgeon 11.25 For Life (PG, HD, C) s1ep6 s5ep9 who saved Bull’s life after 12.15am It’s Your Fault I’m Fat (G, R, 12.50am Extant (M, HD, C) s2ep3 his heart attack is sued for HD, C, AD) s2ep8 1.35 Emmerdale (PG, R, C, AD) malpractice. 1.05 Te Karere (R) 2.00 Infomercials 10.30 The Crowd Goes Wild (PG) 1.30 Infomercials 2.55 2 Tunes 11.00 The Late Show with Stephen 5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R) 3.05 Hell’s Kitchen (16, R, HD, C) Colbert (PG) 4.35 Neighbours (PG, R, HD, C) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials 5.00 – 6.00 Infomercials ■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition 86 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
THURSDAY AUGUST 11 WHAKAATA Film: CATWALK: FROM GLADA MĀORI FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 HUDIK TO NEW YORK 6.30 Kids’ Programmes Feelgood and a challenge to the 8.30 Oranga Ngākau (G, R) fashion industry: why shouldn’t the 9.30 Whānau Living (G, R) differently abled pose on a New York 10.00 Waiata Nation II (G, R) catwalk? The doco follows a group 10.30 Toi Te Ora (G, R) from Sweden as they are tutored by 11.00 The New Zealanders (G, R) Glada Hudik Theatre’s Pär Johansson. Noon Te Ao Tapatahi RIALTO, 8.30pm 12.30 ■ Red (2010, M, R) Bruce BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012 EDEN FREEVIEW 8 SKY 013 RUSH FREEVIEW 14 SKY 024 Willis, Helen Mirren. 2.35 Ako (G, R) 6.00 Infomercials 6.00 My Cat from Hell (PG, R) 6.00 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) 3.05 Kids’ Programmes 10.00 Hoarders: Family Secrets 7.00 The Pioneer Woman (G) 6.50 Tanked (PG, R) 5.15 Haka Life (G, R) 7.30 Valerie’s Home Cooking (G) 7.40 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 5.30 Kids’ Programmes (PG, R) 8.00 Giada in Italy (G, R) 8.30 Treehouse Masters (PG, R) 6.00 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe: Te 10.55 Love It or List It: Vancouver 9.00 Museum Mysteries (PG, R) 9.20 Homestead Rescue (PG, R) 10.00 American Pickers (PG, R) 10.10 Building Alaska (G, R) Arawa (G, R) (PG, R) 11.00 Salvage Dawgs (G) 11.00 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) 6.30 Te Ao Mārama 11.50 Million Dollar Listing NY 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G, R) 11.50 Tanked (PG, R) 7.00 Fresh (G) Pasifika show for Noon Idris Elba: No Limits (PG, R) 12.40 Treasure Quest: Snake (PG, R) 1.00 Where the Wild Men Are young people. 12.50 Tattoo Fixers (M, R) Island (PG, R) 7.30 Funny Whare (PG, R) 1.45 Below Deck (M, R) (PG, R) 1.30 Bering Sea Gold (M, R) 8.00 Rags Are Riches (PG) 2.45 Hoarders: Family Secrets 2.00 The Great Pottery Throw 2.20 Gem Hunt (PG, R) 3.10 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) Randy and Courtney meet (PG, R) Down (PG, R) 4.00 Treehouse Masters (PG, R) Oli and Max of VNTGVAMP, 3.35 Top Chef (PG) 3.00 My Cat from Hell (PG) 4.50 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) a collective specialising in 4.30 Shark Tank (PG, R) 4.00 Rick Stein’s Secret France 5.40 Tanked (PG) repurposing and upcycling 5.30 Million Dollar Listing NY 6.35 Wheeler Dealers (PG) clothes. (G) 7.30 Inside West Coast Customs 8.15 Gowns to Geysers (PG) (PG, R) 5.00 Mysteries at the Museum Series going behind the 6.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver (PG) scenes of the Miss Rotorua (PG) 8.25 Kindig Customs (PG) A beauty pageant. (PG) 6.00 American Pickers (PG) 8.30 Hakapedia (G) Haka fans 7.30 Tattoo Fixers on Holiday (M) 7.00 Aussie Lobster Men (PG) 67 Nova purchased on the compete against haka 8.30 Below Deck: Sailing Yacht 8.00 Newshub Live internet has a lot of holes. experts. 8.30 Underbelly: Vanishing Act 9.20 Street Outlaws: No Prep 9.00 Rage Against the Rangatahi (M) Andy Cohen interviews Kings (M) (PG, R) What is a Gen Z? the cast of Below Deck (M) 10.15 Alaskan Bush People (PG) 9.30 Ahikāroa (M, R) Sailing Yacht season 3. 9.30 Inside Monaco: Playground 11.05 Tanked (PG, R) 10.00 Mura o te Ahi (PG, R) 10.00 Botched: Most Outrageous 11.55 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 10.30 The Barber (PG, R) Rejects (M, R) of the Rich (PG) 12.40am Programmes continue 11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao Mārama (R) 10.30 Killer Siblings (16, R) 10.30 Aussie Lobster Men (PG, R) 11.30 Accident, Suicide or 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G) Murder? (M, R) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials TVNZDUKE FREEVIEW6SKY023 SKY PREMIERE SKY030 MOVIESCLASSICSSKY034 RIALTO SKY 039 6.00 On Duke Today 7.10 Military Wives (2019, M) 7.05 Valley Girl (1983, 16) 7.10 The Capote Tapes (2019, 16) Noon DUKEbox Music Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Deborah Foreman US documentary. 1.15 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, Horgan 8.45 … and Justice for All (1979, 8.45 Incitement (2019, 16) Yehuda HD, C) 9.00 Fatale (2020, 16) Hilary M) Al Pacino, Jack Warden Nahari Halevi 1.40 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, Swank, Michael Ealy 10.45 The Pink Panther (1963, PG) 10.50 The Accidental President R, HD, C) 10.45 The Devil Has a Name (2021, Peter Sellers, David Niven (2020, M) US documentary. 2.00 Battlestar Galactica (16, R, 16) Kate Bosworth 12.40 Magnum Force (1973, 16) 12.40 Red Light (16) s1ep7&8 HD, C) 12.20 Come Play (2020, M) Azhy Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook 2.20 The Fantasy Makers (2017, 2.50 Hunting Aotearoa (PG, R, HD) Robertson, Gillian Jacobs 3.15 Heavy Rescue 401 (PG, 2.40 Hamburger Hill (1987, PG) Canadian documentary. 1.55 Summerland (2020, PG) M) Don Cheadle, Dylan 3.45 Asia (2020, M) Shira Haas, R, HD) Gemma Arterton, Gugu McDermott 4.10 The Chase Australia (G, C) Mbatha-Raw Alena Yiv 5.00 ABC World News (PG) 4.30 The Man with the Golden 5.15 Above Suspicion (2019, 16) 5.20 Abandoned Engineering 3.35 2 Hearts (2020, M) Jacob Arm (1955, M) Frank Sinatra, Elordi, Tiera Skovbye Kim Novak Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston (PG, R, HD, C) 7.00 Damilola, Our Loved Boy 6.15 30 Rock (PG, R, HD, C) 5.20 The Fallout (2021, 16) Jenna 6.25 The Magnificent Seven 6.40 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, Ortega, Maddie Ziegler (1960, PG) An oppressed (2016, M) Based on the story Mexican peasant village of Damilola Taylor, a 10-year- HD, C) 6.55 Juniper (2021, M) A self- hires seven gunfighters to old Nigerian boy who was 7.05 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, destructive teen is asked to help defend their homes. Yul murdered in London. Wunmi look after his feisty alcoholic Brynner, Steve McQueen Wosaku HD, C) s4ep16 grandmother. Charlotte 8.30 Rialto Documentary: 7.35 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C) Rampling, George Ferrier 8.30 China Girl (1987, 18) The love Catwalk: From Glada Hudik between an Italian boy and a to New York (2020, M) s13ep7 8.30 Scream (2022, 16) Twenty- Chinese girl causes a conflict Swedish documentary about 8.30 Top Gear (M, HD, C) Freddie, five years after the first between gangs. Richard a group of differently-abled murders, a new killer dons Panebianco, Sari Chang, people and their dream of Chris and Paddy attempt the Ghostface mask. Neve James Russo becoming fashion models. to qualify as lorry drivers to Campbell, Courtney Cox, 10.10 Marvellous (2014, M) TToby take an HGV road trip across Melissa Barrera 10.00 Unforgiven (1992, M) A Jones, Gemma Jones Britain. s32ep3 retired gunslinger reluctantly 11.45 The 8th (2020, M) Irish 9.45 Mega Metro (G, HD) 10.30 Chaos Walking (2021, M) takes on one last job. Clint documentary. 10.50 Caprica (PG, HD) s1ep3 Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley Eastwood, Gene Hackman 1.25am Brassic (16) s2ep5&6 2.55 11.40 The Russell Howard Hour Above Suspicion (2019, 16) 4.40 (16, R, HD) 12.20am Superintelligence (2020, 12.10am The Night of the Generals Damilola, Our Loved Boy (2016, M) 12.35am – 12.55 ABC World News PG) 2.05 Pooka! (2018, 16) 3.30 (1967, PG) 2.30 Kings Go Forth (PG, R) Songbird (2020, 16) 4.55 Joe Bell (1958, PG) 4.20 Anzio (1968, PG) (2020, M) AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 87
THURSDAY AUGUST 11 SKY CHANNELS Tapes (M) 9.30 Body Cam (M) 10.30 The Perfect Murder (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 12.15am Vibe SKY 006 Programmes continue 6.00 Parenthood (M) s5ep1 6.45 Judge Judy (PG) Sky Arts SKY 020 SoHo: Ravi Patel’s Pursuit of Happiness, 7.05 The Closer (M) s4ep9 7.50 The Mysteries of 9.30pm Laura (M) s1ep15 8.35 The Good Wife (M) s1ep12 6.10 Lucerne 2019: Riccardo Chailly Conducts the 9.20 Covert Affairs (M) s2ep1 10.10 Judge Judy Lucerne Festival Orchestra 8.00 Jonas Kaufmann: SKY SPORT (PG) 11.00 Julia (M) s1ep1 Noon Our Girl (16) s1ep6 Global Star in Private 9.15 Mozart’s Own Violin 1.00 Hitmen (M) s1ep5&6 2.00 The Closer (M) 10.10 Christian Thielemann Conducts Bruckner’s Sky Sport 1 SKY 051 s4ep9 2.50 The Mysteries of Laura (M) s1ep15 3.40 No. 8 11.40 Semyon Bychkov Conducts the The Good Wife (M) s1ep12 4.30 Judge Judy (PG) Münchner Philharmoniker 12.45 The Odeonsplatz 6.00 Rugby Championship, South Africa v All 5.30 Parenthood (M) s5ep1 6.30 Covert Affairs Concert: Lorenzo Viotti Conducts the Münchner Blacks 6.15 West Indies v New Zealand, 1st T20, (M) s2ep1 7.30 Murdoch Mysteries (M) s14ep7 8.30 Philharmoniker and Yuja Wang 2.10 Lucerne 2019: from Sabina Park, Kingston, live 10.30 National Private Eyes (M) s5ep7 9.30 The Inbetween (M) Riccardo Chailly Conducts the Lucerne Festival Provincial Championship: Manawatu v Auckland; s1ep7 10.30 The Good Wife (M) s1ep12 11.20 Judge Orchestra 4.00 Talking Heads: Alan Bennett 12.30 Taranaki v Northland; 12.45 Tasman v Judy (PG) 11.50 Murdoch Mysteries (M) s14ep7 Monologues 4.35 ■ Campesino (2018, G) 6.05 Southland; 1.00 Wellington v Bay of Plenty; 1.15 12.50am Programmes continue Elliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good 7.00 Put Some Manawatu v Auckland 1.30 West Indies v New Colour in Your Life 7.30 Fake or Fortune? 8.30 Zealand, 1st T20, replay 5.30 Farah Palmer Cup, BBC UKTV SKY 007 Video Killed the Radio Star: Pink Floyd 9.00 One Auckland v Manawatu 6.00 Farah Palmer Cup, Perfect Shot (PG) 9.30 Finding Your Roots 10.30 Counties Manukau v Canterbury 6.30 UFC on Sky 6.00 Would I Lie to You? (M) 6.35 The Vicar of Cold War and Cinema 11.15 Rough Draft with 7.00 Sky GrassRoots Rugby 8.00 NPC, Taranaki v Dibley (PG) s1ep4 7.05 QI (M) 7.40 EastEnders (PG) Reza Aslan 11.40 The Decisive Moment 12.00am Northland 8.15 NPC, Manawatu v Auckland 8.30 The 8.10 The Bill (M) 9.00 A Touch of Frost (M) s9ep2 Programmes continue Crowd Goes Wild 9.00 NRL Premiership, Penrith 10.20 Father Brown (M) s2ep4 11.10 Doc Martin Panthers v Melbourne Storm, from BlueBet Stadium, (M) s1ep1 Noon Midsomer Murders (PG) s20ep6 Discovery SKY 070 Penrith, live 12.00am Sky GrassRoots Rugby 1.00 1.35 The Bill (M) 2.25 New Tricks (M) s6ep1 3.25 Premier League, Fulham v Liverpool 3.00 Farah 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 4.20 The 6.05 How It’s Made (PG) 6.30 How Do They Do It? Palmer Cup: Northland v Hawke’s Bay; 3.30 Tasman Jonathan Ross Show (M) s16ep8 5.15 Who Do You (PG) 6.55 Rise of the Machines (M) 7.45 Homestead v North Harbour; 4.00 Northland v Hawke’s Bay Think You Are? (PG) 6.20 QI (PG) 6.55 EastEnders Rescue (PG) 8.35 Mighty Cruise Ships (PG) 9.25 (PG) 7.25 QI (M) 8.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) Fast N’ Loud (PG) 10.20 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 8.35 The Graham Norton Show (M) s29ep5 9.35 Under (M) 11.15 Aussie Salvage Squad (PG) 12.10 The Jonathan Ross Show (M) s17ep6 10.30 Father How Do They Do It? (PG) 12.35 How It’s Made (PG) 6.00 ATP 1000, National Bank Open, day 3, live Brown (PG) s9ep6 11.25 Midsomer Murders (PG) 1.05 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 2.00 Naked 2.30 NRL Premiership, Canterbury-Bankstown s20ep6 1.00am Programmes continue and Afraid (M) 2.55 Bering Sea Gold (M) 3.50 Bulldogs v North Queensland Cowboys, replay Gold Rush: White Water (PG) 4.45 Alaska: The 4.30 The Back Page 5.30 Sky Speed 6.00 SoHo SKY 010 Last Frontier (M) 5.40 Aussie Lobster Men (PG) NRL, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs v North 6.35 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) 8.30 Gold Rush: Queensland Cowboys, replay 8.00 NRL, South 6.00 Westworld (18) s4ep7 7.00 Devils (16) s2ep8 White Water (M) 10.30 Alaskan Bush People (M) Sydney Rabbitohs v NZ Warriors, replay 10.00 ATP 7.55 The Rising (16) s1ep4 8.40 The Lazarus Project 11.25 Naked and Afraid (M) 12.15am Programmes 1000, National Bank Open, day 3, match of the (16) s1ep7 9.25 Made for Love (16) s2ep7 10.00 continue day 11.30 ATP 1000, National Bank Open, day 3, Insecure (16) s4ep3 10.30 Real Time with Bill Maher highlights 12.30am The Crowd Goes Wild 1.00 West (M) s20ep22 11.30 Westworld (18) s4ep7 12.30 National Geographic SKY 072 Indies v New Zealand, 1st T20 1.30 UFC on Sky Devils (16) s2ep8 1.25 The Rising (16) s1ep4 2.10 The 2.00 ATP Uncovered 2.30 ATP 1000, National Bank Lazarus Project (16) s1ep7 2.55 Made for Love (16) 6.30 Dutch Caribbean Coastguard (PG) 7.30 Open, day 3, match of the day 4.00 ATP 1000, s2ep7 3.30 Real Time with Bill Maher (M) s20ep22 Seconds from Disaster (PG) 8.30 Air Crash National Bank Open, day 4, live 4.30 The Righteous Gemstones (16) s1ep8 5.05 Investigation: Special Report (M) 9.30 Facing … Absentia (16) s3ep9 5.45 Temple (16) s1ep2 6.30 (M) 10.30 Space Mysteries 11.30 Inside America’s Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 Irma Vep (16) s1ep5 7.25 Dave (16) s1ep1 8.00 The Secret Missions (PG) 12.30 Air Crash Investigation Rehearsal (16) s1ep1 8.30 Rap Sh!t (16) s1ep3 9.00 (M) 1.30 Megastructures (PG) 2.30 Building the 6.00 Premier League, Brentford v Manchester Insecure (16) s5ep5 9.30 Ravi Patel’s Pursuit of Channel Tunnel (PG) 3.30 Aussie Snake Wranglers United 6.15 West Indies v Black Caps, 1st T20, live Happiness (M) With his parents getting older, Ravi (PG) 4.30 Food Factory (PG) 5.30 The 80s Top Ten 10.30 Commonwealth Games, cricket, New Zealand travels to Merida, Mexico, a hotspot for international (PG) 6.30 Air Crash Investigation: Special Report v South Africa 11.00 Commonwealth Games, cricket, retirees. s1ep1 10.30 The Midwich Cuckoos (16) (M) 7.30 Nazi Megastructures: America’s War (PG) Sri Lanka v New Zealand 11.30 Commonwealth s1ep5 11.30 American Rust (16) s1ep7 12.30am 8.30 Drain the Oceans Best ofs (PG) 9.30 Dutch Games, cricket, England v New Zealand Noon Programmes continue Caribbean Coastguard (PG) 10.30 Wicked Tuna Commonwealth Games, cricket, semi-final 1 12.30 (PG) 11.30 Inside North Korea: The Cyber State (M) Commonwealth Games, cricket, semi-final 2 1.00 Living SKY 017 12.30am Programmes continue Commonwealth Games, cricket, bronze medal final 1.30 Commonwealth Games, cricket, gold 6.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 7.10 The Pioneer Woman History SKY 073 medal final 2.00 Commonwealth Games, netball, (PG) 7.35 Mexican Made Easy (PG) 8.05 House semi-final 2, replay 4.00 The Back Page 5.00 West Hunters (PG) 9.00 Grow Your Own at Home with 6.30 The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Indies v Black Caps, 1st T20 5.30 Commonwealth Alan (PG) 9.30 Martha Knows Best (PG) 10.00 (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Lost Treasures of the Games, cricket, New Zealand v South Africa 6.00 Garden Rescue (PG) 11.00 A Place in the Sun: Ancient World 10.30 Time Team 11.25 The Abyss: Commonwealth Games, cricket, Sri Lanka v New Winter Sun (PG) 11.55 Love It or List It UK (PG) The Rise & Fall of the Nazis (M) 12.35 Abandoned Zealand 6.30 Commonwealth Games, cricket, 12.50 The Royals on Tour (PG) 1.50 Salvage Hunters Engineering (PG) 1.30 History’s Raiders (PG) 2.30 England v New Zealand 7.00 West Indies v Black (PG) 2.45 House Hunters (PG) 3.45 The Pioneer Scorched Earth (PG) 3.30 The Fury and the Flames Caps, 1st T20, replay 11.00 Commonwealth Games, Woman (PG) 4.15 Mexican Made Easy (PG) 4.45 (PG) 4.30 Europe’s Secret Armies (PG) 5.30 Lost cricket, gold medal final 2.30am Canoe Slalom Garden Rescue (PG) 5.40 Location Location Treasures of the Ancient World 6.30 Time Team World Championships, finals 4.00 SailGP, Britain, Location (PG) 6.35 Love It or List It UK (PG) 7.30 A 7.30 Abandoned Engineering (PG) 8.30 Return of day 2 5.30 ATP Uncovered Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 8.30 Restaurant: the Black Death (PG) 9.30 Crusaders (PG) 10.30 Impossible (PG) 9.30 Mystery Diners (PG) 10.30 Secrets of the Lost Ark (PG) 11.30 Myth Hunters Location Location Location Australia (PG) 11.25 (PG) 12.30am Programmes continue House Hunters (PG) 12.15am Programmes continue BBC Earth SKY 074 Investigation Discovery SKY 018 6.00 Tide (PG) 6.55 Life Below Zero (16) 7.45 6.05 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 6.55 American Where the Wild Men Are (M) 8.35 The Planets Detective with Lt. Joe Kenda (M) 7.45 Finding (PG) 9.35 The Great Intelligence Test (PG) 10.35 Andrea (M) 9.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 10.20 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 11.25 Grave Secrets (M) 11.15 The Perfect Murder (M) 12.10 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 12.15 Trials of Life (PG) 1.10 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 1.05 Obsession: Dark The Planets (PG) 2.10 Tide (PG) 3.05 The Age of Desires (M) 2.00 I’d Kill for You (M) 2.55 Betrayed Nature (PG) 4.00 The Great Intelligence Test (PG) (M) 3.50 Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil (M) 4.45 5.05 Life Below Zero 5.55 Where the Wild Men Are Your Worst Nightmare (M) 5.40 Dead Reckoning (PG) 6.50 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 7.40 24 Hours in (M) 6.35 American Detective with Lt. Joe Kenda A&E (PG) 8.30 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 9.20 Blue (M) 7.30 Evil Lives Here (M) 8.30 The Murder Planet (PG) 10.20 Trials of Life (PG) 11.15 The Age of Nature (PG) 12.15am Programmes continue 88 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
FRIDAY AUGUST 12 TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001 TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002 THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003 6.00 Breakfast (HD, C) Jenny- 6.00 Les Mills Born to Move (G, R, 6.00 AM With Ryan Bridge and Documentary: CHARLES I: May Clarkson and Indira HD, C) Melissa Chan-Green. KILLING A KING Stewart present news, sport, information and weather. 6.25 Kiri and Lou (G, R, HD, C, AD) 9.00 Infomercials If you felt unsatisfied at the 6.30 Code Fun (G, R, HD, C, AD) 10.30 Gold Rush (PG, R, C) end of historian Lisa Hilton’s 9.00 Lingo (G, HD, C) Adil Ray 6.45 Takaro Tribe (G, R, HD, 11.30 Newshub Live three-part series Charles I: hosts a UK quiz show. Noon Ready to Love (M, C) Downfall of a King, then here’s C, AD) 1.00 ■ Deadly Exchange (2017, the follow-up, when Charles 10.00 Tipping Point (G, R, HD, C) 6.55 Darwin & Newts (G, R, HD, I meets his gruesome end. Ben Shephard hosts a UK M, R, C) When a mother In Downfall, Hilton charted quiz show. C, AD) and daughter host a foreign the political battle between 7.05 Robin Hood: Mischief in exchange student, they are Charles I and the leader of 11.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) unaware she has an ulterior the House of Commons, John Bradley Walsh hosts a UK Sherwood (G, HD, C) motive. Lindsay Hartley, Pym, that ultimately led to quiz show. 7.30 My Little Pony: Pony Life (G, Victoria Konefal, Valentina Charles and his family scarper- Novakovic. ing to Hampton Court Palace. Noon 1 News (HD, C) R, HD, C) 2.55 Outrageous Acts of Science In this three-part series, 12.30 Emmerdale (PG, C, AD) 7.50 Monkie Kid (G, R, HD, C, AD) (G, C) she traces the five weeks of 1.00 Hollyoaks (PG, HD, C, AD) 8.15 Ricky Zoom (G, R, HD, C) 3.55 Bath Crashers (G, C) s8ep3 Charles’ trial, which came 8.40 Sesame Street (G, R, HD, C) 4.30 Newshub Live after years of civil war. His Ali makes a decision that 9.05 Bluey (G, R, HD, C) 5.00 Gold Rush (PG, C) trial and execution (spoiler) could cost him his career, 9.10 Infomercials 6.00 Newshub Live were “a seismic moment in and the McQueens come up 9.40 Les Mills Grit Cardio (G, R, 7.00 The Project With Kanoa British constitutional history”, with a plan to get Bobby’s Lloyd, Jesse Mulligan and says Hilton, leading to the learning back on track. HD, C) Jeremy Corbett. establishment, albeit brief, of 2.00 Coronation Street (PG, R, 10.05 Home and Away (PG, R, C) 7.30 ■ Greenland (2020, M, C) a republic. C, AD) 10.35 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD, A family fight for survival as HISTORY, 8.30pm 3.00 Tipping Point (G, HD, C) Ben a planet-destroying comet Shephard hosts a UK quiz C, AD) heads for Earth. Gerard Documentary: ATTITUDE show. 11.05 Charmed (PG, HD, C) Butler, Morena Baccarin, 4.00 Te Karere A Māori Noon ■ A Vineyard Romance David Denman, Hope Davis. The show about the differ- perspective on the day’s TV Films, page 69 ently abled among us arrives news and current affairs. (2021, G, HD, C) Rebecca 9.45 Newshub Late on Prime in a more accessible 4.30 Neighbours (PG, HD, Olson. 10.15 Tin Star (16, R, C) UK drama timeslot and begins with a C) David is daunted by 1.45 The Drew Barrymore Show series about a cop who profile of motocross enthu- Andrew’s proposal that he (PG, HD, C) begins a new life in the siast Scott MacDonald, who wear a wire to catch out the 2.40 Sabrina the Teenage Witch Rockies. Tonight, the Worths’ broke his back on a bad jump dodgy guard. (G, HD, C) new plan causes problems when he was just 14. How- 5.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) 3.30 The Feed (PG, HD, C) for Anna, who makes a bold ever, this hasn’t held him back Bradley Walsh hosts a UK 5.00 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C, and dangerous decision. and now his six-year-old son, quiz show. AD) s30ep15 s3ep3 Oakly, wants to get into the 6.00 1 News (HD, C) 5.30 Friends (G, R, HD, C) s9ep17 11.15 Live at the Apollo (16, R, C) sport. 7.00 Seven Sharp (HD, C) Hilary 6.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG, R, UK stand-up comedy series PRIME, 5.00pm Barry and Jeremy Wells HD, C) s6ep15 filmed at the Hammersmith present current affairs and 6.30 Home and Away (PG, C) Apollo. s12ep5 entertainment. Roo’s freedom feels like 12.10am – 6.00 Infomercials 7.30 The Repair Shop (G, HD, torture, Kirby and Theo C, AD) UK series in which channel heartbreak into PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 expert craftspeople restore music, and Cash needs treasured items. answers from Jasmine. 6.00 Infomercials 8.30 The Great Big Tiny Design 7.00 Shortland Street (PG, HD, C, 8.00 Kids’ Programmes (C) Challenge (G, HD, C, AD) AD) Maeve makes a promise 9.00 2022 Commonwealth Sandi Toksvig presents a she can’t keep, Jack suffers UK series in which amateur the consequences, and Games Highlights (G, R, C) crafters put their miniature- Madonna takes a starring 11.00 Big Love (M, C) making skills to the test. role. 12.10 Royal Pains (M) Tonight, in the semi-final, the 7.30 Travel Guides Australia (G, 1.05 House (M, C) four remaining miniaturists R, HD, C, AD) The travel 2.00 The Late Show (PG, R) create a Georgian kitchen guides jet off to Bologna, the 3.00 Wheel of Fortune (G) complete with a range and foodie capital of Italy. 3.30 Jeopardy (G) mangle, and an array of 8.35 Have You Been Paying 4.00 American Pickers (PG, R) accessories and items to fit Attention? (M, C) Hayley 5.00 ■ Attitude (PG, C) in a dresser. s1ep7 Sproull presents a topical 5.30 Prime News 9.30 The World’s Most comedy panel show, with 6.00 Storage Wars (PG, R, C) Extraordinary Homes (G, regulars Urzila Carlson 7.00 The Ditch (G) HD, C, AD) Piers Taylor and and Vaughan Smith, and 7.30 Border Security: America’s Caroline Quentin visit Canal guests Pax Assadi, Dai House in Florida, which is Henwood, Liv McKenzie and Front Line (PG, R, C) for sale at nearly $30 million, MasterChef Australia judge 8.00 Border Security: Australia’s but does a price tag like that Jock Zonfrillo. guarantee the very best in 9.35 RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Front Line (PG, R, C) design? s2ep4 Under (16, HD, C, AD) The 8.30 All Access: Moana Pasifika 10.45 1 News (HD, C) queens’ acting is put to the 11.15 Shortland Street (PG, R, test in original screenplay (G) Documentary about C, AD) Caged Queens, a prison- Moana Pasifika rugby team. 11.45 Big Fat Gypsy Weddings (M, based dramedy. s2ep2 9.40 NRL Premiership (G) NZ R, HD, C, AD) 10.45 Ready to Mingle (16, HD, C) Warriors v Canterbury- 12.45am Schitt’s Creek (M, R, HD, s1ep2 Bankstown Bulldogs, from C, AD) 11.45 ■ Kung Fu (16, HD, C) s2ep13 Mt Smart Stadium. 1.30 Te Karere (R) 12.35am Evil (16, HD, C) 11.40 RAW (PG) 2.05 Infomercials 1.20 Emmerdale (PG, R, C, AD) 12.35am The Late Show with 5.30 – 6.00 Religious 1.45 Infomercials Stephen Colbert (PG) Programming 2.40 Unreal (16, HD, C) s3ep1 1.30 – 6.00 Infomercials 4.10 The Bachelorette (PG, R, HD, C) s16ep6 5.40 – 6.00 2 Tunes ■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 89
FRIDAY AUGUST 12 WHAKAATA Film: JARHEAD MĀORI FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 There’s an adage that war is 90% 6.30 Kids’ Programmes boredom and 10% sheer terror, and 8.00 Tribe (G, R) Sam Mendes’ film based on Anthony 8.30 Oranga Ngākau (G, R) Swofford’s 2003 memoir depicts a stress 9.30 Whānau Living (G, R) test in both. Jake Gyllenhaal’s marine 10.00 Lucky Dip (G, R) endures existential levels of meaning- 10.30 Harakore (G, R) lessness, ending the Gulf War without 11.00 Rage Against the Rangatahi firing a shot. BRAVO, 8.35pm (PG, R) BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012 EDEN FREEVIEW 8 SKY 013 RUSH FREEVIEW 14 SKY 024 11.30 Rags Are Riches (PG, R) 11.45 Gowns to Geysers (PG, R) 6.00 Infomercials 6.00 My Cat from Hell (PG, R) 6.00 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) Noon Te Ao Tapatahi 10.00 Hoarders: Family Secrets 7.00 The Pioneer Woman (G) 6.50 Tanked (PG, R) 12.30 Tongue Tied (PG, R) 7.30 Valerie’s Home Cooking (G) 7.40 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 1.05 Nanakia (PG, R) (PG, R) s1ep11 8.00 Rick Stein’s Secret France 8.30 Inside West Coast Customs 1.30 Tōku Reo (G, R) 11.00 Love It or List It: Vancouver 2.35 Ako (G, R) (G, R) (PG, R) 3.05 Kids’ Programmes (PG, R) 9.00 Museum Mysteries (PG, R) 9.20 Kindig Customs (PG, R) 4.35 Tribe (G, R) 11.50 Million Dollar Listing NY 10.00 American Pickers (PG, R) 10.10 Street Outlaws: No Prep 5.15 Haka Life (G, R) 11.00 Salvage Dawgs (G) 5.30 Kids’ Programmes (PG, R) 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G, R) Kings (M, R) 6.00 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe: Te 12.45 Tattoo Fixers (M, R) Noon Inside Monaco: Playground 11.00 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) 1.40 Below Deck (M, R) 11.50 Tanked (PG, R) Arawa (G, R) 2.35 Love It or List It (PG, R) of the Rich (PG, R) 12.40 Turbo Pickers (PG, R) 6.30 Te Ao Mārama 3.35 Top Chef (PG) 1.00 Underbelly: Vanishing Act 1.30 Iron Resurrection (PG, R) 7.00 Pio Terei Tonight (G, R) Turia 4.30 Shark Tank (PG, R) 2.20 Texas Metal (PG, R) 5.30 Million Dollar Listing NY (M, R) 3.10 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) Schmidt-Peke, Haami and 2.00 Aussie Lobster Men (PG, R) 4.00 Inside West Coast Customs Pere Wihongi. (PG, R) 3.00 My Cat from Hell (PG) 8.00 Moosemeat and Marmalade 6.40 Love It or List It: Vancouver 4.00 Bobby Flay’s Barbecue (PG, R) (G, R) Two chefs explore 4.55 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) contrasting cultures. (PG) Addiction (G) 5.45 Tanked (PG) 8.30 Intrepid Journeys (PG) 7.35 Injustice with Nancy Grace 5.00 Mysteries at the Museum 6.35 Wheeler Dealers (PG) Reuben Wiki is in Laos. 7.30 Mysteries of the Deep (PG) 9.30 Skindigenous (G) Isaac (M, R) A fatal car crash may (PG) 8.25 Expedition Unknown (PG) Weber, also known as not be an accident. 6.00 American Pickers (PG) 9.20 NASA’s Unexplained Files Odinamaad Turning Wind, 8.35 ■ Jarhead (2005, M, 7.00 The Chase USA (PG) is Créole from Cape Verde C) Based on US Marine 8.00 Newshub Live (PG) The first close-up islands and Anishnawbek sniper Anthony Swofford’s 8.30 Strictly Come Dancing (G) images of Pluto. from Inlet First Nation. experiences in the Gulf War. 9.55 Celebrity IOU (G) Anthony 10.15 Alaskan Bush People (PG) 10.00 – 12.00am Kōrero Tuku Iho Jake Gyllenhaal. 11.05 Tanked (PG, R) (G) 11.05 Killer Siblings (16, R) Anderson wants to give back 11.55 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 11.55 Accident, Suicide or to his brother, Derrick. 12.40am Programmes continue Murder? (M, R) 11.00 The Chase USA (PG, R) 12.45am – 6.00 Infomercials 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials TVNZDUKE FREEVIEW6SKY023 SKY PREMIERE SKY030 MOVIESCLASSICSSKY034 RIALTO SKY 039 6.00 On Duke Today 6.30 All My Life (2020, M) Harry 6.15 Waterloo (1970) (1970, G) 6.15 Catwalk: From Glada Hudik Noon DUKEbox Music Shum Jr, Jessica Rothe Christopher Plummer to New York (2020, M) 12.30 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, Swedish documentary. 8.05 The Unholy (2021, M) Jeffrey 8.25 Pale Rider (1985, PG) Clint HD, C) Dean Morgan, Cricket Brown Eastwood, Michael Moriarty 7.55 Marvellous (2014, M) Toby 12.50 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, Jones, Gemma Jones 9.45 No Sudden Move (2021, 16) 10.20 Forever Young (1992, PG) R, HD, C) Benicio Del Toro Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis. 9.30 The 8th (2020, M) Irish 1.15 ■ Battlestar Galactica: The documentary. 11.40 French Exit (2021, M) Noon Unforgiven (1992, M) Clint Plan (2009, M, R, HD, C) Michelle Pfeiffer Eastwood, Gene Hackman 11.10 Above Suspicion (2019, 16) Edward James Olmos. Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston 2.45 Hunting Aotearoa (PG, R, HD) 1.35 Alone (2020, 16) Jules 2.10 Robinson Crusoe (1954, G) 3.10 Heavy Rescue 401 (PG, R, HD) Willcox, Marc Menchaca Dan O’Herlihy 12.55 Red Light (16) s1ep9&10 4.05 The Chase Aus (G, HD, C) 2.35 The Oratorio (2020, PG) US/ 4.55 ABC World News (PG) 3.15 A Quiet Place Part II (2020, 3.38 The Big Gundown (1967, M) 5.20 Abandoned Engineering (G, M) Emily Blunt Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian Italian documentary. R, HD, C) 3.45 God of the Piano (2019, M) 6.10 30 Rock (PG, R, HD, C) 4.50 Last Night in Soho (2020, 5.05 Castle Keep (1969, M) Burt 6.35 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, 16) Thomasin McKenzie, Lancaster, Patrick O’Neal Naama Preis HD, C) Anya Taylor-Joy 5.10 Eternal Beauty (2019, M) 7.05 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, 6.50 Groundhog Day (1993, PG) HD, C) s4ep17 6.45 Monster Hunter (2020, M) A self-centred weatherman Sally Hawkins 7.30 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C) In another dimension, a relives the same day in a 6.45 Larger Than Life: The Kevyn s13ep19 group of soldiers engage in a small town. Bill Murray, Andie 8.30 Family Guy (PG, R, HD, C, desperate battle for survival MacDowell Aucoin Story (2017, M) US AD) s16ep1 against enormous enemies. documentary about make- 9.30 ■ Batman & Robin (1997, Milla Jovovich, Tony Jaa 8.30 Captain Apache (1971, PG) A up artist Kevyn Aucoin. PG, R, HD, C, AD) Batman US Cavalry officer must use 8.30 Angel Baby (1995, 16) Going and Robin come up against 8.30 Licorice Pizza (2021, M) In a victim’s last words to help against the advice of their Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy. 1973, a 15-year-old actor him find his killer. Lee Van doctors, two schizophrenics George Clooney, Arnold strikes up a relationship with Cleef, Carroll Baker fall in love and prepare to Schwarzenegger. a woman in her twenties. have a baby. John Lynch, 11.45 Caprica (PG, HD) s1ep4 Alana Haim, Cooper 10.05 Heat (1995, 16) A career Jacqueline McKenzie 12.30am Mr Robot (16, HD) 2.10 – Hoffman, Sean Penn, Bradley criminal considers getting 10.15 Prisoners of the Ghostland 2.30 ABC World News (PG, R) Cooper TV Films, page 69 out of the business, while a (2021, 16) Nicolas Cage cop tries to put him behind 11.55 Creation Stories (2021, 16) 10.45 The Little Things (2021, M) bars. Al Pacino, Robert De Ewen Bremner Denzel Washington Niro 1.45am Boys Cry (2018, 16) 3.20 The Oratorio (2020, PG) 4.30 Angel 12.50am Music (2021, M) 2.35 Pure 12.50am Sex, Lies and Videotape Baby (1995, 16) (2018, 16) 4.05 In the Heights (2021, (1989, M) 2.30 The Key (1958, PG) PG) 4.35 Halloween II (1981, 18) 90 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
FRIDAY AUGUST 12 SKY CHANNELS (M) 9.30 Crime Scene Confidential (M) 10.30 The Perfect Murder (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) Vibe SKY 006 12.15am Programmes continue 6.00 Parenthood (M) s5ep2 6.50 Judge Judy (PG) Sky Arts SKY 020 SoHo: Landscapers, 9.30pm 7.15 The Closer (M) s4ep10 8.05 The Mysteries of Laura (M) s1ep16 8.50 The Good Wife (M) 6.30 Cold War and Cinema 7.15 Rough Draft with SKY SPORT s1ep13 9.40 Covert Affairs (M) s2ep2 10.30 Judge Reza Aslan 7.40 The Decisive Moment 8.00 Talking Judy (PG) 11.20 Murdoch Mysteries (M) s14ep7 Heads: Alan Bennett Monologues 8.35 ■ Campesino Sky Sport 1 SKY 051 12.10 Private Eyes (M) s5ep7 1.05 The Inbetween (2018, G) 10.05 Elliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good (M) s1ep7 2.00 The Closer (M) s4ep10 2.50 The 11.00 Put Some Colour in Your Life 11.30 Fake or 6.00 Aotearoa Rugby Pod 6.30 Rugby Mysteries of Laura (M) s1ep16 3.40 The Good Wife Fortune? 12.30 Video Killed the Radio Star 1.00 One Championship, South Africa v All Blacks 7.00 (M) s1ep13 4.30 Judge Judy (PG) 5.30 Parenthood Perfect Shot (PG) 1.30 Finding Your Roots 2.30 Rugby Championship, Argentina v Australia 7.30 (M) s5ep2 6.30 Covert Affairs (M) s2ep2 7.30 Cold War and Cinema 3.15 Rough Draft with Reza The Crowd Goes Wild 8.00 UFC on Sky 8.30 Inside Jamestown (16) s2ep2 8.30 Medici: The Magnificent Aslan 3.40 The Decisive Moment 4.00 I Still Being Netball 9.00 Gallaher Shield, final, replay 11.00 NPC, (16) s1ep1 9.30 The Drowning (M) Jodie uses a (G) Documentary about musicians in Peru. 6.00 Manawatu v Auckland 1.00 Sky GrassRoots Rugby home testing kit to take a sample of Daniel’s DNA. Anthems: New Zealand’s Iconic Hits (M) 6.45 The 2.00 Rugby Heaven 3.00 The Crowd Goes Wild s1ep3 10.30 The Good Wife (M) s1ep13 11.20 Judge Artist’s Workshop 7.00 Put Some Colour in Your 3.30 Farah Palmer Cup, Auckland v Manawatu 4.00 Judy (PG) 11.50 Jamestown (16) s2ep2 12.50am Life 8.00 Sounds and Stone 8.45 Classic Literature Farah Palmer Cup, Northland v Hawke’s Bay 4.30 Programmes continue and Cinema 9.35 ■ On Broadway (2019, G) 11.00 ■ Farah Palmer Cup, Taranaki v Otago 5.00 NPC, Koi (2019, G) 12.00am Programmes continue Taranaki v Northland 5.15 NPC, Tasman v Southland BBC UKTV SKY 007 5.30 NPC, Wellington v Bay of Plenty 5.45 NPC, Discovery SKY 070 Manawatu v Auckland 6.00 Rugby Heaven 7.00 6.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 6.35 QI (PG) 7.10 NPC/Ranfurly Shield, Hawke’s Bay v Counties EastEnders (PG) 7.40 The Bill (M) 8.30 A Touch of 6.05 How It’s Made (PG) 6.30 How Do They Do It? Manukau, from McLean Park, Napier, live 9.00 Sky Frost (M) s10ep1 10.15 Father Brown (M) s2ep5 11.05 (PG) 6.55 Rise of the Machines (M) 7.45 Homestead GrassRoots Rugby 10.00 Rugby Heaven 11.00 Doc Martin (M) s1ep2 11.55 Midsomer Murders (M) Rescue (PG) 8.35 Mighty Cruise Ships (PG) 9.25 Rugby Championship, Argentina v Australia 1.00am s21ep1 1.35 The Bill (M) 2.25 New Tricks (M) s6ep2 Fast N’ Loud (PG) 10.20 Gold Rush: White Water NPC/Ranfurly Shield, Hawke’s Bay v Counties 3.25 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (16) 4.20 (M) 11.15 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) 12.10 How Do Manukau 3.00 Rugby Championship, South Africa The Jonathan Ross Show (M) s16ep9 5.15 Who Do They Do It? (PG) 12.35 How It’s Made (PG) 1.05 v All Blacks 5.00 Rugby Heaven You Think You Are? (PG) 6.20 QI (PG) 6.55 Richard Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 2.00 Naked and Osman’s House of Games Night (PG) s1ep5 7.25 Afraid (M) 2.55 Bering Sea Gold (M) 3.50 Gold Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 QI (M) 8.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 8.35 8 Out Rush: White Water (PG) 4.45 Gold Rush: Parker’s of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M) 9.30 All Round Trail (PG) 5.40 Aussie Lobster Men (PG) 6.35 6.00 ATP 1000, National Bank Open, day 4, live to Mrs Brown’s (M) s3ep6 10.25 Hypothetical (M) Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under (M) 7.30 Gold 2.30 NRL Premiership, Canterbury-Bankstown s1ep6 11.15 Midsomer Murders (M) s21ep1 12.50am Rush: White Water (M) 8.30 Aussie Gold Hunters Bulldogs v North Queensland Cowboys, replay Programmes continue (PG) 9.30 Aussie Salvage Squad (PG) 10.30 Last 4.30 NRL Premiership, South Sydney Rabbitohs Outpost (PG) 11.25 Naked and Afraid (M) 12.15am v NZ Warriors 6.30 ATP 1000, National Bank SoHo SKY 010 Programmes continue Open, day 4, match of the day 8.00 ATP 1000, National Bank Open, day 4, highlights 9.00 World 6.40 Dave (16) s1ep1 7.15 The Rehearsal (16) s1ep1 National Geographic SKY 072 Series of Darts, Queensland Darts Masters, from 7.45 Rap Sh!t (16) s1ep3 8.15 Insecure (16) s5ep5 Townsville Entertainment and Convention Centre, 8.45 Ravi Patel’s Pursuit of Happiness (M) s1ep1 6.30 Air Crash Investigation: Special Report live 1.00am Ultimate Bowls 2.00 National Provincial 9.30 The Midwich Cuckoos (16) s1ep5 10.20 (M) 7.30 Nazi Megastructures: America’s War Championship, Manawatu v Auckland 2.15 National American Rust (16) s1ep7 11.15 Irma Vep (16) s1ep5 (PG) 8.30 Drain the Oceans Best ofs (PG) 9.30 Provincial Championship/Ranfurly Shield, Hawke’s 12.05 Dave (16) s1ep1 12.40 The Rehearsal (16) Dutch Caribbean Coastguard (PG) 10.30 Wicked Bay v Counties Manukau 2.30 ATP 1000, National s1ep1 1.10 Rap Sh!t (16) s1ep3 1.40 Insecure (16) Tuna (PG) 11.30 Inside North Korea: The Cyber Bank Open, day 4, match of the day 4.00 ATP s5ep5 2.10 The Midwich Cuckoos (16) s1ep5 3.00 State (M) 12.30 Air Crash Investigation (M) 1.30 1000, National Bank Open, day 5, live American Rust (16) s1ep7 3.55 The Righteous Megastructures 2.30 Situation Critical (M) 4.30 Gemstones (16) s1ep9 4.50 Absentia (16) s3ep10 Nature’s Fury (PG) 5.30 The Raising of the Costa Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 5.45 Temple (16) s1ep3 6.30 Fear the Walking Dead Concordia (PG) 6.30 Drain the Oceans Best ofs (18) s7ep14 7.30 ZeroZeroZero (18) s1ep3 8.30 Mare (PG) 7.30 When Sharks Attack (M) 8.30 Shark 6.00 India v South Africa, 4th T20 10.00 West of Easttown (18) Phone records lead to an unlikely Attack Files (M) 9.30 Air Crash Investigation: Indies v Bangladesh, 2nd T20 2.00 West Indies v suspect. s1ep3 9.30 Landscapers (16) s1ep1 10.25 Special Report (M) 10.30 Air Crash Investigation Black Caps, 1st T20 6.00 Commonwealth Games, I May Destroy You (18) s1ep7 10.55 Last Week (M) 11.30 Food Factory (PG) 12.30am Programmes cricket, semi-final 1 6.30 Commonwealth Games, Tonight with John Oliver (M) s9ep19 11.30 The continue cricket, semi-final 2 7.00 Commonwealth Games, Rising (16) s1ep4 12.15am Programmes continue cricket, bronze medal final 7.30 Commonwealth History SKY 073 Games, cricket, gold medal final 11.00 West Indies Living SKY 017 v Black Caps, 1st T20 11.30 Commonwealth Games, 6.30 Crusaders (PG) 7.30 Secrets of the Lost Ark cricket, New Zealand v South Africa 12.00am 6.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 7.10 The Pioneer Woman (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Lost Treasures of the Commonwealth Games, cricket, Sri Lanka v (PG) 7.35 Mexican Made Easy (PG) 8.05 House Ancient World 10.30 Time Team 11.30 Abandoned New Zealand, highlights 12.30 Commonwealth Hunters (PG) 9.00 Mystery Diners (PG) 10.00 Engineering (PG) 12.30 Return of the Black Death Games, cricket, England v New Zealand 1.00 Restaurant: Impossible (PG) 11.00 A Place in the (PG) 1.30 History’s Raiders (PG) 2.30 Scorched Commonwealth Games, cricket, bronze medal final, Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 11.55 Love It or List It UK (PG) Earth (PG) 3.30 The Fury and the Flames (PG) highlights 1.30 Commonwealth Games, cricket, 12.50 Location Location Location Australia (PG) 4.30 Killing Hitler: The Valkyrie Plot (PG) 5.30 Lost gold medal final, highlights 2.00 Sal’s NBL, Franklin 1.50 Salvage Hunters (PG) 2.45 House Hunters Treasures of the Ancient World 6.30 Time Team Bulls v Auckland Tuatara, replay 4.00 Sal’s NBL (PG) 3.45 The Pioneer Woman (PG) 4.15 Mexican 7.30 WWII: Witness to War (PG) 8.30 Charles I: Women, Lower South v Mid North, replay Made Easy (PG) 4.45 Restaurant: Impossible (PG) Killing a King (PG) 9.30 Europe’s Last Warrior 5.40 Location Location Location (PG) 6.35 Love It Kings (M) 10.30 Secrets of Britain (PG) 11.30 Myth or List It UK (PG) 7.30 A Place in the Sun: Winter Hunters (PG) 12.30am Programmes continue Sun (PG) 8.30 Every Family Has a Secret (PG) 9.30 Long Lost Family US (PG) 10.30 Location Location BBC Earth SKY 074 Location Australia (PG) 11.25 House Hunters (PG) 12.15am Programmes continue 6.00 Tide (PG) 6.55 Life Below Zero (M) 7.45 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 8.35 The Planets Investigation Discovery SKY 018 (PG) 9.35 The Psychedelic Drug Trial (M) 10.30 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 11.20 24 Hours in A&E 6.05 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 6.55 Still a Mystery (M) 12.10 Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (PG) (M) 7.45 Reasonable Doubt (M) 8.35 Body Cam 12.35 Trials of Life (PG) 1.25 The Planets (PG) 2.25 (M) 9.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 10.20 Grave Tide (PG) 3.20 Natural History Museum: World of Secrets (M) 11.15 The Perfect Murder (M) 12.10 Your Wonder (PG) 4.10 The Psychedelic Drug Trial (M) Worst Nightmare (M) 1.05 Obsession: Dark Desires 5.05 Life Below Zero 5.55 Where the Wild Men Are (M) 2.00 I’d Kill for You (M) 2.55 Betrayed (M) 3.50 (PG) 6.50 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 7.40 24 Hours Before I Die (M) 4.45 Your Worst Nightmare (M) in A&E (PG) 8.30 The Age of Nature (PG) 9.30 The 5.40 The Murder Tapes (M) 6.35 Body Cam (M) Psychedelic Drug Trial (M) 10.30 Trials of Life (PG) 7.30 Evil Lives Here (M) 8.30 Reasonable Doubt 11.30 Natural History Museum: World of Wonder (PG) 12.20am Programmes continue AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 91
RADIO AUGUST 612 RNZ Concert Lauren Fagan, Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth (recorded in Opera on Sunday, Royal Albert Hall, London) 3.00 RNZ Concert FREEVIEW 51 SKY 422 iHeartRADIO 6.00pm. Afternoons 7.00 RNZ Concert Evenings 8.00 rnz.co.nz/concert Music Alive NZSO Beethoven Festival: Pastoral Festival Opera, London Philharmonic Orchestra/ – Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F Op 68, SATURDAY Robin Ticciati (recorded in Royal Albert Hall, Pastoral; Symphony No 7 in A Op 92, NZSO/Edo News and Weather 6.00, 8.00, 9.00, noon London) 9.00 Made in New Zealand 11.00 New de Waart (3 of 4, recorded in Michael Fowler 6.00 RNZ Concert Mornings 10.00 RNZ Music Dreams 12.00am Music Through the Night Centre, Wellington) 10.00 Day’s End 12.00am Concert Days 1.00 Onstage 2.00 Worlds of Music Through the Night Music with Trevor Reekie 3.00 RNZ Concert MONDAY Afternoons 5.00 Inside Out with Nick Tipping News and Weather 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, noon, TUESDAY 7.00 RNZ Concert Evenings 8.00 Music Alive 5.00pm News and Weather 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, noon, Voices NZ: Taonga Moana – Hamilton: Karakia 6.00 RNZ Concert Mornings 10.00 RNZ 5.00pm of the Stars; Gordon arr Loomer: Frobisher Bay; Concert Days 1.00 Onstage BBC Proms 2022: 6.00 RNZ Concert Mornings 10.00 RNZ Mäntyjärvi: The Seafarer; Enns: The Sorrow Song Music for Royal Occasions, BBC Singers, BBC Concert Days 1.00 Onstage 3.00 RNZ Concert of Whales; Mozart: Lacrimosa, from Requiem; Afternoons 7.00 RNZ Concert Evenings 8.00 Warren Maxwell: Hind Mahaasaagar; Ken Steven: Music Alive CMNZ: Secrets & Hidden Messages Hentakan Jiwa; Ešenvalds: A Drop in the Ocean; – Michael Williams: Spirit Flies Sun Rises; Kurtág: Bates: Observer in the Magellanic Cloud; Warren Three pieces for Viola Solo from Signs, Games Maxwell: Te Tai Uka a Pia, Voices NZ Chamber and Messages; Schumann: Fairytale Pictures Choir/Karen Grylls (recorded in Gallagher Op 113; Brahms: Scherzo, from FAE Sonata in C Theatre, Hamilton) 9.30 Sound Lounge minor; Sting, Krauss arr Stumm: You Will Be My Contemporary music 12.00am Music Through Ain True Love; Brahms: Piano Quartet No 3 in the Night C minor Op 60; Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat Op 47 (3), Jennifer Stumm (viola) with Te SUNDAY Kōkī Trio – Martin Riseley (violin), Inbal Meggido News and Weather 6.00, 8.00, 9.00, noon (cello), Jian Liu (piano) (recorded in Auckland 6.00 Sanctuary 7.30 Hymns on Sunday with Concert Chamber) 10.00 Day’s End 12.00am Robyn Jaquiery 8.00 Grace Notes 9.00 RNZ Music Through the Night Concert Mornings 10.00 RNZ Concert Days 1.00 Onstage 3.00 The Musical Omnivore 5.00 WEDNESDAY New Horizons 6.00 Opera on Sunday BBC News and Weather 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, noon, Proms 2022: Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers – Karis 5.00pm Tucker (Thirza), Philip Horst (Pascoe), James 6.00 RNZ Concert Mornings 10.00 RNZ Rutherford (Lawrence), Rodrigo Porras Garulo Concert Days 1.00 Onstage 3.00 RNZ Concert (Mark), Lauren Fagan (Avis), Donovan Singletary Afternoons 7.00 RNZ Concert Evenings (Harvey), Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Tallan), Marta 8.00 Music Alive BBC Proms 2022: The Two Fontanals-Simmons (Jack), Glyndebourne Scheherazades – Ravel: Shéhérazade; Beamish: RNZ National MONDAY THURSDAY 5.00 First Up with Nathan Rarere 6.00 5.00 First Up with Nathan Rarere 6.00 FREEVIEW 50 SKY 421 iHeartRADIO Morning Report with Corin Dann and Susie Morning Report with Corin Dann and Susie rnz.co.nz Ferguson 9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan Ferguson 9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan Noon Midday Report with Māni Dunlop 1.06 Noon Midday Report with Māni Dunlop 1.06 SATURDAY Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 3.45 The Panel Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 3.45 The Panel 6.08 Storytime 6.55 News 2 Me 7.08 Country with Wallace Chapman 5.00 Checkpoint with with Wallace Chapman 5.00 Checkpoint with Life 8.10 Saturday Morning with Kim Hill Lisa Owen 6.30 Trending Now 7.06 Nights with Lisa Owen 6.30 Trending Now 7.06 Nights with In-depth feature interviews 12.10 Māpuna Bryan Crump 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 Lately Bryan Crump 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 Lately with Julian Wilcox Conversations with Māori with Karyn Hay 11.04 Nashville Babylon Mark with Karyn Hay 11.04 Music 101 Pocket Edition throughout Aotearoa, from sports legends Rogers presents Americana, alt country, folk, 12.04am All Night Programme to business leaders, artists and community soul and blues 12.04am All Night Programme advocates 1.06 Music 101 with Charlotte Ryan FRIDAY 5.00 The World at Five 5.30 Tagata o te Moana TUESDAY 5.00 First Up with Nathan Rarere 6.00 Pacific news, issues, information and music 5.00 First Up with Nathan Rarere 6.00 Morning Report with Corin Dann and Susie 6.06 Nashville Babylon Mark Rogers presents Morning Report with Corin Dann and Susie Ferguson 9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan Americana, alt country, folk, soul and blues 7.06 Ferguson 9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan Noon Midday Report with Māni Dunlop 1.06 Saturday Night with Phil O’Brien Requests, Noon Midday Report with Māni Dunlop 1.06 Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 3.45 The Panel nostalgia and musical memories 12.04am All Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 3.45 The Panel with Wallace Chapman 5.00 Checkpoint with Night Programme with Wallace Chapman 5.00 Checkpoint with Lisa Owen 6.30 Trending Now 7.06 Nights with Lisa Owen 6.30 Trending Now 7.06 Nights with Bryan Crump 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 Lately SUNDAY Bryan Crump 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 Lately with Karyn Hay 11.04 The Mixtape 12.04am All 6.08 Storytime 7.10 Features Hour 8.06 with Karyn Hay 11.04 Worlds of Music with Night Programme Sunday Morning with Jim Mora Including 9.06 Trevor Reekie 12.04am All Night Programme Mediawatch 12.12 Standing Room Only with Lynn Freeman Including 1.10 At the Movies WEDNESDAY Duncan Garner, 2.05 The Laugh Track 3.05 Classic Drama 4.06 5.00 First Up with Nathan Rarere 6.00 9.00am, Monday The Arts Hour (BBC World Service) 5.00 The Morning Report with Corin Dann and Susie to Thursday. World at Five 5.10 Heart and Soul (BBC) 5.35 Ferguson 9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn Te Manu Korihi Māori news and issues 6.06 Ryan Noon Midday Report with Māni Dunlop Māpuna with Julian Wilcox Conversations 1.06 Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 3.45 The with Māori throughout Aotearoa, from sports Panel with Wallace Chapman 5.00 Checkpoint legends to business leaders, artists and with Lisa Owen 6.30 Trending Now 7.06 Nights community advocates 6.50 Voices 7.04 Smart with Bryan Crump 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 Talk Conversations recorded around Aotearoa Lately with Karyn Hay 11.04 Inside Out Nick and the world 8.06 The Sunday Night Retro Tipping presents classic recordings and modern Show with Phil O’Brien 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 masterpieces from the world of jazz 12.04am All Mediawatch 11.04 The Retro Cocktail Hour Night Programme (KPR) 12.04am All Night Programme 92 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
Hive (BBC co-commission, premiere); Rimsky- Classical Home Listening Korsakov: Scheherazade Op 35, Catrin Finch (harp), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/ by ELIZABETH KERR Ariane Matiakh (recorded in Royal Albert Hall, London) 10.00 Day’s End 12.00am Music Glorious Through the Night wreck THURSDAY Unappreciated in her News and Weather 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, lifetime, the work of noon, 5.00pm Ethel Smyth is finally 6.00 RNZ Concert Mornings 10.00 RNZ getting the recognition Concert Days 1.00 Onstage 3.00 RNZ Concert it deserves. Afternoons 7.00 RNZ Concert Evenings 8.00 Music Alive Louis Baker and APO – Louis Stories about English composer Ethel Smyth: fought the prejudices of her time. GETTY IMAGES Baker (vocals & guitar), Laughton Kora and suffragist Dame Ethel Smyth (vocals), Esther Stephens (vocals), Daniel paint a picture of a passionate, Grimes, written decades later. Hayles (keyboard), Marika Hodgson (bass), fearless, operatic character. Musically, the language reveals Smyth’s Cory Champion (drums), Nathan Haines (flute), In 1912, she threw a brick through the Auckland Philharmonia/Hamish McKeich window of Colonial Secretary Lewis many influences: Tchaikovsky, Debussy, (recorded in Auckland Town Hall) 10.00 Day’s Harcourt, who opposed votes for women, Richard Strauss and, most notably, End 12.00am Music Through the Night and spent two months in jail as a result. Richard Wagner. Hers is a musical world Her friend, conductor Sir Thomas of brassy opulent late Romanticism. Per- FRIDAY Beecham, visited her in Holloway Prison haps most striking is Smyth’s use of the News and Weather 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, and found her leaning out a window with chorus, in grand English tradition. Sing- noon, 5.00pm a toothbrush, vigorously conducting a ing magnificently in this semi-staged 6.00 RNZ Concert Mornings 10.00 RNZ group of women singing her famous The production, the ensemble plays a major Concert Days 1.00 Onstage 3.00 RNZ Concert March of the Women, the anthem of the Afternoons 7.00 RNZ Concert Evenings 8.00 suffrage movement. Beecham described The narrative of The Music Alive BBC Proms 2022: Carwithen, the openly bisexual Smyth as “stubborn, Wreckers is brilliantly Williams and Vaughan Williams – Carwithan: indomitable, unconquerable”. operatic, full of moral Bishop Rock; G Williams: Sea Sketches; conflict, passionate Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 1, A Sea This week, RNZ Concert broadcasts love and violent death. Symphony, Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano), her opera The Wreckers in its original Andrew Foster-Williams (bassbaritone), French-language version, from the BBC role in the action, as a coastal community National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, BBC Proms. The Glyndebourne production, who become an outraged and threaten- Symphony Chorus/Andrew Manze (recorded conducted by its music director, Robin ing mob. in Royal Albert Hall, London) 10.00 Day’s End Ticciati, presents a work with its own 12.00am Music Through the Night fascinating history. Smyth, enraged This production is the original version by a conductor’s severe cuts at its 1906 of The Wreckers that Smyth herself never Newstalk ZB newstalkzb.co.nz German-language premiere in Leipzig, heard. The Guardian critic said in May famously stole into the orchestra pit and that the Glyndebourne “have really done it SATURDAY removed the score and all the parts after proud … it’s hard to imagine it better done”. 6.00 Jamie McKay 7.00 D’Arcy Waldegrave 9.00 a successful opening night, abruptly Jack Tame Noon Sportstalk 3.00 Tim Roxborogh ending the season. Beecham himself The vibrant, committed and energetic & Tim Beveridge 6.00 Roman Travers 12.00am Jim conducted English-language versions in performance honours a remarkable Snedden London in 1909 and 1910. composer fighting the prejudices of her time and ensuring her place in musical SUNDAY The narrative of The Wreckers is bril- and social history. l 6.00 Peter Wolfkamp 9.00 Francesca Rudkin Noon liantly operatic, full of moral conflict, Sportstalk 3.00 Tim Roxborogh & Tim Beveridge passionate love and violent death. The BBC Proms 2022 Ethel Smyth’s The 6.00 Frank Ritchie & Jax van Buuren 7.30 John female characters are as bold and ardent Wreckers, featuring the Glyndebourne Cowan 8.00 Miles Davis 11.00 The Nutters Club as Smyth herself. Cornish villagers lure Festival Opera and London Philharmonic 1.00am Roman Travers ships to their darkened coastline, murder Orchestra, with Robin Ticciati (conductor), their crews and plunder their cargoes. is broadcast on RNZ Concert on August 7. MONDAY-FRIDAY The wild coastline setting occasions com- 5.00 Kate Hawkesby 6.00 Mike Hosking 9.00 Kerre parisons with Benjamin Britten’s Peter Woodham Noon Simon Barnett & James Daniels (Andrew Dickens on Monday) 4.00 Heather du Plessis-Allan 7.00 Sportstalk 8.00 Marcus Lush 12.00am Roman Travers/Tim Beveridge Today FM todayfm.co.nz SATURDAY 6.00 Nigel Yalden 9.00 WellBeings with Dominic Bowden Noon Robett Hollis 2.00 Sport with Marc Peard & John Day 6.00 Saturday Night Live SUNDAY 6.00 Best of Tova & Lloyd Burr Live 7.00 Build & Design with Hamish Dodd & Stan Scott 9.00 Mel Homer Noon Buttabean Radio Show with Dave Letele & Nats Levi 2.00 Graeme Hill 7.00 Podcast Playout 8.00 Polly Gillespie MONDAY-THURSDAY 5.00 Rachel Smalley 6.30 Tova O’Brien 9.00 Duncan Garner Noon Leah Panapa & Mark Richardson 4.00 Lloyd Burr 7.00 Graeme Hill (Wilhelmina Shrimpton on Monday) 8.00 Polly Gillespie FRIDAY As above until evening 7.00 Podcast Playout 8.00 Friday Night Nickson AUGUST 6 2022 LISTENER 93
THE GOOD LIFE MICHELE HEWITSON Hair-raising holidays Ihave decided to retire my wild kittens, and reading a reader had written: “One of column. These treats included from having excite- Barbara Pym. the most boring books I have two books. ments. In truth, I have ever read.” I can’t think of a never been all that If I have read Barbara Pym higher recommendation. One is a children’s book keen on them. I have before, I have no recollection called Elvie the Sheep, writ- never seen the attraction of of having done so. This is the W hat counts as an ten by Colleen Brown and any activity that involves going joy of a Pym novel. Nothing excitement in the illustrated by Emma Lay. It up and then down things, ever happens in them, so you country is the toot is the true story of Elvie the getting wet in any body of could read them over and over that announces the delivery of Sheep, who belonged to Col- water other than a shower, for the rest of your reading life leen’s aunt, Mrs Pollock, and going very fast and getting giddy. I was once cajoled, at Elvie the Sheep, together they lived in Wel- the opening of Hong Kong by Colleen Brown lington. It tells the story of Disneyland, into going on and illustrated Elvie going on holiday, back a scary roller-coaster ride by Emma Lay. to the farm from whence she through a dark tunnel while came. She got mixed up in going up and down, very She got mixed up in the flock and the flock and almost got sent fast. Of course, the thing almost got sent to the works. It is a to the works. It is a nail-biter broke down in the tunnel. nail-biter of a story, I can tell you. of a story, I can tell you. I I knew it would. That is the could have told Elvie that no thing about excitements – and not remember that you the mail. Our delightful rural good ever comes of excite- they are dangerous. may have read them before. mail deliverer is June. She has ments such as holidays. a little van, with a flashing I used to go travel- At the Masterton Library, light atop, and a cache of doggy The second book is ling – which was sort of you sometimes come across treats, which means that all of the possibly also true exciting – but I’d go only if books nobody has taken the farm dogs adore her. story of two cats, The I was flying business class, out in a decade, with a slip Correspondence of Mr Jones staying in fancy hotels, and pasted into the front inviting In the past fortnight, she has and Harriet, by Gai Foskett somebody else was paying. comment on your reading delivered some treats for this and Mary Mountier. It is a In other words, it was like experience. In one Pym novel, human from readers of this collection of letters between being at home, but much the two neighbouring posher, and with servants. felines, as assembled by their people, Gai (the Old My idea of excitements Tart) and Mary (the Old when travelling involved Trout). The correspond- looking at things in ence provides an insight museums, eating at nice res- into the secret life of cats taurants and taking gentle and includes tips such rambles through foreign parts. as how to flatten a dead mouse so that it might fit into My idea of the perfect a toaster, thus providing a excitement while staying tasty snack: hide said mouse at a fancy hotel in the centre under the cushion on your of London was the private person’s favourite chair. lounge where they served Later, once the mouse is nicely a most refined afternoon tea. flattened, retrieve and toast. That is the sort of excitement The third package was from which beats, hands down, the the best friend I have never idiotic pursuit that is jump- met. This is my virtual friend ing off bridges while attached Karen, who often sends me to a giant rubber band. lovely packages. This one contained treats for the wild These days, what I count kittens. They were wildly as excitements is patting my excited. l sheep, attempting to tame 94 LISTENER AUGUST 6 2022
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