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A young woman themselves. That often means frequent leaves the story short of a single emotional is forced into a holdups to explain every detail, or not centre and missing some much-needed space odyssey in a having enough information to make sense explanation of things both futuristic and complex novel of of the world. mundane. indigenous futurism. Na Viro is definitely on the lean side It would be a pity if this meant Na Viro, by JACK REMIEL COTTRELL when it comes to exposition, which does at the forefront of a new and particularly get a touch frustrating at times, as a interesting genre, ended up tucked out NA VIRO, by Gina Cole (Huia, $35) reader has to rely on the kinds of things of sight because it’s hard to figure out Na Viro is an ambitious book. A melding they expect to see in science fiction rather quite where to put it. The story itself – Tia of Pasifika culture and space opera where than getting a solid grip on the world our saving her sister and struggling against the skies are something close to a mirror characters are existing in. her mother – feels like it should be in the of the sea. At the same time, there are young-adult genre, but there’s probably a aliens, advanced sentient and all-knowing The sisters were little too much by way of unfamiliar and AIs, human cultures developing on other raised in a house that unexplained elements for that. Fans of planets and a militaristic world order is anchored above space opera and traditional hard science named the Academy that is calling the the now-submerged fiction may find there are a few too many shots. island of Nauru. liberties taken with time, tech and physics in the name of traditional storytelling. And World building is tough. Far-future Our protagonist, Tia Grom-Eddy, and readers interested in the new indigenous hard science fiction is hard. And the her sister, Leilani, were raised by their stories will need to have a solid enthusiasm emerging genre of indigenous futurism grandmother in a house that is anchored for the hefty science-fiction aspects. has the double difficulty of explaining the above the now-submerged island of world as it is when humanity has reached Nauru. Their mother has journeyed off That is, of course, an issue with a lot of the stage of setting up a colony on Mars, to be a space captain, and their father is new genre fiction: where does it fit in with along with explaining cultures that often part of a religious order on Mars. Despite the rest of the writing galaxy? While Na the reader is unfamiliar with. this, Tia is uninterested in a role as a space Viro is probably one of the most difficult navigator, preferring instead to work with books to place, and is also something of There’s always a balance to strike in a group navigating and mapping the seas. a challenge to read, terms of how much to tell the reader and It is only when her sister is trapped in a it is a worthy book how much to leave them to work out for whirlpool that has emerged in our galaxy for that alone. It is that Tia ventures into space. something new that Gina Cole: at the forefront of a new and can only come from particularly interesting genre. If there’s a failing in the book, it may be here – from the that there’s too much packed in there. This Pacific in the here and now, and from the Pacific in the distant future. l with very short lines, making each poem THE TIP SHOP, by James Brown (Te majority of poems are written emphati- stand like a column on the page. Though Herenga Waka University Press, $24.99) cally in the first person, often leading the subject matter is often presented in James Brown occasionally writes erasure to a fruitful examination of the self, as vague terms, there is much real lyricism poems, “found” poems and other forms in “Mr Spencer”, a childhood memory here. Incidentally, the actor Ian Mune that can resemble writing-school exer- about learning to see the world in a provides an introduction and four art- cises. Fortunately, they are very few in his proper perspective. Or “Resilience on works illustrating this collection’s moods. latest collection. In The Tip Shop, the great Checkout 7”, the almost stream-of-con- sciousness monologue of a supermarket employee, catching his personality in his actions and attitudes. Or “Space and Time”, a convincing reimagining of a chilly night and the sense of a lonely universe. There are dispiriting poems of disappointment and sour humour, but Brown is at his best with longer narrative poems concerned with action and experience, such as “The Great Employee”, “Trigger Warning” and the deadpan humour of “Oral History”, a very colloquial tale of a student trying to make it home via rail and hitch-hiking. In form and subject matter, this is a varied and substantial collection. l JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 51

BOOKS Tyranny of the gaze A collection of short debut story collection. Danielle Pender: convincing and at times stories zeroes in on At times, the focus on image seems humorous storytelling. how women are seen. an obvious target of gender politics. In community hall. Carmen wore a shop- by REBECCA STYLES “Junction 64”, Deborah is working at the lifted dress that was too small and tight counter of a roadside burger joint, but but caught the eye of the boys from school. WATCHING WOMEN & GIRLS, by Dan- when she stops wearing make-up at work, Her skin “shimmered with bronzer that ielle Pender (Fourth Estate, $29.99) her boss puts her on the grill, out of sight made her face two shades darker than The women in Danielle Pender’s short of customers. In the first two stories, the her neck”. The boxing match showed the story collection are reflected in mirrors, female characters either suck in their violence of women towards each other, as computer screens, glass, art or through stomach, wear shapewear or worry about well as that of men in the ring. It’s another the eyes of other women. In the open- a “bra that caused exploratory fat to poke act of violence that tears the friendship ing story, Laura watches a couple sitting through the back section like sausage apart and leaves Carmen untethered to next to her in a restaurant and thinks the female connections as an adult. young woman is laughing too hard at the These characters are older man’s mediocre jokes. But witness- preoccupied with The stories feature women from many ing the scene throws Laura back into image – with being an walks of life: mothers, a serial adulterer, memories of her own relationship with object and objectified. a female advertising exec exploiting the an older man, whose initial sophistica- ideas of a junior staffer, a dominatrix. tion revealed itself to be an inability to links”. In “Three Sisters”, a wedding is The storytelling is convincing, painting emotionally commit to anyone with “too seen as the ultimate display of the con- contemporary society, mostly British, much baggage”. It’s not until we get to the struction of femininity and class. with clear and at times humorous prose. end of the collection that we encounter a But the use of rhetorical questions in the self-assured woman. Maria is a confident The more successful stories in the col- narrative, overt politics and a switched 75-year-old artist frankly contemplating lection subtly reference gender and class point of view at the end of some stories the art world, herself and her relation- politics while getting to the emotional wore a little thin. Perhaps my weariness ships, as her nude self-portrait sits heart of the characters. In “Paper Dolls”, with the politics comes with a disappoint- proudly in a gallery. Carmen goes back to her hometown to ment that these (mainly) young characters help her mum shift house. While there, are so preoccupied with Pender, born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne she reflects on her friendship with image – with being an and now living in London, is the founder Leanne – the pair met in high school and, object and objectified. I of Riposte, a UK biannual publication while opposites, were completely accept- wanted more characters for women. She did a master’s degree in ing and connected to each other – and who were aware of the creative writing at Newcastle Univer- the time they went to a boxing match in a social constructions of sity, and Watching Women & Girls is her gender but looked away from it and defined themselves. l 52 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

Soaring high Engaging fiction flash of recognition caught in my throat. themes together as she deals with the pain GETTY IMAGES debut is equally at The theme of outsider-by-choice also of loss, navigating work and relationships, home in Tokyo as and the adjustments she inevitably has to in rural Aotearoa. runs throughout: “If the world is a book, make whenever she returns to Aotearoa. why would I only read the first page?” by ANGELIQUE KASMARA Sex and power dynamics within The “foreigner finding themselves in relationships and at work are explored KŌHINE, by Colleen Maria Lenihan Asia” concept, popularised by films and in several stories, and there are comical (Huia, $25) books such as The Beach, Lost in Transla- moments also to be found. “Just Holden Kōhine, the debut collection of intercon- tion and Eat Pray Love, so often reduces Together” involves a huge bag of weed nected short stories by Colleen Maria inhabitants and places to just another sitting unnoticed in a backyard. And in the Lenihan, is a beguiling, stylish and heady exotic backdrop to their first-world very short story “Sista”, we’re presented mix of outsiders adrift in Tokyo; Japanese problems. Kōhine, however, is smarter with the cheery point of view of Jase, who idol girls; week-long benders in Toronto, than this. The author lived in Japan for 15 has just gone and “kicked the bucket … bit Thailand and Bali; rongoā healers; years, so brings a more complex perspec- fkn sudden”. He uses his unique perspec- fractured romances; high-stakes poker tive to the table. Several of the stories were tive as a departed spirit to impart advice games; matriarchs in rural Aotearoa; and drawn from her own experiences, as well such as, “If I was you, I’d just walk around the journey of a soul guided home by her as those of people close to her. She adroitly in my undies, lol.” ancestors. And that midnight-blue leaps between characters – from a male metallic cover is glorious. Japanese piano teacher to a young Māori Another story with much wry humour girl uprooted from rural New Zealand to is “Directions”, which is told through Loss and grief are recurring Tokyo – and presents points of view as the eyes of crows living in Tokyo. It’s the themes. There’s a line in the second perfect bridge between the heartbreak of story, “Cherry Blossom Girl” – “A diverse as a group of party people or a the powerful and vivid “Leaping-off Place pink plastic hair comb, a single, murder of crows. I” and “Leaping-off Place II”. The crows long, dark brown hair tangled Although some of the stories give directions to a lost soul as she works in its teeth” – that devastates are far stronger than others, the out how to take flight. She soon figures it in its simple detail, so that skilful intertwining between the out. “Brace yourself as an invisible cord when that same comb non-linear narratives creates of braided flax unfurls from your solar reappears much later in a robust scaffolding, espe- plexus and draws you “Leaping-off Place I”, the cially through recurring west, towards Rā, dis- characters such as Maia, solving ever so slowly Colleen Maria Lenihan: adroit a Māori New Zealander into the sea like a drop of examiner of loss and grief. living in Tokyo. All her honey.” The ascendance complexities and con- she achieves is captured tradictions add depth beautifully in these and narrative drive. sentences, as the reader They serve to bind soars alongside her. l different threads and JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 53

BOOKS Revisionist trap The West’s obsession with atoning for past sins gives cover to human rights abusers and authoritarian regimes, a British author argues. ANI O’BRIEN that cultural and political elites have to a perpetual self-flagellation is providing large degree deemed beyond examination cover for human rights abusers and THE WAR ON THE WEST: How to or criticism – for example, that racism malignant regimes in other parts of the prevail in the age of unreason, by Douglas cannot be perpetrated against white world. Murray (HarperCollins, $39.99) people, or the West is unique in its history What he calls “the war on the West”, Doug- of slavery and this has imbued it with an He gives the example of a speech the US las Murray says, could perhaps be more original sin that cannot be atoned for. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda accurately described as the self-destruc- Thomas-Greenfield, made to the global tion, or even the slow and systematic Murray says there is nowhere more pro- organisation not long after President Joe suicide, of the West. gressive, at any time in history, than the Biden took office. West today; there is no better set of socie- The War on the West, like the earlier ties to live in as a member of a minority Thomas-Greenfield delivered a lengthy books from the British author and politi- group of any kind. He is not reluctant to confession on the racism that she said the cal commentator, The Strange Death of acknowledge the tragedies and travesties US was riddled with. It was an emphatic Europe and The Madness of Crowds, breaks of the past, but rejects appraisals of the condemnation of her own people and many of the new cultural and political current West – by many in the elites – as country. She then turned her criticism on rules of what one should and should not an irredeemably evil, racist and oppres- China and its human rights abuses against say in “polite society” in the West in the sive place. Muslim minority populations. But China 21st century. It pushes back on “truths” wasn’t having a bar of it. In a fierce rebuke, And, he says, our self-obsessed its ambassador declared that China would 54 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

not listen to America as, after all, hadn’t Toppled hero: a downed statue of US President has been so thorough in its collective GETTY IMAGES it just confessed to being the home of a Theodore Roosevelt in Portland, Oregon. atonement. He points to the longer-lasting systemically racist society? How dare the Below, Douglas Murray. – largely unacknowledged and unatoned US comment on the human rights – trade of slaves from Africa to the Middle record of any other nation when it has been taken and even deliberate lies East, and the practice of castrating male is such a failure itself? weaponised in this process, he says. slaves to ensure they could not populate As examples he cites fabricated quotes the lands they had been forcibly displaced Murray sees this as a cynical attributed to Cecil Rhodes – the South to. strategy of the Chinese govern- African who held much-debated views on ment, which is unlikely to care race yet explicitly demanded that people Slavery, Murray says, was practised about Western racism except as a of all ethnicities be eligible for his famous by virtually every society historically, stick to beat the West with. scholarship – by activists seeking to have whether in tribal warfare, mass displace- his memory erased, and the disingenuous ment of populations or intra-societal And China is not alone in smearing of the reputation of Britain’s indented servitude. taking advantage of West- great wartime leader Winston Churchill. ern self-harm, Murray However, he argues, it is only the argues. He charts, for This, he says, is a deliberate ploy to leave British who have demonstrated the most example, the rise of the West without heroes and lacking a set meaningful attempt to put things right. toppling statues and of values and principles that can be seen Following the outlawing of slavery in the “cancelling” historical as foundational to its nations – democratic British Empire, the British spent centuries figures of importance due societies now in active retreat. Murray policing the seas to prevent slavery and to their supposed connec- unprecedented sums of Crown money. tions to the trans-Atlantic The selective singling slave trade. Creative licence out of people or But countervailing nuance such as this moments in time is dead in 2022, says Murray. To acknowl- without providing edge that the slave trade was abhorrent context is a key feature. but criticise the disingenuous weaponis- ing of its history is often seen as just as points out that while every transgression, bad as actually saying the slave trade was perceived or real, of Western heroes is a good idea. picked over, figures who have famously condemned the West do not receive the Unsurprisingly, The War on the West same treatment. Karl Marx, for example, has attracted accusations of racism, which remains a hero even though his own racist Murray might say proves his point. It’s comments have long been in plain sight. arguable that the book is tailored more There has been no attempt, at least to date, to an American audience and with that to cancel Marx, despite his belief in the comes a tendency to blanket the entire supremacy of white people. West with the problems and peculiarities of US culture. The selective singling out of people or moments in time without providing Murray’s calls for nuance also aren’t appropriate context is a key feature without a sliver of hypocrisy. In regard of this destructive behaviour rather to “cancelling” historical figures, he than a bug, in Murray’s view. hardly entertains the idea that there may He notes that although in the be times when a society or community West we thankfully have come to might rightly want to consign a genuinely view slavery as an evil and immoral objectionable individual to the history practice, the trans-Atlantic slave books. Not all criticism of “great men” is trade was at the time symptomatic disingenuous or false. of a world that did not think that way. And crucially, The War on the West is deliberately it was far from the only provocative. But at the heart of Murray’s example of slavery in our polemic is a methodical takedown of some global history. of the most pernicious narratives plagu- In fact, the reason ing Western societies. we know so much about the horrors Most convincing is his central argu- of the slave trade is ment that if the West doesn’t stop because the West attacking itself, it will not only dismantle many of the great things that it has built but abdicate the role of global leadership to authoritarian regimes which have no qualms about trampling over human rights. l JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 55

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QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker CROSSWORD by David Tossman Puzzle No 1659 Puzzle No 1291 Clues across Clues down Clues across 27. A kereru¯ disheartened by 1/8.Later adapted into a stage 1. What fleshy fold of skin 1. Is it possible for love to exist English leader coming back with a cry of discovery (6) musical, which 1961 film hangs from the throat of without kiss for a paddler? (8) starring Hayley Mills is based a turkey? (6) 5. Engage chump oddly with 28. Shaken and stirred? (8) on the novel by her mother 2. Aides and aside are anagrams Mary Hayley Bell? (7,4,3,4) of what? (5) some tableware (6) Clues down 9. What is a deep narrow ravine, 3. What word can precede 10. Frenzied chap in charge (5) 1. Revive a transient heavenly typically with a river? (5) light, board, bone? (4) 11. Oh, you might say, not any 10. What is a shoemaker’s model 4. What plant with crisp bitter body with love (4,2) for shaping or repairing leaves can be cooked or planted solo (2,4,3) 2. An undistinguished person, footwear? (4) eaten raw in salads? (6) 12. Cautious with temporary 11. In 2017, which Dick apolo- 5. Nobel Prize laureate ninety not out (9) gised for his “Cockney” ac- Albert Schweitzer was accommodation offered by 3. Mother in dodgy income tax cent in 1964’s Mary Poppins, an accomplished what, topless aboriginal (9) explaining he had only one performing publicly from 13. What the physician does lark! Shock registered here! hour of training from an age nine? (8) with delicacy if you like it (5) (11,4) Irish-born accent coach? (3,4) 6. Which Rudolf played 14. Contenders go viral some- 4. Articles one put in reserves (7) 12. Sclera is part of which body Rudolph Valentino in the how before head of state (6) 6. Man-eater at sea makes her organ? (3) 1977 film Valentino? (7) 15. Wild cheers about masculine weak straight off (5,5,5) 13. Which Chinese dynasty 7. What country was home to éminence grise (7) 7. Gag having cocaine laced lasted longest? (4) Anders Celsius, inventor of 18. Her way, I suspect, is daft (7) with heroin (5) 15. What is the capital of Fiji? (4) a temperature scale? (6) 20. Take care of a non-drinker 8. Wordplay could start true 17. What animal is a Maine 12. Which train is hijacked in the before closing (6) madness in flat (8) Coon? (3) 2021 film SAS: Red Notice? (8) 22. Troop leader and I give a 9. Have soles replaced after the 19. What is the northernmost 14. What traditional striped hiding to a giant (5) beginning of November as a province of South Africa? (7) sweets have been around 24. Forecast gold to be found in minimum (2,4) 20. Apollo 11 astronaut Michael since the 1820s? (7) scoop he sloppily wrote (9) 16. Second non-governmental Collins died in Naples, 16/17. Who plays Detective 25. Fred Astaire’s role sometimes organisation overturned Florida, in 2021. In which Sergeant Ellie Miller in as he cut a rug and carpet arrest of Asian national (9) city was he born, in 1930? television’s Broadchurch? (6,6) unravelled (3,6) 17. We, embracing popular (4) 18. In 2014, which John’s song 26. Foreign legation in distur- success, connect in formal 23. What is a secure room in a All of Me knocked Pharrell bance got letters removed (5) outfit (5,3) bank? (5) Williams’ Happy off the top 19. New sect embraces greeting 24. What is software designed of the US chart? (6) Solution No 1290 as moral philosophy (6) to cause disruption to a 21. What was the world’s busiest 20. A bent wire taking credit for computer? (7) airport from 1962 to 1998? (5) some Qantas employees (7) 25. Where is hometown for 22. What is the symbol at the 21. Poetised in confinement (6) television family The beginning of a musical staff? 23. A stout beast appears in Gaza Simpsons? (11) (4) Strip at uprising (5) Solution 1658 Across: 1 Ice cream, 7 Suite, 8 Artie Shaw, 9 DDT, 10 Iraq, CROSSWORD CORRECTIONS 11 Anglia, 13 Heyday, 14 London, 17 Purple, 18 Rung, 20 Sly, 22 Max Factor, 23 Alone, 24 Anaconda. Down: 1 Imari, 2 Estuary, 3 Reel, 4 Athens, Last week’s Puzzle No 1290 5 Gilda, 6 Best man, 7 Swallow, 12 Macramé, 13 Hot seat, 15 Doulton, had two mistakes in the clues: 16 Blixen, 17 Pylon, 19 Garda, 21 Marc. “Palace” in 9 across should have been “Place”. The enumeration in 23 across should have been (3,4), not (7). We apologise for the errors and any confusion caused. JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 57

DIVERSIONS Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. 836 MEDIUM 647 HARD LAST WEEK’S LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION SOLUTION 810 BRIDGE BIDDING QUIZ SOLUTION 1 Place a number from 1 to 9 You should raise to 2H, even if you are in each empty box. playing a system where the opening bid promises no more than four hearts. Decades 2. The sum of each vertical or ago a “free bid” (in other words, one made horizontal block equals the when partner would anyway get another number at the top or on the chance to bid) was taken to show sound left of that block. values. This never made much sense and it is important to show trump support in case 3. Numbers may be used only partner can then compete further. once in each block. Awards: 2H – 10, Dble (negative) – 6, Pass – 4. LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION CHESS SOLUTION 1...g4! 2 fxg4 (2 hxg4 h3! is similar) f3! 3 Re1 (if 3 gxf3 Rh2 mate) Rxf1+! 4 Rxf1 fxg2 mate. 10 QUICK QUESTIONS ANSWERS 1. Price tags were invented to eliminate the practice of customers haggling with shop clerks, which had been the norm. 2. Great Dane. 3. Waterlily. 4. Cecil Chubb purchased Stonehenge “on a whim” for £6600. It was donated to the government in 1918. 5. Wolfsburg. 6. Julie Kavner. 7. The Soldier, by Rupert Brooke. 8. Forrest Gump. 9. Coyotes are much faster than roadrunners. 10. Kwench. 58 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

LOGIC PUZZLE SET TO GO CLUELESS CROSSWORD Four chess-shop customers purchase a differently themed chess set for a different price: Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a different number from 1 to 26. Use your knowledge of English 1. The Civil War set costs $50 less than the French Revolution set. to solve the crossword. Some clue letters are given. 2. The Medieval set costs more than the set that Hans purchases. 3. Regarding the French Revolution set and the Star Wars set, one costs $793 and Ariel buys the other. 4. Either Ariel or Oswald buys the $843 set. 5. The set Hans buys costs $50 less than the one Ariel buys. Using these clues and the grid below, can you work out the cost of each set and who buys it? BUYER THEME PRICE $693 Ariel Hans$743 Maddy Oswald$793 Civil War$843 French RevolutionCivil War MedievalFrench Star Wars Revolution THEME Medieval Star Wars BUYER THEME PRICE You may Ariel write your Hans ABCDEFGHIJKLM answers in Maddy NOPQRSTUVWXYZ Oswald 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 CHE S S the given letters once only the top word one F LA N K 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 11 GOOD is usually more than one correct solution. 14 VERY GOOD See how many you can find in 15 mins. 17+ EXCELLENT Last week’s solutions. Logic Puzzle: Alexi sends 14 emails, Romeo sends 16 text messages, Rashid sends 18 postcards and Jamie sends 20 letters. Scatterword: VICARIOUS, saviour, various, vicious, scoria, ovisac, savour, corvus, coria, savor, curio, scour, visor, rosa, soar, arvo, savo, coir, sori, ours, sour. 21 words. Permutate: GROUP, GROPE, GRAPE/PAGER, GAMER, AIMER/MAIRE, EMAIL Clueless crossword: JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 59

ENTERTAINMENT Enter Sandman Neil Gaiman’s breakthrough comic series finally arrives on screen, leading a wave of fantasy epics headed to television. byRUSSELLBAILLIE It could be said that, about how Neil Gaiman has called “Sandman”. He’s known Try making a coherent after a long nightmare, had more things optioned as Morpheus or Dream, or the movie out of all that, coupled Neil Gaiman is having a and not made than any other Dream King. He’s an End- with a hero who, on the page, dream run with screen human being on the planet. less, one of seven with Death, looked like he played guitar adaptations. The streaming era What’s nice is, actually Delerium, Destiny, Destruc- in the Cure and didn’t exactly has been good to the veteran looking back on it, most of tion, Desire and Despair. All endear himself to anyone. fantasy author. It has allowed those things hadn’t happened siblings in an eternal dysfunc- his past works, often too because the time was wrong tional family. “He is unimaginably power- mythologically and theologi- for them.” ful,” Gaiman told Entertainment cally dense and historically “When I first came to Weekly. “He can control your sprawling for easy screen Now it seems the time is America, people would say to dreams, he controls your night- translation, to become big- right for The Sandman, his me, ‘We love The Sandman and mares, he is ruler of the worlds budget, star-studded television breakthrough DC Comics we love that you’ve made this that you go to when you close shows. series, published between dysfunctional family,’” Gaiman your eyes and you go some- 1989 and 1996, which arrives told a recent media panel. where else. He is the prince of He has had some movies of as a Netflix series with Gaiman “And I’d never heard the term stories, in charge of our stories, his lighter work, like fairy-tale as co-creator, co-writer and before. So I was like, ‘What is and he’s terrible at relation- comedy Stardust (2007) and executive producer. a dysfunctional family?’ And ships. He is a walking car crash the stop-motion animated when it comes to trying to deal children’s horror Coraline “The bodies of so many dead with people.” (2009). More recently, though, Sandman movies have been his novels American Gods buried to do it right.” There had been pro- and Good Omens (co-written posals to turn The GETTY IMAGES with Terry Pratchett) have At the time, the 75 issues they would explain, and even- Sandman into a film become multi-season series on were described as “the great- tually I went, ‘Oh, that’s what since the early 90s, with it Amazon Prime, the TV arm of est epic in the history of comic in England we call a family.’” bouncing between different a company that has been sell- books” by the Los Angeles producers with occasional ing his books since it began. Times. It sold in near Super- Dream is the ruler of the consultations with Gaiman, man and Batman numbers to psychic territory of the who didn’t own the rights as it Considering the size of the a readership that didn’t other- Dreaming. Or was, until some was a DC Comics property. He writer’s catalogue, there has wise read comics. Norman humans using black magic in says he’s glad none ever came not been a lot of Gaiman on Mailer declared it “a comic 1916, in an attempt to snare to fruition. screen, despite all the meetings his big sister, Death, instead he has been in. strip for intellectuals”. trapped Dream and locked “I have killed off so many Not bad for a series him up in a basement until his bad Sandmans along the way. “I’d definitely gone through escape many decades later. The bodies of so many dead the Hollywood blender,” he where the titular Sandman movies have been told the Auckland Writ- character had started The early part of the series buried to do it right.” ers Festival last year, out as an obscure follows Dream’s quest to where he attracted vigilante detective in restore his rightful place and David S. Goyer, a co-writer the longest lines of the comics in the 1940s, the supernatural order. It’s no on the Christopher Nolan- autograph seekers. easy task, requiring journeys directed Batman trilogy, was He remembered when, before DC allowed across time and into Hell, and charged by Warner Bros – the in the early 2000s, the Gaiman to give occasional encounters with Hollywood Reporter him a cosmic historical figures including Clockwise from top: The published a rethink. Shakespeare, Enlightenment Sandman stars Kirby Howell- cover story on And that philosopher Thomas Paine, Baptiste as Death and Tom why he was get- character Marco Polo, Chaucer, and Sturridge as Dream, Vivienne ting so lost in never actu- Julius Caesar. Acheampong as Lucienne, translation. ally gets Charles Dance as Roderick Burgess, and Gwendoline “It was a Christie as Lucifer Morningstar. whole thing Left, Neil Gaiman. 60 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

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ENTERTAINMENT Unimaginably The Sandman narrator and a voice ensemble FILM powerful: Dream/ “has aged including Riz Ahmed, Kat Morpheus, from better than it Dennings, Taron Egerton, SARAH WATT Neil Gaiman’s The honestly had any James McAvoy, Samantha Sandman. right to do”. Morton, Bebe Neuwirth, Andy Swamp Serkis and Good Omens star fling makers of all DC Comics film star Charles Dance plays the Michael Sheen. It became the and TV adaptations – with Aleister Crowley-like occult- fastest seller in the platform’s The bestselling developing The Sandman ist Roderick Burgess, who history. potboiler gets an series. Goyer told the Wash- drags Dream to Earth; and undercooked ington Post: “All of the things former Doctor Who compan- That rendition remained adaptation. that made The Sandman won- ion Jenna Coleman is Johanna faithful to the original comic derful were the same things Constantine. – Gaiman has described it as WHERE THE that made it almost impossible the “control” model as they CRAWDADS SING to adapt for film and televi- Also in the ensemble are experimented with charac- sion for 30 years. All of the David Thewlis, Stephen Fry, ter and plot changes in the directed by Olivia Newman features that we love about Joely Richardson, Sanjeev television series. Fans of the This adaptation of a New York The Sandman – that it is, in Bhaskar and the voices of original shouldn’t worry too Times bestseller – inexpli- essence, a story about stories Mark Hamill and Patton much, though, he says. cably one of the top-selling – are the bugs that stymied Oswalt. fiction books of all time, Hollywood.” “I think that if you are some- having garnered more than Dream himself is played body who loves the original 13 million sales in its four It was Goyer who sug- by Tom Sturridge, a fittingly comics, you will love the short years – means the film’s gested bringing Gaiman in cheekboned English actor Netflix series. If you are some- built-in viewership is possibly as a writer and producer whose past screen roles have body who knows the original secure. when Warner finally agreed included Lord Byron in Mary comics, well, you will have an to make a television show Shelley. absolute advantage plot-wise Whether that audience of and sell it to highest bidder in the Netflix series. But much predominantly young women Netflix. They aren’t actually the first like Game of Thrones, while (and some men, judging by Sandman cast. In 2020, there you will have an advantage, the packed preview screen- The show arrives just was an audiobook released you will not always be one ing I attended) will be pleased ahead of two other big fantasy on Audible with Gaiman as step ahead.” by the handling of the love epics – HBO’s House of the story murder-mystery is less Dragon (a Game of Thrones Gaiman says despite the guaranteed. prequel) and Amazon Prime’s three decades since he first Middle-earth excursion The wrote it, the series hasn’t Set in North Carolina in the Rings of Power. The Sandman needed much updating. “The has a cast with history in the weirdest thing for me is Glimmer genre: Gwendoline Christie when The Sandman was first of hope (Game of Thrones) is a gender- published, it was a small cult swapped Lucifer; fellow GoT thing that felt a bit ahead of A moving Irish- its time. It has aged incredibly language film well. It has aged better than it about a child’s honestly had any right to do.” desire to belong. Meanwhile, the Gaiman THE QUIET GIRL screen universe continues to expand. Coming to Amazon directed by Colm Bairéad Prime next year is a series For a film predominantly in the based on his 2005 novel Irish language, in which very Anansi Boys, a reworking of little happens and the impas- myths about the West African sive young protagonist hardly trickster god Anansi. It might squeaks a word, The Quiet Girl be another book adaptation is absolutely spellbinding. but it started life as a TV idea for Lenny Henry and the show is co-written by the actor. l The Sandman arrives on Netflix on August 5. House of the Dragon is on Sky/Neon from August 22. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is on Amazon Prime from September 2. 62 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

1950s and 60s, this Notebook- passion and desperation in the exceptionally ordinary here. Keenly pursued: Daisy Edgar-Jones esque affair of “marsh girl” American South. Despite the As in Twilight, the blankly as Kya in Where The Crawdads Sing. Kya Clark and cool rich kid plot’s simplistically familiar wide-eyed heroine is pursued Chase Andrews is a tale of two themes of frowned-upon by two fellas – good guy Tate Alibar (who co-wrote the threads: Kya’s impoverished, love, rejection and immature (perpetually plaintive Taylor similarly swampy Beasts of the self-sufficient upbringing choices, the drawling dialogue John Smith) and bad boy Chase Southern Wild) is a blunt tool, when she is abandoned as and dashes of homespun (The King’s Man’s Harris relying on voiceover and a a child (a wonderful Jojo poetry drew in avid readers, Dickinson). few choice lines from the book Regina), and her subsequent including Reese Witherspoon, but removing the poetry sub- murder trial as a teen when who, as a producer, has been Kya is persecuted by plot entirely. Perhaps this was Chase is found dead and the grabbing the rights to many caricatured small-town snobs a decision of limited screen bigoted community’s fingers female-led bestsellers. and aided by clichéd kindly time, but taking a knife to all are pointed her way. black folk. David Strathairn the bland lovers’ arguments The main difference with can hardly be bothered as her would have been better. The debut novel by retired The Notebook is this has none lawyer in the world’s most wildlife biologist Delia Owens of Ryan Gosling and Rachel boring murder trial, although Those coming fresh to Kya’s has captured hearts and minds McAdams’ chemistry. Kya it’s one in which the support- trials may find a whole new since its publication in 2018, is played by British it-girl ing cast gasps every time key mystery – how did this story with beautifully florid writing Daisy Edgar-Jones, famous evidence is presented. become such a big seller? that evokes the sticky heat of for Normal People and IN CINEMAS NOW The screenplay by Lucy Captivating: school pick-up. Referred to as county to live with childless the viewer. As a result, we’re Catherine Clinch “the wanderer” by her philan- relatives while her mother on tenterhooks with every as Cáit in The dering father, but otherwise gives birth to yet another creaking floorboard and brush Quiet Girl. unacknowledged by anyone, sibling. (“You’re not to fall into of the hair as Bairéad twists Cáit is shipped off to another the fire” is her father’s curt ver- benevolent interactions into Cáit is the youngest daugh- sion of a farewell.) There, Cáit stomach-clenching moments of ter of a desperately poor receives warmth and kindness apprehension. rural family, left to sit in silent for the first time in her life. solitude while her dad has a But unlike the similarly pint on the way home from It’s an astonishingly assured toned An Angel at My Table, and deeply profound first where poor Janet Frame’s life feature from Irish film-maker goes from difficult to excruciat- Colm Bairéad, who took a punt ing, there is light in The Quiet by casting the captivating Cath- Girl, thanks to the message of erine Clinch in her first screen unconditional grace that runs role. In a remarkably inter- throughout. This is one sad nalised performance, Clinch’s story, which leaves you with ability to convey unspoken hope. fear and suspicion – there are IN CINEMAS NOW allusions to secret, shame-filled abuse, but nothing is overtly Films are rated out of 5: (amazing) stated – creates tension in (abysmal) to JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 63

ENTERTAINMENT Standard bearer Leonard Cohen’s most famous song lives on in a film singing its praises. byRUSSELLBAILLIE Leonard Cohen sang Seasoned San Francisco- tacit approval. Goldfine says ”Because hindsight may be Hallelujah on stage based documentary makers she had a pipe dream that they more accurate, but it’s not for the last time on Daniel Geller and Dayna Gold- might film Cohen singing the necessarily as dramatically December 21, 2013, in fine saw Cohen on that final song one last time. But it was engaging.” Auckland. It was the second- tour. The following year, a not to be. to-last song in the main set screenwriter friend suggested The doco follows how the of what was the 79-year-old’s a doco idea: make a film about There were plenty of song took flight independent final concert before his death one song. Almost immediately, archival interviews and of its author, but Goldfine says nearly three years later. A Goldfine thought of Hallelujah. performances to draw on. what she found most intrigu- recording of that last live ren- They found music writer Alan “And that gives the movie, to ing is how Cohen himself dition is the first to be heard in Light’s 2012 book The Holy or my mind, something a little continued to chip away at the Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a the Broken: Leonard Cohen, more immersive and imme- work, and why. Journey, a Song. Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely diate than an 80-year-old Ascent of “Hallelujah”. It traced Leonard looking back on his “I was surprised by how The documentary traces the song’s trajectory and how life and telling us what it was,” consciously he chose to take Hallelujah’s path, from being a Buckley released his version says Geller. that first rendition, what track on a 1984 album rejected – effectively a cover of John he called the ‘King David GETTY IMAGES by Cohen’s US record com- Cale’s early 90s edit of the version’, which had all the pany to the greatest royalty song – on his breakthrough Jewish references and the generator in his catalogue. debut album. Old Testament references, From cult-star obscurity to and then just a few years singing-contest ubiquity and On the advice of Light, later change it up because he funeral fixture, it became “a who they had brought in as kind of all-purpose, ecu- a consultant producer, the was purposely trying to menical/secular hymn for the pair didn’t seek to inter- make Hallelujah come New Millennium”, as Sylvie view Cohen about the song into the mainstream Simmons wrote in her Cohen before his death, just get- and move away a bit biography, I’m Your Man. And ting his and his manager’s from the sacrament. from film-soundtrack fixture, The fact that it was a it has become a song deserving Continuous revelation: Dayna conscious choice was of its own movie. Goldfine and Daniel Geller. a revelation.” Various accounts have Cohen taking 64 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

between five and seven years MUSIC to finish the original Hal- lelujah, with notebooks filled GRAHAM REID with 180 possible verses. From lightbulb moment to its Restless creativity premiere, the doco took about the same number of years. How jazz veteran Charles Lloyd has Before filming could start, kept reinventing himself. there were two years of nego- tiation for affordable screen A s the 1960s ended, So, still only in his early seeing the second of the Twin rights with Sony Music tenor saxophon- thirties, Lloyd – who’d worked Towers hit by an aeroplane Publishing, part of the same ist/flautist Charles with jazz innovators such as on 9/11, is a landmark double music empire as Columbia Lloyd should have Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry set with a hymnal and healing Records, which had rejected been a happy man. His 1967 and Cannonball Adderley in quality. Hallelujah’s original parent album Forest Flower, recorded the decade before Forest Flower album, Various Positions. live at the Monterey Jazz Festi- – removed himself to northern He hasn’t been averse to val the previous year, had sold California, detoxed, meditated referencing popular songs, Geller: “Leonard might exceptionally well. and all but disappeared from blues and gospel tunes on his have chuckled that the same the popular imagination. albums and has worked with song that had not been His quartet had brought European and American jazz brought out in the US was bassist Cecil McBee, the young However, in 1989, he signed musicians, tabla player Zakir now considered so valuable pianist Keith Jarrett and to the European label ECM for Hussain, the Byrds’ Roger that two documentarians had drummer Jack DeJohnette an acclaimed second career, McGuinn, Hungarian guitarist a hard time getting the rights to wide attention. They’d bringing meditative spiritu- Gábor Szabó and Greek singer to it.” toured Europe and Russia ality and world music to his Maria Farantouri. to much acclaim (the Beatles warm, engaging sound. Then the pandemic arrived attended their Royal Albert In 2018, his group the as the film was being made Hall concert) and, because The exceptional 2002 album Marvels, which includes ready, which allowed for an Forest Flower’s mellow mood Lift Every Voice, his response to avant-guitarist Bill Frisell and extended time editing and captured the imagination of pedal-steel player Greg Leisz, mixing. the emerging subculture, they recorded with alt-country GETTY IMAGES were playing venues like the musician Lucinda Williams “We slowed up and edited Fillmore West with Jefferson for the album Vanished some more, which is defi- Airplane, Grateful Dead and Gardens. nitely a Leonard Cohen way Santana. of doing things. When in At 84, Lloyd isn’t slowing doubt, keep refining.” But the success of Forest down. He recently released Flower irked many jazz Trios: Chapel – the first of No, they didn’t get sick of critics. As Lloyd told three live trio recordings hearing those minor falls me before an Auckland this year. He also released live and major lifts, over and over concert in 2010, “There albums recorded in Cologne, again. seemed to be a consensus Antibes and Stockholm during that if I was experiencing the halcyon year before Forest Goldfine: “We weren’t such a degree of suc- Flower hit record shops. just listening to one version cess, something must be of it, and the generosity of wrong with the artistic The drummerless trio that song is such that every expression. of Lloyd, Frisell and bass- person who covers it brings ist Thomas Morgan create something different to it, “Success was equated a weightless, reflective and based on where they’re with commercialism and not melodic sound on Trios: Chapel coming from, or what they artistic expression … we were as they look back to some ear- think it means, and what interested in the art with a lier compositions, including verses they choose to include capital A. But the music con- Billy Strayhorn’s Blood Count or exclude. nected with the youth at that and Lloyd’s Beyond Darkness time, and also with both the from Lift Every Voice. It’s a spa- “Still to this day, I’m not rock and classical worlds.” cious album, which reaches sick of it, because I’m still dis- – as does Forest Flower and Lift covering new resonances.” l He also admitted the life- Every Voice – towards “art with style of the period took its toll: a capital A”. l Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a “Musically and spiritually, my Journey, a Song is screening at life was disintegrating.” Charles Lloyd’s back catalogue the New Zealand International is available digitally. The Trios: Film Festival. Geller and Not slowing down: Charles Lloyd. Chapel albums will be available Goldfine will be attending on vinyl and CD. screenings with Q&A sessions in Auckland on August 6 and Wellington on August 10. JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 65

ENTERTAINMENT TV PREVIEW Rambling Pam A tour with the and it’s green and gorgeous. Pam Ayres at Painswick’s Rococo Gardens with ‘people’s poet’ through The other advantage is Ayres’ sheer, garden director Dominic Hamilton. the Cotswolds may get you waxing mumsy niceness, which seems to rub off out that Churchill’s legacy had recently lyrical. byRUSSELLBROWN on everyone she talks to. When she visits become a controversial one. “If you are Blur’s bass player, Alex James, on his going to beat yourself up about what this THE COTSWOLDS WITH PAM AYRES, 200-acre farm near Chipping Norton, he’s country did, how far back do you go?” Vibe (Sky TV), from Sunday, July 31, 7.30pm clearly overjoyed to be serving her his Readers of a particular vintage will recall artisan cheeses and craft cider which he’s Later in the series, she rides the Kennet the people’s poet Pam Ayres coming labelled “Britpop”. and Avon canal on a boat called Iron to New Zealand in the 1970s, her eyes Maiden (“Thankfully, the crew don’t widening and her nose wrinkling as she “I think it’s the natural habitat of the look as if they’re going to play me any uncoiled her West Country vowels into rock gentleman, the farm,” he offers gen- heavy metal,” she says, sounding like she rhymes. Did she visit us every year, or was ially. “It’s where we all end up.”( And yes, wouldn’t really mind if they did) and visits it just that she was constantly on telly each they do play Blur’s Country House on the the Capability Brown-designed Painswick time she did? soundtrack.) Rococo Garden. Ayres, now 75, is clearly still full of “I’m so chuffed to do this, and to do it “Dare I say it, it has elements of erotic beans – readers may be surprised to learn with you,” gushes a similarly charmed intrigue,” she tells us, sounding out the that she played her first Glastonbury Festi- Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh, after syllables with some satisfaction, before val this year – and on the evidence of The sharing her memories of growing up reeling off observations about “naughty Cotswolds With Pam Ayres she still has the mixed-race near Badminton in the 1960s. nooks” and “activities” as she’s toured same warmth and charm of nearly half a “You’re a heroine of mine.” through the garden, until the nice chap century ago. showing her round doesn’t know quite Ayres’ charm also helps the show get where to look. It’s like being wound up by The four-part programme fits pretty through the odd flat spot – the first epi- your grandmother. clearly into the ubiquitous genre of sode’s visit to a china shop isn’t a dazzling personality travelogues, but it has some start – and it underwrites a certain old- There is, you will be pleased to know, advantages. One, clearly, is that it’s not fashioned air to proceedings. When she an Ayres poem at the end of each episode, bloody Scotland again. visits Blenheim Palace, historic seat of the reflecting on the places and people she’s Duke of Marlborough and the birthplace visited. But we try not to do spoilers here The Cotswolds – even a British audience of Sir Winston Churchill, she expresses at the Listener, so we’ve written one for seems to need this explained upfront – is unreconstructed admiration for Church- you ourselves: an area of rolling hills and ancient towns ill. That would get you cancelled from From the sweep of a stately house lawn in south-west England where the Thames social media these days, but that’s not the In the place that her vowels were born originates, it’s where Ayres comes from, world we’re dwelling in here. Along canals and on rail Through forest and vale “People didn’t know back then about And river and village and manor some of the things that are emerging now, It’s a tour with your favourite nana l but the times were different,” responded Ayres, when the Daily Telegraph pointed 66 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

Unbreakable, Tuesday. TELEVISION TUESDAY AUGUST 2 want are just the constituents UNBREAKABLE of a happy life: a job, a home, Our Picks of the Week Chasing life goals someone to love. This new Screening: TVNZ 1, 8.30pm season underlines that truth SATURDAY JULY 30 New Zealand’s own Kita Mean Streaming: TVNZ+ by featuring Wheel Blacks vanquished all comers to take Aspirational stories about co-captain Cody Everson, BUILDING THE KIWI DREAM out the inaugural Drag Race people with disabilities can be who has travelled the world The beach house challenge Down Under title. Can we hope a tricky business, but the first with his chosen sport – but Screening: Three, 7.00pm for another New Zealand season of Unbreakable did well actually just wants to start a Streaming: ThreeNow queen to back up that win this in recognising that most often family with his partner, Jess. Property prices are sagging year? There are four Kiwi the things disabled people The series also focuses on and the cost of building houses contenders among the 10 set Green MP Golriz Ghahraman, is through the roof, but there’s to do drag battle. Wellington- RuPaul’s Drag Race who actually got her dream always room on TV for a house based Spankie Jackzon, a Down Under, Saturday. job – but now faces the chal- show. In Building the Kiwi past winner of House of Drag lenge of sticking with it after Dream, celebrity fisher Matt and a 15-year drag veteran, being diagnosed with multiple Watson and his wife, Kaylene, lines up with Auckland’s sclerosis. set about building their dream Yuri Guaii and a pair of home on a beachfront site in expats, the splendidly named AROUND THE WORLD BY the Bay of Islands. They have Timaru native Aubrey Haive TRAIN WITH TONY ROBINSON big plans, but there are issues and dance specialist Kween Taking the western line with the build and conflict Kong, who was born in South Screening: History, 8.30pm between the pair of them from Auckland. The genial king of British the first episode. And that’s factual TV follows up his first before the Covid lockdowns, SUNDAY JULY 31 season – where, as the title storms and a cheeky tsunami. suggests, he went around THE COTSWOLDS WITH the world on the rails – by RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE PAM AYRES doing the same thing, but DOWN UNDER A green and pleasant land heading west rather than It’s time to sashay Vibe, 7.30pm east. The first episode sees Streaming: TVNZ+ People’s poet Pam Ayres him head to Marseilles (only Screening: TVNZ 2, August 5, explores the rolling hills and six hours on the direct train 9.30pm ancient towns of the part of from London) and end up in As the All Blacks stumbled England she calls home. See Portugal. But it’s episode two and lost their way last year, story, page 66. that takes him somewhere he’s never been before; to South JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 67

ENTERTAINMENT The Outlaws, Friday. America, where he travels the first episode one guest is reviews have been good, but it Stephen Merchant’s comedy through Argentina and Peru Kimberley Crossman, his co- will probably help to be famil- thriller saw the community to the ancient Inca citadel of presenter on the recent Snack iar with the League of Legends service crew unite to save Machu Picchu. Masters, as well as Dai Hen- game, or at least to have played themselves from immediate wood. The following week it’s a video game at all. peril, but left enough loose THURSDAY AUGUST 4 Art Green and Kura Forrester. ends that we all knew further TOM SAINSBURY’S LOVE HOUR SKYMED trouble was just a matter of Romantic interlude FRIDAY AUGUST 5 Treat, fly, love time. Season two, shot back- Screening: Three, 7.30pm TVNZ+ to-back with the first in 2020, Streaming: ThreeNow PLAYERS They’re young, they’re hot – picks up several months on The second of Three’s comedy Keyboard warrior comedy and they fly a lot. SkyMed is as the characters wrestle pilot season has the ubiquitous Screening: TVNZ+ a medical drama following with personal demons. Lady Tom Sainsbury interviewing This new series from Dan the doctors, nurses and pilots Gabby’s still caning it, Rani well-known New Zealanders Perrault and Tony Yacenda, operating the air ambulance continues to disappoint her about their love lives. It seems creators of the Netflix hit service in remote northern parents, Frank is wrestling he didn’t have to look far – in American Vandal, is another Canada as they try to keep a lid with a conscience he didn’t mockumentary, but perhaps on their sexual tension. Series know he had and Clare keeps SkyMed, Friday. creator Julie Puckrin drew on seeing a dead policeman. a more instructive the experience of her sister, a They’re soon back together as comparison is with nurse who worked – and fell in it becomes clear that the Dean the tech-bro comedy love – on the air ambulances, wants his revenge – or at least Silicon Valley. Misha but told local media she was his money back. Brooks plays toxic aiming for more than Grey’s nerd Creamcheese, Anatomy with wings. Even THE SANDMAN the veteran (he’s 27) Canadians don’t see a lot of Dream big star and founder of northern Manitoba on tele- Streaming: Netflix Fugitive, a dys- vision and Puckrin says she Neil Gaiman’s hit 1990s comic- functional e-sports deliberately recruited indig- book series gets the big-budget team. When the enous writers to authentically fantasy epic screen treat- team owners roll the depict the lives of the people ment with a cast that includes dice and recruit a the medics encounter. Charles Dance, Stephen Fry, 17-year-old prodigy Gwendoline Christie and (Da’Jour Jones), he’s THE OUTLAWS Jenna Coleman. Tom Sturridge challenged – but Still in trouble is the titular Sandman, known perhaps this is what it Streaming: Amazon Prime as Dream. See page 60 for will take for the team The season one finale of more. l to finally take out a championship. US 68 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

TV Films byRUSSELLBAILLIE The big movies on TV this week SATURDAY JULY 30 intergenerational affairs that the 1967 film was based on. PIXELS (2005) Space invaders TVNZ 2, 7.00pm JAMES & ISEY couple whose mutual resent- Gone Girl, Ghostbusters rip-off sci-fi Far North whānau foray ment grows into something Saturday. comedy in which Adam Rialto, 8.30pm destructive and lethal. (2014) Sandler leads a nerd crew After his early Kaikohe his best film. Yes, it borrowed to save the world against an Demolition and Land of the SUNDAY JULY 31 a lot from 1984 – it had a work- invasion of 80s arcade video Long White Cloud, Northland- PEPPERMINT ing title of 1984 ¼ – but it’s one game characters brought to raised director Florian Widow on the warpath of the great dystopian black life on another planet. Ever Habicht delivers yet another TVNZ 2, 8.30pm comedies. (1985) wanted to see a giant Pac Man portrait of the idiosyncratic Hilariously formulaic and eat Manhattan? Well, here residents of Te Tai Tokerau. mindless action thriller in THE POST you go. (2015) An amusing, occasionally con- which Jennifer Garner’s All the President’s Men, the founding, study of Kawakawa mild-mannered bank worker prequel PADDINGTON mother and her carer son, reinvents herself as a lethal Eden, 8.30pm Bear-faced cheek and charm Isey and James Cross, in the vigilante when her husband Solid American journalism Whakaata Māori, 7.00pm lead-up to her 100th birthday and daughter are killed by an history drama from Steven The first of two terrific CGI celebrations. (2021) LA drug cartel in a drive-by Spielberg, about the 1971 live-action adaptations – a shooting. (2018) publication of the Pentagon third, Paddington in Peru, GONE GIRL Papers, which revealed the is in the works – of Michael “I’m so much happier now that LIKE A BOSS lies the Kennedy and Johnson Bond’s stories about a young I’m dead …” Lip service administrations had told bear finding a home with TVNZ 2, 9.00pm Three, 8.30pm about the Vietnam War. It the kindly Brown family in Of the many crime books of A clunky post-Bridesmaids focuses on how the Washing- London. (2014). recent years with “Girl” in the female buddy comedy in ton Post, under the editorship title, Gillian Flynn’s seems which two best friends (Rose of Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) RUMOUR HAS IT to be the only one to have Byrne and Tiffany Haddish) and ownership of Katharine Warning, Mrs Robinson become a decent psycho- start their own cosmetics line, Graham (Meryl Streep), ran Three, 8.25pm logical thriller on screen. only to have Salma Hayek’s with the leaked documents Odd, gimmicky and creepy That’s due to director David make-up mogul try to take – first run in the New York romcom starring Jennifer Fincher’s taut and chilly control. (2020) Times – and the tumult it Anniston, Kevin Costner direction and the perfor- caused with the Nixon White and Shirley MacLaine, mances of Rosamund Pike BRAZIL House in the years before which riffs on The Graduate, and Ben Affleck as a married “Have you got a 27B stroke six?” Watergate. or at least the book about Whakaata Māori, 8.30pm The Many Saints of As with many movies by THE MANY SAINTS OF Newark, Sunday. former Monty Python anima- NEWARK tor Terry Gilliam, Brazil had The boy Soprano a fraught production his- Sky Movies Premiere, 8.30pm; tory. But his absurdist tale, Neon about Jonathan Pryce’s lowly An origin story to The public servant caught in a Sopranos, with the late James Kafkaesque spiral, remains Gandolfini’s son, Michael, playing the teenage Tony Soprano as he grows up under the wing of Uncle Dickie Molt- isanti (Alessandro Nivola). It JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 69

ENTERTAINMENT Talkback Super 8, Friday. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 3 BROADCASTING REFORM any thought of faultless viewing. does good fan service, but it’s THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB Dave Robinson’s letter (July not quite an essential addi- A novel approach 16) highlights the current I’d urge your readers to tion to the canon of the great Whakaata Māori, 8.30pm differences between state get hold of Kay’s book – it is a television programme (2021). Passable chick-flick romcom broadcasters in Australia and masterwork on the travails of that is an adaptation of Karen New Zealand. doctors in Britain’s NHS; sad, MONDAY AUGUST 1 Joy Fowler’s 2004 bestseller but also uplifting. DEAR COMRADES! about six Sacramento resi- The “rot” for state broadcast- Bill Holvey Soviet slaughter dents who find their lives are ing here set in in 1989 with the (Blenheim) Rialto, 8.30pm resembling those of Austen’s advent of market forces and the Veteran Russian director characters after forming a need to “deliver the audience to WORDS AND MUSIC Andrey Konchalovsky’s club devoted to her works. the advertiser”. visually striking politi- (2007) RNZ’s The Detail is a podcast cal drama about the 1962 Later, the Clark govern- looking at important and massacre of as many as CASTLE FALLS ment introduced a charter that interesting topics, but why is 80 striking workers by Cash stash bash and dash somehow had to cater for the the introduction always spoken the Red Army and KGB at Sky Movies Premiere, 8.30pm public interest and at the same against background music? the Novocherkassk Loco- Solid if stupid B-movie action time make a commercial return. motive Works and the flick that pairs veteran Dolph A contradiction in terms if ever Music uses patterns of cover-up which ensued. Lundgren and English mar- there was one. rhythm to engage and hold our It’s told through the eyes tial arts guy Scott Adkins in a attention. Spoken prose commu- of Lyudmila (Julia Vysots- race to grab $3 million of loot The closest we have to a state nicates meaning in words but kaya), a communist party hidden in a derelict hospital broadcaster is the Māori TV struggles to achieve this if it has official who is torn between building that’s about to be channel. We did have TVNZ 7 to compete with music, because her political loyalty and demolished with explosives. for several years, but a National- the listener must simultane- personal anguish over a (2021) led government in its wisdom ously focus on the words and missing daughter caught up decided to do away with it. filter out the music. in events. (2020) FRIDAY AUGUST 5 As for the future, I won’t be The Detail is not a music pro- TUESDAY AUGUST 2 SUPER 8 holding my breath. gramme, so why not let all of its FALLING FOR FIGARO Close encounter of the fan kind Bruce Fletcher words speak for themselves? Unhappy marriage Three, 7.30pm (Remuera, Auckland) Alan Roddick Sky Movies Premiere, 8.30pm If you’ve finished watching (Dunedin) A corny, contrived follow- the latest series of Stranger SHOCK TREATMENT your-dreams opera-based Things and still feel the need NATIONAL IMPORTANCE romantic comedy. It stars for something about Gen- The book by Dr Adam Kay, Joanna Lumley as a Scottish eration X kids in smalltown This is Going to Hurt, was well Oh, woe is me! The weeping, Highlands-based battleaxe America dealing with mon- summed up by Dawn French, wailing and gnashing of teeth of a singing tutor who gets sters, there’s always this – the whose review says, “A funny, could be heard up and down the American fund manager terrific JJ Abrams homage to excoriatingly revealing, beauti- motu. Why? Ireland beat the Mille (Aussie Danielle the 1980s works of the film’s ful book.” All Blacks. Macdonald) as a pupil, which producer, Steven Spielberg. annoys Max (Hugh Skin- A classic cover version. (2011) I found it something I could I was dismayed, not by the ner), another student who read and re-read, and looked loss, but by the item being is struggling to make ends Films are rated out of 5: (amazing) forward to the televised version. first in RNZ National’s news at meet. (2021) (abysmal) to 7.00am and in RNZ Concert’s What a disappointment. All news at 8.00am. else aside, it utterly changed what Kay’s message conveyed. Rugby is a sport: by defini- tion, mention of the result The author left no doubts of any game should be only about his sexual orientation, in the sports section of news but in broad limits only. The broadcasts. series comes across as a gay J Chris Horne commercial and, about a third (Northland) of the way through the first episode, descended into mating Please send comments, queries in a way that had our family or complaints about radio or changing channels. television to: listenerletters@ aremedia.co.nz with “Talkback” The following week’s episode in the subject line, or Talkback, featured appalling language in NZ Listener, PO Box 52122, the first 10 minutes or so. I’m Kingsland, Auckland 1352 ex-military, so cuss words come easy to me, but that exhibition- ism left me cold, and removed 70 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FRIENDSHIP SATURDAY JULY 30 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 Thriller: THE SECRETS SHE 6.30 Country Calendar (G, R, HD, R, HD, C, AD) 6.30 Infomercials KEEPS 9.30 Newshub Nation C, AD) 6.10 Postman Pat (G, HD, C, AD) 10.30 ■ Celebrity Family Feud Aussie actor Jessica De Gouw 7.00 Fishing and Adventure (G, R, 6.25 Apollo’s Tall Tales (G, R, HD, admits that the first season of (PG, R, C) s4ep1 this psychological thriller did HD, C) C) 11.25 Extreme Couponing (PG, C) have a “very captive audi- 7.30 Infomercials 6.40 PJ Masks (G, R, HD, C) ence” during the pandemic, 8.30 Religious Programming 7.00 Love Monster (G, R, HD, C) s2ep8 but the response to the 9.00 Extreme Cake Makers (G, R, 7.10 Madagascar: A Little Wild Noon The Block NZ: Redemption six-part series was so good, she needn’t be worried about HD, C) (G, HD, C) Marathon (PG, R, C) an audience for season two. 9.30 Tagata Pasifika (HD) 7.30 SpongeBob SquarePants (G, 3.25 The Masked Singer NZ The show is now off book, 10.00 Paul Goes to Hollywood (G, however, as season one was R, HD, C) (PG, R, C) based on Michael Robotham’s R, HD, C, AD) 7.55 Moomin Valley (G, HD, C) 5.00 Lego Masters USA (G, R, C) 2017 novel. It’s a departure 11.00 Winning Combination (G, 8.15 The Croods: Family Tree (G, from the source material, De s2ep8 Gouw told The Project, “and R, HD, C, AD) Omid Djalili HD, C) 6.00 Newshub Live this season we went rogue, presents a UK game show. 8.40 Dragons: Riders of Berk (G, 7.00 ■ Building the Kiwi Dream in a good way”. De Gouw Noon Under the Vines (PG, R, HD, stars with Downton’s Laura C, AD) s1ep3 R, HD, C) (PG, C) Series following Matt Carmichael, whose charac- 1.00 Sarah Beeny’s Renovate 9.05 Ninjago (G, R, HD, C) and Kaylene Watson as they ter Agatha was last season Don’t Relocate (G, HD, C) 9.15 Hardball (G, R, HD, C) build their dream home in arrested for kidnapping the 2.00 The Great Kiwi Bake Off (G, 9.40 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, the Bay of Islands. Tonight, baby of De Gouw’s Insta-influ- R, HD, C, AD) s3ep6 the build runs into issues and encer mum Meghan. 3.30 Clean It, Fix It (G, HD, C) A C, AD) s11ep19 the couple disagree. TVNZ+ team of cleaners and DIY 10.00 Fresh (G, HD, C) Chef 7.30 ■ Crikey! It’s the Irwins experts have one day to help (PG, C) Series following Drama: ANIMAL a household. Wallace’s my world, Keep It Terri, Bindi and Robert Irwin. KINGDOM 4.30 Every Bite Takes You Fresh goes across the ditch Tonight, after months of Home (G, HD, C) Kylie to Grubbies Burgers, and training, it’s time for Robert It’s the sixth and final season Kwong explores the culture Fresh’s own Fresh Fairies. to solo feed the zoo’s most of the US TV series based on and food of refugees and 10.30 The Walkers (PG, R, HD, C, notorious croc. s1ep1 David Michôd’s 2010 film, migrants in Australia. AD) s2ep5 8.25 ■ Rumor Has It (2005, M, so expect a big finale. The 5.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) 11.00 ■ Tom Allen’s Quizness (G, C) A woman learns that her crimey-wimey Cody family are Bradley Walsh hosts a UK R, HD, C, AD) mother and grandmother in jeopardy from the discov- quiz show. Noon The Weakest Link: USA (G, may be the inspiration for ery of the body of someone 6.00 1 News (HD, C) HD, C) the 1963 novel The Graduate. who was killed by Pope way 7.00 Tipping Point Lucky Stars 1.00 The Courtship (PG, HD, C) Jennifer Aniston, Kevin back in season 1. Talk about (G, HD, C) Ben Shephard s1ep5 Costner, Shirley Maclaine. what goes around comes hosts a celebrity version of 1.55 The Good Witch (G, HD, C) TV Films, page 69 around. the UK quiz show, with Tom 2.50 Junior Bake Off (G, HD, C) 10.25 ■ Mad Max (1979, 16, R, C) SOHO, 9.30pm Read, Shane Richie and Rev 3.50 ■ Star Trek: Strange New As Australia collapses, a Kat Bottley. s8ep6 Worlds (PG, HD, C) s1ep10 policeman sets out to stop a 8.00 Lotto 5.05 Superman & Lois (PG, violent motorcycle gang. Mel 8.05 Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest HD, C) Gibson, Hugh Keays-Byrne. Airport (G, HD, C, AD) On 6.00 The Cube (G, HD, C) 12.25am Infomercials the cusp of holiday season, Phillip Schofield presents 5.00 Leading the Way Heathrow gears up to a UK game show in which 5.30 – 6.00 Charles Stanley welcome passengers from all contestants undertake over the globe as they return challenges in a giant clear PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 after months of avoiding cube. travel during the pandemic. 7.00 ■ Pixels (2015, PG, HD, 6.00 2022 Commonwealth s7ep5 C, AD) When aliens Games Coverage of the 8.30 ■ Grand Designs UK (PG, misinterpret video feeds New Zealand team in R, HD, C, AD) In Cornwall, of classic arcade games as Birmingham. former skydivers want to a declaration of war, they restore a listed 17th-century attack Earth in the form of 9.00 2022 Commonwealth flour mill, but with no the video games. Adam Games Highlights (G, C) experience of building or Sandler, Peter Dinklage. Action from day 1. restoration and only 250k, TV Films, page 69 will they even finish? 9.00 ■ Gone Girl (2014, 16, HD, 10.00 Kids’ Programmes (C) 9.35 Screw (16, HD, C, AD) Rose C, AD) A man discovers 11.05 RAW (PG) follows through on her that the media focus Noon NRL Premiership (G) NZ terrifying mission and finds shifts onto him when his herself trapped in a deadly wife disappears on the Warriors v Melbourne Storm, double-bind. s1ep3 day of their fifth wedding from Mt Smart Stadium. 10.35 Pact of Silence (16, HD, C, anniversary. Ben Affleck, 2.00 Farah Palmer Cup Live AD) On the day of Jack’s Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Manawatu v Counties memorial, the pact between Harris. TV Films, page 69 Manukau live from Central the women begins to 11.45 ■ Saw 2 (2005, 18, HD, C, Energy Trust Arena, fracture. s1ep3 AD) A detective and his Palmerston North. 11.45 ■ Hollington Drive (16, HD, team must rescue eight 4.00 2022 Commonwealth C, AD) Eva is ready to reveal people trapped in a factory Games Highlights (G, R, C) more about the days leading by the twisted serial killer Action from day 1. up to Alex’s disappearance. known as Jigsaw. Donnie 5.00 The Ditch (G, R) s1ep4 Wahlberg, Tobin Bell. 5.30 Prime News 12.40am ■ Bloom (16, HD, C) s2ep6 1.25am The Great Kiwi Bake Off (G, 6.00 American Pickers (PG, R) 1.30 Nashville (M, HD, C) s5ep13 R, HD, C, AD) Mike and Frank search for 3.00 Infomercials 2.35 ■ I, Tonya (2017, 16, R, HD, C, Ford motor cars. 5.30 – 6.00 Religious AD) Margot Robbie. 7.00 Storage Wars (PG, R, C) Programming 4.35 Fresh (G, R, HD, 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 JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 71

SATURDAY JULY 30 WHAKAATA Film: JACKIE MĀORI FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 Pablo Larraín’s impressionistic, slightly 6.30 Kids’ Programmes bonkers biopics now number three: 9.30 Ōpaki (G, R) 2016’s Neruda and Jackie and last year’s 10.30 Ako (G, R) acclaimed Spencer. Jackie is a kind-of 11.00 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe (G, R) chamber piece, in which Natalie Port- Noon Haka at Home (G, R) man’s Jackie Kennedy is interviewed by 1.00 Whakataukī (G, R) “The Journalist” (Billy Crudup). 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 Overhaulin’ (PG, R) 3.00 Intrepid Journeys (PG, R) 10.00 Million Dollar Listing NY 7.00 The Pioneer Woman (G) 7.40 Savage Builds (PG, R) 4.00 Marae 7.30 Valerie’s Home Cooking (G) 8.25 Tanked Marathon (PG, R) 5.00 Kai Safari (G, R) (PG, R) 8.00 Bobby Flay’s Barbecue 12.30 Inside West Coast Customs 5.30 Waka Man (G, R) 11.55 Catfish (PG, R) 6.00 Piri’s Tiki Tour (PG, R) Piri 12.45 Southern Charm (PG, R) Addiction (G, R) (PG, R) 2.35 Tiny House Nation (PG, R) 9.00 Museum Mysteries (PG, R) 1.30 Treehouse Masters (PG, R) Weepu meets divers, farmers 3.30 Hoarders (PG, R) 9.55 American Pickers (PG, R) 2.30 Ed Stafford: First Man Out and hunters. 4.25 Ghost Hunters (PG, R) 10.50 Building the Dream (G) 6.30 He Aha to Say? (G, R) A 5.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver 12.05 Strictly Come Dancing (PG, R) series of interviews with the 3.30 Alaska: Battle on the Bay people of Ngāti Porou. (PG, R) (G, R) 7.00 ■ Paddington (2014, G) 6.35 Catfish (PG, R) 2.00 The Chase USA (PG, R) (PG, R) A young Peruvian bear 7.30 Southern Charm (M) 3.00 Animal Cribs (PG) 4.30 Goblin Works Garage travels to London in search 4.00 The Best Thing I Ever Ate of a home and is adopted Kathryn throws a 30th (PG, R) by a kindly family. Hugh birthday party. (G) 5.30 Overhaulin’ (PG) Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, 8.40 The Real Housewives of 5.00 Mysteries at the Museum 6.30 Man vs Wild (PG, R) voice of Ben Whishaw. Miami (M) As her mother’s 7.30 Treasure Quest: Snake TV Films, page 69 health takes a turn for (PG) 8.40 ■ Jackie (2016, M, R) Based the worse, Alexia’s dream 6.00 American Pickers (PG) Island (M) The team make on First Lady Jacqueline wedding day is in doubt. 7.00 My Lottery Dream Home (G) discovery on Snake Island. Kennedy in the aftermath of 9.50 Embarrassing Bodies (M, 7.30 Who Wants to Be a 8.30 Bering Sea Gold (M) The her husband’s assassination. R, C) In the Highlands, the dangers of working under Natalie Portman, Peter doctors meet two sisters Millionaire? UK (G) the ice are becoming Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig. with a rare skin condition. 8.30 ■ Gifted (2017, M) A single apparent to the greenhorns. 10.30 Anika Moa Unleashed (M, 10.55 Exhumed: Killer Revealed 9.30 Gem Hunt (PG) The team R) Anika meets Helen Clarke (16, R) man raising his genius niece search for Muzo emeralds in and Martin Henderson. 11.45 Snapped (M, R) gets into a custody battle Colombia. 11.00 – 11.30 Loading Docs (PG) 12.35am Infomercials 5.00 – 6.00 with his mother. Chris Evans, 10.30 Cops UK: Bodycam Squad Top Chef (PG, R) Mckenna Grace (PG) 10.40 Forged in Fire (PG) 11.30 Overhaulin’ (PG, R) 11.35 Flea Market Flip (G) 12.15am Programmes continue 12.05am – 6.00 Infomercials TVNZDUKE FREEVIEW6SKY023 SKY PREMIERE SKY030 MOVIESCLASSICSSKY034 RIALTO SKY 039 6.00 On Duke Today 7.00 A Mouthful of Air (2021, M) 6.15 The Ruling Class (1972, M) 6.10 Become Who You Are 7.00 DUKEbox Music Amanda Seyfried Peter O’Toole, Alastair Sim (2020, M) US documentary. Noon Extreme E: Electric Odyssey 8.45 Rams (2020, PG) Sam Neill, 8.45 Kings Go Forth (1958, PG) 7.40 First Cow (2019, PG) John (G, R) Michael Caton Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis Magaro, Toby Jones 12.30 Superstore (PG, R, HD, 10.45 Free Guy (2021, M) Ryan 10.35 The Blue Lagoon (1980, M) 9.40 Settlers (2021, 16) Sofia C, AD) Reynolds, Taika Waititi Brooke Shields, Christopher Boutella 2.10 Secrets of the London Atkins 12.40 Godzilla vs. Kong (2021, M) 11.25 Brassic Marathon (2021, 16) Underground (G, R, HD, Alexander Skarsgard, Millie 12.17 Waterloo (1970) (1970, G) s3ep1-8 C, AD) Bobby Brown Rod Steiger, Christopher 3.00 River Monsters (PG, R, Plummer 5.40 Meeting the Beatles in HD, C) 2.35 Monster Hunter (2020) India (2020, PG) Canadian 3.55 Xploration – Awesome (2020, M) Milla Jovovich 2.27 Young Winston (1972, G) documentary. Planet (G, R, HD) Simon Ward, Robert Shaw 4.15 Impossible Engineering (G, 4.20 In the Heights (2021, PG) 7.00 Marvellous (2014, M) Based R, HD, C) Anthony Ramos 4.45 Pale Rider (1985, PG) Clint on the story of Neil Baldwin, 5.10 The Big Bang Theory (PG, R, Eastwood, Michael Moriarty who became beloved in his HD, C) 6.40 The Card Counter (2021, home town. Toby Jones, 6.00 MythBusters: There’s Your 16) While trying to keep a 6.37 Starman (1985, PG) An alien Gemma Jones Problem! (PG, R, HD) young man on the straight- takes the form of a widow’s 6.30 Ultimate Rides (G, HD) and-narrow, an ex-military late husband in order to 8.30 Rialto Selection: James 7.00 Family Guy (PG, R, C, AD) interrogator is drawn back abduct her and travel across & Isey (2021, M) NZ s9ep7 into his dark past. Oscar the country to rendezvous documentary about James 7.30 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C, Isaac, Tye Sheridan with his spaceship. Jeff Cross and his mother Isey in AD) s12ep13 Bridges, Karen Allen the week leading up to Isey’s 8.30 ■ Jaws: The Revenge (1987, 8.30 The Marksman (2021, M) 100th birthday. TV Films, M, HD, C, AD) Chief Brody’s A rancher on the Arizona 8.30 Copycat (1995, 18) A page 69 widow believes that her border agrees to protect psychologist and a detective family is deliberately being a young Mexican boy must work together to take 10.00 Eternal Beauty (2019, M) targeted by another shark in from cartel assassins. Liam down a killer who is copying A woman wrestling with search of revenge. Lorraine Neeson, Katheryn Winnick serial killers from the past. her mental health meets an Gary, Michael Caine, Mario Sigourney Weaver, Holly aspiring singer-songwriter. Van Peebles. 10.20 Promising Young Woman Hunter Sally Hawkins 10.15 – 12.45am Alphas (M, HD) (2020, 18) Carey Mulligan 10.30 Gandhi (1982, PG) Ben 11.35 Instinto Marathon (18) 12.10am The Nest (2020, 16) 1.55 Kingsley, Om Puri s1ep1-4 I’m Just F*cking with You (2018, 16) 3.15 Words on Bathroom Walls 1.35am The Towering Inferno (1974, 5.30am Oranges and Lemons (2020, M) 5.03 Halloween Kills PG) 4.20 The People vs Larry Flynt (2020, G) 5.45 Eternal Beauty (2021, 16) (1996, 18) (2019, M) 72 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

SATURDAY JULY 30 SKY CHANNELS Island Serial Killer (M) 2.00 American Detective with Lt. Joe Kenda (M) 2.55 American Monster (M) 3.50 Vibe SKY 006 Your Worst Nightmare Marathon (M) 8.30 A Crime to Remember (M) 9.30 Finding Andrea (M) 11.25 6.00 Private Eyes (M) s3ep11 7.00 Jamestown (16) Nightmare Next Door (M) 12.15am Programmes s1ep8 7.55 Parenthood Omnibus (M) 12.05 Downton continue Abbey (M) s6ep9 1.10 The Drowning (M) s1ep1 2.00 Judge Judy Omnibus (PG) 4.30 Private Eyes Sky Arts SKY 020 Vibe:Temple Grandin, 7.30pm (M) s3ep11 5.30 Family Finders (M) s1ep11&12 6.30 The Sounds (M) The locals are dealt a further blow 6.40 Zurbarán 8.00 Last Night of the Proms 2020 when human remains turn up at Matai Bay. s1ep3 9.50 Artists & Love 10.15 Anthems: New Zealand’s 7.30 ■ Temple Grandin (2010, M) Based on the life Iconic Hits (M) 11.00 Stars of the Silver Screen 11.45 of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who became The Decisive Moment Noon The Merry Widow 1.40 an expert in the field of animal husbandry. Claire Chu Teh-Chun 2.40 Zurbarán 4.00 Landscape Danes, Catherine O’Hara. 9.35 Harlots (16) Lucy tries Artist of the Year 4.45 B52’s Live at US Festival 5.50 to prepare after she is romised to Lord Repton, and Sgt. Pepper Live (G) Ed Harcourt and members Lydia’s retaliation might cause complications. s1ep3 of Supergrass, Libertines and Primal Scream 10.35 The Closer Omnibus (M) 2.45am Programmes perform the Beatles’ album in Paris. 7.00 Parklife continue 8.30 ■ Love, Deutschmarks and Death (2022, PG) Documentary about the music of Turkish guest BBC UKTV SKY 007 workers and their grandchildren in Germany. 10.10 The New Gospel by Milo Rau (G) A retelling of the 6.00 QI Marathon (M) 7.35 Would I Lie to You? Passion of Christ. 12.00am Programmes continue Marathon (M) 9.15 The Bill Marathon (M) 1.25 Casualty (PG) s36ep43 2.10 Doc Martin (M) s2ep2 Discovery SKY 070 SKY SPORT 3.00 Holby City (M) s21ep14 4.05 Grantchester (PG) s6ep5&6 5.45 Call the Midwife (PG) s7ep4 6.50 6.05 How It’s Made (PG) 6.30 How Do They Do Sky Sport 1 SKY 051 Father Brown (PG) When a troubled soul from the It? (PG) 6.55 Demolition Down Under (PG) 7.45 past returns, Father Brown must investigate the new Outback Opal Hunters Marathon (PG) 12.10 Aussie 6.30 Inside Netball 7.00 PGA Tour, Rocket chapter of the Church of Apollo. s9ep4 7.40 Too Salvage Squad (PG) 1.05 Deadliest Catch (M) 2.00 Mortgage Classic, round 2, from Detroit, live Close (M) Forensic psychiatrist Emma Robertson Gold Rush: White Water (M) 2.55 Aussie Gold 10.00 UFC Fight Week 10.30 NRL, NZ Warriors v is assigned to assess the sanity of a “yummy Hunters (PG) 3.50 Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch Melbourne Storm, highlights 11.00 1st XV Rugby, mummy” who is accused of a despicable crime. Marathon (M) 6.35 Bering Sea Gold (M) 7.30 St Bede’s College v Nelson College, live 1.00 Sky s1ep1 8.35 Midsomer Murders (M) The fizz goes Building Off the Grid (PG) 8.30 Homestead Rescue GrassRoots Rugby 2.00 Farah Palmer Cup, Bay out of a sparkling wine launch when the glasses (PG) 9.30 Moonshiners (M) 10.30 Blowing Up of Plenty v Auckland, live 4.00 Fox Sports News are laced with poison. s17ep4 10.25 All Round to History (PG) 11.25 NASA’s Unexplained Files (PG) 5.00 Sal’s NBL Women, Upper South v Central, Mrs Brown’s (M) s3ep4 11.25 Who Do You Think 12.15am Programmes continue from Cowles Stadium, Christchurch, live 7.00 You Are? Australia (PG) Former Prime Minister West Indies v India, 1st T20, highlights 7.30 Sal’s Malcolm Turnbull opens the book on his family National Geographic SKY 072 NBL, Canterbury Rams v Southland Sharks, from history, discovering a mysterious unclaimed fortune. Cowles Stadium, Christchurch, live 9.30 PGA, DP 12.25am Programmes continue 6.00 Food Factory (PG) 6.30 Drain the Oceans World Tour, Hero Open, round 2, highlights 10.00 (PG) 8.30 Alaska: The Next Generation (PG) 9.30 LPGA, round 2, highlights 10.30 PGA Tour, round SoHo SKY 010 Inside (PG) 10.30 Car SOS (PG) 11.30 Colossal 2, highlights 11.00 1st XV Rugby, St Bede’s College Machines (PG) 12.30 Something Bit Me! (PG) 1.30 v Nelson College, replay 12.45am Farah Palmer 6.20 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (M) When Sharks Attack (M) 2.30 Shark Attack Files Cup, Otago v Northland, highlights 1.00 SailGP, s9ep17 6.55 Mare of Easttown (18) s1ep1 7.55 I May (M) 3.30 Air Crash Investigation: Special Report Plymouth, day 1, live 2.30 Sky GrassRoots Rugby Destroy You (18) s1ep5 8.25 The Rising (16) 9.10 (M) 4.30 Air Crash Investigation (M) 5.30 Buried 3.30 West Indies v India, 1st T20, highlights 4.00 Mind Over Murder (18) s1ep5 10.10 Fear the Walking Secrets of WWII (PG) 6.30 Unsinkable: Japan’s Lost IndyCar, Gallagher Grand Prix, live Dead (18) s7ep12 10.50 His Dark Materials (PG) Battleship (PG) 7.30 Drain the Oceans Best ofs (PG) s1ep1 11.45 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (M) 8.30 Lost Treasures of Egypt (PG) Archaeologists Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 s9ep17 12.20 Gentleman Jack Marathon (M) s2ep1-7 excavate the ancient landscapes of Saqqara, 7.20 Gentleman Jack (M) During a trip to London, Egypt’s oldest necropolis. 9.30 Something Bit Me! 8.00 Sky GrassRoots Rugby 9.00 Sky Speed 9.30 simmering resentments on both sides of Lister and (PG) 10.30 Inside (PG) 11.30 Dutch Caribbean Supercars Championship, replay 11.00 Supercars Ann’s relationship boil over. s2ep8 8.30 The Girl Coastguard (PG) 12.30am Programmes continue Championship, The Bend SuperSprint, from Tailem Before (16) Emma begins a tentative relationship Bend, South Australia, live 8.05 Formula E, round with Edward, echoing Jane’s own relationship with History SKY 073 13, practice 2, from London, live 8.50 Farah Palmer the architect in the present. s1ep2 9.30 Animal Cup, Manawatu v Counties Manukau 9.30 Formula Kingdom (16) Gia visits the Codys with a job 6.30 The Guns That Changed the Game (PG) 7.30 E, round 13, qualifying, from London, live 11.15 West opportunity, J works on the finances, and Craig Secrets of Britain (M) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Atomic Indies v India, 1st T20, highlights 11.45 Farah Palmer struggles with sobriety. s6ep1 10.30 Westworld Age Declassified (PG) 10.30 Time Team 11.30 Cup, Bay of Plenty v Auckland, highlights 12.00am (18) s4ep5 11.30 Irma Vep (16) s1ep3 12.30am Blood Money: Inside the Nazi Economy (PG) 12.30 LPGA, Scottish Open, round 2, highlights 12.30 Programmes continue American Dynasties: The Kennedys (PG) 1.30 The LPGA, Scottish Open, round 3, from Dundonald Guns That Changed the Game (PG) 2.30 Secrets of Links, Ayrshire, live 4.30 UFC Fight Week 4.55 Living SKY 017 Britain (M) 3.30 Crusaders (PG) 4.30 Baby Cages Inside Netball 5.25 W Series, round 5, qualifying, (PG) 5.30 Shipwreck Secrets (PG) 6.30 Decoding from Hungaroring, Mogyorod, Hungary, live 6.15 Selling Houses Australia 7.05 Cake Wars (PG) the Great Pyramid 7.30 Ku Klux Klan: An American 7.55 Buddy vs. Duff (PG) 8.45 Salvage Hunters Story (16) 8.30 Shark Terror: USS Indianapolis (PG) Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 Marathon (PG) 12.10 Grand Designs New Zealand 9.30 Nuclear Requiem (PG) 10.30 The Whistle- (PG) 1.05 Every Family Has a Secret (PG) 2.00 Blowers of WWII (PG) 11.30 Titans of the 20th 9.30 Ultimate Bowls 10.30 Sal’s NBL, Franklin Bulls Guy’s Grocery Games (PG) 2.55 Tournament of Century (M) 12.30am Programmes continue v Taranaki Airs, replay 12.30 West Indies v India, Champions (PG) 3.50 Mystery Diners (PG) 4.45 1st T20, highlights 1.00 Once a Warrior with Monty Restaurant: Impossible (PG) 5.40 Shed and Buried BBC Earth SKY 074 Betham 1.30 NRL, NZ Warriors v Melbourne Storm Marathon (PG) 7.30 Penelope Keith’s Hidden 2.00 NRL, Parramatta Eels v Penrith Panthers 2.30 Villages (PG) In East Anglia, Penelope attends a 6.00 Life Below Zero: Character Stories (16) 6.45 NSW Cup, Mounties v Western Suburbs Magpies, regatta on the Norfolk Broads and takes to the Life Below Zero (M) 8.25 24 Hours in A&E (PG) from Campbelltown Sports Stadium, Sydney, live skies over the village of Little Snoring. 8.30 Love 10.05 The Planets (PG) 12.05 Wild Landscapes 4.30 NRL, Gold Coast Titans v Canberra Raiders, Your Garden: Specials (PG) 9.40 Garden Rescue of China (PG) 1.40 Levison Wood: From Russia from Cbus Super Stadium, Gold Coast, live 6.55 (PG) 10.40 Escape to the Chateau (PG) 11.30 to Iran (PG) 2.30 Tribes, Animals & Me (PG) 3.25 NRL, Cronulla Sharks v South Sydney Rabbitohs, Guy’s Grocery Games (PG) 12.20am Programmes Wild Kingdom (PG) 4.30 Incredible Journeys with from PointsBet Stadium, Sydney, live 9.25 NRL, continue Simon Reeve (M) 5.30 10 Puppies and Us (PG) 6.35 Brisbane Broncos v Wests Tigers, from Suncorp Animal Impossible (PG) 7.35 Levison Wood: From Stadium, Brisbane, live 12.30am The Fan 1.00 Farah Investigation Discovery SKY 018 Russia to Iran (PG) Levison travels from Armenia Palmer Cup, Bay of Plenty v Auckland 1.20 Tour de towards the Caspian Sea. Travelling via the ancient France Femmes, stage 7, Sélestat to Le Markstein, 6.05 Obsession: Dark Desires (M) 7.45 Predator at valley of the assassins, he reaches Iran’s capital, live 4.00 NRL, Gold Coast Titans v Canberra Large (M) 8.35 Still a Mystery (M) 9.25 Nightmare Tehran. 8.30 The Bear Family & Me (PG) 9.30 Life Raiders 4.30 NRL, Cronulla Sharks v South Sydney Next Door (M) 10.20 Twisted Sisters (M) 11.15 A Below Zero (PG) 10.25 Secrets of Bones (PG) 11.20 Rabbitohs, highlights 5.00 PGA Tour, round 3, live Crime to Remember (M) 12.10 Unraveled: The Long Incredible Journeys with Simon Reeve (M) 12.20am Programmes continue JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 73

SUNDAY JULY 31 TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001 TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002 THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003 Film: WAITING: THE VAN 6.00 Attitude (G, R, HD, C, AD) 6.00 Peppa Pig (G, R, HD, C) 6.00 Life TV DUREN STORY 6.25 Paddington Station (PG, R, 6.10 Kangaroo Beach (G, R, 6.30 Leading the Way 7.00 Charles Stanley A Searching for Sugar Man- HD, C) HD, C) 8.00 Life TV style doco in which two 7.15 Tagata Pasifika (R, HD) 6.20 Bluey (G, R, HD, C) 8.30 Turning Point Aussie fans track down a 7.40 Praise Be (G, R, HD, C) 6.50 Care Bears: Unlock the 9.00 Extreme Couponing (PG, R, forgotten 1970s genius. 8.10 ■ Secret Scotland (G, R, HD, Van Duren is perhaps less Magic (G, R, HD, C) C) s2ep8 obscure than Sugar Man’s C, AD) 7.10 ■ Thomas Edison’s Secret 9.25 The Hui (R, C) With Sixto Rodriguez, but he still 9.00 Q+A with Jack Tame (HD, faded into obscurity due Lab (G, R, HD, C) Mihingarangi Forbes. to a bum record deal and a C) Political interviews and 7.25 ■ Ben 10 (G, R, HD, C) 9.55 Newshub Nation (C) With strange, Scientology-linked discussions. 7.40 Bunnicula (G, R, HD, C) record company. Duren was 10.00 Waka Huia Māori stories 8.05 SpongeBob SquarePants (G, Simon Shepherd and Oriini a Memphis power-pop artist and histories for all New Kaipara. who was managed by Rolling Zealanders. R, HD, C) 10.55 Nature’s Strangest Stones impresario Andrew 10.30 Marae (G, HD) 8.30 What Now? (G, C) Local Mysteries: Solved (PG, R, C) Loog Oldham and whose first 11.00 The Great British Sewing s1ep11 album brought comparisons Bee (G, R, HD, C, AD) kids’ show featuring, games, 11.20 ■ What Could Possibly Go to Paul McCartney. The film Noon Attitude (PG, C, AD) James interviews, fun and gunge. Wrong? (PG, R, C) s1ep1 follows Australians Greg Carey Littlejohn, who lives with 9.30 Home and Away Omnibus Noon Incredible Engineering and Wade Jackson, who were partial paraplegia after a (G, R, HD, C) Blunders: Fixed (PG) s1ep4 so moved by Duren’s songs, motorbike accident, loves 11.25 Shortland Street Omnibus 1.00 Muscle Garage (PG) s10ep9 they became determined to mountain biking and is on a (PG, R, HD, C, AD) 1.30 Driven Coverage of the NZ track him down. mission to help more people 2.00 United States of Al (PG, HD, Rally. SKY ARTS, 9.10pm with disabilities ride adapted C, AD) s2ep11 2.00 Monster Jam bikes. 2.25 B Positive (PG, HD, C) s2ep4 3.00 Suzuki Extreme 4x4 Ten NZ Documentary: THE MOST 12.30 Fair Go (R, C) With Pippa 2.55 Call Me Kat (PG, HD, C, AD) 4x4 trucks battle it out. HATED MAN ON THE Wetzell and Hadyn Jones. s2ep7 4.00 Australian Top Fuel Champs INTERNET 1.00 Sunday (R, C) Miriama Kamo 3.20 The Middle (G, R, HD, C) Round 3, Perth. presents current affairs. s1ep7 5.00 Bondi Lifeguard World A three-part series that 2.00 Space Invaders (G, R, HD, 3.50 Mr. Bean (G, R, HD, C, AD) Adventures (PG, R, C) s1ep9 details the crimes of internet C, AD) s1ep6 5.30 Piri’s Tiki Tour (G, C) s5ep3 sociopath Hunter Moore, the 3.00 Extraordinary Escapes 4.20 ■ Cats & Dogs 3: Paws 6.00 Newshub Live founder of revenge porn site (G, HD, C, AD) In Norfolk, Unite! (2020, G, R, HD, C, 7.00 The Masked Singer NZ (PG, IsAnyoneUp.com and reveals Sandi Toksvig and actor AD) Callum Seagram Airlie, C) Five more celebrities take how a mother, Charlotte Laws, Sunetra Sarker visit an old Kirsten Robek, voices of Max to the stage, and the guest fought back. mill keeper’s cottage, go Greenfield, Melissa Rauch. judge is Paul Ego. NETFLIX seal spotting and stay in a 6.00 Wipeout (G, HD, C) John 8.30 ■ Like a Boss (2020, 16, C) Victorian pump house. s2ep2 Cena and Nicole Byer Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne. 4.00 Susan Calman’s Grand Week host a US series in which TV Films, page 69 by the Sea (G, HD, C, AD) thrillseekers compete in 10.10 9-1-1 (M, R, C) s4ep3 Susan visits Brighton, the the world’s largest extreme 11.05 Death Row: Countdown to south coast resort made obstacle course. Execution (M, R, C) famous by George IV. s1ep2 7.00 MasterChef Australia: Fans & 12.00am Infomercials 5.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) Favourites (G, HD, C, another 5.30 – 6.00 AM Early With Bradley Walsh hosts a UK episode screens tomorrow) Bernadine Oliver-Kerby. quiz show. Contestants must create a 6.00 1 News (HD, C) dish using ingredients from PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 7.00 Country Calendar (G, HD, Marco Pierre White’s array of C, AD) Two sisters share the pantry items that he uses at 6.00 2022 Commonwealth running of the family sheep home. Games Coverage of the and beef farm and keep 8.30 ■ Peppermint (2018, 16, R, New Zealand team in their own careers going by HD, C, AD) Five years after Birmingham. working part-time elsewhere. her husband and daughter 7.30 Sunday (C) Miriama Kamo were killed in a senseless act 9.00 2022 Commonwealth presents current affairs. of violence, a woman comes Games Highlights (G, C) 8.30 George Clarke’s Amazing back from self-imposed exile Action from day 2. Spaces (G, HD, C, AD) to seek revenge. Jennifer Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Garner, John Ortiz, John 10.00 LPGA Highlights (G) Evian gets an extension on the Gallagher Jr, Juan Pablo Championship. Isle of Wight, and George Raba. TV Films, page 69 visits a Moroccan oasis in 10.25 Four Weddings and a 11.00 Sky Grass Roots Rugby (G) the Cotswolds and seeks Funeral (M, HD, C) Maya Noon UFC 277 Prelims Live inspiration for his secret feels guilty that her work 2.00 NRL Premiership (G) garden studio flat. s10ep2 is forcing her to interact 9.35 ■ This Is Going to Hurt with Ainsley’s ex, and Bryce Cronulla Sharks v South (M, HD, C, AD) UK medical tries to take his professional Sydney Rabbitohs. drama series. Tonight, a relationship with Ainsley to 4.00 2022 Commonwealth grieving Adam faces a the next level. s1ep7 Games Highlights (G, R, C) tribunal over his malpractice 11.20 Death Row Doctors (M, Action from day 2. and is no longer sure if he HD, C) 5.00 Storage Wars (PG, R, C) can go on in medicine. s1ep7 12.10am License to Kill (PG, HD, C) 5.30 Prime News 10.35 Line of Duty (16, HD, C, AD) 1.00 In Ice Cold Blood (16, HD, C) 6.00 American Pickers (PG, R) Following the violent attack 1.45 Demons in the City of Mike and Frank discover in prison, Lindsay is granted Angels (16, HD, C) classic roadside eateries. special dispensation to visit 2.35 ■ Girl in the Woods (16, 7.00 Storage Wars (PG, R, C) her dying mother. s2ep4 HD, C) Jarrod and Brandi find 11.45 The Commons (M, HD, C, 3.30 B Positive (G, R, HD) something that sets off AD) s1ep2 3.50 2 Tunes sirens. 12.40am – 6.00 Infomercials (HD) 4.00 Infomercials 7.30 – 6.00am 2022 4.30 Religious Programming Commonwealth Games 5.00 – 6.00 Infomercials (C) Coverage of the New Zealand team in Birmingham. ■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition 74 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

SUNDAY JULY 31 WHAKAATA Film: DAMILOLA, OUR LOVED BOY MĀORI FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 The story of 10-year-old Damilola 6.30 Kids’ Programmes Taylor, who was murdered in Peckham 8.30 Whānau Bake-Off (G, R) in 2000, is approached with sensitivity 9.30 Easy Eats (G, R) by writer Levi David Addai and direc- 10.00 Life of Kai (G, R) tor Euros Lyn, who focus on the Taylor 10.30 Moon Tide Fishing (G, R) family. The film was nominated for 11.00 Te Ao Mārama three Baftas, and won two. 11.30 Te Ao with Moana (G, R) RIALTO, 8.30pm Noon Te Ao Tapatahi 12.30 Tagata Pasifika Pacific Island BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012 EDEN FREEVIEW 8 SKY 013 RUSH FREEVIEW 14 SKY 024 news and current affairs. 6.00 Top Chef (PG, R) 6.00 Key of David 6.00 Tanked (PG, R) 1.00 5 Minutes of Fame (G, R) 9.10 Hollywood Medium with 6.30 Through the Bible 7.30 Goblin Works Garage 2.00 ■ Paddington (2014, PG, R) 7.00 Leading the Way Tyler Henry (PG, R) 7.30 Animal Cribs (PG, R) (PG, R) Hugh Bonneville. 10.50 Love It or List It: Vancouver 8.25 Baked in Vermont (G) 8.20 Alaska: Battle on the Bay 3.40 Loading Docs (PG) 8.50 The Best Thing I Ever Ate 4.00 Waka Huia (G, R) (PG, R) (PG, R) 4.30 The Hui (R) 11.40 Hoarders (PG, R) (G, R) 9.05 Treehouse Masters (PG, R) 5.00 Indigenous 100 (G, R) 12.30 Catfish (PG, R) 9.40 Museum Mysteries (PG, R) 9.50 Ed Stafford: First Man Out 5.30 Te Ao Toa Erena Mikaere 1.30 Dog Rescuers (PG, R) 10.30 American Pickers (PG, R) 2.30 Rich Kids Go Skint (PG, R) 11.15 Building the Dream (G) (PG, R) and Stacey Fluhler present a 3.30 Million Dollar Listing NY 12.05 Craft Wars (PG) 10.35 Inside West Coast Customs sports show. 1.05 Best in Food (G) 6.30 Artefact (G, R) Dame Anne (PG, R) 1.35 Who Wants to Be a (PG, R) Salmond presents a series 6.30 Tiny House Nation (PG) 11.20 Overhaulin’ (PG, R) about important New 7.30 ■ Did You Hear About the Millionaire? UK (G, R) 1.05 Wheeler Dealers Marathon Zealand artefacts. 2.35 My Lottery Dream Home 7.30 The Disappearing Delta Morgans? (2009, PG, R, C) (PG, R) (G, R) Documentary about An estranged New York City (G, R) 5.35 Overhaulin’ (PG) Louisiana’s disappearing couple must go into witness 3.05 Dr. Jeff (PG) 6.30 Head Rush (G) coastline. protection in Wyoming. 4.05 Alex vs America (G) 7.30 Goblin Works Garage 8.30 ■ Brazil (1985, M) A Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica 5.05 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) bureaucrat in a dystopian Parker 6.00 American Pickers (PG) (PG) The gang hits the society becomes an enemy 9.30 ■ Forgetting Sarah Marshall 7.00 Billy Buys Brooklyn (PG) UK’s biggest car show in of the state when he pursues (2008, 16, R, C) After he 7.30 The Weakest Link UK (PG) Birmingham. the woman of his dreams. is dumped, a struggling 8.30 ■ The Post (2017, M) Meryl 8.25 Iron Resurrection (PG) A Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, musician finds that his ex is 63 Impala with a four speed Robert De Niro, Ian Holm, staying in the same hotel in Streep, Tom Hanks. TV Films, and legendary 409 engine is Bob Hoskins. TV Films, page Hawaii with her new man. page 69 brought into the shop. 69 Jason Segel, Mila Kunis. 10.50 Forged in Fire (PG) 9.25 Texas Metal (PG) 10.00 – 11.00 Tāringa (G, R) 11.45 Embarrassing Bodies (M, R, C) 11.45 Flea Market Flip (G) 10.10 Last American Cowboy (M) 12.40am – 6.00 Infomercials 12.15am – 6.00 Infomercials 11.05 Overhaulin’ (PG, R) TVNZDUKE FREEVIEW 6 SKY 023 11.50 Head Rush (G, R) SKY PREMIERE SKY030 12.35am Programmes continue 6.00 On Duke Today 7.00 DUKEbox Music 6.45 The War Below (2021, M) MOVIESCLASSICSSKY034 RIALTO SKY 039 12.35 Superstore (PG, R, HD, C, AD) Tom Goodman-Hill, Sam 2.10 Secrets of the London Hazeldine 6.30 Housesitter (1992, PG) Steve 7.20 Meeting the Beatles in Martin, Goldie Hawn India (2020, PG) Canadian Underground (G, R, HD, 8.20 Father of the Bride (2022, documentary. C, AD) PG) Andy Garcia, Gloria 8.15 Comanche Station (1960, 3.00 River Monsters (PG, R, Estefan M) Randolph Scott, Nancy 8.40 Marvellous (2014, M) Toby HD, C) Gates Jones, Gemma Jones 3.55 Xploration: Awesome Planet 10.00 Crisis (2020, 16) Gary (G, R, HD) Oldman, Armie Hammer 9.32 The Battle of Britain (1969, 10.15 James & Isey (2021, M) NZ 4.20 Impossible Engineering (G, PG) Michael Caine, Laurence documentary. R, HD, C) 11.55 Reminiscence (2021, M) Olivier 5.15 The Big Bang Theory (G, R, Hugh Jackman, Rebecca 11.45 Eternal Beauty (2019, M) HD, C) Ferguson 11.45 Goodfellas (1990, 16) Robert Sally Hawkins 6.00 MythBusters: There’s Your De Niro, Ray Liotta Problem! (PG, R, HD) 1.50 Old (2021, M) Gael Garcia 1.20 I Am Greta (2020, M) 6.35 Ultimate Rides (G, HD) Bernal, Vicky Krieps 2.10 Robinson Crusoe (1954, Swedish documentary. 7.00 Family Guy (PG, R, C, AD) G) Dan O’Herlihy, Jaime s9ep8 3.35 Lake Placid: Legacy (2018, Fernandez 3.00 I Used to Go Here (2020, M) 7.30 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C, 16) Katherine Barrell Gillian Jacobs AD) s12ep1 3.40 The Sailor Who Fell from 8.30 Great Escapes with Morgan 5.05 The Craft: Legacy (2020, M) Grace with the Sea (1976, 4.30 My Father and Me (2019, M) Freeman (G, R, HD, C, AD) Cailee Spaeny, Gideon Adlon 18) Kris Kristofferson, Sarah UK documentary. 9.25 Top Gear America (PG, Miles HD) The guys take Porsche, 6.40 Queenpins (2021, M) Kristen 6.10 Annette (2021, 16) The Bentley and Lamborghini Bell, Kirby Howell-Baptiste 5.25 JFK (1991, M) Kevin Costner, lives of a comedian and his SUVs to Colorado. s1ep4 Tommy Lee Jones opera singer wife take an 10.05 Wheelburn (G, HD) Mike 8.30 The Many Saints of Newark unexpected turn when their Dawes and Cole Armstrong (2022, 16) Anthony Soprano 8.30 The Remains of the Day daughter is born. Marion smoke up Hampton Downs grows up in a tumultuous era (1993, PG) A butler realises Cotillard, Adam Driver at the GT-R festival. s2ep2 in Newark as rival gangsters too late that his loyalty 10.35 Raw Recruits (16, R, HD) challenge the all-powerful to his employer has been 8.30 Rialto British: Damilola, Our 11.30 – 1.05am 12 Monkeys (M, HD) DiMeo crime family. Michael misguided. Anthony Hopkins, Loved Boy (2016, M) Based Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Vera Emma Thompson on the story of Damilola Farmiga TV Films, page 69 Taylor, a 10-year-old Nigerian 10.40 Dressed to Kill (1980, boy who was murdered in 10.35 Penguin Bloom (2020, M) 18) Michael Caine, Angie London. Wunmi Wosaku Naomi Watts Dickinson 10.00 Incitement (2019, 16) Yehuda 12.15am New Year, New You (2018, 12.25am Sudden Impact (1983, 16) Nahari Halevi 16) 1.40 All My Life (2020, M) 3.10 2.20 Dementia 13: The Director’s The Devil Has a Name (2021, 16) Cut (1963, M) 3.30 The Tall T (1957, 12.05am The Capote Tapes (2019, 4.45 Let Him Go (2020, M) G) 4.45 … and Justice for All (1979, 16) 1.45 Boys Cry (2018, 16) 3.20 I M) Am Greta (2020, M) 5.00 I Used to Go Here (2020, M) JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 75

SUNDAY JULY 31 SKY CHANNELS 12.10 Reasonable Doubt (M) 1.05 Chaos in Court (M) 2.00 Bad Henry (M) 3.50 The Co-Ed Killer: Mind Vibe SKY 006 of a Monster Marathon (M) 6.35 Finding Andrea (M) 8.30 Predator at Large (M) 9.30 Still a Mystery (M) 6.45 Family Finders (M) s1ep11&12 7.45 The Sounds 10.30 The Perfect Murder (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next (M) s1ep3 8.35 Judge Judy Omnibus (PG) 9.55 Door (M) 12.15am Programmes continue The Closer Omnibus (M) 2.05 Harlots (16) s1ep3 2.55 ■ Temple Grandin (2010, M) Claire Danes. Sky Arts SKY 020 SoHo:The Midwich Cuckoos, 9.30pm 4.50 My Family Secrets Revealed (PG) s1ep15 5.40 Murder, Mystery and My Family (M) s2ep10 6.30 6.10 The New Gospel by Milo Rau 8.00 Thaïs (G) SKY SPORT How to Lose Weight Well (PG) s4ep5 7.30 The Jules Massenet’s opera performed by Vienna Radio Cotswolds with Pam Ayres (PG) Pam Ayres reveals Symphony Orchestra. 10.15 B52’s at US Festival Sky Sport 1 SKY 051 both the familiar and the not-so-familiar gems of 11.20 Sgt. Pepper Live 12.30 ■ Love, Deutschmarks one of Britain’s most beautiful areas, starting in the and Death (2022, PG) 2.10 The New Gospel by 7.00 SailGP, Plymouth, day 1, replay 8.30 Farah picturesque village of Bourton-on-the-Water. s1ep1 Milo Rau 4.00 Daniel Barenboim Conducts Anne- Palmer Cup, Bay of Plenty v Auckland, replay 10.30 8.30 Victoria (M) Despite giving birth to a healthy Sophie Mutter & Yo-Yo Ma 6.00 Matt Deighton: NRL, Brisbane Broncos v Wests Tigers 11.00 The son, Victoria is paralysed by an inexplicable sorrow, Overshadowed 7.05 Other Voices 8.00 Brian and Fan 11.30 Farah Palmer Cup, Manawatu v Counties and a tragedy in Coburg plunges Albert into his Roger Eno: Live at the Acropolis 9.10 ■ Waiting: The Manukau Noon Farah Palmer Cup, North Harbour v own private torment. s2ep4 9.30 Agatha Christie’s Van Duren Story (2018, G) Two Australian friends Hawkes Bay, from North Harbour Stadium, Albany, Marple (M) A detestable businessman is murdered rediscover the music of 1970s Memphis musician live 2.00 Farah Palmer Cup, Wellington v Waikato, while at work and a handful of rye is found in his Van Duren. 10.30 Rock Legends: Tina Turner 11.15 from Porirua Park, Wellington, live 4.00 Farah pockets. s4ep1 11.20 My Family Secrets Revealed Rock Legends: Billy Idol 12.00am Programmes Palmer Cup, Tasman v Taranaki 4.30 Farah Palmer (PG) s1ep15 12.15am Programmes continue continue Cup, Otago v Northland 5.00 Sal’s NBL, Hawke’s Bay Hawks v Manawatu Jets, from Pettigrew Green BBC UKTV SKY 007 Discovery SKY 070 Arena, Napier, live 7.00 SailGP, Plymouth, day 1, highlights 7.30 The Breakdown 8.00 1st XV Rugby, 6.00 The Mallorca Files (PG) s1ep1&2 7.30 Fawlty 6.05 How It’s Made (PG) 6.30 How Do They Do It? St Bede’s College v Nelson College 8.30 Rugby Towers (PG) s2ep3 8.05 Holby City (M) s21ep14 (PG) 6.55 Extreme Ice Machines (PG) 7.45 Contact Nation 9.00 NRL, NZ Warriors v Melbourne Storm 9.05 EastEnders Marathon (PG) 11.05 The Jonathan (PG) 8.35 Deadliest Catch (M) 9.25 Aussie Salvage 9.30 Formula E, round 14, qualifying, from London, Ross Show (M) s17ep4 11.55 The Graham Norton Squad (PG) 10.20 Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch (M) live 11.15 Farah Palmer Cup, Wellington v Waikato Show (M) s29ep3 12.50 8 Out of 10 Cats Does 11.15 Gold Rush: White Water (M) 12.10 Aussie Gold 11.30 SailGP, Plymouth, day 1, replay 1.00am SailGP, Countdown (M) 1.40 Midsomer Murders (M) s17ep4 Hunters (PG) 1.05 Extreme Ice Machines (PG) 2.00 Plymouth, day 2, live 2.30 Fox Sports News 3.30 3.25 Guilt (M) s1ep4 4.30 Death in Paradise (PG) Demolition Down Under Marathon (PG) 7.30 Aussie NRL: Gold Coast Titans v Canberra Raiders; 4.00 s10ep1 5.35 Heartbeat (PG) s18ep5 6.30 Death in Gold Hunters (PG) 8.30 Naked and Afraid (M) 9.30 Cronulla Sharks v South Sydney Rabbitohs; 4.30 Paradise (PG) s9ep7 7.35 Doc Martin (M) s2ep3 Ed Stafford: First Man Out (PG) 10.30 Naked and Brisbane Broncos v Wests Tigers 5.00 PGA Tour, 8.30 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) Father and Afraid: Alone (M) 11.25 Bering Sea Gold (M) 12.15am Rocket Mortgage Classic, round 4, from Detroit, live son Jack and Michael Whitehall investigate their Programmes continue family tree. 9.35 Grantchester (PG) When Leonard’s Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 cellmate is accused of murdering another inmate, National Geographic SKY 072 Leonard asks Will and Geordie for their help. s6ep7 6.00 NRL, Gold Coast Titans v Canberra Raiders 10.25 Grantchester (PG) When a successful music 6.30 Superstructures: Engineering Marvels (PG) 6.30 NRL, Cronulla Sharks v South Sydney producer is murdered, Geordie is implicated in the 7.30 Air Crash Investigation: Special Report (PG) Rabbitohs, replay 8.30 SailGP, Plymouth, day 1, investigation and forced to face up to traumatic 9.30 Lost Treasures of Egypt (PG) 10.30 Wicked highlights 9.00 Supercars Championship, The events from his own past. s6ep8 11.15 Too Close (M) Tuna (PG) 11.30 Dutch Caribbean Coastguard Bend SuperSprint, day 1, replay 10.30 Supercars s1ep1 12.05am Programmes continue (PG) 12.30 Alaska: The Next Generation (PG) Championship, The Bend SuperSprint, day 2, from 1.30 Inside Incredible Machines (PG) 2.30 Lost Tailem Bend, South Australia, live 8.00 DP World SoHo SKY 010 Treasures of Rome (PG) 4.30 Sex in the Stone Tour, Hero Open, round 3 8.30 PGA Tour, round Age (M) 5.30 Food Factory (PG) 6.30 Air Crash 3 9.00 LPGA, Scottish Open, round 3 9.30 The 6.25 Gentleman Jack Marathon (M) s2ep1-8 2.35 Investigation: Special Report (M) 7.30 Something Breakdown 10.00 Rugby Nation 10.30 Farah Palmer Westworld (18) s4ep5 3.35 The Girl Before (16) Bit Me! (PG) 8.30 Explorer (M) How creatures see Cup, Wellington v Waikato 11.00 1st XV Rugby, St s1ep2 4.35 Animal Kingdom (16) s6ep1 5.35 Irma their environments and what life would be like if we Bede’s College v Nelson College 11.30 Farah Palmer Vep (16) s1ep3 6.35 Baptiste (16) s2ep3 7.30 The had animals’ vision. 9.30 Drain the Oceans Best ofs Cup, North Harbour v Hawke’s Bay 12.00am West Lazarus Project (16) s1ep5 8.30 Devils (16) Massimo (PG) 10.30 Alaska: The Next Generation (PG) 11.30 Indies v India, 1st T20 12.35 W Series, round 5, from has to finalise a radical new 5G deal with the EU Aussie Snake Wranglers (PG) 12.30am Programmes Hungaroring, Mogyorod, Hungary, live 1.20 Tour de and reveal the irrefutable truths he has learnt about continue France Femmes, stage 8, live 4.00 Farah Palmer the threat to democracy. s2ep7 9.30 The Midwich Cup, North Harbour v Hawke’s Bay, replay Cuckoos (16) Susannah attempts to understand the History SKY 073 source of the children’s violent self-defence reflex, Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 and Paul believes Susannah is exercising an agenda 6.30 Nuclear Requiem (PG) 7.30 The Whistle- against the children. s1ep4 10.30 Real Time with Bill Blowers of WWII (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Ku 6.00 PGA Tour, round 3, live 10.00 NRL, Cronulla Maher (M) s20ep21 11.30 I Love That for You (M) Klux Klan: An American Story (16) 10.30 Shark Sharks v South Sydney Rabbitohs 10.30 Cycling, s1ep7 12.00am Programmes continue Terror: USS Indianapolis (PG) 11.30 Nuclear Tour of Poland, stage 1 12.30 SailGP, Plymouth, day Requiem (PG) 12.30 The Whistle-Blowers of WWII 1 2.00 PGA Tour, round 3 2.30 LPGA, round 3 3.00 Living SKY 017 (PG) 1.30 Titans of the 20th Century (M) 2.30 NRL, Newcastle Knights v Canterbury-Bankstown American Epic: Roots Music (PG) 4.30 Bones of Bulldogs, live 5.55 NRL, St George Illawarra 6.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 7.10 Love Your Garden the Buddha (PG) 5.30 Combat Ships (PG) 6.30 Dragons v North Queensland Cowboys, live 8.00 (PG) 8.00 Garden Rescue (PG) 8.50 Grow Your Abandoned Engineering (PG) 7.30 America’s Book Sunday Night with Matty Johns, live 9.00 World Own at Home with Alan Titchmarsh (PG) 9.20 of Secrets: The Monuments (PG) 9.30 Sinatra and Superbike Championship, round 6, Superpole 2, Martha Knows Best (PG) 9.50 Inside the Factory the Jack Pack (M) 10.30 Blood Money: Inside the live 10.15 World Superbike Championship, round 6, (PG) 10.50 Salvage Hunters: The Restorers (PG) Nazi Economy (PG) 11.30 Black Ops (M) 12.30am race 2, from Autodrom Most, Czech Republic, live 11.40 Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages (PG) 12.40 Programmes continue 2.10am DP World Tour, round 4, live 4.30 Canoe Rachael Ray’s Week in a Day (PG) 1.35 Girl Meets Slalom World Championships, replay Farm (PG) 2.00 Cake Wars (PG) 2.55 Buddy vs. BBC Earth SKY 074 Duff (PG) 3.50 Bakers vs. Fakers (PG) 4.45 Spring Baking Championship (PG) 5.40 The Best House 6.00 Life Below Zero (PG) 6.50 The Age of Nature in Town (PG) 7.30 Escape to the Chateau (PG) (PG) 7.50 Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids (M) 8.55 8.30 Salvage Hunters: The Restorers (PG) 9.30 Trust Me, I’m a Doctor (PG) 9.50 Tide Marathon Paramedics on Scene (PG) 10.30 Cake Wars (PG) (PG) 12.35 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies 11.20 Buddy vs. Duff (PG) 12.10am Programmes (PG) 2.10 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 3.50 The Planets continue (PG) 4.50 Blue Planet (PG) 5.50 Levison Wood: From Russia to Iran (PG) 6.45 Life Below Zero Investigation Discovery SKY 018 (PG) 7.40 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 8.30 Waterhole: Africa’s Animal Oasis (PG) Remote 6.05 I (Almost) Got Away with It (M) 7.45 Dead cameras capture life at a specially-built African Reckoning (M) 8.35 American Detective with Lt. Joe waterhole. 9.35 The Planets (PG) Brian Cox explores Kenda (M) 9.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 10.20 the remotest part of the solar system. 10.35 Trust Twisted Sisters (M) 11.15 The Perfect Murder (M) Me, I’m a Doctor (PG) 11.35 Tide Marathon (PG) 2.20am Programmes continue 76 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

MONDAY AUGUST 1 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: GREAT May Clarkson and Indira HD, C) Melissa Chan-Green. BRITISH HISTORY Stewart present news, sport, HUNTERS information and weather. 6.25 Kiri and Lou (G, HD, C, AD) 9.00 Infomercials 6.30 Toi Time (G, HD, C, AD) 10.30 Gold Rush (PG, R, C) s7ep14 If you’ve seen Detectorists, the 9.00 Lingo (G, HD, C) Adil Ray 7.00 Robin Hood: Mischief in 11.30 Newshub Live TV series about two nerdy hosts a UK quiz show. Noon Ready to Love (M, C) amateur treasure hunters, Sherwood (G, HD, C) 1.00 ■ A Mother’s Terror (2022, you’ll have some idea of the 10.00 Tipping Point (G, R, HD, C) 7.25 The Adventures of Rocky characters involved in this Ben Shephard hosts a UK M, C) Jessica Morris, James new series. However, it’s quiz show. and Bullwinkle (G, R, HD, C) Hyde, Sarah Navratil. more than a colourful cast 7.50 Beyblade Burst Surge (G, R, 3.00 Dude, You’re Screwed (PG, of metal detectorists, as it 11.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) C) s2ep3 goes behind the scenes to Bradley Walsh hosts a UK HD, C) 3.55 Bath Crashers (G, C) s7ep7 see what happens to finds as quiz show. 8.10 Ricky Zoom (G, R, HD, C) 4.30 Newshub Live they are processed through 8.25 Toi Time (G, R, HD, C, AD) 5.00 Gold Rush (PG, C) s7ep15 the British Museum’s Portable Noon 1 News (HD, C) 8.50 Apollo’s Tall Tales (G, R, 6.00 Newshub Live Antiquities Scheme. There are 12.30 Emmerdale (PG, HD, C, AD) 7.00 The Project With Kanoa artefacts going back thou- 1.30 Country Calendar (G, R, HD, HD, C) Lloyd, Jesse Mulligan and sands of years all over Britain 9.05 Infomercials Jeremy Corbett. and since 1997, the scheme C, AD) Two sisters share the 9.35 Les Mills BodyBalance (G, R, 7.30 The Block NZ: Redemption has recorded more than 1.5 running of the family sheep (PG, C, another episode million finds, so it’s no wonder and beef farm between them HD, C) screens tomorrow) The that the detectorists range and keep their own careers 10.05 Home and Away (PG, R, teams tackle the traditionally from an 11-year-old YouTuber going by working part-time difficult Bathroom Week. to a war veteran. elsewhere. HD, C) 8.35 9-1-1 (M, C) A woman falls HISTORY, 7.30pm 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (G, HD, 10.35 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD, over her balcony, a bike rider C) UK series in which chefs is impaled on a stop sign, Drama: CITY ON A HILL race the clock to create C, AD) and Eddie begins therapy. appetising recipes from 11.05 Charmed (M, HD, C) s5ep14 Kevin Bacon has chewed mystery ingredients. Noon ■ Love at the Ranch (2021, 9.35 9-1-1: Lone Star (M, C) There quite a lot of scenery in this 3.00 Tipping Point (G, HD, C) Ben are emergencies at a fast enjoyable Boston-set drama Shephard hosts a UK quiz PG, HD, C) Laura Mitchell. food drive-thru and a high series and in season three, his show. 1.40 The Drew Barrymore Show school wrestling match, former FBI agent Jackie Rohr 4.00 Te Karere A Māori a case of road rage, and is once again teaming up with perspective on the day’s (PG, HD, C) Tommy’s estranged brother- ADA Decourcy Ward (Aldis news and current affairs. 2.35 Superstore (PG, HD, C, AD) in-law makes a surprise Hodge) to take on a corrup- 4.30 Neighbours (PG, HD, C) 3.00 Sabrina the Teenage Witch appearance. s3ep14 tion case that could have Terese considers Paul’s offer 10.30 Newshub Late far-reaching effects on the to buy her out of the hotel. (G, HD, C) 11.00 Head High (M, R, C) Local criminal justice system. 5.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) 3.30 The Feed (PG, HD, C) series about rival high school NEON Bradley Walsh hosts a UK 5.00 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C, rugby teams and their quiz show. families. s1ep5 6.00 1 News (HD, C) AD) s30ep6 11.55 Infomercials 7.00 Seven Sharp (HD, C) Hilary 5.30 Friends (G, R, HD, C) s9ep8 5.30am – 6.00 AM Early With Barry and Jeremy Wells 6.00 Ghosts (PG, HD, C, AD) Bernadine Oliver-Kerby. present current affairs and entertainment. When Thorfinn’s bones are PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 7.30 Fair Go (C) Pippa Wetzell discovered, he asks Sam to and Hadyn Jones present conduct a traditional Viking 6.00 2022 Commonwealth consumer affairs and funeral. s1ep3 Games Coverage of the investigations. 6.30 Home and Away (PG, C) Alf New Zealand team in 8.00 ■ Shop Well for the Planet must decide between Martha Birmingham. (PG, HD, C, AD) UK series and Summer Bay. about shopping and eating 7.00 Shortland Street (PG, HD, 9.00 2022 Commonwealth better. Tonight, a young C, AD) Madonna fails a Games Highlights (G, C) family are challenged to cut friend, Desi can’t let go, and Action from day 3. their carbon footprint and Chris’s ruthlessness leads to save money. s1ep3 tragedy. 10.00 SmackDown (PG) 9.15 ■ Billy Connolly’s Great 7.30 MasterChef Australia: Fans 11.00 Big Love (M, C) American Trail (PG, R, HD, & Favourites (PG, HD, C, 12.10 Royal Pains (M) C, AD) Billy Connolly follows another episode screens 1.05 House (M, C) the migratory trail of the tomorrow) Contestants 2.00 The Late Show with Stephen Scots through American. must create a dish that Tonight, Billy visits Virginia incorporates a burnt element Colbert (PG) on the trail of bootleggers or has the flavour of fire. 3.00 Wheel of Fortune (G) dealing in moonshine, and 8.30 Extreme Weddings (M, HD, 3.30 Jeopardy (G) learns about the woman C) A medieval wedding is 4.00 2022 Commonwealth who led hundreds of slaves set in a Stonehenge, and on to freedom. Australia’s tallest tower, a Games Highlights (G, R, C) 10.15 1 News (HD, C) couple leap into married life. Action from day 3. 10.45 Shortland Street (PG, R, s1ep7 5.00 Tagata Pasifika (G) C, AD) Madonna fails a 9.30 ■ Naked Attraction (18, 5.30 Prime News friend, Desi can’t let go, and HD, C) 6.00 Rugby Nation (G) Chris’s ruthlessness leads to 10.25 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, 6.30 Storage Wars (PG, R, C) tragedy. HD, C) s7ep17 7.00 Pawn Stars (PG, R) Rick 11.15 ■ Keeping Australia Safe (M, 11.45 2 Broke Girls (M, R, HD, C) needs to send out the right HD, C, AD) s1ep1 s1ep22 signals when a WWII morse 12.25am Q+A with Jack Tame (R, 12.10am Batwoman (M, HD, C, AD) code reader comes in. HD, C) s3ep12 7.30 – 6.00am 2022 1.20 Te Karere (R) 1.00 Emmerdale (PG, R, HD, Commonwealth Games 1.45 Infomercials C, AD) (C) Coverage of the New 5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R) 1.45 Infomercials Zealand team in Birmingham. 2.45 2 Tunes 2.55 MasterChef Australia (PG, R, HD, C) 3.50 Heroes (M, R, HD, C) 4.35 Neighbours (PG, R, HD, C) 5.00 Infomercials 5.30 – 6.00 Religious Programming ■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 77

MONDAY AUGUST 1 WHAKAATA Film: THE BIG GUNDOWN MĀORI FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 Sergio Sollima wasn’t as well known as 6.30 Kids’ Programmes Sergio Leone, but the three spaghetti 8.30 Oranga Ngākau (G) westerns he directed are well regarded. 9.00 Easy Eats (G, R) The Ennio Morricone scores helped, and 9.30 Whānau Living (G, R) because in his films, “bandits, the poor 10.00 Hāngi Pit Masters (G, R) and the exploited become the heroes”, 10.30 Toi Te Ora (G, R) says genre expert Marco Giusti. 11.00 The Disappearing Delta SKY MOVIES CLASSICS, 3.10pm (G, R) BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012 EDEN FREEVIEW 8 SKY 013 RUSH FREEVIEW 14 SKY 024 Noon Te Ao Tapatahi 12.30 Celebrity Playlist (G, R) 6.00 Infomercials 6.00 Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet 6.00 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) 1.05 Artefact (G, R) 10.00 Hoarders: Family Secrets (PG, R) s1ep9 6.45 Tanked (PG, R) 2.00 Tōku Reo (G, R) 7.35 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 2.35 Ako (G, R) (PG, R) s1ep2 7.00 The Pioneer Woman (G) 8.25 Goblin Works Garage 3.05 Kids’ Programmes 11.00 Love It or List It: Vancouver 7.30 Valerie’s Home Cooking (G) 5.15 Haka Life (G, R) 8.00 Alex Vs America (G, R) (PG, R) 5.30 Kids’ Programmes (PG, R) 9.00 Museum Mysteries (PG, R) 9.20 Iron Resurrection (PG, R) 6.00 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe: Te 11.50 Killer Siblings (M, R) 10.00 American Pickers (PG, R) 10.10 Texas Metal (PG, R) 12.50 Tattoo Fixers (M, R) 10.55 Salvage Dawgs (G) 11.00 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) Arawa (G, R) 1.45 Below Deck (M, R) 11.25 Flea Market Flip (G, R) 11.50 Tanked (PG, R) 6.30 Te Ao Mārama 2.40 Hoarders: Family Secrets 11.55 Location Location (G) 12.40 Treehouse Masters (PG, R) 7.00 Marae Current affairs. 1.00 Daryl’s Restoration Overhall 1.25 Homestead Rescue (PG, R) 7.30 Chatham Islanders (G, R) (PG, R) 2.15 Building Alaska (G, R) 3.35 Top Chef (PG) (G) 3.05 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) The even more remote 4.30 Shark Tank (PG, R) 1.30 Billy Buys Brooklyn (PG, R) 3.55 Goblin Works Garage Rangihaute, or Pitt Island, 5.30 Million Dollar Listing NY 2.00 The Weakest Link UK (PG, R) population 46, is an entirely 3.00 My Cat from Hell (PG) (PG, R) different world. (PG, R) 4.00 Giada Entertains (G) 4.50 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) 8.00 Te Ao with Moana (G) 6.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver 4.30 Gino’s Italian Express (G) 5.45 Tanked (PG) Moana Maniapoto presents a 5.00 Mysteries at the Museum 6.35 Wheeler Dealers (PG) currents affairs show. (PG) 7.30 Ed Stafford: First Man Out 8.30 ■ Dior and I (2014, M, R) 7.30 Snapped (M) (PG) Documentary about Raf 8.30 New York Homicide (16) An 6.00 American Pickers (PG) (PG) Simon’s first haute couture 7.00 Bang on Budget (PG) . 8.25 Man vs Wild (PG) collection as Dior’s new adored pillar of the Haitian 8.00 Newshub Live 9.20 Naked and Afraid (M) Two artistic director. community in Brooklyn is 8.30 Cabins in the Wild (PG) 10.10 Te Ngākau Tapatahi (G, R) found murdered. 9.30 Ugly House to Lovely House survivalists attempt 21 days Sir Kim Workman and Sir 9.30 Exhumed: Killer Revealed in the Himalayan foothills. Joe Williams. (16) An investigator digs into (PG) 10.15 Alaskan Bush People (PG) 10.40 Ki Tua (G, R) the death of a mother. 10.30 Bang on Budget (PG, R) 11.05 Tanked (PG, R) 11.10 – 11.40 Te Ao Mārama (R) 10.30 Killer Siblings (M, R) 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G) 11.55 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 11.30 Accident, Suicide or 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials 12.40am Programmes continue Murder? (M, R) 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials TVNZDUKE FREEVIEW6SKY023 SKY PREMIERE SKY030 MOVIESCLASSICSSKY034 RIALTO SKY 039 6.00 On Duke Today 6.40 The Call (2020, 16) Lin 6.40 Forever Young (1992, PG) 6.30 My Father and Me (2019, M) Noon DUKEbox Music Shaye, Tobin Bell Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis. UK documentary. 12.20 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, 8.17 Dawn Raid (2020, M) Local 8.20 Fail Safe (1964) (1964, 8.10 Foods for Coping (2020, M) HD, C) documentary. PG) Henry Fonda, Walter Joan Liu, Jessie Yu 12.45 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, Matthau 9.55 The Mistletoe Secret (2019, 8.25 Annette (2021, 16) Marion R, HD, C) PG) Kellie Pickler 10.10 Captain Apache (1971, PG) Cotillard, Adam Driver 1.10 Battlestar Galactica (M, R, Lee Van Cleef, Carroll Baker 11.20 Half Brothers (2020, M) Luis 10.40 Incitement (2019, 16) Yehuda HD, C) Gerardo Mendez 11.45 Gilda (1946, PG) Glenn Ford, Nahari Halevi 2.45 Hunting Aotearoa (PG, R, HD) Rita Hayworth 3.15 Heavy Rescue 401 (PG, R, HD) 12.55 Superintelligence (2020, 12.45 Cardinal (M) s4ep1&2 4.05 The Chase Australia (G, C) PG) Melissa McCarthy, 1.35 Sweet Smell of Success 2.15 We Are Conjola (2020, M) 4.50 ABC World News (PG) Bobby Cannavale (1957, PG) Tony Curtis, Burt 5.15 Abandoned Engineering Lancaster Australian documentary. 2.40 The Unholy (2021) (2021, M) 4.05 My Big Gay Italian Wedding (PG, R, HD, C) Jeffrey Dean Morgan 3.10 The Big Gundown (1967, M) 6.05 30 Rock (PG, R, HD, C) Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian (2018, M) Salvatore Esposito 6.35 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, 4.20 The Conjuring 3: The Devil 5.35 Flannery (2019, M) US Made Me Do It (2021, 16) 4.40 Dead Man Walking (1995, 16) HD, C) Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon documentary. 7.00 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, 7.00 Undergods (2020, M) Two 6.10 Dear Evan Hansen (2021, 6.40 Hamburger Hill (1987, M) HD, C) s4ep8 M) A high schooler with Based on the story of the corpse collectors journey 7.30 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C, crippling anxiety looks for brutal battle for Hill 937 in through the streets of a acceptance amid the chaos Vietnam. Don Cheadle, Dylan forgotten city. Johann Myers AD) s12ep17 of the social media age. Ben McDermott 8.30 Rialto World: Dear 8.30 Family Guy (PG, R, HD, C, Platt, Kaitlyn Dever Comrades! (2020, 16) In 8.30 Heat (1995, 16) A career 1962, workers from a small AD) s15ep19 8.30 West Side Story (2021, criminal considers getting industrial town go on 9.00 The Office (16, HD, C, AD) M) A romance between out of the business after one strike when the communist teens from rival gangs on last score, while an obsessive government raises food s2ep3 Manhattan’s Upper West cop desperately tries to put prices. Yuliya Vysotskaya 9.35 The Orville (M) Side adds fuel to the fire. him behind bars. Al Pacino, TV Films, page 69 11.00 Battlestar Galactica (16, Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler Robert De Niro 10.35 The Promise (M) s1ep1 11.30 Above Suspicion (2019, 16) HD, C) 11.15 The King’s Man (2021, 16) 11.20 Flatliners (1990, M) Kiefer Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston 11.50 Robot Chicken (16, HD) Ralph Fiennes Sutherland, Julia Roberts 1.15am L’Opera (16) s1ep1&2 2.55 12.15am Aqua Teen Hunger Force We Are Conjola (2020, M) 4.45 My (16, HD) 12.40 The Eric Andre Show 1.25am Out of Death (2021, 16) 3.00 1.15am Basic Instinct (1992, 18) 3.20 Big Gay Italian Wedding (2018, M) (M, R, HD) 12.50 – 1.10 ABC World Alone (2020, 16) 4.37 The Space Forever Young (1992, PG) 5.00 A News (PG, R) Between (2021, M) Fish Called Wanda (1988, M) 78 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

MONDAY AUGUST 1 SKY CHANNELS (M) 7.30 Evil Lives Here (M) 8.30 American Monster (M) 9.30 Evil Lives Here (M) 10.30 The Perfect Vibe SKY 006 Murder (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 12.15am Programmes continue 6.00 Parenthood (M) s4ep8 6.50 Judge Judy (PG) 7.15 The Closer (M) s4ep1 8.05 The Mysteries of Sky Arts SKY 020 Vibe: Covert Affair, 6.30pm Laura (M) s1ep7 8.50 The Good Wife (M) s1ep4 9.40 Covert Affairs (M) s1ep4 10.30 Judge Judy 6.30 Rock Legends: Tina Turner 7.15 Rock Legends: (PG) 11.15 Agatha Christie: Marple (M) s4ep1 1.00 Billy Idol 8.00 Daniel Barenboim Conducts Anne- My Family Secrets Revealed (PG) s1ep15 2.00 Sophie Mutter & Yo-Yo Ma 10.00 Matt Deighton: The Closer (M) s4ep1 2.50 The Mysteries of Laura Overshadowed 11.05 Other Voices Noon Brian & (M) s1ep7 3.40 The Good Wife (M) s1ep4 4.30 Roger Eno Live at the Acropolis 1.10 ■ Waiting: The Judge Judy (PG) 5.30 Parenthood (M) s4ep8 Van Duren Story (2018, G) 2.30 Rock Legends: Tina 6.30 Covert Affairs (M) s1ep4 7.30 The Supervet Turner 3.15 Rock Legends: Billy Idol 4.00 Classical (PG) s6ep11 8.30 Ambulance (16) s6ep7 9.30 Destinations with Simon Callow 4.30 The Liberators Inside the Operating Theatre (M) s1ep12 10.30 The (G) Documentary medieval artifacts stolen by the Good Wife (M) s1ep4 11.20 Judge Judy (PG) 11.50 Nazis that were found in Texas. 5.40 The Directors: The Supervet (PG) s6ep11 12.50am Programmes Fritz Lang 6.25 The Directors: Howard Hawkes continue 7.10 The Great Pottery Throw Down 8.00 Off Camera 9.00 ■ Truman & Tennessee: an Intimate BBC UKTV SKY 007 Conversation (2020, G) 10.30 Put Some Colour in Your Life Marathon 12.00am Programmes continue 6.00 Would I Lie to You? (M) 6.35 QI (M) 7.10 Richard Osman’s House of Games Night (PG) Discovery SKY 070 SKY SPORT s1ep3 7.40 The Bill (M) 8.30 A Touch of Frost (M) s5ep4 10.20 Father Brown (M) s1ep6 11.10 Doc 6.05 How It’s Made (PG) 6.30 How Do They Do It? Sky Sport 1 SKY 051 Martin (PG) s9ep1 Noon Midsomer Murders (PG) (PG) 6.55 Rise of the Machines (M) 7.45 Homestead s19ep4 1.35 The Bill (M) 2.25 New Tricks (M) s3ep1 Rescue (PG) 8.35 Gold Rush: White Water (M) 9.25 6.00 PGA Tour, Rocket Mortgage Classic, 3.25 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (PG) 4.20 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) 10.20 Gold Rush: Dave round 4, from Detroit, live 10.00 Farah Palmer The Jonathan Ross Show (PG) s15ep15 5.15 Who Turin’s Lost Mine (M) 11.15 Extreme Ice Machines Cup, Wellington v Waikato, replay Noon Farah Do You Think You Are? Australia (PG) 6.20 QI (M) (PG) 12.10 How Do They Do It? (PG) 12.35 How It’s Palmer Cup, Bay of Plenty v Auckland, highlights 6.55 EastEnders (PG) 7.25 QI (M) 8.00 Would I Made (PG) 1.05 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 2.00 12.30 Sal’s NBL Women, Upper South v Cental, Lie to You? (PG) 8.30 Death in Paradise (PG) An Naked and Afraid (M) 2.55 Alaskan Bush People (M) replay from Cowles Stadium, Christchurch 2.30 archaeologist is poisoned during a dig, and Neville 3.50 Gold Rush: White Water (M) 4.45 Homestead Supercars, replay 7.00 Sal’s NBL Women, Upper tests his skills in an island crab-cooking competition. Rescue (PG) 5.40 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 6.35 South v Lower South, from Queenstown Events s10ep2 9.40 The Trial of Christine Keeler (M) s1ep1 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) 7.30 Demolition Down Arena, live 9.00 Rugby Nation 9.30 AFL 360, live 10.45 Keeping Faith (M) s1ep1 11.50 Midsomer Under (PG) 8.30 Extreme Ice Machines (PG) 10.30 11.00 World Supercars Championship, highlights Murders (PG) s19ep4 1.25am Programmes continue Expedition Unknown (PG) 11.25 Naked and Afraid 12.00am Formula E, round 13, London, highlights (M) 12.15am Programmes continue 1.00 Formula E, round 14, London, highlights 2.00 SoHo SKY 010 Nascar, Verizon 200, replay from Indianapolis Motor National Geographic SKY 072 Speedway Road Course 5.15 West Indies v India, 6.10 Baptiste (16) s2ep3 7.05 The Lazarus Project 2nd T20, from Warner Park, St Kitts, live (16) s1ep5 7.50 Devils (16) s2ep7 8.45 The Midwich 6.00 Aussie Snake Wranglers (PG) 6.30 Mega Cuckoos (16) s1ep4 9.35 Real Time with Bill Maher Factories 7.30 When Sharks Attack (M) 8.30 Shark Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 (M) s20ep21 10.35 Rap Sh!t (16) s1ep1 11.10 Baptiste Attack Files (M) 9.30 Air Crash Investigation: Special (16) s2ep3 12.10 Devils (16) s2ep7 1.05 The Midwich Report (M) 10.30 Air Crash Investigation (M) 11.30 6.00 Nascar, Verizon 200, from Indianapolis Motor Cuckoos (16) s1ep4 1.55 Real Time with Bill Maher Food Factory (PG) 12.30 Air Crash Investigation Speedway Road Course, live 9.30 D1NZ National (M) s20ep21 2.55 I Love That for You (M) s1ep7 (PG) 1.30 Megastructures 2.30 Colossal Machines Drifting Championship, grand final, from Baypark 3.25 Rap Sh!t (16) s1ep1 4.00 Work in Progress (16) (PG) 3.30 Superstructures: Engineering Marvels Speedway, Tauranga, highlights 10.30 Cycling, s1ep2 4.30 Mayans M.C. (16) s2ep10 5.40 Britannia (PG) 4.30 Hitler’s Last Stand (PG) 6.30 Hunting Tour of Poland, stage 2, Chełm to Zamość, replay (18) s2ep4 6.25 I Hate Suzie (M) s1ep2 7.00 Black Alaskan Dinosaurs (PG) 7.30 Alaska: The Next 12.30 Formula E, round 13, replay from London Monday (16) s2ep3 7.30 Last Week Tonight with Generation (PG) 8.30 Free Solo (PG) 10.30 Drain 2.30 Formula E, round 14, replay from London 4.30 John Oliver (M) s9ep18 8.05 Made for Love (16) the Oceans Best ofs (PG) 11.30 Inside Incredible D1NZ National Drifting Championship, grand final, s2ep6 8.35 Westworld (18) s4ep6 9.35 ■ Ice on Fire Machines (PG) 12.30am Programmes continue from Baypark Speedway, Tauranga, replay 7.30 (2019, M) Documentary focusing on solutions to the SailGP, Plymouth, day 1, highlights 8.00 SailGP, climate crisis. 11.30 The Outsider (16) s1ep9 12.30am History SKY 073 Plymouth, day 2, highlights 8.30 NRL 360, live 9.30 Programmes continue Benji, live 10.00 1st XV Rugby, St Bede’s College v 6.30 Sinatra and the Jack Pack (M) 7.30 Blood Nelson College, replay 11.45 D1NZ National Drifting Living SKY 017 Money: Inside the Nazi Economy (PG) 8.30 Championship, grand final, from Baypark Speedway, Time Team 9.30 America’s Book of Secrets: The Tauranga, highlights 12.45am Fox Sports News 1.55 6.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 7.10 The Pioneer Woman Monuments (PG) 11.30 Sinatra and the Jack Pack World Athletics Championships U20s, day 1, from (PG) 7.35 Mexican Made Easy (PG) 8.05 House (M) 12.30 Blood Money: Inside the Nazi Economy Santiago de Cali, Colombia, session 1, live 5.45 W Hunters (PG) 9.00 Long Lost Family Uk Christmas (PG) 1.30 History’s Raiders (PG) 2.30 Auschwitz: Series, round 5, qualifying, replay from Hungaroring, Reunion (PG) 10.10 Every Family Has a Secret (PG) Nazis & the Final Solution (M) 3.30 Gladiators of Mogyorod, Hungary 11.05 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 11.55 WWII (PG) 4.30 The Abyss: The Rise & Fall of the Love It or List It UK (PG) 12.50 Location Location Nazis (PG) 5.30 Families That Changed the World Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 Location Australia (PG) 1.50 Salvage Hunters (PG) (PG) 6.30 Time Team 7.30 Great British History 2.45 House Hunters (PG) 3.45 The Pioneer Woman Hunters (PG) 8.30 Roman Megastructures (PG) 6.00 Canoe Slalom World Championships, replay (PG) 4.15 Mexican Made Easy (PG) 4.45 Every 9.30 Secrets of Henry VIII’s Royal Palace (PG) 10.30 8.05 Sal’s NBL, Hawke’s Bay Hawks v Manawatu Family Has a Secret (PG) 5.40 Location Location Long Tan: The True Story (M) 11.30 The Australian Jets, replay 10.00 NRL, Newcastle Knights v Location (PG) 6.35 Love It or List It UK (PG) 7.30 SAS: The Untold History (PG) 12.30am Programmes Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, replay from A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 8.30 Selling continue McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle Noon NRL, Houses Australia (PG) 9.30 The Great Hotel Escape St George Illawarra Dragons v North Queensland (PG) 10.30 Grand Designs New Zealand (PG) 11.25 BBC Earth SKY 074 Cowboys, replay 2.00 Sunday Night with Matty House Hunters (PG) 12.15am Programmes continue Johns 3.00 DP World Tour, round 4, highlights 6.00 Wildest Places (PG) 6.55 Life Below Zero 3.30 LPGA, round 4, highlights 4.00 PGA Tour, Investigation Discovery SKY 018 (M) 7.45 Where the Wild Men Are (M) 8.35 Earth round 4, highlights 4.30 Canoe Slalom World from Space (PG) 9.30 Meet the Humans (M) 10.25 Championships, replay 6.00 SailGP, Plymouth, 6.05 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 6.55 American The Dog Rescuers (PG) 11.15 24 Hours in A&E (PG) day 2, replay 7.30 Ultimate Bowls 8.35 Cycling, Monster (M) 7.45 American Detective with Lt. 12.05 Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (PG) 12.30 Tour of Poland, stage 3, Kraśnik to Przemyśl, live Joe Kenda (M) 8.35 Reasonable Doubt (M) 9.25 The Hunt (PG) 1.25 Earth from Space (PG) 2.20 3.30am NRL 360 4.00 ATP 500, Citi Open, from Nightmare Next Door (M) 10.20 Grave Secrets Wildest Places (PG) 3.15 Oceans (PG) 4.10 Meet the Washington, live 4.30 Benji 5.00 NRL, St George (M) 11.15 The Perfect Murder (M) 12.10 Your Worst Humans (M) 5.05 Life Below Zero (M) 5.55 Where Illawarra Dragons v North Queensland Cowboys, Nightmare (M) 1.05 Obsession: Dark Desires (M) the Wild Men Are (PG) 6.50 The Dog Rescuers with highlights 5.30 NRL, Parramatta Eels v Penrith 2.00 I (Almost) Got Away with It (M) 2.55 Betrayed Alan Davies (PG) 7.40 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 8.30 Panthers, highlights (M) 3.50 Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil (M) 4.45 Life Below Zero (M) 9.25 Where the Wild Men Are Your Worst Nightmare (M) 5.40 Finding Andrea (M) s9ep6 10.20 Seven Worlds, One Planet (PG) 11.20 Oceans (PG) 12.15am Programmes continue JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 79

TUESDAY AUGUST 2 TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002 THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003 TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001 Documentary: LAST 6.00 Breakfast (HD, C) Jenny- 6.00 Les Mills Born to Move (G, R, 6.00 AM With Ryan Bridge and BATTLE OF THE VIKINGS May Clarkson and Indira HD, C) Melissa Chan-Green. Stewart present news, sport, How regimes fell is almost information and weather. 6.25 Kiri and Lou (G, HD, C, AD) 9.00 Infomercials more interesting than 6.30 Toi Time (G, HD, C, AD) 10.30 Gold Rush (PG, R, C) s7ep15 how they rose, and in this 9.00 Lingo (G, HD, C) Adil Ray 7.00 Robin Hood: Mischief in 11.30 Newshub Live documentary underwater hosts a UK quiz show. Noon Ready to Love (M, C) archaeologist Dr Jon Hender- Sherwood (G, HD, C) 1.05 ■ Crazy, Rich and Deadly son explains how the Vikings’ 10.00 Tipping Point (G, R, HD, C) 7.25 The Adventures of Rocky influence over Scotland came Ben Shephard hosts a UK (2020, M, C) Natasha Wilson, to an end. It began with quiz show. and Bullwinkle (G, R, HD, C) Gina Vitori, Houston Rhines. the fight over the Hebrides, 7.50 Beyblade Burst Surge (G, R, 3.00 Dude, You’re Screwed (PG, known as Innse Gall, between 11.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) C) s2ep4 Alexander II of Scotland and Bradley Walsh hosts a UK HD, C) 3.55 Bath Crashers (G, C) s7ep8 Haakon IV of Norway. There quiz show. 8.10 Ricky Zoom (G, R, HD, C) 4.30 Newshub Live were running battles on the 8.25 Toi Time (G, R, HD, C, AD) 5.00 Gold Rush (PG, C) s7ep16 islands, but after Alexander’s Noon 1 News (HD, C) 8.50 Apollo’s Tall Tales (G, R, HD) 6.00 Newshub Live death, his son Alexander III 12.30 Emmerdale (PG, HD, C, AD) 9.05 Infomercials 7.00 The Project With Kanoa was determined to finish his 9.35 Les Mills BodyCombat (G, R, Lloyd, Jesse Mulligan and father’s work. On October 2, Gabby worries about a visit Jeremy Corbett. 1263, the brutal Battle of Largs from Social Services, Jai is HD, C) 7.30 The Block NZ: Redemption was the beginning of the end upset, and Sandra realises 10.00 Home and Away (PG, R, C) (PG, C, another episode of the Vikings in Scotland. that she needs to tread 10.30 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD, screens tomorrow) Timing is HISTORY, 9.30pm carefully. everthing during Bathroom 1.00 Hollyoaks (PG, C, AD) A C, AD) week, and the famous Block Reality: THE GREAT shocking decision from the 11.00 Charmed (M, HD, C) NZ Plank Walk challenge POTTERY THROW DOWN McQueens keeps John Paul Noon ■ Styled with Love (2022, G, returns. away from Matthew-Jesus, 8.35 NCIS (M, C) A mishap at a The UK show is screening on and Sienna extends an olive HD, C) Cory Lee. petty officer’s gender-reveal Eden, but is also handily avail- branch to Liberty. 1.40 The Drew Barrymore Show party leads NCIS to the case able on ThreeNow. It’s season 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (G, HD, of a missing teacher that was three from 2020, presented C) UK series in which chefs (PG, HD, C) popularised on a true-crime by Melanie Sykes and with race the clock to create 2.35 Superstore (PG, HD, C, AD) podcast. s19ep16 judges Keith Brymer Jones appetising recipes from 3.00 Sabrina the Teenage Witch 9.30 NCIS: Los Angeles (M, and Sue Pryke. Brymer Jones mystery ingredients. C) The team help a naval has become known for his 3.00 Tipping Point (G, HD, C) Ben (G, HD, C) intelligence officer locate a tendency to burst into tears, Shephard hosts a UK quiz 3.30 The Feed (PG, HD, C) colleague who went missing but he’s also pretty tough. show. 3.35 K-Pop Academy (G, HD, C, while recruiting foreign THREENOW 4.00 Te Karere A Māori assets. s13ep17 perspective on the day’s AD) s2ep2 10.25 Newshub Late news and current affairs. 5.00 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C, 10.55 The Hui (C) With 4.30 Neighbours (PG, HD, C) Mihingarangi Forbes. Terrified for his safety, AD) s30ep7 11.30 Newshub Nation (C) David’s support crew 5.30 Friends (G, R, HD, C) s9ep9 12.35am Infomercials fight to get him out of the 6.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG, R, 5.30 – 6.00 AM Early With maximum-security prison. Bernadine Oliver-Kerby. 5.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) HD, C, AD) s6ep8 Bradley Walsh hosts a UK 6.30 Home and Away (PG, C) PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 quiz show. 6.00 1 News (HD, C) Mac glams up for a new guy, 6.00 2022 Commonwealth 7.00 Seven Sharp (HD, C) Hilary and Lyrik wins a gig, but Games Coverage of the Barry and Jeremy Wells loses a star. New Zealand team in present current affairs and 7.00 Shortland Street (PG, HD, Birmingham. entertainment. C, AD) TK severs ties with 7.30 Eat Well for Less NZ (PG, C, Chris, Madonna lets a friend 9.00 2022 Commonwealth AD) Michael Van de Elzen go, and Viv hires a dud. Games Highlights (G, C) and Ganesh Raj help Kiwi 7.30 MasterChef Australia: Fans Action from day 4. families shop better. Tonight, & Favourites (PG, HD, C, the Pretscherer whānau are another episode screens 10.00 The Breakdown (G) struggling to ensure their tomorrow) In an elimination 10.35 Jeopardy (G, R) girls meet their nutritional pressure test, the contestants 11.00 Big Love (M, C) needs and just want some must cook a dish based on 12.10 Royal Pains (M) harmony at the dinner table. a review written by judge 1.05 House (M, C) s3ep6 Melissa Leong. 2.00 The Late Show with Stephen 8.30 ■ Unbreakable (G, HD, C, 8.35 NCIS: Hawai’i (M, C) On AD) Local series following a day out sailing with his Colbert (PG) remarkable individuals daughter, Jesse’s yacht is 3.00 Wheel of Fortune (G) as they pursue their life seized by pirates. s1ep15 3.30 Jeopardy (G) goals. Tonight, Cody and 9.25 SEAL Team (M, HD, C, AD) 4.00 2022 Commonwealth Jess dream of becoming As Bravo confronts family parents, and Jaimee sets on obstacles, the team is sent Games Highlights (G, R, C) becoming a hairdresser. to Africa on a mission, and Action from day 4. 9.30 Coronation Street (PG, when the intel alters their 5.00 WhichCar (G, R, C) C, AD) plan, they find themselves 5.30 Prime News 10.30 1 News (HD, C) in a rush to prevent a major 6.00 Storage Wars (PG, R, C) 11.00 Shortland Street (PG, R, terrorist attack. s5ep4 7.00 Pawn Stars (PG, R) Rick C, AD) 10.20 CSI: Crime Scene crushes on a rare first edition 11.30 Sunday (R, C) Investigation (16, HD, C) of Nabokov’s controversial 12.25am Royals Declassified (PG, R, s5ep3 novel Lolita. HD, C) s1ep2 12.15am Chapelwaite (16, HD, C) 7.30 – 6.00am 2022 1.15 Te Karere (R) s1ep4 Commonwealth Games 1.40 Infomercials 1.05 Emmerdale (PG, R, HD, (C) Coverage of the New 5.30 – 6.00 Te Karere (R) C, AD) Zealand team in Birmingham. 1.30 Infomercials 2.30 MasterChef Australia (G, R, HD, C) 3.25 Heroes (M, R, HD, C) s1ep21 4.10 B Positive (PG, R, HD, C) s1ep5 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 JULY 30 2022

TUESDAY AUGUST 2 WHAKAATA Film: A WOMAN’S NAME MĀORI FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 If the #MeToo movement has reached 6.30 Kids’ Programmes as far as Italy, then things really have 8.00 Tribe (G, R) changed. In this drama, a rest home 8.30 Oranga Ngākau (G, R) worker (Cristiana Capotondi) takes on 9.30 Whānau Living (G, R) her harassing boss, but with little sup- 10.00 He Kākano (G, R) port from nearly everyone around her, 10.30 Toi Te Ora (G, R) including the other workers. 11.00 Chatham Islanders (G, R) RIALTO, 2.15pm 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 ■ Dior and I (2014, M, R) 6.00 Infomercials 6.00 My Cat from Hell (PG, R) 6.00 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) French documentary. 10.00 Hoarders: Family Secrets 7.00 The Pioneer Woman (G) 6.45 Tanked (PG, R) 1.30 Tōku Reo (G, R) 7.30 Valerie’s Home Cooking (G) 7.35 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 2.35 Ako (G, R) (PG, R) 8.00 Giada Entertains (G, R) 8.20 Ed Stafford: First Man Out 3.05 Kids’ Programmes 10.55 Love It or List It: Vancouver 8.30 Gino’s Italian Express (G, R) 5.15 Haka Life (G, R) 9.00 Museum Mysteries (PG, R) (PG, R) 5.30 Kids’ Programmes (PG, R) 10.00 American Pickers (PG, R) 9.10 Man vs Wild (PG, R) 6.00 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe: Te 11.50 Killer Siblings (M, R) 11.00 Salvage Dawgs (G) 10.00 Naked and Afraid (M, R) 12.50 Tattoo Fixers (M, R) 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G, R) 10.50 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) Arawa (G, R) 1.45 Below Deck (M, R) Noon Ugly House to Lovely House 11.35 Tanked (PG, R) 6.30 Te Ao Mārama 2.40 Hoarders: Family Secrets 12.25 Inside West Coast Customs 7.00 Up 2 (G) Piri Weepu and (PG, R) (PG, R) 1.00 Cabins in the Wild (PG, R) (PG, R) Tamati Ellison meet some of 3.30 Top Chef (PG) 2.00 Bang on Budget (PG, R) 1.15 Kindig Customs (PG, R) our sporting heroes. 4.30 Shark Tank (PG, R) 3.00 My Cat from Hell (PG) 2.05 Street Outlaws: No Prep 7.30 David Rocco’s Dolce South 5.30 Million Dollar Listing NY 4.05 James Martin: Islands to East Asia (G) Phnom Penh. Kings (M, R) 8.00 Moon Tide Fishing (PG) (PG, R) Highlands (G) 2.55 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) Nore and his cousin Kurtis 6.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver 5.05 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 3.50 Ed Stafford: First Man Out head out mullet netting. 6.00 American Pickers (PG) 8.30 Deadly Australians (G) (PG) 7.00 Great Southern Truckers (PG) (PG, R) Series about dangerous 7.30 Rich Kids Go Skint (M) 8.00 Newshub Live 4.45 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) Australian creatures. 8.30 How to Save a Grand in 24 5.40 Tanked (PG) 9.30 Hunting Aotearoa (PG) Pete 19-year-old James is 6.35 Wheeler Dealers (PG) is in the Matira region with studying at the UK’s most Hours (G) 7.30 Alaska: Battle on the Bay Phillip Bullivant. expensive university. 9.30 Escape to the Chateau: DIY 10.00 ■ Michif Country (G) Series 8.30 The Real Housewives of (PG) about the Michif community Beverly Hills (M) (G) 8.25 Edge of Alaska (M) of St Laurent, Manitoba. 9.30 Below Deck Down Under 10.30 Great Southern Truckers 9.20 Deadliest Catch (M) 10.30 Piri’s Tiki Tour (PG, R) (M) 10.10 Alaskan Bush People (PG) 11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao Mārama (R) 10.30 Killer Siblings (M, R) (PG, R) 11.05 Tanked (PG, R) 11.30 Accident, Suicide or 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G) 11.50 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) TVNZDUKE FREEVIEW 6 SKY 023 Murder? (M, R) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials 12.40am Programmes continue 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials 6.00 On Duke Today MOVIESCLASSICSSKY034 RIALTO SKY 039 Noon DUKEbox Music SKY PREMIERE SKY030 12.20 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, 6.45 The Key (1958, PG) William 6.15 Flannery (2019, M) US 6.15 Christmas Movie Magic Holden, Sophia Loren documentary. HD, C) (2021, PG) Holly Deveaux 12.45 Everybody Hates Chris (R, 8.50 Castle Keep (1969, M) Burt 7.40 Undergods (2020, M) 7.40 The Fallout (2021, 16) Jenna Lancaster, Patrick O’Neal Johann Myers HD, C) Ortega, Maddie Ziegler 1.05 Battlestar Galactica (M, R, 10.35 Anzio (1968, PG) Robert 9.10 Above Suspicion (2019, 16) 9.15 2 Hearts (2020, M) Jacob Mitchum, Peter Falk Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston HD, C) Elordi, Tiera Skovbye 2.45 Hunting Aotearoa (PG, 12.30 Rob Roy (1995, M) Liam 10.55 We Are Conjola (2020, M) 10.55 Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins Neeson, Jessica Lange Australian documentary. R, HD) (2021, M) Henry Golding 3.15 Heavy Rescue 401 (PG, 2.45 The Vikings (1958, PG) Kirk 12.45 Cardinal (M) s4ep3&4 12.55 The Dry (2020, 16) Eric Douglas, Tony Curtis 2.15 A Woman’s Name (2018, M) R, HD) Bana, Genevieve O’Reilly 4.05 The Chase Australia (G, C) 4.40 The Story of G.I. Joe (1945, Cristiana Capotondi 4.50 ABC World News (PG) 2.50 Penguin Bloom (2020, M) PG) Robert Mitchum 3.45 The Fantasy Makers (2017, 5.15 Abandoned Engineering (G, Naomi Watts 6.25 McLintock! (1963, PG) PG) Canadian documentary. R, HD, C) 4.25 The Little Things (2021, M) McLintock tries to keep the 5.10 The Man in the Hat (2020, 6.05 30 Rock (PG, R, HD, C) Denzel Washington peace between ranchers, 6.35 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, land-grabbers, Native PG) Ciaran Hinds 6.30 South of Heaven (2021, 16) Americans and corrupt 6.50 Arsene Wenger: Invincible HD, C) After his release from prison, government officials. John 7.00 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, a guy vows to give his dying Wayne, Maureen O’Hara (2021, M) UK documentary. fiancée the best year of her 8.30 The Promise (M) Sarah HD, C) s4ep9 life. Jason Sudeikis 8.30 Night of the Creeps (1986, 7.30 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C, 16) Two teenagers release an wants to connect the 8.30 Falling for Figaro (2021, alien brain parasite that turns disappearance of Charlotte AD) s12ep19 M) An American fund its hosts into killer zombies. Meyer to that of Fanny Vidal. 8.30 ■ Assassin’s Creed (2016, manager travels to the Jason Lively, Steve Marshall s1ep2 Scottish Highlands to train 9.25 Asia (2020, M) A teenager’s M, R, HD, C, AD) Michael as an opera singer. Danielle 10.05 Groundhog Day (1993, PG) relationship with her mother Fassbender. Macdonald, Joanna Lumley Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell intensifies after she falls ill. 10.35 Battlestar Galactica (16, TV Films, page 69 Shira Haas, Alena Yiv HD, C) 11.45 Buck and the Preacher 10.55 The United Way (2021, PG) 11.25 Russell Howard Live from 10.20 Nobody (2021, 16) Bob (1972, M) Sidney Poitier, UK documentary. the Bloomsbury Theatre (16, Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen Harry Belafonte 12.30am L’Opera (16) s1ep3&4 2.00 R, HD, C) Working Class (2020, PG) 2.15 A 12.40am – 1.05 ABC World News 11.50 Charm City Kings (2020, 16) 1.25am The Sailor Who Fell from Woman’s Name (2018, M) 3.45 The (PG, R) Jahi Di’Allo Winston Grace with the Sea (1976, 18) 3.10 Fantasy Makers (2017, PG) 5.10 The Bite the Bullet (1975, PG) 5.20 Man in the Hat (2020, PG) 1.55am Every Breath You Take Anzio (1968, PG) (2021, 16) 3.40 In the Heights (2021, PG) JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 81

TUESDAY AUGUST 2 SKY CHANNELS Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil (M) 4.45 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 5.40 American Monster (M) 6.35 Evil Vibe SKY 006 Lives Here (M) 8.30 NY Post Investigates (M) 9.30 Finding Andrea (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 6.00 Parenthood (M) s4ep9 6.50 Judge Judy (PG) 12.15am Programmes continue 7.15 The Closer (M) s4ep2 8.05 The Mysteries of Laura (M) s1ep8 8.50 The Good Wife (M) s1ep5 Sky Arts SKY 020 National Geographic: Dutch Caribbean 9.40 Covert Affairs (M) s1ep5 10.30 Judge Judy Coastguard, 8.30pm (PG) 11.15 Ambulance (16) s6ep7 12.15 Inside the 6.30 Put Some Colour in Your Life Marathon 8.00 Operating Theatre (M) s1ep12 1.05 The Supervet Classical Destinations with Simon Callow 8.30 The SKY SPORT (PG) s6ep11 2.00 The Closer (M) s4ep2 2.50 The Liberators 9.40 The Directors: Fritz Lange 10.25 The Mysteries of Laura (M) s1ep8 3.40 The Good Wife Directors: Howard Hawkes 11.10 The Great Pottery Sky Sport 1 SKY 051 (M) s1ep5 4.30 Judge Judy (PG) 5.30 Parenthood Throw Down Noon Off Camera 1.00 ■ Truman & (M) s4ep9 6.30 Covert Affairs (M) s1ep5 7.30 Tennessee: an Intimate Conversation (2020, G) 9.30 NRL 360 10.30 Benji 11.00 Cycling, Tour of Frankie Drake Mysteries (M) s4ep6 8.30 Vera (M) 2.30 Put Some Colour in Your Life Marathon 4.00 Poland, stage 3, replay 1.00 Farah Palmer Cup, s2ep3 10.15 The Good Wife (M) s1ep5 11.15 Judge ■ Klimt & Schiele: Eros and Psyche (2018, G) 5.35 Tasman v Taranaki, replay from Trafalgar Park, Judy (PG) 11.45 Frankie Drake Mysteries (M) s4ep6 Put Some Colour in Your Life 6.00 Speakeasy: Billy Nelson 3.00 Farah Palmer Cup, Otago v Northland, 12.45am Programmes continue Gibbons & Eric Holland 7.00 Photos That Changed replay from Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin 5.00 the World 7.45 Grayson Perry’s Big American Farah Palmer Cup, North Harbour v Hawke’s Bay, BBC UKTV SKY 007 Road Trip (PG) 8.30 Landscape Artist of the Year highlights 5.30 Farah Palmer Cup, Wellington v 9.15 The Live Revival (PG) 10.00 Grethe Meyer: Waikato, highlights 6.00 AFL Weekly 6.30 ATP 6.00 Would I Lie to You? (M) 6.35 QI (M) 7.10 Queen of Danish Design 11.00 Off Camera 12.00am 500, Citi Open, match of the day 8.00 Sky Speed EastEnders (PG) 7.40 The Bill (M) 8.30 A Touch of Programmes continue 8.30 Aotearoa Rugby Pod 9.00 Farah Palmer Cup, Frost (M) s6ep1 10.20 Father Brown (M) s1ep7 11.10 Tasman v Taranaki, highlights 9.30 The Back Page Doc Martin (PG) s9ep2 Noon Midsomer Murders Discovery SKY 070 10.30 West Indies v India, 2nd T20, highlights 11.00 (PG) s19ep5 1.35 The Bill (M) 2.25 New Tricks (M) Aotearoa Rugby Pod 11.30 Rugby Nation 12.00am s3ep2 3.25 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 6.05 How It’s Made (PG) 6.30 How Do They Do It? NRL Try Time 1.00 NRL 360 2.00 Matty Johns (PG) 4.20 The Jonathan Ross Show (M) s16ep1 (PG) 6.55 Rise of the Machines (M) 7.45 Homestead Face to Face 2.30 NSW Cup, Mounties v Western 5.15 Who Do You Think You Are? Australia (PG) Rescue (PG) 8.35 Airplane Repo (M) 9.25 Fast N’ Suburbs Magpies, replay 4.45 West Indies v India, 6.20 QI (PG) 6.55 EastEnders (PG) 7.25 QI (M) Loud (M) 10.20 Extreme Ice Machines (PG) 11.15 2nd T20, highlights 5.15 West Indies v India, 3rd 8.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 8.35 Heartbeat Gold Rush: Dave Turin’s Lost Mine (M) 12.10 How T20, from Warner Park, St Kitts, live (PG) The rivalry between two brass bands gets out Do They Do It? (PG) 12.35 How It’s Made (PG) 1.05 of hand and one of the musicians is hospitalised. Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 2.00 Naked and Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 s18ep6 9.30 Father Brown (PG) Father Brown joins Afraid (M) 2.55 Bering Sea Gold (M) 3.50 Gold forces with Flambeau to search for a lost treasure Rush: White Water (M) 4.45 Homestead Rescue 6.20 1st XV Rugby, St Bede’s College v Nelson in a 15th-century castle. s9ep5 10.25 Doc Martin (PG) 5.40 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 7.30 Aussie College, highlights 6.50 The Breakdown 7.20 (M) s5ep5 11.20 Midsomer Murders (PG) s19ep5 Gold Hunters (PG) 8.30 Mysteries at the Museum Rugby Nation 7.50 World Athletics Championships 12.55am Programmes continue (PG) 9.30 Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch (M) 10.30 U20s, day 1, from Santiago de Cali, Colombia, live Contact (PG) 11.25 Naked and Afraid (M) 12.15am 11.45 Ultimate Bowls 12.45 1st XV Rugby, St Bede’s SoHo SKY 010 Programmes continue College v Nelson College, replay 2.30 AFL on the Couch 3.30 NRL, Gold Coast Titans v Canberra 6.40 I Hate Suzie (M) s1ep2 7.15 Atlanta’s Missing National Geographic SKY 072 Raiders, highlights 4.00 NRL, Newcastle Knights and Murdered: The Lost Children (18) s1ep5 8.15 Last v Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, highlights Week Tonight with John Oliver (M) s9ep18 8.50 6.30 Hunting Alaskan Dinosaurs (PG) 7.30 Alaska: 4.30 NRL, St George Illawarra Dragons v North ■ Ice on Fire (2019, M) 10.25 Made for Love (16) The Next Generation (PG) 8.30 Free Solo (PG) Queensland Cowboys, highlights 5.00 NRL 360 s2ep6 10.55 Westworld (18) s4ep6 11.55 Atlanta’s 10.30 Drain the Oceans Best ofs (PG) 11.30 6.00 Benji 6.30 PGA Tour Highlights 7.30 NRL Try Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children (18) s1ep5 Inside Incredible Machines (PG) 12.30 Air Crash Time 8.30 NRL 360, live 9.30 Matty Johns Face 12.55 I Hate Suzie (M) s1ep2 1.35 What We Do in Investigation (PG) 1.30 Megastructures 2.30 Alaska: to Face 10.15 Cycling, Tour of Poland, stage 4, live the Shadows (16) s3ep10 2.05 Last Week Tonight The Next Generation (PG) 3.30 Original Sin (M) 3.30 NRL, Brisbane Broncos v Wests Tigers, replay with John Oliver (M) s9ep18 2.40 The Outsider (16) 4.30 Mine Kings (M) 6.30 Superships: Giants of the 4.00am ATP 500, Citi Open, from Washington, s1ep9 3.30 The Righteous Gemstones (16) s1ep1 Seas (PG) 7.30 Shark Attack Files (M) 8.30 Dutch live 5.30 NRL, St George Illawarra Dragons v North 4.30 Work in Progress (16) s1ep3 5.00 Absentia (16) Caribbean Coastguard (PG) 9.30 Wicked Tuna (PG) Queensland Cowboys, highlights s3ep1 5.45 Britannia (18) s2ep5 6.30 Billions (18) 10.30 Buried Secrets of WWII (PG) 11.30 WW2 Hell s5ep7 7.30 The Undoing (18) s1ep2 8.30 Fear the Under the Sea (M) 12.30am Programmes continue Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 Walking Dead (18) s7ep13 9.30 Irma Vep (16) Mira courts offers from her agent and the production’s History SKY 073 6.00 TBA 1.00 D1NZ National Drifting financier. s1ep4 10.30 Mind Over Murder (18) True Championship, grand final, highlights 2.00 World crime docuseries. s1ep5 11.30 The Nevers (16) s1ep3 6.30 Secrets of Henry VIII’s Royal Palace (PG) 7.30 Supercars Championship, The Bend SuperSprint, 12.30am Programmes continue Long Tan: The True Story (M) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 highlights 3.00 W Series, round 5, qualifying, replay Families That Changed the World (PG) 10.30 Time from Hungaroring, Mogyorod, Hungary 3.35 West Living SKY 017 Team 11.30 Great British History Hunters (PG) 12.30 Indies v India, 2nd T20, replay from Warner Park, Roman Megastructures (PG) 1.30 History’s Raiders St Kitts 7.30 Sal’s NBL, Wellington Saints v Nelson 6.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 7.10 The Pioneer Woman (PG) 2.30 Scorched Earth (PG) 3.30 Gladiators Giants, from TSB Arena, Wellington, live 9.30 AFL (PG) 7.35 Mexican Made Easy (PG) 8.05 House of WWII (PG) 4.30 The Abyss: The Rise & Fall 360, live 10.30 IndyCar, Gallagher Grand Prix, Hunters (PG) 9.00 The Great Hotel Escape (PG) of the Nazis (16) 5.30 A Royal Tour of the 20th highlights 11.30 World Superbike Championship, 10.00 Selling Houses Australia (PG) 11.00 A Place Century (PG) 6.30 Time Team 7.30 Shark Terror: round 6, race 1, highlights 12.00am World Superbike in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 11.55 Love It or List It USS Indianapolis (PG) 8.30 Around the World by Championship, round 6, race 2, highlights from UK (PG) 12.50 Grand Designs New Zealand (PG) Train with Tony Robinson (PG) 9.30 Last Battle of Autodrom Most, Czech Republic 12.50 World 1.50 Salvage Hunters (PG) 2.45 House Hunters the Vikings (PG) 10.30 Britain’s Lost Battlefields Athletics Championship U20s, day 1, highlights from (PG) 3.45 The Pioneer Woman (PG) 4.15 Mexican (PG) 11.30 Prohibition (M) 12.30am Programmes Santiago de Cali, Colombia 1.50 World Athletics Made Easy (PG) 4.45 Selling Houses Australia (PG) continue Championship U20s, day 2, session 1, from Santiago 5.40 Location Location Location (PG) 6.35 Love It de Cali, Colombia, live or List It UK (PG) 7.30 A Place in the Sun: Winter BBC Earth SKY 074 Sun (PG) 8.30 Salvage Hunters (PG) 9.30 Salvage Hunters: The Restorers (PG) 10.30 Escape to the 6.00 Wildest Places (PG) 6.55 Life Below Zero Country (PG) 11.25 House Hunters (PG) 12.15am (M) 7.45 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 8.35 Earth Programmes continue from Space (PG) 9.30 Secrets of Bones (PG) 10.25 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 11.15 24 Hours in A&E (PG) Investigation Discovery SKY 018 12.05 Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (PG) 12.30 Seven Worlds, One Planet (PG) 1.25 Earth from 6.05 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 6.55 Predator at Space (PG) 2.20 Wildest Places (PG) 3.15 Oceans Large (M) 7.45 Dead Reckoning (M) 8.35 Deadline: (PG) 4.10 Secrets of Bones (PG) 5.05 Life Below Crime with Tamron Hall (M) 9.25 Nightmare Next Zero (M) 5.55 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 6.50 Door (M) 10.20 Grave Secrets (M) 11.15 The Perfect The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (PG) 7.40 24 Murder (M) 12.10 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 1.05 Hours in A&E (PG) 8.30 Incredible Journeys with Obsession: Dark Desires (M) 2.00 I (Almost) Simon Reeve 9.35 Louis Theroux: By Reason of Got Away with It (M) 2.55 Betrayed (M) 3.50 Insanity (M) 10.40 Seven Worlds, One Planet (PG) 11.35 Oceans (PG) 12.30am Programmes continue 82 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001 TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002 WEDNESDAY AUGUST 3 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 Drama: THE May Clarkson and Indira HD, C) Melissa Chan-Green. ARRANGEMENT Stewart present news, sport, information and weather. 6.25 ■ Kiri and Lou (G, HD, 9.00 Infomercials Who doesn’t love a soapy, C, AD) 10.30 Gold Rush (PG, R, C) s7ep16 overheated melodrama? This 9.00 Lingo (G, HD, C) Adil Ray 11.30 Newshub Live E! channel show throws every hosts a UK quiz show in 6.30 Toi Time (G, HD, C, AD) Noon Ready to Love (M, C) Hollywood rumour about which contestants compete 7.00 Robin Hood: Mischief in 1.00 ■ Paralyzed by Danger Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ to work out words on grids relationship at the screen. It’s and puzzlewords. Sherwood (G, HD, C) (2021, M, C) Jessica Morris, about the marriage between 7.25 The Adventures of Rocky Anna Marie Dobbins. a huge action star called Kyle 10.00 Tipping Point (G, R, HD, C) 3.00 Dude, You’re Screwed (PG, West (Josh Henderson) and Ben Shephard hosts a UK and Bullwinkle (G, R, HD, C) C) s2ep5 relatively unknown starlet quiz show. 7.45 Beyblade Burst Surge (G, R, 3.55 Bath Crashers (G, C) s7ep9 Megan (Christine Evangelista), 4.30 Newshub Live which has been arranged by 11.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) HD, C) 5.00 Gold Rush (PG, C) s7ep17 the Institute of the Higher Bradley Walsh hosts a UK 8.10 Ricky Zoom (G, R, HD, C) 6.00 Newshub Live Mind, to which Kyle has ceded quiz show. 8.20 Toi Time (G, R, HD, C, AD) 7.00 The Project With Kanoa control of his life. But let’s not 8.50 Apollo’s Tall Tales (G, R, HD) Lloyd, Jesse Mulligan and get too carried away: series Noon 1 News (HD, C) 9.00 Infomercials Jeremy Corbett. creator Jonathan Abrahams 12.30 Emmerdale (PG, C, AD) 9.30 Les Mills BodyAttack (G, R, 7.30 The Block NZ: Redemption says there are plenty of 1.00 Hollyoaks (PG, HD, C, (PG, C) Some teams struggle rumours about arranged mar- HD, C) in the race against time and riages, and “by the way, that AD) Wendy scrambles to 10.00 Home and Away (PG, R, C) each other. goes back to the golden age protect her plans, Eric sets 10.30 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD, 8.35 Sort Your Life Out NZ (PG, of Hollywood”. his sights on another of C) Kanoa Lloyd, Sean Brown TVNZ+ Hollyoaks’ teens, and Charlie C, AD) and Natalie Jane Help Kiwis and Sienna work at making 11.00 Charmed (M, HD, C) declutter. Tonight, Kanoa and Factual: HEAVY TOW amends with their loved Noon ■ How to Find Forever the team come to the rescue TRUCKERS DOWN UNDER ones. of Nichola, whose seemingly 2.00 Coronation Street (PG, R, (2022, G, HD, C) Erin tidy house conceals a mass Ice Road Truckers certainly C, AD) Agostino. of clutter. s1ep7 spawned a genre and it’s 3.00 Tipping Point (G, HD, C) Ben 1.45 The Drew Barrymore Show 9.35 This Time Next Year perhaps unsurprising that Shephard hosts a UK quiz (PG, HD, C) Australia (PG, C) Karl the terrains of Australia show. 2.35 ■ Superstore (PG, HD, Stefanovic hosts a series and Aotearoa would make 4.00 Te Karere A Māori C, AD) featuring everyday Aussies programme-makers’ eyes perspective on the day’s 3.00 Sabrina the Teenage Witch tackling monumental light up. This new series fol- news and current affairs. (G, HD, C) personal goals over the lows five trucking companies 4.30 Neighbours (PG, HD, C) 3.30 The Feed (PG, HD, C) course of a year. s1ep7 dealing with perilous weather Everyone’s horrified to learn 5.00 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C, 10.35 Newshub Late and difficult environments. what’s happened to David, AD) s30ep8 11.05 NRL Try Time Lara Pitt DISCOVERY, 7.30pm and despondency sets in as 5.30 Friends (G, R, HD, C) s9ep10 showcases the best tries his loved ones realise they 6.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG, R, from the week’s NRL action. can’t help him. HD, C, AD) s6ep9 12.10am Infomercials 5.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) 6.30 Home and Away (PG, C) A 5.30 – 6.00 AM Early With Bradley Walsh hosts a UK Summer Bay star is born, Bernadine Oliver-Kerby. quiz show. Ziggy and Justin clash over 6.00 1 News (HD, C) Theo’s dreams, and Felicity PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 7.00 Seven Sharp (HD, C) Hilary brings her boss game to Salt. Barry and Jeremy Wells 7.00 Shortland Street (PG, HD, 6.00 2022 Commonwealth present current affairs and C, AD) TK is pulled up by Games Coverage of the entertainment. a surprise announcement, New Zealand team in 7.30 Give Us a Clue (PG, HD, C) Chris overcomes his nanny Birmingham. Paula Bennett present a local fears, and Monique’s plan celebrity charades game, goes south. 9.00 2022 Commonwealth with team leaders Tom 7.30 MasterChef Australia: Fans & Games Highlights (G, C) Sainsbury and Hilary Barry. Favourites (G, HD, C, another Action from day 5. Tonight, Kerre Woodham, episode screens tomorrow) Edna Swart and Iyia Lyi are In a service challenge, teams 10.00 American Pickers (G, R) on Hilary’s team, while Tom must curate a three-course 11.00 Big Love (M, C) is joined by Rhys Mathewson, menu for either a Japanese 12.10 Royal Pains (M) Jonny Brugh and Sam or Italian restaurant. 1.05 House (M, C) Bunkall (includes Lotto at 8.35 Taskmaster NZ (16, C, AD) 2.00 The Late Show (PG) 8.20pm). Jeremy Wells and Paul 3.00 Wheel of Fortune (G) 8.30 Location Location Location Williams set bizarre tasks for 3.25 Jeopardy (G) (G, HD, C) Kirstie Allsopp a group of comedians. s3ep5 3.50 2022 Commonwealth and Phil Spencer present a 9.35 Guessable (M, HD, C, AD) UK realty series. Tonight, in Sara Pascoe and team Games Highlights (G, R, C) the Home Counties, Kirstie captains Alan Davies and Action from day 5. helps Harvie and Ranjit, and Darren Harriott welcome 4.55 The Hui (G) Phil helps Zosia and David Rose Matafeo, Emily Atack, 5.30 Prime News find their first home. s25ep6 Jamie Laing and Jason 6.00 Sky Speed (G) 9.35 Coronation Street (PG, C, Manford into the loft to play 6.30 Storage Wars (PG, R, C) AD) guessing games. s2ep7 7.00 Pawn Stars (PG, R) Corey 10.35 1 News (HD, C) 10.30 ■ Girls5eva (M, R, HD, C, and Chumlee consider 11.05 Shortland Street (PG, R, AD) buying one of the first video C, AD) 11.40 ■ Question Team (M, R, HD, game consoles, a Magnavox 11.35 Transplant (M, HD, C) C, AD) Odyssey 200. 12.25am Under the Dome (M, 12.30am Wentworth (16, R, HD, C) 7.30 – 6.00am 2022 HD, C) 1.20 Emmerdale (PG, R, C, AD) Commonwealth Games 1.10 Te Karere (R) 1.45 Infomercials (C) Coverage of the New 1.35 Infomercials 2.40 MasterChef Australia (G, R, Zealand team in Birmingham. 5.30 – 6.00 Te Karere (R) HD, C) 3.50 Heroes (16, R, HD, C) 4.35 Neighbours (PG, R, HD, C) 5.00 – 6.00 Infomercials ■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 83

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 3 WHAKAATA Film: THE MAN PUTIN COULDN’T KILL MĀORI FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 The frightening title sounds like a dare 6.30 Kids’ Programmes and as Alexei Navalny now languishes 8.30 Oranga Ngākau (G, R) in some godawful high-security prison 9.30 Whānau Living (G, R) somewhere in Russia, probably untrue. 10.00 David Rocco’s Dolce South This UK documentary looks at Navalny’s opposition to the Putin regime and, of East Asia (G, R) course, his attempted murder by poison- 10.30 Toi Te Ora (G, R) ing. RIALTO, 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) 6.45 Tanked (PG, R) 2.35 Ako (G, R) 7.30 Valerie’s Home Cooking (G) 7.35 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 3.05 Kids’ Programmes (PG, R) 8.00 James Martin: Islands to 8.20 Alaska: Battle on the Bay 5.15 Haka Life (G, R) 11.00 Love It or List It: Vancouver 5.30 Kids’ Programmes Highlands (G, R) (PG, R) 6.00 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe: Te (PG, R) 9.05 Museum Mysteries (PG, R) 9.10 Edge of Alaska (M, R) 11.50 Killer Siblings (M, R) 10.00 American Pickers (PG, R) 10.00 Deadliest Catch (M, R) Arawa (G, R) Te Hui Ahurei o 12.50 Tattoo Fixers (M, R) 11.00 Salvage Dawgs (G) 10.50 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) Ngā Uri a Atuamatua, from 1.45 Below Deck (M, R) 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G, R) 11.40 Tanked (PG, R) Rotorua. 2.35 Hoarders: Family Secrets Noon Escape to the Chateau: DIY 12.30 Mysteries of the Deep 6.30 Te Ao Mārama 7.00 Waiata Nation II (G, R) (PG, R) (G, R) (PG, R) Hamo Dell uses her song 3.30 Top Chef (PG) 1.00 How to Save a Grand in 24 1.20 Expedition Unknown (PG, R) Kōkā to delve into her new 4.30 Shark Tank (PG, R) 2.05 NASA’s Unexplained Files role as a mother and to 5.30 Million Dollar Listing NY Hours (G, R) empower other wāhine. 2.05 Great Southern Truckers (PG, R) 7.30 The New Zealanders (G, (PG, R) 3.00 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) R) Documentary series 6.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver (PG, R) 3.50 Alaska: Battle on the Bay featuring quirky locations 3.05 My Cat from Hell (PG) and characters. (PG) 4.05 Giada in Italy (G) (PG, R) 8.30 ■ The Jane Austen Book 7.30 Dog Rescuers (PG) 5.05 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 4.45 Alaskan Bush People Club (2007, M, R) Six 8.30 24 Hours in Emergency (M) 6.00 American Pickers (PG) Californians start a club to 7.00 The Great Pottery Throw (PG, R) discuss the works of Jane Two-year-old Freddie has 5.40 Tanked (PG) Austen. Maria Bello, Emily jammed his thumb in a door. Down (PG) 6.35 Wheeler Dealers (PG) Blunt, Kathy Baker. TV Films, 9.30 911 Crisis Center (M) Trainee 8.00 Newshub Live 7.30 Treehouse Masters (PG) page 69 Matt must prove his ability to 8.30 Our Wildest Dreams (PG) 8.25 Homestead Rescue (PG) 10.20 Sidewalk Karaoke (G, R) navigate the night shift. 9.30 Idris Elba: No Limits (PG) 9.20 Building Alaska (G) 10.50 – 11.20 Te Ao Mārama (R) 10.00 911 Crisis Center (M) 10.30 The Great Pottery Throw 10.10 Alaskan Bush People (PG) 10.30 Killer Siblings (M, R) 11.05 Tanked (PG, R) 11.30 Accident, Suicide or Down (M, R) 11.55 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) Murder? (M, R) 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G) 12.45am Programmes continue 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials TVNZDUKE FREEVIEW6SKY023 SKY PREMIERE SKY030 MOVIESCLASSICSSKY034 RIALTO SKY 039 6.00 On Duke Today 6.05 Out of Death (2021, 16) 7.15 The House That Dripped 6.50 Arsene Wenger: Invincible Noon DUKEbox Music Bruce Willis, Jaime King Blood (1971, M) Christopher (2021, M) UK documentary. 12.20 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, Lee, Peter Cushing 7.40 Words on Bathroom Walls 8.30 The Promise (M) s1ep2 HD, C) (2020, M) Charlie Plummer 8.55 The Magnificent Seven 9.25 Asia (2020, M) Shira Haas 12.45 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, (1960, PG) Yul Brynner, Steve 10.55 Working Class (2020, PG) 9.30 Unpregnant (2020, M) Haley McQueen R, HD, C) Lu Richardson Kathleen Burns 1.10 Battlestar Galactica (PG, R, 11.00 Robinson Crusoe (1954, G) 11.10 The United Way (2021, PG) 11.15 12 Mighty Orphans (2021, M) Dan O’Herlihy HD, C) Luke Wilson, Martin Sheen UK documentary. 2.45 Hunting Aotearoa (PG, 12.30 It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad 12.45 Cardinal (16) s4ep5&6 1.10 Let Them All Talk (2020, M) World (1963, G) Spencer 2.15 You Cannot Kill David R, HD) Meryl Streep Tracey, Milton Berle 3.10 Heavy Rescue 401 (PG, Arquette (2020, 16) US 3.02 The Courier (2020) (2020, 3.00 Saint Joan (1957) (1957, documentary. R, HD) M) Benedict Cumberbatch PG) Jean Seberg, Richard 3.45 Herself (2020, 16) Clare 4.05 The Chase Australia (G, C) Widmark Dunne 4.50 ABC World News (PG) 4.52 Moonshot (2022, M) Cole 5.20 Girls Can’t Surf (2020, M) 5.15 Abandoned Engineering Sprouse, Zach Braff 4.50 Magnum Force (1973, 16) Australian documentary. Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook 7.05 Streamline (2021, 16) A (PG, R, HD, C) 6.35 Reminiscence (2021, M) 15-year-old swimming 6.05 30 Rock (PG, R, HD, C) A private investigator of 6.50 Valley Girl (1983, 16) A prodigy self-destructs after 6.35 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, the mind helps his clients sweet-natured girl from the his father is released from access lost memories. Hugh Valley falls for a boy from prison. Jason Isaacs HD, C) Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson the wrong side of the tracks. 8.30 The Man Putin Couldn’t Kill 7.00 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, Deborah Foreman, Nicolas (2021, M) UK documentary 8.30 Castle Falls (2021, 16) Three Cage about the Russian plot to kill HD, C) s4ep10 parties attempt to retrieve politician Alexei Navalny. 7.30 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C, a stash of stolen cash that 8.30 A Bridge Too Far (1977, PG) 10.00 God of the Piano (2019, M) is hidden in a hospital In an attempt to stave off a Naama Preis AD) s12ep21 slated for demolition. Dolph German advance, American 11.25 The Oratorio (2020, PG) US/ 8.30 Police: Hour of Duty (16, HD) Lundgren, Scott Adkins and British troops hatch a Italian documentary. TV Films, page 69 strategic plan. James Caan, 12.35am L’Opera (M) s1ep5&6 2.15 UK series following officers Michael Caine You Cannot Kill David Arquette in Derbyshire. s1ep3 10.05 Candyman (2021) (2021, 16) (2020, 16) 3.45 God of the Piano 9.25 Secret Nazi Bases (PG, Abdul-Mateen II 11.25 China Girl (1987, 18) Richard (2019, M) 5.10 Herself (2020, 16) HD, C) Panebianco, Sari Chang 10.20 Battlestar Galactica (M, 11.35 Gully (2021, 18) Kelvin HD, C) Harrison Jr, Charlie Plummer 12.55am The Bodyguard (1992, M) 11.10 Grimm (16, HD) 3.00 The Defiant Ones (1958, PG) 12.45am – 1.05 ABC World News 1.00am Spiral: From the Book of 5.05 Young Winston (1972, G) (PG, R) Saw (2021, 18) 2.35 Come Play (2020, M) 4.10 Crisis (2020, 16) 84 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 3 SKY CHANNELS with Lt. Joe Kenda (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 12.15am Programmes continue Vibe SKY 006 Sky Arts SKY 020 Sky Sport 1:West Indies v India, 6.00am 6.00 Parenthood (M) s4ep10 6.50 Judge Judy (PG) 7.15 The Closer (M) s4ep3 8.05 The Mysteries 6.00 Grethe Meyer: Queen of Danish Design of Laura (M) s1ep9 8.55 The Good Wife (M) s1ep6 7.00 Off Camera 8.00 ■ Klimt & Schiele: Eros 9.45 Covert Affairs (M) s1ep6 10.35 Judge Judy and Psyche (2018, G) 9.35 Put Some Colour in (PG) 11.25 Vera (M) 1.10 Frankie Drake Mysteries Your Life 10.00 Speakeasy: Billy Gibbons & Eric (M) s4ep6 2.00 The Closer (M) s4ep3 2.50 The Holland 11.00 Photos That Changed the World Mysteries of Laura (M) s1ep9 3.40 The Good Wife 11.45 Grayson Perry’s Big American Road Trip (PG) (M) s1ep6 4.30 Judge Judy (PG) 5.30 Parenthood 12.30 Landscape Artist of the Year 1.15 The Live (M) s4ep10 6.30 Covert Affairs (M) s1ep6 7.30 Revival (PG) 2.00 Grethe Meyer: Queen of Danish Hitmen (M) s1ep3&4 8.30 Outlander (18) Richard Design 3.00 Off Camera 4.00 ■ Mario Botta: The Brown and his Committee of Safety arrive to arrest Space Beyond (2018, G) 5.20 Renaud Capuçon Claire. s6ep8 9.35 Our Girl (16) s1ep5 10.35 The and David Fray Play Bach 6.55 Waldbuhne 2021: Good Wife (M) s1ep6 11.25 Judge Judy (PG) 11.50 Under the Stars 8.35 Winter Journey: Schubert’s Hitmen (M) s1ep3 12.20am Programmes continue Winterreise (G) Baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James Baillieu reimagine Schubert’s song BBC UKTV SKY 007 cycle in an Alpine landscape. 10.10 Andris Nelsons Conducts Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich 12.00am 6.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 6.35 QI (M) 7.10 Programmes continue EastEnders (PG) 7.40 The Bill (M) 8.30 A Touch of GETTY IMAGES Frost (M) s6ep2 10.20 Father Brown (M) s1ep8 11.10 Discovery SKY 070 SKY SPORT Doc Martin (PG) s9ep3 Noon Midsomer Murders (PG) s19ep6 1.35 The Bill (M) 2.25 New Tricks (M) 6.05 How It’s Made (PG) 6.30 How Do They Do It? Sky Sport 1 SKY 051 s3ep3 3.25 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (PG) 6.55 Rise of the Machines (M) 7.45 Homestead (PG) 4.20 The Jonathan Ross Show (M) s16ep2 Rescue (PG) 8.35 Airplane Repo (M) 9.25 Fast N’ 6.00 West Indies v India, 3rd T20, from Warner 5.15 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) 6.20 QI (M) Loud (M) 10.20 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 11.15 Park, St Kitts, live 9.30 NRL Try Time 10.30 NRL 6.55 EastEnders (PG) 7.25 QI (M) 8.00 Would I Lie Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch (M) 12.10 How Do They 360 11.30 Matty Johns Face to Face Noon Farah to You? (PG) 8.35 Grantchester (PG) On the day Do It? (PG) 12.35 How It’s Made (PG) 1.05 Mysteries Palmer Cup, Manawatu v Counties Manukau, replay of Leonard’s trial, Will and Geordie are called to a at the Museum (PG) 2.00 Naked and Afraid (M) 2.00 Aotearoa Rugby Pod 2.30 The Breakdown robbery. s6ep5 9.30 Holby City (M) Dom struggles 2.55 Bering Sea Gold (M) 3.50 Gold Rush: White 3.00 Rugby Nation 3.30 Farah Palmer Cup, Bay of to process a shocking family secret. s21ep15 10.35 Water (M) 4.45 Homestead Rescue (PG) 5.40 Plenty v Auckland, highlights 4.00 Farah Palmer Keeping Faith (M) s2ep3 11.40 Midsomer Murders Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 6.35 Dirty Jobs (PG) Cup, Otago v Northland, highlights 4.30 IndyCar, (PG) s19ep6 1.15am Programmes continue 7.30 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under (M) 8.30 Gallagher Grand Prix, highlights 5.30 Sky Speed Aussie Salvage Squad (PG) 9.30 Moonshiners (M) 6.00 The Back Page 7.00 Sal’s NBL Women, Central SoHo SKY 010 10.30 Edge of Alaska (M) 11.25 Naked and Afraid v Lower South, from Te Rauparaha Arena, Porirua, (M) 12.15am Programmes continue live 9.00 Once a Warrior with Monty Betham 9.30 6.50 The Undoing (18) s1ep2 7.45 Fear the Walking The Ditch 10.00 NRL, NZ Warriors v Melbourne Dead (18) s7ep13 8.30 Irma Vep (16) s1ep4 9.30 National Geographic SKY 072 Storm, highlights 10.30 NRL, Newcastle Knights v Mind Over Murder (18) s1ep5 10.30 The Nevers (16) Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, highlights 11.00 s1ep3 11.30 Billions (18) s5ep7 12.25 The Undoing 6.30 Superships: Giants of the Seas (PG) 7.30 NRL, Gold Coast Titans v Canberra Raiders, replay (18) s1ep2 1.15 Fear the Walking Dead (18) s7ep13 Shark Attack Files (M) 8.30 Dutch Caribbean 1.00am Once a Warrior with Monty Betham 1.30 2.00 Irma Vep (16) s1ep4 2.55 Mind Over Murder Coastguard (PG) 9.30 Wicked Tuna (PG) 10.30 NRL 360 2.30 The Ditch 3.00 NRL, Parramatta Eels (18) s1ep5 3.55 The Righteous Gemstones (16) s1ep2 Buried Secrets of WWII (PG) 11.30 WW2 Hell Under v Penrith Panthers 3.30 NRL, Gold Coast Titans 4.30 Work in Progress (16) s1ep4 5.00 Absentia (16) the Sea (M) 12.30 Air Crash Investigation (M) 1.30 v Canberra Raiders 4.00 NRL, Cronulla Sharks s3ep2 5.45 Britannia (18) s2ep6 6.30 Westworld Megastructures 2.30 Wicked Tuna (PG) 3.30 Dutch v South Sydney Rabbitohs 4.30 NRL, Brisbane (18) s4ep6 7.30 Devils (16) s2ep7 8.30 The Rising Caribbean Coastguard (PG) 4.30 Lost Treasures Broncos v Wests Tigers 5.00 SailGP Great Britain (16) Suspicions turn to Neve’s ex-boyfriend. s1ep3 of Egypt (PG) 5.30 Drain the Oceans: Deep Dive Highlights 5.30 AFL Weekly Highlights 9.30 The Lazarus Project (16) George tries to finish (PG) 6.30 Dutch Caribbean Coastguard (PG) the job before Lazarus gets wind of it. s1ep6 10.30 7.30 Seconds from Disaster (PG) 8.30 Air Crash Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 Real Time with Bill Maher (M) s20ep21 11.30 Made Investigation: Special Report (M) 9.30 Guerilla Gold for Love (16) s2ep6 12.00am Programmes continue Rush: The Spoils of War (16) 10.30 Space Mysteries 6.00 TBA 3.00 Nascar, Verizon 200, highlights 11.30 America’s Deadliest Volcano Disaster (PG) from Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Living SKY 017 12.30am Programmes continue 4.00 AFL 360 5.00 AFL Weekly Highlights 5.30 Aotearoa Rugby Pod 6.00 SailGP Great Britain 6.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 7.10 The Pioneer Woman History SKY 073 Highlights 6.30 World Athletics Championships (PG) 7.35 Mexican Made Easy (PG) 8.05 House U20s, day 2, highlights 7.30 Once a Warrior with Hunters (PG) 9.00 Salvage Hunters: The Restorers 6.30 Last Battle of the Vikings (PG) 7.30 Britain’s Monty Betham 8.00 The Ditch 8.30 NRL 360, (PG) 10.00 Salvage Hunters (PG) 11.00 A Place in Lost Battlefields (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 A Royal live 9.30 ATP Uncovered 10.10 Cycling, Tour of the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 11.55 Love It or List It UK Tour of the 20th Century (PG) 10.30 Time Team Poland, stage 5, live 3.30am World Superbike (PG) 12.50 Escape to the Country (PG) 1.50 Salvage 11.30 Shark Terror: USS Indianapolis (PG) 12.30 Championship, round 6, race 1 3.55 World Superbike Hunters (PG) 2.45 House Hunters (PG) 3.45 The Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson Championship, round 6, race 2 4.00 ATP 500, Pioneer Woman (PG) 4.15 Mexican Made Easy (PG) (PG) 1.30 History’s Raiders (PG) 2.30 Scorched Citi Open, from Washington, live 4.30 Supercars 4.45 Salvage Hunters (PG) 5.40 Location Location Earth (PG) 3.30 Gladiators of WWII (PG) 4.30 The Championship, The Bend SuperSprint, highlights Location (PG) 6.35 Love It or List It UK (PG) 7.30 Abyss: The Rise & Fall of the Nazis (16) 5.30 Lost A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 8.30 Garden Treasures of the Ancient World 6.30 Time Team Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 Rescue (PG) 9.30 Grow Your Own at Home with 7.30 The Abyss: The Rise & Fall of the Nazis (PG) Alan Titchmarsh (PG) 10.00 Martha Knows Best 8.40 Abandoned Engineering (PG) 9.40 Hiroshima 7.10 Aotearoa Rugby Pod 7.45 World Athletics (PG) 10.30 At Home with the Nolans (PG) 11.25 (M) 11.30 Myth Hunters (PG) 12.30am Programmes Championship U20s, day 2, session 2, from Santiago House Hunters (PG) 12.15am Programmes continue continue de Cali, Colombia, live 11.55 Formula E, rounds 13&14, highlights from London 1.55 W Series, round Investigation Discovery SKY 018 BBC Earth SKY 074 5, qualifying, replay 2.30 The Back Page 3.30 West Indies v India, 3rd T20, replay 7.30 Aotearoa 6.05 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 6.55 Dead 6.00 Wildest Places (PG) 6.55 Life Below Zero Rugby Pod 8.00 Farah Palmer Cup, Manawatu v Reckoning (M) 7.45 The Murder Tapes (M) 8.35 (M) 7.45 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 8.35 Earth Counties Manukau 8.30 Farah Palmer Cup, Tasman Chaos in Court (M) 9.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) from Space (PG) 9.30 Secrets of Bones (PG) 10.25 v Taranaki 9.00 1st XV Rugby, St Bede’s College 10.20 Grave Secrets (M) 11.15 The Perfect Murder The Dog Rescuers (PG) 11.15 24 Hours in A&E v Nelson College 9.30 AFL 360, live 10.30 West (M) 12.10 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 1.05 Obsession: (PG) 12.05 Natural Curiosities (PG) 12.30 Seven Indies v India, 3rd T20 11.00 ATP 500, Citi Open, Dark Desires (M) 2.00 I (Almost) Got Away with Worlds, One Planet (PG) 1.25 Earth from Space day 2, match of the day 12.50am World Athletics It (M) 2.55 Betrayed (M) 3.50 Pandora’s Box: (PG) 2.20 Wildest Places (PG) 3.15 Oceans (PG) Championship U20s, day 2 1.50 World Athletics Unleashing Evil (M) 4.45 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 4.10 Secrets of Bones (PG) 5.05 Life Below Zero Championship U20s, day 3, session 1, from Santiago 5.40 American Detective with Lt. Joe Kenda (M) (PG) 5.55 Where the Wild Men Are (M) 6.50 The de Cali, Colombia, live 5.05 Once a Warrior with 6.35 Reasonable Doubt (M) 7.30 Evil Lives Here Dog Rescuers (PG) 7.40 24 Hours in A&E (PG) 8.30 Monty Betham 5.35 ATP Uncovered (M) 8.30 Dead Reckoning (M) 9.30 Deadline: Crime Animal Impossible (PG) 9.30 Nature’s Great Events with Tamron Hall (M) 10.30 American Detective (PG) 10.30 Seven Worlds, One Planet (PG) 11.25 Oceans (PG) 12.20am Programmes continue JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 85

THURSDAY AUGUST 4 TVNZ 2 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002 THREE FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003 TVNZ 1 FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001 Film: THIS IS GWAR 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. It’s about time the American Stewart present news, sport, heavy metal shock-rockers information and weather. 6.25 Kiri & Lou (G, R, C, AD) 9.00 Infomercials got a biopic: the band, in 6.30 Toi Time (G, HD, C, AD) 10.30 Gold Rush (PG, R, C) s7ep17 various forms, has been going 9.00 Lingo (G, HD, C) Adil Ray 7.00 Robin Hood: Mischief in 11.30 Newshub Live since 1984 and the musicians hosts a UK quiz show in Noon Ready to Love (M, C) have never deviated, if that’s which contestants compete Sherwood (G, HD, C) 1.00 ■ Party from Hell (2021, M, the right word, from their path to work out words that 7.25 The Adventures of Rocky of intergalactic barbarianism appear in the Lingo grids C) Jackie Moore. and monstrous costumes. and Puzzlewords. and Bullwinkle (G, R, HD, C) 3.00 Dude, You’re Screwed (PG, Because there have been so 7.50 Beyblade Burst Surge (G, R, many band members over 10.00 Tipping Point (G, R, HD, C) C) s2ep6 the years, This Is GWAR (100% Ben Shephard hosts a UK HD, C) 3.55 Bath Crashers (G, C) s7ep10 on Rotten Tomatoes) focuses quiz show. 8.10 Ricky Zoom (G, R, HD, C) 4.30 Newshub Live on the rancorous relation- 8.25 Toi Time (G, R, HD, C, AD) 5.00 Gold Rush (PG, C) s7ep18 ship between co-founders 11.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) 8.50 Apollo’s Tall Tales (G, R, HD) 6.00 Newshub Live Dave Brockie (known as Bradley Walsh hosts a UK 9.05 Infomercials 7.00 The Project With Kanoa Oderus Urungus) and Hunter quiz show. 9.35 Les Mills Core (G, R, HD, C) Jackson (stage name Techno 10.05 Home and Away (PG, R, C) Lloyd, Jesse Mulligan and Destructo). Band members Noon 1 News (HD, C) 10.35 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD, Jeremy Corbett. and others, including Weird 12.30 Emmerdale (PG, C, AD) 7.30 ■ Tom Sainsbury’s Love Al Yankovic, Alex Winter and 1.00 Hollyoaks (PG, HD, C, AD) C, AD) Hour (M, C) Tom Sainsbury Ethan Embry, also feature. 11.05 Charmed (PG, HD, C) interviews celebrity guests SHUDDER Mercedes receives some Noon ■ A Whirlwind Wedding about all things love. Tonight, shocking news about Wendy, Kimberley Crossman and Dai Documentary: BRITAIN’S Warren takes matters into his (2021, G, HD, C) Morgan Henwood. CHILD DRUG RUNNERS own hands, and Liberty gives Kohan, Drew Nelson. 8.25 New Zealand Today (M, C) Sienna an ultimatum. 1.40 The Drew Barrymore Show Guy embarks on a journey A frightening expose of the 2.00 Coronation Street (PG, R, (PG, HD, C) of discovery about correct tactics of what have become C, AD) 2.35 Sabrina the Teenage Witch pronunciation of Māori and known as “county lines gangs” 3.00 Tipping Point (G, HD, C) Ben (G, HD, C) Pasifika names. s3ep9 in the UK, who groom and Shephard hosts a UK quiz 3.30 The Feed (PG, HD, C) 8.55 Comedians Giving Lectures use youngsters to move and show. 3.35 K-Pop Academy (G, HD, C, (16, C) Sara Pascoe hosts sell drugs between cities. It’s 4.00 Te Karere A Māori AD) s2ep4 a UK series in which a brutal and abusive practice perspective on the day’s 5.00 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C, comedians deliver a that is “a form of modern slav- news and current affairs. AD) s30ep9 “lecture”. Tonight, Stephen ery”, says one police officer. 4.30 Neighbours (PG, HD, C) 5.30 Friends (G, R, HD, C) s9ep11 Mangan, David O’Doherty THREE, 9.30pm Chloe is taken aback when 6.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG, R, and Suzi Ruffell. she learns Kiri is going HD, C, AD) s6ep10 9.30 Britain’s Child Drug Runners to church again and that 6.30 Home and Away (PG, C) The (16, C) UK documentary Nicolette is going with her. bikies refuse to negotiate, following four young people 5.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) Tane rescues an endangered trapped selling drugs. Bradley Walsh hosts a UK Chloe, and Theo gets a life- 10.30 Newshub Late quiz show. changing call. 11.00 NCIS (M, R, C) s18ep13 6.00 1 News (HD, C) 7.00 Shortland Street (PG, HD, 11.55 Infomercials 7.00 Seven Sharp (HD, C) Hilary C, AD) Cece gets a surprise, 5.30am – 6.00 AM Early With Barry and Jeremy Wells Drew finds a new friend, and Bernadine Oliver-Kerby. present current affairs and Desi finds comfort in a new entertainment. home. PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 7.30 Dream Kitchens and 7.30 MasterChef Australia: Fans Bathrooms (G, HD, C, AD) & Favourites (G, HD, C) In 6.00 2022 Commonwealth UK series in which Mark a movie-food immunity Games Coverage of the Millar helps transform kitchen challenge, contestants New Zealand team in and bathrooms. Tonight, in must make popcorn and a Birmingham. West Deeping, Agi and Steve blockbuster choc-top. are desperate for a new 8.30 Ten 7: Aotearoa (PG, C) 8.00 2022 Commonwealth kitchen after recently moving Local series about crime Games Highlights (G, C) into their country cottage, in Aotearoa and the Action from day 6. and in Yardley, Birmingham, communities and people two parents want to update affected by it. 9.00 Antiques Roadshow (G, R, C) their bathroom. s2ep3 9.00 Highway Patrol (PG, C, 10.00 American Pickers (G, R) 8.30 Rich House Poor House AD) Series following police 11.00 Big Love (M, C) (G, C, AD) UK series in officers who monitor 12.10 Royal Pains (M) which families swap lives. Australia’s busy highways. 1.05 House (M, C) Tonight, a single mum who 9.30 ■ The Walkers (M, C, AD) 2.00 The Late Show (PG) has moved from job to job Stan is bringing in the big 3.00 Wheel of Fortune (G) while struggling to raise guns as he prepares for one 3.30 Jeopardy (G) her daughter swaps with a of the biggest events on the 4.00 2022 Commonwealth businesswoman who has summer music calendar, One money but no work-life Love. s2ep6 Games Highlights (G, R) balance. 10.00 Motorway Patrol (PG, R, Action from day 6. 9.25 Coronation Street (PG, HD, C) 5.00 WhichCar (G, R, C) C, AD) 10.25 Ten 7: Aotearoa (PG, R, C) 5.30 Prime News 10.25 1 News (HD, C) 11.00 CSI: Crime Scene 6.00 SailGP Highlights (G) 10.55 Shortland Street (PG, R, Investigation (M, HD, C) Highlights from Great Britain. C, AD) s5ep5 6.30 Storage Wars (PG, R, C) 11.25 For Life (PG, HD, C) s1ep5 12.45am Extant (PG, HD, C) s2ep2 7.00 Pawn Stars (PG, R) A 12.15am It’s Your Fault I’m Fat (G, R, 1.30 Emmerdale (PG, R, C, AD) mandolin from Bob Wills’ HD, C, AD) 1.55 Infomercials Texas Playboys comes in. 1.05 Te Karere (R) 2.50 2 Tunes 7.30 – 6.00am 2022 1.40 Infomercials 3.00 Hell’s Kitchen (16, R, HD, C) Commonwealth Games 5.30 – 6.00 Te Karere (R) 4.35 Neighbours (PG, R, HD, C) (C) Coverage of the New 5.00 – 6.00 Infomercials Zealand team in Birmingham. ■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition 86 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

THURSDAY AUGUST 4 WHAKAATA Film: LARGER THAN LIFE: THE MĀORI FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 KEVYN AUCOIN STORY 6.30 Kids’ Programmes Chances are you will have seen his 8.30 Oranga Ngākau (G, R) work if you picked up a fashion maga- 9.30 Whānau Living (G, R) zine in the 80s or 90s. Make-up artist 10.00 Waiata Nation II (G, R) Aucoin worked with all the super- 10.30 Toi Te Ora (G, R) models and then stars such as Cher, 11.00 The New Zealanders (G, R) Liza Minnelli and Oprah Winfrey. Noon Te Ao Tapatahi RIALTO, 8.30pm 12.30 ■ The Jane Austen Book BRAVO FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012 EDEN FREEVIEW 8 SKY 013 RUSH FREEVIEW 14 SKY 024 Club (2007, M, R) Maria Bello. 6.00 Infomercials 6.00 My Cat from Hell (PG, R) 6.00 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) 2.35 Ako (G, R) 10.00 Hoarders: Family Secrets 7.00 The Pioneer Woman (G) 6.45 Tanked (PG, R) 3.05 Kids’ Programmes 7.30 Valerie’s Home Cooking (G) 7.35 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 5.15 Haka Life (G, R) (PG, R) s1ep5 8.00 Giada in Italy (G, R) 8.20 Treehouse Masters (PG, R) 5.30 Kids’ Programmes 10.55 Love It or List It: Vancouver 9.05 Museum Mysteries (PG, R) 9.10 Homestead Rescue (PG, R) 6.00 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe: Te 10.00 American Pickers (PG, R) 10.00 Building Alaska (G, R) Arawa (G, R) (PG, R) 11.00 Salvage Dawgs (G) 10.50 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) 6.30 Te Ao Mārama 11.50 Killer Siblings (M, R) 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G, R) 11.35 Tanked (PG, R) 7.00 Fresh (G) 12.50 Tattoo Fixers (M, R) Noon Idris Elba: No Limits (PG, R) 12.30 Treasure Quest: Snake 7.30 Funny Whare (PG, R) 1.45 Below Deck (M, R) 1.00 Our Wildest Dreams (PG, R) 8.00 ■ Rags Are Riches (PG) 2.40 Hoarders: Family Secrets 2.00 The Great Pottery Throw Island (M, R) Randy Sjafrie and Courtney 1.20 Bering Sea Gold (M, R) Dawson present a fashion (PG, R) Down (PG, R) 2.10 Gem Hunt (PG, R) challenge show. 3.30 Top Chef (PG) 3.00 My Cat from Hell (PG) 3.00 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 8.10 ■ Gowns to Geysers (PG) 4.30 Shark Tank (PG, R) 4.00 Rick Stein’s Secret France 3.50 Treehouse Masters (PG, R) Local series that goes behind 5.25 Million Dollar Listing NY 4.45 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) the velvet curtain of the Miss (G) 5.40 Tanked (PG) Rotorua beauty pageant. (PG, R) 5.00 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 6.35 Wheeler Dealers (PG) 8.30 Hakapedia (G) Haka fans 6.30 Love It or List It: Vancouver 6.00 American Pickers (PG) 7.30 Inside West Coast Customs compete against haka 7.00 Aussie Lobster Men (PG) experts. (PG) 8.00 Newshub Live (PG) 9.00 Rage Against the Rangatahi 7.30 Tattoo Fixers on Holiday (M) 8.30 ■ Underbelly: Vanishing Act 8.25 Kindig Customs (PG) Two (PG, R) Performing arts. 8.30 Below Deck: Sailing Yacht 9.30 Ahikāroa (M, R) Kuini breaks (M) Australian drama series classic 1969 Camaros get the the rules and drags Kid (M) The crew tries to cap off about con artist Melissa full treatment. along. the season with a perfect Caddick. 9.20 Street Outlaws: No Prep 10.00 Mura o te Ahi (PG, R) wedding reception dinner. 9.30 Inside Monaco: Playground Kings (M) 10.30 The Barber (PG, R) 9.30 A&E After Dark (M) A of the Rich (PG) 10.15 Alaskan Bush People (PG) 11.00 – 11.30 Te Ao Mārama (R) patient in cardiac arrest is 10.30 Aussie Lobster Men (PG, R) 11.05 Tanked (PG, R) rushed into hospital. 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G) 11.55 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 10.30 Killer Siblings (M, R) 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials 12.40am Programmes continue 11.30 Accident, Suicide or Murder? (M, R) 12.20am – 6.00 Infomercials TVNZDUKE FREEVIEW6SKY023 SKY PREMIERE SKY030 MOVIESCLASSICSSKY034 RIALTO SKY 039 6.00 On Duke Today 6.10 Time for Me to Come Home 7.25 Heat (1995, 16) Al Pacino, 6.50 The Man Putin Couldn’t Kill Noon DUKEbox Music for Christmas (2018, PG) Robert De Niro (2021, M) UK documentary. 12.25 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, Megan Park, Josh Henderson 10.15 The Dead Pool (1988, M) 8.20 Streamline (2021, 16) Jason HD, C) 7.40 Pure (2018, 16) Jahkara Clint Eastwood, Patricia Isaacs 12.50 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, Smith, McKaley Miller Clarkson 9.45 The Oratorio (2020, PG) US/ R, HD, C) 9.10 Four Good Days (2019, M) 11.45 Sudden Impact (1983, 16) Italian documentary. 1.15 Battlestar Galactica (M, R, Mila Kunis, Glenn Close Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke 10.55 God of the Piano (2019, M) HD, C) 10.50 The Nest (2020, 16) Jude Naama Preis 2.50 Hunting Aotearoa (PG, R, HD) Law, Carrie Coon 1.40 Boyz N the Hood (1991, M) 3.15 Heavy Rescue 401 (PG, R, HD) Cuba Gooding Jr, Laurence 12.20 Ottolenghi and the Cakes 4.10 The Chase Australia (G, C) 12.35 All My Life (2020, M) Harry Fishburne of Versailles (2020, G) US 4.55 ABC World News (PG) Shum Jr, Jessica Rothe documentary. 5.20 Abandoned Engineering (G, 3.30 The Harder They Come 2.05 The Devil Has a Name (2021, (1972, M) Jimmy Cliff, Janet 1.35 Love Affair(s) (2020, M) R, HD, C) 16) Kate Bosworth Bartley Camelia Jordana 6.10 30 Rock (PG, R, HD, C) 6.35 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, 3.45 Songbird (2020, 16) KJ Apa, 5.10 The Dead (1987, PG) Anjelica 3.35 The Booksellers (2019, PG) Sofia Carson Huston, Donal McCann US documentary. HD, C) 7.00 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, 5.10 Juniper (2021, M) Charlotte 6.35 Natural Born Killers (1994, 5.15 Carmilla (2019, 16) Jessica Rampling, George Ferrier 18) Two terrifying killers Raine HD, C) s4ep11 are glorified in the media. 7.30 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C) 6.45 Fatale (2020, 16) Hilary Woody Harrelson, Juliet 6.50 The Flood (2019, M) Lena Swank, Michael Ealy Lewis Headey, Iain Glen s13ep2 8.30 Top Gear (G, HD, C) Freddie 8.30 The Many Saints of Newark 8.30 The King of Comedy (1983, 8.30 Rialto Documentary: (2021, 16) Anthony Soprano PG) An aspiring stand-up Larger Than Life: The Flintoff transforms a Sinclair grows up in a tumultuous era comedian is willing to do Kevyn Aucoin Story (2017, C5 into a bobsleigh. s32ep2 as rival gangsters challenge anything to catch a break. M) US documentary about 9.40 Mega Metro (16, HD) Series an all-powerful crime family. Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis legendary make-up artist following the construction of Michael Gandolfini, Ray Kevyn Aucoin. the Sydney Metro. Liotta, Vera Farmiga 10.20 Advise and Consent (1962) 10.45 Battlestar Galactica (PG, (1962, PG) Henry Fonda, 10.15 Creation Stories (2021, 16) HD, C) 10.35 Judas & the Black Messiah Charles Laughton Ewen Bremner 11.35 The Russell Howard Hour (2021, 16) Daniel Kaluuya, (16, R, HD) LaKeith Stanfield 12.35am Fanny (1961, G) 2.45 12.05am Rockfield: The Studio on 12.25am – 12.45 ABC World News Othello (1951, G) 4.15 Rock’n’Roll the Farm (2020, M) 1.40 L’Opera (PG, R) 12.37am Six Minutes to Midnight High School (1979, M) 5.45 The Fan (M) s1ep7&8 3.15 Daddy’s Girl (2021, M) 2.15 The Call (2020, 16) (1996, 16) (2020, PG) 3.30 Love Affair(s) 3.50 Lake Placid: Legacy (2018, 16) (2020, M) 5.30 The Booksellers 5.22 Kimi (2022, 16) (2019, PG) JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 87

THURSDAY AUGUST 4 SKY CHANNELS Perfect Murder (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 12.15am Programmes continue Vibe SKY 006 Sky Arts SKY 020 SoHo: Britannia, 5.45pm 6.00 Parenthood (M) s4ep11 6.45 Judge Judy (PG) 7.10 The Closer (M) s4ep4 7.55 The Mysteries of 6.10 Andris Nelsons Conducts Tchaikovsky and SKY SPORT Laura (M) s1ep10 8.40 The Good Wife (M) s1ep7 Shostakovich 8.00 ■ Mario Botta: The Space 9.25 Covert Affairs (M) s1ep7 10.10 Judge Judy Beyond (2018, G) 9.20 Renaud Capuçon and David Sky Sport 1 SKY 051 (PG) 10.55 Outlander (18) s6ep8 Noon Our Girl (16) Fray Play Bach 10.55 Waldbuhne 2021: Under the s1ep5 1.00 Hitmen (M) s1ep3&4 2.00 The Closer (M) Stars 12.35 Winter Journey 2.10 Andris Nelsons 6.00 Once a Warrior with Monty Betham 6.30 NRL s4ep4 2.50 The Mysteries of Laura (M) s1ep10 3.40 Conducts Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich 4.00 360 7.30 The Ditch 8.00 NRL, Cronulla Sharks v The Good Wife (M) s1ep7 4.30 Judge Judy (PG) Talking Heads: Alan Bennett Monologues (PG) South Sydney Rabbitohs, highlights 8.30 SailGP 5.30 Parenthood (M) s4ep11 6.30 Covert Affairs 4.35 ■ Tintoretto: a Rebel in Venice (2019, G) 6.05 Great Britain Highlights 9.00 Golf, PGA Tour, (M) s1ep7 7.30 Murdoch Mysteries (M) s14ep6 8.30 Speakeasy: Michael Stipe & Mike Mills 7.10 Put highlights 10.00 Cycling, Tour of Poland, stage 5, Private Eyes (M) s5ep6 9.30 The Inbetween (M) Some Colour in Your Life 7.35 Toni Morrison, Black Łańcut to Rzeszów, replay Noon The Back Page s1ep6 10.30 The Good Wife (M) s1ep7 11.20 Judge Matter(s) 8.30 Video Killed the Radio Star 9.00 1.00 Aotearoa Rugby Pod 1.30 D1NZ National Judy (PG) 11.50 Murdoch Mysteries (M) s14ep6 One Perfect Shot 9.30 Finding Your Roots 10.30 Drifting Championship, grand final, highlights 2.30 12.50am Programmes continue Flightless: Bill Hammond’s Cure for Being Kiwi 11.15 World Superbike Championship, round 6, race 1, Rough Draft with Reza Aslan 11.40 Mesdames of replay from Autodrom Most, Czech Republic 3.30 BBC UKTV SKY 007 Mayhem 12.00am Programmes continue World Superbike Championship, round 6, race 2, replay from Autodrom Most, Czech Republic 4.30 6.00 Would I Lie to You? (PG) 6.35 QI (M) 7.10 Discovery SKY 070 Aotearoa Rugby Pod 5.00 Sky Speed 5.30 The EastEnders (PG) 7.40 The Bill (M) 8.30 A Touch of Ditch 6.00 The Breakdown 6.30 Aotearoa Rugby Frost (M) s6ep3 10.20 Father Brown (M) s1ep9 11.10 6.05 How It’s Made (PG) 6.30 How Do They Do It? Pod 7.00 Sky GrassRoots Rugby 8.00 Inside Netball Doc Martin (PG) s9ep4 Noon Midsomer Murders (PG) 6.55 Rise of the Machines (M) 7.45 Homestead 8.30 The Crowd Goes Wild 9.00 World Athletics (PG) s20ep1 1.35 The Bill (M) 2.25 New Tricks (M) Rescue (PG) 8.35 Mighty Cruise Ships (PG) 9.25 Championships U20s, day 3, highlights from s3ep4 3.25 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (PG) Fast N’ Loud (M) 10.20 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Santiago de Cali, Colombia 10.00 Golf, Women’s 4.20 The Jonathan Ross Show (M) s16ep3 5.15 Under (M) 11.15 Aussie Salvage Squad (PG) 12.10 British Open, round 1, from Muirfield, Scotland, live Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) 6.20 QI (PG) How Do They Do It? (PG) 12.35 How It’s Made (PG) 5.00am Ultimate Bowls 6.55 EastEnders (PG) 7.25 QI (M) 8.00 Would I Lie 1.05 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 2.00 Naked to You? (PG) 8.35 The Graham Norton Show (M) and Afraid (M) 2.55 Bering Sea Gold (M) 3.50 Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 s29ep4 9.35 The Jonathan Ross Show (M) s17ep5 Gold Rush: White Water (M) 4.45 Alaska: The Last 10.30 Father Brown (PG) s9ep5 11.25 Midsomer Frontier (M) 5.40 Outback Opal Hunters (PG) 6.35 6.00 TBA 1.00 West Indies v India, 3rd T20, Murders (PG) s20ep1 1.00am Programmes continue Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) 8.30 Gold Rush: White highlights 1.30 SailGP, Plymouth, day 1, replay 3.00 Water (M) 9.30 Gold Rush: Dave Turin’s Lost Mine SailGP, Plymouth, day 2, replay 4.30 Cycling, Tour SoHo SKY 010 (M) 10.30 Bering Sea Gold (M) 11.25 Naked and of Poland, stage 5, Łańcut to Rzeszów, replay 6.30 Afraid (M) 12.15am Programmes continue Ultimate Bowls 7.30 Sal’s NBL, Taranaki Airs v 6.55 Devils (16) s2ep7 7.50 The Rising (16) s1ep3 Nelson Giants, from TSB Stadium, New Plymouth, 8.35 The Lazarus Project (16) s1ep6 9.20 Made for National Geographic SKY 072 live 9.30 West Indies v India, 3rd T20, highlights Love (16) s2ep6 9.50 Insecure (16) s4ep2 10.20 Real 10.00 The Darts Show 10.30 ATP Uncovered Time with Bill Maher (M) s20ep21 11.20 Westworld 6.30 Dutch Caribbean Coastguard (PG) 7.30 11.10 Cycling, Tour of Poland, stage 6, Szaflary to (18) s4ep6 12.20 Devils (16) s2ep7 1.20 The Rising Seconds from Disaster (PG) 8.30 Air Crash Bukovina Resort, live 3.30am Fox Sports News (16) s1ep3 2.05 The Lazarus Project (16) s1ep6 2.55 Investigation: Special Report (M) 9.30 Guerilla 4.00 ATP 500, Citi Open, from Rock Creek Park Made for Love (16) s2ep6 3.25 Insecure (16) s4ep2 Gold Rush: The Spoils of War (16) 10.30 Space Tennis Center, Washington DC, live 4.30 ATP 500, 3.55 The Righteous Gemstones (16) s1ep3 4.30 Mysteries 11.30 America’s Deadliest Volcano Citi Open, day 3, match of the day Work in Progress (16) s1ep5 5.00 Absentia (16) Disaster (PG) 12.30 Air Crash Investigation (M) 1.30 s3ep3 5.45 Britannia (18) s2ep7 6.30 Irma Vep (16) Megastructures 2.30 Superships: Giants of the Seas Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 s1ep4 7.30 What We Do in the Shadows (16) s3ep10 (PG) 3.30 Aussie Snake Wranglers (PG) 4.30 Food 8.00 I Love That for You (M) s1ep8 8.30 Rap Sh!t Factory (PG) 5.30 The 80s Top Ten (PG) 6.30 Air 6.00 Motorsport, W Series, round 5, qualifying, (16) s1ep2 9.05 Insecure (16) s5ep4 9.35 Obama: In Crash Investigation: Special Report (M) 7.30 Nazi replay from Hungaroring, Mogyorod, Hungary 6.35 Pursuit of a More Perfect Union (M) Obama tries to Megastructures: America’s War (PG) 8.30 Drain Aotearoa Rugby Pod 7.05 Rugby Nation 7.35 World pass legislation in a bitterly divided Congress. s1ep3 the Oceans Best ofs (PG) 9.30 Dutch Caribbean Athletics Championship U20s, day 3, session 2, 11.25 The Midwich Cuckoos (16) s1ep4 12.15am Coastguard (PG) 10.30 Wicked Tuna (PG) 11.30 from Santiago de Cali, Colombia, live Noon World Programmes continue Inside North Korea: The Criminal State (M) 12.30am Supercars Championship, The Bend SuperSprint, Programmes continue highlights 1.30 NRL, NZ Warriors v Melbourne Living SKY 017 Storm, highlights 2.00 NRL, Brisbane Broncos v History SKY 073 Wests Tigers, highlights 2.30 Once a Warrior with 6.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 7.10 The Pioneer Woman Monty Betham 3.00 NRL 360 4.00 The Ditch 4.30 (PG) 7.35 Mexican Made Easy (PG) 8.05 House 6.30 Hiroshima (M) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Lost ATP Uncovered 5.00 Sal’s NBL Women, Central Hunters (PG) 9.00 Grow Your Own at Home with Treasures of the Ancient World 10.30 Time Team v Lower South, replay from Te Rauparaha Arena, Alan (PG) 9.30 Martha Knows Best (PG) 10.00 11.25 The Abyss: The Rise & Fall of the Nazis (PG) Porirua 7.00 Once a Warrior with Monty Betham Garden Rescue (PG) 11.00 A Place in the Sun: 12.35 Abandoned Engineering (PG) 1.30 History’s 7.30 NRL 360 8.30 The Ditch 9.00 NRL, Sydney Winter Sun (PG) 11.55 Love It or List It UK (PG) Raiders (PG) 2.30 Scorched Earth (PG) 3.30 Roosters v Brisbane Broncos, from Sydney Cricket 12.50 At Home with the Nolans (PG) 1.50 Salvage The Fury and the Flames (PG) 4.30 Europe’s Ground, live 11.50 The Late Show with Matty Johns Hunters (PG) 2.45 House Hunters (PG) 3.45 The Secret Armies (PG) 5.30 Lost Treasures of the 12.50am World Athletics Championship U20s, day Pioneer Woman (PG) 4.15 Mexican Made Easy (PG) Ancient World 6.30 Time Team 7.30 Abandoned 3, highlights 1.50 World Athletics Championship 4.45 Garden Rescue (PG) 5.40 Location Location Engineering (PG) 8.30 Henry VII: The Winter King U20s, day 4, session 1, from Santiago de Cali, Location (PG) 6.35 Love It or List It UK (PG) 7.30 A (PG) 9.30 Crusaders (PG) 10.30 Secrets of the Colombia, live Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 8.30 Restaurant: Lost Ark (PG) 11.30 Myth Hunters (PG) 12.30am Impossible (PG) 9.30 Mystery Diners (PG) 10.30 Programmes continue Location Location Location Australia (PG) 11.25 House Hunters (PG) 12.15am Programmes continue BBC Earth SKY 074 Investigation Discovery SKY 018 6.00 Wildest Places (PG) 6.55 Life Below Zero (M) 7.45 Where the Wild Men Are (M) 8.35 Earth from 6.05 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 6.55 American Space (PG) 9.30 Secrets of Bones (PG) 10.25 The Detective with Lt. Joe Kenda (M) 7.45 Finding Dog Rescuers (PG) 11.15 24 Hours in A&E (PG) Andrea (M) 9.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 10.20 12.05 Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (PG) 12.30 Grave Secrets (M) 11.15 The Perfect Murder (M) 12.10 Seven Worlds, One Planet (PG) 1.25 Earth from Your Worst Nightmare (M) 1.05 Obsession: Dark Space (PG) 2.20 Wildest Places (PG) 3.15 Oceans Desires (M) 2.00 I (Almost) Got Away with It (M) (PG) 4.10 Secrets of Bones (PG) 5.05 Life Below 2.55 Betrayed (M) 3.50 Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Zero (M) 5.55 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) Ben Evil (M) 4.45 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 5.40 Dead Fogle travels to Brazil to meet Chris, a Scotsman Reckoning (M) 6.35 American Detective with Lt. who has chosen to make a home there. s7ep8 6.50 Joe Kenda (M) 7.30 Evil Lives Here (M) 8.30 The The Dog Rescuers (PG) 7.40 24 Hours in A&E (PG) Murder Tapes (M) 9.30 Body Cam (M) 10.30 The 8.30 10 Puppies and Us (PG) 9.35 Blue Planet (PG) 10.35 Seven Worlds, One Planet (PG) 11.30 Oceans (PG) 12.25am Programmes continue 88 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

FRIDAY AUGUST 5 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 Film: PREY May Clarkson and Indira HD, C) Melissa Chan-Green. Stewart present news, sport, The Predator franchise has information and weather. 6.25 Kiri & Lou (G, R, C, AD) 9.00 Infomercials been hit and miss over the 6.30 ■ Toi Time (G, HD, C, AD) 10.30 Gold Rush (PG, R, C) s7ep18 years, but it appears that 9.00 Lingo (G, HD, C) Adil Ray 7.00 Robin Hood: Mischief in 11.30 Newshub Live director Dan Trachtenberg hosts a UK quiz show. Noon Ready to Love (M, C) (10 Cloverfield Lane) has found Sherwood (G, HD, C) 1.05 ■ Saving My Daughter a way to make it interesting 10.00 Tipping Point (G, R, HD, C) 7.25 The Adventures of Rocky again. Prey is a prequel film, Ben Shephard hosts a UK (2020, M, C) A woman’s set 300 years in the past on quiz show. and Bullwinkle (G, R, HD, C) daughter disappears for the Comanche Nation lands, 7.45 Beyblade Burst Surge (G, R, the second time in 15 years. and its cast is almost entirely 11.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) Ashley Jones, Alicia Leigh Native American and First Bradley Walsh hosts a UK HD, C) Willis, Laurie Fortier. Nations. The lead is Amber quiz show. 8.10 Ricky Zoom (G, R, HD, C) 3.00 Dude, You’re Screwed (PG, Midthunder, previously seen 8.20 ■ Toi Time (G, R, HD, C, AD) C) s2ep7 in Legion, who plays a warrior Noon 1 News (HD, C) 8.50 ■ Apollo’s Tall Tales (G, 3.55 Bath Crashers (G, C) s7ep11 who goes toe-to-toe with 12.30 Emmerdale (PG, C, AD) 4.30 Newshub Live a deadly Predator (Dane 1.00 Hollyoaks (PG, HD, C, AD) R, HD) 5.00 Gold Rush (PG, C) s7ep19 DiLiegro). To make sure of 9.05 Infomercials 6.00 Newshub Live authenticity, Trachtenberg Saul makes a huge decision 9.30 Les Mills Grit Cardio (G, R, 7.00 The Project With Kanoa consulted with Comanche about his future with Grace, Lloyd, Jesse Mulligan and film-maker Jhane Myers and Mercedes confronts Bobby, HD, C) Jeremy Corbett. the film will be released in the and Sienna decides to turn 10.00 Home and Away (PG, R, C) 7.30 ■ Super 8 (2011, M, C) A Comanche language with to Damon for help. 10.30 Shortland Street (PG, R, HD, train crash sets off a series screenings on their lands. 2.00 Coronation Street (PG, R, of bizarre events in a small DISNEY+ C, AD) C, AD) town. Elle Fanning, Joel 3.00 Tipping Point (G, HD, C) Ben 11.00 Charmed (PG, C) Courtney, Kyle Chandler. Comedy: HAVE YOU BEEN Shephard hosts a UK quiz Noon ■ Sweet as Pie (2022, PG, TV Films, page 69 PAYING ATTENTION? show. 9.35 Police After Dark (16, C) 4.00 Te Karere A Māori HD, C) Rhiannon Fish. UK series following police It’s heartening to see that perspective on the day’s 1.45 The Drew Barrymore Show officers in Gloucestershire. we’ve reached a critical mass news and current affairs. Tonight, a routine area of really great comedians who 4.30 Neighbours (PG, HD, C) (PG, HD, C) search catches a sergeant off can fill the benches of panel Grant is standing by his 2.40 Sabrina the Teenage Witch guard and surrounded by an shows anywhere in the world decision to keep Hendrix’s aggressive family, and there (NB: Rose Matafeo appears on videos from Mackenzie, even (G, HD, C) is an assault at a nightclub. Guessable this week). Hayley when Wendy suggests Mack 3.30 The Feed (PG, HD, C) s1ep3 Sproull returns, and this should be able to make up 5.00 The Simpsons (G, R, HD, C, 10.30 Newshub Late week’s guests are Ray O’Leary, her own mind. 11.00 Tin Star (16, R, C) UK series Josh Thomson and Madeleine 5.00 The Chase (G, R, HD, C) AD) s30ep10 about a London cop who Sami. Bradley Walsh hosts a UK 5.30 Friends (G, R, HD, C) s9ep12 relocates to the Rockies. TVNZ 2, 8.30pm quiz show. 6.00 The Big Bang Theory (G, R, s3ep2 6.00 1 News (HD, C) 12.05am Live at the Apollo 7.00 Seven Sharp (HD, C) Hilary HD, C, AD) s6ep11 (16, R, C) Barry and Jeremy Wells 6.30 Home and Away (PG, C) 1.00 – 6.00 Infomercials present current affairs and entertainment. Rose gets suspicious of Tex, PRIME FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004 7.30 The Repair Shop (PG, HD, Tane protects his family, and C, AD) UK series in which Nikau breaks Bella’s heart. 6.00 2022 Commonwealth expert craftspeople restore 7.00 Shortland Street (PG, HD, C, Games Coverage of the treasured items. AD) TK flails as Cece bails, New Zealand team in 8.30 The Great Big Tiny Design Desi gets a new mum, and Birmingham. Challenge (PG, HD, C, AD) Viv spies on Chris. Sandi Toksvig presents a 7.30 Travel Guides Australia (G, 9.20 2022 Commonwealth UK series in which amateur R, HD, C, AD) The Aussie Games Highlights (G, C) crafters put their minature- travel guides head to the Action from day 7. making skills to the test. Gold Coast to indulge in a Tonight, the remaining week of 5-star hotel luxury at 10.20 Sal’s NBL (G) Taranaki Airs miniaturists make an Palazzo Versace. v Nelson Giants, from TSB Edwardian games room 8.30 ■ Have You Been Paying Stadium, New Plymouth. complete with a playable Attention? (M, C) Hayley tabletop game, billiard table, Sproull hosts a topical 12.25 Royal Pains (M) display cabinet and indoor comedy show, with regular 1.15 House (M, C) plant. s1ep6 panellists Vaughan Smith 2.10 Sky Grass Roots Rugby (G) 9.30 The World’s Most and Urzila Carlson. 3.10 Wheel of Fortune (G) Extraordinary Homes (PG, 9.30 ■ RuPaul’s Drag Race Down 3.35 Jeopardy (G) HD, C, AD) Piers Taylor Under (16, HD, C, AD) Mama 4.00 2022 Commonwealth and Caroline Quentin visit Ru returns for season two of Japan, where innovation is the drag competition series Games Highlights (G, R) combined with traditional in which 10 new queens Action from day 7. design. s2ep3 from across Australia and 5.00 WhichCar (G, R, C) A look 10.45 1 News (HD, C) Aotearoa compete for the at some of the best SUVs on 11.15 Shortland Street (PG, R, title of Down Under’s Next the market. C, AD) Drag Superstar. s2ep1 5.30 Prime News 11.45 Big Fat Gypsy Weddings 10.40 ■ Ready to Mingle (16, 6.00 Storage Wars (PG, R, C) (PG, R, HD, C, AD) HD, C) Katherine Ryan 7.00 The Ditch (G) Chris Key and 12.50am Schitt’s Creek (M, R, HD, hosts a UK reality dating Savannah Tafau-Levy present C, AD) show in which a single a rugby league show. 1.35 Te Karere (R) woman and 12 lads move in 7.30 – 6.00am 2022 2.00 Infomercials together, but half the guys Commonwealth Games 5.30 – 6.00 Religious are in relationships and are (C) Coverage of the New Programming pretending to be single in Zealand team in Birmingham. order to win. s1ep1 12.05am Kung Fu (M, HD, C) s2ep12 12.55 Evil (16, HD, C) 1.40 Emmerdale (PG, R, C, AD) 2.00 Infomercials 3.00 Unreal (16, HD, C) s2ep9 4.30 – 6.00 The Bachelorette (G, R, HD, C) ■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 89

FRIDAY AUGUST 5 WHAKAATA Film: THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD MĀORI FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019 Taylor Sheridan is usually known for 6.30 Kids’ Programmes work that examines some aspect of the 8.00 Tribe (G, R) American condition (Hell or High Water, 8.30 Oranga Ngākau (G, R) Yellowstone), but perhaps he just wanted 9.30 Whānau Living (G, R) an all-out action outing for a change. It’s 10.00 Lucky Dip (G, R) a “straightforward thriller”, said one critic, 10.30 Whatta Beauty (PG, R) but it “delivers on what it promises”. 11.00 Rage Against the Rangatahi SKY MOVIES PREMIERE, 6.50pm (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) 6.45 Tanked (PG, R) 12.30 Tongue Tied (PG, R) 7.30 Valerie’s Home Cooking (G) 7.30 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) 1.05 Hari with the Māori (PG, R) 8.00 Rick Stein’s Secret France 8.20 Inside West Coast Customs 10.55 Love It or List It: Vancouver Sidesteps (PG, R) (G, R) (PG, R) 1.30 Tōku Reo (G, R) (PG, R) 9.00 Museum Mysteries (PG, R) 9.10 Kindig Customs (PG, R) 2.35 Ako (G, R) 11.55 Killer Siblings (M, R) 10.00 American Pickers (PG, R) 10.00 Street Outlaws: No Prep 3.05 Kids’ Programmes 12.45 Tattoo Fixers (M, R) 11.00 Salvage Dawgs (G) 4.35 Tribe (G, R) 1.40 Below Deck (M, R) 11.25 Flea Market Flip (G, R) Kings (M, R) 5.15 Haka Life (G, R) 2.35 Hoarders: Family Secrets 11.55 Inside Monaco: Playground 10.50 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) 5.30 Kids’ Programmes 11.35 Tanked (PG, R) 6.00 Haka Ngahau ā-Rohe: Te (PG, R) of the Rich (PG, R) 12.25 Goblin Works Garage 3.30 Top Chef (PG) 1.00 Underbelly: Vanishing Act Arawa (G, R) 4.50 Shark Tank (PG, R) (PG, R) 6.30 Te Ao Mārama 5.40 Million Dollar Listing NY (M, R) 1.15 Iron Resurrection (PG, R) 7.00 Pio Terei Tonight (G, R) Kaea 2.00 Aussie Lobster Men (PG, R) 2.10 Texas Metal (PG, R) (PG, R) 3.00 My Cat from Hell (PG) 3.00 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) Pearce, Jackson Owens and 6.35 Love It or List It: Vancouver 4.00 Bobby Flay’s Barbecue 3.50 Inside West Coast Customs Dane Moeke. 8.00 Moosemeat and Marmalade (PG) Addiction (G) (PG, R) (G, R) Two very different 7.35 ■ Billy Elliot (2000, M, R, C) 5.00 Mysteries at the Museum 4.45 Alaskan Bush People (PG, R) chefs explore contrasting 5.40 Tanked (PG) cultures and traditions. A boy from a coal mining (PG) 6.35 Wheeler Dealers (PG) 8.30 Intrepid Journeys (PG) town discovers ballet. Jamie 6.00 American Pickers (PG) 7.30 Mysteries of the Deep (PG) Reuben Wiki explores Laos. Bell, Julie Walters. 7.00 The Chase USA (PG) 8.25 Expedition Unknown (PG) 9.30 Skindigenous (G) Tsishiam 9.55 Injustice with Nancy Grace 8.00 Newshub Live With Rebecca 9.20 NASA’s Unexplained Files artist Lianna Spence was (M, R) Newlyweds disappear raised in a home that did not on the night of a family Wright. (PG) have any Indigenous art. birthday. 8.30 Strictly Come Dancing (G) 10.15 Alaskan Bush People (PG) 10.00 Kōrero Tuku Iho (G) 10.50 Killer Siblings (M, R) 9.25 Celebrity IOU (G) 11.05 Tanked (PG, R) 11.40 – 12.10am Te Ao Mārama (R) 11.40 Accident, Suicide or 10.25 The Chase USA (PG, R) 11.55 Wheeler Dealers (PG, R) Murder? (M, R) 11.30 Flea Market Flip (G) 12.40am Programmes continue 12.30am – 6.00 Infomercials 12.00am – 6.00 Infomercials TVNZDUKE FREEVIEW6SKY023 SKY PREMIERE SKY030 MOVIESCLASSICSSKY034 RIALTO SKY 039 6.00 On Duke Today 6.50 New Year, New You (2018, 7.40 The Freshman (1990, PG) 7.10 The Flood (2019, M) Lena Noon DUKEbox Music 16) Suki Waterhouse Marlon Brando, Matthew Headey, Iain Glen 12.25 Two and a Half Men (M, R, Broderick 8.15 Secret Life of a Celebrity 8.50 Larger Than Life: The Kevyn HD, C) Surrogate (2020, M) Carrie 9.20 The Ruling Class (1972, M) Aucoin Story (2017, M) US 12.50 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, Wampler, Brianne Davis Peter O’Toole, Alastair Sim documentary. R, HD, C) 9.45 The Professor and the 11.50 Alvarez Kelly (1966, PG) 10.35 Creation Stories (2021, 16) 1.10 Battlestar Galactica (PG, R, Madman (2019, M) Mel William Holden, Richard Ewen Bremner Gibson, Sean Penn Widmark HD, C) 12.25 The 8th (2020, M) Irish 2.50 Hunting Aotearoa (PG, R, HD) 11.50 Long Story Short (2021, M) 1.40 The Witches of Eastwick documentary. 3.15 Heavy Rescue 401 (PG, Rafe Spall, Zahra Newman (1987, M) Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon 2.05 Daughter of Mine (2018, M) R, HD) 1.25 Land (2021, M) Robin Wright Valeria Golino 4.05 The Chase Australia (G, C) 2.55 Voyagers (2020, 16) Tye 3.35 Pancho Villa (1972, PG) Telly 4.55 ABC World News (PG) Savalas, Clint Walker 3.40 I Am Jackie O (2020, M) 5.20 Abandoned Engineering Sheridan, Colin Farrell Canadian documentary. 4.45 Death on the Nile (2022, M) 5.05 Dirty Harry (1971, 16) Clint (PG, R, HD, C) Eastwood, Andrew Robinson 5.05 Only the Animals (2019, M) 6.10 30 Rock (PG, R, HD, C) Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot Denis Menochet 6.35 Two and a Half Men (PG, R, 6.50 Those Who Wish Me Dead 6.45 A Fish Called Wanda (1988, M) A stuffy London lawyer 7.00 Mark Hunt: The Fight HD, C) (2021, 16) A survival expert gets involved with a gang of of His Life (2021, 16) NZ 7.00 Everybody Hates Chris (PG, and a teenage murder jewel thieves. John Cleese, documentary. witness are pursued through Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline HD, C) s4ep12 the Montana wilderness. 8.30 Two Hands (1999, 16) A guy 7.30 The Simpsons (PG, R, HD, C) Angelina Jolie, Finn Little 8.30 Unforgiven (1992, M) A working at a strip club in 8.30 Nightmare Alley (2021) retired gunslinger reluctantly Kings Cross loses $10,000 s13ep4 (2021, 16) To con a tycoon, takes on one last job, with he was entrusted to deliver 8.30 ■ Batman Forever (1995, a carny teams up with a the help of his old partner for a local mob boss. Heath psychiatrist. Bradley Cooper, and a young wannabe. Clint Ledger, Bryan Brown, Rose PG, R, HD, C, AD) Batman Cate Blanchett Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Byrne returns to face off against 11.00 French Exit (2021) (2021, M) Morgan Freeman Two Face and the Riddler. Michelle Pfeiffer 10.05 James & Isey (2021, M) NZ Val Kilmer, Jim Carrey, Nicole 12.55am Dawn Raid (2020, M) 2.35 10.40 Dirty Dancing (1987, PG) documentary. Kidman, Tommy Lee Jones. The Mistletoe Secret (2019, PG) Patrick Swayze, Jennifer 10.50 Battlestar Galactica (M, 4.00 Promising Young Woman Grey 11.35 The Secrets We Keep (2020, HD, C) (2020, 18) 5.55 Amber Alert (2017, 16) Noomi Rapace 11.45 Mr Robot (16, HD) M) 12.20am Goodfellas (1990, 16) 1.35am – 1.55 ABC World News 2.40 Fail Safe (1964, PG) 4.30 The 1.10am Instinct (2019, 18) 2.50 (PG, R) Victors (1963, M) Oranges and Lemons (2020, G) 3.10 The 8th (2020, M) 4.50 Two Hands (1999, 16) 90 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

FRIDAY AUGUST 5 SKY CHANNELS Detective with Lt. Joe Kenda (M) 10.30 The Perfect Murder (M) 11.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 12.15am Vibe SKY 006 Programmes continue 6.00 Parenthood (M) s4ep12 6.50 Judge Judy Sky Arts SKY 020 BBC Earth: Cornwall with Simon Reeve, (PG) 7.15 The Closer (M) s4ep5 8.05 The Mysteries 3.05pm of Laura (M) s1ep11 8.50 The Good Wife (M) 6.30 Flightless: Bill Hammond’s Cure for Being Kiwi s1ep8 9.40 Covert Affairs (M) s1ep8 10.30 Judge 7.15 Rough Draft with Reza Aslan 7.40 Mesdames Judy (PG) 11.20 Murdoch Mysteries (M) s14ep6 of Mayhem 8.00 Talking Heads: Alan Bennett 12.10 Private Eyes (M) s5ep6 1.05 The Inbetween Monologues (PG) 8.35 ■ Tintoretto: a Rebel in (M) s1ep6 2.00 The Closer (M) s4ep5 2.50 The Venice (2019, G) 10.05 Speakeasy: Michael Stipe & Mysteries of Laura (M) s1ep11 3.40 The Good Wife Mike Mills 11.10 Put Some Colour in Your Life 11.35 (M) s1ep8 4.30 Judge Judy (PG) 5.30 Parenthood Toni Morrison, Black Matter(s) 12.30 Video Killed (M) s4ep12 6.30 Covert Affairs (M) s1ep8 7.30 the Radio Star 1.00 One Perfect Shot 1.30 Finding Jamestown (16) s2ep1 8.30 Downton Abbey (M) Your Roots 2.30 Flightless: Bill Hammond’s Cure for s6ep9 9.30 The Drowning (M) s1ep2 10.30 The Being Kiwi 3.15 Rough Draft with Reza Aslan 3.40 Good Wife (M) s1ep8 11.20 Judge Judy (PG) 11.50 Mesdames of Mayhem 4.00 ■ Half Way (2015, G) Jamestown (16) s2ep1 12.50am Programmes 5.30 Forte 6.30 Anthems: New Zealand’s Iconic Hits continue (M) 7.15 Stars of the Silver Screen: Robert Duvall 8.00 1968: Photographic Acts (PG) 8.55 ■ You Are BBC UKTV SKY 007 the Days to Come (2021, G) 10.05 ■ Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016, G) Documentary. 12.00am 6.00 Would I Lie to You? (M) 6.35 QI (M) 7.10 Programmes continue EastEnders (PG) 7.40 The Bill (M) 8.30 A Touch of Frost (M) s6ep4 10.20 Father Brown (M) s1ep10 Discovery SKY 070 SKY SPORT 11.10 Doc Martin (PG) s9ep5 Noon Midsomer Murders (PG) s20ep2 1.35 The Bill (M) 2.25 New 6.05 How It’s Made (PG) 6.30 How Do They Do It? Sky Sport 1 SKY 051 Tricks (M) s3ep5 3.25 8 Out of 10 Cats Does (PG) 6.55 Rise of the Machines (M) 7.45 Homestead Countdown (M) 4.20 The Jonathan Ross Show (M) Rescue (PG) 8.35 Mighty Cruise Ships (PG) 9.25 6.00 PGA Tour, Wyndham Championship, round s16ep4 5.15 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) 6.20 Fast N’ Loud (M) 10.20 Gold Rush: White Water (M) 1, live 10.00 The Crowd Goes Wild 10.30 NRL, QI (PG) 6.55 Richard Osman’s House of Games 11.15 Aussie Gold Hunters (PG) 12.10 How Do They Sydney Roosters v Brisbane Broncos, replay from Night (PG) s1ep4 7.25 QI (M) 8.00 Would I Lie to Do It? (PG) 12.35 How It’s Made (PG) 1.05 Museum Sydney Cricket Ground 12.30 The Late Show with You? (PG) 8.35 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Mysteries (PG) 2.00 Naked and Afraid (M) 2.55 Matty Johns 1.30 Sky GrassRoots Rugby 2.30 (M) 9.30 All Round to Mrs Brown’s (M) s3ep5 10.25 Bering Sea Gold (M) 3.50 Gold Rush: White Water SailGP Great Britain Highlights 3.00 Inside Netball Hypothetical (M) s1ep5 11.15 Midsomer Murders (M) 4.45 Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail (M) 5.40 Outback 3.30 IndyCar, Gallagher Grand Prix, highlights from (PG) s20ep2 12.50am Programmes continue Opal Hunters (PG) 6.35 Extreme Ice Machines (PG) Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course 4.30 7.30 Gold Rush: White Water (M) 8.30 Aussie Gold Sky GrassRoots Rugby 5.30 PGA, DP World Tour, SoHo SKY 010 Hunters (PG) 9.30 Aussie Salvage Squad (PG) Cazoo Open, round 1, highlights from the Celtic 10.30 Mysteries at the Museum (PG) 11.25 Naked Manor Resort, Newport, Wales 6.00 Golf, Women’s 6.45 American Rust (16) s1ep6 7.40 Irma Vep (16) and Afraid (M) 12.15am Programmes continue British Open, round 1, highlights from Muirfield, s1ep4 8.35 What We Do in the Shadows (16) s3ep10 Scotland 6.30 PGA Tour, round 1, highlights 7.00 9.05 Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union National Geographic SKY 072 National Provincial Championship, Manawatu v (M) s1ep3 10.55 The Midwich Cuckoos (16) s1ep4 Canterbury, from Central Energy Trust Arena, 11.45 I Love That for You (M) s1ep8 12.15 Rap Sh!t 6.30 Air Crash Investigation (M) 7.30 Nazi Palmerston North, live 9.00 Sky GrassRoots Rugby (16) s1ep2 12.50 Insecure (16) s5ep4 1.25 American Megastructures: America’s War (PG) 8.30 Drain 10.00 Golf, Women’s British Open, round 2, from Rust (16) s1ep6 2.35 The Midwich Cuckoos (16) the Oceans Best ofs (PG) 9.30 Dutch Caribbean Muirfield, Scotland, live 5.00am NRL, Melbourne s1ep4 3.25 I Love That for You (M) s1ep8 3.55 The Coastguard (PG) 10.30 Wicked Tuna (PG) 11.30 Storm v Gold Coast Titans, replay from AAMI Park, Righteous Gemstones (16) s1ep4 4.30 Work in Inside North Korea: The Criminal State (M) 12.30 Air Melbourne Progress (16) s1ep6 5.00 Absentia (16) s3ep5 5.45 Crash Investigation (M) 1.30 Megastructures 2.30 Britannia (18) s2ep8 6.30 Fear the Walking Dead Inside North Korea’s Dynasty (M) 3.30 Narco Wars: Sky Sport 2 SKY 052 (18) s7ep13 7.20 ZeroZeroZero (18) s1ep2 8.30 Mare The Mob (16) 4.30 Nature’s Fury (PG) 5.30 Inside of Easttown (18) s1ep2 9.30 Mind Over Murder (18) (M) 6.30 Drain the Oceans Best ofs (PG) 7.30 When 6.00 ATP 500, Citi Open, day 3, match of the day True-crime docuseries. s1ep6 10.30 I May Destroy Sharks Attack (M) 8.30 Shark Attack Files (M) 9.30 from Rock Creek Park Tennis Center, Washington You (18) s1ep6 11.00 Last Week Tonight with John Air Crash Investigation: Special Report (M) 10.30 DC 1.00 Golf, Women’s British Open, round 1, Oliver (M) s9ep18 11.35 The Rising (16) s1ep3 Air Crash Investigation (M) 11.30 Food Factory (PG) highlights from Muirfield, Scotland 1.30 Golf, PGA 12.20am Programmes continue 12.30am Programmes continue Tour, round 1, highlights 2.00 DP World Tour, Cazoo Open, round 1, highlights 2.30 Sal’s NBL, Taranaki Living SKY 017 History SKY 073 Airs v Nelson Giants, replay from TSB Stadium, New Plymouth 4.30 Inside Netball 5.00 Cycling, 6.15 Salvage Hunters (PG) 7.10 The Pioneer Woman 6.30 Crusaders (PG) 7.30 Secrets of the Lost Ark Tour of Poland, stage 6, Szaflary to Bukovina (PG) 7.35 Mexican Made Easy (PG) 8.05 House (PG) 8.30 Time Team 9.30 Lost Treasures of the Resort, replay 7.00 The Darts Show 7.30 Sal’s NBL, Hunters (PG) 9.00 Mystery Diners (PG) 10.00 Ancient World 10.30 Time Team 11.30 Abandoned Southland Sharks v Franklin Bulls, from ILT Stadium Restaurant: Impossible (PG) 11.00 A Place in the Engineering (PG) 12.30 Henry VII: The Winter King Southland, Invercargill, live 9.30 AFL, live 12.30am Sun: Winter Sun (PG) 11.55 Love It or List It UK (PG) (PG) 1.30 History’s Raiders (PG) 2.30 Scorched Fox Sports News 1.30 Sal’s NBL Women Round 5 12.50 Location Location Location Australia (PG) Earth (PG) 3.30 The Fury and the Flames (PG) 4.30 Highlights 2.30 DP World Tour, Cazoo Open, round 1.50 Salvage Hunters (PG) 2.45 House Hunters Europe’s Secret Armies (PG) 5.30 Lost Treasures 2, from the Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, Wales, (PG) 3.45 The Pioneer Woman (PG) 4.15 Mexican of the Ancient World 6.30 Time Team 7.30 WWII: live Made Easy (PG) 4.45 Restaurant: Impossible (PG) Witness to War (PG) 8.30 American Dynasties: 5.40 Location Location Location (PG) 6.35 Love It The Kennedys (PG) 9.30 Europe’s Last Warrior Sky Sport 3 SKY 053 or List It UK (PG) 7.30 A Place in the Sun: Winter Kings (M) 10.30 Secrets of Britain (PG) 11.30 Myth Sun (PG) 8.30 Every Family Has a Secret (PG) 9.30 Hunters (PG) 12.30am Programmes continue 6.30 The Crowd Goes Wild 7.00 Inside Netball Long Lost Family US (PG) 10.30 Location Location 7.30 World Athletics Championship U20s, day 4, Location Australia (PG) 11.25 House Hunters (PG) BBC Earth SKY 074 session 2, from Santiago de Cali, Colombia, live 12.15am Programmes continue Noon Cycling, Tour of Poland, stage 6, Szaflary to 6.00 Primates (PG) 6.55 Life Below Zero (M) 7.45 Bukovina Resort, replay 2.00 Inside Netball 2.30 Investigation Discovery SKY 018 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 8.30 Wonders of NRL, Sydney Roosters v Brisbane Broncos, replay the Universe (PG) 9.30 The Truth About Antibiotics from Sydney Cricket Ground 4.30 Once a Warrior 6.05 Your Worst Nightmare (M) 6.55 Still a Mystery (PG) 10.35 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 11.20 24 Hours with Monty Betham 5.00 The Ditch 5.30 NRL, (M) 7.45 Reasonable Doubt (M) 8.35 Body Cam (M) in A&E (M) 12.10 Seven Worlds, One Planet (PG) Sydney Roosters v Brisbane Broncos, highlights 9.25 Nightmare Next Door (M) 10.20 Grave Secrets 1.05 Wonders of the Universe (PG) 2.10 Primates 6.00 The Late Show with Matty Johns 7.00 NRL, (M) 11.15 The Perfect Murder (M) 12.10 Your Worst (PG) 3.05 Cornwall with Simon Reeve (PG) 4.05 Melbourne Storm v Gold Coast Titans, from AAMI Nightmare (M) 1.05 Obsession: Dark Desires (M) The Truth About Antibiotics (PG) 5.05 Life Below Park, Melbourne, live 9.55 NRL, Manly Sea-Eagles 2.00 I (Almost) Got Away with It (M) 2.55 Betrayed Zero (M) 5.55 Where the Wild Men Are (PG) 6.50 v Parramatta Eels, from 4 Pines Park, Sydney, (M) 3.50 Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil (M) 4.45 The Dog Rescuers (PG) 7.40 24 Hours in A&E (PG) live 12.45am The Ditch 1.20 World Athletics Your Worst Nightmare (M) 5.40 The Murder 8.30 The Age of Nature (PG) 9.30 The Planets: Championship U20s, day 5, session 1, from Santiago Tapes (M) 6.35 Body Cam (M) 7.30 Evil Lives Here Minisodes (PG) 9.35 Secrets of Bones (PG) 10.35 de Cali, Colombia, live 5.00 Fox Sports News (M) 8.30 Reasonable Doubt (M) 9.30 American Seven Worlds, One Planet (PG) 11.30 Cornwall with Simon Reeve (PG) 12.35am Programmes continue JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 91

RADIO JULY 30AUGUST 5 RNZ Concert Dalia Stasevska, Days 1.00 Onstage BBC Proms: John Wilson Music Alive, conducts the Sinfonia of London – Vaughan FREEVIEW 51 SKY 422 iHeartRADIO Friday, 8pm. Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas rnz.co.nz/concert Tallis; H Watkins: Flute Concerto; Bax: Tintagel; NB: Programmes are subject to change depending on James Newby (Aeneas) Gemma Summerfield Walton: Partita for Orchestra; Elgar: Variations Covid level restrictions at time of broadcast (Belinda) Madeleine Shaw (Sorceress), La Nuova on an Original Theme Op 36, Enigma, Adam Musica/David Bates (harpsichord/conductor) Walker (flute), Sinfonia of London/John Wilson SATURDAY (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London) 9.00 (recorded in Royal Albert Hall, London) 3.00 News and Weather 6.00, 8.00, 9.00, noon Made in New Zealand 11.00 New Music Dreams RNZ Concert Afternoons 7.00 RNZ Concert 6.00 RNZ Concert Mornings 10.00 RNZ Concert 12.00am Music Through the Night Evenings 8.00 Music Alive NZSO Beethoven Days 1.00 Onstage 2.00 Worlds of Music with Festival: Destiny – Beethoven: Symphony No Trevor Reekie 3.00 RNZ Concert Afternoons MONDAY 4 in B flat Op 60; Symphony No 5 in C minor 5.00 Inside Out with Nick Tipping 7.00 RNZ News and Weather 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, noon, Op 67, New Zealand SO/Edo de Waart (2 of 4, Concert Evenings 8.00 Music Alive Christchurch 5.00pm recorded in Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington) Symphony Orchestra: Romantic Masters – 6.00 RNZ Concert Mornings 10.00 RNZ Concert 10.00 Day’s End 12.00am Music Through the Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture; Saint-Saens: Night Piano Concerto No 5 Op 103 ‘Egyptian’; Dvorak: Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70, Somi TUESDAY Kim (piano), Christchurch SO/Luke Dollman News and Weather 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, noon, (recorded in the Christchurch Town Hall) 9.30 5.00pm BBC Proms 2022 Proms at Belfast: Xenakis: 6.00 RNZ Concert Mornings 10.00 RNZ Allegro Molto; Xenakis: Akea; Messiaen: Pièce Concert Days 1.00 Onstage 3.00 RNZ Concert pour piano et quatuor à cordes; Xenakis: Ittidra; Afternoons 7.00 RNZ Concert Evenings 8.00 Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess; Xenakis: À Music Alive CMNZ: Juilliard415 – Handel: r. (Hommage à Ravel); Messiaen: Quartet for Overture, Agrippina; Marais: Dances from the End of Time (8) Louange a l’Immortalité Sémélé; Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in G minor, de Jésus, Hebrides Ensemble (recorded in RV439 “La notte”; Muffat: Sonata No 5 in G, Waterfront Hall Studio, Belfast) 12.00am Music from Armonico tributo; Corelli: Concerto grosso Through the Night in D Op 6/7; Whitehead: time steps out of line (premiere); Rameau: Suite from “Dardanus”, SUNDAY Juilliard415/Robert Mealy (violin/dir) (recorded News and Weather 6.00, 8.00, 9.00, noon in Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland) 10.00 Day’s 6.00 Sanctuary 7.30 Hymns on Sunday with End 12.00am Music Through the Night Robyn Jaquiery 8.00 Grace Notes 9.00 RNZ Concert Mornings 10.00 RNZ Concert Days WEDNESDAY 1.00 Onstage 3.00 The Musical Omnivore with News and Weather 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, noon, David Morriss 5.00 New Horizons with William 5.00pm Dart 6.00 Opera on Sunday BBC Proms 2022: 6.00 RNZ Concert Mornings 10.00 RNZ Concert Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas – Alice Coote (Dido) 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 NB: Programmes are subject to change depending on Noon Midday Report with Māni Dunlop 1.06 Noon Midday Report with Māni Dunlop 1.06 Covid level restrictions at time of broadcast Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 3.45 The Panel Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 3.45 The Panel with Wallace Chapman 5.00 Checkpoint with with Wallace Chapman 5.00 Checkpoint with SATURDAY Lisa Owen 6.30 Trending Now 7.06 Nights with Lisa Owen 6.30 Trending Now 7.06 Nights with 6.08 Storytime 6.55 News 2 Me 7.08 Country Bryan Crump 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 Lately Bryan Crump 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 Lately Life 8.10 Saturday Morning with Kim Hill 12.10 with Karyn Hay 11.04 Nashville Babylon Mark with Karyn Hay 11.04 Music 101 Pocket Edition Māpuna with Julian Wilcox Conversations with Rogers presents Americana, alt country, folk, 12.04am All Night Programme Māori throughout Aotearoa, from sports legends soul and blues 12.04am All Night Programme to business leaders, artists and community FRIDAY advocates 1.06 Music 101 with Charlotte Ryan TUESDAY 5.00 First Up with Nathan Rarere 6.00 5.00 The World at Five 5.30 Tagata o te Moana 5.00 First Up with Nathan Rarere 6.00 Morning Report with Corin Dann and Susie Pacific news, issues, information and music Morning Report with Corin Dann and Susie Ferguson 9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan 6.06 Nashville Babylon Mark Rogers presents Ferguson 9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan Noon Midday Report with Māni Dunlop 1.06 Americana, alt country, folk, soul and blues 7.06 Noon Midday Report with Māni Dunlop 1.06 Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 3.45 The Panel Saturday Night with Phil O’Brien Requests, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 3.45 The Panel with Wallace Chapman 5.00 Checkpoint with nostalgia and musical memories 12.04am All with Wallace Chapman 5.00 Checkpoint with Lisa Owen 6.30 Trending Now 7.06 Nights with Night Programme Lisa Owen 6.30 Trending Now 7.06 Nights with Bryan Crump 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 Lately Bryan Crump 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 Lately with Karyn Hay 11.04 The Mixtape 12.04am All SUNDAY with Karyn Hay 11.04 Worlds of Music with Night Programme 6.08 Storytime 7.10 Features Hour 8.06 Trevor Reekie 12.04am All Night Programme Sunday Morning with Jim Mora Including 9.06 WellBeings with Mediawatch 12.12 Standing Room Only with WEDNESDAY Dominic Bowden, Lynn Freeman Including 1.10 At the Movies 2.05 5.00 First Up with Nathan Rarere 6.00 Saturday, 9am. The Laugh Track 3.05 Classic Drama 4.06 The Morning Report with Corin Dann and Susie Arts Hour (BBC World Service) 5.00 The World Ferguson 9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn at Five 5.10 Heart and Soul (BBC) 5.35 Te Manu Ryan Noon Midday Report with Māni Dunlop Korihi Māori news and issues 6.06 Māpuna 1.06 Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan 3.45 The with Julian Wilcox Conversations with Māori Panel with Wallace Chapman 5.00 Checkpoint throughout Aotearoa, from business leaders to with Lisa Owen 6.30 Trending Now 7.06 Nights artists and community advocates 6.50 Voices with Bryan Crump 10.00 News at Ten 10.15 7.04 Smart Talk Conversations recorded around Lately with Karyn Hay 11.04 Inside Out Nick Aotearoa and the world 8.06 The Sunday Night Tipping presents classic recordings and modern Retro Show with Phil O’Brien 10.00 News at Ten masterpieces from the world of jazz. 12.04am 10.15 Mediawatch 11.04 The Retro Cocktail Hour All Night Programme (KPR) 12.04am All Night Programme 92

Days 1.00 Onstage A showcase of live Classical performances 3.00 RNZ Concert Afternoons 7.00 RNZ Concert Evenings 8.00 Music by ELIZABETH KERR Alive BBC Proms 2022 – Vaughan Williams and Michael Tippett: Full Fourths – Vaughan Minority Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F minor; Tippett: report Symphony No. 4, BBC Philharmonic/Andrew Davis (recorded in Royal Albert Hall, London) Orchestras in 10.00 Day’s End 12.00am Music Through the this country are Night leading the way in welcoming women THURSDAY on to the podium. News and Weather 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, noon, 5.00pm W hen Gemma New takes Marathon effort: Gemma New will conduct ROY COX 6.00 RNZ Concert Mornings 10.00 RNZ the podium for the New seven concerts over just eight days. Concert Days 1.00 Onstage 3.00 RNZ Concert Zealand Symphony Afternoons 7.00 RNZ Concert Evenings 8.00 Orchestra’s seven confidence, that can be deemed off- Music Alive Live from the Auckland Town concerts in Wellington and Auckland this putting, whereas it’s desirous for men.” Hall – APO Premier Series: Firebird – Fisher: week and next, she does so as the first New Earlier this year, New, always dynamic Tupaia; Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain; Zealander to hold the role of principal with the baton, was chastised by a Dallas Boulanger, L: D’un matin de printemps; conductor since the 1950s. In some- critic for “extravagant acrobatics” and Boulanger, L: D’un soir triste; Stravinsky: thing of a marathon, she’ll conduct four “enormous gestures”, while he admitted The Firebird, Suite, Javier Perianes (piano), concerts with American violinist Hilary the orchestra “played well anyway”. Auckland Phil/Shiyeon Sung 10.00 Day’s End Hahn and three with English pianist Paul 12.00am Music Through the Night Lewis over just eight days. New, as principal guest conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, was included FRIDAY As well, New is the first woman in in the “up-and-coming” list in a New York News and Weather 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, the NZSO role, although New Zealand Times article last September, headlined noon, 5.00pm audiences are becoming accustomed to “Top Orchestras Have No Female Con- 6.00 RNZ Concert Mornings 10.00 RNZ female conductors. While New conducts ductors. Is Change Coming?” The NYT Concert Days 1.00 Onstage 3.00 RNZ Concert in Wellington, Shiyeon Sung returns lamented that, with Alsop’s departure Afternoons 7.00 RNZ Concert Evenings to the Auckland Philharmonia Orches- in August after 14 years at the Baltimore 8.00 Music Alive BBC Proms 2022: Russian tra’s podium –the first Korean female Symphony Orchestra, no women at all held Romance and Icelandic Elements, Alexander conductor working with international music director roles with the 25 largest Gavrylyuk (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, orchestras. American orchestras. A month later, the BBC Singers/Dalia Stasevska (recorded in same writer celebrated the appointment Royal Albert Hall, London) 10.00 Day’s End Does gender on the podium make a of Nathalie Stutzmann to lead the top-tier 12.00am Music Through the Night difference? There’s evidence that women Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. “I’m just conductors are more likely to support looking for equality,” the Frenchwoman Newstalk ZB newstalkzb.co.nz women composers, another under-rep- said on taking the role. “That we will one resented group in classical music. Sung, day not be considered a minority.” l SATURDAY billed as a trailblazer, conducts the APO 6.00 Jamie McKay 7.00 D’Arcy Waldegrave 9.00 in music by New Zealander Salina Fisher NZSO IMMERSE, with Gemma New Jack Tame Noon Sportstalk 3.00 Tim Roxborogh and French composer Lili Boulanger (conductor) and Hilary Hahn (violinist), & Tim Beveridge 6.00 Roman Travers 12.00am Jim alongside Stravinsky’s The Firebird. Wellington, August 4, 6 & 7; Auckland, Snedden Mainly, though, the gender issue seems to August 5. be one of equity of opportunity. Certainly APO FIREBIRD, with Shiyeon Sung SUNDAY in the US in the #MeToo era, the dearth (conductor) and Javier Perianes (piano), 6.00 Peter Wolfkamp 9.00 Francesca Rudkin Noon of women conductors receives plenty of Auckland, August 4, broadcast live. Sportstalk 3.00 Tim Roxborogh & Tim Beveridge attention. NZSO IMMERSE, with Gemma New 6.00 Frank Ritchie & Jax van Buuren 7.30 John (conductor) and Paul Lewis (piano), Cowan 8.00 Miles Davis 11.00 The Nutters Club Do double standards apply? American August 12, 13 & 14, featuring Beet- 1.00am Roman Travers conductor Marin Alsop, a strong advocate hoven piano concertos. for women conductors, suggests “society MONDAY-FRIDAY interprets women’s gestures very differ- 5.00 Kate Hawkesby 6.00 Mike Hosking 9.00 Kerre ently; if women exude an aura of extreme 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 JULY 30 2022 LISTENER 93

THE GOOD LIFE GREG DIXON Past time for a pastime Iam in need of a hobby. Titanic), collecting bits of old his spare time.” But what? Dismal”, a series of photos of No ageing personage kit such as ancient theodolites, One online guide to finding dreary early-morning street (56 and rising!) is com- fussing over his mint-condition scenes. This is the sort of low- plete without one, yet 1970s MGB, and complaining the perfect hobby suggests cost pastime I’m looking for. I find myself without about the fecklessness of vari- doing a formal test to find out your personality type, so However, Martyn is also a salutary lesson to be careful a leisure-time activity of any ous local-government officials that you can select the hobby in choosing a hobby. Before he began taking endless sort, or at least one that doesn’t in Tauranga. that best aligns with the inner pictures of storefronts and dismal streets, Martyn was involve a screen of some kind. His son is a complete failure you. I don’t need such a test. married. He no longer is. Proper hobbies, recent as a hobbyist. All I have to show I know my personality type “My ex-wife thought I was incredibly boring,” he says. research shows, not only make for a lifetime’s leisure time is already – skinflint – so I am “It was the one thing we could agree on.” you happy but may help Ido have one occasional you be more successful, pastime: betting against the All Blacks. protect you from dementia Although much of the country – probably most in later life and improve of it– views our national men’s rugby team as your physiology and heart “humble heroes”, “putting the country on the map” function. The humble and “proving we can punch above our weight”, I’ve long hobby is a miracle panacea. been inclined towards the view the 21st-century All Almost everyone I Backs are overhyped, overpaid, overrated and suffer from an know has had one for overgrown sense of entitle- ment about winning. (Please years. Michele, as you will keep the letters of complaint to under 300 words.) know, has her gardening. I’ll admit betting against the All Blacks can be – in most Between storms – the latest eras – a mug’s game. But their recent record under coach Ian of which again flooded the Foster has made my little hobby much more rewarding, quite place – she likes nothing literally. While I did $20 on the first game against Ireland, more than poking her I made $72 back off the second, and $27 on the third. dibble stick and other The lake left by So that’s $79 profit from such gardening arcana. the latest storm the Irish tour. Bring on South at Lush Places. Africa. For my money, Foster is One old friend has taken the best All Blacks coach of the modern era. Long may he lead up watercolours. She’s very his team to defeat! l good. Meanwhile, another, I’ve long been inclined towards the DJ, having bought his first the view that the 21st-century record as a lad in the 1970s, All Backs are overhyped, now has a collection of LPs overpaid and overrated. and singles running into the many thousands. In his spare moments, Blokesy Stokesy, our mate who lives around the bend, pursues his double hob- a half-finished model Spitfire taking considerable inspiration bies of shooting wild things and in the shed, and the world from Britain’s Dull Men’s Club. throwing a line in a river. record for rewatching Seinfeld Its members’ hobbies My hobbying hero is my (approximately nine million include such cheap and cheer- 85-year-old father. As recently times). ful pastimes as protecting mentioned, he has his stamps, For what remains of my time, the apostrophe, a beer can but that’s nothing. Throughout something more substantial obsession, photographing his life, he has had a succes- is needed to fill in the bits in roundabouts, cataloguing sion of hobbying obsessions, between. Something relaxing bandstands and collecting rail- including making and flying yet stimulating, something that way timetables. One member, balsa-wood model planes, when people, on hearing that a bloke called Martyn, has GREG DIXON acquiring and rebuilding vari- it is my hobby, will think, “Yes, spent years taking photos of ous vintage cars, making plastic that sounds exactly like the sort rundown London storefronts. models (including one of the of thing that pillock would do in He has since launched “Project 94 LISTENER JULY 30 2022

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