Maori Television highlights For Week Starting April 30

New this week
He Toki Huna: New Zealand in Afghanistan
The Road to the Globe
Bedford: The Town They Left Behind
ANZAC Debate (iwi representatives discuss the price of citizenship in NZ, te reo)
Dedicated ANZAC DAY 2013 programming

Season finals this week
Te Irikura
Putahi
AIA Marae DIY

Coming soon
Precious
Head 2 Head – new lifestyle sports show
CODE


SATURDAY 20 APRIL 2013

6.30 pm Te Irikura G
We re-visit the artists who have guided us through the series to ask them about the future of Maori Art and how traditional practices have allowed them to move into modern mediums. (FINAL REPEAT)

7.30 pm Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams G
The Cortez siblings set out for a mysterious island, where they encounter a genetic scientist and a set of rival spy kids.

9.30 pm Journey to the West G
Maori Television is pleased to present the popular Chinese Television series adapted from the classical novel of the same title, dubbed in te reo Maori.

10.30 pm Poitukohu NBA UR
Maori Television is pleased to bring you action from the 2012 National Basketball Association (NBA) season. Tonight: Play-offs

SUNDAY 21 APRIL 2013

7.00am UK Super League UR
Maori Television brings you coverage of the 2013 UK Super League. Today: The Challenge Cup. (DELAYED)

7.30 pm It’s in the Bag G
Plenty of laughs in Putaruru as the It’s in the Bag crew roll out the big prizes and the booby prizes tonight!

8.30 pm Pakipumeka Aotearoa: The Road to the Globe G
Rawiri Paratene leads a group of actors on their journey to peform Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida at the Globe Theatre in London – all in Te Reo Maori. (PREMIERE)


9.30 pm Sunday Cinema: Broken Embraces AO
A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he not only lost his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his life. (PREMIERE)


MONDAY 22 APRIL 2013


6.30 pm Putahi G
Three guests join Precious Clark in a thought-provoking discussion around planning a family, touching on topics within this kaupapa including blended families, being and becoming hapu, and infertility.

7.30 pm Kai Time on the Road G
Tonight the Kai Time waka heads to the Raukumara Ranges in Gisborne and there is only one thing on the menu - venison.

8.30 pm Native Affairs UR
Mihingarangi Forbes and the award-winning current affairs team investigate regional and national stories from a Maori perspective, as well as international indigenous news.


TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013


6.30 pm Putahi G
In the final episode of this series, host Precious Clark and her three manuhiri discuss the issues, obstacles and statistics facing Maori these days, and whether it is possible to be Maori and happy. (FINAL)

8.00 pm Behind the Brush G
Descendants of tupuna painted by Gottfried Lindauer lift the lid on history.
The captive scholar, the true identity of the most famous portrait and a bastion leader create a new future for generations.

8.30 pm Tuesday Festival Documentary: Bedford: The Town They Left Behind
Bedford, Virginia’s National Guard troops suffered the United States’ biggest losses on D-Day in WWII. This emotionally-charged documentary recalls that solemn history but also places it in contemporary context. (PREMIERE)

WEDNESDAY 24 APRIL 2013

7.30 pm Te Tepu UR
Prominent kaumatua as well as the country’s best practitioners of te reo Maori share their views on local, national and international issues with presenter Chris Winitana.

8.00 pm He Iwi Whakapono G
As a teenage mum Mania Clarke found refuge in God. Ruia Aperahama talks with her about this journey and how the support of her church changed her life.

8.30 pm Documentary: He Toki Huna: New Zealand in Afghanistan
As New Zealand withdraws its troops from Afghanistan, Annie Goldson’s latest documentary explores the decade of our nation’s involvement in the War on Terror. (PREMIERE)

9.30 pm ANZAC Debate
Julian Wilcox hosts a discussion between iwi representatives about the ‘Price of Citizenship’ in New Zealand, 70 years after Sir Apirana Ngata wrote a booklet of the same name. (Te Reo with subtitles)

THURSDAY 25 APRIL 2013


5.50 am Dawn Service
Join Judy Bailey, Julian Wilcox and Wena Harawira for the Dawn Parade and Service as the sun rises over the Auckland War Memorial Museum.


6.40 am ANZAC Day – On Parade
Our hosts for ANZAC 2013 give an overview of the ANZAC programming to be featured throughout the day.

7.00 am El Alamein: Line in the Sand
A moving documentary directed and presented by veteran broadcaster Cameron Bennett who, late last year, accompanied a party of 22 Kiwi veterans from the North Africa Campaign as they returned to Egypt.

8.00 am The Desert War
We tell the story of New Zealand’s role in the North Africa Campaign and lay out the cost to the nation – the wounded, the dead and those taken as prisoners of war.

9.00 am Kiwis at War
The story of Sir Charles Upham, one of three New Zealanders fighting in North Africa who was awarded the highest decoration of gallantry in the face of the enemy – the Victoria Cross.


9.30 am The Final Hui – 28th Battalion Association
We report from the final hui of the 28th Maori Battalion Association held last December. As the number of surviving veterans of this legendary battalion continues to dwindle, the decision was taken to close the association.

10.00 am Timor Leste
An inside look into the New Zealand Defence Force’s decade-long military history in East Timor, which ended last November.


10.35 am Out of Afghanistan
As New Zealand Troops are about to leave Afghanistan after a 10-year stint, we take a look into the reasons we were there and the price paid.

11:00 am Hitler and the Gum Diggers – The Story of ‘A’ Company
We continue our mission to document the exploits of all four rifle companies of the 28th Maori Battalion. This year we highlight the Gum Diggers - the men of the North.


12.00 pm Sahara
The 1943 feature film starring Humphrey Bogart. Filmed during World War II, Sgt. Joe Gunn leads an abandoned tank unit after the fall of Torbruk in North Africa.


1.50 pm ANZAC Address – Peter FitzSimons
Australian broadcaster, best-selling author and former Wallaby rugby player Peter FitzSimons delivers the ANZAC 2013 address.


2.15 pm Time Bomb – Legacy of the Land Mines
A look at the effects of the land mines left behind after the North Africa Campaign in Egypt.

2.30 pm Gallipoli Dawn Service LIVE – ANZAC Cove
LIVE coverage from Gallipoli capturing the moving atmosphere of the hallowed place where the ANZAC legend and tradition began.


3.30 pm The Generals
Cameron Bennett delves into the history of one of our most famous sons, Sir Bernard Freyberg, and talks to Kiwi veterans about the man who led the Axis troops, Germany’s Erwin Rommel.

4.00 pm ANZ RSA Cyril Bassett VC Speech Competition
We hear from New Zealand’s best young orators from the ANZ RSA Cyril Bassett VC Speech Competition 2013.

4.30 pm The Art of War
A journey into a world of art inspired by our involvement in the war.

5.30 pm News: Te Kaea UR
Local, regional and national Maori news and international news from the Maori Television reporting team. (Maori language).

6.00 pm Ngarimu V.C
Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu from ‘C’ Company, 28th Maori Battalion, was killed in action in North Africa and was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross – this is his story.


6.40 pm Ngarimu V.C – The Whanau Remembers
Tiwai Reedy meets with Ngarimu’s sisters who remember their big brother from before he left for war – and never came home.

7.00 pm News: Te Kaea UR
Local, regional and national Maori news and international news from the Maori Television reporting team.

7.30 pm ANZAC Highlights 2013
Highlights from today’s ANZAC Day coverage and special programming.

8.00 pm ANZAC Concert 2013
Tune in for a special programme of music by the New Zealand Army Band, accompanied by stars Anika Moa and Ria Hall.

9.00 pm A Soldier’s Story
The compelling 1984 drama about an African American officer’s investigation of a murder in a racially charged situation during World War II.


FRIDAY 26 APRIL 2013

7.30 pm Tribe G
A music video series with the hottest clips in Aotearoa and around the world.

8.00 pm Unsung Heroes of Maori Music G
Unsung heroes of Maori music profiles Maori musicians of past and present who have been largely unrecognised by mainstream media. Tonight: Mahora Peters.

8.30 pm AIA Marae DIY G
The Marae DIY crew are back again, tools and can do attitude in hand. Join the journey as we visit and help out at different marae around te motu. Tonight: Omahu Marae. (FINAL REPEAT)

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