Highlights Apr 12 to 18 2009

 

MAARA KAI (LIFESTYLE) – Sunday April 12 at 5.00 PM

A series that looks at ways to become less dependent on supermarkets, by growing and making our own produce, to restore the connection between the garden and the plate. 

 

LOST IN TRANSLATION – Sunday April 12 at 9.00 PM

Series finale! Mike King hits the road to find out about the Treaty of Waitangi, who signed and who didn’t, and sheds new light on events in 1840. Tonight: Treaty carrier Major Thomas Bunbury’s mission was to sign up the South Island – yet he returned with just 27 signatures.

 

MISTRESS OF SPICES (SUNDAY FEATURE) (2005) – Sunday April 12 at 9.00 PM

A sensual love story starring Aishwarya Rai.  Tilo is an immigrant from India who runs a spice shop in San Francisco.  Her spices do extraordinary things for her customers.  But when a man crashes his motorbike outside her shop and they begin to fall in love, the spices become jealous of her affections – with consequences for Tilo and her special clients.

 

411 (TECHNOLOGY) – Monday April 13 at 9.30 PM

Reviews, highlights and samples from the world of technology, in Aotearoa and the world beyond.  This week: Professor John Moorfield discusses ‘Te Whanake’ online resources,a nd Taakaro Ataata joins forces with the unbearably cute Little Big Planet.

 

THE CURSE OF INCA GOLD (INTERNATIONAL DOCO) – Tuesday April 14 at 8.30 PM

Five hundred years ago the Spanish went looking for gold in the Peruvian Andes.  This documentary pieces together the story of the world’s most prolific and richest gold mine.

 

SKIN TO SKIN (NZ DOCO) – Wednesday April 15 at 8.30 PM

Are race relations being solved in the country’s bedrooms? This documentary looks at the cultural divide within families, what it means to be ‘half-caste’, and the browning of New Zealand, not just in skin tone but also in the way we think.

 

HYUNDAI CODE (SPORTS) – Thursday May 15 at 8.30 PM

Jenny-May Coffin and the team are in the house with New Zealand’s award-winning sports programme, live from Maori Television’s Auckland studio. Check out the great guests, captivating korero and comical capers of ‘Brofessionals’ Matua Parkinson and Glen Osborne, and new presenter Ruben Wiki.

 

Ends

 

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