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Highlight for Week 7, 2008 - Feb 11th to 17th

MIHARO (CHILDREN) - Monday, Feb 11th at 5p.m.

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The whole world is a classroom in this educational series for tamariki. Join presenters Kereti Rautangata and Pirimia Burger for a jam-packed show designed to inspire inquiring minds with questions and answers, the ancient and the modern, learning and laughter. (Maori language)

NATIVE AFFAIRS: SUMMER SERIES (CURRENT AFFAIRS) - Monday, Feb 11th at 8:30p.m.
Maori Television’s current affairs series presents the highlights of 2007. Tonight: What is a Pakeha; a kokako bird conservation programme; developing new tikanga for tangihanga in Australia; and Maori Party MP Hone Harawira and Aboriginal boxing star Anthony Mundine go head-to-head.

NO MAN’S LAND (INTERNATIONAL DOCO) - Tuesday, Feb 12th at 8:30p.m.
Hijras or transgender people are considered social outcasts within South Asian society, existing in a strange no-man’s land. Four hijra talk about their lives in India while the medical professionals who deal with their differing medical needs discuss their work. (Indian with English language subtitles)

TAKU WAHINE PUROTU - Wednesday, Feb 13th at 8p.m.
The final in this series about tribal meeting houses that celebrate iconic female ancestors. Tonight: Wairaka was the saviour of the Mataatua waka and her people. Today she is commemorated as an ancestral meeting house and a whole town is named after her actions – Whakatane.

NO ORDINARY JOE (NZ DOCO) - Wednesday, Feb 13th at 8:30p.m.
Hohepa Delamere – or Papa Joe – practices forms of traditional Maori healing and uses the methods that Maori healers have been using for generations: mirimiri (massage), rongoa (herbal treatments) and karakia (spiritual prayer).  

NBL: HARVEY NORMAN NZ BREAKERS - Thursday, Feb 14th at 8p.m.

repeats Saturday February 16 at 1.30 PM -  It’s crunch time in the playoffs of Australia’s Hummer Championship NBL. The brilliant Breakers have had a record-breaking season thus far – but will they clinch a playoff berth for the first time in their history?

BASSLINE (NZ MUSIC) - Friday, Feb 15th at 8:30p.m.
New Zealand’s modern-day musical movement is captured in action on stage. Tonight: Originally formed in Christchurch in 1997, Solaa has played alongside acts like Trinity Roots, Salmonella Dub, Shapeshifter and FFD, gathering an expansive fan base along the way.

TE HAUKAINGA - Sunday, Feb 17th at 5p.m.
Series finale about the people who live within their tribal lands in the eastern Bay of Plenty. Tonight: Directly behind the pulp and paper mill in Kawerau are two distinct hills from where the stars were studied awaiting the best time to plant kumara. (Maori language with English language subtitles)

NGA AHUREI O TE RAUMATI - Sunday, Feb 17th at 8:30p.m.
The performances and personalities of New Zealand’s summer festivals. Tonight: Returns to the Womad international festival to look more closely at the contribution of the Taranaki iwi to the event and the on-site paepae that introduces festival goers to aspects of tikanga Maori. 

WALKING ON WATER (SUNDAY FEATURE) - Sunday, Feb 17th at 9p.m.
Charlie (Vince Colosimo) and Anna (Maria Theodorakis) make a pact to relieve the suffering of their terminally ill friend Gavin. Their decision and the repercussions are the catalyst of this candid yet compassionate portrayal of how grief can bring out the worst and the best in family and friends.  

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