Kia ora

[Aotearoa]

Good evening FoR3.
I moved to NZ some five years ago from the UK.
In doing so I have flipped my listening clock. I used to listen to the usual late morning and aternoon programmes whilst at work. ironically i was too busy of an evening to be able to enjoy much of the evening's outputs. However, NZ changed all that. I am now an ardent listener of Late Junction, Jazz on 3 and various talking head programmes; none of which I would have gone near in my UK guise. I think I am one of the few people who can listen to Through the Night live without the aid of i-player.

Looking forward to participating. I have none of the education nor articulation of many forum members, but the polite banter and friendly insight meant I really needed to join this forum. Looking forward to participating.

But please - no rugby discussions!

Aotearoa - Land of the Long White Cloud

[kernelbogey]

Welcome, Aotearoa!

I'm relieved that your thread is not about fruit squash. Kia Ora was a leading brand of such in my youth!

I think you'll find that TTN has its enthusiasts on these boards - some of them, like me, insomniac residents of the British Isles who also listen live!

BW, kb

[french frank]

but the polite banter and friendly insight meant I really needed to join this forum. Looking forward to participating.

Better amend that to 'usually polite' banter and friendly insight! We do our best to maintain standards but there can be a bit of an unruly scrum - oops, sorry!, I mean unruly jostling - now and then. But yes, you're very welcome :-)

[Aotearoa]

Welcome, Aotearoa!

I'm relieved that your thread is not about fruit squash. Kia Ora was a leading brand of such in my youth!

I think you'll find that TTN has its enthusiasts on these boards - some of them, like me, insomniac residents of the British Isles who also listen live!

BW, kb

I well remember Kia Ora as I only ever saw it sold during the Pearl and Dean cinema break.
I was more than surprised to discover it was a Maori greeting in their own language - Te Reo. Anchor, however, is not Kiwi for butter.

Thanks for the welcome. Stuck with a cold in my Tokyo hotel room so cannot head off to the NHK concert tonight - Franck's symphony and some Wagner with Gaetano d’Espinosa at the baton. See how I manage tomorrow for the repeat performance.

[amateur51]

I well remember Kia Ora as I only ever saw it sold during the Pearl and Dean cinema break.
I was more than surprised to discover it was a Maori greeting in their own language - Te Reo. Anchor, however, is not Kiwi for butter.

Thanks for the welcome. Stuck with a cold in my Tokyo hotel room so cannot head off to the NHK concert tonight - Franck's symphony and some Wagner with Gaetano d’Espinosa at the baton. See how I manage tomorrow for the repeat performance.

Welcome Kia Ora!

For future reference are you are or a person?

I tend to listen to Through The Night on iPlayer at breakfast time to mid-morning - very little announcer chatter and often some delightful surprises.

Are you able to access the BBC iPlayer?

[Aotearoa]

Welcome Kia Ora!

For future reference are you are or a person?

I tend to listen to Through The Night on iPlayer at breakfast time to mid-morning - very little announcer chatter and often some delightful surprises.

Are you able to access the BBC iPlayer?

Thanks for the welcome amateur51,

Not sure there is an emoticon for Otago Pinot Noir. Otherwise it is Tui or Speights, depending upon which island I am drinking (NZ-ers are very tribal about their beers).

We are forbidden i-player - I wish they would sell subscritions. It is most frustrating to see the line-up when live R3 lets me down. I often fancy a dip into the toy box but it snaps shut. I can't be bothered with web-based 'work arounds'. I also have access to the delightfully home-spun Radio New Zealand Concert. Their audience is 'mature' and learned and won't put up with blather between works. I represent a contrary element to their demographic.

[Nick Armstrong]

Not sure there is an emoticon for Otago Pinot Noir. Otherwise it is Tui or Speights, depending upon which island I am drinking (NZ-ers are very tribal about their beers).

...the delightfully home-spun Radio New Zealand Concert. Their audience is 'mature' and learned and won't put up with blather between works. I represent a contrary element to their demographic.

You seem determined to make us jealous !!! All that and 'Through the Night' among your staple 'R3' fare...

Good for you, and welcome from me too.

Yes 'Kia Ora' transports me back to the Odeon cinema in the 70s seeing epics like 'Cromwell' as a lad. Plastic container with a square foil-covered top through which you had to spear your straw, iirc.

Hope you find lots to engage with here, musical and non-musical!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yep hi and welcome Jon3 has been on good form lately so do post your thoughts on the Jazz Forum where we are always ineffably anarchic and nice

[BBMmk2]

Aotearoa- Land of the long White Cloud. This is also a title of a rather good brass band score. By Philip Sparke.

Welcome to the boards Aoteaoroa!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I think I am one of the few people who can listen to Through the Night live without the aid of i-player.

That must be incredible - being able to experience Radio 3 as it should be.

[Nick Armstrong]

Aotearoa- Land of the long White Cloud. This is also a title of a rather good brass band score. By Philip Sparke.

Exceptional knowledge, Bbm!!!!

[Don Petter]

Yes 'Kia Ora' transports me back to the Odeon cinema in the 70s seeing epics like 'Cromwell' as a lad. Plastic container with a square foil-covered top through which you had to spear your straw, iirc.

It's still going, though, as with so many things, now owned by Coca-Cola. (Started in Australia, rather than NZ.)

Looks likly fodder for a silly anagram from me, but no, I'll just have to fondly remember 'Idris, when I's dri'.


Welcome, Aoteaoroa!

[BBMmk2]

Exceptional knowledge, Bbm!!!!

Well, one of my specialities in music is brass band and orchestral brass as well.

[kea]

Kia ora from Aucks (in spite of the name). American transplant actually, got to know Radio 3 while studying in the UK... and now hardly ever listen to it

Aotearoa- Land of the long White Cloud. This is also a title of a rather good brass band score. By Philip Sparke.

Welcome to the boards Aoteaoroa!

Hereabouts it's a concert overture by Douglas Lilburn, and the only word of the national anthem I actually know...

[Aotearoa]

Hi there Kea,

Your name is the friendly bird we see on Kapiti Island (three miles from our house).

It will be passport time for me in two months - taking on a Kiwi passport after almost 5 years of residency. I have to be able to sing the national anthem in both English and Te Reo. Humming along doesn't count.

I met a principal brass player from the NZSO last week who did the Europe tour and they played Aotearoa to death - not that each city would have guessed it was a jaded performance.