This week on Te Pae (Sunday-Friday 12-2pm, 6-8pm) we have live music with Nigel Parry and the Parryphonalia, movies with Rachel, a short interview with Wendell Perkins, a 93yr old Marines veteran who spent five months in Paekakariki in 1943 before the Battle of Tarawa in Kiribati, community Notices with Suzy Richardson, Jack McDonald from the Paekakariki Community Board and we talk about Tarawa, with Professor Tony Whincup, who has spent over 25 years working with the peoples of Kiribati. Shona McNeil, a slam-poet joins us for Spoken Word.

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