Revisiting Conversations: How fair is our history?

Revisiting Conversations: How fair is our history?

Face Television (formerly Triangle Television) is currently re-broadcasting the cream of episodes from the 2012 season of "In Conversation with Noel Cheer". The Conversations demonstrate the value to be found in gently inquisitive discussions, in contrast to the more inquisitorial style.

Imagine that, as you matured and researched the history of our country, you came to realise that the standard version of the historical encounters between European and Pacific peoples that you have been taught is badly skewed -- to European advantage.

This week's returning guest In Conversation with Noel Cheer on Face Television is Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond from the Department of Maori Studies at the University of Auckland. She experienced that feeling of unfair history writing and went on to become an anthropologist, an historian, a writer and an academic.

In the context of her growing role as a public intellectual she warned us: “The philosophies that persuaded many Kiwis to betray their own best values are bankrupt and our future is at risk. A nation that does not care for its children has a death wish. A society that destroys the environment that sustains it will fail.”

In Conversation with Noel Cheer, Face Television, Monday February 11th at 7:00pm, repeated on Tuesday February 12th at 12 noon.

Face Television, the home of public broadcasting, is found on Sky Television Channel 089 and can also be received in the Auckland region on UHF Channels 41, 42 and 52. The website www.facetv.co.nz carries programme schedules. Some recent episodes of In Conversation can be viewed at www.youtube.com/user/NoelCheer

In Conversation with Noel Cheer receives funding from New Zealand on Air. This has enabled us to introduce viewers to over 240 New Zealanders on Air (as well as visitors to New Zealand) during six years of unbroken weekly broadcasting.

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