Summary: Highlights from RNZ National's programmes for the week ending Friday 11 December. This week.... the political pressure on public service; the media views of the perjury trial of cricketer Chris Cairns; what leads young people to join terror groups like Islamic State; death of the video store; learning about lampreys - vampire fish; oil exploration in NZ and improving our chances of finding it; poetry parking meters; inside the mind of a recording engineer; killer kiwi and baroque conductor Nicholas McGegan on the power of Handel's Messiah.
