Afternoons for Wednesday 23 June 2010
1:10 Best Song Ever Written
We Don't Know How lucky We Are by Fred Dagg, chosen by Conrad Hickson in Wellington.
1:15 Link 3 Music Game
We play the songs, and you have to find the connection between them all.
Patti LaBelle - Stir It Up
The Four Tops - Bernadette
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
2:10 Feature story
Talks are taking place to bring Chinese giant pandas to Wellington Zoo. Mayor Kerry Predergast and the Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry have had discussions about the possibility of bringing the popular and endangered animals to New Zealand. Right now, the only Pandas in the Southern Hemisphere are in Adelaide Australia, who have a live panda cam.
Auckland colleges play an adapted form of the magical sport called Muggle Quidditch. Every Saturday, Muggle Quidditch players meet at Ellerslie Primary in Auckland on broomsticks, but their feet stay firmly on the ground. The Auckland Quidditch Association is trying to get the game recognised as a sport in schools here.
2:30 NZ Reading
Grant Tilly reads part six of The Fat Man by Maurice Gee.
Colin has had a day of schoolboy embarrassment. At his mother's insistence, he walked the fat man's stepdaughter, Verna, to school. He stood up for her when she was bullied. And at the end of the day, the fat man arrived at school to pick them up!
2:50 Feature Album
Passion Pit's Manners.
2:55 He Rourou
People should not under-estimate the value of their elders, according to one of the organisers of the recent Maori performing arts festival for senior citizens.
Mamae Takerei tells Ana Tapiata why it's time for elders to step out from the shadow of younger performers.
3:12 Virtual World
1. World Cup fever pushed the Internet to a new record on Friday, according to measurements from Akamai
The FIFA World Cup is the latest data point in the rise and rise of the Internet as a source of information on world events.
Facebook is getting the star treatment with its own movie, The Social Network. Director David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, the man behind A Few Good Men and The West Wing.
Site of the Week: www.taskrabbit.com
3.33 Auckland story
The Supercity. Will be it be good for all Aucklanders? Well it seems the jury's still out… but many of the people who live on Great Barrier Island fear that they may have too small a voice. Today's Auckland story features the chairman of the Great Barrier Island Community Board, Paul Downey.
3:47 Our Changing World
It seems quite obvious that different people have different senses of smell. But could these differences be determined by our genes?
Richard Newcomb from Plant and Food Research is trying to determine if variation in odour receptor genes changes our sense of taste and flavour. If a connection is found, then future foods could be targeted at certain parts of the population based on this genetic information.
Ruth Beran goes to the Molecular Sensing Laboratory at Mount Albert in Auckland to see how the tests are done, and in the process gets to find out how good her sense of smell actually is.
4:06 The Panel
Garry Moore and Finlay MacDonald. Hone Harawira claims the police are unfairly targeting Maori youths for DNA swabs, whats the law around providing samples? A leadership conference in Queenstown for Manukau City councillors raises questions, and "BIDEN, BITE ME!" That comment about the US Vice President, is just one of the explosive quotes in a Rolling Stone magazine article that may lead to the resignation of a top US General.