Afternoons for Wednesday 14 July 2010
1:10 Best Song Ever Written
Turquoise Days by Echo and The Bunnymen
1:15 Link 3 - music game
2:10 Feature stories
The Hyde Railway station on the Otago Central Rail Trail is on the market for only the second time in it's history. Richard Hay bought it 20 years ago from the Railways Corporation to save it from demolition.The Hyde Railway Station was built in 1894, but trains stopped pulling into the station in April,1990. Now Hay says he doesn't have much time to spend at the little kauri station anymore, and it's time for him to move on.
Red hot chili peppers have arrived in the Arctic. Chili pepper seeds and hundreds of other sorghum varieties were given a VIP escort by several US Senators and Congressmen to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week. The "doomsday" vault holds the seeds of more than 525-thousand crops from around the world. It's in an underground cavern on the island of Spitsbergen in the acrtic circle, about 1,300 kilometres from the North Pole. The latest arrivals to the botanical Noah's Ark came from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation in Colorado.
2:30 Reading
Now for a little virtual travel and the third episode of Up The Nile with Burton.
Dinah Priestley and her travel companion Tony Burton are on their way through India towards Egypt and Istanbul.
2:45 He Rourou
In the olden days, Maori had specific houses devoted to the arts, like dance, storytelling and other games.
Ana Tapiata talks with Te Ahukaramu Royal about the institution known as the whare tapere.
2:50 Feature Album
Total Life Forever is the second effort by British indie rock band Foals released a couple of months ago, and it's shaping up as one of the best UK releases of the year.
3:12 Virtual World
Mr IT, Hamish MacEwan is back.
Conroy puts internet filter on backburner
Registrations of .nz domain names which include macrons over the vowels will begin to be available to everyone on a first-come, first-served basis from 26 July 2010.
3.33 Auckland story
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Laughter Yoga is the very hot thing in the global wellness industry these days. It was started by an Indian physician fifteen years ago and there are now thousands of laughter yoga clubs round the world. We visit one in Glenfield on Auckland's Northshore shore .
3:47 Pre Panel show
4:06 The Panel with Graham Bell and John Bishop
Do we need any more arming of the police? Do we need the mayor of Auckland to send flowers on our behalf and with our money out to people who've received honours or who are feeling poorly? The YMCA is dropping the MCA from its name - Y? Does tummy button location indicate athletic ability, and the kind of athletic ability you have? And we discuss those sheds on Queens Wharf and will there or won't there be a party central in Auckland.