Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

Audio from Wednesday 2 May 2012

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13:10 Best Song Ever Written - I Know It's Over

Eva Bradley from Hawkes Bay has chosen 'I Know It's Over' by The Smiths. (10′28″)

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13:26 Link 3

Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? (3′36″)

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14:10 Golf Clubs

The description of a set of golf clubs up for auction at Sotheby's in London claims they are "probably the earliest known examples of traditional hand-crafted club-making from New Zealand". But New Zealand golf pro and historian John Evans doesn't think the clubs were made in New Zealand. He thinks they were probably brought here at the end of the 19th century. (11′19″)

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14:21 Bionic eye

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of researchers in Australia say they could be less than a year away from making a bionic eye available to people with degenerative eye disease. (8′58″)

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15:10 Virtual World with Hamish McEwen

Topics - Is Siri smarter than Google?; Google Wave is gone, hello Google Drive; Google 'aware of data scoop' from their streetview project; the Apple company profit - where are their ethics? (22′52″)

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15:33 Auckland Story for 2 May 2012 - Pacific Arts Summit

Lisa Thompson went to the South Auckland Pacific Arts Summit, which celebrates a broad spectrum of Pacific arts and culture. Over the month of May, the Summit will feature exhibitions, a live public mural project at the club rooms of the Otara Scorpions league team, workshops discussing Pacific architecture and dance fono which will draw various dance practitioners from around the country. (11′57″)

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15:46 The Panel Pre-Show for 2 May 2012

Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. (14′09″)

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16:07 The Panel with Neil Miller and Dita de Boni (Part 1)

Topics - The Alcohol Reform Bill will go back in Parliament to pass its final stages next month. The embattled Act leader and government MP John Banks says he kept political donor Kim Dotcom briefed on the progress of his application to buy 45 hectares of New Zealand land for 45 million dollars. (23′52″)

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16:31 The Panel with Neil Miller and Dita de Boni (Part 2)

Topics - The Mongrel Mob says it will take the Porirua City Council to the Supreme Court, if it has to, to overturn a ban on offensive insignia on headstones. Soaring property prices in Auckland continue to outstrip those in the rest of the country. (25′39″)

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