Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

Audio from Monday 16 July 2012

Not all audio is available due to copyright restrictions.

13:08 Best Song Ever Written - My Sweet Lord

Paul Lawless from Auckland has chosen 'My Sweet Lord' by George Harrison. (10′16″)

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13:22 Eight Months to Mars - Witi Ihimaera

Novelist, short story writer, anthologist and librettist, described by the Sunday Star Times as the Senior Statesman of New Zealand fiction. (25′56″)

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14:10 Finding Marlborough's "signature dishes"

A Marlborough couple are putting plans in place to make the region as famous for its food, as it is for its wine. Bill and Sandee Floyd say many people are growing and making delicious food in Marlborough. (11′50″)

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15:10 A Second Life: Aprica to Salvation in Switzerland 1943

There are many untold stories of men and women who helped save souls from the German death camps. Retired Auckland University Physics professor, Alan Poletti came across one of those untold stories in the small Italian Town of Aprica, on the edge of the Swiss border. It was the story of how two priests helped 200 foreign jews escape across the mountains, along a treacherous path to safety in Switzerland. (25′15″)

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15:36 Our Changing World - Ice Drilling in Antarctica

Nancy Bertler likes it cold. She spends her summers in Antarctica and her winters working in a laboratory at minus 20 degrees, surrounded by ice. As a glaciologist, Nancy's interested in the information she can glean from ice cores which hold clues about how quickly Antarctica's ice sheets have retreated in the past. (10′48″)

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15:47 The Panel Pre-Show for 16 July 2012

Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. (12′50″)

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16:07 The Panel with Anna Chinn and Don Donovan (Part 1)

Topics - Statistics New Zealand is poised to release the consumer price for the June quarter. Facebook has announced that it will soon let users see who has been browsing through their pages. (24′31″)

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16:34 The Panel with Anna Chinn and Don Donovan (Part 2)

Topics - Psychologists have found female IQ scores have risen above men's for the first time in 100 years. A 36-strong delegation from the Auckland Council is attending the Local Government NZ conference in Queenstown, at a cost to ratepayers of more than $93,000. (25′42″)

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