Afternoons for Wednesday 13 August 2014
1:10 Best Song Ever Written: 'Like A Rolling Stone' - Bob Dylan nominated by Chris Rivers
1:20 Music Trivia Game: the songs:
ARTIST: The Beatles
TITLE: Eleanor Rigby
COMP: John Lennon, Paul McCartney
ALBUM: Revolver
LABEL: Parlophone 746 441
ARTIST: Ben Folds Five
TITLE: Brick
COMP: Ben Folds, Darren Jessee
ALBUM: The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective
LABEL: Epic 792683
ARTIST: The Flying Lizards
TITLE: Money (That's What I Want)
COMP: Berry Gordy, Janie Bradford,
ALBUM: Let's Get Loud
LABEL: Disky 901729
ANSWER: No guitars: None of these songs use guitars (other than bass).
ARTIST: Gary Wright
TITLE: Dream Weaver
COMP: Gary Wright
ALBUM: Instant Party 70's Rockadellic
LABEL: Rhino 276736
ARTIST: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
TITLE: Meeting Across The River
COMP: Bruce Springsteen
ALBUM: Born To Run
LABEL: CBS 180959
ARTIST: Janis Joplin
TITLE: Mercedes Benz
COMP: Janis Joplin, Michael McClure, Bob Neuwirth
ALBUM: The Essential Janis Joplin
LABEL: Columbia 593200
ARTIST: Jean Michel Jarre
TITLE: Oxygene Part IV
COMP: Jean Michel Jarre
ALBUM: Images -The Best of Jean Michel Jarre
LABEL: Dreyfus 511306
ARTIST: The Housemartins
TITLE: Caravan of Love
COMP: Ernie Isley, Chris Jasper, Marvin Isley
ALBUM: Now That's What I Call Quite Good
LABEL: Go Discs 828344
2:10 Burt Munro Record - John Munro: It turns out that the World's Fastest Indian legend, Burt Munro, was even faster than we all thought. The American Motorcycle Association now recognises it made a mistake when it calculated the time he set in 1967 on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.And it's all been set right because of the intervention of Burt's son, John Munro.
2:20 New York Dancer - Joshua Guillemot-Rodgerson: He's performed at the White House and he's the first New Zealander to be accepted into the prestigious Juilliard School to study dance in New York.
Joshua Guillemot-Rodgerson has completed his first year of the four-year dance programme.
And the 18-year-old ballet dancer from Christchurch is back in New Zealand, to perform his new show, called Josh 2 Julliard.
2:30 NZ Reading: Kevin Milne reads the next episode of his book, 'The Life and Times of a Brown Paper Bag'.
MUSIC DETAILS
CD - MAT 230 Solo Instruments -US Blues and Folk. Tk 30 On My Lonesome by Anders Lewen, Lars-Erik Lidström, Tore Berglund. MATCH Music Ltd.
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INTERACTIVE:
BOOK: The Life and Times of a Brown Paper Bag by Kevin Milne Pub: Random House, NZ (2010) ISBN-978-186979-3821
2:45 Feature Album - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Neil Young (1969)
3:10 Online with Hamish MacEwan: the links:
Dear conspiracy nuts: Apple doesn't cripple your old iPhone, time does
Cybersecurity experts take Russian hacking scare 'with a pinch of salt'
Coming to the Internet: Shows From CBS That You Won't See on CBS
Survey: YouTube Stars More Popular Than Mainstream Celebs Among U.S. Teens
I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here's What It Did to Me
Why clubs are using Football Manager as a real-life scouting tool
3:30 Glamorgan Primary Learning Maori - David Steemson: Te Reo Maori may be on an international endangered list, but in a new teaching scheme in Auckland, six thousand North Shore children are now learning to speak it. More from David Steemson at half past three.
3:45 Panel Pre-Show - Julie Moffett today with what the world's talking about - What cameras can do now when they look at you. What women want in the office when they come to work. Why older adults are better in the mornings. Calorie intakes revealed, country by country. Britain's most senior judge admits he doesn't read all the paers in a case. And if we have time a joke or two from the Edinburgh Festival.