Afternoons for Wednesday 29 June 2016
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Mary Holm on Brexit and Kiwisaver
1:15 PM.Personal finance expert, Mary Holm has practical advice on what to do with your kiwisaver and international currencies following the world turmoil caused by the Brexit vote. Audio
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King of the Turf
1:20 PM.At the New Zealand National Turf Conference Awards in Auckland last night, Eden Park took out the best international cricket pitch of 2016. Head groundsman, Blair Christiansen, talks about good grass.
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The early days of skiing in New Zealand
1:30 PM.The central North Island ski-fields are due to open this weekend and in today's dip into the sound archives of Nga Taonga Sound & Vision we have a listen to sound recordings about the Mt Ruapehu ski… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Happy Birthday To You
2:10 PM.Happy birthday to you is the most recognised song in the English language, and now it can be performed freely, after a judge ordered it belongs in the public domain. Read more Video, Audio
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Music Critic - Kate Robertson
2:10 PM.Kate Robertson on British singer/songwriter Tom Odell and Icelandic rock band Kaleo. Audio
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Bookmarks - Kate McGrath
2:20 PM.Kate McGrath is an academic; the immediate past Director of The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, she's also held post-doctoral positions at L'Université de Pierre et… Read more Audio
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Jordan Nguyen - creating a mind controlled wheelchair
3:10 PM.Dr Jordan Nguyen knows very well how much technology can change lives The young Australian biomedical engineer invented a mind controlled wheelchair that can be directed using electrical energy from… Read more Audio
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Pacific Kryptonite
The fructose in sugar is like kryptonite to Maori and Pasifika people so Hastings Girls' High School has begun a healthy food revolution in their community. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery
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The Panel pre-show for 29 June 2016
3:45 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
1:10 First song
1:15 Mary Holm on Brexit and Kiwisaver
Personal finance expert, Mary Holm has practical advice on what to do with your kiwisaver and international currencies following the world turmoil caused by the Brexit vote.
1:20 King of the Turf
Who knew that there were awards for turf care? At the New Zealand National Turf Conference Awards in Auckland last night, Eden Park took out the best international cricket pitch of 2016
So how do you get that turf in tip top shape? Head groundsman, Blair Christiansen, talks about good grass.
1:30 The early days of skiing in New Zealand
The central North Island ski-fields are due to open this weekend and in today’s dip into the sound archives of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision we have a listen to sound recordings about the Mt Ruapehu ski scene.
1:40 Favourite album
2:10 Happy Birthday to You
Happy birthday to you is the most recognised song in the English language, and now it can be performed freely, after a judge ordered it belongs in the public domain
2:20 Music Critic - Kate Robertson
2:20 Bookmarks - Kate McGrath
Professor Kate McGrath Photo: Supplied
Our guest on today's edition of Bookmarks is an academic, the immediate past Director of The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. A position she held from 2011 until July last year.
She's also held post-doctoral positions at L'Université de Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris in Paris, and Princeton University, Physics Department in the United States.
In 1997, she was appointed to her first academic position as a lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Otago, Dunedin and in 2003 was awarded the Easterfield Medal by the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry and The Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK.
Her list of her achievements goes on and includes the Gold Inspire Wellington Award. She is currently Vice-Provost (Research) at Victoria University,
3:10 A mind controlled wheelchair
Jordan Nguyen and his mind controlled wheelchair Photo: twitter
Dr Jordan Nguyen knows very well how much technology can change lives The young Australian biomedical engineer invented a mind controlled wheelchair that can be directed using electrical energy from the brain for a young boy with Cerebral Palsy. But he says there's something that can change the world so much more than any whizz bang technology scientists come up with. Empathy. He's on a mission to blend humanity and technology.
3:35 New Zealand Society
Tales of life in Aotearoa.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
Music played in this show
JESSE MULLIGAN : AFTERNOONS 1 - 4pm
Wednesday 29th June
JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST: Street Chant
TITLE: Pedestrian Support League
COMP: Emily Littler, Billie Rodgers, Christopher Varnham
ALBUM: Hauora
LIVE: Arch Hill
FAVOURITE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Guy Clark
TITLE: L A Freeway
COMP: Guy Clark
ALBUM: Old No. 1
LABEL: RCA
ARTIST: Guy Clark
TITLE: Texas 1947
COMP: Guy Clark
ALBUM: Old No. 1
LABEL: RCA
ARTIST: Guy Clark
TITLE: Let Him Roll
COMP: Guy Clark
ALBUM: Old No. 1
LABEL: RCA
MUSIC CRITIC: Kate Robertson
ARTIST: Tom Odell
TITLE: Concrete
COMP: Tom Odell
ALBUM: Wrong Crowd
LABEL: RCA
ARTIST: Kaleo
SONG: Way Down We Go
COMP: JJ Julius Son, Davíð Antonsson, Daníel Ægir Kristjánsson, Rubin Pollock
ALBUM: A/B
LABEL: Elektra
BOOKMARKS: Professor Kathryn McGrath
ARTIST: The Veils
TITLE: Train With No Name
COMP: Finn Andrews.
ALBUM: Time Stays, We Go
LABEL: Pitch Beast Records
ADDITIONAL SONG:
ARTIST: Massive Attack
TITLE: Unfinished Sympathy
COMP: Robert Del Naja, Andrew Vowles, Grantley Marshall, Shara Nelson, Jonathan Sharp
ALBUM: Blue Lines
LABEL: Virgin
PANEL HALF TIME SONG:
ARTIST: Broadcast
TITLE: Winter Now
COMP: James Cargill, Trish Keenan, Steve Perkins, Tim Felton, Roj Stevens
ALBUM: Ha Ha Sound
LABEL: Warp