Afternoons for Tuesday 15 November 2022

 

1:15 What it's REALLY like to drive an EV in Aotearoa

New research indicates that EV registrations could overtake petrol cars in less than a year.

According to figures from data science company, Dot Loves Data, in 2014 there were fewer than 100 EVs registered in this country. However, in the first nine months of 2022 that number shot up to more than 13-thousand.

Five thousand new hybrid vehicles were registered this September alone.

Well, someone who knows all about making he switch to electric is senior lifestyle writer for Stuff Joanna Davis.

She talks to Jesse about her EV experience!

1:25 Sheep milk could be the next big food export for NZ

For thousands of years sheep milk has been a part of people's diets around the world, but for some reason it has never really taken off in New Zealand.

One company, Spring Sheep Milk Co wants to change that hopes to make sheep milk produced here as sought after as our cow milk is.

Starting in 2015 with just a single farm, the Taranaki based company is now the largest sheep milking operator in the Southern Hemisphere.

Spring Sheep Milk Co chief operating officer Thomas Macdonald talks to Jesse about the market potential for their milk!

1:35 Degradable pots making gardening more environmentally friendly

For many of you who do a bit of gardening, you may have spotted that there's a lot of plastic waste- in particular those little plastic pots the plants come in.

Well, Alice Trevelyan  and Dave Sweny have transformed an old tennis court into a plant nursery with degradable pots.

They started the Native Dairy Farmer in Te Kawa and are now helping stop 10s of thousands of little plastic pots going to landfill.

Alice talks to Jesse about their initiative.

1:45 Relationships with Hannah Korrel

Today neuropsychologist Hannah Korrel looks at the recent cases of notable adult women coming forward with an adult diagnosis of ADHD.

2:10 Book Critic: Anna Rankin

Today Anna talks to Jesse about Rachel Aviv's Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us.

2:20 Crimes NZ: New Zealand's pillar of the underworld

For this weeks NZ Crime's interview we're talking about the Headhunters with Discovery's Patrick Gower.

In particular we're going to talk about the case of prominent gang member Peter "Pedro" Cleven, and the court case that led to a law change on how assets are seized by police.

Cleven was the Head Hunters gang member accused of making a fortune from cannabis and methamphetamine leading to 'operation Mexico' in the late 90s and early 2000s.

3:10 Why men are wholly responsible for unwanted pregnancies

It started with  a Tweet in 2018, "men are 100 percent responsible for unwanted pregnancies". Gabrielle Blair believes abortion is not an issue about women controlling their own bodies, it's about men controlling theirs. She's a pro-choice Mormon mother of six who says it's simple biology. Since the Roe V Wade decision that removes the automatic right to an abortion for women in America, she's taken her Tweet to the next level. She lays out 28 arguments for men taking greater responsibility in the abortion debate in her new book, Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion.

3:30 Spoken Feature:BBC Witness

A new country, the United Arab Emirates, was formed in 1971. Laura Jones speaks to businessman Mohammed Al-Fahim about his country's dramatic transformation.

3:45 The Panel with Boopsie Maran and Dean Hall