Afternoons for Thursday 20 April 2023

1:15 NZ bell ringer taking part in King Charles' coronation

As King Charles coronation draws closer, there's one New Zealander who will be making sure everyone hears about it.

19-year-old Dylan Thomas who went to school at Kapiti College is on a two year adventure in England as a bell-ringer.

He's already well known in ringer circles, having gained the title of global young ringer of the year a couple of years ago.

Dylan Thomas joins Jesse from the UK to explain how he became involved with bell ringing and the incredible opportunity to be part of the upcoming coronation.

1:35 Preventing children's car seats from going to landfill

Parents in New Plymouth can now recycle their children's car seats that have past their expiry for free, meaning they won't be going to landfill.  

The three month trial is thanks to a collaboration between the New Plymouth District Council and Baby on the Move Taranaki.

Oliver Leuthart who is the Behaviour Change Lead in the resource recovery team at the District Council talks to Jesse about why they've targeted child car seats.

1:45 Great album: U2 Songs of Surrender

Songs Of Surrender - a collection of 40 seminal U2 songs from across the band’s catalogue, re-recorded and re-imagined for 2023 in sessions spanning the last two years.

Songs Of Surrender is curated and produced by The Edge and sees the band revisit some of the most celebrated songs of their 40+ year career, including ‘With Or Without You’, ‘One’, ‘Beautiful Day’, ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ and ‘Invisible’, for a musical reimagining resulting in a completely new recording of each track, to include the arrangements and, in some cases, new lyrics. 

2:10 Music Critic: Adam Burns

RNZ Christchurch journalist Adam Burns joins Jesse to talk about the music of the late jazz musician Amad Jamal and the first ever live performance by Jai Paul at Coachella.

2:25 NZ Sporting History: 1974 Commonwealth Games

A few weeks back we spoke to Dick Taylor about his win at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch.

The interview focused primarily on Dick's success so we decided to revisit the historical event again.

To share his memories Bruce Ullrich talks to Jesse.

He was a former chef de mission of three Commonwealth and Olympic Games teams and vice chairman of 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games organising committee.

3:10 Link 3

 

3:15 Solving the World's Problems with Simon Wilson

Today NZ Herald senior writer Simon Wilson talks to Jesse about tough times for councils and how to manage public money when the belt is tightened.

3:20 History with Dr Grant Morris: NZ as a Dominion

The Dominion Post newspaper has announced that it will now be called the Post, dropping 'Dominion' from its masthead.  The editor stated that "we are under no-one's dominion" and it was time for a change.  But what is the history of New Zealand's status as a dominion and what does it mean today? The answer is very surprising.

3:35 Spoken Feature: Nau Mai Town: Paeroa

Coming up at 3.35, Justine Murray is back with the podcast series Nau Mai Town. In the first episode for this series she's in Paeroa with Rino Wilkinson who shares his memories about growing up in his hometown.

Justine finds out that the longer name of Paeroa is also based on the travels of the ancestor Toitehuatahi.

3:45 The Panel with