Afternoons for Thursday 10 August 2023

1:15 Using Coronet Peak in the summer - for mountain bikes

There are plans to make Coronet Peak an all year round attraction by turning it into a super charged mountain biking park during the summer months.

Coronet's ski manager Nigel Kerr's taken time out from a busy day up the mountain to talk to Jesse about enhancing the area's mountain biking network so it can host the sports' world cup.

1:25 Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories released

An exciting new book is out today from one of Afternoon's favourite guests and incredible author, Paula Morris.

Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories is a unique anthology focusing on the talents of well known authors and also emerging writers in Aotearoa.

The book itself has four of it's short stories written only in te reo, the rest are in English.

To tell us more about Hiwa and the incredible authors included in the collection, Paula Morris is with me now.

1:35 Faith Wilde's big moment in the US country music scene!

21 year old New Zealand singer Faith Wilde headed over to the US a couple months ago, to pursue her dreams in country music.

Over the weekend country music legend Noah Kahan got her up on stage at the Hinterland Music Festival in Iowa in front of a crowd of twenty four thousand people.

To tell us more about her moment in the spotlight and ambitions for America, her dad, Jesse Wilde talks to Jesse.

1:45 Great album: Luke Combs, Growin' Up

To mark his sold out performance at Spark Arena in Auckland last night, this week's link 3 winner will received a vinyl copy of the country singer Luke Combs' album released last year, Growin' Up.

2:10 Music Critic: Dianne Swann

Today Dianne talks to Jesse about new music out from Clementine Valentine.

2:25 NZ Sporting History: David Tua's boxing career

For NZ Sporting History today, we 're talking about the greatest heavyweight boxer to have never won the belt.

David Tua retired with a 52-win, five-loss record.

From Samoa, raised in Aotearoa, Tua is one of our biggest sports stars, inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in LA last year.

He's on holiday in Samoa at the moment, and thanked us for continuing to support him, humble as ever about his great sporting achievements.

TVNZ's sports reporter Stephen Stuart was there in Las Vegas when he went for the world title, and joins me now to talk to us about Tua's incredible career.

3:10 Link 3

3:15 Solving the World's Problems with Dave Armstrong

Today author, playwright and columnist Dave Armstrong talks to Jesse about some problems in Wellington with earthquake prone buildings in the CBD, council tenants facing rent increases and some positivity with FIFA women's world cup games being played in the capital.

3:20 History with Dr Grant Morris: The history of judicial independence in NZ

There has been a lot of criticism of our judges in recent months, especially in relation to criminal sentencing.  But what is the actual role of a judge?  Should the government and the public be able to tell judges what to do? Today Dr Grant Morris explores the history of our concept of judicial independence.

3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness

Sixty years ago, on 8 August 1963, a gang of thieves held up a British Royal Mail train on its journey from Glasgow to London. They stole more than £2 million. It was the biggest ever raid on a British train. Most of the robbers ended up behind bars, but a lot of the money has never been recovered. The robbery still occupies a unique place in the history of British crime. In 2012,  Reginald Abbiss, who was a young BBC journalist recalls covering the story.

3:45 The Panel with Anna Dean and Phil O'Reilly