12 Sep 2014

Best of the Week 11 September 2014

From Best Of The Week, 12:00 pm on 12 September 2014

The Best Of The Week... this week Country Life are in an area where many of the farmers have had to alter their farming practices to fit into strict environmental rules, from Saturday Morning New Zealand evolutionary biologist Alan Cooper who's starting out on a five-year project using ancient micro biomes and genomes to study human origins, disease and Aboriginal genetics joins Kim Hill, from Mediawatch how Music radio stations seized on stolen nude celebrity shots, Spectrum has the story of the hard work done by Tiritiri Supporters Group, from Sunday Morning - The Young And The Restless Political Candidates Debate with Wallace Chapman, featuring a group of young candidates all well under the age of 30, Te Ahi Kaa visits a school in Uawa Tolega Bay, from Nights 'Our Own Odysseys' where Guy Benfield recently took the time to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp complex in Poland, we hear his impressions, from Nine to Noon one of Britain's leading neurosurgeons Henry Marsh has released a new memoir which draws aside the curtain to the inner workings of the mind of the surgeon himself, from Our Changing World - could a simple eye test determine an earlier diagnosis of Alzheimers disease?, the end of an era in our skies from Afternoons and from this week's music 101 Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings.

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