Best of the Week - 17th August 2012

Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 17th of August This week.....Shotputter Valerie Adams is elevated to gold after her Belarussian rival failed a drug test......new ways of funding journalism ...an attempt at a new world speed record on the salt flats at Bonneville in Utah using a modified mini cooper...........Careful what you say around your plants as they can probably hear you.......a new collection of work by Central otago poet Brian Turner.....and the national country music awards.