2 May 2018

Lately with Karyn Hay

From Lately, 10:15 pm on 2 May 2018

The Nashville-based company Gibson Brands, who make the Les Paul, SG and Flying V guitars are filing for bankruptcy, we hear from Charlie Jemmet whose run plenty of music stores in Christchurch; Averil Coxhead, Senior Lecturer in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University joins us to talk about the complex language of the trades..words like trickle-fill, dwang and wingback ...something to do with plumbing; US and UK scientists are gearing up for one of the biggest field study projects ever undertaken in Antarctica.100 scientists will go on a series of expeditions to Thwaites Glacier. Dr Anna Hogg from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at the University of Leeds explains; and day 2 of NZ Music Month so some more local sounds.