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This Way Up

with Simon Morton

Saturday, Midday - 2pm

Audio from Saturday 4 February 2012

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12:15 Clean tech boom and bust: Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post has been watching a cycle of boom and bust in the US renewable energy sector. (17′11″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
12:30 Tech news: Facebook float: Tech correspondent Peter Griffin goes inside the numbers of Facebook's planned flotation. (12′27″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
12:45 Pop-up gardens: We go urban gardening with pop-up gardener Amanda Yates from Massey University. (14′31″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
13:15 Birds: Black-backed gull: We chase the black-backed gull with Hugh Robertson. (15′35″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
13:30 Does a Strad sound better?: Claudia Fritz studies instrument acoustics and is testing if antique violins (think Stradivarius and Guarneri) really sound any better than modern instruments. (13′01″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
13:50 Guerilla grafting: Tara Hui is a guerilla grafter who's returning ornamental fruit trees to production one branch at a time! (7′45″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed

Quick Hits

12:15 Clean tech boom and bust
12:25 Tech news: Facebook float
12:45 Pop-up gardens
13:15 Birds: Black-backed gull
13:30 Does a Strad sound better?
13:50 Guerilla grafting

The Small Print
We kick off this week with a great tale of boom and bust in the clean tech sector - how everything from solar panels to wind farms is struggling to compete with natural gas in the world's biggest energy markets.

At 12.15pm the latest news from the hi-tech world with Peter Griffin. Facebook reveals its flotation plans in the biggest internet IPO ever, and going public means we get to peer inside this giant of the internet. So how does Facebook make over US$4 billion a year?

At 12:45pm we go urban gardening and look at some pop-up gardens in the central city.

After the 1pm news we chase the black-backed gull with birdman Hugh Robertson.

Then at 1:30pm does an antique violin like a Stradivarius costing millions really sound any better than a modern instrument? Well Claudia Fritz studies instrument acoustics and she's tested this out with 21 violinists and 6 violins (including 3 old ones costing US$10 million)!

And before we go, at 1:50pm, the guerilla grafters bringing fruit to the streets of San Francisco. Basically the city authorities think productive fruit trees could be a health hazard- after all someone could slip on a nasty squishy plum or pair couldn't they?! Well this secret band of fruit fans are returning ornamental trees to fruit production one branch at a time!

We're playing these tracks too:
Track: This Time
Artist: David's Lyre
http://davidslyre.bandcamp.com/
Album: Picture Of Our Youth
Label: Drowned In Sound
http://drownedinsound.com/news/4144407-album-stream--picture-of-our-youth-by-davids-lyre
Broadcast at: 12:30
Track: Life
Artist: Moneyman and the Super 5 International
Album: Nigeria 70: Sweet Times Afro-Funk, Highlife and Juju from 1970s Lagos
Label: STRUT
Catalog#: 307928
Broadcast at: 13:10
Track: I'm Waiting for the Man
Artist: David Bowie
Album: David Bowie: Live in Santa Monica '72
Label: EMI
Catalog#: 583221
Broadcast at: 13:45
And our theme is:
Track: The Green Termite
Artist: Jefferson Belt
http://www.myspace.com/jeffersonbelt
Album: Table Manners
Label: Round Trip Mars
Catalogue #: RTM 2009