Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

First up this week- hair loss. It's a normal part of the ageing process for most men and some women. We'll comb over some of the latest hair technologies everything from in vitro hair cloning to hair farms. We're also looking at why some of us are destined to lose our hair and what other people think of us if we do.

At about 12:50pm we meet a guy growing real wasabi in Christchurch. Not the fake stuff you get in tubes....this is the real McCoy!

After the news at 1:15pm Google is the world's biggest brand despite, or maybe because of, the fact it doesn't charge us consumers a penny to use most of its services. So technology blogger Jeff Jarvis is trying to get all sorts of businesses- from restaurants to failing car-makers to ask themselves a simple question "What Would Google Do?" then apply it to their businesses.

Then at about 1:35pm smart speed bumps. A British inventor's using the kinetic energy of cars, buses and trucks to generate electricity. It could power street lights, road signs and traffic lights.

At 1:45pm we'll head to California where the highest unemployment rate in 25 years is driving people out of their homes and into tents. In California's capital city Sacramento they haven't seen anything like this since a gold rush 150 years ago.

And before we go hundreds of thousands of Chinese investors are getting ripped off in get-rich-quick pyramid schemes. With people getting more desperate for cash as the economy slows the government's trying to crack down on the rip-off merchants. But do its plans go far enough?

TRACKS PLAYED

Track: Baligaga
Artist: Tricky
Album: Knowle West Boy
Label: Domino
Catalogue #: WIGCD195
Broadcast at: 12:40

Track: Supermarket
Artist: Action Painters
Album: Chubby Dancer
Broadcast at: 12:40

Track: Pins and Needles
Artist: Fujiya and Miyagi
Album: The Colors EP
Broadcast at: 13:40