Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

To kick off this week we're going 10-pin bowling. Scores are getting higher and higher as new technology makes it easier to get a strike and the purists are up in arms. I'm off to a local bowling centre to find out why the game's getting easier and what all the fuss is about. Plus we'll meet an Aussie pro bowler who's bowling using 2 hands - he throws the ball like a rugby pass and he's cleaning up on the pro circuit.

Once we've cleared the lanes - at about 12:50pm- we're off to Germany where they buy more board games per person than anywhere else in the world. German-style board games, as they're known, take less time to play than old classics like Monopoly. Now one game, The Settlers of Catan, has become the most popular board game in the US since Risk.

After the news at 1.15pm technology - Bill Thompson beams in with his thoughts on Australian and New Zealand government plans to build high-speed internet networks. Plus in Sweden, where new copyright laws have just come into force, web traffic's down a huge 40 percent. So what have they been downloading and will peer-to-peer disappear?

At about 1:30pm imagine a bookstore where you buy books by the foot, not by the title. Sounds a bit random...and it is! Chuck Roberts sells bulk books as wall furnishings to everyone from interior designers and law firms to the seriously rich.

Finally, people are making a fortune designing add-on's and widgets for Apple's iPhone- everything from games to dictaphones. Anyone can submit an "app" and if it makes it onto iTunes it's got the potential to sell millions of downloads. Apple takes a 30 percent cut and you keep the rest. Today there's over 25,000 different programmes that you can download for free or buy for a few bucks. We speak to one guy that's making a mint developing apps in Christchurch. One of his titles has had 1.5 million downloads!

TRACKS PLAYED

Track: Hotel California
Artist: Gipsy Kings
Album: The Big Lebowski Soundtrack
Label: Polygram
Catalogue #: 536 903
Broadcast at: 12:40

Track: Search and Destroy
Artist: Peaches
Album: War Child: Heroes
Label: Parlophone
Catalogue #: 407 238
Broadcast at: 13:10

Track: Unemployed Black Astronaut
Artist: Busdriver
Album: Well Deep- Ten Years of Big Dada Recordings
Label: Big Dada
Catalogue #: BDCD100
Broadcast at: 13:40