Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

12 February 2012 - 3:08 pm NZ time

Listen live or
listen again here

RNZ Home » National » Programmes » This Way Up » Saturday 14 November 2009

This Way Up

with Simon Morton

Saturday, Midday - 2pm

Audio from Saturday 14 November 2009

Not all audio is available due to copyright restrictions.

12:15 Bread matters: Andrew Whitley is a baker and one of the founders of the Real Bread Campaign in the UK. He reckons modern bread is less nutritious, and is causing health problems like Coeliac disease and gluten intolerance. (30′05″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
12:45 Cellphone cancer risk?: Peter Griffin on the long-awaited World Health Organisation's Interphone study which explores the link between cellphone use and cancer. The full report's not even out yet and already people are questioning the way the research has been conducted. (13′18″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
13:10 iPlot: Potato planting: Watch out the psyllid's about! It's a nasty bug originally from North America that could damage your potato crop. Colin Walker and MAF's Karen Pugh looks at how home gardeners can keep the psyllid at bay. (16′41″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
13:30 Sourdough bread: We get flour and water and a bit of free range bacteria together with Maggie Forest. It's an easy way to start a sourdough and make your own tasty bread. (15′50″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
13:50 NYC outdoor smoking ban: Sarah di Gregorio lives in New York where smoking in city parks and on beaches could soon be banned. Also millions of car rego stickers are falling off windscreens due to faulty glue. It's become a political issue! (13′14″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed

12:15 Bad bread
12:45 Mobile phone cancer study
13:10 Planting potatoes
13:30 Making sourdough
13:50 US smoking bans

The Small Print
First up we're speaking to a bloke who thinks modern bread is rubbish- that it's less nutritious than in the old days and is causing problems like Coeliac disease and gluten intolerance. Andrew Whitley is the founder of the Real Bread campaign in the UK. But what do the big bakers here make of his arguments?

At around 12.45pm are you concerned about cell phones and the link with brain tumours and cancer? Well the World Health Organisation is about to release the findings of a decade-long investigation called Interphone. The executive summary was leaked a few weeks back and it says there's a increased risk of brain tumours for very heavy users of mobile phones over long periods. But people are already questioning the findings and the way the research has been conducted. So will our cell phones soon have to have health warnings on them like cigarettes? We ask Peter Griffin our technology commentator

After the news at 1:10pm we're in the iPlot and this week potato planting, but you'd better watch out the psyllid's about! It's a nasty bug from North America that's seen export bans on capsicums, tomatoes, and tamarillos and could seriously damage your crop. We're looking at how home gardeners can keep the psyllid at bay.

Then at 1:30pm we're getting flour and water and a bit of free range bacteria together...it's an easy way to start a sourdough and make your own tasty bread.

And before we go at around 1:50pm we head to New York where smoking in parks and on beaches could soon be banned and car registration stickers are falling off windscreens. Dodgy glue has annoyed millions of car owners and it's become a political issue.

TUNES

Track: All The Kings Men
Artist: Wild Beasts
Album: Two Dancers
Label: Domino
Catalogue #: WIG238
Broadcast at: 12:43pm

Track: Strange Things
Artist: The Count and Sinden
Album: October 09 Alt Sampler
Digital download here
Label: Debut album released by Domino in 2010
Broadcast at: 1:25pm