Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

QUICK HITS
12:15 Teenagers
12:35 What's in surimi?
12:50 Tech news: browsing browsers
13:15 French cafe decline
13:25 Foraging: nasturtiums
13:40 Insect repellents
13:55 Syrian food tourism

THE SMALL PRINT
First up this week, teenagers - and humans are unique in the animal kingdom in many ways; how many other species let their offspring answer back, borrow the car, sleep in late and leave their bedroom looking like a complete tip?! David Bainbridge is the Clinical Veterinary Anatomist at Cambridge University. But he's also got 3 kids and studies the human species in his latest book "Teenagers: A natural history".

Then a bit of a follow on from last week's show when I hit a supermarket with a seaweed scientist and found out just how much of our food contains seaweed - from stuffed olives to toothpaste and chocolate milk, as well as surimi or crab sticks. We find out what's really in surimi and how it's made at 12:35pm.

At 12:50pm Bill Thompson beams in and I'll ask him why more than 100 million Microsoft users have to choose which internet browser they want to use. From Firefox to Chrome, Safari to IE - we're browsing browsers.

After the news we head to France where a fast food chain selling 'halal burgers' has felt the wrath of the anti-Islamic lobby. Plus more news on the sad demise of the good old French cafe - they've never been shutting down faster!

Then at 1:25pm we're foraging for Nasturtiums - the leaves are peppery and the flowers sweet...and there's heaps of it about all year round. LINK TO JOANNA'S BLOG HERE

At 1:40pm why do some people attract mosquitoes and sandflies more than others? I'll speak to a chap who's working on an insect repellent to take the place of DEET.

And before we go Aleppo in Syria is an ancient city that's reinventing itself as a hot culinary tourism destination of today.

WE'RE PLAYING THESE TRACKS TOO....

Track: EVA
Artist: Jean Jacques Perrey
Album: Sampled 2
Label: Virgin
Catalogue #: VTDCD 363
Broadcast at: 12:30

Track: Lover's Void
Artist: The Shimmer
Album: Digital single
Label: Hit Club
Catalogue #:
Broadcast at: 13:10

Track: San Francisco Knights
Artist: People Under the Stairs
Album: The Om Years
Label: OM Records
Catalogue #: 30812
Broadcast at: 13:50

And our theme:

Track: The Green Termite
Artist: Jefferson Belt
Album: Table Manners
Label: Round Trip Mars
Catalogue #: RTM 200