Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

QUICK HITS
12:15 Pests: Bedbugs
12:40 Cyber espionage
12:50 Penalty kicks
13:10 India: Yoga protection
13:20 3D TVs
13:35 Bumble bees
13:50 World Cup news

THE SMALL PRINT
We start this week's show off on a slightly itchy note....it's our series looking at some of the household pests and critters that make our lives a misery, and this week we're pulling back the covers on the bedbug. We go hunting for them at a local backpackers with pest controller Paul Chapman.

See these little nasties up close . . .

Then at about 12:40pm we enter the shady world of cyber espionage. Spying in the old days meant hanging about hotel lobbies, remembering a few secret passwords and codes, and being handy on a jet ski. But today your modern day spook is more likely to be found hunched over a keyboard in a dark room than at a cocktail party wearing a false moustache! Rafal Rohozinski is the CEO of The SecDev Group in Ottawa in Canada and he's studying how the world's governments are spying on each other online.

And before 1pm some tips for taking penalties on the football field. With the World Cup kicking off this weekend it's likely that penalties will be a significant part of the competition. At the last World Cup the final was decided on penalties, and a third of all goals came from the penalty spot. Greg Wood's a psychologist at Exeter University in the UK who's been studying what penalty-takers can do to increase their chances.

After 1pm we'll head to India where the government's creating a database of every single yoga pose. The ancient art of yoga started in India thousands of years ago, and now it's trying to protect it from foreign imitators.

At 1:20pm Peter Griffin and I test drive a new, flat screen 3D-TV. It's the latest in TV technology so how do they work, are they any good and is now the right time to buy one?

Then at 1:40pm a batch of rare short-haired bumblebees was due to be shipped back from New Zealand to the UK, where they originally came from but are now extinct. It's part of a push to boost pollination in Britain but the bees died and we'll ask what went wrong.

And before we go the football World Cup's kicks off in South Africa, and we'll be speaking to Ned Boulting throughout the tournament. This week, the latest on ticket sales, and why foreign fans have been staying away. Plus the vuvuzela it's the African horn you'll be hearing a lot of through the tournament!

WE'RE PLAYING THESE TRACKS TOO....
Track: Celestica
Artist: Crystal Castles
Album: Crystal Castles II
Label: FICTION
Broadcast at: 12:35

Track: Dancing Skulls
Artist: Colm K and the Freestyle Mellowship
Album: Choice Cuts
Label: BSTRD
Catalog#: BJX-011
Broadcast at: 13:10

Track: Afro Disco Beat
Artist: Tony Allen
Album: The Last King of Scotland (soundtrack)
Label: Rounder
Catalog#: 9071
Broadcast at: 13:50

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