Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

QUICK HITS
12:15 Drug cheats
12:25 Food additives
12:40 Tech Picks 2010
13:10 Olive oil spreads
13:25 Super Cookies
13:35 Venezuela food prices
13:50 Mekong 4

THE SMALL PRINT
First up this week detecting drug cheats. With the Tour De France underway there's already talk of performance enhancing drugs. Doping's blighted cycling in recent years but would a new approach that flags up super-human performance work any better than random testing?

At about 12:30pm we kick off a new series and head to the supermarket looking for food additives (or E numbers). There are hundreds of them on the shelves and today we're on the hunt for antioxidants, a class of additives that's in everything from oils and mayonnaise to soft drinks and chippies. We find out what they do with Associate Professor Matt Golding of Massey University. Full list of food additives is here

Then at 12:45pm we speak to Jason Pontin, the editor-in-chief of The Technology Review. Every year it picks out a list of top 10 emerging technologies and we're looking at three of them: mobile 3D, social TV and green concrete.

After the news, more listener food questions and how can a spread with olives all over the carton and the words 'spread with the goodness of olive oil' only contain 21 percent olive oil? Seems a little on the low side so is something dodgy going on...and what's stopping the manufacturers from making spreads with a bit more oil?

Then at 1.25pm Peter Griffin's in the house and this week he's looking at super cookies...no, they haven't got extra choc chips these bad boys live on your hard drive and are a lasting record of where you've been online. So should you be worried and what can you do about them?

At 1:35pm we're off to Latin America where it's crisis time for the Cuban cigar; exports have fallen by two-thirds in just 3 years. Plus the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is having a crack at private food retailers and supermarkets, blaming them for soaring food prices.

Then before we go, the fourth part of our 5,000 k trip down the Mekong River in South East Asia - and this week NPR's Michael Sullivan is having a look round the temples of Angkor Wat...he's in Cambodia at about 1:50pm.

WE'RE PLAYING THESE TRACKS TOO....

Track: The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Artist: The Postal Service
Album: Subpop compilation 001
Label: Subpop
Broadcast: 12:20

Track: I was a pre-pubescent
Artist: Jilted John
Album: True Love Stories
Label: Castle
Catalog#: 491262
Broadcast at: 13:10

Track: Whip It
Artist: Devo
Album: Whip It and Other Hits (Compilation)
Label: FLASHBACK/WARNER
Catalog#: 273804
Broadcast at: 13:45

AND OUR THEME IS:

Track: The Green Termite
Artist: Jefferson Belt
Album: Table Manners
Label: Round Trip Mars
Catalogue #: RTM 2009