Afternoons for Wednesday 25 August 2010
1:10 Best Song Ever Written
Anyone Else But You by the Moldy Peaches as chosen by Joe Hassell of Raglan.
1:15 Link 3 - music game
2:10 Feature stories
A new, meaningful social networking game has taken flight on Facebook. It's called Flutter and its creators are from Dunedin. Set in the Amazon Rainforest, Flutter lets players experience the life cycle of tropical butterflies and explore one of the most bio-diverse regions of our planet. It's like the hugely popular Farmville game on Facebook, only with a social conscience.
Marina Seager's family has just purchased the old nurses home in Riverton in Invercargill. It's got 49 rooms, including 30 bedrooms and 8 toilets. The extra space will be nice for her husband and 4 kids, but the reason the Seager's bought the house is to help other families who find themselves without a place to stay. They've given it a new name, 'Piringa', which means shelter or refuge.
2:30 NZ Reading
The Shag Incident written by Stephanie Johnson and read by Perry Piercy.
2:45 He Rourou
The Minister for Tertiary Education got a roasting at the recent national conference of Maori tertiary educators, though he probably wouldn't know it. Conference M.C. Dr Rangi Mataamua tells Ana Tapiata that delegates were not impressed by the Minister's claim that he was keen to listen… and then left almost immediately after his speech.
2:50 Feature Album
Unknown Pleasures, the debut release from English post-punk band Joy Division.
3:12 Virtual World
Data caps; digital minimalism; call to improve password security.
Site of the Week: www.cultofless.com
3:33 Auckland story
This week stunning art from inmates at Auckland Prison in Paremoremo and Ngawha Prison in the north. Seventeen artists and sculptors from the two prisons… 115 pieces of art exhibited and mostly sold, raising almost fifteen thousand dollars …some of that donated to Victim Support, which helps the victims of crime.
3:47 Pre-Panel
4:06 The Panel
Graham Bell and Jock Anderson.