Afternoons for Friday 29 October 2010
1:10 Best Song Ever Written
Don't Crash the Ambulance by Mark Knopfler as chosen by Len Salt of Auckland.
1:15 NZ Music - Live: The Black Seeds
Audio of NZ Music Live can be found on our music webpage.
2:10 Feature stories
Researchers in California have pinpointed individual brain cells that react to what we like, and ignore what we don't. Do you like the man in black, Johnny Cash? Or Do you prefer Marilynn Monroe? The research, by the California Institute of Technology, shows that the brain can choose to notice once image over another by boosting the activity of one brain cell and stopping the activity of another.
For more than 60 years, John Speck has been giving customers a trim off the top and close on the sides. At age, 75 the Dunedin barber is today hanging up the scissors and retiring. He's been cutting hair at Selwyn Graves men hairdressers and tobacconist's in Moray place in downtown Dunedin for the last 25 years.
2:30 You Me ... Now!
Following the trials and tribulations of a group of friends as they find love in the city.
2:45 He Rourou
She's spent her life straddling the bicultural world of Aotearoa, yet Te Oraiti Calcott remains a staunch advocate of Maori language education. Ana Tapiata talks with Te Oraiti about her life, including how she got involved in the world renowned early childhood movement, Te Kohanga Reo.
2:50 Feature Album
Paul Weller's latest - Wake Up the Nation.
3:08 One Stop Shop
Fresh Fast Food, Weekend Wine, Weekend Weather, Movie Review and This Way of Life
Friday lineup:
3:10 Fresh Fast Food - Alison Holst - My Own Kiwi Favourites
3:20 Weekend Wine - Yvonne Lorkin
3:26 Movie Review - Sarah McMullan
The new Bruce Willis movie, Red.
3:33 Feature story
Porridge and scrunch were on the menu at health camps throughout New Zealand, and a strict regime of afternoon bed rests, teeth cleaning and food chewing. Deborah Nation finds historic recordings in the Radio New Zealand Sound Archives, The Vault.
4:06 The Panel
Sue Wells and Tino Pereira.