Afternoons for Thursday 11 November 2010
1:10 Best Song Ever Written
U2's Miss Sarajevo as chosen by Michal McCracken.
1:15 Your Place
Kaitangata. You can get there by turning off state highway one just north of Balclutha's famous river bridge. Then, just follow the river bank downstream for 12 kilometres.... until you reach the Black Gold Town.
2:10 Feature stories
The Kodak Retina camera Sir Edmund Hillary used on the Summit of Mt Everest in 1953, and many other important treasures from Hillary's life have been given to Otago Museum by Lady June Hillary.
ABBA tribute bands are facing their Waterloo with the Swedish band's record label. Australia is home to dozens of bands who dress in the platform boots and sequins and play the mega hits produced by ABBA from 1972 to 1983. Now bands like FABBA and Abbalanche are getting emails from Universal Music, warning them to stop using any derivation of the pop band's name.
2:30 Reading
Episode nine of Butler's Ringlet by Laurence Fearnley.
2:55 He Rourou
A Maori language coffee card and fortune cookies were some of the innovative ideas of Massey University that impressed judges of the Maori Language Week Awards this year. Te Ahu Rei tells Ana Tapiata that Maori staff at Massey hope that their "Supreme Award" win will help promote the language on campus
2:50 Feature Album
National Ransom, the newie from Elvis Costello - recorded again with producer T Bone Burnett in Nashville and Los Angeles.
3:12 Arts Report
Now to this week's arts report and Justin Gregory takes us round a new exhibition at Lower Hutt's New Dowse Gallery.
3:33 Southern story
Have you ever kept a side of yourself hidden from your friends and loved ones? Sonia Yee finds out what it's like to live a secret life - in this case, the life of a cross dresser.
3:40 Mick Rock
Mick Rock is known as The Man Who Shot the Seventies. He never intended to be a photographer, but a chance portrait of a then unknown David Bowie launched his career - there were just 400 people at the first Bowie concert he took shots at. The famous bleached-out photograph of Lou Reed on the cover of Transformer soon followed, and for the the next 40 years, he has captured most of rock's royalty.
He has just published a retro book of 200 previously unseen images, Exposed: The Faces of Rock 'n' Roll - coinciding with an exhibition which opens in London tonight.
This story comes from the BBC. Listen again here.
4:06 The Panel
Julia Hartley Moore and Bernard Hickey.