Afternoons for Tuesday 2 August 2011

1:08 PM.Robyn Gosset from Christchurch has chosen "You've got to be carefully taught" from the musical, South Pacific. Audio

1:19 PM.Walking Dead on TV2 and Big Fat Gypsy Weddings on TV1. Audio

1:35 PM.How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran and Last Man In Tower by Arivid Adiga. Audio

1:48 PM.Tracks - 'Broken Road' by Odyssey and 'Give Me Your Love' by The Sisters Love. Audio

1:55 PM.The jargon of a novel computed, the price of typos and a survey on how we think other people sound. Audio

2:10 PM.Hamilton film maker Sash Nixon submitted his film to Lucasfilm's Star Wars Fan Film Challenge and beat hundreds of other hopefuls to win an award. Audio

2:23 PM.The new Dictionary of Kiwi Slang has just been launched by Wellington writer David McGill, along with a companion website. Audio

3:10 PM.Zarine Rocha is a research Scholar in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. She's exploring the issues of mixed race and mixed ethnic identity in New Zealand and… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets an eminent agricultural scientist in Wellington. His work has had a far reaching effects on agriculture here and abroad. Originally from Pakistan, Dr Hanif Quazi reflects on… Read more Audio

3:46 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - The United States House of Representative has approved a bill that raises the limit on national borrowing and averts the risk that the government might run out of money. A 17-year-old charged… Read more Audio

4:35 PM.Topics - Over the weekend, Bill Perry, CEO of the construction firm Fulton Hogan, died very suddenly and unexpectedly within hours of contracting an aggressive meningococcal infection. A British woman… Read more Audio