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Afternoons for Thursday 19 April 2012
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Best Song Ever Written - Ukelele Lady
1:09 PM.Christine Donehue from Katikati has chosen 'Ukelele Lady' performed by Bette Midler. Audio
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Your Place - Chatham Islands
1:20 PM.We're off to one of the remotest spots you can ever live in our fair isles. It takes two days by ship to get there, and two hours by plane flying all the way over water. It's 800 kilometres east of… Read more Audio
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Facebookoholic
2:10 PM.For 40 days, during Lent, Sydneysider Lisa Rafferty gave up something she loved, something that had become a big part of her life - Facebook. Lent may be over, but Lisa Rafferty now says she may never… Read more Audio
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More memories of the Featherston military camp
2:18 PM.Keith Stewart was a wee lad but still remembers the Featherston Military camp. He's about to turn 96, and his own life is worthy of a book. Inventions are in his genes and Keith has invented something… Read more Audio
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The Arts Report - Magpie Press
3:06 PM.For five hundred years, letterpress printing ruled the roost. But as newer and faster methods threatened to send it the way of the dodo, a craft movement sprang up to save this most beautiful form of… Read more Audio
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Southern Story for 19 April 2012 - Pleasant Point Taxidermist
3:19 PM.It's the roar - a busy time for taxidermists. Sage Forest visits three brothers continuing their father's legacy: his passion for hunting and taxidermy, at GD O'Rourke and Sons in Pleasant Point. Audio
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Our Changing World - Stick Insects
3:30 PM.They are known as the phantoms of the forest. Landcare Research biologists are keen to work out how stick insects managed to adapt to life in colder climates, and Veronika Meduna joins Alice Dennis… Read more Audio
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The Panel Pre-Show for 19 April 2012
3:48 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
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The Panel with Jock Anderson and Josie McNaught (Part 1)
4:07 PM.Topics - The Government's been under intense pressure over its relationship with Sky City after Mr Key's admission that it was his idea to have the company build the 350 million dollar national… Read more Audio
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The Panel with Jock Anderson and Josie McNaught (Part 2)
4:33 PM.Topics - A former army officer and historian for Australia's Department of Veterans Affairs, Graham Wilson, says one of the most persistent myths was of the great independent Aussie bushman instantly… Read more Audio
1:10 Best Song Ever Written
1:15 Your Place
2:10 Feature stories
2:30 Reading
2:45 Feature Album
3:12 Arts Report
3:33 Southern story
It's the roar - a busy time for taxidermists. Sage Forest visits three brothers continuing their father's legacy - his passion for hunting and taxidermy, at GD O'Rourke & Sons in Pleasant Point.
Lance (right, with boar head) has recently returned from Alaska, guiding in a hunt for moose, caribou and grizzly bear. Nevin explains the tanning process and talks about stuffing people.
Safari park trophies (left); Tahr on the wall (right)
Moose head from Alaska
3:40 Our Changing World
4:06 The Panel