Afternoons for Monday 10 December 2012

1:10 Best Song Ever Written - Mary Hudson of Tauranga nominated "The Little Drummer Boy" by the Harry Simeone Chorale.

1:15 8 Months To Mars - Bob Parker

2:10 Vintage Plane Restoration - Craig Dowden
Craig Dowden is a Southland farmer who loves planes and flying - and he's just taken on the project of a lifetime - restoring  a vintage top dressing plane. But not just any old plane. It's one that his father, Bill, used to fly when Craig was just a lad...A Yeoman Cropmaster CTX. It's Craig's aim to get the plane back in the air, and even take his father for a joyride.

2:20 Marlborough Cricket Record - Ben Stark
Ben Stark took all ten wickets in an innings in a Hawke Cup match against the West Coast in Greymouth during the weekend.
In other words he dismissed each and everyone of the opposition batsmen in an innings.
That's seldom done in cricket at any level....and it's never been done by a bowler representing Marlborough before..not in the 150-history of the province...

2:30 NZ Reading - Writer Graeme Lay reads the title story from his book 'The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest: Travel Tales of the South Pacific'.
MUSIC DETAILS      
Love from Jah (Henry Ah-Foo Taripo) Henzart/Vaimutu Records [SVACD066 ]

2:45 Feature Album -  Innervisions- Stevie Wonder

3:10  The Last Lion - Paul Reid

The story of "The Last Lion" Winston Spencer Churchill, the third installment of William Manchester's biography actualy which covers the last 25 years of Churchill's life from 1940 - mostly the War years. We talk with Paul Reid, who finished off the book after Manchester's death.

3:35 Our Changing World - Veronika Meduna

Charismatic mini fauna - why should we care about the millions of creepy crawly creatures that share our world?
Join us for hunt of spineless wonders … just after half past three.

4:06 The Panel - Michael Deaker and Tino Pereira.