Afternoons for Tuesday 18 June 2013
1:10 Best Song Ever Written - Tanya Wolfkamp nominated 'Blue Moon' by Bob Dylan.
1:20 Critical Mass
TV - Sarah McMullan
The Neighbours: TV2 - Wednesdays @ 8pm
Tuesday night wildlife slot: TV1 @ 8.30pm
Jones TV: Sky Channel 13
Music - Colin Morris
ARTIST: Libby Titus
TITLE: Love Has No Pride
COMP: Libby Titus, Eric Katz
ALBUM: Libby Titus
LABEL: Sony / SRCS 6279
ARTIST: Patsy Cline
TITLE: Heartaches
COMP: Al Hoffman,John Kenner
ALBUM: The Devine Ms Cline
LABEL: H&H / HHCD912
Books - Graham Beattie
The Amalfi Coast - A Collection of Italian Recipes.
Katie & Giancarlo Caldesi/Hardie Grant Books.
Web - Ele Ludemann
14 words which are their own opposites
2:10 Our Phantom - Chris Crowe - Everybody knows the music of the night, the music of Phantom of the Opera, the stage show that became a phenomenon, lyrics by Charles Hart, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Well, the first all-Kiwi production of Phantom opened at the St James Theatre in Wellington last week to rave reviews.
2:20 Baz the Snow Dog - Nathan Fraser - He's an avalanche dog with a chequered past. A pick-up from the pound who's successfully re-invented himself as a working hound. But now Baz the snow dog is facing his biggest challenge yet. Baz is a Staffy Blue Heeler cross who was adopted from a shelter in Christchurch by his new owner Nathan Fraser, where he began the second act of his life, training as an avalanche dog in Wanaka.
2:30 Reading - Escaping the Taliban - It's World Refugee Day later this week and a NZ Reading today adapted by Elspeth Sandys - a two part account from two young Afghani men who, separately, managed to escape from the Taliban regime.
2:45 Feature Album - Blue - Joni Mitchell (1971) -Joni's fourth album, chosen in 2000 by the New York Times as one of the 25 albums that represented "turning points and pinnacles in 20th-century popular music"
3:10Tune Your Engine - Online Dating - John Cacioppo - a new University of Chicago study claims more than a third of recent marriages in the U.S. began online. We talk to its lead author John Cacioppo about why dating sites are attracting more people with a serious purpose.
3:30 Asian Report - Lynda Chanwai-Earle
In today's Asian Report; "FOB" is the derogatory term used to describe new immigrants. It's also the title of an upcoming play in Auckland that examines internalised racism within Asian communities.
4:06 Graham Bell and Ali Jones are on The Panel today, with a lot to discuss: The bank siege last night in Auckland, the Lundy appeal again, the effluent ponds empty on the Guy farm; privacy considerations with being GPS-located by your cellular provider. The Peter Whittall trial being shifted away from the coast, a little bit more about the TV3 receivership; Foreign Accent Syndrome... and the growing popularity of death cafes... nothing macabre, just people getting together and talking about the subject no-one wants to talk about.