1:10 Best Song Ever Written - Geoffrey Horne of Wellington nominated 'Read my Mind'  by the Killers

1:20 Critical Mass - we assemble our reviewers on Critical Mass today, looking at TV, books the internet and music.

TV - Sarah McMullan

Supercity - TV3 - Fridays @ 10pm

Redfern Now - Maori TV - Tuesday August 27

Scandal - TV1 - TV on demand -  

Books - Cushla McKinney - 'The Curiosity' by Stephen Kiernan.

Music - Colin Morris

GUY CLARK:
TRACK 2: MY FAVOURITE PICTURE OF YOU
COMPOSER: GUY CLARK/GORDY SAMPSON
ALBUM: MY FAVOURITE PICTURE OF YOU DUALTONE (VIA SOUTHBOUND ST 1013

RY COODER
TRACK 1: CRAZY ABOUT AN AUTOMOBILE
COMPOSER: RY COODER
ALBUM: RY COODER-LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO NONESUCH (VIA WARNER) PRO 400207

Web - Ele Ludemann

40 Maps that explain the world

For those who say I'm only a mother

2:10 The White Island Eruption - GNS Volcanologist Steven Sherburn - Listeners in the Whakatane region might have been able to see plumes of white smoke issuing from their neighbourhood volcano this morning. GeoNet have confirmed that White Island erupted for about 10 minutes at around twenty past ten. The column of steam produced by the eruption rose about 2 kilometres above the island.

2:20 Project Elephant Rescue - Tracey Hand - How many bars of chocolate does it take to buy an elephant? Auckland schoolteacher Tracey Hand is on track to find out, as she fundraises to buy an elephant in Thailand.

The link http://www.gofundme.com/1uahlc

2:30 Reading - The realities of a botched police investigation are unveiled as a new prosecutor is appointed for the trial of a man accused of murdering John Scott and his partner, Greg Schrivener, in Fiji in 2001. In today's reading from his  book, 'Deep Beyond the Reef' John Scott's brother, Owen, find out just how difficult the prosecutor's job has become.
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MUSIC DETAILS      
Tk 8. 'Excerpt From Alexandra' played by Regina Carter.  CD Verve 065 554 - Paganini: After the Dream.
©  The Verve Music Group, UMG Recordings Inc 2003
ALSO:  Tk 6 "Terrorgosa"  by Sola Rosa.  CD: FMR  336612 "Haunted Out-Takes", Festival/Mushroom
Records (NZ) 2003  Dur:  00' 25"

2:45 Feature Album - Crosby Stills & Nash by CSN (1969)

3:10 Our feature guest is Australian photographer, Louise Hawson - creator of the blog, 52 Suburbs, where she explored an ordinary suburb of Sydney once a week for a year and wrote about it. Now she's gone global with this format - and she's published 52 Suburbs Around the World - totally untrendy areas of great cities.   

3:30 In today's Asian Report: Lynda Chanwai-Earle is in Auckland to find out how a multicultural playgroup is a godsend for refugee and new migrant families.

4:06 David Slack and Tony Doe are on The Panel today - we'll talk about the nitrates in the South Island soil and the performance enhancers - accidentally apparently - inside Jesse Ryder. We'll ask if you're over-sharing or under-sharing on Facebook. ACC forks out for tens of millions of dollars for sports injuries, which you'd assume include repeat injuries for joints and bones already strained and broken, and what's the difference if you're a bit older with degeneration. We'll talk about the fairness of that. Our panellists' impressions of the GCSB legislation, the TCIS bill, and whether cell doors should be locked at night in a mental hospital for serious offenders.