Afternoons for Thursday 22 August 2013
1:10 Best Song Ever Written
Jayne O'Neill nominated 'Leader of the Band' by Dan Fogelburg.
1:15 Your Place
We visit Waitahuna, with its gold mining history, near the Otago town of Lawrence.
2:10 The War Ring - David Cox
The story of a ring, a special ring, that went to war and has finally, nearly 70 years later, returned home.
2:20 The Garden Library - Suneeta Narula
Next to Suneeta and Manu Narula's home in the eastern suburbs of Auckland there is a covered shelf, painted like a bee, stacked with books. It's Sunetta's own free library next to the driveway of her home. She calls it the Buzzword Book Stop and it's free, anyone is welcome to take a book or leave one.
2:30 Reading
In today's reading from his book, 'Deep Beyond the Reef' - Owen Scott takes us back to August 2003 when the trial began for the man accused of the double murder of his brother John Scott and his partner, Greg Schrivener, in Fiji 2 years-earlier.
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 - Hunky Dory by David Bowie (1971)
3:12 Stanley Kubrick - BBC Witness
Fifty years ago, the legendary film director, Stanley Kubrick, premiered his classic cold war satire Dr Strangelove. It was the start of his long relationship with the set designer, Sir Ken Adam. Sir Ken talks to Vincent Dowd about working with one of the most talented - and difficult - men in film.
3:20 The Earthquake Exhibition
Katy Gosset visits a new exhibition that reflects on Christchurch's devastating February 2011 earthquake in 37 second increments.
3:40 Our Changing World
It's longer than a grown man, it weighs a ton and it can live to 100 years. Sunfish are rarely-seen, deep-ocean creatures, and very little is known about them. But a 2.1m specimen that washed up on a beach north of Auckland will soon be on display at Te Papa.
4:06 The Panel - Tim Watkin and Liz Bowen-Clewley