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Afternoons for Thursday 14 November 2013

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1:10 Best song ever written

'The Greatest Love of All' by Whitney Houston suggested by Ann Neville of Rotokauri.

1:15 Your place - Kawerau

2:10 Slumdog On Top

Rupee, a stray dog found starving in a rubbish dump in Northern India, has gone where no dog has gone before... Mount Everest. Rupee trekked for ten days to reach the base camp  at Mount Everest, 17,000 feet above sea level. The 8-month-old pup was adopted by Joanne Lefson, a South African woman who made headlines by travelling around the world with another dog she rescued, Oscar. Sadly Oscar was killed by a truck in January. Joanne says the trip up Mount Everest was done in Oscar's honor, and is an example of the value of dogs that have been cast aside by everyone else.

Link: Oscar's World Woof Tour

2:20 Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey

Rob Cope is hitchhiking the length of the country with a rather unusual companion – a 1.5 metre high fridge. So far, he's had almost no problem getting rides for himself and the Simpson fridge. His tour is in support of a book he's published about being a Kiwi bloke called Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey. He and Simpson have been on the road since 1 November, starting in Wellington, making their way down the West Coast and then back up the South Island. Rob's made it as far as Dunedin and has spent most of the morning on top of his fridge in the Octagon.

2:30 Reading: Heartland

2:45 Feature album

Abraxas by Santana.

3:12 Dylan Thomas - Lucy Burns from BBC Witness

Sixty years after the death of the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, we dip into the BBC archives and hear from his wife, Caitlin, and daughter, Aeronwy.

See the BBC website for this programme.

3:20 Southern story

Wine and Song: why the wrong piece of music can turn a good drop bad – Katy Gosset meets a woman who's pairing wine with song.

3:40 Our Changing World

Two University of Auckland engineers who were continually told that their idea for transferring electricity without cables was off the wall have won the 2013 Prime Minister's Science Prize.

4:06 The Panel