Afternoons for Tuesday 7 July 2015
1:10 Your Song
Beautiful Day - U2. Chosen by Chris Arbuckle.
1:20 The Critics
1. TV review Colin Hogg
2. Books Graham Beattie
3 Music Colin Morris
4. Web Megan Whelan
2:10 Anti-cancer chemical found in NZ sea sponge - Professor John Miller
New Zealand researchers are looking hard at whether a sea sponge, commonly found in the Marlborough Sounds, could provide an effective cancer drug. The potential benefits of a chemical produced by the Mycale henscheli sponge have been explored in a recent article in the Molecular Cancer Therapeutics journal. John Miller is a professor of Cell Biology and Physiology at the School of Biological Sciences at Victoria University.
2:20 Cocaine Skis - Nick Pomeroy
A cold southerly over the lower South Island is expected to spread northwards today, bringing heavy snow for Southern Fiordland, Southland, and Clutha today, and Hawke's Bay and Central Plateau tonight. The wintry storm may not be good news for some motorists, with a number of highways in the south closing. But, for ski-junkies a fresh dump of snow could be good news. One man who's passion is skiing is Nick Pomeroy. He loves it so much, that he's started his own ski-making business. It's called Cocaine Skis.
2:30 NZ Reading - Shooting The Moon
Nick doesn't make the Highlands Soccer Team as his father had hoped. The brothers go shopping for presents for their sister Madeline. Pip is disturbed by Nick's selfish behaviour and excited to begin training for the Climbing Champs.
2:45 Feature album
Secrets - Toni Braxton.
3:10 Gut - Giulia Enders
When it comes to the human body, the Heart and the brain get all the glory. But Giulia Enders is a 25-year-old Ph.D. student at the Institute for Medical Microbiology in Frankfurt, Germany marvels at the less popular things our body does and organs that make it possible. She's written a book that reads like a digestive system travelogue and explains new research that links what's going on in our brains to what's happening in our bowels. The book is , called Gut: The Inside Story Of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ. It's a bestseller in her native Germany and is now published in 30 languages all over the world.
3:35 Our Changing World - Alison Ballance
Victoria University PhD student Brit Finucci introduces Alison Ballance to the weird and wonderful world of chimera, which are deep sea relatives of the sharks. She shows Alison some of their stranger features, including spiky sex organs on the foreheads of the males.
Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Jim Mora, Julie Moffett, Sue Wells and Tony Doe.