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Afternoons for Thursday 3 September 2015

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1:10 First Song

Rod Stewart - 'Love Is'.  

1:20 Capitaine Bougainville - Lindy Laird

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Capitaine Bougainville tragedy - the ship caught fire off the East coast of Northland in 1975, 16 people lost their lives. The Northern Advocate's Lindy Laird joins us to discuss what happened, and what the plans are for the commemoration this weekend.

1.25 Native Nelson Garden - The Fishers

When Martyn and Su Fisher moved in to their 21-hectare overgrown bush property in Nelson, they arrived with one hand trowel and very little knowledge of the huge conservation task ahead of them. Almost 12 years on, and the native block of bush has been restored, pests have been eliminated and a broad range of vegetation and rare plants are abundant. Now the couple are looking to sell the property, and need someone with the right skills and know-how to continue on their good work.

1.34 Gender Equality - Dr Harold Hillman

Harold is an author, leadership expert and clinical psychologist. Working with many of our top corporates, including Air New Zealand and Fonterra, Hillman was a member of the task force commissioned by the Clinton administration in 1993 to end discrimination against gay citizens wanting to serve openly in the US military, and now works with the New Zealand armed forces around gender equality and leadership issues.

1:40 Favourite Album

Natasha Frost from the Wireless choses her favourite album today by the Velvet Underground

2:10 White Man Behind A Desk - Robbie Nichol

Last month we met Robbie Nichol who produces and presents the online satire series White Man Behind A Desk. His lastest episode is about the TPPA trade agreement. 

2:10 Roadmap - Foxton

This week on the roadmap, it's Foxton. On State Highway One, 90km north of Wellington, and about 30km south west of Palmerston North. It was once a major  deep river port serving the burgeoning flax industry of the Manawatu.  By the end of the 19th century, there were 50 flax mills running in and around Foxton, shipping flax to Australia and all over the world through the boom times of the late 1800s.

1994. Darwick Street Foxton Beach looking from near Seabury Avenue. Image: Foxton Historical Society

The town of Foxton, photographed in the 1870s by William James Harding. Ref: 1/1-000333-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

[ca 1878] Foxton Ready Money Store, County Emporium, Foxton. Harding, William James, 1826-1899 :Negatives of Wanganui district. Ref: 1/1-000308-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

Image: Foxton Historical Society

c 1905. Flax workers at an unidentified Foxton flaxmill.

Fisherman's hut, Foxton Beach. 1905. Image: Pataka Ipurangi : Manawatu Memory Online

Foxton Beach, 08 April 1912, Foxton Beach, by Leslie Adkin. Purchased 1978 with Ellen Eames Collection funds. Te Papa (O.002630)

Postcard showing a group of unidentified Maori pose in front of flax bushes at Moutoa, 2 April 1916Foxton Centennial Celebrations Labour Weekend October 1955

Poplar flaxmill cutters pose in front of a stand of flax c.1919. Image: Foxton Historical Society

Hart's West End Store and Tea Rooms, Foxton Beach. Image: Foxton Historical Society

Dressing up as Ku Klux Klansmen for a Foxton parade, 1930. Image: Foxton Historical Society

Foxton Surf Club members, 1930. Image: Foxton Historical Society

Car Stuck in Hole, Foxton Beach, 1935. Image: Foxton Historical Society

United Ancient Order of Druids Manawatu Lodge No73 Foxton, 1938. Image: Foxton Historical Society.

Woolpack and Textiles workers, 1940. Image: Foxton Historical Society

Foxton Centennial Celebrations 1955. Image: Foxton Historical Society

McDonald Family at Foxton Beach. Image: Pataka Ipurangi : Manawatu Memory Online

The last cutting of flax at the Moutoa swamp. 1974. Image: Foxton Historical Society

Foxton Beach, Northern Manawatu. 1975. Whites Aviation Ltd :Photographs. Ref: WA-72434-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

Opening of De Molen. 2003. Image: Foxton Historical Society

Windmill, Foxton. Photo: russellstreet

Angel Fizz by Ngawara (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ)

Foxton Beach 2009. Image: (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) vanou

Foxton Beach 2006. Image: Torpe (CC BY 2.0)

3:10 The Expats - Jody BrettKelly

Our expat this week is a freelance writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, and blogger, living in Oakland with her husband and four children.

3:25 Masterpieces - Mike Dickison

Every week we invite a New Zealander who is an expert in their field to talk about their favourite artefact in their field. A poet's favourite poem, a painter's favourite painting, etc. Today's guest is Mike Dickison, curator of natural history at Wanganui regional museum. He'll be talking about the Upland Moa.

3:35 Our Changing World - New Zealand's first ocean glider takes to the seas

The state-of-the-art ocean research glider Manaia – named in a public competition after the motif often carved into the figureheads of sea-going waka to give spiritual direction to the waka’s journey – is one of about 500 around the world, but the first and only one in New Zealand.

3:45 The Panel Pre-Show

What the world is talking about.  With Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.

Music Details

OPENING SONG:  

ARTIST: Rod Stewart
TITLE: LOVE IS
COMP: Steward
ALBUM: Another Country
LABEL: Capitol

FEATURE ALBUM:

ARTIST: Velvet Underground and Nico
TITLE: Sunday Morning
COMP: Cale, Reed
ALBUM: Velvet Underground and Nico
LABEL: Polydor

ARTIST: Velvet Underground and Nico
TITLE: I'm Waiting For The Man
COMP: Reed
ALBUM: Velvet Underground and Nico
LABEL: Polydor

ARTIST: Velvet Underground and Nico
TITLE: There She Goes Again
COMP: Reed
ALBUM: Velvet Underground and Nico
LABEL: Polydor  

ARTIST: Velvet Underground and Nico
TITLE: Femme Fatale
COMP: Reed
ALBUM: Velvet Underground and Nico
LABEL: Polydor

ROADMAP:

ARTIST: George Strait
TITLE: The Chair
COMP: Cochran, Dillon
ALBUM: George Strait: 50 Number Ones (Compilation)
LABEL: MCA

ARTIST: Golden Earring
TITLE: Radar Love
COMP: George Kooymans/Barry Hay
ALBUM: Golden Earring: Collected (Compilation)
LABEL: Universal

ARTIST: Julio & Willie
TITLE: To all the girls I've loved before
COMP: David, Hammond
ALBUM: Julio Iglesias: Love Songs (Compilation)
LABEL: Sony

ARTIST: Six60
TITLE: Don't Forget Your Roots
COMP: Six60
ALBUM: Six60
LABEL: Universal

3.30 SONG

ARTIST: Gillian Welch
TITLE: The way it will be
COMP: Welch, Rawlings
ALBUM: The Harrow And The Harvest
LABEL: Acony

THE PANEL:
 
ARTIST: The Verve
TITLE: Bittersweet Symphony
COMP: Ashcroft, Jagger, Richards
ALBUM: Urban Hymns
LABEL: Virgin