Afternoons

 

1:15 Auckland space tech company on sending pioneering technology into orbit 

Zenno Astronautics is an Auckland and US-based austronautic company which has already sent its technology into space via Elon Musk's SpaceX. 

If it all seems a little out of this world, the technology relates to the magnetic fields causing the solar flares this past week. 

Max Arshavksy, Zenno Astronautics CEO and founder, to tell us all about it.

1:25 Relocated petrel chicks thriving in the Chathams 

58 Chatham petrel chicks have been relocated in the Chathams under the watchful eye of DOC ranger Jemma Welch.

The chicks are settling in well to their new home.

Jemma gives us an update on their progress.

1:35 Warming up Auckland for the World Choir Games

Come the 10th of July, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckand will sound a little sweeter.

11,000 singers from more than 250 choirs will hit the city for the 2024 World Choir Games.

Events and competitions will take place at a variety of venues over the next 10 days, and some of the names attached to help with the ceremonies include Marlon Williams, Ria Hall and WOW director Malia Johnston.

Artistic and festival director for the World Choir Games, John Rosser speaks to Jesse.

1:45 Heading Off: providing luxury in Aotearoa to travellers

For Heading Off today we're looking at what's on offer for the luxury travellers coming to our shores.

Tim Scott has been, for the past 27 years, arranging luxury travel experiences for Americans travelling down under.

He talks to Jesse about what kind of holidays these tourists are having here when money is no object.

2:12 Podcast Critic: Alex Barnes

Today Alex talks to Jesse about Indigenous 100 Podcast and Being Well

2:20 Easy Eats with Sam Parish: Slow cooker pork

This week on Easy Eats Sam Parish has a great recipe that can be used in a number of different meals.

It's, as always, fast, budget friendly and a crowd pleaser.

You can find out how to make her slower cooker pork here.

2:30 Bookmarks with Jacinta Ruru

Our Bookmarks guest today has made history more than once

In her whanau she was the first to pursue a university education - studying Maori and politics and finally law at Otago University

The once 'shy student' then went on to become Aotearoa's first ever Māori law professor , and recently, the university's inaugural deputy vice chancellor Māori

Professor Jacinta Ruru is with Jesse for Bookmarks this week.

3:10 Dr Jonathan Haidt on devices and mental health

A surge of suffering is happening to teenagers around the world with rising rates of anxiety, depression and self harm.  
We changed their childhoods with smartphones  says social psychologist Dr Jonathan Haidt, making it harder for them to flourish as adults.  

He calls the decline in teen mental health a tragedy in two acts; overprotecting children in the real world preventing them from playing unsupervised and being independent, and under protecting them from the dangers of the online world.

Dr Haidt is calling for a revolution, including no smartphones before age 16 and no phones in school.  His new book is called,  "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness."

3:35 Stories from Our Changing World

Coming up, in the latest episode of the Voice of Tangaroa series about our oceans, Rebekah White learns about the plight of two of our albatrosses.

3:45 The pre-Panel