Afternoons for Wednesday 1 May 2024
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Battle to keep historic aircraft in the air
1:15 PM.Betsy, an historic American-built Douglas DC-3 aircraft, may have flown its last sightseeing or wedding flight out of Auckland's Ardmore airport. Read more Audio
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Not book club, not a library but a great night out reading....
1:25 PM.There's a new way to meet like minded book worms taking over New York and other parts of the US right now. Read more Audio
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Roy Miller's nephew on the dying art of stained glass
1:35 PM.Roy Miller is a name synonymous with stained glass art in Aotearoa and while you might not have heard of him you've probably seen some of his work. Read more Audio
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Heading Off: Grant Bradley on Air NZ airfare changes
1:45 PM.This week on Heading Off we have a closer look at the recent Air NZ changes to their air fares. Prices have recently gone up on domestic flights and some options, which were popular, have been… Read more Audio
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Podcast Critic: Elliot Childs
2:12 PM.Today Elliot speaks to Jesse about Lore and War of the Words. Read more Audio
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Easy Eats with Sam Parish
2:20 PM.Today chef and author Sam Parish has a fabulously easy midweek meal that uses a minimal amount of dishes! Read more Audio
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Bookmarks with Nick Sautner
2:30 PM.Our Bookmarks guest today is a scholar who can kick a ball! He's the leading goal kicker record holder in the Aussie Rules Victorian Football League, with a whopping 883 goals. He has studied in… Read more Audio
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Three wise men using science to make sense of the world
3:10 PM.No one has all the answers, but we could all learn a thing or two about asking the right questions from Nobel Prize winning physicist Saul Perlmutter, philosophy professor John Campbell, and social… Read more Audio
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Our Changing World for 3:35pm Wednesday 1st May 2024
3:35 PM.Coming up on Our Changing World, Claire Concannon meets a team using board games to communicate about volcanic hazards. Audio
1:15 Battle to keep historic aircraft in the air
Betsy, an historic American-built Douglas DC-3 aircraft, may have flown its last sightseeing or wedding flight out of Auckland's Ardmore airport.
The aircraft is operated by tiny airline FLY DC3 which is ran by Jessica Cooper and her husband Geoff.
They join Jesse in the Auckland studio to discuss the challenges faced by the airline and the history of the iconic plane which first took to the skies in 1944.
Betsy, a historic American-built DC-3 aircraft, flies over Aotearoa. Photo: FLY DC3
1:25 Not book club, not a library but a great night out reading....
There's a new way to meet like minded book worms taking over New York and other parts of the US right now.
Reading Rhythms is a new kind of gathering where you go out to a venue with your book, read and then talk to the fellow reader next to you all about it.
We speak to Ben Bradbury about how this novel way of holding a gathering for introverts has taken off.
Photo: Unsplash / Lilly Rum
1:35 Roy Miller's nephew on the dying art of stained glass
Roy Miller is a name synonymous with stained glass art in Aotearoa and while you might not have heard of him you've probably seen some of his work.
He's the artist behind 300 stained glass windows in churches around the country and there's currently a push to protect and preserve them.
Roy's nephew Brian Miller has written a book to document his uncle's work, he speaks to Jesse.
A stained-glass window in St Lukes Church in Hawkes Bay (left) Ray Miller at work (right) Photo: Supplied/Lifelogs
1:45 Heading Off: Grant Bradley on Air NZ airfare changes
This week on Heading Off we have a closer look at the recent Air NZ changes to their air fares.
Prices have recently gone up on domestic flights and some options, which were popular, have been removed.
To go through the changes we speak to NZ Herald Deputy Business Editor Grant Bradley.
Photo: AFP
2.12 Podcast Critic: Elliot Childs
Today Elliot speaks to Jesse about Lore and War of the Words.
2:20 Easy Eats with Sam Parish
Today chef and author Sam Parish has a fabulously easy midweek meal that uses a minimal amount of dishes!
She shares with Jesse how to make her One pan, one tray Chicken Fettuccine.
You can find out how to make this at home here.
Photo: Sam Parish
2:30 Bookmarks with Nick Sautner
Our Bookmarks guest today is a scholar who can kick a ball!
He's the leading goal kicker record holder in the Aussie Rules Victorian Football League, with a whopping 883 goals.
He has studied in China, Germany and the USA.
But closer to home Nick Sautner is the CEO of Eden Park Stadium, and joins Jesse to tell us about some of his favourite things!
Photo: leehowell2017
3:10 Three wise men using science to make sense of the world
No one has all the answers, but we could all learn a thing or two about asking the right questions from Nobel Prize winning physicist Saul Perlmutter, philosophy professor John Campbell, and social psychologist Robert MacCoun.
More than a decade ago, they started a popular course at the University of California to teach students to use scientific reasoning to make sense of the world.
Their new book is called Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense.
Third Millennium Thinking book cover Photo: Hachette Book Group
3:35 Stories from Our Changing World
Coming up on Our Changing World, Claire Concannon meets a team using board games to communicate about volcanic hazards.
Professor Ben Kennedy with some of the volcano-themed décor in his office at the University of Canterbury. Photo: Claire Concannon / RNZ
3:45 The pre-Panel