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Afternoons for Wednesday 7 April 2010

  • The best song ever written

    1:10 PM.Gordon McShean from Palmerston North chooses"Green Grow the Rashes O". Audio

  • Link 3

    1:20 PM.What do these songs have in common? Audio

  • Liquor License

    2:10 PM.A decision that sets tough operating hours for a liquor store close to schools and churches on the North Shore could set a precedent for new stores right round the country. Audio

  • Horse poop

    2:25 PM.The proverbial you know what hasn't hit the fan but it can hit the streets of Kerikeri. The Far North District Council had proposed a bylaw that would have required horse owners to pick up after their… Read more Audio

  • Feature Album

    2:50 PM.Baduizm - the debut album of R and B and neo soul musician Erykah Badu. Audio

  • Virtual World with Hamish MacEwan

    3:12 PM.Privacy? Internet Hitchhiking. Bits and Bobs and The Site of the Week. Audio

  • Auckland Story for 7 April 2010 - Pools to School

    3:30 PM.A pilot scheme aimed at getting children to learn to swim has been hailed a success. The Pools To School scheme takes the swimming pool to the many schools which can no longer afford to build and… Read more Audio

  • Environment Story with Alison Ballance

    3:45 PM.Chatham akeake is a familiar hedge plant on mainland New Zealandbut out on Mangere Island in the Chathams it's much more than a hedge - it's a hero. Find out more about New Zealand's most remote and… Read more Audio

  • The Panel (part 1)

    4:07 PM.With Irene Gardiner and John Bishop. Audio

  • The Panel (part 2)

    4:35 PM.With Irene Gardiner and John Bishop. Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written

Today's Best Song Ever Written comes to us from Palmerston North and Gordon McShean

1:15 Link 3 - music game

Can you find the link between these songs?

Have You Ever Seen The Rain - CCR
Alfie - Lily Allen
My Sister's Tiny Hands - Handsome Family
Blue Ridge Mountains - Fleet Foxes
In My Life - Beatles
You and Your Sister - This Mortal Coil
You Are My Sister - Antony & the Johnsons

2:10 Feature stories

Rangitoto College doesn't want a liquor store in a new block of shops near the school. So here's the compromise - the store will open, but it'll have to close down during certain hours of the day when the young people are likely to be walking past it.

And we'll also talk about the horse dung problem in Keri Keri. If you're riding a horse should you be expected to get down and pick up the poo every time the horse answers the call of nature?

2:30 Book Reading

We continue our reading of "Shot" by Sarah Quigley.

Lena is now in Barrow in northern Alaska, the land of the midnight sun. She is staying with a tracker called Jimmy.

2:45 He Rourou

Born and bred in the Far North, Pirihira Henry remembers travelling to Auckland was like travelling to a different county.

In He Rourou today, Ana Tapiata talks with Pirihira Henry about growing up in a family of 13 at the very tip of the North Island.

3:12 Virtual World

Hamish MacEwan joins us to talk about Facebook privacy.

Internet Hitchhiking - and Web experts recoiled at Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy's

assertion that the internet is "not special" and should be censored

like books, films and newspapers.

3:33 Auckland story

A pilot scheme aimed at getting children to learn to swim has been hailed a success. The Pools To School scheme takes the swimming pool to the many schools which can no longer afford to build and maintain a permanent swimming pool.

3:47 Science story

Chatham akeake is a familiar hedge plant on mainland New Zealand … but out on Mangere Island in the Chathams it's much more than a hedge - it's a hero.

And Find out more about New Zealand's most remote and ambitious re-vegetation programme.

4:06 The Panel

Irene Gardiner and John Bishop are our guests today.