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Afternoons for Thursday 23 December 2010

  • Best Song Ever Written - Let It Be

    1:09 PM.Phil O'Brien from the RNZ show Matinee Idle, has chosen 'Let It Be' from the Across The Universe. Audio

  • Your Place - Caroline Bay

    1:18 PM.Usually at this time each week we visit one of our smaller towns, an out of the way location, far from the madding crowd and often quite removed from big city life. That's not the case, though, this… Read more Audio

  • Feature Guest - Gregg Allman

    2:06 PM.Toe-tapping driving music, gutsy guitar solos and complex harmonies all characterize the music of rock and roll great, Gregg Allman. Founding member of the hugely successful Allman Brothers Band, the… Read more Audio

  • He Rourou for 23 December 2010

    2:45 PM.In He Rourou Ana Tapiata talks Christmas with Rewi, Maia, Te Marie and Araraina, some of the children from the total immersion school in Wellington. Audio

  • Southern Story for 23 December 2010 - Lace Cottage

    3:19 PM.Earlier this year, Spoken Features producer Sonia Yee met up with Olga Hawkes - author of 'Russian at Heart.' But there's another side to Olga's personal story and it's full of glamour from 60's… Read more Audio

  • Our Changing World - Water repellent soil

    3:32 PM.With drought conditions already kicking in for parts of the country, research at Plant of Food Research is highlighting a problem with New Zealand soils that farmers simply may not know about. For… Read more Audio

  • The Panel Pre-Show for 23 December 2010

    3:47 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on today's Panel. Audio

  • The Panel with David Farrar and Josie Pagani (Part 1)

    4:07 PM.Topics - The independent MP Chris Carter won't be spending his summer hols in Sri Lanka. He's cancelled his taxpayer-subsided trip using the MPs' travel perk after details were leaked to the media… Read more Audio

  • The Panel with David Farrar and Josie Pagani (Part 2)

    4:35 PM.Topics - A transport lobby group wants cars to be excluded from Auckland's inner-city Queen Street at weekends. Christmas weather, A slow-moving front makes its way northwards over northern New… Read more Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written

Let It Be from the Across The Universe as chosen by Phil O'Brien of Wellington.

1:15 Your Place

Caroline Bay in Timaru.

2:10 Feature stories

Toe-tapping driving music, gutsy guitar solos and complex harmonies all characterize the music of rock and roll great, Gregg Allman.

2:30 Reading

The Sheep Dog, written and told by Dulcie Smart.

2:45 He Rourou

Ana Tapiata talks Christmas with Rewi, Maia, Te Marie and Araraina….. some of the children from the total immersion school in Wellington.

2:50 Feature Album

Our Feature Album is LADI6 : THE LIBERATION OF.

3:12 Arts Report

The cutting-edge British film director Peter Greenaway is causing huge controversy in New York. Known for controversial movie works like Drowning by Numbers (1988), and his most successful film, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) - Greenaway's non-cinema work is no different.

His current project is to create computer generated enhancements of great works of art - and its provoked both delight and disgust. The BBC's Harriett Gilbert reports

3:33 Southern story

Earlier this year, our Spoken Features producer Sonia Yee met up with Olga Hawkes - author of Russian at Heart. But there's another side to Olga's personal story and it's full of glamour -from 60s fashion model in Auckland to a business venture in the 80s on a return trip to England.

4:06 The Panel

David Farrar and Josie Pagani.