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Afternoons for Thursday 3 May 2012

  • Best Song Ever Written - Peaches

    1:12 PM.Emily Percy from Auckland chooses 'Peaches' by The Presidents of the United States of America. Audio

  • Your Place - Hawarden

    1:18 PM.Our Your Place tour guides take us through the small North Canterbury town of Hawarden on the doorstep to the amazing Hurunui Lakes. Audio

  • Walking over Niagara Falls

    2:10 PM.Walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls is not an unusual boyhood dream when you're a 7th generation member of a famous circus family. Now that dream will come true for Nik Wallenda from the Flying… Read more Audio

  • Iditarod Sled Dog Race

    2:20 PM.It took eleven days, twenty-two hours, forty minutes, and forty-five seconds, but Curt Perano has become the first New Zealander to finish one of the most brutal long distance races in the world: The… Read more Audio

  • Feature Album - Trouble in Paradise

    2:50 PM.1983's 'Trouble in Paradise' by American composer Randy Newman. Newman, even then one of music's preeminent songwriters, proved with this album that he could make a great record - and it's still… Read more Audio

  • The Arts Report - Gisborne Concert Bands

    3:10 PM.Whilst guitars and rock n' roll threaten the culture of the concert band, in Gisborne they're intent on keeping them alive. The region has three bands and a long standing history as Sonia Sly finds… Read more Audio

  • Southern Story for 3 May 2012 - Waihi Bush

    3:27 PM.David Musgrave describes himself as a mad scientist. He has a degree in agriculture and over a dozen years' experience as a research scientist. But his motivation to get into the flax-seed oil… Read more Audio

  • The Panel Pre-Show for 3 May 2012

    3:45 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

  • The Panel with Finlay MacDonald and Cas Carter (Part 1)

    4:08 PM.Previously he denied it but now the Act party leader John Banks has confirmed he got a discounted deal at Kim Dotcom's favourite Hong Kong hotel during his stay there. But Mr Banks says he negotiated… Read more Audio

  • The Panel with Finlay MacDonald and Cas Carter (Part 2)

    4:35 PM.NZ On Air money used for TV3 reality show; and the lack of a season ticket option means regular users of Timaru's new CBay Aquatic Centre could spend more than $700 a year to swim there. Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written

1:15 Your Place

2:10 Feature stories

2:30 Reading

2:45 Feature Album

3:12 Arts Report

3:33 Southern Story: Waihi Bush Organic Farm

The 15 hectares of bush with ancient trees and a magic pool in David Musgrave's 120 ha farm may be responsible for his serenity - or is it the flax-seed oil he produces? An agricultural degree and years as a research scientist have helped David succeed in his business, Functional Whole Foods, but his reasons for starting it were more personal – the products worked in healing his sons' allergies. Sage Forest meets David in the bush and takes a tour of the factory in Geraldine.

Flax peaks
Beautiful fields of flax at Waihi Bush (notice it's entirely different  to New Zealand's native harakeke).

3:40 Our Changing World

4:06 The Panel