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Afternoons for Tuesday 16 October 2012

  • Best Song Ever Written - Turn of the Century

    1:08 PM.Phil Mackie from Wellington has chosen 'Turn of the Century' by Beat Rhythm Fashion. Audio

  • TV Review with Phil Wallington

    1:24 PM.Featuring the TV shows 'Fair Go', 'Wallander', 'Beauty and the Geeks', and the movie 'Mary Poppins'. Audio

  • Book Review with Graham Beattie

    1:40 PM.Featuring the books 'Easy' by Bill Granger and '240 Years of New Zealand Painting' by art historian, writer and lecturer Edward Hanfling. Audio

  • Music Review with Nick Atkinson

    1:45 PM.Featuring the songs 'Tides' and 'Chrysalis' by New Way Home and 'Only On Fire' by the Delaney Davidson & Marlon Williams. Audio

  • Web Review with Ben Gracewood

    1:57 PM.Are live-streamed events the future of advertising? Audio

  • An electric car project

    2:10 PM.Chris Northover is a qualified lawyer but these days spends a good part of his day being a bloke in a shed. He's converting his house to solar power and has just built himself an electric car. Audio

  • Wish for a smile

    2:21 PM.Fixing even a child's smile can cost anywhere up to ten thousand dollars, a cost out of the reach of many families. Which is why the New Zealand Association of Orthodontists has started a new scheme… Read more Audio

  • Tune Your Engine - Sleepwalking

    3:10 PM.David K. Randall, is a senior reporter at Reuters and an adjunct professor at New York University. His best selling book is called 'Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep'. Audio

  • Asian Report for 16 October 2012 - The NZ Shia Community (Part 2)

    3:35 PM.There are around 36,000 followers of the Islamic faith living in New Zealand, from both the Sunni and Shi'ite sects. Lynda Chanwai-Earle travels to Auckland to find out more about the little heard… Read more Audio

  • The Panel Pre-Show for 16 October 2012

    3:46 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

  • The Panel with Gary McCormick and Graham Bell (Part 1)

    4:07 PM.Topics - Air Force safety processes have come under heavy criticism in an internal report following the fatal 2010 Anzac Day helicopter crash. The report says an unspecified Air New Zealand flight… Read more Audio

  • The Panel with Gary McCormick and Graham Bell (Part 2)

    4:36 PM.Topics - a man who was rejected by the Auckland University medical programme in 2010 allegedly pretended to be a student. The Pukekohe race track is going to get a longer track, three new corners, and… Read more Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written

Phil Mackie of Wellington nominated 'Turn of the Century' by Beat Rhythm Fashion.

1:15 Critical Mass

TV review - Phil Wallington

Fair Go  -  TV 1: 7:30pm - Tuesday  
Wallander - UKTV:  8:30pm - Monday
Beauty and the Geeks (Australia) -  Last Night
Mary Poppins - TV 2

Books - Graham Beattie

Easy by Bill Granger
Publisher
Collins
ISBN
9780007478224

240 Years of New Zealand Painting -  Edward Hanfling, Gil Docking and Michael Dunn
David Bateman publishing

Hot Music - Nick Atkinson

TITLE:        Tides
ARTIST:    New Way Home
COMP:    New Way Home
ALBUM:    Mirrors
LABEL:     Private

TITLE:     Only On Fire
ARTIST:    Delaney Davidson & Marlon Williams
COMP:    Damien Jones
LABEL:    RNZ Recording

Web - Ben Gracewood

2:10 Home-built Electric Car - Chris Northover
Chris Northover is a qualified lawyer but these days spends a good part of his day being a bloke in a shed, aiming for what he calls the low economy lifestyle. He lives on a quarter acre in the Whanganui suburb of Aramoho...and is aiming to make himself energy self sufficient. Chris is converting his house to solar power...and he's just built himself an electric car.

2:20 Wish for A Smile - Peter Fowler, of Christchurch
If you were born with less than perfect teeth, you'll know how much money it can cost for a good quality smile.
Even  fixing even a child's smile can cost anywhere up to ten thousand dollars and more...a cost out of the reach of many families.
Which is why the New Zealand Association of Orthodontists has started a new scheme called Wish for A Smile...which it  launched today.

2:30 Reading - Part two of "Shaggy Dogs and Other Stories" read by Bruce Phillips, written by David Marshall

2:45 Feature Album - 'Two Against Nature' - Steely Dan (2000)

3:12 Tune Your Engine - Dreamland Adventures - David Randall
New York journalist David K. Randall  had never given sleep much thought until a midnight crash into a hallway wall while sleep walking. He's written a book called ' Dreamland': Open Your Eyes To The Science Of Sleep - exploring the research into the dark hours that make up nearly a third of our lives.

3:33 Asian Report   - Shi'ite Muslim Community Part 2 - Lynda Chanwai-Earle 
In our Asian Report,  Lynda travels to Auckland to find out more about the little heard from Shia Muslim community in New Zealand.

4:06 The Panel - Gary McCormick and Graham Bell.

Dangerous goods on Air NZ, the cost-benefit ratio of the Auckland V8s questioned again, the bloke who got away with being a med student for 2 years, trust in the police, or lack of ?