Afternoons for Tuesday 6 November 2012 Afternoons

Best Song Ever Written - Leader of the Band

1:08 PM.Sue Spindler from Christchurch has chosen "Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogelberg. Audio
TV Review with Sarah McMullan

1:19 PM.Featuring the shows 'The Amazing Race', 'The Block Australia', 'Mitre 10 Dream Home', and 'NZ TV Awards 2012'. Audio
Book Review with Graham Beattie

1:34 PM.Featuring 'Get Fresh' by Al Brown, 'Ruth Pretty Cooks at Home', 'The Engine Room' and 'Standing in Another Man's Grave' by Ian Rankin. Audio
Music Review with Nick Atkinson

1:42 PM.'Too Hot Blues' and 'Spit It Out' by Heart Attack Alley. Audio
Web Review with Ele Ludemann

1:53 PM.A blog for people who care about grammar; too much mothering; laughter as exercise. Audio
Canadian musician Randy Bachman

2:09 PM.A founding member of The Guess Who, and the Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Audio
Tune Your Engine - Poison expert Deborah Blum

3:17 PM.Science writer and poison expert Deborah Blum has been discussing mysterious tourist deaths in Southeast Asia. Deborah doesn't accept, for instance, the offical explanation that DEET (the chemical… Read more Audio
Asian Report for 6 November 2012 - Asia Savvy Conference

3:40 PM.What does it mean to be business savvy in our dealings with Asia? Why can it seem to take so long to close a business deal with a company from the Asian region? Students from the Business School at… Read more Audio
The Panel Pre-Show for 6 November 2012

3:51 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
The Panel with Barry Corbett and David Slack (Part 1)

4:07 PM.Topics - The Prime Minister was asked today whether heads should roll at the former Department of Labour over the Pike River Mine tragedy. Are New Zealanders becoming Australia's new "permanent second… Read more Audio
The Panel with Barry Corbett and David Slack (Part 2)

4:34 PM.Topics - Australian punters are expected to splurge more than a quarter of a billion dollars on today's Melbourne Cup. Monday is the last full day of campaigning in the US Presidential election and… Read more Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written - Sue Spindler of Christchurch nominated 'Leader of the Band' by Dan Fogelberg.

1:15 Critical Mass

TV - Sarah McMullan

The Amazing Race
TV2, Monday & Tues @ 7.30
2. The Block Australia
TV3 - Mon, Tues Wed @ 7.30

Dream Home
Returning to TV2 in 2013 hosted by Simon Barnett

NZ TV Awards 2012

Books - Graham Beattie
Get Fresh by Al Brown
Ruth Pretty Cooks at Home
The Engine Room
Standing in Another Man's Grave - the new Ian Rankin Novel.

Music - Nick Atkinson
'Spit It Out' from the new Heart Attack Alley album Living Hell

Web - Ele Ludemann
A blog for people who care about grammar:
http://blog.grammarly.com/
Too much mothering:
http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2012/fall/warner-too-much-mothering/
Laughter as exercise:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/laughter-as-a-form-of-exercise/

2:10 Our guest this hour is Canadian musician, Randy Bachman - a founding member of The Guess Who, and the Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

2:30 Reading - Lisa French Blaker continues her account of life as a nurse with Medecins Sans Frontieres in 'Heart of Darfur'

2:45 Feature Album - Crowded House by Crowded House (1986)

3:20 Science Writer and poison expert Deborah Blum
Science writer and poison expert, Deborah Blum whose been discussing mysterious tourist deaths in Southeast Asia. Deborah doesn't accept, for instance, the offical explanation that DEET (the chemical used in mosquito repellant) was responsible for the deaths of two young Canadian sisters in Thailand last June.

3:33 Asian Report In today's Asian Report, what does it mean to be business savvy in our dealings with Asia? Why can it seem to take so long to close a business deal with a company from the Asian region? Students from the Business School at Auckland University initiated their own annual conferences to address these issues

4:06 The Panel - Barry Corbett and David Slack.

New Zealanders as second-class citizens in Australia, the Melbourne Cup with Mary Mountier's picks. Does the wisdom of crowds mean that the polls are irrelevant in America, no matter how close they seem? Because the flat fact is that all the money's on Obama. If Romney wins tomorrow a good many theories will be upended; if Obama wins handsomely there'll be long hard looks at the opinion polls.

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Afternoons for Tuesday 6 November 2012