Afternoons for Thursday 15 November 2012 Afternoons

The Best Song Ever Written - Sweetheart Like You

1:08 PM.John Stringer from Christchurch chooses this Bob Dylan song. Audio
Your Place - Hunterville

1:15 PM.Your Place tour guides from the Rangitikei district of Hunterville, half way between Taupo and Wellington. Population just over 400 and famous for its Huntaway Festival in October each year. Audio
Ringo Starr

2:08 PM.Ringo Starr is our special guest. He is still making records and still touring at 72. Audio
The Arts Report - The renovated National Library

3:09 PM.A behind the scenes tour of the renovated National Library, a previously leaky home to New Zealand's precious documents. Taxpayers have put in around $65 million for the refit. What do we get for our… Read more Audio
Southern Story for 15 November 2012 - Cobb Friends

3:20 PM.It had been a generation since kiwi were sighted in the Cobb Valley, on the Golden Bay side of Kahurangi National Park. But thanks to a volunteer trapping and monitoring programme, they're back. Audio
Our Changing World - Photos and Truthiness

3:31 PM.Truthiness is a "truth" that a person claims to know intuitively "from the gut" without regard to evidence or facts. Victoria University's Eryn Newman, and supervisor Maryanne Garry, are looking at… Read more Audio
The Panel Pre-Show for 15 November 2012

3:45 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
The Panel with Amanda Miller and Julia Hartley Moore (Part 1)

4:07 PM.Continuing bad economic news is prompting forecasters to speculate the economy may have gone backwards for the first time in two years. Kiwirail laying off 80 or 90 workers at the Hillside Workshops… Read more Audio
The Panel with Amanda Miller and Julia Hartley Moore (Part 2)

4:35 PM.New research from Oregon State University finds that for most Americans, old age is not heralded in by a particular birthday - but rather by how a person acts. In the latest moves to make Auckland… Read more Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written - John Stringer from Christchurch nominated 'Sweetheart Like You" by Bob Dylan

1:20 Your Place - Our tour guides are from the Rangitikei district of Hunterville - half way between Taupo and Wellington - population just over 400 - and famous for its Huntaway Festival in October each year.

2:10 Feature Guest - Ringo Starr

He's the most famous drummer in rock music. Ringo Starr, originally Richard Starkey, a young lad from Liverpool who made a decision aged 13 that would write him into history - to start playing the drums.
At 72, he's still making records and touring - and he's coming to New Zealand with his All Star band to play two concerts in February.

2:30 Reading - Sheba Williams reads 'Shanghai Sheba: the China Monologues'.

2:45 Feature Album - Abbey Road - Beatles

3:10 Arts Report - Lynn Freeman

A behind the scenes tour of the renovated National Library - a previously leaky home to New Zealand's precious documents. Taxpayers have put in around $65 million for the refit…what do we get for our investment. Lynn Freeman gets a guided tour of the refurbished 1980s building ahead of its grand reopening, with National Librarian Bill McNaught.

3:20 Southern story: Friends of the Cobb

Friends of the Cobb caretake a 5,000 hectare portion of the Cobb Valley, Golden Bay, in Kahurangi National Park. On the east side their territory borders Friends of Flora with 10,000 ha, making this the largest, most intensively trapped area in the South Island. Twenty years ago there were no kiwi or blue ducks. Now they're back, thanks to the trapping programme of Friends of the Cobb and other organisations. The founder and chairman (also ornithologist and author) Chris Petyt hopes to see the mohua – yellowhead – return, and there are rumours of the 'extinct' kokako living in the Cobb.

3:30 Our Changing World - Photos and truthiness - Ruth Beran
Truthiness is a "truth" that a person claims to know intuitively "from the gut" without regard to evidence or facts. Victoria University's Eryn Newman, and supervisor Maryanne Garry, are looking at whether decorative photos lead to a truthiness bias.
MUSIC DETAILS:
Woodcut production music
Title:   MOUNTAIN
Album:   CINEMATIC GLITCH
Artist:   D JACOBS
Source code:   WOOD56

4:06 The Panel - Amanda Millar and Julia Hartley Moore.

NZ's economic situation now and our jobless figures, revisited. No smoking at the beach, thank you very much. Strange arguments pertaining to a cut in police numbers and letting school children wear gang colours. How to tell if you're old, why you shouldn't go to Queenstown if you're single, and the Petraeus adultery saga just keeps getting more and more amazing really.

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Afternoons for Thursday 15 November 2012