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Afternoons for Thursday 20 December 2012

  • Best Song Ever Written - When Smokey Sings

    1:08 PM.Sara Russell of Leeston has chosen "When Smokey Sings" by ABC. Audio

  • Your Place - Mahia Beach

    1:21 PM.Mahia Beach, located in Northern Hawke's Bay at the place where the picturesque Mahia Peninsula is joined to the rest of the North Island. As well as a beach store and and lotto shop, there is also a… Read more Audio

  • Judith Durham

    2:10 PM.Fifty years ago The Seekers quartet performed every Monday night at the Treble Clef Coffee Lounge in Melbourne. They were all talented but the singer was something else, gifted with a perfect pitch… Read more Audio

  • The Arts Report - The Harmonica Guy

    3:10 PM.Christchurch-based musician David Thorpe often tours as a multi-instrumentalist and one man band, but his greatest love affair has been with the humble harmonica. Audio

  • Southern Story for 20 December 2012 - Ukulele Night

    3:19 PM.Katy Gosset visits New Brighton, a suburb that's been a little down on its luck after the quakes. But its local ukelele jam is still pulling in punters from all over town. Katy Gosset dropped in on… Read more Audio

  • Our Changing World - Snap of Chocolate

    3:31 PM.If you're eating good quality chocolate this Christmas, you've probably noticed that it makes a sharp, crisp sound when broken, otherwise known as "snap". While snapping chocolate is an indicator of… Read more Audio

  • The Panel Pre-Show for 20 December 2012

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

  • The Panel with Rosemary McLeod and Simon Pound (Part 1)

    4:07 PM.Topics - The Secretary of the Public Service Assocation, Brenda Pilott says the Education Minister Hekia Parata should follow the lead of the former Secretary of Education, and resign. At least one… Read more Audio

  • The Panel with Rosemary McLeod and Simon Pound (Part 2)

    4:32 PM.Topics - if the Mayan prophecy is true, just how might it all end on Friday? Frightened neighbours are reported to have watched through their curtains as the body of a young man was dragged into a car… Read more Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written - Sara Russell of Leeston nominated 'When Smokey Sings' by ABC.

1:15 Your Place - one of our hot holiday destinations - Mahia Beach.

2:10 The Seekers - Judith Durham
Lead singer of The Seekers, Judith Durham talks about the group's history and why they're coming back for another Australian tour, and even recording a couple of new songs.

2:30 Reading -  Susan Wilson reads the second part of  'The Holiday Of A Lifetime' by Susan Pointon.

2:45 Feature Album - My Fair Lady - 1956 Original Broadway Cast with Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner, Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews and Stanley Holloway.

3:10  The Harmonica Guy - Sonia Sly
Christchurch-based musician David Thorpe often tours as a multi-instrumentalist and one man band, but his greatest love affair has been with the humble harmonica.

3:20 The Brighton Ukelele Jam - Katy Gosset

The not so little ukelele jam thats making waves at New Brighton 

3:40 Our Changing World - How do you test the quality of chocolate? Well you snap it, of course!
Find out more about the snap of chocolate.

4:06 The Panel - with Rosemary McLeod and Simon Pound. What they think about a range of issues - Hekia Parata staying on as Minister of Education, why do we import our CEOs from overseas anyway, we may have got the Mayan doomsday date wrong, but in any case what would be the likely cataclysms to cause us concern tomorrow? It seems that a super-volcano or a dark comet are the two leading contenders. Pay rises for MPs again, and whether wage rises for local body politicians will follow. The moves Barack Obama's making to curb gun violence, and what do we do about unruly residents of state houses?