Afternoons for Tuesday 30 April 2013 Afternoons

Best Song Ever Written - Imagine

1:08 PM.Niall Mugan from Little River has chosen 'Imagine' by John Lennon. Audio
TV Review with Phil Wallington

1:23 PM.Anzac Day coverage and MasterChef New Zealand. Audio
Book Review with Nicky Pellegrino

1:37 PM.'Cooked' by Michael Pollan. Audio
Music Review with Colin Morris

1:45 PM.The songs 'If I Only Knew' by James Hunter and 'Slow Train' by Joe Bonnamassa. Audio
Web Review with Ben Gracewood

1:55 PM.iTunes Store is 10 years old and mere mortals are starting to get hold of Google Glass. Audio
Enthusiasts re-discover "the magic band"

2:10 PM.They call it "the magic band" - the six metre strip of frequency along which amateur radio enthusiasts can chatter away to their heart's content. The band is international and can be used by radio… Read more Audio
Beehive Rentals

2:19 PM.When horticulturalist Murray Rixon and his wife Heidi came back to New Zealand after years abroad, they decided it was time to put their beekeeping expertise to good use. Their 'rent-a-hive' project… Read more Audio
Tune Your Engine - Suicide

3:08 PM.We often whisper about it when tragedy affects someone we know, we skirt around the topic in conversation, we forever use euphemisms, which is understandable. Not comedian Mike King. Silence, he says… Read more Audio
Asian Report for 30 April 2013 - Market Gardeners (Part 1)

3:37 PM.They've toiled the land since the 1860s to produce arguably the best vegetables in our country. Lynda meets the authors of Sons of the Soil and Success through Adversity, two publications covering the… Read more Audio
The Panel Pre-Show for 30 April 2013

3:48 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
The Panel with Graham Bell and Andrew Clay (Part 1)

4:07 PM.Topics - Auckland's business leaders are sounding dire warnings about the Super City's future if citizens fail to accept road tolls or higher rates and taxes to fund major transport improvements. The… Read more Audio
The Panel with Graham Bell and Andrew Clay (Part 2)

4:35 PM.Topics - the Telegraph reports eating at the dining table is becoming increasingly rare as hectic Britons shun traditional mealtimes because of a lack of time. The London Times columnist Mick Hume… Read more Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written

Niall Mugan from Little River has chosen Imagine by John Lennon.

1:20 Critical Mass

TV review - Phil Wallington
Books - Nicky Pellegrino
New music - Colin Morris
Web - Ben Gracewood

2:10 Radio ham

They call it 'the magic band' - that six metre strip of frequency along which amateur radio enthusiasts can chatter away to their hearts content. The band is international, and can be used by radio hams from all over the world - except here in New Zealand, in the South Island, where the magic band has been blocked by the signal from TV2. But that all changed this week, with the switch-over to digital television. And when the analogue signal was finally switched off in the early hours of Sunday morning, there was one man who lost no time in jumping straight back on. George Boorer is Timaru's resident amateur radio expert.

2:20 Beehive rental
Busy bees are the basis for business success in Mosgiel, as two keen apiarists are finding out. When horticulturalist Murray Rixon and his wife Heidi came back to New Zealand after years abroad, they decided it was time to put their bee-keeping expertise to good use. Fast forward a couple of years and their 'rent-a-hive' project, providing locals with everything they need to start their own hives and learn how to harvest honey, is keeping the Rixons busier than, well, a pair of bees.

2:30 Reading - Garibaldi Did Not Sleep Here, part three
In our 2.30 story, New Zealand writer Paul Horan is taking us through southern Italy in a bid to uncover the truth about his eccentric ancestor Colonel Peard . Yesterday we heard how he and a handful of fellow adventurers achieved their Triumph - surrender of an entire army of 10 thousand Neopolitan soldiers. But there are more such victiories awaiting us in today's's episode of 'Garibaldi Did Not Sleep Here'.

MUSIC DETAILS:
CD evo 015: "Hip Trip Mediterranean" , Tk 16: 'Sicilian Sunset' Comp by Emanuel Kallins. FirstCom Music 2004 (RNZ in-house CD)

2:45 Feature Album

Billy Idol by Billy Idol (1982).

3:12 Tune Your Engine - Mike King

Every year, one in 6 New Zealanders thinks about suicide. We have one of the highest suicide rates amoung young people in the world. It has improved, but it is still tragically too high. We often whisper about it when ithe tragedy affects someone we know, or skirt around the topic in conversation. But not Comedian Mike King. Silence, he says, is not the solution. So he openly shares his story of depression, addiction, and near disaster in community meetings up and down Northland. Community Korero gets the conversation about this difficult topic going. The next meeting is a week from tonight in the Bay of Islands.

3:33 Asian Report - Market gardening

In today's Asian Report; They've toiled the land since the 1860's to produce arguably the best vegetables in our country. Lynda meets the authors of Sons of the Soil and Success through Adversity, two publications covering the history of our Chinese market-gardening community.

4:06 The Panel

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