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Afternoons for Friday 17 May 2013

  • Best Song Ever Written - Big Yellow Taxi

    1:08 PM.Dave Watson of Auckland chooses this Joni Mitchell song. Audio

  • NZ Live - Jan Hellriegel

    1:22 PM.On New Zealand Live this week we feature the Lost Songs. It's an album containing 18 tracks that might well have been consigned to the dust bin, had the owner not taken a second listen. Audio

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  • Dambusters

    2:07 PM.70 years ago today, 133 elite airmen in the Royal Airforce 617 Squadron, including a handful of Kiwis, flew a daring mission to bomb dams on the Ruhr River in Germany's Industrial heartland. The New… Read more Audio

  • NZ Society for Fri 17 May - Synesthesia (Part 2)

    2:25 PM.The second in Amelia Nurse's little series on synesthesia, a neurological condition where one or more of the senses will evoke others. Sophie Wilson is a cellist - but her experience of music is… Read more Audio

  • Fresh Fast Food with Jacob Brown

    3:07 PM.Jacob Brown from The Larder shares a recipe for Tagliolini with Mushrooms and Lemon. Audio

  • Wine with Yvonne Lorkin

    3:19 PM.Cheap and Cheerful Matua Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2012 $9.99 (on special this weekend) normally $18 Mid Price Magic Peter Yealands Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2012 $18 Treat Yourself Mission… Read more Audio

  • Film Review with Sarah McMullan

    3:31 PM.Sarah McMullan reviews the new adventure movie, Kon Tiki and also the British drama, Broken. Audio

  • Writers and Readers Festival

    3:40 PM.The Auckland Writers & Readers Festival is bringing more than 150 authors from around New Zealand and the world. The Festival started in 1999 as a biennial event, but with the popularity of the event… Read more Audio

  • The Panel Pre-Show for 17 May 2013

    3:50 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

  • The Panel with Simon Pound and Denise L'Estrange-Corbet (Part 1)

    4:07 PM.Meridian Energy is the next state owned energy company up for partial sale. Does the Prime Minister risk causing widespread offence in Christchurch when he says there are "some hard luck stories at a… Read more Audio

  • The Panel with Simon Pound and Denise L'Estrange-Corbet (Part 2)

    4:35 PM.David Beckham has announced he'll retire from football at the end of the current European season. Has the internet turned into a massive surveillance tool? Pope Francis has called on world leaders to… Read more Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written - Dave Watson of Auckland nominated Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell.

1:20 New Zealand Live with Auckland singer/songwriter, Jan Hellriegel.

2:10 The Dambusters - Simon Moody
70 years ago today, 133 elite airmen in the Royal Airforce 617 Squadron, including a handful of Kiwis, flew a daring mission to bomb dams on the Ruhr River in Germany's Industrial heartland.  Operation Chastise. Flying low at 100 feet or less in 19 Lancaster bombers,  the crews destroyed two dams.  53 men from the squadron  were killed, on the raid,  3 captured and more than 1300 people on the ground  died in the floods.
But the "Dambusters" delivered what Winston Churchill called  "unparalleled devastation" to the Nazi war machine.  The New Zealand Air Force Museum at Wigram has a special exhibit to honor the dambusters.

2:20  NZ Society Story - Amelia Nurse
The second in Amelia Nurse's series on synesthesia, a neurological condition where one or more of the senses will evoke others.  Amelia talks with cellist Sophie Wilson, who has what's called music/colour synaesthesia and grapheme/colour synesthesia
Music details:
Artist: Leningrad PO/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Song: Adagio from the Gayane Ballet Suite
Composer: Khachaturian
Album: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Label: EMI 7 93302
 
Artist: Moura Lympany
Song: Un Sospiro
Composer: Liszt
Album: Best Loved Piano Classics
Label: EMI 7 62523
 
Artist: Jimi Hendrix        
Song: Bold As Love
Composer: Hendrix
Album: The Best of Jimi Hendrix            
Label: MCA 111 671

2:30 Reading - 'Jumping Ship' is based on Glenn Colquhoun's time living in the small community of Te Tii in the Bay of Islands. He went there 'to learn how to engage' with Maori.   It was there he met Aunty Rongo, an old woman whose daughter had recently died, and the two 'fell in love'. We hear more of her in  today's instalment- and we m, eet Uncle Bill - who followed the example of his ancestor and with generosity introduced a pakeha into his community.
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MUSIC DETAILS      
John Field: 'NOCTURNE in E flat major'  Telarc CD80199, tk 1
Dennis Marsh: 'THE BRIDGE' ( N.Rosso/G Tait.) from the CD 'Out of New Zealand'  RJCD tk 7

2:45 Feature album - Aladdin Sane - David Bowie (1973)

3:08 One Stop Shop

Food - Jacob Brown from The Larder

Tagliolini with Mushrooms and Lemon

Wine - Yvonne Lorkin - The Electronic Nose and Charity Wine Auction

Matua Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2012 $9.99
Peter Yealands Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2012 $18
Mission HuchetGimblett Gravels Syrah 2010 $125

Movies - Sarah McMullan - the new adventure movie, Kon Tiki .. and the British drama, Broken.

3:40 The Auckland Writers & Readers Festival - Anne O'Brien
The forecast for Auckland this weekend sounds perfect for spending time with a good book or a good author. The Auckland Writers & Readers Festival is bringing more than 150 authors from around New Zealand and the world. The Festival started in 1999 as a biennial event, but with the popularity of the event, it's been an annual affair since 2006. This year authors like James McNeish, Sylvie Simmons, and  Edward Rutherford are among the list.

4:06 The Panel - Simon Pound and Denise L'Estrange-Corbet.