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Afternoons for Tuesday 18 June 2013

  • Best Song Ever Written - Blue Moon

    1:08 PM.Tanya Wolfkamp from Waiheke Island has chosen 'Blue Moon' performed by Bob Dylan. Audio

  • TV Review with Sarah McMullan

    1:19 PM.The Neighbours; Tuesday night wildlife slot; Jones TV. Audio

  • Book Review with Graham Beattie

    1:30 PM.'The Amalfi Coast: A Collection of Italian Recipes' by Katie & Giancarlo Caldesi, Hardie Grant Books. Audio

  • Music Review with Colin Morris

    1:35 PM.'Love Has No Pride' by Libby Titus and 'Heartaches' by Patsy Cline. Audio

  • Correcting punctuation on New York signs

    1:51 PM.In New York's Brooklyn, at the Pratt Institute, which is a very old and well-regarded art school, a secret struggle is taking place, reports the New York Times. A person or people unknown are using… Read more Audio

  • Web Review with Ele Ludemann

    1:53 PM.Topics - 14 words which are their own opposites; 10 old fashioned swear words. Audio

  • Phantom of the Opera

    2:09 PM.The first all-Kiwi production of The Phantom opened at the St James Theatre in Wellington last week to rave reviews. Chris Crowe is the Wellingtonian tasked with the job of bringing to life the role… Read more Audio

  • Shaggy Dog story

    2:20 PM.He's an avalanche dog with a chequered past. A pick-up from the pound who's successfully re-invented himself as a working hound. Baz, or Bazil to give him his full name, is a Staffy Blue Heeler cross… Read more Audio

  • Tune Your Engine - Meeting Online

    3:08 PM.A new University of Chicago study claims more than a third of recent marriages in the US began online. We talk to its lead author John Cacioppo about why dating sites are attracting more people with a… Read more Audio

  • Asian Report for 18 June 2013 - Fresh Off The Boat

    3:30 PM."Fob" is the derogatory term used to describe new immigrants. It's also the title of an upcoming play in Auckland that examines internalised racism within Asian communities. Audio

  • The Panel Pre-Show for 18 June 2013

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

  • The Panel with Graham Bell and Ali Jones (Part 1)

    4:08 PM.Topics - A man arrested after a five-hour armed siege at an Auckland bank allegedly bought an air pistol from a nearby gun shop yesterday, saying he wanted it for target practice. The senior detective… Read more Audio

  • The Panel with Graham Bell and Ali Jones (Part 2)

    4:35 PM.Topics - Profiled in the New York Times online is a rather special group, which meets monthly, and it is called a Death Cafe. Many of the families whose relatives died in the Pike River disaster say… Read more Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written - Tanya Wolfkamp nominated 'Blue Moon' by Bob Dylan.

1:20 Critical Mass

TV - Sarah McMullan
The Neighbours:  TV2 - Wednesdays @ 8pm
Tuesday night wildlife slot:   TV1 @ 8.30pm
Jones TV:  Sky Channel 13

Music - Colin Morris
ARTIST:    Libby Titus        
TITLE:        Love Has No Pride        
COMP:    Libby Titus, Eric Katz    
ALBUM:    Libby Titus    
LABEL:    Sony / SRCS 6279
    
ARTIST:    Patsy Cline    
TITLE:        Heartaches                               
COMP:    Al Hoffman,John Kenner    
ALBUM:    The Devine Ms Cline
LABEL:    H&H / HHCD912

Books - Graham Beattie
The Amalfi Coast  -  A Collection of  Italian Recipes. 
Katie & Giancarlo Caldesi/Hardie Grant Books. 

Web - Ele Ludemann

14 words which are their own opposites

10 old fashioned swear words

2:10 Our Phantom - Chris Crowe - Everybody knows the music of the night, the music of Phantom of the Opera, the stage show that became a phenomenon, lyrics by Charles Hart, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Well, the first all-Kiwi production of Phantom opened at the St James Theatre in Wellington last week to rave reviews.

2:20 Baz the Snow Dog - Nathan Fraser - He's an avalanche dog with a chequered past. A pick-up from the pound who's successfully re-invented himself as a working hound. But now Baz the snow dog is facing his biggest challenge yet. Baz is a Staffy Blue Heeler cross who was adopted from a shelter in Christchurch by his new owner Nathan Fraser, where he began the second act of his life, training as an avalanche dog in Wanaka.

2:30 Reading - Escaping the Taliban - It's World Refugee Day later this week and a NZ Reading today adapted by Elspeth Sandys - a two part account from two young Afghani men who, separately, managed to escape from the Taliban regime.

2:45 Feature Album - Blue - Joni Mitchell  (1971) -Joni's fourth album, chosen in 2000 by the New York Times as one of the 25 albums that represented "turning points and pinnacles in 20th-century popular music"

3:10Tune Your Engine - Online Dating - John Cacioppo - a new University of Chicago study claims more than a third of recent marriages in the U.S. began online. We talk to its lead author John Cacioppo about why dating sites are attracting more people with a serious purpose.

3:30 Asian Report - Lynda Chanwai-Earle
In today's Asian Report; "FOB" is the derogatory term used to describe new immigrants. It's also the title of an upcoming play in Auckland that examines internalised racism within Asian communities.

4:06 Graham Bell and Ali Jones are on The Panel today, with a lot to discuss: The bank siege last night in Auckland, the Lundy appeal again, the effluent ponds empty on the Guy farm; privacy considerations with being GPS-located by your cellular provider. The Peter Whittall trial being shifted away from the coast, a little bit more about the TV3 receivership; Foreign Accent Syndrome... and the growing popularity of death cafes... nothing macabre, just people getting together and talking about the subject no-one wants to talk about.