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Afternoons for Wednesday 3 July 2013

  • Best Song Ever Written - Cause

    1:09 PM.Roz Young from Auckland has chosen "Cause" by Rodriguez. Audio

  • Link 3

    1:21 PM.Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? Audio

  • Big World, Small Country

    2:10 PM.In 1936 a New Zealand athlete had the opportunity to meet Adolf Hitler just as the Berlin Olympics were about to get underway. His name was Clarrie Gordon, a featherweight boxer from Auckland with a… Read more Audio

  • Classic caravans

    2:21 PM.A slice of New Zealand holidaying history is making a comeback. Think back to the 1960s and 70s... so many New Zealanders had their holidays in a compact caravan that could be pulled by the family… Read more Audio

  • Virtual World with Jules Older

    3:10 PM.Wallpaper for the Digital Age; What goes on Facebook, stays on Facebook; Digital Age religion; will Edward Snowden spike Google dominance? Audio

  • Auckland Story for 3 July 2013 - Manatunga

    3:30 PM.They're finally putting names to some faces, thanks to an exhibition of photographs of Maori that have lain unidentified for over a hundred years. Audio

  • The Panel Pre-Show for 3 July 2013

    3:45 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

  • The Panel with Sir Bruce Slane and Cas Carter (Part 1)

    4:07 PM.Topics - Teachers feel unsafe in their own classrooms. Auckland council is drafting a bylaw to ban begging on the city's streets. Audio

  • The Panel with Sir Bruce Slane and Cas Carter (Part 2)

    4:36 PM.Topics - A supermarket checkout assistant has been hailed as striking a blow for modern manners by refusing to serve a shopper who was talking on her mobile phone. Tower insurance's refusal of a claim… Read more Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written - Roz Young of Auckland nominated 'Cause' by Rodriguez.

1:20 Link 3 - The songs:

Suspicious Minds - Elvis
Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles
Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
Loves Me Like A Rock - Paul Simon
Da Doo Ron Ron - Crystals
Avalon - Roxy Music
Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd
Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka
Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain & Tennille
The answer: The backing vocals. All had memorable backing vocals.

2:10 Big World, Small Country - Graeme Ball - In 1936 a New Zealand athlete had the opportunity to met Adolf Hitler just as the Berlin Olympics were about to get underway. His name was Clarrie Gordon, a featherweight boxer from Auckland with a mean right hook. And he threw that right hook at the Fuhrer... in jest, admittedly. The punch fell just inches short of Hitler's face. That is one of many little known stories about New Zealanders, and how we find ourselves in history's tides and torrents, and near the great events of the world somehow.  
Big World, Small Country: The 20th Century & New Zealand's Place In It  is a history textbook written by Northcote College head of social sciences, Graeme Ball.

2:20  Classic Caravaning - Vanessa Owen - A slice of New Zealand holidaying history is making a comeback.
Think back to the 60's and 70's .. so many New Zealanders had their holidays in a compact caravan that could be pulled by the family car.  Vanessa Owen has refurbished classic caravans and is renting them out to holidaymakers in Northland.

2:30 Reading - Joe Bennett with another episode of Hello Dubai. Part eight called 'The Boss and Varoud'.
Joe learns about Rashid, the father of modern Dubai and meets Varood,  an African Indian, who encapsulates the commercial globalisation that enshrines it. .
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MUSIC DETAILS      
Dubai by Steve Everitt, tk 22 ATMOS208 - Palm Island

2:45 Feature Album - Transformer - Lou Reed (1972)  

3:10 Virtual World - Dr Jules Older

The Acronym Game
It's a four-letter acronym for a shopping demographic that buys a lot of kid's toys and clothes… and isn't a parent or grandparent.

Answer:  What's a PANK? Professional Aunt, No Kids

3:30  Manatunga George Grey - David Steemson
They're finally putting names to some faces, thanks to an exhibition of photographs of Maori that have lain unidentified for over a hundred years.

The links:

http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/virt-exhib/Manatunga/index.htm

http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/virt-exhib/Manatunga/Unidentified.htm

4:06 Sir Bruce Slane is on The Panel today with Cas Carter - Violence of some sort against teachers in scools, nearly 30 incidents a day requiring ACC payouts, what do we do about it? The beggars on the streets of Auckland - what do we do about them?  The rudeness or not of talking on the phone while you talk to people in shops. We discussed the problem of your garage blowing down in the Wellington gale, and the insurance company saying the rusty screws did it. Well in Christchurch there's the argument that the borer did it.