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Afternoons for Thursday 15 August 2013

  • Best Song Ever Written - Home Again

    1:09 PM.Jane Comben of Pukerua Bay has chosen 'Home Again' by Shihad. Audio

  • Your Place - Dunsandel

    1:21 PM.We're on the Canterbury Plains, at a junction where the main north - south highway meets the road to Leeston and Southbridge; and there's another that heads inland to Hororata. It's a busy refreshment… Read more Audio

  • Fifty years a milkman

    2:09 PM.Seven days a week, rain or shine, every day but Christmas Day, Arthur Laycock gets out of extra early to make sure we all have milk for our ceral and coffee. For 50 years he has been delivering milk… Read more Audio

  • Hopalong Cassidy

    2:16 PM.The jingle of Hopalong Cassidy's silver spurs could be heard on the Sunday Morning radio programme in New Zealand every Sunday morning in the 1950's. The cowboy hero and sworn enemy of crime and… Read more Audio

  • Southern Story for 15 August 2013 - Next Big Shellfish

    3:19 PM.A shellfish that looks like an elephant's trunk could be the next big thing for New Zealand aquaculture. Sage Forest visits Cawthron Institute's Hatchery in Nelson to find out about it. Audio

  • Our Changing World - regrowing kidneys

    3:30 PM.Imagine being able to grow your own kidney. Alan Davidson and Teresa Holm at the University of Auckland are working with stem cells which may one day allow people with kidney disease to regrow their… Read more Audio

  • The Panel Pre-Show for 15 August 2013

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

  • The Panel with Rosemary MacLeod and Lisa Scott (Part 1)

    4:08 PM.Topics - Hundreds of people have lost their lives in Egypt overnight, and it's expected the death toll will continue to rise. This comes after the military over threw the democratically elected leader… Read more Audio

  • The Panel with Rosemary MacLeod and Lisa Scott (Part 2)

    4:34 PM.Topics - If you drive 300 kilometres and text as you go, you are surely not asleep, you're awake right? Google have claimed gmail users should not expect privacy online, what an about-face that is… Read more Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written

1:15 Your Place

2:10 Feature stories

2:30 Reading

2:45 Feature Album

3:12 Arts Report

3:20 Southern story: geoducks - the next big thing?

Aquaculture scientist for Cawthron Institute, Kevin Heasman, has been awarded for his work in researching a viable industry for geoduck – a native clam with a startling resemblance to a part of human anatomy. It's early days for the geoduck (pronounced 'gooey duck'), but Sage Forest discovers they have a lot going for them, in a visit to the Hatchery in Nelson.

Geo ducks
Left: geoducks exposed (photograph by Kevin Heasman). Right: syphons in the sand.

3:40 Our Changing World

4:06 The Panel