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Afternoons for Wednesday 9 April 2014

  • Best song ever written - Via Chicago

    1:08 PM.Stephen Skelton from Closeburn, Queenstown has chosen 'Via Chicago' by Wilco. Audio

  • Link 3

    1:22 PM.Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? Audio

  • Old time films

    2:09 PM.Retired projectionist, Russell Campbell is to re-live the 'good old days' at movie screenings on 16 April at Dunedin's Regent Theatre. The show will start with the original Queen's coronation anthem… Read more Audio

  • The four-year-old BMX Star

    2:22 PM.They may only be four years old but a pair of Queenstown twins are creating a buzz on the internet - and around the world - with their impressive BMX skills. Audio

  • Virtual world with Jules Older

    3:08 PM.San Francisco's Google Glass culture wars, Stanford Court Hotel gives Google Glass wearers free cocktails if they snap a pic and post it on social media. Wanna get high? Do it online. Distracted while… Read more Audio

  • NZ Society - Dairy Dowsing

    3:30 PM.David Steemson talks to a farming couple who use unconventional methods to maintain the health of their cows and pasture. Audio

  • The Panel pre-show for 9 April 2014

    3:47 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

  • The Panel with Rosemary McLeod and Cas Carter (Part 1)

    4:07 PM.Topics - Auckland employers were issued a challenge today to hire a young unemployed person. At a business "summit" hosted by Mayor Len Brown the Warehouse founder Sir Stephen Tindall pledged $1.85… Read more Audio

  • The Panel with Rosemary McLeod and Cas Carter (Part 2)

    4:34 PM.Topics - Among violinists, the instruments built in the 1600s and 1700s by the Stradivari and Guarneri families are legendary. But a new study suggests the reputation of these old violins owes more to… Read more Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written - Stephen Skelton of Closeburn, Queenstown nominated 'Via Chicago' by Wilco

1:25 Link 3 - the songs:

COUNTING STARS - ONE REPUBLIC

I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND/BEATLES

MORE THAN A FEELING - BOSTON

All the songs had clapping in them.

LET'S GO - THE ROUTERS

CAR WASH ROSE ROYCE

MICKEY - TONI BASIL

MY BEST FRIEND'S GIRL - CARS

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU - STEALER'S WHEEL

CECILIA - SIMON & GARFUNKEL

LITTLE RED CORVETTE - PRINCE

2:10 The Projectionist - Russell Campbell
Retired projectionist, Russell Campbell is to re-live the 'good old days' at movie screenings next Wednesday night at Dunedin's Regent Theatre. The show will start with the original Queens coronation anthem, and include old newsreels, a silent newsreel made locally in the 1920s, and some New Zealand pictorial parades. Just as they did many years ago. The showing is at the Regent on April 16 at 5.45pm.

2:20 The Four-year-old BMX Stars -  Steve Riddle: They may only be four years old but a pair of Queenstown twins are creating a buzz on the internet - and around the world - with their impressive BMX skills.
At the moment there is more than 150,000 thousand hits on the youtube video of Jake and Theo Riddle playing - or should that be 'performing' - at skate parks around New Zealand. The video has also been picked up by a British newspaper,  which is featuring what it calls the "fearless exploits of New Zealand twins Jake and Theo, as they pelt around various BMX tracks demonstrating skills which belie their tender years."
The video was filmed around the country by the twins parents Steve and Emma on their summer holiday.

The video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrKMWfI81C4

2:30 Reading - Part eight of 'Bishops' written and read by Mona Williams.

2:45 Feature Album - Nick of Time - Bonnie Raitt (1989)

3:12 Virtual World - Dr Jules Older - Jules Older joins us from San Francisco living digitally, and daling with digital distractions - that's one of his topics today.
        
3:30 Dairy Dowsing - David Steemson: A West Auckland dairy farmer says he hasn't put any fertiliser on his pastures for years. Instead he "energises" his land using the gentle art of Dowsing.  Dowsing or divining has been the target of sceptics for centuries, but Ren Ellett says the  keen customers  for his raw milk don't seem to mind.

New Zealand Society

4:06 On The Panel are Rosemary McLeod and Cas Carter today: Questions: How do we get more young Maori and Pacific people into jobs? is bureaucracy on the rise or on the wane? Is there an election rub-off for John Key in being seen with the Royals and is it a good look for David Cunliffe to be complaining about it? Is a Stradivarius violin any better than one you can buy at a music shop?