Afternoons for Wednesday 28 May 2014
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Music trivia game
1:20 PM.Can you spot the connection between the three songs in our music trivia game? Audio
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Best song ever written - Pick Up the Pieces
1:33 PM.Gary Langsford from Auckland chooses 'Pick Up the Pieces' by the Average White Band. Audio
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Hamilton's first Islamic early childhood centre
2:10 PM.The education landscape in Hamilton has just changed with the city's first Islamic early childhood centre now taking enrolments. The centre is located in the city's mosque and has the name "Iqra"… Read more Audio
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Student and intrepid traveller Kathryn Holmes
2:20 PM.Student and intrepid traveller, Kathryn Holmes, doesn't plan on living on solid ground anytime soon. As far as student digs go, the 23-year-old has chosen a unique place to live - a yacht moored on… Read more Audio
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Feature Album - In the Lonely Hour
2:45 PM.Our feature album today is Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour. Audio
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Online with Hamish MacEwan
3:10 PM.Wireless broadband can reach the moon; Sony's PlayStation 4 is already profitable and on course to beat the PS2's success; Samsung's mobile health app can now tell when you're stressed out; an email… Read more Audio
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The 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera
3:30 PM.Willy Bennett and Roger Delamere Dansey recall the horrifying night of 10 June 1886, when the eruption of Mount Tarawera killed up to 150 people and destroyed many settlements. Read more Audio
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The Panel pre-show for 28 May 2014
3:45 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
1:10 Best song ever written. Gary Langsford: Average White Band 'Pick Up the Pieces'
1:20 Music Trivia game
2:06 Coming up, emails/texts
2:10 Hamilton's first Islamic early childhood centre is now taking enrolments.
2:20 Student and intrepid traveller, Kathryn Holmes on her unique student digs: a yacht which she's circumnavigated the globe on, now moored on Otago Harbour.
2:30 NZ Reading: The final episode of our reading 'Crete 1941 Eyewitnessed' recalls the evacuation of allied forces after they lost the battle for Crete. It focuses on the thousands who were left behind on the beaches to either surrender and become prisoners of war... or fight-on with the Cretan resistance.
2:45 Feature album - Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour
3:10 Online with Hamish MacEwan
3:30 Spoken Feature: Eyewitness.
Next month marks the anniversary of the eruption of Mount Tarawera near Rotorua. Heard in Blenheim and Auckland and felt as far afield as Christchurch, the 1886 eruption is still one of the largest ever to occur in this country. Two of the survivors recorded their memories for radio and producer Justin Gregory has collected them here.
3.40 Song
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
