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Afternoons for Thursday 29 May 2014

  • Best Song Ever Written - Buffalo

    1:07 PM.Justin Topzand from Kerikeri has chosen 'Buffalo' by the Phoenix foundation. Audio

  • Simon's A to Z: Twizel

    1:23 PM.In 1969 the first sod was turned in a ceremony which signaled the start of a housing project that would eventually accommodate six and a half thousand people, most of them workers on the upper Waitaki… Read more Audio

  • New Indian motorcycle being launched in NZ

    2:08 PM.There's a good chance you've heard of the World's Fastest Indian. A film with Anthony Hopkins playing the Southlander Burt Munro, who set a world speed record riding an Indian motorcycle on the… Read more Audio

  • Comic dentist - Sam Smith

    2:23 PM.New Zealander Sam Smith is a qualified and practising dentist and he's also plying a trade as a comic writer and performer. Audio

  • Birdstrike

    12:15 PM.In New Zealand there are around 400 birdstrike incidents every year, and globally they are on the rise. We visit the bird management team at Christchurch Airport to see how they're dealing with the… Read more Audio

  • Hip Revision Surgery

    3:20 PM.Peter Devane performs revision surgery on Fiona James to replace her existing hip implants with a newer, more robust material Audio

  • The Panel pre-show for 29 May 2014

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

1:10 Best song ever written: Justin Topzand: "Buffalo" by the Phoenix foundation.

1:20 Simon's A to Z: Twizel

2:06 Coming up, emails/texts

2:10 Burt Munro's son John Munro tells us about the newest Indian, which has arrived  in New Zealand

2:20 A man holding down jobs. Kiwi Sam Smith is a qualified and practising dentist, and he's also plying a trade as a comic writer and performer.

2:30 NZ Reading 'The Soul of a Poet' by Cherry Wilder. Part 1 of 2

Our very first reading experiences are often the best, and as we get older and find ourselves trudging through endless 'Important Adult Novels About How Much People Suffer' we can end up hankering  for something a bit more light-hearted  and entertaining.  Here's a short story that might just fit the bill!

2:45 Feature album - Tom Jones "Spirit in the Room"

3:06 Coming up, emails/texts

3:10 This Way Up - why planes and birds aren't a great mix.

3:20 Our Changing World: Ten years ago Fiona James underwent hip replacement surgery. Over time her implant has worn, and Ruth Beran goes to Wakefield Hospital to watch as orthopaedic surgeon Peter Devane operates to replace the existing "ball and socket" parts with newer, more robust materials.

3:30 BBC Witness: It's 20 years since a group of students from one of America's top universities used card-counting techniques  to win millions in the Casinos of Las Vegas. Janet Ball from the BBC World Service history programme 'Witness' has been talking to two members of the M.I.T. Blackjack team.

3:45 The Panel Pre-Show - Melanie Phipps (Wn studio)