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Afternoons for Tuesday 19 May 2015

  • Your Song - The Knitting Song

    1:08 PM.Suze Foster from Wellington has chosen 'The Knitting Song' by Sophie Madeleine. Audio

  • TV review with Irene Gardner

    1:21 PM.Irene Gardiner reviews American drama Madam Secretary, the upcoming end of Mad Men, and new drama Empire. Audio

  • Music review with Colin Morris

    1:31 PM.Featuring music from B.B. King and Van Morrison's new album. Audio

  • Book review with Wendyl Nissen

    1:49 PM.Wendyl Nissen reviews Nicky Pellegrino's latest book 'Summer in Venice'. Audio

  • Web review with Daniela Maoate-Cox

    1:56 PM.Daniela reviews a new streaming service for funerals, and a site where you can play with real animals online. Audio

  • Banks Decision

    2:10 PM.Earlier today the Court of Appeal ordered former Act Party Leader, John Banks, to be acquitted over electoral returns. Mr Banks was convicted last August of failing to declare two $25,000 donations… Read more Audio

  • How the digital world is changing newsrooms - Caitlin Petre

    2:15 PM.How is the digital world affecting how decisions are made in the newsroom? Caitlin Petre is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology at New York University. She's been looking at how modern day… Read more Audio

  • Glow in the dark cars - Hamish Scott

    2:25 PM.From Otaki to London, Hamish Scott is a New Zealander who makes cars glow in the dark. His company, Pro-Teq Surfacing, has come up with an innovative re-surfacing method, that can be sprayed on cars… Read more Audio

  • Feature Album - The Concert for Bangladesh

    2:45 PM.The feature album today is the famous Concert for Bangladesh, organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar to raise money for refugees in the country then called East Pakistan. Audio

  • A real-life batman

    3:10 PM.Daniel Kish is known as a real life Batman. He is a crusader, without a cape, for the blind. Kish lost his eyesight as a baby but uses a form of echolocation to build a mental picture of the world… Read more Audio

  • Don't Just Sit There - Do Something

    9:20 PM.Getting off our butts and taking regular short exercise breaks is much better for our health than continuous sitting Read more Audio

  • The Panel pre-show for 19 May 2015

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

1:10 Your Song

The Knitting Song by Sophie Madeleine.  Chosen by Suze Foster of Wellington. 

1:20 The Critics

TV review - Irene Gardiner
Books - Wendyl Nissen
Music - Colin Morris
Web - Daniela Maoate-Cox: Live stream a Funeral.  Play with real animals online. Speed reading with Spritz.  Minute Physics on YouTube.

2:10 Banks Decision - Ann Marie May

The latest news from the Court of Appeal.  John Banks has been aquitted of electoral fraud charges. 

2:15 How the digital world is changing newsrooms - Caitlin Petre

How is the digital world affecting how decisions are made in the newsroom? Caitlin Petre is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology at New York University. She's been looking at how modern day editors decide what stories are important, and what news they deliver to you.

Link: Gitbook

2:30 NZ Reading - The Conductor

Tanya tries to take Sonya's cello to sell for food and Nikolai is outraged. He finds little notes his daughter had written to her dead mother inside it. Shostakovich finishes the adagio, the 4th movement of his symphony. His wife Nina wants the family to leave and he arranges passage out for them all. Elias struggles with his hungry orchestra and he puts hair oil in his mother's soup to make it taste better.

2:45 Feature album

The Concert for Bangladesh (1971)  

3:10 Feature interview - Daniel Kish

Daniel Kish is known as a real life Batman. He is a crusader, without a cape, for the blind. Kish lost his eyesight as a baby but uses a form of echolocation to build a mental picture of his the world around him and is able to pursue outdoor hobbies such as hiking, despite being totally blind. It's his mission through World Access for the Blind to help other visually impaired people learn the technique and achieve the kind of independence he enjoys.

3:35 Don't Just Sit There - Alison Ballance

Many of us spend much of our time sitting - but there is increasing evidence that too much sitting is bad for our health. Meredith Peddie at the University of Otago is investigating what happens to our metabolism after meals when we interrupt sedentary behavior with different amounts of exercise, and Alison Ballance joins her in the clinic as two study participants begin a day of testing.

Stories from Our Changing World.

3:45 The Panel Pre-Show

What the world is talking about.  With Jim Mora, Noelle McCarthy, Nicky Pellegrino and Bernard Hickey.

 

MUSIC DETAILS:

 

Tuesday MAY 19  

YOUR SONG:  

ARTIST: Sophie Madeleine
TITLE:   The Knitting Song
COMP:  Sophie Madeleine
ALBUM: Love.Life.Ukulele
LABEL: i-Tunes

THE CRITICS:

ARTIST:  B.B. KING
TITLE: DON'T ANSWER THE DOOR
COMP: JIMMY JOHNSON
ALBUM: BLUES IS KING
LABEL: ABC RECORDS -BLUESWAY RECORDS 6001

ARTIST:  VAN MORRISON
TITLE: HIGHER THAN THE WORLD
COMP: VAN MORRISON
ALBUM: DUETS
LABEL: RCA /SONY  88875068442

FEATURE ALBUM:  

ARTIST:  My Sweet Lord
TITLE:  George Harrison
COMP:  Harrison
ALBUM:  The Concert For Bangladesh
LABEL:  EPIC

ARTIST:  Just Like A Woman
TITLE:  Bob Dylan
COMP:  Dylan
ALBUM:  The Concert For Bangladesh
LABEL:  EPIC

ARTIST:  While My Guitar Gently Weeps  
TITLE:  George Harrison
COMP:  Harrison
ALBUM:  The Concert For Bangladesh
LABEL:  EPIC

THE PANEL:

ARTIST:   Stevie Wonder
TITLE:   Send One Your Love
COMP:   Wonder
ALBUM: Stevie Wonder: Original Musicquarium
LABEL:  MOTOWN