Afternoons for Monday 12 October 2020
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1:17 Stuff Circuit investigates Billy Te Kahika's background
The investigative journalists at Stuff Circuit, have had a look at who Advance NZ co-leader and NZPP leader Billy Te Kahika is.
Senior journalist Paula Penfold tells Jesse what they have uncovered about his past, leading them to call their feature, The False Profit.
1.27 Interior Student Award Winner, Abdallah Alayan
The winner of the annual Interior Student Award, Abdallah Alayan, talks to Jesse about his winning design project Faith in Fiordland. Judges called his work "an eloquent, architectural expression of our spiritual zeitgeist: timely, relevant and highly emotive."
1.34 Eating all the pies and tasting their wine matches
Jesse had a tough job on Friday in Marlborough, tasting 47 pies and their proposed wine matches.
He was the judge of the fourth annual Great Burleigh Pie Challenge, where the winner gets a trophy and bragging rights, as well as raising money for the local foodbank.
One of the organisers, Belinda Jackson, reminisces with Jesse about pairing wine with pies and who took out the supreme award.
1:45 Great NZ Album: SIX60 - SIX60
2:10 Emma John's TV picks
In as our TV critic this week, Emma John takes a look at season four of Fargo, Des, a drama about serial killer Des Nielson and Love Life starring Anna Kendricks.
Even after a vaccine for Covid-19 is available, researcher at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale School of Public Health, Steph Tan, says we will still need to keep testing for the virus. She explains why to Jesse. You can find out more about Steph on her website Nourishing Mind.
2:30 Couples therapist Serafin Upton - solving your relationship problems
The key to resolving your relationship problems is to look for practical solutions rather than revisiting the past or focusing on feelings, says longtime relationship coach and couples therapist Serafin Upton.
Covid-19 and its various stages of lockdown has seen couples forced to spend more time together than usual and relationship struggles come to the fore. She joins Jesse as our expert today and shares some of her practical tips.
3:10 Robert Dessaix- growing old well
Age has set beloved Australian writer and broadcaster Robert Dessaix free. Surviving a heart attack changes a person, and Dessaix says this has opened his eyes to the beauty in the world like nothing before. He travels the world having conversations about ageing to understand not just the challenges but the possibilities of old age. He allows us to eavesdrop in his new book, The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well.
3:35 Voices
In ‘Voices’ today; Kadambari Raghukumar attends the 21st Kendo tournament in Wellington packed with people across ages and cultures.
3:45 The Panel with Laila Harre and Andrew Hoggard