Afternoons for Tuesday 1 June 2021

 

1:12 First Song

 

1:17 Next steps for Aotearoa in a Covid-19 world 

New Zealand is currently enjoying a period of being one of the very few countries in the world that can have mass events. But how long does that last in a bubble world. Economists and theorists are starting to think quite hard about how New Zealand and Australia can go about opening up to the world. 

But it's all happening with the Melbourne outbreak casting a real shadow over optimistic thinking. Eric Crampton from the New Zealand Initiative has been wrestling with the data and views on this one and joins Jesse to examine the Gordian knot. 

1:27 Papers Past archive expanding into the 1990s 

Heard of Papers Past?

It really is the little archive that could. It's a project run by Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa The National Library which digitises newspapers, magazines and all sorts of other things so anyone can access them. And in exciting news they're partnering with Christchurch newspaper The Press to digitise the paper's archives up to 1995! The archive's service manager Emerson Vandy joins Jesse to explain the significance of the move. 

1:35 Cinemas struggling for survival around NZ

Cinemas across the country are struggling to survive in 2021.

People's habits changed during the pandemic and the lack of a normal cinematic release schedule means it is harder to get bums on seats.

Peter McKenzie is a student at Victoria University and he's been speaking to cinema owners about how they're coping for The Spinoff. He talks to Jesse about the struggles they're facing.

1:50 How to Write an obituary with Bess Manson

Dominion Post journalist and obituary writer Bess Manson talks to Jesse about what an obituary is, who generally gets one and how to write them. She also shares that her obituary for actress Michele Amas is one that always moves her as she incorporated Michele's own words into it. You can read it here.

2:10 Book Critic: Pip Adam

Today Pip Adam follows on from her last review looking at Art Writing and Publishing. She talks about the writing of Arihia Latham in a new book that publishes graffiti and poetry to celebrate Dunedin. 

Pip also has her eye on beautiful cover art on books such as Todd Atticus's cover for Ash Davida Jane's poetry collection 'How to Live with Mammals' and Xoë Hall's cover for Rangikura by Tayi Tibble.

2:20 Percussion in popular music

Today it's all about the beat for the music feature.

Today's music feature guest is Eric Renick, the Principal Percussionist for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.

He's put together a playlist for us featuring keyboard percussion instruments in popular music.

3:10 Figuring out fatherhood with the help of a feathered friend

Charlie Gilmour spent his childhood trying to understand how his biological father could abandon the family when he was just a baby.  His mother remarried Pink Floyd  singer and guitarist  David Gilmour, who adopted her young son,   but the absent father loomed large.  Charlie found   wisdom and a deeper understanding of family bonds in an unlikely relationship,  caring for an orphaned magpie.  He writes about childhood and parenthood and the redemptive power of love  in his memoir, Featherhood: A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie.

3:30 Spoken Feature: Fight for the Wild 4: What’s in it for us?

Fight for the Wild is a documentary film & podcast series exploring the notion of Predator Free 2050 in Aotearoa.

Episode 4, What’s in it for Us? counts both the cost of Predator Free, and the benefits. It explores the costs of not doing it, before setting out a range of possible, positive outcomes for the economy, our exports, for Aotearoa’s standing on the world stage, but most importantly, for ourselves and those who will follow.

Made possible by the RNZ/NZ On Air Innovation Fund.

3:45 The Panel with Kate Duckworth and Jeremy Elwood