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Afternoons for Wednesday 29 September 2021

 

1.00 COVID briefing and update LIVE

 

1:20 What parents should look out for if children are experiencing anxiety

Many parents are worried about their children experiencing anxiety, and what they can do to help.

New research highlights what behaviours can increase the likelihood of children developing anxiety disorders later in life, and which behaviours are less cause for concern.

University of Otago, Christchurch PHD student Nathan Monk talks to Jesse about what their research has uncovered.

University of Otago, Christchurch PHD student Nathan Monk

University of Otago, Christchurch PHD student Nathan Monk Photo: Neil Macbeth

1:30 Papers Past uncovering family scandals!

A few months ago we talked about Papers Past on the show... It's an online database of digitised historic newspapers.

One of our listeners Colette O'Kane decided to look up an old family story about her fortune telling grandmother. She talks to Jesse about finding out her Grandmother was arrested!

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Photo: Papers Past

1:43 Turning hobbies into work

There are many popular apps that are centred around hobbies - including the Nike Run Club for your fitness goals,, GoodReads to track the books you've read, and LetterBoxd to catalogue the movies you've watched.

These apps might be fun for some people, but in an article for Stuff, George Fenwick asks about what happens when apps like these turn into work.

Dr Michael Daubs, the programme director of media studies at Victoria University of Wellington. He talks to Jesse about the phenomenon.

communications concept: girl using a digital generated smart phone. All screen graphics are made up.

Photo: 123RF

1:55 Afternoons Quiz Robert Kelly

RNZ producer and onetime bookseller Robert Kelly presents his weekly quiz.

 

2.12 Podcast Critic: Paul Bushnell

This week Paul Bushnell talks about two competing podcasts which are covering the same live event, which is unfolding in the coming months: the trial of Elizabeth Holmes, an entrepreneur who was once lauded as the world's youngest self-made billionaire, now in court facing charges of wire fraud.

Podcast images for The Drop Out and Bad Blood

Photo: ABC Sony

2:30 Bookmarks with Giselle Clarkson

This week's Bookmarks guest is cartoonist and illustrator Giselle Clarkson.

Giselle is best known for her non-fiction comics on conservation and environmental issues but you may also recognise her work from the viral 'Common Household Biscuits of New Zealand' picture which was turned into posters and tea towels.

She talks to Jesse about what she's watching, reading and listening to in her downtime!

Giselle Clarkson is a freelance illustrator in New Zealand

Giselle Clarkson is a freelance illustrator in New Zealand Photo: Supplied

3:10 Reuniting an orphan elephant with her mother, using DNA

When  a baby elephant, alone, dehydrated, and near death, wandered into a village in Burkina Faso in West Africa, the people knew she  got separated  from her herd and needed their help.  They gave her a name, Nania  and around the clock care. With the help of the International Fund for Animal Welfare  they got support to buy milk and baby formula. Now, Nania is four and with the help of DNA, the villagers have found something else; her mother.  We'll talk to IFAW Wildlife Rescue manager Meredith  Whitney about the  quest to reunite a wild orphaned elephant with her mother. You can follow Nania's story here.

Nania has been taken care of by both locals and international conservationists

When Nania arrived in the village she was weak and very small

Nania has been relocated to another area while attempts are being made to find her herd using DNA

Nania is thriving in care and has a best friend in a black and white goat called Whisty

On her way to a new boma, Nania and her 'crew' stop for a mud bath and food

3:35 Stories from Our Changing World

On Our Changing World this week - Claire Concannon learns all about Antarctic sea ice.
Emeritus Professor Pat Langhorne has had a long and distinguished career as a sea ice physicist in the University of Otago. Now retired, she explains to Claire about the new sea ice thickness measuring method that has her still excited and coming in to work. And Dr. Inga Smith explains the phenomena of supercooling and ice crystals under the ice shelves, and tells Claire her plans for her upcoming expedition to Antarctica.

This undated photo courtesy of NASA shows Thwaites Glacier in Western Antarctica. A major ice sheet in western Antarctica is melting, and its collapse is predicted to raise global sea level nearly two feet (61 centimeters), scientists said May 12, 2014.

Photo: AFP / NASA / Handout

3:45 The Panel with Leonie Freeman and Tom Harris