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Afternoons for Thursday 30 September 2021

1:00 COVID briefing and update LIVE

1:20 Nationwide donation drive for hygiene products 

Community organisations like City Missions and food banks are struggling to provide hygiene products to those who most need them.

Soap for Society is a two-week drive for donations of hygiene products, from October 4th to October 18th.

Lucy Revill the founder and chair Soap For Society discusses how hygiene poverty is impacting many New Zealanders and what should be done about it. 

Lucy Revill and Bridget Child with hygiene products donated to the City Mission during a previous Soap for Society campaign.

Lucy Revill and Bridget Child with hygiene products donated to the City Mission during a previous Soap for Society campaign. Photo: Tareq Branney

1:27 Job security causing anxiety in NZ workers

Earlier this week we spoke to Anthony Klotz about the new found confidence employees in the US have for leaving their jobs.

Research here is finding that instead of confidence, New Zealand workers are more anxious than ever about their job security.

AUT Business School Professor Jarrod Haar talks to Jesse about what their research uncovered.

The male employee was fired from work Due to the economic downturn and to the pandemic COVID-19.

Photo: 123RF

1:35 Being kind with restrictions during lockdown

A Blenheim man hopes his actions will become contagious during alert level restrictions.

Wayne Carey decided to reward the trolley staff at his local Pack N Save with vouchers and official certificates of gratitude presented by the mayor.

He talks to Jesse about why he's hoping his act of kindness will catch on during these difficult times.

1:45 Great album: Best of Bond

To mark the release of the latest Bond film, No Time To Die, we are giving away the Best of Bond collection on vinyl for today's link 3 winner. It features all the classic soundtracks along with the latest from Billie Eilish.

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Photo: Universal music

2:10 Music Critic: Cas Saunders

RNZ's talented technical operator, Cas Saunders, swaps her seat in the control for one in the studio today to give us a music review. We'll be hearing My Line from Pretty Stooked, just released yesterday and Need A Little Time Away by The Mentalist Collective.

2.25 Screen History: McDonald's Young Entertainers 

For NZ Screen History today, we're looking back at the popular teen talent show McDonalds Young Entertainers which ran from 1997 to 1999. 

We speak to the host Jason Gunn and former 'Super Trooper' Ainslie Allen about their time in the spotlight and what the show means to them now.

 

3:10 Link 3

3:15 Solving the World's Problems with Simon Wilson

Today NZ Herald senior writers, Simon Wilson, looks at the great divide between private public schools. He's got a solution to even up the playing field when it comes to finances, resources and opportunities in our education system.

3:20 History with Dr Grant Morris: Ford v Holden: The NZ History

New Zealand's ultimate car rivalry has traditionally been between Ford and Holden. For decades we have had to choose sides, leading to endless arguments. But this debate is now history.  Dr Grant Morris looks at how the debate emerged and what it tells us about the NZ psyche.  

People talking next to two Ford Falcon utes (pick up truck),

People talking next to two Ford Falcon utes (pick up truck), Photo: taken for J Inglis Wright in 1972 by K E Niven and Co, commercial photographers of Wellington

3:35 Spoken Feature RNZ Eyewitness

On this week's RNZ podcast Eyewitness episode,  we head to Dunedin and a miraculous story of survival when a 16-year-old schoolboy heads out to go surfing and encounters a great white shark.  

Barry Watkins pictured with his broken surfboard after the shark attack

Barry Watkins pictured with his broken surfboard after the shark attack Photo: Courtesy of Barry Watkins

3:45 The Panel with Clare DeLore and David Farrar