Afternoons for Wednesday 3 November 2021

 

1.00 COVID update live 

 

1:20 Call for a building sector with 'genius and courage'

With the current focus on the climate, Lindsay Wood has looked very closely at how our current average house  compounds global overheating with excessive, long-lasting emissions.

Lindsay Wood is the director of Resilianz Ltd and he's written an article for Newsroom  exploring how we could make our housing more climate-friendly.

He talks to Jesse about where he thinks the biggest changes can be made. 

1:30 Gardening guru Lynda Hallinan's new book:  The Joy of Gardening 

Afternoons regular gardening contributor, Lynda Hallinan has a new book just released, The Joy of Gardening.

Jesse talks to Lynda about writing the book and why gardening and nature are so good for the soul. 

1:40 A mission to gift books to kids this Christmas 

It may still be November, but we could all use a bit of Christmas cheer right now.

For three years Aucklander Sonya Wilson has been making sure that brand new books make their way into deserving little hands each Christmas with her charity Kiwi Christmas Books.

Last year they managed to collect and distribute nearly 7,000.

Sonya talks to Jesse about their challenges and goals for this year.

1:55 Afternoons Quiz Robert Kelly

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

 

2.12 Podcast Critic: Alix Higby

Afternoons Producer Alix Higby has been listening to a real life mobster tell his version of events in Our Thing with Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano.

2:25 Bookmarks with Shaun Hendy

Our Bookmarks guest today will be a familiar face to many New Zealanders...

Covid-19 modeller and physics professor Shaun Hendy has been one of the key science communicators during the Covid response in Aotearoa.

We invited him to join us for Bookmarks so we could find out a bit more about him - outside of his job - including his favourite things.

3:10 Clarke Gayford and Mike Bhana talk about their new book 

Even the first man of Fishing, Clarke Gayford, will tell you angling is an addictive, real life puzzle  no one can ever solve. The joy for he and his film making friend Mike Bhana is in being on the water,  exploring  the big blue and meeting new characters with the same passion. The  fishing duo share their love of the ocean, favorite  spots around the world and  recipes for cooking your catch in their new book, Fish of the Day: Stories and Recipes from New Zealand and the Pacific.

You can also find a recipe from the book for fish tacos here. 

3:35 Stories from Our Changing World

This week on Our Changing World, Claire Concannon hits the Central Otago hills with Botany PhD student Ben Teele to imagine the landscape as it use to be, and to follow the clues to find leftover pockets of tōtara trees. 

3:45 The Panel with