Afternoons for Monday 22 November 2021

 

1:12 First song

 

1:20 Marae, food rescue and inner city restaurant work together to help feed locked down Aucklanders 

For whānau doing it tough in Auckland's extremely long lockdown, a hot meal ready-to-eat can make a real difference.

That's the idea behind a partnership in Māngere between Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae, food rescue organisation Everybody Eats AND central Auckland restaurant, Saint Alice Bar and Eatery.

One of the owners of Saint Alice, Kristian Lloydd talks to Jesse about their partnership and giving back in these tough times. 

1.30 Pop up rongoā teahouse in Wellington CBD 

Artist Tanya Ruka is inviting people to korero over a cup of rongoā tea in Wellington over a two-week period, starting from this Saturday.

She is setting up a space called The Forest Rongoā teahouse on Courtenay Place - at the shop front in front of the Reading Cinema complex.

Her project was commissioned by Urban Dream Brokerage - an organisation that finds new uses for vacant and underutilised retail and public space. Tanya talks to Jesse about her project and a rongoā forest she's cultivating in the suburb of Brooklyn.

1.40 Musical Come From Away winging towards Aotearoa 

A Broadway musical is making its way to Aotearoa in 2022. The Tony and Olivier award-winning Canadian production Come From Away looks at the story of  7,000 air passengers who ended up grounded in the small Newfoundland town of Gander. It's coming our way next year and will be the first major production in the renovated St James Theatre in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. One of the show's producers Rodney Rigby joins Jesse from New York. 

1:45 Great NZ Album

 

2:10 Television Critic: Linda Burgess

Today Linda talks about Belgravia, TVNZ on demand, 15 Minutes of Shame on Neon and the new post-Covid series of Curb your Enthusiasm, also on Neon.

2:20  What's up in Oz 

Today our correspondent in Sydney, Brad Foster, talks to Jesse about the latest embarrassment for the Australian cricket team, with their captain being forced to stand down after sending unwanted pictures of himself to a former colleague. He also discusses what the new normal is like across Australia and concerns about COVID reaching remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. 

2:30 Rap School with David Atai and Lui Tagaloa

For today's  expert segment we're talking hip hop and rap - what it is and how to write it. 

Dave Atai is a mentor for musicians and songwriters and runs a Rap School through the Crescendo Trust Aotearoa. 

He used to be in Nesian Mystik - which had a string of hits between 1999 and 2011. 

Lui Tagaloa is a hip hop artist and a musician who works at Crescendo Trust.

They both speak to Jesse about the genre. 

3:10 How the image of God has changed throughout the millennia 

Handsome, muscly with a penchant for the fantastic and the monstrous. This is not description of a Hollywood heartthrob, but the Christian God from the bible according to biblical scholar and broadcaster, Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou. She paints a portrait of a God from head to toe who laughs, eats, sleeps and explains why the image of God has shaped Western culture and ideas in her book God: An Anatomy. She also talks about a recently computer generated image of what God would look like. You can find that article here. 
 

3:35 Voices

How did growing up in a vibrant musical family in south Mumbai influence Auckland-based jazz pianist Ben Fernandez? Kadambari Raghukumar talks to the musician about all that plus his album the Music Never Stopped which was born out of loss and lockdown last year. 

3:45 The Panel with Sue Kedgley and Peter Dunne