Afternoons for Thursday 25 November 2021

1.12 First Song:

 

1:17 Political turmoil in the National Party 

As you may have heard, there has been a major and very public fallout in the National Party. Late last night,  National Party leader Judith Collins announced in a press release that Simon Bridges has been dumped from the shadow cabinet and demoted to the backbenches. She accused her National colleague (and former Party leader) of making crude remarks to Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean in front of other National MPs at a party function five years ago.  The Party has been in a caucus meeting since nine this morning. Jesse is joined by Auckland University political scientist and political commentator, Lara Greaves.

1:30 Pūniu river roaring into a cleaner future 

A rōpu dedicated to cleaning up the awa/rivers in Waikato have just picked up a major award. Pūniu River Care picked up the River Story award an hour ago in the Cawthron Institute river awards. The Chief Executive Officer of Pūniu River Care Shannon Te Huia joins me now! 

1:35 Radio memories: Joy Anderson 

Today we continue our journey through your memories of radio in Aotearoa. Some incredible stories have come through to us from our listeners. Today's a real look back in time, to a time when the radio was all the entertainment a family had, but also a tale of how a family managed to get enough money to buy their first home. 

1:45 Great album: Timeless: The All Time Greatest Hits by the Bee Gees

Today's great album and prize for the link 3 winner is a reissue of an album from the Bee Gees, Timeless: The All Time Greatest Hits. The 2LP vinyl has 21 certified classic tracks from one of the world's most commercially successful and acclaimed bands in the history of popular music.

2:10 Music Critic: Cas Saunders 

Cas looks back at the massive appeal of Avril Lavigne in the early 2000s and pop punk scene that emerged at a similar time. 

2:25 NZ Screen History: W3 and It's Academic

Former National MP and speaker of the house Lockwood Smith joins us today.

But we're not talking politics, despite that being the story of the day.

We're talking about the kids quiz shows he hosted back in the 80s!

The W3 Show was designed to test the general knowledge of intermediate school kids, while It's Academic was for High Schoolers.

Lockwood shares his memories with Jesse and we play out a short collection of memories from former contestants.

3:10 Link 3

 

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

Today senior NZ Herald writer, Simon Wilson, looks at what he calls National and Labour's slum enabling act, by allow high density housing in areas without the need for resources consent. 

3:25 History with Dr Grant Morris 

Famous fictional historians: Are there any? Archaeologists have Indiana Jones and Lara Croft. Lawyers have Atticus Finch and Harvey Specter. But what about historians?  Who are the fictional role-models for the history profession? What fictional representations even exist?  Today Dr Grant Morris tries to come up with some examples.

3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness

Eleonore Dresch reports on the most famous perfume ever which was launched in France 100 years ago.  It was CHANEL No 5 created for the French fashion designer Coco Chanel.

3:45 The Panel with Moata Tamaira and  Mark Sainsbury