Afternoons for Thursday 9 December 2021

1:20 The 2020/2021 summer was a time for hard partying in Aotearoa

It appears New Zealanders made the most of the covid-free environment during the summer period of 2020 and 2021 with large amounts of designer drugs detected in waste waster samples taken at the time.

Researchers in Australia have looked at samples taken from 10 different countries during the New Year period and found the highest levels yet of psychoactive substances were here in Aotearoa.

The University of South Australia Associate Professor Cobus Gerber, talks to Jesse about what the findings tell us.

1:30 Turning graffiti in South Auckland into street art to be proud of

South Auckland's street art scene is flourishing thanks to the work of a local trust.

As Justin Latif reports for The Spinoff, the Beautification Trust works with  'ex-taggers' to transform graffiti into vibrant, colourful murals.

Twenty years of hard work is now paying off!

Artist Pascal Atiga-Bridger, who is a  'reformed tagger', and works with the Trust talks to Jesse!

1:40 High school project of bubble tea turned into a profitable business

Tanya Haseltine was homesick  while she was boarding at New Plymouth Girls’ High School so when she was able to come up with a project for her enterprise studies class she chose a Taiwanese tea-based drink business.

It went so well, it's now a full time business she's operating in the Taranaki town. She talks to Jesse about what her bubble tea is and why it's been such a success.

1:45 Great album: At My Piano, Brian Wilson

Today's link 3 winner will get a vinyl copy of Brian Wilson's latest album, to be released tomorrow, At My Piano. It's a collection of memorable songs such as God Only Knows, Wouldn't It Be Nice and California Girls, played with the lucid clarity that a solo piano composition creates.

2:10 Music Critic: Dianne Swann

Today Dianne talks about two albums due out next year from New Zealand artists. She's looking at music from Mel Parsons and Miriam Clancy.

2:25 NZ Screen History: Coca‑Cola Christmas in the Park

Coca-Cola Christmas in the Park has been a tradition in Aotearoa since 1994 and always attracts a huge crowd.

Event director Alan Smythe and Coca-Cola market services manager Annette Chillingworth join Jesse for a stroll down memory lane.

They're also joined by a special guest so tune in!

3:10 Link 3

 

3:15 Solving the World's Problems with Steve Wyn-Harris

Today Hawke's Bay farmer Steve Wyn-Harris talks about how well the rural sector is currently doing with some new export records being reached.

3:20 History with Dr Grant Morris

Today historian Dr Grant Morris in Taranaki for a history tour of one of Aoteroa's most iconic regions. There is much more to Taranaki's history beyond the mountain and the farms. Today's he'll be taking us on his own history tour from the south to the west around the coast to the northern parts of Taranaki.

3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness

At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, South African-born Zola Budd collided with the home favourite, Mary Decker, in the final of the women's 3,000 metres. Decker was left weeping on the ground, while Budd was booed by the crowd and had to leave the US with a police escort after receiving death threats. Simon Watts introduces the memories of Zola Budd as recorded in the BBC archives.

3:45 The Panel with Verity Johnson and Mark Knoff-Thomas