Afternoons for Thursday 3 February 2022

1:15 Lack of support for early miscarriage

Women are not being offered the mental health support they need after experiencing a miscarriage in the first trimester of pregnancy, despite healthcare workers recognising it as a significant loss, researchers from the University of Otago, Wellington, have found. Researcher Dr Jessica Yang talks to Jesse about what needs to change.

1:20 Epic coast-to-coast search for missing dog

A beloved Jack Russell named Pārore went missing on New Years Eve when he was spooked by fireworks while on holiday in Taranaki with his owner.

The woman who owns him, Jess Potaka, lives in Gisborne, but has been travelling back and forth to the West Coast ever since to continue the search. She talks to Jesse about her mission to be reunited with her four legged friend.

Photos of Pārore and contact details for Jess are in the image gallery below.

1:30 100 year commemoration of the tragedy at Blaketown, Greymouth

100 years ago, tragedy struck off the coast of Blaketown in Greymouth.

A trainload of vistors were enjoying a day at the beach when the tide turned and the current swept many of them out to sea. On that one day 6 people lost their lives. Next Tuesday a commemoration will take place to remember those who were lost.

Peter Ewen, a West Coast Regional Councillor will be organising it, he talks to Jesse.

1:40 Former Split Enz band members release their new project, FORENZICS

FORENZICS is the new musical project by Tim Finn and Eddie Rayner, which reworks parts of early Split Enz songs to create whole new tracks.

The album with those tracks is called Shades and Echos, and will be released tomorrow. Eddie Rayner talks to Jesse about what people can expect.

1:45 Great album

Today's link 3 winner will get a vinyl copy of The Band - Cahoots 50th Anniversary LP.

2:10 Music Critic: Matthew Crawley

For today's music review store manager at Flying Out Records in Auckland, Matthew Crawley talks to Jesse about new music out from P J Harvey, Jake Xerxes Fussell and Roy Montgomery with Emma Johnston and Arnie Van Bussell.

2:25 NZ Sporting History: The underarm bowling scandal!

On the 1st of February 41 years ago the Australian and New Zealand men's Cricket teams were locked in a down to the wire contest in a One Day International match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

It was such a close thing, and tempers were frayed..

It became known simply as "the under arm incident". But a lot of that came from the way it was covered after the fact.

To dig into what actually happened on the day  NZ Cricket writer and former Cricket editor of the NZ Herald Richard Boock talks to Jesse.

3:10 Link 3

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

Senior New Zealand Herald writer, Simon Wilson talks to Jesse about road safety. He believes there are some simple fixes to reduce crashes and the road toll.

3:20 History with Dr Grant Morris

Today historian Dr Grant Morris looks at the history of Surf Life Saving in NZ. Many New Zealanders are returning from a holiday at a NZ beach. Aotearoa has 15,000kms of coastline. Keeping us safe in the water is the job of NZ's 13,000 Surf Lifeguards from our 71 Surf Life Saving Clubs. Today Dr Morris talks about this history and reflects on his own involvement in surf life-saving.

3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness

In the 1990s, the former strongman president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, decided to turn a small city on the steppe into a futuristic capital. Designed by a Japanese architect, the vast project features gleaming skyscrapers and was eventually named Nur-Sultan in Nazarbayev's honour. But the construction of the new capital was dogged by allegations of corruption. Louise Hidalgo talks to former New York Times journalist, Steve LeVine, who has investigated Nursultan Nazarbayev.

3:45 The Panel with Jennie Moreton and Shane Te Pou