Afternoons for Thursday 24 February 2022

1:20 Increase in isolating at home puts pressure on supermarket online services

As cases of Covid surge across the country, more people are relying on supermarket online delivery services to safely stock their cupboards.

But there are big delays in getting orders processed and out to people who are not able to leave their homes, on top of other supply chain issues affecting supermarket stock levels.

Countdown corporate affairs general manager Kiri Hannifin talks to Jesse about the impact the omicron outbreak is having on their stores.

1:30 'World-first': Biodegradable shoes developed in NZ

A small New Zealand start-up has designed a shoe that is being described as a world-first.

The 'ghost sneaker' is biodegradable!

Waikanae-based company, Orba, has won a major international award for its sustainable design and its work has been recognised here in New Zealand, too, at the Best Design Awards.

Orba's co-founder and sustainability manager, Gillian Boucher, talks to Jesse about their invention.

1:40 West Coast Hereford bull getting international attention

An epic survival story on the West Coast is attracting international media attention.

The tale involves a young Hereford bull caught up in recent flooding on the West Coast of the South Island.

Maruia farmer Tony Peacock explains why the young bull is such a headline grabber right now.

1:45 Great album: Crushing by Julia Jacklin

Today's link three winner will receive a vinyl copy of the latest album out from Australian artist, Julia Jacklin.

It's her second full length album to be released by the artist, which she says is the result of two years of toruing and being in a relationship, and feeling like she never had any space of her own.

2:10 Music Critic: Matthew Crawley

Store manager at Flying Out Records in Auckland, Matthew Crawley talks to Jesse about new music out from local artists Gramsci and beth torrance. 

2:25 NZ Sporting History: 2010 Commonwealth Games Netball Final

Today's New Zealand sporting history moment is back in 2010 when officially the longest game of netball was played at the 2010 New Delhi Commonwealth games.

Arch rivals the Silver Ferns and Australia's Diamonds slogged it out for the gold medal in what's been called the greatest game of netball ever played.

To relive the moment former Australian coach, Norma Plummer, former Silver Ferns captain Tracey Fear and RNZ's Bridgett Tunnicliffe join Jesse to go back over the historic match.

3:10 Link 3

3:15 Your Money with Mary Holm 

Today Mary talks to Jesse about dividend reinvestment and how to grow your shareholdings painlessly.

The idea is that instead of shareholders being given a cash dividend they are given more shares instead.

3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness

In December 1991 the leaders of three Soviet Republics - Russia, Ukraine and Belarus - signed a treaty dissolving the USSR. They did so without asking the other republics, and against the wishes of the USSR's overall President Mikhail Gorbachev. By the end of the year, Gorbachev had resigned and the Soviet Union was no more. In 2016, Dina Newman spoke to the former President of Ukraine and former President of Belarus, who signed that historic document alongside Boris Yeltsin.

3:45 The Panel with Georgia Stylianou and Ian Powell