Afternoons for Monday 23 May 2022

 

1:20 Calls for Everest Day to be recognised in NZ

The Nepalese community is calling for upcoming Everest Day to be recognised in the New Zealand government calendar.

Currently the day is part of Nepal's annual celebrations and with the 70th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's historic climb drawing near there are calls for New Zealand to make it an official celebration.

Wallce talks to Dinesh Kahdka, the president of the NZ Nepal Chamber of Commerce.

1.30 Regenerating Puhinui stream with all of its stake holders

A major project in Auckland is seeing plans on paper turned into action for the regeneration of Puhinui Stream.

The 12 kilometre waterway runs from the Botanical Gardens through many south Auckland suburbs into the Manukau Harbour.

Alexanda Whitcombe is the Empowered Community Lead on the project, he talks to Wallace about their work and who's on board to do it.

1.40 Gratitude turns into generosity for kidney transplant recipient

Innovator and Stabicraft co-founder Sir Paul Adams is paying it forward after getting a life saving kidney transplant. He's donated one of the iconic boats for a Trade Me dollar auction, with all proceeds going to Kidney Health NZ.

We talk to Paul and his donor, who's also his fiance, Barbara Sutton.

1:45 Number one album in NZ chart history

Today's number one album is Breakfast in America by Supertramp. It hit number one a number of times on our shores in 1979.

2:10 Television Critic: Claire Chitham

Today Claire Chitham talks to Wallace about the US version of Shameless and Angelyne.

2:20  Australian Correspondent Brad Foster 

Today Brad Foster talks all about their new Prime Minister across the ditch. He explains why the voters turned on Scott Morrison and what it means for trans-Tasman relations. He also has some non-election news about upcoming festivals and the State of Origin series.

2:30 Expert feature: Building an app or website

Today's expert is all about how you can build your own website or app.

To answer your questions or queries, we've got IT lecturer from Otago Polytechnic, Adon Moskal on air.

If you have anything you'd like him to answer, text on 2101 or email jesse@rnz.co.nz.

3:10 Looking at the business behind the pandemic

Early one Saturday morning in April  2020, just as the world is starting to go into the first of many lockdowns,  ProPublica investigative reporter J David McSwane tagged along on a private jet with a businessman on a mission to buy medical face masks for the government. The businessman had no experience, no industry connections, but somehow  got a 35 million dollar deal to supply them. That flight started McSwane’s two year journey uncovering  shady networks and scammers who  took advantage of COVID chaos and dysfunction to profit from the pandemic.    He follows the money in  his book. Pandemic, Inc. Chasing The Capitalists And Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick.

3:35 Voices

In this week's Voices- a different reality - how AR and VR innovation is being pushed and supported in Canterbury

3:45 The Panel with Kathryn Graham and Liam Hehir