Afternoons for Thursday 26 May 2022

1:15 Joe Hawke's burial

The tangi for Joe Hawke comes to a close today with his burial at Takaparawhau, the very place where he led the iwi occupation to save the headland from becoming a housing development.

Māni Dunlop is there and talks about the significance of his final resting place being at the site he occupied for 502 days.

1:20 Mentoring at sheep world helping at risk youth

A charity working with at risk youths, is hoping to stop them from becoming part of the crime wave of ram raids by mentoring them amongst sheep!

Springboard has purchased Sheepworld, just north of Auckland, where it helps at risk young people learn new skills and one on one mentoring.

Sheralyn Overton talks to Wallace about what they're doing and how it's helping.

1:30 Applications open for an expedition to the South Pole

If you're keen on pulling a sled and ski-ing for 900 kilometres, there's an opening!

The New Zealand Antarctic Trust is looking for intrepid explorers to join a special expedition to mark 150 years since the birth of polar explorer Roald Amundsen. A team of Norwegian and New Zealand explorers are gathering to recreate the historic trek to the South Pole.

1:40 Youngest ever winner of the Adam Portraiture Award

Jessica Gurnsey is just 18 years old and has won 20 thousand dollars in the Adam Portraiture Award.

Her work, Lad Day, beat out 351 others to take the title. Jessica talks to Wallace about her work and where to next as she embarks on her artistic career.

1:45 Link 3 album

Today's link 3 winner will be getting a vinyl copy of Sharon Van Etten's latest LP  'We've Been Going About This All Wrong'. The LP released at the beginning of May and is her sixth studio album from the American artist. If you can correctly guess our link three today, you'll receive a copy of this album.

2:10 Music Critic: Colin Morris

Today Colin's talking about music from Bonnie Raitt and has a look behind the scenes at a track from Mavis Staples and Levon Helm.

2:25 NZ Sporting History: the netball lift that changed the game!

It's been 10 years since former Silver Fern Anna Harrison stunned the netball world with a rugby line-out style lift to block a shot at goal.

The so-called 'Harrison Hoist' came when the Nothern Mystics were taking on the Melbourne Vixens in May 2012.

It dominated the sports headlines and divided opinion about whether it was in the spirit of the game and whether it would catch on.

RNZ sports reporter Bridget Tunnicliffe joins Wallace discuss that historical move.

3:10 Link 3

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

Today Simon talks about his recent column in the NZ Herald looking at the empty shops along Queen Street. His column earlier this week generated a lot of feedback about what is going on. He shares the feedback and what he thinks the problem is.

3:20 History with Dr Grant Morris

Liverpool FC will play in the Champions League Final this Sunday in a quest to win their seventh trophy in this competition.  Many Kiwis will be watching and cheering them on. But why should New Zealanders care about a football club in a northern English port city on the other side of the world? Today historian Dr Grant Morris discusses the history of supporting Liverpool FC in NZ and explore the strange phenomenon of supporting a sports team in the absence of a direct personal connection.

3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness

In the summer of 1951 a young art historian called John Richardson met one of the greatest painters of the modern era.  Richardson was part of Picasso's circle in the South of France for the rest of the 1950s and then spent the rest of his life writing the definitive biography of the Spanish artist. John Richardson spoke to Laura Sheeter in 2011. He died in 2019.

3:45 The Panel with Moata Taimara and Phil O'Reilly