Afternoons for Monday 20 June 2022

 

1:20 Youngest athlete to go to the Commonwealth Games, Maggie Squire

Maggie Squire is the youngest athlete in New Zealand's Common Wealth Games team to compete in Birmingham this year.

The sixteen year old diver has already competed in the Gold Coast, Malaysia, Montreal, and Singapore. Maggie is the current New Zealand National Champion in the women's 1 and 3 metre events.

She's about to jet off to Budapest for the world champs. She speaks to us ahead of jetting off!

1.30 World Refugee Day, we check in with Ramez Sharfo

Today is World Refugee Day.

The New Zealand government hasn't filled the quota of fifteen hundred people to resettle in 2021 and 2022. And say it's due to COVD-19 impact.

But today we are celebrating refugees making a life for themselves in New Zealand, and many of them are taking up higher education.

Waikato is one of the biggest refugee centres in Aotearoa, and over a hundred refugees in the Waikato are currently studying at Wintec.

Among those improving their English through study, is Ramez Sharfo. He talks to Jesse about his experience.

1.40 Boh Runga's latest podcast project

Musician, designer and creative, Boh Runga's got a new podcast out called Bohboh radio.

She talks to Jesse about the limited series she's made which is all about people reliving their treasured childhood memories and sharing some of their own special parenting moments.

Boh is in the Auckland studio to talk to Jesse.

1:45 Number 1 album in chart  history

In 1989 Union was number one on the New Zealand charts. It's the debut album by Toni Childres and only peaked at number 63  in the US.

2:10 Television Critic: Claire Chitham

Today Claire talks to Jesse about The Offer on TVNZ, Pachinko on Apple TV and Mayor of Kingstown on Amazon.

2:20  Australian Correspondent Brad Foster 

Sydney based correspondent Brad Foster talks to Jesse about Government vouchers given out during COVID which still haven't been used. It's estimated in New South Wales that around 326 million dollars worth of vouchers haven't been spent and are due to expire at the end of the month.

2:30 Expert feature: Matariki with Richard Hall 

We know how important Matariki is to Maori but the star cluster has been part of human folklore for tens of thousands of years.  

Today's expert Richard Hall is one of our country's leading astronomical communicators who blends modern astromony with ancient star lore.

Richard started his astronomical career at National Observatory in Wellington and then went on to lead of a team of enthusiasts that designed and built a replica of Stonehenge in the Wairarapa, which he now manages.

He has also written a book about how to gaze at the southern stars.

3:10 Grandson of Watergate prosecutor reflects on Washington then and now 

50 years ago, a nightwatchman noticed a piece of tape on the latch of a door in the parking garage of the Watergate office complex in Washington D.C. The break in at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters and connection to President Richard Nixon was exposed during Senate hearings and would lead to the president resigning.  The anniversary comes as  hearings are  once again being held to  investigate the role of a President, this time in the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. Robert Draper is a reporter for the New York Times and the grandson of Watergate Special prosecutor Leon Jaworski.  He’s writing a book about the Capitol insurrection and reflects on Washington then, and now in a piece for the New York Times.

3:35 Voices

In this week’s Voices- how did a family of Kayan former refugees hold on to their culture of traditional weaving, years after being settled in Nelson from their refugee camp in northern Thailand?

3:45 The Panel with Boopsie Maran and Jack Yan