Afternoons for Tuesday 21 June 2022

 

1:20 Screen time in schools under the spotlight

Not far back, it was a summer tradition to prepare your kids for the school year with fresh books and pencils.

Nowadays the tools they use look a little different.

New Zealand classrooms have some of the highest computer usage in the world.

Tablets and laptops are commonplace, and while they can be amazing tools for learning, there may be downsides we need to be aware of.

Paediatric physiotherapist and post graduate health science student Julie Cullen talks to Jesse.

1:30 Coding in prisons offering new prospects for inmates 

People with a criminal history struggle to get jobs.

Even if they've served their time, an it's an immediate rejection in the application process for many,
 
The not-for-profit organisation Take2, run a modern rehabilitation programme for prisoners in computer coding and web development.  

They're reaching the end of their twelve month pilot. Technical director at Take2, Matthew Berrigan talks to Jesse about their programme.

1:40 Cheese names under threat in EU free trade negotiations

New Zealand is currently negotiating a free trade agreement with the EU, and our cheese makers are worried they're about to be caught in the crossfire.

The EU is looking to strip outsiders of the right to use common descriptors like feta, parmesan and gruyere.

The New Zealand Specialist Cheesemakers Association is urging both governments to recognise our shared cheese making heritage, as the results could be disastrous for the industry.

NZSCA board member and the owner of Barry's Bay Cheese in Akaroa Daniel Shields talks to Jesse.

1:50 Relationships with Hannah Korrel

Today neuropsychologist Hannah talks about how to get the advance on your own IQ by practising a few key principles of mental health.

2:10 Book Critic: Pip Adam

Today Pip talks about Pride and Prejudice adaptions which have been turned into films.  She also has a special mention of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a book by Seth Grahaeme-Smith also adapted for a film.

2:20 Music feature: Lexus song quest with Clarissa Dunn

After a four year hiatus, the much anticipated Lexus Song Quest will showcase some of Aotearoa's best young vocal talent.

The Song Quest, which began in 1950s as The Mobil Song Quest  quickly captured the attention of the nation and has since evolved into a much more challenging competition with bigger stakes.

On Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 of July, the ten Semi-Finalists will compete for a place at the Grand Final Gala in Wellington, where they will perform with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

To tell us all about this year's top talent.. we're joined by the wonderful Clarissa Dunn from RNZ Concert, who will be hosting this year's semis and Grand Final.

3:10 Why women need to say 'no' more often

No is a simple and yet very complicated word. At home and at work, women are usually the ones who don’t say no to doing the important but thankless jobs that aren’t recognized or rewarded.  Ten years ago, three friends decided to get together to support each other to turn down the requests that can end up becoming  an invisible barrier to equality in the workplace.  They formed the No Club.  Founding member Professor Laurie Weingart offers her advice about how to say yes to the word no in her book, 'The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work'.

3:30 Spoken Feature: BBC Witness

This year is the 100th anniversary of Ulysses by James Joyce, a landmark modernist novel and one of the most influential works of the 20th century. Ulysses is the story of one day in the life of a young Irishman in Dublin; that day, June the 16th, is now known as Bloomsday. To mark Bloomsday, Simon Watts brings together the memories of some of Joyce's friends, as recorded in the BBC archives.

3:45 The Panel with Georgie Stylianou and Selwyn Manning