Afternoons for Monday 8 August 2022

 

1:15 LockerRoom's Editor Suzanne McFadden on our Games ups and downs

The Commonwealth Games are coming to a close with New Zealand athletes feeling rather proud of their efforts.

A record haul of Gold Medals have been won with the cyclists the stand out performers.

But there were some moments where it felt the medals were expected and the athletes failed to perform.

To talk about the highlights and the low lights of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, Newsroom's LockerRoom editor and the 2021 Voyager Media Awards sports journalist of the year, Suzanne McFadden joins Jesse.

1.20 Message in a bottle found in Christchurch war memorial

There's been an intriguing find inside the war memorial in Christchurch's Cathedral Square.

A message in a bottle was discovered as the memorial was being deconstructed, and it's down to luck that it was found and not destroyed.

Jenny May is an architectural historian and heritage consultant and Director of Heritage Management, she talks to Jesse.

1.25 Electric boats set to take on the waterways

Electric cars are set to take over the fleet, but where are we at with electric boats?

A New Zealand company is leading the way in this growing industry.

ZeroJet have created the first turnkey electric jet propulsion system for boats.

Co-founder Bex Rempel speaks to Jesse.

1.35 A pilot programme being run out of Hawkes Bay schools to recycle caps and lids

Plastic lids and caps usually have the recycling triangle on them, but often don't actually get recycled.

But a very New Zealand solution is being piloted with the help of twelve schools in the Hawkes Bay.

Good Caps is the programme, and Sandy Boterill, Circular Economy Manager of Plastics NZ, is with me to explain.

1:45 Number 1 album

Today's Number 1 album in NZ Chart history Billy Joel's An Innocent Man, released in 1983.

2:10 Television Critic: Claire Chitham

Today Claire talks to Jesse about The Sandman which has just dropped on Netflix.

2:20  Australian Correspondent Brad Foster 

Today Sydney based correspondent Brad Foster talks to Jesse about a parliamentary inquiry into a former Deputy Premier who retired from politics and landed a 500 thousand dollar a year trade role in New York. There's mystery around how he landed the job after it was initially promised to another senior public servant after was interviewed for the role. The job offer was then reneged and instead given to the deputy premier.

2:30 Expert feature: Allister Wade on car care

With the current price of petrol and increase in the cost of living, today's expert is here to help keep the cost of running vehicles down and has some simple tips for doing things at home rather than paying a mechanic.

The AA's Motoring Services Technical Advisor Allister Wade talks to Jesse about how to keep your car on the road as economically as possible.

3:10 Is the globalisation party over?

Goodbye cheaper, faster, better. Globalization lifted the standard of living for many across the globe, but the party is over says author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan. He says what happens next is that countries and regions will have to make our own goods, grow our own food, and develop our own energy.  He gives us his view of what lies ahead  in his new book The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.

3:35 Voices

In ‘Voices’ today;  Kadambari Raghukumar talks to two linguists about the ever-evolving English language and its grammatical mysteries.

3:45 The Panel with David Farrar and Zoe George