Afternoons for Tuesday 23 August 2022

 

1:15 Northland plan to get Tamariki back to class

Te Tai Tokerau schools have joined forces to launch a campaign to get more Tamariki back into the classroom.

Ministry of Education attendance data shows Northland has had one of the highest chronic absence rates since 2011.

The Principal of Kamo Primary School, Sally Wilson talks to Jesse about the challenges of getting pupils back through the school gates.

1:25 Fairy-godmother to Auckland's Drag Queens

Jenn Jones has managed to make a career out of transforming Auckland's drag queens into something exceptionally fabulous.

She designs and makes the costumes for some of Aotearoa's most icon performers.

She's even had her work make its way to main-stage of Ru Paul's Drag Race. Jenn talks to Jesse about being a self taught seamstress to the drag queen stars.

1:35 NZ's first Bollywood Concert with live Symphony Orchestra

This weekend  New Zealand's first-ever Bollywood Concert with live Symphony Orchestra is happening at the Victory Convention Centre  in central Auckland.

The concert's going to feature iconic songs by a legendary Bollywood music director trio who've been composing for the past 25 years, winning many awards along the way.

Ashish Ramakrishnan is one of the organisers, he talks to Jesse.

1:50 Psychology with Hannah Korrel

Today Clinical Neuropsychologist Hannah Korrel talks to Jesse about manifestation and the good and bad parts to things like karma from a psychologist perspective.

2:10 Book Critic: Catherine Ross

Today Catherine Ross talks to Jesse about Mythological Themed books for children and young people.

You can find her review and recommendations here.

2:20 Music feature: Pink Floyd concert of 1988 at Western Springs

Today's music feature is looking back to 1988, when Pink Floyd played to 60,000 at Western Springs in Auckland.

It's the only time the band has played a show in NZ, and follows a particularly rocky time following the departure of bassist-turned-vocalist Roger Waters.

The concert was a pivotal moment for today's guest Glen Thurston who was an impressionable12-year-old at the time.

Like many others he made the pilgrimage to Auckland. He talks to Jesse about the concert and the impact it has on him. You can see his presentation here.

3:10 Keeping an eye on the bigger picture

Actions have consequences and harm is harm whether our actions impact people living right now or in the future. Oxford associate professor William MacAskill has a name for this, 'longtermism'. It's the idea that we have an obligation to protect humanity from all the global threats swirling around our modern lives. Instead, he says , we neglect the future in favor of the present. He lays out  the high stakes and the case for 'longtermism' in his new book  What We Owe the Future.

3:30 Spoken Feature: BBC Witness history

In June 1973, the nightclub Pacha opened in Ibiza. It turned Ibiza into a destination for music and party lovers from around the world. Vicky Carter speaks to Carlos Martorell who organised Pacha's opening party and Francis Van Orden, a Dutch hippy who danced all night on the opening night.

3:45 The Panel with Janet Wilson and Chris Clarke