Afternoons for Monday 10 October 2022

Hey COTW fans - critter t-shirts are back with a new design and a tote bag.

The money raised from the sale of the products goes directly to community environmental groups.

You can pre-order your t-shirts, tote bags and tea towels via the link below. You have two weeks to place your orders so they arrive in time for Christmas.

https://joyya.nz/critter-of-the-week/

 

1:15 Lifting the lid on the lives of real life mermaids

 Mermaids are not just resigned to fairy-tales and myths but can actually be a very real life career option.

Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery's upcoming exhibition, The Mermaid Chronicles will showcase the rise of the professional mermaid and the mythical figure's history in popular culture.

The art works, photographs, videos, stories and artifacts have been selected and written by Megan Dunn. She joins Jesse to talk about the rise of the real life mermaids.

1.25 Family meat free trial failure!

In a bid to do his part to encourage less meat eating in household, senior writer for the Spinoff Chris Schulz ran a week long plant based meal trial.

He had a tough time winning over his whānau! In fact he calls the week long plant based meal experiment a bit of a fail. He talks to Jesse about what went wrong in his quest to consume less meat.

1.35 The history of the vacuum cleaner

Bryan Wall, test writer at Consumer.org.nz has done a deep dive into the history of the vacuum cleaner to help him understand the innovation behind the appliance and how it might develop in the future.

He talks to Jesse about his research.

1:45 Number 1 album

 

2:10 Television Critic: Caitlin Cherry

Today Caitlin Cherry talks to Jesse about some Netflix shows. She's been watching One Of Us Is Lying and Man Vs Bee. 

2:20  Australian Correspondent Brad Foster 

Brad Foster brings us up to speed on the rape trial of former Liberal staff member Brittany Higgins currently in Canberra, and more flooding around NSW, with Sydney now toppling the previous record for most rainfall since records were started 164 years ago.

2:30 Expert feature: colour matching

Today's expert is all about colour matching for people.

Trudy Van Zyl is the owner and director of Colour Me Beautiful NZ, she joins Jesse to talk about the right way to find the colours which suit you and how much of a difference that can make to how you look.

If you have any questions for her you can text 2101 or email jesse@rnz.co.nz.

3:10 The secrets of the seas around Aotearoa 

The story of New Zealand is the story of the sea and the creatures who live in it.  As long as humans have inhabited these islands, native fish and shellfish have been front and center as a way to trade, feast, celebrate and mourn says Robert Vennell. He works in the Natural Science department of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Sacred and inspiring, their world is so different from ours, but so essential to it. Vennell  wants all New Zealanders to have a greater appreciation of  the mysterious world under the waves and why it is so essential to our identity. His new book is called Secrets of the Sea: The Story of New Zealand's Native Sea Creatures.

3:35 Voices

This week on Voices, some of the international designers who finally got a chance to have their garments shown at the much awaited World of Wearable Art in Wellington this year.

3:45 The Panel with Sue Kedgley and Conor English