Afternoons for Thursday 13 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 Office banter or is it 'office bullying' - the dark side of workplace humour

Office banter can be seen as a way to boost morale, but new research indicates that humour in the workplace can have a darker side.

Academics' researched four New Zealand-based organisations and uncovered a culture around humour within one business that blurred the line between humour and bullying.

One of the authors of the study, Barbara Plester from University of Auckland's Business School talks to Jesse about the fine line between banter and bullying.

1:25 "Spider star" mystery solved

Scientists believe they have solved the mystery of a  star resembling a spider web captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

A member of the James Webb Space Telescope Science Working Group, described the image as "bonkers".

The image even sparked speculation online that it might be evidence of an alien mega-structure light-years across.

To explain what the strange phenoenom is actually likely to be, Professor Peter Tuthill from the University of Sydney's Institute for Astronomy joins Jesse.

1:35 Swapping Silicon Valley for a less dazzling location in Hamilton

Swapping Silicon Valley for Hamilton isn't the usual trajectory for an internationally successful tech firm.

But that's exactly what digital streaming platform Shift72 did.

And being headquartered in the Waikato hasn't stopped the company from working with some of the world's leading film festivals, including Sundance and Cannes.

The company's head of growth marketing Damian Bartolomucci talks to Jesse about moving state side to a sleepier destination.

1:45 Great album: Cool It Down by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Today's link 3 winner will get a vinyl copy of the latest album from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It's their first studio album in 9 years and was released two weeks ago.

2:10 Music Critic: Matthew Crawley

2:25 NZ Sporting History: Tom Walsh

In today's NZ Sporting History we look back at the stellar career of shot putter, Tom Walsh.

He's fresh back in Aotearoa from another successful round of competitions, including a Commonwealth Gold Medal.

He talks to Jesse about his history in the sport and what's next in his career.

3:10 Link 3

 

3:15 Solving the World's Problems with Dave Armstrong

Today Solving the World's Problems is with Dave Armstrong, woh's  a New Zealand playwright, screenwriter, trumpet player and columnist for The Dominion Post. 

3:20 History with Dr Grant Morris: The biggest miscarriages of justice in New Zealand's history.

Last Friday, the NZ Supreme Court quashed Peter Ellis' convictions. 

The court stated that there had been a 'substantial miscarriage of justice'. 

NZ's legal history includes many miscarriages of justice. 

Today Dr Grant Morris looks at a few famous examples and attempt to place the Ellis decision in historical context.  

3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness

When drug kingpin Pablo Escobar died in 1993 having built a billion dollar cocaine empire, he left behind a zoo. While his rhinos, giraffes, elephants and kangaroos were re-housed, the hippos were left in Escobar's abandoned ranch in the Colombian countryside. In 2007 they started turning up 100 kilometres away, frightening fishermen. Vet Carlos Valderrama was called in to tackle the problem. He describes to Josephine McDermott his experience of the first ever castration of a hippo in the wild.

3:45 The Panel with Cas Carter and Michael Moynihan