Afternoons for Thursday 22 December 2022

1:15 New shearing record set by 19 year old

It's a big week for the sport of lamb shearing.

On Tuesday 19 year old Reuben Alabaster, raised in Taihape, beat a decade-long world record of 744 lambs in eight hours by Irish shearer Ivan Scott at Opepe in 2012.

In four two hour runs - Reuben shore 746.

He's already facing stiff competition with Jack Fagan, who has been working to beat his record since seven o'clock this morning at Puketiti Station. Reuben talks to Jesse.

1:25 Engineering students helping to restore drinking water to Tongan schools

A group of student engineers at the University of Canterbury have recently returned from a trip to install drinking water systems at Tongan schools.

The trip was part of Diploma in Global Humanitarian Engineering, with the team working alongside staff and students to disinfect water for 2,500 students in the three different schools.

Tim Dunshea was one of the engineering students involved, he talks to Jesse.

1:35 Kākā numbers growing in south Waikato

This year we've been hearing exciting news of kākā numbers growing in different regions throughout New Zealand.

They used to be a very rare sight in Wellington, but now more and more residents are enjoying more frequent sightings of these large native parrots.

But there's also positive news from further north in the Pureora Forest Park in the Waikato.

DOC Scientist Terry Greene's research has just been published. He talks to Jesse.

1:45 Great album: Parade by Prince and the Revolution

Today's link 3 winner will get a copy of Bono's autobiography, Surrender 50 songs, One Story.

So for today's great album we let producer Sam Hollis decide what we should play. He chose Parade by Prince and the Revolution released a long time before he was born in 1986.

2:10 Music Critic: Dianne Swann

Today Dianne pays tribute to British musician Terry Hall who passed away earlier this week. He was the lead singer for The Specials before embarking on a solo career.

2:25 NZ Sporting History: Joelle King

For today's New Zealand Sporting History we are speaking to New Zealand's number one squash player, Joelle King.

She is also ranked number four in the world. Joelle is an eight time National Champion and an eight time Commonwealth Games Medalist.

She's also been given the New Zealand Order of Merit. Joelle speaks to Jesse from her base in the UK, Bristol.

3:10 Link 3

 

3:15 Solving the World's Problems with Steve Wyn-Harris

Today Hawke's Bay farmer Steve Wyn-Harris talks to Jesse about the latest MPI stats showing a projected increase in food and fibre exports for 2023, up to a record 55 billion dollars.

3:20 History with Dr Grant Morris

Today Dr Grant Morris talks about the history of the Chatham Islands. He's just returned from his third trip there and was able to visit the brand new museum.

3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness

Slava Zaitsev was the first designer to create high fashion collections in the Soviet Union. He tells Dina Newman about the challenges he faced working under communism.

3:45 The Panel with Boopsie Maran and Steve McCabe