Afternoons for Wednesday 15 February 2023

 

1:15 Updates around flood affected areas in Aotearoa

To start the show today we'll be focussing on areas worst affected by recent flooding and slips.

We are speaking to Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz about conditions in the Tairawhiti region. We check in with the Hawkes Bay civil defence controller and the NZDF on their critical role in rescuing and aiding supply deliveries.

We also talk to an expert on satellite communications and the importance of these connections during emergency situations being experienced right now.

We will continue to update on the ongoing emergency throughout the programme.

2.12 Podcast Critic: Adam Burns

Today Adam talks to Jesse about Questlove Supreme and Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware.

2:25 Bookmarks with Laura Heynike

For Bookmarks today we speak to businesswoman and interior designer Laura Heynike.

She's the Founder and Creative Director of interior design company Pocketspace.

Her first book The Pumping Entrepreneur came out at the start of the month.

3:10 The dark side of the wellness world

Rina Raphael spent hundreds of dollars a month on boutique fitness classes and 'natural medications' to escape stress and to release stress. She fully drank the kombucha. She says wellness brands prey on women's anxieties. Her new book looks at why women buy into the multi-billion dollar industry and why the cure has in many ways become as bad as the disease. It's called The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care.

3:35 Stories from Our Changing World

Coming up on Our Changing World, producer William Ray gets up close with the two fossilised T. rex specimens on display at Auckland Museum, and finds out what their bones can tell us about the lives of these giant carnivores.

3:45 The Panel with Cindy Mitchener and Johnny O'Donnell