Afternoons for Thursday 2 March 2023

1:15 Getting a better mortgage deal from the bank

There are ways to get a better home loan deal than advertised.

At least two banks are advertising mortgage rates at 6.5 and 6.84 per cent, but they are also offering 4.99 per cent one-year home loans in some instances.

Business journalist and editor of economic and political newsletter, The Kākā -  Bernard Hickey talks to Jesse about how to make this work to your advantage.

1:25 Ice Fernz back from World Championships

The Ice Fernz have just landed back in Aotearoa after the World Championships in Cape Town over the past couple weeks.

Our womens Ice Hockey team came away with the Bronze medal.

Dr Helen Murray is a full time neuro-scientist, but also part of the team who just represented us in South Africa.

1:35 Grandfather clock restoration profession

Restoring items from the past so they may live on takes great skill and dedication.

Martin Caughey was a restorer by trade and amongst his work, is a 17th century grandfather clock.

Martin talks to Jesse about this clock and the profession.

1:45 Great album: The Songs of Bacharach &Costello

Today's link 3 winner will get a vinyl copy of The Songs Of Bacharach & Costello, an album celebrating three decades of their writing partnership and collated by Elvis Costello himself.

2:10 Music Critic: Dianne Swann

Today Dianne talks to Jesse about new music from Jen Cloher being released tomorrow.

2:25 NZ Sporting History: Selwyn Maister on NZ's only hockey Olympic gold

For today's NZ Sporting History we go back to 1976 where the New Zealand Men's hockey team struck Olympic gold in Montreal.

They beat old foes Australia, by scoring the only goal of the match in the second half.

It's the first and only time the men's team has achieved such a feat.

On that team was Selywn Maister, he joins Jesse to talk about that golden day in NZ Sporting History.

3:10 Link 3

3:15 Your Money with Mary Holm

Today Mary talks about scams and why Kiwisaver default members are getting a bad deal.

3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness

In 2004 Jason deCaires Taylor started building the world's first underwater gallery.

He wanted to attract divers away from fragile coral reefs, so he submerged life-sized, human cement models in the Caribbean Sea.
Within a few days the art was covered in purple and blue sponges, orange fire coral and green algae... and was even home to a few octopuses.

Nineteen years later, Jason tells his memories of building the park.

3:45 The Panel with Ruwani Perera and David Farrer