Afternoons for Monday 27 March 2023

 

1:15 Visiting Smithsonian curator public talks

Paul Chaat Smith is an author, essayist, and the associate curator of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

His work focusses on the contemporary landscape of American Indian politics and culture.

His book 'Like a Hurricane: the Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee' is now a standard text in Native studies and American history courses.

Paul is in Aotearoa to host a series of talks and Q&A sessions at various galleries.

He'll be speaking at City Gallery Te Whare Toi from 3pm this afternoon, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū on Wednesday, and the Browne School of Art in Auckland on Thursday.

1.25 Wellington musicians gathering to raise more funds for cyclone hit east coast

Musicians are coming together in Te Whanganui a Tara this Sunday to raise money for the ongoing relief effort from Cyclone Gabrielle.

Everyone involved - both musicians and crew - is donating their time and costs, and it's being held at San Fran.

It's being organised by Nikita Tu-Bryant, she talks to Susie.

1.35 Pick a path app launched in Wellington City

Many of you will remember pick-a-path books from your childhood, well soon Wellingtonians will have the chance to play the game for real.

'Call/Waiting' is an interactive app-based experience that will take users on a real-life pick-a-path adventure around Wellington City.

At the moment it's scheduled to launch March 31st and April 1st, but there's room for that to extend further into April.

O+P Works is the creative company driving the experience, and one of it's co-founders Olivia Mahood talks to Susie.

1:45 Feature album: Holy Smoke

Today's feature album is Gin Wigmore's debut album released in 2009 which went straight to number one in Aotearoa and to become four times platinum. We play tracks from Holy Smoke.

2:10 Television Critic: Caitlin Cherry

Today Caitlin talks about the series Outlast on Netflix and Reservation Dogs Season 2 on Disney.

2:20  Australian Correspondent Brad Foster 

Brad Foster provides a rundown on the NSW State Election result, why Queenslanders are being told to shut their doors, and gives a preview to the F1 in Melbourne starting this Thursday.

2:30 Expert feature: Eyes!

When should you seriously suggest to your partner to get their eyes checked, not just as a joke when they miss a patch mowing the lawns?

For today's expert feature we're all about eyes and vision.

If you have a question about eyes, eyesight, glasses, eye conditions... text Susie on 2101

Vice President of New Zealand Association of Optometrists Hadyn Treanor is with Susie to answer all  the questions about eyes and looking after them 

3:10 Would be first home buyers - some good news!

The best time to buy a house is yesterday.  So the saying goes. Buying a house is more complicated than that of course, but it begins with a simple question, WHY?  Why do you want to enter New Zealand's often volatile housing market? Susan Edmunds is former property reporter and now business editor at Stuff. She breaks the myths about home ownership and lays out the questions buyers need to ask themselves first in her new book , From Renter to Owner: Practical, innovative ways to buy your own home today.

3:35 Voices

On Voices, Kadambari Raghukumar meets with Nowroz Ali from Afghanistan who first featured on the Voices podcast while he was waiting in limbo in Kabul, for an evacuation flight. 

3:45 The Panel with Cas Carter and Martin Bosley