Afternoons for Tuesday 4 April 2023
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The Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books launched
1:15 PM.A new platform has just been launched for in-depth discussions of books to foster emerging book reviewers from the South Pacific. It's called The Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books. Read more Audio
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Public can 'buy' their own gondola on the Skyline Queenstown
1:25 PM.The Skyline gondola in Queenstown has been carrying people up and down from Bob's peak for 36 years. But the upgrade and replacement is just around the corner, starting just after the Easter school… Read more Audio
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NZ teen heading the World Championships of Performing Arts
1:35 PM.The over 70 countries are gearing up to compete at the 26th World Championships of Performing Arts in LA this year. It's often been cited as the Official "Talent Olympics" and is broadcast on TV in… Read more Audio
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Tech Tuesday with Daniel Watson
1:45 PM.Today owner and managing director of Vertech IT services, Dan Watson talks to Jesse about autoruns and how to get control of what starts when you power up windows! Audio
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Kids' reads that have stood the test of time
2:10 PM.Librarian Catherine Ross chooses a stack of classic reads for 10-14 year olds that have stood the test of time. Read more Audio
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Music feature: The musical genius of Mariah Carey
2:20 PM.For todays music feature, an undeniably great voice with a career spanning four decades. Mariah Carey has sold 220 million albums, won five Grammy awards and has an incredible five-octave vocal… Read more Audio
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Is TikTok collected data protected?
3:10 PM.New Zealand is on a growing list of countries around the world banning TikTok on government cellphones over concerns the Chinese company that owns the social media platform might use data from users… Read more Audio
1:15 The Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books launched
A new platform has just been launched for in-depth discussions of books to foster emerging book reviewers from the South Pacific.
It's called The Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
We have a book critic on every Tuesday, shout out to Catherine Ross joining us just after 2pm today - but places where people might traditionally go for book reviews like newspapers, are making less and less room for book reviews.
The editor of the Aotearoa New Zealand Book review is Paula Morris, of Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Manuhiri, Ngāti Whātua. She's also an author and associate professor at the University of Auckland, and joins me now.
Photo: Paula Morris
1:25 Public can 'buy' their own gondola on the Skyline Queenstown
The Skyline gondola in Queenstown has been carrying people up and down from Bob's peak for 36 years.
But the upgrade and replacement is just around the corner, starting just after the Easter school holidays.
The public have an opportunity to buy a piece of Queenstown history in the form of a gondola.
Marketing manager at Skyline Queenstown Will Appleman talks to Jesse about their plan.
The upgrade will include a new terminal building at the base of the gondola. Photo: Skyline Enterprises
1:35 NZ teen heading the World Championships of Performing Arts
The over 70 countries are gearing up to compete at the 26th World Championships of Performing Arts in LA this year.
It's often been cited as the Official "Talent Olympics" and is broadcast on TV in the US.
Photo: Sean Lurman
1:45 Tech Tuesday with Daniel Watson
Today owner and managing director of Vertech IT services, Dan Watson talks to Jesse about autoruns and how to get control of what starts when you power up windows!
2:10 Book Critic: Catherine Ross
Today Catherine Ross talks about books for children and young adults with the theme, 'Classics".
The books are listed below.
For Ages: 10-12 Years, The Dark is Rising (Fantasy) By Susan Cooper, The Silver Sword (Historical Fiction) By Ian Serraillier and Tom's Midnight Garden (Time Travel) By Philippa Pearce
For Ages 12-14 Years The Wizard of Earthsea (The original boy wizard heading off to wizarding school!) By Ursula K. Le Guin, My Family and Other Animals (Based on the author's life) By Gerald Durrell.
Photo: Supplied
2:20 Music feature: The musical genius of Mariah Carey
For todays music feature, an undeniably great voice with a career spanning four decades.
Mariah Carey has sold 220 million albums, won five Grammy awards and has an incredible five-octave vocal register.
Her legacy and talent is undeniable.
It's been 30 years since Mariah Carey's Music Box album, which went on to became one of the best-selling albums of all time, and cemented her place in pop superstardom.
Writer and Mariah superfan Ellen Falconer joins Jesse to talk through the music and uber talent of this songstress.
Mariah Carey Photo: Wikimedia Commons
3:10 Is TikTok collected data protected?
New Zealand is on a growing list of countries around the world banning TikTok on government cellphones over concerns the Chinese company that owns the social media platform might use data from users inappropriately. For tech reporter Emily Baker-White, the concern is real. ByteDance, the Chinese owners of TikToc, DID use her data while investigating their own employees accused of leaking to the press. Baker-White is now a senior reporter at Forbes magazine and writes about privacy and security concerns with TikTok and what the Chinese owners say they'll do to protect the data of more than 13 billion people around the world.
Photo: 123RF
3:30 Spoken Feature: Conversations with My Immigrant Parents, EP 1 Series 3
Over the next few weeks on Afternoons we will feature excerpts from Series 3 of podcast and docu-series Conversations With My Immigrant Parents.
It's a podcast series of different generations of immigrant families sitting down to share intimate stories.
Today on episode one we meet Adel Salmanzadeh who escaped religious persecution in Iran as a teenager. He talks with his wife Maxine and daughter Carmel about language, whakapapa, plane rides, and the privilege of putting art first.
Adel Salmanzadeh with his daughter Photo: Supplied
3:45 The Panel with Boopsie Maran and Andrew Hoggard
