Afternoons for Thursday 11 May 2023

1:15 Kiwi horror writers featuring at Featherston Book festival

The popular Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival is back this weekend.

Booktown is an international movement where small, generally rural towns celebrate books and booksellers with a full programme of events.

One of this weekend's events is called 'Campfire Tales', an event that show cases Kiwi horror writers.

One of the producers of that event Denver Grenell, he talks to Jesse.

1:25 Reviewing all the fish and chip shops in Ōtautahi - Christchurch, one man's quest!

Ōtautahi - Christchurch has an abundance of the class New Zealand fish and chip shops.

Now one man has decided to take matters into his own stomach and review each and every single one of them across the city.

Alby Wilson has started his own youtube channel, 1Fish1Scoop, to give the low down on the local chippy in most neighbourhoods.

He talks to Jesse about his out of 7 scale of rating the food and why he's embarked on this greasy crusade!

1:35 Creating a composting machine - a tale of invention

About four-and-a-half years ago Ben Bushell launched Community Compost, a social enterprise in Nelson aiming to tackle the problem of food waste going into landfill.

Before long they were getting too much food waste to handle, so Ben set about inventing a machine that would automate large-scale composting.

His journey is the subject of the new 45-minute documentary 'Ben & bEartha', produced independently by Happen Films.

The star of the film and founder of Community Compost Nelson Ben Bushell talks to Jesse.

1:45 Great album: Wait Til I Get Over by Durand Jones

Today's link 3 winner will receive a vinyl copy of Wait Til I Get Over by Durand Jones. It's his debut solo LP that's been ten years in the making. It's a collection of the personal and cultural through past, present and future. Infusing Southern sentiment into rock, folk, gospel and R&B genes.

2:10 Music Critic: Colin Morris

Today Colin talks to Jesse about music from Taj Mahal and talks about a hidden gem on Joe Brown's album Concert for George.

2:25 NZ Sporting History: Sarah Walker

For our NZ sporting history moment - we're taking you back more than ten years to a dirt track at the 2012 London Olympics - and a trailblazing young kiwi biker from Kawerau.

Sarah Walker won silver, becoming New Zealand's first ever Olympic medallist in BMX racing.

She's also a three time world champion. She talks to Jesse about her incredible career in BMX racing.

3:10 Link 3

3:15 Your Money with Mary Holm

This week Mary Holm talks to Jesse about 'laddering' a clever way with term deposits and even mortgages. She explains exactly what it is and how it can give longer term returns on deposits; frequent access to some of your money; some protection from back luck and timing.

3:35 Spoken Feature: Nau Mai Town Timaru

We may all know the South Canterbury town as 'Timaru', but did you know that there's two other versions of this name?

Justine Murray is back with an episode of Nau Mai Town and joins Justin Tipa, the Chair of Runanga o Moeraki.

Justin has researched the local history and sifted through old manuscripts that points to the original name 'Te Maru'.

3:45 The Panel with Heather Roy and Anton Matthews