Afternoons for Tuesday 23 May 2023

 

1:15 COVID MIT Te Pukenga nurse graduates, giving back to her community

At 11:59pm on February 14 2021, Auckland moved to alert level 3 after a student at Manukau Institute of Technology tested positive for COVID 19

Micah Sili was the student president at the time, and fronted a lot of media, becoming the voice for students and also South Auckland during this time

Micah is now graduating MIT Te Pukenga, with a Bachelor of Nursing, focusing on giving back to the community.

1:25 Celebrity crustaceans on show at Te Papa

Crustaceans have developed over many millennia to have some pretty exceptional abilities - some have exceptional eye sight, change their shape, and even circle the globe.

There's a new exhibition on at Te Papa this week, Mawhiti Tino Rawe - Clever Crustaceans, where you can go an interact with five "celeb crustaceans".

NIWA scientist Dr Kareen Schnabel talks to Jesse.

1:35 Mysterious photographer's portrait of Allan Adams up for auction

A mysterious, potentially very well known photographer, has gifted an image of Allan Adams in Port Chalmers, to a gallery to auction.

His wish is that all the proceeds go to Allan, who has currently no home and relies on begging for money to get by.

Allan talks to Jesse about the photo being taken and the strange sequence of events that followed. The gallery which now is running the auction, Pea Sea Art Gallery in Port Chalmers. Owner Robert Scott talks to Jesse about who the photographer could possibly be!

You can bid on the image here.

1:45 Relationships with Hannah Korrel

 

2:10 Book Critic: Catherine Roberston

Today Catherine talks to Jesse about Shy by Max Porter, poetry books Calamities by Jane Arthur andThis is a story about your mother by Louise Wallace. Her final book is a memoir called Laughing in the Dark by Barbara Else.

2:20 Music feature: NZ Music documentaries

Today's music feature is celebrating New Zealand Music Month.

Multi-award winning director, producer and documentary maker, Dan Salmon has written a piece for Audioculture about the vast collection of NZ music doco's that are available to watch via the NZ On Screen website.

We have Dan with us in the Auckland studio to talk about some of his favourites, plus play a few songs from the artists.

3:10 War correspondent on the unforgettable survivors of conflict

Martin Fletcher spent five decades covering war, revolution and natural disasters all over the world, most as the Middle East Correspondent and Tel Aviv Bureau Chief for NBC News. The network sent him to Kosovo, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Rwanda. In the sweeping stories about  famine, apartheid, terrorism and genocide, he says there are the tiny ones about people who may have been defeated, scared and  alone, but never gave up. They are the ones who left a mark on his soul. They are the ones whose stories he tells in his new book, Teachers: The Ones I Can't Forget.

3:30 Spoken Feature: BBC Witness

In 1989, Australian dog breeder Wally Conron was tasked with finding a suitable dog for a blind woman in Hawaii whose husband was allergic to pet hair.

By breeding together a poodle and a Labrador, he inadvertently created the world’s first ever labradoodle.

More than three decades on, Wally believes he created Frankenstein’s monster and he's been sharing his memories of Sultan the labradoodle

3:45 The Panel with Julia Hartley-Moore and David Cormack