Afternoons for Thursday 6 July 2023

1:15 Making sure Pacific Culture is included for a better school start

Incorporating Pacific culture into Early Childhood Centres will help Pacific children have a better start at school - new research shows.

Resources have been created to use at home and school to help bridge the gap between traditional teaching methods and Pacific culture.

Researchers are trying to target the reasons behind lower engagement and under achievement of pacific children in school.

Lead researcher of the study Ruta McKenzie talks to Jesse.

1:25 Listener on a rare book hunt - an intriguing tale

On Monday we talked about a rare copy of Shakespeare's First Folio at Auckland Central Library.

Brian Walters sent us a text, he's been trying to find a rare book himself.

It's called, A Trader in Cannibal Land: The Life and Adventures of Captain Tapsell.

Brian talks to Jesse about the trouble he's had getting his hands on a copy.

1:35 Albatross fledglings keeping DOC staff on the Chathams busy

It's been an unusually busy season for juvenile albatross crash landings on the Chatham Islands.

At this time of year Albatross leave the Chatham Islands for South America. For young fledgling albatross, it's the first times they'll make this trip

Their first challenge is to actually get off the land.

Gemma Green, is a biodiversity officer for DOC on the Chatham Islands, she shares some stories from the busy season.

1:45 Link 3 album: U2 18 Singles

Today's link 3 winner will get a vinyl copy of U2's 18 Singles - a greatest hits album released in 2006. It's got 16 of their most successful and popular singles along with two new songs!

2:10 Music Critic: Dianne Swann

Today Dianne shares two previously unreleased songs from an album she was part of in the 90s. The music's now available on streaming services being met with great enthusiasm.

She talks to Jesse about two tracks from the 'lost album' called Mess Up Your Life by the band when it was called Boom Boom Mancini.

2:25 NZ Sporting History: Blacks Sticks 2018 Commonwealth Games gold medal

In the 2010s New Zealand's women's hockey team was consistently among the best in the world, however, the Black Sticks Women had not yet won a major tournament, until the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Usually when a team wins gold often the attention goes to the final game, but when the Black Sticks won in 2018  it was the infamous shootout victory in the semi-final that marked the biggest moment of the campaign.

Grace O'Hanlon, the Black Sticks goalkeeper, who saved FOUR of five of England's attempts on goal that day. She relives that day with Jesse.

3:10 Link 3

3:15 Your Money with Mary Holm

Today Mary talks to Jesse about important information in your annual KiwiSaver statement and how to improve it next time.

3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness

On 5 July 1948, the UK's National Health Service began as part of a series of reforms with the aim of supporting and protecting Britain's citizens from the "cradle to the grave". The architect of the NHS was the health minister in the post-war Labour party government. Care was to be free for all and paid for by taxation. The birth of the NHS was not without controversy, the British Medical Association worried that doctors would be turned into civil servants. On the same day that the NHS was born, John Marks qualified as a doctor. Dr Marks spoke to Louise Hidalgo about the early days of the NHS.

3:45 The Panel with Sue Kedgley and Nick Leggett