Afternoons for Monday 7 August 2023

 

1:15 Pack a puffer to visit pacific neighbours this year!

It's often a nice way to break up the cold wet months here in Aotearoa, a quick trip to our pacific island neighbours to sun ourselves and escape the rain.

But this year it's not necessarily going to be any warmer in the usually tropical nations to the north of us.

NIWA meteorologist Ben Noll talks to Jesse about why booking a pacific holiday this winter might not mean leaving your puffer jacket behind.

1.25 Director of Rock Hudson documentary talks about on capturing the star's life on film

There's still time to catch some great films at the New Zealand International Film Festival.

Rock Hudson was one of the biggest heart throbs of the 50's and 60's, from the 'Golden Age of Hollywood'.

Director Stephen Kijak who has worked with David Bowie, and made films about Scott Walker, The Rolling Stones, Backstreet Boys, amongst many more talks to Jesse about making the film about Hudson's life.

1.35 A landmark collection of the written natural history of Aotearoa in the 19th century

'Letters Of A Naturalist: The Field Accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island' is a beautiful new book featuring photos, letters and field notes from the late 1800s.

The notes are detailing very early trans-locations of birds when mustelids first started to sweep Aotearoa.

It's all come from the work of pioneer conservationist Richard Treacy Henry (1845-1929), champion of our flightless native birds and New Zealand’s first wildlife ranger.

Victoria Jaenecke is the co-author of this book, she speaks to Jesse.

1:45 Feature album

2:10 Television Critic: Caitlin Cherry

Today Caitlin talks to Jesse about Arnold on Netflix, Ted Lasso on Apple TV and The Last Word on Netflix.

2:20 Chuffed with my child chats

Each week we speak to listeners who have an incredible story to share about a young one in their life.

This week we speak to Rob Kirkwood about his daughter who's heading towards being a potential paralympic medalist in 2028!

Rob shares his proud parent moment about Milly who's his oldest child who was born with Marfan Syndrome.

You can support her journey to the Paralympics here.

2.30 Expert Feature: Pet Relocation

Moving to a new city or country is an exciting time for a family. But what's involved with moving the furry four legged members?

You can easily book the kids a plane ticket, but for our expert feature today we're looking into moving pets and what's involved.

Text me 2101 if you have a question for our expert.

Karen Duncan-Caley from Move My Pet is in our Christchurch studio to talk about how to move with your pet safely and within the law!

3:10 When technology takes over from nature

Nature no longer calls the shots with new advances in a  field where technology meets biology giving us new medicines, sustainable jet fuel, lab-grown meat and more. Synthetic Biology allows us to engineer living cells and it's attracting billions of dollars in investment, including a big player in the bio-fuels space here in New Zealand. Ted Anton is a Professor of English and an award winning science writer who introduces us to the humans behind this science-fiction like world.  His new book  tells the stories of people on the frontier of discovery and the policy makers trying to keep up with them. It's called Programmable Planet: The Synthetic Biology Revolution.

3:35 Voices

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra has been busy this winter and this episode of Voices, Kadambari Raghukumar chats to the principal timpanist about his journey into to what he does. 

3:45 The Panel with Jenni Moreton and Andrew Clay