Afternoons for Tuesday 4 June 2024

 

1:15 Celebrating the success of chef Kia Kanuta

Kia Kanuta began his culinary career as many do, as a dishwasher.

20 years later he's been named Auckland's Most Outstanding Chef at the 2024 Lewisham Awards.

We speak to Kia about his start at the sink of the kitchen to being recognised for his work as chef at Ada Restaurant.

1:25 47 years of monitoring central New Zealand's black swan population

This past weekend, at the New Zealand Bird Conference in Nelson, Lawson Davey presented a talk about the central New Zealand black swan population.

Lawson is a fish and game officer at Fish and Game New Zealand.

1:35 Mental health service users suited to delivering those services

A new study at the University of Canterbury is looking at how those who have been through our mental health system could contribute to the support of others.

The research team interviewed 29 people, including 18 with lived experience of mental health services and eight who are working in mental healthcare.

They found people with this kind of lived experience are more likely to be able to connect with patients in an empathetic way, leading to better outcomes.

Associate professor of Māori health and wellbeing Dr Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll is an associate investigator on the study, she speaks to Jesse.

1:45 Tech Tuesday with Dan Watson

Today Dan talks to Jesse about icognito mode and what it does to shield people in terms of privacy. He also covers temporary email addresses and virtual credit card services.

2:10 Book Critic: Catherine Ross

Today Catherine talks to Jesse about YA books with the theme historical fiction.

The books she's covering are:

For ages 10+

King of Shadows by Susan Cooper

For ages 11+

One Shot by Tanya Landman

For ages 13+

Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgewick

All the Broke Places by John Boyne

The Imaginary Lies of James Pōneke

For ages 14+

Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

2:20 Update on Oz with Brad Foster

Brad Foster provides an update on the court case on now of the man charged with the alleged murder of nine-year-old Charlise Mutton in the Blue Mountains in 2022. He also brings us up to speed on the announcement of the Cold Chisel 50th anniversary tour, an increase to the minimum wage for 2.6 million people, and news on the big cost to taxpayers to introduce a rugby league team from Papua New Guinea into the national competition.

2:30 Music feature: Concert films throughout the ages

For decades if you couldn't make the gig, the next best thing was watching the DVD or movie of the show at the cinema. It was definitely a less sweaty option. Mostly.

Even in the era of streaming video and social media, the concert film can still pull in the eye balls and ear flaps.    

This is the focus today of our regular Tuesday music feature. Joining us with his picks of some favourite concert films, classic and modern, is one of the team here at RNZ, Elliott Childs.

3:10 A life long infatuation with ABBA channeled into Giles Smith's book

Music writer Giles Smith was a 12 year old boy staying up past his bedtime  50 years ago  to watch ABBA slay Eurovision with Waterloo.

That night would kick off a lifelong infatuation with the Swedish pop titans, even though, he says, in the 70's it was uncool for teenagers to love them. 

His new book seeks to understand the nature of hit songs through the ones they produced with great consistency and the global longevity of a band that hasn't performed together in 42 years.

His book is called  My My! ABBA Through the Ages.

3:30 Spoken Feature: Thrift

How to save 15 hundred bucks a year.  

Katy Gosset meets an anti-food-waste campaigner and finds out how Kiwi households can stop chucking good food in the landfill.  

3:45 The pre-Panel