Afternoons for Monday 12 August 2024

1:15 Patrick Gower on making his most important documentary...so far

Paddy Gower's latest doco Patrick Gower: On Ice premiers tonight on Three. 

For the two-part series, Paddy travelled to Antarctica to witness the consequences of climate change first-hand. 

He spoke to scientists about how Antarctica's ecosystems are impacted by global change and what humanity can do. 

Now he's travelled less distance, into our Auckland studio, to tell us all about his eye-opening expedition which he says was "life-changing". 

1.25 A year of stories

Pūrākau or storyelling is an integral part of Māori culture. It's that concept which has been at the centre of a year long project in Waikato. He Tauawhi ki te Koniahi offered digital storytelling waananga to marae and Te Ao Māori spaces across the region. Jesse talks to Sasha McClaren, one of the people behind the project.

1.35 Insects for pet food?

Creating low carbon sustainably produced protein to nourish animals and the planet. It sounds like an ambitious goal, but that's the aim of the new venture of Jessie Stanley. Her name is already known in the food world as one of the brains behind the gourmet pie business I Love Pies, and she's now launched Good Grub. 

1:45 Number 1 album: Back in Black, ACDC

Back in Black is the seventh studio album by AC/DC, released on 25 July 1980. It's one of the best-selling albums in music history, they reckon it's sold 50 million copies around the world. 

2:10 TV Critic: The Bear and Colin from Accounts 

Our TV critic for this week, Claire Chitham, reviews the latest season from The Bear and Colin from Accounts. She also takes a look at new black comedy, Sunny.

2:20 Made in NZ: Dead Eggs

Born out of the pandemic, Dead Eggs is the brainchild of James McMullen who makes 'dead eggs': soft plastic trout lures. And anglers the world over can't get enough.

2.30 Expert Feature: predator control 101

As we all know the Government has set a goal for Aotearoa to be predator free by 2050. One of the organisations doing the most work in this space is of course Predator Free NZ. Cam Speedy is a wildlife biologist and predator control specialist. He answers questions from Jesse and the listeners.

3:10 How the brains of quiz champions work 

Every pub trivia night has one, that person who seems to be able to pull facts out of thin air. Dr Monica Thieu is a four-time contestant on the popular US trivia game show Jeopardy. She first competed in high school, won a college tournament and earlier this year reached the quarter finals in an invitational tournament for the best of the best. Talking to contestants backstage, she wondered if there was something special happening in the brains of people who can remember that the unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.  So, she and her colleagues at Columbia University did a study to identify how memory works in the minds of trivia experts. Dr Thieu explains how trivia experts use two different types of memory and how we can all improve our memory. 

3:35 Here Now 

In the second episode of a 4 part series of conversations with black women in New Zealand on their careers, Kadambari Raghukumar chats with Trinidad-born Dr Camille Nakhid, about race and identity through her lens of a long career in education. 

3:45 The pre-Panel