Afternoons for Thursday 5 September 2024

Announcing Critter of the Week T Shirts 2024!

Preorders are now open! Head on over here to claim your sweet T! 

Forest and Bird's CEO, Nicola Toki, Joyya, and Jesse Mulligan team up to bring you Critter of the Week – an awe-inspiring tribute to the lesser-known native critters and plants of Aotearoa. Illustrated by the incredible Giselle Clarkson and guided by science consultant Mike Dickison, each item showcases New Zealand's unique biodiversity our local conservation experts are striving to protect. 

With $5 from every product going directly to Aotearoa-based conservation efforts, your purchase supports heroes on the ground protecting our natural treasures. Together we've raised over $31,686! Join us in celebrating the wild beauty of Aotearoa while giving back – now that's something to be proud of!

Crafted from premium organic cotton, ethically manufactured by our World Fair Trade Organisation certified production facility in India – showcasing Joyya's commitment to sparking good in places of extreme poverty and modern slavery.

1:15 Recycling vs downcycling

Earlier this week, Jesse spoke to an organisation called Tyrewise about a new tyre recycling scheme that began operating this month. Well, following that interview we heard from several people who still had lingering questions:  does the process itself produce pollution? Can this be classed as "recycling" at all if the tyres are not re-used for the same purpose? 

For some clarity around these issues Mark Leishman talks to Sue Coutts, external affairs for Zero Waste Network Aotearoa.

1:25 A reading quest like no other

Book lover and Illustrator Tanya Wolfkamp has embarked on a literary quest: to read every novel by every great author born before 1904. Where is she in the quest and how far does she have to go?  

1:35 How to milk a lentil

A Palmerston North startup company has taken Dairy free products a step further, making a cream out of Lentils, it looks and tastes like the real thing and has no allergens. Andfoods is the company with the cream, and also finalists in this year's KiwiNet Awards.

1:45 Great album: Manning Fireworks by MJ Lenderman 

This is a new album from the North Carolina-based singer/songwriter who played a few shows in New Zealand earlier this year. Rolling Stone called the album a 'sad-guy indie rock gem' and praised his storytelling.

2:10 Music Critic: Hanisi Garue and Phoebe Rings

Sarah Thomson reviews Niueans of Ariki Street (Liogi He Iki 03) by Hanisi Garue and Daisy by Phoebe Rings. 

2:30 NZ Sporting History: Bruce Trotter

It's been 50 years since the first windsurfing board was imported onto our shores. The crazy new sport which combined surfing and sailing proved popular with Kiwis and brought the country Olympic glory in the 90s. Grandmaster windsurfing world champion Bruce Trotter has written a book about the sport's history 'Footstraps of Giants' 

3:15 Your Money with Mary Holm 

Have your rates gone sky high? The Mistress of Money Mary Holm says it might be time for a rates postponement.

3:35 BBC Witness History

The 3,000-year-old mummy of Ramesses II, an Egyptian pharaoh, was found to have a fungal infection. So in 1976, it was flown to Paris for a once-in-a-deathtime makeover.

3:45 The pre-Panel