Afternoons for Monday 25 November 2024

1:15 The National Pub quiz champion

The National Pub quiz championship was held on Saturday. The event - which crows the nation's best team - saw 560 participants go head-to-head. They battled it out over Sports, Science, TV, Geography, and of course beers.

This year the trophy was taken home by "Eddie's Back, Don't Call"

Team captain Kelvin Lange joins Jesse to talk about the win.

1.25 New Zealand gets its own 'kiwi tweed'

New Zealand fashion legend Liz Mitchell has teamed up with Wanaka fashion brand 'Precious Collaborative' to create a limited edition woollen coat.

The coat is made of a "kiwi version" of tweed hand-spun on 100-year-old Hattersley looms by boutique weaving company McLean & Co in Oamaru

The coat will be sold at auction with the proceeds going toward funding a collection of wool and hemp streetwear

Jesse talks to Sue McLean of McLean and Co.

1.35 Unmasking the Monsters

It's the type of crime that many of us don't want to read or speak about - the content is often too disturbing to comprehend. But the sharing of child sex abuse material has skyrocketed both internationally and here in New Zealand

NZME Journalist Jared Savage was given unprecedented access to NZ Customs' Child Exploitation Operations Team, an investigative unit working tirelessly to rescue children from exploitation 

"Unmasking the Monsters," is a must-watch for every parent and screens tonight at 7.30 on TVNZ 

Chief Customs Officer Simon Peterson and NZME Journalist Jared Savage joins Jesse to talk about the documentary and their work. 

2:10 Television Critic: Interior Chinatown

Pratik Navani reviews a new limited series that explores the story of an Asian-American actor struggling against clichéd roles and stereotypes, both at work and in his personal life. 

2:20 Information center cold call: Tirau

Every week Jesse calls an iSite somewhere in the country purely at random and chaos (or just a nice chat ensues). 

This week he tries giving Tirau a bell.

2.30 Expert Feature: the swimming pool 

It's the time of year when a lot of us are thinking about summer and pool owners are looking at whipping their pools into shape, so the kids - and neighbours - can enjoy them.

So how do you turn a green pool into something inviting and sparkling?

Jesse talks to pool cleaning and maintenance expert Ally Boggs from Pool Water Specialists. Ally will also take your questions, please text 2101 or email jesse@rnz.co.nz
 

3:10 Feature interview: why movies flop

Failure can be fascinating and when Hollywood produces a box office flop, it can often happen in spectacular fashion. Tim Robey is a film critic for the Daily Telegraph and tells the stories of 26 film flops who he says often come from out-of-control white male genius who were often given budgets to match their egos. He offers the lessons flops like Rex Harrison's Dr Dolittle and the star studded musical Cats in his new book,  Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops.

3:35 Here Now

This week on Here Now, Dunedin based Karthic S talks to Christine Keller about her period care initiative centered around find more sustainable alternatives.

3:45 The pre-Panel

Join Wallace Chapman and his producer Sam Hollis as they fill in Jesse, and you, about tonight's Panel.