Afternoons for Monday 3 March 2025

1:15 Girls 'n Gasoline

While an increasing number of women are getting into the motor industry, it's fair to say that car mechanics has traditionally been a male dominated field.

Now a Christchurch based mechanic is trying to change that.

She is holding workshops across the country to empower women around cars and teach the basics of maintaining and fixing a car.

Girls 'n' Gasoline is the brainchild of Melissa Hannan who joins Jesse

1.25 Diary of a head injury

The award winning documentary - Diary of a Head Injury - launches next week as part of Brain Injury Awareness month. It tells the story of Nick Worthington in his own words.

An an advertising creative and copywriter, Nick's turn of phrase took him to the top. His words were his tools until a terrible accident left him struggling to make sense of them. 

If you need advice and support after receiving a head injury, Headway offer free services. 

1.35 Lydia White: Helping the blind to run

Thousands of people took to the streets yesterday for the annual Auckland Round the Bays run.

The iconic event weaves its way 8 kilometres around the city's waterfront and is set to held in Christchurch for the first time at the end of this month.

Among the runners yesterday was James Carrick who was able to do the run thanks to Lydia White, who is a guide for blind and low vision runners.

1:45 Paul Simon: Still Crazy After All These Years

Jesse plays some tracks from Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years"

2:10 Television Critic: Country Calendar & Apple Cider Vinegar

Linda Burgess joins Jesse to review Country Calendar, Apple Cider Vinegar & Miriam Margoyles in New Zealand.

2:20 Info Centre Cold Call: Ohakune

Jesse cold calls the Ohakune iSite. Who knows what will happen...

2.30 Expert Feature: interior design

If you've just moved house this expert feature is for you.Jesse is joined by award winning interior designer - and design teacher - Sylvia Sandford...

We're going to talk colour, lighting, furniture, making a small space feel larger... And whatever else you want.

Let Jesse know if you have any questions for Sylvia, text 2101.

3:10 Feature interview: designing a world we want to live in

The future isn't something that just happens. The future is something we create with big and small decisions every day says Dr. Frederik Pferdt. He's Google's first Chief Innovation Evangelist and founder of the famed Google Innovation lab.

Dr. Pferdt  says there is a way to design not just technology, but to design and shape the future we want to live in.  He shows how to foster innovation, creativity, and adaptability in an increasingly uncertain world in his book, What's Next Is Now: How To Live Future Ready.

3:35 Here Now

This week on Here Now, conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is causing despair in the diaspora community here in New Zealand.

3:45 The pre-Panel

Wallace Chapman and producer Olivia Wilson are in the studio with Jesse to preview tonight's installment of The Panel.