Easter Monday for Monday 10 April 2023

 

0808 Chief Ombudsman visits regions stricken by severe weather

Flood ravaged regions still adrift in the Cyclone Gabrielle recovery will get a visit from the Chief Ombudsman and his team this week. Judge Tony Boshier is linking with Iwi to gauge the welfare of communities affected and examine if the provision and distribution of support is sufficient.
 

0825 Discovery of book list that tells a girl's life

People love lists. And books.

People love lists and books and the central character of this story... is a list of books. 

Nearly seventeen hundred titles meticulously logged with a manual typewriter. A breadcrumb trail of interests spanning eighty years - a life shaped by reading. The list is an account of actively stretching the mind. A thirsty search for truth.....compiled by the reader.

Worried it would be discarded as garbage should she suddenly die,  the list is now in the hands of  her Grandson Ben Myers.... to whom she entrusted it just a couple of weeks ago.  Ben is just beginning to piece together his 94 year old Grandmother Nada's back story - by the list of books she's read.   
 

 

0850 Nadia Lim's Easter recipe

Nadia Lim shares the view outside her window and a recipe for cosy Easter gatherings: Thyme stuffed chicken, caramelised butternut and spinach with mushrooms. 

 

0905 Autumn Gardening with Tony Murrell and Fiona Eady 

Tony and Fiona tackle weeds, mulching, hedges and listener questions on autumn gardening.

 

0940 The royal pottery going at high speed for King's Coronation

The date is set for King Charles' coronation and the ceremony will take place on Saturday May 6th.

Behind the scenes workers across Britain have been beavering away to replace the royal monogram from Elizabeth II to Charles III.

Commemorative pieces are already on sale and in Stoke-on-Trent, the hub of England's ceramic industry, thousands of ceramic items are being produced each week to keep up with demand. Gary Fraser checks in from the production line at Duchess China 1888.  

 

1008 Is anyone wearing high heels?

High heels are fast disappearing from the high street and office, leaving some to question whether they still have a place in the modern work environment. Is anyone still wearing shoes a cobbler can fix?  And what does our choice of shoes tell us about how we're living our life now? We are joined by acclaimed shoe historian Elizabeth Semmelhack, senior curator of the world's largest collection of shoes at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto Canada.

 

1030 Search begins in Papua New Guinea for interstellar artefact of alien intelligence

A Professor of Science at Harvard University believes a meteorite that crashed through earth's atmosphere in 2014 landing somewhere between Manus Island and Papa New Guinea could be an alien object.

Avi Loeb was the head of the Galileo Project, founding director of Harvard University's - Black Hole Initiative, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University. 

And he's about to lead an expedition to Papa New Guinea to search for an interstellar object he believes it could be an artefact of alien intelligence.

 

1108 The growing call for fragrance-free spaces   

One in four Americans report chemical sensitivity, with nearly half of this number diagnosed as having Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, or MCS. For this group, everyday fragrances like bath bombs and scented candles are an assault on the senses; cloying, migraine-inducing scents, which are the start of other snowballing symptoms. Professor Rachel Lee joins us to explain the growing call for fragrance-free spaces in the US. 

 

1135  A trip on the Northern Explorer - New Zealand's great rail journey

 Patrick Rooney, a train enthusiast,  takes us on a trip around New Zealand's great rail journeys.