Lately for Thursday 4 March 2021

10.17 Arrests following online threat to the Linwood Islamic Centre and Al Noor Mosque

Police have charged a 27 year old male in Christchurch with threatening to kill after online threats were made to Linwood Islamic Centre and Al Noor Mosque. Karyn will speak with RNZ News reporter, Anan Zaki, who is attending the Police media conference tonight.

10:20 Waiting for Covid lockdown levels to lift 

It's four days straight with no Covid-19 community cases reported and the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine continues to be rolled out to frontline workers at New Zealand's border. Karyn invites questions from listeners for epidemiologist Michael Baker as well as some of her own: what more are we learning about the Covid-19 variants, and do we have to use the word 'jab'?

10:30 Covid-19 blamed for backlog of drivers wait to sit tests

Gisborne residents are concerned they have had to wait months to get a driving test - sometimes up to a year. Covid restrictions have caused a backlog of more than 40-thousand licence tests around the country, but some areas are feeling it more than others. Karyn speaks with Tracey Shepherd from REAP Aotearoa supporting rural and provincial communities to learn.

10:45 The Rest Is History: Colin Hogg on A Good Keen Man - Barry Crump

It's a shade over 60 years since Barry Crump published his first book, A Good Keen Man. He was the man behind the wheel of the Toyota Hilux tv ads with actor Lloyd Scott in the 1980's, an author, a hunter, drinker, and a story-teller. Barry Crump could tell a good yarn - and so can Colin Hogg who's something of an expert on Barry Crump - he wrote A Life In Loose Strides which came out four years after Crump died in and he won the 1999 Television Award for scriptwriting for his work on Crump, a feature-length documentary.