Nine To Noon for Friday 6 May 2022
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Have passport, will travel: young Kiwis head on their OE
9:05 AM.Growing numbers of young New Zealanders are heading overseas as the borders open. But will a pandemic OE be slightly different? Read more Audio
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Decades of delivering the Waikato Times
9:30 AM.Night owl Carol Dix loves driving 1800 kilometres a week delivering The Waikato Times. It's a seven day a week job, and Carol says she can't remember the last time she had more than four days off in a… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Pacific correspondent Susana Lei'ataua
9:45 AM.Samoa and Niue are setting dates to open their borders for the first time since March 2020, as studies are assessing the impacts of COVID on the region's health systems. Audio
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Can't Save Them All - Rebecca Nesbit
10:05 AM.Should conservationists try to save all threatened species, or do there have to be sacrifices? In a new book Tickets For The Ark : From Wasps to Whales - How Do We Choose What to Save? Rebecca Nesbit… Read more Audio
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Book review: Joan is Okay by Weike Wang
10:35 AM.Martene McCaffrey of Unity Books Auckland reviews Joan is Okay by Weike Wang, published by Text Publishing. Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
11:05 AM.Produced by Velvet Underground's John Cale and subsequently disowned by lead singer Jonathan Richman, Grant says the Modern Lovers' 1976 debut album remains one of the all-time greats. We'll hear two… Read more Audio
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Sports commentator Sam Ackerman
11:05 AM.Sam looks at the importance of unpredictability in Super Rugby, the message behind the Black Ferns selections, examines the Black Caps squad for England and how Lydia Ko's "time of the month"… Read more Audio
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The week that was
11:45 AM.Comedians Te Radar & Pinky Agnew with an interesting legal amendment covering Canadian astronauts in space. Audio
09:05 Have passport, will travel: young kiwis head on their OE
Photo: supplied
Growing numbers of young New Zealanders are heading overseas as the borders open. One trans-Tasman company helping young people book working holidays in the UK and Canada says almost as many kiwis are packing their bags as are Australians. The Working Holiday Club Chief Executive Natalie Broomfield says enquiries and bookings are well up on pre-covid levels, with most intending to travel early next year. She says the number of kiwi travellers booked or intending to travel is almost superseding the number of Australians, and they're older - now generally between 23 and 28 years old, compared with 18 - 23 before the pandemic. Ms Broomfield says some UK employers are paying for flights, visas and even accommodation. She speaks with Kathryn along with managing director for Flight Centre NZ, David Coombes.
09:30 Decades of delivering the Waikato Times
Night owl Carol Dix loves driving 1800 kilometres a week delivering The Waikato Times. It's a seven day a week job, and Carol says she can't remember the last time she had more than four days off in a row. The paper is currently celebrating 150 years in print. Carol talks to Kathryn about the nocturnal nature of the job and what she encounters on the roads.
09:45 Pacific correspondent Susana Lei'ataua
Samoa and Niue are setting dates to open their borders for the first time since March 2020, as studies are assessing the impacts of COVID on the region's health systems.
Photo: RNZ Pacific/Autagavaia Tipi Autagavaia
Susana Lei'ataua is RNZ Pacific's news editor
10:05 Can't Save Them All
Photo: supplied
Should conservationists try to save all threatened species, or do there have to be sacrifices? In a new book Tickets For The Ark : From Wasps to Whales - How Do We Choose What to Save? Rebecca Nesbit explores the moral complexities of conservation, asking what should we conserve, and why. And in an age where extinction rates are at the highest since the dinosaurs bit the dust 65 million years ago there are plenty of decisions to be made. Ecologist and author Rebecca Nesbit writes on science and asks ethical questions related to conservation, speaking here to Kathryn about when conservation is ineffective, and sometimes harmful to animals and people.
10:35 Book review: Joan is Okay by Weike Wang
Photo: Text Publishing
Martene McCaffrey of Unity Books Auckland reviews Joan is Okay by Weike Wang, published by Text Publishing
10:45 The Reading
11:05 Music reviewer Grant Smithies
Photo: album covers
Produced by Velvet Underground’s John Cale and subsequently disowned by lead singer Jonathan Richman, Grant says the Modern Lovers’ 1976 debut album remains one of the all-time greats. We’ll hear two tracks from that today, alongside tracks from Paekakariki duo The New Things and New York jazz/ funk trumpeter Tom Browne
11:30 Sports commentator Sam Ackerman
Sam looks at the importance of unpredictability in Super Rugby, the message behind the Black Ferns selections, examines the Black Caps squad for England and how Lydia Ko’s “time of the month” interview is a game changer.
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11:45 The week that was
Comedians Te Radar & Pinky Agnew with an interesting legal amendment covering Canadian astronauts in space.
Photo: NASA / Public domain
Music played in this show
Track: Caroline
Artist: Arlo Parks
Time Played: 9:30
