Saturday Morning for Saturday 9 September 2023

 

8:10 Rugby World Cup: All Blacks v France at half time

Arguably an unmatched Rugby World Cup opener, the All Blacks are taking on arch-rivals and hosts France, at the Stade de France in Paris.  

RNZ sports correspondent Nathan Rarere checks in at half time.

8:20 Bernie Taupin: Elton, music and me

Elton John's musical other half, the famously private man behind many millions of record sales and countless hits, lyricist Bernie Taupin opens up about his life in a new memoir.

In Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me Taupin charts his childhood in provincial Lincolnshire, his fascination with country music and cowboy culture, the heady star-studded LA of the 1970s and '80s to encounters with John Lennon, Bob Marley, Frank Sinatra and Graham Greene.

9:05 Richard Ford: closing the book on Frank Bascombe  

Novelist and short story writer Richard Ford won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel Independence Day.  As well as other novels and short stories, he has now, with the latest, Be Mine, written five Bascombe books.

His latest is the final outing for Frank Bascombe. In Be Mine Frank is now caregiver to his son Paul who has been diagnosed with fatal motor neuron disease ALS.

 

9:45 Reporting Rugby: Gavin Mairs - All Blacks vs France at full time

The Telegraph's award-winning Chief Rugby Union Correspondent Gavin Mairs has nine World Cups under his belt, covering every Rugby World Cup since 1999.

We'll talk to him about the result, how France responded to the Haka, and calls for teams caught spying on training sessions to be punished.

 

10:00 Scam baiter Jim Browning 

New Zealanders are losing millions of dollars each year to scammers impersonating banks, tech support, and government departments.

The exact cost is not known, as embarrassed victims often don't report their losses.

Like most people, Northern Irish software engineer Jim Browning hates scammers, but unlike the rest of us he welcomes their approach.

He's a scam baiter, an internet vigilante who turns the tables by playing a naive victim while simultaneously hacking into their computers.

His youtube channel exposes scams, explains how they work, and has even led to some scammers being arrested.

 

10:40 Dr Laura Domigan: from cells in the lab to steaks on a plate

Kiwi protein biochemist and tissue engineer Dr Laura Domigan is an international leader in the emerging industry of cultivated meat.

Her work tackles some of the planet's major social and environmental challenges, such as greenhouse gas emissions, ethical food choices, animal welfare and food security. 

She's the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Opo Bio, New Zealand's first company to grown cells for the cultivated meat industry worldwide. 

Dr Domigan is a finalist in the Entrepreneur category of this year's KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards.

 

11:00 The first social media babies have grown up, and they're angry

Earlier this week Ruby Franke, who shared parenting advice and the day to day lives of her six kids via a popular YouTube channel was charged with child abuse.

It's an extreme example of the harm caused by parents using their kids for social media content.  But it raises the question - is it ever ok to share your children's lives publicly?

As the first wave of social media kids come of age they're forming a growing movement to protect others from having the intimate and often embarrassing moments of their young lives immortalised on the internet.

Internet and social media commentator Kate Lindsay has written about the issue in an article for The Atlantic.

11:40 Organic gardener Kath Irvine: how to grow seedlings

Spring has well and truely sprung, and it's time to get busy in the garden.

Growing your own seedlings is satisfying and a great way to save some money.

Nomad gardener and The Edible Backyard author Kath Irvine joins us from Kakanui with tips and tricks to help avoid common mistakes, plus a recipe for homemade seed raising mix. 

 

Books featured on this show:

Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me
By Bernie Taupin
Published by Hachette
ISBN : 9781800960787

Be Mine
by Richard Ford
ISBN: 9780061692086
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing

 

 

Music played in this show

Song: El Paso
Artist: Marty Collins
Time played:  8:25

Song: Your Song
Artist: Elton John
Time played:  8:35

Song: We Built This City
Artist: Starship
Time played: 8:40

Song:  Ramblin' Jack and Mahan
Artist: Guy Clark
Time played: 8:45

Song: Tears of Rage
Artist: The Band
Time Played: 8:50

Song: Yellow Brick Road
Artist: Elton John
Time Played: 8:55

Song: My Brain is a Vacant Space
Artist: Hans Pucket
Time Played: 9:40

Artist: Sudan Archives
Song: Glorious
Time played: 11:35