Sunday Morning for Sunday 13 November 2022

 

8:10 Joe Porter: Weekend sports update

RNZ Sports Journalist, Joe Porter brings us up to date on the weekend’s sport.

8:20 Dr Lars Chittka: Bees Like to Play

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have now discovered that bumblebees love to play ball games, and as with humans, young bumblebees like to play more than older ones do.

Leading the study was award-winning behavioural ecologist Dr Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology at Queen Mary University in London and author of the book The Mind of a Bee.

8:40 Ali Hill: The Nutrition Edition

Dr Ali Hill from the Human Nutrition department of Otago University is back once again – this time to talk about sources of Vitamin D, what you can get out of almonds and more.

Dr Hill answers your nutrition questions according to research.

9:10 Mediawatch

This week Mediawatch looks at the New Zealand Herald's new effort to confront our nation's big problems - and suggest some long-term solutions.

Also: a decade after a disastrous deal sent a huge archive of newspaper photos offshore, they're now up for sale here in New Zealand - and is it really a good thing if media cop criticism from both the left wing and the right?   

9:35 Calling Home: Hugh Simpson in Transylvania

Hugh Simpson calls home.  Originally from Christchurch he now lives in Transylvania in Romania – where Dracula’s castle is. Hugh works remotely as a computer penetration tester (a legal hacker) for a UK based company.

10:05 Dr Zazie Todd: how we know your dog loves you

Although New Zealanders prefer cats to dogs, unlike other similar countries, we still love dogs as well – we have 700,00 of them, and 28% of New Zealanders are dog owners. We don't know the stats for homes that contain both cats and dogs, but they would be quite high as well.

Dr Zazie Todd is a cat person and a dog person. She trained in human psychology, until a dog named Ghost changed her focus.

Zazie Todd is an animal behaviour expert and the author of Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy. She tells Jim what’s going on in the life and times of your dog.

10:40 Paul Sexton: the authorised biography of Charlie Watts

Drummer Charlie Watts was known as the quietest member of the Rolling Stones, renowned for his impeccable timing – he didn’t think of himself as a rockstar. He was a lover of jazz, and fine fashion.

Paul Sexton interviewed Charlie Watts over a dozen times before Watts’ death. Sexton is the author of Charlie’s Good Tonight: The Authorised Biography of Charlie Watts.

11:10 James St John: Nose Picking Update

Following a huge response from last week’s interview, Professor James St John, head of the Clem Jones Centre for Neurobiology and Stem Cell Research at Griffith University is back to answer some questions.

11:20 Frances Cook: Your Money in Tough Times            

Many of us are feeling the pinch as costs soar and savings shrink, host of the personal finance podcast, Cooking the Books, Frances Cook joins us with some ideas to take a little of the sting out.