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Afternoons for Tuesday 15 December 2009

  • Previous Episode: Monday, 14 December 2009
  • Next Episode: Wednesday, 16 December 2009
  • The best song ever written

    1:10 PM.Phil Rich of Plimmerton has chosen 'Lili Marleen' by Marlene Dietrich. Audio

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  • Reeling in the years

    1:20 PM.It's 1967 on today's edition of 'Reeling in the years'. Audio

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  • Clothes trap

    2:10 PM.Operators of mobile clothing trucks are being blasted by social services in south Auckland, where they're accused of deliberately trapping needy families into unserviceable levels of debt. Audio

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  • Gliding record

    2:20 PM.Electric socks came in handy over the weekend for Christchurch pilot Terry Delore, who endured temperatues of minus 35 degrees celsius to glide his way into the world record books. Audio

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  • He Rourou for 15 December 2009

    2:46 PM.Even though ancestral remains may have lain in international museums for over 100 years, it is important to try to bring them home - that's the opinion of the head of Te Papa's repatriation team, Te… Read more Audio

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  • Feature album

    2:50 PM.Today's album is 'Introducing Stan Walker', which today went Number Two in its first week on the New Zealand Album charts - if it weren't for Susan Boyle's global album chart onslaught, he would have… Read more Audio

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  • Tune your engine

    3:10 PM.If there was such a thing as a prize for 'Vitamin of The Year', then Vitamin D would certainly be in with a shout for the 2009 award. We talk to Dr. Pamela Von Hurst from the Institute of Food… Read more Audio

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  • Asian Report for 15 December 2009 - Dalai Lama

    3:30 PM.Earlier this month, RNZ's Jason Moon conducted an interview with the His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama. This is the second installment of a two-part interview. Audio

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  • Environment story

    3:47 PM.We love New Zealanders that set world records. Even when the record holder is born in Alaska, and only spends half the year here. But that hasn't stopped us adopting bar-tailed godwits as our own -… Read more Audio

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  • The Panel (part 1)

    4:10 PM.With Bomber Bradbury and Nevil Gibson. Audio

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  • The Panel (part 2)

    4:40 PM.With Bomber Bradbury and Nevil Gibson. Audio

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  • Previous Episode: Monday, 14 December 2009
  • Next Episode: Wednesday, 16 December 2009
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