Afternoons for Monday 29 March 2010
1:10 Best Song Ever Written
President Jimmy Carter once said of country and western singer Tom T. Hall that his songs capture the spirit of America. Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On is today's song chosen by Peter Fowler of Southland... He first heard it at McMurdo Station in 1973.
1:15 8 Months To Mars - what would well-known people do on an trip to Mars?
Miranda Harcourt and her partner Stuart McKenzie talk about what they would take on the trip to Mars.
2:10 Feature stories
Cheeseburgers in Acid
A video making the rounds on YouTube (below) and My Space that might put you right off your burger. It's identified as an experiment by students at Nottingham University. The white-coat clad students take a McDonald's cheeseburger and put it in a dish of hydrochloric acid.
The students leave the burger in the acid for three hours. When they return, the burger is a black all over, but almost completely in-tact. Professor Roger Lentle from the Massey University Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health, a professor of digestive bio-mechanics, explains the video.
2:30 Reading:Shotby Sarah Quigley.
Lena has been shot while buying a donut.
2:45 He Rourou
Ngapuhi kuia Rahera Shortland says she enjoyed Grandparents Day at the local kura, as much for meeting the other grandparents, as seeing her grandchild's new school.
In He Rourou today Ana Tapiata talks with the kuia about meeting a request from a grandchild, who hardly asks for anything..
2:50 Feature Album
We thought we'd feature Abba's final studio album today The Visitors - on top of the reunion for a one off show story which surfaced over the weekend - since hotly denied by Abba's manager.
Görel Hanser told The Telegraph "It's simply not true. It was a passing comment Benny made, almost as a joke - nothing more than that. It's never going to happen."
The recording of The Visitors album started in March 1981, just one month after the divorce of Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
3:12 Author Slot
The Turkish peninsula at Gallipoli is hallowed ground, consecrated by the blood of the men who fought and died there at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is also the place where the ANZAC legend was forged, where thousands of Kiwis and Australians fought and died for the Allied cause.These site is visited every year by thousands of Kiwis and Australians, who come to see where their fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers laid down their lives for their country.
Matt McLauchlan, he's spent more than a decade following in the footsteps of Australian troops on battlefields around the world. Today's book is Gallipoli: The Battlefield Guide.
3:33 This Way Up
3:47 Science story
Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, think I'll go and eat worms…"
That old expression takes on a new meaning when the worms aren't the usual garden variety, but parasitic hookworms that live in the gut.
That's the type of worm that Graham Le Gros has been studying for the past 25 years. He's the director of Research at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research and his hope is to develop a vaccine for the one billion people around the world who are infected by hookworms …as well as potentially find treatments for diseases like Crohn's and asthma.
Ruth Beran meets him in the lab, where his colleague, Mali Camberis, has prepared something for her.
4:06 The Panel
Joanne Black and Brian Edwards.