Afternoons for Friday 30 April 2010
1:10 Best Song Ever Written
Alex Plummer from Auckland says Everlong" by the Foo Fighters is the best song ever written
1:15 NZ Music - Live
This week's live performance is from Edwin Derricutt. He's an interesting man with an interesting life. Used to be with the band Felt.
"Identity theft" usually involves someone using your personal details to steal money from your bank account. But now schoolchildren as young as 10 are becoming the targets of identity theft for the purpose of bullying. One Taranaki primary school principal was asked to investigate when one of this students was being impersonated online. A boy had been posing as a girl on Facebook, causing the family no end of distress. The profile has now been deleted, and that situation resolved. Identity theft online adds another issue to the long list of things parents need to be concerned about with the kids on the computers.
Four seasons in one day has nothing on New Zealand band Opshop. The band is playing 10 gigs in one day to mark the 10th anniversary of New Zealand Music Month.
The musical odyssey begins tomorrow at 6am. Opshop will perform at Christchurch airport, then Timaru, Hokitika, Nelson, Wanganui, Hawke's Bay, Gisborne and Hamilton, and end with a show at Butterfly Creek, near Auckland Airport. That's 9 concerts if you're keeping track.. They'll also do a gig on the plane while flying over Mt. Cook.
It's been three years since the release of OPSHOP's triple-platinum selling album, Second Hand Planet. They've just released a new single, Pins & Needles.
2:30 NZ Reading
Now part five of 'Crime Story' by Maurice Gee.
Today, we return to the story of Brent Roser, the burglar who prided himself on his cool approach to crime but whose live changed after he left Ulla Peet bleeding in her Kelburn home.
Crime Story read by Stuart Devenie
2:50 Feature AlbumA Lonely Man by the super-smooth sold quartet out of Chicago - The Chi-Lites - came out in 1972.
This was their best and by chance, their most successful LP release - and includes their biggest single Oh Girl.
2:55 He Rourou
In the dawn darkness of ANZAC day, a pipe band lead the parade of veterans, current soldiers and other troops past the thousands of onlookers at Wellington's cenotaph.
Ana Tapiata talks to Puti Mackey, as she was marching amongst the veterans
3:08 One Stop Shop
Fresh Fast Food, Weekend Wine, Weekend Weather, Movie Review and This Way of Life
Wine:
Cheap and Cheerful
Whalebone Bay Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2009 $7.99 - available online. I love the 2009 Marlborough sauvignons and the Whalebone Bay is no exception. Passionfruit, lemon verbena, lime and grassy notes on the nose and in the mouth it's tangy, vibrant and long on flavour. It's hard to comprehend how they can make wine this good so cheap, but I'm definitely not complaining. It's juicy, tropical and pure summer in a bottle.
Mid Price Marvelousness
Wynns Coonawarra Shiraz Merlot Cabernet 2007 $15 - widely available. Wynns Coonawarra Estate was the first winery to be established in the Coonawarra, by John Riddoch in 1896, and it's a fantastic example of what coonawarra does so well because they draw fruit from vineyards spanning the entire region. It's incredibly rich, complex and ultimately drinkable. It has delicious plum, cocoa and pepper characters that merge with smooth, warming tannins to deliver an exceptionally good value-for-money red.
Treat Yourself
Sourced from vertigo-inducingly steep terraces looking out over the famed Gimblett Gravels region in Hawke's Bay, this is an exceptionally good pepper-packed syrah that oozes class and character. Gorgeous plump berryfruit and floral-laced spices lead to a hearty, warming, rib-sticking red that's great drinking now, but will definitely reward a couple of years in the cellar. The grapes are grown by Gus and Mel Lawson (ex Te Awa) and the wine is made by legendary winemaker Rod McDonald (Vidals, Matariki et al) - so it definitely has credentials.
3:33 Sports Story
3:47 NZ Society
Time now for the second episode in our series, The Books That Built New Zealand.
Four New Zealand writers and thinkers have nominated the work they think has helped create our country.
Today's book is a guide to good gardening that has shaped and reflected the cultural climate of New Zealand.
4:06 The Panel
On The Panel today are David McPhail and Michael Deaker. We'll compare what we're doing with the extra money from cigarettes with the Australians- $5 billion straight into health, no general kitty.Passwords online - is it any use changing them? We keep being told to but a new study says it's a waste of time.Should you ...be fixing or floating your mortgage, and there are two contrary opinions abroad on this right now.