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Afternoons for Thursday 3 June 2010

  • Best song ever written - Throw your arms around me

    1:08 PM.Erin Simpson from the Hawkes Bay has chosen"Throw your arms around me"by Hunters and Collectors. Audio

  • Your Place - Springfield

    1:20 PM.We visit a small town in one of New Zealand's fastest growing districts; Selwyn, in Canterbury. Audio

  • Motorsport Study

    2:10 PM.For anyone who has ever wondered if motorsport drivers are athletes, a new study by the University of Otago indicates there is something special about the men and women behind the wheel. Audio

  • Grim reaper competition

    2:22 PM.The New Plymouth Injury Safe program ran a competition to find lookalikes of the creepy figure on a National road safety campaign featuring the wheel of misfortune. The winner is Ralph Barton. He's… Read more Audio

  • He Rourou for 3 June 2010

    2:44 PM.Maori musicians are benefiting from the current trendiness of Maori music. In He Rourou Ana Tapiata talks with long-time muso Kimo Winiata about the change in support for Maori language music. Audio

  • Arts Report

    3:11 PM.Time to delve into happenings on the arts scene with Lynn Freeman. Audio

  • Christchurch Story for 3 June 2010 - Christchurch Style

    3:32 PM.When it comes to style, Andhy Blake has come into his own since arriving in New Zealand. Producer Sonia Yee meets the man who claims to have had no clue about fashion whilst growing up in Fiji, but… Read more Audio

  • Science - Pathology Laboratory Tour (part 3)

    3:47 PM.In the histology department at Aotea Pathology, it's not unusual to see a whole human kidney containing a tumour being analysed by a pathologist. That's exactly what Ruth Beran sees as she continues… Read more Audio

  • The panel (part 1)

    4:07 PM.With guests Chris Wikaira and Islay McLeod. Audio

  • The panel (part 2)

    4:33 PM.With guests Chris Wikaira and Islay McLeod. Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written

Throw Your Arms Around Me by Hunters and Collectors is today's choice from Erin Simpson who lives near Havelock North.

1:15 Your Place

A small town in one of New Zealand's fastest growing districts Selwyn; Springfield, 65 kilometres west of Christchurch.

2:10 Feature stories

A new study by the University of Otago indicates there is something special about motorsport athletes behind the wheel. Motorsport drivers were superior when it comes to perception time and were able to identify an object when it is flashed up on a screen 25% faster than other athletes. School of Physiotherapy Senior Lecturer Dr Anthony Schneiders conducted the tests talks to Jim Mora. Tony Schneiders with one of his study helpers.
Tony Schneiders with one of his study helpers.

The New Plymouth District Council's Injury Safe Community programme has a twist on a national road safety campaign featuring the wheel of misfortune. They ran a competition to find lookalikes of the creepy figure in the ads. The winner is Ralph Barton. He's spending the next two weeks at intersections in New Plymouth.

Grim Reaper gets ready to haunt high risk intersections in New Plymouth.
The Grim Reaper gets ready to haunt high risk intersections in New Plymouth.

2:30 NZ Reading

Episode 9 of Shackleton's Boat Journey read by Peter Ellis.

2:55 He Rourou

Maori musicians are benefiting from the current trendiness of Maori music.

Ana Tapiata talks with long-time muso Kimo Winiata about the change in support for Maori language music.

2:50 Feature Album

Moving Waves - the second album by the Dutch progressive rock band Focus - came out in 1971.

3:12 Arts Report

Australian screenwriter and playwright Andrew Bovell who wrote the screenplay to the mega-hit movie Strictly Ballroom and now has a big hit on Broadway.

Ross Girven is back in Auckland for a new production of Sweeny Todd.

3:33 Christchurch story

Sonia Yee meets Andhy Blake, who claims to have had no clue about fashion whilst growing up in Fiji, but now he's taking the New Zealand fashion industry by storm, and he's keen to go all the way to the top.

3:47 Environment story

In the histology department at Aotea Pathology, it's not unusual to see a whole human kidney containing a tumour being analysed by a pathologist.

That's exactly what Ruth Beran sees as she continues her tour of Aotea Pathology, a Wellington community pathology lab.

First she meets Collette Bromhead, who heads the molecular biology department.

4:06 The Panel

Chris Wikaira and Islay Mcleod. The new speeding ban in force this coming weekend. Again we ask is speeding, actually, the problem on our roads?; Big stoush in Little Waihi with the leaseholders being kicked out of their homes - kicked out to save the estuary, as Te Arawa are saying, or for some other reason not being stated?; coffee doesn't wake you up in the morning after all - new research; has John Key gone back on a promise about Kiwisaver or not?; it seems we don't like brothels next door however legal they may be; the plight of the British couple in Somalia kidnapped by pirates, crying to their Government for help; and are you on your own out there as a yachtie? We'll talk to a NZ couple touring the world on a small boat.