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Afternoons for Tuesday 8 June 2010

  • TV review

    1:09 PM.A look at Television with TV producer Phil Wallington. Audio

  • Music review

    1:23 PM.With music writer and reviewer, Chris Bourke. Audio

  • Book review

    1:46 PM.With Vanda Symon. Audio

  • Internet bits and bytes

    1:54 PM.With Noelle McCarthy. Audio

  • Movie Gems

    2:08 PM.A film preservationist from Los Angeles drops in on the New Zealand film archive while on holiday here, and discovers lost film treasures from the early 1900s. Audio

  • Asteroid spacecraft

    2:23 PM.The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa is limping back towards earth after a seven year mission to discover the origins of the solar system. Audio

  • He Rourou for 8 June 2010

    2:43 PM.Taonga puoro specialist Horomona Horo says his challenge is to continue to discover the special qualities and history of each instrument. In He Rourou today, Horomona Horo tells Ana Tapiata that, for… Read more Audio

  • Tune your engine - Insomnia

    3:10 PM.Most of us have had problems falling asleep or staying asleep from time to time. But insomnia is relentless. Journalist Patricia Morrisroe is a 4th generation insomniac. Audio

  • Asian Report for 8 June 2010 - By Design

    3:33 PM.Sharon Ng claims she was never ambitious whilst studying at fashion design school. But judging by her success, hers is a quiet and more determined ambition. Sonia Yee meets the woman behind the NG… Read more Audio

  • Environment story - micro sleeps

    3:47 PM.Occasionally people can have a very, very brief sleep - a few seconds where they're completely unresponsive - and not even realise it. Audio

  • The panel (part 1)

    4:07 PM.With guests Joanne Black and Tony Doe. Audio

  • The panel (part 2)

    4:33 PM.With guests Joanne Black and Tony Doe. Audio

1:15 Critical Mass

Phil Wallington reviews TV3's Glee and America's Next Top Model.

Music writer and reviewer, Chris Bourke talks about Bettye Lavette's Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook.

Crime writer Vanda Symon likes the books Captured by Neil Cross and Politically Incorrect Parenting by Nigel Latta

Noelle McCarthy with the best of the web.

Hooked on Gadgets and Paying a Mental Price.
Unhappy Hipsters.

2:10 Feature stories

A film preservationist from Los Angeles drops in on the New Zealand film archive while on holiday here, and discovers lost film treasures from the early 1900s.

The first time an unmanned spacecraft has gone to an asteroid, collected samples and will return to Earth.

2:30 Reading

Former Anglican Bishop John Bluck left a busy working life in cities up and down the country and moved to a village north of Auckland.

2:45 He Rourou

Taonga puoro specialist Horomona Horo says his challenge is to continue to discover the special qualities and history of each instrument.

Horomona Horo tells Ana Tapiata that, for him, the relationship between the player and the instrument is very important.

2:50 Feature Album

Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi.

3:12 Tune Your Engine

Journalist Patricia Morrisroe, author of Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia which chronicles how sleeping, and the sleep disorder industry, have evolved over the years.

3:33 Asian Report

Sonia Yee, meets a Christchurch-based fashion designer of Chinese descent.

3:47 Environment story

Occasionally people can have a very, very brief sleep - a few seconds where they're completely unresponsive - and not even realise it.

They're called "microsleeps", and they're of particular interest to Richard Jones from the University of Otago, Christchurch and the Van der Veer Institute for Parkinson's and Brain Research.

Ruth Beran meets him, and two members of his team, Govinda Poudel and Carrie Innes, who starts by explaining how they're recording microsleeps.

4:06 The Panel

Joanne Black and Tony Doe. There's a housing shortage in Auckland but why does everyone need to live in Auckland anyway; do we really want a great conurbation stretching from Hamilton to Wellsford?; how will Len Brown's credit card indiscretions affect his chances of being in charge of the Auckland supercity?; men are happier with other men being gay now; how come the schools burning down don't have sprinklers?; what's it really like in Gaza - is it a human catastrophe or just another poor area of the world?; and stripes are back in fashion but not everyone likes them.