Afternoons for Monday 5 July 2010
1:10 Best Song Ever Written
Metallica 'Nothing Else Matters' - performed with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra chosen by Ina de Paauw-Fontein, Christchurch.
1:15 8 Months To Mars - what would well-known people do on an trip to Mars?
The hapless hijacker in the latest Silo theatre production, Assassins - The Cabaret Show - Cameron Rhodes.
2:10 Feature stories
For the first time ever, a woman has won the Third Year Apprentice Challenge. In fact, Kartika Mutzelburg from Unitec is the first woman to qualify for the finals at all. She beat out a dozen competitors in the Auckland regional and then 7 finalists in the National Competition in Queenstown. The apprentices were given a building project to complete and were marked on their ability to read the plans, take correct measurements, accuracy and neatness of their cuts.
Chris Krishna-Pillay has been making musical theatre out of unlikely scientific topics for more than 10 years. He's a scientist and educator from Melbourne who travels around the world with shows that educate and entertain. He'll be bringing the World Premiere of his new show, Dante's Laboratory to Dunedin this week for the New Zealand International Science Festival.
2:30 Reading
Michael Wilson, with another tale from the Anthony Steemson series Animal Crackers.
2:45 He Rourou
The hospitality of the South Island tribe of Ngai Tahu keeps many Maori in the deep south.
In He Rourou today Ana Tapiata talks with Kapa Haka tutor Tihema Taurima about the reasons he's lived in Invercargill for decades.
2:50 Feature Album
The Waterboy's - Fisherman's Blues.
3:10 Author Slot
In 2001 and 2002, Brendan Hughes and David Ervine, two men from opposite sides of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, gave interviews about their controversial and often violent roles in a dark period of history. Their interviews are part of an archive collected by Boston College - they were not be published until after their deaths.
Hughes died in 2008, Ervine in 2007 and now their stories have been told by Irish journalist Ed Moloney in his new book, Voices from the Grave - Two Men's War in Ireland. In it, most sensationally of all the revelations, Hughes claims Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams ordered two killings carried out by the IRA, including the murder of a mother of 10 who was shot dead and secretly buried. Gerry Adams has denied the claims.
3:33 This Way Up
Digital technology has arrived at most schools in NZ.
4:06 The Panel
Mark Inglis and Bernard Hickey. Do supermarkets overcharge for fruit and veg? Has cheating in football become a complete abdication of ethical behaviour? How much would you get for your house if you let it out for the Rugby World Cup? And don't get depressed but are we actually in a depression but don't know it yet? If a professor at Cambridge is right we'll really start to see the cataclysmic meltdown in 2014. All that, and the amount of time we spend hunting for the TV remote.