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Afternoons for Tuesday 10 August 2010

  • Best Song Ever Written - I'm Hurt

    1:09 PM.Laurie Marks from Wellington has chosen "I'm Hurt" by Timi Yuro. Audio

  • Music Review with Nick Atkinson

    1:20 PM.Nick Atkinson reviews Shihad's nationwide tour and Sola Rosa (Andrew Spaggon) releases his fifth album which is a re-mix album. Audio

  • Book Review with Vanda Symon

    1:36 PM.Vanda reviews Tasman: A Biography of an Ocean by Neville Peat and How to Disappear by Frank Ahearn and amp; Eileen Horan - The world's number one guide to vanishing without a trace. Audio

  • TV review with Phil Wallington

    1:45 PM.Phil reviews NZ's Next Top Model (premiere) 7:30 pm Friday TV3, Undercover Boss 8:30 pm Tuesday TV One and October 15 8:30 Saturday Maori Television Service. Audio

  • Online with Ele Ludemann

    1:56 PM.Ele Ludemann wants to talk about interesting words today on Critical Mass. Audio

  • Mount Everest mystery

    2:11 PM.It's the stuff of legend and mystery. Did George Mallory reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1924, 30 years before Sir Ed Hillary? A team of scientists say they have uncovered important historical… Read more Audio

  • The only luge ice track in the Southern Hemisphere

    2:22 PM.Racing down a track of pure ice at great rates of speed is taking off in New Zealand. Tourists and budding young lugers are making their way in large numbers to the only luge ice track in the Southern… Read more Audio

  • He Rourou for 10 August 2010

    2:47 PM.It was a return to his roots for Minister of Maori Affairs Pita Sharples at the recent national secondary school Maori performing arts competition. In He Rourou, Dr Sharples tells Ana Tapiata that the… Read more Audio

  • Tune Your Engine

    3:10 PM.Author Kathy Fray talks about her book Oh Grow Up about raising toddlers to preteens. Audio

  • Asian Report for 10 August 2010 - A Classical Whirlwind

    3:34 PM.Sonia Yee catches up with Wellington-based violinist Elena whose brand of music combines classical and contemporary violin with Maori instrumentation. Now she's introducing traditional Chinese… Read more Audio

  • The Panel Pre-Show for 10 August 2010

    3:46 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on today's Panel. Audio

  • The Panel with Gary McCormick and Neil Miller (part 1)

    4:07 PM.Topics include the importation of New Zealand apples to Australia and a bowler being banned for 10 years because he "flopped out" his "old fella". Audio

  • The Panel with Gary McCormick and Neil Miller (part 2)

    4:32 PM.Topics include Rod Stewart is about to be a father again, an increasing number of people becoming benefit dependent and professor Stephen Hawking has warned the human race must look to outer space… Read more Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written

I'm Hurt by Timi Yuro as chosen by Laurie Marks of Wellington.

1:15 Critical Mass

1. Music - Nick Atkinson

Artist: Shihad
Song: Gimme Gimme

Artist: Sola Rosa
Song: Turnaround

2. TV review - Phil Wallington

NZ's Next Top Model (premiere) 7:30 pm Friday TV3
Undercover Boss 8:30 pm Tuesday TVOne
October 15 8:30 Saturday Maori Television Service

3. Books - Vanda Symon

Tasman: A Biography of an Ocean by Neville Peat
How to Disappear by Frank Ahearn & Eileen Horan - The world's number one guide to vanishing without a trace

4. Online - Ele Ludemann

Words for stuff there aren't words for.

2:10 Feature stories

It's the stuff of legend and mystery. Did George Mallory reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1924, 30 years before Sir Ed Hillary? A team of scientists say they have uncovered important historical evidence that indicates George Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine never made it to the top of the world. The pair were last seen on June 8th on Everest's Northeast Ridge by fellow climber Noel Odell. Notes about the weather taken by Odell, that have previously been all but ignored, shed new light on the Everest mystery. Kent Moore is an atmospheric physicist at the University of Toronto and part time mountaineer and he made the discovery.

Racing down a track of pure ice at great rates of speed is taking off in New Zealand. Tourists and budding young lugers are making their way in large numbers to the only luge ice track in the Southern Hemisphere in Naseby in Central Otago. The track's been open for three seasons. About 250 people a week fly down the ice track on sleds. Some children in the area are showing real promise in the sport. Who knows, there may be a Kiwi at the Sochi Olympics in Russia in 2014.

www.lugenz.com

2:30 Reading

Episode seven of Lloyd Jones' novel Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance read by John McDavitt.

Unable to bear a life without Schmidt and unable to hide her feelings from her husband, Louisa leaves for Buenos Aires.

2:45 He Rourou

It was a return to his roots for Minister of Maori Affairs Pita Sharples at the recent national secondary school Maori performing arts competition.

Dr Sharples tells Ana Tapiata that the biennial competition is a time for young Maori to celebrate being Maori.

2:50 Feature Album

I Robot - The Alan Parsons Project

3:12 Tune Your Engine

Author Kathy Fray talks about her book Oh Grow Up about raising toddlers to preteens.

3:33 Asian Report

Sonia Yee catches up with Wellington-based violinist Elena whose brand of music combines classical and contemporary violin with Maori instrumentation. Now she's introducing traditional Chinese folksongs into the mix, with a new album produced for the Chinese Market.

4.06 The Panel

Gary McCormick and Neil Miller.