Afternoons for Wednesday 11 August 2010
1:10 Best Song Ever Written
The Island by Dolores Keane as chosen by Liz Bowen-Clewley
1:15 Link 3 - music game
Where we ask you to identify the similarity between three songs we play.
2:10 Feature story
2.16 million lego bricks are made every hour, and a collector in Pukehohe has alot of them. Richard Hii has been building lego for just under a year. But in that time he's made the Eiffel tower and Taj Mahal in lego .. and trains and boats and carousels from small plastic bricks. Now Richard's got the lot up for sale on Trade Me.
In June 1941, a German minelayer slipped into Lyttelton Harbour on Banks Peninsula and laid 10 mines. No mines exploded, no ships were sunk and over the years the mines may have slipped deeper and deeper into the seabed. Now the New Zealand Navy is trying to find the old mines so port authorities can dredge a deeper channel. So far, the search has failed to locate the mines. The Germans also laid about 10 similar mines off the entrance to Wellington Harbour. Those mines have never been recovered either. The Navy search hasn't dug up the old mines, but it is bringing up old memories of about the German minelayer and the importance of Lyttleton Harbour during the war.
2:30 NZ Reading
Episode eight of Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance by Lloyd Jones
Louisa arrives in Argentina to find a very different life to the one she had hoped for.
2:45 He Rourou
3:12 Virtual World
1. Google's Wave Goodbye - A short history
Wave was launched in May 2009, and opened up to all Google users in May 2010, but that expansion failed to attract the user base Google wanted. And now their involvement is over.
2. Chalked up to history: blackboards hit the dust
One by one these silent sentinels to generations of students are departing classrooms
Bits & Bobs
3.33 Auckland story
3:47 Pre-Panel
4:06 The Panel
