Afternoons for Wednesday 23 March 2011
1:10 Best Song Ever Written
Chiquitita by Abba as chosen by Daniel Louwrens in Australia.
1:15 Link 3 - music game
2:10 Feature stories
Sixty eight years ago, a Dutch family in Amsterdam risked everything to hide an 18-month-old Jewish girl from the Nazis at the height of World War II. For two and a half years, the Hakkens family hid Elli Szanowski in a cupboard to keep her safe after Nazis killed her Father, and her mother fled to Switzerland. Richard and Marcel Hakkens were just little boys when their parents took the child in. After the war, Elli went with family members to Argentina, and in the 1960s, the Hakkens family immigrated to New Zealand. The boys never saw Elli again. Until yesterday. Marcel's wife Gloria spent years trying to find Elli. Read about her quest in her own words.
2:30 Reading
Part three of Plumb by Maurice Gee.
2:45 Feature Album
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek And The Dominos from 1970.
3:12 Virtual World
Hamish MacEwan is in talking about iPad 2-mania; answers some of your emails; the new electronic eyeglasses; and a new study reveals that we're now bombarded by the equivalent of 174 newspapers of data a day.
3:33 Auckland story
Rechtschaffene Fremde Zimmerer und Schieferdäker Gesellen is the name of an 800-year old German guild of builders and roofers...two members of whom have been in New Zealand for six months.
To join this guild, based in Hamburg …as a young builder is required to wear only traditional black breeches, white shirt, black waistcoat and black hat. You then travel the world for a specified time learning about new building techniques and customs. You're not allowed to return home in that time. These people are called journeymen.
Find out more about the German journeymen.
4:06 The Panel
Sue Wells and Penny Ashton.