Afternoons for Monday 9 May 2011
1:10 Best Song Ever Written
Breton Dukes of Whangarei likes Heart in a Cage by The Strokes
1:15 8 Months To Mars - what would well-known people do on an trip to Mars?
Jarred Christmas is a Kiwi funny man who is making a big name for himself in the UK. Known now mainly for his stand-up routines, he started in improvisational comedy at Christchurch's Court Theatre. He recently starred in a BBC series and has teamed up with three of his countrymen to perform a special all-Kiwi routine at various London clubs.
2:10 Feature Stories
A New Zealand entrepreneur is helping to change the way we remember friends and family who've passed away. Aucklander Jonathan Good, who now lives in San Francisco, and two of his mates have developed a free website where people can share stories and photos and honour the deceased. 1000memories.com is like a 2.0 obituary, death for the digital age.
Most of us at one time or another have purchased a chocolate bar we didn't really want from an eager student selling chocolate to raise money for their school. Sales of chocolate by schools would be banned under a National blueprint to regulate the marketing of junk food to children by the Obesity Policy Coalition in Australia. The plan also includes banning ads for junk food during popular shows like Junior Masterchef.
2:30 Reading
Episode 6 of The Orphan Gunner by Sara Knox, read by Deana Elvins.
2:50 Feature Album
Björk - Debut.
Released in 1993, it was the Icelandic singer's first solo album after the break up of her group The Sugarcubes.
Bjork says the album "was a bit of a rehearsal and it's really not that good." The critics thought otherwise.
3:12 Jill Worrall
It was while sitting beside a 400 year old bridge, smoking a fruit flavoured tobacco pipe, that travel writer Jill Worrall came up with the idea for her latest book.
Jill and her friend Reza were organising tours in Iran, when they started thinking about a trip that would follow in the footsteps of some of the earliest visitors to the country - the merchants whose camels travelled along the ancient silk route that linked the Far East and Europe.
The journey that followed that conversation took Jill and Reza across thousands of miles as they explored the culture, history and architecture of Iran.
What they discovered was a country at once ancient and modern, and possessed of other unique dualities as well, all of which are explored amusingly, entertainingly and poetically in Jill's book Two Wings of a Nightingale, Persian Soul, Islamic Heart.
3:33 Our Changing World
Last week, a small house sprung up on Wellington's waterfront. The Meridian First Light solar bach has been designed and built by a team of Victoria University architecture students as the sole southern hemisphere entry for the international Solar Decathlon competition, being held in Washington DC later this year.
The house is open to the public for 2 weeks, but during construction last week Alison Ballance headed to Frank Kitts Park for a sneak preview.
4:06 The Panel
David McPhail and Irene Gardiner