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Afternoons for Tuesday 10 May 2011

  • Best Song Ever Written - Wild Thing

    1:10 PM.Helen Coop from rural Canterbury has chosen Wild Thing by the The Troggs. Audio

  • TV Review with Phil Wallington

    1:18 PM.Sunday and 60 Minutes are going head to head and also the general state of TV news and current affairs at the weekends. Audio

  • Music Review with Nick Atkinson

    1:39 PM.Martin Paris is a 24 year old musician with a bright future. He's the son of Adele Yandall, one of The Yandall sisters. Audio

  • Book Review with Graham Beatie

    1:45 PM.Grahman Beattie, the book blog man is back, back from a week's holiday as it turns out. Audio

  • NZ Music Month with Simon Woods

    1:55 PM.We're ten days into the eleventh New Zealand Music Month, a celebration of Kiwi made music. Audio

  • Colorado Cowboy

    2:09 PM.Ben Longwell is a living, breathing real life cowboy from Colorado. He wears leather chaps and Stetson hats and trains horses for a living. But instead of riding the range in America, Ben married a… Read more Audio

  • Kiwi in Russia

    2:21 PM.A Russian Website is reporting that a Kiwi bird has been found in a Russian port more than 16-thousand miles from home. The Russian media says the kiwi may have arrived in the town of Sochi on a… Read more Audio

  • Tune Your Engine

    3:09 PM.Joshua Foer, world class memoriser, and author of the book Walking With Einstein. Audio

  • Asian Report for 10 May 2011 - Wings of Hope

    3:31 PM.On the Asian Report today, Auckland's Japanese community drum up support for victims of the tsunami. Audio

  • The Panel Pre-Show for 10 May 2011

    3:50 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

  • The Panel with Jon Bridges and Mark Inglis (part 1)

    4:07 PM.Topics - John Key says changes to KiwiSaver which the Government will announce in next week's budget won't represent a broken election promise. Standard and amp; Poors has further down-graded Greece's… Read more Audio

  • The Panel with Jon Bridges and Mark Inglis (part 2)

    4:35 PM.Topics - Television New Zealand is marketing them in a prime-time slot as Britain's"fattest and laziest family", but the stars of the show - a family of four who collectively weigh almost 500kg - have… Read more Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written

Wild Thing by The Troggs, as chosen by Helen Coop, who lives on a sheep and beef farm in rural Canterbury - halfway between Darfield and Windwhistle.

1:15 Critical Mass

Phil Wallington with his views on the TV fare over the last few days; Nick Atkinson has the scoop on Martin Paris, the Auckland musician with a great pedigree; and Graham Beattie has a hot tip for holiday reading.

2:10 Feature Stories

Ben Longwell is a living, breathing real life cowboy from Colorado. He wears leather chaps and Stetson hats and trains horses for a living. But instead of riding the range in America, Ben married a Kiwi girl and now makes his home on a lifestyle block at Snells Beach in West Auckland. He's shares his passion for the cowboy life with western horse training and riding clinics.

True West Horsemanship

A Russian website is reporting that a Kiwi bird has been found in a Russian port more than 16-thousand miles from home. The Russian media says the kiwi may have arrived in the town of Sochi on a cruise ship. A zoologist says the bird was rescued by an animal welfare group.

2:30 Reading

Episode 7 of The Orphan Gunner by Sara Knox, read by Deana Elvins.

2:45 Feature Album

Take It Easy by The Walker Brothers.

3:12 Tune Your Engine

Joshua Foer, world class memoriser, and author of the book Walking With Einstein.

3:33 Asian Report

4:06 The Panel

Jon Bridges and Mark Inglis.