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Afternoons for Thursday 1 March 2012
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Best Song Ever Written - Kite
1:09 PM.Richard Middleton from Wellington has chosen 'Kite' by U2. Audio
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Your Place - Kaponga
1:25 PM.The little Taranaki township that calls itself the Gateway to Dawson Falls. Settlement began in 1882, with many of the early pioneers coming from Switzerland. Audio
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Monkees member Davy Jones dies
2:09 PM.Davy Jones got his first big break when he was 11 years old playing Ena Sharples's grandson on Coronation Street. But the world will always remember him as the lead singer of the 1960s made-for-tv… Read more Audio
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Linking caving systems
2:21 PM.Neil Silverwood is part of a group of cavers who are tantalisingly close to linking two cave systems in Mt Arthur, creating what could be New Zealand's deepest cave. Audio
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Festival Review for 1 March 2012
2:30 PM.Festival Review discusses the play Henry V, the musical shows Bon Iver and Tubular Bells for Two, the NZ premiere of the dance theatre work Birds with Skymirrors. Audio
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Southern Story for 1 March 2012 - Rocket Languages
3:15 PM.Katy Gosset visits a local business that's got the world talking - in more ways than one. Rocket Languages offers on-line courses in everything from French to Hindi. And, despite a year of upheaval… Read more Audio
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Our Changing World - Giant Penguins
3:27 PM.Thirty five years ago University of Otago palaeontologist Ewan Fordyce collected some bones from a 25-million year old giant fossil penguin which has now been reconstructed and named Kairuku. Alison… Read more Audio
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The Panel Pre-Show for 1 March 2012
3:47 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
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The Panel with Bernard Hickey and Sally Wenley (Part 1)
4:07 PM.Topics - might Otago Rugby be merely the first of the country's provincial unions to face a solvency crisis? Internet millionaire Kim Dotcom is talking a good fight, promising to beat the United… Read more Audio
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The Panel with Bernard Hickey and Sally Wenley (Part 2)
4:37 PM.Topics - An increasing number of students in the United Kingdom are turning to prostitution to pay for their tuition, according to a new paper by a British medical student. Will constant access to the… Read more Audio
1:10 Best Song Ever Written
1:15 Your Place
2:10 Feature stories
2:30 New Zealand International Arts Festival review
Henry V, Bon Iver, Tubular Bells for Two and Birds with Skymirrors.
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2:45 Feature Album
3:12 Arts Report
3:33 Southern story
3:40 Our Changing World
4:06 The Panel