Afternoons for Friday 8 March 2013
1:10 Best Song Ever Written - Malcolm Haycock from Turangi nominated The Wizard by Uriah Heep.
1:20 New Zealand Live with Mara Simpson & The Bushkas in our Auckland studio - touring their To The Sea Sessions Around New Zealand at the moment.
2:10 'Mad Men' actress, Elisabeth Moss
Downtown Queenstown, and the spectacular wild locations surrounding it, are a long way from the offices of the Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue.
But our lakes district has had its own excitments for actress Elisabeth Moss, best known here for her role as Peggy Olson on the TV series Mad Men. She was here for 6 months shooting a BBC mini series with Director Jane Campion.
"Top of the Lake" is about the mysterious disappearance of a pregnant 12-year-old girl. Elisabeth Moss plays a detective who searches for the young girl.
2:20 NZ Society - Lynda Chanwai-Earle - Happy new beginnings; he's a rescue helicopter pilot and she's an army doctor, both from broken marriages and both in their forties. Lynda Chanwai-Earle chats to a dynamic duo across the Tasman about cyber-dating and their second chance relationship.
2:30 Auckland Festival Review - Justin Gregory
In today's Festival Review slot; steamy underground circus-cabaret, smoking gypsy jazz guitar, and a fiery outdoor spectacular. We critique circus-cabaret troupe Cantina, guitar jazz act Stochelo Rosenberg Trio, and outdoor spectacle The Breath of the Volcano.
2:45 Feature album - 'Too-Rye-Ay' - Dexys Midnight Runners
3:08 One Stop Shop - Geoff Scott has today's recipe for your weekend. Geoff's back from his trip on board an oyster boat in Foveaux Strait .. Yvonne Lorkin has the bottles of wine today .. Sarah McMullan reviews the Wizard of Oz prequel, "Oz: the Great & Powerful", and the British film adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel, Great Expectations.
Wine selections
Bouldevines Marlborough Gewurztraminer 2011 $13.99 (online only)
Blind River 'The Sisters' Awatere Sauvignon Blanc 2012 $19
Sileni 'The Triangle' Merlot 2009 $27
3:40 Wildfoods Festival - Mike Keenan
There's only one place in the world where you can sample fish eyes and venison tongue and finish off the meal with a wasp larvae ice cream. The 24th annual Wildfoods Festival kicks off tonight in Hokitika.
There's already been a recipe contest with a Possum & Prune Rillette with Toasted Sourdough taking out first prize.
Besides the unusal food, there are more tame and traditional offerings amoung the 63 stalls. Mike Keenan is the Wildfoods organiser.
4:06 On The Panel today are Mark Inglis, home from his customary globe-trotting, and David Slack. Auckland's gridlock yesterday, what caused it? Yes, a car running up the back of a truck or whatever, but why does once road accident paralyse traffic across much of a large city? Speed cameras - former police accident inspector and now road safety consultant, Hamish Piercey was saying on yesterday's Panel that the cameras slow traffic down only temporarily and they're not a wider safety device. Today the police will defend them and their locations. The terrible slaughter of the elephants in Africa for the Chinese consumer market, and other topics - assorted - as time allows.