Afternoons for Thursday 2 May 2013
1:10 Best Song Ever Written
Lorrane Sutherland has chosen Celeste Aida from Verdi's Aida sung by Placido Domingo.
1:20 Your Place
Athenree, the village built around an old 19th century homestead in the Western Bay of Plenty.
2:10 Wooden instruments
Nick Sigglekow can look at old wooden furniture or logs of wood and see a musical instrument. Nick is a technology teacher at Fielding High school, who tries to inspire his students to see the potential in wooden furniture as well.
2:20 Fastest woman
Every day, for about 69 days, New Zealander Alison Bradley plans to run at least 80 kilometers. That's two marathons a day, until she gets from New York to Los Angeles - 4800 kilometres. On Monday she begins her attempt to beat the world record for the fastest woman to run across America.
2:30 Reading - Garibaldi Did Not Sleep Here, part five
In our New Zealand story, New Zealand writer Paul Horan is taking us through southern Italy in a bid to uncover the truth about his eccentric ancestor Colonel Peard.
2:45 Feature Album
Everything Changes, by Take That.
3:12 BBC report - Round the world sailor from India
An Indian Naval officer, Abilhash Tomy, is basking in a hero's limelight after becoming the first person from his country to sail solo and non-stop around the world.
3:33 Southern story
Today, Kevin Allison - the man who goes on tour with the likes of Stevie Wonder and Ringo Starr - talks about why he's set up shop in Christchurch.
3:40 BBC History - Hitler's secretary
On April 30th 1945 Adolf Hitler killed himself in a bunker beneath Berlin. As Red Army soldiers closed in on the German capital he poisoned himself and his wife, Eva Braun. We hear from one of the secretaries who was in the bunker when he died.
4:06 The Panel, with Bernard Hickey and Raybon Kan