1:10 Best Song Ever Written - Christine Pipe of Auckland nominated 'Bank of the Pontchartrain' by Nanci Griffith.

1:20 Link 3 -

ARTIST:    Janis Ian   
TITLE:        Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)
COMP:    Janis Ian  
ALBUM:    The Essential Janis Ian
LABEL:    Columbia 756 196

ARTIST:    Spencer Davis Group
TITLE:        I'm A Man
COMP:    Steve Winwood, Jimmy Miller
ALBUM:    Original Hits 1967
LABEL:    EMI 633727

ARTIST:    Adele
TITLE:        Crazy For You
COMP:    Adele Adkins  
ALBUM:    Adele 19
LABEL:    XL 403132

ARTIST:    Hanson
TITLE:        Mmm Bop
COMP:    Isaac Hanson,  Taylor Hanson,  Zac Hanson
ALBUM:    Chartbreakers Weekly
LABEL:    Chartbreaker / CHW 1297

ARTIST:    Shona Laing
TITLE:        1905
COMP:    Shona Laing  
ALBUM:    The Essential Shona Laing
LABEL:    Columbia 509 684

ARTIST:    Taylor Swift
TITLE:        Love Story
COMP:    Taylor Swift
ALBUM:    Fearless
LABEL:    Big Machine  300 013

ARTIST:    Paul Anka
TITLE:        Diana
COMP:    Paul Anka
ALBUM:    20 Original Tracks
LABEL:    EMI 814 147

ARTIST:    Lorde
TITLE:        Royals
COMP:    Lorde
ALBUM:    Love Club EP
LABEL:    Universal CD Pro

ARTIST:    Stevie Wonder
TITLE:        I Was Made To Love Her
COMP:    Stevie Wonder, Kula Hardaway, Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby
ALBUM:    Love Songs
LABEL:    Motown 172389

FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST:    The Beach Boys
TITLE:        Slip on Through
COMP:    Dennis Wilson
ALBUM:    Sunflower
LABEL:    Epic 446950

ARTIST:    The Beach Boys
TITLE:        Add Some Music to Your Day
COMP:    Brian Wilson. Joe Knott, Mike Love
ALBUM:    Sunflower
LABEL:    Epic 446950

ARTIST:    The Beach Boys
TITLE:        Forever
COMP:    Dennis Wilson, Gregg Jakobson
ALBUM:    Sunflower
LABEL:    Epic 446950

The Answer:"Youth"  -  Songs written and performed singers in their teens.

2:10 The American Run - Alison Bradley - When we spoke to Alison last week she was nearing the end of her jouney on foot across the United States. On the weekend Alison finally finished the 4800 kilometer trip from the East Coast to the West. She ran the equivilant of two marathons everyday and had to battle extreme conditions. She celebrated by enjoying a dip in the pacific and a burger on the beach.

2:20  The Return of Hong Kong - Louise Hadalgo of BBC Witness
It's sixteen years since Britain returned its colony, Hong Kong, to China. Handing over Hong Kong was the territory's last Governor Chris Patten.

2:30 Reading - There's very little that's uproariously funny about old age. . .according to the Auckland poet Kevin Ireland . .and yesterday he gave us an example of  his view that,  successful jokes  are those which make you shudder a little as you smile. Today as he continues his essay, 'On Getting Old'  Kevin Ireland considers the classification of the old, and the accelerating separation of society -  the old from the young - the affluent from the poor.
MUSIC DETAILS      
Rockin' Chair - Hoagy Carmichael. Sung by Louis Armstrong. Ken Burns Jazz, Columbia
C5K 61432, disc 5

2:45 Feature Album - 'Ode to Billie Joe' - Bobby Gentry 

3:10 Virtual World - Dr Jules Older

3:30 'Angry Bulbul Bird' - The hunt is on for the angry little Bulbul bird on Auckland's North Shore. DOC staff are playing  its own bird song back to it.

4:06 Denise L'estrange Corbett and Mike Williams are on the Panel today...is Whanau Ora getting closer to the original vision for it? What was that vision?  ID numbers for kindergartens, why teachers are concerned, the new shape of the family in NZ , Edward Snowden and the post-asylum word, how music soothes pain, and social petworking-the surprising number of animals with a facebook page.