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Afternoons for Monday 22 July 2013

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1:10 Best Song Ever Written

Capt Kate Ricketts from Burnham has chosen Callin' Baton Rouge by Garth Brooks

1:15 8 Months To Mars - what would well-known people do on a trip to Mars?

Pete Ryan has hunted and fished across four continents and been published around the world about his adventures for many years.

2:10 Korean War 60th - Pat Hickey

The anniversary of the armstice will be marked with a full day of commemorations in the South Korean capital of Seoul. Among those in attendance will be a 30-strong delegation of New Zealandveterans , representing the almost 5000 soldiers and naval officers who served in the Korean war under UN command. The delegation is in Auckland this afternoon, preparing to fly out from Whenuapai tomorrow. Pat Hickey is with them, he served in Korea from 1951-1954.

2:20 BBC Witness: Escape from the KGB

We go back nearly 30 years to one of the most dramatic spying incidents of the Cold War. Simon Watts from BBC 'Witness' recalls the day a British double agent called Oleg Gordievsky escaped from under the noses of the KGB.

See the BBC website for this programme

2:30 Shonagh Koea's The Kindness of Strangers. 

Writer Shonagh Koea recalls her life, looking back on a range of roles including daughter, wife, mother, journalist and novelist, with a few favourite recipes along the way.

Music details:
Courante: JS Bach Suite No 1 in G for solo cello, BWV1007, Jacqueline du Pre. Tk 7  Testament SBT 1388

2:45 Feature Album

The Slider by T Rex.

3:12 Danielle Wood - The Very Best of Marjorie Bligh

Author Danielle Wood has written a new biography about her remarkable life called Housewife Superstar! The Very Best of Marjorie Bligh.

3:35 Our Changing World: Census at Schools

How many texts do you send a day? How much homework do you do, and how heavy is your school bag? Just some of the questions that 20,000 students have been answering as part of Census at School.

4:06 The Panel - Neil Miller and Ali Jones

Neil Miller is with Ali Jones on The Panel as we lead with the Wellington quakes, or the Cook Strait quakes you could more properly call the cluster of them, though they're north and south of there as well. The usual questions really: how discernible is the pattern and what can we expect next? Professor Euan Smith for that chat. Sport, a big weekend for it internationally, and Tiger Woods may be the world's no. 1 golfer again but he's not winning the big tournaments any more, hasn't for years now. Why? The new phenomenon of mental obesity, the X-Factor, are e-books or book books winning the war for the eyeballs of readers? The protests across America against the death of Trayvon as President Obama switches from saying Trayvon could have been my son to Trayvon could have been me. And the top cop who lashed out at the youths drinking in the park with his daughter, and the expectations now on how carefully we must govern our behaviour.