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Afternoons for Thursday 22 August 2013

  • Best Song Ever Written - Leader of the Band

    1:09 PM.Jayne O'Neill from Waimumu in Southland has chosen 'Leader of the Band' by Dan Fogelberg. Audio

  • Your Place - Waitahuna

    1:24 PM.Waitahuna - Valley of Water - is a small community 12 kilometres from Lawrence on State Highway 8. It came into being in the 1860s when gold was discovered. These days the locals number about 100… Read more Audio

  • Shearer resigns as Labour leader

    1:40 PM.Political Editor Brent Edwards relays details of David Shearer's departure as leader of the Labour party. Audio

  • The ring that came home after 70 years

    2:09 PM.Nearly 70 years ago, in a Prisoner of War camp near Moosburg, Germany a desperately hungry American pilot traded a gold signet ring for two chocolate bars. Serendipity helped this ring find its way… Read more Audio

  • Library at home

    2:21 PM.In the front garden of Suneeta and Manu Narula's home in Auckland there is a covered shelf painted like a bee and stacked with books. It's Sunetta's own free library next to the driveway of her home… Read more Audio

  • Southern Story for 22 August 2013 - 37

    3:19 PM.A new exhibition is simply called " 37". The show is by the photographer Doc Ross, features 37 Christchurch people captured on film using a 37 second exposure. The aim: to reflect the length of time… Read more Audio

  • Our Changing World - Sunfish

    3:31 PM.It's longer than a grown man is tall, it weighs a ton and it can live to 100. A Sunfish is a mysterious deep-ocean creature. Sunfish are rarely seen, so when one washed up on a beach north of… Read more Audio

  • The Panel Pre-Show for 22 August 2013

    3:45 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

  • The Panel with Tim Watkin and Liz Bowen-Clewley (Part 1)

    4:07 PM.Topics - David Shearer has resigned as Labour leader. He announced his departure at 1.30 this afternoon at Parliament surrounded by Labour party members. Shearer will stay in the top job until a new… Read more Audio

  • The Panel with Tim Watkin and Liz Bowen-Clewley (Part 2)

    4:33 PM.Topics - Could your washing be making you sick? The answer is yes, if you mix your underwear with your tea towels. Research in the UK found low temperature washing cycles and "soft" washing… Read more Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written

Jayne O'Neill nominated 'Leader of the Band' by Dan Fogelburg.

1:15 Your Place

We visit Waitahuna, with its gold mining history, near the Otago town of Lawrence.

2:10 The War Ring -  David Cox

The story of a ring, a special ring, that went to war and has finally, nearly 70 years later, returned home.

2:20 The Garden Library - Suneeta Narula

Next to Suneeta and Manu Narula's home in the eastern suburbs of Auckland there is a covered shelf, painted like a bee, stacked with books. It's Sunetta's own free library next to the driveway of her home. She calls it the Buzzword Book Stop and it's free, anyone is welcome to take a book or leave one.

2:30 Reading

In today's reading from his book, 'Deep Beyond the Reef' - Owen Scott takes us back to August 2003  when the trial began for the man accused of  the double murder of his brother John Scott and his partner, Greg Schrivener, in Fiji 2 years-earlier.

MUSIC DETAILS:
Tk 8. 'Excerpt From Alexandra' played by Regina Carter.  CD Verve 065 554 - Paganini: After the Dream. ©  The Verve Music Group, UMG Recordings Inc 2003. Also: Tk 6 "Terrorgosa"  by Sola Rosa.  CD: FMR  336612 "Haunted Out-Takes", Festival/Mushroom Records (NZ) 2003  Dur:  00' 25"

2:45 Feature Album - Hunky Dory by David Bowie (1971)

3:12 Stanley Kubrick - BBC Witness

Fifty years ago, the legendary film director, Stanley Kubrick, premiered his classic cold war satire Dr Strangelove. It was the start of his long relationship with the set designer, Sir Ken Adam. Sir Ken talks to Vincent Dowd about working with one of the most talented - and difficult - men in film.

3:20 The Earthquake Exhibition

Katy Gosset visits a new exhibition that reflects on Christchurch's devastating February 2011 earthquake in 37 second increments.

3:40 Our Changing World

It's longer than a grown man, it weighs a ton and it can live to 100 years. Sunfish are rarely-seen, deep-ocean creatures, and very little is known about them. But a 2.1m specimen that washed up on a beach north of Auckland will soon be on display at Te Papa.

4:06 The Panel - Tim Watkin and Liz Bowen-Clewley