Afternoons for Thursday 12 September 2013
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Best Song Ever Written - This Shirt
1:08 PM.Kris Mac Pherson from Grey Lynn has chosen 'This Shirt' by Mary Chapin Carpenter. Audio
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Your Place - Seddon
1:23 PM.On 16 August a magnitude 6.6 struck at 2:30 in the afternoon when Seddon School children were in assembly. A lot of the attention was on Wellington, but Seddon was at the heart of the quakes. How is… Read more Audio
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World records
2:09 PM.Chris Sheedy is the Australia/New Zealand adjudicator for the Guiness Book of World Records. It's his job to verify that a record for the most swim caps worn at once - held by a New Zealander by the… Read more Audio
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Late literacy
2:24 PM.For the first time in her life, 50-year-old Brenda Smith can do something most of us take for granted. She can read. Brenda had hearing and learning difficulties growing up in Temuka. A few teachers… Read more Audio
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Nicky Pellegrino's new book
3:10 PM.Nicky Pellegrino is the best-selling author of 'Recipe For Life', 'The Italian Wedding' and 'When In Rome'. Her new novel 'The Food of Love Cookery School' has just been published. Audio
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Southern Story: Natural Burial
3:21 PM.The first natural burial park in New Zealand was certified at Makara, Wellington, in 2007, after eight years of lobbying by Mark Blackham and Sola Freeman. In the South Island there are two - both in… Read more Audio
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Our Changing World - Conservation Week
3:33 PM.Conservation Week this year has whanau as its theme, so Amelia Nurse joined the Hobden-Smith family on a wander through Zealandia. Audio
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The Panel Pre-Show for 12 September 2013
3:44 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
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The Panel with Scott Yorke and Jordan Williams (Part 1)
4:07 PM.Topics - Wellington City Council is looking to impose regulations to make public intoxication an offense. The council is still debating the issue at the moment, but it is suggested it will pass as… Read more Audio
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The Panel with Scott Yorke and Jordan Williams (Part 1)
4:34 PM.Topics - Auckland teenager Lorde with her song Royals which is skyrocketing up the US Billboard charts, it's currently sitting at number 3 underneath Katy Perry. The reserve bank has held the official… Read more Audio
1:10 Best Song Ever Written - .'This Shirt' by Mary Chapin Carpenter, nominated by Kris Mac Pherson
1:25 Your Place - Seddon.
2:10 World Records - Chris Sheedy - Racing around the streets of London on motorized furniture, witnessing a wedding at 41 thousand feet: it's all is just another day at the office for Chris Sheedy. He is the Australia/New Zealand adjudicator for the Guiness book of world records. It's his job to verify that a record for the most swim caps worn at once, held by a New Zealander by the way, or the most people at a toga party, is actually legitimate. The latest edition of the book comes out next week. It claims to the best selling copyrighted book of all time beating the Bible and the Koran.
2:20 Late Literacy - Brenda Smith - For the first time in her life, 50 year old Brenda Smith can do something most of us take for granted. She can read. Brenda had hearing and learning difficulties growing up in Temuka. A few teachers here and there made an extra effort, but Brenda never learned to read until she knocked on the door of Literacy South Canterbury a few months ago and asked for help. Now she can read books and even a little bit of the newspaper. Brenda's efforts have been recognized with a commendation certificate at the inaugural Adults Learner's awards in Timaru.
2:30 Reading - A short story by Charlotte Grimshaw from her collection 'Opportunity'.
Madeleine Hyland with part one of 'Plane Sailing'.
BRIEF TRAIL:
A tired solo mother/dentist navigates her way between wake and sleep.
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MUSIC DETAILS
Silent City by Alan Barry, tk 10 CHAP 301
2:45 Feature Album - AM is new album by English indie rock band, Arctic Monkeys - one of the favourites for the coveted Mercury Prize. The nominations were released this morning.
3:10 Feature Story - Nicky Pellegrino - 'The Food of Love Cookery School'
3:20 Natural burials - Sage Forest
It's an environmentalist's dream - non-toxic, biodegradable materials only, no embalming fluids, a shallow grave to be of use to worms and tree-roots, and eventually part of a planted native park – but natural burials have been slow taking root in New Zealand. Victoria Davis chose a natural burial for her soul-mate husband Buzz, but it wasn't looking possible to have the burial in Golden Bay. Sage Forest met with Victoria at Rototai burial park to find out about natural funerals and how Buzz came to eventually be buried there on 11 September 2012.
Go Willow! basket casket by Nicola Basham, Hazel & Jo Pearson & Suse Toder.
Further info:
http://www.naturalburials.co.nz/
http://www.goodfuneralguide.co.nz/eco_naturalburial.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/6779056/Natural-burials-the-way-to-go
http://livinglegacies.co.nz/family-directed-home-funerals/natural-burial-parks/
http://gowillow.co.nz/
3:30 Our Changing World - The theme of Conservation Week this year is Whanau-Family ((What are your whanau doing? Is the theme)), so Amelia Nurse joins the Smith-Hobden family at Zealandia for a bird-watching walk. Rowan and Ben (aged 6 and 9) bring along some of their collection of soft-toy birds that play real bird song, and they use the calls to try and attract real birds – the boys are great tour guides according to Amelia!
4:06 The Panel - Scott Yorke and Jordan Williams