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Afternoons for Monday 23 September 2013

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1:10 Best Song Ever Written - Nicola Ward Petty of Christchurch nominated 'Always On My Mind' by Willie Nelson.

1:25 New Zealand motor racing legend, Chris Amon is on 8 Months To Mars

2:10 Community Circus - Jeanette Pinker - The circus is coming to town in Auckland, right into the heart of the city, in fact. And for one of the CBD's most recognisable heritage buildings, that means a whole new lease of life.
Built in 1910, the Campbell Free Kindergarten building is one of the best examples of Arts-and-Crafts style architecture in Auckland. But now it's been restored to it's former glory and its classrooms are filling up once more.
The space is now playing host to  circus performers of all ages,  thanks to it's new tenants-the Circability Trust.
Jeanette Pinker is the Circability Trust's co-ordinator in Auckland.

2:20 Duke Ellington - Monica Whitlock of BBC Witness - The jazz legend, Duke Ellington played a concert in the Afghan capital Kabul in September 1963 . Monica talks to Faiz Khairzada, the man who organised, not just his appearance, but a series of ambitious cultural events.

2:30 Reading - Our book reading at half past two continues the true story of Molly, Daisy and Gracie, three girls who were taken from their Aboriginal families in  1931 and sent to a Native Settlement school hundreds of kilometres away. One day in the prison-like  environment of the settlement was enough to convince Molly that they should get away from the demoralising  place. And in Today's episode - she translates thoughts into action.
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MUSIC DETAILS      
Original music recorded for the production by David Milroy with Alice Haines
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Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris (Nugi Garimara) Pilkington (University of Queensland Press, 1997) ISBN-0702232815

2:45 Feature Album - Writer - Carole King  (1970)

3:10 Feature Author - Wil Haygood  - the fascinating story of Eugene Allen, who had personal encounters with the last 12 Presidents of the United States. Eugene died three years ago, but he was a butler at the White House for 34 years. Award-winning Washington Post journalist, Wil Haygood is author of The Butler: A Witness to History - now a Hollywood movie.

3:30 Robotics Competition - Alison Ballance - When it comes to designing and building robots, New Zealand secondary school students are the world's best - they've won the international VEX robotics championship for the past 5 years. To find out more, Alison Ballance heads along to a beginner's robotics championship in Wellington to meet some young robot designers and their robots Godzilla and Peter.
INTERACTIVE DETAILS:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/ourchangingworld
BACKGROUND
Kiwibots and the VEX robotics competition in New Zealand
http://www.kiwibots.co.nz/

4:06 David Farrar and Cas Carter are on The Panel. Still one win away, and we'll re-assemble our Complaints Choir to help get us over the line in San Francisco. It'll be the Exhortation Choir today. The strange situation in NZ now with all sorts of legal highs still legally on sale. How potent are they? The real estate boom in parking spaces, and KFC's insistence that all its staff be able to do all its jobs. So goodbye to some disabled employees. What would happen in a whole lot more workplaces followed suit?