Afternoons for Tuesday 8 October 2013
1:10 Best Song Ever Written - Alan Meredith from Cape Cod, Provincetown, USA nominated 'More (than the greatest love) by Bobby Darin.
1:25 Critical Mass
TV - Sarah McMullan - A Place to Call Home - TV1 - Sundays - 9pm
Books - Vanda Symon - How to Hear Classical Music: by Davinia Caddy and Where the Dead Men Go: by Liam McIlvanney
Music - Nick Atkinson
ARTIST: Delaney Davidson
TITLE: The Dixon Line
COMP: Delaney Davidson
ALBUM: Rough Diamand
LABEL: Stink Magnetic
ARTIST: Grand Ole Hayride
TITLE: Coming Home
COMP: Marlon Williams, Tami Neilson, Delaney Davidson, Dave Kahn
ALBUM: Sad But True Volume 2 "Grand Ole Hayride"
LABEL: Lyttleton Records
Web - Ben Gracewood
1. Twitter is filing for an IPO
2. Silk Road Bust, Bitcoin and Tor Encryption
2:10 The Musical Man - Nick Afoa hasn't acted since he had a part in his school play 10 years ago…and now the 27-year-old has landed the lead role in Australia's rendition of The Lion King musical, which opens in December.
Nick - who you may recall singing the national anthem ahead of All Black test matches in recent years - will play the part of Simba, the lion cub who follows a tortured path to eventually avenge his father's death and take his place as king of Africa's pride lands.
2:20 Eclair Nation - Allan Nation - The Nation family has been baking chocolate eclairs the size of saucers in Ohakune since 1939. And the giant-sized treat has become so famous, it's being talked about from Munich to Australia - they recently sold a record one-thousand in a day.
2:30 Our Reading recalls the hippy days of the 20th century, Claire and Gerard have parted company - and he has spent 9 months with the children, touring the country in a house-bus. But the times visiting communes around the country are to have a number of consequences, as you'll hear in today's episode of Swamp Fever.
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MUSIC DETAILS
Natures Best: New Zealand's Top 30 Songs of All-Time 5054952000 © 2002 Sony Music Entertainment Tk 1.
Nature by Wayne Mason. Shine 0927482502 © 2002 Warner Music (NZ) Ltd. Tk 9 You Oughta Be In Love
by Dave Dobbyn.
2:45 Feature Album - AWB - Average White Band (1974)
3:10 Our Feature Guest is Professor Simon Mitchell Head of Anaesthesiology at the University of Auckland Medical School about how Auckland hospital's saving lives in surgery by using a technique airline pilots have known about for decades. it's also how they change cars during Formula One cars during races.
3:30 Asian Report - In today's Asian Report; she's the only tutor teaching Chinese to high school students across the country via video-conferencing. Lynda Chanwai-Earle's in Hawkes Bay to meet the award winning Chinese woman behind the webcam.
4:06 Mark Inglis and Tony Doe are on The Panel today - we'll talk about the Lundy case, the cost of building a house, the problems with ACC cover over the age of 65, what to do about Porirua's plague of seagulls, the question of whether we need to stop swearing on the Bible or the Koran, and would you like to know when you'll die?