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Afternoons for Wednesday 16 October 2013

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1:10 Best Song Ever Written - Mike Shaskey of Auckland nominated:

ARTIST:  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) and Gerald Moore (piano).    
TITLE:  An die Musik'     
COMP:  Franz Schubert     
ALBUM:  Franz Schubert    
LABEL:  DG 429 968

1:25 Link 3

O MIO BABBINO CARO - CALLAS
EVERYTHING I OWN - BREAD
ST PETER'S RENDEZVOUS - WARRATAHS (original version, please)  
ENVY OF ANGELS - MUTTONBIRDS
PAPA WAS A ROLLING STONE - TEMPTATIONS
THE LIVING YEARS - MIKE & THE MECHANICS
HERO - FAMILY OF THE YEAR
REVEREND MR BLACK - KINGSTON TRIO

The Answer: They're all songs about fathers.

2:10 The Uganda Volunteer - Sonya Harper works for nothing. She lives in a small apartment, with iron bars on the windows a razor wire fence.  She even contracted cerebral malaria on the job, but that has not deterred her enthusiasim for her work. Sonya left a position as an office manager and comfortable life about 5 years to help children in Uganda. The kids keep her coming back. Right now she is a volunteer at a deaf school just outside Kampala. She comes back to New Zealand to raise money to pay for her living expenses and extras for the kids.

2:20 Nelson Steps - Karen Stade - Tell any taxi driver in Nelson to take you to the steps, and they know exaxtly where to go. The grand granite Cawthorn Steps steps lead up to Christchurch Cathedral.  They're named after Thomas Cawthron, the founder of the Cawthron Institute Scientific Research Centre in Nelson. Historian and author, Karen Stade has written a book to mark the centenary of the steps. It's called Meet you at the Church Steps: A social history of a Nelson Landmark.
http://www.nelsonhistorybykarenstade.com/

2:30 Reading - The letters of Katherine Mansfield were as rich, revealing and sometimes as sharp as her stories. And at half past two this afternoon - Vincent O'Sullivan recalls her satirical jabs at the cream of literary society and  a brief warning shot, fired  to warn off a princess who was showing too much interst in her husband.
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MUSIC DETAILS      
À la Mannière de Borodine/Ravel/Decca 440 836 Dur: 1:00

2:45 Feature Album - Grace - Jeff Buckley (1994).

3:10 Virtual World - Hamish MacEwan

3:30 Waikaraka Cemetery - David Steemson - Tales from an Auckland cemetery. Tours of some of the city's oldest burial grounds have proved  a big hit during Auckland's heritage festival.  More from David Steemson  at 3.30.

4:06 Gordon McLauchlan and Steve McCabe are on The Panel. The Booker prize comes to NZ again. Elizabeth Knox will tell us what Eleanor Catton's win means. Can Len Brown survive? Polling results on our attitudes towards being spied on, compulsory voting or not, and our favourite occupations. The cost of the Kohanga Reo case that went before the Waitangi Tribunal. And should they be looking for the yacht Nina again? Your thoughts on these and all other topics welcome - 2101 if you're texting; by email afternoons@radionz.co.nz.