Afternoons for Monday 25 November 2013 Afternoons

Best song ever written - Hunger Strike

1:09 PM.Nigel Davis from Spotswood, New Plymouth has chosen 'Hunger Strike' by Temple of the Dog. Audio
Eight months to mars - Dame Malvina Major

1:20 PM.Dame Malvina Major is one of this countries most internationally recognised and beloved songstresses. After 50 years you'd think she might be thinking of retirement, but nothing could be further from… Read more Audio
Waka Festival

2:19 PM.The annual Vaka Eiva - or Waka Festival - has started in Rarotonga. Hundreds of paddlers from throughout the world are competing in races in traditional Polynesian canoes, including a 42-kilometre… Read more Audio
The Bassett Road machine-gun murders: NZ's gangster killings

3:07 PM.It was December 7th 1963 and for the first time New Zealanders were reading about a violent criminal underworld in our own backyard. But the murders of George Walker and Kevin Speight would take… Read more Audio
Our Changing World - names

3:32 PM.Does your name match your face? If it does people will like you more, according to research by David Barton. Similarly, Sam O'Sullivan has found that the right names also just feel "right". Ruth Beran… Read more Audio
The Panel pre-show for 25 November 2013

3:48 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
The Panel with Matt Nippert and Chris Wikaira (Part 1)

4:07 PM.Topics - Raglan Maori are threatening to issue a trespass notice on the oil drilling company Anadarko. The company's drillship the Noble Bob Douglas has spent nearly a week in what Tainui hapu are… Read more Audio
The Panel with Matt Nippert and Chris Wikaira (Part 2)

4:34 PM.Topics - at what point are noise complaints unreasonable? The well-known Christchurch chef Jonny Schwass is pondering that question today after somebody made a complaint that interrupted a Sunday… Read more Audio

1:10 Best song ever written - Nigel Davis of Spotswood nominated 'Hunger Strike' by Temple of the Dog
(vocals by rock legends, Chris Cornell & Eddie Vedder)

1:20 Eight Months To Mars - Dame Malvina Major

Dame Malvina Major (right) joins Afternoons host Jim Mora (left) for eight months to Mars today.

2:10 Dr Who - Lucy Burn of BBC Witness
On 23 November 1963 the first episode of Doctor Who, one of the world's best loved TV programmes was shown. Carole Ann Ford, who played the Doctor's grand-daughter, recalls the early days on set, and how life changed as the show became more popular.
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MUSIC DETAILS
BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Theme from Dr Who (Derbyshire/Grainger)
LINKS
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01llw4n

2.20: We check-in with the Vaka Eiva - or Waka Festival - in Rarotonga, with paddlers from throughout the world racing traditional Polynesian canoes. Jim talks with Sonny Wharekura whose team from Tauranga is competing in the marathon race around the island.

2:30 Reading: In her 5000 kilometre bicycle journey in the wilds of South America, Eleanor Meecham is passing through the largely uninhabited stretches of northern Argentina as she continues reading from her book 'Llamas and Empanadas' at half past two.
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MUSIC DETAILS
La Ley y la Trampa by Silvia Mujica, sung by Chaqueno Papaveccino, tk 1 CDE 80.302

2:45 Feature album - Tango in the Night - Fleetwood Mac (1987)

3:10 Feature Author: Scott Bainbridge - 50 years ago next week, the headline of the Truth Newspaper screamed 'Chicago Comes to Auckland' after two men were found shot several times in a gang style murder on Bassett Road in the Auckland suburb of Remuera. It was December 7th 1963 and for the first time, New Zealanders were reading about the violent criminal underworld in our own backyard.
But the murders of George Walker and Kevin Speight would take twists and turns that still raise questions today.
The two men convicted of the murders both initially denied the charges. One of them may have faked his own death and his wearabouts remain a mystery.
Real life crime writer Scott Bainbridge has written a book that challenges some of the long held beliefs about what happened that day and why.

3:30 Robotics - Ruth Beran - Does your name match your face? If it does, then people will like you more, according to research by David Barton. Similarly, Sam O'Sullivan has found that the right names also just feel "right". Ruth Beran meets these University of Otago students, and their supervisor Jamin Halberstadt, to discover why names are so important.

INTERACTIVE DETAILS: http://www.radionz.co.nz/ourchangingworld

4:06 The Panel today, with Matt Nippert and Chris Wikaira: the dangers of an offshore oil spill, the lovely long holidays for judges, the loathing some peope have of noise in suburbia, and the Swiss, interestingly, have rejected the idea we talk about on The Panel a lot, restricting the salaries earned by CEOs and executives to 12 times the wage of their lowest-paid workers.

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