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Afternoons for Wednesday 19 February 2014

  • Best song ever written - Coyote

    1:08 PM.Adrian Carroll from Warrington, Coastal Otago has chosen 'Coyote' by Joni Mitchell. Audio

  • Link 3

    1:21 PM.Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? Audio

  • Epic world adventure

    2:09 PM.When Alistair McGuinness, in his late 30's, was made redundant a few years ago, he went 'round the bend' in a good way. Five Minutes after getting the news that he had lost his job at Vauxhall motors… Read more Audio

  • Douglas DC-3 on show

    2:23 PM.Pilot and aviation enthusiast Athol Murray has the front of a Douglas DC-3 on his property in Dipton. Athol's grandfather James Murray was leader of the airforce's 41 Squadron and flew DC-3s all over… Read more Audio

  • Virtual world with Hamish MacEwan

    3:06 PM.Password safety and predictive text, hackers have penetrated medical computer networks, hundreds of cancer apps: do they work? Who is actually looking at those ads on a webpage or embedded in a video?

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  • NZ Society - Auckland CBD SafeZone

    3:30 PM.A weekend safe area in downtown Auckland where volunteers watch over those who have over indulged in alcohol or drugs, will now continue to operate until at least March.

    Red Frogs volunteers
    Top: Red Frogs volunteers… Read more Audio

  • The Panel pre-show for 19 February 2014

    3:46 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

  • The Panel with Cas Carter and Simon Pound. (Part 1)

    4:07 PM.A new poll reveals that Prime Minister John Key is by far our most liked and trusted politician. The creditors of Kim Dotcom's company, Megastuff, are calling for him to pay $500,000 in debts, as they… Read more Audio

  • The Panel with Cas Carter and Simon Pound. (Part 2)

    4:32 PM.Eight times a day, a group of nuns files into a chapel in their rural monastery in northwestern Missouri to chant and worship. Quite unexpectedly, this private, prayerful pursuit has made the… Read more Audio

1:10 Best Song Ever Written - Adrian Carroll of Warrington, Otago nominated
"Coyote"  by Joni Mitchell with The Band for the concert movie The Last Waltz.

1:25 Link 3 -

ARTIST:    Joni Mitchel (With The Band)
TITLE:        Coyote
COMP:    Joni Mitchel
ALBUM:    The Last Waltz
LABEL:    Rhino 278278

LINK 3:
ARTIST:    The Doors
TITLE:        Light My Fire
COMP:    Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, Robby Krieger
ALBUM:    Burnt CD
LABEL:    In House 400

ARTIST:    Golden Earing
TITLE:        Radar Love
COMP:    George Kooymans, Barry Hay
ALBUM:    Single (Burnt CD)    
LABEL:    iTunes

ARTIST:    The Beatles
TITLE:        Revolution
COMP:    John Lennon, Paul McCartney
ALBUM:    Past Masters . Volume Two
LABEL:    Parlophone 790043    

ARTIST:    Tommy James & The Shondells
TITLE:        Crimson and Clover
COMP:    Tommy James, Peter Lucia Jnr
ALBUM:    The Essential Tommy James & The Shondells
LABEL:    Rhino 2760039

ARTIST:    Al Stewart
TITLE:        Year of The Cat
COMP:    Al Stewart, Peter Wood
ALBUM:    Year Of The Cat
LABEL:    Parlophone

ARTIST:    Gerry Raferty
TITLE:        Baker Street
COMP:    Gerry Raferty
ALBUM:    City to City
LABEL:    Collectables

ARTIST:    Iron Butterfly
TITLE:        In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
COMP:    Doug Ingle
ALBUM:    In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
LABEL:    Rhino / R2 72196  

2:10 An Epic Adventure - Alistair McGuinness - When Alistair McGuinness, a man in his late 30's, was made redundant a few years ago, he went Round the Bend in a good way.  Five minutes after getting the news that he'd lost his job as production planner at Vauxhall motors in Luton England, he called his wife, Fran and they decided to do something different with the redundancy money.  At the end of his last day on the job, Alistair and Fran  got a plane at Heathrow airport and set off on an adventure of a lifetime.  They travelled to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.  Their travels in an overland truck took them up Kilimanjaro and across East and South Africa.
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2:20  The Outdoor Garden Piece - Athol Murray - Some people have garden gnomes, but pilot and aviation enthusiast, Athol Murray has the front of a Douglas DC-3 on his property  in Dipton.

2:30 Reading - Part 3 of  Fête Accompli' - highlights from the early Paris days in the life of  Peta Mathias  
Love,  breakfasts of excess and marriage proposals all feature in today's episode of Fête Accompli as Peta Mathias is introduced to the nuiances of Parisian life and what's "IN" in Paris fashion.
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MUSIC DETAILS      
The Jean-Pierre-Bernac Musette Ensemble: 'C'est Si Bon' from the album Bon Voyage - France/Holiday in France  [CDM 4001]  Dur:0:45
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Book: Fête Accomplie by Peta Mathias Pub:  Random House (31 Jul 1995) ISBN-978-1869412487

2:45 Feature Album - 'Painted from Memory' - the 1998 collaboration between Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach.    

3:10 Virtual World - Hamish MacEwan

3:30 The Safe Zone - Lisa Thompson - 'Think of Generation Y as Generation Me? Think again.  In this afternoon's New Zealand Society, Lisa Thompson meets a group of youth volunteers who are giving up their Friday and Saturday nights to make sure their peers get home safely'
New Zealand Society 

4:06 After 4 on The Panel today are Cas Carter and Simon Pound: The latest political popularity poll, Kim Dotcom's debts. More details about the hosting of the Labour party at TVNZ which has seen Shane Taurima's resignation, the Benedictine nuns on top of the classical music charts, the strange open-ness of the defamation action between Colin Craig and Russell Norman, and the plea for understanding gamblers and treating them not jailing them.