Afternoons for Wednesday 4 June 2014
1:10 Best Song Ever Written: 'Parvardigar' by Pete Townshend, nominated by Andrew Thomas of Christchurch.
1:20 Music Trivia Game
ARTIST: The Beatles
TITLE: All You Need Is Love
COMP: John Lennon, Paul McCartney
ALBUM: The Beatles 1
LABEL: Apple 307026
ARTIST: Cilla Black
TITLE: Anyone Who Had A Heart
COMP: Burt Bacharach, Hal David
ALBUM: Completely Cilla
LABEL: EMI 602832
ARTIST: Blondie
TITLE: Heart of Glass
COMP: Bebbie Harry, Chris Stein
ALBUM: Blondie: Greatest Hits
LABEL: Chrysalis 543105
ARTIST: Jethro Tull
TITLE: Living In The Past
COMP: Ian Anderson
ALBUM: Living In The Past
LABEL: Chrysalis 321575
ARTIST: Pink Floyd
TITLE: Money
COMP: Roger Waters
ALBUM: Echoes
LABEL: EMI 536111
ARTIST: Seal
TITLE: Kiss From A Rose
COMP: Seal
ALBUM: Seal: Best 1991-2004
LABEL: Warner 487 752
ARTIST: Peter Gabriel
TITLE: Solsbury Hill
COMP: Peter Gabriel
ALBUM: Hit
LABEL: Realworld 986109
The Answer: Unusual Time signatures
2:10 Strong Man - Levi Vaonga: Levi Vaonga is best known for his role as 'Mr Mega' .. the big, helpful guy in the hardware store Mitre Ten's advertising campaigns.He's won numerous strongman titles across Australasia and is regularly invited to the world's strongest man championships. He and his wife of twenty five years, Diane, are this weekend, opening a gym in their hometown of Taihape, where they hope to build the fitness of the local population... or at least, some of them.
2:20 George and Willy - George Wilkins: From hobby to a going concern. Two good mates from Tauranga have teamed up to create an entrepreneurial business working out of a backyard shed. Making furniture, they say, just like you'd find in your granddads shed, George Wilkins and his childhood friend Will McCallum started their firm, called 'George and Willy', in 2012. The business graduates say they aim to make products that are honest, timeless and robust.
2:30 NZ Reading: Part two of 'The Broken Book' read by Fiona Farrell.
MUSIC DETAILS
Documentary Odduty CHAP380 © Chappell Recorded Music Library Ltd Tk. 15 Inching Higher by Daniel Pemberton.
2:45 Feature Album - Supernova - Ray Lamontagne (2014)
3.10 On-line with Hamish MacEwan - We go Online with Hamish MacEwan with more about the Gameover Zeus computer virus which steals banking and personal data.
1. How To Protect Your Computer From The 'Zeus' Virus
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/zeus-virus_n_5437844.html?utm_hp_ref=technology
2. Microsoft Unveils Near-Real Time Language Translation For Skype
http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/05/28/microsoft-unveils-near-real-time-language-translation-for-skype/
3. Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
http://googleblog.blogspot.co.nz/2014/05/just-press-go-designing-self-driving.html
4 .For Instagram, a Photo-Editing System of Uncommon Power
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/technology/personaltech/for-instagram-a-photo-editing-system-of-uncommon-power.html?ref=technology
3:30 Female Crew Maritime Unit - Lynda Chanwai-Earle goes to sea with Constable Paula Tanuvasa.
3:45 Panel Pre-Show - Jim Mora and Zoe George: Zoe George today with what the world's talking about: How cannabis affects your sleep; be prepared. Why do female hurricanes kill more people than the male ones do? Have you noticed your feet getting bigger? Grumbles about what they're getting up to in Bear Grylls' new television series. The most-mispronounced names of well-known brands and the most popular songs from movies.