Afternoons for Tuesday 17 February 2015
1:10 Your Song
Maybe Baby by Buddy Holly and the Crickets. Chosen by Geoff Barker
1:20 The Critics
1. TV review - Phil Wallington
2. Books - Graham Beattie
3 Music - Roger Marbeck
4. Web - Ele Ludemann
2:10 Tuatara Surfeit
Most of us probably think of the tuatara as an endangered native species and one which needs careful protecting. So it is may well be surprising to hear that at the Southland Museum & Art Gallery, they are preparing for the possibility of euthanising tuatara. To explain the background, the museum's curator Lindsay Hazley
2.20 Mars Haze
A mysterious haze high above Mars has left scientists puzzled. The vast plume was initially spotted by amateur astronomers in 2012, and appeared twice before vanishing, the BBC reports. Scientists have now analysed the images and say that the formation, stretching for more than 1000 kms, is larger than any seen before
2:30 NZ Reading - The Crime Of Huey Dunstan
Ches puts his case of flashback in defence of Huey, and dines with an old friend, Andrew Gort
2:45 Feature album
Stevie Wonder "Innervisions" (1973)
3:10 Lynda Blackmon Lowery
By the time Lynda Blackmon Lowery was 14, she had been arrested 9 times in the struggle by black Americans for basic civil rights in the early 1960's. She was the youngest person to make the 5 day, 86 kilometer march with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior from Selma to Montgomery Alabama. She was among the protesters beaten by police and still bear the scars from stitches to her face and back of her head. Selma, the movie, is released in New Zealand this week. Lynda Blackmon Lowery talks about her experience, the power to change, and living each day of your life as a journey in history
3:35 Science and environment stories
PhD student Nicola Winch has developed a portable X-ray detector, which could allow images to be taken on the scene of an emergency and sent to the hospital before a patient arrives. Ruth Beran goes to Victoria University to meet Nicola, and her supervisor Andy Edgar, to see the device in action
Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
With Jim Mora, Noelle McCarthy, Michele A'Court and Tony Doe