Afternoons for Wednesday 4 March 2015
1:10 Your Song
Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson. Chosen by RNZAF Firefighter Matt Fistonich
1:20 Music Trivia Game
No clues here. Sorry!
2:10 The Dusky Woodswallow - Colin Miskelly
Last year's sighting of the starling-sized bird by two Japanese birdspotters has just been confirmed by a panel in New Zealand - making it the country's newest bird species. We talk to the panel's convenor, Te Papa's Curator of Terrestrial Vertebrates, Dr Colin Miskelly
The Dusky Woodswallow – as seen near Traill Park, Stewart Island. Image: Satoshi Kakishima & Tomoe Morimoto, NZ Birds Online
2:20 The Rainmaker - Richard Blacksell
We speak to a real-life rainmaker - the man responsible for the 12-thousand litres of water in the theatre show, Singin in the rain. He's worked on productions of Sister Act, Hairspray and Saturday Night Fever. And now Richard Blacksell is coming to New Zealand with the musical Singin' In The Rain
2:30 NZ Reading - Travelling Right
Tommy and Tammy from Tampa set tongues wagging amongst the travellers on a package tour when a woman on the tour is repeatedly seen exiting the Tampa couple's hotel room at all hours of the day and night
2:45 Feature album
Bjork - Debut (1993)
3:10 Tech News - with Paul Brislen
Digital payments, Wireless charging, Samsung vs Apple, And some of the more entertaining devices coming out: virtual reality for games, privacy glasses that stop facial recognition software from recognising you, a new generation of action cameras (like the Go Pro) that are cheaper and which can be strapped to a cat (cat optional extra) and a Bluetooth walking stick prototype but doesn't become a sword nor does it contain a hip flask of whiskey.
3:30 Monte Cecilia Housing Trust - David Steemson
One of Auckland's biggest emergency housing suppliers is facing challenges to its own future. The Monte Cecilia Housing Trust says it depends on outside help for much of its income. But costs are outstripping the funding
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
With Julie Moffett, Jim Mora, Bernard Hickey and Dita de Boni
MUSIC DETAILS AFTERNOONS/PANEL
Wednesday 5 March
YOUR SONG:
ARTIST: Bruno Mars
TITLE: Uptown Funk
COMP: Ronson,Bhasker,Mars,Lawrence,Gallaspy,Williams
ALBUM: Uptown Special
LABEL: Columbia 505310
MUSIC TRIVIA QUIZ:
ARTIST: The Animals
TITLE: House Of The Rising Sun
COMP: (Tradl)
ALBUM: The Singles Plus
LABEL: EMI 746605
ARTIST: Tom Petty
TITLE: Free Fallin'
COMP: Petty/Lynne
ALBUM: Tom Petty Greatest Hits
LABEL: MCA 110813
ARTIST: Bob Marley
TITLE: No Woman, No Cry
COMP: Ford/Marley
ALBUM: Natty Dread
LABEL: Island 846204
ARTIST: Elbow
TITLE: Station Approach
COMP: Elbow/Garvey
ALBUM: Leaders Of The Free World
LABEL: V2 132558
ARTIST: Bruce Springsteen
TITLE: Atlantic City
COMP: Springsteen
ALBUM: Nebraska
LABEL: Columbia 438358
ARTIST: Ultravox
TITLE: Vienna
COMP: Curry/Cross/Cann/Ure
ALBUM: Greatest Hits Of The 80's
LABEL: Dusky 579165
ARTIST: The Pogues
TITLE: Dirty Old Town
COMP: Mac Coll
ALBUM: Rum, Sodomy And The Lash
LABEL: Warner 175405
ARTIST: Grace Jones
TITLE: The Apple Stretching
COMP: VanPeebles
ALBUM: The Compass Point Sessions
LABEL: Island 524501
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Bjork
TITLE: Human Behaviour
COMP: Gudmundsdottir, Hooper
ALBUM: Debut
LABEL: Polydor 521323
ARTIST: Byork
TITLE: Venus As A Boy
COMP: Bjork
ALBUM: Debut
LABEL: Polydor 521323
ARTIST: Byork
TITLE: Bigtime Sensuality
COMP: Bjork, Hooper
ALBUM: Debut
LABEL: Polydor 521323
PANEL HALF TIME:
ARTIST: The Muttonbirds
TITLE: Nature
COMP: Mason
ALBUM: The Mutton Birds
LABEL: BAG 435300