Afternoons for Tuesday 19 May 2015
1:10 Your Song
The Knitting Song by Sophie Madeleine. Chosen by Suze Foster of Wellington.
1:20 The Critics
TV review - Irene Gardiner
Books - Wendyl Nissen
Music - Colin Morris
Web - Daniela Maoate-Cox: Live stream a Funeral. Play with real animals online. Speed reading with Spritz. Minute Physics on YouTube.
2:10 Banks Decision - Ann Marie May
The latest news from the Court of Appeal. John Banks has been aquitted of electoral fraud charges.
2:15 How the digital world is changing newsrooms - Caitlin Petre
How is the digital world affecting how decisions are made in the newsroom? Caitlin Petre is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology at New York University. She's been looking at how modern day editors decide what stories are important, and what news they deliver to you.
Link: Gitbook
2:30 NZ Reading - The Conductor
Tanya tries to take Sonya's cello to sell for food and Nikolai is outraged. He finds little notes his daughter had written to her dead mother inside it. Shostakovich finishes the adagio, the 4th movement of his symphony. His wife Nina wants the family to leave and he arranges passage out for them all. Elias struggles with his hungry orchestra and he puts hair oil in his mother's soup to make it taste better.
2:45 Feature album
The Concert for Bangladesh (1971)
3:10 Feature interview - Daniel Kish
Daniel Kish is known as a real life Batman. He is a crusader, without a cape, for the blind. Kish lost his eyesight as a baby but uses a form of echolocation to build a mental picture of his the world around him and is able to pursue outdoor hobbies such as hiking, despite being totally blind. It's his mission through World Access for the Blind to help other visually impaired people learn the technique and achieve the kind of independence he enjoys.
3:35 Don't Just Sit There - Alison Ballance
Many of us spend much of our time sitting - but there is increasing evidence that too much sitting is bad for our health. Meredith Peddie at the University of Otago is investigating what happens to our metabolism after meals when we interrupt sedentary behavior with different amounts of exercise, and Alison Ballance joins her in the clinic as two study participants begin a day of testing.
Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Jim Mora, Noelle McCarthy, Nicky Pellegrino and Bernard Hickey.
MUSIC DETAILS:
Tuesday MAY 19
YOUR SONG:
ARTIST: Sophie Madeleine
TITLE: The Knitting Song
COMP: Sophie Madeleine
ALBUM: Love.Life.Ukulele
LABEL: i-Tunes
THE CRITICS:
ARTIST: B.B. KING
TITLE: DON'T ANSWER THE DOOR
COMP: JIMMY JOHNSON
ALBUM: BLUES IS KING
LABEL: ABC RECORDS -BLUESWAY RECORDS 6001
ARTIST: VAN MORRISON
TITLE: HIGHER THAN THE WORLD
COMP: VAN MORRISON
ALBUM: DUETS
LABEL: RCA /SONY 88875068442
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: My Sweet Lord
TITLE: George Harrison
COMP: Harrison
ALBUM: The Concert For Bangladesh
LABEL: EPIC
ARTIST: Just Like A Woman
TITLE: Bob Dylan
COMP: Dylan
ALBUM: The Concert For Bangladesh
LABEL: EPIC
ARTIST: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
TITLE: George Harrison
COMP: Harrison
ALBUM: The Concert For Bangladesh
LABEL: EPIC
THE PANEL:
ARTIST: Stevie Wonder
TITLE: Send One Your Love
COMP: Wonder
ALBUM: Stevie Wonder: Original Musicquarium
LABEL: MOTOWN