Afternoons for Monday 21 March 2016
1:10 First Song
'Sacred Hill' - Nairobi Trio.
1:15 Paid Parental Leave - Cecilia Robinson
If you're thinking of having a family, you may want to listen to what our next guest has to say. My Food Bag has announced a generous paid parental leave scheme that doubles the government's 18 weeks of paid parental leave and provides an option for an additional 60 per cent of salary to be allocated to a spouse or partner. Founder and co-CEO of My Food Bag is Cecilia Robinson.
1:20 Trump Presidency Rated Among Top 10 Global Risks - Robert Powell
Donald Trump winning the US presidency is considered one of the top 10 risks facing the world. Research firm, the Economist Intelligence Unit, undertakes economic, political and socio-demographic forecasting. And it says Trump could disrupt the global economy and heighten political and security risks in the US. Robert Powell is a senior editor and economist with the unit.
1:25 Play On - Paul McLaney and Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper
Our guests have done what they say, is a world first. They've taken 12 of Shakespeare's most well known soliloquies and set them to music. It's part of Auckland's Pop-up Globe. Play On will be performed this April by a cast of actors and musicians, alongside a string section and acoustic band. Award-winning composer Paul McLaney, Julia Deans, and Laughton Kora, formerly of Kora are part of the cast.
1:35 New Zealand's Great 'Pot Shortage' - Don Rowe
A reported dope shortage in New Zealand has sparked international headlines. Online magazine The Spinoff published a story about a shortage of marijuana in New Zealand due to police crackdowns. The article was picked up by TIME Magazine, who ran the headline 'New Zealanders Are Freaking Out About a Pot Shortage'.
1:40 Favourite Album
Vegetarians Of Love - Bob Geldof
2:10 The Critics
TV Review - Linda Burgess
Books - Allan Drew
New Music - Colin Morris
Theatre - Raewyn Whyte & John Smythe
3:10 Feature Interview - Lucy Kalanithi
Doctors confront death. It's part of the job. When a Doctor is diagnosed with cancer, and understands he is going to die, it changes nothing and everything according to Dr Paul Kalanithi. At age 36, he was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer The fact of death is unsettling he says ,Yet there is no other way to live. In the last months of Dr Kalanithi's life, he shared his perspective on death in a highly acclaimed book, When Breath Becomes Air. Less than two years after diagnosis, he died. Dr Lucy Kalanithi, his widow, finished the manuscript for him.
3:35 Voices
The mandarin is excavated carefully from its peel and the skin aged for 25 years before its hand-stitched around tea leaves to make a whole mandarin again - but it's an expensive brew. Lynda Chanwai-Earle is in Southern China to learn the secrets in the art of tea making within generations of a tea growing family.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Julie Moffett.
Music played in this show
JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST: The Nairobi Trio
TITLE: Sacred Hill
COMP: Richard Adams, John Quigley, Peter Koopman
ALBUM: Collection
LIVE: RNZ Akld
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Bob Geldof
TITLE: Thinking Voyager 2 Type Stuff
COMP: Bob Geldof, Pete Briquette
ALBUM: The Vegetarians of Love
LABEL: Mercury
ARTIST: Bob Geldof
TITLE: Chains of Pain
COMP: Bob Geldof, Danny Mitchell
ALBUM: The Vegetarians of Love
LABEL: Mercury
ARTIST: Bob Geldof
TITLE: No Small Wonder
COMP: Bob Geldof, Danny Mitchell
ALBUM: The Vegetarians of Love
LABEL: Mercury
MUSIC CRITIC - Colin Morris:
ARTIST: Roo Panes
TITLE: Stay With Me
COMP: Roo Panes
ALBUM: Paperweights
LABEL: Southbound
ARTIST: Ray LaMontagne
TITLE: Homecoming
COMP Ray LaMontagne
ALBUM: Ouroboros
LABEL: Sony
ARTIST: Ray LaMontagne
TITLE: In My Own Way
COMP: Ray LaMontagne
ALBUM: Ouroboros
LABEL: Sony
PANEL - HALF TIME SONG:
ARTIST: Donna Summer
TITLE: She Works Hard For The Money
COMP: Donna Summer Michael Omartian
ALBUM: She Works Hard For The Money
LABEL: Mercury