Afternoons for Thursday 20 July 2017
Afternoons is being hosted this week by Megan Whelan.
Our Short Story Club story today is 'Real Life' by John Summers
Read it before 3pm, and email us your thoughts jesse@radionz.co.nz
1:10 First Song
1:20 Trump Jr to Testify
Donald Trump Junior and the former Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort will testify before the US Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington next week. The President's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner will also appear before the committee. The hearing comes less than two weeks after revelations of meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer. Our Washington correspondent, Simon Marks, explains.
Donald Trump Jr Photo: AFP
1:25 Experiencing New Zealand's Welfare System
Earlier this week we spoke with Pinky Fang, about her difficulties accessing a disability benefit. It came off the back of Green Party co-leader, Metiria Turei, revealing she lied to receive more money when she was a solo mother on a benefit. We've had a lot of feedback from listeners about experiencing difficulty when accessing benefits. Chelsie Preston Crayford is a mum and an actor. Her daughter Olive was only five hours old before she had her first seizure. And it meant Chelsie and her partner couldn't work, while looking after their unwell newborn.
Chelsie Preston Crayford Photo: Auckland Actors
1:35 Alice Foulcher - That's Not Me
Alice Foulcher is the writer and star of the film That's Not Me, about a wannabe star who is gutted by her identical twin sister's HBO success - plus she's dating Jared Leto. The film is screening at the New Zealand Film Festival which opens tomorrow. Alice joins us in the studio.
Belinda Misevski, Alice Foulcher and Lloyd Allison-Young in a scene from That's Not Me Photo: Supplied/Catharine Neilson
1:40 Great Album: Too-Rye-Aye by Dexy's Midnight Runners
2:10 Theatre Critic
2:20 Dr Jess Berentson-Shaw on Welfare Reform
Dr Jess Berentson Shaw of the Morgan Foundation discusses the Green's welfare policy.
2:30 The history of election bribes in NZ
It is election year and the political bribes are coming thick and fast. This is not a new phenomenon. In fact, some of the biggest bribes in our political history occurred a long time ago.
Historian Grant Morris looks back.
Joseph Ward receiving congratulations after 'accidentally' winning the 1928 election. Photo: Wikipedia
2:45 The Reading
3:10 Short Story Club
Photo: RNZ
This week's story is John Summers' non-fiction short story 'Real Life'
Read it before 3pm, and email us your thoughts jesse@radionz.co.nz
The best emailer wins a copy of John Summer's novel, Mermaid Boy.
3:25 Tell me about your thesis
Jane Hurst tells us about her thesis about women's workplace relationships
3:30 BBC Witness
3:45 The Pre-Panel Story of the Day and One Quick Question
4:05 The Panel with Chris Clark and Sandy Hodge
Music played in this show
AFTERNOON'S WITH JESSE MULLIGAN (Megan Whelan)
TUESDAY JULY 17th 2017
1:10pm Megan's FIRST SONG:
ARTIST: Julien Baker
TITLE: Distant Solar Systems
COMP: Julien Baker
ALBUM: Single
LABEL: Matador
1:45pm - GREAT ALBUM:
Artist: DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
Song: Come On Eileen
Compr: Kevin Rowland Jim Paterson Billy Adams
Album: Too-Rye-Aye
Label: Mercury
Artist: DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
Song: Old
Composer: Rowland, Paterson
Album: Too-Rye-Aye
Label: Mercury
Artist: DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
Song: Let's Make This Precious
Comp: Rowland, Paterson
Album: Too-Rye-Aye
Label: Mercury
Artist: DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
Song: Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)
Comp: Van Morrison
Album: Too-Rye-Aye
Label: Mercury
2:45pm -
ARTIST: Shane Carter
TITLE: I know not where I stand
COMP: Carter
ALBUM: FNCD571
LABEL: Flying Nun
3.30pm
ARTIST: Dan Aurbach
TITLE: Shine On Me
COMP: Aurbach
ALBUM: Waiting On A Song
LABEL: Easy Eye Sound