Afternoons for Tuesday 10 April 2018
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First song: Open Top
1:11 PM.Paris based kiwi Zoe Dadson and French musician Sylvain Brousse are Open Top and they are in the studio to talk about their recently released album, Take it slow.
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My Wahine story
1:21 PM.After a long walk around the deck of the sinking Wahine 50 years ago, Sharon Major realised she would have to throw her 6-month old daughter, Sarah, into the arms of a stranger in a life raft below.
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Award-winning firm backs women tradies
1:41 PM.A Wellington plumbing company, run by a woman, has won the country's top plumbing award for 2018. Hutt Gas and Plumbing employs three of of just 22 women plumbing apprentices and tradespeople across… Read more Audio
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Book critic: Rachel Barrowman on Plumb
2:10 PM.Maurice Gee's award winning and critically acclaimed novel, Plumb, was published 40 years ago. Historian Rachel Barrowman tells is about its place in New Zealand literary history. Read more Audio
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Lee Prebble: The role of recording studios
2:20 PM.It's time for our music feature and this week we're tipping our hat to those behind the curtain of music. Recording engineer, record producer and multi-instrumentalist Dr Lee Prebble discusses how to… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Amy Chua: Political tribes and America's divisionism
3:09 PM.Humans beings love to be part of a group. It's what we do. We identify with others who are similar to us culturally, ethnically, politically. We are hardwired with a need to be belong and also to… Read more Audio
Short Story Club
Something a little different this Thursday. Instead of talking about a short story, we are doing a poetic analysis of two songs -Chris Knox's 'Not given Lightly' and Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day'. You can read them both here
Zoe Dadson and Sylvain Brousse Photo: Supplied
1:10 First song: Open Top
Paris based kiwi Zoe Dadson and French musician Sylvain Brousse are Open Top and they are in the studio to talk about their recently released album, Take it slow.
The pair have been working with a range of musicians in New Zealand and their music is a mix of pop, rock and jazz influenced original songs. Their album was recorded in Paris and released in Auckland in December last year.
1:15 My Wahine story
After a long walk around the deck of the sinking Wahine 50 years ago, Sharon Major realised she would have to throw her 6-month old daughter, Sarah, into the arms of a stranger in a life raft below.
She did it quickly and jumped in after, only moments before the ship tipped up and sunk in the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
Today we commemorate 50 years since the Wahine disaster, which claimed the lives of 53 people.
Murray and Sharon major with baby Sarah Photo: NZ Post
1:35 Women in plumbing
A Wellington plumbing company, run by a woman, has won Master Plumber of the Year Award 2018.
Hutt Gas and Plumbing employs two of just 22 female plumbing apprentices across New Zealand.
Its director, Colleen Upton, is driving the charge for more diverse workforces in the industry. She tells us why it's important more women should be plumbers.
Plumbing apprentice Nikita Ward talking to Chilton Girls about a career in plumbing and gasfitting Photo: Supplied
1:40 Great album - Woodface by Crowded House
Photo: Penguin
2:10 Book critic: Rachel Barrowman on Plumb
Maurice Gee's award winning and critically acclaimed novel, Plumb, was published 40 years ago.
Historian Rachel Barrowman who wrote Gee's biography talks to us about this important work and its place in New Zealand literary history
2:20 Music Feature: Recording Studios
It's time for our music feature and this week we're tipping our hat to those behind the curtain of music.
Recording engineer, record producer and multi-instrumentalist Dr Lee Prebble is in the Wellington studio to discuss some of the great recordings and how to make good music.
Lee has helped put together a variety of New Zealand classics from Black Seeds and Phoenix Foundation to Trinity Roots and Dave Dobbyn.
3:10 Amy Chua: Political tribes and America's divisionism.
Amy Chua Photo: Twitter
Humans beings love to be part of a group. It's what we do. We identify with others who are similar to us culturally, ethnically, politically. We are hardwired with a need to be belong and also to exclude. We are tribal.
Amy Chua, best known as the tiger mom who shared with the world her strict child rearing philosophy, is also a professor of law at Yale University. She says the deep divisions in American politics right now are the result of tribalism. Professor Chua talks about the deep divisions in America and what needs to be done to create more unity. Her book is called Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
3:30 Ours - Treasures from Te Papa
3:45 The Pre-Panel Story of the Day and One Quick Question
4:05 The Panel with Peter Fa'afiu and Michele A'Court
Music played in this show
1:10pm - FIRST SONG:
TITLE: Take it slow
ARTIST: Open Top
COMP: Zoe Dadson, Sylvain Brousse
LABEL: self produced
ALBUM: Take it slow
(not live)
1:45pm - GREAT ALBUM:
ARTIST: Crowded House
TITLE: Four Seasons in One Da
yCOMP: Neil Finn, Tim Finn
ALBUM: Woodface
LABEL: Capitol
ARTIST: Crowded House
TITLE: Fall At Your Feet
COMP: Neil Finn, Tim Finn
ALBUM: Woodface
LABEL: Capitol
ARTIST: Crowded House
TITLE: Weather With You
COMP: Neil Finn, Tim Finn
ALBUM: Woodface
LABEL: Capitol
MUSIC FEATURE - DR LEE PREBBLE ON STUDIO ENGINEERING
TITLE: You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
ARTIST: The Righteous Brothers
COMP: Phil Spector
LABEL: Philles
ALBUM: You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
TITLE: When the levee breaks
ARTIST: Led Zeppelin
COMP: John Bonham, Jimmy Page, Memphis Minnie, John Paul Jones, Joe McCoy
LABEL: Columbia
ALBUM: Led Zeppelin IV
TITLE: Heroes
ARTIST: David Bowie
COMP: David Bowie, Brian Eno
LABEL: RCA
ALBUM: Heroes
TITLE: Pure Joy
ARTIST: Phoenix Foundation
LABEL: Flying Nun Records
ALBUM: Happy Ending
TITLE: Zion's Blood
ARTIST: Lee Perry
COMP: Lee "Scratch" Perry
LABEL: Island
ALBUM: Super Ape
