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Afternoons for Wednesday 6 November 2019

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 Handing the knitted critters over to the Red Cross who will put them into their packs for new refugee and migrant families who stay at the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre

1:10 First song: Steve Gunn

American music sensation, described by Rolling Stone Magazine as "Rock's Best Kept Secret", Steve Gunn is in the country for a six stop tour which kicks off tonight at Auckland's Tuning Fork. Ahead of that, he's in today for First Song. Full details of his tour are here.

Steve Gunn

Steve Gunn Photo: Andre Upston

1:17 Threatened gull colony in remains of demolished Chch site

Ruins in the centre of Christchurch have become home for hundreds of the world's most threatened gulls.

The black-billed gulls have set up a colony of nests in the demolished remains of an office block on Armagh Street. 

Tarāpuka are only found in New Zealand, but usually near rivers, not on concrete piles. 

DoC Christchurch community ranger Vanessa Mander tells us about this unusual breeding place. 

Credit: Rosie Belton

Credit: Rosie Belton

Credit: Rosie Belton

 

1:27 "Rural trade me" allows online livestock sales

Once upon a time farmers had to go to auctions and pick out the livestock they wanted to purchase.

And while that is still available, the internet has provided a new way to buy and sell - a rural trade me if you will. 

StockX is an independent online marketplace run by those in the industry. Jason Roebuck is Managing Director and he joins us to explain how it works and why it's needed. 

Grazing cows in green meadow of hilly countryside during sunset in new zealand

Photo: 123RF

 

Logo of Nga Taonga Sound & Vision

Photo: Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

1:34 Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: Polish refugee children arrive in Pahīatua

Last weekend marked the 75th anniversary of the arrival in New Zealand of over 700 Polish child refugees during World War II. Commemorations were held at Pahīatua, the site of the camp which was home to the children in 1944.  In today’s visit to the sound archives of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, we will hear radio programmes about the children and the warm welcome they received.

Polish refugee children arriving in Wellington

Crowd greeting Polish refugees

refugee camp in Pahiatua

Listen to a Spectrum radio documentary about their arrival in New Zealand: Will there Be Bread Tomorrow? 

1:50 Making New Zealand Home: Marie Niwenkunda

Each week at this time we bring you stories from New Zealanders who were forced to leave their homelands and have resettled here.
 
Today we are speaking to Marie Niwenkunda from Rwanda.

“My sister Martine and I share the same birthday. This was our last birthday party in Rwanda before we became refugees. A world we knew nothing of at the time.”

“Me (second from left) and my cousins at my grandmother’s house at our annual family get together. It was taken in May, 1992”

“With my siblings and cousins in our new life as refugees in Kenya 1995. At one point about 60 of us (8 or so families) lived together in one house when we first arrived in Kenya. As kids, we were having the time of our lives being together every day…can never imagine what it would have been like for the adults though ☹”

“On our way to NZ, our new home, in March of 1996. We had stopped for transit in Hong Kong”

“We had been wanting to recapture the May 1992 photo for a long time and finally managed to in Johannesburg where the four of us met again for the first time in 25 years”

“Hanging out in Johannesburg in 2017 after years (some as long as 23 years) of being separated by war and genocide. For a family that had annual family holidays together, it makes me sad. We were forcibly separated, now live on different continents, speak different languages and have become strangers without choice”

“With my parents and siblings, 2018”

2.10 Podcast Critic: Alex Harmer

Alex reviews Elemental and Intelligence Matters.

2:20 Bookmarks: Dean Hall

Survival training for the NZ Army inspired Dean Hall to create the zombie apocalypse PC game DayZ. 

From there, the man known as "Rocket" founded his own gaming studio in Dunedin called Rocketwerks, employing 50 staff. 

He's now expanding into Auckland for a new game and is joining us in the studio here as today's Bookmarks guest.

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3:10 The underbelly of rock and roll

Misbehaving and rock and roll have always gone hand in hand. Sam Cooke, Jerry Lee Lewis,  Phil Spector, Sid Vicious even Elvis have a dark side. Jerry Lee Lewis famously married his 13 year old cousin, but he also had two other wives who died under mysterious circumstances. Jake Brennan has spent his whole life around the music industry. He shines a light on the shady side of famous musicians in a podcast and his new book, Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away With Murder and Behaving Very Badly.
 

Rock n Roll Concert

Rock n Roll Concert Photo: Pixabay

 

3:35 Stories from Our Changing World Tracking inner city rats​

Victoria University researchers are radio-tracking urban rats in Wellington city suburbs in an effort to find out how large their home ranges are and help improve predator-free trapping efforts.

3:45 The Pre-Panel Story of the Day and One Quick Question

4:05 The Panel with Jacqueline Nairn​ and Chris Orr