Afternoons for Tuesday 21 July 2020
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First Song Emily Edrosa - Drinking During The Day
1:20 PM.Los Angeles based kiwi Emily Edrosa has released the first single from her new album Another Wave is Coming. She joins the show from LA today for First Song. Read more Audio
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Disgraced MP's harassment revealed over past 24 hours
1:30 PM.Disgraced MP Andrew Falloon's been forced to resign from Parliament over revelations he sent sexually inappropriate images to several women. Jesse speaks to Ali Mau, about his case. Read more Audio
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Mindful Fashion campaign to save garment making industry
1:40 PM.Mindful Fashion, a collective of businesses in the fashion scene, are launching a new campaign to save the garment manufacturing industry. Designer Kate Sylvester explains what they're doing. Read more Audio
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Expect more large destructive weather patterns
1:45 PM.Following the weekend flooding in Northland, Professor James Renwick, says we should brace ourselves for more of these extreme events. He explains why to Jesse. Read more Audio
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Claire Mabey on books
2:10 PM.Claire Mabey reviews Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam and Handiwork by Sara Baume. Audio
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The music of Paul McCartney
2:20 PM.Music critic Simon Sweetman takes a look at the long musical career of Sir Paul McCartney - from his time with The Beatles, Wings and his long solo career. Read more Audio
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Chemical ingredients: what we do and don't know
3:10 PM.How damaging for our health are processed snacks like Twisties and Doritos? Chemist and science communicator George Zaidan has been crunching the data on crunchy treats for his book Ingredients: The… Read more Audio
1:10 First Song; Emily Edrosa - Drinking During The Day
Los Angeles based kiwi Emily Edrosa has released the first single from her new album Another Wave is Coming.
She joins the show from LA today for First Song.
1:17 Disgraced MP's harassment revealed over past 24 hours
Disgraced MP Andrew Falloon's been forced to resign from Parliament over revelations he sent sexually inappropriate images to several women.
He also lied to his party's leader, Judith Collins, who has referred the matter back to the police.
Jesse speaks to Ali Mau, the founder of #metoo New Zealand about her Stuff investigative project which deals with sexual abuse and harassment around the country.
National MP for Rangitata Andrew Falloon with Gerry Brownlee and then-leader Todd Muller announcing the party's policy for a four-lane highway between Christchurch and Ashburton. Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon
1:27 Expect more large destructive weather patterns
Following the weekend flooding in Northland, Professor James Renwick, says we should brace ourselves for more of these extreme events.
The head of Victoria University's school of geography, environment and earth sciences explains to Jesse that because of climate change there will be one in 500 year weather more often.
Photo: Supplied / Robert du Preez
1:35 Mindful Fashion campaign to save garment making industry
Mindful Fashion, a collective of businesses in the fashion scene, are launching a new campaign to save the garment manufacturing industry.
One of the collective's founders, Kate Sylvester talks to Jesse about how dire the situation is and why its so important to save for local designers.
Photo: Supplied / Kate Sylvester
1:50 Calls for the Northern Explore passenger train to get back on line
There's been frustrations expressed about Kiwirail mothballing the Northern Explorer passenger rail service between Auckland and Wellington at a time when domestic tourism is strong.
Thomas Nash of the New Zealand Alternative think tank talks to Jesse about why rail is so important to getting people moving around the north island.
Northern Explorer crossing the Hapuwhenua Viaduct Photo: Supplied / KiwiRail
2:10 Claire Mabey on books
Claire Mabey reviews Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam and Handiwork by Sara Baume.
2:20 The music of Paul McCartney
Music critic Simon Sweetman takes a look at the long musical career of Sir Paul McCartney - from his time with The Beatles, Wings and his long solo career.
Photo: wikimedia commons/Wikiportrait - Eddie Janssens - - 1350317931.jpg
3:10 Chemist George Zaidan on the chemicals we eat, drink and put on our skin
If the list of chemicals on the packet of your favorite food is disturbing, you should see the list of chemicals that make up the human body. Chemist George Zaidan takes a good look at what's in what we eat, drink,and smear on our bodies. He offers a chemist's perspective on our diets in his new book, Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us.
George Zaidan Photo: Supplied
3:30 Healthy or Hoax
Today, we launch season two of Healthy or Hoax - the RNZ series which looks at current health trends to find out if they're actually as good for us as they claim to be - this episode looks at Coolsculpting.
Photo: Supplied
3:45 The Panel with Lynda Hallinan and Pattrick Smellie
Music played in this show
First Song:
Title: Drinking During the Day
Artist: Emily Edrosa
Time: 1323
Music Feature with Simon Sweetman - Paul McCartney:
Title: Valentine Day
Artist: Paul McCartney
Time: 1418
Title: Loup (First Indian on the Moon)
Artist: Paul McCartney & Wings
Time: 1424
Title: 3 Legs
Artist: Paul & Linda McCartney
Time: 1429
Title: 3 Legs (Instrumental)
Artist: Percy 'Thrills' Thrillington
Time: 1433
Title: Bison
Artist: The Fireman
Time: 1438
Title: Watercolour Rushes
Artist: The Fireman
Time: 1440
Title: Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight
Artist: The Fireman
Time: 1441
Title: Darkroom
Artist: Paul McCartney
Time: 1448
Title: Check My Machine
Artist: Paul McCartney
Time: 1451
Title: Temporary Secretary
Artist: Paul McCartney
Time: 1457
Title: The Way You Make Me Feel
Artist: White Chapel Jak
Time: 1530
