Afternoons for Friday 4 December 2020

 

1:17 Concerns around the lack of follow up for bowel cancer patients

Two leading public health specialists have written a brutally honest opinion piece in the New Zealand Medical journal about the lack of resources for bowel cancer patients.

Professor Phil Bagshaw and Dr Brian Cox both say that lives are being lost simply due to a lack of funding for colonoscopy services around the country. Professor Bagshaw speaks to Jesse about his concerns.

1:27 Questions about the action on Climate Change Emergency declaration

Newsroom's political reporter, Marc Daalder has been shining a light on the government's policies to tackle our carbon emissions following this week's emergency declaration.

He talks to Jesse about the Labour led government's track record on actually reducing emissions and meeting targets. He's also hoping there will be regulations to back up the rhetoric in Parliament this week.

1:35 Michael King's Coromandel home to be sold by Waikato University

The daughter of the late Michael King, Rachael King, is on a mission to try and stop her father's Opoutere home being sold on the open market.

She speaks to Jesse about the importance of the home where he lived with wife being kept on as a creative retreat and who she hopes the King family can buy it before a January deadline.

1:50 Stop Feeding the Birds, it's killing them

Birds New Zealand is holding an Avian Health Awareness Event at Western Springs on Sunday from 11am to 3pm to educate the public about the dangers of feeding bread to birds.

Auckland Regional representative, Ian McLean, explains to Jesse that we are actually doing more harm than good when feeding bread to birds. He talks about why we should consider not feeding them at all.

2:10 Film Review with Ali Ventura

Ali reviews Misbehaviour and Blithe Spirit .

2:20 NZ Live - The Leers

The Leers, formed by a group of friends at  Mount Maunganui College, joined us back in 2016 after the release of their debut album Are You Curious?

Since then they've been signed to U.S. label In Flight Music Group, acquired a new band member, and they've just released their sophomore album The Only Way Out Is In which was recorded in L.A.

3:08 Jess Daniell's Negroni-glazed ham

Jess Daniell from Jess' Underground Kitchen joins Jesse in studio to share her spectacular recipe for Negroni-glazed ham. She says the Negroni glaze is also the perfect home-made Christmas gift and is a delicious treat to add to your weekend breakfast.

3:16 Music 101: Charlotte Ryan

Charlotte Ryan, host of Music 101 here on RNZ each Saturday afternoon from midday talks about what's happening on the music scene over the weekend, what's coming up on her show tomorrow and because Friday is new music day - she'll pick us a track to play.

3:25 Stan Scott answers your DIY Questions

Stan's in for his fortnightly chat with Jesse - if you have any projects around the house you'd like help with email jesse@rnz.co.nz

3:35 Critter of the Week Alpine Tiger Moth​

This week’s Critter of the Week is the alpine tiger moth. Doc's Nicola Toki says the females are completely flightless and her children can survive being frozen, but also are cannibalistic and eat their mother. All this, AND the species has at least one fly and one wasp species that are trying to lay eggs inside of them. Talk about living in a horror story!

3:45 The Panel with Amy Adams and Sam Johnson