Afternoons for Tuesday 25 May 2021

 

1:12 First Song

 

1:17 A third financial option for New Zealand Rugby offered 

There's now a THIRD option on the table for New Zealand Rugby to consider in order to raise some more capital for the game.

It's a proposal for a co-operative ownership model similar to European football giants Barcelona and Bayern Munich and NFL side the Green Bay Packers. 

RNZ Sports Editor, Stephen Hewson, talks to Jesse about the latest option.

1:27 First blood supermoon for forty years in the sky tomorrow 

Heard of a supermoon? What about a BLOOD supermoon?

 Tomorrow evening is your chance to see such a phenomenon for the first time in almost forty years. 

Dr Nick Rattenbury is a senior lecturer at Auckland University's physics department and talks to Jesse about what can be seen and why its such a rarity.

1:35  Tauranga horror writer wins international award 

There is an what is considered the 'Man Booker' in the horror writing, dark fiction world called the 'Bram Stoker Awards'.

New Zealander Lee Murray has just taken away TWO awards  for her work and talks to Jesse about the recognition and writing horror stories from her home in Tauranga.

1:50 How to Write poetry with Paula Green 

For today's how to write feature poet Paula Green talks to Jesse about poetry. 

She says poetry is the playground - the place where you throw out the rules and have fun.

2:10 Book Critic: Catherine Ross 

Catherine Ross is the librarian at Diocesan School in Auckland. Today she talks about fictional World War Two themed books for different age levels. She gives her verdicts on book One in a series of seven (Once/Then/Now/After/Soon/Maybe & Always) by Morris Gleitzman, The War That Saved My Life, the  first of two by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Projekt 1065  by Alan Gratz, The Earth is Singing by Vanessa Curtis, Max by Sarah Cohen-Scali and Wolf by Wolf, the first of two by Ryan Graudin. 

2:20 Composer Tom Mcleod on creating music scores for the screen, stage and opera

Composer Tom McLeod has created scores for everything from television dramas and documentary films, to stage musicals and opera..

He's a two-time recipient of the APRA Silver Scroll for Best Original Music in a Series, and he's  today's music feature guest.

We'll be hearing about how he created the scores for some of his recent projects, including the current podcast series, Fight for the Wild. 

3:10 How incentives can combat vaccine hesitation

Developing a vaccine in record speed turns out to be the easy part of ending the COVID 19 pandemic. Getting everyone to get the jab is another story. When  the head of a public heath institute, Dr Brian Castrucci, wanted to better understand vaccine hesitation, he turned  to one of the most influential Republican pollsters in America Frank Luntz. What they found is that facts matter, but incentives matter more.  He shares fascinating insights from the frontlines of vaccine hesitation.

3:30 Spoken Feature: Fight for the Wild 3: Predator Free 2050 and Māori

Fight for the Wild is a documentary film & podcast series exploring the notion of Predator Free 2050 in Aotearoa.

Predator Free 2050 and Māori is episode 3 of the podcast series, presented by writer Dave Hansford, in which he looks at the vital contribution of Māori towards achieving Predator Free.

It begins by exploring the deep relationship between Māori and the natural world, and considers the chance it offers for tino rangatiratanga and a genuine bicultural partnership.

Made possible by the RNZ/NZ On Air Innovation Fund.

3:45 The Panel with Sue Kedgley and Peter Elliott