Afternoons for Tuesday 6 July 2021
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NZ cyber security under threat
1:15 PM.The threat of international ransomware attacks show no signs of abating... Just yesterday New Zealand was hit by another attack - this time more than 100 North Island kindergartens. Read more Audio
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Compost Connect: helping restaurants turn food waste into compost, not landfill
1:27 PM.Every year, an enormous 160,000 tonnes of food waste is sent to New Zealand landfills. The hospitality sector contributes a lot to this and food industry players now have the opportunity to have their… Read more Video, Audio
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Data gathering behind 'Who's Eating New Zealand'
1:37 PM.RNZ's Indepth data journalist Farah Hancock has been crunching the numbers to find out who's eating all our goods. Read more Audio
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How to Write: A Cover Letter
1:50 PM.For today's How to Write feature we speak to careers expert, Caroline Sandford, about how to write a cover letter. Read more Audio
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Book Critic: Lisa Glass
2:10 PM.Reviewer Lisa Glass looks at three books with the theme of someone faking their story. She talks about The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz , All My Colours by David Quantick and Fake Accounts by Lauren… Read more Audio
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Music feature: Film musicals
2:25 PM.Auckland University musicologist Gregory Camp tells us what makes a perfect song for a film musical and looks at both new releases as well as timeless classics! Read more Audio
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We need more hard conversations about death, sex and money
3:10 PM.Anna Sale started talking about hard things by accident but now she's made a career out of helping people do it. The Death, Sex and Money podcast host shares some advice from her new book Let's Talk… Read more Audio
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1:12 First Song
1:17 NZ cyber security under threat
The threat of international ransomware attacks show no signs of abating...
Just yesterday New Zealand was hit by another attack - this time more than 100 North Island kindergartens.
So what are these cyber gangs looking for when they target a particular organisation and what needs to be done to keep up our defences against these invisible attackers?
We're joined by self-described 'security nerd' Erica Anderson, who's Chief Operating Officer at SafeStack.
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1:27 The battle to prevent compostable food waste going to landfill
The hospitality industry is being urged to do more to prevent compostable food waste going to landfill.
A not for profit network called 'Compost Connect' has just been launched in New Zealand as part of efforts to make it easier for food businesses to do just that.
We speak to Auckland restaurateur , Nic Watt, who is an ambassador for the new initiative.
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1:35 Data gathering behind 'Who's Eating New Zealand'.
RNZ's indepth data journalist Farah Hancock's been crunching the numbers on who our biggest food export markets are around the world.
She talks to Wallace about the obvious and not so obvious numbers along with the popular exports that fly under the radar but still earn millions.
1:50 How to Write a cover letter
For today's How to Write feature we speak again to careers expert, Caroline Sandford, about how to write a cover letter. It's usually the first introduction to prospective employers and plays an important part in securing at least an interview. Caroline shares her tips for writing one which gets attention.
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2:10 Book Critic: Lisa Glass
Today reviewer Lisa Glass looks at three books with the theme of someone faking their story. She talks about The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz , All My Colours by David Quantick and Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler.
2:20 Music feature - Film musicals
Today Musicologist at Auckland University Gregory Camp, talks about music of the moment in musicals. He talks about what makes a perfect song to be part of one and looks at both new releases as well as timeless classics from the 'golden age'.
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3:10 How to have 'those' difficult conversations
Anna Sale is an expert on how to have difficult conversations. It's her job as host of the podcast, Death, Sex and Money. She explains why we're so bad about talking about uncomfortable things and how we can do better in her new book, Let's talk about Hard Things.
3:30 Spoken Feature: BBC Witness History
Witness History looks back to the early 1990s when tens of thousands of Cubans inexplicably went blind due to what was initially thought to be a viral infection. Mike Lanchin hears from one of America's leading eye specialists who was invited to the communist-ruled island by Fidel Castro, to help figure out what was really going on.
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3:45 The Panel with Jennie Moreton and Chris Wikaira