Afternoons for Tuesday 13 July 2021

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1:12 First Song

 

1:17 Who's insuring coastal New Zealand and will they continue?

For those living in coastal properties around New Zealand, the threat of climate change is very real.

But where is the line for insurers? And who will be providing compensation if insurers balk at the risks?

That's the question posed by Canterbury University Lecturer of Civil Systems Engineering Tom Logan in a piece for The Conversation. He talks to Jesse about the issues he's raised.

1:27 Creating the largest wildlife corridor in the world

We cross to California today, where the US state has approved a freeway for animals!

The Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing is being billed as the 'largest wildlife passage in the world'.

Tiffany Yap is a senior scientist and a wildlife corridor advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. She talks to Jesse about the project and how much protection wildlife will have as a result.

1:35 Wellington Paranormal confusing US viewers

The very New Zealand humour based Wellington Paranormal has just debuted in America, where it's getting a confused reaction from viewers.

 Mike Minogue, AKA Minogue the police officer, joins Jesse to talk about the tweeting and reviews they have been getting state-side after airing there for the first time.

1:50 How to Write a funeral notice

Funeral celebrant Timothy Giles is back to talk to Jesse about how to write a funeral notices. A tradition that has survived and changed with the times. He explains what level of detail you should include and what vital information is usually included for a person's funeral arrangements.

2:10 Book Critic: Claire Mabey

Today Claire Mabey looks at A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Sanders, Long Players: Writers on the Album that Shaped Them, by Tom Gatti and Party Legend by Sam Duckor Jones.

And she gives a shout out to Pip Adam's story on The White Review: https://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/ghost-story/

2:20 40 years of Grace Jones music

It's been forty years since Grace Jones released her best selling album, Nightclubbing. The album entered in the top 10 in five countries, and became Jones' highest-ranking record on the US Billboard mainstream albums and R&B charts. Simon Sweetman joins Jesse to look back at the last four decades of her career.

3:10 Conservationist Emma Marris on trapping animals to save them

Somewhere between the impulse to protect wild animals from extinction and animal welfare  we've forgotten the wild part says conservationist Emma Marris.  She says humans have completely   altered wild habitats for beloved animals like elephants and polar bears  so that releasing them is untenable and  breeding them  for a lifetime of captivity is unethical.  She asks the thorny questions about when it's ok to capture wild animals in order to save them in her new book, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World.

3:30  BBC witness: Britain's Wartime Gold 

When Britain went to war in 1939 it lagged behind Germany in warships, aircraft and much else. If the Germans had mounted an invasion, Britain would have lost the economic means to fight on almost at once. The nation's financial reserves, in the form of gold bars, were highly vulnerable at the Bank of England in London. That gold needed to go somewhere far away. Vincent Dowd brings us the story of how Britain's wealth was shipped to Canada.

3:45 The Panel with Nuwanthie Samarakone and Ian Powell