Afternoons for Tuesday 7 December 2021

 

1:20 The Kiwi investors behind a top business podcast

The biggest business podcast in the US right now is actually recorded out of the makeshift home studios of two everyday Auckland investors.

Girls That Invest is a podcast created by Simran Kaur​ and Sonya Gupthan,to break down the basics of investing for their millennial and gen z audience.

Simran chats to Jesse about their success and might even offer a few investing tips.

1:30 Rotorua timber building wins global design prize

A timber building in Rotorua has been named the world's best at this year's World Architectural Festival.

The Scion Headquarters sits in amongst the redwood forest and paves the way for future multi-storey, carbon-zero designs using an innovative new timber technique.

RTA studio designed the building and Architect and Director Richard Naish tells Jesse about their award-winning innovation.

1:40 Investigating a potential link between free-diving and mental wellness

Free diving instructor Ian Barker wants to investigate the links between freediving and mental health.

He's been teaching for 15 years and says he has seen the benefits first-hand. 

Ian is the founder of Free-Dive for Mental Health and tells Jesse about his mahi to get a trial under way.

1:50 Relationships with Hannah Korrel

Clinical neuropsychologist Dr Hannah Korrel joins Jesse to talk about how to deal with growing out of friendships.

She talks about the best way to approach different views of the strength of friendships and what you can do if you feel a friend wants more from you than you want to give them.

2:10 Book Critic with Pip Adam

Today Pip Adam discusses books that have made the year better:

• No one is talking about this by Patricia Lockwood 
• Aljce in Therapy Land by Alice Tawhai
• Requiem for a Fruit by Rachel O'Neill

2:20 Songs about mothers with Reb Fountain 

Join us for another of our popular crowdsourced music features.

The time we're celebrating songs about mothers or motherhood with talented singer-songwriter Reb Fountain.

Reb released her latest album, IRIS, in October.

3:10 Seeing the world through dining without changing your location

Food is a way to travel the globe without a plane ticket, or space in MIQ. The people from Atlas Obsura who created a global phenomenon by finding  weird and wonderful attractions around the world, now go off the culinary beaten track to find  strange and unusual edible wonders of the world. Author of Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide Dylan Thuras talks to Jesse. 
 

3:30 Spoken Feature: BBC Witness History 

The evil criminal mastermind Fu Manchu was a recurring character in Hollywood films for decades. He epitomised racist stereotypes about China and the Chinese which shaped popular thinking in the West. Vincent Dowd has been talking to writer Sir Christopher Frayling and academic Amy Matthewson about his long-lasting influence.

3:45 The Panel with Janet Wilson and Sam Johnson