Afternoons for Tuesday 25 January 2022

 

1:20 NZ scientists develop system to disinfect PPE

Motivated by a PPE shortage as well as trying to cut back the amount of COVID-19 plastic waste ending up in our oceans, a group of New Zealand scientists have developed a way to clean and recycle the products.

Dr Yvonne Anderson pulled together the team which has developed the successful method, she talks to Jesse about the impact this will on have on both the environment and people needing access to the equipment.

1:30 Small scale maggot farming success on our shores

Following on from an interview Jesse did with Oympia Yarger on her million dollar maggot farming enterprise in Australia, Marie Haley got in touch to share her smaller scale operation here in New Zealand.

Marie talks to Jesse about how they have a much smaller, but still effective, way of farming maggots for their chickens!

1:40 Chelsea Jade on her latest music

LA based New Zealand artist Chelsea Jade's 2022 is off to a cracking start. She has just released her new single 'Optimist' and has also signed with Carpark Records, the same label releasing The Beths. She talks to Jesse about her latest work, which follows from her debut Personal Best in 2018. Her sophomore album Soft Spot is out later this year on April 29th.

1:50 Tech Tuesday with Daniel Watson

Today owner and managing director of Vertech IT Services, Daniel Watson, talks to Jesse about the new careers available through technology such as streaming/podcasting and content creation.

2:10 Book Critic: Catherine Ross

Today's theme for Catherine Ross' book review is 'Librarian Picks'. That's quite fitting as she is a librarian at Auckland's Diocesan School for Girls. You can find her reviews, in depth, here.

Today's books are, What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible by Ross Welford, Ground Zero by Alan Gratz, Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher, The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley, The Smell of Other People's Houses
by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock and The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis.

2:20 The golden age voices of Broadway

For today's music feature Auckland University musicologist Gregory Camp talks to Jesse about a style of singing  a style of singing that isn't much heard these days, largely because of changes in technology, particularly microphones on stages.

3:10 Why we have a seven day a week calendar dictating our lives

We don't like Mondays. We struggle to get over the hump on Wednesdays and we prepare ourselves on Sunday to go to bed and start the whole week over again. Whose idea was the seven day week anyway? David Henkin has spent years looking at the week and shares his insights into the seven days that define the rhythm of our lives. 

3:30 Spoken Feature: Sporting Witness

America's Misty May-Treanor is the winner of three Olympic gold medals and the most successful women's beach volleyball player of all time. Misty formed an almost unbeatable team with Kerri Walsh-Jennings, but she faced a tough personal battle at the London games in 2012, which she had decided would be her last competition because of persistent knee and Achilles tendon injuries. Misty May-Treanor talks to Jeremy Inson about her challenges on and off the court.

3:45 The Panel with Georgie Stylianou and Peter Elliot