Afternoons for Thursday 24 November 2022

1:10 First song: Lost and Found by Lou'ana

Today's first song is the latest track from Kiwi-Pacific musician Lou'ana.

Her latest single, Lost and Found, is released today with the video coming out at 7 tonight.

Lou'ana speaks to Jesse about her new song and why roller skating features in her video!

1:20 Women taking on the country's top truckers in the Truck Driving Championships

The skills of the country's top truckers will be put to the test over the next two days at the Trucking Industry Show in Christchurch.

From big rigs to cranes, the truck driving competitions are a major draw-card at the event.

The still very male dominated industry is working hard to become more diverse and attract new talent.

Of the 40 drivers competing in the Truck Driving Championships - six are women.

One of them is Emma Satherley - a logging truck driver from Southland who's competing for the first time. She talks to Jesse about being in a male dominated industry and her chances of beating out the blokes. 

1:35 Food production in Aotearoa in a perilous state

It's estimated that New Zealand makes enough food to feed 40 million people but some farmers are saying our food security is in a perilous state.

Farmers Market NZ Vice Chair Dave Kennedy wants more to be done so that the country can feed itself.

He says Southland, where he is based, used to be able to supply 80 percent of its food needs just a few generations ago, but nowadays it's barely 10 percent.

1:45 Great album:

 

2:10 Music Critic: Jana Te Nahu Owen

Today Music 101 producer, Jana Te Nahu Owen, talks to Jesse about music from Grace Cummings and Heather Woods Broderick.

2:25 NZ Sporting History: AFC punching above their weight at the 2014 club World Cup

Today in New Zealand Sporting History we're going back to 2014 when an amateur football team from Auckland took on the world and almost came out on top.

In 2014 Auckland City football club made history by becoming the first side from oceania to win a medal at the football club world cup.

The tournament puts the best club teams in the world against each other in a knock out competition, meaning amateur clubs like Auckland can compete against professional clubs from Europe and South America with a payroll in the millions of dollars.

But at the tournament in Morocco the team, made up with a mixture of semi-professionals, lawyers, construction workers and a truck driver, beat the odds and the naysayers, making it all the way to the semi-final, and eventually take out third place.

Former All White and Auckland City stalwart Ivan Vicelich was the captain and a key part of that team, he talks to Jesse.

3:10 Link 3

 

3:15 Solving the World's Problems with Dave Armstrong

 

3:20 History with Dr Grant Morris

Access to our national archives has been in the news recently with the breakdown of Archives NZ online collections search tool. All NZ historians need to carry out work in our various archival repositories. 

Today Dr Grant Morris looks at the some exciting developments with our national archives and manuscripts and some big challenges.

3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness

In September 1967, all Swedish traffic had to change the habit of decades and swap to driving on the right-hand side of the road. It brought them into line with most of the rest of Europe except for Britain and Ireland but caused a day of chaos. In 2016, Ashley Byrne spoke to Bjorn Sylven who remembered that day.

3:45 The Panel  Jo McCarroll with Liam Hehir