Afternoons for Wednesday 14 December 2022

 

1:15 Car parts start up hoping to become our biggest NZ based tech company

Finding the right car part to fit the right vehicle is actually a really difficult problem globally.

Now a new New Zealand company called Partly, is busying itself to create a solution.

The company has big plans to become the largest NZ-based tech firm within five years.

Partly co-founder and CEO Levi Fawcett talks to Jesse.

1:25 HMS Buffalo Project recognised in Archeological Awards 2022

Just fifty metres off Buffalo beach in Whitianga lies the wreck of the HMS Buffalo, a royal British Navy ship that sank in 1840.

The HMS Buffalo Re-Examination Project has been working to protect the wreck,

And they recently won the New Zealand Archaeological Association Public Award 2022.

One of the project leads Matthew Gainsford talks to Jesse about their work.

1:35 Six60 starts their own record label - Massive Records

New Zealand band Six60 are known for their ability to fill stadiums with their chart-topping hits.

Now with Sony Music they've launched a brand new record label, Massive Records.

Massive Records will be predominantly run out of SIX 60's Auckland studio where the band mentors, records and runs
part of its label operations.

They've already signed COTERIE and emerging singer-songwriters HINA and Spencer Coyle.

SIX60 multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Marlon Gerbes speaks to Jesse about the new label.

1:45 Waikato farmer driving a hearse as a daily run about!

Not every farmer wants a ute. One farmer has selected a jet black 1999 hearse for the job.

Dawn Ranui loves her Toyota Crown Super Deluxe, even though it can be a jarring sight at the milk shed, or picking up groceries.

Dawn talks to Jesse about her unusual choice of car and why she bought the unconventional vehicle!

2.12 Podcast Critic: Claire Concannon

Today Claire looks at the most recent award winning podcasts at this year's 2022 New Zealand Podcast Awards.

She talks to Jesse about Dear Nature/The Otago Chronicles which won The Best Independent podcast category. It's producer, Max Balloch was also awarded silver for the best rising star.

Claire also talks about The Lake, which won two gold, a silver and two bronze awards. It's a 7 episode podcaset about the horrendous treatment of children at the Lake Alice Psychiatric Facility in the 1970s.

2:25 Bookmarks with Jessie Wong

For Bookmarks today we're talking to the CEO and founder of leather good brand Yu Mei.

Jessie Wong uses South Island deer nappa that would otherwise go to landfill to make luxury handbags.

3:10 The amazing sensors of the animal kingdom

We can never follow magnetic fields like birds and sea turtles do to find their way to a destination. We can't see the infrared radiation of a person or predator, like rattlesnakes do, or feel the air currents of a fly like a spider. Nature's magnificence is all around us, says Pulitzer Prize winning science writer Ed Yong. Animals sense the world in ways that are wonderous and humbling. Yong explores the diverse ways animals perceive the world and shows us the limits of our  perception in his new book, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

3:35 Stories from Our Changing World

How can a methane-detecting satellite help us tackle our agricultural emissions and detect gas leaking from pipelines, wetlands, farms and crops across the world? Science journalist Peter Griffin takes a look!

3:45 The Panel with Nuwanthie Samarakone and David Slack