Afternoons for Monday 1 May 2023

 

1:15 Audio Culture celebrates 10 years

Audioculture Iwi Waitata was founded in May 2013 as a means to archive and explore Kiwi music.

In the past decade they've published almost 2000 pages documenting our diverse musical history.

And now, to celebrate their 10th birthday and NZ Music Month, AudioCulture is asking readers to vote on the greatest Kiwi album of all time.

To update the poll and tell us  the history of AudioCulture, founding editor Simon Grigg talks to Jesse.

1.25 Waikato Midwife turned author

A Waikato midwife has drawn on a 33-year career, and even deeper family ties, to publish a novel about the profession's challenging New Zealand history.

Marie-ann Quin began practicing when midwives gained the right to practice autonomously in 1990, and has been researching her vocation for the past 17 years.

Her new novel focuses on characters based on her own ancestors - who she only learned of through her years of fact-finding. You can find her novel here.

Recently retired midwife and newly minted author Marie-ann Quin talks to Jesse.

1.35 Meat curing - a DIY guide

Have you had a go at making salami, bacon or sausages?

How about turning an old water tank into the perfect environment for dry-aging meat.

Dawn Folkard runs Pure Food Kitchen, and teaches charcuterie classes in Kaipara, and shes joins us to talk about the wonderful world of curing meat.

1:45 Feature album: Carol King Tapestry

2:10 Television Critic: Caitlin Cherry

Today Caitlin talks to Jesse about Severance on Apple TV, The Night Agent on Netflix and a short mention of Lego Masters NZ on TVNZ 2.

2:20  Australian Correspondent Brad Foster 

Brad Foster reports on Australia's rising migration figures, provides an update on the passing of comedian Barry Humphries, and has news of a new reality TV show being filmed in the outback town of Coober Pedy with Hollywood stars arriving over the weekend in secret.

2:30 Expert feature: Creative Writing with Ashleigh Young

If you've ever dreamed of writing the next great novel or devastating piece of poetry but don't quite know where to start, this week's expert is for you.

Today's we speak  to writer and editor Ashleigh Young about creative writing.

Ashleigh has mostly worked as a poet and essayist as well as an editor and creative writing teacher.

In 2017 her second book 'Can You Tolerate This?' won her the Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University along with a Royal Society Te Apārangi Award.

If you have any questions for Ashleigh text on 2101 or email jesse@rnz.co.nz.

3:10 Why hope is important for more than mental health

Hope matters. It can help us make better, healthier choices for a happy and more productive life.  Dr Carol Graham studies hope, not as a  psychologist but an economist at the Brookings Institution think tank. Her studies around the world show that hope thrives in some very unexpected places and that it can improve  lives in measurable ways.  Dr Graham says it is essential to restore hope in places where it's been lost and offers strategies about how to do that.   Her new book is called The Power of Hope: How Wellbeing Science Can Save Us from Despair.

3:35 Voices

In this episode of Voices, Kadambari Raghukumar talks about the ongoing conflict  Sudan with diaspora members here in New Zealand. 

3:45 The Panel with Sue Kedgley and David Farrar