Afternoons for Tuesday 18 July 2023

 

1:15 Barbie-mania hits Wellington Museum!

No matter how old you are, it's been hard to miss the Barbie hype. That's in anticipation of the Barbie movie coming to cinemas on Thursday.

Here on Afternoons we are embracing the pink, but the Wellington Museum have gone all out with a pop-up Barbie Dreamhouse exhibition.
 
Co-curator of the show, and regular art contributor on RNZ, Megan Dunn talks to Jesse.

1:25 The Paragon and making a film with 25 thousand dollars

Kiwi film-maker Michael's Duignan's debut feature follows a man who is hit by a silver Toyota Corolla, which sends him on a mission to get cosmic revenge.

It's screening this weekend at The New Zealand International Film Festival, with the festival opening tomorrow.

Michael has pulled this off on a budget of $25,000. He talks to Jesse.

1:35 Airforce commemorates Korean War veterans from Aotearoa

In 1950s, two pilots from the Royal New Zealand Air Force joined Australian ranks to fly jets in the Korean War.

The 27 of July marks the 70th anniversary of the war's Armistice.

To tell us the story of Max Scannell from Christchurch, and Vance Drummond from Hamilton Simon Moody, Research curator at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand joins Jesse.

1:45 Tech Tuesday with Daniel Watson

Today Dan talks to Jesse about the different types of scams that are being tried all around the world and how to avoid falling victim to them.

2:10 Book Critic: Catherine Ross

Today Catherine talks to Jesse about books for young readers with the "Science Fiction" theme. She talks about the following books:

10+ The Kid Who Came From Space by Ross Welford

12+ Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

12+ These Broken Starts by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

13+ In the Dark Spaces by Cally Black

13+ Flight of the Fantail by Steph Matuku

13+ Na Viro by Gina Cole

2:20 Update on Oz with Brad Foster

Brad Foster reports on the shock announcement today that Victoria will renege on hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games, citing a multi-billion dollar budget blowout, the start of the FIFA Women's World Cup this week and the Matilda's push for equal pay to their male counterparts, and the strange object that was found on a remote Western Australian beach over the weekend with some claiming it has alien origins.

2:30 Music feature: Mike Chunn's favourite bass players

For this week's music feature we're looking at some of the best bass players in the world.

Bassist Mike Chunn was a founding member of Split Enz and played with group alongside his brother Geoff from their inception through to 1976.

He's authored several books including the biograhy 'Stranger Than Fiction: The Life and Times of Split Enz'.

Mike also spent 11 years as the director of APRA's New Zealand arm and founded the Play it Strange trust to nurture up and coming musicians.

Mike's here today to highlight the bass players that influenced him and tell us about his own journey on the instrument.

3:10 How to leave the world a better place than we found it

Leaving the world better than we found it isn't just a lofty idea for Sophie Howe. For six years, it was her job as the first Wellbeing of Future Generations Commissioner in Wales. She's finished her term and is in New Zealand  as a guest of Auckland by Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures. She warns about the dangers of short term thinking that might put an added burden on people who haven't even been born yet in the areas of education, economics and climate change. She shares the lessons Wales learned about sustainability and future proofing  decisions that benefit the present as well as the future.

3:30 Spoken Feature: BBC Witness
In 1947, after the birth of her third child, Valerie Hunter Gordon, from Surrey, in England, decided she was sick of the drudgery of cloth nappies. She came up with a solution - a reusable outer garment, initially made out of parachute material, with a disposable, biodegradable pad inside. She named it the Paddi and once her friends saw it, they all wanted one, so she went into business. Rachel Naylor speaks to Nigel Hunter Gordon, Valerie's son, who modelled them as a baby in the first adverts.

3:45 The Panel with Ali Jones and Allan Blackman