Afternoons for Wednesday 19 July 2023

 

1:15 Special FIFA game kicks off ahead of World Cup action

The FIFA Womens World Cup is kicking off this week and the event is inspiring many girls into football.

But before the opening ceremony on Thursday, there's another very special football game that will be played.

A team of girls, many of whom are former refugees, have travelled over from the US to face off against a mixed team of girls with refugee backgrounds here in New Zealand.

The two teams, of both refugee and non-refugee players, will be facing off at the Waitemata Football club at 4:30pm this afternoon.

Bella Munroe is from the refugee support centre Umma Trust and has been involved with making this happen. She talks to Jesse.

1:25 Great Barrier Island getting rid of single use plastic cups

Aotea Great Barrier is planning to be the first place in Aotearoa to eliminate single use plastic cups.

It's part of a broader goal for the island to be zero waste by 2040.

Joanne O'Riley is a Director at Anamata Resource Recovery and waste minimisation facilitator. She talks to Jesse.

1:35 Bumblebee keeping, a new book on how it works!

Bumble bee keeping has been on the rise in New Zealand, supported by the need for pollinators on commercial farms, mostly tomato growing and kiwifruit too.

Forget everything you know about beekeeping when it comes to this says Dr Nelson Pomeroy. He's the author of a new book called Bumblebee Keeper: A personal story of pollinator management.

Nelson is a scientist and teacher, with a long career in commercial bee keeping.

1:45 Scary Mclary designed to help in dangerous situations

There's a new version of beloved Hairy Maclary in town that's going to be helping out going places where it's too dangerous for regular canines and humans.

Scary Mclary is a robot dog developed by the clever computer scientists at Otago University.

Scary's been designed to deal with environments that are unpredicatable or difficult such as mountain terrains as well being able to enter damaged buildings that could pose a threat to any real animals or humans.

Computer Science Professor Brendan McCane talks to Jesse.

2.12 Podcast Critic: Alex Barnes

Today reviewer talks to Jesse about podcasts, Girls That Invest and USA produced podcast Criminal.

2:25 Bookmarks with Andrew Hagen

For Bookmarks today we meet Andrew Hagen from the Urban Arts Foundation Trust. He's been there for the past five years but his career up to that point was composing music for film as well as working as a 'sound designer'.

He talks to Jesse about his work as well as what enjoys watching, listening to and reading in his down time.

3:10 How 'excuseflation' is keeping prices high

Economic indicators tell us inflation is easing, but the prices at the supermarket tell a different story. Analysts say some corporations are using the recent upheavals to supply chains from the pandemic and spikes in energy prices from the Russian invasion of Ukraine as an excuse to raise prices and keep them high. Tracy Alloway calls it "Excuseflation".  She's a finance and economy writer at Bloomberg and co-host of the podcast Odd Lots. They've coined the term "Excuseflation"  to show how companies can take advantage of disruptions to keep their prices high.   

3:35 Stories from Our Changing World

Coming up on Our Changing World - nuclear fusion is a holy grail for researchers seeking clean energy. With an episode of the ABC's Strange Frontiers we head to the south of France to learn about a project trying to make it a reality.  

3:45 The Panel with Sue Bradford and Conor English