Afternoons for Monday 21 August 2023

 

1:15 New meaning to a 'rock concert' at Canterbury University

A special performance is talking place this weekend in Ōtatauhi Christchurch to mark 150 years of University of Canterbury.

Composed by UC's Head of Composition Dr Reuben de Lautour and taonga pūoro artist and composer Mahina-Ina Kingi-Kaui, the work features kōhatu - river stones.

Both Dr de Lautour and Mahina both speak to Jesse.

1.25 Behind Wellington's 'tree guy', Jarrod Wood

On any given day in the capital, there's a chance that you'll stumble into a man dressed as a tree, playing the saxophone.

The man beneath the costume is Wellington musician Jarrod Wood.

1.35 Costume maker extraordinaire Denise Hailes on her colourful career

It's always a lot of fun to see people dressing up as giant animals or other objects, prancing around with difficulty see where they are going... but have you ever wondered how these larger than life costumes are made?

My guest now Denise Hailes has been the person behind many such a creation.

Her current work - a giant guinea pig is on the stage in Nightsong's production I Want To Be Happy, at the Herald theatre in Auckland.

During the course of her 37 year career, she's become the go-to for making mascots, including zebras, dinosaurs, Vikings, biscuits, bacon, dogs frogs, ducks and hogs. Denise speaks to Jesse!

1:45 Feature album:  REM Out of Time

Out of Time is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on March 12, 1991, by Warner Bros. Records. With Out of Time, R.E.M.'s status grew from that of a cult band to a massive international act.

2:10 Television Critic: Linda Burgess

Today Linda talks to Jesse about Louis Theroux's interviews on Neon, The Lost King on Netflix and the Australian series, Fisk. (Also on Netflix.)

2:20 Chuffed with my child chats

Each week we speak to a parent, grandparent or caregiver who has been made proud by the young people in their lives.

This week we talk to Jenny who's got a busy daughter Millie, who now combines her love of rural life with a successful online business making custom horse braiding.

2.30 Expert Feature: Menswear

Whether you have a wedding, funeral, black tie event job interview, meeting at the bank - it's helpful to dress for the occasion. Today we're talking menswear.

To answer your questions we're talking to Robert Niwa. He's been in the fashion industry for about 30 years.

If you have a question for Rob you can text on 20101 or email jesse@rnz.co.nz

3:10 Self help gurus a danger to commonsense and decency

Humility, authenticity and vulnerability sound great, but these qualities  have turned too many people into virtue signaling, self-absorbed narcissists says Lucinda Holdforth. She's a former speech¬writer for Australia's ex-Labor leader Kim Beazley. She believes the quest for these attributes encourage people to put self before community have replaced courage, truthfulness and decency. She takes aim at self-help gurus and challenges everyone to examine the values shaping our society in her book, 21st Century Virtues: How They Are Failing Our Democracy.

3:35 Voices

Coming up on Voices - supporting their villages back home in Samoa is one of the motivators for a group of young men who have been employed as part of the Recognised Seasonal Employee or RSE programme. They group will work in the small rural town of Matapihi, our Tauranga based RNZ producer Justine Murray finds our more about the men and soon realises their passion for singing. 

3:45 The Panel with Kathryn Graham and Garry Moore