Afternoons for Tuesday 12 September 2023

CRITTER T-SHIRTS ARE BACK

To celebrate all things Aotearoa native fauna and flora we have a new Critter of the Week t-shirt back for 2023.

The super talented Giselle Clarkson has designed a new image for the shirts and tote bags.

There is a cut off date for pre-orders so they arrive in time for Christmas deliveries to friends and loved ones.

Follow this link and place your order. Five dollars for each t-shirt and tote bag sold goes back to environmental volunteer groups around Aotearoa which are working hard to keep our unique critters safe from extinction.

Order your COTW 2023 t-shirts and or totes by clicking here.

1:15 Incorporating Māoritanga into wine making

A former chef and first-time winemaker is about to launch a new label that incorporates Māoritanga every step of the way, from vine to glass.

Tawhiti will be a natural wine label and it's a joint venture between Matua Murupaenga and his partner Imogen Weir.

Matua speaks to Jesse.

1:25 Aotearoa Festival of Architecture starts next week

The Aotearoa Festival of Architecture returns next Monday and will run until the following Sunday.

Along with a bevvy of events and guest speakers the festival will include the 'Model Citizens' competition.

This challenges teams of six from the leading architecture firms to design and create an allocated object using allocated materials.

Nathan Inkpen, publisher behind Architecture NZ magazine and ArchitectureNow who run the event speaks to Jesse.

1:35 Toyota releases prototype hydrogen Hilux Ute

The race is on in the motoring world to corner the rural market with practical heavy load bearing zero emissions vehicles.

Car maker Toyota has just laid down the challenge to other manufacturers in debuting it's hydrogen-Hilux prototype, a low emission ute with a range of 600 kilometres.

It's just the latest development in the long running battle to equip rural populations with vehicles that are both useful and less carbon emitting than what is currently on offer.

Stuff Motoring Editor Matthew Hansen speaks to Jesse.

1:45 Tech Tuesday with Daniel Watson

Today Dan Watson talks to Jesse about the role of AI in the lead up to this year's election.

2:10 Book Critic: Dominic Hoey

Today Dominic Hoey talks to Jesse about Night Boat to Tangiers by Kevin Barry, a book which as longlisted for the prestigious 2019 Booker Prize.

2:20 Update on Oz with Brad Foster

Brad Foster reports on the announcement of the first new hospital in western Sydney in 40 years, the Federal Government's Housing Future Fund getting the green light, which will mean more affordable housing, and asks whether the Warriors' strong form in the NRL is seeing a shift in New Zealand's sporting landscape.

2:30 Music feature: TV Themes with Karl Steven

Today's music feature is a step back in time looking at some of the most iconic television theme music from the 70s and 80s.

To walk through the glory days of the musical accompaniments to some of the biggest series of their time, we're joined by Karl Steven, himself an award winning screen composer and the lead singer of Supergroove.

3:10 The mystery origins of the COVID-19 virus, an ongoing search

The pandemic is officially over, but the virus that causes COVID-19 is not done with us yet.  People are still getting sick and dying and the virus is still mutating. 

To keep up with treatments and public health policies, we need to understand the source of it says author and science writer David Quammen. 

The search for a point of origin is divisive and political. He looks at the evidence and the debate in a piece for the New York Times Magazine called The Ongoing Mystery of COVID's Origin.

3:30 Spoken Feature: BBC Witness

In 2012, a dinosaur skeleton became the subject of both a restraining order and a court case. A Mongolian palaeontologist,  helped stop the dinosaur falling into the hands of a private buyer, after spotting a photo of the skeleton on TV in the United States. The case became known as United States v One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton. Here's the extraordinary story.

3:45 The Panel with Alexia Russell and David Cunnliffe