Afternoons for Wednesday 15 November 2023

 

1:15 Kathleen Mantel's documentary, Te Hokinga Mai: The Return

Award-winning Māori filmmaker Kathleen Mantel's latest project is currently currently playing on our screen, it's a documentary about Māori reconnecting with their whenua and whakapapa.

Te Hokinga Mai: The Return is an eight-part series addressing the urban drift of the last century when Māori were swept away from their kāinga and into cities. 

The series looks at the tide turning, and Māori reconnecting with their ancestral roots.

Kathleen, of Ngāti Kahungunu, hopes the  deeply personal stories being shared will inspire others to do the same.

1:25 Black Caps in cricket world cup semi against India

Unbeaten in all nine games of the Cricket World Cup so far India go into tonight's semi-final against the Black Caps as overwhelming favourites.

Here in the RNZ office Black Caps fan, Jesse discusses the upcoming match with colleague and India fan, Gaurav Sharma.

1:35 Forget Bird of the Year - it's now Aircraft of the Year

Forget the bird of the century hubbub - the Air Force Museum's got their own competition for 2023, the inaugural Aircraft of the Year competition.

While slightly tongue in cheek - the museum is using their competition to tell the story of the RNZA crews and their vast collection.

Museum director Brett Marshall speaks to Jesse.

1:45 Collectors corner: Jigsaw puzzles

This week's collector has amassed over 7000 jigsaw puzzles.

We meet Gay Devlin in Manawatu to talk about her collection for this week's collector's corner.

If you have a collection you'd like share text 2101 or email jesse@rnz.co.nz.

2.12 Podcast Critic: Ximena Smith

Today Ximena talks to Jesse about Empire, a history podcast about how empires rise and fall. And she's also been listening to The Kids of Rutherford County a series that looks at how a Tennessee county was arresting and illegally jailing children for more than a decade.

2:20 Bookmarks with Mona Williams

Our Bookmarks guest today has brought the gift of storytelling, reading and writing to thousands of tamariki in Aotearoa over the past four decades.

Mona Williams is a professional storyteller, author and teacher, and delivered the 2023 Pānui for Read NZ Te Pou Muramura titled: Tell us a story out of your own mouth.

Mona shares with Jesse what she enjoys reading, watching and listening to in her downtime.

3:10 Harnessing anger and sadness for positive outcomes

Positive outcomes sometimes require using negative emotions to achieve.

Leaning into anger can boost persistence and performance on the road to overcoming big challenges in a way that happiness just can't according to a new study by Dr Heather Lench. 

Her research suggests that anger and even sadness can be powerful  motivators.

Dr Lench shares her research and what it tells us about the consequences of  constant pressure to be happy. 

3:35 Stories from Our Changing World

Coming up on Our Changing World - Claire Concannon meets the team of scientists and engineers trying to design more efficient plasma rockets for space.

3:45 The Panel with Leonie Freeman and Selwyn Manning