Afternoons for Monday 19 May 2025

Today's show is very special; because today we deliver on a promise made a week ago and broadcast the show from the Dunedin iSite! As that classic Dunedin song by The Cleans goes: anything could happen! 

1 -2 PM Guests

Dunedin Destination Manager Sian Sutton joined Jesse to chat about Dunedin's tourism appeal.

Recently Dunedin was running a campaign to convince city folks up north to consider moving south to Dunedin

Super Rugby Highlanders co-captain Hugh Renton joins Jesse for a chat about what it's like playing for the mighty Otago Highlanders and how they plan to improve their fortunes this season. 

Hadleigh McPherson is owner of one of Dunedin's oldest business - The NZ Brush Company has bene around for 140 years and Hadliegh will sweep away any notion that it's not a 'sexy' industry'. 

Wildlife Hospital Trust Manager Jordana Whyte will be visiting the iSite to chat to Jesse about the work they do rescuing and mending injured animals. 

Otago Uni Phd Student Kieran Demonte is in his final year of uni studying chemistry and his Phd aims to use chemistry to capture CO₂ and transform it into green fuels.

2:10 Television Critic: The Last of Us and The Chosen

Pat Britteden is a long-standing broadcaster with a popular daily news podcast called BHM (Big hairy Men) and Dunedin local, he joins us on TV reviewer duties. Today he's looking at The Last of Us season2 and The Chosen, an online series depicting the life of Christ. 

2:20 Information Center Cold Call

Live from the Dunedin iSite! How are the brochures?  What's the biggest selling item in the gift shop? This and many more questions will be asked and answered. 

2:30 Expert Feature: Dunedin's Dark History 

Gregor Campbell is the man behind Darkest Dunedin, a regular tour illuminating some of the grittier parts of the city's past. He has vast knowledge of Dunedin;s history and a phalanx of stories involving "murder. shipwreck, foreign wars, and city fires and also of New Zealand's National Anthem, of tinned pineapple, and ladies' tailoring."

If you have any questions around Dunedin;s history text on 21010 or email afternoons@rnz.co.nz.

3:10 Feature interview: A new definition of success 

It's been said the best minds a generation are thinking about how to make people click on ads. Brilliant minds are going underused while big problems go unsolved says historian Rutger Bregman. He argues it's possible to build a life that's both ambitious and idealistic.  He calls for a new definition of success, measured by impact, not income in his new book, Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting your Talent and Start Making a Difference. 

 

3:35 Here Now

Pepa Torre originally from Spain and now a Waikato local, is in conversation with Here Now's Kadambari Raghukumar. 
 

3:45 The pre-Panel

Wallace Chapman and Jesse Mulligan. preview tonight's instalment of The Panel. Today they have a very special guest, Radio One Breakfast Host, Zac Hoffman.