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Country Life for Friday 14 August 2009

  • Intro, a poem by Joe Bell and Regional Wrap

    9:05 PM.Intro, a poem by Joe Bell and Regional Wrap. Audio

  • Flower power

    9:13 PM.Theo Van der Put grows freesia and lilies in Wairarapa and business is blooming. Audio

  • Ag Science Isn't Sexy After School

    9:25 PM.Why do only 1% of university graduates have agricultural science degrees when the industries they'll be working with earn the lions share of New Zealand's export dollars. Audio

  • The Singing Scientist

    9:49 PM.Matthew Barnett wrote a song promoting Nutritional Epigenetics for his MacDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year Award entry. He doesn't usually do country and western but the song's agricultural links… Read more Audio

(Pictured below) Theo Van der Putt beside a bed of freesias.

Fuchsias