Nine To Noon for Tuesday 29 March 2022

 

 

09:05 Warnings about Long Covid 

As more New Zealanders recover from Covid, we're exploring what is known about the health effects of Long Covid. As a nation our quick and stringent initial COVID-19 pandemic response has been praised, but two years on, focus is now turning to the long-term health effects and ongoing recovery. A WHO policy brief has suggested around 25 percent of people who have had the virus, will continue to have symptoms for at least a month, and  three months on,  around one in 10 people are still feeling unwell. So just how much is understood about this pandemic, the after effects of Long Covid and how to best manage it. Anna Brooks, is an immunologist and Senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, and she is part of a team of international researchers investigating the debilitating post viral condition. Dr Brooks says even asymptomatic people can get Long Covid. Kathryn will also talk to Dr Bronwyn Lennox Thompson about the implications for returning to exercise. She is a lecturer in Pain & Pain Management and Musculoskeletal Medicine at the University of Otago, Christchurch

09:30 People, land and belonging - Kāinga 

 In his new book Kāinga  Dr Paul Tapsell  says too often Māori become alienated from their ancestral identity. He founded Māori maps.com to help reconnection. The digital web service is particularly helping reconnect connecting urban-raised Māori youth to their ancestral communities. Dr Tapsell (Te Arawa, Tainui) is a museum curator, ethnographer and anthropologist. He's also  former director Maori at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, and a former Dean of the University of Otago's Te Tumu School of Māori, Pacific & Indigenous Studies 

09:45 USA correspondent Kate Fisher

Relations between the US and Russia are close to a full collapse after President Biden's declaration that Russian leader Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power" . The off-the-cuff remark has potentially serious implications for Washington's ability to help end the war in Ukraine and avoid a wider conflict. Meanwhile in President Biden has just unveiled his budget for the 2023 fiscal year in which he calls for more military spending in the face of Russian aggression toward Ukraine.
And the 94th Academy Awards may be remembered for Will Smith assaulting Chris Rock, but it made history too. Jane Campion won her first directing Oscar, having won in 1994 for her screenplay for "The Piano" - making her the third woman to win in the directing category.

10:05 Anil Seth: Being yourself 

Our guest today is trying to work out why we think, and why we exist as cognitive beings. It turns out we're not very good at assessing ourselves and how we think. Which makes the whole thing difficult. Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex Anil Seth has put his work on the subject so far down in a new book titled Being You. He joins Kathryn to discuss the fabric of reality and why we have such a hard time comprehending it. 

10:35 Book review: Breathless by Amy McCulloch

Elisabeth Easther reviews Breathless by Amy McCulloch, published by Penguin Random House NZ

10:45 The Reading

11:05 Business commentator Pattrick Smellie

Pattrick talks about suggestions that there almost needs to be a Ministry for Auckland, the supercity mayoral race and an imminent America's Cup decision. Also, there is increasingly pessimistic talk of a global recession this year, led by Europe, with the US teetering close to it too. What might that mean here?

Pattrick Smellie is the editor and co-founder of BusinessDesk and has reported on the New Zealand economy and business since 1983.

11:30 A guide to autism by somone diagnosed with it

When Chanelle Moriah was diagnosed with autism at age 21, life finally began to make sense. By then, there had been several misdiagnosis and six years in the mental health system. After the diagnosis, Chanelle went in search of information , but couldn't find much written from the perspective of someone with autism. So they wrote and illustrated their own book, now published by Allen & Unwin, and called I am Autistic: An interactive and informative guide to autism (by someone diagnosed with it).

11:45 Media commentator Andrew Holden

NZME goes solo in negotiations with Google and Meta (Facebook) and Andrew says this will disappoint the broader media industry in NZ, who have applied to the Commerce Commission for approval to bargain collectively with the digital giants. Also Today FM has launched with  Tova O'Brien doing the breakfast show. Andrew looks at how it's going so far.

Andrew Holden is a journalist for more than 30 years including five as Editor of The Press (in Christchurch) and four as Editor-in-Chief of The Age in Melbourne. 

 

Music played in this show

Track: Move on Up
Artist: Curtis Mayfield 
Time played: 10:30am 

Track: Garden 
Artist: Fly My Pretties
Time played: 11:25am 

Track: Montezuma
Artist: Fleet Foxes
Time played: 11:45am