Summer Times for Friday 13 January 2017
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Sports and alcohol advertising
9:10 AM.A study has found New Zealand children are exposed to up to 200 ads per hour when they watch sport on television, many of them alcohol ads. Given alcohol-related injury and illness cost the country… Read more Audio
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Curio Bay carpark threatens penguins, says volunteer ranger
9:20 AM.A volunteer ranger says the Department of Conservation is putting the yellow-eyed penguin at risk to build a capark in Southland's Curio Bay. The South Catlins Charitable Trust is building a… Read more Audio
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Thoughts on The Lighthouse
9:37 AM.Aucklanders are divided on the brand new piece of public art at Queens Wharf – Michael Parekowhai's The Lighthouse. Read more Audio
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Chilean telescope to be modified in search for life
10:10 AM.A huge telescope in Chile is going to be modified so that it can look for signs of life in the Alpha Centauri star system, the system closest to us. The European Southern Observatory's Very Large… Read more Audio
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Hector's dolphin calf sighted in Otago waters
10:20 AM.A very young Hector's dolphin calf has been spotted in Otago waters this week. It was sighted by crew on the Monarch Wildlife Cruises and Tours boat on Tuesday. Naturally, Dr Liz Slooten, a whale and… Read more Audio
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Employee of the Month - John Rae
10:30 AM.Musician John Rae offered to be an employee of the month during the Nelson Jazz festival. We were a bit late getting back to him, and the festival is over and John's gone fishing. Nonetheless, John… Read more Audio
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What are you reading?
10:43 AM.Maori Party MP Marama Fox tells us what she has been reading this Summer. Audio
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Home for Christmas - Rebecca Denton
10:50 AM.Rebecca Denton is on the cusp of releasing her first book. She's originally from Dunedin and left Logan Park High School with an impressive outstanding 54 detentions. Audio
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Auckland Arts Festival - Miriama McDowell
11:08 AM.The Auckland Arts Festival is on between the 8th and 26th of March. One of the plays being prepared for the festival is co-written and co-performed by Miriama McDowell, who is well known to New… Read more Audio
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Black Dogs
11:15 AM.Our unenlightened forebears had some strange superstitions regarding animals, including ones about black dogs: "It's good luck if a black dog follows you at home, but bad luck if it follows you on the… Read more Audio
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Wine with Yvonne Lorkin
11:21 AM.Yvonee tells us about "the best new vineyards you've never heard of". Audio
9:07 Alcohol Report
A study has found New Zealand children are exposed to up to 200 ads per hour when they watch sport on television - a lot of that, if not most of it, alcohol ads.
Professor Sally Casswell from Massey Univeristy's Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation unit.
Photo: 123 RF
9:15 Michael Parekowhai's Lighthouse
Well we've now had a few days to get used to a brand new piece of public art on Queens Wharf here in Auckland - that's of course Michael Parekowhai's The Lighthouse. Associate professor Linda Tyler will tell us her views.
Michael Parekowhai - The Lighthouse Photo: Auckland Council
9:25 Concerns for the endangered yellow eyed penguin
Sian Torrington, a volunteer ranger for DOC, is worried the construction site to build that carpark was dangerously close to where the rare yellow-eyed penguin, or hoiho, were nesting.
An endangered yellow-eyed penguin 7.47am Photo: AFP
9:45 Best of Jesse: Lee Goldman
What once helped the human race survive, like storing fat, may be killing us. Many of our current epidemics, obesity, depression, heart attack and stroke can be put down to traits we haven't shed from our ancient ancestors according to cardiologist Dr. Lee Goldman, a dean at the Columbia University medical school.
Photo: SCIENCE PHOTO
10:07 Hectors Calf spotted in Dunedin
A very young Hector's dolphin calf has been spotted in Otago waters this week.
It was sighted by crew on the Monarch Wildlife Cruises and Tours boat on Tuesday.
Hector's dolphins off Banks Peninsula. Photo: AFP
10:15 Employee of the Month John Rae Jazz Musician
Musician John Rae offered to be an employee of the month during the Nelson Jazz festival.
Now the festival is over and John's gone fishing
10:25 Home for Christmas - Rebecca Denton
My expat home for Christmas today Rebecca Denton is on the cusp of releasing her first book.
She's originally from Dunedin and left Logan Park High School with an impressive outstanding 54 detentions.
10:30 What Are You Reading? Marama Fox
Marama Fox tells us what she has been reading this Summer
Māori Party co-leader Marama Fox Photo: RNZ / Mei Heron
11:07 Wine with Yvonne Lorkin,
The best new vineyards you've never heard of. In a time when most people are saying it's madness to leap into the competitive and crazy world of winegrowing, there are some great people getting amongst the action and carving out their own small but tastily formed businesses.
11:25 NZ LIVE Kaylee Bell