Summer Noelle for Friday 14 January 2011
Monday to Friday, 9am - Midday
9:10 Zoe Bell
Kiwi stuntwoman her most notable work includes doubling for Lucy Lawless on Xena: Warrior Princess and for Uma Thurman in Kill Bill. As an actress, she is probably most recognized for playing Zoe (herself) in the Tarantino film Death Proof.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEVyC8FByng
9:30 John McBeth
Sport commentator about the lacklustre Black Caps' performance, the mens' tennis, the Breakers basketball team and the All Blacks being nominated for a Laureus World Sport Award
9:50 Jim Flynn
Intelligence expert, professor of politics and author of 'The Torchlight List: Around the World in 200 Books'. Jim believes that reading great literature could be better than a university education.
Today's recommendations: Rudyard Kipling - Kim; A.H. Farrar-Hockley - The Somme; Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong;
William Cowper (poet); Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach; William Butler Yates - The Second Coming
10:10 Brian Russell
Kiwi Inventors who should be Famous: the BioHarness allows remote monitoring of human performance and condition in the real world - was used to monitor the physical conditions of the Chilean miners when they were trapped
10:25 Kiwis on Duty
Troy Beaumont is a field officer who assists researchers at Scott Base in Antarctica
10:40 Matthew Wood
Science blogger on a wide variety of research being carried on the wildlife and geology of sub Antarctic Islands
http://sciblogs.co.nz/journeystotheice
10:50 Great Moments in NZ Pop History by Mitchell Hawkes
Fred Dagg & the Country Calendar spoof
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tAWwqKNI7g&feature=related
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/country-calendar-spoof-special-1999
11:30 James Griffin & Simon Pound
Views and opinions on the second week that was 2011... staycation, can the Black Caps get any worse, TEDx, Queensland floods and cut-off jeans
11:40 Kitty, Daisy and Lewis
Live music from this British band comprising three siblings of the Durham family from London
Songs
Blind Melon - No Rain
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Three Little Birds
Bernie Griffin & the Grifters - Hand in Mine (nz)
Janelle Monae - Tightrope feat. Big Boi
Cee Lo Green - Forget You
Fred Dagg - You don't know how lucky you are (nz)
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Honolulu Rock A Roll A
UKG - International Player's Anthem feat. Outkast & Three 6 Mafia
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Going Back (live)
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Polly Put the Kettle On (live)