Summer Noelle for Tuesday 18 January 2011
Monday to Friday, 9am - Midday
9:08 Rodney Hide
2010, the summer and the year ahead with our political leaders - ACT
9:29 Rachel Antony
Australian correspondent on what must be their widespread natural disaster, the floods of Queensland and now Victoria
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BU09620110113
9:49 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 first lot of recommendations, Germany - The Loyal Subject (or Man of Straw), by Heinrich Mann, The Magic Mountain, and Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann, Defying Hitler, by Sebastian Haffner, Goodbye to Berlin, by Christopher Isherwood, and If This is a Man, by Primo Levi
10:10 Campbell Smith
Kiwis on Duty - setting up for of the most well-attended annual live festival concerts at Mt Smart Stadium
http://www.bigdayout.com/auckland.php
10:20 Dr Paul Baker
Kiwi Inventors who should be Famous - a device that helps professionals help others to breathe
10:30 Nick Dwyer
otherwise known as Nick D, with the music from around the world - Skeat 'Relela' from Botswana, El Guincho 'Bombay' from the Canary Islands and, Dakha Brakha with Oi Za Lisochkom from Ukraine
10:50 Jim Flynn
Today's second lot of recommendations from the Torchlight List, Russia - The Seagull, by Anton Chekov, War and Peace, & Anna Karenina by
Leo Tolstoy, The Family Moskat, by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol, Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler, The Captive Mind, by Czeslaw Milosz, The Joke, by Milan Kundera, The First Circle, & One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
11:18 Miriam Clancy
musical selections for the summer season... Best Coast
11:25 Brad Van Liew
winner of the second leg of Velux 5 Oceans solo yacht race, now berthed in Wellington
11:45 John Kendrick
Bird expert about our noisy Tuis...
http://www.gg.govt.nz/node/3046
11:55 Great Moments in NZ Pop History by Mitchell Hawkes
The Georgie Pie story,there are just some meat pies you remember fondly...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6zTLkd0JV4
Songs
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Over the Rainbow
Fredericks Brown - What Lies Within (nz)
Sufjan Stevens - I walked
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
Skeat - Relela
DakhaBrakha - Oi Za Lisochkom
El Guincho - Bombay
Best Coast - When I'm With You
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Ship Song
Arcade Fire - We used to wait