Sunday Morning for Sunday 19 July 2009
Sunday for 19 July 2009
8:12 Insight: Teen Brain Development
Insight this morning looks at how the development of the teenage brain affects the behaviour of adolescents. Growing research suggests the brain does not fully mature until the mid-20s. So can this help explain the risk-taking and emotionally impulsive reactions often seen in teenagers?
Written and presented by Sue Ingram
8:40 Feature interview: The Legacy of Charles Brasch
July 27 marks the centenary of the birth of Charles Brasch - poet, arts patron and founder of the literary magazine Landfall. Brasch quietly financed and supported a number of writers and artists and his literary executor Alan Roddick tells Chris Laidlaw that we are still learning about his life and work.
9:05 Mediawatch
Mediawatch this week hears from a journalist who's written a frank personal account of the days when women were rare in New Zealand's newsrooms - and later, when the politics of the Cold War and the Springbok Tour could also pose big problems for young reporters making their way in journalism. Mediawatch also looks at how the recklessness of Britain's most scandalous paper might also rebound on its more respectable rivals - and how the media here have raised big questions about the system of 'trial by jury' in the wake of the retrial of David Bain.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:30 Feature interview: The New Stalinism
Jonathan Brent is the editorial director of Yale University Press, where he founded the Annals of Communism series in 1991. His latest book is 'Inside the Stalin Archives' and in it he explores Russia's tortured past and post-Soviet life. He talks to Chris Laidlaw about his fears that what we're seeing in Russia now is post-modern Stalinism and a return to a form of authoritarianism that mirrors the structures of Communism in the past.
'Inside the Stalin Archives' is published by Scribe.
9:55 Notes from the South
Dougal Stevenson in Dunedin, with a shaggy dog tale.
10:06 The Sunday Group: Flight of the Kiwi
This week we're looking at the airlines vying for passengers in our domestic market. In one corner, Air New Zealand is holding its own, in and out of regions where no other airline dares to tread. In the other corner, taking on the old hand, is newcomer Jetstar - backed by the deep pockets of Qantas - and Pacific Blue, who's Australian parent Virgin Blue is feeling the pressure in a tight market. Is there room for all three or will one or two join the long list of doomed airlines that have become part of our domestic aviation history?
Chris Laidlaw chairs a panel that includes: Aviation writer and consultant David Stone; aviation commentator Peter Clark and Kevin Blackford, editor of The Travel Memo, a travel and tourism online news digest.
10:40 Hidden Treasures
Each week Trevor Reekie takes you on a trip that seeks out musical gems from niche markets around the globe, the latest re-releases and interesting sounds from the shallow end of the bit stream. This week Trevor unveils new music from as far afield as Northern Syria, to the Mongolian grasslands.
Produced by Trevor Reekie
10:55 Feedback.
What you, the listeners, say on the ideas and issues that have appeared in the programme.
11:05 Ideas: The Changing Face of New Zealand History
Over the next six weeks, six historians will deliver lectures on Writing New Zealand History in the 21st century as part of the University of Auckland's Winter Lecture series. The series kicks off on Tuesday with a talk by associate professor Caroline Daley - entitled Taking Off the Black Singlet. In her lecture she'll argue that the black singlet - rural, masculine, and hard-wearing, the woollen equivalent of number eight fencing wire - has straight-jacketed the writing of our history. And that a new generation of historians is discovering that satin and sparkles were as much a part of our past as boiled wool and nightshirts made of sugar sacks. This week Ideas talks to Prof Daley and her colleague Dr Felicity Barnes about the changing face of New Zealand History.
LINK: http://www.maidment.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/maidment/archives/2009/07/maidment/winter-lectures-2009.cfm
Presented by Chris Laidlaw
Produced by Jeremy Rose