Afternoons for Monday 25 September 2023

1:15 Wales Rugby fan on historic win

What a World Cup it has been so far! Australia all but out this morning after historic defeat to Wales.

Welsh fans will be celebrating up and down the country, including Andrew Jones owner of Welsh Dragon Bar in Wellington.

1:20 The best guinea pigs in New Zealand

Jesse talks to 15-year-old Josh Wilson-Jones who apparently has the best guinea pigs in the country. 

1.25 Men, you have a pelvic floor! 

We often hear about women doing pelvic floor exercises around pregnancies, but most men are surprised to learn they even have a pelvic floor.

But drips, dribbles and bladder weakness are quite common for men, especially after prostate surgery.

The good thing is there's plenty we can do to help.

Jesse talks to pelvic health physiotherapist Lisa Carnie from Wanaka's Pelvic solutions, and she talks him through some exercises you can try at home. 

1.35 New Zealand's biggest online book club

Now in its second year Together We Read is Aotearoa's biggest online book club, with thousands of readers joining reading the same book between September 27 and October 11.

This year, the novel is Charity Norman's suspenseful, heart-swelling page turner, Remember Me.

Jesse talks to Charity about this initiative, public libraries, and the variety in book clubs. 

1:45 Feature album: Chrome Dreams

2:10 Television Critic: Pratik Navani

Pratik joins Jesse to review Odd Taxi, The Wheel of Time and AP Dhillon: First of a Kind. 

2:20 Chuffed with my child chats

Sir Ian Taylor joins Jesse to share how extremely proud he is of his son Sam, who is profoundly deaf and finishing his final year of vascular surgery training. 

2.30 Expert Feature: Self Defence

Today we're talking about self defence. 

We'll ask where threats come from, and when a physical response should be used.

Jesse talks to Phil Thompson is the founder of Protect Self Defence, he has spent over 20 years teaching and advising in this field.

A note that this interview mentions different types of violence including domestic violence.

3:10 Feature interview: Rebekah Ballagh

Little kids have big feelings. And one of the hardest and most important things a child can learn is how to manage them. The fancy name for that is executive function.  For bestselling author and mental health counsellor Rebekah Ballagh, it's called  getting through the daily challenges of a being a kid who sometimes feel sad, angry, stressed or scared.  

She's got a new children's book that on the surface, is about a little girl going to school. But it's also a guide for adults to help children deal with some powerful emotions. It's called Let's Go Flo.  

Jesse talks to Rebekah Ballagh about the book. 

3:35 Voices: Te Papa Portraits

How did a set of photographic negatives become the subject of an exciting yet sentimental quest for connection in Wellington's Indian community? In this episode of Voices, Kadambari Raghukumar visits Te Papa to find out more

3:45 The Panel with Zoe George and Liam Hehir