Afternoons for Tuesday 24 October 2023

1:15 Victoria Theatre turns 111

Devonport's special Victoria Theatre is celebrating 111 years this month.

To share the rich and long live history of the venue Margot McRae talks to Jesse.

1:25 Queens of the Stone Age landing in Aotearoa in 2024

Rock devotee's got some exciting news a couple of hours ago, with the announcement that Queens of the Stone Age are heading to New Zealand.

The 'End is Nero' tour is coming in support of the band's eighth album 'In Times New Roman...', which was released earlier this year and quickly reached number one on the NZ album chart.

The upcoming tour will be their first visit here in over five years.

Founding member, guitarist and frontman, Josh Homme speaks to Jesse.

1:35 Recycled materials used for chef-grade chopping boards

A collaboration between a sustainable restaurant and a plastics re-cycler is shining a light on the impact of bottom trawling and commercial fishing on our marine ecosystem.

The kingi chopping board is a chef-grade chopping board created using fishing nets and recycled post-consumer packaging.

It was devised by Rui Peng, co-founder and CEO of CRITICAL and Tom Hishon, owner and chef at Kingi.

All profits will go to LegaSea, a non-profit organisation working to restore New Zealand's marine environment to good health.  

1:45 Tech Tuesday with Daniel Watson

Today Dan Watson talks to Jesse about a digital detox while he's away on the Spirit of New Zealand ship and water safety tips!

2:10 Book Critic: Dominic Hoey

Today Dominic talks to Jesse about the latest work from David Grann, The Wager. This book, like his previous one, Killers of the Flower Moon, has also had the screen rights acquired by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.

2:20 Update on Oz with Brad Foster

Brad Foster reports on the NSW Government announcing its plans to turn half of a Sydney city golf course into green space for an anticipated growth in residents in the area, celebrations for the Opera House turning 50 and the controversies during construction, and the latest on bush fires in and around the country. 

2:30 Music feature: Elvis

Today's music feature is all about one of the most famous performers of all time, Elvis Presley.

We have our very own RNZ First Up producer Jeremy Parkinson, an Elvis super fan, along to talk through the life and times of the King of Rock 'n' Roll for this week's music feature.

3:10 Lee and Andrew Child on 'sharing' Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher is back. For the 28^th book in the wildly popular series, Jack Reacher is back in the late 1990’s when author Lee Child published the first book.  

This is the 4^th book Lee child has collaborated with his brother Andrew on the Jack Reacher Series. 

He’s handing over the series to him, but not before a return to Jack Reacher’s roots as a military Police Officer working to solve a murder.

We’ll talk to Lee and Andrew Child about The Secret: A Jack Reacher Novel.

3:30 Spoken Feature: BBC Witness

Lagos Fashion Week 2023 runs from Thursday 26 to Monday 30 October. In 2011, models, stylists and fashionistas gathered for Lagos Fashion Week's debut which would put Nigerian style on the global map. Omoyemi Akerele founded the event which helped to launch the careers of designers internationally. The annual event has become an occasion attracting Africa's biggest celebs and collections are sent around the world. Omoyemi speaks to Reena Stanton-Sharma.

3:45 The Panel with Alexia Russell and Andie McCombs