Afternoons for Thursday 21 September 2023

CRITTER T-SHIRTS ARE BACK

To celebrate all things Aotearoa native fauna and flora we have a new Critter of the Week t-shirt back for 2023.

The super talented Giselle Clarkson has designed a new image for the shirts and tote bags.

There is a cut off date, Friday September 22nd, for pre-orders so they arrive in time for Christmas deliveries to friends and loved ones.

Follow this link and place your order. Five dollars for each t-shirt and tote bag sold goes back to environmental volunteer groups around Aotearoa which are working hard to keep our unique critters safe from extinction.

Order your COTW 2023 t-shirts and or totes by clicking here.

1:15 Airport chaos impacts on tourism operators 

School holidays are just around the corner, and more people than usual will be using our airports.

Over this past week we've seen reports of frustrated arriving passengers at Auckland Airport waiting for hours, loosing luggage, and not knowing what was going on.

Tourism operators rely on New Zealand to be accessible to get around.

And Paul Button General Manager of Rotorua Canopy Tours is here to talk about the impact of airports on out tourism industry.

1:25 Moving house by bike - a new challenge

Very few of us enjoy moving house, even if we're moving to an amazing new pad - the boxes, the bags the wardrobe of clothes that don't quite fit any more, and books that may never be read again but can't be passed on.

So, it's no surprise the actual business of moving gives most of us a headache, which is why earlier this year, when Auckland resident Fiáin  d'Leafy  was moving house, they decided to find a fresh way to approach this not so fun chore.

Because they did it entirely by bike. As in two-wheelers. With a fair bit of help from fellow cycle chums, but they did it.

1:35 Kākāpō translocation challenges and success

It's been around 2 months since the first translocation of Kākāpō to mainland Aotearoa.

And just last week, six more Kākāpō were released at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari.

To check in on how these taonga are going in Te Ika a Māui, we're joined by Ngāi Tahu kākāpō recovery group representative, Tāne Davis.

He's been working with Kākāpō for over 19 years, and were with this latest group of Kākāpō every step of the way. He speaks to Jesse.

1:45 Goodby Yellow Brick Road by Elton John

Our link 3 winner will get a vinyl copy of the classic Elton John album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

Originally released fifty years ago next month, the double LP has sold more than 20 million copies world wide.

Such was the impact of this album it was inducted into the Grammy hall of fame in 2003 and included in a book of 1001 albums you must listen to before you die.

2:10 Music Critic: Matthew Crawley

Today Matthew talks to Jesse about new music from  Alabaster DePlume and Ana Frango Elétrico.

2:25 NZ Sporting History: Dame Farah Palmer

Today for  NZ Sporting History. And we're going back to Amsterdam in 1998.

Where history was made by names like, Vanessa Cootes, Melodie Robinson, and of course Farah Palmer.

The Black Ferns won their first Rugby World Cup, which kicked off their international rugby record - the best of any team in the world, male or female.

Professor Dame Farah Palmer captained the team to victory in 1998. Dame Farah speaks to Jesse.

3:10 Link 3

3:15 Solving the World's Problems with Steve Wyn-Harris

Today 'retired' farmer Steve Wyn-Harris talks to Jesse about getting Leptospirosis from sheep while doing lambing beats and his very formal investiture at Government House in Wellington

3:20 History with Dr Grant Morris: The history of PREFU

Last week the much anticipated Pre-Election Financial Update (PREFU) was released. 

The PREFU is a mandatory "opening of the government books" before a general election. 

However, for most of our history we did not have the PREFU.  So what happened in the pre-PREFU era and why was it introduced? Today Dr Grant Morris explains the history behind the release.

3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness

In September 1993, a peace agreement was signed between Israel and the Palestinians after months of secret negotiations. The historic handshake between Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin took place on the lawn of the White House. Mona Juul, (Jewel)  Norway's Ambassador to the UK, and her husband were part of the team that planned and orchestrated top-secret meetings that culminated in the signing of the Oslo Accords. She speaks to Louise Hidalgo.

3:45 The Panel with Jo McCarroll and Phil O'Reilly