Afternoons for Thursday 2 November 2023

1:15 Marsden funding for research on unhealthy food taxes

It's that time of year where we find out what big academic research projects will be funded and what new knowledge will created with the 2023 Marsden Fund grants.

Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden has allocated $83.59 million dollars to 123 research projects across Aotearoa New Zealand.

Dr Andrea Teng from the Department of Health at the University of Otago is one of the lucky recipients.

She's researching the effects of Tonga's world-leading, comprehensive taxation on unhealthy foods.

She talks to Jesse about her work.

1:25 Musician Tim Stewart on a new musical adventure

Songwriter and musician, Tim Stewart talks to Jesse about  his new musical venture CODES, while many listeners will have heard Tim in all sorts of places in his many musical incarnations, including as a core member of Supergroove and Hopetoun Brown, Tim has also joined the likes of  Dave Dobbyn, Don McGlashan, Tami Nielson, Marlon Williams, Lawrence Arabia, Conan Moccasin onstage or in the studio.

Tim is also a multi-instrumentalist whose trumpet and trombone skills are much in demand.

He talks to Jesse about his previous work and what's next for him.

1:35 Community and social housing getting a boost from the private sector

There's been a bit of new movement in the community housing space.

Kiwisaver fund Simplicity has launched a new fund for up to $25,000 new homes over the long term.

But community housing isn't a new thing - Salvation Army has been supplying housing for over 100 years.

Founder and Chief Executive of Community Finance, James Palmer talks to Jesse about the community housing providers and how they work with government to build more homes.

1:45 Great album: Holding Patterns from Grayson Gilmour

Today's winner of the link 3 competition will get a vinyl copy of Grayson Gilmour's new album, which is due out tomorrow called Holding Patterns.

2:10 Music Critic: Matthew Crawley

Today Matthew talks to Jesse about music from Half Hexagon, a super group featuring Lawrence Arabia, Yolanda Fagan and Julien Dyne. He's also playing a track from Brandon De La Cruz, who's about to head off on an album release tour.

2:25 NZ Sporting History: Dylan Cleaver on NZ cricketing greats

Well known sports writer Dylan Cleaver joins NZ Sporting History this week to talk about modern NZ cricketing greats.

It's the topic of his book, just released, dives deep into the best players of the current era from Cantabrian Stephen Fleming to bustling Neil Wagner, a very recent Black Cap legend.

Dylan's in to talk to Jesse about those cricketers and his book Modern New Zealand Cricket Greats.

3:10 Link 3

3:15 Solving the World's Problems with Ali Jones

Today Ali talks to Jesse about the insurance debacle for Christchurch home owners trying to settle with companies over their earthquake damaged homes.

She advocating for the establishment of an "Insurance Department" as they have done in California.

3:20 History with Dr Grant Morris: The history of New Zealand in the Korean War

Afternoons resident historian Dr Grant Morris is off to Korea for a couple of weeks and this is part one of two looking at the historical relationship between NZ and Korea. 

Today he looks back at NZ involvement in the Korean War.

3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness: The creation of the labradoodle

Today's BBC Witness is a replay of an episode from earlier this year.

It's getting another airing because this edition is one of the most popular ever! 

So we're going back, again to 1989, when Australian dog breeder Wally Conron created the world's first labradoodle.

More than three decades on, he believes he created Frankenstein’s monster.

3:45 The Panel with Jo McCarroll and  Dean Hall