Afternoons for Tuesday 14 November 2023

 

1:15 Eco-index restoration map

There's a new tool available that can now show you not only what your local biodiveristy used to look like before humans ... but how to rebuild it.

The interactive map developed by Eco-index aims to provide guidelines for restoration - with a 15 percent minimum goal for ecosystem cover in every catchment, in the country, within a century.

Eco-index project lead Dr Kiri Wallace speaks to Jesse.

1:25 Garden to pre-school table, a great way to get more veggies into children's diets

Garden to Table is a programme to teach tamariki to grow, harvest and prepare food.

Run by a charitable trust, 300 primary schools are on board. 

Now the programme is expanding into preschools, with new garden beds being unveiled at a kindergarten in Auckland last week.

Oropi primary, a rural school near Tauranga has been running teh programme for the past 10 years. Heron Rickard is the Garden Specialist there, she speaks to Jesse.

1:35 'Bad Hair Day' song now an adventure book

Back in the early 2000s Nelson music teacher John Phillips was frustrated by the tired old songs being sung in school assemblies,  so he recorded an album of songs including My Dad Loves Rugby, The Lost Property Box and Wobbly Tooth.

Fast forward two decades and one song he wrote in his workshed back then - Bad Hair Day Song - has reached a whole new audience...through TikTok....amassing tens of millions of views this year alone.

Now that his song is a social media sensation - John is releasing an illustrated book re-imagining the song Bad Hair Day with advice on turning bad days into good days. He speaks to Jesse.

1:45 Relationships with Hannah Korrel

Neuropscyhologist Hannah Korrel talks to Jesse about grief and why losses in sport and the like can hurt so much.

2:10 Book Critic: Catherine Robertson

Today Catherine reviews a mix of genres, one crime novel, one memoir and an historical novel.

The books are, The Seven by Chris Hammer, A Foragers Life by Helen Lehndorf and The Seasonwife by Saige England.

2:20 Update on Oz with Brad Foster

Brad Foster reports on the worthy recipients of the NSW Australians of the Year for 2024 announced last night, with co-directors of the Melanoma institute Australia recognised for their work in the field of cancer research. He also talks about the opening of the world's largest Lego store in Sydney over the weekend, cricket, the ARIA music awards, and the Optus outage.

2:30 Music feature: Lyrics as poetry with Claire Mabey

Our resident book critic and Verb founder Claire Mabey has a wonderful way of taking song lyrics and turning them into poetry.

She's been done this a few times for our music feature and is back again today with a fresh list of tracks to play and her take on how the words make amazing poems.

3:10 Making large scale changes, what really happens

Dr. Rajiv J. Shah doesn't just talk about solving some of the world's biggest problems, he does something about it.

With the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, he helped forge a plan to vaccinate 900 million children.

At the US Agency for International Development, he led the American response to an earthquake in Haiti and an Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Now he's president of the Rockefeller Foundation and argues that making incremental improvements doesn't get the results, no matter what the scale of the problem. He offers his philosophy in his new book, Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens.

3:30 Spoken Feature: BBC Witness History

In the early 1950s an Australian chemist had an idea that would change flying forever. In 1962 he saw his revolutionary invention take flight.

3:45 The Panel with Verity Johnson and Conor English