Afternoons for Monday 22 January 2024

 

1:15 Transforming the garden into a 'lizard manor', a guide.

"Think like a skink" - that's the advice of wildlife photographer and enthusiast Holly Neill, who for the past couple of years has been nurturing a lizard garden, or 'Mokomoko Manor'.

The work of organisations like Forest and Bird and sanctuaries like Zealandia has facilitated the return of native birds to our gardens, but Holly wants to remind us not to forget the humble lizard.

She says setting up your own lizard garden is easier than it sounds. Hollie speaks to Jesse.

1.25 Big win for Women's Under 18 National Ice-hockey team at world championships

Our National under 18 women's ice hockey team have started 2024 on a high by winning a gold medal at the International Ice Hockey Federation world championships in Bulgaria.

The side were playing in division II B and faced off the tournament hosts to win the gold and be promoted to division II A.

To tell us more about the championships, the win and what next for these talented ice-hockey players, head coach Matthew Sandford and Assistant captain Lucy Boniface speak to Jesse.

1.35 New tool devised to help pharmacy safety

Each year across New Zealand more deaths are caused by medicine related errors than lives lost on our roads.

A University of Canterbury start up is hoping to turn around that statistic using AI and other tech tools to reduced medicine related errors in pharmacies.

It's already been recognised internationally with a business award. Script Sense CEO Puneet Saini talks to Jesse.

1:45 Feature album: A New World Record

2:10 Television Critic: Dom Corry

Today Dom talks to Jesse about The Curse, on NEON, Death and Other Details on Disney+ and Fool Me Once on Netflix.

2:20 Made in NZ: NZ Sock Co

For Made in NZ  today we're going down to Ashburton, where a company has been manufacturing socks for well over 120 years.

The New Zealand Sock Company was established in 1901 by John Phaup, and was taken over by the Sparrow family in 1980.

Gabrielle Sparrow is of the second generation of Sparrows, she speaks to Jesse.

2.30 Expert Feature: Oral health 

For today's expert feature we're talking about the basics of keeping your teeth clean, and habits that can prevent tooth decay.

To answer your questions we're joined by Murray Thomson, emeritus Professor of Dental Epidemiology and Public Health Oral Sciences at Otago University.

He has three decades of research behind him.

If you have a question about your teeth, text on 2101 or email jesse@rnz.co.nz.

3:10 Embracing 'ordinary' to be content, Crispin Thurlow's view

It happens every year. We come back from our summer holidays determined to do better and be better at the things we let slack the year before. 

But better is not always best in a world awash with words like elite, premium and superior says socio-linguist Crispin Thurlow. He's a professor of language and communication at the University of Bern.

We are constantly pushed to take things to the next level when instead, he says, embracing mediocrity and having the courage to be ordinary may actually be the path to contentment.

His work on linguistics will bring him to New Zealand in June.

3:35 BBC Witness History

British zoologist Bob Golding turned the University of Ibadan's zoo into one of Nigeria's biggest tourist attractions in the 1970s.

The zoo was famous for two gorillas he rescued from traffickers. And Bob's animal kingdom even had its own TV show.

3:45 The Panel with Ella Henry and Garry Moore