Nine To Noon for Friday 13 October 2023

 

09:05 Election 2023: Labour leader Chris Hipkins

Labour party leader, Chris Hipkins joins Kathryn Ryan for an interview on all the issues this election and why his party should form the next government.

09:30 Kiwi paramedic with Multiple Sclerosis takes on Ironman World Champs in Hawaii

Nelson paramedic Prue Young will compete in her first Ironman World Champs in Hawaii on Sunday. A few years ago, Prue was working for St. John Ambulance in Taupo providing medical support for Ironman events. She never envisioned she would compete in one herself - but she did and was hooked. Then, during the Covid lockdowns, she began experiencing what would later be identified as symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. The diagnosis gave her a new attitude towards sport and she's now on a mission to educate and encourage others to prove anything is possible with MS. She speaks with Kathryn Ryan from Hawaii on the eve of the Ironman World Champs.

09:45 Asia correspondent Elizabeth Beattie

Elizabeth Beattie discusses an artillery strike in Myanmar which has killed at least 29 people, including women and children, at a refugee camp near the border with China. It is one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in the country since the military seized power in a 2021 coup. Also, Australian Cheng Lei has been freed from detention in China and arrived in Melbourne. She previously worked at Chinese state-owned media, CGTN, and was accused in 2020 of "supplying state secrets overseas". Her charges were never made public.

10:05 Shipwreck detective Dr Maddy McAllister

Dr Maddy McAllister is a maritime archeologist who calls herself a shipwreck detective. She is Senior Curator in Maritime Archaeology at the Museum of Tropical Queensland, in Townsville,  where she is responsible for managing some 8000 artefacts recovered from about 30 shipwrecks. Maddy began diving aged 14 in South West Australia where she grew up. And after attending a lecture on by the Australian Museum of Shipwrecks, she knew Marine Archeology was what she wanted to doShe has dived wrecks all around Australia, in the Indian Ocean and in Oman. She says she wants to find and document as many shipwrecks as possible before they're lost. She speaks with Kathryn Ryan from Townsville.

 

10:35 Book review

Melissa Oliver from Unity Books Wellington reviews Transposium by Dani Yourukova, published by Auckland University Press. RRP $30.00

10:45 Around the motu: Kirsty Pickett in Fiordland

Kirsty Pickett is in Fiordland, where feasibility testing is underway on the Milford Opportunities Project's masterplan, which could radically change the way tourists interact with the national park. The proposal includes a permit system for international visitors, removing fixed-wing aircraft and some cruise liners, and also banning foreign motorists. And in Tuatapere, the completion of the multi-million dollar upgrade on the country's next Great Walk has been delayed another year. The Hump Ridge Trace was meant to reopen in late 2022 but the date has been pushed back due to supply chain delays and bad weather. 

11:05 New music with Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor joins Kathryn with a timely reissue of The Chills debut LP, another fine Ace Records compilation, and remembering Nick Drake.

11:30 Sports commentator Sam Ackerman

11:45 The week that was with Te Radar and Michele A'Court

 

 

Music played in this show

Simon & Garfunkel - Cecelia

Paul Simon - Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes

The Chills - Rain

Bert Jansch/John Renbourn - Soho

Cilla Black - London Bridge 

John & Beverly Martyn - Primrose Hill

Nick Drake - River Man