Afternoons for Tuesday 30 July 2024

 

1:15 The Taupō tsunami 

It's one of the furthest places from the ocean in New Zealand. But in the middle of the night in 2022, a tsunami in Lake Taupo flooded the foreshore, damaging moored boats. The trigger? A 5.6 magnitude earthquake caused by unrest in the supervolcano beneath the lake. GNS Science volcano seismologist Dr Oliver Lamb has been investigating what happened and why.

1:25 The best vegan cheese

A local Orewa business has been named the Supreme Winner of this years Vegan Society of Aotearoa Vegan Cheese Awards, for 'The Greek' a dairy free Feta.

'One Love Planet' create Artisan small batch cheeses from plant milks. Despite being cheese free, they say they actually taste cheesy - and, the judges of the Vegan Society of Aotearoa Vegan Cheese Awards agrees. Pretty impressive considering they've only been in business for about a year.

Janin Dei-Conti is the brains behind the operation, the owner and founder of One Love Planet.

1:35 Let's do the Time Warp again

Seen by over 30 million people, The Rocky Horror Show is one of the world's most successful musicals ever. And 50 years on people are still doing The Time Warp all around the world. The show's creator, Richard O'Brien, is back with a new satirical musical 'The Kingdom of Bling'. It's inspired by American politics and the ripple effect it has on the rest of the world. All royalties from the show are going to the Starship Children's Hospital in perpetuity.

An energised Richard O'Brien talks to Jesse about the show and the politics it satirizes. 

1:45 Getting the best deal with service providers

Whoever said life is for living obviously never tasted the sweet joy of negotiating a discount on their insurance premiums. But it's a joy that we as New Zealanders seem to deny ourselves. Although premiums have gone up, respondents in a Consumer NZ survey said they'd be unlikely to change insurers. They're also unlikely to switch broadband and electricity providers.

Jesse talks to Rebecca Styles from Consumer NZ

2:10 Book Critic

Claire Mabey talks about Megan Dunn's The Mermaid Chronicles, The Nevermoor books and previews a new documentary about Dame Fiona Kidman.

2:20 Update on Oz with Brad Foster

Brad possibly gives us a ribbing around Australia’s Olympic medal haul and talks about the high cost of living hitting Australia.

2:30 Music feature: House Music

For our music feature today we're joined by the renowned DJ and music producer Greg Churchill. Greg has been credited with laying the soundtrack for house and techno in Auckland. Taking up a residency at the legendary The Box nightclub on High St in the second half of the 90s And he's still playing.

3:10 Feature interview 

 Emily Oster is an economist not an obstetrician. But she knows how to use data to answer tough questions.   After evaluating the research, she found many women are given misguided or bad advice about normal pregnancies.  So she wrote a book about it.    

Then she heard from thousands of women who had difficult pregnancies and felt like they had nowhere to turn to understand miscarriage, premature births or postnatal depression. So Oster has again poured through the data and explains what the science says about difficult pregnancies and  how patients can get better care from their doctors. Her new book is called The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications.

3:30 Spoken Feature: BBC Witness History

Zamzam Farah trained on the ‘Road of Death’ for the London 2012 Olympics, while dodging violence in Somalia from Al-Shabab.

3:45 The pre-Panel