Afternoons for Tuesday 15 October 2024

 

1:15 NZ's olive oil industry takes a bow 

On Saturday New Zealand's olive oil community came together to celebrate the best it has to offer at its annual awards evening in Wellington. This year there were 99 entries, North Island groves did particularly well.

The executive officer for Olives NZ, Emma Glover joins Jesse to spill the good oil. 

1:25 Where are all the stick insects? 

Just last week Jesse was asking: where have all the stick insects gone? He reckoned you just don't see them as much anymore. 

Entomologist and bug hunter extraordinaire, Morgan Merien answers this question and more on the noble stick insect.

1:35 NZ turns to the intimacy coach 

It might be an odd thing to say but for intimacy coach, Belinda Wiley, the current economic downturn has actually been good for business. 

She's seen an increase in the number of couples wanting help with their relationship as financial pressures, and life in general, takes a toll.  

1:45 Tech Tuesday: keeping hackers out of your phone

Vertch manager and Afternoons tech guy, Dan Watson talks through some ways to make sure no one can get into your phone and, therefore, your life. He also has some good new around how NZ's education system is teaching students to recognise biases in AI. 

2:10 Book Critic: Becoming Aotearoa, by Michael Belgrave

Anna Rankin reviews the latest NZ history book she says is going to become a classic. She also talks about a powerful new book from Isabella Hammad, Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative.

2:20 Update on Oz with Brad Foster

Our Australian correspondent Brad previews the impending visit by King Charles and discusses the new NSW policy that requires domestic violence offenders to wear ankle bracelets.  

2:30 Music feature: Aotearoa Street Soul

Today we're going back to the 90s to explore Aotearoa's street soul and swing beat era.

A wave of predominantly Polynesian artists began to blend the emerging sounds from the UK with Pasifika culture ... creating their own unique sound

These artists laid the groundwork for New Zealand's hip-hop golden era with the likes of Che Fu, King Kapisi, Nesian Mystik, Scribe emerging in the early 2000s.

Music journalist and DJ Martyn Pepperell takes Jesse on a soulful journey.

3:10 Feature interview: strategies to keep your family analog 

Parents, Katherine Martinko feels your pain. She's a Canadian author and journalist trying to minimize the time her family spends on screens at home. She works to make sure the childhood of her three sons looks like her own, dominated by time playing outside, riding bikes to friends' houses and reading comic books in a hammock in the back garden.  It's not easy, she often feels isolate and lonely as she is often the only parent at the school fundraisers who takes such a firm stand on devices. She shares her strategies for curbing screen time on her Substack, The Analog family.

3:30 Nau Mai Town: Paeroa

It's a small town with a big reputation, that's because it's home to the soft drink - Lemon and Paeroa. In this episode of Nau Mai Town, producer Justine Murray finds out the story and the meaning of the name, which has to with the surrounding mountain ranges.

3:45 The pre-Panel