Afternoons for Tuesday 31 May 2022

 

1:15 Loyalty scheme in the spotlight after supermarket shake up

One Card, New World Club Card - chances are most of us have signed up to some sort of loyalty scheme...

But now the Government is moving to introduce new transparency requirements for loyalty schemes including on data collection and use.

Its part of a raft of changes announced by the the Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister David Clark, following a Commerce Commission report which found supermarkets are making a million dollars a day in excess profits.

To explain these  loyalty scheme regulations and why they're needed, Timothy Hazeldine, Emeritus professor of Economics, University of Auckland talks to Anna.

1:30 Crying at the movies is a sign of strength

Do you find yourself blubbering at movies?

Maybe a little tear rolling down your cheek as the credits roll?

It could be a sign of your emotional strength.

Professor of Psychology at the University of Canberra, Deborah Rickwood explains the positives in crying at the movies!

1:40 Greater prominence given to Māori bird names in latest checklist

A new edition of the 'Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand" - but this time with much greater prominence to Māori bird names.

The names used in the checklist are derived from a database of 2,515 Māori and Moriori bird names.

It's also the first time in its 69 year history that the list is digital only.

Bird Curator at Te Papa, Dr Colin Miskelly who is also the Checklist Committee convener and New Zealand Birds Online editor talks to Anna.

1:50 Tech Tuesday with Daniel Watson

Today Dan Watson of Vertech IT Services talks to Anna about keeping your PC safe from colleagues' pranks and ways to remember your pass words.

2:10 Book Critic: Claire Mabey

Today Claire talks about a new book she's discovered by Daniel Mendelsohn. It's called 'Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate".

2:20 Music feature: Jazz for the uninitiated with Nick Tipping

For today's regular music feature and today we're talking jazz.

You might've heard names like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Billie Holiday, but for many, it can seem like an intimidating genre to plunge into.

Where do you start?

RNZ's resident jazzman Nick Tipping is with us now to share some jazz for the uninitiated.

3:10 Adventures of real life pirates revealed

Real pirates don't wear boots or puffy shirts or carry cutlass swords in their mouths. But some kept diaries that describe in detail adventures that give rise to the  unofficial pirate motto, "A merry life and a short one". Writer and artist Keith Thomson has loved pirate stories his whole life. He came across journals written by captain Basil Ringrose and some of his crew who plundered their way around South America in the late 1600's while on a rescue mission for a golden reward. He tells their story in his new book, Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune. 

3:30 Spoken Feature: BBC Witness

Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the world's most influential female artists - in 2014, her painting "Jimson Weed" sold for the highest price ever paid for a work by a woman. Famous for her vivid oil paintings of flowers, landscapes and animal skulls, she lived and worked in the wild dry canyons and deserts of New Mexico in the southern United States. Lucy Burns spoke to her former assistant Agapita Judy Lopez.

3:45 The Panel with Janet Wilson and Max Harris