Afternoons for Tuesday 26 March 2024

 

1:15 Next phase in the Dunedin study set to break new ground

The famous and world-leading Dunedin Study is gearing up for it's next phase.

From April it's going to launch its assessments of 52-year-olds - adding this age category to its extensive data set.

Heralded as being the most detailed study of human health and development in the world, the longitudinal study has followed the lives of one-thousand-and-thirty-seven babies born between April 1972 and March 1973

The Study Director is Research Professor Moana Theodore talks to Jesse.

1:25 Farming biotech to improve human access to healthcare

Often getting healthcare to remote residents around Aotearoa means long trips to bigger centres or delays in diagnoses.

Now locally developed technology created to assist with livestock welfare is being adapted to get quick results and access to healthcare for humans.

Techion managing director Greg Mirams talks to Jesse about how overseas projects are already using their Fecpak G2 device and what a new partnership with Awanui Labs means for rural and remote populations in Aotearoa. 

1:35 The artist behind the Iko Iko window displays

The popular and vibrant Cuba Street in the heart of Wellington is famous for more than just the bucket fountain.

The ever changing window displays at Iko Iko are also visual treat for regulars and visitors alike.

Emma Smith is the clever creative behind the displays, she speaks to Jesse.

1:45 Tech Tuesday with Dan Watson

Today owner and managing director of Vertech IT Services Dan Watson talks to Jesse about some handy apps around to help save time printing, signing, scanning and emailing documents as well as a tool that stops you having to keep paper receipts.

2:10 Book Critic: Pip Adam

Today Pip looks at suspense fiction.

She talks to Jesse about The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith and The Night She Fell by Eileen Merriman.

2:20 Update on Oz with Brad Foster

Brad Foster gives us some positive news on the experimental cancer treatment of this year's joint Australian of the Year, Professor Richard Scolyer, co-head of Melanoma Institute Australia, who was last year diagnosed with brain cancer. He also talks AFL, mushrooms, surfing, soccer and The Wiggles.

2:30 Music feature: Dinah Lee

Today we look back on the incredible career of Dinah Lee.

Bursting onto the music scene out of  Ōtautahi/Christchurch she was a success right out of the gate with her debut album 'Introducing Dinah Lee' in 1964.

She found major success across the ditch too, and became New Zealand's most successful female artist of the 1960s.

To take us through her music and career I'm joined by Dr Kimberly Cannady, a senior lecturer in ethnomusicology and director of the music studies programme at Victoria University.

3:10 Is big business stifling music creativity?

The same private equity firms that have made leveraged buyouts two words employees have come to dread, are pouring billions of dollars into buying up the music catalogs of artists like Bob Dylan, Tina Turner and Bruce Springsteen.

The result is a blander music scene says music journalist Marc Hogan.

His new article for the New York Times explains these companies are killing creativity by making new music less valuable than old hits.

His article is titled Same Old Song: Private Equity Is Destroying Our Music Ecosystem.

3:30 Spoken Feature: BBC Witness

Winifred Atwell was a classically-trained pianist from Trinidad who became one of the best-selling artists of the 1950s in the UK.

She played pub tunes on her battered, out-of-tune piano which travelled everywhere with her.

Her fans included Sir Elton John and Queen Elizabeth II.

She was the first instrumentalist to go to number one in the UK.

This programme, produced and presented by Vicky Farncombe, tells her story using archive interviews.

3:45 The pre-Panel