Afternoons for Tuesday 30 April 2024

1:15 Initiative aims to start mental health conversations in construction sector

Between 2007 - 2019, 583 tradespeople working in the construction industry died by suicide, and 98 percent of them were men. 

Canterbury-based Construction Site Manager Alan Farragher has seen some of this struggle firsthand on the constructions sites he's worked on.

He's in the process of launching Diamond Workwear - a social impact workwear brand aimed at starting conversations about mental health. 

He talks to Jesse.

 

1:25 What's the ideal balance of daily activity for optimal health?

An international research team has analysed over 2,000 people's behaviours within a 24-hour day to determine the optimal amount of time we should spend sitting, sleeping, standing and being physically active.

Dr Christian Brakenridge from Swinburne University of Technology led the research and joins Jesse.

 

1:35 Young cellist chasing overseas dream

A New Zealand cellist is busy fundraising after being given the opportunity to study at one of the world's top music schools.

Twenty-year-old Jack Moyer has been accepted into the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. 

The four-year Honours Bachelor of Music Performance programme starts later this year.

Jack speaks to Jesse.

1:45 Tech Tuesday with Tim Warren 

Tech commentator and founder of Ambit AI Tim Warren talks to Jesse today about FinTech, what it means, why it's relevant to a lot of people and where it's heading.

2:10 Book Critic: Pip Adam 

This week Pip reviews cook books. She talks to Jesse about Anything's Pastable by Dan Pashman, East Meera Sodha by Meera Sodha and Good vibes : eat well with feel-good flavours by Alby Hailes.

2:20 Update on Oz with Brad Foster

Brad Foster reports on rallies held around the country on gender-based violence against women in Australia over the weekend, the Prime Minister visiting Alice Springs to discuss ways to overcome youth violence and crime, and Nicole Kidman honoured in Hollywood. 

2:30 Music feature: The music and legacy of Minnie Riperton 

American soul singer Minnie Riperton is most famous for her number one single 'Lovin' You'. 

She died at just 31 years old but her influence on the sould genre has gone far beyond with Rolling Stone name her one of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.

Musicologist Josh Ellery is with Jesse to talk about Riperton's 1970 album, Come To My Garden for our Music Feature today. 

3:10 Dealing with mental health for twenty-somethings 

In that space between our 20's and turning 30, uncertainty, stress and even depression can be part of the terrain.

Our 20's are when we are making big decisions about jobs, money and relationships.

Dr Meg Jay says too many people in this age group are over-medicate and over diagnosed with mental illness.

She offers a different prescription for dealing with this difficult decade in her latest book, The Twentysomething Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for an Uncertain Age. 

3:30 Spoken Feature: BBC Witness 

On 13 December 1990, the anti-apartheid politician Oliver Tambo returned to South Africa after 30 years in exile.

As the president of the banned African National Congress (ANC), he had lived in Zambia building the liberation movement while other key ANC members including Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu were political prisoners.

By lobbying around the world and attracting talented South African exiles such as Thabo Mbeki, he built the organisation into a legitimate contender for government.

When President FW de Klerk unbanned the ANC, Oliver or OR Tambo was finally able to return home where he was greeted by a crowd of thousands at the airport.

Oliver Tambo’s son, Dali Tambo, recalls to Josephine McDermott how his father and other ANC exiles danced in the aisle of the plane as they crossed into South African airspace.

3:45 The pre-Panel