Afternoons for Thursday 16 May 2024

1:15 Prostate cancer annual conference international expert speaker

Prostate cancer is symptomless disease which kills 700 New Zealand men a year and has overtaken breast cancer in terms of deaths.

The Prostate Cancer Foundation of New Zealand is campaigning for more screening to save lives.

Dr Renee Leenen, based in Rotterdam, is guest speaking at the Prostate Cancer Foundation Annual Conference in May

She is working on a three-year Praise-U project which aims to promote early detection and diagnosis of prostate cancer through tailored, individually risk-based screening programmes.

Dr Leenen speaks to Jesse.

1:25 Who has the best drinking water in Aotearoa, a tasting competition
Awards season is truly upon us, with this year's Best Tasting Tap Water in New Zealand awards happening tonight in New Plymouth.  

For the first time - in a trans-tasman battle - our winner will go up against Australia's winner. It comes from Tasmania.

Joshua McIndoe, chair of the Water Industry Operations Group of New Zealand, who organises our national competition speaks to Jesse.

1:35 Aotearoa's fashion future

A report last week highlighted the cultural and economic value our fashion, clothing and textiles industry provides.

Produced by Ernst and Young New Zealand, Mindful Fashion NZ 's Threads of Tomorrow report brought together industry leaders and focused on the current picture while also looking ahead.

Its key findings showed that in 2023 the industry added $7.8 billion to the economy and contributed more to GDP than the supermarket, grocery stores and specialised food trading sector.

Emily Miller-Sharma is co-founder of Mindful Fashion NZ and general manager of fashion brand Ruby. She speaks to Jesse.

1:45 Link 3 winners album: The Twits

Today's link 3 winner will get a copy of The Twits from Bar Italia. The London based trio are about to perform in New Zealand for the first time on June 2.

To celebrate their imminent arrival we've got a copy of their latest album The Twits to give to our link 3 winner.

2:10 Music Critic: Matthew Crawley

Today Matthew talks to Jesse about tracks from Tinariwen and Camera Obscura.

2:30 Sports History NZ:  Tom Abercrombie

For Sports History NZ today our guest has recently called time on one of the most decorated careers in New Zealand basketball.

Tom Abercrombie recently retired from professional play after 16 seasons and 425 games with the NZ Breakers; and his number 10 jersey was retired with him.

He played in all four of the Breakers' NBL championships, won the series Most Valuable Player award in 2011, and in 2012 received All-NBL First Team honours.

He also made 110 appearances with the Tall Blacks, including at two World Cups and the Commonwealth Games.

3:10 Link 3

3:15 Your Money with Mary Holm

This week Mary talks about a recent conference run by the Retirement Commission – Te Ara Ahunga Ora. 

It was all about planning next steps in their National Strategy for Financial Capability. Mary talks to Jesse about what that means for us.

3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness

In 1992, a photograph of Princess Diana alone on a bench in front of the Taj Mahal became one of the most famous photos in the world.

Anwar Hussein was a photographer who documented the lives of the British royal family. His first visit to the Taj Mahal was to photograph Prince Charles in 1980.

He tells Gill Kearsley about his relationship with the royal family and about taking the iconic photograph.

3:45 The pre-Panel