Afternoons for Tuesday 11 February 2025

 

1:15 Business podcast explores the experiences of entrepreneurs in the disabled community.

My Business Stars - a podcast that explores the diverse experiences of successful entrepreneurs in the disabled community - is back for a second season.

Hosted by Julie Woods - the new season features a range of business owners, from technology entrepreneurs and property investors to food manufacturers - each episode delves into their experiences of overcoming challenges to create thriving businesses.

Julie joins Emile Donovan.

1:25 Bike crash no obstacle for Coast to Coast athlete

Competing in the multi-sport Coast to Coast is gruelling enough but imagine trying to do it on a bike borrowed from a couple of spectators. 

Well, that's just what veteran competitor Ian Walsh did last weekend.

After damaging his own bike in a collision with a traffic light. Ian was running out of time, literally.

1:35 A tractor collection for the ages

Imagine growing up with a full-size tractor collection, a dream for many kids, that was the reality for Leanne Hosking and her brother Jason.

Their late father, Waikato farmer Paul Devcich was an avid collector and restorer of John Deere tractors - the oldest, a classic from 1940.

He believed in restoring history, but they didn't just look good, Paul made sure they were also in good working order.

Now the family have decided it is time for someone else to enjoy their father's pride and joy but as Leanne says, they will always have the memories.

Leanne Hosking joins Emile Donovan.

1:45 Tech Tuesday: party gear and new scams

Dan's been lumped with sorting out the entertainment options for his daughters 21st party. Learn from his research as he explains laser lights, smoke machines and projectors. Dan also has a PSA on some of the online scams doing the rounds at the moment. 

2:10 Book Critic: new books from Tania Roxborogh and Neville Peat 

Writer and founder of Verb Wellington, Claire Mabey, reviews some new books to replenish your reading pile after summer.  Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War by Tania Roxborogh, Rural Hours by Harriet Barker and The Falcon and the Lark by Neville Peat. 

2:20 Update on Oz with Brad Foster

Our Aussie correspondent discusses North Sydney council voting last night to increase rates by 87% over two years because of a major budget blow out in redeveloping a pool, NFL coming to Melbourne, and an update on the Minister who used a taxpayer funded car and driver for a long lunch in the Hunter Valley.

2:30 Music feature: The Clean

Today we'll be looking back at the career of one of the most formative rock bands in Kiwi music history, The Clean. 

Formed in the late 1970s, they were pioneers of the "Dunedin sound" and instrumental in getting Flying Nun Records off the ground in the 80s. In 2017 they were inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame. 

To take us through the music is Geoff Stahl, a lecturer in Media and Communication at Victoria University of Wellington, a DJ, and the host of 'Music Without Subtitles' on Radioactive.fm.

He's just authored a book about the band for the popular 33 and 1/3 series focusing on their 1981 EP 'Boodle Boodle Boodle', which is officially launching next Thursday at Flying Nun Records. 

3:10 Feature interview: swapping out the will to be ignorant 

Facts aren't fickle, but sometimes people are. We like to 'be in the know' but we also like to choose the facts we believe and those we don't says Mark Lilla is professor of the humanities at Columbia University. He says humans have a unique ability to hide from certain truths, swapping the will to know with the will to remain ignorant.  His new book is an invitation to end playing hide and seek with ourselves and embrace critical thinking. The book is called Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know."

3:30 BBC Witness History

Linda Manheim from the BBC looks at the 1968 New York teachers strike.

3:45 The pre-Panel 

Today Emile Donovan is joined by Panel host Wallace Chapman. We'll have a preview of the Panel for tonight and then producer Tom Riste-Smith takes a quirkier look at the news.