This week John McCrystal join Graeme Hill to tell of a New Zealand tragedy- the wreck of The Elingamite on the Three Kings Islands off the Northland coast. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone. RadioLIVE.
There is an assumption that the main controller on how hot and how dangerous a climates going to get are human emissions. Lead researcher Professor Will Steffen from The Australian National University (ANU) joins Graeme Hill bringing stark warnings about tipping points and climate change. Like many complex systems, the earth itself has tipping points and once you cross those, internal feedbacks loops could drive much dramatic warming and other climate effects. An international study has found th...
Cinemaphile with James Croot. Also, Max Cryer is a New Zealand living treasure in both entertainment and etymological spheres. He joins Graeme Hill to banter over the origin of words and their meaning. This week's words include spring, hustings, and shindig. Plus, Mr Cryer answers more of your questions on bamboozle and winkle-pickers and not on your nelly. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android ...
It could be time to say goodbye to the days of busy parking lots with a set of dream wheels, daddy-o! Physicist and author of joins Silencing Science, Shaun Hendy joins Graeme Hill to head back to the future with more of what science fiction has got right and wrong. While flying cars seem more probable in the future, Mr Hendy believes teleportation to be more unlikely. While it is possible to teleport the quantum state of one atom and impose that on another, the concept of recreating this with a...
This week Gerard Hindmarsh joins Graeme Hill to discuss the Kiwi Cold War Sappers. He discusses a group of NZ military engineers who were tasked with clearing bugs from our Moscow Embassy in 1980 but went undercover as refurbishers and caught considerable hell. Gerard regales the particularly harrowing time endured by sapper Ian Stobie, pictured working at the embassy, and his fight for recognition.Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and ...
Graeme Hill is joined by John Dybvig for his take on the latest news of the week from the United States. First up does Ivanka know anything about her mother? The presidents daughter spoke out this week about her mothers immigrant status. She discussed how she is the child of an immigrant, but her mother was a legal immigrant. However, in Ivana Trumps new book she discusses how she made it into the country through a sham wedding, thus making her an illegal immigrant. In the words of Dybvig she ob...
Mark Honeychurch joins Graeme Hill to expose hoaxes, woo and scams for what they arent.This week Mark gives us a rundown on the Humanists convention in Auckland.The conference is run by the NZARH And no we dont mean the New Zealand Association of Registered Hairdressers.The New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists runs the conference each year, and Mark has the rundown of everything for us. He discusses the conference as a whole, some of the other speakers and lets us know what real...
This hour, Paul Casserly joins Graeme Hill for Media Stick - the weeks media guff and gaffes laid bare for fun. First up the pair discuss Winston's latest scandal. This week he fired shots at opposition minister Gerry Brownlee. They also take a look at Bill Maher's return to the small screen. This week he even got crafty with a description about enemas. Antony Bourdain who passed earlier this year will return to small screens this week. His final series will air later this year.They ask the ques...
Shipwreck Tales make a brief return so we can make the archive complete. This week John McCrystal guides us through the hell of The Cospatrick. The ship was transporting hundreds of immigrants bound for New Zealand when it met disaster.Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.
First up this hour, Human Statistics with Ipsos researcher Jonathan Dodd. He looks at what we really mean by natural? Then, his writing on humanist and secularist issues has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Times and New Statesman. He has appeared on endless TV shows defending atheism and secularism and he joins Graeme Hill to discuss his views. Andrew Copson is the Chief Executive of Humanists UK. Humanists UK is a group that works to bring together non-religious people to develop...
First, Graeme sits down with musician Kristin Hersh to take a look at her musical endeavours. Then, At the movies with James Croot. This week a special New Zealand International Film Festival panel on fake news, extra screenings for some titles and James talks us through Sign o' the Times, The Swimming Pool and Speak Up. And Finally Words with Max Cryer. Max Cryer is a New Zealand living treasure in both entertainment and etymological spheres. He joins Graeme Hill to banter over the origin of wo...
First up, Science Report. Physicist Shaun Hendy joins Graeme Hill for this weeks Science Report to talk about the feats that technology has and hasnt made. Arthur C Clarke predicted a number of technical advancements; which ones made it and which ones did not? We all Daydream about what the future will be like. So now that the future is here the expectations we had for it are unevenly distributed. Well the internet made it to the future. During the 1960s and 70s a large variety of technical adva...
This week Gerard Hindmarsh joins Graeme Hill to discuss the sabotage of the Asopos Viaduct in Nazi occupied Greece.It was an outstanding and effective military operation undertaken by a couple of incredibly resourceful New Zealanders.Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.
Graeme Hill is joined by John Dybvig for his take on the latest news of the week from the United States.First up the pair discuss the big upcoming boxing match between Parker and Whyte.Then of course Dybvig touches on Trump. He looks at the belief that Trump sucks at business. He discusses how his products are bad, and that what you are really buying is the idea he is selling you. What he does is he sellsMakes you feel good Graeme believes Trump thinks because of his money, and the fact that he ...
Siouxsie Wiles joins Graeme Hill, to expose hoaxes, woo and scams for what they arent. First up, which hand do politicians wipe their bums with? Graeme and Siouxsie take a look at a recent study regarding whether or not they wipe with the same hand as their side of allegiance. Then Siouxsie takes a look at the newest supplement to hit the market Deer Velvet. The capsules come in packs of 100 and market at $50 a packet. The company marketing the product source their product from south island deer...
First up, Paul Casserly joins Graeme Hill for Media Stick - the weeks media guff and gaffes laid bare for fun. First up the pair discuss Sacha Baron Cohen and his latest venture, Who is America? The season follows Cohen as he runs rampant across America causing havoc for the locals. The victims actually came off rather well Then they take a look at a new video from Brass Eye the guys who gave us Priests with guns. This time the group are focusing on a brand new drug by the name of cake.Paul take...
This hour, Graeme and music writer Grant Smithies re-spin the cracking Buzzcocks debut, Another Music In A Different Kitchen. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.
First up, Human Statistics with Jonathan Dodd of Ipsos.He takes a look at international views of Human Rights.Then Sixto Rodriguez. I n some countries, he was more popular than Elvis and The Beatles... Now he is returning to New Zealand, performing his mix of psychedelic-tinged folk rock music for one show only. Alongside him will be Dave Dobyn, The Topp Twins and The Eastern.The famous re-discovered rockstar Graeme sits down with Sixto Rodriguez, the once lost now found subject of the remarkabl...
First up, James Croot our resident movie reviewer takes a look at the latest in the New Zealand International Film Festival. Then, Max Cryer is a New Zealand living treasure in both entertainment and etymological spheres. He joins Graeme Hill to banter over the origin of words and their meaning. Why is sucking up called toadying? Where did the word 'nurse' come from? Max and Graeme take a look at the meaning and history of the phrase on the ran-tan. Then Max tells us about the origin of the term...
First up this hour, Graeme takes a look at Science Stuff, and the life of science legend Paul Callaghan, depicted in an NZIFF film. Then, Astronomer Grant Christie joins Graeme Hill to talk the latest in astronomy news. First up the pair discuss latest goings-on with Asteroid Ryugu. They then discuss how the lake discovered inside Mars this week is a big game-changer. Then, Dr Christie gives us the rundown on Mars dust storms. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays a...
This week Gerard Hindmarsh joins Graeme Hill to discuss one of our less celebrated Victoria Crosses. The pair take a look at the Kiwi Naval hero of The Great War and the gruesome affair he had to endure. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight
This hour, Graeme Hill is joined by John Dybvig for his take on the latest news of the week from the United States. First up they take a look at the recent arrest of Russian spy Maria Butina. She is involved with the NRA, and other republican based outlets. As Dybvig puts it, shes a fox. Butina was tired of living with her 56 year old partner in South Dakota, but after analysis of her personal correspondence it was founds that she did it for Mother Russia. Ms Butina managed to fly beneath the ra...
First up Mark Honeychurch joins Graeme Hill, to expose hoaxes, woo and scams for what they arent. This week the pair first take a look at radicalisation. Then they take a look at what skepticism truly is, and how brave skeptics have to be. Being skeptical - asking questions rather than just believing something. Mark delves into why you would be willing to become a jihadist? Then the pair take a look at rather dubious prophet. He was arrested this week for an attempted resurrection that failed. T...
This hour, Tamar Munch joins Graeme Hill for Media Stick - The weeks media guff and gaffes laid bare for fun.First up the pair take a look at the treatment of journalists, especially the treatment of females. They look at the effects such treatment has, and how it affects their jobs. Then they have a gander at the #WalkAway campaign.The campaign focuses on leaving liberalism and the Democratic party. However the #WalkAway campaigns other most frequent hashtag is #MAGA or #MakeAmericaGreatAgain. ...
This hour, Albums From The Class Of 1978. Graeme & music critic Grant Smithies delve into Lou Reeds Street Hassle, in all its self-sabotaged messiness and of course the great diamond in there, the title track.Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.
This hour, Human Statistics with Ipsos Research Director Jonathan Dodd. Dodd gives us the latest polling results about what we think about stuff. Then, Environews. This week on Environews, author Neville Peat joins Graeme to discuss his new publication Rivers Rear. Rivers Rear is a biography of a conservation project that covers 25 years of Project River Recovery. Mr Peat believes that the project was necessary because the habitats of these braided rivers was degrading. Rivers Rear covers a vari...
The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) is under way. Cinema critic James Croot previews a collection of crackers hes already seen. Then, Words with Max Cryer. Max Cryer is a New Zealand living treasure in both entertainment and etymological spheres. He joins Graeme Hill to banter over the origin of words and their meaning. This week Max poses the question - If youre a cowboy should you holler Yippee I Aye or Yippee Kye Aye? He also ponders where or not badgers really badger? And fin...
First up on Weekend Variety Wireless, Science Report with Emily Parke. She looks at Philosophy of Science & Ethics. Can the predictability power of software beat testing stuff on animals?Then This week Graeme meets Buzz Aldrin. The tech-wizards managed to find the interview in our archive. Take a look at it on radiolive.co.nz, especially on the anniversary of the first Moon landing in 1969.Mr Aldrin took part in NASAs historical Apollo 11 mission where he and Neil Armstrong became the first ...
This week on Outsiders, Gerard Hindmarsh joins Graeme to discuss the amazing feats and strange post-script of our most celebrated aviator - Jean Batten.Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.
Graeme Hill is joined by John Dybvig for his take on the latest news of the week from the United States.This week Dybvig has a special message for Mark Richardson regarding how he deals with Trump-mania.Then he takes a look at NATO, and how Trump continues to threaten to pull out and in turn allow Russian aggression.Who else wants to disrupt the NATO alliance? Putin! Dybvig believes that he tells 15 lies on average a day. Dybvig also discusses Trumps allegations that he did not say anything abou...
