This hour, Cinema with James Croot. Robin Hood in the movies, and why do (almost) all trailers sound the same.. Whoosh-KABOOSH! Words with Max Cryer. Banana, spouse and yahoo among many other words and phrases with strange origins. 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, Science Report with Emily Parke. Why is wombat poo square and what are dogs really thinking? Then, Astronomy with Grant Christie. Lots of great links to videos this week, especially fascinating a huge young crater just discovered under the Greenland ice. The unexpected trajectory of visiting interstellar thing Oumuamua. Our Milky Ways supermassive black hole. This visual depiction is much more than it may seem. Its not an artists impression but the culmination of enormous computing pow...
First up, Graeme takes a look at John Clarke and his poetry. Then its a return of Shipwreck Tales. Gerard Hindmarsh is busy completing a new book so we have a timely gruesome Shipwreck Tale to set you off to sleep. On this day in 1874 the Cospatrick, carrying immigrants to NZ caught fire off the Cape Of Good Hope. Its still described as one of our worst civil disasters. Its grim. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to t...
This hour, drugs and the dark web. Then, John Dybvigs America. Warning: John Dybvig does try to contain himself, but there are a few swear-words used in his piece, so listen to this week's Letter from America at your own risk. US politics and culture from John's own unique perspective. Then, Read Me a Poem. Probably our most celebrated poet, Sam Hunt recites some favourites from memory and explains why theyre good. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, ...
First, New Zealands Plain English Awards. Yes, there is such a thing and bless them. Plain English Chair of the affair Greg Fortuin presents the winners and one sorry indecipherable pretentious loser. Skeptical Thoughts with Craig Shearer. Woo woo, scams and plain bollocks exposed for what they arent. Finally this hour, Black Boots. Your classic old-school photo & text affair from the amateur All Black era.Phil Gifford has plenty of stories to tell. Be listening to win yourself a copy. Weeke...
This hour, Media stick with Tamar Munch. The weeks media in scrap-book form for fun and lols. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone
Albums from The Class of 1978. David Byrne is touring NZ so if youre not at the Vector Arena Grant & Graeme thought it a good idea to play Talking Heads brilliant sophomore album, More Songs About Buildings and Food.
Human Statistics with Jonathan Dodd. What the UK really thinks about Brexit. Also, Environews. New Zealand Frogs. Dylan Van Winkel returns to complete the walk through the new publication Reptiles and Amphibians of New Zealand. Plus,Drugs and The Dark Web. Prof Chris Wilkins is the recipient of $836,000 from the Marsden Fund to study whats going on.
Cinemaphile James Croot on the works of the Coen brothers, Robin Hood depicted in cinema, and why are so many trailers full of bashing noises? Also, Words with Max Cryer. Decile schools a bad descriptor. Gypsies, Chavs, restaurateurs versus restauranters and hanged versus hung.
Science Report - space weather. How the weird particles zapping the Earth affect us and how major events could cause catastrophic damage. Prof Chris Rodgers of Otago University explains. Also, Astronomy with Grant Christie. A planet orbiting a very nearby star. Rocket Lab gets serious. Japan now at the forefront of space exploration.
First up this hour, War Poems. WWI produced some compelling literature and poetry. Victoria University English Prof Harry Ricketts on Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen who died in the very last week of the war.Then, The WWI conscientious objector and dissident, Archibald Baxter who caught hell from his own countrymen on The Western Front. Journalist, historian and champion of the dissidents, Mark Scott, describes what happened to those who refused to fight for non-religious reaso...
Warning: John Dybvig does try to contain himself, but there are a few swear-words used in his piece, so listen to this week's Letter from America at your own risk. US politics and culture from Johns own unique perspective. Then, Jesus Make It Stop, November 11. At long last the war is over but people would die on the Western Front right up to and including the morning of armistice 100 years ago this day. Massey University War Historian Glyn Harper describes the last week or WWI and how it echoes...
This hour, Skeptical Thoughts with Siouxsie Wiles. The weeks woo and scams exposed for what they arent. Then , Brian Cox. Physicist and hugely popular TV presenter and documentary maker, Brian Cox on serious science and having the piss taken in spectacular fashion here. Brian is touring NZ next year. 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, Media stick. Mark Watson joins the Weekend Variety Wireless to look at the weeks media guff dissected for fun and lols. Then, Marsden research grant towards the weird weird world of Quantum entanglement. Researcher Dr Mikkel Andersen of Otago University explains what appears to be something akin to magic. 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 , War music. Graeme & Grant Smithies delve into this rich vein from folk and country to Hip Hop and rock. 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. Ipsos research director Jonathan Dodd takes a look at the polls versus the mid-term US elections.Then, Environews. We are Lizard-land? New Zealand has more endemic species of reptiles than birds, so where are they hiding? The amazing variety and strange life of our reptiles with Dylan Van Winkel, co-author of the new updated and comprehensive guide to the reptiles and amphibians of New Zealand. Then, Marsden research grant toward a cure for Kauri Dieback. Otago Univer...
This hour, we are at the movies with James Croot. A preview of what may well be a Peter Jackson Masterwork bringing WWI footage to vivid clarity. Then, Words with Max Cryer. The step in step-father, what the brand in brand new means and why do we often call blokes guys? 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, Science Report with Marine Biologist Rochelle Constantine. Oceanic Blue Carbon. A beautifully made web-thing explaining the myriad paths carbon takes in our oceans and some surprising reasons why. Then, Astronomy with Dr Grant Christie. Some serious people hypothesise the interstellar visiting object Oumuamua is a spacecraft. How best to message intelligent life from Earth, but should we? The strange Ryugu asteroid up close. One image was captured every second from immediately after th...
This week Gen. Bernard Freyberg, our ultimate Alpha Male Soldier and his amazing feats of bravery beginning at Gallipoli. Go here for the Outsiders archive.
Writer Stephen Braunias not only reads us a poem and tells us why its good, he has a very special show & tell, a new publication that sounds very much like the very thing were doing in Read Me A Poem.
The weeks woo & scams with skeptic Mark Honeychurch. This week he stood outside the Beehive, as hundreds of Christians gathered outside Parliament to protest the removal of Jesus' name from the parliamentary prayer. But why was he there? Also, Massey University military historian Glyn Harper joins Graeme Hill to discuss the Death Throes of WWI. What happened this week 100 years ago ahead of Armistice on November 11, 1918.
Media commentator Tamar Munch joins Graeme Hill for a look back at the weeks media cherry-picked for fun.
Graeme & Grant Smithies re-spin the debut Birmingham Reggae brilliance of Steel Pulse, Handsworth Revolution.
The conductor, musical director but most impressively a passionate educator died last week. He was a regular guest on the Variety Wireless and hell be sorely missed. Hear Mr Gill breezily discuss Beethovens 5th Symphony with Graeme. Also, A landmark publication Birdstories, The History Of The Birds Of New Zealand. Its immaculately produced, brimming with photographs, illustrations and peculiar stories, some heartbreaking about our native birds, alive and extinct.
Movie critic James Croot tells Graeme about Robert Redfords possibly final performance in 'The Old Man & The Gun', and recounts his amazing career and impact on cinema with his Sundance Festival. Also, Where do we get the word caucus from? What does "carrying the torch" mean and what does champagne ham have to do with champagne? Ask Max a question here and Graeme will pass it on to Max.
The Auckland University physicist discusses a mystery particle discovered by the Large Hadron Collider, and new theories on how the first Australians got there tens of thousands of years ago. Also, Astronomer Grant Christie chats about the Kepler telescope (is it running out of gas?) and new theories on the formation of our Milky Way galaxy.
This week another extraordinary New Zealand story from WWI. John Stark; heroically brave or just insane?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, Letter from America with John Dybvig. Warning: John Dybvig does try to contain himself, but there are a few swear-words used in his piece, so listen to this week's Letter from America at your own risk. John is back to give us the latest in US politics and culture. Then Read Me a Poem. This week renowned songwriter, musician, poet and literary figure Bill Direen reads us a poem he rates and tells us why. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and S...
First up this hour, Skeptical Thoughts . Resident skeptic Mark Honeychurch joins Graeme to explore the weeks scams and woo exposed for what theyre not. Jesus, Make It Stop: Countdown to Armistice, Part 5. Glyn Harper is New Zealands foremost WWI military historian and Massey University professor. He is Massey Project Manager of the Centenary History of New Zealand and the First World War, and author of more than 20 books. He's back for part five, to continue to walk us through what was happening...
Media Stick: Repressed memories. Arch critic and 1st class piss-taker of pop-culture, James Mustapic joins RadioLIVE's Graeme Hill to wave the media stick. Then, Skeptical Thoughts Resident skeptic Mark Honeychurch joins Graeme to explore the weeks scams and woo exposed for what theyre not. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.
