Afternoons for Monday 4 March 2024

1.25 Hearing House to hit the road

The Hearing House is an Auckland-based charity which provides health and counselling services for people with cochlear implants.

This year, the charity is launching a mobile hearing clinic, which will bring services closer to the communities which need them

We speak to  Hearing House CEO Dr Claire Green about the charity and when the mobile clinic will hit the road.

1.35 CAB highlighting their work through online auctions

The Citizens Advice Bureau now encompasses more than 2000 trained volunteers working across more than 80 locations around New Zealand.

To highlight the value of their service, this month the CAB have teamed with Trademe to run a series of auctions representing the cost of the free advice given out throughout February.

To tell us a bit more about the initiative as well as his experience as a Citizens Advice Bureau volunteer, John Farrell joins Jesse on air.

1:45 Feature album: Who's Next 

Who's Next is the fifth studio album by the English rock band the Who, released on 2 August 1971. It developed from the aborted Lifehouse project, a multi-media rock opera conceived by the group's guitarist Pete Townshend as a follow-up to the band's 1969 album Tommy.

2:10 Television Critic: Dom Corry 

Today Dom talks to Jesse about Dark City: The Cleaner and the final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

2:20 Made in NZ: Flap! Toys 

For Made in NZ this week we head to sunny Nelson where woodworker and artist Katrine Kaarsemaker makes Flap! toys,

These are simply handmade toys which flap, anything such as native birds, bats, moths and the list of creatures is growing

Jesse speaks to Katrine and we're thinking is there a potential collaboration possible with our very own critter of the week? 

If you know of anyone making a unique product in New Zealand to share with our listeners, please email jesse@rnz.co.nz or text us 2101.

2.30 Expert Feature: Plumbing 

Blocked pipes, toilets, drainage, fittings, dripping taps - this week's expert feature is all about plumbing. 

Our expert today has a wealth of industry knowledge, and is a Senior Lecturer at the Unitec Trades and Services School, in plumbing, gas fitting and drain laying.

John Pepere joins Jesse to share his knowledge including which plumbing jobs you should NEVER do yourself, you may be surprised. 

If you have any questions for John text 2101 or email jesse@rnz.co.nz. 

3:10 How to start noticing the good around us again 

Boredom is one of our defining features as human beings. We become oblivious to the wonderful things around us and numb to the bad things like cruelty, misinformation and pollution.  

Harvard law Professor Cass Sunstein and neuroscientist Tali Sharot  say there is a way to regain sensitivity that helps us identify the bad and appreciate the good.

Their new book is called Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There.

3:35 Here Now 

On Here Now this week, Kadambari Raghukumar is in South Island with a group of students for whom getting out in nature has opened up a whole new way of looking at life in New Zealand. 

3:45 The pre- Panel