Afternoons

Brad Foster our favourite Australian joins Jesse to talk about what's hitting headlines over the Tasman.

On Here Now this week the focus is on a bilingual class at a school in east Christchurch with a difference. L'Aurore is a new bilingual French and English classroom at Haeata Community Campus in the east Christchurch suburb of Aranui. The class has been going for one year, and has doubled in size. In the class the students, who all have a family connection to France, are immersed in the French language and culture every day.

Falling Walls is an international competition which gives early career researchers 3 minutes to pitch a breakthrough idea. This year's Aotearoa NZ leg was won by University of Otago cancer researcher Dr Judy Ann Cocadiz. Her winning pitch - "Breaking the Wall of Late Cancer Detection", is about a Cancer Society-funded device designed to help detect cancer by capturing tiny fragments of tumour DNA circulating in the bloodstream As part of her prize, she will now head to Berlin to pitch at the Falling Walls global final - she chats to Jesse.

For the first time, there's going to be a national Children's Book Week, with events happening all over the country from the 15th to the 21st of August. It's called Reading Around Aotearoa, and it's built around the simple theme of encouraging more children to discover the joy of reading. Juliet Blyth is the Chief Executive of Read NZ Te Pou Muramura, which is leading the celebrations, and she's here to tell us more about it.

We want to talk about consent because National is promising to modernise our laws around sexual consent if it gets re-elected. The party says it wants to ensure consent is actively given .. meaning there must be a "yes" rather than the absence of a "no". Justice spokesperson Paul Goldsmith said the "yes" could be communicated by words or actions and that silence was not consent. So what would a change like this mean for those impacted by this issue? And how do other countries deal with the issue of consent? HELP is an organisation that works to prevent sexual abuse and provides support to survivors. Kathryn McPhillips is the Executive Director, and she joins Jesse.

We're starting today's show with sport because two amazing things have happened this morning .. Ryan Fox won the 154th British Open by just one stroke .. becoming the second New Zealander to win it .. Sir Bob Charles being the first of course back in 1963. What an absolute triumph for him. Love your thoughts on that win on 2101. Also triumphant were Spain in the World Cup Football final .. beating Argentina one nil. An estimated audience of 1.8 billion people - or over 20% of the world's population - watched the match, Spain fan Javi Yebenes was one of them. Javi's originally from the Spanish town of Albacete but has spent the last 14 years in Auckland... he chats to Jesse.

Wallace Chapman and Emile Donovan star in the shortest show on radio, where they show they really can make something out of nothing, join them to be part of their delight, or to simply despair. Wallace will also preview what's on The Panel tonight.

Nicola Toki joins Emile for Critter of the Week, this week they are turning their attention to New Zealand's Crayfish Flatworm. If you have ever caught one of our koura (freshwater crayfish) and looked closely at their claws, you may have seen something looking back at you. You are seeing Temnohaswellia, hitch-hiking flatworms that rely on the koura to find it its next meal.

Stan Scott joins Emile to chat about DIY projects you could do about the house.

Kara Rickard (host of Music 101 on Saturday afternoons) talks about what's happening on her show and the music scene over the weekend.