Afternoons

Message us via 2101 on the text or [email protected] on email. Today we are joined by Michael Story. Michael is a bassist who plays with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra He's also a professional music teacher at the ARA institute and runs the NZ Music Teachers Online website. Today he joins us to answer your questions about learning an instrument: How do you pick the right instrument for you? Does it get harder with age? Whatever you want to know.

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Monday afternoon is when Emile likes to hit the clubs, so get your comfy shoes on and get ready to shuffle. If you've got a club, or society that you'd like us to visit then drop us a line, 2101 on text or [email protected] via email. This week Emile is chatting to Selwyn Maister.

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Brad Foster is away on a well-deserved holiday this week, so we're joined by TVNZ's Australia Correspondent Jacob Johnson.

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A newly formed group is aiming to look after the future of New Zealand's organic industry. Young Organic Growers Aotearoa is targeting organic growers aged 40 and under, and already it has seventy members including market gardeners, viticulturists, orchard growers, and dairy farmers. The group's first event sold out, with people travelling from all over the North Island to be part of it. Chair of the group, Alex Morrisey chats to Emile.

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International trade deals are under the spotlight right now, with a pre-election announcement from National to prioritise deals with seven countries if returns to power. We wanted to know more .. like why now .. why the countries have been chosen and whether this is even feasible. To help answer these questions and more is former Minister of Trade, and New Zealand's former Ambassador to the United States, Tim Groser.

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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.

It's time to talk conservation because every Friday we talk about a critter that is endemic to New Zealand and endangered with Nikola Toki. The bignose galaxias is one of Aotearoa's rarest freshwater fish - a small, secretive, non-migratory galaxiid living only in a handful of streams in the upper Waitaki River catchment, Mackenzie Basin.

Interior design guru Sylvia Sanford joins Emile and this week she's turning her attention to chairs. Exploring the value of chairs: vintage, folding, kitchen, dining, desk, wooden, plastic, upholstered, painted, wicker, cane, steel, reclining.

Sally Round, host and producer of Country Life, joins Emile to talk about what's on the show. This week Country Life is at a locust farm where the insects are bred for petfood and human snacks and joins a drone pilot on a farm in Canterbury.

Shared Kitchen's Julie Biuso is here to share a delicious sounding recipe for Spanish Eggs. Click HERE for the recipe