Radio NZ - This Way Up with Simon Morton
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This Way Up is a weekly two-hour radio show broadcast on Radio New Zealand National Saturdays from 12pm-2pm - it explores the things we use and consume. Things we use and consume..what on earth does that mean? Go on have a taste - we've covered superstitions, the history of scrabble and monopoly, ethical tea, how deodorant works, fair trade chocolate, hitchhiking in Cuba, jetlag, the laws of beachcombing, global butler shortages, tartan, the largest Swiss army knife, supermarket food labeling, homebrew, energy saving light bulbs, getting kitted out for the duck hunting season, the physics of...
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Download Now · | Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:45
We're off to a toy swapmeet to meet some avid collectors. These guys will do anything for the perfect collection!
Download Now · | Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:30
In a legal first, citizens are using the courts to try and evict the yakuza from their city.
Download Now · | Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:30
How long should that leftover rice and lasagne last in your fridge? And we excavate a workplace fridge with a microbiologist.
Download Now · | Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:15
We recruit a swarm of bees to join the back-yard bee hive.
Download Now · | Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:00
We're off to Mexico where your local pharmacy can get you just about any pill you want.
Download Now · | Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:30
Writer Paul Roberts reckons something's seriously wrong with modern methods of food production.
Download Now · | Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:15
Tech news with Bill Thompson. This week, the Australian government's controversial plans to filter the internet.
Download Now · | Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:45
We talk cholesterol with Professor Rod Jackson (University of Auckland) and Professor Peter Jones (University of Manitoba).
Download Now · | Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:45
We're off to Sarah's Smash Shack for some stress relief US-style.
Download Now · | Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:15
Meet our bee team for the first time, and This Way Up's bee mentor visits Simon's place for a site inspection.
Download Now · | Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:00
Archaeologists working on a small Caribbean island have found ancient ceramic bowls used to inhale hallucinogens.
Download Now · | Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:45
Peter Griffin on the new mobile phone service called Black + White, Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system and Google books.
Download Now · | Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:15
Without rubber we wouldn't have tyres, condoms, balloons, and loads of other stuff. And we head to a rubber band factory.
Download Now · | Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:45
Dr. Dickson Despommier of Columbia University reckons multi-storey farming could be the answer to the world's food woes.
Download Now · | Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:30
We're setting up a bee hive next to the Funky Chicken Farm.
Download Now · | Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:15
New research shows smoke alarms would be 7 times more likely to wake people up if they sounded different.
Download Now · | Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:15
What we've got coming up in the show this week.
Download Now · | Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:45
We meet some of the traders and shoppers at a modern-day food market.
Download Now · | Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:15
Carolyn Steel on how the challenges of producing and transporting food has shaped our urban areas.
Download Now · | Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00
The advertising agency that can call on an army of 400,000 people to promote people's products.
Download Now · | Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:45
Smartphones are shaking up the mobile market, dirty tech tricks at election time, and the US military's mining networking sites.
Download Now · | Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:30
A Canadian company reckons it can bypass all those irritating phone menus.
Download Now · | Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:15
The latest prison currency in US jails. Not cigarettes or books of stamps...mackerel fillets in a pouch!
Download Now · | Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:45
With all those dog rolls, tins and biscuits in the shops how can you be sure that your pooch is enjoying a good diet?
