Weekend Variety Wireless With Graeme Hill On Radiolive

John Douglas Stark was a hero of WWI but his feats seemed as much like madness. A near uncontrollable soul he could have easily been court-martialled and awarded a VC. 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, John Dybvigs final Letter From America. Strap yourselves in! Then, Read Me A Poem. Michelle Leggott, former NZ Poet Laureate and literary academic reads us a favourite and tells us why. Heres a clue; Theres a strong connection with this weeks Outsider Tale, below. 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, Skeptical Thoughts with Siouxsie Wiles and NZ Skeptics Mark Honeychurch. The weeks woo scams and hoaxes exposed for what they arent. Then, we visit the Museum of Regret. 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, Media Stick with Paul Casserly AND Tamar Munch to mourn the loss of one of the longest running radio shows.. Leighton Smith! 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, Graeme's all-time favourite interview. John Cooper Clarke promised to come to the studio and spin some of his favourite discs as well as discuss his own life and work.He was good to his word but Graeme got only 15 minutes' notice and had to bring doughnuts. 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, Lead with Professor Thomas Lumley, Chair in Biostatistics at Auckland University. Then , Buzz Aldrin. Graeme replays one of his favourite interviews of all time. He sits down for a yarn with space hero Buzz Aldrin. Finally, Back Stage Passes. Joanna Mathers new book on the untold story of NZ live music venues from the 1960s to 1990s. 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, Cinema with James Croot. The best of 2018 and a flashback to when The Bounty came to New Zealand with its megastar cast. Then, Words with Max Cryer. Christmas, hare-brained, turncoat and the weird origin of get my goat. 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, Science report with physicist and author of Silencing Science, Shaun Hendy. Then, Astronomy with Grant Christie. Voyager 2 now in interstellar space. Nice little video here. Did a supernova kill off large oceanic animals like the Megalodon? The Fermi Paradox. Why havent we heard anything from other intelligent life? Grant lines up the amazing discoveries in astronomy in the 13 years hes been doing this awesome segment. Asteroid Bennu's clearest image yet. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

Spoken Word in music Part 2 with Graeme & Grant Smithies. From the Front Lawn and Bill Direen to The Fall and Wynton Marsalis. 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, John Dybvigs Letter From America. US politics & culture. Then its time for Read Me A Poem. Headless Chickens Chris Matthews released an album with lyrics entirely by Dylan Thomas. Quite a feat. He reads us a favourite but will it be Dylan Thomas? 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, Skeptical Thoughts with Siouxsie Wiles. Woo scams & hoaxes exposed. Then, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. An apostate from Islam she must travel with a security detail. This interview was conducted ahead of a scheduled appearance in Auckland which was cancelled due to unspecified reasons. 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, Media Stick with Tamar Munch. The weeks media guff & gaffes for lols. Then, Truth Or Consequences! The greatest game show ever devised for radio. Answer the statements True or False and maybe win something. 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, Bizzare Lyrics. Graeme & Grant Smithies trawl through songs about yellow things, palaeontology, pot cleaners, map-making and the glorious virtues of copper over other metals. 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, Pearl Harbour 77 years on. Eyewitness testimony from a sailor aboard the West Virginia which was attacked and sunk on December 7, 1941. James Patterson rarely spoke of the event but in 1988 he committed his memories to tape and his grandson, Scott Kelly, offered Graeme this amazing audio. 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, Cinema with James Croot. The life & works of Geoff Murphy who died this week and the Trumpology of Michael Moores Farenheit 11/9. Then its time for Words with Max Cryer. Santa Claus and Coca Cola, point-blank, cotton on and what do cheeks have to do with being cheeky? Get in quick! Ask Max a question here and Graeme will pass it on to Max. 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,Spirit & Opportunity Mars Rovers have been the most over-achieving of all planetary exploration programmes. Designed to rove the Martian surface for 6 months they have been functional for more than a decade. It now seems likely the last survivor, Opportunity, has finally died more than 14 years on. Graeme speaks with the head of the Mars Rover Missions, Bill Nelson of JPL. Then, Astronomy with Grant Christie. Why launch a sculpture into orbit? Ancient cave art depicting constellations, not antelopes? Spiralling super-massive black holes. Osiris-Rex arrived at the tiny primitive asteroid Bennu last Tuesday. 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, Spoken Word in the music world. From The Velvet Underground to the amazing works by King Missile and Tim Minchin. Hear King Missiles beautiful paranoid short story here. 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, John Dybvigs Letter From America. US politics and culture dissected. Then, Read Me A Poem. Songwriting living legend George Henderson of The Puddle, Spinoff book reviewer and rather literary soul reads

Skeptical Thoughts with Mark Honeychurch. The weeks woo and scams exposed. Was Alex Jones RIGHT about the gay frogs?! Also, Robert Bartholomew is a sociologist who looks into moral panics and public hysteria. His latest book, American Intolerance tackles myths and historical attitudes about immigration in the USA, but is it fair or inflammatory?

First up, Media Stick with youtube sensation and cutting TV critic James Mustapic. See him in action here. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.