Weekend Variety Wireless With Graeme Hill On Radiolive

This hour, Great Lyrics Part 2, with music critic Grant Smithies. 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, Human Statistics with Ipsos research director Jonathan Dodd. Polls and opinions from here and around the world. Entrepreneurial spirit gauged globally. Then, Environews. The era of the great battles to save our native forests. A huge new publication by one of the battlers, Paul Bensemann explains the times and the issues and how much we take for granted today in the wake of many successful campaigns. Finally, Pohutukawa flowering. Why do some flower right now and others just sit there and do nothing! 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, Movies with James Croot. The life and works of Bernardo Bertolluci who died this week. Then, Words with Max Cryer. Doppelganger, whipper-snapper, skerrick and dyke, as in lesbian. Why? 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, this hour Science Report with Shaun Hendry. Then its Astronomy with Grant Christie. Another stunning success for a NASA led Mars mission. How it was done and what its going to do here. A strange African meteorite from the distant past and a comet may come into view soon. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

To close the show this week, Musical Luminaries line-up their favourite lyrics and explain why. Youll be surprised unless you originally heard this years ago. Graeme ropes in Jordan Luck, Martin Phillipps, Don McGlashan, Sean Donnely (SJD), Chris Matthews, Vooms Buzz Moller and Tim Finn! 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 America. US culture, politics and attitudes. Then , Read Me A Poem! This week its Tim Finn who needs no introduction in New Zealand. The founder, songwriter, musician and lyricist for New Zealands best-loved band Split Enz and a myriad of great solo work reads us a poem he loves, and tells us why. 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. The weeks woo, scams and cons exposed. Then, an ex-Jehovahs Witness regales his personal story of what it was like to be part of, and then leave this lesser-known end-of-the-worldy religious group. 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 affairs for fun and lols. 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, Celebrating great lyrics Part 1 (it could go on forever, but wont). Graeme & Grant Smithies line up their own exemplars and explain why. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, streaming live on 'rova' Channel 9 and podcasts available on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.

This hour, Human Statistics with Ipsos research director Jonathan Dodd. This week a huge haul of uniquely NZ attitudes and opinions. Then, Victory At Gate Pa? One of the most famous/infamous battles of Maori-Colonial times. This new book is the first of its kind where the battle is examined from both Maori & Pakeha perspectives. Graeme speaks with co-authors Buddy Mikaere, a descendent of the combatants, and military historian Cliff Simons. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, streaming live on 'rova' Channel 9 and podcasts

This hour, Cinema with James Croot. Robin Hood in the movies, and why do (almost) all trailers sound the same.. Whoosh-KABOOSH! Words with Max Cryer. Banana, spouse and yahoo among many other words and phrases with strange origins. 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, Science Report with Emily Parke. Why is wombat poo square and what are dogs really thinking? Then, Astronomy with Grant Christie. Lots of great links to videos this week, especially fascinating a huge young crater just discovered under the Greenland ice. The unexpected trajectory of visiting interstellar thing Oumuamua. Our Milky Ways supermassive black hole. This visual depiction is much more than it may seem. Its not an artists impression but the culmination of enormous computing power and the best known visualisation of whats really happening. The INSIGHT Mars lander is expected to touch down Tuesday 9am NZT. A huge crater found under the Greenland ice may explain some weird stuff from pre-history. WOW. 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, Graeme takes a look at John Clarke and his poetry. Then its a return of Shipwreck Tales. Gerard Hindmarsh is busy completing a new book so we have a timely gruesome Shipwreck Tale to set you off to sleep. On this day in 1874 the Cospatrick, carrying immigrants to NZ caught fire off the Cape Of Good Hope. Its still described as one of our worst civil disasters. Its grim. 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, drugs and the dark web. Then, John Dybvigs America. Warning: John Dybvig does try to contain himself, but there are a few swear-words used in his piece, so listen to this week's Letter from America at your own risk. US politics and culture from John's own unique perspective. Then, Read Me a Poem. Probably our most celebrated poet, Sam Hunt recites some favourites from memory and explains why theyre good. 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, New Zealands Plain English Awards. Yes, there is such a thing and bless them. Plain English Chair of the affair Greg Fortuin presents the winners and one sorry indecipherable pretentious loser. Skeptical Thoughts with Craig Shearer. Woo woo, scams and plain bollocks exposed for what they arent. Finally this hour, Black Boots. Your classic old-school photo & text affair from the amateur All Black era.Phil Gifford has plenty of stories to tell. Be listening to win yourself a copy. 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 in scrap-book form for fun and lols. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone

Albums from The Class of 1978. David Byrne is touring NZ so if youre not at the Vector Arena Grant & Graeme thought it a good idea to play Talking Heads brilliant sophomore album, More Songs About Buildings and Food.

Human Statistics with Jonathan Dodd. What the UK really thinks about Brexit. Also, Environews. New Zealand Frogs. Dylan Van Winkel returns to complete the walk through the new publication Reptiles and Amphibians of New Zealand. Plus,Drugs and The Dark Web. Prof Chris Wilkins is the recipient of $836,000 from the Marsden Fund to study whats going on.

Cinemaphile James Croot on the works of the Coen brothers, Robin Hood depicted in cinema, and why are so many trailers full of bashing noises? Also, Words with Max Cryer. Decile schools a bad descriptor. Gypsies, Chavs, restaurateurs versus restauranters and hanged versus hung.

Science Report - space weather. How the weird particles zapping the Earth affect us and how major events could cause catastrophic damage. Prof Chris Rodgers of Otago University explains. Also, Astronomy with Grant Christie. A planet orbiting a very nearby star. Rocket Lab gets serious. Japan now at the forefront of space exploration.