Eddie Woo on making maths fun, Kalida Brohi on tribal life for a woman in Pakistan, the art of good decision making and Fables on NZ Live

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Expert: Mark Broatch on the ever changing english language
Monday 24 September at 2:20pm

What’s right, wrong, misused, misunderstood in the English language? Editor and writer Mark Broatch has released Word to the Wise, a book that unravels the misuse and misconceptions and talks about some common mistakes that are made in the written word. He’ll contemplate how much this has to do with the spoken word and the kiwi accent.

Eddie Woo - making maths fun
Monday 24 September 3:10pm

Eddie Woo is a mathematics teacher at Cherrybrook Technology High School in Sydney. A few years ago he started uploading his lessons to You Tube, he calls it Wootube, and has more than a quarter of a million subscribers and videos viewed more than 14 million times.
He makes math fun by teaching lessons through interesting questions like why is a rainbow curved and why aren't left handers extinct?

Life as a woman in tribal Pakistan
Tuesday 25 September at 3:10pm

A marriage was arranged for Kalida Brohi before she was even born. Her own cousin was the victim of an honor killing. But Kalida's father wanted her to be the first girl in her village to go to school. She's become a passionate advocate for women's rights. Kalida Brohi shares her experience of tribal life in Pakistan and her fight for women killed by their own family members in her new book, I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan

Bill Bailey on Bookmarks!
Wednesday 26 September at 2:20pm

UK comedian Bill Bailey is about halfway through his tour of New Zealand, with his Earl of Whimsy show. He joins us in the Auckland studio to talk life, comedy and share his own favourite books, music, tv shows and movies.

How to make good decisions
Wednesday 26 September at 3:10pm

Being decisive is not "all that". Listening to your gut is great when it comes to small decisions, but the big ones require deliberation and strategy. That's one of many lessons media critic Steven Johnson learned when he took a deep dive into the science and art of good decisions making.
His new book is called Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most

Short Story Club
Thursday 27 September 3.10pm

On Thursday we discuss another older story, A Descendant of the Mountain by Albert Wendt, from Landfall, vol. 17, no. 2, 1963

Fables on NZ Live
Friday 28 September at 2.20pm

Fables is lead by Auckland-based indie-folk artist Jess Bailey, and is touring the country for the next few weeks with songs from their new EP, Portraits.
They perform live in our Wellington studio