Wake Up And Smell The Coffee

'Wake Up And Smell The Coffee' is the weekly radio show hosted by Syd Adie, the Chairman of the Dunedin Ratepayers And Householders Association - a watchdog on government and local authorities. The DR&HH works on behalf of the ratepayers to see that their best interests are looked after.
We endeavour to bring you topics of interest to Dunedin, and it's residents. Click here to contact Syd Adie by e-mail.

Buddhist Radio

BUDDHIST RADIO, sponsored by the Buddhist Youth Association (NZ), plays three nights a week, with separate programmes in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.

The Cantonese and Mandarin programmes, presented by Julie Yuen feature short plays on Buddhist themes and talks by Masters of the Ch'an and Pure land traditions. To email Julie, click here.

The English programmes, presented by Western nun Venerable Chia Ch'i Shih, integrate teachings from the great Buddhist traditions. To email Venerable Chia Ch'i click here.

Beginning Thursday 10 June, and continuing each Thursday at 8pm:
A series of programmes on the life and teachings of the great Chinese Ch'an
Master XU YUN, "Empty cloud" ), the greatest Ch'an (Zen)
master of modern times.
24 June, and 1 & 8 July: "Introducing Chan Training"

Chan thought for Dharma surfers : "Search for the DHARMA DRUMS".

Echo Radio

ECHO RADIO - THE DUTCH NETWORK,is a non-profit voluntary organisation which provides a weekly Dutch-language radio programme aimed to New Zealanders of Netherlands descent.In doing so, Echo Radio provides a weekly information service to the Dutch community in New Zealand with news from the Netherlands as well as community news from the different regions in New Zealand. The focus on the Dutch language makes Echo Radio a unique service in New Zealand, as it provides the only Dutch-language programme in the New Zealand broadcast media.

Echo Radio has a potential audience of 150,000 New Zealanders of Netherlands descent, particularly those belonging to the pre-Internet generation. Echo Radio possesses anecdotal evidence - through incoming correspondence and telephone calls made to its studio - that it has a wide, appreciative audience.

Echo Radio has been broadcasting in New Zealand for over sixteen years. Today, its weekly broadcast in the Netherlands' language is being beamed through nine transmitters and can be heard in almost all of New Zealand. Echo 's radio programme in Dutch is of very high quality and regularly wins awards for its production.

For New Zealand to become a truly multicultural society, it is necessary that our voice and language be heard. The Netherlands and its language are important to New Zealand. Please give your children and grandchildren a chance to maintain their cultural roots!

Focus

BROOKLANDS SWING SHIFT,  as everyone who has listened on a Thursday at 4pm for the past couple of years will know, is a fantastic programme of jazz and swing music, fronted by the erudite and knowledgeable raconteur Lou McConnell.  Lou first began his programme to help out Jack Revill who was making 2 jazz shows a week back in 1996.  8 years later Jack has passed on, but Lou is still here every week with his fictional side-kick The Major and lots of great stories. 

Lou first became interested in jazz when he was about 15 and a friend lent him a 78 rpm copy of Benny Goodman’s Carnegie Concert.  He was so enamored with the genre that since then he has read a lot of books and collected a lot of records, and has some amazing stories to tell.

“The 1930s was during the prohibition, but many of the jazz artists were the ‘bad boys’ of music in that era. There was a great deal of drug addiction and alcoholism that caused harm to some fantastic musicians.  For example Lee Morgan, who if he had lived would have rivaled Miles Davis with his trumpet playing skills, was a renowned ladies man.  His girlfriend walked up to him in Slugs Bar in New York, and shot him to death for his infidelities.

Joe Venuti, who was a fabulous jazz violinist was a mad character.  He and his guitarist partner Eddie Lang were very popular, and very bad.  Once Joe pushed a  piano out of a 3-story building and ran a book to see what key it played when it landed.  History does not tell us the answer.  Joe also played with Bix Biederbecke and once when Bix fell asleep in a bath, Joe poured liquid Jell-O over him, and Bix had to be cut out when he awoke held tightly by the solidified Jell-O.  Wingy Malone, called this because he only had one arm, once got very drunk and coma’d at a club.  Joe sawed off his false arm with a hacksaw and left it on the table to the consternation of the other patrons and staff.

One of the more tragic tales of the era was Chet Baker, who was an unrepentant heroin addict.  He eventually fell ( or was pushed) out of a five story building in Amsterdam, and as Lou so euphemistically puts it, hit the parking meters on the way down to his demise.”

Lou’s alter-ego The Major usually makes an appearance during his programme.  The Major is a man with a military bearing (which he throws in the air and catches from time to time).  Lou says The Major  is a ‘remittance man’ surviving on a pension from the war office after being sent to the colonies in disgrace.  We all know that the Major likes a tipple now and then.  As long as he doesn’t lead Lou astray !!

Catch Lou with his stories and his great music, and occasionally his friend the Major every Thursday at 4pm on the Brooklands Swing Shift and thanks to Brookland Retirement Village for sponsoring this very popular programme.

'Changing Times'; from the Southern Psychosynthesis Community Network is a monthly discussion programme hosted by Carolyn Vincent that covers the Psychosynthesis approach to personal and social development with Jay Ray the founder of Psychosynthesis in Dunedin.
Carolyn hosts her own monthly Radio programme called 'Changing the Future' that provides to the general public information on services and topics to help raise awareness on many issues so people can have more informed choices available to them, then re-aired a fortnight later.

The Southern Psychosynthesis Community Network is a non-profit organisation that offers to the general public tools to grow from and develop personally through learning more balanced and healthy ways of dealing with life's issues.
Our vision statement is -
"To support and encourage individual growth using the principles of psychosynthesis in a manner that enables our society to become holistically balanced in mind, body, emotions and spirit".

To find out more on Psychosynthesis and what they offer individuals and the community in the way of courses, workshops, radio programmes, written articles, forums and other items, you can go to their Web Site at www.psychosynthesis.org.nz.
We would like to thank the DCC Community recreations Services Grants Scheme for their funding support of our programmes.

New Programmes

New Edinburgh Folk Ways: From the New Edinburgh Folk Club

Desi Kulcha Beatz: From The University Fiji Club

Changing Times: From the Southern Psychosynthesis Community Network

Life On Mars: Dunedin's Own Desert Island Disks
What 10 records would you take if you were going to be stranded on your own for the foreseeable future? What 10 songs mean the most to you, cheer your spirit or remind you of important past times? Life On Mars will be a an hour long bi-weekly interview show featuring a prominent Dunedinite in a guided discussion of their life and career through the music that is most important to them.

The interviews will be gentle yet revealing portraits of the guests.

The famous BBC show, 'Desert Island Disks' has become a staple part of British culture, its simple format and soft interviewing style makes for compulsive listening. Our guests will be stranded on Mars rather than a tropical island.

Click here to visit the Life On Mars website.

No Peace Without Justice: The Corso Show
An hour dedicated to community perspectives and solidarity work in Aotearoa NZ and the Pacific. Brought to you by Linuxworks.