Super Travel Prize offer, flights INCLUDED!
Experience what it’s like to live the high life on the Gold Coast.
Fly to Brisbane in style & comfort with Air New Zealand. Your “Works” Air New Zealand flights include checked-in luggage, meals and entertainment.
Stay at Hilton Surfers Paradise for 3 nights and get spoiled by luxury and unparalleled service.
Just click here to enter and see all the yummy details.
A winner will be drawn on the Travel Show on September 2. You must answer our call to redeem the prize. Travel until 31 March 2013, prize is a subject to availability.
Natural History Megabook give-away
New Zealand’s Native Trees, NZ Post Best Book winner!
Craig Potton Publishing is offering one of you their showcase, landmark once-in-a-generation publication. New Zealand’s Native Trees is the most comprehensive book ever published on the subject. It features 2300 photographs, from close details to landscapes plus 54 boxed features on interesting aspects of native trees.
WIN A COPY Just e-mail Graeme from the form at top left and say Trees please and leave your postal address. We’ll draw one lucky winner just before 2pm Sunday August 5.
To find out more about this book or to order a copy just click here.
You can listen to an interview with the winning author John Dawson here.
Saturday 10:30am Environews.
Stewart Island has luckily escaped invasion by stoats, weasels and ferrets. What would it take to rid the island of its rats and other mammalian predators? Stewart Island DoC officer Brent Beaven talks about the big vision for the island, and the whole country. Crazy? Maybe not.
Australian correspondent Colin Espiner has abandoned his desk and is going Walkabout. Hear his latest instalment live and follow his big red road trip here.
International Film Festival Audio Guide with James Croot. Scroll down to see the trailers. Click here to view the schedule.
Sunday 10:30
NASA Mars Rover Team manager Bill Nelsen (repeated) ahead of the momentous arrival of the Curiosity Rover on Mars, Monday morning 5:30am New Zealand time. Have a look at the video in Grant Christie’s Astronomy Pic below outlining what is supposed to happen... 7 minutes of terror.
11:10am
Dave Wakeling of The Beat, one of the most accomplished and popular of the ska revival bands of the post punk revolution with some amazing stories about their gigs and how their much more senior member, saxophonist Saxa shaped their band. The Beat play Auckland’s Powerstation on August 23.