May 13, 2020
EPISODE 44 – CONVERSATIONS with MANDY RETZLAFF – Mud Between Your Toes. In 2001, Mandy and Pat Retzlaff bore the brunt of the Zimbabwe land invasions. This is Mandy’s extraordinary story and how they managed save nearly 300 horses and eventually getting 104 horses into neighbouring Mozambique, where they now run a successful horse safari.
Photo: Mandy and Brutus. © Amanda Retzlaff
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April 22, 2020
EPISODE 41 – CONVERSATIONS with LOUISE STOBART. I chat to Louise Stobart, currently in COVID-19 quarantine in Auckland following their evacuation from Vanuatu, after the devastating cyclone Harold. Louise and I also discuss her successful African Shona sculpture business, Birdwoods.
Photo: Louise and husband, Bruce, on board a New Zealand Hercules, following cyclone Harold. Vanuatu, April, 2020. © Louise Stobart.
#MudBetweenYourToes #Zimbabwe #Rhodesia #petewoodhk @peterwoodhk #Lulasonaore #Vanuatu #CycloneHarold #Birdwoodsgallery.co.nz #category5cyclone #aoreisland #lovevanuatu #givealittle.co.nz #pacificpathways
April 15, 2020
EPISODE 40 – CONVERSATIONS with LARRY NORTON. International wildlife artist, Larry Norton, speaks to me in “conversation” from his studio in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe about childhood, painting, wildlife and conservation in southern Africa.
Photo: Artist, Larry Norton at work in one of the world’s most spectacular locations – Victoria Falls. © Tami Walker. Sound effects ©Audiojungle #MudBetweenYourToes #Zimbabwe #Rhodesia #petewoodhk @peterwoodhk #LarryNorton #LarryNortonArt #wildlife #art #VictoriaFalls #TheLongSandsOfGonarezhou #TamiWalker
April 8, 2020
EPISODE 39 – HORSEY BIT. Pony clubs, paperchases and the dreaded gymkhana. The horrors of the Christmas holidays - for me anyway..
Photo: Me riding Piccolo, M’sitwe farm, circa 1965. My sister, Mandy in the trough. © Peter Wood.
Sound effects ©Audiojungle
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April 1, 2020
EPISODE 38 – WOODS HIT EUROPE. In 1979, travel restrictions were lifted after 14 years out in the cold. My brother and I hit Europe – we had been living life in a time capsule and Greece, Spain and Switzerland were quite simply, an alien world.
Photo: My brother Duncan, dressed to the nines prior to embarking on a 22-hour flight to Athens, via Lisbon and Rome. We believed people still dressed up when travelling. © Peter Wood.
Sound effects ©Audiojungle
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March 25, 2020
EPISODE 37 – SALAD DAYS. Thursday nights at the country club, weekends with my gang, known as the Hoods, James Hughes and friendships forged.
“We were young and we were green as the leaf on the tree / For these were our salad days.”
Photo: Good friend and life of the party - James Hughes, 1961-1987. © Ann Francis
Sound effects ©Audiojungle
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March 20, 2020
EPISODE 36 – CONVERSATIONS with DOCTOR ELIZABETH PISANI. With an over-load of information and plenty of conspiracy theories surrounding COVID-19, Elizabeth, an epidemiologist, academic researcher and the director of Ternyata Ltd., a public health consultancy based in London, UK, investigates the ways in which politics, economics and culture influence public health. She talks to me from London about Corona virus (COVID-19) and other epidemics such as HIV/AIDS. She has written 2 books - Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation, and The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS, and her TED Talk "Sex, drugs, and HIV - let's get rational" describe the ways in which politics, religion and culture can outweigh scientific evidence in decision-making about HIV prevention.
Pisani is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College London's Policy Institute, an Honorary Professor in the Department of Population Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a Fellow of the School of Health Policy and Management at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
Photo: Dr Elizabeth Pisani. © Elizabeth Pisani.
