This Week's Bits

On This Week's Bits: David Shearer on his win in Mt Albert; both sides on the referendum on smacking; Mike Lee on the Queen's Wharf purchase and Russell Brown on Iran and twitter.

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The Weekly Roundup

This week we heard from EMI and their new foray into blogging; Charlotte Ryan talks to PNC about his new album and Ghostface Killah talks to Richard Larsen on Thursday Drive.

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Jamie Walton and his 2.7 million dollar cello

Jamie Walton's considered one of the great cellists currently playing in the world today.

His cello is a 1712 Guarneri valued at around 2.7 million dollars. He fell in love with the instrument and through sweat and persistence managed to round up enough financing to pay for it. Think horse racing syndicates and you won't be far off.

Further reading

Jamie's website

Portfolio article on how he put together his investors.

A review of Jamie's Shostakovich CD with mp3 samples

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David Farrier Hunts Death Worms

TV's David Farrier talks about his obsession with the Mongolian Death Worm that apparently haunts the Gobi Desert.

He's mad keen on the old mystery animals and in August is putting his life where his mouth is. He and a cameraman will be heading to the Gobi Desert to try and catch the beast on film. He'll be making a documentary about the hunt and will possibly find a wife as well.

Further reading

Behold Farrier's website detailing the quest

All the world's accumulated knowledge about said Death Worm

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The Dentith Files

This week Matthew talks about Hollow Earth theories