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Artistic Licence
Artist John Radford is accusing clothing company Hallensteins of taking without his permission, images of his sculptures in Auckland's West End Park and putting them on T-shirts. Hallensteins says it hasn't infringed the copyright act. Reporter Hannah Hodson investigated while Susan Wood spoke live in the studio to Ken Moon, an intellectual property lawyer, about who has legitimate ownership of the artwork under copyright laws.

Home Heating: Impacts on Health 
The Wallis family from Wellington spoke to Connie Buchanan about how cold their home gets in winter. Studies that have found that the average indoor temperatures over winter in many New Zealand homes fall below World Health Oganisation recomendations. Many families have no heating at all and others use the stove as a makeshift heater. The Wellington Asthma Research Group is looking for 600 families to be involved in the Housing Health Research Study . If you have asthmatic children aged between 7 and 12 and live in Porirua, the Hutt Valley, Wellington, Christchurch or Dunedin ring freephone 0508 478 839 for more information.

Old Wives' Tales
Vikki Hyde from the New Zealand Skeptics Society spoke to Jendy Harper about the validity of myths handed down to each generation. These include whether carrots make you see in the dark, whether if you pull a face and the wind blows your face stays that way, and if chewing gum  really takes seven years to digest.

Drinking Age
A CloseUp telephone and text poll asks the public whether the legal drinking age should be raised from 18 to 20. The results were: 12,365 said yes it should be raised. 2,633 said no.  

 

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