Welcome to Thursday, and World Chocolate Day (which we may well get to), on Morning Brew. At 10.40 Ocean Recovery Alliance s Doug Woodring joins us from San Francisco for his latest. We ll talk about a Cali July 4th, and why he was speaking at the California Business School a few hours ago. Dr. Dave the vet is still away on his travels, and will be back next week. At 11.10 today Chef Neil Tomes will be live from Singapore. After his hit MB laksa last week, he ll be in his kitchen again to show you how to create another culinary marvel. So, join him on Facebook live if you can, for the whole experience. At 12.10 the one and only JC Viens will be with us from Verona in Italy, for his monthly wine whine. As usual he too will be on Facebook live. And, at 12.40 we ll return to Tampere in Finland, for a further update from the 2022 World Masters Athletic Championships, with HK Team Manager Colin Whittington.
Good morning. It s Monday on Morning Brew. We ll start with Robbie McRobbie s weekly, and highly official, rugby report. Can t think why, but there won t be a lot of local news today. There s plenty to look forward to though. At 10.40 we ll visit New York where it is the eve of July 4th, to see what (if any!) Independence Day plans our correspondent Tracy Quan has. In book club today she ll take us back to the 1920s to have another look at the compulsively readable Madam , by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Debbie Applegate. At 12.10 we are going to Tampere in Finland, for a live report from the 2022 World Masters Athletic Championships. It s the first for three years, due to COVID-19. Hong Kong has a team of six masters athletes competing, and the medals are coming our way. Team Manager Colin Whittington will tell you all about it this afternoon on MB.