Nights for Tuesday 14 June 2011

7:10 Our Own Odysseys: Mustang

Trekking in Mustang: Rita Evans and her experiences in a tiny isolated Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayans.

See photographs from Rita Evan's odyssey in Mustang.

Children in day care encountered by Rita Evans during her time in Mustang.

8:15 Windows on the World

International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.

8:40 The World At Night - Israel

Editor of The International Jerusalem Post, Liat Collins, reporting from on the State of Israel, pop. 7,473,052 (July 2010 est.). The People of the Book and the story of Hebrew as an ancient and new language.

9:00 News and Weather

9:06 The Tuesday Feature: Full Name Please

Amelia Nurse looks below the surface of the names of people we encounter every day to consider what names can tell us about the society they originated from, the naming protocols in other cultures, where they come from and why we have two or more names?

10:00 News and Weather

10:17 Late Edition

A review of the leading news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.

11:06 Tapestry of the Times

Join Arron Henkin on an open-ear voyage back in time and around the globe as he takes listeners on a weekly tour through the wide ranging sound archives of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (Smithsonian/WYPR).