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Nights for Tuesday 14 October 2014

  • Nights Conundrum

    9:59 PM.Audio clue 4 Audio

  • Nights Conundrum

    8:59 PM.Clue 3 Audio

  • Global Neighbours : Estonia

    8:40 PM.Silver Tambur from Estonia discusses same sex marriage, gay rights, and where the neighbours, Russia, are causing some concern. Audio

  • Our Own Odysseys : Samoan beer

    7:10 PM.VSA volunteer Ken Wong has been working on the Breadfruit Flour Project in Samoa, but interestingly, they've also become side-tracked into brewing a nice local beer. Audio

7:10 Our Own Odysseys - Samoan Beer

Scientist and VSA volunteer Ken Wong has been working on the Breadfruit Flour Project in Samoa, but interestingly, they've also become side-tracked into brewing a nice local beer.

7:30 The Sampler

A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases.

8:10 Windows on the World

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

8:40 Global Neighbours - Estonia

Editor-in-chief of online magazine Estonian World, Silver Tambur reports from the Baltic region of Northern Europe, the Republic of Estonia, pop. 1,315,819 (est. 2014). Estonia is due to be the first former Soviet republics to pass a gender-neutral Cohabitation Act; and dealing with a newly-aggressive Russia.

9:06 World War One book club - The war poets (Part 1 of 3)

The first in a series of three discussions exploring the legacy of World War One writing. Made in association with The New Zealand Book Council, with support from Victoria University of Wellington, the series features New Zealand literary commentators Kate Camp, Harry Ricketts, Jane Stafford and special guests discussing and dissecting favourite writings on the war – from poetry to fiction, diaries to graphic novels.

The trio is joined by Dave Armstrong to examine the power and appeal of the war poets. Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and their contemporaries began as radical debunkers, but have they become comfortable clichés of war?

10:00 Late Edition

A review of the 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 Global Village

 Instrumental world sounds are in the Global Village tonight, with Middle Eastern inspired jazz from Nashaz, Michael Wolff’s world-jazz line-up Impure Thoughts, Jamaican jazz from the Jazz Jamaica All Stars, Afrobeat inspired music from the Outer Bridge Ensemble, Don Cherry’s ground breaking Brown Rice album, and acclaimed Nordic ensemble Vasen. (3 of 13, KMUW)

See the KMUW website for more about this programme.