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Nights for Monday 14 November 2016

  • Martin Reyners is a Geophysicist based in Wellington.

    9:10 PM.Martin Reynes, a Geophysicist based in Wellington explains the possible origins of lights that many people see during an earthquake Audio

  • Nights' Science - Astronomy

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    8:46 PM.Tonight's full moon will be largest and brightest for almost 70 years. But is there really anything "Super" about it? We ask Former Mt John University Observatory superintendent Alan Gilmore. Audio

  • Alison Ballance and Ken Gledhill

    8:10 PM.Joining me now to pick over some of the scientific questions thrown up by today's quake, including the questions of lights in the sky coinciding with the first shake just after midnight this morning… Read more Audio

  • Beverley Forrester

    7:29 PM.Beverly Forrester farms near Harden which is down the road from Hanmer Springs. Road damage means she's cut off from the outside world, apart from her phone Beverly was caught up in the Christchurch… Read more Audio

 

7:12 Alison Ballance - Earthquake Science

RNZ science reporter and producer Alison Ballance joins us to tackle the science questions raised by today's earthquakes. How could an inland quake trigger a tsunami? Why did people see blue lights? (we'll talk to Zachary Bell who took the video below)

8:12 Nights' Science - Astronomy

Tonight's full moon will be largest and brightest for almost 70 years. But is there really anything "super" about it? We'll ask Former Mt John University Observatory superintendent Alan Gilmore.

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8:30 Window on the World

How do you move a city? Lesley Riddoch travels to Arctic Sweden to find out. Kiruna is gradually sliding into Europe's biggest iron ore mine. The city has to be rebuilt two miles away. That requires an extraordinary blend of planning, architecture, technology and stoicism. If anyone can do it then it's the Swedes.

9:30 Insight

Teresa Cowie heads inside Paremoremo and  the Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility to find out what's being done to try to rehabilitate inmates so they don't return. She explores the  success of  the programmes and if any change is needed.

10:17 Late Edition

A roundup of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International.

11:07 Nashville Babylon

Mark Rogers presents the very best in alt.country, Americana and blues. Tonight we feature new tracks from favourites The Handsome Family and Lambchop, celebrates the 40th Anniversary of The Band and revisits hidden gems from Captain Beefheart and Blind Willie McTell.