Nights for Thursday 11 April 2019

 

7:12 Overseas Correspondent - Vietnam

Lien Hoang joins us from Ho Chi Minh City - where there are moves to ban motorbikes.

7:35 New Horizons

William Dart celebrates the joy of live music with two new concert recordings: Mavis Staples Live in London, and a full scale 75th birthday party for Joni Mitchell in Los Angeles.

8:10 Night Mail

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8:15 Dateline Pacific

RNZ Pacific's daily current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories of the week, with background and reaction from the people making the news.

8:30 Window on the World

What happens when food meets fiction? In this programme from the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, presenter Emily Thomas is joined by a panel of guests and an audience to find out how poems, plays and novels can help us better understand our food, and also how food can be used as a narrative device.

9:07 Our Changing World

This week on Our Changing World, Alison Ballance meets Vic Arcus and Erica Prentice, from Waikato University, to find out about their research into the relationship of enzymes with temperature. And we find out about cadmium, from the Elemental podcast.

9:30 The Podcast Hour

A handpicked selection of some of the best audio storytelling from around the world with Richard Scott of The Podcast Hour. And this week a wordy show that gets to grips with language.

10:17 Lately

Lately with Karyn Hay is a late night radio show on RNZ National, with an eye on live events, an ear for music, a great sense of humour and a genuine interest in people and their stories.

11:07 Music 101 pocket edition

On this week's Pocket Edition we talk to DJ IllBaz ahead of his performance at the Aroha Nui Christchurch benefit shows, and country music critic Grady Smith tells us about the recent collision between country and hip hop.