Nights for Thursday 7 November 2019
7:12 Cultural Ambassador - Sci-Fi
As Terminator: Dark Fate hits our screens, Eleanor Tremeer, our Sci-fi geek is talking robots tonight. Taking a look at the changing faces of our fictional robotic companions, and finding out what they mean to us now.
Photo: © 20th Century Fox - Skydance Media - Lightstorm Entertainment - Tencent
7:35 New Horizons
This week's New Horizons looks at local music determined to get into your mind - new releases from Mermaidens and Purple Pilgrims and a CD of classic Kiwi ad jingles.
Purple Pilgrims and their newly released Sensing Me Photo: supplied - Purple Pilgrims
8:15 Dateline Pacific
Photo: RNZ
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
Iceland has taken radical measures to reduce its gender pay gap. Thhat's not just about equalising pay when men and women do the same job but when they do different jobs of equal value. Lesley Curwen finds out how that works.
Photo: prazis/123RF
9:07 Our Changing World
This week on Our Changing World, Alison Ballance is radio tracking inner city rats in Wellington, and discovering the chemical element tantalum.
Henry Mackenzie tracks radio-collared rats in the Wellington suburb of Roseneath, scanning from various high points in an effort to get a signal from the animals' radio collars. Photo: RNZ / Alison Ballance
9:30 Overseas Correspondent
Sandra Sarala joins us once again with the latest from Berlin. Tonight, she's taking a look at the the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Historic pictures and others are projected on the buildings at Alexanderplatz during the rehearsal for the 30th anniversary of the November 9,1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin on November 3, 2019. - Germany marks three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall this week with main celebrations on November 9, 2019. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP) Photo: Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP
10:17 Lately
Photo: RNZ
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 Music 101 host Charlotte Ryan interviews David Kilgour about his new album with The Heavy Eights, Tony Stamp talks to Grammy-winning mix engineer Andrew Scheps, who was recently in Auckland hosting workshops at the NZ Music Producer Series, and Dr Robert Burns tells Trevor Reekie about the legacy of King Crimson's debut album.
David Kilgour Photo: Genevieve McCoy
