Nights for Tuesday 19 November 2019

 

7:12 What happens as soil warms?

Our regular soils expert Professor Louis Schipper from the University of Waikato is part of a group of scientist to recently recieve a Marsden Grant look at how biological systems respond to increasing temperature. Louis will be looking at the response of soil respiration to changes in temperature and he joins us to talk about this work and its implications.

7:30 Song Crush

French For Rabbits find a new banging synth sound, British-Ghanaian rapper Kojey Radical shows his smooth side, and Wye Oak just keep on evolving - these songs and more on Song Crush this week.  

Host Kirsten Johnstone is joined by Elliott Childs and Phodiso Dintwe.

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

A group of entrepreneurs has invented a smart fire alarm with a sensor that spots fast increases in heat and then sends alerts to all the neighbours so they can quickly take action.

9:07 White Silence

We continue our podcast White Silence.  Tonight: Investigators of the 1979 plane crash on Mr Erebus in Antarctica begin sifting through the evidence and they come to a shocking conclusion.

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 Worlds of Music

on Worlds of Music, Trevor Reekie features an interview with American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director Laurie Anderson who in 2018 released an album with the Kronos Quartet called Landfall. She also published a book called "All The Things I lost in the Flood" - Both projects share their origin with Hurricane Sandy's arrival to New York City in 2012, when floods breached Anderson's basement studio and destroyed decades' worth of archived work, notebooks and props. A year after Hurricane Sandy, Laurie's husband, Lou Reed passed away. It's just been announced that Laurie Anderson is coming to NZ after accepting an invitation to curate the biennial New Zealand Festival of the Arts being held in Wellington between Friday 21st February & Sunday 15th March 2020