Nights for Thursday 16 April 2020
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Mentemia
10:35 PM.All Blacks legend Sir John Kirwan has launched a mental wellbeing app - available without charge until October - which he describes as "having a personalised mental health coach in your pocket" Read more Audio
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A Song Down The Phone: Clark Gayton
10:22 PM.Tonight we cross to the the South Bronx in New York City to catch up with multi-instrumentalist Clark Gayton who is going to play a little trombone for us. Read more Audio
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Overseas Correspondent - Taiwan
9:40 PM.We get the latest from Taiwan from our Overseas Correspondent, William Yang. Read more Audio
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Keeping it Moving: Seated Rows
7:55 PM.Hana Wilkinson is an In-Home Strength and Balance Physiotherapist with Sport Gisborne/Tairawhiti and she has devised some nice easy exercises to make sure the older adults amongst us keep moving… Read more Audio
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Materials Fact or Fiction - Sting
7:35 PM.Another in our Materials Fact of Fiction series in partnership with The MacDiarmid Institute where we get a scientific take on a material or concept in fiction - tonight Dr Mike Price a MacDiarmid… Read more Audio
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Cultural Ambassador - Maori Arts
7:12 PM.Making his Nights Debut, Teina Moetera join us as our Cultural Ambassador for Maori Arts - tonight we start with questions: What are Maori Arts? What makes them distinct? Audio
7:12 Cultural Ambassador - Maori Arts
Making his Nights Debut, Teina Moetera join us as our Cultural Ambassador for Maori Arts – tonight we start with questions: What are Maori Arts? What makes them distinct?
7:35 Materials Fact or Fiction
Another in our Materials Fact of Fiction series in partnership with The MacDiarmid Institute where we get a scientific take on a material or concept in fiction – tonight Dr Mike Price a MacDiarmid Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington gives us his take on Sting from Lord of The Rings.
Elijah Wood in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Photo: WINGNUT FILMS / NEW LINE CINEMA / COLLECTION CHRISTOPHEL
7:55 Keeping it Moving
Hana Wilkinson is an In-Home Strength and Balance Physiotherapist with Sport Gisborne/Tairawhiti and she has devised some nice easy exercises to make sure the older adults amongst us keep moving during lockdown.
Hana Wilkinson Photo: Sport Gisborne
8:15 Dateline Pacific
Photo: RNZ
RNZ Pacific have temporarily suspended Dateline Pacific in it regular format so that they can concentrate their efforts on broadcasting to the Pacific. In the meantime, each weeknight we'll chat to one of their reporters for a daily update. Tonight Bryan Crump talks to Don Wiseman.
8:30 Window on the World
Magician and Professor of Psychology, Richard Wiseman tells the BBC’s Jim Al-Khalili how to spot a liar ... and why some people are luckier than others.
Photo: Giorgio Scapinelli / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
9:07 Our Changing World
This week on Our Changing World, Alison Ballance chats with a mathematician who has been helping model the coronavirus pandemic in New Zealand.
This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness caused by this virus has been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Photo: Alissa Eckert, MS, Dan Higgins, MAMS
9:30 Overseas Correspondent
We get the latest from Taiwan from our Overseas Correspondent, William Yang.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen delivers her address to soldiers amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic during her visit to a military base in Tainan, southern Taiwan. Photo: Sam Yeh / AFP
10:17 After10
- 10:20 A Song Down The Phone
Tonight we cross to the the South Bronx in New York City to catch up with multi-instrumentalist Clark Gayton who is going to play a little trombone for us.
Clark Gayton Photo: Clark Gayton
- 10:35 Mentemia
All Blacks legend Sir John Kirwan has launched a mental wellbeing app - available without charge until October - which he describes as "having a personalised mental health coach in your pocket"
Sir John Kirwan Photo: Sir John Kirwan
11:07 Music 101 pocket edition
Tonight, in place of our usual Music 101 Pocket Edition we have a special concert recorded on the 24th August, 2019 at the Powerstation featuring Auckland based jazz / hip-hip collective Avantdale Bowling Club.
Tom Scott - Avantdale Bowling Club Photo: supplied
