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Nights for Thursday 1 October 2020

  • Materials: Fact or Fiction - Baakonite

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    7:37 PM.Duncan McGillivrary, Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute and Associate Professor in Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland gives us his scientific take on Baakonite from Star… Read more Audio

  • Cultural Ambassador - Hip Hop Aotearoa

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    7:08 PM.Brad Warrington joins us once again. This eveneing we're taking a look at the mid-noughties. Audio

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7:12 Cultural Ambassador - Hip Hop Aotearoa

Brad Warrington joins us once again.  This evening we're taking a look at the mid-noughties.

Fast Crew - I Got
Verse Two & Ladi6 - Gold
Scribe - Stand Up [Album Mix]

 

7:35 Materials: Fact or Fiction - Baakonite

Duncan McGillivrary, Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute and Associate Professor in Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland gives us his scientific take on Baakonite from Star Trek - a strong, reinforced metal used for traditional Klingon weaponry such as the bat'leth. 

Klingon Bat'leths at the booth of Khemorex Klinzhai at FedCon

Klingon Bat'leths at the booth of Khemorex Klinzhai at FedCon Photo: Maximilian Reininghaus. Cropped by Fallschirmjäger / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)

8:15 Dateline Pacific

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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

Songs of the Humpback Whale - The story of Roger Payne's best-selling environmental album, released 50 years ago. 

Songs of the Humpback Whale

Songs of the Humpback Whale Photo: Living Music

9:07 Our Changing World

This week, on Our Changing World, William Ray is finding out about vaccines for Covid-19, and he talks to the New Zealand experts who have been tasked with charting our path towards immunity.

3D illustration of coronaviruses.

Photo: AFP

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Sudan

Reem Abbas joins us once again from Khartoum.

People chant slogans outside the Judicial and Legal Science Institute that serves as a make-shift courthouse for the trial of Sudan's ousted president Omar al-Bashir along with 27 co-accused over the 1989 military coup that brought Bashir to power.

People chant slogans outside the Judicial and Legal Science Institute that serves as a make-shift courthouse for the trial of Sudan's ousted president Omar al-Bashir along with 27 co-accused over the 1989 military coup that brought Bashir to power. Photo: ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP

10:17 Lately

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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

After 11, on Music 101 Pocket Edition, RNZ Concert's Nick Tipping encourages us to vote in the annual Settling the Score competition, Tony Stamp visits Auckland's community centres and mental health services to see local hip hop mentors in action.

Puketapapa Creative Lab at Wesley Community Centre

Puketapapa Creative Lab at Wesley Community Centre Photo: supplied

 

Music played in this show

Fast Crew - I Got
Verse Two & Ladi6 - Gold
Stand Up [Album Mix]