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Nights for Thursday 19 November 2020

  • Conflict in Ethiopia

    7:40 PM.Sam Seba gives us an update on the unrest in Ethiopia,. Audio

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  • Cultural Ambassador - Science Fiction

    7:12 PM.Eleanor Tremeer, our sci-fi geek is back again. Tonight she's taking a look at Futurism - the futures we dreamed up, which predictions were accurate, which weren't, and how we represent the future… Read more Audio

 

7:12 Cultural Ambassador - Science Fiction

Eleanor Tremeer, our sci-fi geek is back again.  Tonight she's taking a look at Futurism - the futures we dreamed up, which predictions were accurate, which weren't, and how we represent the future now. 

A Trip to The Opera in the year 2000 by Albert Robida (14 May 1848 – 11 October 1926), a French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist.), a French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist.

A Trip to The Opera in the year 2000 by Albert Robida (14 May 1848 – 11 October 1926), a French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist. Photo: Albert Robida Public Domain

7:35 Conflict in Ethiopia

Sam Seba gives us an update on the unrest in Ethiopia,.

A make-shift shelter housing Ethiopian refugees who fled fighting in Tigray province, at the Um Rakuba camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref province.

A make-shift shelter housing Ethiopian refugees who fled fighting in Tigray province, at the Um Rakuba camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref province. Photo: Photo by Ebrahim HAMID / AFP)

8:15 Dateline Pacific

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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 

Why are Buddhist monks in Thailand more obese than the population at large?

Thai Buddhist monk Phra Sompong, speaks to Agence France-Presse during an interview at Rangsit University in Pathum Thani

Photo: AFP or licensors

9:07 Our Changing World

This week, Alison Ballance is off to Zealandia sanctuary in Wellington, where iwi representatives and conservationists are welcoming the return of New Zealand's most unusual plant: the mysterious parasitic flowering plant Dactylanthus or pua o te reinga - flower of the underworld.

Nature photographer David Mudge helps plant Dactylanthus seeds at Zealandia ecosanctuary in Wellington.

Nature photographer David Mudge helps plant Dactylanthus seeds at Zealandia ecosanctuary in Wellington. Photo: RNZ / Alison Ballance

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Vietnam

Lien Hoang joins us once again from Ho Chi Minh city where global manufacturers are flocking to relocate. Is it ready?

Workers assemble medical ventilators, which will be used by COVID-19 novel coronavirus patients, at a Vingroup production facility in Hanoi on August 3, 2020. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP)

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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

In the Music 101 Pocket Edition, Tony Stamp speaks with the students and teacher behind a Mount Maunganui College album that's a streaming success, and Yadana Saw takes us into the world of local music production and how it's the future of NZ music.