Nights for Tuesday 24 November 2020

 

7:12 Why we Love Magazines

Following the launch of her new wellness magazine "Thrive", veteran editor and journalist Wendyl Nissen joins us to talk about magazines and why we still love them.

7:30 Song Crush

Song Crush host, Tony Stamp is joined by journalist and poet Mohamed Hassan, and Strangelove Records label boss Ben Stevens, to review new tunes from Wellington producer Cave Circles, Palestinian rappers 47Soul, American provocateurs Algiers, and more.  

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 

Do you give food emojis much thought?  If not, perhaps you should.  Emily Thomas hears how these tiny digital images can have a big social and economic impact. 

9:07 The US Election 2020: A Crisis of legitimacy?, 

In an event recorded last Thursday at the University of Auckland entitled The US Election 2020: A Crisis of legitimacy?, a panel of lecturers, Timothy Kuhner, Maria Armoudian, Danny Osborne and Scott Optican use the lenses of law, political science, and psychology to explain this contested election and discuss the implications of the final outcome.

Was the 2020 US election conducted properly? Will mail-in ballots be counted and will that count be allowed to stand? Will the US Supreme Court decide the final outcome? And what, in any case, will become of American democracy? 

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

After 11, on Worlds of Music, Trevor Reekie features an interview with American born record producer Joe Boyd who has had an illustrious career in music that saw him signing and producing a plethora of artists including English singer and songwriter, Nick Drake who passed away aged 26 in November 1974.