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Nights for Thursday 18 February 2021

  • Overseas Correspondent - Japan

    9:30 PM.Motoko Kakubayashi joins us from Toyko where they are also about to mark a significant anniversary. A few weeks after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit the east coast of… Read more Audio

  • Materials: Fact or Fiction - Dalekanium

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    7:12 PM.Dr Heloise Stevance, research fellow at the University of Auckland's physics department gives us her scientific take on Dalekanium from Doctor Who - an extremely durable material used to create Daleks

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7:12 Materials: Fact or Fiction - Dalekanium

Dr Heloise Stevance, research fellow at the University of Auckland's physics department gives us her scientific take on Dalekanium from Doctor Who - an extremely durable material used to create Daleks. 

Dalek

Photo: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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

Personal protective equipment like masks and gloves are the last line of defence for healthcare workers against Covid. But how protected are the factory workers who make them? 

Doctors and nurses wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) suits work at the Intensive Care Unit for Covid-19 coronavirus patients at the Sharda Hospital, India on July 15, 2020.

Doctors and nurses wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) suits work at the Intensive Care Unit for Covid-19 coronavirus patients at the Sharda Hospital, India on July 15, 2020. Photo: AFP / Xavier Galiana

9:07 Our Changing World

This week, on Our Changing World, Alison Ballance joins ornithologist Ralph Powlesland on his daily weka survey, and talks to two legal experts about the field of disaster law.

Ornithologist Ralph Powlesland feeds one of his study weka, which he checks on twice a day.

Ornithologist Ralph Powlesland feeds one of his study weka, which he checks on twice a day. Photo: RNZ / Alison Ballance

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Japan

Motoko Kakubayashi joins us from Toyko where they are also about to mark a significant anniversary.

A few weeks after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit the east coast of Japan, triggering a tsunami that destroyed large parts of the coast, including damage to the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant.

More than 15,000 lives were lost, more than 2000 still remain missing. In one afternoon, half a million people became homeless, and the search for family and friends at evacuation shelters began.

Reactor 1 of Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima.

Reactor 1 of Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima. The Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, the magnitude of 9.1, the most powerful earthquake in Japan. The quake and following tsunami caused the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, the level 7 meltdown accident. Japan will mark the 10th anniversary of the disaster. Photo: The Yomiuri Shimbun

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

Gary Numan in red paint for his new album 'Intruder'

Gary Numan in red paint for his new album 'Intruder' Photo: supplied

In this week's Pocket Edition, Gary Numan speaks with Charlotte Ryan about new music and his new life in California, Tana Douglas recounts her wild past as one of the world's first female roadies who has worked with the likes of ACDC, Elton John.

Australian Tana Douglas is regarded as the world's first female roadie.

Australian Tana Douglas is regarded as the world's first female roadie. Photo: 2019 LISA JOHNSON