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Nights for Thursday 25 February 2021

  • Overseas Correspondent - Taiwan

    9:30 PM.We're joined once again by our correspondent in Taipei, William Yang. Audio

  • Nights Science - World Weather

    7:10 PM.Our World Weather Man, Erick Brenstrum joins us once again taking a look at the Texas snowstorm, 2020's record temperatures, Tropical cyclone Yasa and the State of La Nina - just for starters! Audio

 

Karyn Hay is in for Bryan Crump this evening.

7:10 Nights Science - World Weather

Our World Weather Man, Erick Brenstrum joins us once again taking a look at the Texas snowstorm, 2020's record temperatures, Tropical cyclone Yasa and the State of La Nina - just for starters!

Here's the link to Peter Brannen book "The Ends of the World" 

Electric service trucks line up after a snow storm in Fort Worth, Texas. Winter storm Uri has brought historic cold weather and power outages to Texas as storms have swept across 26 states with a mix of freezing temperatures and precipitation.

Electric service trucks line up after a snow storm in Fort Worth, Texas. Winter storm Uri has brought historic cold weather and power outages to Texas as storms have swept across 26 states with a mix of freezing temperatures and precipitation. Photo: Photo by Ron Jenkins / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP

7:30 Essential New Zealand Albums: The Crocodiles - Tears

The Crocodiles brought together some of the sharpest minds in Kiwi pop. In Essential New Zealand Albums, Nick Bollinger discusses their 1980 debut, Tears.    

The Crocodiles

The Crocodiles Photo: Supplied

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 Fragments: First-Hand Accounts of the 2011 February Earthquake 

The RNZ Podcast series Fragments: First-Hand Accounts of the 2011 February Earthquake -  marking 10 years since the major Christchurch earthquake on 22 February 2011. Tonight we continue the story of the collapse of the PGC Building.

Bill Toomey said the scene that confronted him at the PGC building was horrific. Rescuers trying to find survivors in the building's wreckage on 24 February 2011.

Bill Toomey said the scene that confronted him at the PGC building was horrific. Rescuers trying to find survivors in the building's wreckage on 24 February 2011. Photo: AFP

9:07 Our Changing World

This week, on Our Changing World, Alison Ballance talks to a team mapping groundwater across New Zealand and finds out where water flows underground across the Heretaunga Plains. And she talks to freshwater researchers who are using mātauranga Māori to guide the translocation of species such as kākahi or freshwater mussels.

It didn't take long to collect a kete worth of kakahi for the translocation to Zealandia.

It didn't take long to collect a kete worth of kakahi for the translocation to Zealandia. Photo: Owen Calder

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Taiwan

We're joined once again by our correspondent in Taipei, William Yang.

People wearing facemasks praying at Longshan Temple on Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve amid Covid-19 pandemic in Taipei, Taiwan on 11 Feb 2021. (Photo by Annabelle Chih/NurPhoto) (Photo by Annabelle Chih / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

Photo: Annabelle Chih/NurPhoto

10:17 Lately

Susana Leiataua is in for Karyn Hay keeping those who are up late up to date.

11:07 Music 101 pocket edition

After 11, on this week's Music 101  Pocket Edition, Che Fu twenty years on from the release of The Navigator he speaks to Charlotte Ryan of that experience, Canadian indie outfit Kiwi jr explain the provenance of their name to Tony Stamp and Yadana Saw catches up with Elemeno P frontman Dave Gibson.

Dave Gibson

Dave Gibson Photo: RNZ / Alice Murray