Nights for Thursday 4 March 2021

 

7:12 Materials: Fact or Fiction - The Stillsuit from Dune

Associate Professor Geoff Willmott, MacDiarmid Institute Deputy Director for Commercialisation and Industry Engagement, and Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Auckland gives us his scientific take on the stillsuit from Dune, the water-saving suit that recycled sweat and other fluids.

7:35 Essential New Zealand Albums

Che Fu's Navigator is an essential New Zealand album for its all-embracing fusion of soul, reggae, hip-hop and Pacifican sounds. Nick Bollinger discusses it in detail in this episode of Essential New Zealand Albums. 

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 Fragments: First-hand accounts of the 2011 February Earthquake.

Tonight, part two of the story of the CTV Building and Latimer Square.

9:07 Our Changing World

This week, on Our Changing World, Alison Ballance meets Victoria University of Wellington fertility researchers developing a new way of testing IVF embryos that have too many chromosomes, and talks with an expert in past climates about glaciers in the North Island.

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Sudan

Reem Abbas joins us once again from Khartoum.

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 Music 101 pocket edition

After 11, in this week's Pocket Edition, Neil Finn speaks with Charlotte Ryan about latest incarnation of Crowded House hitting the road,  1990s Eurodance queen Jenny B reflects on The Rhythm of the Night, the song that brought her to worldwide audience, and we meet the 10-piece DIY hip hop, jazz funk act Raw Collective.