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Nights for Thursday 18 March 2021

 

7:12 Materials: Fact of Fiction - Rumpelstiltskin

MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Auckland, Duncan McGillevray tries to work out how Rumpelstiltskin made straw into gold!

Gustav Heinrich Naeke - Rumpelstiltskin at the Spinning-Wheel and the Dwarf

Gustav Heinrich Naeke - Rumpelstiltskin at the Spinning-Wheel and the Dwarf Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

7:35 Deeply Human

American singer and writer, Dessa takes a deeply personal look at what lies behind our thoughts and behaviour.  Tongiht, hurting, pain and suffering might just be some of the most important things that make you who you are. That pain, though, may be almost invisible to those around you.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 20: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Dessa visits SiriusXM Studios on November 20, 2019 in New York City. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Dia Dipasupil / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Photo: 2019 Getty Images

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 

The First part of a BBC World Service documentary - A year ago American women out-numbered men in the workforce for the first time. Now, after a year of Covid pandemic that process has gone into reverse with more women than men leaving the workforce. Nada Tawfik hears how women are experiencing disproportionate job losses due to Covid recession and hears how working from home has changed work for many women.

[USA] Close up view of black woman factory worker wearing safety glasses and dust nose mask in a woodworking factory. (Photo by Mint Images / Mint Images / Mint Images via AFP)

Photo: © Mint Images/Mint Images

9:07 Our Changing World

This week, Alison Ballance is off to Mana Island to follow along with a seabird translocation - it involves fluffy white-faced storm petrel chicks, artificial burrows and sardine smoothies.

The white-faced storm petrel translocation to Mana Island was organised by the Friends of Mana Island, and the daily feeding was based in this vintage caravan.

The white-faced storm petrel translocation to Mana Island was organised by the Friends of Mana Island, and the daily feeding was based in this vintage caravan. Photo: RNZ / Alison Ballance

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Russia

Our overseas correspondent from Russia, Bryan MacDonald is taking a break from Moscow and joins us from Sochi.

Sochi Harbour

Photo: Trace, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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 this week's Pocket Edition, Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite reflects on 25 years of the band and their first UK #1 album spot, Charlotte Ryan speaks with Iraqi-NZ singer songwriter Yasamin and Tony Stamp catches up with Team Dynamite and their long-awaited record  

Team Dynamite (Tony Teez, Lucky Lance, Haz Beats)

Team Dynamite (Tony Teez, Lucky Lance, Haz Beats) Photo: supplied