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Nights for Thursday 15 April 2021

  • Overseas Correspondent

    9:40 PM.Our Overseas Correspondent in Vietnam, Lien Hoang joins us from Ho Chi Minh City as Vietnam tests the waters for a Plastic Credits Scheme to fight marine pollution. Audio

  • Materials Fact or Fiction

    7:12 PM.Dr Rodrigo Martinez Gazoni, MacDiarmid Institute research fellow at the University of Canterbury gives us his scientific take on Back to The Future, Audio

 

7:12 Materials: Fact or Fiction - Back To The Future

Dr Rodrigo Martinez Gazoni, MacDiarmid Institute research fellow at the University of Canterbury gives us his scientific take on Back to The Future.

Retour vers le futur Back to future 1985 Real Robert Zemeckis. Collection Christophel / RnB © Universal Pictures (Photo by Universal Pictures / Collection Christophel / Collection ChristopheL via AFP)

Photo: © Universal Pictures

7:35 Deeply Human

In episode six, Dessa looks at why are our ideas of what's beautiful tied to symmetry. 

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

Machines to shred, melt and mould waste plastic are popping up in workshops around the world - from the UK to Malaysia, Kenya to Mexico.

The project is being led by an organisation called Precious Plastic. They put designs for the devices online for anyone to download and build themselves.

More than 400 teams around the world are now taking on the challenge of plastic waste using these machines, making everything from sunglasses to plastic bricks in the process.

9:07 Our Changing World

This week, Alison Ballance catches up with winners of New Zealand's most valuable research prizes, the Prime Minister's Science Prizes. The winners include the Covid-19 modelling team from Te Punaha Matatini, a primary school technology teacher and a marine biologist studying the impact of climate change on our oceans.

The 2019 Prime Minister's Science Prize goes to the 'Melting ice and rising seas' research team, which includes geologists, glaciologists, climate and social scientists.

The 2019 Prime Minister's Science Prize goes to the 'Melting ice and rising seas' research team, which includes geologists, glaciologists, climate and social scientists. Photo: Sipplied

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Vietnam

Our Overseas Correspondent in Vietnam, Lien Hoang joins us from Ho Chi Minh City as Vietnam tests the waters for a Plastic Credits Scheme to fight marine pollution.

Discarded waste on a beach in Tel Aviv after a storm, Israel. Biosphoto / Franck Gueffier (Photo by Franck Gueffier / Biosphoto / Biosphoto via AFP)

Photo: Franck Gueffier / Biosphoto

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, Eddie Rayner shares a new song from his latest musical project that repurposes old Split Enz material, Charlotte Ryan and Sheep, Dog Wolf's Daniel McBride discuss the importance of mental health upon the release of his latest album Two Minds, Tony Stamp checks in with Silas Futura formerly known as Bobandii and Yadana shares a contemporary rework of a choral medieval number of from The Wicker Man.

Sheep Dog & Wolf 2020

Sheep Dog & Wolf 2020 Photo: supplied