Nights for Tuesday 20 April 2021

 

7:12 Geodesic​ - Taking A Round Trip

Mathematician Dilon Mayhew is taking a round trip - looking into the shortest path between two points on a surface, such as the surface of a sphere. 

7:30 The Sampler

Tony Stamp wraps his head around Taylor Swift's re-recording of her second album, a jazzy collaboration between Brit producer Floating Points and sax legend Pharoah Sanders, and the surprise return of kiwi singer-songwriter Kane Strang.

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 Window on The World

Tonight's Climate Question is; Is it time for us to ditch the plough?  

Around the world an increasing number of farmers are adopting new methods without the plough to restore soil health and lock more carbon into the ground. But some scientists are questioning whether the potential for carbon sequestration into the soil is being over hyped. What's more, for millennia the plough has been a crucial ally in boosting yields and in the coming decades we are going have to produce lots more food to feed the growing global population. 

9:07 Smart Talk

Emma Espiner talks to Eileen Merriman and Carl Shuker about their novels A Mistake and The Silence of Snow, which share hospital settings and take medical mishaps as a starting point. A highlight of the 2020 Word Christchurch Spring Festival.

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 Worlds of Music

After 11, on Worlds of Music, Trevor Reekie features an interview about the late New Zealand born singer Pixie Williams who first came to national attention in the late 1940's when she recorded a 78 rpm disc called  'Blue smoke', the  first record wholly produced in New Zealand. 

It was a massive hit selling over 50,000 copies for the New Zealand-owned TANZA  record label. The interview conducted with Pixie Williams' daughter, Amelia Costello, plus Chris Bourke,  the author of 'BlueSmoke -  The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music' and Tim Fraser who supervised sound restoration talk about the career of this most reluctant  recording star - Pixie Williams.