Nights for Thursday 24 June 2021

 

7:12 Materials: Fact or Fiction - The Deathstar.

Aleksandra Ilina - PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington gives us her scientific take on The Deathstar.

7:35 Tooth and Claw

We begin a new documentary series, Tooth and Claw. Adam Hart explores our complex relationship with Earth's greatest predators, starting with a creature almost as old as the dinosaurs, the crocodile.

8:15 Pacific Waves

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Sela Jane Hopgood presents a daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in the world.

8:30 Window on The World

Scientists have hatched an incredible plan to save the northern white rhino from extinction. The team is using IVF techniques to produce a calf because the only two females left alive are infertile. Nick Holland reports on how close they are to succeeding and of their hopes to eventually release a whole herd back into the wild.

9:07 Our Changing World

In many places across Aotearoa New Zealand conservation efforts are underpinned by communities caring for the flora and fauna in their backyards. This National Volunteer week, Claire and Katy bring you two stories of volunteers and communities doing their bit.

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Vietnam

Overseas Correspondent Lien Hoang joins us from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.  We catch up on the latest on the covid situation there and also find out why Vietnam has found itself in  the middle of a power struggle between two of the major online marketplaces - the US owned Amazon and Chinese owned Alibaba.

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, Troy Kingi talks about the halfway point folk country blues album Black Sea Golden Ladder and Ladi 6 on her new Queens Birthday Honour and her forthcoming tour.