Nights for Thursday 1 July 2021

 

7:12 Forest Pests and Carbon Storage

Dean Baigent-Mercer, Forest & Bird's Northland Conservation Advocate joins us once again - the impacts of introduced browsing animals had on native ecosystems' carbon storage.

7:35 Tooth and Claw

We continue the BBC documentary series in which Adam Hart explores our complex relationship with Earth's greatest predators. Tonight it's lions, they're the archetypal 'man-eater'. So how best can we manage human-lion conflicts when they occur?

8:10 Tech with a Teenager

Charlie Cuff is looking at a future with electric cars.

8:15 Pacific Waves

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Koroi Hawkins 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

Former criminals are being employed to run part of the probation system in one of America's deeply troubled, gang-ridden communities. It's a bold new approach to crime prevention, and it seems to be working - young lives are being transformed and reconviction rates are dropping.

9:07 Our Changing World

A team at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute is working on what they hope will be the first New Zealand designed Class 3 medical device - a pressure sensor for the brain, for people with hydrocephaly. Claire visits the researchers to find out how the sensor works, and how it might help patients. 

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - India

Shoba Naryan joins us from Bengaluru.

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, Louis Baker speaks about the love of whanau and friends being the basis of his new release, Fleet Foxes Robin Pecknold on making a brighter and lighter record, and plenty of new and not-so-new songs.