Nights for Tuesday 13 July 2021

 

7:12 Geography and Earthquake Preparedness 

Nights' Geographer, Louise Richards is back.  Tonight she's joined by Dr Caroline Orchiston, Lead Scientist at the AF8 [Alpine Fault magnitude 8] project, a collaborative effort to save lives by planning and preparing a coordinated response across the South Island after a severe earthquake on the Alpine Fault.

7:30 The Sampler

Tony Stamp analyses Lucy Dacus' nostalgic, detail-heavy new album, the country-soul hybrid found on Faye Webster's fourth outing, and Greentea Peng's debut cocktail of beats and mysticism.    

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 

This week....Football - not only is the sport at risk from the climate crisis, it's also a significant contributor to it.

The operation of multi-thousand capacity stadiums, spectator travel and merchandise, not to mention the fossil fuel sponsorship that props up professional tournaments, means that football is currently part of the climate problem. But its audience of billions could be part of the solution.  

Tonight's Climate Question: Will football tackle the climate crisis?
 

9:07 Smart Talk

A panel at Wanaka's Festival of Colour considers what democracy is and how it can be made better. Lynn Freeman is joined by the journalist and commentator Max Rashbrooke, Oliver Hartwich from The New Zealand Initiative, and Katherine Errington from the Helen Clark Foundation. Recorded in April 2021.

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 with English multi-instrumentalist and master of the electric zither, Andrew Cronshaw who is the founding member of a band from Finland called Sans.

The band also includes an Australian reed player, an Armenian duduk maestro and the superb Finnish singer Sanna Kurki-Suonio and her daughter also on vocals, Sans have produced an album called Kulku, which is a beautiful album of not only startling originality but is equally spacious, evoking Finland's landscape and natural beauty.