Nights for Thursday 12 August 2021
Emeline Paat-Dalstrom, co-founder of SpaceBase is back again.with news of their "Space for Planet Earth" Challenge competition that aims to leverage space technology to address climate change.
Photo: Spacebase
7:35 Understanding Maori Heritage
A new regular on Thursday Nights, we'll be chatting with a number of experts from Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga - starting tonight with Deputy Chief Executive (Kaihautū) Māori Heritage, Dean Whiting giving us an overview of their work.
Photo: https://www.heritage.org.nz/
8:15 Pacific Waves
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.
Photo: RNZ Pacific
8:30 Window on The World
People in Kenya have been paid to catch swarms of locusts eating farmers' crops. The insects are full of protein and the captured ones are ground up and put into animal feed. The BBC's Nick Holland and Claire Bates find out what tricks these 'locust hunters' use to catch the critters and what difference the cull makes. They also hear about a way of capturing tiny micro-plastic particles that come off car tyres and delve into a clever project feeding homeless people in Mumbai
Photo: SUMY SADURNI / AFP
9:07 Our Changing World
On Our Changing World this week - a trip to a reserve near Palmerston North where Massey University researchers are carefully monitoring the movements of 40 North Island robins that have been released there.
How do you find 40 small robins in thousands of hectares of bush? And how might this help future bird re-introductions? Claire Concannon finds out.
Doug & Zoe searching for robins in the Turitea reserve. Photo: RNZ/Claire Concannon
9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Estonia
Our Overseas Correspondent from Estonia, Silver Tambur joins us from Tallinn.
Looking over Tallinn Photo: Alex Taylor
10:17 Lately
Photo: RNZ
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, we return to Woodstock 99 - one of the many music festivals that made history for the wrong reasons and Musica Chairs tonight features Dianne Swann.
The Mud at Woodstock 99 Photo: 1999/Daily News, L.P. (New York)
