Nights for Tuesday 24 August 2021
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Dr Api Talemaitoga
10:18 PM.There are 41 new cases of Covid-19 today, 38 of them in Auckland and three in Wellington. The Director General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield said the majority of today's are linked to a subcluster… Read more Audio
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Pacific Waves
8:13 PM.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… Read more Audio
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Changing Migration in New Zealand
7:14 PM.Julian Wood, Senior Researcher at independent think tank the Maxim Institute joins us to talk about what immigration policy could and should look like as we head out of the pandemic. Audio
7:12 Changing Migration in New Zealand
Julian Wood, Senior Researcher at independent think tank the Maxim Institute joins us to talk about what immigration policy could and should look like as we head out of the pandemic.
Photo: Maxim Institute
7:30 The Sampler
Tony Stamp has a lockdown listen to UK music legend Joan Armatrading's twentieth album, the third EP in a series by Zimbabwe-born, Australia-raised, LA-based hip hop musician Tkay Maidza, and the debut EP from Auckland indie supergroup Phoebe Rings.
Photo: Supplied
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
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and a clean-burning gas. In theory it could be used to power almost anything But it is expensive, difficult to store, inefficient and explosive.
Tonight's Climate Question - Is green hydrogen the fuel of the future?
Driver Stephane Richelmi poses next to the Mission H24 prototype, which transforms hydrogen into electricity which fuels the car. The team hopes to takes part as a 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 2024. Photo: JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP
9:15 Bad Cops
We continue our new series form the BBC Worldservice....In Baltimore, Maryland, an elite group of plainclothes officers called the Gun Trace Task Force gets hundreds of illegal guns off the streets every year. Secretly, however, these detectives are also robbing people, selling drugs, planting evidence and framing innocent people.
Photo: DAVID MCNEW / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP 2015
10:17 Late Edition
With Karyn forming part of RNZ's cruicial "back-up' team during this latest lockdown, Bryan presents all the breaking news, a little analysis of the stories of the moment, and some hightlights of the day on RNZ National.
Photo: RNZ Andrew Robertson
Getting the Pacific Community vaccinated
Dr Api Talemaitoga is an Auckland-based GP, who is part of the National Covid Response Group. His South Auckland practice has not been able to vaccinate, and many of his patients have elected to wait until he can administer the jab. Given almost half of the cases in the current cluster are Pacific Islanders, we thought we'd check in with him again and see how things are going.
Dr Api Talemaitoga. Photo: GREG BOWKER VISUALS
11:07 Worlds of Music
After 11, on Worlds of Music, Trevor Reekie features an interview recorded in 2015 with New York film producer, Jeff Lieberman. He talks about self financing and producing a well researched film documentary called The Amazing Nina Simone'.
The Amazing Nina Simone Photo: courtesy; Jeff Lieberman
