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Nights for Monday 30 August 2021

  • Calling London

    10:30 PM.We check on things over in the UK with BBC World journalist Rich Preston. Read more Audio

  • Businesses south of Auckland prepare to shift levels

    10:15 PM.We take a look at how businesses are gearing up fo the change in levels. Read more Audio

  • Nights Sport

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    9:10 PM.Our sportscaster tonight is RNZ Pacific's Vinnie Wylie. Audio

  • NZ Hip Hop

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    7:35 PM.We continue our trip through NZ Hip hop with Brad "Sticky' Warrington - we are still in the the mid 00's purple patch but taking a look at more underground offerings. Audio

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  • Ernest Rutherford and The Russian Connection

    7:12 PM.To mark 150 years since the he was born we talk to historian Olga Suvorova about Lord Rutherford's Russian connections, and presents one of the world's greatest scientists and most outstanding New… Read more Audio

 

7:12 Ernest Rutherford and The Russian Connection

Dr Olga Suvorova

Dr Olga Suvorova Photo: Dr Olga Suvorova

To mark 150 years since the he was born we talk to historian Olga Suvorova about Lord Rutherford's Russian connections, and presents one of the world's greatest scientists and most outstanding New Zealanders through Russian eyes.

Lord Rutherford and Pyotr Kapitsa drinking tea from the Russian samovar at the Kapitza club, late 1920s – early 1930s.

Lord Rutherford and Pyotr Kapitsa drinking tea from the Russian samovar at the Kapitza club, late 1920s – early 1930s. Photo: Archives of the Kapitza Memorial Museum

A letter from the New Zealand Broadcasting Service (J.L.Hartstonge, Head of Spoken Programmes) dated 1961 and addressed to one of the Russian students of Rutherford - Pyotr Kapitsa

A letter from the New Zealand Broadcasting Service (J.L.Hartstonge, Head of Spoken Programmes) dated 1961 and addressed to one of the Russian students of Rutherford - Pyotr Kapitsa Photo: From the Archives of the Kapitza Memorial Museum

Portrait of Rutherford in Kapitsa’s Office with Rutherford’s quote to remind Kapitsa of the direction set up by Rutherford.

Portrait of Rutherford in Kapitsa’s Office with Rutherford’s quote to remind Kapitsa of the direction set up by Rutherford. Photo: (From the Archives of the Kapitza Memorial Museum).

7:35 NZ Hip Hop

We continue our trip through NZ Hip hop with Brad "Sticky' Warrington - we are still in the the mid 00's purple patch but taking a look at more underground offerings.

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.

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Photo: RNZ Pacific

8:30 Window on The World

Another episode of BBC Science in Action. Tonight, the world's first DNA-based covid vaccine, a team of scientists, journalists, and translators launch a project called Decolonise Science and the UK's Royal Society announces its annual awards. 

Vaccination against Covid-19. Paris, France (Photo by VOISIN / Phanie / Phanie via AFP)

Photo: VOISIN/PHANIE

9:10 Nights Sport

Our sportscaster tonight is RNZ Pacific's Vinnie Wylie.

9:30 Black Music in Europe

Clarke Peters takes a look at Black Music in Europe - tonight from 1900-1910

Clarke discovers a huge variety of black music recorded in Europe at the start of the 20th century, including very early examples of blues harmonica, scat singing and stride piano.

US actor Clarke Peters poses on the red carpet attending the UK premiere of the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri during the closing night gala at the BFI London Film Festival in London on October 15, 2017. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe / AFP)

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10:17 Late Edition

Bryan presents all the breaking news, a little analysis of the stories of the moment, and some highlights of the day on RNZ National.

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Photo: RNZ Andrew Robertson

10:19: Businesses south of Auckland prepare to shift levels

As the country south of Auckland prepares to go into Level 3 we're asking how businesses will operate and how the are gearing up for the change in levels. If you have a business and you're getting ready for level three, get in touch and let us know how you are getting prepared. We'd love to hear from you. Employers and Manufacturers chief executive, Brett O'Riley chats to Bryan about the work going in to help businesses throughout the motu navigate lockdown.

Cropped image of male butcher cutting raw meat with knife at counter in shop

Photo: 123RF

 

10:30 Calling London
We check in with senior BBC World journalist Rich Preston about the changeover of power in Afghanistan as the Governments switch from democracy to the Taliban. Rich also looks at the opening of what's being called a Pandemic Intelligence Hub and gives us a picture of the Covid situation around the world this week. 

This US Marine photo released August 29, 2021 shows a US Marine with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) carrying a baby as the family processes through the Evacuation Control Center (ECC) during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 28, 2021.

Photo: AFP

 

11:07 Nashville Babylon

After 11, on Nashville Babylon , Mark Rogers features classics from Louis Prima and gospel star Dorothy Coates, a birthday tune for Stirling Morrison of the Velvet Underground, bluegrass from Jim and Jennie plus something brand new from Courtney Barnett.

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Photo: Mia Maia McDonald