Nights for Thursday 2 September 2021

 

7:12 Materials: Fact or Fiction - Corrodium

Bill Jia is a PhD student in a MacDiarmid Institute research lab at the University of Auckland studying Chemistry. He joins is to give us his scientific take on Corrodium from Ben 10.

7:35 Best Foot Forward

We're introducing a new regular guest on the show. A topic that we all often ignore and take for granted - Our Feet! Emma Worthington is a podiatrist with Foot Worthy Podiatry in Lower Hutt and makes her debut on nights tonight.

8:05 Tech with a Teenager

Charlie Cuff is back.  Tonight he talks about Network Attached Storage devices.

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 

Two sources of greenhouse gas could be lurking in your kitchen: rice and fridges. We meet a biologist breeding climate-friendly rice, and a team of detectives whose job is to stop fearsomely potent fridge gases escaping into the atmosphere.

9:07 Our Changing World

Katy Gosset speaks to the University of Canterbury researchers who are studying the destructive, invasive plant fungi myrtle rust.  Then Claire Concannon hands the microphone over - to an unusual essential worker who is responsible for a living tropical forest in the Otago Museum in Dunedin. 

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - India

Our Indian correspondent Shoba Naryan joins us from Berngaluru.

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.

 

Your questions on the Pfizer vaccine answered
 

Some of the world's leading vaccine experts from Melbourne, London and New Zealand have, this evening, been answering journalist's questions about how good the covid-19 Pfizer vaccine is and how to make sense of the data presented.  They've been answering questions such as can any countries actually reach herd immunity and will we need booster shots in the coming months and years?  One of those experts is University of Auckland Associate Professor, vaccinologist, Helen Petousis-Harris, who has kindly agreed to answer your questions too.

11:07 Music 101 pocket edition

After 11, in this week's Pocket Edition, it's a special Lee 'Scratch' Perry tribute to the Jamaican sonic wizard. Yadana Saw speaks with Aotearoa musicians about the influence of the man known as the Godfather of Dub music.