Nights for Thursday 30 September 2021

 

7:12 Materials: Fact of Fiction - McGyver's Laser

Dr Karen Thorn, a postdoctoral fellow at VUW working in the Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy Group gives us her scientific take on the MacGyver episode where he makes a laser.

7:35 Protest in Aotearoa

People have been protesting in New Zealand for hundreds of years. So, what were the issues? Did their protest make the change they wanted? Is protesting worth it? Can change be made through protest?  Author Mandy Hager joins us to talk baout her new book PROTEST! Shaping Aotearoa. 

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 

People Fixing the World from the BBC World Service - Irrigation pipes have been designed to double as mid-air walkways to help slow lorises cross open farmland in Indonesia; and a footbridge has been built for a rare breed of monkey in Brazil - the golden lion tamarin. These are just two examples of new infrastructure designed to help wild animals cope with human obstacles. 

9:07 Our Changing World

This week on Our Changing World, three physicists talk about their work in Antarctica. Claire Concannon speaks to two University of Otago researchers who study Antarctic sea ice, while Katy Gosset learns about astrophysical particles & how to look for them, from a professor at the University of Canterbury. 

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Taiwan

Our overseass correspondent from Taiwan, William Yang joins us half way through a trip to Chicago in the USA.

10:17 Late Edition

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

 

10:30 Missing father and children safe

The news everyone least expected came mid morning....when a father and his three children,  who had been missing in rugged bush in Waikato for nearly three weeks, showed up at the family farm today.  The unexplained disappearance of  Tom Phillips and his children Jayda, Maverick and Ember earlier in the month prompted a full scale land, sea and air search with hundreds of volunteers scouring dense bushland in isolated coastal Waikato. The hopes of locals and the whole country faded when the fruitless search was officially called off just a few days ago.

10:30 Britney is free
 

Britney Spears is finally free from her father's control after more than 13 years. Fans of Britney Spears partied at the courthouse earlier today as a judge suspended the 39-year-old pop star's father, Jamie Spears, as conservator of her estate. Among those celebrating the moment was LA based actor and member of the Free Britney Army,  James Miller, who has fought for months to free Britney from the control of her father.

10:45 Fleur's Place is open for business

Fleur Sullivan is a restaurateur known the country over for her seafood cuisine at her popular Moeraki restaurant Fleur's Place, north of Dunedin.  But come lockdown, Fleur shut the doors and vowed not to reopen them until level one was back and she could again accommodate at least a couple of hundred people at a time through the restaurant in a day. But she's changed her mind and reopened this week  

10:45 The fight to share a place in MIQ

Helen (we've have witheld her surname to protect her privacy) went over to Sydney see her daughter and grandchildren earlier this year while the travel bubble was open. She's done as she was asked by the Covid-19 Response Minister, Chris Hipkins, and sheltered in place, instead of competing for places in MIQ required by those with more urgent needs. But now, she really does need to get back and now she has until December before her pension is cut. This afternoon, Helen was offered to share a place in MIQ with a friend who won the lottery earlier this week, if she caught a flight back on Sunday. But she's just been told by the Regional MIQ director that she can't take the place.

 

11:07 Music 101 pocket edition

In this week's Pocket Edition, Stan Walker talks about his childhood on Tamapahore marae, Australian Idol and his ambition to make a difference,