Nights for Tuesday 5 October 2021

 

7:12 Te reo Māori in the media

Socio-linguist, Julia de Bres joins us once again - along with Reo teacher and former RNZ broadcaster Ana Tapiata - to discuss the media's use of Maori.

7:30 The Sampler

Tony Stamp delves into a movie-themed collaboration between American singer-songwriters Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine, two dance floor-focused EPs from Tāmaki producer deepState, and an eighties-inflected tribute to longterm lust by Torres. 

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 

Recent research has shown that oil companies knew about the threat of climate change decades ago and that they funded think tanks and campaigns to spread doubt and misinformation about climate change. Tonight's climate question: What made us doubt climate change?

9:00 Things are Looking Up in Awarua

Bryan chats to Robin McNeill, from Invercargill, the CEO of Space Operations New Zealand Ltd, a new company providing commercial and civilian ground station services and launch support services at Awarua for international satellite companies.

9:30 30 Animals That Made us Smarter

In the first of a 5 part series from the BBC Worldservice, Patrick Aryee explores how squid suckers could hold the secret to self-healing materials. It's the story of the secret of scary squid suckers, with their razor sharp teeth-like structures. They could hold the key to materials which can repair themselves without human intervention. Scientists think this could be useful for repairing hazmat suits and even allowing robots to repair themselves. If all this sounds like too much science fiction listen in, because the truth, can often be stranger than fiction.

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.

10:17 Make it 16 campaigners rejoice at electoral law review

This morning Justice Minister Kris Faafoi announced the Government would undertake a sweeping review of many aspects of the country's electoral law prior to the 2026 election. They will be considering changes to funding of political parties, length of parliament's three-year terms and the voting age.

Ella Flavell is Deputy Chair of the Wellington Youth Council and is involved with the youth-led campaign Make it 16 who are seeking to lower the voting age in Aotearoa.

Ella joins us to discuss why the voting age should be lowered and what this announcement means for the campaign.

10:30 Pāua back on the menu in Kaikōura

This afternoon Oceans and Fisheries Minister David Parker announced Kaikōura's Pāua Fishery is set to reopen for the first time since an earthquake forced its closure in 2016.

It will initially reopen for three months from 1st December and be closely monitored but it's good news for locals and seafood lovers.

Storm Stanley is the Chairman of The Pāua Industry Council and joins us to explain why it's been closed for so long and some of his favourite recipes for those wanting to get their hands on the much sought after delicacy.

10:40 Too many business eggs in one Facebook basket

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram went down around the world from 5 o'clock this morning, hindering trading for some businesses completely reliant on it.

Facebook apologised for the outage and say no user data was compromised, but there are increasing numbers of businesses who only operate on Facebook, and some have been victims of denial of service cyber attacks and struggled to reconnect with their customers. 

Is today's attack a warning to businesses to not put all their eggs in the Facebook basket?

Tech commentator, Gorilla Technology chief executive, Paul Spain joins us to discuss.

11:07 Worlds of Music

After 11, on Worlds of Music, Trevor Reekie features acclaimed flamenco guitarist Paul Bosauder who returned home to New Zealand in 2020 after studying and performing across Europe and beyond.