7:12 Materials: Fact or Fiction - Magic Carpets

Dr Taniela Lolohea, Associate Investigator with the MacDiarmid Institute and is a Lecturer in Chemistry at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) takes a look at the science behind magic flying carpets.

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Photo: © Walt Disney Pictures / Silver Screen Partners IV

7:35 Stop saying children are 'resilient'

Dr Julie Spray, a medical and childhood anthropologist and a Research Fellow in the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland says it's time to Stop saying children are 'resilient'.

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Reportage in a year 2 primary school class in Geneva. Playtime. 

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Photo: AMELIE-BENOIST / BSIP

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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8:30 Window on The World

From the BBC World service, the People Fixing the World team look at how CubeSats have opened up space to nations and start-up companies and helped usher in a new, commercial, space age.

This NASA photo obtained released June 19, 2019 shows a set of three CubeSats pictured shortly after being ejected from the Japanese Small Satellite Orbital Deployer attached to a robotic arm outside of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo l

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9:07 Our Changing World

This week on Our Changing World, two projects aimed at restoration.  Katy Gosset speaks to a PhD student who is designing new tech to catch predators with the hope of returning bird song to the bush and Claire Concannon meets the team on the West Coast of the South Island who are working to restore a unique landscape there. 

Newly planted trees in the flat terrain of the Bullock Creek polje - you can see a grassy expanse with some trees with cardboard support boxes.

Newly planted trees in the flat terrain of the Bullock Creek polje Photo: RNZ / Claire Concannon

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Japan

 

Our overseas correspondent in Tokyo, Motoko Kakuayashi brings us up to date with what's brewing in Japan.

Motoko's local supermarket's liquor corner. Can you tell any difference? There is a mixture of beer, happoshu, third beer AND alcohol-free beer cans all in this photo.

Motoko's local supermarket's liquor corner. Can you tell any difference? There is a mixture of beer, happoshu, third beer AND alcohol-free beer cans all in this photo. Photo: Motoko Kakubayashi

10:17 Lately

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Lately with Karyn Hay is a late night radio show on RNZ National, with an eye on live events, an ear for music, a great sense of humour and a genuine interest in people and their stories.

11:07 Music 101 pocket edition

In this week's Pocket Edition with Yadana Saw, over treacle tart Robert Plant and Alison Krauss talk about their new album, we learn about the musical signifcance about ther Red Scarf emoji and Tony Stamp ponders the future of local music radio.

Alison Krauss & Robert Plant

Alison Krauss & Robert Plant Photo: David McClister