Nights for Tuesday 21 December 2021

 

6:30 Radio Santa Quiz

It's that time of year when we bring out Radio Santa! It's like our regular Hump Quiz, but there's a twist; as it's the season of giving, if you enter you have to nominate someone else to receive the prize! 

The Prize tonight is A Bunk for the Night: A Guide to New Zealand's best Backcountry Huts by Shaun Barnett, Rob Brown & Geoff Spearpoint 

6:35 Summer Sonic - Europe

7:12 Parenting gender-diverse kids

Socio-linguist, Julia de Bres joins us once again she's interested in how language is used to challenge or reproduce social inequalities and is currently doing a research project with parents of gender-diverse children.

7:30 The Sampler

In The Sampler, Tony Stamp looks back at some of his international releases of the year, including hushed folk, UK soul, and rowdy power pop.

8:10 Radio Santa Answer

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

As many of us gear up for the annual Christmas feast, some of you may be wondering how to eat everything before it goes off. It's a great question, as the UN puts global food waste at a whopping 1.3 billion tonnes a year. So this week the Crowd Science team investigates listener Peter's query about what makes some fruit and vegetables rot faster than others.

9:07 Listening to Coral reefs

Coral Reefs are some of the most diverse ecosystems in the world, and also some of the noisiest. Up close, a healthy reef teems with trills, whoops, buzzes, hums and snaps made by the diverse lifeforms that inhabit it. But as many reefs are now degrading due to rising temperatures, their sound signatures are changing. Conservationist Rory Crawford meets marine scientists who believe these sounds could provide a new way of monitoring the health of coral reefs, and boosting their resilience.

9:30 Geochemical history of life on Earth

In our final episode, Justin Rowlat looks at the period since the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, which had seen a steadily cooling climate - until we humans turned up. What can the last 66 million years teach us about the likely consequences of climate change? And can our species make the next big evolutionary leap needed to tackle it?

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.

 

10:18 Covid cases top 3,000 in NSW

New South Wales has recorded 3057 new Covid cases - the first time daily cases have reached the 3000 mark anywhere in Australia. Hospitalisations have increased today and 39 patients are in intensive care. The ABC's Jean Kennedy talks to Bryan Crump.

 

11:07 Worlds of Music

On Worlds of Music Trevor Reekie takes us on an entertaining Yuletide ride with a selection of festive songs from a diverse variety of artists, interspersed with a few Worlds of Music favourites.