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Nights for Thursday 10 February 2022

  • Grassroots or Global?

    politics

    9:41 PM.The Freedom Convoy is the latest in a string of international protest movements to land in Aotearoa. We chat to Dylan Reeve about how the internet facilitates this trend. Read more Audio

  • The Science of Flooding

    weather

    7:12 PM.Following the recent flooding on the West Coast of the South Island, Dr Daniel Kingston, Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography at the University of Otago joins us to talk about the science behind… Read more Audio

 

7:12 The Science of Flooding

Following the recent flooding on the West Coast of the South Island, Dr Daniel Kingston, Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography at the University of Otago joins us to talk about the science behind the floods.

Sandbags stacked up at Derby Street, where residents prepare to evacuate as heavy rainfall threatens to flood the area.

Sandbags stacked up at Derby Street, where residents prepare to evacuate as heavy rainfall threatens to flood the area. Photo: RNZ / Niva Chittock

7:35 Music that survived the Nazis

Part 3 of Music that Survived the Nazis focuses on music-making in the camps and ghettos of Nazi Europe, including stories of music at Sachsenhausen, Vilna and Auschwitz. This includes a wealth of different styles, from Yiddish Tango and rousing camp anthems, to partisan songs and string quartets.

Detail of old violin (Photo by Justin Borucki / Image Source / Image Source via AFP)

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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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Photo: RNZ Pacific

8:30 Window on The World 

People Fixing the World meet the innovators who are using buildings, lights, genes and vaccines to fight the mosquito-borne disease, Malaria which kills more than half a million people per year. 

Illustration of a mosquito sucking blood.

Photo: SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

9:07 Our Changing World

This week on Our Changing World, Claire learns about honey fingerprinting while Katy Gosset meets a scientist studying the anti-microbial properties of some native plants. 

Dr. Megan Grainger tends her bees at home.

Dr. Megan Grainger tends her bees at home. Photo: Supplied

9:30 Grassroots or Global?

The Freedom Convoy is the latest in a string of international protest movements to land in Aotearoa. We chat to Dylan Reeve about how the internet facilitates this trend. 

Covid-19 protesters at Parliament on 10 February 2022.

Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone

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 Aotearoa Hip Hop: The Music, The People, The History

In the final episode  of Aotearoa Hip Hop: The Music, The People, The History presented by Phil Bell aka DJ Sir-Vere - a deep dive into the origins and stories of this country's love of Hip hop - talking to the originators the instigators, and the influencers about how Hip Hop has imprinted itself on the fabric of New Zealand's music culture.

Phil Bell AKA DJ Sir Vere.

Phil Bell AKA DJ Sir Vere. Photo: Jared Donkin RAWRPHOTO