Nights for Monday 21 February 2022
7:12 Auckland Botanic Gardens Celebrates 40 Years
Auckland Botanic Gardens - African Garden Photo: www.aucklandbotanicgardens.co.nz
7:00 As Auckland Botanic Gardens celebrates it's 40th anniversary, we chat to Jack Hobbs gardens' manager who was there at their opening.
Jack Hobbs with David Bellamy who was in attendance of the opening of the Botanic Gardens. Jack is second in from the left. Photo: www.aucklandbotanicgardens.co.nz
Jack with Prince Charles on a visit to the Botanic in 2005 when Prince Charles opened a childrens’ garden at the Botanic Gardens. Photo: www.aucklandbotanicgardens.co.nz
7:35 Raymond Sagapolutele
Raymond Sagapolutely joins us once again with an update from South Auckland.
Photo: Raymond Sagapolutele
8:05 Little Moment Of Calm
Another aural treasure to calm our minds.
8:15 Pacific Waves
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.
Photo: RNZ Pacific
8:30 Window on The World
Roland Pease is back with another Science in Action. Tonight he looks at how messenger RNA-based vaccines have been used to encourage the growth of new bones to heal severe fractures, how using DNA techniques are being used to combat Ivory smuggling and attempts to detect and weigh neutrinos.
Photo: Kirill Shipitsin / Sputnik / Sputnik via AFP
9:10 Nights Sport
LA Times Sportsjournalist, Helene Elliot chats to us from Beijing on her final day at the Winter Olympics.
The IOC and FIFA have pledged to reduce carbon emissions. Photo: Photosport
9:30 Deeply Human
It's a new series of Deeply Human from the BBC World service....today...Do French babies cry in French? Our accents may start to take shape well before we learn our first words. Dessa investigates why we speak the way we do - how our accents and dialects serve us; hamper us; and might even, in rare cases, lead to life-or-death consequences.
Photo: 2019 Getty Images
10:17 Lately
Photo: RNZ
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 Nashville Babylon
After 11, on Nashville Babylon Mark Rogers has a birthday tune for Kurt Cobain, classics courtesy of the Byrds and Judee Sill plus tracks from the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet and Jackie Mittoo plus something new from DC Cross.
Kurt Cobain performing with Nirvana for MTV Unplugged, 1993. Photo: Screengrab / MTV