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Nights for Wednesday 23 February 2022

 

7:12 Diana Noonan wins Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal 2022

Diana Noonan in her garden

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Writer Diana Noonan, author of more than 100 titles for children and young adults, is the 2022 winner of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for lifetime achievement and outstanding contribution to New Zealand's literature for young people.

7:30  At The Movies

On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at two highly-regarded art-films - C'mon C'mon and The Worst Person in the World, and a film based on a video game, Uncharted.

8:10 The Hump

The Hump is our Wednesday night Quiz Night where we take a dive into the archives of Nga Taonga Sound and Vision for some audio gems and we want to see if you can identify them.

Tonight's prize is The Museum - from is origins to the 21st century.

The Raphael Loggias at the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia Created by Giacomo Quarengh in the 1780s, they are a copy of the gallery in the Papal Palace in the Vatican - mulrooney russia / Alamy Stock Photo: 117

The recreation of the golden statue of Athena Parthenos in the full-scale Parthenon replica in Nashville, Tennessee. Fotan / Alamy Stock Photo: 23

Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece. designed by Bernard Tschumi Robert Harding / Alamy Stock Photo: 24

University of Copenhagen, Denmark Leong, Chon Kit / Alamy Stock Photo: 41

The forecourt and Ionic colonnade of the British Museum, London designed by Sir Robert Smirke. eye35 / Alamy Stock Photo: 78

Portico of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. designed by C.R. Cockerell and built 1839-45 NiKreative / Alamy Stock Photo: 70

The Egypt Galleries of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Matthews, Andy / VIEW / Alamy Stock Photo: 76

The Charles Engelhard Court in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Dagnall, Ian G / Alamy Stock

Maria Theresin Platz and the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, Austria - Wikipedia:

Interior of the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, Austria marcobrivio.photo / Shutterstock.com: 113B

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

How do you navigate in space? BBC Crowdscience investigates.

Spaceship traveling to Mars, computer illustration. (Photo by SEBASTIAN KAULITZKI/SCIENCE PHOT / SKX / Science Photo Library via AFP)

Photo: SEBASTIAN KAULITZKI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

9:07 The Food Chain

Fad diets, cure-all superfoods, demonised ingredients, made-up health scares - you're never more than a few clicks away from unreliable nutritional information.  The BBC's Food Chain meets two people trying to take on those who peddle the food myths. What is it like getting into an online food fight; can an individual ever hope to change people's minds; and why would anyone even try? 

Illustration, doubt about food (Photo by Wieslaw Smetek / Smetek / Photononstop via AFP)

Photo: Smetek / Photononstop

9:30 Quiz Answer

We find out who is tonight's quiz whizz.

9:40pm Champions of The Pacific

Champions of the Pacific is back. Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor finds out  how our Pacific teams are doing in the Super Rugby Pacific competition. 

Champions of the Pacific Logo

Photo: RNZ/Vinay Ranchhod

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 Inside Out

After 11, In the last of his Summer Songbook Series, Nick features the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Antonio Carlos Jobim

Antonio Carlos Jobim Photo: supplied