Nights for Monday 30 May 2022
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Nights Sport - Dale MacDonald
9:10 PM.Making her debut as our sportscaster tonight is Dale MacDonald, Paralympic New Zealand's Para Sport Pathway Manager. Read more Audio
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Music Of Persia: Mohsen Sharifian
7:35 PM.Shahram Aryan introduces us to more Persian msuic - tonight vocalist Mohsen Sharifian from Bushehr province. Read more Audio
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At The Crossroads
7:12 PM.We're joined by author Bill Angus who looks at the connections between Shakespeare and the foundational soul-selling myths of blues and rock music in his new book A History of Crossroads in Early… Read more Audio
7:12 At The Crossroads
We're joined by author Bill Angus who looks at the connections between Shakespeare and the foundational soul-selling myths of blues and rock music in his new book A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture
Photo: Edinburgh University Press
7:35 Music Of Persia: Mohsen Sharifian
Shahram Aryan introduces us to more Persian msuic - tonight vocalist Mohsen Sharifian from Bushehr province.
Mohsen Sharifian Photo: Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0
8:05 Little Moment of Calm
Bryan has been out recording some more sounds to calm your soul.
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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
The Science in Action team hears the latest from the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai eruption from volcanologist Shane Cronin of the University of Auckland, NASA's Michael Day talks about how the planet Venus might have acquired its super-greenhouse atmosphere, and how the same thing could happen to planet Earth, there's intriguing research that hints of a link between the ups and downs of the Earth's magnetic field and the evolutionary history of animals and we learn how to calculate an individual person's responsibility for climate change-driven extreme weather events.
The planet Venus in a composite of data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter. Photo: AFP
9:10 Nights Sport - Dale MacDonald
Making her debut as our sportscaster tonight is Dale MacDonald, Paralympic New Zealand's Para Sport Pathway Manager.
Nicole Murray won gold in the Time Trial in Elzach Photo: Paraylmpics New Zealand
9:30 Deeply Human
Why do you have all that stuff? What drives us to get and keep so much stuff?
Photo: 123rf.com
10:00 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.
Photo: RNZ Andrew Robertson
11:07 Nashville Babylon
On this week's show Mark has a couple of birthday tunes for Curtis Mayfield, new music courtesy of Tommy McLain, a reggae smash from Joya Landis, plus all time classics from Robert Wyatt and Tony Joe White.
Curtis Mayfield Photo: curtismayfield.com
