Nights for Wednesday 15 June 2022

 

7:12 INTO THE ICE

Ahead of its New Zealand Premiere at this year's Doc Edge Festival, we talk to Director Lars Ostenfeld about his film INTO THE ICE in which he accompanies three of the world's leading glaciologists on pioneering scientific expeditions to and into the Greenland ice sheet. 

7:30  At The Movies

Simon Morris checks out the latest Jurassic World, filmed at the height of the lockdown.   He also looks at Berlin Festival winner, Japan's Wheel of fortune and fantasy, and a Netflix thriller called The informer.

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 Arden Shakeaspeare - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

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

Humans can walk for miles, solve problems and form complex relationships using the energy provided by daily meals. That is a lot of output for a fairly modest input. A listener wants to know: how efficient are humans? How do they compare to cars, other animals and even to each other?

9:07 Desire, Homosociality, and Brotherhood in the Medieval Empire

Associate Professor of Classics, Mark Masterson joins us to talk about his new book  'Between Byzantine Men', which uses evidence never used before to make a presentation of sex and desire between men in the middle centuries of the Byzantine Empire, when there were ritual brotherhoods between men that mimicked marriage.

9:30 Quiz Answer

We find out who is tonight's quiz whizz.

The answers we were looking for were The Merchant of Venice and Don Selwyn

9:40 Digital Planet

In todays show:  'Project Silica' uses ultrafast laser optics and machine learning to utilise glass as a storage device. The fused silica glass is fully resilient to electromagnetic pulses (EMP) and to the most challenging environmental conditions, ensuring the data written into it is not degraded. ...plus data-driven city planning.

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.

11:07 Inside Out

After 11, on Inside Out, Nick Tipping features a brand new album from Dunedin-based singer Annemarie Nelson, recorded in 2008 but not released till now.