Nights for Wednesday 5 October 2022

7:12 At The Movies

This week Simon Morris reviews three women-driven movies — Lena Dunham's medieval coming-of-age comedy Catherine Called Birdy, the poignant Millie Lies Low from Kiwi director Michelle Savill, and a controversial Netflix biopic of Marilyn Monroe, Blonde.

 

7:35 Digital Planet: Pandemic Pushes Women Online

Covid-19 has accelerated digitisation for women. In 2020 more than 40 percent of the world's population wasn't using the internet, with many more women being unable to get online. Now a new global study into digital access in 90 countries shows that although women were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, it seems to have got more of them online.

 

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.

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8:30 Crowd Science: Why Are Fish Fish-Shaped? 

There are over 30,000 species of fish - that's more than all the species of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals combined. But despite the sheer diversity of life on Earth, we still tend to think of all fish in roughly the same way: with an oblong scaley body, a tail and pairs of fins. Why? And is that really the case?

 

9:07 The problem of space junk and how we get rid of it

An estimated 130 million pieces of space debris are travelling in orbit at speeds of thousands of kilometres per hour. And to date, not a single piece has been recovered from space successfully. But several methods are in development to reduce the overpopulation of Earth’s orbit by man-made debris.

Professor emeritus Ralph Cooney joins the show to discuss why space junk is such a problem, and the top strategies currently being developed to deal with it — one of which is a giant harpoon.

 

9:30 The secret to choosing a long-lasting perfume

Melbourne-based perfume reviewer Marcelo Oillataguerre is a wellspring of knowledge when it comes to fragrance.

He has a passion for niche perfumes, which are perfumes made by hand and sold in small quantities, and runs the popular YouTube channel The Niche Fragrance Collector.

Marcelo joins the show to share some tips on picking a long-lasting fragrance — and what part of our body we should be spraying it on — spoiler, it's not the neck.

 

10.15 Midweek Mediawatch

Hayden Donnell joins the show for Midweek Mediawatch. This week: pictures of journalists in urinals, racism in the media, and TVNZ is in the gun over its new show FBoy Island.

 

10:45 Locals muck in for Te Aroha Bridge repainting

Thirty years since its last makeover, Te Aroha's historic and prized Coulter Bridge is finally getting a paint job, thanks to a band of local volunteers helmed by Matamata Piako mayor Ash Tanner. 

Coulter Bridge in Te Aroha was built in 1928 and named after Robert Coulter, a former mayor of Te Aroha for 20 years. It spans the Waihou River and connects thousands of vehicles each day to the Waikato and Coromandel.

 

11:07 Inside Out

Nick Tipping hosts a journey through the jazz spectrum playing favourites, standards and new releases along the way.

This week, music from Sonny Rollins, Charmaine Ford, and Christian McBride — plus a tenor battle between Gene Ammons and Dexter Gordon.