Nights for Thursday 6 October 2022

7:12 Voices From Antarctica

This week on Our Changing World, we revisit Alison Ballance's Voices from Antarctica series. In this episode, she's at Cape Crozier on Ross Island, where she meets a colony of Emperor penguins and the NIWA team that is studying them. Then she's off to Scott Base to find out about making water on the frozen continent. 

 

7:35 Essential NZ Albums: The Mutton Birds 

Nick Bollinger investigates the self-titled debut of The Mutton Birds, and talks to the group's founder and songwriter Don McGlashan.

 

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 People Fixing The World: Ending Road Deaths

Road traffic injuries are the eighth biggest cause of death in the world, with about 1.3m people killed every year. But 25 years ago, a movement started that changed the way policy-makers approach the issue.

Vision Zero imagines a world in which no-one is killed or seriously injured on our roads. Its advocates say this isn't a utopian ideal, but a mindset with numerous practical implications, and which has cut deaths in a number of countries.

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9:07 Tech with a Teen: VR in the workplace

Our regular teen tech correspondent Charlie Cuff joins the show to discuss VR Simulators and their growing roles in the workplace. Simulators are now being deployed for a whole range of roles such as training for people piloting large ships or allowing real estate agents to provide digital home tours. 

 

9:30 Australian correspondent Jason Morrison 

Jason Morrison from 7News in Sydney joins the show with some of the latest news from across the ditch.

This week, the massive data breach of the Optus telecommunications company, the Brittany Higgins rape trial captivating the country, power companies have been overcharging customers to the tune of $10 billion, and daylight saving chaos hits Aussies hard.

 

10:18 Jeweller deploys DNA spray to deter ongoing ramraids

Retailer Michael Hill Jeweller is trialling DNA sprays in its stores to combat burglaries.

The jewellery stores have been targeted by ramraids and smash 'n' grabs several times in the past year, most recently in Auckland's Albany on Friday night.

DNA spray is just one of the remedies available along with the use of fog cannons.

Co-director of SelectaDNA Graham Zuill explains how DNA sprays and fog cannons work.

 

10:25 How do you cheat at chess?

The chess world is reeling after revelations American teenager Hans Niemann has benefited from "illegal assistance" in more than 100 online games - and four of the world's top 100 grandmasters have also privately confessed to cheating.

So how do you cheat at chess? NZ Chess Federation President Nigel Metge explains.

 

10:45 Calls for urgent fix to 'death trap' stretch of SH1

There's probably a bad stretch of road near you - a tight bend, poor visibility, rugged surface - perhaps it's riddled with potholes.
 
But the stretch of State Highway 1 just south of Cambridge is dubbed a death-trap - and local authorities are calling on the Prime Minister and senior Government Ministers to urgently implement safety measures.

The particular part of the road is a chicane which, to put it simply, is a snake-like bend. It's claimed three lives in as many weeks.

Waikato Chamber of Commerce CEO Don Good is joining the chorus of voices calling for immediate action.

 

 

11:07 Music 101 pocket edition

In this week's Pocket Edition, Kathryn Ryan speaks to Lalah Hathaway about her fathers legacy is jazz music, Aotearoa hip hop icon Tom Scott shares his new album Trees, and we introduce you to fresh pop music by Princess Chelsea.