Nights for Tuesday 1 November 2022

7:12 Tech Tent 

The UK's Deputy Information Commissioner tells Tech Tent why some new biometric technologies are "the modern phrenology", and based on "magical" thinking. The programme also takes a look at whether the world is too dependent on WhatsApp - and why Big Tech financial results are going down the drain. 

 

7:30 The Sampler

Tony Stamp reviews Princess Chelsea's newest mix of sweet & sour songcraft, classical EDM madness from Jockstrap, and some floor-fillers from Daphni.

 

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 Window on The World: Food Chain

Today's Sephardic Jewish community has its roots in Spain and Portugal. The Hispanic Jews lived for many centuries in those countries but faced increasing persecution in the 13th and 15th Centuries — many were forced to convert to Christianity, but some secretly continued their Jewish faith and practices.

Ruth Alexander meets three women who have published Sephardic cookbooks reflecting on this turbulent past. 

 

9:07 Viola player heads from Wellington to Wales

Georgia Steel started playing viola at the relatively ripe age of 17 and now, just 10 years later, she is a highly-sought after viola, violin and piano teacher. Georgia usually resides in Wellington but is currently in Wales doing her Masters in Music Performance at the Royal Welsh College - thanks to the Kiwi Music Scholarships.

Applications for the 2023 scholarships open today, head over here for more information.

 

9:35 How will Italy's new prime minister shape the country?

Italy swore in its new prime minister late last month, the country having elected its first ever woman prime minister, Georgia Meloni.

Regular Nights guest Nina Hall, Assistant Professor in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University joins the show to discuss the new Italian government and what changes its right-wing leader might bring.

 

10:18 Ice rink fundraiser underway in Staveley

We're on a countdown to welcoming the balmier summer weather - but for one Canterbury community, Winter and all of its icy trappings can't come soon enough.

Staveley is home to one of the few natural ice skating locations left in New Zealand... and the community's been rallying to raise funds to bring back the ice rink's glory days.

The Staveley Hall Society started fundraising a year ago to raise an ambitious $1.14 million to future-proof the attraction. How far off-target are they? Society Chairman Rob Withers is the man in the know.

 

10:30 Christchurch's cinema stalwart retires

Finding something you love doing and doing it for the rest of your life - there's a goal for all of us right there.

That's precisely what my next guest has been doing for the past six decades.... showing movies and doing what he loves.

Ninety-one-year-old Lang Masters is one of Christchurch's biggest movie buffs, and the former owner of the much-loved Hollywood Cinema in the suburb of Sumner 

He finally retired after years of working the concession stand, seven days a week, on Saturday.

10:40 Get involved this Movember

It's the month when things can get a little hairy - for all the right reasons and good intentions.

Movember is upon us - an important month for men's health, mental health, suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. Movember takes them all on.

Rob Dunne, Country Manager of Movember joins the programme.

 

11:07 Worlds of Music

Trevor Reekie hosts a weekly music programme celebrating an eclectic mix of 'world' music, fusion and folk roots. Tonight features an interview with Iraqui Oud player and composer Rahim AlHaj who appeared in concerts around the country recently on a tour with the New Zealand String Quartet and percussionist Justin de Hart for Chamber Music New Zealand.