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Nights for Thursday 10 November 2022

7:12 Our Changing World 

The long sunny days of summer are fast approaching. This week Our Changing World learns about new solar panel materials to help harness that energy, and how to protect future generations from its harmful effects.   

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the sun "smiling" in 193 angstrom light on 26 October.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the sun "smiling" in 193 angstrom light on 26 October. Photo: Supplied / NASA/GSFC/SDO

 

7:35 Essential NZ Album: Turn Your Back On The Wind by Fourmyula

For almost 40 years one of the essential New Zealand albums remained unreleased and locked in a London vault. In this programme Nick Bollinger tells the story of the Fourmyula's great 'lost' recording, Turn Your Back On The Wind.

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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.

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8:30 Window on The World: People Fixing The World

Projects around the world are planting huge numbers of trees as part of the fight against climate change. But not all of these schemes are successful - leaving dead saplings and wasted money in their wake. People Fixing the World works out how to do it right.

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9:07 Toxicology with Dr Leo Schep: Nicotine

Tonight toxicologist Dr Leo Schep takes a look at nicotine, the major psychoactive component of tobacco, and its associated adverse effects.

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9:30 Australian correspondent Jason Morrison

Jason Morrison from 7News in Australia joins us with the latest news from across the ditch.

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10:17 Glasgow venue harvests heat from dancers

Glasgow warehouse venue SWG3 has installed a new energy system that captures heat from the club's patrons and recycles it to generate eco-friendly energy.

The pioneering BODYHEAT set up will allow the club's owners to completely disconnect their gas boilers, welcome news amid soaring energy prices in the UK.

Inventor David Townsend joins the show to explain how it works.

DJ at Glasgow club SWG3

Bodyheat is a system that provides carbon-free climate control by storing heat from the punters at SWG3. Photo: Michael Hunter

 

10:25 Are online emergency consults the future of health care?

Waiting times at emergency departments and urgent care clinics have been getting press for all the wrong reasons of late - staff shortages and the suggestion of an underfunded health system.

Jenni Falconer knows first-hand about the pressures emergency departments are under, and why wait times are such a problem. She's the CEO of  Emergency Consult, an urgent healthcare clinic you never walk into - because it's online.

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10:30 Stef Animal embraces unfashionable musical equipment

Dunedin-based musician Stef Animal is releasing her 15-track album Top Gear on vinyl tomorrow.  Each song on the record was written in a day, and each uses sounds from a different piece of cheap or unfashionable musical equipment. 

 

11:07 Music 101 pocket edition

This week, prolific New Zealand songwriter Sean James Donnelly aka SJD shares his new record. We meet punk and feminism icon Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill. And Maggie Tweedie introduces you to fresh music from John Cale and Wellington psychedelic band Mirror Ritual.