Nights for Monday 14 November 2022

7:12 The Fridge Light

We continue our new series from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called The Fridge Light - a gourmet and cultural journey through the things we eat. Today, "The Rest of the Pig" and you may be surprised just where some of it ends up.

 

7:35 Essential NZ Albums: Sunshine - Dragon

Dragon were a New Zealand band who lived life in the fast lane of Australian rock'n'roll. Their album Sunshine tells a slice of their story. Nick Bollinger discusses the disc in detail in Essential New Zealand Albums.

 

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

Researchers have identified which neurons, when electrically stimulated, can restore the ability to walk in paralysed patients. Astronomers have discovered the closest black hole to Earth. And the origins of eels have been mystifying scientists for centuries. Now, researchers have finally pinned down these slippery creatures.

 

9:10 Nights Sport with Zoe George

Zoe George, senior sports journalist at Stuff, joins the show for a breakdown of the latest sporting news. 

 

9:30 Herb's Adventures: songs from Stink Magic

Ben James from Herb's Mobile Record Store joins us once again to pick some tracks from the crates. Tonight, he spins tunes from Stink Magnetic Records - the lo-fi label from Aotearoa with an underground following.

 

10:17 Stolen albatross eggs leave DoC staff devastated

The Department of Conservation is at a loss as to why anyone would want to steal albatross eggs from a monitored Otago Peninsula reserve. The colony is the only mainland breeding colony of Northern Royal Albatross in the world. But their numbers will be fewer now that four of their eggs are missing.

DoC's operations manager of Coastal Otago Annie Wallace is with us. 

 

10:25 From Twitter to... Mastodon?

Social media platform Twitter's been all-a-flitter since billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the helm. Redundancies abound, senior executives have walked, and the platform's verification process has been upended to the point of farce.

Word is that some Tweeters have had enough of the drama and are flitting to a place beyond the blue bird - Mastodon. 

Technology commentator Peter Griffin talks with Karyn.

 

10:25 Wellington's 120-year-old Seatoun wharf reopens

It's well over a century old, and it's now looking like a million bucks - almost three million bucks to be excact.

Wellington's Seatoun Wharf has reopened after extensive repairs and a $2.8m upgrade that took over a year to complete.

Richard MacLean, Media Manager at Wellington City Council, talks with Karyn.
 

10.45 BBC World with Robert Hugh-Jones

The BBC's Robert Hugh-Jones joins Nights with the latest new from around the world.

Tonight, the annual summit of the G20 nations in Bali, Russian forces withdrawing from a key city in Ukraine, and an eye on Qatar ahead of the opening of the football World Cup.

 

11:07 Nashville Babylon

Every week on Nashville Babylon Mark Rogers presents the very best in Country, Soul and Rock 'n' Roll, reggae, folk and blues.

On this week's show Mark plays birthday tunes for Booker T Jones and blues legend Hubert Sumlin, has classic soul from Sam Cooke, Wanda Jackson covering Bob Dylan plus ska courtesy of Duke Reid.