Nights for Thursday 24 November 2022
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Care packages for children in hospital
10:45 PM.Lucia Murphy is a sixteen-year-old who's been making care packages for Wellington children in hospital for the past two months. She's set up her own non-profit organisation, The Raindrop Project. Read more Audio
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How to roast a turkey
10:35 PM.RNZ Senior business reporter Nona Pelletier joins Karyn to share her tips for roasting a turkey. Read more Audio
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Southland Monopoly 'selling like hotcakes'
10:25 PM.Southland Monopoly is being officially released on Saturday. Southland Business Chamber chief executive Sheree Carey has all the details. Read more Audio
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Double dinosaurs: T-rex Barbara joins Peter
10:18 PM.Barbara's one of only three pregnant female T-rex skeletons ever discovered. She's destined to be a major attraction at the Auckland Museum, where she'll join resident Tyrannosaurus rex, Peter… Read more Audio
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Astronomy with Alan Gilmore
9:07 PM.This week, Alan looks to all the naked-eye planets we can see in the evening sky during early December, and he chats about why it's time-out for leap seconds. Read more Audio
7:12 Our Changing World: Genome sequencing and the pandemic
This week, Our Changing World learns how New Zealand's genome sequencing efforts added to our global knowledge of the virus, and explores the past, present, and future of genome sequencing technology.
Photo: AFP
7:35 Crescendo: Nimrod with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
To mark the 75th anniversary of the NZSO, we're asking 10 New Zealanders to choose a classical piece that sparks an emotional connection and pairing them with 10 musicians from the Symphony Orchestra who have their own intimate understanding of how the music works.. This week: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.
Photo: Supplied / Black Label NZ
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.
Photo: RNZ
8:30 Window on The World: The World Cup of football solutions
As the World Cup kicks off in Qatar, we look at the initiatives around the world which are using football as a way to solve problems off the pitch.
We meet the people using the beautiful game to support men with their mental health in the UK, bring people together after conflict in Iraq and build the confidence of girls in the Netherlands.
Football World Cup Photo: © ATP Bildagentur Muenchen / Anthony STANLEY
9:07 Astronomy with Alan Gilmore
Former Superintendent of the Mt John Observatory above Lake Tekapo in the Mackenzie Country, Alan Gilmore joins us for his regular astronomy chat. This week, Alan looks to all the naked-eye planets we can see in the evening sky during early December, and he chats about why it's time-out for leap seconds.
In this image obtained from NASA and taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, shows Jupiter in a wide-field view, showing the planet with its faint rings, which are a million times fainter than the planet, and two tiny moons called Amalthea (L) and Adrastea at the edge of the ring . Photo: Handout / NASA /AFP
10 18 Double dinosaurs: T-rex Barbara joins Peter
Barbara's one of only three pregnant female T-rex skeletons ever discovered. She's destined to be a major attraction at the Auckland Museum, where she'll join resident Tyrannosaurus rex, Peter.
Auckland Museum's chief executive Dr David Gaimster joins Karyn on the programme.
Barbara's head and jaws are in pristine condition. Photo: Supplied
10:25 Southland Monopoly
Southland Monopoly is being officially released on Saturday.
Southland Business Chamber chief executive Sheree Carey has all the details.
Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King
10:35 Turkey time
RNZ Senior business reporter Nona Pelletier joins Karyn to share her tips for roasting a turkey.
Roast turkey Photo: Andrew Crowley
10:45 Care packages
Lucia Murphy is a sixteen-year-old who's been making care packages for Wellington children in hospital for the past two months.
She's set up her own non-profit organisation, The Raindrop Project.
People can contact Lucia at projecttheraindrop@gmail.com or via Instagram @theraindrop.project.
11:07 Music 101 pocket edition
In this week's Pocket Edition, Maggie Tweedie introduces new music from Sault, Hans Pucket and Fatoumata Diawara. We meet the mouthy UK outfit Yard Act, Kim Hill reveals a new project from award-winning composer Victoria Kelly. And Charlotte Ryan sits down with Wellington pop punk band Dartz.
