Nights for Tuesday 6 December 2022

7:12 Tech Tent

This week journalist and author James Griffiths explains how the Great Firewall of China works - and why it failed to stop the recent wave of protests there. Reporter Alasdair Keane meets the robots that could provide a helping hand to the most vulnerable. And game developer Colin Macdonald reflects on the unlikely origins of Grand Theft Auto, as the game franchise turns 25.

 

7:30 The Sampler

Elliott Childs reviews new records by Nashville singer Caitlin Rose, Dunedin's Soaked Oats and Arctic Monkeys.

 

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: The Food Chain

Eggs are a nutritious and affordable source of protein. Or they were. The cost of a box of eggs has been rocketing around the world. And in some places, where it's long been common to start the day on an egg - supplies are under pressure. In this programme, Ruth Alexander explores the challenges egg producers are facing - including what can be done about the seemingly ever-present threat of avian influenza.

 

9:07 Why couples sleep in separate beds

Sleeping in separate beds is more common our later years. It could be because one person snores, or becuase a parent is co-sleeping with a child.

Steven Dromgool is a relationship therapist and author with specialties in connection and communication issues. He's the director of Relate Counselling in Auckland. He joins to the show to explain how to navigate night-time separation.

 

9:30 The mathematics of origami

Dillon Mayhew, Associate Professor from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Te Heranga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington joins us once again to talk mathematics. 

This week, the discipline of origami or paper folding has received a considerable amount of mathematical study. Fields of interest include a given paper model's flat-foldability and the use of paper folds to solve up-to cubic mathematical equations. 

 

10:18 South Sea Spray Festival

Invercargill's streets are set to be a lot more colourful.

Artists from as far as Japan and the United States are taking to the city's CBD - armed with spray cans.

The South Sea Spray Festival is the brainchild of Invercargill-based graffiti artist Danny Owen (aka Deow).

 

10:25 Special status for Welsh leeks

Wales' national vegetable and emblem, the Welsh Leek, is now officially protected.

Karyn talks with food historian Carwyn Graves.

 

10:45 Hamish Kilgour tribute

Musician Robert Scott pays tribute to Kiwi music pioneer Hamish Kilgour.

Kilgour co-founded Dunedin band The Clean in the 1970s and became synonymous with the 'Dunedin sound' music scene.

 

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 music from a new album just released by Anoushka Shankar called Between Us. The daughter of one of the greatest Indian composers and sitar virtuoso's, Ravi Shankar, Anoushka has not only inherited her father's extraordinary musical DNA, but equally, a similar motivation in her own belief that sees her recording music that being universally praised for its own distinctive merits.