Nights for Thursday 15 December 2022
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Sex Outside the City project
10:45 PM.Sex Outside the City is a new campaign and wellbeing movement led by Josh McCormack. He's an advocate for the health and well-being of LGBTQIA+ takatapui people, and a medical student at the… Read more Audio
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Letterboxes bring festive cheer
10:35 PM.It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... Especially throughout one Wellington suburb with decorated letterboxes sprinkled with festive cheer. Crofton Downs resident Leigha Speirs-Hutton is the… Read more Audio
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Secrets of Stonehenge on display
10:25 PM.For centuries, historians and archaeologists have puzzled over the many mysteries of Stonehenge, the huge man-made circle of standing stones found on England's Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. Some of… Read more Audio
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Scientific breakthrough in recreating nuclear fusion
10:18 PM.Scientists are abuzz after a major breakthrough in the race to recreate nuclear fusion. Physicists have pursued the technology for decades, but what have they found? Dr David Krofcheck is a senior… Read more Audio
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Australian correspondent Jason Morrison
9:30 PM.Jason Morrison from 7News in Australia joins us with the latest news from across the ditch. Read more Audio
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Summer Reading with Carole Beu
9:07 PM.Carole Beu from The Women's Bookshop shares some reading recommendations for summer time. Audio
7:12 Our Changing World
How can a methane-detecting satellite help us tackle our agricultural emissions and detect gas leaking from pipelines, wetlands, farms and crops across the world? Science journalist Peter Griffin finds out about the MethaneSAT project - New Zealand's first government-funded space mission.
Photo: Ball Aerospace
7:35 Crescendo
In episode 8, legendary Split Endz keyboardist Eddie Rayner explains how a "What if" moment led to an orchestral reinvention for "Message to My Girl" and other Split Endz songs. This episode also features NZSO former Associate Concertmaster Donald Armstrong.
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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.
Photo: RNZ
8:30 Window on The World: People Fixing The World
Can playing board games help us fix real-world problems? All around the world, people play board games for fun. But in recent years, a new generation of designers have been creating games with a social purpose - to enable understanding about complex problems like climate change, inequality and deforestation, and collaboratively design strategies to solve them.
Photo: 123rf
9:07 Summer Reading with Carole Beu
Carole Beu from The Women's Bookshop shares some reading recommendations for summer time.
Photo: Supplied
9:30 Australian correspondent Jason Morrison
Jason Morrison from 7News in Australia joins us with the latest news from across the ditch.
Photo: AFP
10:18 Scientific breakthrough in recreating nuclear fusion
Scientists are abuzz after a major breakthrough in the race to recreate nuclear fusion. Physicists have pursued the technology for decades, but what have they found?
Dr David Krofcheck is a senior lecturer in physics at the University of Auckland. He joins the show to discuss.
10:25 Secrets of Stonehenge on display
For centuries, historians and archaeologists have puzzled over the many mysteries of Stonehenge, the huge man-made circle of standing stones found on England's Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
Some of the monument of mystery's secrets are about to be revealed in an exhibition at Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Photo: 123RF
10:35 Letterboxes bring festive cheer
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
Especially throughout one Wellington suburb with decorated letterboxes sprinkled with festive cheer.
Crofton Downs resident Leigha Speirs-Hutton is the mastermind behind the bright initiative.
10:45 Sex Outside the City project
Sex Outside the City is a new campaign and wellbeing movement led by Josh McCormack.
He's an advocate for the health and well-being of LGBTQIA+ takatāpui people, and a medical student at the University of Auckland.
Josh McCormack is an advocate for the health and well-being of LGBTQIA+ people and tāngata takatāpui and will be a final-year medical student at the University of Auckland in 2023. Photo: Supplied / Sex Outside the City
11:07 Music 101 pocket edition
In this week's Pocket Edition, we remember the king of KrautRock, Deceptikonz share their new album In Perpetuity, and Maggie Tweedie lifts the lid on new music from Lord Echo and Luke Buda.
