Nights for Monday 23 January 2023

7:12 Bad Blood: You've Got Good Genes

From the BBC's Discovery Team, this is Bad Blood: You've Got Good Genes. Listener discretion advised

We follow the story of eugenics from its origins in the middle-class salons of Victorian Britain, through the Fitter Family competitions and sterilisation laws of Gilded Age USA, to the full genocidal horrors of Nazi Germany.

The story culminates in the First International Eugenics Congress of 1912, where a delegation of eminent public figures from around the world gather in South Kensington to advocate and develop the science - and ideology - of better breeding. Among them Winston Churchill, Arthur Balfour, the Dean of St Pauls, Charles Darwin's son, American professors and the ambassadors from Norway, Greece, and France: a global crusade in motion.

But amidst the sweeping utopian rhetoric, the darker implications of eugenic ideas emerge: what of those deemed 'unfit'? What should happen to them

7:35 Short Story Reading

Funerals as we know often stir up old memories … not all of them fond memories.

One of the runners up in the NTN Short story competition. An older man remembers a mountain helicopter mission to recover the body of a young German woman.

 

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

On Science in action today Roland Pease looks at Climate Science Activism......  plus we usually hear of seismology reports coming from dense, urban areas prone to earthquakes, delicately perched atop of tectonic plates.

But this week, Roland speaks to a Professor of Geophysics from California , who's collecting data from a very unusual place...

9:10 Nights Sport - Bryan Waddell

Veteran sports broadcaster and cricket commentator Bryan Waddle joins Karyn on the programme for a rundown of the latest sporting news.

Including what's happening at the Australian Open, the Black Caps disastrous tour of India and a memorable week for women's football in New Zealand.

9:30 Culture Regular

Electronic music aficionado, Paul Berrington, joins the show to share some dance music tonight it's from an independent record label based in Amsterdam.

 

10:17 Simon Kingham: Speed Limits

Slow down - that's the prevailing message from New Zealand Transport Authority Waka Kotahi.

Lower limits don't just save lives - they make NZ towns and cities better places to live, according to Simon Kingham, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Canterbury, and the Ministry of Transport's Chief Science Advisor.

 

10.30 Cassie Roma: Elton John Super-fan

He said he'd be coming back, and he is.

The legend that is Elton John is performing in Auckland and Christchurch this week... not that my next guest will need reminding.

Cassie Roma is an Elton super-fan and she's seen him in concert multiple times.

10.45 BBC Correspondent

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

Including the latest in the nearly year long conflict between Russian and Ukraine, the closing of one of the Seven Wonders of the world and an e-scooter debate has erupted in the French capital.

11:07 Nashville Babylon

Every week on Nashville Babylon Mark Rogers presents the very best in alt-country, Americana, Soul. Blues, Folk and Reggae…

On this week's show Mark has a birthday tune for blues legend Earl Hooker, reggae courtesy of U Roy, anniversary tracks from Little Feat and Van Morrison plus a soul smash from Irma Thomas