Nights for Thursday 6 June 2024
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Coro Street superfan on Gail Platt's departure from Weatherfield
10:45 PM.It's been a big week for fans of the long-running soap Coronation Street with the shock news that the character of Gail Platt will be leaving the famous street cobbles of Weatherfield.
Corrie… Read more Audio
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Taking the 'hōhā out of koha': new app makes it easier to give and receive
10:30 PM.A new app has been developed to make koha meaningful and easy. Emile Donovan speaks to co-founder Te Awanui Reeder. Read more Audio
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What does a Chief Science Advisor do?
10:17 PM.We talk to Professor Simon Kingham about the role of Chief Science Advisor and the many faces of science in the world of transport. Read more Audio
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How the power of logic can help improve our lives
9:35 PM.While we sometimes need instinct as a guide, as the "guardian of coherence" logic is a more helpful tool, says philosopher Patrick Giraud. In his new book Logic in the Wild, he argues developing a… Read more Audio
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New study sheds light on social life of magpies
9:25 PM.Australian magpies that get picked on by other magpies may be smarter than their bullies, according to Australian researchers. Read more Audio
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The new language of 'memes'
9:15 PM.Our resident sociolinguist Dr Julia de Bres joins Emile Donovan.to discuss the evolution of language in a digital age. Read more Audio
8:15 Pacific Waves
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. Hosted by Susana Suisuiki.
8:30 Nights Jukebox
Emile Donovan plays your requests - as long as you've got a compelling reason, or a good story to go with it.
Send in your requests to nights@rnz.co.nz or text 2101.
8:45 The Reading: 'Losing It'
Tonight the second episode of our 10-part story about a teenage girl who has problems.
Esmee Meyers and Chelsea Bognuda episode two of 'Losing It' by Sandy McKay.
9:07 Nights Quiz
Do you know your stuff? Come on the air and be grilled by Emile Donovan as he dons his quizmaster hat.
If you get an answer right, you move on to the next question. If you get it wrong, your time in the chair is up, and the next caller will be put through. The person with the most correct answers at the end of the run goes in the draw for a weekly prize.
The quiz is themed - find out more about tonight's theme on Nights' Facebook page.
9:15 The new language of memes
We generally think of language as something which is spoken, or written, involving words and sounds as a means of communicating ideas.
However we are living in a digital age, and our resident sociolinguist says that means new languages are forming - and new fluencies, therefore, are being developed - and tested.
Dr Julia de Bres joins Emile Donovan.
Photo: CFOTO / NurPhoto via AFP
9:25 New study sheds light on social life of magpies
Australian magpies that get picked on by other magpies may be smarter than their bullies, according to Australian researchers.
The team has monitored a population of suburban magpies in Western Australia since 2014, and from 2020 to 2021, they recorded data on the magpies' social networks to investigate how their interactions impacted their intelligence.
Associate professor Amanda Ridle speaks to Emile Donovan about what they found.
Researchers have been monitoring a population of suburban magpies in Western Australia since 2014. Photo: Beverly Buckley/ Pixabay
9:35 How the power of logic can help improve our lives
Is logic a good tool for making decisions? Can it make us better listeners and help us find coherence in views that we disagree with? Is Sherlock Holmes actually good at logic?
Patrick Girard addresses these and other questions by presenting logic as the guardian of coherence, in his new book 'Logic in the WIld'.
He speaks to Emile Donovan about how it can teach us to identify patterns in our own reasoning, which inevitably helps us better confront questions central to everyday life.
Patrick Girard looks at the power of logic to improve communication, expand creativity, and solve problems in all aspects of life. Photo: Supplied/Patrick Girard
10:17 What does a Chief Science Advisor do?
We talk to Professor Simon Kingham about the role of Chief Science Advisor and the many faces of science in the world of transport.
Professor Simon Kingham from the University of Canterbury Photo: Supplied/Simon Kingham
10:30 Taking the 'hōhā out of koha': new app makes it easier to give and receive
More and more non-Māori New Zealanders are cottoning on to using koha. Now a new app has been developed to make it meaningful and easy.
Koha is locally owned and operated in Aotearoa. Emile Donovan speaks to co-founder Te Awanui Reeder.
Te Awanui Reeder is co-founder of the app Koha Photo: Supplied_BigRiverCreative
10:45 Coro Street superfan on Gail Platt's departure from Weatherfield
It's been a big week for fans of the long-running soap Coronation Street with the shock news that the character of Gail Platt will be leaving the famous street cobbles of Weatherfield.
Actress Helen Worth has been on the show for five decades, with Gail making her first appearance back in 1974.
Corrie super-fan, Danielle Moreau speaks to Emile Donovan.
Photo: ITV
11:07 The Mixtape: A tribute to Rodger Fox
Tonight we have a special one hour tribute to musician Rodger Fox who died last week, following a short illness, in Palmerston North.
Since then, there has been an outpouring of grief for a man who opened doors for New Zealand's jazz music community.
A band leader, trombonist extraordinaire, recording artist and big picture thinker. Broadly described by those who loved him as a 'yes' man, Fox's zest for life rubbed off on many.
