Tuesday 12 January 2016 Rātū 12 Kohi-tātea 2016

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Spectrum (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (RNZ); 2:05 Night Lights Classic Jazz (9 of 12, WFIU) 3:05 Waihola, by Elizabeth Pulford, read by Susan Wilson (RNZ); 3:30 An Author's View (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

• 6:00 AM. Breakfast with Stuart Keith

  An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts

• 7:00 AM. Summer Report

  Teresa Cowie and Ian Telfer present two hours of summer news and information, including interviews with the newsmakers, plus sport, business, weather and features

• 9:06 AM. Summer Noelle with Noelle McCarthy

  A holiday season of interviews, features, music and stories from all over New Zealand and around the world, with your host Noelle McCarthy

• Noon Midday Report

  A round-up of today's news and sports, including:

• 12:12 PM. Worldwatch

  The stories behind the international headlines

• 12:30 PM. Matinee Idle

  Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris present an afternoon of alleged music and dubious entertainment

• 5:00 PM. The 5 O'Clock Report

  Sharon Brettkelly and Rowan Quinn present an hour of current affairs from the RNZ News team

• 6:06 PM. Great Encounters

  Memorable exchanges with RNZ guests during the past year (RNZ)

• 7:06 PM. Life and Influences: Sir Tipene O'Regan

  Straddling both the Pakeha and Māori worlds it's fair to say his influence on Māoridom has been profound. Sir Tipene O'Regan has been described as the architect of the Maori economic model, who, in the words of The Press, 'negotiated his guts out' to secure an historic 170 million dollar settlement for Ngāi Tahu. He talks about significant influences kin his life.

• 8:06 PM. Windows on the World

  International public radio features and documentaries

• 9:06 PM. The Tuesday Feature

• 9:30 PM. Auckland Writers Festival: Helen MacDonald with Noelle McCarthy

  The English historian, poet, naturalist and illustrator Helen Macdonald once bred hawks for Arab sheikhs. She is also the winner of the Costa Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for 'H is for Hawk', a chronicle of her attempt to tame Mabel the goshawk as a means of assuaging grief after the death of her father. "Grief," she writes, "is just love with nowhere to go." She expands on that in conversation with Noelle McCarthy.

• 10:00 PM. Late Edition

  A round-up of the day's news and interview highlights from RNZ National

• 10:30 PM. The Elements - Calcium

  Calcium is the great structural element. It is the basis of much of the great architecture in nature as well as many of the incredible structures made by man. Presenter Justin Rowlatt hears from chemistry supremo Andrea Sella at the Royal Institution in London, where calcium was first isolated two centuries ago. He visits the obscure birthplace of the biggest modern-day use of calcium - cement - and sees that use in action at London's giant Crossrail construction project. And, if that weren't enough, we also hear from Professor Serena Best of Cambridge University about how she is trying to replicate the way the human body uses calcium to construct bone. (BBC)

• 11:06 PM. The Shed

  Award winning former British broadcaster Mark Coles presents his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet. A glorious mix of brand new sounds from all over the world, real conversations with music makers and tales of everyday life as seen from an English garden shed. (4 of 13, MCM)

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