Tuesday 16 January 2018 Rātū 16 Kohi-tātea 2018

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Lifeafter (4 of 10, Panoply); 1:05 Aretha at 75 (BBC); 2:05 Global Beats (BBC) 3:05 Naked in Budapest by Heather Hapeta (4 of 7, RNZ); 3:30 Author’s View (RNZ);  4:25 Eyewitness (RNZ);  4:35 High Country Stations of Lake Tekapo (RNZ);  5:10 Witness (BBC); ​5:45: Allen Adair by Jane Mander (11 of 12, RNZ)

• 6:00 AM. Breakfast with Paul Brennan

  An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts including:
  6:14 Witness: History as told by the people who were there (BBC)
  6:35 One Quick Question: Rapid answers to listeners’ queries (RNZ)
  6:45 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy: Air Conditioning Tim Harford tells the fascinating stories of 50 inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world. (BBC)
  7:10 Call of the Cold AUT radio student Dylan Kelly investigates the growing trend of cold exposure training.

• 8:00 AM. Summer Report with Alex Perrottet

  An hour of summer news and information, including interviews with the newsmakers, plus sport, business, weather and features

• 9:06 AM. Summer Times with Megan Whelan

  A holiday season of interviews, features, music and stories including at 10:30 The Halfmen of O by Maurice Gee, told by Lloyd Scott (RNZ)

• 12:12 PM. Worldwatch

  The stories behind the international headlines

• 12:28 PM. Matinee Idle with Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris

  An afternoon of alleged music and dubious entertainment (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. Five O'clock Report

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 5:30 PM. Outspoken

  Current affairs with RNZ's most experienced correspondents (RNZ)

• 6:06 PM. Encounters

  Ron Finley: gangsta gardener
  When Ron Finley planted food on unused land in Los Angeles, his A simple act of rebellion against a community’s lack of access to healthy food sparked an urban revolution. His actions caught the unwanted attention of the city council - but it didn't stop him, and he managed eventually to get a law change. Today his belief that urban gardens build communities has blossomed. His story, and of other unlikely gardeners from impoverished South LA neighbourhoods, is the subject of a documentary Can You Dig This? (RNZ)

  Harry Leslie Smith
  As a 92-year-old, Harry Leslie Smith's moving speech at a British Labour Party conference about his own impoverished childhood and lack of healthcare became a viral sensation. Smith is a writer, campaigner and WWII RAF veteran.  And at 94, he is still producing books and pushing for the preservation of Britain's National Health Service, better care for the poor and for the preservation of democracy. (RNZ)

• 7:06 PM. Summer Science with Alison Ballance

  Highlights from the world of science and the environment, with Our Changing World’s Alison Ballance, with new podcasts from University of Otago science communication students. (RNZ)

• 7:35 PM. The Sampler

  Nick Bollinger reviews some of the latest music releases

• 8:05 PM. Encounters:

  Mike Massimino  The secrets of the universe
  Astronaut Mike Massimino’s journey into space was far from smooth. Three times  NASA rejected him, but he never gave up and subsequently flew two shuttle missions to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. (RNZ)

• 8:30 PM. Windows on the World

  International public radio features and documentaries

• 9:06 PM. The Tuesday Feature

  Pandemic: The Story of the 1918 Flu
  Professor John Oxford, one of the world’s leading virologists, looks at how the 1918-19 flu pandemic affected every corner of the world. Over 50 million people died in the three outbreaks which hit in 1918 and 1919. It is one of the most devastating pandemics in history and to this day scientists are still trying to pin point its origins in the hope of learning lessons for fighting such catastrophic epidemics in the future. Professor Oxford,  present his own hypothesis, gleaned from years of work in the area, on where it may have all begun and how we might prevent it from happening again.(BBC)

• 10:00 PM. The 10 O'clock Report

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 10:30 PM. 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

  Air Conditioning:Tim Harford tells the fascinating stories of 50 inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world (BBC)

• 10:45 PM. For God's Sake Saddle Me A Donkey by Dinah Priestley

  Indian Eccentrics : Varanasi: Dinah Priestley recalls how a small group of travelling New Zealanders came to dine with the Maharaja of Bharatpur (16 of 19, RNZ)

• 11:06 PM. Worlds of Music

  Trevor Reekie hosts a weekly music programme celebrating an eclectic mix of 'world' music, fusion and folk roots (RNZ)

Next day - Wed 17

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