Nights for Tuesday 7 July 2009

7 pm News & Weather

7:15 Community Archive

Community Archivist, Archives New Zealand.

With the launch of New Zealand's new online Community Archive - what is it and how people can register their own memories and manuscripts.

7:30 The Sampler

New music reviews with Nick Bollinger.

8 pm News & Weather

8:15 Windows on the World:

International public radio documentaries.

8:45 Ignition - energy

Professor Ralph Sims, director of Centre for Energy Research, Massey University.

The challenges of getting warm, keeping cool or just driving from point A to B... fusion energy.

8:59 Conundrum: Clue 3

9 pm News & Weather

9:06 Tuesday Feature

EarthWorks: Bringing It All Back Home (Part six - final)

Climate change, GMO's, space exploration, stem cell research…What does the future hold for life on this planet? Are we in a mess? Did science land us here? And if it did, is science the only way out?

EarthWorks is available for purchase through Replay Radio.

9:59 Conundrum: Clue 4

10 pm News & Weather

10:17 Late Edition:

A review of the leading news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.

11:06 Charlie Gilett's World of Music

Britain's guru of world music radio presents a personal selection (BBC)

Fall of Families thumb11:36 Bedtime story: The Fall of the Families by Phillip Mann

The second novel of Phillip Mann's epic chronicalling the struggle by aliens to regain their civilisations - lost to ruthless humans who colonised the galaxy exterminating all opposition.