Nights for Tuesday 1 September 2009

Nights for Tuesday 1 September 2009

7 pm News & Weather

7:15 Boy Mummy

Michael Turner, senior curator, The Nicholson Museum

Secrets which were revealed when a 2000 year old Egyptian mummy from the Nicholson Museum recently underwent a very modern CT scan

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 The Administration - political systems

Brian Roper, political historian, University of Otago

How and why the world's diverse political institutions came to be...

8:59 Conundrum: Clue 3

9 pm News & Weather

9:06 The Tuesday Feature

Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2009

An hour with Greg McGee and Sam Mahon (Pt 4 of 5)

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)

11:36 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.