Nights for Tuesday 10 November 2009
Nights for Tuesday 10 November 2009
7 pm News & Weather
7:15 Impossibility Challenger
Budhsamudra, Knox event organiser
How many world and Guinness records will be broken this weekend's at Australasian first Impossibility Challenger?
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... 1935 Labour Government.
8:59 Conundrum: Clue 3
9 pm News & Weather
9:06 The Tuesday Feature: The Massey Lectures
The City of Words, by Alberto Manguel - the first programme in his five-part Canadian series in which Argentinian-born author Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at some of the problems we face building societies with common values, and suggests we look at stories to help us perceive ourselves and others (Pt 3 of 5, CBC)
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 Nightshift
A series dedicated to those who work while the nation sleeps, and who make life a lot easier when we wake up.
Sarah Smith, night nurse
Working in a resthome caring for our elderly citizens through the wee hours.