Nights for Monday 22 February 2010

Monday 22 February 2010

7 pm News & Weather

7:20 The Settler Revolution

Professor James Belich, historian, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington.

Exploring the success of how english speaking people have spread around the world - Replenishing the Earth:The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld, 1783-1939 (Oxford 2009).
NZIAF 2010 Readers & Writers Week

8 pm News & Weather

8:15 Windows on the World

International public radio documentaries.

8:45 Thinkers: Political Systems

Brian Roper, political historian, University of Otago

How and why the world's diverse political institutions came to be... The rise of new social movements, Maori protest, workers' struggle and the New Left from 1968 to the late 1970s.

9 pm News & Weather

9:06 Insight

A current affairs programme direct from RNZ news.

9:40 Japan Report

Motoko Kakubayashi, journalist and experimental physicist

News and cultural trends from Japan, pop. 127,470,000 (2010 estimate)...

Changes in Japanese men, pet cafes & Tokyo train system.

9:59 Conundrum: Clue 2

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 pm News & Weather

11:06 Beale Street Caravan

The best in blues from the Blues Foundation in Memphis.