Nights for Thursday 5 August 2010

7:15 New Zealand Singing

Andy Gibson, musician and sociolinguist, Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication at the Auckland University of Technology,is the author of a thesis exploring the variety of singing accents in New Zealand music.

7:30 Spectrum

People, places and events in New Zealand.

8 pm News and Weather

8:15 Windows on the World

International public radio documentaries

8:45 Science: Earth Sciences

Dr Hamish Campbell, geologist/paleontologist, GNS Science

Drilling a core into the geologic cycle.

8:59 Conundrum: Clue 7

9 pm News and Weather

9:06 Our Changing World

Radio New Zealand's science and environment programme.

Allison Ballance visits the butterfly house at the Otago Museum; a person-specific knee has been developed; ecological information of paua and a mechanism which suggests that vitamin C can prevent cancer.

9:59 Conundrum: Clue 8

10 pm News and 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 and Weather

11:06 The Music Mix

Nick Atkinson presents a contemporary music magazine with interviews and music from New Zealand and overseas artists, coverage of new releases, tours, live sessions, music festivals and events. (RNZ)