Nights for Tuesday 10 May 2011
7:10 Our Own Odysseys: Saigon Orphanages
During the Vietnam War Peter Watson volunteered for two years in orphanages in Saigon.
7:30 The Sampler
New music reviews with Nick Bollinger.
8 pm News and Weather
8:15 Windows on the World
International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.
8:40 The World At Night - (Mid) United States of America
Journalist, author and photographer Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell is living her dream life in a 480-square foot cabin within the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. Tornadoes have wrecked a terrible toll in the central States, also the controversy about fracking (extracting natural gas from rock), which is thought to cause earthquakes.
8:59 Conundrum: Clue 3
9:00 News and Weather
9:06 The Tuesday Feature:The Douglas Robb Lectures
A series of three lectures by Tariq Ali.
9:59 Conundrum: Clue 4
10:00 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.
11:06 Tapestry of the Times
Join Arron Henkin on an open-ear voyage back in time and around the globe as he takes listeners on a weekly tour through the wide ranging sound archives of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (Smithsonian/WYPR).