Nights for Tuesday 24 July 2012
7:10 Our Own Odysseys: Unicycle World Champs
Tony Melton is back on one wheel as part of the strong New Zealand team that is participating in this year's Unicycle World Champs in Brixen/Bressanone, Italy.
7:30 The Sampler
A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases.
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 - Indonesia
Editor of Asia Calling Rebecca Henschke, from the world's fourth most populous nation with the largest population of Muslims, the Republic of Indonesia, pop. 239,870,937 (est.2010)... Komodo Island and Indonesia tourism outside of Bali, the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence attempt to come to terms with the mass killings of the mid-1960s, and Human Rights groups are criticising an Indonesian court for sentencing a Shi'ite cleric to two years in prison for blasphemy.
9:00 News and Weather
9:06 The Tuesday Feature: The Role of Science in Bettering New Zealand
Sir Peter Gluckman and Kim Hill explore the issues we need to address to have improve our prosperity, environment and social cohesion; and how science can help.
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 Putumayo Radio Hour
A world music show that takes listeners on a weekly journey through the music of many different cultures (Putumayo)