Nights for Thursday 29 June 2017

7:12 Creativity and mental health 

Deidre Dahlberg will be on the show to talk mental health and the arts. 

7:35 New Horizons

William Dart enjoys a new interplanetary sonic adventure devised by Bryce Dessner, James McAlister, Nico Muhly and Sufjan Stevens, titled “Planetarium”

8:12 Nights' Culture - Miles Buckingham

Deejay and toaster Miles Buckingham...

8:30 Window on the World

The Food Chain unravels of the food secrets of  Centenarians and explores the link, if any, between longevity and food consumption.  Emily Thomas explores  whether despite having a greater variety of food available, and an ever growing abundance of dietary information, are younger generations able to replicate the diets of the oldest people on earth? And, what is the scientific evidence for the link between diet and a longer life?

9:07 Our Changing World

On Our Changing World this week, Alison Ballance joins an expedition to Putauhinu, one of the Titi Islands around Stewart Island. The team is catching tutukiwi or snipe, tieke or saddlebacks and toutouwai, or robins, to move to other Titi islands.

9:30 This Way Up

This Way Up highlights now, and the rise of wearable technology- what are some of the most powerful applications for sensor technology you'll want to wear every day?

First though why young people in the Finnish capital Helsinki are renting rooms in rest homes

10:17 Late Edition

A round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Dateline Pacific from RNZ International.

11:07 Music 101 pocket edition

In the Music 101 Pocket Edition this week, Yadana Saw talks to Aldous Harding backstage in Atlanta, Melody Thomas talks to Amelia Murray from Fazerdaze about being a woman who plays guitar, and a budding young radio producer has a crack at being a buskerproducer has a crack at being a busker.