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Nights for Thursday 24 August 2017

  • Nights Culture - Dance

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    8:12 PM.This week's cultural ambassador, is Chris Jannides, Toi Whakaari movement tutor and founding dancer, choreographer and artistic director of Limbs Dance Company and Chris has brought in another guest -… Read more Audio

  • Showgirl Margaret Austin

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    There may be trouble ahead - but as long as there's moonlight, and love and romance - let's face the music and dance. And I couldn't think of a better introduction to my first guest… Read more Audio, Gallery

7:12 Interview -  Showgirl: Margaret Austin

Photo by Malcome Brow

Margaret as Charlie Chaplin - her silent mentor - as part of her strip act in Amsterdam in the 1970's

Margaret in Paris in the 1980's

Dressing room fun - playing the cancan - Paris 1980's

Jumping out of cakes for the rich and famous - Paris 1980's

Margaret's 'look' - 1980's Paris

The appointment of the Duchess by Fran Wilde in 1994

The Duke and Duchess of Wellington (Margaret and her late husband Tony Catford)

As the Duchess of Wellington 1990's

Publication of 'Dancing Naked' in 1997

Margaret on the catwalk at the races.

The New Duchess

Margaret Austin shares her adventures with us from Palmerston North to showgirl in Paris.

7:35 New Horizons

Glen Campbell with Guitar

Photo: Supplied.

William Dart looks beyond "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", and "Rhinestone Cowboy" to the lesser-known but equally brilliant and affecting Glen Campbell.

8:12 Nights' Culture - Chris Jannides

Ross McCormack

Ross McCormack Photo: Supplied

Bryan's regular Night's guest Chris Jannides - our oracle on all things Dance - is joined by choreographer Ross McCormack to chat about his earlier experiences as a NZ dancer working and touring with the leading European company Les Ballets C dela B under its director Alain Platel. And then building his own company, Muscle Mouth. Alongside his directorship of Muscle Mouth, Ross is also a member of the Artistic Advisory Panel (AAP) of the Wellington-based company, Footnote. Ross has also been choreographing Wellington Wearable Arts (WOW) for the last 2 years.

8:30 Window on the World

Emily Thomas goes on the hunt for the world’s biggest stashes of food. From forgotten World War Two food sheds to Switzerland’s stockpiling sirens, which companies and governments are storing food in bulk? Where are they keeping it? Who can access it? And, if disaster strikes, will any get to you?

9:07 Our Changing World

virtual reality

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From treating a fear of spiders to training young doctors – how real is the promise of Virtual Reality and how is it being used today? Alison Ballance and Simon Morton don VR headsets to discover what virtual reality is capable of.

9:30 This Way Up

This Way Up highlights now, and this week the prospect of more targeted and effective cancer treatments, unlocking birds' amazing powers of navigation, and the answer to that massive question facing humanity- how can goldfish survive in icy ponds over winter?! And apparently their blood alcohol levels are the key!

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 with Yadana Saw

Kirin J Callinan live at RNZ

Kirin J Callinan live at RNZ Photo: RNZ

In the Music 101 Pocket Edition, we talk to Victoria Banks who has started an online petition asking Apple Music to include liner notes on their streaming platform. Tony Stamp hosts a live session with pop absurdist Kirin J Callinan and Rob Ruha is on the line from LA where he’s just wrapped on the te reo version of Disney’s Moana.