Nights for Thursday 14 September 2017
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Nights' Culture - Dr. Kirsten Zemke
8:10 PM.This week's cultural ambassador is Dr Kirsten Zemke, ethnomusicologist at Auckland University - back with more sonic adventures from the world of hip hop. Audio
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New Zealand's ever expanding houses
7:12 PM.Since the 1950s homes in New Zealand have been getting bigger and bigger, a family home has almost doubled. A researcher says we're building bigger but not better. Read more Audio
7:12 Building Bigger Houses
Photo: Creative commons
Are we building our houses too big? We speak to one of the authors of a report that says the size of New Zealand's houses are cancelling the benefits gained from better insulation.
7:35 New Horizons
The Floral Clocks - Gabriel White and Richard von Sturmer Photo: The Floral Clocks
William Dart takes a listen to a new album from the Auckland duo The Floral Clocks - musician Gabriel White and lyricist Richard Von Sturmer.
8:12 Nights' Culture - Dr. Kirsten Zemke
Photo: Creative commons
This week's cultural ambassador is Dr Kirsten Zemke, ethnomusicologist at Auckland University - back with more sonic adventures from the world of hip hop.
8:30 Window on the World
Photo: [www.flickr.com/photos/findyourfeet/4045787633 flickr/find your feet]
The Food chain goes in search of a Food Champion.
We hear about the four shortlisted projects hoping to be named The Food Chain Global Champion, including an insect-based cooking oil, a beekeeper empowering women in northern India, a maggot-based animal feed, and a global movement seeking to transform food and agriculture.
9:07 Our Changing World
The Queenstown Basin and Lake Wakatipu. Photo: RNZ / Alison Ballance
This week on Our Changing World, Alison Ballance reports back from New Zealand's biggest science event, the Queenstown Research Week.
9:30 This Way Up
Photo: By Chris Hunkeler [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Simon Morton brings us the highlights of This Way Up we meet a 93-year-old sand collector who has amassed samples of thousands of different sands from all over the globe and can compression clothing make you a better athlete?!
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
Hex Photo: supplied
In this week's Pocket Edition, we catch up with Wellington witches Hex, talk to ex-Vampire Weekend member Rostam about his debut solo album, and Christchurch band Best Bets introduce themselves.
Best Bets Photo: supplied