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Nights for Thursday 16 November 2017

  • Aotearoa Reggae

    music

    8:12 PM.Nights' reggae music aficionado Miles Buckingham looks at the best of our home-grown talent. Audio

  • The PSUSY posse

    arts

    7:12 PM.Jaya Beach-Robertson and Aria Dehar are the talented team behind the New Zealand (and decidedly NSFW) web series PSUSY. Read more Audio

7:12 PSUSY

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We talk to Jaya Beach-Robertson and Aria Dehar - from the talented team behind a new NSFW Feminist web series called PSUSY.  Unconventional to its core, PSUSY follows Karen and Sharee, as they drag us through twenty-something, 21st century, womanhood.

*WARNING - VIDEO CONTAINS ADULT THEMES AND LANGUAGE*

7:35 New Horizons

William Dart reviews a new album, Hey, Mr Ferryman, from American singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel.

Mark Eitzel, from cover booklet of 'Hey, Mr Ferryman'

Mark Eitzel, from cover booklet of 'Hey, Mr Ferryman' Photo: Decor Records

8:12 Aotearoa Reggae

Katchafire

Katchafire Photo: Supplied

Nights' reggae music aficionado Miles Buckingham looks at the best of our home-grown talent.

The Herbs

The Herbs Photo: AudioCulture

8:30 Window on the World

The massive leak of financial data known as the 'Paradise Papers' has revealed how multinational companies drain vital tax revenues from countries in the developing world.  In our Window on The World' at 8:30 the BCC's David Grossman focuses on Namibia's fishing industry. The documents reveal how one of the world's biggest fishing companies shifted some of its profits away from Namibia into the tiny tax haven of Mauritius.

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Photo: I, Luca Galuzzi [CC BY-SA 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons

9:07 Our Changing World

This week on Our Changing World we find out about the work of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust as it celebrates 40 years protecting nature on private land. And we take a walk around the 1769 Garden, designed to commemorate the first encounter between Tairāwhiti Māori and the crew of the Endeavour, under the command of Captain Cook.

Malcolm Rutherford, curator of the 1769 Garden, stands amongst rock mounds arranged in a quincunx layout. Each mound is home to a rare or unusual plant, including short-lived herbs.

Malcolm Rutherford, curator of the 1769 Garden, stands amongst rock mounds arranged in a quincunx layout. Each mound is home to a rare or unusual plant, including short-lived herbs. Photo: RNZ / Alison Ballance

9:30 This Way Up

Simon Morton looks at the effectiveness of gene editing as a form of pest control and do professional video gamers need players' unions as e-sports go global?

Professional video gamers compete in huge events across the world, like this one in Poland.

Professional video gamers compete in huge events across the world, like this one in Poland. Photo: AFP

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

Jessie Moss and Jana Whitta

Jessie Moss and Jana Whitta Photo: Alex Behan

In this week's Pocket Edition, Alex Behan speaks with Jana Whitta and Jessie Moss about what can be done about sexism in the music industry; Jamaican Dee Jay Sister Nancy is on the line to Mani Dunlop and Kimbra speaks with Alex Behan about her latest collaborations with Childish Gambino and Skrillex In Nights with…after the 11 o'clock news

Sister Nancy performing at Boiler Room, 2017

Sister Nancy performing at Boiler Room, 2017 Photo: screencapture