Nights for Tuesday 20 February 2018

 

7:12 Footpaths are a Feminist Issue.

Throughout the world women, in particular mothers, make similar choices every day. Poor street design, disparate land use, time constraints, lack of personal safety-all of these conspire to force women off their feet and into cars. Urban planner and pedestrian advocate, Katie Matchett believes we have built a transportation system that discounts women's travel needs, and women-and our communities-are suffering for it.

7:30 The Sampler

In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger discusses the golden voice and grief-soaked second album of Marlon Williams; the jazz soul of expatriate bassman Jonathan Zwartz; and the ways in which soon-to-tour jazz diva Cecile McLorin Salvant channels the music's history.

8:10 Night Mail

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8:15 Dateline Pacific

RNZ Pacific's daily current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories of the week, with background and reaction from the people making the news.

8:30 Window on the World

The Parkovy Conference and Exhibition Centre, a huge modernist structure of concrete and glass, stands boldly on the banks of the Dnieper River in central Kiev, a helipad on the roof. It hosted the official after party for last year's Eurovision Song Contest and was meant to be a symbol of Ukraine's economic development. Instead, four years after President Yanukovych was overthrown by a people sick of corruption, it has become a focus of efforts to reclaim the billions of dollars said to have been stolen by the ex-president's regime. Tim Whewell attempts to unpick the tangled global web of companies behind the building's ownership.

9:07 Tuesday Feature

Family life, marriage, divorce, dating, opportunities for women, and how being from the one-child generation has affected her and her peers. In a village in the mountains outside Beijing she hears from a great grandma in her 80s and four generations of one family to find out just how much things have changed in this vast country.

10:17 Lately

Lately with Karyn Hay is a late night radio show on RNZ National, with an eye on live events, an ear for music, a great sense of humour and a genuine interest in people and their stories.

11:07 Worlds of Music

Trevor Reekie hosts a weekly music programme celebrating an eclectic mix of 'world' music, fusion and folk roots. Tonight features music from a couple of string Quartets who have recorded with trans global musicians, and later in the program is an interview with guitarist Bobby Murray about the life and legacy of the one time 'Queen of the Blues', Etta James who did so much to put her gospel infused blues and soul into the American musical mainstream.