Nights for Thursday 6 June 2019
7:12 A Teenager and Computers.
One of Nights' younger listeners, podcaster Charlie Cuff joins us to talk screentime for young people and to explain how and why he built his own computer.
Charlie Cuff with his home-built computer. Photo: Tim Cuff www.timcuff.com
7:35 New Horizons
Vampire Weekend, 'Harmony Hall', video still Photo: Vampire Weekend, Columbia Records
In New Horizons, William Dart enjoys the admittedly self-conscious brilliance of Vampire Weekend's much anticipated new album, Father of the Bride.
8:10 Seed Pods
Backlisted logo Photo: Supplied
Richard Scott of RNZ's The Podcast Hour talks to John Mitchinson, one of the hosts of Backlisted, a popular show bringing new life to old books.
8:15 Dateline Pacific
Photo: RNZ
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 award-winning star of Netflix series 'Salt, Fat, Acid Heat' and author of the best-selling cookbook, Samin Nosrat, tells us about her life through five of her most memorable dishes.
Samin Nosrat Photo: credit Aya Brackett
9:07 Our Changing World
This week on Our Changing World, Alison Ballance finds out about the New Zealand Bird Atlas, and hears about a successful effort to create a new seabird colony, how Fiordland's tawaki penguins go for record-breaking long swims, and the chemical element gallium.
A fluttering shearwater chick being fed a sardine smoothie during a seabird translocation on Matiu Somes Island in Wellington Harbour. Photo: RNZ / Alison Ballance
9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Taiwan
Photo: Supplied by William Yang
Making their Nights debut, William Yang joins us from Taiwan's capital, Taipei with a reaction to Taiwan's landmark legalization of same-sex marriage, the 30th Tiananmen Square Commemoration in Taiwan and the Upcoming primary for Taiwan's presidential election in 2020.
Photo: Supplied by William Yang
10:17 Lately
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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 Music 101 pocket edition
On this week's Pocket Edition we talk to The Monkees' Mike Nesmith and mark 20 years since Napster broke he music industry.
Napster Screenshot Photo: Njahnke