Nights for Tuesday 20 August 2019

 

7:12 Perfect Numbers

Nights' friendly mathematician, Dillon Mayhew talks us through perfect numbers.

7:30 Song Crush

Some veterans of music are back in fine form, and The Song Crush team are here for it. Host Kirsten Johnstone, Brad 'Sticky' Warrington, and incoming Music 101 host Charlotte Ryan take a listen to new songs from Bon Iver, DJ Shadow, Haim, Miss June and more.

8:10 Night Mayors - Does our Nightlife need a helping hand?

New Zealand's way of regulating nightlife often restricts the opportunities for night owls. This has made nights overly tedious without improving issues of public health and security. Natanael Rother is a Research Fellow with the New Zealand Initiative specialising in localism.  He joins us to talk about possible solutions.

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

Lyse Doucet talks to remarkable women across the globe about their role in the democratic system. In this first programme, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent hears the extraordinary life story of Vaira Vike-Freiberga.

9:07 Contemporary Feminism

Chaired by Susie Ferguson, this panel asks what we think about the idea of there being a different male and female brain? How has feminism changed the way we raise boys and how is it changing the men they become? And how do boys see themselves through feminism? The speakers are Emily Writes, Salvatore Gargiulo, Dr Annette Henderson, and Kath Akuhata-Brown. The event was recorded at Wellington's City Gallery in association with Eva Rothschild's video Boys and Sculpture.

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,

an interview with Mark Coles, a presenter, music and news journalist with more than 25 years' experience working in radio. Mark spent 10 years presenting arts and music programs including his well-received trans global program 'World Of Music' on the BBC World Service. In this interview, recorded in 2010, Trevor talked to Coles, comparing notes and exploring techniques into the art of curating these types of not so genre specific trans-global radio programs.