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Nights for Thursday 20 February 2020

  • Materials: Fact or Fiction - Unobtanium

    7:35 PM.We continue our series in collaboration with the MacDiarmid Institute where we take an idea from fiction and see how it stands up to scientific scrutiny. Tonight, McDiarmid Institute co-director and… Read more Audio

  • Cultural Ambassador - Dance

    7:12 PM.Director and choreographer Malia Johnston makes her Nights debut as out cultural ambassador for dance. Tonight she's taking a look at current influences in contemporary dance in Aotearoa and is joined… Read more Audio

 

7:12 Cultural Ambassador - Dance

Malia Johnston

Malia Johnston Photo: http://www.movementofthehuman.com/

Director and choreographer Malia Johnston makes her Nights debut as out cultural ambassador for dance.  Tonight she's taking a look at current influences in contemporary dance in Aotearoa and is joined by choreographer and performer Ooshcon Masseurs.

Connor Masseurs

Connor Masseurs Photo: connormasseurs.com/

7:35 Materials Fact or Fiction

Avatar Year : 2009 USA Director : James Cameron Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana Movie poster (Fr)

Photo: Archives du 7e Art/DR

We continue our series in collaboration with the MacDiarmid Institute where we take an idea from fiction and see how it stands up to scientific scrutiny.

Tonight, McDiarmid Institute co-director and Auckland University associate physics professor, Nicola Gaston's flight of fancy is the mineral unobtanium...most recently the plot device behind the movie Avatar, although it's had other outings int science fiction pop culture.

8:15 Dateline Pacific

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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

Britain has lost a quarter of its pubs in two decades. But others, like small micropubs, are popping up. Why are they succeeding when the traditional boozer is struggling?

The Queens Arms, Birmingham

The Queens Arms, Birmingham Photo: Tagishsimon [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)]

9:07 Our Changing World

This week on Our Changing World, Alison Ballance finds out about the unpredictability of human behaviour when it comes to earthquakes and why what we do matters.

A closeup of a seismograph machine needle drawing a red line on graph paper depicting seismic and eartquake activity on an isolated white background

Photo: 123RF

9:30 Overseas Correspondent

Shoba Naryan joins us once again from Bangalore in India.

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Photo: By Ashwin Kumar from Bangalore, India (Indian Flag) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

10:17 Lately

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Photo: RNZ

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 Charlotte Ryan talks to Kevin parker - the man behind the fantastically successful Aussie outfit Tame Impala. Plus Tony Stamp chats with Californian musician Weyes Blood, touring here soon off the back of her hugely acclaimed album Titanic Rising, and kiwi pop musician Robinson talks about her multiple international record deals, and her new life in the UK. 

Robinson

Robinson Photo: supplied