Nights for Thursday 27 February 2020
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Overseas Correspondent
9:10 PM.Our overseas correspondent Matoko Kakubayashi has the latest from Japan. Audio
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SpaceX Starlink satellite visible over New Zealand
8:08 PM.Tonight (27th February) offers a particularly good opportunity to see SpaceX Starlink satellite chains in the sky. Dr Duncan Steel is a space scientist and astronomer based in Nelson and he tells… Read more Audio
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Nights Science - New Zealand Native Fish
7:35 PM.Stella McQueen, self-confessed native fish geek, author and field worker (and some night say "chick scientist") takes us through the proposed changes to the whitebait legislation. Read more Audio
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Cultural Ambassador - The Music of Latin America
7:10 PM.Mona-Lynn Courteau joins us once again with a selection of music from South America. Tonight she'll be introducing us to Criolo from Brazil, who will play at Auckland's Powerstation on March 21. Read more Video, Audio
7:12 Cultural Ambassador - The Music of Latin America
Mona-Lynn Courteau joins us once again with a selection of music from South America. Tonight she'll be introducing us to Criolo from Brazil, who will play at Auckland's Powerstation on March 21.
The tracks we played are:
Criolo - "Nas Águas" (3"56'). Album: Espiral de Ilusão (2017), Stern's Music STCD2028.
Criolo - "Esquiva de Esgrima" (4"29'). Album: Convoque seu Buda (2014), Stern's Music STCD2024.
Criolo - "Etérea" (4"13'). Single (2018).
Criolo - "Bogotá" (4"40'). Album: Espiral de Ilusão (2017), Stern's Music STCD2028.
7:35 Nights Science - New Zealand Native Fish
Stella McQueen, self-confessed native fish geek, author and field worker (and some night say "chick scientist") takes us through the proposed changes to the whitebait legislation.
Photo: RNZ Insight/Teresa Cowie
8:15 Dateline Pacific
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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
Have you ever looked at the ingredients on your microwave meal and wondered what dextrose and sodium nitrite are doing in your dinner?
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Graihagh Jackson meets three food scientists to find out what they're adding to our food, and why.
9:07 Our Changing World
This week on Our Changing World, we join Alison Ballance for the first two episodes of Voice of the Kakapo, an audio adventure about a rare bird, a remote island and a remarkable year.
Stella-2-B is a juvenile from the bumper 2019 kākāpō breeding season. Photo: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Jake Osborne / DOC
9:30 Overseas Correspondent
Our overseas correspondent Matoko Kakubayashi has the latest from Japan.
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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 Tony Stamp talks to Auckland DJ Stinky Jim, about the life and legacy of Andrew Weatherall - the DJ and producer who was instrumental in the acid house scene in the '80s, helped merge electronic music with rock n' roll in the '90s, and was a hugely in-demand remixer. He died last week aged 56.
Andrew Weatherall Photo: supplied