Nights for Thursday 19 March 2020
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Overseas Correspondent - Scotland
9:30 PM.Making his debut as our overseas correspondent from Scotland, Andrew Learmonth, political reporter for The National newspaper. Audio
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Materials: Fact of Fiction - Mithril
7:35 PM.MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigator and Senior Scientist at the Robinson Research Institute of Victoria University of Wellington Chris Bumby gives us his scietific take on Mithril from Lord of… Read more Audio
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Cultural Ambassador - Electronic Music
7:12 PM.Paul Berrington has been digging intot the electronic music vauts again and joins us with some of his best picks. Audio
7:12 Cultural Ambassador - Electronic Music
Paul Berrington has been digging intot the electronic music vauts again and joins us with some of his best picks,
7:35 Materials: Fact of Fiction
MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigator and Senior Scientist at the Robinson Research Institute of Victoria University of Wellington give us his scietific take on Mithril from Lord of the Rings.
Elijah Wood in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Photo: WINGNUT FILMS / NEW LINE CINEMA / COLLECTION CHRISTOPHEL
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
Professor Martha Clokie tells how she found viruses that destroy antibiotic-resistant bugs
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
9:07 Our Changing World
This week on Our Changing World, Alison Ballance joins us with the final two episodes of the Voice of the Kākāpō podcast. We hear about the birds' deadly fungal pandemic and join the kākāpō team releasing healthy hand-reared juveniles into the wild.
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 - Scotland
Photo: Andrew Learmonth
Making his debut as our overseas correspondent from Scotland, Andrew Learmonth, political reporter for The National newspaper.
10:17 Lately
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
Kirsten Johnstone with Laurie Anderson Photo: NZ Festival
On this week's Pocket Edition Kirsten Johnstone chats with renowned artist and musician Laurie Anderson, and Trevor Reekie profiles Glenn Dicker, co-founder of Yep Roc Records who have released albums from Nick Lowe, Gang of Four, Paul Weller and others. Plus we play a few live performances recorded backstage at WOMAD Festival
