Nights for Thursday 23 July 2020

 

7:12 Cultural Ambassador - NZ Hip Hop

RNZ Music's new video series NZ Hip Hop Stand Up launches today and our hip hop cultural ambassador, Brad Warrington joins us once again with a look at the series and some more great tracks.

7:35 Materials: Fact of Fiction

MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigator and Research Scientist at the Photon Factory in the School of Chemical Science at the University of Auckland, Michel Nieuwoudt gives us her take on Star Trek's Tricorder.

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

 In 1942 in Nazi occupied France Jews were hunted and those helping them could be sent to concentration camps. Despite the dangers a Catholic nun took a stand that saved the lives of 82 Jewish children. 

9:07 Our Changing World

This week, on Our Changing World, Alison Ballance completes her 8-part series on science and life in Antarctica, with a tribute to the little things that feed the big things. She visits a team working on the sea ice at Cape Evans, where they investigating the microbes and algae that live under the ice and how they might respond to a warming world.

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Sudan

Reem Abbas joins us once again from Khartoum

10:17 Lately

Robert Kelly is in for Karyn Hay on Lately all this week.  Keeping you up to date if you're up late. 

11:07 Music 101 pocket edition

In this week's Pocket Edition, Tony Stamp speaks with Hong Kong-based French Concession, they discuss her new music and the growing political unrest in the Chinese territory. Kora come clean to Yadana Saw about their new song Secret Lover.