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7:12 Cultural Ambassador - South Auckland

Photographer Raymond Sagapolutele joins us once again.

Raymond Sagapolutele

Photo: Raymond Sagapolutele

7:35 Materials Fact or Fiction - The Black Hole in Interstellar

Richard Easther is a theoretical cosmologist and Professor of Physics (Head of Department) at the University of Auckland. He gives us his scientific take on the Black Hole from the movie Interstellar.

The supermassive black hole Gargantua plays a major role in the 2014 sci-fi blockbuster "Interstellar." Paramount

The supermassive black hole Gargantua plays a major role in the 2014 sci-fi blockbuster "Interstellar." Paramount Photo: © Paramount Pictures

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

Why do people want to fish and what makes fishing communities so resilient and independent? 

View with a shallow depth of field of the deck of a fishing vessel: boxes with a fresh fish yield of tuna, the yellow rope and simple drag anchor, ocean water with bokeh overboard

Photo: 123RF

9:07 Our Changing World

This week, on Our Changing World, Alison Ballance finds out about deep sea corals, and hears how they are being put to the test at NIWA to find out how they cope with sediment.

Image of the seafloor at 1200 metres depth with the scleractinian stony coral Goniocorella dumosa and feathery crinoids attached. On the right a specimen image shows the complex 3-D matrix and distinct orange-pink cups with live polyps.

Image of the seafloor at 1200 metres depth with the scleractinian stony coral Goniocorella dumosa and feathery crinoids attached. On the right a specimen image shows the complex 3-D matrix and distinct orange-pink cups with live polyps. Photo: CC-BY-4.0 NIWA

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Estonia

Silver Tambur joins us once again from Tallinn.

Estonia

Estonia Photo: Don Payne

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

In this week's Pocket Edition, we hear a performance from the 2020 APRA Silver Scroll awards and Tony Stamp checks in with some expat musicians holed up around the world during the global pandemic. 

APRA silver scrolls 2020

APRA silver scrolls 2020 Photo: Supplied