Nights for Thursday 29 October 2020
7:12 Cultural Ambassador - South Auckland
Photographer Raymond Sagapolutele joins us once again.
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 Photo: © Paramount Pictures
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
Why do people want to fish and what makes fishing communities so resilient and independent?
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. Photo: CC-BY-4.0 NIWA
9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Estonia
Silver Tambur joins us once again from Tallinn.
Estonia Photo: Don Payne
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
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 Photo: Supplied