Nights for Thursday 10 December 2020
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Cultural Ambassador - The Music Of Persia
7:12 PM.Shahram Aryan takes us back to the golden age of Persian pop music in 1960s and 1970s - in particular the music of Azar Mohebbi Tehrani, known as Ramesh. Read more Video, Audio
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Materials Fact or Fiction - Kryptonite
7:30 PM.Professor Bill Williams, MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator and Professor in Biophysics and Soft Matter at Massey University gives us his scientific take on Superman's Kryptonite, the green… Read more Audio
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Orchestra Wellington Perform The Sugar Plum Fairy
8:10 PM.On Sunday, Orchestra Wellington will end 2020 on a high note with the Sugar Plum Fairy Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker making a special appearance. We speak to ballerina Kate Cockerton-Holmes about dancing… Read more Audio
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Overseas Correspondent - Reem Abbas
9:35 PM.Our overseas correspondent from Sudan, Reem Abbas joins us from Khartoum. Audio
7:12 Cultural Ambassador - The Music Of Persia
Sharham Aryan takes us back to the golden age of Persian pop music in 1960s and 1970s - in particular the music of Azar Mohebbi Tehrani, known as Ramesh.
7:35 Materials Fact or Fiction
Professor Bill Williams, MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator and Professor in Biophysics and Soft Matter at Massey University gives us his scientific take on Superman's Kryptonite, the green crystalline material that emits radiation and weakens Superman.
Photo: FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP
8:10 Orchestra Wellington Perform The Sugar Plum Fairy
On Sunday, Orchestra Wellington will end 2020 on a high note with the Sugar Plum Fairy Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker making a special appearance. We speak to ballerina Kate Cockerton-Holmes about dancing the role.
Photo: Kate Cockerton Holmes
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
In tonight's Window on the World - Companies are growing packaging material from mycelium that is easy to compost. And a team is creating a fungal home that will sense when it's dark and switch the lights on.
9:07 Our Changing World
This week, on Our Changing World, Alison Ballance finds out what it takes to live a good life, and hears about the challenge of modelling ground shaking during earthquakes to help us better prepare for the next big earthquake.
9:30 Overseas Correspondent
Our overseas correspondent from Sudan, Reem Abbas joins us from Khartoum.
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, .. Tony Stamp will be visiting the country's newest record pressing plant - the first since the 1980s!
We'll also hear from Auckland's Leao - the faasamoa music project described as what Flying Nun would sound like if had set up shop in Samoa. And we'll be introduced to Whisperdish...