Nights for Tuesday 9 March 2021
7:12 Attitudes Towards the New Zealand Accent
Massey University scholar and the co-creator of The Linguistics Lounge podcast, Dr Julia de Bres makes her debut as our latest after dinner speaker. Tonight she takes on the New Zealand accent - which despite making a lot of us cringe was recently voted the sexiest in the world.
When a New Zealander says they want a 'bear', do they mean the animal or the drink? Photo: Matt Briney CC0
7:30 The Sampler
Tony Stamp assesses 'Mirth' by kiwi songwriter Edward Castelow (formerly Dictaphone Blues), and 'The Licking of a Tangerine' by Australian import Jazmine Mary, as well as the tenth album from Scottish post-rockers Mogwai, who are celebrating 25 years of existence and their first UK #1.
Mogwai Photo: supplied
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 Fragments: First-Hand Accounts of the 2011 February Earthquake
Tonight's episode is part two of The Journeys. Trapped on the sixth floor of the Forsyth Barr building, lawyer Grant Cameron and colleagues are beginning a daring escape by abseiling down to a carpark beneath.
Photo: RNZ
9:07 Smart Talk
Four women discuss their adventurous lives in this event which launched the 2020 Word Christchurch writers' festival in November.
Photo: WORD Christchurch
Kaiora Tipene, one half of the Netflix duo The Casketeers; Selina Tusitala Marsh, former Poet Laureate and author of Mophead; Annabel Langbein, celebrity cookbook author and adventurer; and Miriam Lancewood, author of Woman in the Wilderness, talk to broadcaster Miriama Kamo.
Selena Tusitala-Marsh, Annabel Langbein, Kaiora Tipene, Miriam Lancewood and Miriama Kamo Photo: WORD Christchurch
10:17 Lately
Susana Leiataua is in for Karyn Hay tonight.
11:07 Worlds of Music
On Worlds Of Music, Trevor Reekie features an interview with the Malian kora genius, Toumani Diabaté. This man has an incredible musical pedigree where the kora has been passed down in his family for over 71 generations - little wonder he has such extraordinary musical skills - Toumani was literally born to play the 21 stringed African harp.
Toumani Diabate Playing his 21 stringed kora Photo: Supplied
His new album is a collaboration that sees Toumani playing with The London Symphony Orchestra. The album called Kôrôlén, meaning "ancestral" in the Mandingo family of languages will be released in April…It's a sumptuous blend of kora and classical music.