Nights for Monday 12 April 2021

 

7:12 Sofa Session - The Kugels

Wellington traditional Klezmer band, The Kugels are live in the studio for a Sofa Session.

7:35 Going West Going Video

Going West Festival announces a brand-new approach to celebrating live poetry with Different Out Loud, a collection of thoughtful video collaborations between Aotearoa poets and filmmakers. Festival Director, James Littlewood joins us with more.

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 

Another Episode of Science in Action from the BBC World Service has news of an exciting development in particle physics and we find out what learning Klingon tells us about prehistoric forms of communication.

9:10 Nights Sport

Our sportscaster tonight is RNZ Pacific's Vinnie Wylie.

9:30 Kei Roto i te Miru: Inside the Bubble

We continue our new five-part New Zealand history series "Kei Roto i te Miru: Inside the Bubble" which takes a look back at life in lockdown. In this episode historian Dr Emma-Jean Kelly explores how, as a nation we cared for each other even though we had to stay apart.

10:17 Lately

Susana Leiataua is keeping you up to date if you're up late.

11:07 Nashville Babylon

After 11, on Nashville Babylon Mark Rogers has new tracks from Dianne Swann, Grant Lee Phillips, Native Harrow and Israel Nash plus blues courtesy of Gwenifer Raymond and John Lee Hooker.