Nights for Tuesday 18 May 2021

 

7:12 Regional Differences in the Kiwi Accent.

Dr Julia de Bres, sociolinguist and senior lecturer at Massey University is back - and tonight she's taking a look at Regional differences in New Zealand English.

7:30 The Sampler

Tony Stamp checks out a soulful concoction from former Electric Wire Hustle vocalist Mara TK, an upbeat pondering of mortality by The Chills, and the debut of deadpan post-punk Brits Dry Cleaning.

8:15 Pacific Waves

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Koroi Hawkins presents a daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in the world.

8:30 Window on The World 

Another episode of The Climate Question from The BBC World Service .  About 80 percent of our planet's biodiversity is on land where indigenous people live. Global climate policy has however been slow to listen to the indigenous knowledge built up over centuries.  Tonight's Climate Question is Can indigenous knowledge help us fight climate change?

9:07 Smart Talk

Associate Law Professor Scott Optican on the legality of court evidence obtained by different undercover policing techniques in New Zealand. A highlight of the 2021 season of Auckland University's popular Raising the Bar event.

10:17 Lately

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 Worlds of Music

After 11, on Worlds Of Music, Trevor Reekie features an interview with Paul Agar who back in the 80's formed a band called Marginal Era. Agar's song This Heaven was used as the theme song for Radio With Pictures. 

Paul relocated to Australia and these days runs a successful recording studio called Heaven and has applied himself to mastering steel guitar which employs a piece of metal applied to the strings that replicates those beautiful notes that have come to define Hawaiian and Islandmusic. 

Performing as The South Pasifika Sound Project, Paul has just released an interesting album called Across The Pacific, an instrumental narrative of a journey across the South Seas, from Vanuatu in the west - to the Cook Islands in the east.