7:12 Tokyo After The Games

We talk to a couple of Tokyo locals, Motoko Kakubayashi and Chris Gilbert, about life in the city after the closing ceremony is over and the athletes have gone home.

Staff members work on the pitch at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, the morning after the closing ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Staff members work on the pitch at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, the morning after the closing ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Photo: Photo by Philip FONG / AFP

7:35 Cultural Ambassador - South Auckland

Photographer Raymond Sagapolutele joins us once again.

Raymond Sagapolutele

Photo: Raymond Sagapolutele

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.

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8:30 Window on The World 

Another Science in Action from the BBC. Tonight a new study says we should get ready for more record breaking temperatues, how we're learning about tolerance and communication from primates ...and the double helix of all DNA on earth twists in one direction. ...until now.

Pablo Miranda cools off in the Salmon Springs Fountain on June 27, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. Record breaking temperatures lingered over the Northwest during a historic heatwave this weekend.

Photo: by Nathan Howard / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP

9:10 Nights Sport - Zoe George

The medals and tray to be used for the medal ceremonies at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games are seen during an event to mark 50 days to the opening ceremony, at Ariake Arena in Tokyo on June 3, 2021.

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Zoe George looks back on the Olympics and looks ahead to the Paralympics.

9:30 Mantangireia

Former Green MP Denise Roche remembers the day she revealed in Parliament she was a survivor of sexual abuse - and taking a stand against then Prime Minister John Key....she speaks to Mantangireia presenter Scott Campbell.

Denise Roche, Matangireia Series 2

Denise Roche, Matangireia Series 2 Photo: Aotearoa Media Collective

10:17 Lately

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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 Nashville Babylon

On this week's Nashville Babylon Mark Rogers has gospel from Mahalia Jackson, soul courtesy of Ray Charles and Curtis Mayfield plus country from Loretta Lynn and a ska classic from the Pioneers.

Ray Charles
Chanteur compositeur arrangeur et pianiste americain
8 juillet 1997
Palais des congres de Paris.

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