Nights for Monday 13 September 2021

 

7:12 New Single from Moana & The Tribe

Moana & The Trive have released a new song & video for Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori  - 'Āio ana'  The reo lyrics were penned by Scotty Morrison, with music written by Paddy Free and Moana Maniapoto.  We speak toMoana about the track and about Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori.

7:35 Culture Regular - Maori Arts

Teina Moetara joins us from Manutuke once again.

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 Science in programme from the BBC Tonight we find out why  90 per cent of remaining coal reserves and 60% of unexploited oil and gas have to stay in the ground and a hear about species of duck can now be added to the list of birds such as parrots and starlings that mimic human speech and other sounds in their environment. 

9:10 Nights Sport

Helene Elliot, Sports columnist with the LA Times join us from New York, where sh'es covering the U.S. Open tennis tournament

9:30 Black Music in Europe

Clarke Peters continues our journey through Black Music in Europe.  Tonight, the sounds of African American jazz in 1920s Paris, especially the work of Josephine Baker, the world's first black superstar....this is Black Music in Europe...episode 3 1920 to 1930.

10:17 Late Edition

 

10:20 Further covid crisis looms in NSW
New South Wales Intensive Care Units are at peak capacity and struggling to cope with covid cases as health authorities say worse is yet to come.
On top of that, over a thousand health care workers across the state are isolating at home, furthering the load on those working in ICU's and regular wards.
New South Wales' nurses union general secretary, Brett Holmes, outlines how bad things are getting in the state's hospitals.

 

10:30 Season's first albatross arrives in Otago
The bells rang out in Ōtepoti, Dunedin today, to herald the arrival of a very special traveller. The first returning endangered Northern Royal Albatross of the season has been welcomed at Taiaroa Head.  The eco tourism manager at the Otago Peninsula Trust, Hoani Langsbury joins Bryan to talk about the teenage arrival. You can check out the Royal cam here.

 

10:55 Vaccination passport dumped in England
The UK government has announced it is unlikely England will ever return to lockdown despite rising covid cases in the country.  It has also dropped a plan to make people in England show vaccine passports to enter crowded events such as nightclubs. That comes as a relief to London-based New Zealand restauranteur, Chantelle Robinson who owns Tredwells restaurant and pop-up eatery All's Well.

 

10:55 Calling London
Rich Preston from the BBC World Service chats to Bryan Crump about world events ranging from a special election in California over whether to remove the state's governor, Gavin Newsom, and in Germany, a televised debate for those candidates poised to take over from Angela Merkel as Chancellor.  

 

11:07 Nashville Babylon

On Nashville Babylon, Mark Rogers has new music from Alejandro Escovedo, birthday tunes for Robert Fisher of the Willard Grant Conspiracy and John Martyn plus classics courtesy of Karen Dalton and Emmylou Harris.