Nights for Thursday 28 October 2021

 

7:12 Sci-Fi, Sci-Fact - Pheromones in Black Widow

PHD Candidate at Victoria University Wellington, Anindita Sen looks at  Pheromones from the Black Widow movie.

7:35 Celebrating Aotearoa's Queer Heritage Sites

Kerryn Pollock, a Senior Heritage Listing Advisor with Pouhere Taonga/Heritage New Zealand who heads up their Rainbow List Project, which recognises sites of significance to Aotearoa New Zealand's queer communities.

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

Fake medicines are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide each year. Tonight, People Fixing The World hears from the inventors around the world whoi are coming up with ways to spot the fakes.

9:07 Our Changing World

This week on Our Changing World, it's all about plants.    Claire Concannon speaks to John Barkla of the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network about threats to our native plants and learns about a dark horse contender for this year's favourite plant competition.  

While Katy Gosset finds out about research into improving the quality and growth efficiency of a non-native plant important to many New Zealanders - the grapevine.

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Uganda

Our Overseas Correspondent from Uganda, Tabu Butagira joins us from Kampala.

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 Music 101 pocket edition

In this week's Pocket Edition, Los Angeles' Helado Negro speaks to Tony Stamp about singing and speaking 'Spanglish', and Hollie Smith explains why her latest album Coming in From The Dark.