Nights for Thursday 4 November 2021
7:12 Looking to the Night Sky
Nights' Astronomer, retired superintendent of the Mt John Observatory at the University of Canterbury, Alan Gilmore is back once again with his eye on the stars.
MOA telescope at University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory Photo: Fraser Gunn
7:35 Structural Engineering and our Family Home
Were you thinking about knocking down that wall? Michelle Grant, president of Structural Engineering Society of New Zealand joins us once again. Tonight she'll be talking about the structural enguineering in our homes.
Photo: 123rf
8:10 Tech With a Teenager
Digital native, Charlie Cuff ponders Facebook's name change to Meta and how that relates to a virtual reality focused future and what future Facebook seems to have in mind for humans and VR/AR.
Photo: AFP
8:15 Pacific Waves
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.
Photo: RNZ Pacific
8:30 Window on The World
As the world slowly moves away from using fossil fuels for electricity, one tiny Scottish island has proved it's possible to rely almost entirely on renewables. An inner Hebridean isle used to get its power from diesel generators. But in 2008 its residents launched the world's first electricity system powered by nature, and the Crowdscience team wants to know exactly how they did it, and whether such a model could work in other places with no national grid?
Photo: (Photo by Monty Rakusen / Cultura Creative / Cultura Creative via AFP)
9:07 Our Changing World
This week on Our Changing World, Claire Concannon hits the Central Otago hills with Botany PhD student Ben Teele to imagine the landscape as it used to be, and to follow the clues to find leftover pockets of tōtara trees.
Ben Teele takes some clippings from a remnant Central Otago tōtara tree Photo: RNZ/Claire Concannon
9:30 Overseas Correspondent - Canada
Our Overseas Correspondent from Canada, Peggy Revell joins us once again from Medicine Hat, Alberta.
Photo: BART MAAT / ANP MAG / ANP via AFP
10:17 Lately
Photo: RNZ
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
After 11, in this week's Pocket Edition with Yadana Saw, UK pop darling Self Esteem talks with Tony Stamp and Shapeshifter's Sam Trevethick on the need to vaccinate for summer festival season.
Homegrown Photo: RNZ/Kirsten Johnstone