Nights for Wednesday 10 November 2021
-
A treasured collection of Maori language and tikanga.
9:10 PM.We talk to Dame Anne Salmond about a new book, Hei Taonga Ma Nga Uri Whakatipu: Treasures for the Rising Generation. Read more Audio, Gallery
-
Documenting 50 Years of Greenpeace
7:14 PM.In 1990, Michael Szabo wrote a book called Making Waves, telling the story of the first 20 years of Greenpeace. He's just brought this project up to date with Making Waves II. He joins us to tell us… Read more Audio, Gallery
7:12 Documenting 50 Years of Greenpeace.
In 1990, Michael Szabo wrote a book called Making Waves, telling the story of the first 20 years of Greenpeace. He's just brought this project up to date with Making Waves II. He joins us to tell us more.
Greenpeace sponsored SV Vega confronts the Noble Bob Douglas drilling ship on the site where oil giant Anadarko intends to start exploratory drilling for deep sea oil. Other yachts in the Oil Free Seas Flotilla say outside the 500 metre exclusion zone, from left, SV Tiama, SV Friendship, SV Shearwater II and SV Ratbag (brown sails). The drill site is over 100 nautical miles off Raglan, on the west coast of New Zealand, and in waters around a kilometre and a half deep. Photo: © Greenpeace / Nigel Marple
Michael is also a keen photographer of our native bird life and has kindly let us make a gallery of some of his work.
7:30 At The Movies
On At The Movies, Simon Morris reviews three films that have divided the pundits - Jane Campion's award-winning The Power of the Dog, Marvel Comics' ambitious The Eternals, and an investigation into the murder of Sir Peter Blake, The Garden of Evil.
8:10 The Hump
The Hump is our Wednesday night Quiz Night where we take a dive into the archives of Nga Taonga Sound and Vision for some audio gems and we want to see if you can identify them.
Tonight's prize is Prince: A Portrait of the Artist in Memories & Memorabilia by Paul Sexton.
Photo: Welbeck
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 communities around the world increasingly experience the devastating effects of global warming, world leaders, policy makers and scientists from all over the globe are attending COP26, the United Nation's major climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.
Crowdscience hosts a panel of three experts taking part in the conference, to hear their thoughts on what progress has been made so far.
Photo: AFP
9:07 A treasured collection of Māori language and tikanga.
We talk to Dame Anne Salmond about a new book, Hei Taonga Ma Nga Uri Whakatipu: Treasures for the Rising Generation, which documents a project initiated by Sir Aprina Ngata.
Photo: Te Papa Press
Desperate to ensure that the Māori language and tikanga were put on record as soon as possible, Sir Aprina initiated four remarkable expeditions that saw a team from the Dominion Museum (Te Papa's predecessor), including Dame Anne's great-grandfather, James McDonald, travel across the North Island to record the tikanga Māori and art forms that Ngata feared might be disappearing.
9:30 Quiz Answer
We find out who is tonight's quiz whizz.
9:40 Champions of The Pacific
Talei Anderson and Vinnie Wylie with RNZ Pacific's weekly sports show, Champions of the Pacific. - The last woman to captain the Samoa women's rugby team at a World Cup plots a return and the Pasifika owned gym in South Auckland determined to keep people moving.
Photo: RNZ/Vinay Ranchhod
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 Inside Out
Nick Tipping hosts a journey through the jazz spectrum playing favourites, standards and new releases along the way.
Photo: Elisabeth D'Orcy, CC BY-SA 2.0
