Nights for Monday 31 January 2022
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Nights Sport
9:10 PM.Peter Lampp joins us once again and with many events in the Manawatu lost to Covid, he's thankful for his TV and the Australian Open tennis. Audio
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Mindset and Wellbeing for Creatives
7:35 PM.We speak to Sonny Southon, who after years as an artist, songwriter, vocal coach, recognized that however talented musicians are, unless they had the correct mindset and passion along with good… Read more Audio
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Hard Graft
7:06 PM.We talk to Plant Breeder, Dr Greg Reeves who's seven years of research into grafting grass-like plants monocrots has landed him a job at The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research in… Read more Audio
7:12 Hard Graft
Grafting is a technique used across agricultural industry: physically binding plants together to improve speed to fruiting, hardiness, pest resistance and hybridization.
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But it was thought that some of the most important crops could not be grafted. These included grasses and cereals like wheat, corn and rice and all sorts of others like bananas, pineapples, bamboo, ginger, and onions.
Photo: AFP or licensors
We talk to Plant Breeder, Dr Greg Reeves who's seven years of research into grafting grass-like plants monocrots has landed him a job at The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research in Motueka.
7:35 Mindset and Wellbeing for Creatives.
We speak to Sonny Southon, who after years as an artist, songwriter, vocal coach, and a brief stint as an artist manager, recognized that however talented musicians are, unless they had the correct mindset and passion along with good well-being habits, music careers would struggle and that spending time building a good solid foundation from which to spring from was fundamentally imperative to success.
Sonny Southon at home Photo: Kirsten Johnstone
She has teamed with Auckland UNESCO City of Music with funding from the New Zealand Music Commission, to announce a nation-wide competition giving away two Mindset and Well-being Coaching for Musicians and Artist Development program packages.
8:05 Little Moment of Calm
Bryan has been out and about with his recorder over the summer and has another, much needed, Little Moment of Calm for us.
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
Our Window on the World tonight comes from the BBC's Science in Action team. They're looking into biological indicators for the potential development of long covid and they hear from a team of physicists have produced the longest-lasting soap bubble ever - they managed to prevent the bubble from popping for well over a year.
Soap bubbles; water-based gas marbles; and water-glycerol gas marbles. Photo: Roux et. al., Phys. Rev. Fluids, 2022
9:10 Nights Sport
Peter Lampp joins us once again and with many events in the Manawatu lost to Covid, he's thankful for his TV and the Australian Open tennis.
Photo: PHOTOSPORT
9:30 Classical Pop
A new series presented by Nigel Collins exploring the intersection between classical and popular music, here on RNZ National. Tonight's programme features music from Fleet Foxes, Johnny Greenwood Joni Mitchell.
Fleet Foxes Photo: Supplied
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 Nashville Babylon
After 11, on Nashville Babylon, Mark Rogers celebrates the birth of ace bass player James Jamerson with a selection of his finest moments for the Motown label. There's also blues tunes from the pen of Willie Dixon, reggae courtesy of Rita Marley plus a classic from the Faces.
Photo: 2005 AFP
