Nights for Thursday 16 June 2022

 

7:12 World Weather with Erick Brenstrum

Former Metservice Severe Weather Meteorologist, Erick Brensturm joins us once again to take a look at weather events around the world. His topics tonight include record-breaking hurricaine agatha, Iberian droughts, the heatwave in India and Pakistan and a book on climate chance called "On Time and Water",by Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason. 

7:35 Remakes, Reboots, 'Resurrections' and Off-Shoots.

Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Professor of Film, Media, and Popular Culture at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) join us once again to talk popular culture - tonight she takes a look at remakes, reboots, 'resurrections' and off-shoots.

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

How a race to write books and a gadget that counts words are helping child literacy. In South Africa eight out of 10 children struggle to read by the age of 10. But a charity called Book Dash has come up with an innovative way of getting more kids to read.  And in the US a group is giving pre-school children a pedometer-style gadget to wear. But instead of counting steps, the gadget counts the number of words they hear every day. 

9:07 Our Changing World

This week on Our Changing World, two stories about chemistry - an Auckland research team are recreating Renaissance beauty recipes in the lab, while an Otago PhD student is investigating why certain synthetic cannabinoids are so dangerous.  

9:30 Greenland Ice Sheet

After last night's chat with Lars Ostenfeld, about his film INTO THE ICE in which accompanies three of the world's leading glaciologists on pioneering scientific expeditions to and into the Greenland ice sheet.  - a listener from Genoa, Italy got in touch.  Geoff Henderson a wind turbine engineer had been an "amateur" climate scientist for many years and last year to did an MSc at Canterbury University, focusing on global  ice-loss and sea level rise, trying to get more "professional" about climate science. He joins us with sone of his insights into the situation in Greenland.

10:00 Late Edition

Bryan Crump presents all the breaking news, a little analysis of the stories of the moment, and some highlights of the day on RNZ National.

11:07 Music 101 pocket edition

 In this week's Pocket Edition, Charlotte Ryan celebrates the music of Simon and Garfunkel with Samuel Flynn Scott and interviews Tauranga raised, LA Based musician Ny Oh who tours in Harry Styles band.