Nights for Monday 27 June 2022
7:12 Writing Books for People with Aphasia
Stephen Gibbs was a teacher, musician and music director, a journalist and event manager - as well as a husband, father and grandfather. He was a voracious reader, a fluent writer and confident speaker. In 2015, he suffered a stroke which left him with aphasia. With expert therapists in speech, music and eurhythmy he has re-invented himself as an author.
His book The Suspect Speaker: The frustrations and the blessings of life with aphasia is a collection of fifteen short stories about people who have difficulty in verbal communication. People with aphasia.
Each story here has three versions: A, B and C.
The A version is for people who have aphasia that have difficulty in reading. The sentences are compact and descriptions are sparse.
The C versions is for people with aphasia who can read, or who like to be read to, by their supporters/carers.
The B versions are in-between – a therapeutic 'sandwich'. People who have aphasia can get the gist of the stories from the A version, and in recovery, over time, can extend their reading ability for the B or C stories.
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7:35 Aotearoa Hip Hip
Brad Warrington is back with more tunes.
8:05 Little Moment of Calm
Photo: Phillip Capper from Wellington, New Zealand, CC BY 2.0
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
In Science in Action tonight, researchers have discovered a species of bacteria which dwarfs all others by thousands of times and we also find out about the oldest evidence for wildfires on the planet which raged across the land 430 million years ago.
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9:10 Nights Sport
Helene Elliot from the LA Times joins us once again.
Photo: GLYN KIRK
9:30 Climate Tipping Point
Justin Rowlatt discovers how global warming may trigger irreversible changes to our planet. But could we humans also be at a tipping point of our own? One that is galvanising action to decarbonise our economy like never before?
Photo: Visible Earth, NASA/JOHAN SWANEPOEL/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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.
Photo: RNZ Andrew Robertson
11:07 Nashville Babylon
On this week's Nashville Babylon Mark Rogers has a birthday tune for Mick Jones of the Clash, previews live dates from George Thorogood and Billy Bragg, plays classic soul courtesy of James and Bobby Purify, English folk from the Smoke Fairies plus blues from RL Burnside.
Billy Bragg performs in Nashville 2017. Photo: AFP / FILE