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Nights for Monday 18 July 2022

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7:12 Shut Eye

We speak to the team behind the feature film Shut Eye - a coming of age drama exploring the world of ASMR or autonomous sensory meridian response, which is an online phenomenon where streamers use sound therapy to connect with audiences.

7:35 Tropicália

Mona Lynn Courteau joins us once again with more Latin American music - tonight an historical Brazilian genre from the late 1960s known as Tropicália. 

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.

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8:30 Window on The World 

Roland Pease talks to two astronomers who began working on the James Webb Space Telescope more than two decades ago and have now seen the first spectacular results of their labours. 

This handout composite image by NASA/ESA relased on July 12, 2022 shows the dawn of a new era in astronomy has begun as the world gets its first look at the full capabilities of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope’s first full-colour images and spectroscopic data, which uncover a spectacular collection of cosmic features that have remained elusive. - The James Webb Space Telescope launched on 25 December 2021, on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, South America. After completing the most complex and difficult deployment sequence in space, Webb underwent months of commissioning where its mirrors were painstakingly aligned, and its instruments were calibrated to its space environment and prepared for science. (Photo by Handout / ESA/Webb / AFP)

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9:10 The Aotearoa History Show Needs You!

The Aotearoa History Show is back with another season - and they're looking for your help with some props.  Presenter William Ray joins us.

William Ray and Mani Dunlop co-host season two of The Aotearoa History Show

William Ray and Mani Dunlop co-host season two of The Aotearoa History Show Photo: RNZ

9:30 Days Like These

The first episode of a new podcast from The ABC in Australia called Days Like These.

Each episode is told by one person telling the tale of how they lived through something wild, or a moment where everything changed. They can sometimes be funny, sometimes scary sometimes both. Episode 1 is called "Swimming for Joy".

10:17 Late Edition

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Karyn Hay has all the breaking news, a little analysis of the stories of the moment, and some highlights of the day on RNZ National. 

11:07 Nashville Babylon

After 11, On this week's Nashville Babylon, Mark Rogers has birthday tunes for reggae legends Desmond Dekker and Gregory Isaacs, new music from Cajun King Tommy McLain and New Zealand's Jenny Mitchell.

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