Nights for Wednesday 27 July 2022
7:10 New Zealand's busiest bee
Nick Wallingford has been awarded Apiculture New Zealand's busiest bee award for his work digitising more than 24,000 pages for the New Zealand beekeeping Digital Archive
7:30 At The Movies
On At the Movies, Dan Slevin reviews three new releases that are all adapted from books: the romantic drama WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING set in 1950s North Carolina; Netflix's biggest budget blockbuster ever, THE GRAY MAN from the Russo Brothers; and a gentle and moving film in Irish, THE QUIET GIRL.
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 a couple of novels Unholy Business by Nora West and A Good Winter by Gigi Fenster.
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.
8:30 Window on The World
People Fixing the World Using finance to fight homelessness
How bank accounts and clever investments are improving the lives of homeless people.
9:07 Canterbury Museum Registrar Scott Reeves
If you think shifting house is complicated, try moving a Museum. Canterbury Museum staff have begun planning the challenge of packing up up 2.3 million taonga (treasures) ahead of a major redevelopment.
Museum Registrar Scott Reeves explains how to safely move a museum
9:30 Quiz Answer
We find out who is tonight's quiz whizz.
9:40pm BBC Discovery
The scientists who discovered the Higgs boson ten years ago thought they'd also create dark matter in the underground atom smasher at CERN. But they haven't seen it yet. Roland Pease joins them as they redouble their efforts.
10:17 Late Ed
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 Inside Out
Nick Tipping hosts a journey through the jazz spectrum playing favourites, standards and new releases along the way.