Nights for Wednesday 2 November 2022
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Midweek Mediawatch with Hayden Donnell 2 November 2022
10:30 PM.A publicity stunt from Christopher Luxon, Nationals vote against Fair Pay Agreements, and Auckland mayor Wayne Brown eschewing media interviews. Audio
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Diving into the Japanese practice of forest bathing
9:30 PM.The practice of shinrin-yoku or 'forest bathing' emerged in Japan in the 1980s, as an eco-therapy touted to have both physical and physiological benefits. The practice is one that has been adopted by… Read more Audio
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The Kiwi couple with a lifelong love of caravans
9:10 PM.Pretty much their entire lives, Don and Marilyn Jessen have been living and breathing caravans. The retired couple has written several popular books about these classic sleeper vans and their latest… Read more Audio, Gallery
7:12 At The Movies
Simon Morris reviews three movies about men and women - The Woman King, starring Viola Davis, French procedural The Night of the12th and award-winning South Korean film Decision to Leave.
7:30 Digital Planet
Elon Musk completed on a $44 billion takeover of Twitter last week. He's expressed the want to restructure the platform and create a digital 'town square', a potential space for free speech, growth and learning. But defining freedom of speech is a minefield, and some parties are afraid that Elon's vision could provide opportunity for greater disinformation and misinformation. So can Twitter ever fulfil the digital idealism that many first dreamt of at the conception of the internet?
Elon Musk. Photo: FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP
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
8:30 Window on The World: CrowdScience
Record-breaking heatwaves swept across the Earth's northern hemisphere this summer, while Australia experienced flooding and East Africa is enduring its worst drought in decades. Listener Geoff in Australia wants to know: Is climate change really responsible, or could it just be weather?
People clear mud from a property damaged by floods in the Melbourne suburb of Maribyrnong on October 15, 2022. Photo: WILLIAM WEST / AFP
9:07 The couple with a lifelong love of caravans
Don and Marilyn Jessen Photo: Supplied
Retired couple Don and Marilyn Jessen have been living and breathing caravans pretty much their entire lives.
Don's parents founded Liteweight Caravans shortly after World War II, and when Marlyn met him at age 17, she realised loving Don meant also loving his caravans.
The pair have written several popular books about these classic motorhomes that are synonymous with New Zealand summer, and now they have a new offering by the title of More Retro Caravans.
9:30 Diving into the Japanese practice of forest bathing
The practice of shinrin-yoku or 'forest bathing' emerged in Japan in the 1980s, as an eco-therapy touted to have both physical and physiological benefits.
The practice is one that has been adopted by Dr Geoffrey Handsfield, a senior research fellow with the Musculoskeletal Modelling Group at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. Dr Handsfield, who originally hails from Nevada, says forest bathing engages the 'rest and digest' parasympathetic nervous system. He joins the show to explain.
Photo: Pixabay
10:17 Midweek Mediawatch with Hayden Donnell
In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Charlotte Ryan about a publicity stunt from Christopher Luxon and social media meltdowns.
Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
11:07 Inside Out
Nick Tipping brings you classic recordings and modern masterpieces from the world of jazz. This week Nick checks out an album from Danish jazz pianist Jorgen Emborg.
