Nights for Thursday 2 February 2023
7:10 Our Changing World
On Our Changing World this week, Claire Concannon tags along on an Evans Bay Intermediate group trip to the Wellington University Coastal Ecology Lab.
While the students find out about what marine biologist do, Claire catches up with Professor James Bell to learn more about his research on sea sponges.
7:40 The Reading
We finish our week of readings of the winning stories from our 2021 short story competition.
Today's story is an ultimately joyful tale about identity. Here is Eli Bull's Between Names told by Felix Crossley-Pritchard.
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 People Fixing The World
Food waste from hotels and the heat from computers are being used to provide new sources of energy. In the fight against climate change, it is of vital importance to find new ways of making our energy go further.
We visit Goa in India, to hear how food waste digesters - that turn waste into gas for cooking - are springing up everywhere.
And in server centres around the world, we explore how the heat generated by running the internet is being re-used by local neighbourhoods.
9:07 Astronomy with Alan Gilmore
Former Superintendent of the Mt John Observatory above Lake Tekapo in the Mackenzie Country, Alan Gilmore joins us for his regular astronomy chat.
10:17 Weather Update
NIWA meteorologist Ben Noll joins the show for the very latest weather update.
10.25 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist
The long-list for the prestigious Ockham New Zealand Book Awards is out with a record breaking 44 titles.
The awards showcase the best of the country's literary talent - covering poetry, prose, general and illustrated non-fiction.
To tell Karyn all about the longlist, she's joined by Nicola Legat, the Chair of the New Zealand Book Awards Trust.
10:40 Long-lost GoPro
The story of a battered GoPro found on a deserted Dunedin beach in September 2020.
10:50 Ed Sheeran's Wellington concert
It's a big night in the capital where a record-breaking crowd is singing and swaying along to one of music's biggest stars.
British singer songwriter Ed Sheeran is playing to 48-thousand people at Sky Stadium as part of his Mathematics World Tour.
And he's pulling out all the stops - his team saying tonight's production is the biggest to ever come to New Zealand.
Joining us on the show from Sky Stadium is stadium chief executive Shane Harmon.