8:40 PM.Jivester, editor and publisher Fergus Barrowman just goes giddy at a snazzy bebop beat. Music played: 1. 'Darkling I Listen' from Jasmine Lovell-Smith, 'Fortune Songs' (Paintbox Records 2012); 2. 'All… Read moreAudio
7:14 PM.21 December 2012 - apparently at least 25 million people around the world believe that this Friday is the date of a prophesied Mayan apocalypse, however, anthropologist A.Prof. John Hoopes from the… Read moreAudio
8:40 PM.Terri Anderson is a Kiwi-born correspondent who is also developing personalized bilingual ebooks for children in Chile. She talks about economic growth tops the OECD, pig processing faces violent… Read moreAudio
9:07 PM.Historians and antique map collectors Henry and Holly Wendt on how scientists, mathematicians, explorers and cartographers came to grips with the shape, size and nature of the Earth through a visual… Read moreAudio
7:14 PM.Keeping score across the ditch is ABC sports journalist Paul Kennedy. One of the most successful batsman in the history of cricket, Ricky Ponting waves goodbye to international competition - but does… Read moreAudio
8:06 PM.It sounds a little bit like a violin... but it isn't! Megan Collins plays her instrument then tells Bryan all about it. If you still haven't guessed what it is, you'll find out right at the end. Audio
8:43 PM.Prof Mark Apperley from University of Waikato tweezers out the silicon chips to show us how computers compute... contributions of Computer Science to computing in general, to other disciplines, and… Read moreAudio
8:38 PM.Exploring the contemporary arts and culture from around the Pacific is writer and curator Ema Tavola... Concealed Ancestors, a solo exhibition by Fijian / Maori visual artist Margaret Aull, also the… Read moreAudio
7:15 PM.There has been a dramatic rise in protests in recent months, including self-immolations, in what is the Chinese province of Tibet - with New Zealand based Tibetan, Losang. Audio