Nights for Monday 27 September 2010

7:20 True contradictions

Professor Graham Priest, Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne

Plato says "What Socrates says is true"; Socrates replys "What Plato says is false"... dialetheism and how some contradictions are true.

8 pm News and weather

8:15 Windows on the World

International public radio documentaries.

8:45 Thinkers: Philosophy

Ann Kerwin, Philosopher in Residence, Auckland University of Technology

Musings on how, what and why we think what we do... leaving space for learning: acknowledging and leveraging what we don't know.

8:59 Conundrum: Clue 1

9 pm News and weather

9:06 Insight

9:40 South Africa Report

Christi van der Westhuizen, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Politics, University of KwaZulu Natal

News and cultural trends from the Republic of South Africa, pop. 49,052,489 (2009 estimate)... the Protection of Information Bill which could send investigative journalists to jail for 25 years...

9:59 Conundrum: Clue 2

10 pm Late Edition

A review of the news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.

11 pm News and weather

11:06 Beale Street Caravan

The best in blues from the Blues Foundation in Memphis.