Nights for Wednesday 22 April 2015

7:10 Cracking Up About Climate Change

By utilising creative energy and a clowning spirit, Tejopala Rawls and Giovanni Fusetti aim to positively influence what will be the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris this December 2015.

7:30 Spectrum

People, places and events in New Zealand.

8:10 Windows on the World

International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.

8:40 Japan

Palmerston North raised journalist Motoko Kakubayashi resides in Tokyo and works for the Japanese Science and Technology Agency, pop. 126,434,964 (est. 2014). Caring concerns for a growing number of grandparents with dementia, the growing celebrity of Princess Kako, and worries about the mass death of dolphins on Japan's east coast.

9:06 The Wednesday Drama: Hikoi, Hikoi, by Miria George

Trish and her three teenage kids decide to make a journey from Rotorua to Wellington for the last leg of the 2004 Hikoi. Along the way they pick up some surprising guests who they challenge about what they believe is right and wrong (RNZ)

10:00 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.

11:06 Night Lights Classic Jazz

On a Turquoise Cloud: Duke Ellington after the war (WFIU, 9 of 12)