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7:10 Photos by other machines

The history of the camera-less photo, with Dr Geoffrey Batchen, professor of art history at Victoria University of Wellington.

Herbert Dobbie (New Zealand), Aspelenium Flaccidum (Chatham Islands), from New Zealand Ferns (148 Varieties), 1880, book illustrated with cyanotypes, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.

Len Lye, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1947, gelatin silver photograph, Len Lye Foundation Collection, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth.

Joyce Campbell (New Zealand), Griffith Park (from LA Bloom series), 2002, unique Ilfochrome photograph, Courtesy of McNamara Gallery, Whanganui .

Andrew Beck, Steel Bar Photogram (after Serra), 2011, steel bar with gelatin silver photograph, Courtesy of Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington.

Anne Noble, Spectregraph #3 (from Bee Wing Spectregraphs series), 2015, digital pigment photograph, Courtesy of McNamara Gallery, Whanganui.

7:30 Spectrum

People, places and events in New Zealand.

8:10 Amerasians: Children of the Dust

Trista Goldberg looks at the story of Vietnamese Amerasians - children fathered by American servicemen during the Vietnam War.  A great number were lost to illness and malnutrition in those challenging post-war years and those who survived were widely ostracized by a society still coming to terms with the war.  Trista Goldberg was one of a minority who managed to escape the country as a baby and was raised by an adopted family in the U.S. In both America and Vietnam she discovers how Amerasians have survived in the forty years since the end of the war.

8:40 Papua New Guinea

The drought crisis affecting the Papua New Guinea Highlands region (and what the government is doing about it) - with RNZI senior correspondent Johnny Blades.

Papua New Guinea Highlands affected by drought.

Papua New Guinea Highlands affected by drought. Photo: Supplied

9:06 The Wednesday Drama: And the Sun Stood Still by Dava Sobel

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 Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

The First Lady of Radio: Vaughn de Leath's recording career began in 1921, which lead to hundreds of titles over the next decade, and she was accompanied by some of the leading jazz artists of the day including Eddie Lang, Paul Whiteman, Red Nichols and Miff Mole (F, PRX)