Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

Windows on the World for the week commencing 15 March 2010

Monday 15 March: Netrimony

Dating websites are springing up all over the world and are gaining popularity. Rajini Vaidyanathan goes behind the scenes at Shaadi.com, India's biggest marriage website to find out how it works and what effect it is having - is the traditional role played by auntie-ji in decline, or is it just the urban elite who go online to find their spouse?

Tuesday 16 March: The Future of the Internet

BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones looks at the science behind new developments across the world wide web. The programme looks at the reality behind web 3.0 and asks how will such an all-pervasive network, if it does emerge, be made safe and secure against attacks and corruption? Who will ultimately control the web - big business or the community? And how will these technological advances impact on the developing world?

Wednesday 17 March: Internet Cafe Hobo

Internet Cafe Hobo Nick Baker continues his globetrotting collecting interesting stories of people using internet cafes to make connections all over the world. Follows on from Internet Café Hobo series in December 2009.

Thursday 18 March: The Virtual Revolution (Part 4 of 4)

Homo Interneticus - are our brains being rewired by the net?

Windows on the World for the week commencing 8 March 2010

Monday 8 March: Great Expectations (Part 2 of 2)

Part two of Nina Robinson's exploration of the impacts of the 2012 London Olympics on the residents of a nearby housing estate.

Tuesday 9 March: Extreme Persuasion

Psychologist Dr Kevin Dutton looks at the evolutionary and psychological roots of extreme persuasion. On the stage of international conflict, industrial relations, business deals and even fraud, it’s a technique that can transform the world. Some show great talent for it. These are the extreme persuaders. Some learn the skills, in others they seem innate. We meet professional persuaders and gifted amateurs to learn their secrets.

Wednesday 10 March: Spanning The World (Part 2 of 2)

Ponte Milvio in Rome: a bridge which has recently become a site of romantic pilgrimage for young Italian lovers. They clip a golden padlock onto one of the bridge’s ornate lampposts, stand with their backs to the Tiber and toss the key into the river as a sign of their eternal devotion. Underneath this modern bridge runs the story of its first manifestation – a long since destroyed version of the Ponte Milvio, which served as the focal point for one of the most important battles in the history of Christianity – the Battle of Milvian Bridge. In this programme we examine the bridge as a site of both romantic and religious pilgrimage, exploring the art and architecture it has inspired and the imaginative space it occupies in the minds of generations of Romans.

Thursday 11 March: The Virtual Revolution (Part 3 of 4)

The cost of Free - how business has colonised the web: Twenty years on from the invention of the world wide web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives.

Windows on the World for the week commencing 1 March 2010

Monday 1 March 2010: Great Expectations (Part 1 of 2)

With the Olympic Games arriving in London in 2012, the BBC follows the experiences of residents living in one inner city housing estate as they contemplate what the games mean to them and their future. Presenter Nina Robinson meets the residents of an estate in Hackney, East London. Their backgrounds span many corners of the world from Hackney, to Jamaica, Turkey, Algeria, Senegal and India. Some residents fear that crime and a widening gap between the rich and poor will increase. Also, with all the reconstruction that is underway, many are scared that they will be priced out of the area altogether.

Tuesday 2 March: The Point of Zoos (Part 2 of 2)

In the second of the BBC Discovery series "The Point of Zoos" Lynn Malcolm discovers one of the world’s most active conservation organisations in the middle of New York’s toughest neighbourhoods - the Bronx Zoo. She encounters leaping lemurs in a recreation of their Madagascan home. This is the latest of the Bronx Zoo's big exhibits and Lynne discusses how architecture and design can be harnessed in the cause of conservation.

Wednesday 3 March: Spanning The World (Part 1 of 2)

Bridges symbolize man's desire and ability to span the world, to bring people closer together and to access further territories. They can also engender a sense of wonderment and attract visitors for their own sakes. This two part BBC series examines the significance of bridges as icons, as a means of connecting communities or delineating separateness and as destinations for personal and religious reasons. This week New York's Brooklyn Bridge.

Thursday 4 March: The Virtual Revolution (Part 2 of 4)

Enemy of the State? Dr Aleks Krotoski charts how, for better and for worse, the web is reshaping our relationship to authority and forging a new brand of politics. The programme gives the low down on how the web has given new voice to extremist factions like Al Qaeda and is even generating new forms of warfare. Aleks tells the incredible story of how Estonia was brought to its knees by a string of cyber attacks launched by a handful of teenage Russian hackers.