Nights for Tuesday 28 April 2009
Nights for Tuesday 28 April 2009
7 pm News & Weather
7:15 Kiwi Korean Poetry
Susanne Morning - poet and artist
A Kiwi living in South Korea reflects the blend of culture in her book of poetry titled Dogsoup and Donuts.
7:30 The Sampler
New music reviews with Troy Ferguson.
8 pm News & Weather
8:15 Windows on the World:
International public radio documentaries.
8:45 Ignition - Energy
Professor Ralph Sims - director of Centre for Energy Research, Massey University.
The challenges of getting warm, keeping cool or just driving from point A to B... alternatives to internal combustion engines for private transport.
8:59 Conundrum: Clue 3
9 pm News & Weather
9:06 Tuesday Feature:Ngā Uruora - The Groves of Life Ecology and History in a New Zealand Landscape
In part one of Ngā Ururoa, ecologist Geoff Park examines the impact of European agriculture on the Hauraki Plains country, once the site of the richest pre-colonial Māori culture. It's also where the country's future landscape was shaped. (Part 2 of 6, RNZ)
9:59 Conundrum: Clue 4
10 pm News & Weather
10:17 Late Edition:
A review of the leading 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 Charlie Gilett's World of Music
Britain's guru of world music radio presents a personal selection (BBC)
11:36 Bedtime story: The Fall of the Families by Phillip Mann
The second novel of Phillip Mann's epic chronicalling the struggle by aliens to regain their civilisations - lost to ruthless humans who colonised the galaxy exterminating all opposition