Nights for Monday 2 December 2013
7:15 Sport: South East Asia
Surveying the action from the stands, it's Bangkok based sports correspondent James Goyder on Manny Pacquiao's fight last weekend and the AFC Champions League Final earlier this month.
7:30 Insight
8:15 Windows on the World
International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.
8:40 Pundit - NZ History
Te Ara editor and historian Jock Phillips on key turning points that helped to shape New Zealand – the '70s prime ministers Norman Kirk (Labour) and Robert Muldoon (National).
9:10 World's Oldest Calendar
Has the world's oldest lunar calendar been unearthed by archaeologist Vincent Gaffney in Aberdeenshire, Scotland?
Link:
World's Oldest Calendar Discovered in UK - National Geographic
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 Full-Time Blues Radio - Murder Ballads
The home for new and independent blues music.This weekly show is hosted by 'Johnny Full-Time' and features an hour of the best in blues, with news, new releases and interviews. The premise of the programme is to provide a platform for the next generation of blues legends. (PRX)
Tonight, listen to some of the best story songs of sin to come out in the past few years. Ballads, or story songs, likely date back to the origins of music itself. The act of taking the life of another human being... that's been recorded ever since Cain and Abel. This programme features nearly a dozen murder ballads from the past few years. There's also a look at the history of the legendary murder ballad 'Stagger Lee'. (Part 9 of 12).
There is more about Full-Time Blues Radio: Murder Ballads on the PRX website