Nights for Wednesday 10 June 2015

7:10 Synthetic Biology

Explorations on how our natural environment is becoming something more artificial, with Dr Josh Wodak of UNSW Art & Design faculty, who has an artwork of a fragment of coral that has been included in a 'Cabinet of Curiosities' in the Deutsches Museums' Welcome to the Anthropocene' exhibition.

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 Brazil

Editor of the International section of Estado de Minas, the main daily newspaper of Minas Gerais, Pablo Pires Fernandes reports from the Federative Republic of Brazil, pop. 201,032,714 (est. 2013). The on-going Petrobras scandal, now Brazil's congress wants to reduce presidential power, the role of the media (which is mostly controlled by eight families) in this scandal, and the Inhotim art museum.

9:06 The Wednesday Drama: 'Window', by Lucy O'Brien

A woman invites a door-to-door Christian prosthetist into her house on a rainy afternoon. The young woman peddles her faith with the desperation of the lost, while the older woman deals with her own losses by playing out her powerlessness at the expense of the visitor (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 Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

By George Pt 2: The music of composer, pianist and painter George Gershwin. This tribute features many of his songs from the 1920s and '30s and comments of some of his friends and colleagues (2 of 13, PRX).