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with skipper. Bryan Crump & navigator. Robyn Rockgirl Walker

On the show tonight (Monday)...

Family Eco-Home

Family Eco-Home Photo: Russell Baillie

7:12 BUILDING BETTER
capitalising on the free energy from the sun - AUT Building Services & Environment director Russell Baillie is building a family eco-home (with the latest technology)...

7:35 Upbeat - Richie Williams, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
> feature interviews from RNZ Concert with Eva Radich

8:12 Windows on the World - Problems of Developing Drugs
> international public radio documentaries

8:43 The Scientists - ASTRONOMY
former Mt John University Observatory superintendent Alan Gilmore raises our gaze to the bodies floating in space... the latest results from Pluto via the New Horizons spacecraft plus how to prepare for a massive solar storm...

Views of Pluto through the years.

Photo: NASA


roster: Alan Gilmore (Astronomy); Leo Schep (Toxicology); Bec Stanley (Botany); Mark Apperley (Computer Science); Don Otter (Food Technology); Erick Brenstrum (World Weather); Jean Fleming (Body Parts); Pierre Roudier (Soil Science); Shaun Hendy (Physics); & Stella McQueen (Native Fish Ecology)

8:59 conundrum clue 1

 

9:10 THE SUPPORTIVE SING-ALONG
how the act of singing can get groups of people to bond together more quickly than other pastimes, and why this is significant to an evolutionary neuroscientist, in particular, Dr. Eiluned Pearce, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford...

9:25 Insight - What More Can be Done for Children?
> in-depth topical analysis from RNZ News

9:55 Mini Drama - Old News pt 1 of 5

9:59 conundrum clue 2

10:17 Late Edition
> a round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International

11:07 The Eleventh Hour - Folk Alley ep.4
> music from the American continent

... nights' time is the right time...