Nights for Thursday 29 September 2016

 

View the live stream of APRA Silver Scroll Awards coverage from 6.30pm here

6:30 Unroll the Scrolls

Bryan Crump and Charlotte Ryan preview the night ahead, and look back to some classic moments in Silver Scroll history.

7:00 APRA Silver Scroll Awards

We join MC John Campbell, Alex Behan, Yadana Saw and the RNZ Music team and guests as we celebrate New Zealand song writing and composition.

10:30 Late Edition

A round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International.

11:07 Our Changing World

Tonight we travel back to Fiordland in the late 1940s for an eyewitness account of the rediscovery of the takahe, and hear about the challenges - and successes - that this rare bird faces today.

11:30 This Way Up

If you've used your cell phone, EFTPOS card, the internet or your car today then you've used GPS – the global positioning system developed in the '70s and owned by the US military. Simon Morton looks at how GPS works plus how Christchurch is using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag to track its wheelie rubbish bins.