Nights for Thursday 8 November 2018
7:12 Overseas Correspondent - China
Patrick Phelps is on the line from Nanjing with the latest from China. In the mix tonight, the trade war with the US.
Photo: By Ozonefrance [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
7:35 New Horizons
Elvis Costello Photo: James O'Mara
Cover image of Elvis Costello's Look Now Photo: Concord Records
Elvis Costello has just released a new album, Look Now, his first collection of original material for some few years now. William Dart examines the treasure.
8:10 Night Mail
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8:15 Dateline Pacific
Photo: RNZ
RNZ Pacific's daily current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories of the week, with background and reaction from the people making the news.
8:30 Window on the World
A powerful colossus is controlling most of what we eat. Who has the guts to take it on? Emily Thomas meets three people who have gone up against the food industry. From following trucks across Thailand to expose slavery in the fishing industry, to going undercover in Europe to reveal the hidden ingredients in processed food, to finding their phones have been infiltrated by spyware, these are people prepared to take risks.
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9:07 Our Changing World
This week on Our Changing World, Alison Ballance finds out some simple ways of ensuring our brains stay healthy as we get older, and discovers what melting ice from Antarctica and Greenland might tell us about future sea level rise.
The Greenland icecap, which is up to 3 kilometres thick, is already melting and losing mass. Photo: CC0
9:30 The Podcast Hour
'The Daily' from The New York Times delivers the news to your ears.
The New York Times building By JavierDo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Photo: By JavierDo, CC BY-SA 3.0,
Since setting up its audio unit in 2016, the New York Times has been using podcasts as a way of attracting a younger audience, and to reinforce its reputation for good journalism...audio lets its reporters showcase their expertise and their personalities in a very different way than simply having their name on the byline of a written article.
10:17 Lately
Photo: RNZ
Lately with Karyn Hay is a late night radio show on RNZ National, with an eye on live events, an ear for music, a great sense of humour and a genuine interest in people and their stories.
11:07 Music 101 pocket edition
Outside OMAC in Otara Photo: RNZ Pacific Sara Vui-Talitu
In this week's Pocket Edition, we celebrate thirty years of OMAC - the Otara Music and Arts Centre that has been South Auckland's incubator of creative talent. Tony Stamp speaks with Dunedin trip pop, alt weirdos Jaggers and Lines and Yadana Saw takes a tour of Orchestra of Sphere's headquarters.
Orchestra of Spheres at their Pyramid Club headquarters Photo: Ana Tovey