Weekend Variety Wireless With Graeme Hill On Radiolive

This week Graeme and Grant Smithies re-spin The Cars megahit debut. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

First up, Royal Society NZ Hector Medal winner Bruce Hayward. He looks at how some of the tiniest little animals called Forams can tell us so much about our past environment. Then, nasty Social Insects in New Zealand with Prof Phil Lester. Other than bees, theyre invasive, predatory and at the least, annoying. How did they evolve such a complex way of living and how can we battle the buggers? Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

This hour, Movies with James Croot. The Other Side of the Wind is a 2018 film directed & co-written by Orson Welles and it debuts on Netflix. WHAT?! James Croot explains. Then its Words with Max Cryer. This week, flammable, cobweb and limericks. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

First up, Science Report. Our top science award, the Rutherford Medal goes to. Victoria Universitys Prof Rod Downey! Hes a pretty flash mathematician whose insights have made a lot of things work better. Its all to do with algorithms and computability. He explains in plain English.Then its Astronomy with Grant Christie. He takes a look at A new mission to Mercury and why it takes years to get there. Oxygen rich water under Mars? Plus, Stardomes new big-science collaboration on supernovas.And, Hubble is fit and working again! Pictured below, the incredible Hubble deep-field view which revealed a myriad of distant galaxies from just a tiny little black spot in the sky. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

This hour, Outsiders:William Edward Sanders.This week Gerard Hindmarsh joins Graeme Hill to discuss one of our less celebrated Victoria Crosses. The pair take a look at the Kiwi Naval hero of The Great War and the gruesome affair he had to endure. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

This hour, John Dybvigs Letter From America. Warning: John Dybvig does try to contain himself, but there are a few swear-words used in his piece, so listen to this week's Letter from America at your own risk. John is back to give us the latest in US politics and culture. Then, Jesus, make it stop: The death throes of WW1, continued. Countdown to Armistice, Part Four. Military historian Glyn Harper of Massey University describes the military and political manoeuvres that occurred in the weeks leading up to the 100th anniversary of Armistice on November 11. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

This hour, Skeptical Thoughts with Jessica MacFarlane. This weeks scams and woo exposed for what theyre not. Then, Famed broadcaster and theoretical physicist Michio Kaku joins Graeme Hill. Graeme poses some big questions about life in the universe and the future of us. Michio is touring NZ. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

First up, Media Stick with Tamar Munch. The weeks media shenanigans dissected. And this week, there are a lot of them. Absolute rubbish. Then Maegan Blom from Mills Bay Mussels joins Graeme to get to bottom of and age old question; will a cooked but unopened mussel kill you? Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

This week music journalist Grant Smithies joins Graeme Hill to explore poet Linton Kwesi Johnsons musical debut Dread Beat And Blood. A very English work brimming with real-place and real-time social tension.Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

This hour, Simon Pollard, science communicator to New Zealands youth joins RadioLIVEs Graeme Hill to discuss his new book Why Is That Lake So Blue? Its a really neat thing and you could be in to win a copy. Then, Wreckless Eric. He shot to fame in 1979 with Whole Wide World. He chats with Graeme about getting fat and old, Ian Dury and tons of random but entertaining stuff. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

This hour, Ipsos Research Director Jonathan Dodd joins Graeme Hill to discuss the question - where do the worlds wealthy go for their hols? Youll be surprised. Then we are at the movies. This week James takes a look at Rock stars in cinema, and the duds and the good uns. Then, Words with Max Cryer. This week pipe-dream, boycott, wracking your brain and why on Earth do we pronounce gauge gayj? . Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone

First up this week, Matt Visser, mathematician/physicist at Victoria University Wellington and recipient of the Royal Societys Hector prize for extreme smartness in his area joins RadioLIVEs Graeme Hill. He works on black holes, time-travel and the bits where quantum physics and relativity dont compute yet. Then its Astronomy with Grant Christie. This week on Astronomy - Go look at the Moon tonight. Its international Look At The Moon Day! There may be big problems in searching for life in one of Marss subterranean lakes, And from the Moon, a 2015 Hi Res picture taken from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of that famous Earth-Rise first taken in 1968. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

This week for Outsiders, Gerard is overseas doing research so were grabbing a WWI themed piece for replay. We take a look at the extraordinary feats of one of New Zealands most decorated soldiers and Victoria Cross recipient, Reginald Judson.Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

Warning: John Dybvig does try to contain himself, but there are a few swear-words used in his piece, so listen to this week's Letter from America at your own risk. John joins Graeme to explore US politics and culture from his own unique perspective. Then, Read Me A Poem! For the next few weeks Graeme grabs literary rock-stars with a passion for poetry, asks them about one of their favourites and why, and they read it. This week CK Stead gets 2 poems because hes CK Stead. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

This week for Outsiders, Gerard is overseas doing research so were grabbing a WWI themed piece for replay. We take a look at the extraordinary feats of one of New Zealands most decorated soldiers and Victoria Cross recipient, Reginald Judson.Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

This week for Outsiders, Gerard is overseas doing research so were grabbing a WWI themed piece for replay. We take a look at the extraordinary feats of one of New Zealands most decorated soldiers and Victoria Cross recipient, Reginald Judson.Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

First up its Media Stick with special guest Hugh Sundae. Hugh explores this weeks media guff picked through with a big spade. Then, Forest & Birds Kimberly Collins joins Graeme to give an update on Bird Of The Year, as we await the winner announcement tomorrow morning. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

Graeme catches up with JC Carroll of UK Punk explosion stars, The Members. as they look at the music and the life of The Members. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

Human Statistics with IPSOS researcher, Jonathan Dodd. International attitudes to Banks, Big Business and Media. Neville Peat, author of The Invading Sea. With global warming sea is getting angrier. What does this mean for New Zealands shore and the communities living near them? Moss Patterson, dancer and choreographer. Moss does his best to describe the dance works he produces, with special attention to his latest work, Pango, and what happened to the Golden Age of New Zealand Contemporary Dance? Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.

Words with Max Cryer. What does petrol really mean? The difference between flinch and wince, Amazon and Gobbledegook. Also James Croot is BACK! and Graeme and James look at a rather space themed segment. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.