CDR04/110/01
6pm news read by Catriona McLeod, then a live broadcast from Te Papa, hosted by Kim Hill to mark the first transit of Venus across the sun in 121 years, (however not visible from NZ). Kim talks with Radio NZ Science correspondent Veronika Meduna, followed by a preview of the transit (recorded earlier) by correspondent Simon Morton in Whitby, England (Captain Cook's birthplace). Former Cook Islands prime minister and canoe voyager, Sir Thomas Davis, talks about Polynesian navigation, then RNZ engineer, Brian Mahoney, in central Australia (Northern Territory) reports on the transit. After another report by Simon Morton, Canterbury University astronomer/physicist Dr William Tobin is interviewed in Grenoble, France.
CDR04/110/02
7pm news read by Sue Scott, then at Te Papa, historian Dr Claudia Orange introduces Professor Paul Callaghan, the Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences at Victoria University and director of the MacDiarmid Institute of Advanced Materials and nanotechnology on the topic, Voyages of the future: The search for dark matter, other life and other universes. 49'43", then questions from the audience.This is the final lecture in a series organised by the Royal Society and Radio New Zealand.
CDR04/110/03
8PM news, then special edition of OUTSPOKEN. Topic: Polynesian navigation and great voyages of both Polynesians & Europeans, great voyages of the future (space). Panel: Dr Peter Adds, Māori Studies, Victoria University of Wellington; Kay Leather of the Carter Observatory specialising in Māori astronomy, and Richard Hall, also from the Carter Observatory. Special guest is NASA astronaut Dr Donald Pettit.