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Nights for Friday 16 January 2009

  • Languages in Peril

    8:05 PM.Martin Paviour-Smith, has been studying the language of a tiny Aulua community in Vanuatu known as the Small Penis Wrappers. Audio

  • Misha Marks

    7:10 PM.New Zealanders abroad, we catch up with flamenco guitarist Misha Marks in Mexico City. Audio

Monday to Friday, 7pm - Midnight

7:10 New Zealanders Abroad

We visit another remarkable New Zealander living overseas to find out how they celebrated the new year. Misha Marks is a guitarist living in the sprawling megalopolis of Mexico City.

7:30 The Davies Diaries

Ray Davies, singer songwriter and legendary frontman of the Kinks tells the story of the band's heady triumph in the '60s. Part 4: Waterloo Sunset 1967 - a year when the Kinks immortalise Terry (Stamp) and Julie (Christie) and The Stones get busted for drugs.

8:10 The Small Penis Wrappers

Martin Paviour-Smith, linguist at Massey in Palmy North. An expert on Pidgin and Creole languages, he visits a tiny community on Vanuatu (named the aforementioned) every year to document their language and witness ancient fertility and coming of age festivals.

8:30 Windows on the World

Over the last few decades, Phoenix, Arizona has been one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. Developers built kilometres and kilometres of urban sprawl to attract homebuyers keen on sun and cheap property. But now the credit crunch has hit Phoenix hard and some see parallels with an ancient desert civilisation which collapsed seven centuries ago.

8:10 Jack Perkins Retrospective

Tonight, Jack presents a graphic reconstruction of New Zealand`s most famous manhunt in The Stan Graham Murders. Recorded in 1977, Jack compiled the programme from official sources and eye-witness accounts, some previously untapped.

10:15 Late Edition

10:30 Escape to New Zealand

Halina Ogonowska-Coates reports on people who have recently 'escaped' to New Zealand seeking a life that is less affected by the effects of global warming and the impact of global pollution.

11:10 Time Is On Our Side - the early years of the Rolling Stones

Topping the charts with Ruby Tuesday was a great way to start 1967 but it was all downhill from there. The Stones had been playing 350 gigs a year since 1963 and the band were burned out. Mick and Keith got very publicly busted, then Brian Jones died and Mick Taylor joined the band.