Nights for Thursday 17 October 2019

 

7:12 Nights Cultural Ambassaor

Photographer Raymond Sagapolutele join us once again with his take on what's happening in South Auckland.

7:35 New Horizons

Time to celebrate sisters on New Horizons: we'll hear from Rosemary and Betty Clooney, The Shangri-Las, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, The Roches, and especially a new album from Tegan and Sara Quin.

8:00 Little Piece of Heaven

We're into the final week of voting for RNZ Concert's Settling the Score - this is their annual  countdown of New Zealand's favourite classical music.

So this week we're featuring the picks of some of your favourite concert presenters -  and getting to the reasons for their picks.

Tonight it's the turn of Clasissa Dunn.

STRAUSS : Four Last Songs

Performers: Jessye Norman, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur

8:15 Dateline Pacific

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

 In tonight's Window on the World, Assignment teams up with the BBC World Service investigative series, Africa Eye, for a year-long investigation which reveals how lecturers - who can make or break academic careers - groom victims in academic settings; abusing their power to try to get what they want.

9:07 Our Changing World

This week on Our Changing World, the winners of the Royal Society Te Apaarangi’s 2019 Research Honours are announced on Thursday night and Alison Ballance will be bringing us interviews with two of the winners. That’s all we can say for now!

9:30 Overseas Correspondent - India

We check in with our correspondent in Bangalore, Shoba Naryan for the latest from the Indian Subcontinent.

10:17 Lately

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

On this week's Pocket Edition Music 101 host Charlotte Ryan interviews Tami Neilson, fresh back from performing at Americana Festival in Nashville, and local electronic duo Pitch Black tell her about their new album and new wine. Plus Tony Stamp talks to Damian Abraham, frontman for Canadian punk band F***ed Up.