Nights for Friday 22 May 2020

 

7:07 Sonic Tonic - Space

What's your final frontier?

8:10 The Citizen's Handbook

Episode six of The Citizen's Handbook. This week comedian Brynley Stent lies about the police and protests while Robbie explains your rights. Maybe.

8:30 Friday Night Live

This week we join award winning singer-songwriter Bic Runga performing acoustically in RNZ’s Helen Young Studio from May 2002.

9:07 Country Life 

On Country life we’ll hear how the live lobster industry is clawing its way back now that air freight to China has resumed, and the shutters are off in market town Fielding.

The town lost its usual Friday bustle during the Covid-19 lockdown with the historic stockyards closed and the farmers' market shuttered. But it came to life again last week when the lockdown lifted so Country Life went along to see how producers, growers, farmers and stock agents have been faring.

10:17 After10

• Todd Muller is the new Leader of The National Party

Commentator Ben Thomas joins us to look back on a very big day for The National Party.

• Bags of Rags to Recycled Riches

Danny Mulholland is the founder of Bags of Rags – a family run business, locally recycling and processing material that was going to landfill and repurposing it as rags for various applications.

• A Little Piece of Classical Music

Nick Tipping chooses some classical music for your soul.

11:07 The Mixtape

This week, outgoing RNZ Music team member Kirsten Johnstone shares ten of her favourite songs, and reflects on her sixteen years working at RNZ, as well as her time at student radio and her experience as a classically trained flute player.