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Nights for Monday 23 November 2020

 

7:12 Remembering Kiwi Cars of the 1950s to the 1980s.

As pandemic times encourage Kiwis to rediscover domestic travel and road trips, we talk to writer and auto enthusiast Steve Barnett about his new book Life with Cars: New Zealanders' motoring memories 1950s-1980s.

Stephen alongside his own 1964 Rover P4 110.

In the summer of 1958 Kelvin Brown and a group of friends made a trip from Christchurch to Queenstown in a 1935 Ford V8 roadster and a 1938 Fiat 1100, via the Crown Range.

Gerard Richards alongside his 1985 Nissan Silvia Gazelle S12, iconic Japanese performance/race car of the 1980s, which he acquired in 2003. Good examples of these cars will sell in the US or Japan for up to US$75,000 today.

The road holding on Martin Drew’s 1951 Citroën Light 15 was superb. It was the only car he has driven while sound asleep at the wheel going down past Meremere at night on the straight. He woke from a pleasant dream to the sonorous hum of the engine and was still in the correct lane.

In February 1967 Grant Cornwell and his mate Peter Coles set off from Auckland for a trip around the South Island in Grant’s 1964 Fiat 500D.

Stuck in the mud at Palliser Bay in the early 1960s. The Twist family Morris 1000 spluttered going through the first ford which was deeper than Steve’s dad thought, and then came to a stop at the next one, and had to be towed out of trouble by a farmer in his Land Rover.

Muzz Bishop’s modified 1958 Ford Gold Flash (right) and his brother’s 302-powered Zephyr Mk IV on the Benmore Dam in 1977. Their dad had taught them to drive in the paddock in his Willys Jeep, and Muzz was a good driver by the time he was eight or nine.

7:35 The Sampler

Nick Bollinger discusses the killer riffs and retrograde lyrics of AC/DC, the musical wanderings of German-born, Melbourne-based Hachiku, and the 31st album from Elvis Costello.    

Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello Photo: Universal

8:15 Dateline Pacific

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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 

Ahead of the release of his memoirs, former President of the United States, Barack Obama talks to historian and broadcaster David Olusoga. 

Former US President Barack Obama speaks at a drive-in rally as he campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden in Miami, Florida on November 2, 2020. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)

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He discusses his motivations for writing the book and the challenges he faced confronting political, cultural and racial divisions in America, as the first African American to hold the nation's highest office.

9:10 Nights Sport

Rikki Swannell joins us once again with a look at the latest sports stories.

9:30 The Best of The West

Tonight we hear Witi Ihimaera reading from the second volume of his memoir, Native Son, with accompaniment from multi-instrumentalist Kingsley Spargo recorded at the book’s official launch at Going West 2019.

Going West

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10:17 Lately

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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 Nashville Babylon

After 11, On Nashviulle Babylon, Mark Rogers has a live RNZ session track from Reb Fountain, birthday tunes for songwriting legend Hoagy Carmichael plus music from Talking Heads, the Wailers and a north London classic courtesy of the Arlenes.

Reb Fountain

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