Nights for Friday 30 July 2021
7:07 Sonic Tonic - Carless Transport
How would you get around if you had to leave the car in the garage?
Photo: creative commons
8:15 Pacific Waves
Koroi Hawkins presents a daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in the world.
Photo: RNZ Pacific
8:30 Friday Night Live
For this Best of Friday Night Live we join rapper Tom Scott performing songs with @Peace & The Plutonium Noise Symphony, and his latest project Avantdale Bowling Club.
Radio New Zealand engineer Andre Upston was on deck to capture the performance, ensuring RNZ Music listeners a front row seat.
Tom Scott's debut solo album, "Avantdale Bowling Club", was released in mid-September Photo: RNZ/Cole Eastham-Farrelly
9:07 Country Life
Photo: RNZ / Cosmo Kentish-Barnes
On Country Life, Cosmo Kentish-Barnes speaks to a pig farmer known as Lord Havoc about his free range pig farm in South Canterbury and Sally Round finds out how highly-prized Japanese style table grapes are grown in Hawke's Bay. The Japanese market loves them picture-perfect so each bunch has a little umbrella to protect it harvest time.
Little "umbrellas" protect the grapes at Budou Senshin from getting sunburnt Photo: Supplied
10:17 Lately
Photo: RNZ
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 The Mixtape
Tayi Tibble (Te Whānau ā Apanui/Ngāti PorouTe Whānau ā Apanui/Ngāti Porou) is an award winning poet based in Pōneke, Wellington. She joins Charlotte to discuss fashion, poetry, and Porirua- as well as select her favourite songs on this episode of The Mixtape.
Tayi Tibble Photo: Supplied