Nights for Wednesday 25 August 2021

 

7:12 New Album from Kendall Elise.

It's a lockdown version of a sofa session - Auckland indie-folk artist, Kendall Elise releases her new album LET THE NIGHT IN this Friday - we'll have a couple of tracks from the album and she'll also do a live number down the phone from her lockdown bubble.

7:30  At The Movies

On At the Movies, Dan Slevin watches three recent movies that have arrived online as well as an Australian comedy series that's now on Netflix. He reviews the Gerard Butler disaster movie Greenland; The Tomorrow War, a science-fiction film starring Chris Pratt as a former Green Beret sent 30 years into the future to fight off an alien invasion; the documentary Max Richter's Sleep about the composer's eight and a half hour 'lullaby'; and the Australian satire Utopia about the fictional federal agency the Nation Building Authority.

8:10 The Hump

The Hump is our Wednesday night Quiz Night where we take a dive into the archives of Nga Taonga Sound and Vision for some audio gems and we want to see if you can identify them.

Tonight's prize is SHE COME BY IT NATURAL by Sarah Smarsh

8:15 Pacific Waves

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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.

8:30 Window on The World

The BBC's Crowdscience team answers more of your questions. Tonight, Human Skin -  it suffers with acne, eczema and hives; it dries out; it bruises. In fact, human skin is so vulnerable that we cover our feet in other animals' skin and our bodies in clothes just to make life more comfortable. Is this really the pinnacle of evolution?

9:07 Activism, Feminism, Politics and Parliament 

One of New Zealand's most eminent political actors Margaret Wilson joins us to talk about her recently released memoir, Activism, Feminism, Politics and Parliament.

9:30 Quiz Answer

We find out who is tonight's quiz whizz.

9:40 Nights Gone By

We take a dive into the Nights archive for some of our favourite interviews from Nights Gone By.

10:17 Late Edition

With Karyn forming part of RNZ's crucial "back-up' team during this latest lockdown, Bryan presents all the breaking news, a little analysis of the stories of the moment, and some highlights of the day on RNZ National.

 

10:20 Your Covid-19 questions answered: Dr Siouxsie Wiles 

Today there were a record 62 cases linked to the Delta cluster.

There's now in excess of 480 places of interest and there are more than 20 thousand contacts ...only 62 percent of them have been tested so far. Infectious diseases expert, microbiologist at Auckland University, associate professor, Dr Siouxsie Wiles answers your questions.

 

10:40 Mediawatch's weekly catchup with Nights.

This week Colin Peacock chats to Bryan Crump about the media in the middle as reports about Covid clusters spark racist reactions - and offshore opinions about our strategy raise hackles. Also Duncan Garner goes - and Facebook tries a little transparency for once.

 

11:07 Inside Out

On Inside Out, Nick Tipping plays tracks inspired by places around the world, including Cassandra Wilson with the Tennessee Waltz, Chick Corea's Spain, and Bill Charlap with Autumn in New York.