Nights for Friday 17 September 2021
7:07 Sonic Tonic - Whipping
What have you whipped up recently?
Photo: Marco Verch Professional Photographer 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 Best of Friday Night Live this week we join Moana & The Tribe at Roundhead Studios in an intimate acoustic session from 2009.
Moana Maniapoto Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
9:07 Country Life
Country Life meets a young farmer who says it felt like winning lotto when he and his wife were selected to became equity partners in a large North Canterbury Station between Culverdon and Hanmer Springs. Plus we have Daffodils, the Rural Support Trust, and Future post up-date.
Photo: RNZ/Carol Stiles
10:17 Late Edition
Bryan Crump presents all the breaking news, a little analysis of the stories of the moment, and some highlights of the day on RNZ National.
Photo: RNZ Andrew Robertson
10:20 The Black Caps Abandon Tour of Pakistan
The Black Caps cricketers are abandoning their tour of Pakistan after a security alert from the New Zealand government.
The news has come through just minutes after tonight's first one-day international was due to start in Rawalpindi.
Arrangements are being made for the team's departure out of the country.
Photo: PHOTOSPORT
10:30 Organisers Pull the Pin on Alexandra's Blossom Festival
Organisers are heartbroken to have had to pull the pin on Alexandra's Blossom Festival. Set to be the biggest yet on the Festival's 65th birthday next weekend, with thousands of people were planning to flock towards the floral fanfare from all over Central Otago and beyond, but sadly, Covid cancelled that.
Bryan speaks to event organiser Martin Macpherson.
Photo: Alexandra Blossom Festival
11:07 The Mixtape
Actress Antonia Prebble says she has no regrets about playing characters in Outrageous Fortune and its prequel Westside for 15 years.
Antonia Prebble as Rita West in Westside Photo: http://westsidetv.co.nz
Although she is immediately recognizable in New Zealand, Antonia is known mostly internationally for her role in Power Rangers: Mystic Force.
A new mum, Antonia has settled in Auckland with her husband and Westside co-star Dan Musgrove.
She opens up to Charlotte about her career so far, being a new mum, and chooses her favourite songs on this episode of The Mixtape.
Photo: Frazer Harrison / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP
