Nights for Wednesday 22 September 2021

7:12 Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival

Tama Waipara has the latest news from  Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival - including their local focussed festival next month and a new Summer Arts Festival for early 2022.

7:30  At The Movies

On At The Movies,  Simon Morris reviews the latest from Marvel Comics - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings - a ruthlessly efficient ghost story, The Night House, and a documentary about the painting that raised the biggest price ever in an auction - The Lost Leonardo.

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 Voices of Aotearoa: 25 Years of Going West Oratory - a collection of essays from a host of Going West speakers since it's origin 25 years ago.

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

People Fixing the World looks at a new kind of solar cell - made by drying a special liquid on a surface - is being heralded as a revolution in solar power. 

9:07 Ka mua, ka muri.

We chat to Beverly Rhodes whos beautiful exhibition of oil paintings called Ka mua, ka muri. is currently on at the Pataka Gallery in Porirua.

You can view the full catalogue here.

9:30 Quiz Answer

We find out who is tonight's quiz whizz.

9:40 Nights Gone By

We'll take another delve into the Nights Archive.  Tonight, Candle Making from August 2017 and my chat with Diana Turner about her candle making workshops.

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.

 

10:20 Wanaka lockdown breach couple charged
The Auckland couple who travelled to Wanaka while the city was at Covid-19 alert level 4 have been charged. Police say William Willis and Hannah Rawnsley have been summonsed to appear in the Papakura District Court next month on a charge of failing to comply with the Covid-19 health order.  RNZ reporter, Katie Todd talks to Bryan Crump.

10:30 Third day of Melbourne lockdown street protest
Police in Melbourne appear to have shot rubber bullets at hundreds of protesters who gathered at the city's Shrine of Remembrance locked in a stand-off with riot police in a third day of demonstrations.  The activists are protesting against the lockdown and demanding a vaccine mandate for the construction industry be lifted. And then a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hits Melbourne, followed a magnitude 4.7 aftershock just minutes later.  ABC reporter Dana Morse chats to Bryan.

 

11:07 Inside Out

After 11, and on Inside Out, Nick Tipping explores jazz from Finland, including sax players Linda Fredriksson and Eero Koivistoinen, an arrangement of 'Finlandia' by Jukka Perko & Iiro Rantala, and perfect make out music from Trio Töykeät.