Nights for Wednesday 29 September 2021

 

7:12 Show Me Shorts

As this year's Show Me Shorts Film Festival kicks off, covid has meant that it has had to pivot and change over the last month or so. Acting Festival Director, Gareth Farry joins us to give us an overview of what's on the programme and where people can see it.

7:30  At The Movies

On At The Movies,  Simon Morris reviews The Ice Road, starring Liam Neeson, and Ride the Eagle, with Susan Sarandon.  And Lindsay Shelton remembers the small beginnings of the Wellington - later the New Zealand - Film Festival 50 years ago, and how it changed our viewing habits, and started the local film industry.

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 Protest Shaping Aotearoa by Mandy Hager

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

We begin a three part programme as we dig into the story of sugar... and its hold on us over the centuries. 

9:07 Where body image and mental health meet

Tāmaki Makaurau writer and body positivity campaigner and educator Angela Barnett has teamed up on a project with illustrator Ruby Jones that tells the stories of seven people, looking at the intersection between body image and mental well-being across size, colour, orientation, ability and illness.Angela has written their stories, and Ruby has created two drawings per story, funded by the Mental Health Foundation in Mental Health Awareness Week.  You can find more infirmation on the Like Bodies, Like Minds Instagram page.

9:30 Quiz Answer

We find out who is tonight's quiz whizz.

9:40pm Champions of The Pacific

Talei Anderson and Vinnie Wylie return with RNZ Pacific's weekly sports show, Champions of the Pacific.  Moana Pasifika and the Fijian Drua explain what it's like to build a Super Rugby team from scratch and rugby league returns to a South Auckland high school for the first time in over two decades.

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 Ports race to meet vaccination deadline

There's been a race to the finish line for port companies to get those stevedores and other port workers who go on board visiting ships, vaccinated before tonight's 9pm deadline. All port workers who board international ships must have had at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by now. National Secretary Craig Harrison says there might be some protests against the policy, but he doesn't expect it to be widespread.  

10:30 Midweek Mediawatch with Hayden Donnell
 

Hayden Donnell covers the way Sir John Key's column criticising the Government was handled, the people missing in widespread coverage of the disappearance of people such as Gabby Petito, and plaudits for Metro Magazine's food editor Jean Teng for an investigation into the toxic work culture at the fine dining restaurant Pasture and RNZ's reporter, Anusha Bradley's work on ACC refusing to cover the cost of women's birth injuries, has led to Government changes at the cost of $25 million a year.  

 

11:07 Inside Out

Nick Tipping hosts a journey through the jazz spectrum playing favourites, standards and new releases along the way. This week Nick checks out the exciting and diverse South African jazz scene.