Nights for Friday 1 October 2021
7:07 Sonic Tonic - Football
What team are you on?
Photo: ARNE DEDERT / DPA / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP
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 the Best of Friday Night Live this week we join singer-songwriter Reb Fountain performing at the Mercury Theatre as part of 2019's The Others Way Festival.
Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
9:07 Country Life
Drilling barley in Canterbury Photo: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes
The Country Life team pop on on Andrew Currie's farm in Canterbury, where the sowing season is in full swing and the third generation cropping farmer was drilling spring malting barley. We hear from a former president of the Bee Keeping Association who has been digging deep into the industry's archives AND a Rotorua teenager has been selected to attend this year's Bayer International Youth Ag Summit.
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 Gladys Berejiklian to resign
The sudden decision by the New South Wales Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, that she will resign in the face of a corruption investigation has left the Liberal Party scrambling for a new leader. The state's corruption watchdog is investigating whether Ms Berejiklian breached public trust with a series of community grants she approved, worth millions of dollars. The ABC's Kathleen Calderwood joins Late Edition live.
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian says Covid-19 numbers are stabilising. Photo: AFP
10:30 Banning the Mayor on George Street, Dunedin
The saga of changing Dunedin's main street in the centre of the city - George Street - to one way, continues with a retailer banning the mayor this week from his shop, after a vote last week to make George Street one way for traffic. The change would mean traffic would only be able to travel towards the Octagon as part of a 60 million dollar transformation of the city's main shopping precinct. A week ago, we talked to a Dunedin city Councillor Jim O'Malley, who voted in favour of the move. Retailer Brent Weatherall from Weatherall Jewellers tells Yadana Saw why he banned the mayor.
George Street, the main street of Dunedin. Photo: RNZ / Ian Telfer
11:07 The Mixtape
On the Mixtape, Trevor Reekie has been a pivotal figure in the NZ music scene throughout his career, from helping discover Bic Runga and Shihad, to performing in The Greg Johnson Set and Trip To the Moon, and in recent years showcasing trans-global artists on RNZ's Worlds of Music. He talk to Tony Stamp and shares five songs that have impacted him during his life.
RNZ Music producer Trevor Reekie in his Trip To The Moon t-shirt (it's his band!) Photo: RNZ
