Nights for Wednesday 20 October 2021

 

7:12 Herb's Mobile Record Store

We chat to Ben James, the proprietor of Herb's, a new Mobile record store based in Wellington but setting up to get out to all.

7:30  At The Movies

On At The Movies,  Simon Morris reviews three films from all over the world - a Russian film about a series of wartime Persian lessons...   an Icelandic film, Lamb, about an unexpected visitor...  and a documentary about one of the world's most famous naturalists, Becoming Cousteau.

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 a SIGNED COPY of Sonny Bill Williams' autobiography "You Can't Stop the Sun from Shining"

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

BBC Crowd Science team answers more listeners questions.  Tonight, Can we grow a conscious brain? 

9:07 Terror-Fi Film Festival turns Five

We chat to James Partridge, one of the organisers fo the Terror-Fi Film Festival which marks its fifth anniversary with 'in cinema' and 'online' screenings. Celebrating the very best horror, thriller, sci-fi, action and fantasy films from around the world.

9:30 Quiz Answer

We find out who is tonight's quiz whizz.

9:40pm Champions of The Pacific

Talei Anderson and Vinnie Wylie with RNZ Pacific's weekly sports show, Champions of the Pacific. We learn about the new Moana Pasifika rugby coach and chat to Samoan sporting royalty.

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.

10:17 Complainant's relieved as Ombudsman launches MIQ investigation 

The Chief Ombudsman is launching an investigation into the MIQ booking system after receiving a record number of complaints on a single issue. His office received 8-hundred complaints. Peter Boshier says he'll ask why MBIE has worked through so many different types of technology give a queue fairness. Ashwin Naidu lives in Melbourne and wanted to visit his grandmother in New Zealand as she was very sick but was not allowed... He filed four complaints to Ombudsman and joins us for his reaction to the news of an investigation.

10:30 Hector's dolphin's in danger from retired landfill 

There are serious concerns for Colac Bay's Hector's dolphin population as residents believe a retired landfill is only a couple of storms away from spilling out into the ocean, with potentially disastrous consequences. Dolphin researcher Gemma McGrath has lived at Colac Bay since 2018 and joins us to discuss

10:45 Midweek Mediawatch with Hayden Donnell

Hayden Donnell covers the online abuse directed towards our epidemiologists, MediaWorks ending their agreement with Discovery, anti-vax narratives sneaking into mainstream media and a questionable Media Council decision.

11:07 Inside Out

After 11, on inside out, Nick Tipping gets funky with Horace Silver and soulful with John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, and dives into fusion with Allan Holdsworth.