Nights for Friday 18 November 2022
-
Out Lately with Finn Johansson
10:48 PM.Tamaki's resident music nerd steps out of his makeshift recording studio to bring us his favourite tracks of the week. This week he shares tracks from Vanessa Wagner, Into the Sun and Dakar de Noche. Audio
-
Rugby League World Cup showdown
10:25 PM.The Kiwi Ferns will go toe-to-toe with with the Jillaroos in the early hours of Sunday morning - after a stunning performance knocking out England in the semis. A week after the Black Ferns lifted… Read more Audio
-
Ardern meets China's President Xi Jinping
10:17 PM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC summit in Bangkok, Thailand. Expectations were she would raise China's human rights record and question its… Read more Audio
-
Short-Cut with Dan Slevin
9:30 PM.Film critic Dan Slevin joins the show to share his film selections to kick-start your binge watching this weekend. This week, Dan dives into 2009 Oscar-winner Slumdog Millionaire, start-studded The… Read more Audio
-
How nutrition can improve mental health
9:07 PM.Many New Zealanders have chronic health conditions and our hospitals are struggling. Part of the problem is that today's heavily processed diet is no longer meeting the needs of the human brain and… Read more Video, Audio
7:10 Country Life
Country Life takes you down country roads to meet ordinary people achieving their dreams.
On Country Life tonight, a Wairarapa beef farmer has just launched a gate-to-plate meat box business. In Hawke's Bay, a farmer is leading a crowd funding syndicate to save one farm from selling into forestry. And, to celebrate 25 years of Country Life, the team's dug up a story that ran in 2014 about Organic farmer John Earney, who had been hosting WWOOFers on his Taranaki farm for ten years.
Claire Wells of The Complete Cow Photo: Supplied
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
8:30 Friday Night Live
In Friday Night Live we feature two local acts. Four-piece, Welling-ton based, Mild Orange, and Auckland based Phoebe Rings, live in our RNZ Studios.
9:07 How nutrition can improve mental health
The New Zealand health system is under pressure with doctor shortages and long waitlists. Dr Jula Rucklidge is a world-leading expert on micronutrients and the brain, with her research into how nutrition can improve mental health.
Dr Rucklidge is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Canterbury. She's the co-author of "The Better Brain: Overcome Anxiety, Combat Depression, and Reduce ADHD and Stress with Nutrition.
Photo: University of Canterbury
9:30 Short-Cut with Dan Slevin
Film critic Dan Slevin joins the show to share his film selections to kick-start your binge watching this weekend.
This week, Dan dives into 2009 Oscar-winner Slumdog Millionaire, start-studded The Talented Mr Ripley and dystopian black-comedy Brazil.
10:17 Ardern meets China's President Xi Jinping
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC summit in Bangkok, Thailand.
Expectations were she would raise China's human rights record and question its intentions in the Pacific.
RNZ Business Editor Gyles Beckford talks to Karyn.
(File photo) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and China's President Xi Jinping before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 1 April, 2019. Photo: AFP / Pool
10:25 Rugby League World Cup showdown
The Kiwi Ferns will go toe-to-toe with with the Jillaroos in the early hours of Sunday morning - after a stunning performance knocking out England in the semis.
A week after the Black Ferns lifted rugby union's World Cup, glory is within reach for the 13-woman code at Old Trafford in Manchester.
Commentator Honey Hireme-Smiler competed at World Cups for both the Kiwi Ferns and Black Ferns .
Apii Nicholls of New Zealand in action during the match against England Photo: PHOTOSPORT
10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Tamaki's resident music nerd steps out of his makeshift recording studio to bring us his favourite tracks of the week.
This week he shares tracks from Vanessa Wagner, Into the Sun and Dakar de Noche.
11:07 The Mixtape
Our guests this week picking their favourite songs are comedians Eli Matthewson and Chris Parker.
They have just released a new 6 part documentary series called Chris and Eli's Porn Revolution.
