Nights for Friday 16 December 2022

7:10 Country Life

Country Life takes you down country roads to meet ordinary people achieving their dreams.

This week, actor Sam Neill takes us on a tour of his vineyard in Central Otago, also, we hear how hundreds of chickens are up for adoption after clawing their way back to health. 

 

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.

Follow this podcast

 

8:30 Friday Night Live

This week we join award winning singer-songwriter Bic Runga perform-ing acoustically in RNZ's Helen Young Studio from May 2002.    

 

9:07 The business saving clothes from the trash 

Upparel NZ is the sister company of Australia's only direct-to-consumer and commercial textile recovery and recycler. The  company accepts any clothing it can get its hands on - from uniforms and PPE to garments and fabrics - and upcycles it into a profitable and sustainable resource. Company director Jeff Vollebregt joins the show to explain how it works.

 

9:30 Short-Cut with Dan Slevin

Film critic Dan Slevin shares his selections to kick-start your binge watching this weekend. This week, he takes us through Andor - the political thriller series set in the Star Wars universe, The Little Drummer Girl series directed by Park Chan-wook, and The Sound of 007 - a documentary about Bond music over the last 60 years.

 

10:18 Why are some people always late?

Why do some people struggle so much with their punctuality? Grace Pacie, author of Late! - A Timebender's Guide to Why We Are Late and How We Can Change joins Karyn.

10:35 In With Finn with Finn Johansson

Tamaki's resident music nerd steps out of his makeshift recording studio to bring us his favourite tracks of the week. Tonight he shares tracks from Hemlocke Springs, Raiden Freeman, Swansea Skag, and Ah! Kosmos.

 

11:07 The Mixtape

Tonight we continue the celebration some of our favorite Mixtapes of this year.  
  
Over the next hour you will hear from Comedian Urzila Carlson, Funeral Directors Francis and Kaiora Tipene AKA The Casketeers, Former Auckland Mayor Phil Goff, The Hori Hohepa Thompson, Black Grace's Neil Ieremia and Moana Maniapoto.