Nights for Wednesday 3 April 2024
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Citizen scientists asked to get their cameras out this April
10:45 PM.The City Nature Challenge is back for 2024, with the goal of getting citizen scientists to document the plants and animals they find in their urban jungles. Read more Audio
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Historic oral diaries from NZ prime ministers abruptly ended
10:20 PM.There are thousands of hours of conversation with the likes of David Lange, John Key and Helen Clark. But no one has ever heard them, and now the project. run by the Alexander Turnbull Library, is… Read more Audio
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Taiwan earthquake: Correspondent William Yang
10:18 PM.Nights' Taiwan correspondent William Yang gives us the latest on the 7.7 earthquake that struck off the coast of Taiwan earlier today. Read more Audio
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Agony Aunt: 'I'm a chronic rubbish-hider'
9:15 PM.Comedian Courtney Dawson gives advice to a listener who's been dumping her rubbish in her neighbours' bins, and a disgruntled flier who had their seat stolen over the long weekend. Read more Audio
8:15 Pacific Waves
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. Hosted by Susana Suisuiki.
8:30 Jukebox
Emile Donovan plays your requests - as long as you've got a compelling reason, or a good story with it.
Send in your requests to nights@rnz.co.nz or text 2101.
8:45 The Reading
Tonight, episode two of 'The Swing Around' written by Barbara Anderson and read by Miranda Harcourt.
9:07 Nights Quiz
Do you know your stuff? Come on the air and be grilled by Emile Donovan as he dons his quizmaster hat.
If you get an answer right, you move on to the next question. If you get it wrong, your time in the chair is up, and the next caller will be put through. The person with the most correct answers at the end of the run goes in the draw for a weekly prize.
The quiz is themed - find out more about tonight's theme on Nights' Facebook page.
9:15 Agony Aunt Courtney Dawson
Nights' resident Agony Aunt, comedian Courtney Dawson, is back in the studio to give advice on listeners' problems.
Tonight, a woman who's been dumping her rubbish in her neighbours' bins, and a disgruntled flier who had their seat stolen over the long weekend.
Courtney Dawson is a comedian based in Tāmaki Mākaurau. Photo: Supplied
9:30 Midweek Mediawatch
Hayden Donnell joins Emile Donovan to debrief the week in media, including Christopher Luxon's term of choice - 'decision gate' - when pitching the government's new action plan, a new channel for embattled Warner Bros. Discovery NZ, and coverage of an Israeli strike on an aid convoy in the Gaza conflict.
Photo: RNZ / Angus Dreaver
10:17 William Yang in Taiwan
Nights' Taiwan correspondent William Yang gives us the latest on the 7.7 earthquake that struck off the coast of Taiwan earlier today.
Photo: AFP / CNA
10:25 Historic tell-all interviews with NZ prime ministers abruptly finished
For 40 years, New Zealand's prime ministers have sat down with an oral historian for a tell-all interview, spilling insights into their political lives.
There are thousands of hours of conversation with the likes of David Lange, John Key and Helen Clark.
But no one has ever heard them, and now the project known as Political Diaries, run by the Alexander Turnbull Library, is shutting down.
NZ Herald's deputy political editor Thomas Coughlan explains more.
The Political Diaries project started in 1984 with David Lange. Photo: RNZ
10:40 Citizen scientists asked to get their cameras out this April
The City Nature Challenge is back for 2024, with the goal of getting citizen scientists to document the plants and animals they find in their urban jungles.
It's a global event taking place from Friday 26 April to Monday 29.
Science communicator Morgane Merien joins Emile Donovan to tell us how people can get involved.
11:07 Pocket Edition
On this week's episode of Pocket Edition with Maggie Tweedie we hear new music from Brian Eno, Julia Holter and the Fuzzy Robes. Amiria Grenell plays live from her new record The Winter Light.
