Nights for Wednesday 1 May 2024

8:10 The House

Phil Smith chats with Camilla Belich about crossing the table and becoming a submitter rather than a listener. 

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.

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8:30 Nights Jukebox 

Emile Donovan plays your requests - as long as you've got a compelling reason, or a good story to go with it.

Send in your requests to nights@rnz.co.nz or text 2101.

8:45 The Reading

Tonight, the second episode of 'The Dwarf Who Moved', a legal memoir written and read by Sir Peter Williams KC.

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 and ready to answer your quandaries, your palavers, your misgivings.

And remember, you can always send in your own problems for Courtney to give advice on: you can email us on nights@rnz.co.nz or text on 2101 and remain totally anonymous

There's still time to do it now if you've been holding out.

9:30 Midweek Mediawatch

Colin Peacock joins us for Midweek Mediawatch.

Tonight Colin is taking a closer look at a much hyped poll from TVNZ, another newspaper shutting due to economic pressures and how Act’s arts spokesman came in for some cutting criticism over his lack of knowledge on the local arts scene.

10:17 What does future sound like?

In the 1980's Kraftwork was what the future sounded like, but forty years later who or what has taken their place?

Futuromania: Electric Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today is a new book that traces the history of sounds that prefigure pop music's future.

Simon Reynolds is the author and he also teaches at the music school in the California Institute of the Arts and he speaks to Emile Donovan from Los Angeles.

10:30 Former Prime Minister Helen Clark on New Zealand joining AUKUS

Helen Clark has been vocal about her concerns around New Zealand joining the security pact between Australia, the UK and the US also known as AUKUS.

Earlier in the evening Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters said New Zealand was "a long way" from making a decision about participating the non-nuclear part of the pact.

The former prime minister reacts to that statement as well as gives her thoughts on what she thinks it would mean for New Zealand's long standing independent foreign policy. 

11:07 Pocket Edition

On this week's Pocket Edition with Maggie Tweedie we meet founding member of UB40 Robin Campbell and music critic Matthew Crawley shares fresh music he's been listening to.