Nights for Wednesday 15 May 2024
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The history of the word 'woke'
10:45 PM.Auckland University's professor Neal Curtis says the term originates from African-American communities living through segregation and reflects upon how the term has since changed. Read more Audio
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King Charles' bold new portrait
10:30 PM.Wellington artist Tatyana Kulida has painted former prime minister Sir Bill English and world-renowned primatologist Dame Jane Goodall, and she joins Nights to appraise the new royal portrait. Audio
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Damon Salesa takes out top book prize for 'An Indigenous Ocean'
10:18 PM.Scholar Damon Salesa has pipped the hotly contested General Non-Fiction category at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024 with a book of essays exploring the history and influence of the Pacific. Read more Audio
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How will New Zealand be recorded in the future?
9:15 PM.Stats NZ chief executive Mark Sowden talks to Emile Donovan about the challenges and opportunities in the lead up to Census 2028. Read more Audio
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Three dead, hundreds injured during civil unrest in New Caledonia
8:20 PM.RNZ Pacific's Lydia Lewis provides the latest on protest activity in New Caledonia over the French parliament's move to grant French residents greater voting rights. 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 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
We start a 10-part production today, in honour of the late Vincent O'Sullivan.
'Lisa's Story', adapted as it is from Vincent O'Sullivan's novel All This By Chance, focusses on Lisa and Fergus whose stories are inextricably twined though they only spent a few years together in the 1960s.
The story takes us with Lisa as she journeys through life and from NZ to London, Greece, Africa and Italy.
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 How will New Zealand be recorded in the future?
With public consultation on the future of the Census opening last week, Nights welcomes back Stats NZ chief executive Mark Sowden.
Mark talks to Emile Donovan about the future of the official count of the people and dwellings in New Zealand and the challenges and opportunities that come with it in the lead up to Census 2028.
Public consultation on the future of the Census is now open.
Photo: 2023 Census, Stats NZ
9:30 Midweek Mediawatch
Colin Peacock is back in the studio to chat about the latest happenings in the media.
Tonight he takes a look at the end of Fair Go on and what might be next for the nearly 50 year old show. TVNZ's trouble with the Employment Relations Authority and some interesting rulings from the news media watchdogs.
Photo: Supplied
10:17 Ockham 2024 winners unveiled
Join us after the 10pm new bulletin to hear who took home the prizes at the annual Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Plus, an interview with the winner of the General Non-Fiction category.
10:30 King Charles' bold new portrait
The first official painted portrait of King Charles III since his coronation has been unveiled.
While some have praised the artwork's break from traditional royal portraits, others haven't been so kind.
Wellington artist Tatyana Kulida has painted some fairly well known faces herself, including former prime minister Sir Bill English and world-renowned primatologist Dame Jane Goodall.
She talks to Emile Donovan about how artists approach work like this and what place portrait paintings have in a world full of digital images.
Britain's King Charles III (R) reacts as he stands alongside artist Jonathan Yeo, after unveiling an official portrait of himself wearing the uniform of the Welsh Guards. Photo: AFP / Aaron Chown
10:45 The history of the word 'woke'
The word 'woke' gets thrown around a lot.
But what does it mean? Recently everything from school lunches to paintings of monarchs have been labelled 'woke'.
Auckland University's professor Neal Curtis has written about the origins of the term in 20th century African-American communities, and how the term has been changed.
Sushi. Photo: 123rf.com
11:07 Pocket Edition
On this week's Pocket Edition with Maggie Tweedie we meet founding member of Joy Division and New Order and one of the world's finest bass players, Peter Hook.
