Nights for Monday 20 May 2024

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: Lisa's Story

Lisa's Story adapted as it is from Vincent O'Sullivan's novel All This By Chance focuses on Lisa and Fergus whose stories are inextricably intertwined though they only spent a few years together in the 1960's.

The story takes us with Lisa as she journeys through life and from NZ to London, Greece, Africa and Italy.

Tonight, part two.

9:05 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 Whakataukī of the Week with Benjamin Lau

Head of music at Newlands College in Wellington and chair of Mātauranga a Puoro o Aotearoa Music Education New Zealand Aotearoa of Benjamin Lau talks to Emile Donovan about workshops being run during New Zealand music month encouraging pupils and teachers to learn about taonga pūoro and tikanga.

He's also shares a whakataukī close to his heart.

Te manu e kai ana i te miro, nōna te ngahere; te manu e kai ana i te mātauranga nōna te ao.

The bird the consumes the miro berry owns the forest; the bird who consumes education owns the world.

9:30 Tapping into our noisy oceans

Ocean life is far noisier than we might think.

The myth of the 'silent world' beneath the waves is something Craig Radford is trying to correct.

Craig is a Professor of Marine Science at the University of Auckland and talks to Emile Donovan about what's happening acoustically beneath the surface of the ocean.

10:17 The young Kiwi leading the world in financial literacy

The Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list for 2024 was released last month, profiling the region's most exciting young entrepreneurs and leaders.

And just one name from Aotearoa New Zealand appeared on the list: podcaster and business journalist Madison Reidy.

She chats to Emile Donovan about making the list of young up-and-comers.

10:30 Sports with Kayla Hodge

Emile Donovan talks sport with Otago Daily Times' sports reporter Kayla Hodge.

Tonight Kayla's talking about the all female High Performance Sport NZ centre in Dunedin, a New Zealand paralympian shaping up well ahead of this years' Paralympics, and injuries mounting up in the ANZ premier league netball competition.

10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Pete Ross

The BBC's Pete Ross joins Nights to talk about the events making headlines internationally, including the latest on the situation in Iran, a decision expected on whether WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States and the trail set to begin in Germany of alleged ringleaders in a suspected far-right plot to overthrow the government.

11:07 Nashville Babylon

Every week on Nashville Babylon Mark Rogers presents the very best in country, soul and rock 'n' roll.

On this week's show there's ska from Joya Landis, classics courtesy of Joni Mitchell and Look Blue Go Purple plus a birthday tune for Big Joe Turner.