Nights for Friday 24 May 2024
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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
10:30 PM.Tonight Finn's bag of fresh new tracks traverse the full range of musical genres, from Pōneke anarcho-hardcore to midwestern psych-tinged folk-pop. Read more Audio
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Explained: New Zealand's Heritage List
10:18 PM.There are more than 6,000 buildings, homes and places on Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga's historic place register. How do they get there? Read more Audio
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
9:40 PM.Nights' resident film critic Dan Slevin is back this week with an Australian theme. Dan takes a look at the next edition of the Mad Max franchise Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, You Can Go Now! a documentary… Read more Audio
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This Weekend: 130th Otago Capping Show
9:15 PM.For more than 100 years, the Capping Show has been delighting and offending audiences, poking fun at everyone from university authorities and landlords to sanctified philanthropists and world leaders.
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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 Tenuous Connections
It's Friday night so it's time to put on a playlist of music with a loose theme based off an even looser starting point.
Tonight's theme continues with NZ Music Month.
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 This Weekend: 130th Otago Capping Show
Every Friday, we bring you some of the most interesting events and happenings coming up in Aotearoa this weekend.
Tonight we're chatting to Dane Oates, the producer of the infamous Otago University Students' Association student revue Capping Show.
The Otago University Students' Association Capping Show is the longest continuously-running student revue in the world. Photo: OUSA
9:20 Focus on Politics
In Focus on Politics, political reporter Anneke Smith gets the low down on the Fast Track Approvals Bill.
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9:35 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Nights' resident film critic Dan Slevin is back this week with an Australian theme. Dan takes a look at the next edition of the Mad Max franchise Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, You Can Go Now! a documentary about Aboriginal artist and activist Richard Bell and the Aussie classic Death in Brunswick featuring our very own Sam Neill.
10:17 Explained: New Zealand's Heritage List
There are more than 6,000 buildings, homes and places on Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga's historic place register.
But how do they get there?
Anna Renton-Green is the heritage list manager and she speaks to Emile Donovan about what makes something heritage and what happens to those buildings on the list.
A cake depicting Wellington's rhomboid Hannah Playhouse, which attracted controversy when it was added to the Heritage List. Photo: supplied
10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music.
Tonight Finn's bag of fresh new tracks traverse the full range of musical genres, from Pōneke anarcho-hardcore to midwestern psych-tinged folk-pop.
Finn Johansson Photo: Supplied
11:07 Womad Revisited
WOMAD Encore is a weekly programme featuring live recordings from a selection of International and local musicians captured by the RNZ Music team at WOMAD Taranaki.
This week's encore concert heads back to 2019 and features the soul power of singer Ria Hall.
Ria Hall Photo Kirsten Johnstone Photo: RNZ/Kirsten Johnstone
