Nights for Wednesday 29 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 eight.

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 What is BookTok? The new force in book publishing

BookTok, BookTube, Bookstragam or whatever you want to call it is now a massive driving force in book publishing.

There seems to be a never ending stream of videos on social media dedicated to all things books.

Melissa Oliver is a bookseller at Unity Books in Wellington and she is also an avid fan of online book communities and she's on the line now to help break down what this trend is all about.

She explains it all to Emile Donovan.

9:30 Midweek Mediawatch

Colin Peacock is in the studio with another edition of midweek mediawatch

Tonight he's talking to Emile Donovan about Duncan Garners new show finally getting off the ground, what happened at the media awards night last week and a not so new name for Stuff's new 6pm bulletin.

10:17 Could a dumb phone be the answer to our modern day problems?

Spencer Campbell has been on the dumb phone train for over a year now.

And although he runs a YouTube channel, Spencer's Adventures, he tries to show the benefits of a frugal relationship with technology and consumerism, documenting his pursuit of 'simple living'.

He speaks to Emile Donovan about his experience and if everyone should get a "dumber" phone.

10:30 New play explores adoption from a mothers perspective

Through the nineteen fifties and sixties, around one hundred thousand New Zealand women were sent away by their families to give birth - only to return home and act like nothing happened.

These women are now in their seventies and eighties.

Playwright Nicola Pauling developed her new play 'I Carried This', after interviewing five New Zealand women who had lived the experience and were still grappling with the fallout.

She speaks to Nights about the experience.

10:45 A snapshot of New Zealand: What does the new census data tell us about ourselves?

RNZ senior In Depth journalist Kate Newtown talks to Emile Donovan about what the first Census results, released today, reveal.

The Census, conducted in early 2023, places New Zealand's official population just shy of 5 million, at 4,993,923.

 

 

 

11:07 Pocket Edition

 

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