Nights for Monday 24 June 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

Tonight, the first episode of 'Rocking Horse Road', written by Carl Nixon and read by Jason Whyte.

After her violent death on the beach at the end of Rocking Horse Road, Lucy Asher takes on the status of a deity for a group of boys in the school. 

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 Abby Hauraki

Every Monday on Nights, to set the tone for the rest of the week, a guest shares a whakataukī - a Māori proverb - that's meaningful to them.

Abby Hauraki is an Associate at Kāhui Legal, a specialist law firm working at the forefront of Māori development.

She is also a consultant and kaiako with Engaging Well Limited who helps enable organisations and people to engage effectively with Māori.

She joins Emile Donovan to share a whakataukī for Matariki.

"Matariki hunga nui 
Matariki ahunga nui 
Matariki manako nui"
 
"Matariki, gatherer of people
Matariki, provider of kai
Matariki, granter of hopes and dreams"

9:30 The 'winter blues': Seasonal Affective Disorder

The nights are long, the days are short - prime timing for the winter blues to set in.

We may not even know that's what's happening.

Clinical psychologist Jacqui Maguire provides wellbeing services including to Kiwi businesses large and small.

Jacqui joins Emile Donovan to talk about Seasonal Affective Disorder.

10:17 Documentary filmmaker Frederique Olivier on living in the extremes

A field guide, naturalist and documentary filmmaker, Frederique Olivier has 22 Antarctic seasons under her belt, as well as expeditions to far-flung and freezing places like Greenland and Svalbard.

She makes nature documentaries for outlets like the BBC, Netflix and National Geographic.

Based in Tasmania, Frederique is the guest speaker at this year's New Zealand Mountain Film Festival in Wanaka

10:30 Sports with Kayla Hodge

Otago Daily Times sports reporter Kayla Hodge joins Emile Donovan to debrief a busy week of sport.

10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Jonathan Frewin

BBC World's Jonathan Frewin joins Emile Donovan to take a look at some of the events making headlines internationally, including the European Union leaders summit in Brussels, the Russian trial of US journalist Evan Gershkovich, and the forthcoming Iranian election.

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 Nashville Babylon there's classic reggae from Delroy Wilson, a soul smash courtesy of Barbara Lewis, a birthday tune for country legend June Carter Cash, Tex-Mex from Pete Rowan plus tracks to mark the Beatles visit to New Zealand sixty years ago.