Nights for Thursday 27 June 2024
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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
10:30 PM.Finn features a selection from across the musical spectrum including tracks by French multi-disciplinary artist Violaine Gratuite, Ōtautahi musician Samantha Josephine and American experimental rock… Read more Audio
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Why is George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four still relevant 75 years later?
10:18 PM.Phrases such as 'Big Brother', 'Thought Police' and 'Double Think' have all made it into our political lexicon, part of the book's darker lessons around mass surveillance and government control. Read more Audio
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
9:30 PM.Dan Slevin chats with Tony Stamp about the new kiwi film Ka Whawhai Tonu: Struggle Without End, Australian thriller The Royal Hotel and he reviews the streaming service Hoopla, which is available free… Read more Audio
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This Weekend: Taikura Kapa Haka twirls in Wellington
9:15 PM.This Saturday and Sunday, over 700 performers aged 55-and-over from across the country are taking to the stage in Te Papa for Taikura Kapa Haka. Read more Audio
8:08 The House
Today on our Parliament programme - The House - Phil Smith listens in Select Committee - specifically to submissions on a bill to restore the right to kiwi citizenship for a generation of elderly Samoans who had it stripped from them in 1982.
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.
Photo: RNZ / Jarred Bishop, Michel Tuffery and Jeff McEwan
8:30 Jukebox
Tony Stamp 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: Rocking Horse Road
The fourth 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.
Their collective imagination makes her into something apart, special and, almost because of her very unassailability, a goddess.
9:07 Nights Quiz
Do you know your stuff? Come on the air and be grilled by Tony Stamp as he dons his quiz-master 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: Taikura Kapa Haka twirls in Wellington
At the end of the week, here on Nights, we like to look ahead to some of the interesting events taking place around the country in the weekend.
And this Saturday and Sunday, over 700 performers aged over 55 are taking to the stage in Wellington for Taikura Kapa Haka.
Hosted at Te Papa, the national museum, kaumātua from all across the country will be filling the halls with haka, poi and waiata.
Head of Iwi Relationships at Te Papa Haley Hakaraia joins Tony Stamp.
Matariki Festival 2018. Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Te Puru O Tāmaki Taikura performing at Taikura Kapa Haka event, 2018. Photo: Jo Moore / Te Papa
9:35 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
It's time for Short-Cuts with Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin.
Dan chats with Tony Stamp about the new kiwi film Ka Whawhai Tonu: Struggle Without End, Australian thriller The Royal Hotel and he reviews the streaming service Hoopla, which is available free via some public libraries.
KA_WHAWHAI_TONU Photo: supplied
10:17 Why is George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four still relevant 75 years later?
In the 75 years since it was published, few other novels in the English canon have had the cultural impact of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Phrases such as 'Big Brother', 'Thought Police' and 'Double Think' have all made it into our political lexicon, part of the book's darker lessons around mass surveillance and government control.
Peter Marks is an Emeritus Professor of English and Writing at the University of Sydney, and is also the author of George Orwell the Essayist: Literature, Politics and the Periodical Culture.
He joins Tony Stamp to reflect on the book's enduring relevance.
Photo: RNZ
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 has a selection from across the musical spectrum including tracks by French multi-disciplinary artist Violaine Gratuite, Ōtautahi musician Samantha Josephine and American experimental rock band The Garden.
Tony Stamp also shares a track.
Finn Johansson Photo: Supplied
11:07 The Mixtape
Romesh Dissanayake is a Sri Lankan and Kor-yo Saram writer, poet and chef from Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.
His award winning debut novel, When I open the shop, is an ode to the city of Wellington and follows our protagonist Devendra who juggles grief, mounting debt and strange encounters in his small Te Whanganui-a-Tara noodle shop following his mother's death.
Romesh's work explores ideas of identity, decolonisation and place. His latest is a new poetry collection called Favourite Flavour House, which featured in AUP New Poets 10.