Nights for Thursday 4 July 2024
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Voting in the UK election gets underway
10:45 PM.With polls a few hours ago, everything is pointing to a historic landslide for the Labour Party with all eyes on how well Nigel Farage's Reform Party fares. Read more Audio
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Aotearoa's best songwriting honoured in APRA Silver Scroll shortlist
10:30 PM.Music 101 host Charlotte Ryan weighs in on the 20 songs shortlisted for the APRA Silver Scroll award. Read more Audio
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New Zealand wool's triumphant return?
10:18 PM.After years of struggle, international tariffs have been lifted from New Zealand wool, and a new education programme on wool dynamics has been announced for school students. Read more Audio
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Jenny Rockwell: Southern Gothic slam poet putting New Zealand on the map
9:40 PM.Jenny Rockwell's debut poetry collection follows her personal growth from growing up in a church community to embracing queer joy. Read more Audio
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What's in a name? A sociolinguist weighs in
9:15 PM.Sociolinguist Dr Julia de Bres says our names do more than refer to us. They tell us about our families, the societies we live in, how others see us and how we see ourselves. Read more Audio
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 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: Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
The third episode of a 12 part series with Ziyande Matshe and Brian Sergent reading the 'Hand Me Down World' by Lloyd Jones.
An African woman becomes pregnant while working as a cleaner in a Tunisian hotel but, just weeks after the birth, her baby is stolen away by the father. Her journey to find him relies on the barest of resources as she tracks him across continents.
9:07 Nights Quiz
Do you know your stuff? Come on the air and be grilled by Emile Donovan 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 What's in a name? A sociolinguist weighs in
Our parents often put a lot of thought into choosing them for us and many of us hear our own ones daily for the rest of our lives.
But our names do more than refer to us. They tell us about our families, the societies we live in, how others see us and how we see ourselves.
Our resident sociolinguist Dr Julia de Bres joins Emile Donovan.
The World, 2021, colour digital print , 835 x 1250 mm, courtesy of the artist Photo: Lucien Rizos
9:35 Southern Gothic slam poet putting New Zealand on the map
Jenny Rockwell is already a seasoned performer with a sizable following on TikTok and has represented Aotearoa at international poetry slams.
Now she's a published poet with her debut collection, Vultures, a coming-of-age story told in a Southern Gothic mode.
The collection follows her personal growth from growing up in a church community to embracing queer joy.
She joins Emile Donovan.
Poet Jenny Rockwell's debut collection, Vultures, is a coming-of-age story told in a Southern Gothic mode, beginning with the poet's former church community and moving towards defiant belonging and queer joy Photo: Supplied
10:17 Wool's triumphant return
The New Zealand wool industry has been languishing for years, with buying prices low, synthetic materials taking old customers, and farmers in a state of despondency.
But just this week, some international tariffs have been lifted from New Zealand wool, and a new education programme on wool dynamics has been announced for both primary-aged children and university design schools.
Emile Donovan speaks to Campaign for Wool chair Ryan Cosgrove.
Ryan Cosgrove is the chair of the New Zealand Campaign for Wool. Photo: Supplied
10:30 Aotearoa's best songwriting honoured in APRA Silver Scroll shortlist
The shortlist for this year's APRA Silver Scroll Awards, recognising the very best of song writing in Aotearoa New Zealand, came out today.
Twenty songs are vying for the Silver Scroll and a further 5are nominated for the Maioha Award, honouring waiata in te reo Māori.
All this means it's pretty much an early Christmas for Music101's Charlotte Ryan who speaks to Emile Donovan about the list.
Listen to the 2024 APRA Silver Scroll Awards playlist here.
Photo: Supplied
10:45 Voting in the UK election gets underway
After six weeks of electioneering and campaigning, UK voters will head to the polls today for their 3rd general election in the past six years.
Everything is pointing to a historic landslide for the Labour Party with all eyes on how well Nigel Farage's Reform Party fares.
To tell us all about it we're joined by Nights' man on the ground in London, journalist Henry Cooke.
Photo: JAKUB PORZYCKI
11:07 The Mixtape
This week on the RNZ Mixtape is DJ and producer Lord Echo. He is one of our internationally touring DJs and yet has created a world of his own in rural Taranaki.
Lord Echo is the artist name for Michael August who you might know as Mike Fabulous.
He's a multi-instrumentalist, producer and DJ and has been a part of the New Zealand music scene since the late 90s, playing bass for The Black Seeds for 15 years and performing with Fly My Pretties for many more.
Lord Echo has just returned to Aotearoa after a stint of shows in Japan, and playing support for Jungle at their massive Spark Arena show.
Lord Echo aka Mike Fabulous Photo:
