Nights for Monday 8 July 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: 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.

9:05 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 Dame Naida Glavish

Every Monday, here on Nights, to set the tone for the week, we like to have a guest on to share a whakataukī - a Māori proverb - that's meaningful to them.

And tonight we're hearing from none other than Dame Naida Glavish.

It's been 40 years since Dame Naida won the right to greet people with 'kia ora' while working as a toll operator for the New Zealand Post Office.

And while her stand and the debate it ignited would help galvanise the revitalisation of te reo Māori, Dame Naida's contribution to te reo Māori and Aotearoa as a whole goes much deeper than the stand she took in 1984.

9:30 Giselle Clarkson: Why little things are worth looking at

Giselle Clarkson is an illustrator and science communicator, and author of the best-selling non-fiction book The Observologist, which has been translated into four languages.

It's a book for children, but Giselle says taking notice of the natural world - like the colours on a leaf, and the fine hairs on a spider's leg - is key to retaining a childlike sense of wonder.

She's giving the keynote talk for this year's New Zealand International Science Festival's 'nano-fest' in Dunedin this year and speaks to Emile Donovan about her love of combining science and art.

9:50 When a comedian comes for tea

Stand-up comedian and Netflix star Ali Wong is in New Zealand touring her self-titled show at Auckland's Civic Theatre.

While in town, she became the dinner guest of Masterchef winner and cookbook author Sam Low.

Sam joins Emile Donovan to share how they crossed paths - and to share the menu.

10:17 David Farrar on his glimpse of the Ukraine-Russian war

It's been over 860 days since Russian troops crossed the border and invaded neighbouring Ukraine.

Since then tens of thousands of lives have been lost and hundreds of thousands of people have had to flee their homes.

Blogger, pollster and RNZ regular David Farrar has recently returned from visiting Ukraine and he speaks to Emile Donovan about his experience of a country still very much at war.

10:30 Sports with Jamie Wall

It's time to hear from Nights sports regular and RNZ sports journalist Jamie Wall.

Tonight he's talking about the All Blacks and their first test under coach Scott Robinson and the rise of New Zealand's newest sporting star Lulu Sun.

10:45 BBC World Lookahead

BBC World's Jonathan Frewin joins Emile Donovan to take a look at some of the events making headlines internationally, including what the UK can expect from the new Labour government, the fallout from the surprise results of the French elections and Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin set to stand trial over the fatal shooting on the set of his film Rust.

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 show there's blues from Bessie Smith, Jimmy Reed and Elmore James, classic country from Kris Kristofferson plus some jumpin' jive courtesy of Louis Prima.