Nights for Wednesday 14 August 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: Duet

We return to the story of Kallum - the blues guitarist who's joined a youth orchestra and has fallen for the flautist Page, with whom he is playing a duet.  And it seems there are several others whose interest is likewise not just on the music.

Kip Chapman reads episode three of 'Duet' by David Hill.

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 Myth Takes: The Olympics

Classics enthusiast and educator Ben Jackson joins us for our monthly chat.

And what better time to do the Olympics. But forget Paris, we're going to Athens.

9:30 Midweek Mediawatch

Hayden Donnell joins Emile Donovan to discuss the latest news and happenings in New Zealand's media.

Tonight, he looks at the fallout after the Herald runs a front-page advert from Hobson's Pledge, media coverage of the Government's benefit sanctions and the reporting of the drop in the number of people living in emergency housing.

10:17 What's behind the brain drain?

New Zealand is experiencing the highest ever exodus of young people from this country on record - tens of thousands in the past year.

Tristan Dryburgh from Wellington and Nina Minogue from Auckland are both leaving New Zealand imminently, in a matter of days, for a new life overseas.

They talk to Emile Donovan about why they are making the move.

10:30 'The Weather, With You': Artist pays homage to our wild, wild weather

Sean Beldon is an artist from South Africa. Growing up abroad, it was the songs of Kiwi band Crowded House that brought him comfort in a tough childhood.

Years later he followed his ears to Aotearoa.

He's got a new exhibition opening in Auckland, called The Weather, With You, 

He joins Emile Donovan.

10:45 Inside the extreme sport of ice-swimming

Bethany Rogers is an ice-swimmer, based in Queenstown and has just been chosen to represent the country at the world ice swimming champs in Italy in January.

Bethany joins Emile Donovan to talk about the world of ice-swimming,

11:07 Pocket Edition

In Pocket Edition this week Maggie Tweedie has new music from Cupidon, Marlins Dreaming and T.G Shand.

We also meet the director behind a Head South a new feature film set in 1979 Christchurch and captures the bubbling underground punk scene.