Nights for Wednesday 4 September 2024
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Art conservator Sarah Hillary: Forgeries, chemistry, and hidden nudes
10:30 PM.Sarah Hillary spent 40 years at Auckland Art Gallery, including 25 as principal conservator. She shares some of the highlights of her career with Nights. Read more Audio
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Security threats outlined in new SIS report
10:17 PM.Otago University international relations professor Robert Patman joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio
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Agony Aunt Courtney Dawson: If you can pay more for a ticket, should you?
9:15 PM.Comedian Courtney Dawson is back and ready to answer your quandaries, your palavers and your misgivings. 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: Duet
Tonight, the final episode of David Hill's story of music, love and consequence, Duet.
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 Nights' Agony Aunt
Nights' resident Agony Aunt, comedian Courtney Dawson is back and ready to answer your quandaries, your palavers, your misgivings.
And remember, you can always send in your own problems for Courtney to give advice on: you can email us on nights@rnz.co.nz or text on 2101 and remain totally anonymous.
Courtney Dawson is a comedian based in Tāmaki Mākaurau. Photo: Supplied
9:30 Midweek Media Watch with Colin Peacock
Colin Peacock joins Emile Donovan for Mediawatch's weekly catch-up.
Tonight, the art of sports commentary, coverage of the death of King Tuheitia, the Pacific Leaders Forum hot mic moment and some interesting decisions from the BSA.
10:17 Security threats outlined in new SIS report
Foreign interference and espionage have been identified as among major threats to New Zealand's security in a new report out this week.
The NZ Security Intelligence Service released its security threat environment report for 2024, described by some commentators as a frank and transparent assessment.
Otago University international relations professor Robert Patman joins Emile Donovan.
Photo: Provided
10:30 Art conservator Sarah Hillary: Forgeries, chemistry, and hidden nudes
Sarah Hillary spent forty years at Auckland Art Gallery, with over twenty-five serving as Principal Conservator.
In her career, she's painstakingly restored damaged works, detected forgeries, and even used X-rays to find hidden masterpieces beneath layers of paint.
She joins Emile Donovan to look back on her career
Frances Hodgkins 'Still life with a bottle', oil on paper (1908). Auckland Art Gallery acquired the artwork in 2007, and Sarah Hillary and her team suspected there was another artwork painted underneath, because of the work's uneven surface. Photo: Frances Hodgkins / Auckland Art Gallery / Sarah Hillary
11:07 Pocket Edition
On this week's Pocket Edition with Maggie Tweedie Singer, composer, arts administrator: Mere Tokorahi Boynton speaks to Bryan Crump about how her upbringing on the farm led her to the stage and Maggie Tweedie shares fresh music she's been listening to.
