Nights for Wednesday 18 September 2024
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Photographer Leslie Adkin: A portal back into the land of milk and honey
10:45 PM.Leslie Adkin was a geologist, ethnographer and father living in Levin whose legacy of self-taught photography left an incredible record of family life in Aotearoa. Read more Audio
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Canada's first indigenous languages commissioner tours Aotearoa for Māori language week
10:30 PM.While New Zealand's te reo Māori revitalisation movement has more than forty years under its belt, Canada is just getting started - and with over seventy indigenous languages, and precious few fluent… Read more Audio
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Hezbollah's exploding pagers explained
10:18 PM.Deakin University terrorism expert Greg Barton joins Emile Donovan to discuss the coordinated detonation of electronic pagers earlier today, which has killed nine people and injured thousands, and… Read more Audio
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The most and least common birthdays in New Zealand
9:15 PM.Over 16,000 New Zealanders will celebrate their birthday on 27 September, the most common birthday in the country. Read more Audio
8:10 The House
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 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
Tonight, part seven of The Axeman's Carnival written by Catherine Chidgey and told by Nigel Collins.
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 The most and least common birthdays in New Zealand
Stats NZ's Kim Dunstan joins Emile Donovan to take a look at what the data reveals about New Zealanders' birthdays - and why some dates are more or less common.
Birthday cake for many Photo:
9:30 Midweek Mediawatch
Colin Peacock joins Emile Donovan to debrief the latest happenings in the media, including comparing the coverage of the first and second assassination attempts on former US president Donald Trump, how claims of cats and dogs being eaten have affected the US town of Springfield, Ohio, and weighing the depiction of Wellington's CBD as 'dying'.
Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspected gunman, appeared earlier in a court charged with federal gun crimes. Photo: AFPTV / AFP
10:17 Hezbollah's exploding pagers explained
Deakin University terrorism expert Greg Barton joins Emile Donovan to discuss the coordinated detonation of electronic pagers earlier today, which has killed nine people and injured thousands, and which reports claim were placed by Israel's Mossad spy agency.
Lebanese army soldier gestures to an ambulance rushing wounded people to a hospital in Beirut on 17 September 2024, after explosions hit. Photo: AFP / Anwar Amro
10:30 Canada's first indigenous languages commissioner tours Aotearoa for Māori language week
Canada's first commissioner for indigenous languages is in New Zealand for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, to learn about how our country promotes and protects its native language.
While New Zealand's te reo Māori revitalisation movement has more than forty years under its belt, Canada is just getting started -- and with over seventy indigenous languages, and precious few fluent speakers, the road ahead is long and unchartered.
Emile Donovan sat down with the commissioner, Dr Ronald Ignace, of the Secwépemc Nation.
Photo: Supplied
10:45 Photographer Leslie Adkin: A portal back into the land of milk and honey
A new book of photographs captures rural New Zealand life in the early- to mid-twentieth century.
Leslie Adkin was a geologist, ethnographer and father living in Levin whose legacy of self-taught photography left an incredible record of family life in Aotearoa.
The book is the culmination of fifty years of fascination from the book's author, curator of photography at Te Papa, Athol McCreedie.
Arrival at the Hydrabad, 27 December 1909. Waitārere Beach, with the wreck of the Hydrabad in the background. Gelatin glass negative, half plate, B.022783 (Page 67) Photo: Leslie Adkin
'Leslie Adkin: Farmer Photographer' by Athol McCreedie is on sale now. Photo: Leslie Adkin
11:07 Pocket Edition
Tonight on Pocket Edition, we hear from the award winning musician Teremoana Rapley and Maggie Tweedie introduces us to new music.
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