Nights for Monday 23 September 2024
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BBC World Lookahead with Jonathan Frewin
10:45 PM.BBC World's Jonathan Frewin joins Emile Donovan to look at the events making headlines internationally. Read more Audio
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Sports with Bryan Waddle
10:30 PM.Sport broadcasting veteran and Nights regular correspondent Bryan Waddle is back with the action from the sporting world over the weekend. Read more Audio
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What was behind the fever-pitch public interest in Polkinghorne trial?
10:17 PM.Sara Chatwin is a Registered Psychologist with Mindworks and she joins Emile Donovan to discuss the why there was so much interest in this trial. Read more Audio
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Government dials back on work-from-home arrangements
9:50 PM.Workforce strategy and flexible work specialist Gillian Brookes discusses the Public Service Minister directive to department bosses to tighten up on working-from-home arrangements.
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The Science of Rapa Nui/ Easter Island
9:30 PM.Dr Lisa Matisoo-Smith joins Emile Donovan to help explain new research and what it tells us about the story of Rapa Nui and its people. 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.
8:45 The Reading
The big day arrives, Rob's axe is honed, his muscles primed.
We have part nine 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 Whakataukī of the Week with Sonny Ngatai
Every Monday on here Nights, a guest shares a whakataukī - a Māori proverb - that's meaningful to them, to set the tone for the week
Tonight, we have a champion of Te Reo Māori, Sonny Ngatai.
He's the director of a Māori language promotion and production agency called ATA and he's been the face and voice of several Te Reo campaigns.
Vaxathon presenter Sonny Ngatai Photo: Supplied/Sonny Ngatai
9:30 The Science of Rapa Nui/ Easter Island
The story of population decline, ecological devastation and societal destruction on Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, has long been used as a cautionary tale against the over exploitation of natural resources.
But in the past 50 years many archaeologists have rejected the collapse theory and now new evidence using ancient DNA points to there being no 'ecocide' on the remote Pacific Island.
Dr Lisa Matisoo-Smith is a professor of biological anthropology at the University of Otago whose work focuses on the ancient DNA of people, plants and animals to help understand Pacific settlement.
She joins Emile Donovan to help explain the research and what it tells us about the story of Rapa Nui and its people
Moai stone statues on Rapa Nui Easter Island, 3700km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean, on 5 August, 2022. Photo: AFP/ Pablo Cozzaglio
9:50 Government dials back on work-from-home arrangements
Flexible working arrangements have become the norm for many New Zealanders, with technology meaning employees are able work remotely.
However, that looks set to change for public servants.
Today the Public Service Minister directed department bosses to tighten up on working-from-home arrangements.
Gillian Brookes runs a workforce strategy consultancy and is a workforce strategy and flexible work specialist.
Photo: 123RF
10:17 What was behind the fever-pitch public interest in Polkinghorne trial?
It's been a trial that seems to have gripped the nation for the past eight weeks, fueling what's been described as unprecedented media coverage.
The murder trial of Philip Polkinghorne was centered in one of the country's most exclusive suburbs and involved drug use, escorts and infidelity.
Today a jury found the former eye surgeon not guilty of murdering his wife Pauline Hanna in their Remuera home in April 2021.
So why were New Zealanders seemingly so keen to hear so much detail of this case, and what does this say about our apparent thirst for such salacious news?
Sara Chatwin is a Registered Psychologist with Mindworks and she joins Emile Donovan.
Scenes outside the court, after the verdict in the Philip Polkinghorne trial. Photo: RNZ/ Finn Blackwell
10:30 Sports with Bryan Waddle
Sport broadcasting veteran and Nights regular correspondent Bryan Waddle is back with the action from the sporting world over the weekend.
Tonight, has a lack of prep time proved costly for the Blackcaps in Sri Lanka, is there confusion I the All Blacks set up and Lydia Ko's brilliance is evident again at Queen City Championship.
CINCINNATI, OH - SEPTEMBER 20: LPGA golfer Lydia Ko at the Kroger Queen City Championship presented by P&G on September 20, 2024, at TPC River’s Bend in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Photo by Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire) Photo: Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire
10:30 BBC World Lookahead with Jonathan Frewin
BBC World's Jonathan Frewin joins Emile Donovan to look at the events making headlines internationally,
Tonight, the high-level part of the United Nations general assembly in New York is about to get underway, Volodymyr Zelensky is set to meet President Biden while he is the United States and Japan's Liberal Democratic Party is going to be selecting its new leader on Friday.
Photo: AFP / DANIEL SLIM
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 Nashville Babylon there's classic blues courtesy of Etta James and Howlin' Wolf, new music from Peter Bruntnell and Billy Troken plus birthday tunes for Leonard Cohen.
