Nights for Thursday 26 September 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

Tonight, the twelfth and final episode 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 What can be done about disinformation?

Disinformation, it's everywhere.  Climate change, puberty blockers, vaccines.  What to do?  The experts suggest a set of strategies, but are they right?

Nights resident socio-linguist Dr Julia de Bres joins Emile Donovan for a closer look at language.

9:35 Award-winning choreographer Loughlan Prior on his new show

Loughlan Prior joined the Royal New Zealand Ballet in 2010, rising to become a company soloist, and has served as their Choreographer in Residence since 2018, with blockbusters like Cinderella and Hansel & Gretel under his belt.

His work, Subtle Dances, is being performed in Auckland next month as part of the Tempo Dance Festival.

And while he trained in Wellington, his career has taken him all over the world. Loughlan joins Emile Donovan from Portland, Oregon.

10:17 Former Minister for Health and MP for Dunedin North reacts to signalled downgrade of new Dunedin Hospital

It could cost up to $3 billion to build the new Dunedin Hospital as currently planned, which the government says is simply unaffordable.

Ministers announced on Thursday the planned redevelopment would either need to be reduced or done in stages.

Pete Hodgson is a former Labour cabinet minister, formerly the Minister for Health and MP for Dunedin North, as it was then known.

He was Chairperson of the Southern Partnership Group providing governance for the New Dunedin Hospital from 2017 until May of this year 

10:30 How a $1 million bequest is helping make children's leg braces cool

There are around ten thousand people living with cerebral palsy in New Zealand, for which there is no cure.

The group of conditions is caused by damage to a child's brain during pregnancy or birth and causes mild to severe issues with a persons muscle control, movement and posture.

It's a condition both Julie and Carlo Fiorentino lived with, but one which they didn't let define who they were.

Now their $1 million bequest to the Auckland Bioengineering Institute will help make children's leg braces cool.

Professor Thor Besier of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute and Ella Thomas the first recipient of the Carlo and Julie Fiorentino Scholarship join Emile Donovan to explain what the money is being used for and how it will help those living with cerebal palasy.

10:50 Iconic NZ magazine to be digitised

The New Zealand Listener magazine began its life back in 1939 as the Journal of the National Broadcasting Service, with the purpose of providing radio listeners with a printed weekly programme. 

With the introduction of television in June 1960, the Listener started publishing weekly TV listings, along with topical articles, editorials, letters to the editor and reviews.

Now the iconic magazine has reached another milestone.

It is set to be digitised on the National Library's online archive website, Papers Past.

The National Library's Director Content Services, Mark Crookston joins Emile Donovan.

11:07 The Mixtape

Our guest picking the music is musician, DJ, composer and producer Mark de Clive-Lowe.

Mark started his career in the late 1990s as a central player in Auckland's jazz scene and has gone on to make a life travelling the globe to work on interesting musical projects.

He's best known for his breakout albums, Six Degrees and Tides Rising and his collaborations are eclectic and prolific - he has contributed to over 300 releases.

This month Mark is back in Aotearoa, where it all started. Charlotte Ryan catches up on his latest projects and plays some wonderful jazz on the RNZ Mixtape.