Nights for Tuesday 8 October 2024
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It's swooping season, so how do you keep magpies at bay?
10:45 PM.Emeritus Professor Gisela Kaplan from the University of New England is an expert in animal behaviour, and also literally wrote the book on Australian magpies. Read more Audio
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Kiwi illustrator's love letter to television
10:30 PM.Alex Scott is an illustrator and editor who spent nine years as a cartoonist at the New Zealand Listener. Her new graphic novel, Episodes, is inspired by days spent in front of the TV as a kid. Read more Audio
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What it's going to take to clean up the Manawanui
10:18 PM.Coastal science Professor Chris Battershill, who helped lead the Rena cleanup and recovery, says speed will be of the essence as salvage crews attempt to stop fuel leaking from the sunken naval ship.
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Politics by Night with Dan Brunskill
9:45 PM.Emile Donovan chats to interest.co.nz reporter Dan Brunskill to talk about what made it onto the Government's fast track list, what we can expect from the Reserve Back at tomorrow's official cash rate… Read more Audio
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Live from the APRA Silver Scrolls with Charlotte Ryan
9:35 PM.Music101's Charlotte Ryan beams in from the St James Theatre in Wellington for an update on the country's biggest night in songwriting. Read more Audio
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Shower Thoughts: What is foreign aid?
9:15 PM.Former prime minister and former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme Helen Clark joins Emile Donovan to explain. 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.
Featuring:
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On by Big Maybelle - requested by Sonia
Peace Train by Cat Stevens - requested by Kevin
One By One by Eddie Lowe - requested by Willy
Poetry Man by Phoebe Snow - requested by Jason
8:45 The Reading: Soon
Simon's day goes from bad to worse in part six of 'Soon' by Charlotte Grimshaw and read by Michael Hurst.
A political thriller set over the summer holidays at the Prime Minister's holiday house where his entourage jostle for position in their leader's court.
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.
9:25 Shower Thoughts: What is foreign aid?
Time now for Shower Thoughts.
This is where we get an expert on the programme to answer your questions about the world and why things are the way they are -- the type of questions that only emerge in the contemplative solitude of the shower.
Tonight: when governments talk about the supply of 'foreign aid', what are they actually meaning?
Former prime minister and former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme Helen Clark joins Emile Donovan to explain.
9:35 Live from the APRA Silver Scrolls with Charlotte Ryan
Music101's Charlotte Ryan beams in from the St James Theatre in Wellington for an update on the country's biggest night in songwriting.
Keep up with RNZ's coverage of the APRA Silver Scrolls here.
Apra Silver Scroll Awards Photo:
9:45 Politics by Night with Dan Brunskill
Emile Donovan chats to interest.co.nz reporter Dan Brunskill to talk about what made it onto the Government's fast track list, what we can expect from the Reserve Back at tomorrow's official cash rate announcement and another looming electricity shortage.
Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
10:17 What it's going to take to clean up the Manawanui
The race is on to avoid an ecological disaster after The HMNZS Manawanui ran aground last weekend on a reef about one nautical mile off the south coast of Upolu, Samoa’s most populated island.
Coastal science Professor Chris Battershill, who helped lead the Rena cleanup and recovery, says speed will be of the essence as salvage crews attempt to stop fuel leaking from the sunken naval ship.
He speaks to Emile Donovan.
The HMNZS Manawanui, aground in Samoa. Photo: Supplied / Profile Boats
10:30 Kiwi illustrator's "love letter" to television
Alex Scott is an illustrator and editor, and spent nine years as a cartoonist at the New Zealand Listener.
She's just released her first graphic novel - a love letter to the television shows she grew up on, and how the pictures we get sold of family, life and relationships butt up against reality.
The book is called 'Episodes' and Alex speaks to Emile Donovan.
Photo: Supplied
10:45 It's swooping season, so how do you keep magpies at bay?
The start of spring coincides with magpie swooping season.
Up and down New Zealand cyclists, golfers, farmers and pedestrians just minding their own business are all fair game once they step inside the bird's territory.
The Waipiata Country Hotel in Central Otago even has Magpie Alley Talley Board tallying how many cyclists have been swooped while cycling on the nearby Otago Rail Trail.
Emeritus Professor Gisela Kaplan from the University of New England is an expert in animal behaviour, and also literally wrote the book on Australian magpies.
Mountain bikers in Timaru are taking more of a risk in a Centennial Park of late with over protective magpies dive bombing the cyclists. Photo: 123RF
11:07 Worlds of Music
Trevor Reekie hosts a weekly music programme celebrating an eclectic mix of 'world' music, fusion and folk roots.
