Nights for Thursday 17 October 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: Soon

Simon's fate will be decided tonight in the final instalment of Charlotte Grimshaw's novel 'Soon' read by Michael Hurst.

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 New Zealand pre-loved fashion start-up expands into Australia

Designer Wardrobe was founded in 2015 and is a platform for buying and selling used clothes, shoes and accessories from high-end designers, to give the items a second life.

The site now boasts three hundred and twenty-five thousand users.

Aidan Bartlett is the CEO of Designer Wardrobe and speaks to Emile Donovan about the expansion into Australia.

9:35 Biography captures 'special time in New Zealand farming history'

Bee Dawson is an author, columnist and social historian who enjoys writing about people, places and gardens. She has now authored 21 books.

She has now turns her attention to her parents, Roland Clark (aka popular columnist Nor'wester) and his wife Betty, in a moving biography that captures a special time in New Zealand farming history.

Bee Dawson speaks to Emile Donovan about her new book Where the Nor'wester Blows.

9:55 Remembering Liam Payne

British musician popstar Liam Payne fell three storeys from a hotel in Buenos Aires and was found dead at the scene.

Shooting to global super stardom as a member of pop band One Direction at the age of fourteen, he was only thirty-one when he died.

RNZ's digital entertainment journalist Jogai Bhatt joins Emile Donovan.

10:17 Where to now for Darleen Tana after Green Party meeting?

The Green Party is holding a special general meeting this evening to allow 200 delegates to vote on whether to use party-hopping legislation to remove Darleen Tana as a member of parliament.

This vote is the culmination of seven months of strife within the Green Party, after allegations of migrant exploitation at her husband's business were revealed in March.

Tana has been an independent MP since being expelled from the Greens in July.

Emile Donovan speaks to Otago University law professor Andrew Geddis.

10:30 New exhibition explores the small universe of home

What makes a home? And how does interior design and the objects we collect, help create our sense of home?

That's the questions posed in a new exhibition at Auckland's Objectspace gallery.

'How to make a home' explores the small universe of home and the material politics of the objects and adornment we live with over time. 

Kim Paton is the director of Objectspace and joins Emile Donovan.

10:45 The Australian dance group building bridges and breaking down walls

Australian dance first nations outfit Marrugeku is one of the most innovative and provocative dance theatre companies across the Tasman. 

For nearly 30 years they have been building bridges and breaking down walls between urban and remote dance communities and between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists 

They are in New Zealand performing their new work Burrbgaja Yalirra 2, which is a collaboration between artists from northern Australian communities and those of maritime nations of Southeast Asia and Melanesia, with particular focus on New Caledonia and Vanuatu. 

Co-artistic director Dalisa Pigram joins Emile Donovan.

11:07 The Mixtape 

The Wellington Jazz Festival is about to kick off, and our guest picking the music is multi-award-winning composer, singer/songwriter and festival co-director Tama Waipara. 

Tama grew up in New Zealand and studied in New York City, receiving masters in music. After experiencing a life changing head injury he returned home to Aotearoa and, alongside composition, has been an advocate for the development and promotion of Māori music in many different roles over the last two decades.

After working at the Auckland Arts Festival he then went onto become Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival since founding it in 2019.

Tama is now the Co director of Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts; Wellington Jazz Festival.