Nights for Thursday 24 October 2024
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Free fish for a good cause
10:45 PM.A venture that links fish heads and frames that were previously going to waste, with people who want them, is looking to expand. Read more Audio
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The contrasting fortunes of Tory Whanau and Wayne Brown
10:18 PM.It's been two years since Wayne Brown and Tory Whanau were elected to lead their respective cities. What are their chances of reelection in 2025? Read more Audio
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Sugar, Gravy, Pleasure: The grunge club scene in provincial UK
9:40 PM.Pete Elderkin ran grunge club nights in the 1990s, blasting the Smashing Pumpkins, Cocteau Twins, Iggy Pop, and Pulp, among many other alternative music heroes. Read more Audio
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Why we love to hate Americanisms
9:15 PM.A Z instead of an S, napkin instead of serviette, and a total disregard for the letter U. Sociolinguist Julia de Bres breaks down some of our most loathed Americanisms used in New Zealand parlance. Read more Audio
8:10 The House
Our report from parliament with Louis Collins.
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:
Normal by The Spirals - requested by Tony
The Unforgiven by Elisapie - requested by Tania
8:45 The Reading: Maniototo Six
Today we play the final episode of 'Maniototo Six' by Carl Nixon, read by William Kircher.
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 Why we love to hate Americanisms
A Z instead of an S! Napkin instead of serviette! A total disregard for the letter U! It makes those of us outside of the USA recoil in horror.
Nights resident socio-linguist Dr Julia de Bres is opening up a can of worms and staring directly into the beast talking about the dreaded and despised Americanisms.
American Flag Photo: RNZ / Angus Dreaver
9:40 Sugar, Gravy, Pleasure: The grunge club scene in provincial UK
Pete Elderkin lives in Auckland now, but he used to live in Peterborough, which has just been voted the worst place to live in the UK for the fourth year running.
When he lived in Peterborough, he ran grunge club nights in the 1990s, culminating in his pride and joy, the Sugar Club, blasting the Smashing Pumpkins, Cocteau Twins, Iggy Pop, and Pulp, among many other alternative heroes.
He's written a memoir recounting the music, the people, the antics, called Sugar, Gravy, Pleasure.
He joins Emile Donovan.
Pete Elderkin DJed and hosted the Sugar Club in Peterborough, England, in the 1990s. Photo: Supplied
10:17 The contrasting fortunes of Tory Whanau and Wayne Brown
It's been two years since Wayne Brown and Tory Whanau were elected to lead their respective cities.
Now with one year left on her term, Whanau is under fire from all sides and her council is about to have a Government observer installed after concerns it couldn't meet its financial and budget obligations.
Meanwhile in Auckland after a somewhat tumultuous start, Wayne Brown has been able to cobble together enough allies around the council to pass budgets and get stuff done.
To unpack the political fortunes of the two city leaders Emile Donovan speaks to NZ Herald senior writer Simon Wilson.
Read his NZ Herald piece here.
Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
10:30 The film festival aiming to terrify its audience
Terror-Fi, New Zealand's only genre film-fest is back for its eighth year, bringing sci-fi, horror, and thriller films from across the world to our local silver screens.
The programme features two world premieres, plus a 25th anniversary screening of cult New Zealand favourite, Scarfies.
James Partridge, the founder and director of Terror-Fi, joins Emile Donovan to dish on their favourite genre films and the possibilities for more genre films made in New Zealand.
Terror-Fi film festival is showing sci-fi, horror and thriller films from around the world in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Photo: Supplied
10:45 Free fish for a good cause
A venture that links fish heads and frames that were previously going to waste, with people who want them, is looking to expand.
Since 2016 Kai Ika has distributed 425,000 kg of free fish bits - mainly in Auckland and Wellington.
Now Kai Ika's trying to make free heads and frames accessible throughout the country.
Emile Donovan speaks to Sam Woolford, the head of LegaSea - which helps run the programme.
Donated fish frames about to given to the local community who have traveled across Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Photo: Local Democracy Reporting / supplied
11:07 The Mixtape
Our guest picking the music is Pos' Mavaega, Musical Director for Pacific Underground, NZ's longest-running Pacific performing arts group celebrating 30 years of theatre.
Pos is a writer, musician, and musical director. He joined PU in 1993 and has been busy writing, recording, touring, producing, and music-directing in theatres, concerts, and festivals throughout the Pacific.
As a musician, Pos has toured with Che Fu and King Kapisi, and he's worked with our top artists as a stage technician - Fat Freddies, Sol3Mio, Fat Freddy's Drop, Shihad, Stan Walker and Bic Runga.
Pos Mavaega, Musical Director for Pacific Underground Photo:
