Nights for Monday 16 December 2024
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BBC World Lookahead with Pete Ross
10:45 PM.BBC World reporter Pete Ross joins Maggie Tweedie to take a look at some of the events making headlines internationally. Read more Audio
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Sports with Richard Irvine
10:30 PM.Richard Irvine of Sports Review takes a look at some of the sporting highlight and lowlights of 2025. Read more Audio
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How many jobs have really been lost in Wellington this year?
10:18 PM.Data shows Wellington City has lost over 19,000 jobs in the past year -- equal to 11.6% of jobs in the area. Read more Audio
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Will 2025 be the year of the cancer vaccine?
9:30 PM.The Economist's health editor Natasha Loder wrote that advances in mRNA technology have spawned groundbreaking new cancer vaccine trials around the world, from melanoma to colorectal cancers. Read more Audio
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Whakataukī of the Week with Henare O'Keefe
9:15 PM.Hawke's Bay champion Henare is known for his humble, proactive approach to combatting violence and uplifting disadvantaged communities. Read more Audio
![This handout photo taken and released on December 7, 2024 by the South Korean Presidential Office shows South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol delivering an address at the Presidential Office in Seoul. - South Korea's embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol stopped short of resigning on December 7 over his declaration of martial law, with a vote to impeach him hours away and mass street protests planned in Seoul. (Photo by Handout / South Korean Presidential Office / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / “The erroneous mention[s] appearing in the metadata of this photo by Handout has been modified in AFP systems in the following manner: [2024] instead of [2023]. Please immediately remove the erroneous mention[s] from all your online services and delete it (them) from your servers. If you have been authorized by AFP to distribute it (them) to third parties, please ensure...](https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--w5PjzhLH--/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_288/v1733885533/4KFC2P4_AFP__20241207__36PP3UH__v5__HighRes__CorrectionSkoreaPoliticsUnrest_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD)
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 Jukebox
Maggie Tweedie 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: The Greatest Gift Of All
Emily Regtien reads The Greatest Gift Of All by Kath Beattie
Christmas story about a family who decide to take their elderly aunt on a camping trip. Great Aunt Olivia turns out to be far more adventurous than they could have expected
9:05 Nights Quiz
Do you know your stuff? Come on the air and be grilled by Maggie Tweedie as she dons her 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 Henare O'Keefe
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, Maggie Tweedie talks to a Hawkes Bay legend and Flaxmere rangatira Henare O'Keefe.
Henare is known for his humble, proactive approach to combatting violence and uplifting disadvantaged communities and alongside his late wife Pam fostered more than 200 children, opening their doors with love and compassion.
A Hastings District Councillor for 15 years, Henare was awarded the Queen Service Medal in 2011 for services to Maori and the wider community.
Taneshia Gill with Henare O'Keefe, a former Hastings District Councillor. Photo: Lauren Crimp / RNZ
9:30 Will 2025 be the year of the cancer vaccine?
The Economist's health editor Natasha Loder wrote that advances in mRNA technology have spawned groundbreaking new cancer vaccine trials around the world, from melanoma to colorectal cancers.
To find out more about how cancer vaccines work, vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris, associate professor at the University of Auckland, joins Maggie Tweedie.
Photo: SERGII IAREMENKO/SCIENCE PHOTO L
10:17 How many jobs have really been lost in Wellington this year?
Data shows Wellington City has lost over 19,000 jobs in the past year -- equal to 11.6% of jobs in the area.
It's been a tough year for the capital, with thousands of public sector roles cut, business closures and insolvencies running thick and fast, and overall low morale.
But is it plausible that one in ten jobs have disappeared?
Maggie Tweedie speaks to Infometrics chief executive and principal economist Brad Olsen.
Photo: Supplied / Wellington City Council
10:30 Sports with Richard Irvine
For the final time this year, we're chatting sports with Richard Irvine writer of the Sports Review.
He's taking a look at some of the sporting highlight and lowlights of 2025.
New Zealand's Lydia Ko poses with the trophy after winning the 2024 Women's British Open Golf Championship. Photo: AFP
10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Pete Ross
BBC World reporter Pete Ross joins Maggie Tweedie to take a look at some of the events making headlines internationally, including political fallout in South Korea following President Yoon Suk Yeol's controversial declaration of martial law, a vote of confidence in Germany which could see Chancellor Olaf Scholz come under immense political pressure, and a version of the Ten Commandments for sale in New York.
![This handout photo taken and released on December 7, 2024 by the South Korean Presidential Office shows South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol delivering an address at the Presidential Office in Seoul. - South Korea's embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol stopped short of resigning on December 7 over his declaration of martial law, with a vote to impeach him hours away and mass street protests planned in Seoul. (Photo by Handout / South Korean Presidential Office / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / “The erroneous mention[s] appearing in the metadata of this photo by Handout has been modified in AFP systems in the following manner: [2024] instead of [2023]. Please immediately remove the erroneous mention[s] from all your online services and delete it (them) from your servers. If you have been authorized by AFP to distribute it (them) to third parties, please ensure...](https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--7pB9RnUM--/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050/v1733885533/4KFC2P4_AFP__20241207__36PP3UH__v5__HighRes__CorrectionSkoreaPoliticsUnrest_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD)
Yoon Suk Yeol. Photo: HANDOUT / AFP
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 show there's classic soul courtesy of Aretha Franklin and Mable John, reggae from Marcia Griffiths, blues from Jimmy Dawkins and Dr Feelgood plus a preview of the forthcoming two hour Nashville Babylon summer specials and next week's Christmas spectacular!
