Nights for Monday 10 February 2025
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BBC World Lookahead with Jonathan Frewin
10:45 PM.BBC World's Jonathan Frewin joins Emile Donovan for the latest on a major artificial intelligence summit in Paris, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's White House visit and the popular video… Read more Audio
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Sports with Bryan Waddle
10:30 PM.Sport broadcasting veteran and Nights regular correspondent Bryan Waddle is back with the action from the sporting world over the weekend. Read more Audio
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Pacific Diplomacy - The China effect and can NZ do better?
10:17 PM.It's all happening in the Pacific. New Zealand and Kiribati are currently engaged in diplomatic disputes over foreign aid and the island nation's ties to China. Read more Audio
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Mr Bear New Zealand 2025 crowned
9:55 PM.A new kiwi champion has been crowned. We're talking about Mr Bear New Zealand 2025! Read more Audio
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Nights Science: Debunking myths around early human hunters
9:35 PM.Most of us were taught there was a clear division of labour when it came to early hunter gatherers. Men did the hunting and women did the gathering. But new research suggest the roles were shared much… Read more Audio
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Whakataukī of the Week with Roimata Smail
9:25 PM.Every Monday to start our week off on here Nights, we invite a guest on the show to share a whakataukī - a Maori proverb - that's meaningful to them. Tonight we're talking to Roimata Smail (Ngāti… Read more Audio
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Another bad poll for the Government
8:30 PM.A fresh poll shows the coalition would be thrown out if an election was held today, with the left bloc holding just enough support to form a government. 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.
8:45 The Reading
Today's reading comes from Civilisation - twenty places on the edge of the world by Steve Braunias. In today's reading Steve spends a little time in Greymouth, in a community still living in the shadow of the Pike River Mine disaster.
9:05 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 Whakataukī of the Week with Roimata Smail
Every Monday to start our week off on here Nights, we invite a guest on the show to share a whakataukī - a Māori proverb - that's meaningful to them.
Tonight we're talking to Roimata Smail (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui) a lawyer and writer specialising in Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Her book Understanding Te Tiriti - A Handbook of Facts About Te Tiriti has become a best seller and has been made available to every high school in the country.
9:35 Nights Science: Debunking myths around early human hunter/gatherers
Most of us were taught there was a clear division of labour when it came to early hunter gatherers.
Men did the hunting and women did the gathering.
But new research suggest the roles were shared much more equally among both men and women.
Emile Donovan speaks to Cara Wall-Scheffler, professor of biological anthropology at Seattle Pacific University.
10:17 Pacific diplomacy - The China effect and can New Zealand do better?
It's all happening in the Pacific.
New Zealand and Kiribati are currently engaged in diplomatic disputes over foreign aid and the island nation's ties to China.
While the Solomon and Cook Islands' moves to be closer with Bejing have left Foreign Minister Winston Peters reeling.
In other news, communities seeking help following the HMS Manawanui sinking in October are seeking help from China as well.
Lati Lati is Senior Lecturer in the Politics and International Relations Programme at the Victoria University of Wellington.
He speaks to Emile Donovan about the situation and what New Zealand can do to improve it's stand with it's Pacific neighbours.
Guam’s Governor Lou Leon Guerrero has told RNZ Pacific: “I want to be a full member of PIF. That’s my goal.” Photo: RNZ Pacific / Lydia Lewis
10:30 Sports with Bryan Waddle
Sport broadcasting veteran and Nights regular correspondent Bryan Waddle is back with the action from the sporting world over the weekend.
Including how the Black Caps are faring as they build up to the Champions Trophy, Ireland looks set to win another Six Nations trophy and the Philadelphia Eagles are crowned Super Bowl champions for 2025.
10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Jonathan Frewin
BBC World's Jonathan Frewin joins Emile Donovan for the latest on a major artificial intelligence summit in Paris, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's White House visit and the popular video platform YouTube turns 20.
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 Nashville Babylon there's reggae from the Mighty Diamonds, blues and country courtesy of TV Slim and Loretta Lynn, a New Orleans classic from Professor Longhair plus a birthday tune for legendary songwriter Carole King.
