Nights for Friday 14 March 2025
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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
10:30 PM.He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music. Read more Audio
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Math nerds rejoice for International Pi Day
10:17 PM.Professor Richard Easther from the University of Auckland on celebrating 14 March, or International Pi Day. Read more Audio
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
9:35 PM.Dan Slevin reviews Black Bag (2025), Japanese Netflix show Asura (2025), and nostalgia trip Farscape (1999-2003) streaming on YouTube. Read more Audio
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This Weekend: WOMAD
8:30 PM.TAHI presenter So'omalo Iteni-Schwalger is in New Plymouth for WOMAD 2025. 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 This Weekend: WOMAD
TAHI presenter So'omalo Iteni-Schwalger joins Emile Donovan from the lush grounds of New Plymouth where WOMAD 2025 is taking place.
8:35 Tenuous Connections
It's Friday night, so Nights is putting on a playlist of music with a loose theme based off an even looser starting point.
Tonight, it's songs about desserts.
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.
9:20 Focus on Politics
RNZ's political editor Jo Moir breaks down another week of the government's beleaguered school lunches programme.
9:35 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan to review Black Bag (2025), Japanese Netflix show Asura (2025), and nostalgia trip Farscape (1999-2003) streaming on YouTube.
10:17 Math nerds rejoice for International Pi Day
Professor Richard Easther from the University of Auckland joins Emile Donovan to celebrate 14 March, or International Pi Day.
Photo: John Reid [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)]
10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music.
- M.T.O. (Minor Traffic Offences) by AVON DADS
- Mandingo by Wu-Tang Clan, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, Method Man, Cappadonna & Mathematics
- Abstraction II by Brendan Eder Ensemble
Finn Johansson Photo: Finnsoft Games
11:07 Concert
In Artist To Artist Nick Bollinger takes a listen to some of the songs that songwriters have written about other songwriters, and uncovers the stories behind them.
