Nights for Friday 21 March 2025

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 This Weekend: Canterbury Home Show

Tonight we're spotlighting everything and the kitchen sink at the Canterbury Home Show.

Paul Collins from Kitchen Studio joins Maggie Tweedie to share some tips ahead of the weekend's business.

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 houses.

9:07 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.

9:20 Focus on Politics

Anneke Smith examines the Prime Minister's performance in India and takes a look at what the Foreign Affairs Minister got out of his talks with top US officials in Washington DC.

9:35 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin

Nights' resident screen critic is back to review Disney's Snow White (2025) in cinemas now, critically-acclaimed indie film How To Blow Up A Pipeline (2022) streaming on Prime Video, and Jim Broadbent short film A Sense of History (1992) here on YouTube.

10:17 Mum to many Letitia Dowie-Lewis

Letitia 'Teesh' Dowie-Lewis has opened her doors and arms to children she doesn't know over sixty times.

Based in Hamilton, she is the recipient of Excellence in Foster Care award for 2025, a title from Governor General Cindy Kiro.

So long as she has thirty minutes notice, and a good 'All About Me' plan emailed through, she will set up bedrooms for new kids, give them their own quilt, any favourite toys or music, anything to help them be as comfortable as they can be with this scary transition. 

She joins Maggie Tweedie.

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.

Tonight:

• Glass Eye Contact by Bunchy's Big Score
• Run Tell That by The Lewis Express
• Talk by Lucy Dacus

11:07 Concert: Family Affair

Nick Bollinger with the first part of Family Affair, a series of programmes about musical families, the sounds they make and the stories behind them.