Nights for Tuesday 8 April 2025
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How do tornadoes form?
10:45 PM.Could you explain the difference between a tornado and a hurricane? Read more Audio
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New Zealand's first beekeeper
10:30 PM.Mary Bumby travelled thousands of kilometres with two beehives to become New Zealand's very first beekeeper in 1838. Read more Audio
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One of Labour's most senior MPs calls it quits
10:17 PM.One of Labour's longest-serving current MPs, David Parker, will resign from Parliament. Read more Audio
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Shower Thoughts: Can your muscles actually twist into knots?
9:35 PM.Can your muscles actually twist into knots? Or is it something else entirely? Read more Audio
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Nights at the Museum: British Lawnmower Museum
9:25 PM.The British Lawnmower Museum houses over 300 special rare machines and memorabilia as part of its one thousand machine collection. Read more Audio
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Band on the move
8:30 PM.They're known as "The band from Wellington New Zealand" - but Aotearoa Music Award-nominated DARTZ say they are moving to Melbourne. 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 "The band from Wellington, New Zealand" is moving to Melbourne
They're known as the band from Wellington, New Zealand -- but DARTZ are moving to Melbourne.
DARTZ, known as 'the band from Wellington, New Zealand', are up for three Aotearoa Music Awards in 2025. Photo: Supplied
The four piece Wellington rock band released 'Moving to Melbourne' today, the same day as their triple-whammy nominations for the Aotearoa Music Awards were announced.
Clark Matthews is the bassist from DARTZ and he joins Emile Donovan.
8:45 The Reading: Harbouring
Part ten of Harbouring by Jenny Pattrick , told by Amy McClean and Ni Dekkers-Reihana.
A historical novel set in Wellington in 1839. Huw, a Welsh immigrant and procurer of Maori land, working for Colonel Wakefield; his wife, Martha, travelling by boat to meet her husband; and a woman, Hineroa, who has become a slave to Te Rauparaha after losing her tribe in battle
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.
9:25 Nights at the Museum: British Lawnmower Museum
Nights is endeavouring to put a digital foot in the door of every weird and wonderful museum the world has on offer.
Tonight, we're heading to Southport, England home of the British Lawnmower Museum.
The museum houses over 300 special rare machines and memorabilia as part of its 1,000-machine collection.
Brian Radam is the museum's curator and has written several books on garden machinery.
Brian Radam, Curator, British Lawnmower Museum Photo: SUPPLIED/British Lawnmower Museum
9:35 Shower Thoughts: Can your muscles actually twist into knots?
Knots in your shoulders? A knot in your buttock? Can your muscles actually twist into knots? Or is it something else entirely?
Brad Dixon is a physiotherapist and sports coach and he explains the ins and outs of muscle knots.
Close-up of hands of a masseur massaging back of a young woman. Photo: 123RF
10:17 One of Labour's most senior MPs calls it quits
One of Labour's longest-serving current MPs, David Parker, has resigned from Parliament.
Serving under three Labour prime ministers, he's held senior ministerial roles like Trade, Climate Change and Associate Finance, and twice served as Attorney General.
Yet some of his biggest political contributions have ended up thwarted - both by the current coalition government, and his own party. He was behind the now-scrapped overhaul of the Resource Management Act - and resigned from his Revenue portfolio in 2023 after Chris Hipkins rubbished his wealth tax policy.
He joins Emile Donovan to reflect.
Labour Party MP David Parker Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
10:30 New Zealand's first beekeeper
A new book sheds light on a little-known historical figure.
Mary Bumby brought European honeybees to New Zealand in 1838 and became our very first beekeeper.
Doing so was no mean feat: a six month voyage by sea, carrying two hives of live bees on her journey from England to Hokianga.
With access to Mary's own diary entries and historic records, Auckland novelist JM Laird has retold Mary's journey, and even uncovered some traditional beekeeping methods lost to time.
She joins Emile Donovan.
JM Laird, a hobbyist beekeeper herself, used Mary Bumby's own diary and other historic records to write the novelisation of the arrival of honeybees in New Zealand. Photo: Supplied
10:45 How do tornadoes form?
As Horowhenua locals in Levin and Waikawa Beach clean up after a tornado struck earlier today, other parts of the country are facing strong wind warnings.
Thankfully, tornadoes are relatively rare in Aotearoa; but if pressed, could you explain the difference between a tornado and a hurricane? Do you know under what conditions they form?
NIWA research meteorologist, Dr Richard Turner explains all to Emile Donovan.
Tornado in Texas, 2015. Photo: Supplied
11:07 Worlds of Music
Trevor Reekie hosts a weekly music programme celebrating an eclectic mix of 'world' music, fusion and folk roots.
To listen to this programme again or other shows you may have missed head to rnz.co.nz/worlds-of-music
