Summer Nights for Friday 4 January 2013

7:10 Out and About: Cherry Spitting Festival

How far could you spit your pip?!

NZ National Cherry Spitting Championship

7:40 Out and About: Orienteering World Cup Series

The Oceania World Cup Carnival that starts this weekend - but how do you keep more than 900 competitors from around the world bumping into one another? With president of the New Zealand Orienteering Federation, Simon Addison.

8 pm News and Weather

8:15 Adventures In Musicland: Eurovision Song Contest 2012

Sophie Wilson presents a travelogue of her time at the Eurovision Song Contest, held this year in Baku, Azerbaijan.

8:40 Summer Sport: Grappling & Wrestling

The growth of 'grappling & wrestling' in New Zealand with coach Geoff Todd.

9 pm News and Weather

9:06 Country Life

Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand

10 pm News and Weather

10:17 Late Edition

A review of the leading news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.

10.35 Through Younger Eyes

11.06 Live: Elbow at the Powerstation

Popular Manchester, UK act Elbow performed in New Zealand for the very first time in April 2012.