Friday 2 April 2010 Rāmere 2 Paenga-whāwhā 2010

• 12:05 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 One in Five (RNZ); 1:05 Ideas (RNZ); 2:05 The Sampler (RNZ); 3:05 The Mesmerist, by Barbara Ewing (RNZ); 3:30 Canterbury Tales (RNZ); 4:30 Global Business (BBC); 5:10 Saving Dave, by Phil Kawana (RNZ); 5:45 Health Check (BBC)

  6:45 Letter from... (BBC)

  7:12 Angel of Mercy, by Karen Goa (RNZ)

  7:35 Worldwatch

  The stories behind the international headlines (RNZ)

• 8:10 AM. Good Friday Morning

  A morning of music and feature programmes

• Noon The World at Noon

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 12:30 PM. Improv FM

  Improvised comedy recorded before a live audience at Circa Theatre in Wellington (RNZ)

• 1:06 PM. Troubled Man - The Marvin Gaye Story

  World music expert, Charlie Gillett, tells the tragic, yet fascinating life story of Marvin Gaye (BBC)

• 2:05 PM. Beauty in Broken Places: The Healing Arts of Lily Yeh

  Lily Yeh is a remarkable woman who has found a way to love life that is both ingenious and inspirational. As an artist, she has taken her work altogether out of the studio and into the streets. Not just any streets, but the mean streets of inner city Philadelphia, where vacant lots riddle a ruined landscape. A World of Possibilities feature (MMP)

• 3:04 PM. In the Spirit

  Nick Bollinger provides a guide to the rich and powerful tradition of black American religious music (RNZ)

• 4:06 PM. Colin Gibson Hymn-writer

  Colin Gibson, Emeritus Professor of English at Otago University, member of the New Zealand Hymnbook Trust, writer of hymns and musical settings, and Australasian editor for the Dictionary of World Hymnody, in conversation with Kim Hill (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. The World at Five

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 5:12 PM. Global Business (BBC)

• 6:06 PM. Daryl Hall and John Oates - The Music and The Magic

  An overview of the career of pop duo- Daryl Hall and John Oates (Sony)

• 7:06 PM. When The Green Flag Drops

  Life behind the microphone with race commentator Tony Lee (Pt 1 of 2, RNZ)

• 7:30 PM. Spiritual Journeys

  The best-selling American author Anne Rice became famous and wealthy after publishing her novel Interview with the Vampire in 1976. It led to over 25 years of variations on the vampire theme. At home in Palm Springs, California, Anne Rice talks about how her beliefs have shaped her fiction (Pt 1 of 3, BBC)

• 8:06 PM. Electric Ladyland

  The making of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's third and final studio release, Electric Ladyland (Pt 2 of 2, Sony/Legacy)

• 9:06 PM. Country Life

  News and views from rural New Zealand (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. The News at Ten

  Radio New Zealand news and sport

• 10:15 PM. What's the Word?

  Sally Placksin looks at 20th-century Irish author Samuel Beckett's work and influence (NRP)

• 11:06 PM. Tapestry of the Times

  This week, Gourd banjo music from Mike Seeger, a rare recording of a young Bob Dylan, vocal harmonies from the Bahamas, the gentle touch of Brazilian guitar master Luiz Bonfa. Plus: a cowboy ballad from Lead Belly, and "Mean Talking Blues" from Woody Guthrie. Real music, real people and the stories behind the sounds (Pt 8 of 12, Smithsonian/WYPR)

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