Schedule for Wednesday 26 November 2014

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12:04 AM. All Night Programme

Including: 12:05 Music After Midnight; 12:30 Insight (RNZ); 1:15 Primary People (RNZ); 2:05 The Forum (BBC); 3:05 Under the Bridge and Over the Moon, by Kevin Ireland (1 of 15, RNZ); 3:30 Diversions (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)
6:00 AM. Morning Report

Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including:
6:18 Pacific News
6:22 Rural News
6:27 and 8:45 Te Manu Korihi News
6:44 and 7:41 NZ Newspapers
6:47 Business News
7:42 and 8:34 Sports News
6:46 and 7:24 Traffic
9:06 AM. Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan

Current affairs and topics of interest, including:
10:45 The Reading: Carnival Sky, by Owen Marshall (3 of 10, RNZ)
Noon Midday Report

Radio New Zealand news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including:
12:16 Business News
12:26 Sport
12:34 Rural News
12:43 Worldwatch
1:06 PM. Afternoons with Simon Mercep

Information and debate, people and places around NZ
4:06 PM. The Panel with Jim Mora

An hour of discussion featuring a range of panelists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
5:00 PM. Checkpoint

Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme
7:06 PM. Nights with Bryan Crump

Entertainment and information, including:
7:30 Spectrum: People, places and events in NZ (RNZ)
8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries
9:06 Wednesday Drama: Planting Marigolds, by Timothy Stevenson
A truculent teenager is infuriated when his mother insists he does his fair share to enhance their 'skody' new home (RNZ) (Highly Commended in the 2001 Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Awards) (RNZ)
9:52 A Slice of Banana Cake: In the great kitchen of life everyone makes their own banana cake. It's how we put it together that counts. Columnist Helen Brown rummages through her past to analyse the ingredients (1 of 2, RNZ)
10:00 PM. News and Late Edition

Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National
11:06 PM. The New Jazz Archive - Great Jazz Cities: St Louis

Some of the long-lost jazz and blues traditions of the great jazz city of St Louis. Historian Kevin Belford talks about how St Louis' rich blues heritage got written out of the jazz history books. There's a look at how the turn-of-the-century Mississippi River riverboat economy shaped the early St Louis music scene. And a chat with jazz historian Ben Cawthra about St Louis favourite son Miles Davis' years growing up in the Gateway City, plus how Father of the Blues W C Handy's hard luck time in St Louis inspired one of the music's all time classics (6 of 9, PRX)