Sunday 28 December 2014 Rātapu 28 Hakihea 2014

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 History Repeated (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 2:05 Spiritual Outlook (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns for Sunday; 3:05 Christmas with Tallulah, by Elizabeth Smither (RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC) 5:45 Auckland Story (RNZ)

• 6:08 AM. Storytime

  The Story of the Mosquitoes, by David Somerset, told by Fiona Samuel; Cautionary Tale of Susan McGoo, by Pauline Cartwright, told by Megan Edwards; You can never fall off a Dragon's Back, by Diana Sidaway, told by Vivienne Bell; Matilda and the Forgetments, by Lorinda Creighton, told by Rashmi Pilapitaya; The Wicked Stepmother, by Dugald Ferguson, told by Matthew Chamberlain; Royal Babysitters, by Joy Cowley, told by Stephen Clements; Mosley's Dad, by Norman Bilbrough, told by Turei Reedy (RNZ)

• 7:35 AM. Worldwatch

• 8:10 AM. The Weekend with Lynn Freeman

  Round table discussions and documentaries about issues, trends, ideas, options and opportunities that lie ahead for us as individuals and communities (2 of 8, RNZ)

• Noon The Midday Report

• 12:11 PM. Spectrum

  People, places and events in NZ (RNZ)

• 12:45 PM. Hello Dolly

  Max Cryer explores the quirky and surprising stories behind a host of well known songs (RNZ)

• 1:10 PM. Pandemic, by John Dryden

  The Present: A microbiologist and WHO advisor arrives in Bangkok to give a keynote lecture at a medical conference. He is invited to observe local authorities dealing with an outbreak of bird 'flu and reluctantly agrees to do so. A new strain of the virus emerges and he finds himself trapped in Thailand unable to return to his wife and son (1 of 3, Goldhawk Essential)

• 2:05 PM. BBC Reith Lectures: The Future of Medicine

  Why do Doctors Fail? The medical doctor and writer Dr Atul Gawande, a practising surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor at both the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School explores the nature of imperfection in medicine. Dr Gawande examines how much of failure in medicine remains due to lack of knowledge and how much is due to the failure to use existing knowledge. What does this mean for where medical progress will come from in the future? (1 of 4, BBC)

  Website: BBC Reith Lectures

• 3:04 PM. The Subcontinental

  Bollywood: Choreographer and broadcaster Raakhi Sinha hosts a journey through the history of Bollywood music, featuring classic songs and recent hits along with interviews with comedian Russell Peters, filmmaker Deepa Mehta, Bollywood choreographer and dance sensation Shiamak Davar and Ameen Merchant, author of The Silent Raga, among others (1 of 2, PRX)

• 4:06 PM. Sunday 4 'til 8

  A selection of special interest programmes, including:

  4:06 The Sunday Feature: The 2014 Rutherford Lectures - Experiments between Worlds

  Rivers: Whanganui was the venue for Dame Anne's final talk 'Rivers - Give Me the Water of Life'. This lecture begins by discussing the settlement between the Whanganui River hapu and iwi and the government in August this year that recognised the Whanganui River status as a legal person in its own right. She discusses our relationship with rivers, including the Whanganui, examining Maori and modernist ideas about freshwater and how experiments between these ways of thinking might allow us to have rivers that we can swim and fish in again (F, RNZ)

  5:10 The 5 O'Clock Report: A roundup of today's news and sport

  5:11 Spiritual Outlook: Exploring different spiritual, moral and ethical issues and topics (RNZ)

  5:40 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ)

  6:06 Great Encounters: Highlighting a feature interview from the best of 2014 on Radio New Zealand National (RNZ)

  7:06 World Book Club: Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap: The chronicler of 21st Century urban Australia, Christos Tsiolkas, talks to Harriett Gilbert about his controversial award-winning novel 'The Slap' which has polarised opinion in his native country and across the globe (BBC)

• 8:06 PM. A Prairie Home Companion

  The award-winning American radio show presented by Garrison Keillor (1 of 4, APM)

• 10:00 PM. The 10 O'Clock Report

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 10:12 PM. Suspense: The Return of the Sorcerer, by Clark Ashton Smith

  (Blue Hours)

• 11:04 PM. Hidden Treasures

  Trevor Reekie seeks out musical gems from niche markets around the globe, re-releases, and interesting sounds from the shallow end of the bit stream (5 of 8, RNZ)

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