Wednesday 14 January 2015 Rāapa 14 Kohi-tātea 2015

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 The Truth About Life and Death (4 of 6, BBC); 1:15 Primary People (RNZ); 2:05 The Forum (BBC); 3:05 The Don Fernando Motels, by Owen Marshall (RNZ); 3:30 Diversions (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

• 6:00 AM. Breakfast with Cynthia Morahan

  An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts.

  6:15 Reading: The Catalogue of the Universe (8 of 10, RNZ)

  6:35 Reading  Gone Country with John Bluck (6 of 6, RNZ)

• 7:00 AM. Summer Report

  Ian Telfer and Teresa Cowie present two hours of summer news and information, including interviews with the newsmakers plus sport, business, weather and features

• 9:06 AM. Summer Noelle with Noelle McCarthy

  A holiday season of interviews, features, music and stories from all over NZ and around the world

• Noon Midday Report

  A roundup of today's news and sport including:

  12:12 Worldwatch

  The stories behind the international headlines

• 12:30 PM. Matinee Idle

  Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris present an afternoon of alleged music and dubious entertainment

• 5:00 PM. The 5 O'clock Report

  A roundup of today's news and sport including:

  5:12 Worldwatch

• 5:32 PM. Outspoken

  Current affairs presented by some of Radio New Zealand's most experienced presenters and correspondents

• 6:06 PM. Great Encounters

  Highlighting a feature interview from the best of 2014 on Radio New Zealand National (RNZ)

• 7:06 PM. The Elements: Caesium

  Justin Rowlatt looks at the element behind the atomic clock. Humanity has always measured time by the rotation of the earth, with the sun at high noon. Yet the birth of atomic time has introduced an inconsistency into timekeeping. In order to solve this problem, from 2015, the link to the sun is likely to be discarded for the first time ever in human history, with implications for everything from satellites to astronomy and from high speed financial trading to the Greenwich Meridian (BBC)

• 7:30 PM. Spectrum

  People, places and events in NZ (RNZ)

  spectrum@radionz.co.nz

• 8:13 PM. Windows on the World

  International public radio features and documentaries

• 9:06 PM. The Wednesday Drama: Think Of A Garden, by John Kneubuhl

  A story of Samoan society at the end of the 1920s when the Mau movement was loud in its call of "Samoa mo Samoa" Samoa for the Samoans, and NZ recorded what many regard as the blackest days in its stewardship as a colonial power (F, RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. The 10 O'clock Report

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 10:15 PM. Late Edition

  The day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National

• 10:30 PM. Suspense: Forest of the Dark Unbound

  (Blue Hours)

• 11:06 PM. A Short History of Jazz: The 1930s with Ben Wilcock

  How jazz improvisation reached new levels of sophistication, tracing the evolution of jazz from its early beginnings in the 1900s through the 1930s and 1940s to the 1950s. NZ School of Music lecturers and music specialists perform the music from and discuss an era of their expertise (2 of 4, RNZ)

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