Sunday 31 January 2016 Rātapu 31 Kohi-tātea 2016

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Police Files of NZ (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 2:05 Heart and Soul (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday; 3:05 Charolais Newman, by Allyson Caseley, read by Andrew Foster (RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC); 5:10 Bishops, by Mona Williams (6 of 10, RNZ)

• 6:08 AM. Storytime

  Happy Jack, by David Somerset, told by Peter Vere-Jones; Guess What! by Margaret Mahy, told by Jane Waddell; Scrap - Tale of a Blonde Puppy Ep 10, by Vince Ford, told by Kip Chapman; Billy and the Bengal Tigers, by David Somerset, told by Peter Vere-Jones; A War Far Away by Pauline Cartwright told by Teresa Healy; Vegetable Soup, by Margaret Mahy, told by Bruce Phillips; The Pirates and the Nightmaker part 12, by James Norcliffe, told by Dick Weir

• 7:10 AM. Sunday Morning with Wallace Chapman

  A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, documentaries, sport from the outfield, politics from the insiders, plus Mediawatch and music

• 8:10 AM. Insight

  An award-winning documentary providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs

• 9:06 AM. Mediawatch

  Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in New Zealand's news media (RNZ)

• 12:11 PM. Spectrum: Back on the Bike - Jamie Nicoll: Transcending Recovery

  Jamie Nicoll is a strong competitor - in sport and in life. He's one of New Zealand's most successful mountain bike racers. He finished third at the world's biggest mountain biking competition, Crankworx in Whistler, Canada, a couple years ago. What makes Jamie's success extraordinary, isn't that he's a young guy from the bottom of the world. It's that to get to the podium, he'd had to recover from an almost unimaginable accident.

• 12:37 PM. Standing Room Only

  It's an 'all access pass' to what's happening in the worlds of arts and entertainment

• 3:04 PM. Drama at Three

  Highlighting radio playwriting and performance

• 4:06 PM. The Sunday Feature - Auckland Writers Festival: CK Stead with Ruth Harley

  C.K. Stead is one of New Zealand's foremost literary figures. A distinguished novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist and Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland, Stead has won many awards and fellowships. He became a Member of the Order of New Zealand in 2007, and is one of only two living writers to hold that honour.

• 5:00 PM. The World at Five

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 5:11 PM. Heart and Soul (BBC)

  Better Call Moses - The Priest Saving Souls

  John Laurenson meets Father Mussie, the Swiss-based Catholic priest  helping desperate African migrants. Father Mussie has a phone number, which can ring dozens of times a day from callers who are themselves fleeing war, poverty, religious persecution, or all three. He hears Father Mussie's own story of fleeing his home country and how his faith drives his work.

• 5:40 PM. Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi

• 6:06 PM. Great Encounters

  In-depth interviews selected from RNZ National's feature programmes during the week (RNZ)

• 7:05 PM. The TED Radio Hour

  Why We Lie

  People lie. We lie to each other and to ourselves. Is there a deeper reason why we do it? In this episode, five TED speakers deconstruct the hard truths of deception.

  Behavioral economist Dan Ariely: Where's The Line Between Cheating A Little and Cheating A Lot?
  Social media expert Pamela Meyer: Can You Learn To Spot A Liar?
  Psychologist Jeff Hancock: Does Technology Make Us More Honest?
  Skeptic Magazine founder Michael Shermer: Why Do We Believe In Unbelievable Things?
  Magician Eric Mead: How Do Magicians Manufacture Reality?

• 8:06 PM. Sunday Night with Paul Brennan

  Paul Brennan presents two hours of music and nostalgia (RNZ)

• 10:12 PM. Mediawatch

  Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in New Zealand's news media (RNZ)

• 11:04 PM. The Retro Cocktail Hour

  An hour of music that's "shaken, not stirred" every week from the Underground Martini Bunker at Kansas Public Radio (2 of 12, KPR)

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