Monday 25 April 2016 Rāhina 25 Paenga-whāwhā 2016

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris (RNZ); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:05 Brubeck Goes to War (RNZ); 3:05 The Godley Letters read by Ginette McDonald and Sam Neill (4 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 Science (RNZ); 5:10 Anzac Day at the Bay by Patricia Lawson (RNZ)

• 5:30 AM. Anzac Day Dawn Service

  The Dawn Ceremony of Remembrance from the Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in central Wellington presented by Warwick Burke

• 6:51 AM. Evelyn Gertrude: WWI Nurse

  Stephanie Simpson's speech that won the 2016 ANZ RSA Cyril Bassett VC Speech Competition

• 7:08 AM. Māori and the New Zealand Wars

  New Zealand’s Own Civil War between Maori and the settler government was waged over more than a decade and cost thousands of lives. Our Maori Issues correspondent, Mihingarangi Forbes, looks back at this turning point in New Zealand history with a mix of interviews, drama and music

• 8:10 AM. Anzac Morning with Colin Peacock

  Colin Peacock checks in with New Zealanders at home and overseas as they commemorate 100 years since the first ANZAC day. He also talks to photographer Brett Killington who has explored the vast underground network of tunnels under the Western Front, mined out by the NZ 'Diggers'. Brett's work features in a new sound and light show in Wellington, which focusses on the events of 1916. Colin meets some Diggers' descendants, and talks to David Littlewood about Experience of a Lifetime: People, Personalities and Leaders in the First World War, a book offering a new analysis of the war from the perspective of those who were alive at that time.

• 11:00 AM. Anzac Day 2016 National Commemoration Service

  Warwick Burke presents from the Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in central Wellington

• Noon The World at Noon

• 12:12 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

• 5:12 PM. Chinese Anzacs

  More than 30 New Zealand-born Chinese enlisted with the NZ Expeditionary Force 1914 to 1919. Their stories have finally been recognised in the book 'Chinese ANZACS' and at the formal launch, Lynda Chanwai-Earle hears about the contribution that NZ Chinese made to the ANZAC war effort, a story long overdue and long overlooked (RNZ)

• 5:30 PM. The Food Chain

  Front of House (BBC)

  What’s life like for a career waiter at the top of their game? The Food Chain looks at the business of serving and pleasing the ever-fickle customer.

• 6:06 PM. A Global Queen

  A Global Queen: To mark the 90th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, David Cannadine, eminent Professor of History at Princeton University explores the worldwide role and significance of the British monarchy  (BBC).

• 7:06 PM. Māori and the New Zealand Wars

  New Zealand’s Own Civil War between Maori and the settler government was waged over more than a decade and cost thousands of lives. Our Maori Issues correspondent, Mihingarangi Forbes, looks back at this turning point in New Zealand history with a mix of interviews, drama and music

• 8:06 PM. Anzacs Rising

  One hundred years ago a group of New Zealand Soldiers caught up in the Irish Easter Rising of 1916 had the chance to change history when one had a clear shot of the rebel leader James Connolly.

• 8:30 PM. Windows on the World

  International public radio features and documentaries

• 9:06 PM. Presents by Paddy Richardson

  A child's view of a family struggling with returned serviceman suffering from shell shock

• 9:30 PM. Insight

  An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. News and Late Edition

  RNZ news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from RNZ National

• 10:30 PM. What's the Word: Elegy

  Three viewpoints on different aspects of the use of poetry to express grief. Barbara Lewalski talks about John Milton's pastoral elegy, 'Lycidas'; Harold Aspiz discusses Walt Whitman's 'When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd'; and Sarah Cole talks about Wilfred Owen's World War One poem 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'

• 11:06 PM. Beale Street Caravan

  David Knowles introduces the Memphis-based radio show with an international reputation for its location recordings of blues musicians live in concert (13 of 13, BSC)

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