Sunday 8 January 2017 Rātapu 8 Kohi-tātea 2017

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 A Sound of Life (RNZ); 1:05 Summer Science (RNZ); 1:40 Essential NZ Albums (RNZ); 2:05 Heart and Soul (BBC); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday; 3:05 The open Accounts of an Honesty Box by Julie Helean (12 of 12, RNZ); 4:06 Met Service Coastal Weather Forecast (RNZ); 4:30 CrowdScience (BBC); 5:45 The Story of a NZ River by Jane Mander (13 of 25, RNZ)

• 6:08 AM. Storytime

  Knockout, by Robin Nathan, told by Eilish Moran; The Pikelet Fly, by Gay Buckingham, told by Anna McPhail; The Jar Frog, by Linda McIntyre, told by Peter Kaa; Uncle Wira and the Manu Men, by Mike Young, told by Toby Mills; Dunn That!, by David Hill, told by Matthew Chamberlain; Two Bright Sparks, by Rebecca Smith; Sorcerer's Apprentice, by Trad., told by Dick Weir (RNZ)

• 8:10 AM. The Weekend with Lynn Freeman

  Interviews, documentaries and round table discussions and documentaries about issues, trends, ideas and opportunities, plus practical tips for homeowners, travellers and food lovers (RNZ)

• Noon The World at Noon

  A round-up of National and International (RNZ)

• 12:30 PM. To Have An Ordinary Life

  Transitions (RNZ)

• 1:06 PM. WOMAD 2016 - Calexico

  Hailing from Tucson, Arizona, Calexico have toured New Zealand a number of times and have established a reputation for delivering a great show. They played Womad 2010 and essentially the same band returned for this Womad performance, centered around founding members Joey Burns and John Convertino, who have been playing together for over 20 years (RNZ)

• 2:06 PM. Word Christchurch 2016:

  Nadia Hashimi on Women in Afghanistan

  Nadia Hashimi’s novels highlight the plight of Afghan women under the Taliban, creating vivid, involving characters who win readers’ empathy and understanding. When the Moon is Low follows a refugee family across Europe; The Pearl That Broke its Shell looks at Afghan girls raised as boys; most recently A House Without Windows examines prison conditions for women in Afghanistan. Nadia Hashimi talks with Marianne Elliott, author, activist, and a former human rights officer for the United Nations in Afghanistan. 

   

• 3:04 PM. The 3 O'clock Drama - The Lonesome Buckwhips

  (2) Life After Death: What really happened in these months that became known as the Buckwhips 'dead period'?. . . a period when the fans of the band, and indeed people the world over, were in deep shock (RNZ)

• 4:06 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Great Ideas - 2. Every language is a world
  Sasha Calhoun, Paul Warren and Stephen Epstein  join Megan Whelan for a  look at the ways different language users perceive the world, and also the extent to which the world prompts the way we speak. (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. The World at Five

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 5:11 PM. Heart and Soul

  Personal approaches to religious belief and spirituality from around the world (BBC)

• 6:06 PM. A Wrinkle in Time - Ageing bodies

  How do we want to age? And how much control will we have over the process? Noelle McCarthy visits the Dunedin Study, and finds out why the most accurate measure of your age might not necessarily be your birthday (2 of 6, RNZ)

• 7:05 PM. The TED Radio Hour

  A crafted hour of ideas worth sharing presented by Guy Raz (NPR)

• 8:06 PM. Sunday Night with Grant Walker

  An evening of music and nostalgia (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. The 10 O'Clock Report

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

• 10:12 PM. World Book Club

  The globe's great authors discuss their best known novel with Harriet Gilbert and an audience of enthusiastic readers (BBC)

• 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 (KPR)

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