Monday 17 April 2017 Rāhina 17 Paenga-whāwhā 2017

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Health Check (BBC); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:30 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 Happy by Raewyn Alexander read by Kate Harcourt (RNZ); 3:30 The World of Science (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC) 5:45  50 Things That Made the Modern Economy  (BBC)

• 6:06 AM. Breakfast with Paul Brennan

  An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts (RNZ)

• 8:10 AM. Easter Monday with Megan Whelan

  An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling (RNZ)

• Noon The World At Noon

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 12:12 PM. Matinee Idle

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

• 5:00 PM. The World At Five

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 5:45 PM. The Bank of Heaven by Christine M Johnston

  An elderly woman's perspective (RNZ)

• 6:06 PM. Global Business:

  Denmark's Wind Power Progress

  Denmark is on course to generate 50% of its electricity from wind power in the next three years. The move towards clean energy and self sufficiency stands in stark contrast to the situation the country found itself in after the 1973 oil crisis when street lighting was reduced and people were told not to drive on Sundays.(BBC)

• 6:30 PM. Asian Flyway #4

  The final programme in a 4-part series tracking shorebirds on their annual journey from Australasia to the Arctic. They follow the planet's most gruelling migratory route - the East Asian Australasian Flyway. Ann Jones watches wading birds such as curlews, godwits and sandpipers prepare for their epic journey. They fatten up to fuel the flight, they grow bigger hearts and flight muscles and just before departure, they shrink their digestive organs to become the most efficient flying machines for their first 7 day non-stop flight (BBC)

• 7:06 PM. The late Bernard Kearns reads ' The Pipirangi Keg'

  When a hogshead of Beer, camouflaged with a label reading "Danger High Explosive" is accidentally delivered to the Twiggers Creek railway siding, the locals cannot ignore the need to identify the exact nature of its contents (RNZ)

• 7:35 PM. Upbeat Highlight

  (RNZ)

• 8:30 PM. Windows on the World

  International public radio features and documentaries

• 9:30 PM. Insight

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

• 10:00 PM. The World at Ten

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 10:10 PM. World Book Club

   Harriet Gilbert travels to Amsterdam to talk to multiple award-winning Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom about his novel 'The Following Story' - a ‘novel of ideas’ that blends philosophical reflection with the haunting tale of a retired, ancient language teacher preoccupied with classical antiquity.Listen (BBC)

• 11:06 PM. Nashville Babylon

  Wairarapa's Mark Rogers presents a selection of old and new music - the very best in alt.country, Americana and blues (Arrow FM)

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