Friday 29 December 2017 Rāmere 29 Hakihea 2017

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Black Sheep: Epidemic (RNZ); 1:05 The Friday Feature (BBC); 2:30 The Sampler (RNZ); 3:05 To Jess by Alice Tawhai (RNZ); 3:30 The Why Factor (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

• 6:00 AM. Breakfast

  An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts with Katrina Batten.
  6:14 Witness: History as told by the people who were there (BBC)
  6:35 One Quick Question: Rapid answers to listeners’ queries (RNZ)
  6:45 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy: The Clock  Tim Harford tells the fascinating stories of 50 inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world.  (BBC)
  7:10 Roads Run Through Us by John Bluck Thoughts on the place of roads in the minds and lives of New Zealanders.(4 of 6, RNZ)

• 6:50 AM. 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

  Tim Harford tells the fascinating stories of 50 inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world (BBC)

• 7:10 AM. Roads Run Through Us by John Bluck

  Thoughts on the place of roads in the minds and lives of New Zealanders. Part four: Road manners (4 of 6, RNZ)

• 8:10 AM. Summer Times

  A holiday season of interviews, features, music and stories with Megan Whelan. (RNZ)

• 10:30 AM. The Halfmen of O by Maurice Gee, told by Lloyd Scott

  (RNZ)

• Noon The World At Noon

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 12:12 PM. Worldwatch

• 12:28 PM. Matinée Idle

  An afternoon of alleged music and dubious entertainment with Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris. (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. Five O'Clock Report

  A roundup of today's news and sport.

• 5:10 PM. The 9th Floor: Dame Jenny Shipley (1997-99)

  Guyon Espiner talks to the first woman to become Prime Minister, Dame Jenny Shipley (RNZ) The 9th Floor

• 6:06 PM. Encounters

  Memorable exchanges from the past year on RNZ National

  Hemi Kelly is a licensed translator and a full time lecturer in te reo Maori at AUT. He translated Witi Ihimaera's new novella "Sleeps Standing" - which explores the concluding Battle of Orakau through the eyes of a 16 year old boy. In August 2017 Hemi told  Kathryn Ryan how he  translated Witi's prose word for word, and his te reo text now sits opposite Witi's, page by page in a new publication.

  Don Henley was a founding member of The Eagles - the biggest-selling American band in history. After they broke up in 1980 Henley went solo as a singer-songwriter. He spoke to Kim Hill in February, just before he came to perform in New Zealand

• 7:06 PM. Summer Science

  CrowdScience  A BBC World Service programme that takes listener questions about life, Earth and the universe to researchers hunting for answers at the frontiers of knowledge. 

• 8:06 PM. The Compass

  On the Black Sea #1: The Voyage Begins
  Tim Whewell journeys across and around the Black Sea - a region of great strategic importance.  Setting out today from Istanbul, and sailing north through the Bosphorus straits towards Ukraine and the historic port of Odessa. Every sort of ship passes through the crowded Bosphorus, but these days one stands out - the Russian warships of the Black Sea Fleet bound for Syria. (BBC)

• 8:30 PM. Spotlight

  The NZ Music Scene (RNZ)

• 9:06 PM. Country Life

  Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. The 10 O'clock Report

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 10:30 PM. 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

  Tim Harford tells the fascinating stories of 50 inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world (BBC)

• 10:45 PM. For God's Sake Saddle Me A Donkey by Dinah Priestley

  Part 4.  Crossing the Border (Malaysia to Thailand): Dinah Priestley recalls how a small group of travelling New Zealanders came to dine with the Maharaja of Bharatpur (4 of 19, RNZ)

• 11:06 PM. The Mixtape

  Musical guests compile a C60 and talk us through their selections. (RNZ)

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