Wednesday 3 January 2018 Rāapa 3 Kohi-tātea 2018

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:06 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Insight (RNZ); 1:15 Country Life Story (RNZ); 2:05 The Forum (BBC); 3:05 Dove on the Waters by Maurice Shadbolt (2 of 4, RNZ); 3:30 Eyewitness (RNZ); 4:25 Patō Tongan Drum(RNZ); 4:40 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC) 5:45: Allen Adair by Jane Mander (2 of 12, RNZ)

• 6:00 AM. Breakfast with Paul Brennan

  An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts including: 
  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: Billy Bookcase Tim Harford tells the fascinating stories of 50 inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world. (BBC)
  7:10 Healthy or Hoax Carol Hirschfeld looks at new fads and popular trends in food, exercise and leisure. In this edition, she delves into the craze for coconut oil (1 of 6, RNZ)

• 6:40 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)

• 8:10 AM. Summer Report with Alex Perrottet

  An hour of summer news and information, including interviews with the newsmakers, plus sport, business. weather and features

• 9:06 AM. Summer Times with Megan Whelan

  A holiday season of interviews, features, music and stories including at 10:30 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

  The stories behind the international headlines

• 12:28 PM. Matinee 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

• 5:30 PM. Outspoken

  Current affairs with RNZ's most experienced correspondents (RNZ)

• 6:06 PM. Encounters

  Memorable exchanges from the past year on RNZ National.  

  Miriam Lancewood and her husband Peter have spent the last six years living a nomadic, primitive life in the wilderness of the South Island. In March 2017 she talked to Kathryn Ryan about her experiences which are detailed in her book "Woman in the Wilderness"

  Mike Finkel who's book is called "A Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit" speaking with Jesse Mulligan in March 2017

• 7:06 PM. Summer Science with Alison Ballance

  Highlights from the world of science and the environment, with Our Changing World’s Alison Ballance, with new podcasts from University of Otago science communication students. (RNZ)

• 7:30 PM. Cotton-Eyed Joe by Susy Pointon

  Episode 2 read by Michele Amas
  1964 was the year the Beatles came to New Zealand and Rock'n'Roll was firmly etrenched. But for one 14-year-old kiwi girl, it was a different sort of music that went straight to her soul. . .and it wasn't of her father's classical variety. (RNZ) 

• 8:30 PM. Windows on the World

  International public radio features and documentaries

• 9:06 PM. Slice of Heaven

  Why do we find immigration so tough to talk about? (2 of 4, RNZ) Slice of Heaven

• 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 7. Working in Bangkok: Dinah Priestley recalls how a small group of travelling New Zealanders came to dine with the Maharaja of Bharatpur (7 of 19, RNZ)

• 11:06 PM. Inside Out with Nick Tipping

  (RNZ)

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