Friday 5 January 2018 Rāmere 5 Kohi-tātea 2018

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Black Sheep (RNZ); 1:05 The Friday Feature (BBC); 2.05; The Long Way Home (RNZ); 2:30 The Sampler (RNZ); 3:05 Dove on the Waters by Maurice Shadbolt (4 of 4, RNZ); 3:30 The Why Factor (BBC); 4:25 Twelfth Cakes(RNZ); 4:40 NZ Potters(RNZ); 4:55 Book Review: Talking to My Daughter(RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC); ​5:45: Allen Adair by Jane Mander (4 of 12, RNZ)

• 6:00 AM. Breakfast with Cynthia Morahan

  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: Robot 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 considers  Greens,  Powders and Smoothies (3 of 6, RNZ)

• 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

• 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

  Journalist and author Ruth Whippman  talks to Jesse Mulligan in November 2017 about her New York Times article 'Happiness is Other People'

  Belle Boggs, author of "The Art Of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, And Motherhood" with Jesse Mulligan  in February 2017.

• 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 (BBC)

• 8:06 PM. The Compass

  On the Black Sea #2: Diving Deep
  Tim Whewell dives beneath the Black Sea to visit a subaquatic archaeological world every bit as complex and contested as that above. Working off the coast of Bulgaria, British and local archaeologists are beginning to uncover kitchen pots, clay pipes and dishes from layers of history back to the Bronze age because the Black Sea’s lightless and oxygen-free depths mean that nothing disappears for ever. . (BBC)

• 8:30 PM. Spotlight

  The NZ Music Scene (RNZ)

• 9:06 PM. The Best of 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 9. The Great Elephant Roundup: Dinah Priestley recalls how a small group of travelling New Zealanders came to dine with the Maharaja of Bharatpur (9 of 19, RNZ)

• 11:06 PM. The Mixtape

  (RNZ)

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