Sunday 14 January 2018 Rātapu 14 Kohi-tātea 2018

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Pants on Fire - The Fibbers Guide to Lies, Lying and Liars (3 of 5, RNZ); 1:05 Summer Science (RNZ); 1:45 Are We There Yet? (RNZ); 2:05 Heart and Soul (BBC); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday; 3:05 Naked in Budapest by Heather Hapeta (2 of 7, RNZ); 3:30 CrowdScience (BBC); 4:30 Country Life Story (RNZ) 5:10 Living with the Gods (BBC); 5:45 Historical Highlight (RNZ)

• 6:08 AM. Storytime

  The Escape from the Schooner Manukau, by David Somerset, told by Peter Vere-Jones; Tight Lines, by Jan Treliving Brown, told by Tina Cook; Collecting Kaimoana, written and told by Willie Davis; Sam and the Dog from the Sea, by Judy & Dick Frizell, told by Desmond Kelly; The Travelling Restaurant, by Barbara Else, told by Stuart Devenie (RNZ)

• 7:10 AM. Eyewitness:

  Who Runs the Country? After the 1984 snap  an unprecedented constitutional crisis gripped the country.  Justin Gregory takes us back to July 1984 when for three days it was unclear just who ruled New Zealand (RNZ)

• 7:33 AM. Assignment

  Ukraine's Frontline Bakery:  Lucy Ash meets the staff and customers of a bakery which is the one bright spot in war-torn east Ukraine. The war there between Russian-backed rebels and the Ukrainian army has dropped out of the headlines and there seems to be little political will to make peace. (BBC)

• 8:10 AM. Up This Way with Simon Morton

  'it might be better than you expect' : Including Insight (RNZ)

• Noon The World at Noon

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 12:12 PM. Phoenix by Elizabeth Smither told by Annie Whittle

  Gertrude's house offers enticing prospects to a young crim named Phoenix - but everything changes when Raja, the big Bernese mountain dog catches him climbing through the bathroom window. (1 of 2, RNZ)

• 12:30 PM. The Food Chain

  The Comedy of Food
  Does food ever make you laugh out loud? We try to stand up the theory that food is getting funnier because modern diets make it a richer sauce of comedy. (BBC)

• 1:10 PM. History through the Piano:

  Europe and the World:  In the fourth programme of his series looking at some famous pieces of piano music as windows into the times in which they were created, John Drummond enters the world of Imperial Europe at the end of the nineteenth century (RNZ)

• 1:40 PM. Between the Lines Written and read by Elisabeth Easther

  Cass, a kiwi girl working in London thinks she has had a lucky break when she befriends some film producers. A comic tale about ambition set in the grimy world of the London movie business (4 of 5, RNZ)

• 2:05 PM. The Compass

   

  Ocean Stories: The Arctic and Southern Oceans
  In the third edition of our series on the world’s oceans we visit Svalbard and Alaska to discover what change means for the people of the Arctic as the warming climate brings more trade, more tourists and new species. In the Norwegian territory of Svalbard residents find the doors and windows of their homes warping as the permafrost melts. In Alaska the traditional Inuit freezer cabinets - essentially deep holes cut into the ice - no longer keep whale meat fresh through the summer. (3 of 4, BBC)

• 3:04 PM. The 3 O'Clock Drama

  Lost in Mexico by Ingeborg Topsoe: English backpackers, Rachel and Sally are in Mexico. They claim they have been robbed. The police decide to search their hotel room and what they discover changes the course of the girls' lives (1 of 2, Goldhawk)

• 4:06 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Great Ideas: The Future of Communications
  Megan Whelan leads a panel of experts as they discuss the future of communication –what we’ll be talking about, how we’ll be talking, and what language we’ll be talking in. And what devices we will be using to do all that. (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. The World at Five

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 5:10 PM. Heart and Soul

  Preaching Across the Divide
  Naco Christian Church serves a small but devout congregation, Jesse Wood, its pastor spends hours in his pick-up, driving around meeting and praying with his parishioners. (BBC)

• 6:06 PM. Encounters

  Memorable exchanges from the past year on RNZ National (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

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 10:12 PM. World Book Club: Karl Ove Knausgaard

  A Death In The Family: The acclaimed Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about 'A Death in the Family', volume one of his remarkable series of memoirs 'My Struggle'.  (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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