Wednesday 17 January 2018 Rāapa 17 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 Naked in Budapest by Heather Hapeta (5 of 7, RNZ); 3:30 Eyewitness; (RNZ); 4:25 NZ Constitution (RNZ); 4:25 Noise Exposure (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC) ; ​5:45: Allen Adair by Jane Mander (11 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: Cuneiform Tim Harford tells the fascinating stories of 50 inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world. (BBC)
  7:10 New Leash On Life   AUT radio student Dylan Kelly tests the growing trend of cold exposure training, where people look to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.

• 8:00 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 with Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris

  An afternoon of alleged music and dubious entertainment (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

  Margaret Atwood: the resurgence of ‘The Handmaid's Tale’.
  The Canadian author’s Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel 'The Handmaid's Tale' is enjoying a resurgence. It has  been made into a film, an opera and a ballet and a TV series based on the book as well as a graphic novel and an audio book were released though 2017.  There are also fears the dystopian totalitarian United States it depicts could be reflected in Trump's America.(RNZ)

  Mark Forsyth: History of Boozing
  Mark Forsyth raises a glass to our long and sometimes fraught relationship with alcohol through the ages.(RNZ)

• 7:06 PM. Summer Science

  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)

• 8:05 PM. Encounters

  Tina Weymouth: Unsung superstar
  Even 40 years after creating some of rock's most iconic bass lines, Talking Heads bassist, Tina Weymouth is still overlooked in the band's story. Music journalist Carrie Courogen joins Bryan Crump to fill in this glaring blank in our rock education(RNZ)

• 8:30 PM. Windows on the World

  International public radio features and documentaries

• 9:06 PM. Slice of Heaven

  Choices: It’s obvious that immigration has changed New Zealand in the past. But how will it change us in the future? In the final episode of Slice of Heaven, Noelle McCarthy  looks at choices for the future and ask; where do we go from here? (4 of 4, 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

  Cuneiform 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

  The Rabbit Skin Coat: Rajasthan, Kashmir, Khyber Pass: Dinah Priestley recalls how a small group of travelling New Zealanders came to dine with the Maharaja of Bharatpur (17 of 19, RNZ)

• 11:06 PM. Inside Out with Nick Tipping

  (RNZ)

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