Friday 30 March 2018 Rāmere 30 Poutū-te-rangi 2018

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 At The Movies (RNZ); 1:05 The Friday Feature (BBC); 2.05 The Long Way Home (RNZ); 2:30 The Sampler (RNZ); 3:05 Captain's Curse by Donna Banicevich Gera (RNZ); 3:30 The Why Factor (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

• 6:00 AM. Breakfast with Katrina Batten

  An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts including:
  6:20 One Quick Question (RNZ)
  6:30 World Hacks: Recycling Chewing Gum Litter to Clean Our Streets  .( BBC)
  7:10  Rip Van Winkle a short story by Washington Irving (VOA)
  7:40 The S-bend 
  One of Tim Harford’s   stories of  inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world.( BBC)
  8:10 Pat McMinn: NZ's Voice of the 1950's  (RNZ)
  A Tribute to the New Zealand singer and dancer Pat McMinn who died in Tauranga on 21 March 2018 (RNZ)
  8:40 The Discovery of LSD  .( BBC)
  9:06 The Lark Quartet  a short story by Elizabeth Smither
  9:30 The Good Friday Agreement
  Monica McWilliams was one of only two local women who were at the table during negotiations which led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998..( BBC)
  10:05 Food Of The Gods
  When religion and food is mixed together the result is a recipe that includes both sweat meats and boiled vegetables.  Long fasts and massive gluttony.  Vegetarianism and cannibalism – and a menu that stretches from ancient Egypt to the present day across all the continents. (RNZ)
  10:30 Heating the World  a Short story by Owen Marshall. (RNZ)
  11:05 The Lonely Funeral
  Every year up to twenty people die completely alone in Amsterdam. There are no friends or family to prepare their funeral or mourn,  no one, that is, except a civil servant and a poet, because for 20 years, retired Amsterdam civil servant Ger Frits has made sure that these lonely or unknown citizens get a respectful send-off. (RNL)

• Noon The World at Noon

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 12:12 PM. Bull's Lace a Jenny Pattrick short story read by Dorothy McKegg

  The Easter craft exhibition is on again - but will the former Rugby Rep be brave enough to exhibit his lacework under his own name (RNZ)

• 12:30 PM. Health Check

  Trial Hope for Leukaemia Patients:  When Simon Cox was first diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) 13-years ago, he feared the worst. But now there are promising developments in the search for a cure. He meets patients taking part in a new trial in  England. (BBC)

• 1:06 PM. Behold the Summer Grass by Vincent O'Sullivan

  Vincent O'Sullivan's powerful play drawing on the events surrounding the shooting of Japanese Prisoners of War at a camp in Featherston on 25 February 1943 (RNZ)

• 2:40 PM. Pontanima

  Sarajevo: Singing for Peace
  After the bitter Bosnian war in the 1990's, Catholic Monk, Friar Ivo Markovic, launched a multi-faith choir to bring survivors of the violence together and promote understanding between different ethnic groups. The choir is called "Pontanima", an invented word based on Latin that means, "bridge among souls"(BBC)

• 3:06 PM. Bebel Gilberto live @ WOMAD Taranaki

  Renowned Brazilian Jazz singer Bebel Gilberto performs a mixture of classic tracks and jazz standards.  The daughter of the legendary João Gilberto, Bebel redefined the sound of bossa nova a with a series transformative albums in the mid-200s .Her signature breezy Brazilian rhythms and ethereal vocals wowed the WOMAD 2017 audience at the Bowl of Brooklyn (RNZ)

• 4:06 PM. Culture or Belief?

  Mairead's First Communion
  What do you do when you're not practicing Catholics but your daughter wants to make her First Communion? (RTE)

• 5:00 PM. Five O'Clock Report

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 5:10 PM. Global Business:

  The Business of Kindness
  Peter Day explores how random acts of kindness can help businesses grow in surprising ways. (BBC)

• 5:40 PM. An Easter Examination by David Somerset

  A story from the early days of public school education in New Zealand (RNZ)

• 6:06 PM. Encounters

  Songs of the Spirit 
  Methodist lay-preacher John Thornley explores the spiritual side of “The Weight” by The Band (RNZ)

• 6:30 PM. The Anatomy of Pain:

  Part 1. Seeing Pain
  Pain is highly subjective but why do some people feel more pain than others and why does the brain appear to switch off under anaesthesia so we are unaware of the surgeon's scalpel? Professor Irene Tracey uses brain scanners to ask if we can actually see pain in the brain (1 of 4, BBC)
  
  
  

• 7:06 PM. Heavy Petting - a short story by Ann-Marie Houng Lee

  A sad story of life and death, love and cats. . .found but ultimately  departed (RNZ)

• 7:30 PM. What's the Word?

  In Dante's fourteenth-century Italian poem 'The Divine Comedy', the narrator  journeys through the inferno and purgatory to paradise. Sally Placksin discusses why is it so famous and how has it influenced later writers? (MLA)

• 8:30 PM. Windows on the World

  Raising The Dead:
  For the past few decades music teacher and pianist Francesco Lotoro has been collecting music written in concentration camps from World War Two. Composer Adam Gorb is head of composition at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Working closely with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Adam travels to Italy to meet Francesco and together they pick through his 8000 piece archive, much of which has never been heard before (BBC)

• 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

• 10:15 PM. World Book Club

  Jane Gardam: Old Filth
  British writer Jane Gardam discusses her award-winning novel Old Filth with Harriet Gilbert and listeners from around the world (BBC)

• 11:06 PM. The Mixtape

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

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