Monday 22 October 2018 Rāhina 22 Whiringa-ā-nuku 2018

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Health Check (BBC); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:06 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy (BBC); 2:30 New Horizons (RNZ); 3:05 The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt by Tracy Farr told by Lorae Parry (8 of 12, RNZ); 3:30 Science In Action (BBC); 4:25 Irish Poet (RNZ); 4:35 Sonorous Shadow (RNZ); 4:55 Book Review (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

• 6:00 AM. Breakfast with Paul Brennan

  An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts (RNZ)

• 8:12 AM. Labour day with Megan Whelan

  An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling (RNZ)

• Noon The World At Noon

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 12:12 PM. Matinee Idle with Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris

  An afternoon of alleged music and dubious entertainment (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. The World At Five

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 5:10 PM. Global Business

  Insights into the business world (BBC)

• 5:40 PM. Labour Weekend, written and told by Sheba Williams

  Work means Sheba needs to stay in town over the Labour Day long weekend, but it does allow her to contemplate her connection with Wellington, her home town (RNZ)

• 6:06 PM. The Summer of Astral Weeks

  As 1968 began, Van Morrison was at his lowest ebb: Despite having had a smash hit the previous year with Brown Eyed Girl, he found himself penniless, facing deportation from the United States, and living under the threat of Mob violence in New York city.  As 1968 drew to a close, Van Morrison had transformed the sound of his music, signed to Warner Brothers, and recorded Astral Weeks - now regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time.  The Summer of Astral Weeks traces the year's developments to find out how Van Morrison turned his life and career around so dramatically  examining the people and the events made it possible (An RTÉ Documentary on One)

• 8:06 PM. Battered written and performed by Jessica Grace Smith

  A monologue about a Dannevirke woman who works in a fish and chip shop (RNZ)

• 8:30 PM. Windows on the World

  International public radio features and documentaries

• 9:30 PM. Insight

  An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. The World At Ten

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 10:15 PM. World Book Club

  Presenter Lawrence Pollard talks to chart-topping Chinese-American writer Celeste Ng and an audience gathered in Boston about her bestselling novel 'Everything I Never Told You' (BBC)

• 11:06 PM. Nashville Babylon

  Wairarapa's Mark Rogers presents a selection of old and new music - the very best in alt.country, Americana and blues (Arrow FM)

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