Wednesday 26 December 2018 Rāapa 26 Hakihea 2018

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:06 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Two Cents’ Worth (RNZ); 1:05 Country Life Story (RNZ); 1:45 More or Less  (BBC); 2:05 The Forum  (BBC); 3:05 A Real Family Christmas by Anne Mulcock (RNZ); 3:30 Diversions (RNZ); 4:25 Painter Rediscovered (RNZ); 4:35 New York Bound (RNZ); 4:55 Book Review (RNZ);  5:10 Witness (BBC)

• 6:00 AM. Boxing Day with Paul Brennan

  A miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts including:

  6:45 In Sickness and In Health by John Bluck (1 of 6, RNZ)

  7:10 The Long Way Home: A big of a dogleg

  Bruce Hopkins takes his father and brother's ashes back home to Stewart Island. But he's taking the long way there; walking the length of New Zealand on Te Araroa trail (RNZ)

  7:26 Ours: Treasures from Te Papa - Jacinda Ardern and Ernest Shackleton's sled

  Noelle McCarthy visits Ernest Shackleton's sled in Te Papa and takes along New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern who has a wee bit of an obsession with the Irish-born explorer (RNZ)

  8:08 Global Business

  Will artificial intelligence change how we shop and decide which retailers succeed? Retail executive, Jeremy Schwartz, meets chat bots, robots and the humans behind them, to find out, exploring the impact that the AI revolution may have on jobs - not just the number of them but their nature too (BBC)

• 10:06 AM. Black Fire

  There’s been a resurgence of black music as protest music in America, where musicians are drawing on radical roots, and on the sounds and ideas of  Black Power from the late 1960s and early 1970s – to revolutionise black music from within. Broadcaster and jazz writer Kevin Legendre talks  to musicians and artists across generations and asks is Black Music revolutionary music once again? (BBC)

• Noon The World At Noon

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 12:15 PM. Matinee Idle with Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris

  An afternoon of alleged music and dubious entertainment

• 5:00 PM. The World At Five

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 6:06 PM. Encounters

  Memorable exchanges from the past year on RNZ National (RNZ)

• 7:06 PM. Summer Science with Alison Ballance

  Highlights from the world of science and the environment with Our Changing World's Alison Ballance (RNZ)

• 8:06 PM. Wellington Jazz festival 2018

  John Beasley's MONK'estra taking Inspiration from the spirit of revolutionary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk for a performance at the 2018 Wellington Jazz Festival (RNZ)

• 8:30 PM. Windows on the World

  International public radio features and documentaries

• 9:06 PM. Eating Fried Chicken in the Shower

  A comedic exchange in which James Nokise interviews New Zealanders in the shower (his safe place) about their mental health and how they deal with it (7 of 8, RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. News at Ten

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 10:10 PM. We Will Not Cease by Archibald Baxter

  The experiences of  farm labourer Archibald Baxter was one of New Zealand 14 conscientious objectors forcibly transported to the Western Front in 1918. (Part 1 of 15, RNZ)

• 11:06 PM. Inside Out with Nick Tipping

  Nick Tipping brings you classic recordings and modern masterpieces from the world of jazz (RNZ)

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