Sunday 30 December 2018 Rātapu 30 Hakihea 2018

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 The Compass (BBC); 1:05 Summer Science (RNZ); 2:05 Heart and Soul (BBC); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday (RNZ); 3:05 The Apple of His Eye by Carl Nixon read by Gerald Bryan (RNZ); 3:30 CrowdScience (BBC); 5:10 Michael King's History of New Zealand (9 of 30, RNZ)

• 6:08 AM. Storytime

  More Like A Boy, by Judith Holloway, told by Miriama McDowell; Time Capsule, by Jane Buxton, told by Michelle Amas; Hemi's Pet, by Joan de Hamel, told by Mihi Murray; Maddy West and the Tongue Taker, by Brian Falkner, told by Miranda Harcourt; Guess What!, by Margaret Mahy, told by Jane Waddell; The Birdlady of Central Park, by David Somerset, told by Davina Whitehouse (RNZ)

• 7:33 AM. Assignment

  Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from BBC correspondents (BBC)

• 8:10 AM. The Weekend with Charlotte Graham-McLay

  A mixture of current affairs and feature interviews, until midday including:

  9:30 Insight

  Foetal Alcohol: Damaging Babies' Brains (RNZ)

• Noon The World at Noon

  An extended bulletin of Radio New Zealand news

• 12:30 PM. Futureproof Yourself

  Part 2 – Antibiotics - Since the discovery of Penicillin antibiotics have come to underpin all of modern medicine - birth by Cesarean section, hip replacements, organ transplantation, caring for wounds on diabetic patients. None of this would be possible without effective antibiotics. But the medicines we depend are under threat. Coming up at half past twelve, Aleks Krotoski and Ben Hammersley learn which disease control protocols we should be using in our daily lives to minimise the risk for our future (BBC)

• 1:10 PM. Carols of our Time

  A BBC World Service feature in which composer Bob Chilcott explores the history of A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. (BBC)

• 2:04 PM. The Documentary

  On the Road with Jools Holland  Pianist Jools Holland travels through the USA in search of the roots of jazz, blues, soul and rock’n’roll. (1 of 4, BBC)

• 3:04 PM. The 3 O'Clock Drama

  The Mumbai Chuzzlewits by Charles Dickens adapted by Ayeesha Menon (#1 of 3, Goldhawk)

• 4:06 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Tackling diet-related disease in NZ: the need, the evidence, the priorities - Kim Hill and panellists Professors Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Boyd Swinburn and Tony Blakely (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. The World at Five

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 5:10 PM. Heart and Soul

  Personal approaches to spirituality from around the world (BBC)

• 5:36 PM. Encounters

  James Geary deputy curator at Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism talks to Jesse Mulligan about the Wit and the joy of puns

• 6:06 PM. Encounters:

  Dame Joy Cowley talks to Wallace Chapman about her Life and Influences.

• 7:05 PM. The TED Radio Hour

  A crafted hour of ideas worth sharing presented by Guy Raz (NPR)

• 8:04 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

• 10:10 PM. World Book Club

  Bestselling Chinese writer Lijia Zhang discusses her acclaimed novel, Lotus , with an audience of readers. In-spired by the secret life of the author's grandmother, Lotus follows a young woman torn between past traditions and modern desires as she carves out a life for herself in China's "City of Sins" (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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