Tuesday 1 January 2019 Rātū 1 Kohi-tātea 2019

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Spectrum: For Zealandia and God (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (BBC); 2:05 Music with Cerys Matthews (BBC); 3:05 Long Hot Summer by Barbara Anderson read by Stephanie Wilkin (1 of 15, RNZ); 3:30 Author's View (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 Summer was Yesterday by Joyce West (1 of 14, RNZ)

• 6:06 AM. Breakfast with Shelley Venning

  An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts including:

  6:12 Pounding the Pillow by Sarah Delahunty

  6:20 The Sad Comic by Alexander Goldsmith (AUT)

  6:30 In Sickness and In Health by John Bluck (5 of 6, RNZ)

  6:45 The Assassination 5: Near Misses -"Suicide bombers got through the security check. What should we do?" (BBC)

  7:10 Eyewitness: It'll Never Catch On - Eyewitness comes face-to-face with history. In this episode host Justin Gregory looks at the rise of TradeMe (RNZ)

  7:23 Ours: Treasures from Te Papa - Julian Wilcox - Jonah Lomu's PlayStation video game (RNZ)

• 8:09 AM. Black Sheep

  Pakeha Maori: the story of Kimble Bent The British Army soldier who defected to join Maori in Taranaki during the NZ Wars. Was involved in Titokowaru’s war

• 9:06 AM. Plastic Fantastic

  How Much Plastic Can We Recycle?  Materials scientist Mark Miodownik explores our love-hate relationship with plastic and where things began to go downhill.  (#2 of 3, BBC)

• 9:45 AM. The Duel on the Creek by Henry Lapham

  A story of nineteenth century shenanigans (RNZ)

• 10:06 AM. True Stories Told Live

  Five storytellers;  Sharon Lam, Gem Wilder, Curti Icon, Freya Daly Sadgrove, and Hana Pera Aoake explore the theme of transformation in a lively session of True Stories Told Live, recorded in association with the NZ Book Council  (RNZ)

• 11:05 AM. The Meccano Set

  The collective memory of the rituals of the Mt Eden Prison gallows, on which men convicted of murder were hanged during the 1950's (RNZ)

• 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

• 5:10 PM. Discovery

  How Much Plastic Can We Recycle?  Materials scientist Mark Miodownik explores our love-hate relationship with plastic and where things began to go downhill.  (#2 of 3, BBC)

• 5:35 PM. Encounters

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

• 6:06 PM. BBC Newshour Quiz:

  James Coomarasamy puts Razia Iqbal, James Menendez, Rebecca Kesby and Paul Henley to the test to find out who remembers the most about 2018's news.(BBC)

• 6:35 PM. Encounters

  Memorable exchanges from the past year on RNZ National

• 7:04 PM. Health Check

  Claudia Hammond presents a programme examining health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world (BBC)

• 7:30 PM. Summer Sampler

  Nick Bollinger reviews some of the latest music releases

• 8:30 PM. Windows on the World

  International public radio features and documentaries

• 9:04 PM. The Tuesday 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)

• 10:00 PM. The World at Ten

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 10:10 PM. Claim to Fame by David Hill

  An ordinary accident compensation claim becomes a monstrous tangle as letters are exchanged between the bureaucracy and the victim.  An admission  of defeat and an honourable retreat still do not solve the problem (RNZ)

• 10:30 PM. In Their Element:

  Exploring the history, features and uses of different elements in the periodic table (BBC)

• 11:04 PM. Worlds of Music

  Trevor Reekie hosts a weekly music programme celebrating an eclectic mix of 'world' music, fusion and folk roots (RNZ)

Next day - Wed 02

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