Nights for Wednesday 2 November 2016

7:12 Years of Living Dangerously

Kiwi born, New York based filmmaker Martha Jeffries has just finished directing and producing two episodes of  "Years of Living Dangerously" an Emmy award winning TV series on climate change. The series will screen in NZ on the National Geographic Channel, premiering on November 22.

7:30  At The Movies

Simon Morris welcomes three good movies. Cannes Film Festival winner I Daniel Blake is Ken Loach at his best - and most passionate. Hell and High Water, starring Jeff Bridges and Chris Pine, sees two Texans take on the banks. And the new Marvel Comics blockbuster Doctor Strange boasts Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton.

8:12 Nights' Overseas - Israel

Editor of The International Jerusalem Post and a Jerusalem Post columnist, Liat Collins reports from the State of Israel.

8:30 My Heels are Killing Me

In part 3 of Sonia Sly's fashion podcast we meet James Dobson – the founder and designer of New Zealand label Jimmy D. He chats candidly with Sonia at his K Road home (which is above his workroom) about approaching design with a sense of humour, working with stylist King Kang Chen, life before the internet and being at home in the fashion industry.

9:07 The Drama Hour

The Investigator - The original anti-McCarthy radio play from 1954 in which McCarthy tries to continue his purge of Anti-American subversives when he arrives in heaven.

10:17 Late Edition

A round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International,

11:07 Inside Out

Nick Tipping hosts a journey through the jazz spectrum playing favourites, standards and new releases along the way. Tonight's programme is dedicated to the music of Lennon and McCartney with jazz tunes that reinvent the Beatles - from Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald to fusion players Allan Holdsworth and Marcus Miller.