Nights for Tuesday 25 October 2022
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BBC World with Jonathan Frewin
10:45 PM.The BBC's Jonathan Frewin joins Nights with the latest new from around the world. Read more Audio
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Nude cycling event comes to the North Island
10:30 PM.Nude cyclists will pedal around the Coromandel town of Waihi next month to highlight the vulnerability of road cyclists and protest the overuse of cars. The World Naked Bike Ride - Waihi… Read more Audio
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The rise of staff engagement surveys
10:17 PM.Staff engagement surveys - how effective are they? Who do they serve, and why are they so popular... with employees? Here to help answer those questions is Adam Edwards, Regional Director at Hays… Read more Audio
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Nights Sports with Zoe George
9:35 PM.Sportscaster Zoe George, senior sports journalist at Stuff, joins the show for a breakdown of the weekend's big sporting news. Read more Audio
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Thom Monckton: clowning around Aotearoa
9:10 PM.World renowned physical theatre and contemporary circus performer Thom Monckton has his hands busy at the moment, touring not one but two shows around the country. Read more Audio
7:12 Tech Tent
Tech Tent explores why millions of SIM cards face being disconnected in Kenya and Ghana as authorities force people to register them. Tech Tent also speaks to writer Becky Holmes on why she responds to romance fraudsters and BBC Tech Reporter, Alasdair Keane, visits a cyber security competition where laptops aren't allowed in the room.
Photo: 123RF / Andrey Popov
7:30 The Sampler
Tony Stamp reviews the new Bjork album Fossora, with help from musicians Indira Force and Dudley Benson as well as broadcaster Rachel Ashby.
Photo: Supplied
8:15 Pacific Waves
Koroi Hawkins presents a daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in the world.
Photo: RNZ
8:30 Window on The World
What are the nutritional challenges of food in space? As NASA looks at creating a lunar habitat, and even launching a mission to Mars, how can the right food be prepared and transported to keep astronauts both healthy, and happy? Studying astronaut diets in space might even help our understanding of nutrition here on earth.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon Photo: AFP
9:07 Thom Monckton: clowning around Aotearoa
World renowned physical theatre and contemporary circus performer Thom Monckton has his hands busy at the moment, touring not one but two shows around the country.
Thom joins us fresh off the stage from performing in The King of Taking this evening as part of Nelson Arts Festival, where you can catch the show again tomorrow before it heads to Auckland on 11-12 November, where he will also be performing his new show The Artist.
His new show The Artist was co-created with European circus group Circo Aereo, and is the follow up to their worldwide smash hit The Pianist.
Thom Monckton in The Artist Photo: Antti Saukko
9:35 Nights Sports with Zoe George
Sportscaster Zoe George, senior sports journalist at Stuff, joins the show for a breakdown of the weekend's big sporting news.
Phoenix Karaka of New Zealand during the Constellation Cup netball match between the New Zealand Silver Ferns and the Australian Diamonds at the Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre on the Gold Coast, Sunday, October 23, 2022. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt/ www.photosport.nz Photo: AAP / www.photosport.nz
10:35 Nude cycling in the North Island
A nude bike ride is pushing off from Waihi Beach next month in an effort to highlight the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and protest against the world’s oil dependency.
Organised by Andrew Cook of Hauraki Naturally as part of an international movement, the event is thought to be the North Island's first ever group bicycle ride in the buff. Andrew joins the show to tell us more.
World Naked Bike Ride in France, July 2022 Photo: AFP
10:45 BBC World with Jonathan Frewin
The BBC's Jonathan Frewin joins Nights with the latest new from around the world.
Britain's former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Conservative MP, Rishi Sunak leaves from an office in central London on 23 October 2022. Photo: AFP / Daniel Leal
11:07 Worlds of Music
Trevor Reekie hosts a weekly music programme celebrating an eclectic mix of 'world' music, fusion and folk roots. Tonight's programme features an interview with Kiya Tabassian who sings and plays an Iranian long-necked lute called a setar.