Nights for Wednesday 21 February 2024
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Ten thousand years of history from a sex worker's perspective
10:45 PM.New York-based comedian and sex worker advocate Kaytlin Bailey is in Wellington with a one-woman show about the world's oldest profession. Read more Audio
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Empty lots and makeshift public spaces: Why Christchurch's regeneration is still underway
10:30 PM.February 22 marks 13 years since Christchurch's devastating 6.3 magnitude earthquake, and the urban recovery is still in progress. Read more Audio
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Fa'anānā Efeso Collins remembered as a mentor
10:18 PM.Samoan creative Hana Schmidt says Fa'anānā Efeso Collins always supported her work and was there as a soundboard for her ideas. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch
9:35 PM.Hayden Donnell joins Emile Donovan to debrief the week in media, including a recent flurry of political polling and National's benefit system reset. Read more Audio
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Cock-a-doodle-don't: Waikato asks for feedback on animal nuisance
9:30 PM.Noisy roosters and smelly pigs in Waikato's urban area are up for discussion with the drafting of a new Keeping of Animals Bylaw. Read more Audio
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Saveloys and waterbeds: How the CPI is calculated
9:15 PM.What gets included in - and excluded from - the basket of goods and services that make up the CPI? Read more Audio
7:12 At The Movies
Simon Morris looks at three films that open in the mid-1970s. Madame Web opens in the Amazon jungle, Red Mole is about a New Zealand "rock and roll theatre group, while Bob Marley: One Love is about one of the seventies' most important musicians.
7:45 The Reading
Tonight, the fourth episode of 'Tipface Bunyan' by Susie Pointon, read here by Judith Gibson.
8:15 Pacific Waves
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. Hosted by Susana Suisuiki.
8:30 BBC Crowd Science
When the first person set the very first clock, how did they know what time to set it to? We go on a quest into the history of timekeeping, from sundials to atomic clocks.
Photo: RNZ / Marika Khabazi
9:07 Nights Quiz
Do you know your stuff? Come on the air and be grilled by Emile Donovan as he dons his quizmaster hat.
If you get an answer right, you move on to the next question. If you get it wrong, your time in the chair is up, and the next caller will be put through. The person with the most correct answers at the end of the run goes in the draw for a weekly prize.
The quiz is themed - find out more about tonight's theme on Nights' Facebook page.
9:15 Saveloys and waterbeds: How the CPI is calculated
Every month, Nights talks to the brains at Stats NZ to share some facts and figures about life in New Zealand.
Tonight, we're hearing about how the Consumers Price Index uses a bundle of everyday goods and services to measure inflation in New Zealand.
Jason Attewell is the general manager of economic and environmental insights at Stats NZ and he joins Emile Donovan.
A trolley of groceries containing Foodstuffs' products. Photo: Suppled / Foodstuffs
9:30 Cock-a-doodle-don't: Waikato asks for feedback on animal nuisance
The Waikato District Council is asking for feedback to help shape its new Keeping of Animals bylaw, which will govern how animals like roosters, pigs and bees are kept in the district.
The Mayor of Waikato Jacqui Church joins Emile Donovan.
Photo: RNZ / Alexander Robertson
9:35 Midweek Mediawatch
Hayden Donnell joins Emile Donovan to debrief the week in media, including a recent flurry of political polling and National's benefit system reset.
Social Development Minister Louise Upston has announced a ramping up of benefit sanctions will begin from June. Photo: RNZ / Angus Dreaver
10:17 Fa'anānā Efeso Collin remembered as a mentor
The Green MP and former Auckland Councillor died suddenly this morning in Auckland while taking part in a charity fundraiser.
Tributes have being flowing all day, remembering him as a champion for south Auckland and for Pacific communities.
Emile Donovan speaks to Hana Schmidt, a director of Papatoetoe-based, Pasifika-led creative agency Bluwave, who counts Fa'anānā Efeso as one of her mentors and supporters.
Hana Schmidt says Fa'anānā Efeso Collins always supported her work and was there as a soundboard for her ideas. Photo: Supplied
10:30 Empty lots and makeshift public spaces: Why Christchurch's regeneration is still underway
Tomorrow marks 13 years since Christchurch was hit by the devastating 6.3 magnitude earthquake, leaving the city's CBD in ruins.
Despite major redevelopment work and regeneration, empty lots and makeshift car parks still dot the urban landscape.
A new study by researchers at the University of Auckland is shedding some light on why vacancies still remain.
Associate Professor Olga Filippova was one of those researchers and she joins Emile Donovan.
Rubble and damaged buildings line a deserted Colombo street in central Christchurch after the quake. Photo: AFP
10:45 Ten thousand years of history from a sex worker's perspective
It's often said to be the world's oldest profession and while there have been strides towards legitimising and destigmasiting sex work, prostitution is still one of the most vilified and scorned professions.
Our next guest is trying to change that.
Based in New York, Kaytlin Bailey is a sex worker rights advocate, comedian, writer, and advocate for improving the status of sex workers in society.
Her stage show 'Whore's Eye View' is billed as a one-woman show about 10,000 years of prostitution, female emancipation, and sexual freedom.
Kaytlin is currently in Wellington where she is performing at the New Zealand Fringe Festival.
She joins Emile Donovan.
11:07 Pocket Edition
We hear from an Italian film composer, a Swiss storyteller, and a new French pop singer.
AUT academics argue why Taylor Swift deserved to earn a doctoral level equivalent in her field.
And Maggie Tweedie introduces us to fresh music from Mount Kimbie.