Nights for Friday 12 April 2024
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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
10:30 PM.He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music. Audio
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The volunteers fixing up Christchurch's broken bicycles
10:17 PM.It's easy to junk something when it's broken, and just buy something new. In the decade since it was founded, RAD Bikes has recycled over fifty thousand bike parts and served nearly twenty thousand… Read more Audio
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
9:40 PM.Nights' resident film critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan with new picks for the weekend.
This week Dan is looking at Civil War (Garland, 2024) in cinemas now, documentary STEVE! (Neville, 2024)… Read more Audio
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This Weekend: National Scrabble Day
9:15 PM.Tonight we're talking to Alexander Gandar about National Scrabble Day which celebrates the popular game of Scrabble which is played around the world. It coincides with the birthday of Alfred Mosher… Read more Audio
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 Tenuous Connections
It's Friday Night so it's time to put on a playlist of music with a loose theme based off an even looser starting point.
Tonight's theme is
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 This Weekend: National Scrabble Day
Tonight we're talking to Alexander Gandar about National Scrabble Day which celebrates the popular game of Scrabble which is played around the world.
It coincides with the birthday of Alfred Mosher Butts in 1899; the man who invented the iconic board game.
Photo: By thebarrowboy (Flickr: Scrabble) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
9.30 Focus on Politics
In this week's Focus on Politics, RNZ Political Reporter Giles Dexter sits down with new MP - and new minister - Andrew Hoggard, to discuss the suite of reviews and replacements he's been tasked with.
Photo: 123rf / RNZ
9:40 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Nights' resident film critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan with three new picks for the weekend.
This week Dan is looking at Civil War (Garland, 2024) in cinemas now, documentary STEVE! (Neville, 2024) which looks at the life and career of the legendary Steve Martin streaming on AppleTV+ and finally Dan revisits the modern Kiwi classic Out of the Blue (Sarkies, 2006) which is streaming for free on TVNZ+
10:17 The volunteers fixing up Christchurch's rusting and broken bicycles
It's easy to junk something when it's broken, and just buy something new.
In the decade since it was founded, RAD Bikes has recycled over fifty thousand bike parts and served nearly twenty thousand people, in what they say is unlocking the joy and freedom of cycling.
Nights talks to the coordinator for RAD Bikes, Jess Smale.
In the decade since it was founded, RAD Bikes in Christchurch has recycled over fifty thousand bike parts and served nearly twenty thousand people, in what they say is unlocking the joy and freedom of cycling. Photo: Supplied by RAD Bikes
10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music.
Finn Johansson Photo: Supplied
11:07 WOMAD 2023
WOMAD 2023 is a weekly programme featuring live recordings from a selection of International and local musicians captured by the RNZ Music team at WOMAD Taranaki.
This week's encore concert features the Hot Psychedelic sounds of Moroccan blues band Bab L'Bluz