Schedule for Friday 22 January 2016

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12:04 AM. All Night Programme

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 The Food Chain (BBC); 1:05 The Friday Feature; 2:05 The Cultural Frontline (BBC); 2:30 Anatomy of a Song (RNZ); 3:05 The Virgin and the Whale, by Carl Nixon, read by Deana Elvins (3 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 The Why Factor (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC)
6:00 AM. Morning Report

RNZ's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including:
6:16 and 6:50 Business News
6:18 Pacific News
6:26 Rural News
6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers
9:06 AM. Nine to Noon with Lynn Freeman for Kathryn Ryan

Current affairs and topics of interest, including:

10:45 The Reading: Now and Then, by David Hill, read by Nick Blake

Snapshots of the changing face of New Zealand glimpsed through a group of friends who gather every ten years in memory of one of their number who died in the 1970s (5 of 5)
Noon Midday Report

RNZ news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including:
12:16 Business News
12:26 Sport
12:34 Rural News
12:43 Worldwatch
1:06 PM. Jesse Mulligan

An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
4:06 PM. The Panel with Jim Mora

An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
5:00 PM. Checkpoint with John Campbell

RNZ's drive-time news and current affairs programme
6:30 PM. Focus on Politics

Analysis of significant political issues presented by RNZ's parliamentary reporting team (RNZ)
6:50 PM. Worldwatch
7:06 PM. Nights with Bryan Crump

RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
9:06 PM. Country Life

Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand
10:00 PM. News and Late Edition

RNZ news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from RNZ National
11:06 PM. To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story

American icon Nina Simone in words and music. Nina Simone was as powerful and complex a person as the music she played. She called it 'black classical music,' and it resists all definitions (PRX/Joyride)