Monday 1 January 2018 Rāhina 1 Kohi-tātea 2018

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:15 Auld Lang Syne (RNZ); 12:30 Health Check (BBC); 1:05 Spectrum: So Cruel To Land Like This (RNZ); 2:06 Just One Thing: Kanoa Lloyd (RNZ); 2:30 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 Life Is A Ten Letter Word by Kath Beattie told by Nigel Collins (RNZ); 3:30 Science in Action (BBC); 4:30 Rowan Simpson: Being World Class (RNZ); 4:50 Rainbow Rosalind Manowitz (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

• 6:00 AM. Breakfast with Katrina Batten

  An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts including:

  6:14  Witness
  The story of our times told by the people who were there (BBC)

  6:35  One Quick Question
  Instant answers to listeners’ questions on movie ticket prices, saints, nuts and peanut butter

  6:50  50 Things That Made the Modern Economy: M-Pesa 
  Tim Harford tells the fascinating stories of 50 inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world (BBC)

  7:10  Roads Run Through Us by John Bluck
  Thoughts on the place of roads in the minds and lives of New Zealanders (5 of 6, RNZ)

  7:30  Human Hibernation
  Kevin Fong explores the possibilities than humans could hibernate. This ability could help us recover from serious injury or make long space flights pass in a flash. (BBC)

  8:12  The Why Factor
  What drives people to be the centre of attention? Jordan Dunbar tries to find out why we crave likes, shares and views online and why our brains are hard wired for attention. (BBC)

  8:33  The race to rid NZ of rats
  We hear how a New Zealand company that came up with automatic, self-setting traps to kill rats, stoats and ferrets in this country is now helping fight  invasive species in other countries including Hawaii, Scandinavia and the UK. (RNZ)

  9:06  The Silent Forest
  The Siamese Rosewood tree is now so valuable that two small pieces carried in a rucksack are worth $500. As a result armed criminal gangs up to a hundred strong have stripped the forests of Thailand bare of the Rosewood. It has been dug out of the central reservations of roads, from temple courtyards and school playgrounds. Nearly all of it is destined for the Chinese rosewood ‘hongmu’ furniture market which has boomed since 2008 when centuries old temples were restored in Beijing, using rosewood. (Part 2 of 2, BBC)

  10:05  Black Sheep
  Radical:The story of Arthur Desmond (RNZ) 

  10:30  The Halfmen of 'O' by Maurice Gee
  Lloyd Scott reads episode 6 in our 20-part holiday adaptation of the novel. (RNZ)

  11:05  Your Life in a Cup of Coffee
  An exploration of the mysterious, fragrant world of fortune-telling with Turkish coffee grounds, a practice popular across the Middle East. The BBC's Nooshin Khavarzamin discovers the history, culture, Sufism and the mystic world of coffee fortune tellers. (BBC)

  11:35  Encounters: Leo Schep
  Dr Leo Shep of the Department of Preventive & Social Medicine, National Poisons Centre - Dunedin, Leo discusses  the recent history of psychoactive drug use in NZ with Bryan Crump (RNZ)

• Noon The World at Noon

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 12:12 PM. Matinee Idle

  An afternoon of alleged music and dubious entertainment with Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. Five O'Clock Report

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 5:10 PM. The 9th Floor: The Commander - Helen Clark (1999-2008)

  Guyon Espiner talks to Helen Clark, the longest-serving of our living Prime Ministers about her three terms in power as she sought to draw a line under Rogernomics, unleash new social reforms and rethink New Zealand's place in the world (RNZ) The 9th Floor

• 6:06 PM. Encounters

  Memorable exchanges from the past year on RNZ National

  The US ambassador to NZ Scott Brown, talking to Kim Hill in July 2017

• 7:06 PM. Summer Science

  Health Check: Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world (BBC)

• 7:30 PM. The Secret Life Of. . .

  The Secret Life of Ten Guitars
  10 Guitars has been one of the best-loved songs at New Zealand backyard parties since the 1960s, and at one point every pop, rock and country singer in the nation had their own version. But the song was actually written for the King of Romance, English crooner Engelbert Humperdinck. (RNZ)  

• 8:30 PM. Windows on the World

  International public radio features and documentaries

• 9:30 PM. Insight

  An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. The 10 O'clock Report

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 10:30 PM. 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

  Tim Harford tells the fascinating stories of 50 inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world (BBC)

• 10:45 PM. For God's Sake Saddle Me A Donkey by Dinah Priestley

  Part 5. Travelling in Thailand - bright red roads and orange dust: Dinah Priestley recalls how a small group of travelling New Zealanders came to dine with the Maharaja of Bharatpur (5 of 19, RNZ)

• 11:06 PM. Nashville Babylon

  Wairarapa's Mark Rogers presents a selection of old and new music - the very best in alt.country, Americana and blues (Arrow FM)

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