Sunday 7 January 2018 Rātapu 7 Kohi-tātea 2018

• 12:04 AM. All night programme

  12.05 Music after Midnight; 12.30 Pants On Fire - The Fibbers Guide to Lies, Lying and Liars (2 of 5, RNZ); 1.05 Summer Science with Alison Ballance (RNZ); 1.45 Are we there yet? (RNZ); 2.05 Heart and Soul (BBC); 2.35 Hymns on Sunday (RNZ); 3.05 My Lord Above by David Lyndon Brown (RNZ); 3.30 CrowdScience (BBC); 4.30 Country Life Story (RNZ) 5.10 Living with the Gods: (BBC); 5.45 Historical Highlight (RNZ)

• 6:08 AM. Storytime

  The First Man to Fly, by David Somerset, told by Michael Haigh; Ducks n Water, by Apirana Taylor, told by Waimihi Hotere; Pass It On, by David Hill, told by Lee Hatherley; Leaps and Bounds, by Robin Nathan, told by Lloyd Scott; The Scarf, by Maxine Liddell, told by Dorothy McKegg; The Travelling Restaurant, by Barbara Else, told by Stuart Devenie (RNZ)

• 7:33 AM. Assignment

  Black and Proud in Brazil
  For decades, Brazil has presented itself as a colour-blind nation in which most citizens are, at least to some extent, racially mixed. But a controversial education law is encouraging black Brazilians to assert their own distinct identity. Federal public universities now have to comply with government quotas for black students, as well as others deemed to be at risk of discrimination.  For BBC Assignment, David Baker reports on an issue that is at the heart of what it means to be black in Brazil.  

• 8:10 AM. Up This Way

  ‘it might be better than you expect’. Including Insight (RNZ)

• Noon The World at Noon

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 12:30 PM. The Food Chain

  Big Tech Wants Your Food Shop: Technology giants are gobbling up the online grocery market - and over the past year we’ve seen Amazon and Alibaba getting their teeth into bricks and mortar too. But do they want to transform the supermarket experience, or is this about harvesting even more consumer data?  And what will all of this mean for farmers, your pocket, and the quality and sustainability of your food? (BBC)

• 1:10 PM. History through the Piano: Chopin and Liszt

  John Drummond looks at some famous pieces of piano music as windows into the world in which they were created. 3. Chopin and Liszt - The Romantics (RNZ)

• 1:40 PM. Between the Lines - written and read by Elisabeth Easther

  Cass, a kiwi girl working in London thinks she has had a lucky break when she befriends some film producers. A comic tale about ambition set in the grimy world of the London movie business (3 of 5, RNZ)

• 2:05 PM. The Compass

  Documentaries exploring our world (BBC)

• 3:04 PM. The 3 O'clock drama

  The Russian Gambler by Dolya Gavanski. A brilliant, penniless musician gets a job as tutor to the young daughter of a Russian oligarch living in London and is sucked into the world of obsession and chance. A modern-day take on the original Dostoevsky story, ‘The Gambler’ (Part 2 of 2, Goldhawk)

• 4:06 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Great Ideas: The Future of Work Megan Whelan leads a discussion with  Associate professor Stephen Neville, Professor Jarrod Haar and Associate Professor Dave Parry on the future of work - how will technology impact the work we do, and where we do it  (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. The World at Five

  A roundup of today’s news and sport.

• 5:10 PM. Heart and Soul

  Iceland’s Dark Lullabies
  Storyteller Andri Magnason seeks out the darkness of the Icelandic Christmas.  He  used to be terrified by his grandmother's Christmas tales of Gryla the 900-year-old child-eating hag and her 13 troll sons - the Yule Lads - who would come down from the mountains looking for naughty children in the warmth of their homes. These dark lullabies partly hark back to a pre-Christian Christmas when the Norse gods dominated peoples’ lives. As Iceland opens up to global influences after centuries of isolation, Andri travels from farmstead to lava field to find out how these traditions live on. (BBC)

• 6:06 PM. Encounters

  Australian writer Charlotte Wood, author of 'The Natural Way of Things' in conversation with Kim Hill in August 2017 (RNZ)

• 7:05 PM. The TED Radio Hour

  A crafted hour of ideas worth sharing presented by Guy Raz (NPR)

• 8:06 PM. Sunday Night

  An evening of music and nostalgia with Grant Walker (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. The 10 O'Clock Report

  A roundup of today's news and sport.

• 10:12 PM. World Book Club Robert Harris – Imperium

  In the elegant surroundings of Worcester College, Oxford, the hugely popular British author Robert Harris discusses Imperium,  the first of his bestselling Roman trilogy with Harriet Gilbert and an Oxford Literary Festival audience. The setting is Ancient Rome, a city teeming with ambitious and ruthless men, but none more brilliant than a rising young lawyer Marcus Cicero who decides to gamble all on one of the most dramatic courtroom battles of all time. Scrupulously researched and vividly imagined Imperium brings to life the cutthroat politics and the timeless pursuit of power as one man seeks to attain supreme authority within the state. (BBC)

• 11:04 PM. The Retro Cocktail Hour

  An hour of music that's "shaken, not stirred" every week from the Underground Martini Bunker at Kansas Public Radio (KPR)

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