Schedules for 27 Dec 2014 - 02 Jan 2015

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight (RNZ); 12:30 Laugh Track (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (BBC); 2:05 NZ Live; 3:05 Coming and Going, by Tim Wilson, told by Kate Prior (RNZ); 3:30 The Week (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 Voices (RNZ)

The Silkies Pt 1, by Anthony Holcroft, told by Theresa Healey; Helper and Helper, by Joy Cowley, told by Moira Wairama, Tony Hopkins and Prue Langbein; The Silkies Pt 2, by Anthony Holcroft, told by Theresa Healey; The Bike Race, by Anna Kenna, told by James Winter; Voice of the Sea, by Margaret Mahy, told by Alice Fraser; The Magic Birdseed Biscuits, by Briar Grace-Smith, told by Vanessa Rare (RNZ)

Memorable scenes, people and places from the past year in rural NZ (RNZ)

Round table discussions and documentaries about issues, trends, ideas, options and opportunities that lie ahead for us as individuals and communities (1 of 8, RNZ)

An afternoon of the best songs, music related stories, interviews, live music, industry news and music documentaries from NZ and the world, including:

12:45 Farfetch with Sam Scott

1:10 Best Live Performances of 2014

Music 101 call in some friends to share the year's most memorable live music moments

2:10 A History of Student Radio pt 1

A journey through 45 years of student radio - the personalities and bands who got their breaks, the politics, the piracy and the '#8 wire', sink or swim mentality: From the humble homemade AM transmitters manned by tech-nerds for limited weeks of the university term, campus radio stations rapidly evolved into a beacon for music lovers, on-air talkers and people who never finished their degrees. We talk to some energetic characters who challenged the broadcasting establishment and find out where student radio took them (1 of 4)

2:30 Anatomy of a Song - Beastwars

RDU's Spanky Moore calls in contemporary NZ musicians and bands to help dissect the sound elements that make up their hits: 'The Sleeper' by Beastwars

3:05 The 2014 APRA Silver Scroll Awards

Every year at the APRA Silver Scroll Awards the finalists have their songs covered by other musicians. Summer Music 101 shares the Radio New Zealand recordings from the night, including a Gareth Farr-reimagining of Tami Nielson's winning song 'Walk (Back Into Your Arms)' performed by throat-singer Johnny Marks and Gamelan Taniwha Jaya

3:30 Stages: Barrytown Hall, State Highway 6

Anthonie Tonnon visits NZ's most talked about places to hear music, from big city institutions to port town oddities and near mythical stages in the bush. While on a long summer tour this year, Tonnon met the organisers and audience members that keep our stages running and collected stories from the bands who travel to play them

4:06 MixTape: Electric Wire Hustle

It's been a great year for Electric Wire Hustle, signing to Questlove's Okayplayer Records in the US and Somethink Sounds in the UK for the release of their album Love Can Prevail and playing The Roots Picnic in Philadelphia, as well as releasing a couple of EPs and a music video featuring the stunning choreography of French House Dance champion Meech. Electric Wire Hustle's David 'Taay Ninh' Wright and Mara TK share the songs that inspire and influence them

A roundup of today's news and sport

Book Ends, by Roger Hall

A group of cantankerous, opinionated and erudite gold card holding literary type males meet for coffee over a period of four years (1 of 4, RNZ)

In-depth interviews selected from Radio New Zealand National's feature programmes during the week (RNZ)

An evening of music, reminiscences and entertainment including your requests

Elvis Presley won three Grammy Awards in his lifetime - all were for religious recordings. This programme looks at his love for gospel music, his roots in the church and the stories behind his greatest gospel recordings and performances (Joyride Media)

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 History Repeated (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 2:05 Spiritual Outlook (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns for Sunday; 3:05 Christmas with Tallulah, by Elizabeth Smither (RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC) 5:45 Auckland Story (RNZ)

The Story of the Mosquitoes, by David Somerset, told by Fiona Samuel; Cautionary Tale of Susan McGoo, by Pauline Cartwright, told by Megan Edwards; You can never fall off a Dragon's Back, by Diana Sidaway, told by Vivienne Bell; Matilda and the Forgetments, by Lorinda Creighton, told by Rashmi Pilapitaya; The Wicked Stepmother, by Dugald Ferguson, told by Matthew Chamberlain; Royal Babysitters, by Joy Cowley, told by Stephen Clements; Mosley's Dad, by Norman Bilbrough, told by Turei Reedy (RNZ)

Round table discussions and documentaries about issues, trends, ideas, options and opportunities that lie ahead for us as individuals and communities (2 of 8, RNZ)

People, places and events in NZ (RNZ)

Max Cryer explores the quirky and surprising stories behind a host of well known songs (RNZ)

The Present: A microbiologist and WHO advisor arrives in Bangkok to give a keynote lecture at a medical conference. He is invited to observe local authorities dealing with an outbreak of bird 'flu and reluctantly agrees to do so. A new strain of the virus emerges and he finds himself trapped in Thailand unable to return to his wife and son (1 of 3, Goldhawk Essential)

Why do Doctors Fail? The medical doctor and writer Dr Atul Gawande, a practising surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor at both the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School explores the nature of imperfection in medicine. Dr Gawande examines how much of failure in medicine remains due to lack of knowledge and how much is due to the failure to use existing knowledge. What does this mean for where medical progress will come from in the future? (1 of 4, BBC)

Website: BBC Reith Lectures

Bollywood: Choreographer and broadcaster Raakhi Sinha hosts a journey through the history of Bollywood music, featuring classic songs and recent hits along with interviews with comedian Russell Peters, filmmaker Deepa Mehta, Bollywood choreographer and dance sensation Shiamak Davar and Ameen Merchant, author of The Silent Raga, among others (1 of 2, PRX)

A selection of special interest programmes, including:

4:06 The Sunday Feature: The 2014 Rutherford Lectures - Experiments between Worlds

Rivers: Whanganui was the venue for Dame Anne's final talk 'Rivers - Give Me the Water of Life'. This lecture begins by discussing the settlement between the Whanganui River hapu and iwi and the government in August this year that recognised the Whanganui River status as a legal person in its own right. She discusses our relationship with rivers, including the Whanganui, examining Maori and modernist ideas about freshwater and how experiments between these ways of thinking might allow us to have rivers that we can swim and fish in again (F, RNZ)

5:10 The 5 O'Clock Report: A roundup of today's news and sport

5:11 Spiritual Outlook: Exploring different spiritual, moral and ethical issues and topics (RNZ)

5:40 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ)

6:06 Great Encounters: Highlighting a feature interview from the best of 2014 on Radio New Zealand National (RNZ)

7:06 World Book Club: Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap: The chronicler of 21st Century urban Australia, Christos Tsiolkas, talks to Harriett Gilbert about his controversial award-winning novel 'The Slap' which has polarised opinion in his native country and across the globe (BBC)

The award-winning American radio show presented by Garrison Keillor (1 of 4, APM)

A roundup of today's news and sport

(Blue Hours)

Trevor Reekie seeks out musical gems from niche markets around the globe, re-releases, and interesting sounds from the shallow end of the bit stream (5 of 8, RNZ)

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Police Files of New Zealand (RNZ); 2:30 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 Shingle Beach, by Carl Nixon (1 of 5, RNZ); 3:30 Health Check (BBC); 5:10 War Report (RNZ)

An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts

Ian Telfer and Teresa Cowie present two hours of summer news and information, including interviews with the newsmakers plus sport, business, weather and features

A holiday season of interviews, features, music and stories from all over NZ and around the world

A roundup of today's news and sport including:

12:12 Worldwatch

Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris present an afternoon of alleged music and dubious entertainment

A roundup of today's news and sport including:

5:12 Worldwatch

Current affairs presented by some of Radio New Zealand's most experienced presenters and correspondents

Highlighting a feature interview from the best of 2014 on Radio New Zealand National (RNZ)

Looking at the world economy from the perspective of the chemical elements of the periodic table. In the first episode a mining engineer explains the geological processes that formed useful concentrations of these fundamental building blocks over millions of years, and the often brutal process of extracting them (BBC)

International public radio features and documentaries

A highlight edition of 'This Way Up' looking at what cybercrime is, who's affected, and what you can do to stay safe online (RNZ)

A roundup of today's news and sport

The day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National

A two-timing, larcenous 1940s swing band leader steals a forbidden Far East melody and uses it as the basis for a hit song - only to learn just why it is forbidden (Blue Hours)

(11 of 12, PRX)

Including: 12:05 Music After Midnight; 12:30 Spectrum (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (RNZ); 2:05 Night Lights Classic Jazz - Jazz and Jack Kerouac (9 of 13, WFIU); 3:05 Shingle Beach, by Carl Nixon (2 of 5, RNZ); 3:30 An Author's View (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts

Ian Telfer and Teresa Cowie present two hours of summer news and information, including interviews with the newsmakers plus sport, business, weather and features

A holiday season of interviews, features, music and stories from all over NZ and around the world

A roundup of today's news and sport including:

12:12 Worldwatch

Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris present an afternoon of alleged music and dubious entertainment

A roundup of today's news and sport including:

5:12 Worldwatch

Current affairs presented by some of Radio New Zealand's most experienced presenters and correspondents

Highlighting a feature interview from the best of 2014 on Radio New Zealand National (RNZ)

International public radio features and documentaries

Rivers: Whanganui was the venue for Dame Anne's final talk 'Rivers - Give Me the Water of Life'. This lecture begins by discussing the settlement between the Whanganui River hapu and iwi and the government in August this year that recognised the Whanganui River status as a legal person in its own right. She discusses our relationship with rivers, including the Whanganui, examining Maori and modernist ideas about freshwater and how experiments between these ways of thinking might allow us to have rivers that we can swim and fish in again (F, RNZ)

The day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National

(Blue Hours)

Award winning former British broadcaster Mark Coles presents his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet. A glorious mix of brand new sounds from all over the world, real conversations with music makers and tales of everyday life as seen from an English garden shed (MCM)

Including: 12:05 Music After Midnight; 12:30 Insight (RNZ); 1:15 Primary People (RNZ); 2:05 The Forum (BBC); 3:05 Shingle Beach, by Carl Nixon (3 of 5, RNZ); 3:30 Diversions (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts

Ian Telfer and Teresa Cowie present two hours of summer news and information, including interviews with the newsmakers plus sport, business, weather and features

A holiday season of interviews, features, music and stories from all over NZ and around the world

A roundup of today's news and sport including:

12:12 Worldwatch

Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris present an afternoon of alleged music and dubious entertainment

A roundup of today's news and sport including:

5:12 Worldwatch

Current affairs presented by some of Radio New Zealand's most experienced presenters and correspondents

Highlighting a feature interview from the best of 2014 on Radio New Zealand National (RNZ)

Mathew and Rebecca are both a little older and in the tentative early stages of forming a new relationship as the new millennium approaches

We invite you to spend the final hours of 2014 with top-line guests, music and nostalgia through to midnight and beyond, New Year's Eve on Radio New Zealand National

Including: 12:05 One in Five (RNZ) 1:05 Discovery (BBC); 2:05 Playing Favourites (RNZ); 3:05 Shingle Beach, by Carl Nixon (4 of 5, RNZ); 3:30 NZ Books (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts

Ian Telfer and Teresa Cowie present two hours of summer news and information, including interviews with the newsmakers plus sport, business, weather and features

A holiday season of interviews, features, music and stories from all over NZ and around the world

A roundup of today's news and sport including:

12:12 Worldwatch

Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris present an afternoon of alleged music and dubious entertainment

A roundup of today's news and sport including:

5:12 Worldwatch

Current affairs presented by some of Radio New Zealand's most experienced presenters and correspondents

Highlighting a feature interview from the best of 2014 on Radio New Zealand National (RNZ)

People, places and events in New Zealand (RNZ)

spectrum@radionz.co.nz

International public radio features and documentaries

News and features from the world of science and the environment (RNZ)

ourchangingworld@radionz.co.nz

The day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National

(Blue Hours)

Mix Tape - Electric Wire Hustle

It's been a great year for Electric Wire Hustle, signing to Questlove's Okayplayer Records in the US and Somethink Sounds in the UK for the release of their album Love Can Prevail and playing The Roots Picnic in Philadelphia, as well as releasing a couple of EPs and a music video featuring the stunning choreography of French House Dance champion Meech. Electric Wire Hustle's David 'Taay Ninh' Wright and Mara TK share the songs that inspire and influence them

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Global Business (BBC); 1:05 The Friday Feature; 2:05 Science (RNZ); 2:30 The Sampler (RNZ); 3:05 Shingle Beach, by Carl Nixon (F, RNZ); 3:30 NZ Society (RNZ); 4:30 The Why Factor (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts

Ian Telfer and Teresa Cowie present two hours of summer news and information, including interviews with the newsmakers plus sport, business, weather and features

A holiday morning of interviews, features, music and stories from all over NZ and around the world

A roundup of today's news and sport

The stories behind the international headlines

Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris present an afternoon of alleged music and dubious entertainment

A roundup of today's news and sport

5:12 Worldwatch

Current affairs presented by some of Radio New Zealand's most experienced presenters and correspondents

Highlighting a feature interview from the best of 2014 on Radio New Zealand National (RNZ)

People, places and events in New Zealand (RNZ)

spectrum@radionz.co.nz

A journey through 45 years of student radio - the personalities and bands who got their breaks, the politics, the piracy and the '#8 wire', sink or swim mentality: From the humble homemade AM transmitters manned by tech-nerds for limited weeks of the university term, campus radio stations rapidly evolved into a beacon for music lovers, on-air talkers and people who never finished their degrees. We talk to some energetic characters who challenged the broadcasting establishment and find out where student radio took them (1 of 4)

Memorable scenes, people and places in rural NZ (RNZ)

The day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National

(Blue Hours)

Tim Finn (RNZ)