Schedules for 31 Jan - 06 Feb, 2015

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight (RNZ); 12:30 Laugh Track (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (BBC); 2:05 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 The Devil's Elbow, by Catherine Dalehunty (RNZ); 3:30 The Week (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 Voices (RNZ)

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight (RNZ); 12:30 Laugh Track (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (BBC); 2:05 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 The Devil's Elbow, by Catherine Dalehunty (RNZ); 3:30 The Week (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 Voices (RNZ)

Sanjay and the Ghost, by David Somerset, told by Michael Haigh; Nicki's Mum, by Dot Meharry, told by Ciara Mulholland; The River of Brown Stones, by Joy Cowley, told by Anne Budd; Og and the Beetles, by Barbara Neale, told by Pat Evison; Grandma Goodfun and Grandma Story, by Janet Slater Bottin, told by Gerald Bryan; A Wish, written and told by Amy Huang; Going Eeling is Always Fun, by Mariao Hohaia, told by Willie Davis (RNZ)

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

A mixture of current affairs and feature interviews, until midday (RNZ)

Exploring the things we use and consume. Some content may offend (RNZ)

The best songs, music-related stories, interviews, live music, industry news and music documentaries from NZ and the world

Analysis of significant political issues presented by Radio New Zealand's parliamentary reporting team (RNZ)

Pacific news, features, interviews and music (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

Townes van Zandt

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 Resolution, by Shirley Eng (RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC)

Craftiest Trio, by Pauline Cartwright, told by Bruce Phillips; Johnny was Bored, by Katie Brockie, told by Jim Moriarty; Woven Flax Kete, by Angie Belcher, told by Matu Ngaropo; Captain Cleveland and the Russian Invasion, by David Somerset, told by Peter Vere-Jones; The Shoemaker and the Elves, a traditional tale, told by Ray Henwood; Wiremu - the Master of Wishes, by Eliza Bidois, told by Eliza Bidois and Lawrence Wharero (RNZ)

A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, documentaries including Insight, sport from the outfield, politics from the insiders, plus Mediawatch, music and comedy

People, places and events in NZ (RNZ)

It's an 'all access pass' to what's happening in the worlds of arts and entertainment, including:

3:04 The Drama Hour

A selection of special interest programmes, including:

4:06 The Sunday Feature: (RNZ)

5:00 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: Maori news and interviews from throughout the motu (RNZ)

6:06 Te Ahi Kaa: exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective.

7:06 World Book Club (BBC)

The award-winning American radio show presented by Garrison Keillor. A Prairie Home Companion  (APM)

Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)

(2 of 4, RNZ)

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Arts on Screen (BBC); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:30 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 Finding the Way Home, by Jane Seaford (RNZ); 3:30 Health Check (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including:

6:18 Pacific News

6:22 Rural News

6:27 and 8:45 Te Manu Korihi News

6:44 and 7:41 NZ Newspapers

6:47 Business News

7:42 and 8:34 Sports News

6:46 and 7:24 Traffic

Current affairs and topics of interest, including:

10:45 The Reading: This Way of Life, by Sumner Burstyn, told by Miriama McDowell

In an isolated and rural NZ, Peter and Colleen raise their kids on the thin edge between freedom and disaster (6 of 7, RNZ)

Radio New Zealand news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including:

12:16 Business News

12:26 Sport

12:34 Rural News

12:43 Worldwatch

Information and debate, people and places around NZ

An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)

Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme

Entertainment and information, including:

8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries

9:30 Insight (RNZ)

Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National

David Knowles introduces the Memphis-based radio show with an international reputation for its location recordings of blues musicians live in concert (4 of 13, BSC)

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Spectrum (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (RNZ); 2:05 The New Jazz Archive: Jazz On The Radio (1 of 9); 3:05 Stage Fright, by Shirley Eng (RNZ); 3:30 An Author's View (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including:

6:18 Pacific News

6:22 Rural News

6:27 and 8:45 Te Manu Korihi News

6:44 and 7:41 NZ Newspapers

6:47 Business News

7:42 and 8:34 Sports News

6:46 and 7:24 Traffic

Current affairs and topics of interest, including:

10:45 The Reading: This Way of Life, by Sumner Burstyn, told by Miriama McDowell (F, RNZ)

Radio New Zealand news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including:

12:16 Business News

12:26 Sport

12:34 Rural News

12:43 Worldwatch

Information and debate, people and places around NZ

An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)

Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme

Entertainment and information, including:

7:30 The Sampler

8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries

(RNZ)

Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National

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 (6 of 13, MCM)

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 The Truth About Life and Death (4 of 6, BBC); 1:15 Insight (RNZ); 2:05 The Forum (BBC); 3:05 Tears and Hugs, by Shirley Eng (RNZ); 3:30 Kate's Classics (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including:

6:18 Pacific News

6:22 Rural News

6:27 and 8:45 Te Manu Korihi News

6:44 and 7:41 NZ Newspapers

6:47 Business News

7:42 and 8:34 Sports News

6:46 and 7:24 Traffic

Current affairs and topics of interest, including:

10:45 The Reading: Sojourn in Arles, by Owen Marshall (1 of 2, RNZ)

Radio New Zealand news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including:

12:16 Business News

12:26 Sport

12:34 Rural News

12:43 Worldwatch

Information and debate, people and places around NZ

An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)

Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme

Entertainment and information, including:

7:30 Spectrum: People, places and events in NZ (RNZ)

8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries

9:06 Wednesday Drama: Children of the Poor, by Mervyn Thompson

A dramatisation of John A Lee's compelling novel about a family living in poverty. Albany Porcello is one of three children brought up alone by their mother in the dark days of NZ before the welfare state (F, RNZ)

Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 The Truth About Life and Death (5 of 6, BBC); 1:05 Discovery (BBC); 2:05 Playing Favourites (RNZ); 3:05 Shaken Apart, by Jane Seaford (RNZ); 3:30 NZ Books (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour

Current affairs and topics of interest, including:

10:45 Sojourn in Arles, by Owen Marshall (F, RNZ)

Radio New Zealand news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including:

12:16 Business News

12:26 Sport

12:34 Rural News

12:43 Worldwatch

Information and debate, people and places around NZ

An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)

Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme

Entertainment and information, including:

7:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris: A weekly topical magazine about current film releases and film related topics (RNZ)

8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries

9:06 Our Changing World: Science and environment news from NZ and the world (RNZ)

Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National

Music, interviews, live performances, behind the scenes, industry issues, career profiles, new, back catalogue, undiscovered, greatest hits, tall tales - with a focus on NZ (RNZ)

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Global Business (BBC); 1:05 The Friday Feature; 2:05 Science (RNZ); 2:30 The Sampler; 3:05 One Love, by Miria George (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

The stories behind the international headlines

Current affairs and topics of interest

A roundup of today's news and sport including:

12:12 pm Worldwatch

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

A roundup of today's news and sport

Among the horrors perpetrated at the Auschwitz camp were crude and unscientific experiments conducted on Jewish twins. They were masterminded by the notorious Josef Mengele, known as “the Angel of Death”. He was a true believer in the Nazi creed about the alleged genetic shortcomings of Jews  Survivors of his brutal regime  have spoken to the BBC about their experiences. They include Yona Laks who was deported to Auschwitz with her twin sister from the Lodz ghetto in Poland at the age of 14, and Vera Kriegel who arrived at the camp when aged just six. (BBCWS)

Hon Dame Jenny Shipley and Bishop Kito Pikaahu present the 2015 instalment of the annual series looking forward to the 20th anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi in 2040 (RNZ)

When you are poor and you get a little richer, one of the first things many do is to buy a fridge. In India for example, fridges are the second most desired object after a television. Two thirds of the population are yet to own one, but that number is falling. What you put in that fridge reveals a lot about changing wealth, consumption and lifestyles. The BBC World Have Your Say programme travels to India and examines the changing consumption patterns by taking a look at the contents of fridges belonging to members of its audience. (BBCWS)

A musical exploration of the similarities between Gaelic, Aboriginal and Maori cultures.   features a wonderful collaboration between bagpipes, taonga puoro and didgeridoo.  Celebrating the ‘Indigenous Commonwealth’, this alliance explores the links between Celtic, Aboriginal and Maori cultures, and includes the band Breabach, from Scotland, Shellie Morris, Casey Donovan, Aaron Burarrwanga and Djakapurra Munyarryun from Australia and  Moana and the Tribe and Horomona Horo from New Zealand. (RNZ)

Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National

Every Bollywood movie has songs - it's basically the pop music of India.  And Bollywood wouldn't be Bollywood without all those songs. The Bollywood tradition is relatively recent, but it comes from deep cultural roots: the song and dance that have permeated the culture of the Indian Subcontinent for hundreds of years. And yet, Bollywood composers also shamelessly copy from all musical styles. So it's kind of like a mix of music styles from around the world - the most global music there is. And best of all, it's infectious, it's festive, and, well, it just makes the world a better, happier place.This documentary takes you on a journey through the history of Bollywood music featuring classic songs and recent hits along with interviews with comedian Russell Peters, filmmaker Deepa Mehta (Water, Bollywood/Hollywood), Bollywood choreographer and dance sensation Shiamak Davar, and Ameen Merchant, author of The Silent Raga, among others. (Part 1 of 2, CBC)