Nights for Wednesday 23 September 2009

7 pm News & Weather

7:15 pm Lightning Child

Tracy Chevalier, US born, UK-based author

Following on from the Girl with a Pearl Earring, how a small museum exhibit of an amateur fossil hunter became the inspiration for her latest novel, Remarkable Creatures.

7:30 At The Movies

Film reviews and movie business with Simon Morris.

8 pm News & Weather

8:15 Windows on the World:

International public radio documentaries

8:45 pm Small Screen Cinema - DVD Reviews

Miles Buckingham Film reviewer

Wading through the DVD swamp... Control and 24 Hour Party People.

8:59 Conundrum: Clue 5

9 pm News & Weather

9:06 Wednesday Drama

Everyone's Got a Mountain to Climb by Dave Duggan

On the annual holy day in late July, terminally ill non-believer, Janice Smallwood, determines to climb Croagh Patrick, a pilgrim site in Catholic County Mayo. Is this the beginning of the end for her non-belief as her life ends? Will the ascent turn out to be an ascension? Will the clouds open for this hapless humanist at the top of the holy hill?

9:59 Conundrum: Clue 6

10 pm News & Weather

10:17 Late Edition:

A review of the leading news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.

11 pm News & Weather

11:06 The Jazz Hour

Includes Round Midnight, Jazz Footprints and Jazz at Lincoln Center.