Friday 26 March 2009

7:06 pm Friday Night Theme

Music and fun.

7:40 Flash

Includes NZ Society, The Vault, Asian Report and other interesting snippets.

8 pm News & Weather

8:06 Electric Ladyland - Part 1

Join host Stuart Grundy as he takes listeners through the making of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's third and final studio release, Electric Ladyland. Released in 1968, it was Hendrix's only #1 album in the U.S.A. He died two years later.

8:40 Abbey Road Studios Saved

Roland Heap, petition coordinator

How much good music has been produced in this historic building...

8:50 Conundrum

The answer and the winner's chosen song.

9 pm News & Weather

9:06 Country Life

Rural news and features.

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 Tapestry of the Times

French Carpenter plays the fiddle tune that won his Grandfather's release from a Civil War prison camp, Hatian Vodou practioners sing a funerary song to release the spirits of the dead plus folk legend Josh White lets us all know what he thinks of his landlord. Real music, real people and the stories behind the sounds.