Nights for Friday 7 May 2010

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 BARB

A collaboration between friends, an Auckland super group, a bit of fun. This is Liam Finn with friends Eliza-Jane (E.J.) Barnes, Connan Mockasin, James Milne (Lawrence Arabia), Seamus Ebbs (drums) and Jol Mulholland (bass); Recorded by Radio New Zealand Live at The Power Station in Auckland, August 2009. On the night the band played a set from each songwriter.

8:40 Heartstopper

Maxine Fleming, mother of Bella, and Pamela Fleming, broadcaster and grandmother

Mature women leap into a freezing cold pool to raise money for New Zealand kids with heart conditions.

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 The Record Producers - Trevor Horn 1/6

Producer Steve Levine demonstrates how Trevor Horn's formative and innovative use of digital technology, notably the TR808 electronic drum machine, the lexicon reverb and the Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) - the first polyphonic digital sampling synthesizer, shaped the 80's hits records of ABC, Malcolm McLaren, Grace Jones and the iconic Frankie Goes to Hollywood. (BBC)