Nights for Friday 23 September 2011

7:06 Sonic Tonic

8 pm News and Weather

8:06 Music feature: Live Music Highlights

Over the past year Auckland-based music reporter Nick Atkinson has been burning the mid-night oil in search of the perfect live performance. While it's hard to know which musicians will deliver a spell binding show, often the best results are in smaller and more down to earth venues.

Nick Atkinson takes us on a tour of some of his favourite haunts in and around Auckland where he plugs in to record spell-binding performances by Julia Deans, Steve Abel, Andrew Keoghan, Martin Paris and Ben King.

Produced and presented by Nick Atkinson for Radio New Zealand.

8:35 Red Hot Chilli Pipers

Bagpipes with Attitude - Kevin MacDonald on the modernising of Scottish musical performance and what it's really like to be a Red Hot Chilli Piper.

9 pm News and Weather

9:06 Country Life

Rural news and features.

10 pm News and 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 and Weather

11:06 The Doors - No One Here Gets Out Alive

The unique first ever radio documentary in which the three surviving members of The Doors, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Boby Krieger talked about their career from 1966 to the death of Jim Morrison in 1971 (Pt 2 of 4, Eagle)