Nights for Wednesday 18 October 2017
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Nights' Overseas Correspondent
8:10 PM.Editor-in-chief of Estonian World, Silver Tambur reports from apparently the best place in the world to be a parent - the Republic of Estonia. Audio
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Bush Gothic Live in the Studio
7:10 PM.Rattled by the bones of convicts and steeped in campfire smoke, Bush Gothic perform darker, stranger Australian folk. Defiantly modern, achingly old, this most daring of Australian bush bands from… Read more Audio
7:12 Bush Gothic Live in the Studio
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Australian alt-folk band Bush Gothic join us live in the studio for a chat ahead of the New Zealand Tour to sing us a couple of their 'darker and stranger' arrangements of familiar Australian bush ballads.
7:30 At The Movies
On At The Movies, Simon Morris goes to three films with very few expectations built in - comedy-horror Happy Death Day, couple in peril The mountain between us, and French-German drama Frantz, set immediately after World War One.
8:12 Nights' Overseas Correspondent
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Editor-in-chief of Estonian World, Silver Tambur reports from apparently the best place in the world to be a parent - the Republic of Estonia.
8:30 Great Ideas
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Megan Whelan leads a panel of experts as they discuss the great ideas of our own times - the ideas and major movements that will affect the shape of our world and the ways we live in it.
9:07 The Drama Hour
9:07 Episode 4 of 'LifeAfter' by Mack Rogers
Ross Barnes was a fairly low level Clerical Worker at the FBI. Then a social media website blackmailed him into spying on his employer. And luck seems to be going their way - he's just been given a higher level clearance giving him access to special security areas of the FBI office, as you'll hear in today's episode of our SciFi serial.
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9:45 Part Four of Kate de Goldi's 'The 10pm Question'
Only Ma listens patiently to 12 year old Frankie's 10 p.m. anxieties. But of course, it is Ma who is the cause of the most worrying question of all, the one that Frankie can never bring himself to ask.
10:17 Late Edition
A round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Dateline Pacific from RNZ International,
11:07 Inside Out
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Nick Tipping hosts a journey through the jazz spectrum playing favourites, standards and new releases along the way. This week, in a show titled What a Difference a Dave Makes, Nick features some of the many Daves who have made an impact on jazz, including pianist Dave Kikoski, pianist Dave Brubeck, and drummer Dave King.
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