Nights for Friday 2 February 2018
7:07 Sonic Tonic
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. Gloria Steinem
Photo: By Benson Kua from Toronto, Canada (Shocked Uploaded by tm) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
My best friend and I love to make fish faces. Beverley Mitchell
fish and chips Photo: Te Ara / Public Domain
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Maimonides
fishing Photo: By Ingolfson (Self-photographed) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. Mark Twain
8:12 Something for the Weekend
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Tonight we speak to Tanushree Gupta of Shree Dance Academy ahead or her free Bollywood Dance workshop in Palmerston North tomorrow.
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8:30 Spotlight
The Stranglers Photo: David Boni
UK band The Stranglers had 23 UK Top 40 hit singles and 17 UK Top 40 albums and despite falling from the limelight in the 90's continued touring regularly and re-built a legacy that is now more popular than ever.
The band have had a few line up changes. Founding drummer Jet Black who formed the band in 1974 is now 80 and retired. Original guitarist Hugh Cornwell left the band in 1990 and was replaced by Guitarist and singer Baz Warne who joined the band in 2000. Baz had previously played in bands like the Toy Dolls and SmallTown Heroes, but by his own admission, had hit rock bottom before he scored the job in the Stranglers in 2000
The Stranglers announce their return to New Zealand in 2018 as part of their biggest global tour in 30 years,'The Classic Collection' Tour.
9:07 Country Life
Tonight on Country life Les Schenkel has fired up the old forge at Teddington and transformed the once derelict building into a busy working blacksmith's shop. Then we meet New Zealand's biggest breeders of American Miniature Mediterranean donkeys.
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10:17 Late Edition
A roundup of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Dateline Pacific from RNZ International.
11:07 The Mixtape
Gerry Paul Photo: supplied
For the latest series of The Mixtape, RNZ Music invites guests to compile a C60 of local sounds, and talk us through their selections.
This week's mixtape selector is Gerry Paul is a musician, and promoter, currently the director of Kapiti festival Coastella and music programmer for CubaDupa, he's played music at over 500 music festivals in 40 countries around the world. He picks a mixtape of music that has shaped his own career.