Thursday 11 January 2018 Rāpare 11 Kohi-tātea 2018

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight;  12:30 Discovery  (BBC); 1:05 Editing Our Genes (RNZ); 2:05 The Cultural Frontline (BBC); 3:05 Gods and Little Fishes by Bruce Ansley (4 of 5, RNZ); 3:30 NZ Books (RNZ);  4:30 History through the Piano; 5:10 Witness (BBC); ​5:45: Allen Adair by Jane Mander (8 of 12, RNZ)

• 6:00 AM. Breakfast with Paul Brennan

  An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts including:
  6:14 Witness: History as told by the people who were there (BBC)
  6:35 One Quick Question: Rapid answers to listeners’ queries (RNZ)
  6:45 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy: TV Dinner Tim Harford tells the fascinating stories of 50 inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world. (BBC)
  7:10 The Student Mini Doc:  Skin Deep by first-year students of the New Zealand Broadcasting School at Ara Institute of Canterbury

• 8:00 AM. Summer Report with Alex Perrottet

  An hour of summer news and information, including interviews with the newsmakers, plus sport, business, weather and features

• 9:06 AM. Summer Times with Megan Whelan

  A holiday season of interviews, features, music and stories including at 10:30 The Halfmen of O by Maurice Gee, told by Lloyd Scott (RNZ)

• Noon The World at Noon

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 12:12 PM. Worldwatch

  The stories behind the international headlines

• 12:28 PM. Matinee Idle

  An afternoon of alleged music and dubious entertainment with Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. Five O'Clock Report

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 5:30 PM. Outspoken

  Current affairs with RNZ's most experienced correspondents (RNZ)

• 6:06 PM. Encounters

  Jennifer Breattp: 'ME is not about fatigue or tiredness'
  Jennifer Brea was a 28-year-old freelance journalist pursuing her PhD at Harvard when she fell ill with a fever after a hiking trip to Kenya. When she later discovered she was suffering from ME, aka myalgic encephalomyelitis  (once called ‘chronic fatigue syndrome’) she began documenting her experience on her phone. And the recordings became the documentary film ‘Unrest'

  David Benatar: Parenting a Procreational Ponzi Scheme
  Anti-natalist philosopher David Benatar makes a case for the bad outweighing the good in his new book "The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions". Life is an "affliction" he says so it's best not to have children.

• 7:06 PM. Summer Science with Alison Ballance

  Highlights from the world of science and the environment, with Our Changing World’s Alison Ballance, with new podcasts from University of Otago science communication students. (RNZ)

• 7:30 PM. New Horizons

  With music commentator and critic William Dart (RNZ)

• 8:06 PM. Encounters

  John Maher - Buzzcockery photography
  The drummer for the seminal punk band Buzzcocks, John Maher, joins Wallace to talk about his new life as a photographer. His work concentrates on the remote Scottish islands of the Outer Hebrides and the decay and loss of these eerie islands.

• 8:30 PM. Windows on the World

  International public radio features and documentaries

• 10:00 PM. The 10 O'clock Report

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 10:30 PM. 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

  TV Dinner: Tim Harford tells the fascinating stories of 50 inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world. (BBC)

• 10:45 PM. For God's Sake Saddle Me A Donkey by Dinah Priestley

  Part 13 - East Pakistan: Dinah Priestley recalls how a small group of travelling New Zealanders came to dine with the Maharaja of Bharatpur (13 of 19, RNZ)

• 11:06 PM. The Music 101 Pocket Edition

  Music, interviews, live performances, behind the scenes, industry issues, career profiles, new, back catalogue, undiscovered, greatest hits, tall tales - with a focus on New Zealand/Aotearoa (RNZ)

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