Sunday 21 January 2018 Rātapu 21 Kohi-tātea 2018

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Pants on Pants On Fire - The Fibbers Guide to Lies, Lying and Liars (4 of 5, RNZ); 1:05 Summer Science with Alison Ballance (RNZ); 1:45 Are We There Yet? (RNZ); 2:05 Heart and Soul (BBC); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday ; 3:05 The Crane by Sarah Quigley (2 of 2, RNZ); 3:30 CrowdScience (BBC); 4:30 Country Life Story (RNZ) 5:10 Living with the Gods (BBC); 5:45 Money with Mary Holm (RNZ)

• 6:08 AM. Storytime

  Old Sultan, by Brothers Grimm, told by Dick Weir; Pig on the Letterbox, by Elsie Locke, told by Lorae Parry; Our Madonna, written and told by Victor Rodger; Ghostly Message, by Phylis Mullinder, told by Bruce Phillips; The Backyard Railway, by Jean Bennett, told by Tim Spite; The Travelling Restaurant, by Barbara Else, told by Stuart Devenie (RNZ)

• 7:33 AM. Assignment

  Degrees of Deception: How have thousands of people obtained fake degrees and diplomas undetected? Assignment investigates a multi-million dollar fraud - a company selling fake qualifications to buyers across the world. Reporter Simon Cox reveals how some customers were duped – believing they were enrolling on legitimate educational courses. Some international workers were led to believe they had to upgrade their existing qualifications in order to remain in their country of work. With law enforcement in various countries aware of the fraud, why is it still continuing? (BBC)

• 8:10 AM. Up This Way with Simon Morton

  'it might be better than you expect' : Including Insight (RNZ)

• 12:12 PM. Phoenix by Elizabeth Smither told by Annie Whittle

  Monty longs for a holiday somewhere exotic. His wife isn't keen to leave her home comforts and tells him, "you want Gertrude's house offers enticing prospects to a young crim named Phoenix - but everything changes when Raja, the big Bernese mountain dog catches him climbing through the bathroom window. (2 of 2, RNZ)

• 12:30 PM. The Food Chain

  In Search of Wine's 'Holy Grail': Wine has been getting more and more alcoholic in recent decades, driven by consumer tastes and climate change. This has big implications not only for public health, but also the quality of the bottle. But making a lower alcohol wine that is still full of flavour is extremely complicated, especially when growing grapes in rising temperatures – some have called it the profession’s Holy Grail. (BBC)

• 1:10 PM. History through the Piano:

  The Centre Cannot Hold: John Drummond examines some famous pieces of piano music as windows into the world in which they were created. In this episode  he looks at the first half of the 20th century as the old political orders collapsed and  the new world rose to prominence. (#5 of 5, RNZ)

• 1:40 PM. Between the Lines Written and read by Elisabeth Easther

  Cass, a kiwi girl working in London thinks she has had a lucky break when she befriends some film producers. A comic tale about ambition set in the grimy world of the London movie business (5 of 5, RNZ)

• 2:05 PM. The Compass

  Ocean stories: The Pacific Ocean From the coral wonders of Australia’s Gold Coast to the loneliest South Pacific atoll, local people make their living from the beauty of their surroundings. In the final edition of our series on the world’s oceans we explore how native traditions and the booming business of tourism co-exist.(4 of 4, BBC)

• 3:04 PM. The 3 O'Clock Drama

  Lost in Mexico by Ingeborg Topsoe: Two English girls, Sally and Rachel, on a back packing holiday in Mexico have been arrested for insurance fraud and for attempting to bribe police. As they are await trial their friendship is tested to the limit and their hopes of a speedy return home fade (2 of 2, Goldhawk)

• 4:06 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Great Ideas: The Future of Families: Megan Whelan leads a panel of experts as they discuss the future of families - with more single people, more multi-generational families, and a more multi-cultural New Zealand, what happens to our family law? (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. The World at Five

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 5:10 PM. Heart and Soul

  Personal approaches to religious belief and spirituality from around the world (BBC)

• 6:06 PM. Encounters

  Steve Bell: Four times chosen as the United Kingdom's Cartoonist of the Year, Steve Bell established a reputation with the cartoon strip 'Maggie's Farm' - a ferocious serial attack on the government of Margaret Thatcher - which appeared in London's Time Out from 1979. Two years later he began another (still running) satirical strip, 'If', for the Guardian  where he’s been principal cartoonist since 1994  (RNZ)

• 7:05 PM. The TED Radio Hour

  A crafted hour of ideas worth sharing presented by Guy Raz (NPR)

• 8:06 PM. Sunday Night with Grant Walker

  An evening of music and nostalgia (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. The 10 O'Clock Report

  A roundup of today's news and sport

• 10:12 PM. World Book Club:

  Tim Winton – Cloudstreet: Chart-topping Australian writer Tim Winton talks about his unforgettable novel Cloudstreet. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. Precipitated by separate personal tragedies, two poor families flee their rural homes to share a "great continent of a house", Cloudstreet, in a suburb of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united and religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords. Over the next twenty years they struggle and strive, laugh and curse, come apart and pull together under the same roof, and try to make the best of their lives (BBC)

• 11:04 PM. The Retro Cocktail Hour

  An hour of music that's "shaken, not stirred" every week from the Underground Martini Bunker at Kansas Public Radio (KPR)

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