Schedule for Thursday 23 August 2018

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12:04 AM. All Night Programme

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Discovery (BBC); 1:05 The Thursday Feature (BBC); 2:05 The Cultural Frontline (BBC); 3:05 Chappy by Patricia Grace told by Jim Moriarty and Simon Leary (11 of 12, RNZ); 3:30 NZ Books (RNZ);4:30 Avian Twittersphere (RNZ); 4:40 Wikipedian (RNZ); 4:55 Book Review (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)
6:00 AM. Morning Report

RNZ's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including:
6:20 and 6:50 Business News
6:26 Rural News
6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers
9:06 AM. Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan

Current affairs and topics of interest, including:
10:45 The Reading: On Coming Home written and read by Paula Morris - Paula Morris confronts her long-standing fears of what it means to return home. Is ambition and adventure being traded for a 'forever home' of commitments and compromises? Will she still belong? Will the belonging impose restrictions? Morris seeks answers in the words of writer exiles as she narrates her own return to NZ. Am I still a New Zealander? (4 of 5, RNZ)
Noon Midday Report

RNZ news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including:
12:16 Business News
12:26 Sport
12:34 Rural News
12:43 Worldwatch
1:06 PM. Jesse Mulligan

An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
4:06 PM. The Panel with Jim Mora

An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
5:00 PM. Checkpoint with John Campbell

RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme
6:30 PM. Trending Now

Lauren Shields: nine-month experiment in modesty
7:06 PM. Nights with Bryan Crump

RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
7:30 PM. New Horizons

With Music commentator and critic William Dart (RNZ)
8:15 PM. Dateline Pacific

A weekday current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories of the week, with background and reaction from the people making the news (RNZ)
8:30 PM. Windows on the World

International public radio features and documentaries
9:06 PM. Our Changing World

Highlights from the world of science and the environment, with Alison Ballance (RNZ)
9:30 PM. The Podcast

Richard Scott hunts out the best podcasts from New Zealand and around the world to help you discover what to listen to next (RNZ)
10:00 PM. News at Ten

A roundup of today's news and sport
10:15 PM. Lately with Karyn Hay

A late night radio show with an eye on live events, an ear for music, a great sense of humour and a genuine interest in people and their stories (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)