Schedules for 20 - 26 January, 2018

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight (RNZ); 12:30 Laugh Track (RNZ); 1:15 In Search of Wine's 'Holy Grail’ (BBC); 2:05 Campbell Smith Impresario (RNZ); 3:05 The Crane by Sarah Quigley (1 of 2, RNZ); 3:30 Arthur Tompkins: Art Crime (RNZ); 4:30 In the Balance (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 Still Alive by Panni Thomas & Pauline Cartwright (4 of 5, RNZ)

Salevao and the Sleepers, by David Somerset, told by Fiona Samuel; That's Not Cricket, written and told by Dinah Priestley; Dog Diary, written and told by Michael Wilson; Need a Hand, by David Hill, told by William Kircher; The Travelling Restaurant, by Barbara Else, told by Stuart Devenie (RNZ)

Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)

'it might be better than you expect' (RNZ)

The story of Richard Burgess (RNZ)

The extraordinary and hidden histories behind everyday objects and actions (BBC)

The best songs, music-related stories, interviews, live music, industry news and music documentaries from NZ and the world

The lost Cambridge Circus revue tapes from 1964 with John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor: "Live from Christchurch" (5 of 5 RNZ)

Dame Judith Potter: The former High Court Judge discusses her life and influences. (RNZ)  

An evening of requests, nostalgia and musical memories (RNZ)RNZ NATIONAL Programme Schedule

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

A roundup of today's news and sport

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

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)

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

An evening of music and nostalgia (RNZ)

A roundup of today's news and sport

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)

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

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Health Check (BBC); 1:05 Spectrum: How to record your grandfather (RNZ); 2:06 Just One Thing: Miranda Harcourt (RNZ); 2:30  Jonathan Densem; (RNZ); 3:05 Speed Of Light by Joy Cowley read by Simon Leary (1 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 Science In Action (BBC); 4:25 Vntage & Retro Ccaravans;  4:45 The good oil on Hemp; 5:10 Witness (BBC)

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

Current affairs and topics of interest, including:

10:45 The Reading: The Long Way Home: The experiences of actor Bruce Hopkins as he walks from Cape Reinga to Stewart Island (RNZ)

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

An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)

An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)

RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme

Fair Play

RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information

International public radio features and documentaries

An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ)

RNZ news and the day's best interviews from RNZ National, including

10:45 Dateline Pacific

A daily current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories of the week, with background and reaction from the people making the news (RNZ)

Wairarapa's Mark Rogers presents a selection of old and new music - the very best in alt.country, Americana and blues (Arrow FM))RNZ NATIONAL Programme Schedule

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Lifeafter (5 of 10, Panoply); 1:05 The End of Innocence in Venezuela (BBC); 2:05 Music Extra: Bella Bellow(BBC); 3:05 Speed Of Light by Joy Cowley read by Simon Leary (2 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 Author’s View (RNZ); 4:25 Eyewitness; 4:40 Suzy Cato; 5:10 Witness (BBC)

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

Current affairs and topics of interest, including:

10:45 The Reading: The Long Way Home: The experiences of actor Bruce Hopkins as he walks from Cape Reinga to Stewart Island (RNZ)

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

An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)

An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)

RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme

Political Commentators Matthew Hooton and Stephen-Mills

Australian car manufacturing

RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information

Nick Bollinger reviews some of the latest music releases

International public radio features and documentaries

Trump - A Year in Tweets
This week as Americans mark the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, the BBC’s Anthony Zurcher reviews a year of the president’s tweets and asks what has been the impact of the way Donald Trump has used Twitter during his first year as president. What can the tweets tell us about the Trump presidency, America and its relationship with the world? (BBC)

RNZ news and the day's best interviews from RNZ National, including

10:45 Dateline Pacific

A daily current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories of the week, with background and reaction from the people making the news (RNZ)

Trevor Reekie hosts a weekly music programme celebrating an eclectic mix of 'world' music, fusion and folk roots (RNZ)RNZ NATIONAL Programme Schedule

Including: 12:06 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Insight (RNZ); 1:15 Country Life Story (RNZ); 2:05 The Forum (BBC); 3:05 Speed Of Light by Joy Cowley read by Simon Leary (3 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 War on the Waterfront (RNZ); 4:25 True Crime Writing(RNZ); 4:45 Supercharged Antibiotics(RNZ);5:10 Witness (BBC)

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

Current affairs and topics of interest, including:

10:45 The Reading: The Long Way Home: The experiences of actor Bruce Hopkins as he walks from Cape Reinga to Stewart Island (RNZ)

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

An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)

An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)

RNZ's drive-time news and current affairs programme

’Exercise is the top thing to do for your brain'

Lexie Matheson: Auckland Pride Festival

RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information

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Dexter Guff is Smarter Than You (And You Can Be Too)
A satirical self-improvement guide - which provides a 10-stage course from a 'thought leader' at the top, and then the bottom, of his game.   Ep. 1 - You Don’t Exist Without a Personal Brand: Personal branding expert Steve Jobs joins Dexter to talk about how to create global envy with your public persona. (Part 1 of 10, Panoply)

Wulfsyarn: a mosaic by Phillip Mann
Wulf, the ancient robotic autoscribe, begins his account of events taking us back to the moment when Jon Wilberfoss is invited to captain the huge interstellar mercy ship, The Nightingale (Part 1 of 10, RNZ)  

RNZ news and the day's best interviews from RNZ National, including

10:45 Dateline Pacific

A daily current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories of the week, with background and reaction from the people making the news (RNZ)

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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Discovery (BBC); 1:05 Editing our Genes: Agriculture (RNZ); 2:05 The Cultural Frontline (BBC); 3:05 Speed Of Light by Joy Cowley read by Simon Leary (4 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 NZ Books ; 4:30 History through the Piano; 5:10 Witness (BBC)

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

Current affairs and topics of interest, including:

10:45 The Reading: The Long Way Home: The experiences of actor Bruce Hopkins as he walks from Cape Reinga to Stewart Island (RNZ)

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

An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)

An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)

RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme

The Reign of Business Bullshit

Alzheimer’s discovery could-lead to new treatments

RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information

With Music commentator and critic William Dart (RNZ)

International public radio features and documentaries

Highlights from the world of science and the environment, with Alison Ballance (RNZ)

Slices of life for curious minds (RNZ)

RNZ news and the day's best interviews from RNZ National, including

10:45 Dateline Pacific

A daily current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories of the week, with background and reaction from the people making the news (RNZ)

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)RNZ NATIONAL Programme Schedule

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 At The Movies (RNZ); 1:05 The Evidence: Should We All Be Vegetarians? (BBC); 2.05; The Long Way Home (RNZ); 2:30 The Sampler (RNZ); 3:05 Speed Of Light by Joy Cowley read by Simon Leary (5 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 The Why Factor (BBC); 4:25 Eyewitness; 4:40 Criminal Justice;5:10 Witness (BBC)

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

Current affairs and topics of interest, including:

10:45 The Reading: The Long Way Home: The experiences of actor Bruce Hopkins as he walks from Cape Reinga to Stewart Island (RNZ)

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

An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)

An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)

RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme

Clever canines

Analysis of significant political issues presented by Radio New Zealand's parliamentary reporting team (RNZ)

RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information

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Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)

RNZ news and the day's best interviews from RNZ National, including

10:45 Dateline Pacific

A daily current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories of the week, with background and reaction from the people making the news (RNZ)

(RNZ)RNZ NATIONAL Programme Schedule