Schedules for 24 - 30 March, 2018

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight (RNZ); 12:30 Laugh Track (RNZ); 1:15 From The World (BBC); 2:05 NZ Live: The Frank Burkitt Band (RNZ); 3:05 Minding Lear by Owen Marshall (3 of 7, RNZ); 3:30 The Week That Was (RNZ); 4:30 Global Business (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 Voices (RNZ)

Kara's Tree, by Hineani Melbourne, told by Glynnis Paraha; Real Friends, by David Hill, told by Jane Waddell; The Giant's Breakfast, by Sean Michael Monaghan, told by Michael Wilson; Turangawaewae, by Liebchen Tamahori, told by Victor Rodger; Ultra Mega Awesome Surprise, by Maggie Bartlett, told by Miranda Harcourt; Annie Laurie, by Paddy Richardson, told by Perry Piercy (RNZ)

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

A mixture of current affairs and feature interviews, until midday (RNZ)

Slices of life for curious minds (RNZ)

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

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

Pacific news, features, interviews and music for all New Zealanders, giving an insight into the diverse cultures of the Pacific people (RNZI)

In-depth interviews selected from RNZ National's feature programmes during the week (RNZ)

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

12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Black Sheep: Richard Burgess (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 2:05 Heart and Soul (BBC); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday (RNZ); 3:05 Minding Lear by Owen Marshall (4 of 7, RNZ); 3:30 CrowdScience (BBC); 4:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ) 5:10 Living With The Gods (BBC); 5:45 Historical Highlight (RNZ)

Bandit, by David Somerset, told by William Kircher; Pudding, by Joy Cowley, told by Nick Blake; The Ninth Wave, by Elsie Locke, told by Madeline McNamara; Fleamarket Fluster, written and told by Willie Davis; Kiss Kiss Yuk Yuk, by Kyle Mewburn, told by George Henare; Rangi Roimata, by Apirana Taylor, told by various actors (RNZ)

A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, in-depth documentaries, sport from the outfield, politics from the insiders, plus Mediawatch, 'The House' and music

7:35 The House

Legislation, issues and insights from Parliament (RNZ)

8:10 Insight

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

9:06 Mediawatch

Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in New Zealand's news media (RNZ)

It's an 'all access pass' to what's happening in the worlds of arts and entertainment

1:10 At the Movies

A weekly topical magazine programme about current film releases and film-related topics (RNZ)

2:05 The Laugh Track

Highlighting radio playwriting and performance (RNZ)

The Real Story: What is Fuelling War in Yemen?
The UN calls Yemen 'the world's worst humanitarian crisis'. It says more than three-fourths of the population - over 22 million people - are in need of humanitarian assistance. Yemenis face hunger, disease, and the terror of a war which has pitted Iran-backed Houthi rebels against a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia. With no end in sight, after 3-years of that Saudi campaign, what are the Saudi aims in Yemen and why are Yemeni civilians continuing to suffer so much? Carrie Gracie and a panel of expert guests bring clarity to one of the world's most complex wars. (BBC)

A roundup of today's news and sport

Faith in Freedom: 3. Shahbaz Taseer
Shahbaz Taseer was a hostage for more than four and a half years. Kidnapped at gunpoint by one of Pakistan’s most extreme terrorist groups, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, he was then captured during fighting by the Afghan Taleban. His abduction took place only seven months after his father, Salman Taseer, the Governor of Pakistan, was assassinated by his own bodyguard for defending the rights of a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy. Shahbaz  shares his experiences with  another former hostage John McCarthy, talking about how their faith sustained them in their darkest hours of captivity, including physical and psychological torture. (BBC)

A round-up of the Maori news for the week with our Te Manu Korihi team (RNZ)

Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)

Highlighting the activities and experiences of people with different backgrounds (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

Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in New Zealand's news media (RNZ)

Legislation, issues and insights from Parliament (RNZ)

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 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:06 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy (BBC); 2:30 Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 Minding Lear by Owen Marshall (5 of 7, RNZ); 3:30 Science In Action (BBC); 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: Highlighting New Zealand writing and performance (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

Cenk Uygur - The Young Turks

RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information

RNZ’s weeknight current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories, with background and reaction from the people making the news (RNZ)

International public radio features and documentaries

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

A roundup of today's news and sport

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)

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

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Roads Run Through Us by John Bluck (4 of 6, RNZ); 1:05 From The World (BBC); 2:05 Music Extra: Light and Hope (BBC) 3:05 Minding Lear by Owen Marshall (6 of 7, RNZ); 3:30 Author’s View (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: Highlighting New Zealand writing and performance (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 Stephen Mills & Matthew Hooton

Legislation, issues and insights from Parliament (RNZ)

RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information

Nick Bollinger reviews some of the latest music releases

RNZ’s weeknight current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories, with background and reaction from the people making the news (RNZ)

International public radio features and documentaries

When China Meets Kenya
Chinese and African trade has been aggressively courted. It has now crossed the $300 billion mark and continues to grow particularly in Kenya. Along with the investment, 10,000 Chinese have come to Kenya to live and work. But, how are they interacting with Kenyans?  Linda Yueh visits Kenya to look past the economic headlines and instead discover the social conundrums that Chinese investment in Africa has brought about. (BBC)

A roundup of today's news and sport

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)

10:35 The House

Legislation, issues and insights from Parliament (RNZ)

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

Including: 12:06 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Insight (RNZ); 1:15 Country Life Story (RNZ); 2:05 The Forum (BBC); 3:05 Minding Lear by Owen Marshall (7 of 7, RNZ); 3:30 Diversions (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: Highlighting New Zealand writing and performance (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

Highlighting the RNZ stories you're sharing on-line

Legislation, issues and insights from Parliament (RNZ)

RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information

A weekly topical magazine about current film releases and film related topics (RNZ)

RNZ’s weeknight current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories, with background and reaction from the people making the news (RNZ)

International public radio features and documentaries

A roundup of today's news and sport

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)

10:35 The House

Legislation, issues and insights from Parliament (RNZ)

Nick Tipping brings you classic recordings and modern masterpieces from the world of jazz (RNZ)

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Discovery (BBC); 1:05 The Thursday Feature (RNZ); 2:05 The Cultural Frontline (BBC); 3:05 Captive Truths by Gavin McGibbon (RNZ); 3:30 NZ Books; 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: Highlighting New Zealand writing and performance (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

Highlighting the RNZ stories you're sharing on-line

Legislation, issues and insights from Parliament (RNZ)

RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information

With Music commentator and critic William Dart (RNZ)

RNZ’s weeknight current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories, with background and reaction from the people making the news (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)

A roundup of today's news and sport

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)

10:35 The House

Legislation, issues and insights from Parliament (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)

Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 At The Movies (RNZ); 1:05 The Friday Feature (BBC); 2.05 The Long Way Home (RNZ); 2:30 The Sampler (RNZ); 3:05 Captain's Curse by Donna Banicevich Gera (RNZ); 3:30 The Why Factor (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

An early miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts including:
6:20 One Quick Question (RNZ)
6:30 World Hacks: Recycling Chewing Gum Litter to Clean Our Streets  .( BBC)
7:10  Rip Van Winkle a short story by Washington Irving (VOA)
7:40 The S-bend 
One of Tim Harford’s   stories of  inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world.( BBC)
8:10 Pat McMinn: NZ's Voice of the 1950's  (RNZ)
A Tribute to the New Zealand singer and dancer Pat McMinn who died in Tauranga on 21 March 2018 (RNZ)
8:40 The Discovery of LSD  .( BBC)
9:06 The Lark Quartet  a short story by Elizabeth Smither
9:30 The Good Friday Agreement
Monica McWilliams was one of only two local women who were at the table during negotiations which led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998..( BBC)
10:05 Food Of The Gods
When religion and food is mixed together the result is a recipe that includes both sweat meats and boiled vegetables.  Long fasts and massive gluttony.  Vegetarianism and cannibalism – and a menu that stretches from ancient Egypt to the present day across all the continents. (RNZ)
10:30 Heating the World  a Short story by Owen Marshall. (RNZ)
11:05 The Lonely Funeral
Every year up to twenty people die completely alone in Amsterdam. There are no friends or family to prepare their funeral or mourn,  no one, that is, except a civil servant and a poet, because for 20 years, retired Amsterdam civil servant Ger Frits has made sure that these lonely or unknown citizens get a respectful send-off. (RNL)

A roundup of today's news and sport

The Easter craft exhibition is on again - but will the former Rugby Rep be brave enough to exhibit his lacework under his own name (RNZ)

Trial Hope for Leukaemia Patients:  When Simon Cox was first diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) 13-years ago, he feared the worst. But now there are promising developments in the search for a cure. He meets patients taking part in a new trial in  England. (BBC)

Vincent O'Sullivan's powerful play drawing on the events surrounding the shooting of Japanese Prisoners of War at a camp in Featherston on 25 February 1943 (RNZ)

Sarajevo: Singing for Peace
After the bitter Bosnian war in the 1990's, Catholic Monk, Friar Ivo Markovic, launched a multi-faith choir to bring survivors of the violence together and promote understanding between different ethnic groups. The choir is called "Pontanima", an invented word based on Latin that means, "bridge among souls"(BBC)

Renowned Brazilian Jazz singer Bebel Gilberto performs a mixture of classic tracks and jazz standards.  The daughter of the legendary João Gilberto, Bebel redefined the sound of bossa nova a with a series transformative albums in the mid-200s .Her signature breezy Brazilian rhythms and ethereal vocals wowed the WOMAD 2017 audience at the Bowl of Brooklyn (RNZ)

Mairead's First Communion
What do you do when you're not practicing Catholics but your daughter wants to make her First Communion? (RTE)

A roundup of today's news and sport

The Business of Kindness
Peter Day explores how random acts of kindness can help businesses grow in surprising ways. (BBC)

A story from the early days of public school education in New Zealand (RNZ)

Songs of the Spirit 
Methodist lay-preacher John Thornley explores the spiritual side of “The Weight” by The Band (RNZ)

Part 1. Seeing Pain
Pain is highly subjective but why do some people feel more pain than others and why does the brain appear to switch off under anaesthesia so we are unaware of the surgeon's scalpel? Professor Irene Tracey uses brain scanners to ask if we can actually see pain in the brain (1 of 4, BBC)

A sad story of life and death, love and cats. . .found but ultimately  departed (RNZ)

In Dante's fourteenth-century Italian poem 'The Divine Comedy', the narrator  journeys through the inferno and purgatory to paradise. Sally Placksin discusses why is it so famous and how has it influenced later writers? (MLA)

Raising The Dead:
For the past few decades music teacher and pianist Francesco Lotoro has been collecting music written in concentration camps from World War Two. Composer Adam Gorb is head of composition at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Working closely with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Adam travels to Italy to meet Francesco and together they pick through his 8000 piece archive, much of which has never been heard before (BBC)

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

A roundup of today's news and sport

Jane Gardam: Old Filth
British writer Jane Gardam discusses her award-winning novel Old Filth with Harriet Gilbert and listeners from around the world (BBC)

Musical guests compile a C60 and talk us through their selections (RNZ)