Nights

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8:15 Pacific Waves

A daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in the world. Hosted by Susana Suisuiki.

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8:30 This Weekend

Every Friday we take a look at what's going on over the weekend somewhere around the country.

This week we're heading to Dunedin and chatting to Prudence Jopsen, one half of the team behind John's Sketch Club.

Every month, the club brings people together for a relaxed, no-pressure drawing session where no experience is needed.

8:35 Tenuous Connections

It's Friday Night so it's time to put on a playlist of music with a loose theme based on an even looser starting point.

Tonight, it's songs with capital cities in the title.

9:07 Nights Quiz

Do you know your stuff? Come on the air and be grilled by Emile Donovan as he dons his quizmaster hat.

If you get an answer right, you move on to the next question. If you get it wrong, your time in the chair is up, and the next caller will be put through. The person with the most correct answers at the end of the run goes in the draw for a weekly prize.

9:25 Focus on Politics

In Focus on Politics, RNZ deputy political editor Craig McCulloch sits down with the incoming and outgoing deputy prime ministers to mark the historic handover. David Seymour is vowing to keep speaking freely, while an unshackled Winston Peters shifts into campaign mode. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/focusonpolitics

9:40 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin

Dan Slevin is back to talk about supernatural horror film Bring Her Back, documentary Deaf President Now! and a look back at Scarfies.

10:17 Bringing the 80s to life on screen: Costume designer Amy Parris

Amy Parris is the costume designer behind two of the biggest smash-hit television shows of the twenty-twenties: twentieth century nostalgia hits Stranger Things and Yellowjackets. She also designs the clothes of the future in shows like Westworld, and the 2013 AI romance film Her.

She's appearing this weekend for Armageddon Expo's WINTERGEDDON special at the Auckland showgrounds and joins Emile Donovan to talk design.

10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson

He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music.

It's Finn Johansson.

Tonight he's spinning tunes from Salt Water Criminals, Salad Boys and Ganavya. 

11:07 RNZ Music: WOMAD Concert Series

Maggie Tweedie presents the concert series recorded live at WOMAD 2024 in New Plymouth.

Today's programme features legendary Brazilian musician and composer Gilberto Gil. The global music icon and political figure performs his unique samba rhythms alongside his granddaughter and three sons on the Bowl Stage in Ngamotu, New Plymouth.