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8 til Late for Friday 17 January 2025

8:08 Trains on Tape: New Zealand Rail Scene Turns 30

A steam train is headed towards the camera, a man in a blue shirt is beside the rail track filming the train go by on a camera.

Photo: NZ Rail Scene / Supplied

Have you ever watched a DVD full of trains? Corey chats with NZ Rail Scene creator, Lindsay Benbrook to see where it started and how its still going.

8:25 Assignment: Don't Fret

Teacher giving guitar lessons to pupil in a classroom

Photo: 123RF

Many argue that the youth today comprehend things faster than the generation before them. So just how much do the kids at the Kedgley Music Centre understand life as they learn how to play the guitar?

8:40 The Sin Bin: Chess with Troy Matich

Dommaraju Gukesh, left, looks reacts while playing against Ding Liren during the world chess championship.

Dommaraju Gukesh, left, looks reacts while playing against Ding Liren during the world chess championship. Photo: AFP

Morning Report producer and chess aficionado Troy Matich joins Ellie Marsden and breaks down three perplexing chess scandals.

9:10 Out and About: Harriet Robinson in Wellington

Rome Ramirez of Sublime with Rome, singing into a microphone, at the Tortuga Music Festival

Rome Ramirez of Sublime with Rome at the 2015 Tortuga Music Festival Photo: Tom Craig / CC-BY-NC 2.0

Radioactive's Harriet Robinson has been Out and About around the capital - listen to what she has to say about local and international acts that have played recently.

9:25 So You Think You Know Sumeria?: The First Complaint Letter

An ancient clay tablet which has split into two, displayed at a museum. The photo is close up to the artifact.

Photo: Gary Todd / CC0

Ever gotten products that don't deliver what they promised? Turns out you're not the only, nor the first, one to discover that, as David Hilder joins us again to discuss.

9:40 Cybernetic Techverse: What to expect (or hope for) in 2025

Woman Using a Samsung VR Headset at SXSW

Woman Using a Samsung VR Headset at SXSW Photo: Nan Palmero / CC-BY 2.0

8 'til Late Tech Correspondent Pratik Navani is back with their dreams of what the tech world can deliver this year, if only it tried.

10:15 Life's Biggest Qs: Who Still Uses Dial-Up?

A trolley of 90s internet equipment in a sterile server room

90s Dial Up Equipment on a Trolley Photo: The Serial Port / Supplied

Accessing the Internet meant having your computer dialing a number and hoping that no one wanted to use the phone. Not only do RNZ Staff and the Public remember using dial-up, but there are also two cool nerds reviving Dial-Up internet.

10:30 Beats Talking: Dujon Cullingford

Dujon Cullingford

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Avid Waikato-based record collector and DJ, Dujon Cullingford, talks to, and spins, the bangin' tracks of the 1970s to the 1990s that our parents played at house parties.

Songs included:

  • Love The One You're With by Mark Williams / EMI
  • Georgy Porgy by Toto / Columbia
  • What'd I Say by Collision / Infinity
  • Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry / Epic
  • Sweet Inspiration by Yandell Sisters / EMI
  • Do I Do by Stevie Wonder / Motown Records
  • Love At First Night by Kim Hart / EMI
  • Livin' It Up (Friday Night) by Bell & James / A&M
  • Weekend by Richard Eriwata / Tartar
  • Love Train by Dalvanius & The Fascinations / Reprise Records