Nights for Thursday 25 July 2024
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Kiwi Esport athletes ready to take on Olympic challenge
10:45 PM.NZ Esports CEO Jonathan Jansen says Kiwi athletes are ready to take on the Olympic Esports Games in 2025. Read more Audio
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Why are the Dutch so tall?
10:30 PM.Like the rest of the Europe, and in western nations, heights in the Netherlands have increased dramatically over the past 200 years. But for some reason, the Dutch just grow higher. Read more Audio
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Calls for better screening over alarming rates of youth hearing issues
10:18 PM.Globally, at least one in five people have hearing issues, which is expected to get worse with a growing number of young people suffering some sort of hearing loss. Read more Audio
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Why isn’t depression taken seriously in New Zealand?
Depression affects people in all cultures but for centuries it has “hidden under the long black cloud of Kiwi denial”, health historian Jacqueline Leckie says. In her new book Old Black Clouds, Leckie… Read more Audio
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Record number of new books in 2024 Whitcoulls Top 100
9:15 PM.The list was voted on by readers, with New Zealand authors featuring more prominently than ever, including Ockham award-winning novelist Emily Perkins and Fungi by Liv Sisson. Read more Audio
8:10 The House
Today on our Parliament programme - The House - Louis Collins chats with two members of Fired Up Stilettos about their petition to Parliament.
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.
8:30 Nights Jukebox
Emile Donovan plays your requests - as long as you've got a compelling reason, or a good story to go with it.
Send in your requests to nights@rnz.co.nz or text 2101.
8:45 The Reading
Continuing our adaptation of 'Billy Bird', by Emma Neale.
When he loses his cousin Billy takes to acting like a bird. His parents are distressed, but it not until Liam, the father, begins to deal with his own grief that Billy abandon's his protective fantasy.
Victoria Abbott returns with episode two of 'Billy Bird'.
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.
The quiz is themed - find out more about tonight's theme on Nights' Facebook page.
9:15 Record number of new books in annual Whitcoulls Top 100 List
Whitcoulls has released its 2024 Top 100 books list.
The list was voted on by readers, with New Zealand authors featuring more prominently than ever, including Ockham award-winning novelist Emily Perkins and Fungi by Liv Sisson.
Forty-two percent of the books are making the list for the very first time.
Joan Mackenzie is Whitcoulls' Book Manager and she joins Emile Donovan.
Bookshelf. Photo: 123RF
9:35 Jacqueline Leckie: A history of depression in New Zealand
Old Black Cloud published by Massey University Press is a new book telling the cultural history of mental depression in New Zealand for the first time.
The book traverses New Zealand's lonely colonial frontier, the different cures and institutions created for depression, and the way mental health was understood in the pre-colonial South Pacific.
Victoria University of Wellington esearcher and health historian Jacqueline Leckey is the author, and she joins Emile Donovan.
Old Black Cloud, by researcher and historian Jacqueline Leckie, is published through Massey University Press. Photo: Supplied
10:17 Calls for better screening over alarming rates of youth hearing issues
Globally, at least one in five people have hearing issues, which is expected to get worse with a growing number of young people suffering some sort of hearing loss.
It's the same here in New Zealand, with nationwide testing by the National Foundation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing finding 23 percent of Year 9 students report having tinnitus.
Emile Donovan speaks to the chief executive of the Foundation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Natasha Gallardo about her concerns and what needs to be done.
Photo: Unsplash / Rupam Dutta
10:30 Why are the Dutch so tall?
There's one country that constantly produces the tallest people in the world - so what's their secret?
Like the rest of the Europe and in western nations, heights in the Netherlands have increased dramatically over the past 200 years but for some reason the Dutch just grow higher.
Genetics play a part but researchers say there is a clear link between living environments and healthier, taller populations.
Emile Donovan is joined by Kristina Thompson, an associate professor of health and society at Wageningen University.
Photo: AFP
10:45 Kiwi Esport athletes ready to take on Olympic challenge
Huge news this week for Esport athletes and fans after the International Olympic Committee voted unanimously to host the first-ever Olympic Esports Games in 2025.
And Kiwi Esport athletes are ready to take on the challenge with elite pathways already in place.
Emile Donovan speaks to NZ Esports CEO, Jonathan Jansen.
A game of Starcraft II at an Esports tournament. Photo: AFP
11:07 The Mixtape
On this week's RNZ Music Mixtape Grant Walker picks music that shaped his broadcasting on television and radio career.
From Wellington's Quincy Conserve to Pink Floyd and Eminem, it's a real mixed bag of songs to keep you guessing.
Grant Walker Speaking on NZ's popular TV Show Sale of The Century Photo: supplied
Where to get help:
Need to Talk? Free call or text 1737 any time to speak to a trained counsellor, for any reason.
Lifeline: 0800 543 354 or text HELP to 4357
Suicide Crisis Helpline: 0508 828 865 / 0508 TAUTOKO (24/7). This is a service for people who may be thinking about suicide, or those who are concerned about family or friends.
Depression Helpline: 0800 111 757 (24/7) or text 4202
Samaritans: 0800 726 666 (24/7)
Youthline: 0800 376 633 (24/7) or free text 234 or email talk@youthline.co.nz
Abuse survivors
For male survivors -
Road Forward Trust, Wellington, contact Richard 0211181043
Better Blokes Auckland, 099902553
The Canterbury Men's Centre, 03 3776747
The Male Room, Nelson 035480403
Male Survivors, Waikato 07 8584112
Male Survivors, Otago 0211064598
For female survivors -
Help Wellington, 048016655
Help, Auckland 09 623 1296.
For urgent help: Safe To Talk 0800044334.
If it is an emergency and you feel like you or someone else is at risk, call 111.
