Nights for Friday 20 September 2024
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Innovative Kava bowl up for a design award
10:20 PM.The Kava bowl, dubbed "The G-Bowl", offers a detachable five-litre hand spun metal bowl resting on a wooden frame. Read more Audio
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
9:30 PM.Nights' movie critic Dan Slevin returns to talk about Iris and the Men, Sugar, and Downey's Dream Cars. Read more Audio
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This Weekend: Backgammon North Island Champs
9:15 PM.Every Friday, we bring you some of the most interesting events and happenings coming up in Aotearoa this weekend - from the community fairs to the massive concerts. Read more Audio
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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
10:35 AM.He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music. Read more Audio
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 Tenuous Connections
It's Friday Night so it's time to put on a playlist of music with a loose theme based off an even looser starting point.
Tonight, songs named after famous person!
Send your requests to nights@rnz.co.nz
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 This Weekend: Backgammon North Island Champs
Every Friday, we bring you some of the most interesting events and happenings coming up in Aotearoa this weekend - from the community fairs to the massive concerts.
This weekend, it's backgammon baby.
The North Island Backgammon Championship is being hosted this Saturday and Sunday in the west coast seaside town of Raglan.
Tournament organiser Dermont Murtagh speaks to Emile.
Photo: MOHAMED EL-SHAHED
9:20 Focus on Politics
In Focus on politics, Political Reporter Craig McCulloch looks into the coalition's big promises on crime. This week, it felt the true weight of those commitments.
Photo: RNZ / REECE BAKER
9:30 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Nights’ movie critic Dan Slevin returns to talk about Iris and the Men, a French comedy about a successful woman rediscovering her sexual mojo; Sugar, an Apple TV+ series starring Colin Farrell as a good-hearted Los Angeles private detective with a mysterious secret; and Downey’s Dream Cars, a reality motoring series in which Hollywood superstar Robert Downey Jr. goes electric.
10:17 Innovative Kava bowl up for a design award
The Kava bowl, dubbed "The G-Bowl", offers a detachable five-litre hand spun metal bowl resting on a wooden frame.
The G Bowl is a finalist in the Designed Objects category in the Best Design Awards, and the winners are announced next month.
Emile speaks to the designer, Brett Band, along with Auckland Kava lounge owners Anau Mesui-Henry and Todd Henry.
The Kava bowl made from metal named the G Bowl. Photo: PMN/Supplied
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.
Tonight, Harmonicus by Khaki Department, Sorry I Forgot Your Name by The Mystery Lights, and Higurashi by Masayoshi Fujita (feat. Hatis Noit).
Masayoshi Fujita Photo: Alexander Schneider Photography via Erased Tapes
11:07 Aotearoa Hip Hop: The Music, The People, The History
Tonight we hear the final of the six-part series in which Phil Bell presents a deep dive into the origins and stories of this country's love of Hip hop.
He talks to the originators, the instigators, and the influencers about how Hip Hop has imprinted itself on the fabric of New Zealand's music culture.
