Nights for Monday 14 October 2024
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BBC World Lookahead with Jonathan Frewin
10:45 PM.BBC World's Jonathan Frewin joins Emile Donovan to take a look at some of the events making headlines internationally including the latest developments out of Israel's offensive against Hezbollah in… Read more Audio
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Sports with Richard Irvine
10:30 PM.Richard Irvine joins Emile Donovan to discuss Team New Zealand dominating the early stages of the Americas Cup, why their opponent lost his temper at a kiwi commentator and Auckland readying itself… Read more Audio
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Which supermarket is the cheapest?
10:18 PM.Consumer NZ has been crunching the numbers and research writer Belinda Castles speaks to Emile Donovan about what they've found. Read more Audio
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Why are we still using BMI if we know its flaws?
9:35 PM.The body-mass index is used to estimate your health and risk of heart disease. But the model, created close to 200 years ago by a Belgian statistician, is not a perfect diagnostic tool. Read more Audio
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The half a million dollar decision still baffling the book industry
9:15 PM.In 2021, a largely-unknown company was given $500,000 by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage. Three years later, there are still more questions than answers about Narrative Muse. 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 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.
Featuring:
Ship of Fools by World Party - requested by Tim
Goes Without Saying by Post Malone - requested by Mark
Heaven Can Wait by Meat Loaf - requested by Kevin
8.45 The Reading: Soon
Police interest in the Weeks case and Simon in particular are becoming more than he can bear in today's reading by Michael Hurst of 'Soon' by Charlotte Grimshaw.
9:05 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 The half a million dollar decision still baffling the book industry
In 2021 a largely unknown company was given $500,000 by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage to help boost book sales after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Nearly four years later there are still more questions than answers about the decision to hand over half million dollars of taxpayers money to Narrative Muse.
Anna Rankin is a freelance journalist who has written about the fallout, both inside and outside the ministry, and she speaks to Emile Donovan.
Photo: 123RF
9:30 Why are we still using BMI if we know its flaws?
The body-mass index is used to estimate your health and risk of heart disease. But the model, created close to 200 years ago by a Belgian statistician, is not a perfect diagnostic tool.
Emile Donovan is joined by Sir Jim Mann, professor of human nutrition and medicine at the University of Otago, and an expert in the field of obesity.
Associate professor Scott Duncan wants Kiwi-specific BMI scales. Photo: 123RF
10:17 Which supermarkets are the cheapest?
New Zealanders are continuing to feel the pain at the checkout, with no apparent sign of cheaper prices.
Figures show we're spending more on groceries than our trans-Tasman neighbours and those in the UK.
So where should we go for the best deals?
Consumer NZ has been crunching the numbers and research writer Belinda Castles speaks to Emile Donovan about what they've found.
Shopping trollies at a supermarket. Photo: Unsplash/ Markus Spiske
10:30 Sports with Richard Irvine
Talking sports tonight is writer, author of weekly newsletter Sport Review, Richard Irvine.
He joins Emile Donovan to discuss the big stories in sport including Team New Zealand dominating the early stages of the Americas Cup, why their opponent lost his temper at a kiwi commentator and Auckland readies itself for the return of professional football this weekend.
Emirates Team New Zealand's skipper Peter Burling gives on thumb up on the pier prior the 37th America's Cup first preliminary regatta, off the coast of Vilanova i la Geltru on September 16, 2023. After this first preliminary regatta the teams will head to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for a second regatta between November 29 to December 2, 2023. The third and last preliminary regatta will be held in August 2024 in Barcelona where all the America’s Cup teams will race in their new AC75s for the very first time. (Photo by LLUIS GENE / AFP) Photo: LLUIS GENE
10:45 BBC World Lookahead
BBC World's Jonathan Frewin joins Emile Donovan to take a look at some of the events making headlines internationally including the latest developments out of Israel's offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon, what a new Watergate reporter Bob Woodward's new book reveals about Donald Trump since losing office and what we can expect from the European Union leaders summit later this week.
Photo: AFP
11:07 Nashville Babylon
On this week's show there are birthday tunes for John Prine, Paul Simon and soul legend Sam Moore, classic blues from Dinah Washington plus a reggae smash courtesy of Peter Tosh.
John Prine Photo: Danny Clinch
