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Nights for Thursday 7 November 2024

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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An illustrated motif representing people from the Pacific gathered around a sun sits behind a photographic portrait of Susana Suisuiki.

Photo: RNZ / Jarred Bishop, Michel Tuffery and Jeff McEwan

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: Golden Moments

Tonight Margaret Blay reads Golden Moments by Jane Seaford

Explaining death and where their granddad is is painful at times for Sally. Her granddaughter's perceptions though also surprise and amuse.    

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 Leonard Cohen's legacy eight years after his death

It's been eight years since the renowned singer-songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen died.

Joining Emile Donovan to talk about Cohen's legacy is Wellington writer and life-long fan David Cohen.

David (no relation) is also the author of Book of Cohen which is the the story of a "famous singer and his not-so-famous lifelong New Zealand fan".

A copy David Cohen's book the Book of Cohen sits atop Leonard Cohen's gravestone in Montreal

A copy David Cohen's book the Book of Cohen sits atop Leonard Cohen's gravestone in Montreal Photo: David Cohen

9:35 Carl Shuker tackles death and copy editing in new novel

Author of the acclaimed medical novel A Mistake, a film adaptation of which debuted at the New Zealand International Film Festival this year, Carl Shuker returns to a medical setting in The Royal Free, which follows bereaved medical journal editor James Ballard.

Shuker joins Emile Donovan.

Photo: Te Herenga Waka University Press

10:17 Tariffs are coming, so what does that mean for our exporters?

Donald Trump will return to the White House in January next year.

New Zealand producers, exporters and trade negotiators will be anxiously waiting to see if the president-elect carries through with his pledge to hit all imports into the US with a 10 to 20 percent tariff.

Joining Emile Donovan to discuss what these tariffs could mean for New Zealand producers and exporters is John Ballingall, an economist from Wellington firm Sense Partners.

LONDONDERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE - JANUARY 23: Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump tells people to go back inside and vote as he visits the polling site at Londonderry High School on primary day, on January 23, 2024 in Londonderry, New Hampshire. With Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis having dropped out of the race two days earlier, Trump and fellow candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley are battling it out in this first-in-the-nation primary. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Republican presidential candidate, former US President Donald Trump. Photo: CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP

10:30 Polio: The disease that doesn't go away

A programme is underway in Gaza, in incredibly trying conditions, to vaccinate 100,000 children against polio after it was detected there for the first time in 25 years.

Polio has been largely eradicated around the world - the only other places to still see cases are Pakistan and Afghanistan.

But that doesn't mean we can be complacent in New Zealand - a place where thousands of people are still living with the after-effects of the disease.

One of them is Gordon Jackman - who speaks to Emile Donovan.

Titahi Bay boy receiving the polio vaccine, 1958 Photo: Evening Post newspaper, courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library

10:45 The architectural student drawing houses and buildings by hand

Josh Currie is an architectural graduate based in Tauranga who's taken his eye for detail and passion for unique houses into the art world.

Josh sells hand-drawn illustrations of houses and buildings - he's taken commissions from people whose much-loved houses were lost to the Christchurch earthquakes, or lost to house fires.

His business is simply called Josh Draws Houses and he speaks to Emile Donovan.

Josh Currie sells prints and commissioned artworks of houses through his business Josh Draws Houses. (PHOTO: Josh Draws Houses / Supplied)

Josh's drawing of a Ponsonby villa with nikau palms on either side. (PHOTO: Josh Currie / @joshdrawshouses)

Josh's illustration of the wharenui at Makirikiri Marae in Dannevirke. (PHOTO: Josh Currie / @joshdrawshouses)

11:07 The Mixtape

Our guest picking the music is Jon Toogood, a name very familiar to music lovers in Aotearoa.

Jon is the frontman of Shihad, the anthemic rock band who have been performing for over 35 years, touring the world and playing hits like 'Pacifier', 'Home Again' and 'The General Electric'.

Jon Toogood has just released his first solo album Last of the Lonely Gods . It's an album he wrote to make sense of a few challenging years which included the death of his mother, his brother in law, and health issues from long-covid.

Jon Toogood joins Charlotte in the RNZ Nelson studio, halfway through his NZ tour.