Nights for Wednesday 30 July 2025
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Staging sex on screen
9:15 PM.In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandals and subsequent #MeToo and Time's Up movements, Ita O'Brien introduced the "Intimacy On Set Guidelines". Read more Audio
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What's a city?
8:10 PM.New Zealand has thirteen city councils but do we actually have that many cities? Read more Audio
8:10 What's a city?
New Zealand has thirteen city councils but do we actually have that many cities?
What even is a city and how do we define it? According to Clause 16 of Schedule 3 of the Local Government Act 2002, a city council needs a population of at least 50,000.
Nick Brunsdon, Principal Economist and Lead Demographer at Infometrics, joins Emile to talk about who makes the cut.
Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon
8:25 The House
On our parliamentary show - The House, Louis Collins looks at the last minute recommittal of the Crown Minerals Bill.
Photo: Supplied / Climate Liberation Aotearoa
8:30 Midweek Mediawatch
Hayden Donnell joins Emile for a debrief of the week's media news.
Tonight, they discuss reporting on Gaza, 'an announcement of an announcement' and the new poll on Labour's COVID response.
Naeema, a 30-year-old Palestinian mother, sits with her malnourished 2-year-old son Yazan in their damaged home in the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 23, 2025. Photo: AFP / Omar Al-Qattaa
9:15 Staging sex on screen
Ita O'Brien, Intimacy Co-ordinator Photo: Nicholas Dawkes
Ita O'Brien is one of the world's foremost intimacy co-ordinators and author of Intimacy.
In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandals and subsequent #MeToo and Time's Up movements, she introduced and developed the "Intimacy On Set Guidelines". Her aim was to help protect actors and actresses and to help producers and directors turn the sex scene into something more professional.
Ita joins Emile to explain how sex can be staged safely for the screen.
Photo: PIXABAY
9:45 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.
10:18 The Detail
Davina Zimmer reports for The Detail on the government's suite of amendments to electoral law. They haven't gone down well but that's not stopping them from pushing ahead with the changes.
Photo: RNZ
10:45 The Reading
On The Reading tonight, episode three of The Trouble Begins at Eight, a four-part series chronicling Mark Twain's lecture tour of New Zealand in 1895.
11:07 Pocket Edition
Nick Bollinger presents Artist to Artist, a series in which he listens to some of the songs that songwriters have written about other songwriters and uncovers the stories behind them.
Photo: Robert Cross
