Nights
RNZ New Zealand
Tune in to Nights every weekday from 8pm to midnight for a delectable buffet of creative ideas, open-minded conversations, music, musings and daily stimulation.
Location:
Wellington, United States
Networks:
RNZ New Zealand
Description:
Tune in to Nights every weekday from 8pm to midnight for a delectable buffet of creative ideas, open-minded conversations, music, musings and daily stimulation.
Twitter:
@RNZNights
Language:
English
Contact:
+64 (0)4 474 1469
Email:
nights@radionz.co.nz
Episodes
A 'deadbeat' by any other name: What's in a diss track?
5/6/2024
Rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake have both dropped lyrics that range from sly digs at each other to allegations of addiction and domestic abuse. Wellington DJ Brad Warrington aka Sticky Fingers provides some history of the beef.
Duration:00:08:41
Sports with Jamie Wall
5/6/2024
Nights' sports correspondent Jamie Wall joins Emile Donovan to weigh in on the Auckland stadium debate, the Warriors women's team's triumphant return to NRLW, and the potential for the All Blacks to play it Qatar.
Duration:00:15:34
Brain technology: A step forward, or a dystopian nightmare?
5/6/2024
Dr Allan McCay is Deputy Director of The Sydney Institute of Criminology and an Academic Fellow at the University of Sydney's Law School, with a particular focus on neurotechnology.
Duration:00:14:39
The vision bus treating Auckland kids for free
5/6/2024
Myopia, or short-sightedness, is one of the most common medical conditions in the world. Sachi Rathod has been treating it in low-decile schools all over Auckland.
Duration:00:19:31
Whakataukī of the Week with Mahanga Pihama
5/6/2024
Director, producer, and te reo Māori advocate Mahanga Pihama joins Emile Donovan to share a whakataukī that resonates with him.
Duration:00:12:26
Out Lately with Finn Johansson
5/3/2024
Tonight, a selection described as 'broadly lo-fi': including drag queen hypnagogic pop project Cindy Lee, death rock- and punk wave-influenced Brux, and a new local track from the Audio Foundation Improvisers Series Vol 3.
Duration:00:28:03
One small step for peanut butter, one giant leap for a Wellington business
5/3/2024
Nelson nut butter brand Fix & Fogg was approached by NASA with a request to create a space rocket-approved product - and now it's launched.
Duration:00:13:04
Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
5/3/2024
Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin is reviewing the debut for writer-director Loren Taylor The Moon is Upside Down, Home, a real estate and design show with a difference, and all three seasons of Star Trek: Picard.
Duration:00:19:10
This Weekend: Pictorial page-turners converge on Wellington
5/3/2024
ComicFest is being held at the National Library of New Zealand on Saturday, with a range of events on offer for the comic- and cartoon-mad on its 10th anniversary.
Duration:00:05:32
New Zealand's emerging artists preserved on glossy paper
5/2/2024
Called a 'music mag for the music mad', Newzician Magazine features profiles, interviews and photo spreads on emerging independent musicians across Aotearoa New Zealand - in print.
Duration:00:07:39
World's biggest democracy off to the polls
5/2/2024
Massey University Professor Mohan Dutta joins Emile Donovan to examine the India elections.
Duration:00:16:34
Duck hunters ready for season
5/2/2024
Commencing this weekend, duck season is an occasion so big in some parts of the country, club rugby games have to be shifted to another day to accommodate it.
Duration:00:09:12
Mangahāwea: The final frontier of human settlement
5/2/2024
Moa bones, obsidian and tools found at the site indicate people first arrived here as early as 1250 AD - the last land mass in the entire world to be settled by humans.
Duration:00:17:35
I Was There When: Wellington students did or did not help the Viet Cong buy a tank
5/2/2024
In 1972, the Victoria University students' association raised $2000 for the Vietnam War - but did it go to the Viet Cong for the purchase of a tank?
Duration:00:15:57
Helen Clark on New Zealand joining AUKUS
5/1/2024
The former prime minister reacts to foreign minister Winston Peter's comments on AUKUS.
Duration:00:19:42
What the future sounds like: Music journalist Simon Reynolds
5/1/2024
Futuromania: Electric Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today is a new book that traces the history of sounds that prefigure pop music's future.
Duration:00:19:16
Agony Aunt: 'Can you ask someone out at their workplace?'
5/1/2024
Nights' resident Agony Aunt, comedian Courtney Dawson, is back and ready to answer your quandaries, your palavers, your misgivings.
Duration:00:11:39
Beloved costume shop set to close its doors for good
4/30/2024
Started in 1991, the Costume Cave on Wellington's Wakefield Street has long been a friend to filmmakers, theatre practitioners and partygoers in the capital and across the country.
Duration:00:09:10
Celebrating architecture in a fractured city
4/30/2024
Festival Open Christchurch returns this year with 50 open buildings for the public to explore spanning Gothic Revival, Christchurch Modern, contemporary and a range of uses.
Duration:00:16:40
Kiwi ultramarathon runner aiming to break world record
4/30/2024
This weekend, Sam Harvey is hoping to not only win the Dead Cow Gully race in Australia, but break the work record running continuously for 800km in 120 hours.
Duration:00:08:28