1:10 Best Song Ever Written

Love Me For A Reason by The Osmonds as chosen by Nigel Godfrey of Auckland.

1:15 NZ Music - Live

Auckland-based quintet Great North.

Audio of NZ Music Live can be found on our music web page.

Listen also to Great North in session on Music 101.

2:10 Feature stories

For more than 50 years in the late 1800s and early 1900s, passengers with infectious diseases arriving on ships in Otago Harbour were sent to a small island - Quarantine Island. Now a family from Dunedin is voluntarily moving to the island to act as caretakers. Francine Vella, her husband Alex King and their children, 13-year-old George and 16-year-old Rebecca will be moving to the island just after Christmas.

Some people dream of packing in their 9 to 5 jobs to write a novel. Ian Packman has actually done it. For years he had the bones of a book idea rattling around his head about a boy who is told a captivating story by an old man who suddenly disappears, never to be seen again. So he gave up a six-figure salary working aboard support vessels that serve the oil and gas industry off the Taranaki Coast to write full time. Writing Stones of Akron was the easy part. Finding someone to publish the book, well that's another story.

2:30 Reading

The last of our Antarctic stories by J Edward Brown, Penguin Park read by Bruce Phillips.

2:45 He Rourou

The recent ordination of Boyd Reha as a deacon in the Anglican church bodes well for his iwi of Tuhoe in Wellington. Ana Tapiata talks with another Tuhoe elder Ihaia Biddle, who has known the new deacon for over thirty years.

2:50 Feature Album

One Life Stand the fourth album, and considered the best album so far from English electro-pop band, Hot Chip.

3:08 One Stop Shop

Fresh Fast Food, Weekend Wine, Weekend Weather, Movie Review and This Way of Life

3:12 Fresh Fast Food - Julie Biuso

Chilli Beef with Lime and Palm Sugar Dressing
Plum Pudding Ice Cream

3:20 Weekend Wine - Yvonne Lorkin

Cheap n Cheerful: Sacred Hill Reserve Hawke's Bay Chardonnay 2009
Mid Price Magic: The Ned Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2010
Treat yourself: Gladstone Vineyard Wairarapa Pinot Noir 2009

3:26 Movie Review - Sarah McMullan

TRON: Legacy - the sequel to the 1982 original, and Sofia Coppola's new film, Somewhere.

3:35 Weather - Bob McDavitt

Will it clear up in time for Christmas Day?

4:06 The Panel

Duncan Webb and Jeremy Elwood