Nights for Friday 23 January 2009

Monday to Friday, 7pm - Midnight

23 January 2009

7:10 Feature interview: David Bates

Director of the hit circus show La Clique and owner of the Famous Spiegeltent, David Bates.

7:30 The Davies Diaries

Singer of The Kinks Ray Davies tells the story of the band's heady triumphs in the 1960s (part 5 of 6, BBC).

8:10 A live session with the Sami Sisters.

8:30 Windows on the World

Blood Oil. The BBC's Alex Last travels to the troubled Niger Delta in Nigeria to assess efforts by the security forces to deal with the violence in the region.

9:10 Best of Womad 2008

The Phoenix Foundation.

10:15 Late Edition

The best interviews of the day.

10:30 Jack Perkins Retrospective - I Remember Mother's Mother (Part 2)

Dan Bergin sings of his life as a whaler working out of Great Barrier Island in the 1950s and recalls his work as a deer-culler and bushman.