Nights for Friday 14 August 2009 Nights

7 pm News & Weather

7:06 pm Friday Night Theme

Music and fun.

7:40 pm Flash

Includes NZ Society, The Vault, Asian Report and other interesting snippets.

8 pm News & Weather

8:06 The Spirit of Woodstock

Celebrating forty years since that milestone of modern musical history - the Woodstock Festival.

8:35 ABBA Study

Christopher Patrick, musician and author of ABBA: Let the Music Speak.

Has the music formula been cracked which made the Swedish pop group so popular worldwide?

8:50 Conundrum

The answer and the winner's chosen song.

9 pm News & Weather

9:06 Country Life:

Rural news and features.

10 pm News & Weather

10:17 Late Edition:

A review of the leading news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.

11 pm News & Weather

11:06 Womad Taranaki 2009

This week's artist has helped transform West African music, introducing a blues and rock edge to the traditional African sound, Rokia Traore.

Nights for Friday 14 August 2009