7:06 pm Friday Night Theme

Music and fun.

7:40 Flash

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

8 pm News & Weather

8:06 Musical Chairs featuring Rob Burns

Rob Burns is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Otago Contemporary Music Course and has 28 years of experience as a session musician and composer. Trevor Reekie talks to him about making it in the music business.

8:40 Colombia Peace & Poets

Ron Riddell, poet

Living and working in Colombia and the Arts for Peace initiative being set up for poets between the two nations.

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 Tapestry of the Times

In this final episode of Tapestry of the Times we hear banjo ballads from Virginia coal miner Dock Boggs, blues from the blind preacher Reverend Gary Davis, the tropical sounds of Hawaiian folk legend Ledward Kaapana and songs of love and loss from Chile to Canada