Nights for Friday 22 October 2010

7:06 Friday Night Theme

7:40 NZ Society

8 pm News and Weather

8:06 Southern Starts Steel Band

Nick Atkinson tracks down the Trinidadian-inspired Southern Stars Steel band at the Onehunga Working Men's Club.

8:40 Heading Ashore

Mike Scanlon, mariner and author

A passion for boating and now why he is charting new waters with writing a homegrown tale, The Creekers.

8:50 Conundrum

The answer and the winner's chosen song.

9 pm News and Weather

9:06 Country Life

Rural news and features.

10 pm News and 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 and Weather

11:06 Classic Concerts

Al Green - Tokyo Live: Recorded in Tokyo, Japan in June 1978, the Reverend Al Green and his twelve piece soul band preach love and happiness with a performance that earned him a Best Vocalist award that year. UK Mojo magazine called this set "an impassioned performance of a virtual greatest hits selection... heart stoppingly intimate" (Right Stuff)