Nights for Wednesday 22 June 2011

7:10 Sound Of New Zealand: 100 Years Of Radio

Spectrum's Jack Perkins recalls moments from the last century that have changed radio and also how radio has changed New Zealand. Tonight: Te Reo On Air: Māori radio and short wave service to Pacific.

Check out Jack's online tutorial for making documentaries for radio.

7:30 At the Movies

Films and movie business with Simon Morris.

8:00 News & Weather

8:15 Windows on the World

International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.

8:40 Arts: Kiwi Pop History

Music historian and author of Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964 Chris Bourke puts the needle on long-forgotten locally produced 45s... one of the world's great female jazz singers, Mavis Rivers, born in Western Samoa.

Song: Why Do I Love You?
Artist: Mavis Rivers with Derek Heine Quintet
Album: Archive NZBS recording from 1940s
Composer: Kern

Song: How High the Moon
Artist: Mavis Rivers with Mark Kahi
Album: 1950 Auckland Jazz Concert
Composer: Nancy Hamilton/Morgan Lewis
Label: Ode SODET 467 cassette

Track: All of Me
Artist: Mavis Rivers with the George Campbell Trio
Composer: Marks-Simons
78rpm disc: Stebbing S125

Song: There'll Be Some Changes Made
Artist: Mavis Rivers with the Red Norvo Trio
Album: We Remember Mildred Bailey
Composer: Benton-Overstreet-Higgins-Garrison
Label: Veejay 284101

9:00 News & Weather

9:06 The Wednesday Drama: Garrison Keillor's Radio Show

Highlights from A Prairie Home Companion (PHP)

10:00 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.

11:00 News & Weather

11:06 Jazz Footprints

Colette Jansen introduces the music of past, present and future jazz greats.