Nights for Friday 7 August 2015

7:06 Sonic Tonic

8:10 Cross-Country Skiing

Striding and gliding on the snow, the oldest skiing sport is cross-country skiing - with NZ National representative Andy Pohl from Snow Farm Ski Report.

8:25 Music Feature: Bespin live at The Kings Arms

When Auckland shoegaze-ists Bespin supported Princess Chelsea at Auckland live music institution, The Kings Arms, they used their opening slot as an opportunity to road-test material from their forthcoming EP. Ahead of its release, Music 101 brings you a recording of that show.

9:06 Country Life

Rural news and features.

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.

11:06 Womad Taranaki 2015

In this programme - an interview with and live performance from English electronic soundscape duo Public Service Broadcasting. On their first visit to New Zealand, founding member, soundscape composer and guitarist J Wilgoose Esquire accompanied by his equally bizarrely named drummer, Wrigglesworth, delivered an impressive multi media show that featured material from their two albums. They have established a reputation by searching out old British and American films, wartime propaganda reels, documentaries and crackly radio broadcasts and legally sampling the dialogue to create their own distinctive homage to the past re-contextualized for a contemporary audience.             

Produced and presented by Trevor Reekie
Programme engineer Jeremy Ansell
Executive Producer John Pilley             

Artist: Public Service Broadcasting
Songs: The Race For Space, Theme from PBS, Signal 30, Night Mail, Gagarin, Roygbiv, Go, Spitfire, The Other Side, Everest. (all Willgoose)

Recorded live on the Brooklands Stage by Radio NZ National
Mixed by Graham Kennedy