Nights for Wednesday 26 October 2016

7:12 Madison Nonoa

We meet young soprano Madison Nonoa who will receive the Iosefa Enari Memorial Award at the 20th Arts Pasifika Awards tonight.

7:30 At The Movies

Simon Morris reviews three more films from the Spring Clearout season - Jack Reacher Never Go Back, starring Tom Cruise, Café Society, Woody Allen's new comedy, set in 1930s Hollywood and spy spoof Keeping Up With The Joneses, starring Zach Galifianakis and Jon Hamm.

8:12 Nights' Overseas - Pacific

RNZI senior journalist Johnny Blades on the ever shifting balance of international power and influence within the Pacific.

8:30 My Heels are Killing Me

Episode 2 of Sonia Sly's fashion podcast. Tonight we meet Pearly Wong, who grew up in her family's childrenswear business and decided to become a fashion designer. She studied in New York and is based between Malaysia and Berlin, and this year she had a chance to show at New Zealand Fashion Week. 

9:07 The Drama Hour

It's the 1920's and the central character of our Wednesday Drama, Eliza Hannay, is in her late teens and living in Wellington in part three of The Godwits Fly - dramatised from the novel by Robin Hyde.

10:17 Late Edition

A round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International,

11:07 Inside Out

Nick Tipping hosts a journey through the jazz spectrum playing favourites, standards and new releases along the way.