Nights for Thursday 19 October 2017
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Bill English concedes
9:10 PM.National Party Leader Bill English talks to reporters about the negotiations that led to the National Party no longer being in government. Audio
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Green Party leader speaks to the media
8:58 PM.Green Party leader James Shaw talks about the Green Party's role providin in confidence and supply in the new Labour-NZ First-Green alliance. Audio
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Yusuf Islam: 'We need to communicate, we're social beings'
8:30 PM.The latest album from the former Cat Stevens brings his 50-year music career full circle. Yusuf Islam speaks to Bryan Crump about The Laughing Apple, his eventful life and his influences. Read more Audio
Election Update
*Nights tonight will be dependent on any announcements coming from parliament about the shape of a future government.
8:12 Yusuf Islam - Still Keeping it Simple After 50 Years
Photo: supplied
Yusuf Islam's latest album The Laughing Apple brings his career full circle. Ahead of his visit to New Zealand as part of his 50th Anniversary tour, we talk to him about the album and his influences over the years.
*Nights tonight will be dependent on any announcements coming from parliament about the shape of a future government.
Touchstone - a community project for Lake Wanaka
Touchstone founders Eddie Spearing and Chris Arbuckle have a shared love for Lake Wanaka. Photo: RNZ / Alison Ballance
A bunch of lake swimmers, the local Wanaka school and neighbouring farmers have joined together in the Touchstone project, with the aim of looking after the water quality of Lake Wanaka. For Conservation Week, Alison Ballance meets some of the Touchstone team to find out what they're doing and what motivates them
10:17 Late Edition
A round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Dateline Pacific from RNZ International.
11:07 Music 101 pocket edition
Jordan Rakei Photo: Hollie Fernando
this week's Pocket Edition, we talk to Jordan Rakei, a NZ-born musician living in London who's just released his second album to rave reviews, Julia Deans speaks about her first new music in 6 years, and American beatmaker TOKiMONSTA explains how brain surgery cost her the ability to make music, until she re-learned it.
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