Nights for Wednesday 29 November 2017

7:12 Scholars of pop music.

Dr. Geoff Stahl is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Victoria University and organiser for the International Association for the Study of Pop Music gathering in Wellington next week for the Australia and New Zealand Conference.

7:30  At The Movies

On At The Movies, Simon Morris reviews two contrasting views of parenthood - American comedy Daddy’s Home 2, and an English film about the creation of Winnie the Pooh - Goodbye Christopher Robin.  He also looks at the latest New Zealand film - the chilly Human Traces.

8:12 The Politics of Crisis and Resistance.

Professor David McNally, University of York, Canada is an internationally renowned Marxist intellectual and political economist and the keynote speaker at the New Zealand Political Studies Association Annual Conference in Dunedin.

8:30 Pants on Fire

If you are accused of making things up the assumption is you’re a liar….could be true of course (probably is) but it could also mean you are being really creative. Getting to the truth about lies in fiction, is on the agenda for Pants on Fire. On air tonight at about 8.30.

9:07 The Drama Hour

9:07 Episode 10 of Life After

The final episode of our Sci-fi serial 'Lifeafter'

9:45 Episode 10 of The 10pm Question

Only Ma listens patiently to 12 year old Frankie's 10 p.m. anxieties. But of course, it is Ma who is the cause of the most worrying question of all, the one that Frankie can never bring himself to ask.

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 Inside Out

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

This hour features a new album from Nick Granville with high-flying Kiwi musicians Dylan Elise and Ben Shepherd, as well as music from Count Basie, Joe Williams, and Tito Puente.