Nights for Friday 10 August 2018
7:07 Sonic Tonic - Getting Older
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. Virginia Woolf
Photo: By marina guimarães from Brasília, Brasil (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ninoca/2507706064/) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
I don't have a problem with ageing - in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily... it doesn't faze me at all. David Bowie
Photo: flickr/ Selena N. B. H.
Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it. Kim Cattrall
Photo: By Peter from Wellesley (Port Barrels) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population. Nicola Sturgeon.
8:10 Something for The Weekend
Penny Miles from Netball Archive joins us ahead of Sunday's national netball premiership grand final in Palmerston North.
Photo: Creative commons
8:15 Dateline Pacific
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RNZ Pacific's daily current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories of the week, with background and reaction from the people making the news.
8:30 Friday Night Live
For this Friday Night Live we go back to May 2007 for Dudley Benson's special one-off performance debuting songs from 2008's critically acclaimed album Awakening.
Radio New Zealand engineer Andre Upston was on deck to capture the performance, ensuring RNZ Music listeners a front row seat.
Dudley Benson Photo: supplied
9:07 Country Life
Country Life dishes up a fruitful mix of businesses based near Kerikeri overseen by horticulturalists Helen and Alan Thompson, and we hear about an ag engineer in Timaru who's invented a beet harvesting bucket for tractors... plus, we get the latest farming insights from Ireland and Scotland with tiki-touring former RNZ rural reporter Alexa Cook.
10:17 Lately
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Lately with Karyn Hay is a late night radio show on RNZ National, with an eye on live events, an ear for music, a great sense of humour and a genuine interest in people and their stories.
11:07 The Mixtape
For the latest series of The Mixtape, RNZ Music invites guests to compile a C60 of local sounds, and talk us through their selections.
New Zealand singer/songwriter Rob Ruha. Photo: Supplied
This week we rewind the Mixtape to 2016 as Singer-songwriter Robert Ruha (Te Whānau-ā-Apanui/Ngati Porou) joins Kirsten Johnstone to talk about his Kapa Haka beginnings, Maori Music Month, growing up on the East Coast and presents a soundtrack to his life so far.