Nights for Friday 21 December 2018
7:07 Sonic Tonic
Barbeque on Westshore Beach, Napier, Hawke's Bay Photo: flickr/ Archives New Zealand
School children on a picnic enjoying the warm waters of Muri Lagoon, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Photo: flickr/Archives New Zealand
Camping - Smith's holiday camp, Paihia. Photo: flickr/Archives New Zealand
8:10 Something for the Weekend
Not our usual something for the weekend - we're talking youtube with an expert (which means he's considerably younger than most of us!)
8:15 Dateline Pacific
Photo: RNZ
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
This week we hear singer-songwriter, television presenter and baby whisperer Anika Moa, performing songs from her album ‘In Swings the Tide’ in October 2017 at The Kings Arms Tavern.
Radio New Zealand engineer Andre Upston was on deck to capture the performance, ensuring RNZ Music listeners a front row seat.
Anika Moa and band at The Kings Arms Photo: Kelsy Carter
9:07 Country Life
Country Life meets a group of British farmers at CROPS, an event that is held every two years at the FAR Chertsey Arable Site in Mid-Canterbury. The fifteen farmers, who 'scanned a can' and won a place on the BASF Innovation Tour, have been meeting farmers and visiting agribusiness's on both the North and South Islands.
Photo: RNZ/Susan Murray
And we meet a couple who were idealistic hippies a decade ago ... making organic wine in a shipping container, and they're now "corporate hippies" with three vineyards and five boys under 11. They're Nicola and Geoff Wright from Wright's Wines in Gisborne.
10:17 Lately
Photo: RNZ
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
The RNZ Music crew (Kirsten Johnstone, Tony Stamp, Nick Bollinger, Alex Behan, and Yadana Saw) make their music picks from 2018's crop of international releases and give their opinions on the definitive trends from this year.
Photo: Supplied