Nights for Friday 1 March 2019

7:07 Sonic Tonic - Painting

8:10 Element of The Week - Cobalt

Professor Richard M. Hartshorn from School of Physical and Chemical Sciences at the University of Canterbury introduces us to the element Cobalt.

8:15 Dateline Pacific

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 performance we join electronic multi-instrumentalist Sean Donnelly AKA SJD performing with his band at Mercury Theatre October 2015.

Radio New Zealand engineer Andre Upston was on deck to capture the performance, ensuring RNZ Music listeners a front row seat.

9:07 Country Life 

On Country Life this week.... Diversification is the keyword for Mt Somers Station owners David and Kate Acland. As well as farming cross-bred sheep, beef cattle and deer on the 3800-hectare South Canterbury hill property, the couple has converted a block of lower land into a dairy farm that milks 850 cows.

10:17 Lately

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

On this week's Mixtape New Zealand-born, London-based music and arts writer Garth Cartwright joins RNZ Music's Trevor Reekie for a conversation about hitting the road, exploring new places, absorbing the music and encouraging the musicians to tell their stories.