Nights for Monday 9 March 2020

7:12 Tear drop caravans soar in popularity 

Tear drop caravans have experienced a huge revival in Aoteroa recently as people have got involved in building and renovating their own compact campers.

Don and Marilyn Jessen have written a new book titled My Mini Could Tow That documenting all the various models ranging around on New Zealand roads. The book hit shelves in bookshops today and Marilyn and Don join Bryan to discuss their passion for tiny caravans. 

7:35 The Sampler 

This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger reviews a new set from veteran Texan art maverick Terry Allen; discusses the music of visiting singer-songwriter Weyes Blood; and a meditative, minimalist album from Dunedin guitar legend David Kilgour.

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 Window on the World

The German rock band Scorpions' lead singer, Klaus Meine, was inspired to write Wind of Change at a rock festival in Moscow in the summer of 1989. 

Politics were rapidly shifting in the Soviet Union at the time, as a result of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. No one had any idea that the Berlin wall would come down only a few months later. Wind of Change was released in 1990, and has since become an unofficial anthem for the end of the Cold War and the reunification of Germany in 1991. 

9:10 Pacific sports with Vinnie Wylie 

Tonight's Sportscaster is RNZ Pacific's Vinnie Wylie for a look at what's going on in sporting codes across the Pacific ocean. He's been covering Vanuatu's Olympic hopes, Tahiti's hosting role in the 2024 Paris Olympics and the impact of Covid 19 on sporting matches in the region. 

9:30 Insight

The Islamic Women's Council believes it's likely the Christchurch mosque attacks would not have happened if the authorities had not ignored their repeated warnings. They have shared their submission to the Royal Commission exclusively with Insight's Philippa Tolley. 

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 Nashville Babylon

Every Monday on Nashville Babylon Mark Rogers presents the very best in alt.country, Americana and soul and blues. On this week's show Mark has classic blues courtesy of Little Walter and Jimmy Rogers, a selection of late-night Doo-Wop from the Platters, more from Nadia Reid's latest plus new tracks from Frazey Ford and McDermott & North.