Nights for Friday 21 May 2021
7:07 Sonic Tonic - Aviation
If you could fly anywhere in the world right now, where would it be?
Lockheed Vega 5B, Amelia Earhart Photo: Simthsonian Institute, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
8:15 Pacific Waves
Koroi Hawkins presents a daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in the world.
Photo: RNZ Pacific
8:30 Bob Marley: An extraordinary day
Forty years after the death of reggae singer Bob Marley, British writer and dub poet, Benjamin Zephaniah, remembers the day Jamaica came to a standstill for the singer's funeral. Bob Marley was laid to rest on the 21 May 1981, 11 days after dying from skin cancer.
Bob Marley performing at Dalymount Park, on 6 July 1980.
Photo: Eddie Mallin, CC BY 2.0
9:07 Country Life
Photo: RNZ / Cosmo Kentish-Barnes
Country Life heads to Pōhatu Flea Bay on Banks Peninsula where a sheep farm is also home to a colony of White-flippered penguins. The team is also out baiting traps at a Hawke's Bay farm whose owners have been named National Sustainable Farming Ambassadors.
Photo: RNZ / Cosmo Kentish-Barnes
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
Charlotte Ryan is here with The Mixtape. This week inviting author and actress Michelle Langstone to curate.
Michelle Langstone Photo: supplied
