Nights for Wednesday 3 August 2022

7:12 NZ's Best Emerging Book seller

After a career in palliative care nursing Lisa Adler decided she wanted a change of scenery and pursued a degree in English Literature. Now she is New Zealand's Best Emerging Bookseller.

7:30  At The Movies

On At The Movies, Simon Morris is back and looks at films by two Hollywood A-Listers - Ron Howard and Paul Schrader - that have ended up on streaming service Amazon Prime - Thirteen Lives and The Card Counter.  Plus one for the green thumb brigade - The Gardener.

8:10 The Hump

The Hump is our Wednesday night Quiz Night where we take a dive into the archives of Nga Taonga Sound and Vision for some audio gems and we want to see if you can identify them.

Tonight's prize is The prize tonight is Baghdad or Bust which tells the tale of two young architects went on an adventurous ride of discovery from London to Baghdad and back on a 1958 Matchless motorbike and cargo sidecar.

8:15 Pacific Waves

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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.

8:30 CrowdScience

BBC CrowdScience team answers the question why are there morning people and night people?

Some of us want to be up with the larks, while others are more like night owls. But is our preference down to our genes, or more to do with habits and surroundings? We set out to find the answers.

9:07 A musical trip to Ireland

Author and journalist David Cohen joins me to talk about his latest trip to Ireland, including getting stuck in Los Angles, and the music he encountered there including seeing Van Morrison live in Limmerick.

9:30 Quiz Answer

We find out who is tonight's quiz whizz.

9:40pm Digital Planet

From the BBC it's Digital Planet - Is disability tech delivering?

Physicist Dr Claire Malone is facing a problem: no speech-to-text software understands her. She is living with cerebral palsy, so how close we are to having software that can understand people like Claire.

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 Inside Out

Taranaki's image is based on its beautiful maunga, its surf beaches and its native bush. But there's a significant local jazz industry as well. Some of New Zealand's top musicians have come out of the region, and in this show Nick plays tracks from Michael Taylor, Daniel Hayles, Josh Boyd, and Hayden Chisholm.