7:10 Country Life

Country Life takes you down country roads to meet ordinary people achieving their dreams.

This week, meet a former hiphop teacher who has embraced farming life in Hawke's Bay, a vet who travels the world helping people care for their animals, and a distiller near Kaikoura who uses foraged botanics and seaweed to infuse small batch gins with local flavour.

Junior Taulago keeps his fitness up on the farm using tools like an old tractor tyre and motivating other men at his Rural Rise sessions at Patoka Community Hall

Junior keeps his fitness up on the farm using tools like an old tractor tyre and motivating other men at his Rural Rise sessions at Patoka Community Hall Photo: RNZ/Sally Round

 

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.

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8:30 Friday Night Live

This week on Friday Night Live we start a series revisiting some of Aotearoa's favorite musicians recorded at the RNZ Helen Young Studio in Auckland during the late 90s and early 2000s.Tonight's performance features Tāmaki Makaurau musician Sean James Donelly, better known as SJD.

Musician SJD (Sean Donnelly) performing in the RNZ studio.

SJD in RNZ studio Photo: RNZ

 

9:07 Why are our wetlands under threat?

Wetlands can absorb more carbon than forests, but they're under threat. Hugh Robertson is the Principal Science Advisor for Freshwater at the Department of Conversation 

He's been at the Ramsar convention on wetlands in Geneva. Hugh joins the show.

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9:30 Short-Cut with Dan Slevin

Film critic Dan Slevin shares his selections to kick-start your binge watching this weekend. This week, we take a look at Middle Earth fantasy series The Rings of Power and Hitchcockian thriller Kimi. 

 

10:18 Recession and retail

Rein in our spending, and padlock our wallets - that's the message from the Reserve Bank Governor to try to get the cost of living under control. 

Greg Harford is the CEO of the Retail Association, and he joins Karyn on the programme.

Christmas tree with gold decoration in shopping mall.Christmas clearance sales at the shopping mall.

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10:30 Let the summer of big gigs begin

The season of big gigs and festivals is upon us, and after a couple of years of shattered expectations and ticket refunds due to Covid there is bound to be some pent up demand to party.

Host of RNZ's Pocket Edition Maggie Tweedie joins us with a bit of a gig guide she's put together.

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10:45 In with Finn with Finn Johansson

Tamaki's resident music nerd steps out of his makeshift recording studio to bring us his favourite tracks of the week. Tonight he shares tunes from Zane 2000, Foushee, Black Belt Eagle Scout and Wau Wau Collectif.

 

11:07 The Mixtape

This week The Mixtape features the new Head of NZ on Air Music - Teresa Patterson. 

Teresa has worked in the NZ music industry for more than 25 years in a wide variety of roles across major music labels, artist management, major music festival management, marketing and PR, mentorship, head of the Music Managers Forum Aotearoa, and most recently at the NZ Comedy Festival.

Teresa Patterson

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