Nights for Thursday 15 February 2024
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Strongly held beliefs fuel online cancel culture, study finds
10:45 PM.A New Zealand researcher found that the desire to show off one's moral beliefs explains why people engage in cancel culture online. Read more Audio
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Top-level staff leave NZIFF
10:30 PM.Five senior programmers have left the New Zealand International Film Festival, as it was announced the 2024 festival would shrink to playing in only four cities. Read more Audio
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Port Hills blaze: Day two recap
10:18 PM.RNZ's Anna Sargent joins Nights to bring us the latest developments on the fire in the Port Hills. Read more Audio
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'Capital of Country Music': New documentary celebrates Gore
9:35 PM.Award-winning country singer-songwriter Jenny Mitchell has produced a film covering five decades of Gore's country music scene, including interviews with iconic musicians such as Lynda and Donna Topp.
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I Was There When: The first Big Day Out opened
9:20 PM.Murray Cammick, then editor of music mag Rip It Up, was there when the very first Big Day Out exploded into Mt Smart Stadium in 1994. Read more Audio
7:12 Our Changing World
New Zealand’s subantarctic islands are incredible wildlife hotspots. Together the five island groups have been given World Heritage status and are among the world’s least modified environments.
But with great biodiversity comes great responsibility.
In 2016 mice were removed from the largest of the Antipode Islands. Since then, the insect populations have rebounded, and the insect eating bird populations have swelled.
But pigs, mice and cats remain on the main Auckland Island. Claire Concannon learns about plans to clear this last subantarctic island of pesky pets.
The main Antipodes Island. Photo: Claire Concannon / RNZ
7:45 The Reading
Tonight, it's Judith Gibson with the first episode of 'Tipface Bunyan' by Susie Pointon.
8:15 Pacific Waves
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. Hosted by Susana Suisuiki.
8:30 Happy News
This week from the BBC, the French model-maker celebrating a world record that he nearly missed on a technicality. Also: a guide to the Lunar new year celebrations. And can you tell the mood of a chicken by its cluck?
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9:07 Nights Quiz
Do you know your stuff? Come on the air and be grilled by Emile Donovan as he dons his quizmaster hat.
If you get an answer right, you move on to the next question. If you get it wrong, your time in the chair is up, and the next caller will be put through. The person with the most correct answers at the end of the run goes in the draw for a weekly prize.
The quiz is themed - find out more about tonight's theme on Nights' Facebook page.
9:15 I Was There When: The first Big Day Out opened
Every Thursday, Nights speaks to people who were on the scene during a big moment in New Zealand's history.
Tonight we're going all the way back to 1994, at Auckland's Mt Smart Stadium, when the first Big Day Out was held on these shores.
Big Day Out was a legendary music festival that ran in Auckland almost every year until the parent festival in Australia fell into trouble, with the last fest taking place in 2014.
One man who was there on that day was Murray Cammick, former editor of Rip It Up Magazine.
He joins Emile Donovan.
9:35 'Capital of Country Music': New documentary celebrates Gore
Tickets have gone on sale today for the premiere of a new documentary capturing the history of country music in New Zealand's south.
Award-winning country singer-songwriter Jenny Mitchell, together with Dunedin-based filmmakers Scrambler, have produced a film covering five decades of Gore's country music scene, including interviews with iconic musicians such as Lynda and Donna Topp.
Jenny Mitchell joins Emile Donovan to share what makes Gore the capital of country music.
With a history spanning 50 years, the Gore Country Music Club continues to celebrate and preserve the essence of country music, making it an integral part of Gore's cultural heritage. Photo: Capital of Country Music
10:17 Update on the Port Hills blaze
Nights will provide an end-of-day recap of the fire in Christchurch's Port Hills.
Smoke billows from the Port Hills fire in Christchurch as crews continued fighting the blaze for a second day, on 15 February, 2024. Photo: RNZ / Angus Dreaver
10:30 Top-level staff leave NZIFF
This week, the New Zealand International Film Festival announced it would be scaling back on the number of locations and cities where it would be screening films.
It also follows the resignation of key players behind the scenes of the festival and the appointment of a new artistic director Paolo Bertolin.
RNZ's resident film buff and the mastermind behind At The Movies Simon Morris joins Emile Donovan to delve into the controversy.
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10:45 Strongly held beliefs fuel online cancel culture, study finds
From a survey of around 460 people, researchers found that the desire to show off one's moral beliefs (virtue signaling) and the urge to correct what they see as others' incorrect views (social vigilantism) also explain how intensely people engage in cancel culture.
Auckland University of Technology marketing senior lecturer Jessica Vredenburg was one of the authors of the study and she joins Emile Donovan.
11:07 The Mixtape
This week's mixtape is selected by journalist, TV presenter and children's author Miriama Kamo.
And as the daughter of two prison chaplains, Miriama started early on a social justice path, mahi which has led to an ambitious te reo publishing project and the challenge of zero waste living.
Miriama has just been nominated for Te Māngai Pāho Te Reo Māori Champion Award at the NZ Women in Film and Television awards.
Miriama Kamo Photo: RNZ / Luke McPake