Nights for Thursday 19 June 2025
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
8:40 PM.Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin shares his thoughts on Elio (in cinemas), The Eternaut aka El Eternauta (Netflix) and In My Father’s Den (TVNZ+). Read more Audio
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The business of making up words
8:30 PM.Nights' resident sociolinguist, Associate Professor Julia de Bres is back to talk ... retronyms. Read more Audio
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Scanning your groceries - and you!
8:10 PM.If you shopped at a New World or Pak'nSave in the North Island last year, there's a chance your face was scanned by facial recognition technology. Read more Audio
08:10 Scanning your groceries - and you!
If you shopped at a New World or Pak'nSave in the North Island last year, there's a chance your face was scanned by facial recognition technology. Between February and September, Foodstuffs North Island ran a trial using the technology in some of its supermarkets.
And earlier this month the Privacy Commissioner released a report on the trial finding there were both potential safety benefits and significant privacy concerns. Although the Commissioner said the report wasn't a green light for wider use, dozens of the country's biggest retailers are already backing facial recognition in their stores.
Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster joins Emile Donovan to discuss the possible pitfalls if it isn't implemented properly.
Photo: 123rf
08:25 The House
In our regular feature on the business of Parliament, The House, Phil Smith looks at the Q&A tactics of Scrutiny Week.
08:30 The business of making up words
Nights' resident sociolinguist, Associate Professor Julia de Bres is back to talk ... retronyms.
If you're sitting there scratching your head thinking, "What's a retronym?" - don't worry. Julia only discovered the term herself not too long ago.
But now she's fully bonafide and ready to enlighten us with her wisdom.
Photo: FANATIC STUDIO/GARY WATERS/SCIEN
8:40 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin shares his thoughts on Elio (in cinemas), The Eternaut aka El Eternauta (Netflix) and In My Father’s Den (TVNZ+).
Elio (Molina, 2025) Photo: Disney Pixar
9:08 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.
9:25 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music.
Featuring tonight:
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Feel Good Aura by Melodownz
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Noise by Forty Winks
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Stand Up Now by Jo Tongo
Photo: Supplied - Ezra Simons
9:45 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.
10:18 The Detail: The Technology of War
This evening on The Detail - Innovation in warfare features in Ukraine's David and Goliath fight with Russia.
10:45 The Reading: Two Girls in a Boat
In the second and final part of 'Two Girls in a Boat', Hannah leaves London for Wellington after her relationship with Zoe ends and meets Ben, a slightly older man with two children. But Hannah continues to think about Zoe.
'Two Girls in a Boat' by Emma Martin is read for us by Julia Croft.
11:07 The Mixtape
Kara Rickard speaks with Persian/Kiwi rapper Mona Senai, aka CHAII, and gets her to choose songs to soundtrack her life.
