Nights for Monday 1 September 2025
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New Zealand's best and worst finance ministers ranked
9:25 PM.Wellington-based freelance journalist and former RNZ reporter Eric Frykberg ranked our best and worst in consultation with historians, economists and insiders. Read more Audio
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BBC World Service Lookahead with Rob Hugh-Jones
8:50 PM.We speak with BBC World Service journalist Rob Hugh-Jones about a leaders summit in China, the 60th celebrations marking the formation of the Tibet Autonomous Region and former President of Brazil… Read more Audio
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Sports with Jamie Wall
8:40 PM.RNZ sports whiz Jamie Wall joins Emile Donovan to chat the big sporting topics of the week. Read more Audio
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The point of life, with puppets
8:30 PM.Puppeteer Chye-Ling Huang joins Emile Donovan to preview her existential puppet show Let It Die showing at Auckland's Basement Theatre this week. Read more Audio
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Are we really being ripped off at the till?
8:10 PM.NZ Herald Business Editor-at-Large Liam Dann says the issue isn't that New Zealanders are overcharged, but that we simply don't earn enough. Read more Audio
8:10 Are we really being ripped off at the till?
Are we really being ripped off by the supermarkets? Perhaps the issue isn't that New Zealanders are overcharged, but that we simply don't earn enough.
That's the argument put forward by NZ Herald Business Editor-at-Large Liam Dann in a column published today.
He speaks to Emile Donovan.
There's a suggestion that the cost-of-living crisis has taken the excitement out of supermarket campaigns. Photo: Supplied
8.30 Can puppets help soothe your existential crisis?
The world is collapsing in on itself. What’s the point again?
That's the tag line for Let It Die, an existential puppet show playing this week at Basement Theatre.
Chye-Ling Huang is a puppeteer and the director of show and she joins Emile Donovan, along with her puppet, in the Auckland studio.
'Let It Die' is playing at Auckland's Basement Theatre 2 - 6 September 2025. Photo: Basement Theatre
8:40 Sports with Jamie Wall
RNZ sports whiz Jamie Wall joins Emile Donovan to chat the big sporting topics of the week, including the Springboks’ arrival on New Zealand soil, an apology from South African Rugby over historic racism policies, has New Zealand Rugby taken notice of the CTE issue, and why did the Wellington Phoenix get overlooked for a new Oceania-based professional competition?
8:50 BBC World Service
We speak with BBC World Service journalist Rob Hugh-Jones about a leaders summit in China, the 60th celebrations marking the formation of the Tibet Autonomous Region and former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro goes on trial for attempting to mount a coup to seize power.
9:05 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 answer a question correctly, 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 New Zealand's best and worst finance ministers ranked
It's often a thankless task but the finance minister’s influence and power can sometimes rival that of the prime minister.
Since the turn of the 20th century, New Zealand has had 29 ministers of finance and while each played a role in the country’s financial success - or, in some cases, its shortcomings - not all of their impacts have been the same.
Wellington-based freelance journalist and former RNZ reporter Eric Frykberg ranked our best and worst in consultation with historians, economists and insiders in a piece for the Listener, published last month.
He joins Emile Donovan in our Wellington studio.
National Party leader Rob Muldoon at the party's annual conference, 1975. Evening Post newspaper [Alexander Turnbull Library] Photo:
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.
10:17 The Detail
Tonight on The Detail - There's a silent epidemic in our national game, and it's leaving a trail of tragedy here and overseas
10:45 The Reading: Rocking Horse Road
It's the 5th and final episode of Rocking Horse by Carl Nixon, read by Jason Whyte.
After her violent death on the beach at the end of Rocking Horse Road Lucy Asher takes on the status of a deity for a group of boys in the school.
11:07 Nashville Babylon
Every week on Nashville Babylon Mark Rogers presents the very best in country, soul and rock 'n' roll.
On this week's show we say happy 80th birthday to Van Morrison with a selection of his finest musical moments, along with some of the very best cover versions of his songs from the likes of Ben E King, Rita Coolidge and Patti Smith.
