Nights for Monday 24 November 2025
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Meet the country's youngest ever NZ Funeral Association president
9:25 PM.Bradley Shaw has just been made President of the Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand Read more Audio
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World news with the BBC
8:40 PM.We cross to Pete Ross at the BBC World Service to take a look at some of the events making international headlines. Read more Audio
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Small Histories with Emma Kay
8:30 PM.Tonight she's talking about Madame Zenobia an Auckland fortune teller who found herself in trouble with the law. Read more Audio
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Sports with Jamie Wall
8:20 PM.We look at the big stories in the world of sport. Read more Audio
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Why a libertarian wants more done to collect unpaid taxes
8:10 PM.Damien Grant is an Auckland business owner says the current system for collecting tax arrears is broken. Read more Audio
8:10 Why a libertarian wants more done to collect unpaid taxes
Benjamin Franklin said, "In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes".
It rings true today, indeed the IRD is chasing 9.3 billion in tax arrears.
Damien Grant is an Auckland business owner who has written about this issue in a column in Stuff, saying the current system is broken.
He joins Emile Donovan.
Photo: Supplied
8:20 Small Histories with Emma Kay
Every Monday, we take a moment to look back with our resident historian, Emma Kay.
Emma runs Small Histories of New Zealand, where she digs up curious stories, funny articles, and lost treasures from our past and shares them on social media.
Tonight she's talking about Madame Zenobia an Auckland fortune teller who found herself in trouble with the law.
Small Histories of NZ Photo: Emma Kay
8:30 Sports with Jamie Wall
RNZ sport journalist joins Emile Donovan to discuss the big stories in sport.
Caleb Clarke of scores the opening try, All Blacks v Wales at Principality Stadium, Cardiff. Photo: www.photosport.nz
8:40 World news with the BBC
We cross to our friends at the BBC World Service to take a look at some of the events making international headlines.
Our correspondent tonight is Pete Ross who looks at Ukraine and the peace deal proposal that emerged over the weekend, the abduction in Nigeria of 300 children and staff were abducted from a school on Friday and Pope Leo's visit Turkey and Lebanon later this week.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, US President Donald Trump, and French President Emmanuel Macron. Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS
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 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 Meet the country's youngest ever Funeral Association president
The average thirty-year-old doesn't spend their working hours thinking about death, but Bradley Shaw is not your average thirty-year-old.
He's just been made President of the Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand, the youngest president ever.
Brad joined the funeral industry after leaving school, aged 16, and never left. Day to day, he's working with the dead and their loved ones on our East Coat as the director of Gateway Funeral Services in Whakatane and Kawerau.
He joins Emile Donovan.
The Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand represents the majority of funeral directors in New Zealand Photo: Gateway Funerals
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
This morning on The Detail - Psychological tricks and traps using deceptive website design techniques are starting to overwhelm online shopping
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Callaghan Innovation will pilot GovGPT, an AI conversational companion, to help businesses get the information they need from several Government websites much faster. Photo: Supplied/Callaghan Innovation
10:45 The Reading: Farm for Life
Our eight-part adaptation of a memoir/autobiography describing how Tangaroa Walker turned his life around through farming - and how what he learned can help anyone succeed.
Jamie McCaskill has part five of Farm for Life
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 there's soul from Aretha Franklin and James Brown, a live track from Dr Feelgood, country courtesy of Johnny Cash plus reggae from Jah Lion.
