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Nashville Babylon 21 October, 2019
On this week's show Mark has new music from Nick Cave, Sturgill Simpson, the North Mississippi Allstars and Tami Neilson, a birthday tune for Tom Petty and a country classic courtesy of Glen Campbell.
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The Open Ears Project - Week One
Part mixtape, part love-letter. Real people tell us a story about the classical track that means the most to them.
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Brexit: PM sends letter to Brussels seeking further delay
Boris Johnson has sent a request to the EU for a delay to Brexit - but without his signature.
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John Coltrane's Blue World
Audio 19 Oct 2019This week Nick features new releases from John Coltrane and Brenda Earle Stokes, plus Nathan Haines with “The Poet’s Embrace”. Audio
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Dave Brubeck's Time Out
Dave Brubeck's Time Out manages to be both an exercise in unusual time signatures, and a signature album in the West Coast cool jazz movement. Audio
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Mediaworks' TV channels not gone by Christmas - CEO
Audio 18 Oct 2019MediaWorks can no longer make a profit in television so it's put itself up for sale.
The station's 500 staff were called to a meeting on Friday morning and told the company would keep making radio… Video, Audio
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Measles vaccines coming to pharmacies in fight against disease
Measles vaccinations may soon be available and given in pharmacies as the government rushes to ramp up the immunisations and halt the spread of the disease.
There's been 1868 confirmed cases this… Video, Audio
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Question Time for 17 October 2019
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Hon PAULA BENNETT to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s policies and statements?
JAN TINETTI to the Minister of Education: What action, if any, is the Government taking to…
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Car dumped on train platform, fleeing driver tasered
Police chased a stolen vehicle across Auckland - a pursuit that involved a crash with another car, before it came to an end at the Middlemore train station platform where the driver was tasered.
He… Video, Audio
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This Time it’s Personal: Louis Baker on the music of Chopin
Audio 16 Oct 2019NZ soul singer-songwriter Louis Baker still loves the classical music his mum played him as a kid. He’ll be voting in RNZ Concert's classical music countdown Settling the Score, for an old favourite… Audio
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CPI beats RBNZ forecasts but interest rate cuts still likely
The latest inflation numbers have come in a tad stronger than expected but not enough to fire up the economy. Audio
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Speeding truckies can now be caught by upgraded cameras - police
Until recently static speed cameras haven't been able to distinguish between cars and trucks which have a lower open-road speed limit. Audio
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Few trucks get caught speeding
More now on our earlier story on truck drivers and speeding tickets. In the four years to 2017, static speed cameras snapped nearly 600,000 vehicles going over the speed limit. But just 207 were… Audio
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INZ criticised for confusion around Electronic Travel Authority rules
About 15 percent of visitors are still entering the country without the Electronic Travel Authority that became "obligatory" on 1 October.
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Boy's kindergarten injuries 'heartbreaking' - mother
Audio 15 Oct 2019The mother of a disabled boy who was badly injured at an Auckland kindergarten says her son is too scared to go back and she wants answers about exactly what happened to him.
Four-year-old Masua Tusa… Video, Audio
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Pilots at risk from drones eye Molesworth's wide open skies
Pilot Nick Taber says there is little that compares with soaring on the back-country thermals above the mountain ranges that joined Nelson, Marlborough and Canterbury.
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New mayor wants action on second Mt Victoria tunnel
Wellington's transport's $6.4 billion dollar overhaul is back up for discussion with the Transport Minister saying he's open to talks with the city's new mayor about the plan.
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Pilots eye Molesworth's wide open skies.
Paraglider and hang glider pilots are hoping to be included in plans to open up more play areas on New Zealand's biggest farm. The future of Molesworth high country station, which links Marlborough… Audio
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Will a new mayor mean more action on a second Mt Vic tunnel?
A new mayor for Wellington may also mean fast-tracking a second Mt Victoria tunnel. A multi-billion dollar transport plan has tunnel construction starting as late as 2029 but Andy Foster wants to… Audio
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Rugby World Cup: Tonga to farewell veteran duo against USA
Tonga is hoping to farewell two of their longest serving players on a winning note in today's final Rugby World Cup match against the United States.
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Sustenance
Audio 12 Oct 2019Nick looks back at an album from NZ band Sustenance, and tracks from Grant Green and Baby Face Willette. Audio
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The Shape of Jazz to Come
It's a pretty presumptuous title for an album, but Ornette Coleman's 1959 release manages to live up to its name. Coleman dispenses with harmonic accompaniment and frees up his musicians to improvise… Audio
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The Mixtape: Claire Cowan
She's the first woman to write a full-length ballet score in Aotearoa, she's won many awards for her composition, and she's on the road with her group The Blackbird Ensemble, interpreting the songs… Audio
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Six songs you need to hear this week
Nick Cave is at peace with his ghosts, Björk is cut up by The Knife, and New York indie-rockers Vivian Girls are back in business. Kirsten Johnstone and the Song Crush team are back with new songs to… Video, Audio
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Manus Island detention centre to become a school
A facility that Australia used to detain refugees on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island will reportedly be turned into a technical college.
