Nights for Friday 28 October 2022

7:10 Country Life

Country Life takes you down country roads to meet ordinary people achieving their dreams.

This week, a high tech farming system which lets dairy cows move around without fences, and a Kaikōura farmer can set his tuna hīnaki in the lake he farms around after getting rid of algae that was sucking the oxygen out of the water. Also, Leah Tebbutt takes a tour through a kiwifruit orchard after frost causes devastation.

 

8:15 Pacific Waves

Koroi Hawkins presents 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.

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8:30 Friday Night Live

Friday Night Live features a selection of live RNZ Music recordings captured by engineer Andre Upston.

This week we feature husband and wife duo Charles and Emily Looker who make up Aro. Their music draws on a combination of kapa haka, R&B, gospel, jazz and the Beatles. The pair say their lyrics switch seamlessly between te reo and English and some of their songs reflect their concern for the environment.

 

9:07 Solving the mystery of Aotearoa's butterflies

The majority of NZ butterflies have not yet been described, according to the Moth and Butterflies NZ Trust In fact, less than 50 percent of our insects have a scientific description. The result is most of our copper butterflies have been grouped as 'common coppers' when there may be many more.

To fix this identification gap, The Butterfly Discovery Project is launching a full study to analyse the DNA of New Zealand's largest group of butterflies. Joining the show to tell us more is project manager and butterfly lover Angela Moon-Jones. Head over here for the project's Givealittle page.

 

9:30 Short-Cut with Dan Slevin

Film critic Dan Slevin joins the show to share his film selections to kick-start your binge watching this weekend.

This week Dan checks out Lou, a Netflix thriller about a middle-aged woman living alone on Orcas Island whose shady past catches up with her, and Decision To Leave - a South Korean neo-noir romantic mystery directed by Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker).

 

10:17 Review recommends lowering voting age for local elections

A draft report from the Future for Local Government Review has a raft of changes to boost participation in local elections. One of the most direct is to lower the voting age for local councils to 16.

Co-director of advocacy group Make it 16, Sanat Singh, has been actively campaigning for that change. He talks to Karyn Hay.

 

10:30 Bowlzilla slides back into Wellington

After a Covid-induced hiatus, popular skate festival Bowlzilla National Bowl Skating Championships is hitting the capital city this weekend. 

The event, which takes place at Waitangi Park tomorrow, is the country's biggest gathering of skaters from Aotearoa and abroad. In addition to the main competition, there are loads of side-events including a women's learn to ride clinic and the Artzilla art show.

Bowlzilla director Chad Ford joins the show from California to tell us all about it. 

 

10:40 In With Finn with Finn Johansson

Tamaki's resident music nerd steps out of his makeshift recording studio to bring us his favourite tracks of the week.

This week Finn shares tracks from Nick Hakim, Favourite People, Wisbands, and Big Hits.

 

11:07 The Mixtape

Tonight's guest for The Mixtape is Roger Marbeck, who runs Marbeck's record store in Auckland with both passion and a love for all genres of music including Classical, jazz, pop and roots music.