Nights for Wednesday 24 January 2024
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New Dunedin game lets kids make their own comic strips
10:45 PM.A blobfish catching the bus. A goat and a possum arguing on the moon. A worm detective solving a ghost mystery. These are all possibilities in a new local game. Read more Audio
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Where can we find old movies?
10:30 PM.Not every movie ever made has made it to streaming services. What happens to the off-beat, lesser-known or straight-up-bad films of yester-year? Read more Audio
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Life in Ukraine, 700 days on
10:17 PM.For Kyiv resident Iryna Zhygalyuk, the war with Russia is both a constant struggle and the background noise to daily life. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch
9:30 PM.Hayden Donnell is in the Auckland studio for the first Midweek Mediawatch for 2024. Together Hayden and Emile Donovan will take a closer look at how the media covered some of the big events and… Read more Audio
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Women in botany celebrated at Wellington Botanic Gardens
9:15 PM.Though often overlooked because of their gender, women botanists have made huge contributions to our knowledge of the natural world over the last 300 years. Read more Audio
7:10 At The Movies
On At the Movies, Dan Slevin summarises the fifteen mainstream films that featured in cinemas between Boxing Day and Wellington Anniversary, and reviews ALL OF US STRANGERS, in which a lonely screenwriter who returns to his family home for inspiration, and THE HOLDOVERS, starring Paul Giamatti as a a curmudgeonly boarding school history teacher who has to babysit the kids who can't go home for the holidays.
Photo: Courtesy of FOCUS FEATURES
7:45 The Reading
Another of the winning stories from the 2023 Nine to Noon short story competition.
In todays story - a cow cockie has an uninvited visitor who is on a very odd mission. Without further ado, here is Bunnies in Space by Robert Fisherman told by William Kircher….
8:15 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.
Photo: RNZ / Jarred Bishop / Michel Tuffery / Jeff McEwan
8:30 Tooth and Claw
Adam Hart investigates the fastest land animal in the world - the cheetah! Built for high-speed chases, the population of these spotted cats is shrinking and they are vulnerable.
A cheetah in the Serengeti Photo: Public domain
9:07 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.
The quiz is themed - find out more about tonight's theme on Nights' Facebook page.
9:15 In Depth: Women in Botany
The first book illustrated with photography. Pioneering India's sugarcane crop. The discovery that genes move about within chromosomes.
These are all achievements made by women botanists in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
The Wellington Botanic Gardens has a new display on at the Treehouse celebrating women in botany from across the globe who made historic advances in their field.
Reg Harris is a botanist and a guide at the Gardens and put together the display,
9:30 Midweek Mediawatch
Hayden Donnell is in the Auckland studio for the first Midweek Mediawatch for 2024.
Together Hayden and Emile will take a closer look at how the media covered some of the big events and stories over the past month, including the national hui at Ngaruawaahia, the Golriz Gharaman's shoplifting allegations and more legacy media outlets going out of business.
10:17 Life in Ukraine 700 Days On
Iryna Zhygaliuk says her life like every other Ukrainian has been impacted by the war with Russia Photo: Iryna Zhygaliuk
It's been 700 days since Russian tanks and troops rolled over the border into neighbouring Ukraine.
While other geo-political events have taken the world's attention away from the conflict for Ukrainans living in their homeland it's still a daily reality.
Nights is joined by Kyiv resident Iryna Zhygalyuk to help us understand what daily life is like 700 days later.
10.30 Where Can We Find Old Movies?
After not being able to find the classic film Rumble Fish anywhere, Nights host Emile Donovan reached out to someone who might know.
Joining him in the studio is Steve Newall, editor of www.flicks.co.nz
10.45 Super Fun Comic Time
A blobfish catching the bus. A goat and a possum arguing on the moon. A worm detective solving a ghost mystery.
These are just a few examples of the kinds of stories players can bring to life with Spookysoft Games’ Super Fun Wow Comic Creation Kit, released today.
The free-to-play game is an online creative environment for children (and other people!) to make their own comic strips using a smorgasbord of hundreds of illustrations of characters, places and miscellaneous objects.
Spookysoft creative director Stef Animal talks to Emile Donovan about the creative project.
11:07 RNZ Music Pocket Edition
In Pocket Edition this week Maggie Tweedie introduces us to fresh music, Jon Toogood shares the song he listens to on his summer roadie and we meet experimental Wellington musician Sonya Waters.
Photo: RNZ / Krista Barnaby