Nights for Tuesday 12 March 2024
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Wellington teacher releases debut novel
10:45 PM.Wellington teacher Stephen Tester talks to Nights about his debut novel Kiss Of Death. Read more Audio
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Annual moulting season leaves rare penguin 'highly vulnerable'
10:30 PM.The hoiho, one of the world's rarest penguin species, are now entering their annual moulting season, where they come ashore to lose their feathers and grow new ones.
Eiren Sweetman from the… Read more Audio
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How old is too old?
10:17 PM.New Zealand's Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier has been forced to resign due to a 50-year old law that restricts the age of the Ombudsman to 72-years old.
Andrew Geddis is a public law professor at the… Read more Audio
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Kiwi startup wins top prize at international toy fair
9:45 PM.Auckland-based Kotare Models has been awarded a prestigious "Model of the year 2024" medal at the recent Nuremburg Toy Fair. Mark Robson from Kotare Models speaks to Emile Donovan. Read more Audio
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Politics by Night with Glenn McConnell
9:30 PM.Stuff political reporter Glenn McConnell joins Emile Donovan to dissect the government's urgent first 100 days and the tensions surrounding New Zealand's law and order workforce. Read more Audio
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Shower Thoughts: How are phone numbers allocated?
9:15 PM.Listener Chris wants to know why no one has the phone number 021 000 0000? One NZ picked up the phone to tell us. Read more Audio
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.
8:30 Jukebox
Emile Donovan plays your requests - as long as you've got a compelling reason, or a good story with it.
Send in your picks to nights@rnz.co.nz or text 2101.
8:45 The Reading
Tonight, part ten of 'Fake Baby', written by Amy McDaid and read here by Alisha Jacob and Nigel Collins.
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 Shower Thoughts: How are phone numbers allocated?
Listener Chris wants to know why no one has the phone number 021 000 0000?
We go straight to the top to find out from One NZ (formerly Vodafone)'s chief technology officer, Tony Baird.
Photo: Jonas Leupe/ Unsplash
9:30 Politics by Night with Glenn McConnell
Stuff political reporter Glenn McConnell joins Emile Donovan to dissect the government's urgent first 100 days and the tensions surrounding New Zealand's law and order workforce.
Police Association president Chris Cahill Photo: RNZ / Angus Dreaver
9:45 Kiwi startup wins top prize for model Spitfire at largest international toy fair
Auckland-based Kotare Models has been awarded a prestigious "Model of the year 2024" medal at the recent Nuremburg Toy Fair.
The medal was for the Spitfire Mk.Ia model kitset - their very first product to be released.
Mark Robson from Kotare Models speaks to Emile Donovan.
A proud Mark Robson of Kotare with their Model of the Year medal. Photo: Supplied
10:17 How old is too old?
New Zealand's Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier has been forced to resign due to a 50-year old law that restricts the age of the Ombudsman to 72-years old.
What other roles have an upper age limit? Why do we have them?
Andrew Geddis is a public law professor at the University of Otago and joins Emile Donovan.
Photo: Getty Images
10:30 Annual moulting season leaves rare penguin 'highly vulnerable'
Conservationists are telling people to be on the lookout for some scruffy-looking yellow-eyed penguins across the country.
The hoiho, one of the world's rarest penguin species, are now entering their annual moulting season, where they come ashore to lose their feathers and grow new ones.
But this landlocked period of their lives leaves them with little energy and makes them highly vulnerable to threats like dogs.
Eiren Sweetman from the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust joins Emile Donovan.
Hoiho moulting season lasts for approximately four weeks, during which time the penguins can't return to the sea. Photo: Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust
10:45 Wellington teacher releases debut novel
During work hours Stephen Tester is a well-loved history teacher at Wellington College.
When he's not teaching the next generation Stephen is writing.
He joins Emile Donovan to talk about his debut novel Kiss Of Death.
Stephen Tester is the author of courtroom drama Kiss of Death. Photo: Supplied
11:07 Worlds of Music
Trevor Reekie hosts a weekly music programme celebrating an eclectic mix of 'world' music, fusion and folk roots.
Tonight, music from Joshua Bell,and Anoushka Shankar, Toumani Diabaté's Symmetric Orchestra and Silk Road Ensemble.