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Worlds of Music
Music from the world, for the world, hosted by Trevor Reekie.
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8:00pm - 12:00am (midnight) - Up next
Featured stories
City couple's mushroom venture sprouts from pandemic
On the rural outskirts of Taupō a young couple have started a mushroom venture far removed from their previous life in Auckland.. Audio
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Sleep position secrets: How you sleep may affect your health
12 May 2024Sleep positions can affect how you sleep and cause or aggravate some health issues, a sleep scientist says. Audio
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Understanding our nearshore island volcanoes
9 May 2024Our Changing World - A multi-year research project aims to find out the risks from two Bay of Plenty offshore island volcanoes: Tūhua / Mayor Island and Whakaari / White Island. Video, Audio
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Steve Albini: Nirvana, Pixies producer and indie musician dies.
9 May 2024US musician and producer Steve Albini was an instrumental and uncompromising figure in the indie scene in the 1980s and '90s, leading bands including Big Black and Shellac, and producing albums by Nirvana, The Pixies and PJ Harvey.
Programmes
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Checkpoint
Checkpoint with Lisa Owen is RNZ’s weekday drive-time news programme, Our people, stories and breaking news and interviews from 4-6pm.
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The Panel
The Panel features a range of panellists from across the opinion spectrum, together with expert phone guests.
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Country Life
Country Life takes you down country roads to meet ordinary people achieving their dreams. We live in a beautiful country and we'd love to show it. Have you got a great photo? Drop us…
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Sourdough 101
Neville Chun teaches Simon how to make sourdough from home.
Presenters
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Emile Donovan
Station: National
Programme: Nights
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Cosmo Kentish-Barnes
Stations: National
Programme: Country Life
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Ingrid Hipkiss
Station: National
Programme: Morning Report
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Lisa Owen
Station: National
Programme: Checkpoint
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Katrina Batten
Station: National
Programme: News
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Susana Leiataua
Station: National
Programme: Labour Day
Today’s Schedule
12:04 AM. All Night Programme
A selection of the best RNZ National interviews and features.
5:00 AM. First Up with Nathan Rarere
New Zealand's early morning wake-up call
6:00 AM. Morning Report with Ingrid Hipkiss and Corin Dann
RNZ's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour
9:06 AM. Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan
Current affairs and topics of interest
Noon Midday Report
RNZ news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm
1:06 PM. Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
4:00 PM. Checkpoint with Lisa Owen
RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme
6:00 PM. The Panel with Wallace Chapman
An hour of discussion, featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum, together with expert phone guests (RNZ)
7:30 PM. The Sampler
8:06 PM. Nights with Emile Donovan
RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
8:15 PM. Pacific Waves
10:00 PM. News at Ten
A roundup of today's news and sport
10:10 PM. Nights continues with Emile Donovan
11:04 PM. Worlds of Music
Trevor Reekie brings you Music from the world, for the world (RNZ)