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All Night Programme
There is something for everyone in the wee small hours of a brand new day, every day, on our All Night Programme, a live-hosted programme of features, music, news and weather.
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Featured stories
Understanding our nearshore island volcanoes
Our 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.
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Meet the Papakura tattoo artist who inks celebrities
7 May 2024Leroy Roberts is on a mission to put Māori art on the map, one tattoo at a time. Jogai Bhatt meets the artist who counts big names among his clients.
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'Nobody's coming to save us' - How capitalism became a 'vulture'
4 May 2024Economist Grace Blakeley takes aim at the dominance of corporate economic power in society in Vulture Capitalism. She talks to RNZ's Saturday Morning about what can be done. Audio
Programmes
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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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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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Worlds of Music
Music from the world, for the world, hosted by Trevor Reekie.
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Saturday Night
Your requests, nostalgia and musical memories.
Presenters
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Kathryn Ryan
Station: National
Programme: Nine To Noon
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Cosmo Kentish-Barnes
Stations: National
Programme: Country Life
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Charlotte Ryan
Station: National
Programme: Music 101
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Perlina Lau
Station: National
Programme: Culture 101
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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. Country Life
8:06 PM. Nights with Emile Donovan
RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
8:15 PM. Pacific Waves
9:30 PM. Short Cut with Dan Slevin
Film and Television Review
10:00 PM. News at Ten
A roundup of today's news and sport
10:30 PM. Out Late with Finn Johansson
New Music reviews
11:04 PM. Kiwi Classics
RNZ Music presents a series live concerts capturing Aotearoa's favourite musicians collaborating with New Zealand's finest orchestras