Nights for Friday 9 May 2025
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Reality bites - arts and music fellowships on hold
10:18 PM.The University of Otago is putting both The Frances Hodgkins Fellowship for visual arts and The Mozart fellowship for music on hold due to budgeting concerns. Read more Audio
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
9:35 PM.Our resident screen critic Dan Slevin casts his expert eye over Thunderbolts (in cinemas), Flintoff (Disney+) and The Grey (Māori+). Read more Audio
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This Weekend: Orchids on show
8:30 PM.The New Zealand Orchid society is putting on their Annual Autumn Orchid Show with hundreds of rare and unique flowers being judged, including some for sale! 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 This Weekend: Orchids on show
Mothers of Auckland - CHILDREN of mothers of Auckland - this one is for you, an early Mother's Day outing.
What better way to spend a Saturday than surrounded by orchids.
The New Zealand Orchid society is putting on their Annual Autumn Orchid Show with hundreds of rare and unique flowers being judged, including some for sale!
Judge and life member of the New Zealand Orchid Society, Noel Townsley tells Emile Donovan why the show is worth a visit to Mt Albert.
Photo: 123rf
8:35 Tenuous Connections
It's Friday Night so it's time to put on a playlist of music with a loose theme based on an even looser starting point.
Tonight it's songs about flowers.
9:08 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.
9:20 Focus on Politics
RNZ Deputy Political Editor Craig McCulloch breaks down the government's shock shake-up of the pay equity regime - the changes, the fallout and what's next.
A protest against the controversial pay equity law change outside the Tāmaki electorate office of Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden. Photo: RNZ/Calvin Samuel
9:35 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
It's time for our weekly catchup with Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin.
Tonight he casts his expert eye over Thunderbolts (in cinemas), Flintoff (Disney+) and The Grey (Māori+).
Photo: supplied
10:18 Reality bites - arts and music fellowships on hold
The University of Otago is putting its annual visual arts fellowship ON PAUSE next year, due to budgeting concerns.
The Frances Hodgkins Fellowship has been awarded annually since 1966 and gives a deserving artist a year's salary and a dedicated space in which to hone their craft.
But the university says "volatility in international investment markets" has made providing funds for the fellowship risky. The University's Mozart fellowship for music is also being suspended, with the hopes of bringing them both back in later years.
Some of New Zealand's most famous artists have been recipients - including Grahame Sydney. Famous for his landscape paintings, he explains to Emile why the loss is about more than money.
Photo: Nathan Secker
10:30 Out Lately with Finn
He's back and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music.
It's Finn Johansson.
Tonight's tracks include:
- Animaru by Mei Semones
- River Dark by Greta O'Leary
- Bookends by U.S. Girls
Photo: Finn Johansson
11:04 Concert: WOMAD 2024
Maggie Tweedie presents a new concert series recorded live at WOMAD 2024 in New Plymouth. Tonight features Anthonie Tonnon, a singer-songwriter known for his captivating storytelling and fusion of pop, folk, and electronic sounds.
Anthonie Tonnon Photo: Luke McPake
