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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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What we're watching: Odd Taxi
Run out of stuff to watch? Join us as we excavate the streamers' back catalogues for the shows we might have missed. This week: Odd Taxi.
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At The Movies: Civil War
17 Apr 2024Civil War imagines a future America torn apart by another civil war, and the people who have to cover the story. Written by Alex Garland and starring Kirsten Dunst, it's a tight, character-driven, no-fingernails-left exciting film, writes Simon Morris. Video, Audio
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Easy Eats: Sam Parish's sizzling steak fajitas
17 Apr 2024Not sure what to eat tonight? Christchurch-based chef, author and busy mum Sam Parish knows the feeling. She shares a simple and super-tasty recipe for sizzling steak fajitas that the whole whānau will love.
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'He was a bomb that was waiting to explode'
14 Apr 2024Scoop, a new film starring Gillian Anderson, Rufus Sewell and Billie Piper, is a dramatisation of the events that led to Prince Andrew's disastrous Newsnight interview. Sam McCallister, played by Piper, tells Jim Mora it was an “extraordinary experience”. Video, Audio
Programmes
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Musical Chairs
New Zealand musicians in their own words.
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Afternoons
Jesse Mulligan presents an upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time.
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Our Changing World
Stories about science and nature from out in the field and inside the labs across Aotearoa New Zealand. Winner 2022 New Zealand Radio Awards Best Factual Podcast - Episodic
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Summer Report
Summer Report is back in 2020 with Leigh-Marama McLachlan and Logan Church for three weeks to keep you informed and up to date as we celebrate the great New Zealand summer.
Presenters
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Nathan Rarere
Station: National
Programme: First Up
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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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Justin Gregory
Station: National
Programmes: The Trouble Begins at Eight, Eyewitness
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Charlotte Cook
Station: National
Programme: Midday Report
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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)
8:06 PM. Nights with Emile Donovan
RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
8:15 PM. Pacific Waves
8:30 PM. It's Personal with Anika Moa
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. Nashville Babylon
Mark Rogers offers the very best in Americana, alt country, folk, soul and blues music (RNZ)