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Summer encore: Bodies of Water - Don McGlashan

23 Nov 2025

Watch / Listen / Read: New Zealand music icon Don McGlashan (The Mutton Birds, The Front Lawn, Blam Blam Blam) talks about how rivers, lakes, inlets, and seas have shaped him and his career as an artist in this charming Lilburn Lecture. Video, Audio

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    Nights

    Tune in to Nights with Emile Donovan every weekday from 8pm to midnight for a delectable buffet of creative ideas, open-minded conversations, music, musings and daily stimulation.

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    First Up

    News and current affairs with Nathan Rarere, weekdays at 5am.

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    Culture 101

    Perlina Lau hosts a weekly show about creativity and culture in Aotearoa.

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    Te Manu Korihi

    Providing news on Māori issues, Te Manu Korihi features four times each weekday, in Radio New Zealand National's leading news programmes Morning Report and Checkpoint. A longer weekly…

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  • The Musical Acts bringing their Culture to the Far North

    12:35 pm today

    Gerry Paul joins Maggie Tweedie and Mark Williams in studio to give us a sneak peek of the cultural acts he's bringing to the far north. Audio

    This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions.

  • Podcast review with Tessa Guest

    11:40 am today

    Tessa joins Anna once more to review a fresh batch of podcasts. Among them is Cross Party Lines, a new weekly political podcast hosted by former cabinet ministers Chris Finlayson (National), Phil Goff… Audio

  • New Zealand's first stone-skimming championship

    sport
    11:25 am today

    Richie Laming is an experience and education manager at Lake Hawea station. He's also a seasoned stone skimmer. Richie is involved in the organisation of New Zealand's first national stone-skimming… Audio

  • Museum Stop: Woolshed Museum

    history
    11:10 am today

    For many years New Zealand was said to 'live off the sheep's back'. Our museum stop today takes us to the heart of the Wairarapa to the Wool Shed Museum in Masterton to find out all about the… Audio

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  • Road Trip: Barnaby Weir

    music
    10:10 am today

    Barnaby Weir, founding member of bands Fly My Pretties and the Black Seeds, joins Anna to soundtrack his perfect road trip and tells her what's in store for 2026. Barnaby is the penner of Kiwi summer… Audio

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  • Morning Report Essentials for Friday 16 January

    sport technology
    10:00 am today

    A former All Blacks captain says New Zealand Rugby was left with no option but to sack Scott Robertson; With an internet blackout in place in Iran, only scant details about what is happening on the… Audio

  • Okarito: The remote West Coast settlement home to 30

    West Coast
    9:45 am today

    The remote community of Okarito is situated on the South Island's West Coast, 30 kilometres north of Franz Josef. The beautiful settlement is home to just 30. For its residents, life revolves around… Audio

  • Welcome Rock Ultra: The Southland high country adventure race

    sport
    9:25 am today

    Reckon you have what it takes to complete a 200 kilometre adventure race through Southland high country? As we speak, a group of adventure runners traverse the gruelling course of the Welcome Rock… Audio

  • Six60 announce fifth studio album

    music
    9:11 am today

    Few bands have soundtracked life in Aotearoa quite like Six60, who went from jamming in Dunedin flats to becoming one of the country's biggest live draws. Today they've announced their fifth studio… Audio

  • NZ Surfing Nationals taking place in Gisborne

    sport
    8:49 am today

    The New Zealand surfing Nationals have been on all week in Gisborne and they're getting to the pointy end of the competition with the men's and men's open finals tomorrow. Surfing New Zealand's Ben… Audio

  • What's been making news overnight in Europe

    world politics
    8:41 am today

    Liucy Thompson spoke to Melissa Chan-Green from London with an update on what's been making news overnight in Europe. Audio

  • Sports Chat

    sport
    8:36 am today

    An update on what's happening in the sports world with Jonty Dine. Audio

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12:00 AM. All Night Programme

A selection of the best RNZ National interviews and features.

6:10 AM. BBC Witness History

Witness History takes you back to moments which have shaped our world.

6:20 AM. The Best of the Detail

A selection of the best Detail episodes from 2025

7:00 AM. Morning Report Summer Edition

Presented by Melissa Chan Green and Lauren Crimp

9:06 AM. Summer Times with Anna Thomas

Noon On the Air

Maggie Tweedie and Mark Williams (MC Slave) host and afternoon of Music

5:00 PM. The Lodge

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6:00 PM. Feature Programming

BBC's The Conversation

7:10 PM. The Best of Country Life

8:06 PM. The Best of Nights with Emile Donovan

9:05 PM. Needle Drop with Chris Tubbs

10:00 PM. News at Ten

A roundup of today's news and sport

10:15 PM. Feature Programming BBC Doc

11:06 PM. The Logg Cabin

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