Nights

The host of Nights on RNZ National, Bryan Crump has announced that he will wrap up his incredible innings on the show to host a new afternoon drive-time programme for RNZ Concert.

After a career in palliative care nursing, a decade raising children and an English literature degree, Lisa Adler is now an award-winning bookseller.

At the first UN ocean conference only five years ago, an ambitious target was proposed to map the entire seabed by 2030. Just shy of 25% has been accumulated and uploaded for all to see last year alone, some 10 million square kilometres added.

Louise Richards Vice President of the New Zealand Geographical Society joins us once again. She's joined tonight by Dr Gail Tipa who will be one of the keynote speakers at the New Zealand Geographical Society conference in Christchurch in November. They will be discussing Maori engagement in freshwater management.

Helene Elliot from the LA times talks about Novak Djokovic's effort to enter the United States for the US Open, the NFL is set to kick off with the defending champions the LA Rams preparing to defend their title and the popularity of another type of football - or soccer - continues to grow

More Sublime sounds from Bryan's trusty sound recorder. This time it's the sounds of making tea.

Photographer Raymond Sagapolutele joins us once again with an update from South Auckland this week he looks at the Auckland mayoral election and the Pacific music awards.

Poet laureate David Eggleton and Pacific Daren Kamali are about to embark on their month long Mad Doggerel Cabaret tour combining a comical and lyrical portrait of Aotearoa New Zealand and its place in the South Pacific today.

Our overseas correspondent in Japan, Motoko Kakubayashi joins us from Tokyo. including the country recording it's highest number of covid-19 cases, the continuing fallout from the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo.

Lecturer, curator, potter and ceramics judge Richard Fahey joins me to talk changes to the pottery economy and context since the 1980's.