Nights

Composer Anthony Ritchie joins us to announce the winners of this years Dunedin Youth Orchestra Audrey Reid Composition Competition.

Former Superintendent of the Mt John Observatory above Lake Tekapo in the Mackenzie Country, Alan Gilmore joins us with a quick guide to the solstice.

Documentary Filmaker John Ball joins us to talk about his film "Man in Wheelchair - Just a Matter of Fate" screening in Taupo this Thursday.

Patrick Phelps from Minerals West Coast is back again - he wants to talk about the social and economic benefits of mining in New Zealand - higher wages and higher productivity in a country that he says, struggles with both.

Going West Festival's James Littlewood joins us to talk about a special new podcast featuring a recording of the late Keri Hulme reading her unpublished novel "Bait" at the festival in 1997.

Ben James from Herb's Mobile Record Store is back again to pick some more tracks - tonight he plays muic from bands he's seen live and been blown away by.

We talk to Director Marcus Palmer about his film, playing at theis year's Doc Edge Festival called Disco Bloodbath which follows the core performers and managers of the eponymous iconic Tamaki Makaurau underground drag and cabaret show where almost completely nothing was off-limits.

After Bryan's earlier chat with Lars Ostenfeld, about his film INTO THE ICE, Geoff Henderson a wind turbine engineer and "amateur" climate scientist got in touch.

Former Metservice Severe Weather Meteorologist, Erick Brensturm joins us once again to take a look at weather events around the world. His topics tonight include record-breaking hurricaine agatha, Iberian droughts, the heatwave in India and Pakistan and a book on climate chance called "On Time and Water",by Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason.

Mid Week Media Watch with Hayden Donnell