Nights

Nights' Geographer, Louise Richards is back. Tonight she's joined by Dr Caroline Orchiston, Lead Scientist at the AF8 [Alpine Fault magnitude 8] project, a collaborative effort to save lives by planning and preparing a coordinated response across the South Island after a severe earthquake on the Alpine Fault.

Peter Lampp has his eye on a couple of finals this evening - Manawatu club rugby final on Saturday and of course the England -Italy Euro 2021 football final.

During lockdown last year, the Royal New Zealand Ballet began posting videos of performances on their youtube channel. Almost overnight their views and subscribers skyrocketed. Building on the success of their Live In Your Living Room series, this weekend they will stream The Sleeping Beauty. We talk to RNZB Artistic Director Patricia Barker about how they take a production like this from the stage to the screen.

Will the Maori language blossom if many more Pakeha jump on the reo waka? Not necessarily, according to Alison Jones, a professor at Te Puna Wananga, the School of Maori and Indigenous Education at the University of Auckland in an article this weekend on E-Tangata.

The Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand (LAGANZ), Te Puranga Takatapui o Aotearoa are running an online Transcribathon event from 10 to 24 July for volunteers across Aotearoa New Zealand. We speak to Gavin Hamilton, a member of the LAGANZ board.

Motoko Kakubayashi joins us once again from Toyko ahead of what's being called the quiet Olympics.

Dr Nate Davis, Associate Investigator with the MacDiarmid Institute and Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington brings us the science - or lack of it - on Jumbonium from Futurama.

We talk to data journalist James Fransham from The Economist magazine , who has developed a "normalcy index" to measure changes in human behaviour around the world based on data gathered at daily and weekly intervals to evaluate how life has changed since the onset of the covid pandemic.

Anna Thomas is hosting the show tonight. Her first guest is Army Major, Dr. James Hannah - dubbed the military's dashing dentist - about his colourful life as a dentist, serving in the military and how he keeps smiling.

We're joined once again by Nights Philosopher, Ann Kerwin who takes a look at the topics explored in American philosopher David Livingstone Smith's 2020 book ON INHUMANITY: DEHUMANIZATION AND HOW TO RESIST IT.