Nights

Our Cultural ambassador from the world of Sci-fi, Eleanor Tremeer joins us - she's looking at Representation in scifi: does scifi have a responsibility to represent marginalised people? If so, how should they be represented? And how well is modern scifi currently representing the population?

Roberto Di Cosmo will be joining us from Paris to talk about Software Heritage - it's like architectural heritage, but for software - we find out how they decide what software to preserve and all about the Github Arctic Code Vault in Svalbard, Norway.

Dr Gabriela Baron leads the Design and the Natural Environment paper at the University of Auckland. She believes we should design in a way that actually changes the way we produce, consume and socialise.

Patrick Phelps from Minerals West Coast joins us once again. He'll be looking at the issue of mining on conservation land and in areas with sensitive biodiversity values.

Tonight's sportscaster is Rikki Swanell.

A Slightly Isolated Dog Theatre Company were supposed to be starting a run of their hugely sucsessful production of Jekyll and Hyde this week but with restrictions in mass gatherings, they've have had to postpone.

We're joined by our Ugandan Overseas Correspondent, Tabu Butagira.

Former University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory superintendent Alan Gilmore joins us once again. Tonight he has news of some important observations from Mt John, damage to the Arecibo radio telescope and a Saturn-mass exoplanet discovered by radio astronomers.

Just before lockdown, Charlie Cuff bought a car racing simulator off a family friend so when lockdown happened he spent quite a lot of time driving Formula 1 cars round virtual circuits. This coincided with Sim racing becoming hugely popular worldwide.

Japanese Taiko drumming is not only a musical artform but also a visual and very physical one, says instructor Steve Seth, who teaches workshops at Auckland schools and holiday programmes with the group Tamashii Taiko.