Nights

Tonight's sportscaster is Helene Elliott, Sports Columnist with the Los Angeles Times.

The NO Project is an award-winning global educational campaign that specifically targets youth awareness of human trafficking through music, art, dance, film, animation, sport, creative writing and social media. We're joined by the project founder, Judy Boyle.

Lien Hoang joins us once again from Hanoi with news of how Vietnam are handling coronavirus.

Erick Brenstrum joins us once again to tale a look at the best and the worst of world weather.

About 2 years ago we spoke to to Professor Chris Button, Dean of School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Otago who was embarking on research looking at whether teaching water safety in a range of natural open water environments, in contrast to learning in a swimming pool, may be more beneficial for learning. He joins us once again for an update.

Bryan Roper joins us once again and tonight he's taking a look at class, voting and New Zealand's political parties and asks "Does Class Matter?"

Zoe George is our sportscaster tonight.

The Samesame But Different literary festival is the only annual celebration of LGBTQI writing talent in Aotearoa New Zealand. We're joined by Festival programme director Sam Orchard who also has news of the inaugural Peter Wells Writing contest.

Taxonomy is the science of classification - it's the way we classify the diversity of life on this planet. Dr. Peter De Lange from the school of Animal and Environmental Sciences at UNITEC joins us to explore the ways in which the scientific community can best incorporate indigenous languages into how we describe the life we see around us.

Tonight's after dinner speaker is Patrick Phelps who was for a while our Overseas Correspondent from China. He's back in Aotearoa and back on the West Coast working for Minerals West Coast, a charitable trust that advocates for the region's mining industry. Tonight he takes a look at the history of mining on the West Coast.