Nights

Niue has no Vet Clinic. Sasha Nowell and Linda McCallum are in our Auckland studio to tell us about Rock Vets' mission is to provide much needed Veterinary care to the increasing population of animals on the island of Niue.

New Plymouth based trio O Juliet are live in the studio for a Sofa Session with some tracks from their latest album "Unlash the Boats".

To mark 2019 as the year of the Periodic Table, RNZ Nights has teamed up with the MacDiarmid Institute to bring you Element of The Week. Tonight Michel Nieuwoudt, MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigator and Senior Research Scientist at the Photon Factory, the University of Auckland, introduces us to the element TIN and the reason for tonight's sonic tonic.

Lien Hoang joins us once again from Ho Chi Minh City with the latest news from Vietnam including the tragic case of the 39 Vietnamese who died whilst being smuggled to the UK, landmark changes in labour laws in the country and a visit from the Obamas.

Our Cultural Ambassador Mona-Lynn Courteau is back to introduce us to more Latin American music - tonight we'll be listening to some of the music animating the anti-government protests currently going on in Chile.

We'll talk to author and editor of the book review site Popular Science, Brian Clegg who's put together a history of science books from Aristotle to David Attenburough.

British Library curator and author Phil Hatfield has used his knowledge of the treasury of historic maps and illustrations of the world's greatest ocean to put together a wonderful book: Pacific - An Ocean of Wonders.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has unanimously agreed to ban Russia from major international sporting competitions -- notably the Olympics and the World Cup -- for four years over doping non-compliance. Dana Johannsen joins us with the details.

Former University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory superintendent Alan Gilmore joins us once again as we raise our gaze to the stars.

The Tuia 250 Voyage flotilla arrived in Wellington last week. We took the opportunity to talk to flotilla kaitiaki Jack Thatcher.