Nights

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, Nadine van der Heijden, MacDiarmid Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow introduces us to the element Europium and the reason for tonight's sonic tonic dedicated to Brexit.

Nick Bollinger and Bill Lake join us to take a look a the life and work of the much loved musician Rick Bryant who died today.

We talk to Jannis Stürtz co-founder of Habibi Funk: The label dedicated to reissuing stereotype-busting sounds from the Arab world.

Professor Michael Belgrave, award-winning author and former research manager of the Waitangi Tribunal, now based at the School of Humanities at Massey's Auckland thinks we are living in a 'golden age' for the study of history, thanks to digital technology bringing history to life.

Toxicologist Leo Schep from Toxiform joins us once again to discuss the toxicity of the tear gas (o-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile -commonly known as CS) used in recent hot spots including Hong Kong.

Peter Lampp is our sportscaster tonight. He casts his eye on dropping numbers in local Bowls Clubs, The Crusaders' new logo and he'll keep us up to date with the latest from the cricket.

Sue Pieters-Hawke remembers her father Bob Hawke in her new book Remembering Bob. She joins us on the line from Australia.

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, Duncan McGillivray, MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator and Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Auckland introduces us to the element chlorine and the reason for tonight's sonic tonic dedicated to pools.

Mike Seawright from ReliefAid has recently returned from the Middle East overseeing the charity's latest aid deliveries in Syria. The team have been working day and night to help families fleeing the fighting with ReliefAid's latest distributions providing life-saving winter shelter to upwards of 19,000 people. While our aid efforts have been continuing at pace the war has continued to kill innocent families once again under fire. Mike joins us to tell us more.

DJ Stickey Fingaz, A.K.A. RNZ sound engineer Brad Warrington is back with another chapter in the story of Kiwi Hip Hop. Tonight mid to late 90's.