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We're joined by french wildlife filmaker Guillaume Maidatchevsky to talk about his film, 'Ailo's Journey' - a fictionalised story of a young reindeer in Lapland that was filmed with untamed animals in their natural surroundings.

Nights' friendly mathematician, Dillon Mayhew is back in the studio. Tonight he's talking about quantum computing.

Dana Johansen is out sportscaster tonight. She'll be taking a look at the latest in the cricket, catching up with the V8 Supercars and mulling over the controversy around the NZ Breakers.

Fair Play's Zoe George speaks with Dr Rosalind Standwell-Smith - a world leading expert in public sanitation and one of the brains behind the UK's Royal Society for Public Health's research into public toilets, called "Taking the piss". She wanted to find out why there's such a disparity between men and women when it comes to the loos and what we can do to rectify the situation.

Iain Watson has brought his life's poetry together in a new book and the beautiful images have been provided by his friends.

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, MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator and Lecturer in Chemistry at the Victoria University of Wellington, Natalie Plank introduces us to the element Boron and the reason for tonight's sonic tonic dedicated to Bones.

Sandra Sarala joins us once again with the latest from Berlin. Tonight, she's taking a look at the the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

As Terminator: Dark Fate hits our screens, Eleanor Tremeer, our Sci-fi geek is talking robots tonight. Taking a look at the changing faces of our fictional robotic companions, and finding out what they mean to us now.

How do we engineer a zero-carbon future? University of Canterbury mechanical engineering Professor Susan Krumdieck is a pioneer in the emerging field of Transition Engineering, and she joins us from Christchurch.

Over a single night in November 1938 over 200 synagogues were burned in an orchestrated anti-Jewish violence in Germany. Known as Kristallnacht, the event marks not only the destruction but also the resilience of Jewish life and it will be commemorated on 10 November in the annual Kristallnacht concert featuring music associated with the Holocaust. We're joined by Chris Harris from the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand.