Nights

Bryan talks to Palmerston North raised journalist Motoko Kakubayashi who now resides in Tokyo and works for University of Tokyo's Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe.

The evolution of music made with devices powered by electricity and/or computers, with Paul Berrington aka DJ B-Lo...featuring Detroit electro-techno outfit Drexciya who first came into the public eye in 1994 with Aquatic Invasion.

The low-speed personal vehicles have arrived - and e-bikes and e-scooters are just the beginning! This guest post by Oliver Bruce, co-host of the Micromobility Podcast and Conferences, summarises a recent presentation he made to the Ministry of Transport (and posted afterwards on Twitter) that explains why micromobility represents a fundamental rethink of transport as we've known it, and why we should all be paying attention.

Across The Great Divide are in the studio for tonight's Sofa Session, playing soulful Celtic airs, wild and vibrant jigs, reels, Americana and Swedish compositions, Americana, Celtic and often Scandinavian traditions, not normally gracing the same stage. Karen Jones took up the challenge of applying Celtic guitar rhythm to fast rousing bluegrass, Americana tunes and Tony Burt's original compositions. Tony arranged dobro for Celtic airs and fiddle tunes to accompany Karen's exquisite harp performance and paced guitar-fuelled jigs and reels.

The music of Latin America from Mona-Lynn Courteau, this week featuring the harp.

Dana Johannsen joins us to take a look at what has been an exciting weekend of sport!

International artists who record music in Iceland can now score a 25% rebate on all recording expenses -- including travel and accommodation costs, along with studio rates and the cost of hiring an engineer.

Sigtrygurr Baldursson from the organisation Iceland Music joins us.

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, Franck Natali, MacDiarmid Principal Investigator and Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington introduces us to the element Thalium and the reason for tonight's sonic tonic dedicated to pests.

Our overseas correspondent Shoba Narayan reports from India

Photographer Raymond Sagapolutele join us once again with his take on what's happening in South Auckland.