Nights

Brad Warrington AKA DJ Sticky Fingers joins us once again for another look at the history of Hip-Hop in New Zealand.

Simone Kaho is a poet and writer. She joins us to talk about her recent article in E-Tangata in which she explores the motives of some of those in the business of doing good.

Earworms - those catchy songs which for whatever reason wriggle their way into our brains and refuse to leave. Dr Tim Byron from the University of Wollongong is very interested in the psychology behind them. He joins us to tell us more.

Astronomer Alan Glimore joins us once again. Tonight he's set his sights on Water vapour found on K2-18b, India's attempt to land on the Moon and the interstellar comet 'Oumuamua.

Peter Lampp is our sportscaster tonight. He'll be taking a look at the celebrity players headed to Auckland tennis tournaments, The strange saga of Liam Squire and the World Cup All Blacks and he takes us back to the heyday of Rangiwahia Ski Club.

Loading Docs - the launchpad for New Zealand-made short documentary films - is in full swing. We talk to Director Morgan Albrecht about her film Bird's Eye.

On of this year's award winners, Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre, Auckland, was awarded the Arts Access Holdsworth Creative Space Award 2019, for the impact and vision of its Music Therapy programmes in Auckland, Northland and the Hawke's Bay.

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, Mike Price. MacDiarmid Institute researcher and Victoria University of Wellington postdoctoral researcher introduces us to the element potassium and the reason for tonight's sonic tonic dedicated to bananas.

Silver Tambur joins us from Tallinn in Estonia.

Pianist Rachel Church talks us through Schubert's Sonata in B Flat D960.