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The Mental Capacity Law Conference, is being held in seven centres across New Zealand this month. University of Otago Faculty of Law Professor John Dawson, who has co-edited a book on the subject, believes it is time these laws were thoroughly reviewed. He argues that for those lacking the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves, New Zealand currently relies heavily on the basic decency of families and whanau to ensure the law is applied.

Wednesday night is Quiz Night on RNZ National. We take a dive into the archives of Nga Taonga Sound and Vision for some audio gems and we want to see if you can identify them.

Nights' toxicologist, Leo Shep from Toxinform has been looking into the science behind the recent deaths that have been accredited to vaping.

Zoe George takes a look at the sports news.

Our overseas correspondent in Sudan, Reem Abbas brings us up to date with the situation there.

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 Indium and the reason for tonight's sonic tonic dedicated to soft.

William Yang usually comes to us from Taipei in Taiwan, but he's been in Hong Kong for the last week watching things unfold there.

We talk to festival organiser, Mark Easterbrook about what West Auckland can expect from this year's Going West Festival.

Making her debut appearance tonight, our cultural ambassador for the build environment, Rebecca Kiddle from Victoria University's School of Architecture joins us to talk about Third Spaces.

Tonight we'vre come full circle. Wellington City Council: waste manager, Emily Taylor-Hall joins us in the studio to go through the contents of Bryan's latest recycling bag to find out what exactly you can and can't put in your recycling.