Nights

Michael Trot is a Melbourne based composer who specialises in composition and sound design for video games.

We chat to Sophie Hambleton who's about to take the award-winning and critically acclaimed adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen classic. "A Doll's House" on tour around NZ to Dunedin, Nelson, and Hamilton.

The Virtue of Temperance From Plato to Positive Psychology, many philosophers give temperance a wider venue than chief regulator of sensuality. Nights' philosopher, Ann Kerwin joins us once again.

Peter Lampp is our sportscaster tonight.

The University of Glasgow played a leading role in the abolitionist movement in the 18th and 19th centuries but the institution also received significant financial support from people whose wealth was derived, in part, from slavery.

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, Richard Hartshorn, Professor of Chemistry at University of Canterbury and Secretary General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry introduces us to the element Rutherfordium and the reason for tonight's sonic tonic dedicated to splitting.

We check back in with out Overseas Corespondent in Berlin, Sandra Sarala.

The rise of "made in China" blockbusters has piqued the curiosity of Dr Ian Huffer a Massey University media studies expert who wants to know what Chinese films Kiwis are watching.

We have a Cultural Ambassador debut tonight - Eleanor Tremeer joins us from London to talk all things sci-fi. Tonight we're looking at utopia versus dystopia.

We've been looking into how New Zealand's waste and recycling is being dealt with over the last few weeks on Nights. Tonight we have a special interview with the Prime Minister's chief science advisor, Professor Juliet Gerrard.