Nights

Nicole Skews-Poole, recently learned that she is related to Alan Aberhart, the drapery store manager from Blenhiem who was murdered in 1964 in a homophobic attack in Hagley Park in Christchurch. Nicole wants to find out more about Alan's life.

Former Metservice Meteorologist Eric Brenstrum is back with us tonight taking his regular look at the weather around the world. On the weather map tonight, record high temperatures in Europe, lightning destroys 45,000 barrels of Kentucky whiskey and a drone survey shows the north coast of canada is collapsing into the sea at an alarming rate.

Peter Lampp is our sportscaster tonight. He's taking a look at the legacy of BJ Lochore.

Lloyd Homer is one of the leading photographers of New Zealand's natural environment. His colleague and friend, Simon Nathan has put together a book to celebrate his work.

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,Paul Hume from the McDiarmid Institute introduces us to the element Caesium and the reason for tonight's sonic tonic dedicated to sensitivity - because Caesium is one of the most reactive metals on the periodic table.

Our China correspondent Patrick Phelps has just landed back in New Zealand and is in to tell Bryan all about his time in China and what's going on in Xinjiang and the growing protests against surveillance in Hong Kong and the mainland.

Our cultural ambassador tonight is diving into the world of Bossa Nova! Mona-Lynn Courteau takes us on a full tour through the origins of the genre and its greats through to a look at where Bossa Nova is going now.

Continuing our series on waste and recycling, we speak to Phillip Millichamp who is Group Manager for Environment and External Relations Manager with Oji Fibre in NZ, the company that processes Wellington Region's recycling and Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull, who is also the chair of the local government lobby group - Local Government NZ about the future of waste and recycling.

Auckland 4-piece, Miss June have recently signed to Frenchkiss Records in New York. Ahead of a their latest gigs in Wellington and Auckland, they join us in the Nights' studio for a Sofa Session.

We catch up with another Sofa Session musician, Akaroa Flautist Tamara Smith and her band Mundi who were on the sofa back in march.