Nights

There's plenty to talk about tonight with out sportscasters Peter Lampp and Dana Johannsen - there's the netball (of course!), the all Blacks in Argentina and some controversy about the use of the Haka.

Hunua MP Andrew Bayly and his son, Daniel spent 22 days on camels, covering 500km of southern Jordan to follow the routes that Lawrence of Arabia took when he was a part of the Arab forces that captured Aqaba and subsequently became General Allenby's right flank on the successful march up to Damascus.

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, Dr Natalie Plank, Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute, and Senior Lecturer in Physics at Victoria University of Wellington introduces us to the element Gold and the reason for tonight's sonic tonic dedicated to Wealth.

Bryan heads to the roof of Otago University's William James Building to take a look at the pigeon loft and research centre of Dr. Damian Scarf from the University's Psychology Department.

Dunedin based dancer and filmmaker, Daniel Belton from Good Company Arts joins Bryan in the Dunedin studio to talk about some of his recent work and about why he's chosen Dunedin as a base for his life and art.

Bryan hitched a ride with Dave, Mike, Levi and Josh on the Taieri Gorge Railway as far as Hindon with the team loading railway sleepers on to the back of their truck.

Bryan stirs a cup of tea with Dr. Ashton Bradley from Otago University. He's part of a research collaboration with the University of Queensland which has just published a report in the magazine Science with some breakthrough findings in fluid turbulence.

Bryan Crump heads to the Otago Polytechnic's School of Vetrinary Nursing - which also houses the Dunedin Wildlife Hospital.

RNZ's Dunedin reporter, Tim Brown talks us through the importance of gradient.

Dunedinite Brian Roper joins Bryan in the Dunedin studio. Tonight's topic is the Zero Carbon Bill.