Nights

Dana Johannson is our sportscaster tonight. She has plenty to talk about including the cricket, the netball world cup and Wimbledon!

This weekend the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra highlights the talents of two of the city's finest musicians - Violinist Tessa Petersen and 'cellist Heleen du Plessis.

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, Leatham Landon-Lane, MacDiarmid Institute researcher and PhD student at the University of Canterbury introduces us to the element vanadium and the reason for tonight's sonic tonic dedicated to TEETH!

A report by the British Office of National Statistics shows significant pay gaps between ethnic groups in the country.

Brad Warrington, AKA DJ Sticky Fingaz, starts us on a journey through New Zealand hip-hop and how he first got hooked.

The University of Canterbury team Electric Sheep was the only New Zealand team to compete at the international RoboCup 2019 competition in Sydney, designing and building autonomous robot teams capable of playing soccer against each other.

Playmarket, in partnership with Creative New Zealand, Playwrights' Studio Scotland and Magnetic North Theatre Company, offers New Zealand playwrights the opportunity to apply for a playwriting residency in Scotland.

Writer and traveller, John Bishop has an abiding love of the American South. He recently returned from another trip to the former Confederate States of the USA, and joins us to tell us all about it.

Our regular physicist, Prof. Shaun Hendy, director of Te Punaha Matatini at the University of Auckland joins us once again. Continuing his theme of time, he's talking atomic clocks.

Peter Lammp is our sportscaster tonight. He'll be telling us why he thought the Super Rugby final was humdrum, and we'll get an update on golfer Tim Wilkinson. Cricket may get a mention.