Nights

How do vets cope when they can't keep animals alive? Vicki Lim is a pet veterinarian based in Auckland, and she's the founder of an international effort called The Riptide Project - a platform for vets to share stories and experiences, and support.

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.

Former RNZ Country Life presenter, Susan Murray has been exploring in Australia. She joins us live from Mt. Isa.

Pianist Rachel Church makes her Nights debut as our cultural ambassador. Tonight she's taking a look at Debussy's Sonata for Violin and Piano.

Twenty-seven years ago, Trevor McKewen's book about New Zealand rugby heroes celebrated a stoic, machismo national character. He joins us with sports journalist Jamie Wall to ask if it has stood the test of time.

Wellington singer/songwriter Victoria Ferry joins us in the studio for a sofa session ahead of her EP Release at the Third Eye in Wellington this weekend.

Our regular freshwater ecologist, Stella McQueen has been spending some time in Otago at the Foulden Maar site finding out about the fish that lived there.

Dana Johannsen is our sportscaster tonight, talking netball, rugby and football.

Lyric Thompson, director of policy and advocacy at the International Centre for Research on Women in Washington DC join us to talk about what a feminist approach to Foreign Policy might look like.

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 David McMorran, Senior Teaching Fellow at the Department of Chemistry Te Tari Huaruanuku - University of Otago introduces us to the element zinc and the reason for tonight's sonic tonic dedicated to brass.