Nights

We speak to Paula Snowden, the CEO of the Problem Gambling Foundation.

Toi Whakaari has a new director. Tanea Heke - already had the interim positoin - having replaced Christian Penny at the helm of the national school of drama back in January.

Ann Kerwin joins us once again for some philosophical musings. Tonight she's introducing us to Alain LeRoy Locke, the American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. Distinguished as the first African-American Rhodes Scholar in 1907, Locke was the philosophical architect of the Harlem Renaissance.

Peter Lammp is our sportscaster tonight. He's taking a look at tennis brats and the possible axing of NPC Rugby coverage.

As New Zealand considers a bill looking to legalise euthanasia, an Otago University ethicist considers it's time to shine the light on the ethical complications surrounding body donation and assisted dying.

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, Duncan McGillivray introduces us to the element Sodium and the reason for tonight's sonic tonic dedicated to Salty water.

Making their Nights debut, William Yang joins us from Taiwan's capital, Taipei with a reaction to Taiwan's landmark legalization of same-sex marriage, the 30th Tiananmen Square Commemoration in Taiwan and the Upcoming primary for Taiwan's presidential election in 2020.

One of Nights' younger listeners, podcaster Charlie Cuff joins us to talk screentime for young people and to explain how and why he built his own computer.

Tom Saunders is a PhD candidate in Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland. He's been looking into the world of paywalls for taxpayer funded research.

The Documentary Edge International Film festival is currently in full swing. Playing as part of the festival is a great little Norwegian film called The Men's Room. One of the film's directors, Petter Sommer, joins us from Oslo.