Nights

Anglican priest, Raymond Pelly was a young boy in London during the blitz and he joins us to talk about the impact and ethics of the allied bombing campaign against German cities during the second world war.

We begin a new series on Nights, because it's Kiwi Music month, the Sofa Sessions: local musicians in the studio beamed live into your lounge, or kitchen, or car...starting with this Blues Man Darren Watson with Terry Casey and Delia Shanley.

Stella McQueen is on the line from some where in Waikato. Our topic this evening is the grayling. New Zealand's only semi-vegetarian, fully protected and totally extinct native fish.

Dana Johannsen joins us again - in her sights this week Debbie Hockley and the personal abuse of sport commentators, the Blues performance at the weekend and of course, Lydia Ko.

After caring for his mother through her cancer, food writer Ryan Riley decided to set up Life Kitchen, a free UK-wide cookery class initiative to help people living with cancer focused on taste and flavour.

This week's something for the weekend involves a workshop for landowners who'd like more whitebait hanging out in there wetlands and streams - if they're lucky enough to have swamps and streams on their land.

Peggy Revell reports from Medicine hat in Alberta, Canada. Tonight she looks at the mass killing in Toronto; the horrific crash on April 6, where a bus filled with young hockey players on their way to a play-off game collided with a semi-trailer at a rural intersection in Saskatchewan; and Canada is just months away from cannabis being fully legal for recreational use.

Economist Brian Easton joins us in the studio. How will NZ's economy cope with the offshore oil and gas exploration ban and the transition to cleaner fuel? Is the coalition government right to stick to their own fiscal restraints?

Peter Lampp is back - this week he has the alarming drop in sports participation in his sights.

Methodist lay-preacher John Thornley joins us once again to explore the spiritual side of songs. In this episode he explores Rules of Engagement by Ria Hall and Che Fu.