Nights

This week's something for the weekend involves a lot of brass and ambasshore.. The New Zealand Army Band has two gigs on - tomorrow and Sunday - in Wellington. I promised you we'd try to squeeze as many members of the band into the studio we've got six lead by Major Graham Hickman:

Palmerston North raised journalist Motoko Kakubayashi now resides in Tokyo and joins us to talk about the widening child poverty gap in the country and how scammers in Japan have come up with new ways to trick people into giving up their money or their credit cards.

Spreading a layer of mulched vegetative material over the soil is the single best thing you can do for your garden, according to mulching educator and enthusiast Paul McLaren.

With New Zealand cities increasingly coming under pressure as growing numbers wish to live in urban areas, medium density housing is a concept gaining momentum globally and provides a solution to the space problem facing the world's largest cities. Tonight we host a special panel Discussion ahead of the ADNZ Medium Density Housing Summit.

Military Historan, Damien Fenton is in the studio to talk about the first two German Spring Offensives - Operations 'Michael' and 'Mars'.

Dr Sam Dean NIWA's Chief Scientist for Climate, Atmosphere and Hazards joins us to talk about the science of our long hot summer.

Peter Lampp us for a look at the Commonwealth Games, New Zealand netball and childhood obesity.

We talk to the organisers of this years Northland Car Clubs

Paul Berrington joins us with some more electronic gems - tonight he's talking about a term entitled "French touch".

Weeds are clearly flourishing in New Zealand gardens judging by the interest on RNZ Nights.Colin Meurk is back by popular demand to identify your weeds and to talk about Nights' NatureWatchNZ project.