Nights

The scruffy weed-filled corner of your yard could be the key to making a thriving garden. Eecologist Wendy Seabrook makes the case for weeds.

And now - something for the weekend - although possibly not a weekend in New Zealand. It's Carnival Season - most famously in places like New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro - but also in Germany And the German cities best know for carnival are Dussledorf and Colonge. Lisa Rockenbach is doing an internship in the cultural programme of the Goethe-Institut in New Zealand - when she's not in New Zealand she's doing media studies at the University of Colonge - so she know's all about Karneval Colonge style.

University of Auckland ethnomusicologist and Nights' cultural ambassador Dr Kirsten Zemke picks some homegrown hip-hop tracks.

The Norwegian consulate has brought an Exhibition of the slides used by Roald Amundsen in 1912 for his talks on how he won the race to the South Pole. The slides They'll be on display from 1 to 28 Feb in the Atrium of the School of Architecture & Design and have been curated by the Fram Museum in Oslo.

After giving up her childhood dream of becoming the world's greatest ballerina, Sacha Jones acquired a family, an education (PhD) and a job teaching politics. Nothing funny about that you'd think. Sacha begs to differ.

Dr Meredith Peddie from the Department of Human Nutrition at Otago University joins us to talk about the latest research which provides more incentives for desk-dwellers to get up and move.

Nights' Cultural Ambassador, Mona-Lynn Courteau, joins Bryan in RNZ's Auckland studio with a taste of the Cosquín National Folkloric Festival, Argentina - the biggest folkloric music festival in Latin America, lasting over 9 nights.

The multi-disciplinary Aotearoa New Zealand Ross Ice Shelf programme team have melted a hole through hundreds of metres of ice to explore beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf. Their measurements show that this hidden ocean is warming and freshening - but in ways they weren't expecting. NIWA's Dr Craig Stevens was in the team and joins us to tell us more.

Tonight we speak to Tanushree Gupta of Shree Dance Academy ahead or her free Bollywood Dance workshop in Palmerston North tomorrow.

With king tides causing problems around the country, Glen Rowe from the New Zealand Hydrographic Authority joins us to share his tidal knowledge.