Nights for Tuesday 12 August 2008

7 pm News & Weather

7:15 Plant Families - A

Professor Susan Dudley Evolutionary Plant Biologist, Canada.

7:30 The Sampler

8 pm News & Weather.

8:15 Windows on the World:

International public radio documentaries.

8:45 Beijing/China Report

Jon Dow, Correspondent

8:59 Conundrum: Clue 3

9 pm Weather

9:06 Tuesday Feature

BBC Reith Lectures 2008(Pt 4 of 4, BBC)

9:59 Conundrum - Clue 4

10 pm News & Weather.

10:17 Late Edition:

A review of the leading news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.

11 pm News & Weather

11:06 Charlie Gillett's World of Music (BBC World Service)

11:30 Master of Paxwax

The first book of Phillip Mann's sci-fi epic - set far in the future when the human race controls the galaxy after ruthlessly dominating all alien life. The aliens have been waiting and watching, preparing for the time when they will strike back (RNZ)