Nights for Monday 17 January 2011

9:25 PM.The ventriloquist of the vernacular on new developments in New Zealand slang. Audio

9:06 PM.Rewriting history to consider what would have happened if the Muldoon government's Think Big projects were more successful. Audio

8:40 PM.Two blues aficionados recall the influential visit of Muddy Waters to New Zealand in 1973. Audio

7:33 PM.Opetaia Foa'i, the songwriter and leader of Te Vaka, talks about the Pacific band's plans for 2011. Audio

7:10 PM.A British epidemiologist who researches and writes HIV and AIDS in third world countries. Her website and book is called 'Wisdom of Whores'. Audio