Nights for Monday 5 December 2011

7:15 World's worst flu

Director of the Australian Army Malaria Institute, Prof. Dennis Shanks, is investigating the military connections to what was the world's most deadly influenza pandemic in 1918.

8:15 Windows on the World

International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.

8:40 Thinkers: Sociology

Dr Tracey McIntosh from The University of Auckland with why people do what we do. The notion of 'submerged citizenship': where groups that are marginalised due to ethnicity, poverty, sexual orientation, or religious belief are constrained in the way that they participate in broader society.

9 pm News and weather

9:06 Insight

9:40 Sport: Softball

Megan Tasker steps up to the plate as a member of New Zealand's Womens Softball Team, the White Sox.

10 pm Late Edition

A review of the 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 and weather

11:06 Beale Street Caravan

The best in blues from the Blues Foundation in Memphis.