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Nights for Monday 18 February 2013

  • Conundrum

    11:06 PM.Clue 2. Audio

  • Penicillin not The Pill

    9:10 PM.Did the antibiotic drug penicillin launch western civilisation's sexual revolution of the late 1950s and into the 1960s, rather than the birth control pill? Associate Professor Andrew Francis from the… Read more Audio

  • Conundrum

    8:59 PM.Clue 1. Audio

  • Pundit - History of Science

    8:40 PM.Philosopher Professor Alan Musgrave from the University of Otago on the science of Sir Issac Newton. Audio

  • Sport - South Africa

    7:10 PM.Joining us for the first time is our South African sports correspondent from the SABC, Beverley Maphangwa. Audio

7:15 Sport - South Africa

Ahead of the pack is our South African sports correspondent from the SABC, Beverley Maphangwa.

7:30 Insight

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 Pundit - History of Science

Before our own times, there were three great revolutions in scientific thought: the Copernican Revolution (c. 1550-1650), the Chemical Revolution (c. 1750-1800), and the Darwinian Revolution (c. 1850-1900);

Philosopher Prof. Alan Musgrave from the University of Otago on the science of Sir Issac Newton.

9 pm News and weather

9:10 Penicillin not The Pill

Did the antibiotic drug penicillin launch western civilisation's sexual revolution of the late 1950s and into the 1960s, rather than the birth control pill? With A.Prof Andrew Francis from the Department of Economics of Emory University.

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

Live performances drawn from concerts recorded in the US for The Blues Foundation who are based in Memphis Tennessee.