Nights for Monday 5 August 2013

7:10 Sport - South East Asia

Surveying the action from the stands is Bangkok-based sports correspondent James Goyder. EPL football teams are touring Asia; and things get out of hand for two Thai badminton players who competed at the Olympics.

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 - Politically From The Right

Rodney Hide – economist, home renovator and former politician – on the rationales of individual freedom and responsibility, and New Zealand's property market.

9:10 Feature guest - Raising the Big Top

Why do circuses and circus folk keep 'coming to town' when challenges to their very existence continue to mount up? With Professor Ron Beadle, director of Research Ethics at Northumbria University.

Link: For love not money – what keeps circuses on the road?

10:00 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.

11:06 Beale Street Caravan

Live performances drawn from concerts recorded in the US for The Blues Foundation, which is based in Memphis Tennessee. This week, Memphis piano legend Jason D Williams. He's a consummate showman and each Christmas he puts on a benefit show that he calls 'Jinglebilly'. This 2012 show is extra special with some superstar guests – the country/rockabilly legends Dale Watson and Sleepy LaBeef.