Nights on RNZ National 
with skipper. Bryan Crump & navigator. Robyn Rockgirl Walker

On the show tonight (Monday)...

Grant Hoffman from Southland, the first Kiwi to recently be crowned Australian Backgammon champion, Nov 2015

Grant Hoffman from Southland, the first Kiwi to recently be crowned Australian Backgammon champion, Nov 2015 Photo: Grant Hoffman

7:12 BACKGAMMON'S BACK
the addictiveness of a board game (and what it takes to win at championships), with Grant Hoffman (on the right) from Southland, former New Zealand champ but the first Kiwi to be recently crowned Australian Backgammon champion...

7:35 Upbeat - Fiona McCabe
> feature interviews from RNZ Concert with Eva Radich

8:12 Windows on the World - Global Business: Former CEO Barclays, Antony Jenkins
> international public radio documentaries

8:43 The Scientists - COMPUTER SCIENCE
Prof. Mark Apperley from University of Waikato spreads out the silicon chips to expose how computers switch us on... human-computer interaction

roster: Alan Gilmore (Astronomy); Leo Schep (Toxicology); Bec Stanley (Botany); Mark Apperley (Computer Science); Don Otter (Food Technology); Erick Brenstrum (World Weather); Jean Fleming (Body Parts); Pierre Roudier (Soil Science); Shaun Hendy (Physics); & Stella McQueen (Native Fish Ecology)

8:59 conundrum clue 1

9:10 CONSERVATION OF MIGRATORY BIRDS
the greater need for international collaboration to ensure the protection of the world's migratory birds - with A.Prof James Watson, director of the Climate Change Initiative and Wildlife Conservation Society at The University of Queensland...

Exhausted juvenile godwit's newly arrived on Foxton Beach.

Exhausted juvenile godwit's newly arrived on Foxton Beach. Photo: Phil Battley

9:25 Insight - Albania -Shadows of the Past (BBC)
> in-depth topical analysis from RNZ News

9:55 Mini Drama - Old News pt 4 of 5

9:59 conundrum clue 2

10:17 Late Edition
> a round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International

11:07 The Eleventh Hour - Folk Alley 
> music from the American continent

... nights' time is the right time...