7:12 Finding Canterbury University's Historical Objects.

Ahead of their 150th Anniversary, Canterbury university is launching a survey of its historical objects! Teece Museum and Logie Collection Curator, Terri Elder, who will lead the survey joins us.

UC Arts City Location Manager Naomi van den Broek models a gown once worn on a daily basis by academic staff.

UC Arts City Location Manager Naomi van den Broek models a gown once worn on a daily basis by academic staff. Photo: University of Canterbury

Detail of a gown worn by Marion Steven – one of the many artefacts from University of Canterbury’s past.

Detail of a gown worn by Marion Steven – one of the many artefacts from University of Canterbury’s past. Photo: University of Canterbury

7:35 The Sampler

Nick Bollinger reviews the latest incarnation of a centuries-old New Orleans carnival tradition from The 79rs Gang, and some of the last recordings by the late African drumming genius Tony Allen.

Tony Allen

Tony Allen Photo: supplied

8:05 Song for The Road - Wellington Traffic

We're talking to some night time drivers about the music that keeps them trucking.

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Photo: AFP

If you're on the road in the dark and there's a particular piece of music you'd like to share with us, drop us a line at nights@rnz.co.nz

8:15 Dateline Pacific

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RNZ Pacific's daily current affairs programme covering the major Pacific stories of the week, with background and reaction from the people making the news.

8:30 Window on the World

The BBC's Katy Brand reveals how the fork shaped British table manners and, to this day, influences the taste of the food it ferries into our mouths.

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Photo: By Deavmi [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

9:10 Nights Sport

The ABC's Shannon Byrne joins us from Darwin with the latest sport from across the Tasman

9:30 Nights Gone By

We head back to September 2016 when Bryan spoke to self-described 'deathwalker' Zenith Virago who co-founded the Natural Death Care Centre in Byron Bay. She was the subject of the documentary Zen and the Art of Dying.

10:17 Lately

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Lately with Karyn Hay is a late night radio show on RNZ National, with an eye on live events, an ear for music, a great sense of humour and a genuine interest in people and their stories.

11:07 Nashville Babylon

On this week's show Mark has new music from Bob Dylan and Dan Penn, classic soul courtesy of the Staple Singers, a French / Canadian cover of Leonard Cohen's Suzanne plus a haunting instrumental from Chad Crouch's latest album.