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7:12 PM.We're kicking off with some Jazz this evening. Nights' cultural ambassador Fergus Barrowman joins us with the best of Jazz music including music from the Bobo Stenson Trio. Audio

7:12 PM.Women are now the fastest growing demographic in a sport that, from the outside, seems pretty male-dominated. We talk to Belinda Thomas, one of New Zealand's most accomplished fly-fishers. Audio

9:11 PM.Peter Lampp talks sport and he's very excited about our Olympic speed skaters, but rather underwhelmed by our cricket venues. Audio

7:12 PM.The Contours of Heaven combines the forms of verbatim theatre, live vocal harmonies and movement, to tell the real stories of six young people from Te Matau a Māui, The Hawkes Bay.

Director Puti… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.We're very excited Karyn Hay is joining the Nights team starting next week. Her new show Lately with Karyn Hay will have an eye on live events, an ear for music, a great sense of humour and a genuine… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.In the first study of its kind, Dr Chris Bowden, who is a lecturer in Victoria's School of Education, found that young men aged between 17-25 who lost a close male friend to suicide, suffered, grieved… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Nights' big league botanist, Bec Stanley from Auckland Botanic Gardens joins us to share her expertise on the oomycete that's killing trees. What is it and what can we do about it? Audio

7:12 PM.Jamie Wood from Manaaki Whenua/Landcare Research joins us to talk about a study of DNA found in fossilized Moa droppings - and the understanding that has been gained in terms of the impact extinction… Read more Audio

8:08 PM.Making her debut on Nights as our new feminist pundit - replacing Deborah Russell, who is now a Labour MP - the MP for New Lynn - is the Tamaki Makaurau based writer, critic and student, Miriama… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Stella McQueen brings this week's after dinner science: native fish - and what happens when their environment heats up during the summer - or worse - drys out Audio

8:10 PM.And now - something for the weekend - although possibly not a weekend in New Zealand. It's Carnival Season - most famously in places like New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro - but also in Germany And the… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.University of Auckland ethnomusicologist and Nights' cultural ambassador Dr Kirsten Zemke picks some homegrown hip-hop tracks. Audio

7:12 PM.The Norwegian consulate has brought an Exhibition of the slides used by Roald Amundsen in 1912 for his talks on how he won the race to the South Pole. The slides They'll be on display from 1 to 28 Feb… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Dr Meredith Peddie from the Department of Human Nutrition at Otago University joins us to talk about the latest research which provides more incentives for desk-dwellers to get up and move. Audio

8:07 PM.Nights' Cultural Ambassador, Mona-Lynn Courteau, joins Bryan in RNZ's Auckland studio with a taste of the Cosquín National Folkloric Festival, Argentina - the biggest folkloric music festival in Latin… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.The multi-disciplinary Aotearoa New Zealand Ross Ice Shelf programme team have melted a hole through hundreds of metres of ice to explore beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf. Their measurements show… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Tonight we speak to Tanushree Gupta of Shree Dance Academy ahead or her free Bollywood Dance workshop in Palmerston North tomorrow. Audio

8:08 PM.With king tides causing problems around the country, Glen Rowe from the New Zealand Hydrographic Authority joins us to share his tidal knowledge. Audio

8:10 PM.Liat Collins joins us with an update from Israel. Audio