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Nights for Monday 8 May 2017

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7:12 The Museum of Failure 

Dr. Samuel West is the organisational psychologist behind the Museum of Failure. Where Failure is celebrated. 

This device is meant to make you look more youthful and beautiful - by giving the user electric shocks.

The inside of the electric shock mask (very inviting)

Kodak made one of the first digital cameras - but the company went bust because it didn't change it's business model.

Trump had a board game - enough said.

Harley Davidson fragrance? Didn't quite take off.

Coke 'BlaK' didn't quite become a household name

The Apple 'Netwon' was just an invention that didn't work at all.

7:35 Upbeat

Eva Radich caught up with Grammy Award winning British pianist Kathryn Stott who started her tour here  last week with a performance of Rachmaninov's 4th piano concerto with the APO; This week Kathryn is straight into Chamber Music New Zealand's tour with the New Zealand String Quartet.

8:06 Dear Mum 

As many of you will be aware, Sunday is Mother's Day, and whatever your feelings about commercialising motherhood many of us are more than happy to mark the day, or maybe get in touch, or at least think of our mothers with love and respect. 

To mark the day, this week on Nights we are featuring 'Dear Mum'  written and read by Steve Braunias. 

8:12 Nights' Science - Physics 

Shaun Hendy will be talking about New Zealand physicist John Ziman this week. 

8:30 Window on the World

There are good habits and bad habits. Ones that help us through the day and ones we can't control. Shiulie Ghosh explains the difference between these behaviors and why, one way or another, we are all creatures of habit.

9:30 Insight

This week on Insight, Kate Gudsell delves deeper into the Ministry for the Environment report on the state of New Zealand's freshwater and talks to experts, advocates and the community about just how polluted our waterways are.

10:17 Late Edition

A roundup of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Dateline Pacific from RNZ International.

11:07 Nashville Babylon

Nashville Babylon on just past 11.