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About Nights

Tune in for the week-nightly voyage of attitude, longitude and latitude...

The Nights Crew

Nights skipper Bryan Crump like maps, travelling (by train, bike and armchair) and puttering with sound (see his bio for ongoing relationship with tape recorders).

Nights navigator Robyn Rockgirl Walker is partial to scrumptious Kiwi music, tasty Asian food and her evil side takes great pleasure in confounding the nation with a seemingly unrelated selection of random statements.

Possibly the most geographically literate pairing in Radio New Zealand National history, Bryan and Robyn Rockgirl are the radio beacons to enlighten and entertain your evenings.

Nights Regular Guests

Monday 8:42-9pm... Thinkers

Religion (Religions in New Zealand): Paul Morris (VIC)
Politically Right: Luke Malpass (CIS)
Philosophy: Ann Kerwin (AUT)
Economics: Neville Bennett (NBR)
NZ History: Jock Phillips (Te Ara)
Politically Left: Brian Roper (Otago)
Sociology: Tracey McIntosh (Akld)

Monday 9:40-10pm... Sport

Sport History: Joseph Romanos (The Wellingtonian)
Sport AUS: Paul Kennedy (ABC)
Sport UK: Richard Fleming (BBC)
Sport SA: Mike Greenaway (Natal Mercury)
Sport US: Helene Elliott (The LA Times)

Tuesday 8:40-9pm... The World at Night (overseas correspondents)

Chile: Terri Anderson - Santiago
Bangladesh: Mahtab Haider - Dhaka
Midwest USA: Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell - Arkansas
Palestine: Lana Shaheen - Gaza
Uganda: Daniel Kalinaki - Kampala
Indonesia: Rebecca Henscheke - Jakarta
Austria: Matthias Wurz - Vienna
Mexico: Susana Seijas - Mexico City
Israel: Liat Collins - Jerusalem
Japan: Motoko Kakubayashi - Tokyo
Russia: Neil McGowan - Moscow

Wednesday 8:40-9pm... Arts

Classical: Kate Mead (RNZ Concert)
Video Gaming: Matt McGuire
NZ Music Pop History: Chris Bourke
Poetry: Cliff Fell (NMIT)
Hip Hop: Kirsten Zemke (Akld)
Home Cinema: Miles Buckingham
Americana: John Pilley (RNZ National)
Visual Art: Emma Bugden (Dowse)
Jazz: Fergus Barrowman

Thursday 8:42pm-9pm... Science

Physics (how things work): Shaun Hendy (IRL)
Toxicology (what's your poison): Leo Schep (Otago)
Earth Sciences: Hamish Campbell (GNS)
Chemistry: Nicola Gaston (IRL)
World Weather: Erick Brenstrem (MetService)
Astronomy: Alan Gilmore (Canterbury)
Body Parts (development): Jean Fleming (Otago)

Nights Conundrum

The Nights' Conundrum is a week-long brainteaser - confounding you is our pleasure!

Eight rather lateral clues are offered Monday to Thursday, two a night, one before the nine o'clock news, the other before ten.

Solve the clues, put the pieces together, send us your answer along with your name, hometown and song choice (in case you get the answer right and then get picked out of a hat).

On Friday, just before nine o'clock news, one smart cookie will get their song played...

Nights Online

Other than the web page radionz.co.nz/nights from which you can listen to and/or download the audio of interviews from the last week or so... you can keep updated and interact with what's happening with the show via…

Facebook: Nights on Radio New Zealand National

Twitter: RNZNights

However, queries are still best directed at nights@radionz.co.nz and we adore getting postcards!!! send with stamp to:

Nights on Radio New Zealand National, PO Box 123, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

The Team

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Produced by Robyn Walker

Email: nights@radionz.co.nz

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Fax: +64 (0)4 474 1876
Phone: +64 (0)4 474 1469
Post: Nights, Radio New Zealand National, PO Box 123 Wellington, New Zealand

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Our Own Odysseys

Tuesdays at 7:12pm

Kiwis are infamous for being found wandering in all sorts of far flung places…

Nights, being adventurous types ourselves, is keen to have you share the colourful and curious tales of your interesting journeys… the places you've seen, the people you've met, the food you tasted - recently or expeditions you've had in times gone by - a trek you took either by foot or pedal or kayak or ship or sail or train, in the 21st or 20th century…

Our Own Odysseys on Tuesday evenings at about a quarter past seven. Please do get in touch to reminisce on the wonders of the world that were encountered while you either cycled through Cambodia, kayaked down the Amazon, hiked through Wales, scrambled up Kilimanjaro, sailed to the Seychelles, flew by hot air balloon over Mongolia etc, etc nights@radionz.co.nz

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