Nights for Thursday 2 December 2010

7:15 Big Bush Cricket Balls

James Gilbert, evolutionary ecologist, University of Cambridge

The tuberous bush cricket and how evolution has endowed the male of the species with the largest known testes of any creature in relation to its body mass.

7:30 Spectrum

People, places and events in New Zealand.

8 pm News and Weather

8:15 Windows on the World

International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World webpage to find links to these documentaries.

8:45 Science: Energy Usage

Professor Ralph Sims, director of Centre for Energy Research, Massey University

The challenges of getting warm, keeping cool or just driving from point A to B... transport fuel costs.

8:59 Conundrum: Clue 7

9 pm News and Weather

9:06 Our Changing World

Radio New Zealand's science and environment programme.

9:59 Conundrum: Clue 8

10 pm News and Weather

10:17 Late Edition

A review of the leading news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.

11 pm News and Weather

11:06 The Music Mix

Nick Atkinson presents a contemporary music magazine with interviews and music from New Zealand and overseas artists, coverage of new releases, tours, live sessions, music festivals and events. (RNZ)