Nights for Monday 26 December 2011

7:12 PM.Sex therapist and educator Dr Rosie King has advice for couples dealing with prostate cancer. Audio

7:15 PM.Does the new super-computer have enough processing power to find out how our universe began, we talk with Dr David Bacon from the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth Audio

7:18 PM.Bryan talks to Douglas Wright, a dancer and choreographer from Taukau. Audio

11:35 PM.Nigel Roberts has long been a rambunctious lad - at the age of fifteen he hitch-hiked nearly six thousand miles from Johannesburg to Mount Kilimanjaro and back. Audio

8:30 PM.Professor Joe Mayhew from Massey's Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences explains the differences and problems animals can have in regards to their hearing. Audio

7:18 PM.Mark Coles has been hosting World of Music. Now the BBC World Service have terminated this long running music show, he reflects on his time with the show. Audio

7:10 PM.Over the summer Chris Foot attempted to become the first person to walk solo to the South Pole and back again - walking that is - from the edge of Antarctica. Audio

7:13 PM.Jeanette Aplin has penned how life on a island can unexpectedly revolve around rearing native pigs. Audio

7:20 PM.With a fascination for magic, philosophy, physics and turtles, we go beyond Discworld with the author himself. Read more Audio

8:35 PM.How the cricket match John Popham organised at Wray village in Lancashire is part of a campaign for better rural broadband in Great Britain. Audio

7:15 PM.Sam Hunt: Purple Balloon and Other Stories is a biographical documentary just released that explores how Sam reflects the New Zealand landscape, we chat with the man himself... Audio

8:30 PM.Ken and Julia Yonetani have developed 'Still Life' an exhibition of sculptures made out of groundwater salt. Audio

7:15 PM.How Sri Lanka has progressed from colonial times, through a protracted civil war to it's current independence. Insights on how the country can progress into the future with Emeritus Prof. Laksiri… Read more Audio

7:16 PM.Mars Exploration landing site scientist Dr Matthew Golombek studies rocks on Mars via the Opportunity rover, that is soon rolling into a known area of interest, perhaps months before the brand… Read more Audio

8:42 PM.The Aral Sea in Central Asia is now in its death throes. Examining the impact is our correspondent Tara Fitzgerald. Audio

7:12 PM.There Once Was an Island director Briar March talks about the people of Takuu atoll and the impact that climate change is having on their home and way of life. Audio

7:18 PM.Australasian Computer Music conference speaker, Dr Gerardo Dirie from the Queensland Conservatorium of Griffith University, about contemporary electroacoustic music and how being Argentinian… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Last year Chris Abel and two fellow kiwis drove a de-commissioned ambulance from Dublin to Mongolia and then donated the ambulance to a children's charity. Audio

7:08 PM.Bryan speaks with Austrian Commodity Analyst Ronald Stoferle about the history and future of gold. Audio

7:20 PM.Marine Physicist Craig Stevens reports on his latest oceanographic research. Audio

8:35 PM.For three northern hemisphere summers in a row, Kiwi Lise Mackie co-ordinated vacations for a wealthy Saudi family. She told us all about her experiences. Audio

7:15 PM.What led Caroline Brothers to write Hinterland, a novel which reflects the grim issues of child refugees existing throughout Europe. Audio

7:20 PM.Over the last four decades Natural History New Zealand cameraman Max Quinn has roamed extreme environments to capture elusive wildlife, particularly the polar regions. Audio

8:35 PM.The history of America's Buffalo Soldiers and their contribution to making the Western Frontier safe, fictionalised by Erich Hicks in Rescue at Pine Ridge. Audio

8:40 PM.Australia's National Film and Sound Archive senior curator of sound Matthew Davies about how and why Kylie Minogue (as well as nine other historical moments) made it onto the Sounds of Australia list.

7:12 PM.Gregory Whitmore is a photographer, cinematographer and media archivist for projects such as Kabul Transit and Biosphere 2, but then there is the story of Jerry Gretzinger and his map. Audio

7:10 PM.For one memorable summer month, Sandy Myhre decided to see another side of the Mediterranean by travelling as a piece of 'freight' on the large Italian ship Grande Ellande. Audio

7:20 PM.For more than thirty years Bill Tarmey did Jack. Playing Jack Duckworth on Coronation Street. Bryan Crump spoke to Bill Tarmey at his home in Manchester, England and asked him if he knew what he was… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Photographer Ans Westra and the re-publishing of her iconic publication Washday at the Pa, 47 years on from when it unconsciously captured New Zealand's social and cultural issues of the time. Audio

7:15 PM.Left and right forecasts with University of Otago political historian Brian Roper and liberal thinker Luke Malpass. Where will New Zealand sit within the global political economy over the next 50… Read more Audio