7:10 USA Sports Correspondent

LA Times sports journalist Helene Elliott has a penchant for fast-moving competitions where pucks are hit by sticks. The LA Dodgers promote baseball outside America; and the LA Lakers are having one of their worst seasons ever – many fans had hoped that their former coach, Phil Jackson, would come back and rescue the team. However, he has just agreed to instead become an executive with the New York Knicks.

7:30 Insight

8:15 Windows on the World

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

8:40 Pundit - Life And Times Of The Long White Cloud

General editor of Te Ara, historian Jock Phillips on those defining moments that made New Zealand, New Zealand. It's been a catalogue of castaways on the Sub-Antarctic Islands.

9:10 The Ukrainian Peoples

The modern day Ukrainian and how the people of Crimea relate to being part of this republic – with Ukrainian Studies Prof. Marko Pavlyshyn of Monash University.

10:00 Late Edition

A review of the 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.

11:06 Beale Street Caravan

David Knowles introduces the Memphis-based radio show with an international reputation for its location recordings of blues musicians live in concert (9 of 13, BSC)