Don Otter has recently moved from the Manawatu to Madison, where he is already known as the mad cyclist with all the flashing lights...

Don Otter has recently moved from the Manawatu to Madison, where he is already known as the mad cyclist with all the flashing lights... Photo: Don Otter

7:12 Madison Wisconsin
food scientist Don Otter and his wife Kirsten have decamped across the Pacific from the Manawatu to Madison, Wisconsin, where there is snow and the US presidential primaries...

7:35 Upbeat - Jason Henderson 
a feature interview encore from RNZ Concert with Eva Radich

8:12 Window on the World - El Nino
international public radio documentaries

8:43 Nights' Science - Astronomy
former Mt John University Observatory superintendent Alan Gilmore raises our gaze to the bodies floating in space... the (yet to be discovered) Ninth Planet of our Solar System...

science roster: Body Parts, Physics, Native Fish Ecology, Astronomy, Soil, Toxicology, Botany, Computer Science, Teeth Talk & World Weather

8:59 conundrum clue 1

9:10 Nights' Sport - Australia
point scoring across the ditch with ABC sports presenter Paul Kennedy... how quickly the tables have turned - cricket...

9:30 Insight - New Cancer Drugs and Funding Conundrums 
in-depth topical analysis from RNZ News

9:59 conundrum clue 2

10:17 Late Edition
a round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International

11:07 At the Eleventh Hour - Beale St Caravan 
music mainly from the North American continent

... nights' time is the right time...