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Nights for Monday 6 March 2017

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7:12 Vinegar Valentines 

Annebella Pollen will be explaining Vinegar Valentines and why on earth people would be sending or creating these kinds of cards. 

7:35 Upbeat

Alternative folk group 9Bach perform songs rooted in Welsh culture.  Founded in 2005 by singer/songwriter/pianist Lisa Jen and guitarist Martin Hoylan the six piece band perform music reflective of their travels as well.

8:12 Nights' Science - Stella McQueen 

Stella shares a little something she found walking around. 

Inanga spawn on these extra-high tides, and being late summer, we are in the midst of their spawning season

Inanga eggs and a very large inanga that is *very* much ready to spawn

8:30 Window on the World

This week's BBC World Service Food Chain looks at why stories about food shortages take hold so quickly - whether they are true or not.

9:30 Insight
The foundation of health care in the community, family doctors, are unhappy.

They are tired of waiting for the Government to fix what they say are deep funding problems and disillusioned about the future if it continues.

10:17 Late Edition

A roundup of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International.

11:07 Nashville Babylon

Every week on Nashville Babylon Mark Rogers presents the very best in alt.country, Americana and  soul and blues… 

On this week's show Mark dips back to the very roots of country music with a tune from the Carter Family. There'll also be psych-blues from Captain Beefheart, funk from the Bar Kays, classics from Willie Nelson and Nina Simone plus solid Americana from Justin Townes Earle and Chris Mills.

In Nights with Bryan Crump  …after the 11 o'clock news