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Nights for Monday 27 August 2012

  • Conundrum

    11:06 PM.Clue number 2. Audio

  • Rights of Non-Human persons

    9:12 PM.Prof. Thomas White explains why dolphins, porpoises and whales should have equivalent rights as human beings. Audio

  • Conundrum

    8:59 PM.Clue number 1. Audio

  • Thinkers: Politically Right

    8:42 PM.Rodney Hide economist, home renovator and former politician on the rationales of individual freedom and responsibility. Audio

  • Sport - South Africa

    7:12 PM.With one eye on the scrum and the other on the line-out it's South African sports writer Mike Greenaway. Audio

7:15 Sport: South Africa

With one eye on the scrum and the other on the line-out it's South African sports writer Mike Greenaway... five of the six medals won by South Africa at the Olympics were in the water  the Proteas wrap up in England.

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.

8:40pm Thinkers: Politically Right

Rodney Hide economist, home renovator and former politician on the rationales of individual freedom and responsibility... Friedrich Hayek, economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism.

The Use of Knowledge in Society, an essay by Friedrich Hayek

9 pm News and weather

9:10 Rights of Non-Human Persons

Professor Thomas White, director at the Centre for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University, supports the proposal of the 'Declaration of Cetacean Rights' and explains why dolphins, porpoises and whales should have the same rights as human beings.

In Defense of Dolphins by Thomas I. White

10 pm 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 pm News and weather

11:06 Beale Street Caravan

The best in blues from the Blues Foundation in Memphis.