Nights for Tuesday 23 February 2016

Yvonne van Dongen on her travels in the late 1970s Photo: Yvonne van Dongen

7:12 Our Own Odysseys - Lucky Letter
a friendly introductory letter written by Yvonne van Dongen helped her get the assistance she needed when she happen to contract amoebic dysentery in Burma or possibly Calcutta when travelling in the late 1970s...

7:30 The Sampler 
music album reviews & music discussion with Nick Bollinger

8:12 Window on the World - The Mechanic and the Mission
international public radio documentaries

8:43 Nights' Pundit - Left Thinking
University of Otago political historian A.Prof Brian Roper deconstructs public policies from around the globe... the politics of Senator Bernie Sanders, America's longest-serving independent politician in Congress and a candidate for president in 2016...

pundit roster: Economics, Philosophy, Right Thinking, Military History, Feminism, Left Thinking, Mathematics, NZ History, Religion & Kai A Miro (Maori Issues) 

8:59 conundrum clue 3 Photo: AFP/FILE

9:07 Tuesday Feature - Reith Lecture 2016 pt 2 of 2: Stephen Hawking - Black holes ain't as black as they are painted

Stephen Hawking Photo: AFP

9:59 conundrum clue 4

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 - The Shed 
music from a myriad of cultures

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