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Nights for Monday 5 September 2022

  • BBC look ahead

    10:45 PM.The announcement of Britains new Prime Minister is only an hour or so away - BBC's Rich Preston is with us now Audio

  • Nights Sport - Helene Elliot

    9:10 PM.Helene Elliot from the LA Times joins us once again. Read more Audio

  • The Music of Persia - Akram Banaee

    7:35 PM.Shahram Aryan is back once again to introduce us to more of the music of Persia. Tonight we listen to some Akram Banaee. Read more Audio

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  • The gendered differences of pain

    7:12 PM.Auckland neuroscientist Christine Ozolins joins us - she's been looking into how men and women experience pain differently - New research published in the journal 'Brain' reveals that men and women… Read more Audio

7:12 The gendered differences of pain

Auckland neuroscientist Christine Ozolins joins us - she's been looking into how men and women experience pain differently - New research published in the journal 'Brain' reveals that men and women are in fact wired differently when it comes to how genders respond to pain.

neuroscientist Christine Ozolins wearing a blue sweater stands in front of a large tree with some leave out of focus in the foreground

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7:35 The Music of Persia - Akram Banaee

Shahram Aryan is back once again to introduce us to more of the music of Persia.  Tonight we listen to some Akram Banaee.

Akram Banaee

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8:05 Little Moment of Calm

More Sublime sounds from Bryan's trusty sound recorder.

8:15 Pacific Waves

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Koroi Hawkins presents a daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in the world.

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8:30 Window on The World

Tonight on Science in Action: Hot on the tail of China's heatwave comes the other side of the extreme coin - tragic flooding. Also, a coming global shortage of sulfur, while scientists produce useful oxygen on Mars in the MOXIE experiment.

This handout photo obtained April 21, 2021 and released by NASA/JPL shows technicians in the clean room carefully lowering the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument into the belly of the Perseverance rover in the cleanroom at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California in March 2019. - NASA's Perseverance rover keeps making history. The six-wheeled robot has converted some carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into oxygen, the first time this has happened on another planet, the space agency said Wednesday. "This is a critical first step at converting carbon dioxide to oxygen on Mars," said Jim Reuter, associate administrator for NASA's space technology mission directorate. (Photo by Ryan LANNOM / various sources / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NASA/JPL / Ryan LANNOM " - NO MARKETING - NO...

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9:10 Nights Sport - Helene Elliot

Helene Elliot from the LA Times joins us once again.

USA's Serena Williams gets emotional in a post match interview after losing against Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic during their 2022 US Open Tennis tournament women's singles third round match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on September 2, 2022. (Photo by COREY SIPKIN / AFP)

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9:30 Climate Question

From our early history, humans have always prayed for rain. We've tried dances, ritual sacrifices and even blowing up the sky to boost rainfall. This might sound crazy but desperate times call for desperate measures. Can we engineer rain to help solve climate change?

Water splashing on an outstretched hand. (Photo by CRISTINA PEDRAZZINI/SCIENCE PHOT / CPD / Science Photo Library via AFP)

Photo: CRISTINA PEDRAZZINI/SCIENCE PHOT

10:17 Lately

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Lately with Karyn Hay is a late night radio show on RNZ National, with an eye on live events, an ear for music, a great sense of humour and a genuine interest in people and their stories.

11:07 Nashville Babylon

After 11, on this week's Nashville Babylon Mark Rogers has soul from Dusty Springfield and Otis Redding, a Beatles cover courtesy of Ike and Tina Turner, reggae from Milton Henry plus birthday tunes for Loudon Wainwright III.

Dusty Springfield and The Echoes at an NME concert in 1965

Dusty Springfield and The Echoes at an NME concert in 1965 Photo: Wikimedia Commons