7:15 Sport - Australia

Keeping score across the ditch is ABC sports journalist Paul Kennedy... Australian Tennis Open, cricket is wrapping up for the summer and the boxing match between Mundine v Geale to be held on 30 January is a real contest worth previewing.

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.

8:40 Pundit - Philospohy

Indie philosopher Ann Kerwin often muses on how, what, and why we think what we do... the work of American Catholic priest, Oriental scholar and ecotheologian who died, at 94, in 2009, Thomas Berry.

9 pm News and weather

9:10 Trawling The Trench

NIWA principal scientist Malcolm Clark is en route to the Kermadec Trench aboard the research vessel Kaharoa to search for undiscovered life in deep-sea habitats.

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

Live performances drawn from concerts recorded in the US for The Blues Foundation who are based in Memphis Tennessee.