Melody Thomas

Fergus Barrowman is in the studio once again with his top picks from the world of jazz. Tonight's playlist: Unwind (Meehan, Chisholm, Dyne, Dyne), Saffron (Rattle, 2020) Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain &amp… Video, Audio

Tonight (27th February) offers a particularly good opportunity to see SpaceX Starlink satellite chains in the sky. Dr Duncan Steel is a space scientist and astronomer based in Nelson and he tells… Audio

Mona-Lynn Courteau joins us once again with a selection of music from South America. Tonight she'll be introducing us to Criolo from Brazil, who will play at Auckland's Powerstation on March 21. Video, Audio

Director and choreographer Malia Johnston makes her Nights debut as out cultural ambassador for dance. Tonight she's taking a look at current influences in contemporary dance in Aotearoa and is joined… Audio

Dianne Daniels is Programme Director for Digital Wings, a charitable trust that works with business and public sector organisations to donate quality IT equipment to charities and community… Audio

Wednesday is National Anaesthesia Day. A surgical risk calculator has been launched that uses unique New Zealand data so Kiwis can better understand the risks versus the benefits of the operation they… Video, Audio

Nadia shows us the places that mean the most to her, and takes a trip down memory lane, returning to the high school where she discovered her love of folk music and formed a bond with other musicians.

Sex positivity is the idea that all sex, provided it's healthy and explicitly consensual, is good. But what happens when a complicated theoretical idea like sex positivity gets packaged up for the… Audio

What you think of as kinky and what I think of as kinky might be two different things, but it generally means behaviours and fantasies outside of the sexual 'norm'. In this episode, Melody talks with… Audio

It's a BANG! takeover!

RNZ Nights host Bryan Crump is joined in the studio by Melody Thomas and father-daughter sex advice duo Nic and Lena Beets, to answer questions from the audience and talk about… Audio

Recorded at Bats Theatre in Wellington as part of the NZ Fringe Festival, this is BANG! Live. Featuring Tawa mum and sex toy expert Abby Lund, Morgana Watson on menstruation in Te Ao Maori prior to… Audio

Ethical non monogamy is nothing new - but an increasing number of people are giving it a go. Research from the US reports that 4-5% of people identify as polyamorous, and 20% have tried a version of… Audio

In Sex At Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality, co-authors Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha take what they call the "standard narrative" of human sexual evolution and re-examine it… Audio

We all know how it goes - two people meet, they fall in love, they decide to get married and live happily ever after. We've heard different versions of this story so many times, many of us never stop… Audio

Research shows that putting a name to a feeling helps manage it. In this episode, three BANG! listeners talk about things they've struggled with and the steps they've taken to deal with them, plus… Audio