Nights for Tuesday 16 September 2025
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Why we like playing games that let us pretend to work
9:25 PM.Games like Farmville, Tiny Bookshop, and Euro Truck Simulator 2 have millions of players worldwide. They all simulate doing jobs. Why do we find this so satisfying to act out? Read more Audio
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Shower Thoughts: How do you solve a cryptic crossword?
8:45 PM.After building a career in computers in the seventies, and a global rock climbing empire, Christchurch's Wendy Wethey is enjoying her third career bedeviling readers with her cryptic crossword clues.
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Where does dandruff end and sebhorreic dermatitis begin?
8:30 PM.Trichologist Nigel Russell joins Emile Donovan to talk all things scalp health. Read more Audio
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Should vaping be easier or harder to access?
8:10 PM.An Australian former health minister says New Zealand should be copying Australia's move to make vape products harder to access. Emeritus professor of public health Ruth Bonita is a vape advocate, and… Read more Audio
8:10 Should vaping be easier or harder to access?
An Australian former health minister says New Zealand should be copying Australia's move to make vape products harder to access.
New Zealand's daily vaping rates have surged from one percent of the population ten years ago to more than 11 percent now. Simultaneously, the number of people smoking cigarettes has deflated, from 16.4 percent of the population to 6.9 percent in the past fifteen years.
If New Zealand makes it harder to access vape products, one of the most popular smoking cessation devices, will we risk our smoking rates rising, and with them, our rate of preventable smoking-related deaths?
Emeritus Professor of public health at the University of Auckland Ruth Bonita joins Emile Donovan to discuss.
Photo: Richard R. Schünemann / Unsplash
8:25 The House
Louis Collins looks at Question Time and the tactics that some of Parliament's best practitioners of questions and answers use.
8:30 Where does dandruff end and sebhorreic dermatitis begin?
Trichologist Nigel Russell joins Emile Donovan to talk all things scalp health.
Photo: ALICE S.
8:45 Shower Thoughts: How do you solve a cryptic crossword?
Every Tuesday, we find an expert to answer curious questions about the world and how it works.
Tonight, cryptic crossword writer Wendy Wethey joins Emile Donovan to explain the common tricks behind solving cryptic crossword clues.
Photo: 123RF
9:05 Nights Quiz
Do you know your stuff? Come on the air and be grilled by Emile Donovan as he dons his quizmaster hat.
If you get an answer right, you move on to the next question. If you get it wrong, your time in the chair is up, and the next caller will be put through. The person with the most correct answers at the end of the run goes in the draw for a weekly prize.
9:25 Why we like playing games that let us pretend to work
Video games are a way to unwind and give our brains a break at the end of a working day. Why, then, are some of the world's most popular games labour simulators?
Games like Farmville, Tiny Bookshop, and Euro Truck Simulator 2 have millions of players worldwide. They all simulate doing jobs. Why do we find this so satisfying to act out?
Dr Owen Brierley is a game designer and scholar at Kingston University London's school of art. He joins Emile Donovan to discuss.
Photo: Farmville
9:45 Pacific Waves
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. Hosted by Susana Suisuiki.
10:17 The Detail: Politics sink landfill-saving law
It's still not clear exactly why the Greens' Right to Repair Bill faltered at select committee stage, after extensive cross-party collaboration on the details. Alexia Russell reports.
10:45 The Reading
Tonight, the first episode of the late Peter Vere-Jones reading 'The Road to Tokamairiro' by Lawrence Patchett.
11:07 Worlds of Music
Trevor Reekie hosts a weekly music programme celebrating an eclectic mix of trans global music, fusion and folk roots.
