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The clouded legacy of Dr Truby King
9:25 PM.Emeritus Professor of History Barbara Brookes, who wrote King's entry for the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio
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BBC World News with Rob Hugh Jones
8:45 PM.Rob Hugh Jones from the BBC World Service joins Nights to take a look at some of the events making international headlines. Read more Audio
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Sports with Jamie Wall
8:40 PM.RNZ sports journalist Jamie Wall talks with Emile Donovan about the biggest stories in the sporting world. Read more Audio
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Small Histories of New Zealand with Emma Kay
8:30 PM.This week Emma has been combing the archives of the personal advertisements also known as the classifieds of papers past. Read more Audio
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One year since fall of Syrian leader as humanitarian crisis remains
8:10 PM.Founder & Executive Director of ReliefAid, Mike Seawright joins Emile Donovan.to discuss on-going crisis. Read more Audio
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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
9:25 PM.Tonight, new music from Dudley Benson, Andrew Keoghan, and Agriculture. Read more Audio
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
8:40 PM.Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review new fantasy rom-com Eternity, Winner of this week's New York Film Critics Circle award for Best First Film Eephus and the Daniel Craig Bond… Read more Audio
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The Weekend: Wellington Bike Rave
8:30 PM.Wellington's Light the Lanes Bike Rave is being organised by Darcy Snell, who joins Emile Donovan to preview the excitement. Read more Audio
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Walking 144 kilometres in impeccable vintage
8:20 PM.Russell artist Jacqui Madelin is walking 12 kilometres for 12 days to fundraise for Project Island Song, but she's doing so in style. She joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio
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Words of greeting and words of the year
Linguist Rory O’Sullivan joins the show to give us his take on email etiquette and various dictionaries' words of the year for 2025. Read more Audio
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Bush poet celebrating 125 years of Banjo Paterson with one-man show
9:20 PM.Gregory is touring a one-man show to mark 125 years since Paterson's 1901 Boer War lecture series in New Zealand and Australia. Read more Audio
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Laser Kiwi: From flag design to icon
While her design never came close to becoming the official flag, Lucy Gray has certainly left a lasting impact. She chats with Emile about the legacy of Laser Kiwi, 10 years on. Read more Audio
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The dos & don'ts of Secret Santa
8:30 PM.For all the answers, Chief MyHR Evangelist Sylvie Thrush Marsh joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio
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IKEA opens its modular doors to Auckland
8:10 PM.The prime minister was there, a giant Swedish meatball mascot was there, and so was Nights' traffic correspondent Hayden Donnell. Read more Audio
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What we borrowed from the library in 2025
9:25 PM.Emile Donovan speaks to Auckland Libraries Manager of Public Engagement Krissy Taylor. Read more Audio
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Science with Ezzy Pearson
9:10 PM.Tonight she's talking about Mayan cosmology, tiny T-Rex and gravitational waves. Read more Audio
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New Zealand's obsession with property might finally be coming to an end
8:10 PM.Duncan Greive asks whether our collective fear of sharemarkets is finally recovering from the eighties. Read more Audio
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Rhian Sheehan: Putting sound to space
9:25 PM.Wellington-based composer Rhian Sheehan has featured everywhere from BBC documentaries to National Geographic and Netflix, as well as across our screens here in Aotearoa. Read more Audio
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Shower Thoughts: Why does frozen ice cream get harder?
8:50 PM.To help answer this we're joined again by friend of the show, Professor Richard Easther, from the University of Auckland. Read more Audio
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The man who came close to designing New Zealand's official flag
8:30 PM.Ten years ago, New Zealand started the process of picking - and ultimately not picking - a new flag. Designer Kyle Lockwood was at the centre of it all. Read more Audio
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'Wicked' problems need a new approach
8:10 PM.Former chief science advisor and now Director of the Koi Tū Centre for Informed Futures, Sir Peter Gluckman, says we can't begin to solve New Zealand's problems without what he calls consensual… Read more Audio
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Sheila Fitzpatrick: The death and lasting legacy of Stalin
9:25 PM.In her latest book, Sheila Fitzpatrick, one of the world's leading scholars on the history of the Soviet Union, examines both the immediate aftermath of Stalin's death and his surprising influence in… Read more Audio
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BBC World Service Lookahead with Rob Hugh-Jones
Tonight, he’ll discuss the deadly flooding in Asia, the latest negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, and the upcoming draw for next year’s World Cup. Read more Audio
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Sports with Jamie Wall
8:35 PM.RNZ sports journalist Jamie Wall talks with Emile Donovan about the biggest stories in the sporting world. Tonight, sports gambling. Read more Audio
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History with Emma Kay
8:30 PM.Tonight she's talking about how the newspapers reported the 1893 election, the first time women voted in Aotearoa. Read more Audio