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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
10:35 PM.Featuring tracks from Carly Rae Jepsen, Brittany Howard and Problems. Read more Audio
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Bike paths and music come together for free music festival
10:30 PM.Designed to be accessed by bike, scooter or on foot, Future Future includes four stages of music, as well as kai, markets, and workshops. Read more Audio
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Should AI portraits be eligible for an art prize?
10:17 PM.The Australian art world is aflutter with the announcement that the Brisbane Portrait Prize will accept entries that were "whole or in part by artificial intelligence". Read more Audio
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
9:30 PM.This week's picks from Dan Slevin include new Sofia Coppola film Priscilla, and two movies about life in freezing conditions: Society of the Snow and Mads Mikkelsen's classic Arctic. Read more Audio
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This Weekend: Lunar New Year celebrations kick off
9:15 PM.Lunar New Year is celebrated by billions of people all over the planet, including in Tāmaki Makaurau. Read more Audio
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Internet Archive embroiled in lawsuit
10:40 PM.It's one of the biggest online repositories of information in the world, but a court case brought by a group of book publishers in America has called its future into question. Read more Audio
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Dotterel minders put in time for endangered shorebird
10:30 PM.Clad in hi-vis, volunteers around the Hibiscus Coast are getting to work to protect the dotterel after a tough breeding season. Read more Audio
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NASA issues warning as stadium-sized asteroid passes by Earth
10:17 PM.Asteroid 2008 OS7 is expected to come within 2.8 million kilometres of Earth. Read more Audio
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Ockham Awards longlist celebrates best in Kiwi books
9:35 PM.New Zealand greats Catherine Chidgey, Damon Salesa and Tusiata Avia have all made the cut - with some exciting newcomers in the mix, too. Read more Audio
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I Was There When: Shortland Street first aired
9:15 PM.Don Reynolds was an executive at South Pacific Pictures when the idea of making a New Zealand soap opera first popped up. Read more Audio
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New Zealand region named one of the most welcoming in the world
10:45 PM.Otago was singled out as one of the top 10 destinations in the world for hospitality, service and accommodation. Read more Audio
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The art of giant puppeteering
10:30 PM.Made of over one kilometre of rope and more than 600 LED lights, giant puppet Leor is coming to Auckland's Aotea Square in February. Read more Audio
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'If general practice fails, the health system fails'
10:17 PM.General Practice New Zealand chair Dr Bryan Betty says a new report is warning that the sector's funding and staffing model is near crisis. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch
9:30 PM.Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about changes to the RNZ national schedule coming up next month - and an RNZ news story last weekend which promoted complaints. Also - an ex-MP opening up in… Read more Audio
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Why do we put on accents?
9:15 PM.Adopting an Australian twang when over the ditch, or making more rounded vowels when speaking to a Brit. Many of us do it without even noticing. Read more Audio
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New Zealand olive oil producers also feeling the climate pinch
10:45 PM.New Zealand produced close to 120,000 litres of olive oil in 2022. In 2023, that fell to 76,000. Read more Audio
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Why is olive oil so expensive?
10:30 PM.Matteo D'Elia says it's been tough for restaurants in the Italian town of Badalucco to keep up with the rising price of the region's most treasured delicacy. Read more Audio
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What 1924 thought 2024 would look like
10:17 PM.Newspapers from 100 years ago predicted what the year 2024 would look like. Many of the predictions were wrong. But some were right. Read more Audio
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Could Taylor Swift be the catalyst for AI regulation?
9:30 PM.Indecent, AI-generated photos of the global popstar have prompted US lawmakers to call for action on the burgeoning new technology. Read more Audio
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Shower Thoughts: Who picks the art in hospitals?
9:15 PM.Barbara Brinsley holds the esteemed title of aesthetics coordinator for the Dunedin Hospital and tells Nights about the benefits of having art on ward walls. Read more Audio
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BBC World
10:45 PM.Just before 11pm we will be crossing over to our friends at the BBC to take a look at some of the events making headlines internationally Tonight we're joined by Rob Hugh-Jones. Audio
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Sports with Bryan Waddle
10:30 PM.Big wins in test cricket, the Phoenix's continued success in the A League table, and Lydia Ko's second-place finish at the LPGA Tour. Read more Audio
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Regional public holidays: Do we need them?
10:17 PM.While Aucklanders rub their extra day off in other centres' faces, Lewis Holden reckons provincial holidays should be written off altogether. Read more Audio
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The 26-year old breaking new ground on gut health
9:30 PM.Peter Tremain is developing a probe-style device which can be sent into the gut through our mouths to measure electrical signals. Read more Audio
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Whakataukī of the week: 'Everyone's got their own place'
9:15 PM.Hospitality operator and te reo Maōri advocate Anton Matthews says his favourite whakataukī is about valuing people who work in the public eye just as much as those who work behind the scenes. Read more Audio