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9:08 PM.The Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts has pivoted into the digital realm at speed. This includes the world of chamber music! Artistic Directors of the Adam Chamber Music Festival and members… Read more Audio

7:14 PM.The story of the HMS New Zealand in WWI has captured imaginations in Aotearoa for over 100 years. Lewis Griffiths has written a new novel titled The Bell That Never Rang which imagines the life on… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Philosopher Ann Kerwin joins Bryan to discuss time amangement in the 21st century, and whether or not it really exists! Read more Audio

9:12 PM.Australian sporting journalist Shannon Byrne joins Bryan to discuss the reaction to the death of Shane Warne, the beginning of the Women's World Cup cricket tournament and Finals footy in Darwin. Read more Audio

7:27 PM.RNZ Concert's Shahram Aryan joins Bryan to discuss the life and work of Esmat Bagherpour also known as Delkash. Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Aotearoa artists turn out a staggering amount of work, of a consistently high quality. The Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare O Rehua Whanganui is celebrating ten years of that work in its region with an… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:35 PM.Motoko Kakubayashi joins us from Tokyo with an update on the latest news from Japan and an introduction to the minefeild that is schoolbags for japanese children! Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Professor of Film and Popular Culture at Auckland University of Technology joins us to chat about the true rise of streaming and SVOD (subscription video on demand )… Read more Audio

7:10 PM.University of Canterbury Ahorangi Professor Bronwyn Hayward, is a coordinating lead author of the 2022 IPCC report and co-leading the global chapter on Cities and infrastructure. She joins us to talk… Read more Audio

9:10 PM.Professor Steve Brusatte, a paleontologist in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh and the National Museums Scotland joins us to talk about the recent discovery on the Isle of Skye… Read more Audio

7:14 PM.We chat to conductor Gemma New following the announcement of her appointment as Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor for NZSO. Read more Audio

7:13 PM.Over the last month or two, there has been a lot of press coverage of the new James Webb Space Telescope, and quite a lot of that coverage has mentioned the fact that the telescope is going to "sit at… Read more Audio

7:32 PM.Paul Berrington joins us once again with another helping of delicious electronica. Tonight he takes a look at the work of András, AKA Andrew Wilson, a Melbourne-based DJ and producer. Read more Video, Audio

7:13 PM.NIWA's Craig Stevens is just back from another trip to the Ross Ice Shelf - discovering an under-ice river and some unexpected marine life. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:40 PM.Our overseas correspondent in Canada, Peggy Revell joins us from Medicine Hat, Alberta. Read more Audio

7:39 PM.Podiatrist Emma Worthington is back to make sure we're all looking after our feet - post summer. Read more Audio

7:13 PM.Nights' Forest Correspondent, Dean Baigent-Mercer joins us once again. Tonight he takes a look at new native forests - the fire-resistant ones be need to plant as permanent carbon sinks and the native… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Writer Diana Noonan, author of more than 100 titles for children and young adults, is the 2022 winner of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for lifetime achievement and outstanding contribution to New… Read more Audio, Gallery

7:10 PM.Sociolinguist and Senior Lecturer at Massey University, Dr. Julia De Bres takes a look at sensory linguistics - exploring the connections between language and the five senses. Read more Audio

7:13 PM.As Auckland Botanic Gardens celebrates it's 40th anniversary, we chat to Jack Hobbs gardens' manager who was there at their opening. Read more Audio

9:43 PM.We talk to Grammarian and linguist Dr Andreea Calude co-authorof a new book Mysteries of English Grammar - A Guide to Complexities of the English Language, launched this week at the University of… Read more Audio