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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
10:29 PM.Finn's back for 2024, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music. Featuring tracks from Lily Seabird, Faye Webster and Nia Archives. Read more Audio
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This Weekend: Southland pub saved by friends reopens
10:19 PM.Last year, five friends saved a Waikaka pub from closing down by going in on the purchase together. Tomorrow, the Waikaka Royal Hotel has its grand reopening. Read more Audio
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Short-Cut with Dan Slevin
9:32 PM.Nights' resident film reviewer, Dan Slevin, picks up new cinematic release Perfect Days, A Thousand and One, and Christopher Nolan classic The Prestige. Read more Audio
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This Weekend: Drag queens salute Lana Del Rey
9:17 PM.An all-star cast of drag performers will take to the stage tomorrow to pay tribute to a lesser-worshipped diva: pop singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey. Read more Audio
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Nights Quiz
9:10 PM.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… Read more Audio
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Tenuous Connections
8:25 PM.It's Friday Night so it's time to put on a playlist of music with a loose theme based off an even looser starting point Tonight it's songs about vegetables in honour of Paul Newman the actor and… Read more Audio
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Should millennials break the generational moan cycle?
10:46 PM.Dumping on the newest workforce generation is nothing new. And now, says writer Josie Adams, it's millennials' turn to dump on Gen Z. But it doesn't have to be this way. Read more Audio
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Why conflict in the Red Sea has such far-reaching consequences
10:35 PM.The site of international intervention is a crucial shipping channel in the global economy. Read more Audio
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Potential sighting of thought-extinct kokako in Southland
9:58 PM.In the Tuatapere bush, a hunter thought they saw "a large grey bird" making a "distinct sound" on New Year's Day. Read more Audio
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Christchurch tram painstakingly restored to its former glory
9:40 PM.Tram 24 was used as a Sunday School and even a haybarn after it was taken off the tracks in 1954. With 12 years of hard work, a group have brought it back to life. Read more Audio
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Ode to the Bard: Burns Day celebrated in Dunedin
9:17 PM.Toitū Otago Settlers Museum history curator Seán Brosnahan joins Nights to pay homage to Scotland's national poet, and perform the address to haggis. Read more Audio
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I Was There When: Muldoon called the snap election
9:16 PM.Emile Donovan speaks to a TVNZ cameraman who was there on June 14 1984 when the prime minister drunkenly held a press conference to call a snap election. Read more Audio
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New Dunedin game lets kids make their own comic strips
10:45 PM.A blobfish catching the bus. A goat and a possum arguing on the moon. A worm detective solving a ghost mystery. These are all possibilities in a new local game. Read more Audio
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Where can we find old movies?
10:30 PM.Not every movie ever made has made it to streaming services. What happens to the off-beat, lesser-known or straight-up-bad films of yester-year? Read more Audio
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Life in Ukraine, 700 days on
10:17 PM.For Kyiv resident Iryna Zhygalyuk, the war with Russia is both a constant struggle and the background noise to daily life. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch
9:30 PM.Hayden Donnell is in the Auckland studio for the first Midweek Mediawatch for 2024. Together Hayden and Emile Donovan will take a closer look at how the media covered some of the big events and… Read more Audio
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Women in botany celebrated at Wellington Botanic Gardens
9:15 PM.Though often overlooked because of their gender, women botanists have made huge contributions to our knowledge of the natural world over the last 300 years. Read more Audio
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Auckland Shakespeare in the Park returns for its 28th year
10:40 PM.A cast of local actors are bringing A Midsummer Night's Dream and Measure for Measure to life, with the goal of making Shakespeare's works engaging and accessible to audiences of all stripes. Read more Audio
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Amanda Palmer pops in for a quick catch-up
10:30 PM.American songstress Amanda Palmer was unexpectedly marooned in New Zealand during the Covid-19 pandemic and left our shores changed. Now, she's back for a series of small, intimate shows reflecting on… Read more Audio
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Helen Clark: 'The world has some grim realities right now'
9:40 PM.The former prime minister warned that New Zealand needs to "keep its head" when it comes to signing international statements they've had little input into when it comes to conflict. Read more Audio
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Shower Thoughts: Why do we value gold?
9:15 PM.It's not the rarest, brightest or most practical metal yet for millennia humans have dug and dug and dug in search of this precious resource. Read more Audio
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BBC World lookahead
10:45 PM.The BBC's Rich Preston joins Nights with a wrap of the news making headlines around the world, including the New Hampshire primaries in the unfolding US presidential election, prime minister Narendra… Read more Audio
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Sports with Jamie Wall
10:35 PM.Jamie Wall joins Emile Donovan to reflect on the Black Caps' all-star ratings on free-to-air television and Joseph Parker's forthcoming heavyweight match in Saudi Arabia. Read more Audio
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Summer bugs with Morgane Merien
9:30 PM.Why do flies want to get inside our houses so bad? Why do mosquitoes bite some people and not others? And why oh why is New Zealand home to so many creepy crawlies? Read more Audio
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Whakataukī of the Week with Dr Hinemoa Elder
9:15 PM.Why can New Zealanders recall more lines from Shakespeare or Shel Silverstein than whakataukī - Māori proverbs? Read more Audio