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Late Edition - Auckland covid update with Mayor Phil Goff
10:30 PM.For more on covid level updates we're joined by Auckland Mayor, Phil Goff. Audio
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Late Edition - Roadmap for New Zealand's Covid-19 alert levels.
10:20 PM.At ten past four this afternoon Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield annouced the roadmap for New Zealand's Covid-19 alert levels. Audio
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Argyle Trio on Tour
7:40 PM.We chat to Wilma Smith about the Argyle Trio's current tour. Read more Audio
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25 Years of Going West Festival
7:12 PM.Going West Festival have put together a book to celebrate 25 years of the festival. It is a collection of essays from a host of Going West speakers since it's origin and will be a beautiful hardback… Read more Audio
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Organisers Pull the Pin on Alexandra's Blossom Festival
10:30 PM.Organisers are heartbroken to have had to pull the pin on Alexandra's Blossom Festival. Set to be the biggest yet on the Festival's 65th birthday next weekend, with thousands of people were planning… Read more Audio
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NZ Cricket tour of Pakistan called off
10:20 PM.The BLACKCAPS are abandoning their tour of Pakistan minutes after the team was due to begin a one day game following a New Zealand government security alert. Audio
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Inspiration4 crew blast into orbit
10:50 PM.Four amateur astronauts will spend the next three days in orbit after blasting off from Florida today. It's another milestone in the space tourism market, which is experiencing a resurgence after a… Read more Audio
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How to flourish when you're languishing in lockdown
10:30 PM.The pandemic is having a huge toll on all of us - you might find you're stuck in a state of feeling 'meh', uninspired and stagnant, and largely joy-less and we can do about it. Psychologists call it… Read more Audio
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Overseas Correspondent - Canada
9:45 PM.Peggy Revell joins us from Medicine Hat, Alberta. Audio
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Call for pension extensions for those stuck in Australia
8:20 PM.A few dozen New Zealand superannuitants who are stuck in Australia having travelled there during the travel bubble, are being told the Government is working through whether the bubble closing, that's… Read more Audio
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Pottery and Ceramics
7:35 PM.Another Nights debut tonight - Richard Fahey from the School of Creative Industries at UNITEC joins us for a regular chat about ceramics. Read more Audio
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Materials: Fact or Fiction - Relux and Lux Metal
7:15 PM.Aran Warren, Canturbury University phD student working with MacDiarmid Institute investigator Maan Alkaisi - speaking to me about the potential for Lux/Relux - a solid material made out of light, as… Read more Audio
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Mother of missing children holding out hope
10:30 PM.The mother of three children who have been missing since the weekend with their father at a remote Waikato West Coast beach has released a statement. King Country man Thomas Phillips and his three… Read more Audio
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Our Own Odysseys - Contained
9:40 PM.Back in 2016, Bryan spoke to Birgit Krippner on travels on a container ship. Her upcoming photo exhibition 'HORIZONT' (meaning horizon in german) opens at the Suite Gallery in Wellington on the 13th… Read more Audio
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The Fate of Afghanistan's Women Journalists
9:10 PM.After spending two years in Afghanistan as Reuters senior correspondent, in 2013 British-American journalist Amie Ferris-Rotman set up Sahar Speaks, a project to provide training, mentoring &… Read more Audio
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Midweek Media Watch with Hayden Donnell
8:45 PM.Hayden Donnell reports on media coverage of issues including criticism that the media is undermining the covid response, why it seems the media elevate less-than-rigorous opinions and questionable… Read more Audio
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Glimmer of hope for diaspora as MIQ pause ends
8:35 PM.Stranded Kiwis desperate to get home have a glimmer of hope from the MIQ system from next Monday. The Government stopped opening up rooms in MIQ following the Delta outbreak - only those in… Read more Audio
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Akld restaurateur sends open letter to mayor, Phil Goff
8:18 PM.An Auckland restaurateur has written an open letter to the city's Mayor, Phil Goff, asking him to show stronger leadership. Tony McGeorge, who with his wife Krishna Botica employs more than 100 staff… Read more Audio
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Small Bodies of Water
7:13 PM.Nina Mingya Powles joins us to talk about her new book Small Bodies of Water - a collection of essays exploring the bodies of water that separate and connect us taking us from London to New Zealand… Read more Audio
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Dishing out the dollars to help small business
8:55 PM.Dan Teo runs a consultancy called Radically in Auckland - and last year, they were hit by lockdown as hard as the rest of us. They've changed the way they operate this time around and they've found a… Read more Audio
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Cyber attacks show NZ cyber security lacking
8:40 PM.If you're a Kiwibank customer, you might have been finding it a bit tricky to do your online banking since Saturday. MetService and Kiwibank have both been battling cyberattacks in the past week… Read more Audio
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Manukau chemist calls for vaccine walk-ins
8:30 PM.From Thursday, vaccination buses will head out on Auckland streets as mobile clinics. The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, says six buses will initially be deployed in areas with low coverage, and it's… Read more Audio
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Wanaka reacts to naming the Auckland lockdown breakers
8:20 PM.A judge's son and his barrister partner are the couple who police say flouted lockdown rules by travelling to a Wanaka holiday home from Auckland. RNZ can reveal they are William Willis, a 35-year-old… Read more Audio
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Nights Philosophy- Success and Failure in a Meritocracy
7:12 PM.Nights Philosopher Ann Kerwin joins us once again to discuss Michael Sandel's latest book - The Tyrrany of Merit. We think that in a meritocracy anyone can, with hard work and talent,- irrespective of… Read more Audio
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Calling London
10:55 PM.And staying with the UK we talk now to Rich Preston from the BBC World Service Read more Audio