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7:12 PM.A Sofa Session from OdESSA featuring Mireya Ramos ahead of her gig at Meow in Wellington. Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Dr. Julia de Bres, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Massey University takes a look at how we use language around disability and those with disabilities. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Our cultural ambassador for Latin American music, Mona Lynn Courteau joins us once again. Tonight she'll be introducing us to Salsa Dura ("hard salsa"). The classic salsa scene in New York City that… Read more Video, Audio

7:13 PM.Rikki Swannell join following a very busy day in Tokyo. Read more Audio

7:15 PM.Jan Eldrige, Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Auckland on the facts being the sci fi of the Star Trek mind swap episode - Turnabout Intruder. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Associate Professor Gina Salapata from Massey University takes a look back in time to The Olympics: When athletes were men, nude and Greek. Read more Audio

7:15 PM.For the first time New Zealand is joining international Moth Week, a week that celebrates all things moth. We're joined by one of the organisers of Moth Week Aotearoa Morgane Merien. Read more Audio

7:35 PM.Our cultural ambassador from the world of contemporary dance, Malia Johnston is back once again. She takes a look at choreography for "site-specific" performances, where the performance is designed… Read more Audio

7:10 PM.Some of the cast of the musical Secret Garden which opens in Christchurch this week popped into RNZ's Christchurch studio earlier today and recorded a few performances. We chat to the show's director… Read more Audio

9:30 PM.Our Overseas Correspondent from Sudan, Reem Abbas joins us from Khartoum. Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Erick Brenstrum joins us once again. Tonight he's taking a look at the record breaking heat in North America - but also looking back to the great London fog of 1952 - when visibility fell to just a… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.For a hundred years, the rugby teams of New Zealand and South Africa have been battering away against each other, the outcomes see-sawing with the seasons. It's a rivalry that pre-eminent historian… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Nights' Geographer, Louise Richards is back. Tonight she's joined by Dr Caroline Orchiston, Lead Scientist at the AF8 [Alpine Fault magnitude 8] project, a collaborative effort to save lives by… Read more Video, Audio

7:43 PM.During lockdown last year, the Royal New Zealand Ballet began posting videos of performances on their youtube channel. Almost overnight their views and subscribers skyrocketed. Building on the success… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Will the Maori language blossom if many more Pakeha jump on the reo waka? Not necessarily, according to Alison Jones, a professor at Te Puna Wananga, the School of Maori and Indigenous Education at… Read more Audio

9:40 PM.Motoko Kakubayashi joins us once again from Toyko ahead of what's being called the quiet Olympics. Read more Audio

7:10 PM.Dr Nate Davis, Associate Investigator with the MacDiarmid Institute and Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington brings us the science - or lack of it - on Jumbonium… Read more Audio

9:10 PM.We talk to data journalist James Fransham from The Economist magazine , who has developed a "normalcy index" to measure changes in human behaviour around the world based on data gathered at daily and… Read more Audio

7:15 PM.Anna Thomas is hosting the show tonight. Her first guest is Army Major, Dr. James Hannah - dubbed the military's dashing dentist - about his colourful life as a dentist, serving in the military and… Read more Audio