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7:39 PM.Dr Catherine Whitby, Senior Chemistry Lecturer at Massey University, and MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigator, talking about the Star Wars material Mandalorian, super light and super strong… Read more Audio

7:09 PM.Rachel Church is back to put another classical composition in context - tonight it's J.S. Bach Two Part Inventions BWV 772-786 Read more Audio

9:40 PM.We get another perspective on the current situation in Ethiopia. Mewael Assefa is from the Tigray region and lives in Christchurch. Read more Audio

9:07 PM.In an event recorded last Thursday at the University of Auckland entitled The US Election 2020: A Crisis of legitimacy?, a panel of lecturers, Timothy Kuhner, Maria Armoudian, Danny Osborne and Scott… Read more Audio

7:09 PM.Following the launch of her new wellness magazine "Thrive", veteran editor and journalist Wendyl Nissen joins us to talk about magazines and why we still love them. Read more Audio

7:10 PM.As pandemic times encourage Kiwis to rediscover domestic travel and road trips, we talk to writer and auto enthusiast Steve Barnett about his new book Life with Cars: New Zealanders' motoring memories… Read more Audio, Gallery

7:12 PM.Eleanor Tremeer, our sci-fi geek is back again. Tonight she's taking a look at Futurism - the futures we dreamed up, which predictions were accurate, which weren't, and how we represent the future… Read more Audio

9:40 PM.A University of Canterbury study has found that one in 10 parents experienced severe burnout in lockdown, we talk to Dr Cara Swit, Lecturer in Educational and Developmental Psychology at the… Read more Audio

7:10 PM.The Sh*t Towns of New Zealand writers turn their sharp minds to our most embarrassing sporting moments. This bitingly funny collection looks at the worst 50 moments in our sporting history. We're… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Our mainly Marxist political historian Brian Roper joins us once again. Tonight he's looking at just how transformational Jacinda Ardern's Labour government will be or or whether it will be just… Read more Audio

7:15 PM.Pasifika poet laureatte and author, Selina Tusitala Marsh on the sequel to her hit children's book Mophead. In Mophead Tu: The Queen's Poem she addresses the issue how she can speak for her people and… Read more Audio

7:32 PM.Dr Erin Leitao, MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigator and Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Auckland gives us her scientific take on The Philosopher's Stone from Harry Potter. Read more Audio