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7:31 PM.Nights' Toxicologist Leo Schep from Toxiform joins us once again. Tonight he's taking a look at Cannibis. Read more Audio

7:13 PM.On the Reporters without Borders World Press Freedom Index, Hungary is ranked 89th out of 180. Following the resignation of more than 70 journalists and staff at Hungary's top news site Index we're… Read more Audio

7:13 PM.We speak to director Lala Rolls who's documentary film, Tupaia's Endeavour which traces the journey of Tahitian high priest navigator Tupaia, who came to NZ in 1769 on board Cook's Endeavour. Read more Audio, Gallery

7:12 PM.Nights Philosopher Ann Kerwin joins us once again. Tonight we're looking at a recent work by John Kaag, an American Philosopher and scholar of American Pragmatism on the late nineteenth century… Read more Audio

7:07 PM.Tonight we're joined live in the studio by lyrical Wellington singer/songwriter Bill Hickman performing with multi-instrumentalist Cameron 'Dusty' Burnell, on the mandolin. Read more Audio

7:35 PM.MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigator and Research Scientist at the Photon Factory in the School of Chemical Science at the University of Auckland, Michel Nieuwoudt gives us her take on Star… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.RNZ Music's new video series NZ Hip Hop Stand Up launches today and our hip hop cultural ambassador, Brad Warrington joins us once again with a look at the series and some more great tracks. Read more Video, Audio

9:45 PM.Can art change your life? We speak to documentary filmaker, Marta Pulk who advertised for someone who has never been to the theatre before and followed her as she went to every play in a year in… Read more Video, Audio

7:13 PM.Dr Nikki Freed and Dr Olin Silander from Massey University are part of the team developing cleverer ways of sequencing the genome of the virus that causes COVID-19. Read more Audio

7:16 PM.Nights' Mathematician, Dillon Mayhew joins us once again. With election season - both at home and in the US - approaching, he'll be looking at election forecasts and what they mean. Read more Audio

9:09 PM.Rikki Swannell joins us once again. Tonight she reminisces about the netball world cup final a year ago and asks about netball's future ... as well as the future of other sports post COVID. Read more Audio

7:08 PM.We're joined by Poneke artist Mystery Waitress for a Sofa Session. Read more Audio

7:38 PM.Former Metservice Severe Weather Meteorologist Erick Brenstrum has been keeping an eye on weather patterns across the world. Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Our Cultural Ambassador from the world of contemporary dance, director and choreographer Malia Johnson joins us once again. Tonight she's looking a the intersection between choreography and video… Read more Video, Audio

9:42 PM.We talk to South African author, Mark Gevisser about his latest book The Pink Line: The World's Queer Frontiers which documents how LGBTQ+ Rights have become one of the world's new human rights… Read more Audio

7:13 PM.Merja Myllylahti, co-director of AUT's Centre for Journalism, Media, and Democracy joins us to talk about her recent 5 month journey home to New Zealand as the Covid-19 pandemic took hold of the… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Nathan Joe is an award-winning Chinese-Kiwi playwright and performance poet. He joins us to sing the praises of what he regards is a unfairly neglected and under-appreciated artform, the Radio Play. Read more Audio

9:43 PM.Shoba Naryan joins us with the latest news and views from India. Read more Audio