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9:30 PM.Motoko Kakubayashi has the latest from Japan. including the historic election of two severely disabled people into government, an arson attack on a famous anime studio and how Japan is preparing for… Read more Video, Audio

8:10 PM.University of Canterbury Associate Professor Aaron Marshall is developing redox flow batteries as a viable energy storage system that will never wear. Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Nights' Electronic Music Cultural Ambassador, Paul Berrington joins Bryan in the studio once again. He treats us to a few tracks from Metro Area - Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani. Read more Video, Audio

9:30 PM.A new species of giant penguin - about 1.6 metres tall - has been identified from fossils found in Waipara, North Canterbury. Paul Scofield, Senior Curator Natural History, Canterbury Museum joins us.

8:10 PM.We are all familiar with the common myth that fish have poor memory, but it turns that their DNA has the capacity to hold much more memory than that of humans. Dr Tim Hore, research team leader and… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Edmond Ang, the Breast Cancer Foundation NZ Clinical Trials Fellow at Auckland City Hospital is talking to us about how remembering the human element in his work makes all the difference. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Some listeners may remember an interview about 2 years ago when Bryan spoke to Stephanie Sinclaire about her time running the King's Hear theatrepub with her husband Dan Crawford. Stephanie's daughter… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Nights' economist, Brian Easton joins us in the studio. Tonight, in light of the recent lowering of the NZ cash rate, Brian gives this in an international context and asks what a fiscal stimulus… Read more Audio

7:10 PM.Katja Leyendecker is an academic and activist currently studying a PhD in Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Northumbria in the UK. She's been taking a look at some of the reasons… Read more Audio

9:43 PM.Our regular overseas correspondent from India, Shoba Narayan talk to us tonight from California in the US. She gives us her take on events in Kashmir. Read more Audio

7:08 PM.Photographer Raymond Sagapolutele keeps us up to date with cultural life south of the Tamaki and North of the Bombays. Read more Audio

8:07 PM.Nicole Skews-Poole, recently learned that she is related to Alan Aberhart, the drapery store manager from Blenhiem who was murdered in 1964 in a homophobic attack in Hagley Park in Christchurch… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Former Metservice Meteorologist Eric Brenstrum is back with us tonight taking his regular look at the weather around the world. On the weather map tonight, record high temperatures in Europe… Read more Audio

7:10 PM.Lloyd Homer is one of the leading photographers of New Zealand's natural environment. His colleague and friend, Simon Nathan has put together a book to celebrate his work. Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Our cultural ambassador tonight is diving into the world of Bossa Nova! Mona-Lynn Courteau takes us on a full tour through the origins of the genre and its greats through to a look at where Bossa Nova… Read more Audio

9:22 PM.Continuing our series on waste and recycling, we speak to Phillip Millichamp who is Group Manager for Environment and External Relations Manager with Oji Fibre in NZ, the company that processes… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Auckland 4-piece, Miss June have recently signed to Frenchkiss Records in New York. Ahead of a their latest gigs in Wellington and Auckland, they join us in the Nights' studio for a Sofa Session. Read more Audio

7:10 PM.Joining us is Nights' military historian, Damien Fenton and he's taking a look at what happened after D-Day - more specifically, the Battle of Normandy which ended 75 years ago next week. Read more Audio