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7:12 PM.Wellington singer-songwriter Bryn van Vliet is live in the studio tonight. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.We talk to Michael King Writers Centre Chair, Melanie Laville-Moore, about their 2020 Writers in Residence Programme. Read more Audio

7:08 PM.Professor Louis Schipper from the University of Waikato asks what controls the size of the carbon stock in soil and how do we measure whether it is changing? Read more Audio

7:10 PM.The mysterious Plain of Jars in Laos is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, thanks in part to work done by University of Otago palaeopathologist. Associate Professor Sian Halcrow has described the… Read more Audio

9:45 PM.William Yang joins us once again from Taipei with the latest news from Taiwan. William has an update on the frontrunners for Taiwan's presidential election and how the protest in Hong Kong is being… Read more Audio

8:08 PM.The 25th Nelson Arts Festival - sees shows coming all the way from such far-flung places as Germany, Scotland, the USA and even Nelson! We talk to festival director, Charlie Unwin to find out how… Read more Audio

7:10 PM.Our tame teenager, Charlie Cuff join us once again with the news from Planet adolescent with news of his latest project, a podcast where he talks to war Veterans. Read more Audio

7:12 PM.In 1949 Simone de Beauvior published The Second sex - one of the great philosophical works of the 2oth century. Kate Kirpatrick, who lectures religion philosophy and culture at Kings College in… Read more Audio

8:07 PM.New Zealand's way of regulating nightlife often restricts the opportunities for night owls. This has made nights overly tedious without improving issues of public health and security. Natanael Rother… Read more Audio

7:09 PM.Stephen Wessel's impending retirement, after 35 years in the business, not only ends a long and illustrious career, but could signal the end of flutemaking in the UK - a proud tradition stretching… Read more Audio

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