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7:12 PM.Nights' physicist Shaun Hendy joins us once again. Tonight we're using dimensional analysis to tell the time. Audio

7:11 PM.Peggy Revell joins us once again from Medicine Hat, Alberta with her take on the big news stories from Canada. Audio

7:12 PM.Marxist historian, Brian Roper joins us with a look at the international revival of the far right. Audio

9:10 PM.Peter Lampp is back tonight with his eye on the latest sports. Audio

7:10 PM.Methodist lay preacher John Thornley joins us just before Easter with a look at the spiritual side of music. Audio

8:10 PM.Franck Natali is Senior Lecturer School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria University Wellington. Tonight he's talking Aluminium. Audio

8:10 PM.Cyclist Carl Wells used an exercise tracking ap to trace the image of the laser kiwi (remember the NZ flag referendum a few years back?) across a map of Auckland. Audio

7:12 PM.When the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes created a city-wide outdoor research laboratory, UC Civil Engineering Professor Misko Cubrinovski gathered as much information as possible. This work has been… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Palmerston North may be thinking about a new flag. Massey University Student, Ben Foster has designed one he reckons will work better than the current offering. Ben joins us live from Palmy. Audio

7:12 PM.Stella McQueen is back with her underwater view of New Zealand. Tonight she's talking about the research she's doing with DOC in Taranaki on how shortjaw kokopu are recolonising a stream after they… Read more Audio

9:10 PM.Dana Johannsen joins us with the latest sports news - rugby, netball, a teenage sprint star and what's in a name? Audio

7:13 PM.Professor Charlotte Macdonald takes us on an historical journey following Spencer P. T. Nicholls as he makes preparations to embark for the war in New Zealand in 1863 as an officer with the 43rd… Read more Audio

9:10 PM.Nights' recognisable noises. Can you recognise these? Email your answers to nights@rnz.co.nz. Audio

8:06 PM.Duncan McGillivray, Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Auckland's School of Chemical Sciences is tonight's element expert. Audio

7:10 PM.Our cultural ambassador Chris Jannides introduces us to Jack Gray, Director of the contemporary Maori dance company, Atamira. Audio

7:12 PM.April 4, 2019 will mark 70 sears since the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation came into being - the world's longest peacetime military alliance. Joe Burton is an expert on NATO and is a senior… Read more Audio

9:07 PM.Usually Bryan would hit play on Melody Thomas' sex, sexuality serires BANG! but tonight you can expect something a little different. Melody joins Bryan along with sex therapist Nic Beets and his… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Bryan reads texts and emails received from listeners. Audio

7:12 PM.Resident Astronomer Alan Gilmore joins Bryan to discuss scientist's latest discovery, an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that wiped out our reptilian friends 66 millions… Read more Audio

9:10 PM.Peter Lampp is our sports commentator this week. He is with Bryan to chat about the fall out of the Mankad controversy, the end of the Sunwolves and the Hurricanes' inability to compete under… Read more Audio

8:08 PM.Desiderata (which is latin for - ("things desired") written by the American Poet: Max Erhmann Max Ehrmann of Terre Haute, Indiana, wrote the work in the early 1920s, starting in 1921, but he did not… Read more Audio

8:08 PM.They're putting a piano back on Karekare beach: You might be familier with the last time a piano ended up on that wonderful piece of coastline on the other side of the Waitakere Ranges from Auckland… Read more Audio