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  • Candle Making

    8:12 PM.If Spring can't come soon enough - here's another way of bringing some additional light into your life.Diana Turner is running candle making workshops in Napier this weekend. Audio

  • Sweeping history under the rug

    spiritual practices life and society

    7:12 PM.Audrey Truschke wrote a biography of Aurangzeb, the major Mughal king who fought Shivaji. And in accordance with legal advice, she had to alter some parts of the Indian edition. She's on the show to… Read more Audio

  • The Bang Breakdown

    life and society

    8:32 PM.Expert Dr Parni Farvid from AUT is in the studio discussing your questions after episode 3 of Bang! Audio

  • Nights' Pundit - History

    history

    8:11 PM.Peter Clayworth will be talking Wartime election controversies. Harry Holland, the militant socialist editor of the Maoriland Worker newspaper, stood as the Labour Party candidate. He advocated… Read more Audio

  • Overseas Correspondent Liat Collins

    life and society

    7:12 PM.Editor of The International Jerusalem Post and a Jerusalem Post columnist, Liat Collins reports from the State of Israel, she's going to talk about Gal Gadot who is Wonderwoman and has become the… Read more Audio

  • A lacemaker with a pacemaker

    9:15 PM.Nicky Chapman reads an essay Jan Wallace sent to Bryan about her first pacemaker, originally written for the Heart Foundation. Audio

  • Nights Science - Native Fish Ecology

    8:10 PM.Stella McQueen says Torrentfish are possibly New Zealand's most unique freshwater fish. Unlike most other native fish, they are not descended from Australian fish that went to sea as juveniles (like… Read more Audio

  • Isolating genes that cause Alzheimers

    7:10 PM.Professor Peter St-George Hyslop won the 2017 Ryman Prize, for his research in Alzheimers. He talks to Bryan about his achievements in health, and how he and his team are able to figure out which… Read more Audio

  • Lloyd's Last Moments

    11:59 PM.RNZ broadcaster Lloyd Scott farewells listeners after 53 years on air. Audio

  • The 2017 Asia Oceania Wheelchair Rugby Championship

    8:12 PM.The 2017 International Wheelchair Rugby Federation Asia/Oceania Championship, the qualifying event for the Wheelchair Rugby World Championships, will be held at Auckland's ASB Stadium from August 25… Read more Audio

  • Alcohol in space

    science

    7:12 PM.Alexander MacKinnon is a Senior Lecturer of Astrophysics at the University of Glasgow. He's going to be talking about how the universe and how it's full of alcohol, not the bottled stuff, in the… Read more Audio

  • Bang Ep 2: sex and sexuality

    8:12 PM.Teenagers and sex.We have a couple of people in the studio to answer your questions.One is an advocate for sex education in high school, herself a teenager,Lauren Jack and from Family Planning, Lesley… Read more Audio

  • Nights' Overseas - The Pacific

    spiritual practices life and society

    7:12 PM.RNZI senior journalist Johnny Blades on our adjacent neighbours, the nations within the Pacific Ocean. Audio

  • Nights' pundit - Religion

    spiritual practices life and society

    8:09 PM.This week's Pundit is the professor of religious studies at Waikato University, Douglas Pratt. Audio

  • The Mud Angels of Florence

    7:12 PM.Peace and understanding through travel. If you're making friends with your enemies, you wont want to fight them. The US historian, Richard Ivan-Jobs, has written a history of travel and the youth… Read more Audio

  • Nights' Science - Pick your poison

    science health

    8:12 PM.Toxicologist Dr. Leo Schep tests for substances taken internally or applied externally that are injurious to health or dangerous to life. Tonight he talks about Tetrodotoxin poisoning, which most… Read more Audio

  • The Nurses of Passchendaele

    7:10 PM.Christine E. Hallett is Professor of Nursing History at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Nurses of Passchendaele: Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campaigns. Audio

  • Taking a pun't

    life and society

    8:12 PM.At Wellington's Fringe Bar, hosted by Hugo Grrrl a competition is going down. A competition of puns. Word play, and may the best or worst performer take out the number pun spot. Audio

  • Nights' Culture - Latin American Music

    life and society music

    8:10 PM.The music of Latin America from Mona Lynn Courteau. Audio

  • Teaching mindfulness in prisons

    life and society

    7:12 PM.Naivasha GK Prison is Kenya's largest maximum security prison. A couple of years ago Inma Adarves-Yorno started a mindfulness training programme. Mindfullness is about as Inma describes ' being… Read more Audio

  • Bang! Episode 1 sex questions

    life and society

    8:35 PM.Mary Hodson answers your sexual queries. Audio

  • Nights' Overseas - Japan

    spiritual practices life and society

    7:12 PM.Palmerston North raised journalist Motoko Kakubayashi now resides in Tokyo and works for University of Tokyo's Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, pop. 126,434,964 (est… Read more Audio

  • Dunkirk a victory?

    history conflict

    7:12 PM.For Britons, Dunkirk is one of the proudest moments of World War II. But Gerard Oram Director of Programmes for War and Society, Swansea University says quite often we now forget the catastrophic… Read more Audio

  • Nights' Science - Physics

    8:13 PM.This week's after dinner science comes courtesy of our physicist Professor Shaun Hendy, director of the Auckland University research institute, Te Punaha Matatini. Audio

  • Feel no evil: do Animals feel pain?

    7:13 PM.It's fair to say, we care more about the welfare of the animals we rely on for food and fibre more than we used to - and so we should. But in doing so - we have to deal with the ongoing problem - we… Read more Audio

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