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7:12 PM.Otaki Summer Camp - a three day event for folk aged 17 to 30 - set in a river valley at the foot of the Tararua Ranges. Organiser Kimberly Collins is in the Wellington Studio to tell us more. Audio

8:12 PM.Auckland Botanical Gardens Curator Bec Stanley on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us. Audio

7:12 PM.My first guest of the week wants to wrap a big gay rainbow around Wellington next month. Leilani Sio - also known as D J Panda - wants to boost the visibility of the LGBQ community at the 2018… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.The good people from Beatnik Motorcycles in Blenheim are organising a ride down the newly opened State Highway One to Kaikoura this weekend. Co-Owner Michael Gilbert tells is more. Audio

8:12 PM.Nights' overseas correspondent Tabu Butagira reports from the Republic of Uganda on changing their constitution to remove the upper age limit for anyone holding the office of President. Audio

8:12 PM.Nights' economist Brian Easton joins us to look back at the warning signs that were missed before the 2008 global financial crisis and asks whether there are any new warning signs we should be… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.MetService forecaster Erick Brenstrum is in the studio with Byran with the facts and the figures on this unseasonal weather and what we might expect over the coming months. Audio

8:12 PM.There has been considerable discussion in popular culture about whether younger generations are increasingly narcissistic. Yet in the scientific literature suggests that there is no scientific… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.New China Eyewitness tells the story of how Canterbury Museum came to acquire the largest collection of Chinese art in New Zealand after a group of prominent New Zealanders visited the People's… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Nights' poetry expert James Brown looks to intrigue us tonight with some engaging contemporary poems from the likes of Kimmy Walters and Catherine Wing. Audio

7:10 PM.A new catalyst created by University of Toronto researchers brings them one step closer to artificial photosynthesis - a system that, just like plants, would use renewable energy to convert carbon… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Reporter for Bloomberg BNA, Lien Hoang reports from Vietnam. Audio

7:12 PM.With droughts predicted and very real worries about New Zealand's water resilience, and the publication of the Havelock North Drinking Water Inquiry, we talk to the John Pfahlert, chief executive of… Read more Audio

8:08 PM.Nights' philosophy expert Ann Kerwin joins Bryan for our final philosophy talk of 2017. Tonight we learn about altruistic philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, Francis Hutcheson. Audio

7:08 PM.With the recent Ernst & Young study into the economic benefits of rail and talk of luxury train serivces from Auckland to Dunedin, we get an overview of railways in New Zealand with the editor of the… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.The government has set the aspirational target of building 100,000 affordable homesin New Zealand over the next 10 years. We talk to engineer Geoff Hunt and discuss the practicalities of this. Audio

8:15 PM.Some people call him the Jazz Savant - some people, not everyone! Fergus Barrowman is here with the latest Jazz releases. Audio

7:15 PM.Auckland's cycle and walk way, Te Ara i Whiti - which links Grafton Gully to Nelson Street - celebrates its second year around the block with a block party. One of the organisers, Jolisa Gracewood… Read more Audio