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9:10 PM.National Party Leader Bill English talks to reporters about the negotiations that led to the National Party no longer being in government. Audio

8:58 PM.Green Party leader James Shaw talks about the Green Party's role providin in confidence and supply in the new Labour-NZ First-Green alliance. Audio

8:10 PM.Editor-in-chief of Estonian World, Silver Tambur reports from apparently the best place in the world to be a parent - the Republic of Estonia. Audio

8:12 PM.Poet, short fiction writer, and teacher at Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters, James Brown joins us for his regular poetry discussion - tonight he talks about poetry set… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.For the first time, scientists have measured the violent death spiral of two dense neutron stars via gravitational waves. This new discovery from the LIGO-Virgo collaboration comes weeks after the… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Nights' physics guru, Professor Shaun Hendy joins us to talk us through the winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics and Chemistry. Audio

7:12 PM.Social Historian Rachael Bell talks about her new book which examines New Zealand's pivotal interwar years when many believe the foundation for a new nation was laid. 'From the depths of economic… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Nelson Arts Festival gets up to full steam this weekend. Team Leader Festivals Axel De Maupeou joins us with his festival highlights and we ask him if Nelson is still the arts capital that it once… Read more Audio

8:11 PM.Photographer Raymond Sagapolutele is down in Wellington for a visit so he'll join Bryan in the studio to talk though the latest from South Auckland and Pacifica Culture. Audio

8:07 PM.Bangalore based author and journalist Shoba Narayan from the second-most populated nation of the world, India. Audio

7:12 PM.Methodist lay-preacher John Thornley with the next part of his series exploring the spiritual side of songs. In this episode, Promised Land by Chuck Berry. Audio

8:12 PM.Dr. Eric Crampton, head of research at The New Zealand Initiative joins Bryan to argue that New Zealand is the 'Outside of the Asylum'. As the rest of the world's going increasingly mad, New Zealand's… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Nights' Astronomy ace, Alan Gilmore joins us once more. Tonight he has Cassini, fast radio bursts (FRBs) and gravitational wave detection in his sights. Audio

7:12 PM.Tomorrow (October 10th) is World Homeless Day and we're taking some time to think about what that means for all of us in New Zealand and talking to John Howell who is launching a collection of his… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.This Sunday, 8th October head down to Mount Maunganui Mainstreet for the Mount Busking Festival. We speak to Ingrid Flemming to find out all about it. Audio

8:12 PM.The origins of this now slightly untrendy sub-genre can be traced back to hip-hop instrumentals and the so-called Bristol sound, where groups like Massive Attack (perhaps most importantly Tricky)… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.With protests and violence breaking out during the recent independence elections in Catalonia, Victor Lapuente an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of… Read more Audio

8:18 PM.Te Manu Korihi news editor Shannon Haunui-Thompson joins us on Nights to talk about the implications of the recent election results for Maori representation in public life in Aotearoa. Audio