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7:12 PM.The Kings Head Theatre Pub has been an institution for London's theatregoers for almost 50 years. It was set up in 1970 by Dan Crawford who ran it until his death in 2005. His wife - and long term… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Our regular philosophical oracle Ann Kerwin is in our Auckland studio. Tonight she's looking at the life and work of Bernard Mandeville who's views on human betterment were iconoclastic and… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.With the Social Enterprise World Forum meeting in Christchurch this month, researcher, writer and analyst, Victoria Crockford joins us with the low-down on Social Enterprises and what this means for… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Michael Philipp from Massey University's School of Psychology is here to talk about research practicises and tonights buzzwords is reproducibility. Audio

7:12 PM.Unity Books is 50 years old this year and it's younger cousin The Children's Bookshop is vcelebrating 25 years in the business. Tilley Lloyd from Unity Books and Ruth McIntyre from the Children's… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Canterbury Museum is inviting visitors to view Quake City for free during the special exhibition's reopening this weekend, 16 & 17 September. The newly-relocated exhibition that tells stories from the… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.This week's cultural ambassador is Dr Kirsten Zemke, ethnomusicologist at Auckland University - back with more sonic adventures from the world of hip hop. Audio

8:35 PM.Following the final of Melody Thomas' series on sex and sexuality - Bang, a discussion with Melody, Bryan and sex therapist, Mary Hodson. Audio

7:12 PM.This week's overseas correspondent - Lien Hoang on charting the rise of Facebook, the fall of the cash economy, and attempts to create a silicon valley on the other side of the Pacific. Audio

8:12 PM.Our regular historian, Damien Fenton is in the studio with Bryan to talk about an aspect of the first world war almost completely forgotten in New Zealand today - the Italian Front 1915-1918. Audio

7:12 PM.Automation, machine learning and AI are the new buzz words in the Market Research, insights and data industry. Horst Feldhaeuser explains what the differences are with some examples both from NZ and… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Engineer Geoff Hunt joins Bryan to talk about engineering New Zealand's Electricity network for the future. Audio

8:12 PM.we are confident no one has spoken to an organiser of this weekend's Canterbury All Breeds Cat Club Spring Championship Show - on at Papanui High School this Sunday. Dorothy Horton is on the club's… Read more Audio

10:12 PM.this week's cultural ambassador, Miles Buckingham, celebrates Jamaican music - well actually music with Jamaican roots, recorded in the UK on the wonderfully eclectic, On-U Sound label. Audio

7:12 PM.Our first topic tonight is ghost fishing. That's the fishing many nets do when we've stopped fishing with them - and which end up snaring and killing millions of sea creatures after we've discarded… Read more Audio

8:32 PM.Bryan is joined by BANG! producer, Melody Thomas and episode 6 sex therapist Edit Horvath to talk about some of the issues raised in tonight's episode. Audio

7:12 PM.Methodist lay-preacher John Thornley with the eighth part of his series exploring the spiritual side of songs. In this Episode, Moana Manispoto's Calling You and Unity Pacific's We Are All… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.This week's Pundit, our left leaning thinker, Brian Roper, laments a downgrading of the Humanities in the US and Aotearoa. Audio

8:12 PM.Tonight's after dinner scientist is the GNS geologist, Hamish Campbell - discussing landslides. Audio

7:12 PM.More of us in apartments could be the answer to New Zealand's housing crisis, says design writer Catherine Foster. She celebrates our history of building up, rather than out in the new book Apartment… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:08 PM.Charlotte Wilson RNZ Concert presenter shares a few new classical releases with us including one from Nigel Kennedy on his electric violin, with the zany Kroke Band from Poland. Audio