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Dying for a bag of sweets
7:10 PM.Henry Cunningham will be talking about the arsenic poisoning of 1858. How a shortage of sugar caused 21 deaths and poisoned just over 200 people. Audio
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Nights' Science - Soils
8:12 PM.This week's after dinner science comes courtesy of our soil scientist - Louis Schipper - Audio
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Bringing Pasifika dance in Utah
7:12 PM.Our first guest of the week is the dancer Hadleigh Pousi who's part of the male dance troupe Freshmans which is performing in this month's Pacific Dance festival in Auckland with a new work called… Read more Audio
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Mend and make awesome
8:12 PM.Fiona is on talk to us about her event down in Dunedin which is about mending things and making them awesome. Audio
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Nights' Culture - Tabletop Games
8:12 PM.Morgan Davie is taking us on a whirlwind tour across four games to look at how stories emerge from playing games with cards. Audio
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Learning to fly
7:16 PM.Grant Amos helps people conquer their fear of flying. He's on the show to talk how and why he started his business. Audio
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Nights' Overseas - Canada
8:12 PM.It's the second-largest country by total area and the northernmost country of the North America continent, journalist for Medicine Hat News, Peggy Revell reports from Canada. Audio
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Does the U.S have an answer to homelessness?
7:12 PM.The head of the US National Alliance to End Homelessness, Nan Roman is in New Zealand to speak at the Community Housing Aotearoa Impact Conference and to meet political and community leaders working… Read more Audio
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Nights' Pundit - Maths
8:12 PM.Making the numbers add up is Dr. Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research. Audio
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The Towlock
7:12 PM.Paul Brennan talking to Carac Group managing director John Burling about his latest invention, the Towlock, a device that prevents tow ropes from unhitching off a vehicle's towball. Audio
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The Taranaki Woodcraft festival
8:12 PM.Gordon Oliver joins us from the Taranaki Woodcraft Festival. Audio
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A leg and boot: The battle of Messines
7:12 PM.The discovery of an Anzac soldier's boots and foot bones six years ago at the WWI Battle of Messines site in Belgium inspired Dr Jeff McNeill to learn more and he's on tonight's show to talk about his… Read more Audio
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Nights' Overseas - Brazil
8:12 PM.Editor of the International section of Estado de Minas, the main daily newspaper of Minas Gerais, Pablo Pires Fernandes reports from the Federative Republic of Brazil. Audio
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'His graffiti was unlike anybody else’s - it was poetry'
7:12 PM.Jean-Michel Basquiat was a unique, unruly talent whose ‘perfect storm’ of a career defined New York's infamous downtown celebrity art scene of the 1980s, says his biographer, the American journalist… Read more Audio
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Nights' Pundit - Peter Clayworth
8:12 PM.Peter Clayworth will examine how the idea of a pre-Maori New Zealand population was actually developed and generally adopted in the early twentieth century. The "Moriori myth", along with the… Read more Audio
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German vets and the fight for gay rights
When we think of the birth of the gay rights movement, New York’s Stonewall riots of 1969 perhaps come to mind, but what about the German army of World War I? Read more Audio
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Nights' Science - World Weather
8:12 PM.Erick Brenstrum from Metservice talking floods, droughts, and well, the weather. Audio
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Lewis Mitchell - facebook
7:12 PM.Lewis Mitchell from the University of Adelaide talks about the internet and your emotions. Audio
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Teapot racing in Oamaru
8:12 PM.Here's something for the weekend - well, next weekend actually. Tea Pot Racing. It's happening in the southern capital of Steam Punk, Oamaru tomorrow week. Simone Montgomery is I think the organiser… Read more Audio
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Nights' Culture - South Auckland
8:12 PM.Photographer Raymond Sagapolutele talking about the happenings and doings of South Auckland. Audio
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Marvelling at Marbling
7:12 PM.Research Librarian, Martin Lewis, to talk about the ancient art of marbling, and a bit about his 12 years as a research Librarian. Audio
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Nights' Overseas - Palestine
8:12 PM.Fadwa Hodali is talking U.S President Trump's vist to Palestine and the Palestinian prisoner's hunger strike in the Israeli jail. Audio
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Diane Leggett: 26 hours to Tokelau
7:12 PM.Diane Leggett has been working on changing the outdated education system for pupils on its three remote atolls.She and her colleagues endure 26 hours sailing from Samoa to Tokelau over rough seas on a… Read more Audio