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Nights' pundit - Religion

spiritual practices life and society

8:12 PM.This week's pundit, is our religious scholar, Professor Douglas Pratt - from Waikato University Audio
Delivering WW1

7:12 PM."The Paper that Foretold the War": The Daily Mail and the First World War It's one of the most successful newspapers in the world - if you count success as being the number of newspapers you sell -… Read more Audio
Nights' Science - Stella McQueen

environment

8:10 PM.Stella was doing a fish rescue on a short stretch of stream on a farm. She expected eels, maybe a few fish. What she got was 406 kakahi or freshwater mussels. Audio
Why we choose terrible passwords

technology security

7:10 PM.Passwords (good ones) are said to be like underwear. Don't share them and change them regularly. But for many of us it seems 1234, qwerty, are our go to passwords. Megan Squire wants us all to rethink… Read more Audio
Waiuku's hall turns 100

8:12 PM.And now we doff our caps to one of those pieces of social infrastructure, often taken for granted - the town hall - specifically the Waiuku Town Hall, down the road from Auckland. It's turning a… Read more Audio
Nights' Culture -Paul Berrington

music

8:07 PM.Tonight we look at jungle, a UK based movement that began in the early 90s, which music historian Simon Reynolds has described as "a form of cultural expression for London's lower class urban youth"… Read more Audio
Not so cute: Koalas and Chlamydia

life and society

7:12 PM.The STI that spreads like wildfire through Koala colonies.Promiscuous Koalas are driving themselves extinct. Peter Timms has been researching this trend and is on the show to explain why this is… Read more Audio
Nights' Overseas - Johnny Blades

spiritual practices life and society

8:12 PM.RNZI senior journalist Johnny Blades on our adjacent neighbours, the nations within the Pacific Ocean, pop 11,400,060 (est. 2015)... Audio
Inside a zero-waste home

environment life and society

7:12 PM.Liam Prince and Hannah Blumhardt have been living zero-waste in Wellington for over two years now. They send nothing to landfill, use no more than one wheelie bin for recycling a year and buy no… Read more Audio
Nights Pundit - Feminism

history media

8:10 PM.Deborah Russell says children learn through play, and if we only make some toys available to either boys, or girls, then we limit learning. Audio
Twenty years on from Deep Blue v.s Kasparov

7:10 PM.World champion chess player Gary Kasparov lost to a computer in 1997, the computer named 'Deep Blue' won the match and paved the way for computers to be seen as capable of outsmarting humans. Kasparov… Read more Audio
Nights' Science - Toxicology

science health

8:13 PM.Our poison professor - toxicologist Dr. Leo Schep tests for substances taken internally or applied externally that are injurious to health or dangerous to life... Audio
The supermarket where you pay what you can

life and society

7:13 PM.Ronni Kahn is the brains behind 'OzHarvest'. Its aim is to prevent food waste. All food is "recycled"; produce which would otherwise have gone to the dump. Punters pay what they can and take what they… Read more Audio
Tapestry Project : Jeanette Trotman

8:12 PM.The Tapestry Project is a plan to record history through embroidery. Audio
Nights' Culture - Poetry

arts

8:20 PM.This week's cultural ambassador - James Brown - celebrates the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. Audio
40 years fighting for transgender rights

life and society identity

7:15 PM.Christine Burns wrote the first ever official guidance about trans health for the Department of Health. She also led for some years on challenging negative reporting in the media. Audio
Nights' Overseas - Japan

spiritual practices life and society

8:15 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
Dracula tourism in Romania

life and society

7:12 PM.Duncan Light is a senior lecturer of Tourism at Bournemouth University in the UK and he's coming on the show to talk about how Bram Stoker's novel Dracula a gothic horror classic, impacted Romania's… Read more Audio
Late Edition for 9 May 2017

10:17 PM.Debate over lowering the school age, a word cop, and in Dateline Pacific more on the impact of cyclone Donna. Audio
Nights' Pundit - Right thinking

life and society economy

8:20 PM.Eric Crampton is on to talk the rationales of individual freedom and personal responsibility, Eric is the head of research at The New Zealand Initiative. Audio
Truck life

arts

7:10 PM.Phil Truesdale has a truck. Except he doesn't use his truck for normal things. He creates everything from boxing rings, to tyre swings in the back of his truck, with the help of his friends and… Read more Audio, Gallery
Nights Science - Physics

science

8:20 PM.Professor Shaun Hendy talks about New Zealand physicist John Ziman. Audio
The Museum of Failure

technology

7:10 PM.Dr. Samuel West is the organisational psychologist behind the Museum of Failure. Where Failure is celebrated. Audio
Professor Frank Bloomfield : the health of Babes

7:07 PM.The Liggins Institute Director, Professor Frank Bloomfield, will explain why he goe 20 Dames - from Malvina Major to Iritana Tawhiwhirangi together in one room, and what all those dames have to do… Read more Audio
Nights' Culture - Fergus Barrowman

music

10:09 PM.Jivester, editor and publisher Fergus Barrowman on the sizzle and pop of a snazzy beat... Audio