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Terms and Conditions: a comic
7:12 PM.Richard Sikoryak has made a comic book using Apple's terms and conditions. Read more Audio
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Nights' Overseas - Vietnam
8:10 PM.Lien Hoang reports from the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, pop. 90,730,000 (est. 2014)... Lien chats about one of the Vietnamese suspects in the King Jong. Also about how Saigon has talked for years… Read more Audio
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The first gangster to rat
7:12 PM.Larry McShane is a veteran crime reporter for the New York Times. He recently wrote a book called'The Last Don' which is about Ralph Natale who became a mafia boss in Philadelphia. He made history by… Read more Audio
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Nights' Pundit - Brian Roper
8:12 PM.Brian Roper will be explaining how Trump was able to be elected president despite polling around 2.7 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton with respect to the American revolution, the system of… Read more Audio
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To catch a mole
7:12 PM.Louise Chapman is a professional mole hunter in the U.K. The word "mole" is thought to derive from the middle English word mouldwarp, which means earth-thrower. Audio
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Nights' Science - Hamish Campbell
8:12 PM.Hamish covers the earthy science of geology from erosion to earthquakes. Audio
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Trades, education and women
7:12 PM.Rene Davies joins us to talk about joining a trade versus getting a university education, and ponders the question: Is the increase in women in the trade industry a passing fad? Audio
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The Fritter Festival
8:12 PM.Dannii Vallely-Te Kani is on the line to talk fritters, and entertainment in Whangarei Audio
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Culture: Music of Latin America
8:12 PM.From Uruguay, Julio Julián & Falta y Resto - A Una Mano Paloma: the perfect introduction to this week's cultural ambassador, Mona-Lynn Courteau, our new Night time condiut for music from Latin… Read more Audio
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Itching
7:12 PM.Dr Zhou-Feng Chen, director of the Washington University Centre for the Study of Itch to explain why when you see or talk about itching you start to feel an itch coming on too. Audio
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Nights' Overseas - Taiwan
8:12 PM.Nights oversesas correspondent Edward White reports in from Taiwan. Audio
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Lloyd Esler & Rabbits
7:12 PM.Lloyd Esler joins Bryan to talk about Rabbits, and their history in NZ as friends and foes. Audio
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Nights' Pundit - Damien Fenton
8:12 PM.It was a hundred years ago two months ago that the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade played the decisive role in capturing Rafa (9 January 1917), the-then last remaining Ottoman outpost in the Sinai… Read more Audio
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53,000 Phyllis Diller jokes
7:12 PM.Phylis Diller was a famous comedian in the U.S, and her gags were all typed on small cards. The Smithsonian is trying to archive them all. Meghan Ferriter joins us to explain. Audio
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Photography: Mark Gee
7:12 PM.Mark Gee is an award winning photographer, time-lapse filmmaker & digital visual effects supervisor based in Wellington, New Zealand. He has worked on many high profile and Oscar award winning feature… Read more Audio
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Māui Dolphin Day
8:10 PM.Liz Stanway Chairperson of the Whaingaroa Environment Centre will be talking the Māui Dolphin Day Day. Audio
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Late Edition for 16 March 2017
10:15 PM.The Serious Fraud Office is investigating whether some Palace Poultry eggs, sold in supermarkets as free range, were actually caged eggs. The House has a new MP, an ersatz resignation and a call for… Read more Audio
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Nights' Culture - Raymond Sagapolutele
8:30 PM.Raymond Sagapolutele is a photographer, and he's also done a project called "Out of Context" that looks to tell the stories from Raymond Sagapolutele's generation of Polynesians who were born to… Read more Audio
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Jose & the octopus
7:10 PM.Niwa Marine Ecologist Jose Xavier has been studying an Antarctic Octopi and the diets of Antarctic toothfish. He is an Antarctic marine ecologist based at the Marine and Environmental Research… Read more Audio
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Nights' Overseas - Oh Canada !
8:10 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. Peggy will discuss the… Read more Audio
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The Great Molasses Flood of 1919
7:13 PM.A fluid dynamics specialist talks to Bryan Crump about the collapse of a molasses tank in Boston which killed 19 people. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Directions featuring Murray Ball
8:30 PM.Murray Ball talks to Neville Glasgow about his values and beliefs in a 1992 edition of Directions - replayed as a tribute to the creator of the widely read Footrot Flats cartoon, who died on Sunday 12… Read more Audio
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Nights' Pundit - Dr. Dillon Mayhew
8:12 PM.Making the numbers add up is Dr. Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research... We'll be talking about 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279… Read more Audio
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Cult survivor turned cult scholar
7:10 PM.Alexandra Stein was in a cult. She escaped. Now she studies cults for a living. She was in a Marxist-Leninist cult known as The O. Audio