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Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar
7:12 PM.Is genocide unfolding in Myanmar? The Rohingya people are an ethnic Muslim group in Myanmar who are often described as the world's most persecuted minority. Executive Director of Fortify Rights… Read more Audio
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A year of UM's
9:10 PM.RNZ News Sub-Editor Anna Chin decided to build a collection of every "um" she edited out of audio cuts on her news shifts. She started the file in late January 2016 and after her overnight shift last… Read more Audio
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Nights' Science - Computer Science
8:12 PM.Could augmented reality save us from awkward interactions at cocktail parties? We talk to Prof. Mark Apperley from the University of about some interesting uses for virtual and augmented reality and… Read more Audio
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Sovereignty and the NZ Land Wars
7:12 PM.Were the New Zealand wars really about disputed sovereignty? Geoff Fischer offers a republican take on the Treaty of Waitangi. Audio
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Kiwiburn
8:12 PM.Kiwiburn is New Zealand's Regional Burning Man festival, currently taking place in Hunterville. We talk to Hippathy Valentine, long-time Kiwiburner and project leader for The Giant Weta. Audio
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Nights' Culture - Dance
8:12 PM.Toi Whakaari movement tutor and artistic director of Limbs Dance Company Chris Jannides explores equipment based dance pieces, which allow dancers to be airborne or interact with gymnastic-like… Read more Audio
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The faces of 'back-row' America
7:12 PM.Since 2012, Chris Arnade has travelled deep into small-town America, photographing America’s poor. Read more Audio
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Nights' Overseas Reports - England
8:12 PM.Formerly of RNZ's Morning Report team, breakfast producer at BBC Radio Brighton Will Flockton reports from England, Audio
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Our enduring fascination with evil
7:12 PM.Sin; guilt; devils and the demonic - all in a day's work for Professor Paul Morris from Victoria University. He is teaching a course on evil. Read more Audio
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Nights' Pundit - Philosophy
8:12 PM.Love, love love. Philosopher at large Ann Kerwin turns her head to the role of the heart, examining Oxford University Press title: LOVE A Very Short Introduction by Ronald de Sousa. Audio
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Amish in Florida
7:12 PM.When you think of Florida you don't think Amish, but there is a community of plain living "snow birds" there. Travel writer Heather Hapeta shares her experiences of visiting Pinecraft. Audio
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Nights' Science - Botany
8:10 PM.Auckland Botanical Gardens curator Bec Stanley shares the secret and curious history of tomatoes. Did you know that for several hundred years British people thought they were poisonous? Plus she's on… Read more Audio
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Beneath the Ross Ice Shelf
7:10 PM.Climate change is causing Antarctic ice shelves to crack and melt. Dr Craig Stevens from NIWA is recently back from the white continent where he was part of a team sampling the ocean water of the Ross… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery
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Nights' Culture - Electronic Music
8:10 PM.For a break from Christmas music we have Paul Berrington aka DJ B-Lo. playing music by Octave One, Carl Craig, Underground Resistance , and Drexciya. a group of Detroit DJs and producers who followed… Read more Audio
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Tongan Christmas in Salt Lake City
7:12 PM.Bev Uipi is a city councilor in Millcreek City, a township bordering Salt Lake City. Utah is home to more people of pacific descent than anywere else in continental USA. We'll ask her about her… Read more Audio
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Nights' Overseas Reports - Japan
8:12 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. Audio
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A Zambian Wedding
7:12 PM.We catch up with Atkins Chishimba and Rachel Meadowcroft who are now living in Christchurch after getting married in Zambia in April. Audio
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Nights' Pundit - Religion
8:12 PM.Religious studies Prof. Douglas Pratt from the University of Waikato on Oman's unique experience of Islam. Audio
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Our Own Odysseys - Loving Haiti
7:10 PM.Karim Dickie shares his Haiti adventures, including witnessing a Fet Gede voodoo ceremony. Audio
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Nights' Science - Astronomy
8:12 PM.Imaging planets around other stars, a billion star positions measured by the GAIA satellite, and the reason why Venus is so bright at the moment - We're exploring celestial bodies with former Mt John… Read more Audio
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Thuten Kesang - NZ's First Tibetan Refugee
7:13 PM.We talk to Thuten Kesang, New Zealand's first Tibetan refugee, who has lived in exile for more than fifty years. He is the focus of a feature documentary film Team Tibet, due for release in 2017. Audio
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Twins' Cycle Mission for Mental Health
8:12 PM.17 year old twins Roody and Owlsca Ballester are cycling from Auckland to Wellington to raise money for the Mental Health Foundation. We talk to them on the home stretch at Marton. Audio
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Nights' Overseas - Palestine
8:10 PM.Our Palestine correspondent Fadwa Hodali joins us from Bethleham - What's Christmas like there? Audio
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Faking it - Copying the Great Masters
7:10 PM.Why do we jostle with hundreds of people for a glimpse of the original Mona Lisa when there are sophisticated copies available in less crowded art museums? We ask University of Melbourne PhD Candidate… Read more Audio
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Nights' Overseas - Uganda
8:12 PM.Uganda's Daily Monitor journalist Tabu Butagira reports on the trial of Dominic Ongwen, a commander of the notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), an influx of South Sudanese refugees into Uganda… Read more Audio