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Nights' Culture - Jazz
8:12 PM.Jivester, editor and publisher Fergus Barrowman shares his pick of jazz tracks. This week, Jeff Lederer's Brooklyn Blowhards, Haul Away Joe, Patrick Bleakley, Jonathan Crayford, Anthony Donaldson… Read more Audio
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Craig Potton
7:12 PM.Celebrated New Zealand photographer and publisher Craig Potton is chair of the trust behind the $12 million renovation of one of the country's oldest public art galleries, the Suter Art Gallery in… Read more Audio
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Nights' Pundit - Mathematics
8:12 PM.Dr. Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University on the mathematics that arises from political forecasting in the US election. Audio
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Our Own Odysseys - Maria Grace
7:11 PM.This week's Odyssey belongs to Maria Grace, who gave up the relatively quiet life in the Baltic State of Estonia to work with a dog-sled team in Alaska. Maria helped to take care of the dogs when they… Read more Audio
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Nights' Science - Native Fish Ecology
8:11 PM.Stella McQueen, self-confessed native fish geek, reports on the recent review of eel quotas by the Ministry for Primary Industries. Plus she shares a cool competition idea to get kids caring for… Read more Audio
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Representing disability
7:12 PM.Esther Woodbury was one of the organisers of a protest against the film Me Before You because of how it depicts disability. We'll talk to her about the way films and other media commonly focus on… Read more Audio
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Mary Fisher
8:12 PM.We chat to gold medal winning Paralympian swimmer Mary Fisher, who's just arrived home from Rio. Audio
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Nights' Culture - Video Games
8:10 PM.This week's cultural ambassador is 'Birth. Movies. Death' & GamePlanet reviewer Andrew Todd on the world of Virtual Reality. Audio
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Domestic Postal Censorship in WW1
7:10 PM.Researcher Jared Davidson talks about censorship and surveillance of mail within New Zealand during the Great War. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Standing Rock - Kingi Snelgar
8:12 PM.Maori indigenous rights lawyer Kingi Snelgar is on the ground at Standing Rock. He is involved in the Sioux Tribe protest against a North Dakota oil pipeline which recently resulted in a halt on… Read more Audio
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John Thornley - Songs of the Spirit
7:12 PM.Methodist lay-preacher John Thornley with the fourth in his series exploring the spiritual side of songs. Tonight he examines Bob Marley's redemption song. Audio
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Nights' Pundit - Left Thinking
8:12 PM.University of Otago political historian Prof Brian Roper on how business lobbying has affected New Zealand's taxation regime. Audio
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Burlesque Hall of Fame
7:12 PM.Crystal Mischief from Undieground Burlesque travelled to the US to the Burlesque Hall of fame to interview the older legends who are still "working it" on stage. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Nights' Science - Physics
8:10 PM.Prof. Shaun Hendy from the University of Auckland examines the life and work New Zealand astronomer and and cosmologist Beatrice Hill Tinsley. The Association of Scientists have just awarded the very… Read more Audio
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Paul Wood - From Prison to PhD
7:10 PM.How do you turn your life around? We ask Dr Paul Wood, who at 18 was in prison for killing his drug dealer. Today he has a PhD and works to help people transform their lives. Audio
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Auckland Heritage Walking Tour Part 3
8:10 PM.Historian Edward Bennett takes Bryan on another Central Auckland Heritage Tour. Part 3: The Outside Walk, starting (and finishing) at St Kevin's Arcade on the Karangahape Road. Audio
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Nights' Culture - Hip Hop
8:10 PM.University of Auckland ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke talks about the links between hip hop and violent death and highlights some tracks by, and some about, dead rappers. Audio
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Homelessness in New Zealand
7:12 PM.Dr Kate Amore from the University of Otago, Wellington's He Kainga Oranga/Housing & Health Research Programme shares her research on the growing number of New Zealanders who don't have a house to call… Read more Audio
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Nights' Overseas Reports - Uganda
8:12 PM.Uganda's Daily Monitor journalist Tabu Butagira reports on the Republic of Uganda. Audio
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Greg Barton - Global Islamic Politics
7:12 PM.Greg Barton is a Research Professor in Global Islamic Politics at Alfred Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the co-director of the Australian Intervention Support Hub (AISH), a… Read more Audio
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Nights' Pundit - Feminism
8:12 PM.Feminist blogger Deborah Russell talks about women in film. Who gets paid the most, who gets the roles, who gets to write the scripts and direct and produce the movies? She also tells us how to use… Read more Audio
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Our Own Odysseys - middle-aged cycling OE
7:12 PM.Janie Cook and her husband spent five months cycling around Europe in what she calls a mini middle-aged OE. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Nights' Science - Body Parts
8:12 PM.Professor Emerita in Science Communication at the University of Otago and recent winner of the 2016 New Zealand Association of Scientists Science Communicator Medal, Jean Fleming, opens our eyes to… Read more Audio
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Effective Altruism - How to do good better
7:12 PM.Most of us want to do some good in the world, either by donating to charity, or using our labour towards a good cause. But how do you decide what the best and most helpful action is? We ask Catherine… Read more Audio
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Eddie Madril - Hoopdancer
8:10 PM.Eddie Madril is a member of the Pascua Yaqui tribe of Southern Arizona and Northern Sonora Mexico. He is an active member of the Native American community and a representative of his culture through… Read more Audio