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7:12 PM.The bike racks are full at Rototuna Junior High School, bucking the national average of just 2% of students riding to school. We'll ask Megan Campbell from the Board of Trustees what they're doing to… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Muggle Emma Humphrey explains the magical but very real sport of Quiddich. Audio

8:12 PM.Editor, publisher and jazz fan Fergus Barrowman is in to spin some tracks, including a little Marsalis magic. Audio

7:10 PM.Making power from motion in the ocean. Gareth Gretton is the chair of the NZ wave and tidal energy association, or AWATEA. Audio

8:10 PM.Dr Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research... Looking at the life and work of self-educated Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan - the… Read more Audio

7:10 PM.Julie Woods aka "That Blind woman" set herself the challenge of visiting 50 countries before she turned 50. http://www.thatblindwoman.co.nz Audio

8:12 PM.The large, slow rotation of Earth's axis called precession - former Mt John University Observatory superintendent Alan Gilmore raises our gaze to the bodies floating in space... Audio

7:12 PM.Award-winning filmmaker and historian, Rachel Landers has explored the unsolved mystery of the 1978 bombing of The Hilton Hotel on Sydney's George St -Australia's first act of terrorism. Audio

8:15 PM.Every major sports league now relies on replays and reviews. These take time, leaving spectators restless. Is it better to review many plays and make games go slower, or maybe let a mistake go and… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Played in stadiums and arenas in front of a huge live audience, with millions watching online at home. It's not the superbowl but team-based video gaming. GamePlanet reviewer Andrew Todd attended a… Read more Audio

7:10 PM.Working on the ground in Vietnam, Michael Brosowski's organisation Blue Dragon Children's Foundation has rescued 525 trafficked children, sent 4,046 kids back to school, and played over 2,000 games of… Read more Audio

8:40 PM.Editor-in-chief of ERR News, Silver Tambur reports from the Baltic region of Northern Europe, the Republic of Estonia. Tonight he talks about Estonian secularity, a global clean-up initiative, and the… Read more Audio

8:15 PM.The UN climate talks in Paris last year - "COP 21" - gave rise to the Paris Climate Agreement, hailed by world leaders as an historic breakthrough towards preventing catastrophic climate change. But… Read more Audio

7:15 PM.Nigel and Heather Roberts walked the 285-kilometre Offa's Dyke Path that follows the England-Wales border. Audio

8:15 PM.They may look like goldfish on steroids but Koi carp pose a serious threat to New Zealand water ecosystems. Self-confessed native fish geek Stella McQueen talks about a recent eradication effort that… Read more Audio

7:15 PM.There are over 1000 war memorials throughout New Zealand. Historian Jock Phillips' new book To The Memory explores the stories behind the stone. Audio

8:15 PM.Bolshoi Babylon examines the turbulent world of Moscow's famed ballet company following the 2013 acid attack that blinded the company's artistic director. We talk to the documentary's co-director Nick… Read more Audio

8:08 PM.University of Auckland ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke raps about the cultural politics of hip hop and protest. Audio

7:12 PM.From Vikings high on mushrooms to soldiers on speed in Vietnam... Historian Lukasz Kamienski traces the relationship between drugs and war. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Bangalore based author and journalist Shoba Narayan from the second-most populated nation of the world, India, pop. 1,236,344,631 (est. 2014)... Audio

7:12 PM.Surendra Adhikari on his research into the causes of the shift in the earth's axis. Audio

8:10 PM.Double standard - Women in Politics - Feminist blogger Deborah Russell. Audio