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7:10 PM.Lyndon Poskitt is riding his motorcycle around the world competing in international cross-country rallies along the way. Audio

8:12 PM.BBC sports journalist Russell Fuller keeps the score court side. Audio

8:12 PM.Former convener at VUW Modern Letters Creative Writing workshop, Cliff Fell on the work of New Zealand poet Rachel Bush. Audio

7:12 PM.Larry Stillman from Monash on a project to empower Bangladeshi women, particularly those working in rural communities, with mobile phone technology. Audio

8:12 PM.Formerly of RNZ's Morning Report team, breakfast producer at BBC Radio Brighton Will Flockton reports from England, which is (the greater) part of the United Kingdom, pop. 53,012,456 (est. 2011)... Audio

7:12 PM.The origins of certain folktales, such as 'The Smith and the Devil', can be traced back to the Bronze Age, making the age of these tales much older than what previously thought - with anthropologist… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Easter Rising - historian and author of 'New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919', Dr. Damien Fenton on the wherewithal of war... Audio

7:15 PM.In 2011, after collecting their vehicles at Hong Kong, Jeanette Knudsen and her husband Martin plus another couple drove more or less along the Silk Road route right through to Europe, and took the… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.What does gravity sound like? Prof. Shaun Hendy director of Te Punaha Matatini at the University of Auckland is explains the LIGO discovery. Audio

7:12 PM.What will power Africa's growth? Prof. Mark New from the African Climate & Development Initiative on the environmental and social challenges Africa faces as its energy needs increase. Audio

8:12 PM.The great Bay of Islands bathtub racing classic is taking place tomorrow at Te Ti Beach, Paihia. Mike Hurley will be racing his bathtub "Miss Bathwiser" Audio

8:07 PM.Placing the needle on the one drop of riddim, rocksteady, ska and roots and culture with deejay and toaster Miles Buckingham... Audio

7:09 PM.What does the fossil record reveal about the evolution of 'boneless' parasites? Dr. Tommy Leung from the School of Environmental & Rural Science at the University of New England explains. Read more Audio, Gallery

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

7:12 PM.University of York Department of History Anniversary Prof. David Moon on getting to grips with another cultural point of view, in this case, how Russians and Soviets have managed the impact of human… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.The rationales of individual freedom and personal responsibility with Eric Crampton, head of research at The New Zealand Initiative. This week he tackles the sticky topic of sugar tax. Audio

7:12 PM.Dave Lawton left the UK in 1999 on a 12 metre sail boat called Beacon and cruised around the world with various crew before making it home to New Zealand in 2001. Audio

8:12 PM.Professor Emerita in Science Communication at the University of Otago Jean Fleming, on (quirky) human anatomy. This week: cataracts and recent work on regrowing the eye lens with stem cells. Audio

7:10 PM.Self declared "Cloud Hunter" Associate Professor in Visual Arts at Charles Darwin University, Dr. Ioannis Michaloudis creates airy artworks from nanomaterial silica aerogel. Audio

10:15 PM.Tonight - Tupua Urlich, from state ward to child motivator; what $46 million buys the SAS; and in Dateline Pacific, the floodwaters in Fiji begin to recede. Audio

8:15 PM.Paul Kennedy from the ABC reports on Australian sport - the issue of equal pay for women, why Aussies are so good at swimming, and the upcoming Gold Coast Commonwealth games. Audio

8:12 PM.Shading in the heroes and villains of an animated realm is cartoonist, writer, illustrator Adrian Kinnaird... why readers of superhero comics love to see their favourite characters go head to head...

7:12 PM.How, out of all the horn instruments that exist in the world, has the trombone somehow found a day to dedicate to itself - with Hadyn Godfry & Ben Zilber of trombone octet Aucktet... Audio

8:12 PM.Editor of The International Jerusalem Post and a Jerusalem Post columnist, Liat Collins reports from the State of Israel, pop. 8,238,300 (est. 2014)... the nation is in pre-Passover festival mode… Read more Audio