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9:35 PM.Yes, we write programmes to instruct computers but how do we get them to "understand" those instructions in the first place? Read more Audio

9:25 PM.What changes to immigration rules might mean for Kiwis, the expected appointment of MI6's first female chief and how Pink Floyd are sitting top of the charts. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.The Cannes Film Festival says it will no longer tolerate nudity on its red carpet but what about closer to home? Turns out being nude in public is NOT illegal in New Zealand. Not by itself, anyway ...

10:45 PM.BBC World journalist Jonathan Frewin joins Emile Donovan to explain the big events making headlines internationally, including Donald Trump's first major foreign trip of his term to Saudi Arabia… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Sports writer Richard Irvine joins Emile Donovan to debrief the weekend in sport. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.With Air New Zealand prices soaring, aviation commentator Irene King joins Emile Donovan to explain all the different components that make-up the price of a flight: from dynamic inputs like demand to… Read more Audio

9:35 PM.Professor Anina Rich from Macquarie University in Sydney joins Emile Donovan to take a scientific journey through synesthesia: a phenomenon where ordinary interactions with sounds and symbols can… Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Award-winning author Emma Hislop (Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha, Kāi Tahu) joins Emile Donovan to share a whakataukī close to her heart. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Former NetSafe CEO Martin Cocker weighs in on a Palmerston North company taking social media site Reddit to court over anonymous posts made blasting their business. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.The University of Otago is putting both The Frances Hodgkins Fellowship for visual arts and The Mozart fellowship for music on hold due to budgeting concerns. Read more Audio

9:35 PM.Our resident screen critic Dan Slevin casts his expert eye over Thunderbolts (in cinemas), Flintoff (Disney+) and The Grey (Māori+). Read more Audio

8:30 PM.The New Zealand Orchid society is putting on their Annual Autumn Orchid Show with hundreds of rare and unique flowers being judged, including some for sale! Read more Audio

10:45 PM.Kate Curtis is a PhD student at Lincoln University and native jumping spiders are her passion. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.The winner of the Prime Minister's Macdiarmid Science Prize, Dr Olivia Harrison, leads a lab combining neuroscience with fields like physiology and computational modelling to learn more about what is… Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Cheating is as old as time, but with the advent of generative AI to answer questions, are degrees worth as much as they used to be? Mike Grimshaw from the University of Canterbury weighs in. Read more Audio

9:35 PM.Playwright and producer Victor Rodger has reread Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty ahead of interviewing Alan at the Auckland Writer's Festival. Read more Audio

9:25 PM. Dan Weijers, senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Waikato, delves into why we make bucket lists, what they say about us, and whether ticking things off really gives life meaning. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.New Zealand Marist priest Father Ben D’Souza, who is currently studying in Rome, was in St Peter’s Square last night when black smoke rising from the chimney signaled that the first vote had not… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Music curator at the Alexander Turnbull Library Michael Brown undertakes a thorough study in his new book Eyeliner's Buy Now.  Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Dr Chris Ogden, director of Global Studies at the University of Auckland, joins Emile Donovan to explain the ratcheting tensions between India and Pakistan. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.We welcome back a friend of Nights, Professor Bryan Fry, aka Venom Doc because of his passion for studying venomous creatures. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Dr Liz Allen is a demographer from Australian National University in Canberra and she speaks to Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

10:45 PM.As part of a world-wide celebration marking the achievement of the first person to cycle around the world on a Penny Farthing, Don Speden cycled 110 kilometres from his home - and back! Read more Audio

10:30 PM.A new book from one of New Zealand's most celebrated social historians looks at the ideas that built our nation - and concludes that neither Maori nor Europeans remained unchanged following their… Read more Audio

9:40 PM.Is there a mathematical formula? Is someone walking every track and reporting back how long it takes? We pull back the curtain on DOC signage. Read more Audio