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8:59 PM.Clue 1. Audio

8:45 PM.Left-leaning political historian from the University of Otago, A.Prof. Brian Roper deconstructs public policies from around the world. Tonight, lessons to learn from the 2010 Pike River mining… Read more Audio

7:10 PM.Competing in New Zealand's fastest motorsport (we're talking 3000 horsepower and a top speed of over 360 kilometres per hour), is Morice McMillin. Audio

8:50 PM.This weeks answer is.. Audio

8:08 PM.Phil Brownlee is a composer and sound engineer at Radio New Zealand, but what instrument does he play? Audio

9:59 PM.Clue number 8. Audio

8:59 PM.Clue 7. Audio

8:38 PM.Physicist from the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology, Dr Shaun Hendy strips it back to basics to explain how the universe works... the recent Nobel Prize winners in Physics… Read more Audio

7:14 PM.NASA Watch editor and astrobiologist Keith Cowing raises an eyebrow at an awkward if not welcome "gift" of two spy-built telescopes to NASA, particularly as the American space agency bravely struggles… Read more Audio

9:59 PM.Conundrum clue number six Audio

8:58 PM.Conundrum number five. Audio

8:37 PM.Poet and educator at NMIT, Cliff Fell recites the influence of the "classic" poems and poets... rounding off our excursion through classical poetry with the nine muses. Audio

7:10 PM.How tone-deaf folk finding it hard to distinguish vocal emotions may actually be showing an evolutionary link that both music and language share the same brain 'circuitry,' with Professor Bill… Read more Audio

9:59 PM.Clue 4 Audio

8:59 PM.Clue 3 Audio

8:40 PM.Our correspondent in India, pop. 1,170,938,000 (est. 2010) is Bangalore-based, Shoba Narayan... festivals of India - tonight, the celebration of Diwali - the festival of lights which marks the victory… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.John Boon has had a life full of adventures - when a bit (lot) younger, he and a friend decided to sail from England to New Zealand through the Panama Canal, and then to celebrate the age of 60, he… Read more Audio

9:59 PM.Clue 2. Audio

9:10 PM.Dispelling the myth that inappropriate European-based practises are forcing vegetables to grow from a dustbowl, there's a conservation farming revolution happening in Australia - says CSIRO Plant… Read more Audio

8:59 PM.Clue 1. Audio

8:45 PM.AUT Philosopher in Residence, Ann Kerwin muses on Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) of Copenhagen, otherwise known as "the gloomy Dane". Audio

7:10 PM.Watching the action from the stands in Singapore, it's Bangkok based sports correspondent James Goyder. Tonight, Manny Pacquiao's upcoming fight. Audio

8:55 PM.Answer. Audio

8:10 PM.Can you guess the instrument Michael Stewart plays? Audio

9:59 PM.Clue 8. Audio