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Former MP Peter Dunne — who visited Taiwan several times as an MP — says New Zealand's Chinese ambassador has “lost the plot” in warning MPs about celebrating Taiwan's national day. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.New Zealand-born, Australia-based artist Mike Hewson creates playgrounds that, at first glance, look more like construction sites than places to play. He joins Emile Donovan to explain his 'risk'… Read more Audio

8:45 PM.Jeremy Rees is the executive editor of specialist news at RNZ and a former editor of the Weekend Herald, NZ Herald website, and the Herald's head of news. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Greti Dinkova-Bruun is a Fellow and Library Director at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, and has been looking into medieval texts to find how frogs were depicted and used for… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.In the past seven years, the price of methamphetamine has dropped by 36 percent. In that same period, food prices have risen by about 37 percent. Writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.The best-selling licensed board game of all time was released 90 years ago, and chances are there's a Monopoly set tucked somewhere in your home, ready to start a family feud at a moment's notice. Read more Audio

8:50 PM.Tonight he's looking at the United Nations' latest report on global emissions of greenhouse gases, the escalating conflict in Sudan and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's visit to the White… Read more Audio

8:40 PM.With RNZ reporter Jamie Wall covering the All Blacks in Chicago, our sports correspondent tonight is sports writer and author of the weekly newsletter Sport Review, Richard Irvine. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Tonight she's talking about New Zealand's history with Guy Fawkes. Read more Audio

8:15 PM.To give us some context around what's happening, Emile Donovan speaks to political editor at the NZ Herald, Thomas Coughlan.  Read more Audio

9:25 PM.He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music. Read more Audio

8:40 PM.Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan for some Friday night reviews.

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8:30 PM.Mark Williams joins Emile Donovan to talk about The Logg Cabin. Read more Audio

8:20 PM.Billie Rogers joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.University of Waikato Senior Lecturer of Ecology, Biodiversity and Animal Behaviour Dr Ang McGaughran joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Mathias Clasen, associate professor and director of the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University in Denmark is a horror researcher., and he joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:45 PM.Dev Singh from the University of Auckland's Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering school.joins Emile Donovan to explain. Read more Audio

8:35 PM.Julia Jones is an independent advisor in ag industry and joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:20 PM.Sam Elton-Walters from Giant Pumpkins NZ joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Sam Sachdeva is the national affairs editor at Newsroom dot co dot nz and is on the ground in Korea. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Detective Inspector Chris Cahill served as president of the New Zealand Police Association for nine years, from 2016 to 2025. Read more Audio

8:20 PM.Lloyd Smith has been competing in dog trials since the 1970s and joins Emile Donovan from his farm near Palmerston in Otago Read more Audio

8:10 PM.We are joined by two experts who come down on different sides of the issue, clinical psychologist Dr Danielle Einstein and media lecturer Dr Alex Beattie. Read more Audio

9:45 PM.Reuben Munn has been a pastor for twenty years and joins Emile Donovan to explain. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Jenny Dagg is a sociologist and researcher at Maynooth University in Ireland and wrote the cost-benefit analysis for the scheme. She joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio