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9:15 PM.We chat to chief executive of New Zealand Young Farmers Lynda Coppersmith about the iconic kiwi event.

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10:45 PM.The Spinoff's Lyric Waiwiri-Smith speaks to Emile Donovan about the experience of joining England fans at a pub downtown Auckland  Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Sarah Buxton is the director of The Charlotte Museum, New Zealand's only lesbian museum. She joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

10:17 PM.Researchers at University of Thessaly in Greece set out to determine if the suit of armour was used in combat, or just for ceremonial purposes. Andreas Flouris joins Emile Donovan to discuss what they… Read more Audio

9:35 PM.Award-winning writer Steve Braunias tells Emile Donovan why The Survivors - his third book of New Zealand crime narratives - will also be his last. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.We explore the classic moral thought experiment, the trolley problem, but with an AI twist. Read more Audio

10:45 PM.It's one of five locations who are battling it out for the band's 'encore concert' for their Grassroots Tour, before they head to Europe. Mayor, Bryan Cadogan talks to Emile Donovan about why he wants… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.A new book looks at the subject of single-parented or alternatively structured families in Aotearoa New Zealand.  Read more Audio

10:17 PM.Thirty years ago, Jeff Bezos started a company which would one day be known as Amazon - and which would change the course of retail - and, indeed, the world - irrevocably.  Author Natalie Berg joins… Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Classics enthusiast and educator Ben Jackson joins us for our monthly chat. Tonight, we are stepping into the Colosseum and taking a deep dive into the history of the Gladiators Read more Audio

10:50 PM.An online trend shows men - it's almost exclusively men - spending the entirety of a long-haul flight not using any entertainment or distractions outside of the journey map. Why? Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Soon children aged three to six in the Nelson region will be given the chance to take part in a pilot programme which covers the skills involved in talking, using words and conversing with others. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Employment lawyer Barbara Buckett explains why the Employment Court judge ruled that the University of Auckland had breached its contractual obligations to Siouxsie Wiles by not protecting her from… Read more Audio

9:30 PM.NZ Herald deputy political editor Thomas Coughlan joins Emile Donovan to cover the latest on the Darleen Tana saga and the government's plans to flood the housing market. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Nights is joined by Sasha Calhoun, an associate professor at Victoria University of Wellington's School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies to explain how humans came to sound so different… Read more Audio

10:45 PM.BBC World's Jonathan Frewin joins Emile Donovan to take a look at what the UK can expect from the new Labour government, the fallout from the surprise results of the French elections and Hollywood… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.RNZ sports journalist Jamie Wall debriefs the All Blacks and their first test under coach Scott Robinson and the rise of New Zealand's newest sporting star Lulu Sun. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Over 860 days into the conflict, blogger, pollster and RNZ regular David Farrar has recently returned from visiting Ukraine and he speaks to Emile Donovan about his experience of a country still very… Read more Audio

9:50 PM.Sam Low dishes about the dinner he cooked for visiting superstar stand-up comedian Ali Wong. Read more Audio

9:30 PM.Illustrator and science communicator Giselle Clarkson says taking notice of the natural world - like the colours on a leaf, and the fine hairs on a spider's leg - is key to retaining a childlike sense… Read more Audio

9:15 PM.It's been 40 years since Dame Naida won the right to greet people with 'kia ora' while working as a toll operator for the New Zealand Post Office. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Finn is back with bag of fresh tracks, tonight he's got new music from acoustic improvisers Unknown to Known, singer-songwriter Martha Skye Murphy and Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter Joanna Wang.

10:18 PM.A new documentary, 21 years in the making, follows the first openly gay Jewish rabbi in a 38-generation family dynasty of rabbis. Read more Audio

9:30 PM.Dan chats with Emile Donovan about Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story, Fancy Dance featuring Lily Gladstone from Killers of the Flower Moon, and Wind River now playing on TVNZ +. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Amber Clyde from the group Girls Skate is running a skateboarding programme specially catered to the disabled community in Tāmaki Makaurau this Sunday. Read more Audio