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The Panel for Monday 25 August 2025

  • The Pre-Panel for 25 August 2025

    3:45 PM.Jesse Mulligan is joined by The Panel host Wallace Chapman and producer Lucy Walker to preview this evening's marlarky. Audio

  • The Panel with Liam Heir and Verity Johnson Part 1

    6:00 PM.Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Liam Heir and Verity Johnson. First up, it's tougher for small businesses now than it was during the 2008 global financial crisis… Read more Audio

  • The Panel with Liam Heir and Verity Johnson Part 2

    6:30 PM.In part two, a census involving several thousand kids have given a real insight into the life of today's young people, and what they love is ... sushi! And then in Hawera the town's foodbank was… Read more Audio

  • The Panel Plus

    7:00 PM.An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan. Then: a new survey has found that even retirees who have paid off their homes are… Read more Audio

The Pre-Panel for 25 August 2025 

Emile Donovan is joined by The Panel host Wallace Chapman and producer Lucy Walker to preview this evening's marlarky.

Relaxed smile portrait of Wallace Chapman on grey background

Photo: RNZ / Jeff McEwan

The Panel with Liam Heir and Verity Johnson Part 1

Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Liam Heir and Verity Johnson.

First up, it's tougher for small businesses now than it was during the 2008 global financial crisis according to Antje Fiedler, senior lecturer in Management and International Business at University of Auckland. Is the government doing the right things to make sure they survive? And in Whakatane it appears that services like cemeteries, public toilets and animal control haven't made the cut in a new bill that aims to alleviate pressure on council rates. 

Public toilet (file photo).

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The Panel with Liam Heir and Verity Johnson Part 2

Plates of sushi on a conveyor belt at a sushi chain restaurant in Tokyo on 3 February, 2023.

Plates of sushi on a conveyor belt at a sushi chain restaurant in Tokyo on 3 February, 2023. Photo: AFP / Philip Fong

The Panel Plus

An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan.

Then: a new survey has found that even retirees who have paid off their homes are struggling with the cost of living, Wallace talks to Professor Ngaire Kerse, the Joyce Cook chair in Ageing Well  

Close-up view of senior man hands leaning on a cane while sitting

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