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9:15 PM.Ezzy Pearson is an expert in all things space, with more than a decade of experience in science journalism, including as Features Editor of BBC’s Sky at Night magazine. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.NZ Herald senior writer Simon Wilson was moderating the debate and joins Emile Donovan to discuss. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.David Rudrum is an English lecturer at the University of Huddersfield and the author of Trolling Before the Internet: An Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary… Read more Audio

8:45 PM.Bryan Wall, product test writer at Consumer NZ, joins Emile Donovan to explain. Read more Audio

8:35 PM.Pranay Baidya came to New Zealand for his education and now runs his own fashion label in Delhi, India. He's back in NZ for a series of trunk shows and joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:25 PM.Managing editor of Te Herenga Waka University Press Ashleigh Young joins Emile Donovan to discuss the merits of the em dash and its friends: the comma, the semicolon, the ellipsis, and the period. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Professor Andrew Geddis from the University of Otago's faculty of law joins Emile Donovan to discuss the balance between free speech and privacy. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Doctor Philip Barnes is a principal scientist at Earth Sciences New Zealand, formerly known as NIWA and he joins Emile Donovan to discuss the findings of a new international study. Read more Audio

8:50 PM.BBC World Service reporter Pete Ross joins Emile Donovan to look at some of the events making headlines. Read more Audio

8:35 PM.RNZ sports whiz Jamie Wall joins Emile Donovan to discuss a mighty week in sport, including the All-Blacks' historic loss to Los Pumas on Argentinian soil. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.New Zealand world-leading freediver Kathryn Nevatt joins Emile Donovan to share some top tips for holding one's breath Read more Audio

8:15 PM.Infometrics chief forecaster Gareth Kiernan joins Emile Donovan to discuss. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Featuring new music from Baltimore lo-fi synth-pop artist Nourished By Time, Wellington indie artist Michaela Tempers, and Swedish dance duo Deki Alem. Read more Audio

8:40 PM.Nights' resident screen critic joins Mark Leishman to review the new film Eddington by Ari Aster, Gut Instinct which was produced, written, directed and edited by Auckland filmmaker Doug Dillaman and… Read more Audio

8:30 PM.We're heading down to Timaru, where the Timaru Booksellers are putting on their annual Word Salad open mic poetry night at the Aigantighe Art Gallery to mark National Poetry Day. Read more Audio

8:20 PM.A group of Southland artists have come together, working across all sorts of mediums, to capture the colour, creativity and nostalgia of the classic Kiwi potluck. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.RNZ's Jamie Tahana is in York covering the excitement. Read more Audio

9:40 PM.We cross to RNZ's So'omalo Iteni Schwalger who is at the Due Drops Events Centre in Manukau, where the Pacific Music Awards are taking place. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.David Stewart is a mathematician at the University of Manchester. He's part of the group that devised this new strategy, and he speaks to Mark Leishman. Read more Audio

8:40 PM.On the eve of a new poet laureate being announced, current-reigning laureate Chris Tse joins Mark Leishman for his reread of Raymond Carver's 1981 collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love… Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Classics educator and enthusiast Ben Jackson is back for his monthly chat. Tonight, he's taking us through the rise and fall of Athens as the powerhouse of ancient Greece. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Dr Anna Marie Brennan is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Waikato, where she specialises in outer space law and she speaks to Mark Leishman. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Emile Donovan speaks to Professor Bev Lawton ONZM, the founder and director of the National Centre for Women's Health Research Aotearoa, and the 2025 New Zealander of the Year. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.With teachers striking for better pay and conditions, Albany Senior High School principal Claire Amos joins Emile Donovan to discuss. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Human beings have looked upwards since our necks allowed. Physics PhD candidate and planetarium presenter Laura Burn takes Emile Donovan on an astronomical journey. Read more Audio