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8:50 PM.Emile speaks to Jonathan Frewin from the BBC World Service to take a look at some of the events making headlines internationally. Read more Audio

8:40 PM.RNZ sports whiz Jamie Wall joins Emile Donovan to debrief the week that was in sport. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Emile Donovan speaks to Shamubeel Eaqub, Chief Economist at Simplicity. 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 including tracks from Satin Sheets, jackaltheblackal and Dale Kerrigan. Read more Audio

8:40 PM.Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile to review Riviera Revenge (in cinemas), The Friend (in cinemas) and The Pickup (Prime Video). Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Nights producer Bonnie Harrison revisits the week in quizzes, and looks at why some words are better known to some people than others. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Craig is director of Moller Architects which has been in practice since 1969 and has designed the likes of the Sky Tower and ASB Waterfront Theatre in Auckland. He tells Emile what he thinks makes a… Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Professor Aaron Smith from the University of Canberra and Loughborough University is the author of The Psychology of Sports Fans and Football on The Brain: Why Minds Love Sport, which looks at the… Read more Audio

8:55 PM.A shirt strikingly similar to the one worn by Canterbury in the 2001 NPC championship is now being sold by London-based Palace Skateboards, a brand beloved by celebrities like Justin Bieber, Seth… Read more Audio

8:40 PM.Political scientist Natalia Albert joins Emile Donovan to revisit what New Zealand's 'wellbeing era' of governance got right, and got wrong. Read more Audio

8:20 PM.When we fail to open a jar, and we pass it to our spouse who opens it without breaking a sweat, have we helped to loosen it or not? Richard Easther, professor of physics at the University of Auckland… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Ahead of a bilateral summit this weekend, director of the centre for strategic studies at Victoria University of Wellington David Capie joins Emile Donovan.  Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Brother Guy is currently on a speaking tour of New Zealand and joins Emile Donovan to talk about faith, science and whether he would baptise aliens. Read more Audio

8:20 PM.The unsigned artwork was verified during an episode of the BBC television programme Fake or Fortune by our very own Mary Kisler. She joins Emile Donovan Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Under the new system, road users would pay road user charges online, similar to a power bill. Senior fellow at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Stuart Donovan joins Nights to discuss. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Wellington artist Greg Boardmore helped establish the Wētā Game Studio, but says nothing compares to the power and purity of making comics. He joins Mark Leishman. Read more Audio

8:40 PM.Avid editor Marshall Clark (who penned the Wikipedia page for RNZer Bryan Crump), also a committee member for Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand, joins Mark Leishman to explain. Read more Audio

8:20 PM.Christian Smith joins Mark Leishman to discuss a fraught immigration climate in the UK, pressure on for Russia to agree to peace talks with Ukraine, and a Kiwi performer at the Edinburgh Fringe… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Sport clubs across New Zealand are struggling as they face a double whammy of increasing costs and decreasing number of volunteers. Report project lead Dr Mel Johnston joins Mark Leishman. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.A Gut Mood Solution is by Gordon Parker, a professor of psychiatry at the University of New South Wales. He speaks to Mark Leishman about a novel way to treat bipolar disorder. Read more Audio

8:45 PM.BBC World Service journalist Jonathan Frewin joins Mark Leishman to take a look at events making international headlines, including a global plastics treaty being negotiated in Geneva, the Moscow… Read more Audio

8:40 PM.RNZ sports journalist Jamie Wall joins Mark Leishman to debrief the weekend of sport. Read more Audio

8:20 PM.Overnight, the air quality in parts of Canterbury was rated as 'unhealthy' using the air quality index. Environmental epidemiologist Professor Simon Hales explains what that means. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Dr Michael Johnston is a senior research fellow at The New Zealand Initiative who led the government's Curriculum Refresh Ministerial Advisory Group. He has long called for an overhaul of NCEA . Read more Audio