Nights

8:10 The House

Louis Collins looks at the debate on a bill that seeks to introduce four year Parliamentary terms.

8:15 Pacific Waves

A daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week through a Pacific lens and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in the world. Hosted by Susana Suisuiki.

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8:30 Proud to be Bogans: Upper Hutt embraces its reputation

It's fair to say that the city of Upper Hutt has long had a reputation as a 'bogan town'.

The city has often shied away from its bogan side but is now set to embrace and celebrate it with a two-day festival of all things bogan.

Among those embracing their inner bogan is Upper Hutt Mayor Wayne Guppy, who speaks to Emile Donovan.

8:45 The Reading: Five of the Family

This week's story is a five-part series by David Hill about a seemingly disparate group gathering together at a remembrance ceremony. Each has their own story to tell.

Alan is a writer returning to his rural roots for a family remembrance ceremony. How will he connect with these people? Will he remember their names?

9:07 Nights Quiz

Do you know your stuff? Come on the air and be grilled by Emile Donovan as he dons his quizmaster hat.

If you get an answer right, you move on to the next question. If you get it wrong, your time in the chair is up, and the next caller will be put through. The person with the most correct answers at the end of the run goes in the draw for a weekly prize.

9:25 Myth Takes with Ben Jackson

Myth Takes is our monthly chat with classics educator and enthusiast Ben Jackson.

With it being March, Ben is taking on the mammoth challenge of debunking things you thought you knew about Julius Caesar.

9:35 The Reread with Ashleigh Young

Managing editor of Te Herenga Waka University Press Ashleigh Young joins Emile Donovan for the first edition of Nights' The Reread, where we challenge some of Aotearoa's sharpest literary minds to go back and reread a book from their youth.

Ashleigh chose The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.

10:17 Did Phil Goff deserve to go?

Phil Goff has been sacked from his role as the UK High Commissioner.

Comments made about Donald Trump at Chatham House were enough to give him the boot, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters.

Some commentators have called it an excuse to get rid of him, but others say diplomats simply can't have opinions and that it was deserved.

Joining the show is Geoffrey Miller, a geopolitical analyst at The Democracy Project.

10:30 What can your vocabulary say about your creativity?

This one is for the language lovers out there.

An experiment asking you to think of ten words that are as unrelated as possible can predict your verbal creativity.

People who tend to score highly on this task are more likely to pick up on patterns, solve analytical problems, and produce more novel metaphors.

Take the test here.

It was developed by Canadian behavioural scientist Dr. Jay Olson, who speaks to Emile Donovan.

10:45 An experiment in your pint glass

Some of the country's finest craft beer makers are pushing the boat out for a good cause in the fifth annual Rare Beer Challenge.

Fourteen breweries have submitted unusual flavours, and tomorrow expert judges and regular punters alike will be taste-testing them.

But it's not just about weird beers—the challenge is run in tandem with a fundraiser for Rare Disorders New Zealand.

Emile Donovan speaks to Shannon Thorpe, owner of Wellington's Fortune Favours and organiser of the challenge.

11:07 The Mixtape

This week's Mixtape is with RNZ's audio engineer and 'old hand' Jeremy Ansell. He's also a music researcher—with excellent music taste too.